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11 Now many have undertaken to compile an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, 2 like the accounts passed on to us by those who were eyewitnesses and servants of the word from the beginning. 3 So it seemed good to me as well, because I have followed all things carefully from the beginning, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, 4 so that you may know for certain the things you were taught.
11 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was fully God. 2 The Word was with God in the beginning. 3 All things were created by him, and apart from him not one thing was created that has been created. 4 In him was life, and the life was the light of mankind. 5 And the light shines on in the darkness, but the darkness has not mastered it.
6 A man came, sent from God, whose name was John. 7 He came as a witness to testify about the light, so that everyone might believe through him. 8 He himself was not the light, but he came to testify about the light. 9 The true light, who gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and the world was created by him, but the world did not recognize him. 11 He came to what was his own, but his own people did not receive him. 12 But to all who have received him—those who believe in his name —he has given the right to become God’s children 13 —children not born by human parents or by human desire or a husband’s decision, but by God.
14 Now the Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We saw his glory—the glory of the one and only, full of grace and truth, who came from the Father. 15 John testified about him and shouted out, “This one was the one about whom I said, ‘He who comes after me is greater than I am, because he existed before me.’” 16 For we have all received from his fullness one gracious gift after another. 17 For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came about through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has ever seen God. The only one, himself God, who is in closest fellowship with the Father, has made God known.
11 This is the record of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
38 Adam was the son of God;
Adam the father of Seth,
Seth the father of Enosh,
37 Enosh the father of Kenan,
Kenan the father of Mahalalel,
Mahalalel the father of Jared,
Jared the father of Enoch,
Enoch the father of Methuselah,
36 Methuselah the father of Lamech,
Lamech the father of Noah,
Noah the father of Shem,
Shem the father of Arphaxad,
Arphaxad the father of Cainan,
35 Cainan the father of Shelah,
Shelah the father of Eber,
Eber the father of Peleg,
Peleg the father of Reu,
Reu the father of Serug,
34 Serug the father of Nahor,
Nahor the father of Terah,
Terah the father of Abraham,
2 Abraham was the father of Isaac,
Isaac the father of Jacob,
◁33 Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers ,
3 Judah the father of Perez and Zerah (by Tamar) ,
Perez the father of Hezron, Hezron the father of ArniRamArni ,
Arni the father of Admin,
4 Admin Ram Admin the father of Amminadab,
32 Amminadab the father of Nahshon,
Nahshon the father of Salmon Salmon Sala ,
5 Salmon Salmon Sala the father of Boaz (by Rahab) ,
Boaz the father of Obed (by Ruth) ,
Obed the father of Jesse,
631 and Jesse the father of David the king ,
David was the father of Nathan,
Nathan the father of Mattatha,
Mattatha the father of Menna,
Menna the father of Melea,
30 Melea the father of Eliakim,
Eliakim the father of Jonam,
Jonam the father of Joseph,
Joseph the father of Judah,
Judah the father of Simeon,
29 Simeon the father of Levi,
Levi the father of Matthat,
Matthat the father of Jorim,
Jorim the father of Eliezer,
Eliezer the father of Joshua,
28 Joshua the father of Er,
Er the father of Elmadam,
Elmadam the father of Cosam,
Cosam the father of Addi,
Addi the father of Melchi,
27 Melchi the father of Neri,
Neri the father of Shealtiel,
Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel,
Zerubbabel the father of Rhesa,
Rhesa the father of Joanan,
26 Joanan the father of Joda,
Joda the father of Josech,
Josech the father of Semein,
Semein the father of Mattathias,
Mattathias the father of Maath,
25 Maath the father of Naggai,
Naggai the father of Esli,
Esli the father of Nahum,
Nahum the father of Amos,
Amos the father of Mattathias,
24 Mattathias the father of Joseph,
Joseph the father of Jannai,
Jannai the father of Melchi,
Melchi the father of Levi,
Levi the father of Matthat,
23 Matthat the father of Heli,
Joseph the son of Heli
and Jesus the son (as was supposed) of Joseph.
David was the father of Solomon (by the wife of Uriah ),
7 Solomon the father of Rehoboam,
Rehoboam the father of Abijah,
Abijah the father of Asa,
8 Asa the father of Jehoshaphat,
Jehoshaphat the father of Joram,
Joram the father of Uzziah,
9 Uzziah the father of Jotham,
Jotham the father of Ahaz,
Ahaz the father of Hezekiah,
10 Hezekiah the father of Manasseh,
Manasseh the father of Amon,
Amon the father of Josiah,
11 and Josiah the father of Jeconiah and his brothers, at the time of the deportation to Babylon.
12 After the deportation to Babylon,
Jeconiah became the father of Shealtiel,
Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel,
13 Zerubbabel the father of Abiud,
Abiud the father of Eliakim,
Eliakim the father of Azor,
14 Azor the father of Zadok,
Zadok the father of Achim,
Achim the father of Eliud,
15 Eliud the father of Eleazar,
Eleazar the father of Matthan,
Matthan the father of Jacob,
16 and Jacob the father of Joseph,
the husband of Mary, by whom Jesus was born,
who is called Christ.
17 So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon, fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to Christ, fourteen generations.▷
◁5 During the reign of Herod king of Judea, there lived a priest named Zechariah who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah, and he had a wife named Elizabeth, who was a descendant of Aaron. 6 They were both righteous in the sight of God, following all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blamelessly. 7 But they did not have a child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they were both very old.
8 Now while Zechariah was serving as priest before God when his division was on duty, 9 he was chosen by lot, according to the custom of the priesthood, to enter the Holy Place of the Lord and burn incense. 10 Now the whole crowd of people were praying outside at the hour of the incense offering. 11 An angel of the Lord, standing on the right side of the altar of incense, appeared to him. 12 And Zechariah, visibly shaken when he saw the angel, was seized with fear. 13 But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son; you will name him John. 14 Joy and gladness will come to you, and many will rejoice at his birth, 15 for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He must never drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even before his birth. 16 He will turn many of the people of Israel to the Lord their God. 17 And he will go as forerunner before the Lord in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers back to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared for him.”
18 Zechariah said to the angel, “How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is old as well.” 19 The angel answered him, “I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God, and I was sent to speak to you and to bring you this good news. 20 And now, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their time, you will be silent, unable to speak, until the day these things take place.”
21 Now the people were waiting for Zechariah, and they began to wonder why he was delayed in the Holy Place. 22 When he came out, he was not able to speak to them. They realized that he had seen a vision in the Holy Place, because he was making signs to them and remained unable to speak. 23 When his time of service was over, he went to his home.
24 After some time his wife Elizabeth became pregnant, and for five months she kept herself in seclusion. She said, 25 “This is what the Lord has done for me at the time when he has been gracious to me, to take away my disgrace among people.”
26 In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth, 27 to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, a descendant of David, and the virgin’s name was Mary. 28 The angel came to her and said, “Greetings, favored one, the Lord is with you!” 29 But she was greatly troubled by his words and began to wonder about the meaning of this greeting. 30 So the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God! 31 Listen: You will become pregnant and give birth to a son, and you will name him Jesus. 32 He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give him the throne of his father David. 33 He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and his kingdom will never end.” 34 Mary said to the angel, “How will this be, since I have not been intimate with a man?” 35 The angel replied, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore the child to be born will be holy; he will be called the Son of God.
36 “And look, your relative Elizabeth has also become pregnant with a son in her old age—although she was called barren, she is now in her sixth month! 37 For nothing will be impossible with God.” 38 So Mary said, “Yes, I am a servant of the Lord; let this happen to me according to your word.” Then the angel departed from her.
39 In those days Mary got up and went hurriedly into the hill country, to a town of Judah, 40 and entered Zechariah’s house and greeted Elizabeth. 41 When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. 42 She exclaimed with a loud voice, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child in your womb! 43 And who am I that the mother of my Lord should come and visit me? 44 For the instant the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy. 45 And blessed is she who believed that what was spoken to her by the Lord would be fulfilled.”
46 And Mary said,
“My soul exalts the Lord,
47 and my spirit has begun to rejoice in God my Savior,
48 because he has looked upon the humble state of his servant.
For from now on all generations will call me blessed,
49 because he who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name;
50 from generation to generation he is merciful to those who fear him.
51 He has demonstrated power with his arm; he has scattered those whose pride wells up from the sheer arrogance of their hearts.
52 He has brought down the mighty from their thrones, and has lifted up those of lowly position;
53 he has filled the hungry with good things, and has sent the rich away empty.
54 He has helped his servant Israel, remembering his mercy,
55 as he promised to our ancestors, to Abraham and to his descendants forever.”
◁56 So Mary stayed with Elizabeth about three months and then returned to her home.
57 Now the time came for Elizabeth to have her baby, and she gave birth to a son. 58 Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown great mercy to her, and they rejoiced with her.
59 On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they wanted to name him Zechariah after his father. 60 But his mother replied, “No! He must be named John.” 61 They said to her, “But none of your relatives bears this name.” 62 So they made signs to the baby’s father, inquiring what he wanted to name his son. 63 He asked for a writing tablet and wrote, “His name is John.” And they were all amazed. 64 Immediately Zechariah’s mouth was opened and his tongue released, and he spoke, blessing God. 65 All their neighbors were filled with fear, and throughout the entire hill country of Judea all these things were talked about. 66 All who heard these things kept them in their hearts, saying, “What then will this child be?” For the Lord’s hand was indeed with him.
67 Then his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied,
68 “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel,
because he has come to help and has redeemed his people.
69 For he has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David,
70 as he spoke through the mouth of his holy prophets from long ago,
71 that we should be saved from our enemies,
and from the hand of all who hate us.
72 He has done this to show mercy to our ancestors,
and to remember his holy covenant —
73 the oath that he swore to our ancestor Abraham.
This oath grants
74 that we, being rescued from the hand of our enemies,
may serve him without fear,
75 in holiness and righteousness before him for as long as we live.
◁76 And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High.
For you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways,
77 to give his people knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins.
78 Because of our God’s tender mercy
the dawn will break upon us from on high
◁79 to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death,
to guide our feet into the way of peace.”
80 And the child kept growing and becoming strong in spirit, and he was in the wilderness until the day he was revealed to Israel.
◁18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ happened this way. While his mother Mary was engaged to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit. 19 Because Joseph, her husband to be, was a righteous man, and because he did not want to disgrace her, he intended to divorce her privately. 20 When he had contemplated this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife, because the child conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. 21 She will give birth to a son and you will name him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.” 22 This all happened so that what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet would be fulfilled: 23 “Look! The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will name him Emmanuel,” which means “ God with us.” 24 When Joseph awoke from sleep he did what the angel of the Lord told him. He took his wife, 25 but did not have marital relations with her until she gave birth to a son.
21 Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus to register all the empire for taxes. 2 This was the first registration, taken when Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3 Everyone went to his own town to be registered. 4 So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family line of David. 5 He went to be registered with Mary, who was promised in marriage to him, and who was expecting a child. 6 While they were there, the time came for her to deliver her child. 7 And she gave birth to her firstborn son whom Joseph named Jesus, and wrapped him in strips of cloth and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn
8 Now there were shepherds nearby living out in the field, keeping guard over their flock at night. 9 An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were absolutely terrified. 10 But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid! Listen carefully, for I proclaim to you good news that brings great joy to all the people: 11 Today your Savior is born in the city of David. He is Christ the Lord. 12 This will be a sign for you: You will find a baby wrapped in strips of cloth and lying in a manger.” 13 Suddenly a vast, heavenly army appeared with the angel, praising God and saying,
14 “Glory to God in the highest,
and on earth peace among people with whom he is pleased!”
15 When the angels left them and went back to heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has taken place, that the Lord has made known to us.” 16 So they hurried off and located Mary and Joseph, and found the baby lying in a manger. 17 When they saw him, they related what they had been told about this child, 18 and all who heard it were astonished at what the shepherds said. 19 But Mary treasured up all these words, pondering in her heart what they might mean. 20 So the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen; everything was just as they had been told.
21 At the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was named Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
22 Now when the time came for their purification according to the law of Moses, Joseph and Mary brought Jesus up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord 23 (just as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every firstborn male will be set apart to the Lord” ), 24 and to offer a sacrifice according to what is specified in the law of the Lord, a pair of doves or two young pigeons.
25 Now there was a man in Jerusalem named Simeon who was righteous and devout, looking for the restoration of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him. 26 It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not die before he had seen the Lord’s Christ. 27 So Simeon, directed by the Spirit, came into the temple courts, and when the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him what was customary according to the law, 28 Simeon took him in his arms and blessed God, saying,
29 “Now, according to your word, Sovereign Lord, permit your servant to depart in peace.
30 For my eyes have seen your salvation
31 that you have prepared in the presence of all peoples:
◁32 a light,
for revelation to the Gentiles,
and for glory to your people Israel.”
33 So the child’s father and mother were amazed at what was said about him. 34 Then Simeon blessed them and said to his mother Mary, “Listen carefully: This child is destined to be the cause of the falling and rising of many in Israel and to be a sign that will be rejected. 35 Indeed, as a result of him the thoughts of many hearts will be revealed —and a sword will pierce your own soul as well!”
36 There was also a prophetess, Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was very old, having been married to her husband for seven years until his death. 37 She had lived as a widow since then for eighty-four years. She never left the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day. 38 At that moment, she came up to them and began to give thanks to God and to speak about the child to all who were waiting for the redemption of Jerusalem. 39 So Joseph and Mary performed everything according to the law of the Lord.
21 After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, in the time of King Herod, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem 2 saying, “Where is the one who is born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.” 3 When King Herod heard this he was alarmed, and all Jerusalem with him. 4 After assembling all the chief priests and experts in the law, he asked them where the Christ was to be born. 5 “In Bethlehem of Judea,” they said, “for it is written this way by the prophet:
6 ‘And you, Bethlehem , in the land of Judah,
are in no way least among the rulers of Judah,
for out of you will come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel.’”
7 Then Herod privately summoned the wise men and determined from them when the star had appeared. 8 He sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and look carefully for the child. When you find him, inform me so that I can go and worship him as well.” 9 After listening to the king they left, and once again the star they saw when it rose led them until it stopped above the place where the child was. 10 When they saw the star they shouted joyfully. 11 As they came into the house and saw the child with Mary his mother, they bowed down and worshiped him. They opened their treasure boxes and gave him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. 12 After being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they went back by another route to their own country.
13 After they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to look for the child to kill him.” 14 Then he got up, took the child and his mother during the night, and went to Egypt. 15 He stayed there until Herod died. In this way what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet was fulfilled: “I called my Son out of Egypt.”
16 When Herod saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, he became enraged. He sent men to kill all the children in Bethlehem and throughout the surrounding region from the age of two and under, according to the time he had learned from the wise men. 17 Then what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled:
18 “A voice was heard in Ramah,
weeping and loud wailing,
Rachel weeping for her children,
and she did not want to be comforted, because they were gone.”
19 After Herod had died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt 20 saying, “Get up, take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the child’s life are dead.” 21 So he got up and took the child and his mother and returned to the land of Israel. 2239b But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. After being warned in a dream, they hethey returned went returned to the regions of Galilee . . , 23 He came to their own a their own town called called of Nazareth and lived there . Then what had been spoken by the prophets was fulfilled, that Jesus would be called a Nazarene. 40 And the child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom, and the favor of God was upon him.
41 Now Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem every year for the Feast of the Passover. 42 When he was twelve years old, they went up according to custom. 43 But when the feast was over, as they were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His parents did not know it, 44 but (because they assumed that he was in their group of travelers) they went a day’s journey. Then they began to look for him among their relatives and acquaintances. 45 When they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem to look for him. 46 After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. 47 And all who heard Jesus were astonished at his understanding and his answers. 48 When his parents saw him, they were overwhelmed. His mother said to him, “Child, why have you treated us like this? Look, your father and I have been looking for you anxiously.” 49 But he replied, “Why were you looking for me? Didn’t you know that I must be in my Father’s house?” 50 Yet his parents did not understand the remark mark1 he made to them. 51 Then he went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them. But his mother kept all these things in her heart.
52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favor with God and with people.
◁11 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. 3311 In the fifteenth year of the reign of those days the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip was tetrarch of the region of Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene,▷ ◁42 during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the baptizer Baptist baptizer the son of Zechariah came into into in the wilderness of Judea . 3 He went into all the regionand He went into all the region around the Jordan River, began around the Jordan River, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins proclaiming, 2 “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near . ”▷ ◁324 For For As he is the one about whom it was spoken was spoken is written by by in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah ::,
“ Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you,
who will prepare your way,
3 TheThethe voice of one shouting in the wilderness ,,,:
‘Prepare the way for the Lord,
make his paths straight.
5 Every valley will be filled,
and every mountain and hill
will be brought low,
and the crooked will be made straight,
and the rough ways will be made smooth,
6 and all humanity will see
the salvation of God. ’”
◁46 Now John wore a garment clothing a garment made from from of camel’s hair with a leather belt around his waist, and his diet consisted of his diet consisted of he ate locusts and wild honey. ▷ ◁55 Then people people People from all of Jerusalem , as well as as well as and the whole Judean countryside all Judea the whole Judean countryside and all the region around the Jordan, were going out to him, 6 and he was baptizing them in the Jordan River as they confessed their sins.
77 But But So when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees many Pharisees and Sadducees to the crowds that came out to coming to that came out to be baptized by him his baptism, be baptized by him John he John said to them , “You offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? 88 Therefore produce fruit that proves your repentance, 9 and don’t think you can think you can begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones! 109 Even now the ax is laid at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire. ”
10 So the crowds were asking him, “What then should we do?” 11 John answered them, “The person who has two tunics must share with the person who has none, and the person who has food must do likewise.” 12 Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, “Teacher, what should we do?” 13 He told them, “Collect no more than you are required to.” 14 Then some soldiers also asked him, “And as for us—what should we do?” He told them, “Take money from no one by violence or by false accusation, and be content with your pay.”
15 The people were filled with anticipation and they all wondered whether perhaps John could be the Christ, ◁19 Now this was John’s testimony when the Jewish leaders sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?” 20 He confessed—he did not deny but confessed—“I am not the Christ!” 21 So they asked him, “Then who are you? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not!” “Are you the Prophet?” He answered, “No!” 22 Then they said to him, “Who are you? Tell us so that we can give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”
23 John said, “I am the voice of one shouting in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way for the Lord,’ as the prophet Isaiah said.” 24 (Now they had been sent from the Pharisees. ) 25 So they asked John, “Why then are you baptizing if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”
◁1171626 John He John answered them proclaimed, answered them all , “I baptize you with water , for repentance . ,. but among you stands the one oneOne more powerful than I am whom you do not recognize, 27 who is coming after me ; —; . I am not worthy to bend down and untie the strap of carry untie the strap of his sandals sandals sandal ! ! . !” 8 He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire . 1217 His winnowing fork is in his hand , and he will, and he will to clean out his threshing floor and will will to gather his his the wheat into the storehouse, wheat into the storehouse, wheat into his storehouse, but the chaff he will burn up with inextinguishable fire ! ! . ”
18 And in this way, with many other exhortations, John proclaimed good news to the people. 28 These things happened in Bethany across the Jordan River where John was baptizing.▷
◁13921 Then Then Now in those days when all the people were baptized, Jesus also came from Nazareth in Galilee to John and was to be and was was baptized by John him John in the Jordan River . 14 But John tried to prevent him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and yet you come to me?” 15 So Jesus replied to him, “Let it happen now, for it is right for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then John yielded to him. 1610 And after Jesus was baptized, just as Jesus he Jesus was coming up out of the water, while he was praying, he saw the heavens splitting apart opened splitting apart opened, 22 and he saw the Holy Spirit of God descending descending descended on him in bodily form like a dove and coming to rest on him . 1711 And a voice said said came from heaven ,,: “ This isThis isYou are my one dear Son; in him him you I take great delight.”
23 So Jesus, when he began his ministry, was about thirty years old.
◁441121 Then Jesus , full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan River and was immediately driven led driven by the Spirit into into in the wilderness . . , 132 He was in the wilderness to be He was in the wilderness where for forty days he endured, enduring he endured temptations tempted temptations from by from the devil the devil Satan . He was with wild animals . . ,▷ 2 He ate nothing during those days, and after he fasted forty days and forty nights after he fasted forty days and forty nights when they were completed, he was famished. 33 The tempter tempter devil came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones these stones this stone to become bread.” 44 But Jesus he Jesus answered him , “It is written, ‘Man does not live by bread alone , but by every word that comes from the mouth of God .’”
◁59 Then the devil brought took brought him to the holy city the holy city Jerusalem , had him stand on the highest point of the temple, 6 and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here . . , 10 For For for it is written, ‘He will command his angels concerning you , to protect you, ’ 11 and ‘with their hands they will lift you up, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’” 712 Jesus answered said to answered him, “ Once again it is it isIt is written: written: said, ‘You are not to put the Lord your God to the test.’”
◁85 Again, Again, Then the devil took took led him up to a very high mountain mountain place , and showed him in a flash all the kingdoms of the world and their grandeur . 96 And he said to him, “ To you I will grant give grant all these things all these things this whole realm —and the glory that goes along with it, for it has been relinquished to me, and I can give it to anyone I wish. 7 So then, if you will throw yourself to the ground and worship me , all this will be yours .” 108 Then Jesus answered said to answered him, “ Go away, Satan! For ititIt is written ::, ‘You are to worship the Lord your God and serve only him.’”
◁1113 Then Then So when the devil had completed every temptation, he departed from left departed from him until a more opportune time ,,.▷ and angels came and began began were ministering to his needs.▷
◁29 On the next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! 30 This is the one about whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who is greater than I am, because he existed before me.’ 31 I did not recognize him, but I came baptizing with water so that he could be revealed to Israel.”
32 Then John testified, “I saw the Spirit descending like a dove from heaven, and it remained on him. 33 And I did not recognize him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘The one on whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining—this is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’ 34 I have both seen and testified that this man is the Chosen One of God.”
35 Again the next day John was standing there with two of his disciples. 36 Gazing at Jesus as he walked by, he said, “Look, the Lamb of God!” 37 When John’s two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus. 38 Jesus turned around and saw them following and said to them, “What do you want?” So they said to him, “Rabbi” (which is translated Teacher), “where are you staying?” 39 Jesus answered, “Come and you will see.” So they came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. Now it was about four o’clock in the afternoon.
40 Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two disciples who heard what John said and followed Jesus. 41 He first found his own brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah!” (which is translated Christ). 42 Andrew brought Simon to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon, the son of John. You will be called Cephas” (which is translated Peter).
43 On the next day Jesus wanted to set out for Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, “Follow me.” 44 (Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the town of Andrew and Peter.) 45 Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the one Moses wrote about in the law, and the prophets also wrote about—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.” 46 Nathanael replied, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip replied, “Come and see.”
47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and exclaimed, “Look, a true Israelite in whom there is no deceit!” 48 Nathanael asked him, “How do you know me?” Jesus replied, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.” 49 Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the king of Israel!” 50 Jesus said to him, “Because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You will see greater things than these.” 51 He continued, “I tell all of you the solemn truth —you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”
21 Now on the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, 2 and Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the wedding. 3 When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no wine left.” 4 Jesus replied, “Woman, why are you saying this to me? My time has not yet come.” 5 His mother told the servants, “Whatever he tells you, do it.”
6 Now there were six stone water jars there for Jewish ceremonial washing, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. 7 Jesus told the servants, “Fill the water jars with water.” So they filled them up to the very top. 8 Then he told them, “Now draw some out and take it to the head steward,” and they did. 9 When the head steward tasted the water that had been turned to wine, not knowing where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), he called the bridegroom 10 and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the cheaper wine when the guests are drunk. You have kept the good wine until now!” 11 Jesus did this as the first of his miraculous signs, in Cana of Galilee. In this way he revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.
12 After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother and brothers and his disciples, and they stayed there a few days. 13 Now the Jewish feast of Passover was near, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
14 He found in the temple courts those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers sitting at tables. 15 So he made a whip of cords and drove them all out of the temple courts, with the sheep and the oxen. He scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. 16 To those who sold the doves he said, “Take these things away from here! Do not make my Father’s house a marketplace!” 17 His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will devour me.”
18 So then the Jewish leaders responded, “What sign can you show us, since you are doing these things?” 19 Jesus replied, “Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up again.” 20 Then the Jewish leaders said to him, “This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and are you going to raise it up in three days?” 21 But Jesus was speaking about the temple of his body. 22 So after he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and the saying that Jesus had spoken.
23 Now while Jesus was in Jerusalem at the Feast of the Passover, many people believed in his name because they saw the miraculous signs he was doing. 24 But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people. 25 He did not need anyone to testify about man, for he knew what was in man.
◁3 Now a certain man, a Pharisee named Nicodemus, who was a member of the Jewish ruling council, ▷ ◁2 came to Jesus at night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs that you do unless God is with him.” 3 Jesus replied, “I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” 4 Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter his mother’s womb and be born a second time, can he?”
5 Jesus answered, “I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born of water and spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6 What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Do not be amazed that I said to you, ‘You must all be born from above.’ 8 The wind blows wherever it will, and you hear the sound it makes, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
9 Nicodemus replied, “How can these things be?” 10 Jesus answered, “Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you don’t understand these things? 11 I tell you the solemn truth, we speak about what we know and testify about what we have seen, but you people do not accept our testimony. 12 If I have told you people about earthly things and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things? 13 No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven—the Son of Man. 14 Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.”
16 For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world should be saved through him. 18 The one who believes in him is not condemned. The one who does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God. 19 Now this is the basis for judging: that the light has come into the world and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For everyone who does evil deeds hates the light and does not come to the light, so that their deeds will not be exposed. 21 But the one who practices the truth comes to the light, so that it may be plainly evident that his deeds have been done in God.
22 After this, Jesus and his disciples came into Judean territory, and there he spent time with them and was baptizing. 23 John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming to him and being baptized. 24 (For John had not yet been thrown into prison.)
25 Now a dispute came about between some of John’s disciples and a certain Jew concerning ceremonial washing. 26 So they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, the one who was with you on the other side of the Jordan River, about whom you testified—see, he is baptizing, and everyone is flocking to him!”
27 John replied, “No one can receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven. 28 You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but rather, ‘I have been sent before him.’ 29 The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands by and listens for him, rejoices greatly when he hears the bridegroom’s voice. This then is my joy, and it is complete. 30 He must become more important while I become less important.”
31 The one who comes from above is superior to all. The one who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks about earthly things. The one who comes from heaven is superior to all. 32 He testifies about what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony. 33 The one who has accepted his testimony has confirmed clearly that God is truthful. 34 For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for he does not give the Spirit sparingly. 35 The Father loves the Son and has placed all things under his authority. 36 The one who believes in the Son has eternal life. The one who rejects the Son will not see life, but God’s wrath remains on him.
◁19 But when John rebuked Herod the tetrarch because of Herodias, his brother’s wife, and because of all the evil deeds that he had done, 20 Herod added this to them all: He locked up John in prison.▷ ◁◁412141 Now when Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that he was winning and baptizing more disciples than John 2 (although Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples were), when Jesus heard that when Jesus heard that after John had been had been was imprisoned, 3 he left Judea and set out once more for went into set out once more for Galilee.▷ 4 But he had to pass through Samaria.
5 Now he came to a Samaritan town called Sychar, near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s well was there, so Jesus, since he was tired from the journey, sat right down beside the well. It was about noon.
7 A Samaritan woman came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me some water to drink.” 8 (For his disciples had gone off into the town to buy supplies. ) 9 So the Samaritan woman said to him, “How can you—a Jew —ask me, a Samaritan woman, for water to drink?” (For Jews use nothing in common with Samaritans.)
10 Jesus answered her, “If you had known the gift of God and who it is who said to you, ‘Give me some water to drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” 11 “Sir,” the woman said to him, “you have no bucket and the well is deep; where then do you get this living water? 12 Surely you’re not greater than our ancestor Jacob, are you? For he gave us this well and drank from it himself, along with his sons and his livestock.”
13 Jesus replied, “Everyone who drinks some of this water will be thirsty again. 14 But whoever drinks some of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again, but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up to eternal life.” 15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.” 16 He said to her, “Go call your husband and come back here.” 17 The woman replied, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “Right you are when you said, ‘I have no husband,’ 18 for you have had five husbands, and the man you are living with now is not your husband. This you said truthfully!”
19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I see that you are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you people say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.” 21 Jesus said to her, “Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You people worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews. 23 But a time is coming—and now is here —when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such people to be his worshipers. 24 God is spirit, and the people who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” 25 The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (the one called Christ); “whenever he comes, he will tell us everything.” 26 Jesus said to her, “I, the one speaking to you, am he.”
27 Now at that very moment his disciples came back. They were shocked because he was speaking with a woman. However, no one said, “What do you want?” or “Why are you speaking with her?” 28 Then the woman left her water jar, went off into the town and said to the people, 29 “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Surely he can’t be the Messiah, can he?” 30 So they left the town and began coming to him.
31 Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, “Rabbi, eat something.” 32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.” 33 So the disciples began to say to one another, “No one brought him anything to eat, did they?” 34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to complete his work. 35 Don’t you say, ‘There are four more months and then comes the harvest?’ I tell you, look up and see that the fields are already white for harvest! 36 The one who reaps receives pay and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who reaps can rejoice together. 37 For in this instance the saying is true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’ 38 I sent you to reap what you did not work for; others have labored and you have entered into their labor.”
39 Now many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the report of the woman who testified, “He told me everything I ever did.” 40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they began asking him to stay with them. He stayed there two days, 41 and because of his word many more believed. 42 They said to the woman, “No longer do we believe because of your words, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this one really is the Savior of the world.”
43 After the two days he departed from there to Galilee. 44 (For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.) ◁1445 So when Then So when Jesus Jesus he , in the power of the Spirit , returned to went into returned to came to Galilee, Galilee Galilee, and proclaimed the gospel of God and news about him spread throughout the surrounding countryside . The Galileans welcomed him because they had seen all the things he had done in Jerusalem at the feast (for they themselves had gone to the feast). 15 He said, “The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe the gospel!” 15 He began to teach in their synagogues and was praised by all.
46 Now he came again to Cana in Galilee where he had made the water wine. In Capernaum there was a certain royal official whose son was sick. 47 When he heard that Jesus had come back from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and begged him to come down and heal his son, who was about to die. 48 So Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders you will never believe!” 49 “Sir,” the official said to him, “come down before my child dies.” 50 Jesus told him, “Go home; your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and set off for home.
51 While he was on his way down, his slaves met him and told him that his son was going to live. 52 So he asked them the time when his condition began to improve, and they told him, “Yesterday at one o’clock in the afternoon the fever left him.” 53 Then the father realized that it was the very time Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live,” and he himself believed along with his entire household. 54 Jesus did this as his second miraculous sign when he returned from Judea to Galilee.▷
16 Now Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, as was his custom. He stood up to read, 17 and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written,
18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives
and the regaining of sight to the blind,
to set free those who are oppressed,
19 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”
20 Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on him. 21 Then he began to tell them, “Today this scripture has been fulfilled even as you heard it being read.” 22 All were speaking well of him, and were amazed at the gracious words coming out of his mouth. They said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?” 23 Jesus said to them, “No doubt you will quote to me the proverb, ‘Physician, heal yourself!’ and say, ‘What we have heard that you did in Capernaum, do here in your hometown too.’” 24 And he added, “I tell you the truth, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown. 25 But in truth I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s days, when the sky was shut up three and a half years, and there was a great famine over all the land. 26 Yet Elijah was sent to none of them, but only to a woman who was a widow at Zarephath in Sidon. 27 And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, yet none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.” 28 When they heard this, all the people in the synagogue were filled with rage. 29 They got up, forced him out of the town, and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they could throw him down the cliff. 30 But he passed through the crowd and went on his way.
◁13 While in Galilee, he moved from Nazareth to make his home in Capernaum by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali, 14 so that what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah would be fulfilled:
15 “Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali,
the way by the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles—
16 the people who sit in darkness have seen a great light,
and on those who sit in the region and shadow of death a light has dawned.”
17 From that time Jesus began to preach this message: “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near!”
◁518161 Now As Now Jesus he Jesus was standing by was walking by went along was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret Sea of Galilee Lake of Gennesaret , and the crowd was pressing around him to hear the word of God , he saw two brothers, Simon (called Peter) and Andrew , Simon’s his, Simon’s brother , casting a net into the sea (for they were fishermen) . 2 He saw two boats by the lake, but the fishermen had gotten out of them and were washing their nets. 3 He got into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little way from the shore. Then Jesus sat down and taught the crowds from the boat. 4 When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep water and lower your nets for a catch.” 5 Simon answered, “Master, we worked hard all night and caught nothing! But at your word I will lower the nets.” 6 When they had done this, they caught so many fish that their nets started to tear. 7 So they motioned to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both boats, so that they were about to sink. 8 But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Go away from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man!” 9 For Peter and all who were with him were astonished at the catch of fish that they had taken, 10 and so were James and John, Zebedee’s sons, who were Simon’s business partners. 1917 Then Jesus He Jesus said to Simon them Simon , “ Do not be afraid; Follow me, and I will turn you into and I will turn you into from now on you will be fishers of fishers of catching people!” 201811 So when they had brought their boats to shore, They They they left their nets their nets everything immediately and followed him. 2119 Going on from there a little farther, he saw two other brothers, James , the son of Zebedee, the son of Zebedee the son of Zebedee, and his brother John , in their a their boat with their father Zebedee, mending their nets. 20 Immediately Then Immediately he called them , and. , and 22 They They they immediately left their father Zebedee in and Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and followed him.
◁2131 Then Then So they they he went down to Capernaum , a town in Galilee , and on. When, and on the Sabbath came , Jesus Jesus he went into the synagogue and began to teach the people . 2232 The people there The people there They were amazed by by at his teaching, because he taught them like one who had taught them like one who had spoke with authority , not like the experts in the law .
2333 Just then Just then Now there was a man in their their the synagogue who had with who had the spirit of an unclean spirit spirit demon , and he cried out with a loud voice , 2434 “ Ha! Leave us alone, Jesus the Nazarene! Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God ! ! . ” 2535 But Jesus rebuked him: “Silence! Come out of him!” 26 Then, After After after the demon threw throwing the demon threw the man him the man down in their midst, into convulsions, down in their midst, the unclean spirit the unclean spirit he cried out with a loud voice and came out of him without hurting him . 2736 They were all amazed and began to say to so that they asked and began to say to one another each other one another , “ What’s happening here?What is this?What’s happening here? A new teaching A new teaching For with authority and power ! He He he even commands the unclean spirits , and they obey him obey him come out ..! ” 2837 So the news about him spread quickly throughout throughout into all areas of the region around Galilee .
◁142938 Now as soon as when as soon as After Jesus they Jesus left the synagogue, Jesus Jesus they he entered Peter Peter Simon and Andrew ’s house , with James and John . ,. 30 Now he saw Simon’s his Simon’s mother-in-law was lying down, suffering from sick with suffering from a high fever . . , and so and they spoke to spoke to asked Jesus at once about at once about to help her. 153139 So He He he came and stood over her , commanded the fever, and raised her up by gently taking touched gently taking her hand . , and, and Then and the fever the fever it left her and. and ImmediatelyThen Immediately she got up and began to serve them. 163240 When it was evening, as the sun was setting, after sunset, as the sun was setting, all all those who had any relatives were had any relatives sick with various diseases and many demon-possessed peopledemon-possessed people demon-possessed were were they brought them to Jesus him Jesus . 33 The whole town gathered by the door. 34 So He placed his hands on every one of themall many every one of them who were sick with various diseases and he healed them . ,. 41 and drove out the spirits the spiritsmany demons. with a word . Demons also came out of many, crying out, “You are the Son of God!” But he rebuked them, and would not permit permit allow the demons the demons them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ him that he was the Christ . In this way what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah was fulfilled:
“He took our weaknesses and carried our diseases.”
3542 The next morning Then The next morning Jesus got up early in the morning when it was still very dark, departed , and went out to a deserted place , and there he spent time in prayer . 36 Yet Simon and his companions his companions the crowds searched for searched for were seeking him . 37 When When, and they came to found came to him , they said, “Everyone is looking for you” and tried to keep him from leaving them . 3843 But Jesus He Jesus said to them replied said to them , “ Let us go elsewhere, into the surrounding villages, so that I can preach there too.
I must proclaim the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns too, For For for that is what I came out here came out here was sent to do.” ▷ ◁233944 So Jesus Jesus he went throughout throughout into all of Galilee all of Galilee continued to , teaching, teaching preaching preach in their their the synagogues , preaching the gospel of the kingdom,, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, of Judea and healing every kind of disease and sickness among the people . and casting out demons. and casting out demons 24. So a report about him spread throughout Syria. People brought to him all who suffered with various illnesses and afflictions, those who had seizures, paralytics, and those possessed by demons, and he healed them.
◁81 And after he came down from the mountain, large crowds followed him from Galilee, the Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and beyond the Jordan River.
◁24012 While And Now While Jesus was in one of the towns, a leper a leper a man came to him approached came to him who was covered with leprosy . When he saw Jesus, he and. When he saw Jesus, he fell to his knees, and bowed down low before him with his face to the ground asking for help asking for help and begged him , saying , “ Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.”if you are willing, you can make me clean.”If you are willing, you can make me clean.” 34113 Moved with indignation, Moved with indignation, So Jesus He Jesus he stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing. Be clean!” 42 And Immediately ImmediatelyAt once immediately his his the leprosy left him , and he was cleansed cleansed clean . 44314 Immediately Then Immediately Jesus sent the man away with a very strong warning he ordered the man to tell no one . . , 44 but He but commanded said to told commanded him, “ See that you do not say anything speak say anything to anyone, but gogoGo and, and show yourself to the the a priest, and bring the offering that Moses commanded for your cleansing , as a testimony to them.” 4515 But as the man went out he began to announce it publicly and spread the story widely, the news about him spread even more, and large crowds were gathering together to hear him and to be healed of their illnesses so that Jesus was no longer able to enter any town openly but stayed outside in remote places but stayed outside in remote places. . Still they kept coming to him from everywhere. from everywhere. Yet Jesus himself frequently withdrew to the wilderness and prayed.
◁921117 Now After After after some days, getting into a boat he crossed to the other side and returned came returned to Capernaum his own town , and the news spread that he was at home . 2 Now on one of those days, while he was teaching, so many gathered that there was no longer any room, not even by the door, and he preached the word to them. There were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting nearby (who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem), and the power of the Lord was with him to heal. 2318 Just then some some Some people people men showed up, came showed up, bringing brought bringing carrying to him a paralyzed man a paralytic a paralyzed man lying on a stretcher , carried by four of them . They were trying to bring him in and place him before Jesus. 419 But since When since they were not able to bring were not able to bring found no way to carry him in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and removed the roof above Jesus. Then, after tearing it out, they lowered the stretcher lowered the stretcher let him down the paralytic was lying on the paralytic was lying on on the stretcher through the roof tiles right in front of Jesus . 520 When Jesus saw their faith , he said to the paralytic , “ Have courage, FriendsonSonFriend ! ! , Your sins are forgiven.” Your sins are forgiven.” your sins are forgiven.” 3621 Then Then Now some of the experts in the law and the Pharisees were sitting there, and turning these things over in their minds: said to themselves, turning these things over in their minds: began to think to themselves, 7 “ Why doesWhy doesWho is this manThis man this man who is uttering speak this way? who is uttering He is blaspheming!” is blaspheming!” is blaspheming!blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?” 4822 Now immediately, When Jesus When Jesus when Jesus perceived perceived realized in his spirit that they were contemplating such their contemplating such hostile thoughts, he said thoughts he said thoughts, he said to them , “Why are do are you thinking such things respond with evil thinking such things raising objections within yourselves? in your hearts? within yourselves? 5923 Which is easier, to say to the paralytic , ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say,, ‘Your sins are forgiven’ or to say,, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Stand up , take your stretcher, and walk’? 61024 But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins,”— to forgive sins”— to forgive sins,”— then he said to the paralyzed man paralytic paralyzed man — 11 “ I tell you, StandStandstand up, take your stretcher, and go home.” up, take your stretcher, and go home.” up, take your stretcher and go home.” 71225 And So And immediately immediately Immediately the man he the man stood up before them , picked up the, took his, picked up the stretcher he had been lying on , and went home home out in front of them all , glorifying God . 826 When the crowd saw this, When the crowd saw this, Then they were they were They were all seized by astonishment, afraid amazed seized by astonishment, and glorified honored glorified God who had given such authority to men . . , They were filled with awe, saying, “We have never seen anything like this! never seen anything like this! seen incredible things today. ”
91327 After this, As After this, Jesus went on from there, out again by the sea. The whole crowd came to him, and he taught them. 14 As he went along, he saw a tax collector man tax collector named Matthew Matthew Levi , the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the tax booth. “Follow me,” he said to him. 28 And So And he got up and followed him , leaving everything behind .
101529 As Jesus was having As Jesus was having Then Levi gave a great banquet meal great banquet in Matthew’s Matthew’s Levi’s his house house home for Jesus , and there was a large crowd of many a large crowd of tax collectors and sinners sinners others came and ate came and ate were eating sitting at the table with Jesus and his disciples Jesus and his disciples them , for there were many who followed him .
111630 When When But the Pharisees and their the their experts in the law saw that he was eating with sinners this that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, they complained said complained to his disciples, saying, “Why does does do your teacher your teacher he you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” 121731 When Jesus heard this he answered said answered to them , “Those who are healthy healthy well don’t need a physician, but those who are sick do. 1332 Go and learn what this saying means: ‘I want mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I have did have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance .”
141833 Then Then Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. So they came to Jesus and asked asked said to him , “ Why do the disciples of John we the disciples of JohnJohn’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast and pray frequently often frequently , but your disciples your disciples yours continue to eat and drink.” don’t fast?” continue to eat and drink.”
151934 So Jesus said to them, “ TheThethe wedding guests —you cannot make them to cannot—you cannot make them to mourn mourn fast while the bridegroom is with them, can they they you ? As long as they have the bridegroom with them they do not fast. 2035 But those the those days are coming , and when the bridegroom will be will be is taken from them, and at that time then at that time they will fast. ” 162136 He also told them a parable: “ No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth torn from a new garment on an old garment . ,;. If he does because otherwise If he does , he will have torn the new, and the patch the patch the piece from the new will pull away from will pull away from pulls away from will not match the garment garment it old , the new from the old, and the tear will be will be becomes worse . 172237 And no one pours new wine into old wineskins . ;. If he does otherwise If he does , the new wine will the skins burst the skins burst burst the skins , and both the wine will be is will be spilled out , and the skins will be are will be destroyed. 38 Instead new wine must be poured they put is poured must be poured into new wineskins and both are preserved .” .” . ▷▷ 39 No one after drinking old wine wants the new, for he says, ‘The old is good enough.’”▷
◁51 After this there was a Jewish feast, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool called Bethzatha in Aramaic, which has five covered walkways. 3 A great number of sick, blind, lame, and paralyzed people were lying in these walkways. ▷ ◁5 Now a man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and when he realized that the man had been disabled a long time already, he said to him, “Do you want to become well?” 7 The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I am trying to get into the water, someone else goes down there before me.” 8 Jesus said to him, “Stand up! Pick up your mat and walk.” 9 Immediately the man was healed, and he picked up his mat and started walking. (Now that day was a Sabbath.)
10 So the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and you are not permitted to carry your mat.” 11 But he answered them, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’” 12 They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick up your mat and walk’?” 13 But the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped out, since there was a crowd in that place.
14 After this Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “Look, you have become well. Don’t sin any more, lest anything worse happen to you.” 15 The man went away and informed the Jewish leaders that Jesus was the one who had made him well.
16 Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began persecuting him. 17 So he told them, “My Father is working until now, and I too am working.” 18 For this reason the Jewish leaders were trying even harder to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was also calling God his own Father, thus making himself equal with God.
19 So Jesus answered them, “I tell you the solemn truth, the Son can do nothing on his own initiative, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise. 20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything he does, and will show him greater deeds than these, so that you will be amazed. 21 For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomever he wishes. 22 Furthermore, the Father does not judge anyone, but has assigned all judgment to the Son, 23 so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.
24 “I tell you the solemn truth, the one who hears my message and believes the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned, but has crossed over from death to life. 25 I tell you the solemn truth, a time is coming—and is now here—when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. 26 For just as the Father has life in himself, thus he has granted the Son to have life in himself, 27 and he has granted the Son authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man.
28 “Do not be amazed at this, because a time is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice 29 and will come out—the ones who have done what is good to the resurrection resulting in life, and the ones who have done what is evil to the resurrection resulting in condemnation. 30 I can do nothing on my own initiative. Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.
31 “If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true. 32 There is another who testifies about me, and I know the testimony he testifies about me is true. 33 You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth. 34 (I do not accept human testimony, but I say this so that you may be saved.) 35 He was a lamp that was burning and shining, and you wanted to rejoice greatly for a short time in his light.
36 “But I have a testimony greater than that from John. For the deeds that the Father has assigned me to complete—the deeds I am now doing—testify about me that the Father has sent me. 37 And the Father who sent me has himself testified about me. You people have never heard his voice nor seen his form at any time, 38 nor do you have his word residing in you, because you do not believe the one whom he sent. 39 You study the scriptures thoroughly because you think in them you possess eternal life, and it is these same scriptures that testify about me, 40 but you are not willing to come to me so that you may have life.
41 “I do not accept praise from people, 42 but I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you. 43 I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me. If someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him. 44 How can you believe, if you accept praise from one another and don’t seek the praise that comes from the only God?
45 “Do not suppose that I will accuse you before the Father. The one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have placed your hope. 46 If you believed Moses, you would believe me, because he wrote about me. 47 But if you do not believe what Moses wrote, how will you believe my words?”▷
◁◁◁1261231 At that time Jesus was going went was going through the grain fields on a Sabbath . . , and His His his disciples were hungry, and they began to pick began to pick picked some heads of wheat , rubbed them in their hands, and eat eat ate them as they made their way . 2242 But But So when some of the Pharisees saw this they said to him , “ Look, why are why areWhy are your disciples are your disciples are they you doing what is against the law to do on the Sabbath . . ? ” 3253 Jesus He Jesus answered said to answered them, “ Haven’tHaven’tHave you never read what David did when he was in need and he and his companions were hungry— 4264 how he entered the house of God when Abiathar was high priest , took and ate the sacred bread, which was was is against the law against the law not lawful for him or his companions for him or his companions for any but the priests for any to eat , but only for the priests, but only for the priests but the priests alone , and also gave it to his companions, and also gave it to his companions, and gave it to his companions ? 5 Or have you not read in the law that the priests in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are not guilty? 6 I tell you that something greater than the temple is here. 7 If you had known what this means: ‘I want mercy and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent. ” 275 Then he said to them, “ The Sabbath was made for people, not people for the Sabbath. 828 For this reason the theThe Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”
3916 Then Jesus left that place and on another Sabbath, Jesus entered their their the synagogue again and was teaching.. , and and was teaching. 10 Now A A a man was there whose right hand was withered. who had a withered hand. whose right hand was withered. 27 The experts in the law They The experts in the law and the Pharisees watched Jesus closely to see if he would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they could find a reason to accuse him. And they asked Jesus, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?” so that they could accuse him. 38 But So But he knew their thoughts, and said to the man who had the withered hand, “ Get up and standStand stand here up here among all these people .” So he rose and stood there. 1149 Then Jesus he Jesus said to them, “ I ask you, isIs is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath , or to do evil, to save a life or to destroy it?” But they were silent. 510 He said to them, “ Would not any one of you, if he had one sheep that fell into a pit on the Sabbath, take hold of it and lift it out? 12 How much more valuable is a person than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath .” 13 After looking around at them Then After looking around at them all in anger , grieved by the hardness of their hearts , he said to the man, “Stretch out your he said to the man, “Stretch out your, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” The man He The man stretched it out stretched it out did so , and his hand it his hand was restored , as healthy as the other . 14611 But But So the Pharisees the Pharisees they were filled with mindless rage and went out immediately and began plotting plotted plotting debating with the Herodians the Herodians one another against him , as to how they could assassinate how they could assassinate what they would do to Jesus him Jesus .
◁15717 Now when Now when Then Jesus Jesus he learned of this, he went away went away came down with his disciples his disciples them from there to the sea and stood on a level place , and. , and. And a large number of his disciples had gathered along with a great Great a great a vast multitude crowds multitude from Galilee followed him . ,. And from all over Judea, 8 from Jerusalem, Idumea, beyond the Jordan River, and from the seacoast of around from the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon a great multitude a great multitude. They came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases when they heard about and to be healed of their diseases the things he had done , and he healed them all 18 and those who suffered from unclean spirits were cured . 19 The whole crowd was trying to touch him, because power was coming out from him and healing them all. 9 Because of the crowd, he told his disciples to have a small boat ready for him so the crowd would not press toward him. 10 For he had healed many, so that all who were afflicted with diseases pressed toward him in order to touch him. 11 And whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, “You are the Son of God.” 1612 But he sternly ordered warned ordered them not to make him known. 17 This fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah:
18 “Here is my servant whom I have chosen,
the one I love, in whom I take great delight.
I will put my Spirit on him, and he
will proclaim justice to the nations.
19 He will not quarrel or cry out,
nor will anyone hear his voice in the streets.
20 He will not break a bruised reed
or extinguish a smoldering wick,
until he brings justice to victory.
21 And in his name the Gentiles will hope.”
◁1312 Now it was during this time that Jesus went out to up out to the mountain to pray, and he spent all night in prayer to God. 13 When morning came, he called for those he wanted, for those he wanted, his disciples and they came to him. 14 He appointed appointed chose twelve of them, whom he also named apostles: so that they would be with him and he could send them to preach 15 and to have authority to cast out demons.▷ ◁21614 Now these are the names of the twelve apostles:
First, to Simon ( whom he gave the namecalled gave the name named Peter ) ,,; and Andrew his brother 17 ; and to James and his brother and his brother, John, John John, , the sons of Zebedee ;;, he gave the name Boanerges (that is, “sons of thunder”); 318 Philip and Bartholomew; Philip and Bartholomew;, Philip, Bartholomew, Philip, Bartholomew, 15 Matthew the tax collector and the tax collector and, Thomas ;;, James the son of Alphaeus, 4 Simon who was called the Zealot, the Zealot the Zealot, 1916 Thaddaeus Thaddaeus Judas the son of James ;;, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor betrayed him became a traitor . ▷
◁51 When he saw the crowds, he went up the mountain. After he sat down his disciples came to him.▷ ◁220 Then he looked up at his disciples and began to teach them by looked up at his disciples and saying: saying: said:
3 “Blessed are you who are the you who are poor in spirit , for the kingdom of heaven heaven God belongs to them them you .
4 “Blessed are those those you who mourn mourn weep now , for they they you will be comforted be comforted laugh .
5 “Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
621 “Blessed are those those you who hunger and thirst now for righteousness , for they they you will be satisfied.
7 “Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
8 “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
9 “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called the children of God.
10 “Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to them.
1122 “Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject you as evil and persecute you and reject you as evil and say all kinds of evil things about you falsely on account of the Son of Man! me. the Son of Man! 1223 Rejoice in that day, and jump for joy be glad jump for joy , because your reward is great in heaven , for, for. For their ancestors they their ancestors did the same things to persecuted did the same things to the prophets before you in the same way .
24 “But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your comfort already.
25 “Woe to you who are well satisfied with food now, for you will be hungry.
“Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.
26 “Woe to you when all people speak well of you, for their ancestors did the same things to the false prophets.
13 “You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its flavor, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled on by people! 14 You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill cannot be hidden.▷ ◁1533 People do not People do not “No one after lighting light lighting a lamp and put and put puts it in a hidden place or under a basket , but on a lampstand, so that those who come and it gives light so that those who come in can see the light. to all in the house. in can see the light. 16 In the same way, let your light shine before people, so that they can see your good deeds and give honor to your Father in heaven.
17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have not come to abolish these things but to fulfill them. 18 I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth pass away not the smallest letter or stroke of a letter will pass from the law until everything takes place. 19 So anyone who breaks one of the least of these commands and teaches others to do so will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever obeys them and teaches others to do so will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20 For I tell you, unless your righteousness goes beyond that of the experts in the law and the Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven!
21 “You have heard that it was said to an older generation, ‘Do not murder,’ and ‘whoever murders will be subjected to judgment.’ 22 But I say to you that anyone who is angry with a brother will be subjected to judgment. And whoever insults a brother will be brought before the council, and whoever says ‘Fool’ will be sent to fiery hell. 23 So then, if you bring your gift to the altar and there you remember that your brother has something against you, 24 leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother and then come and present your gift. 25 Reach agreement quickly with your accuser while on the way to court, or he may hand you over to the judge, and the judge hand you over to the warden, and you will be thrown into prison. 26 I tell you the truth, you will never get out of there until you have paid the last penny!
27 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’ 28 But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to desire her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29 If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away! It is better to lose one of your members than to have your whole body thrown into hell. 30 If your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away! It is better to lose one of your members than to have your whole body go into hell.
31 “It was said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife must give her a legal document.’ 32 But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
33 “Again, you have heard that it was said to an older generation, ‘Do not break an oath, but fulfill your vows to the Lord.’ 34 But I say to you, do not take oaths at all—not by heaven, because it is the throne of God, 35 not by earth, because it is his footstool, and not by Jerusalem, because it is the city of the great King. 36 Do not take an oath by your head, because you are not able to make one hair white or black. 37 Let your word be ‘Yes, yes’ or ‘No, no.’ More than this is from the evil one.
38 “You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ ▷ ◁3929 But I say to you, do not resist the evildoer. To the person who But whoever To the person who strikes you on the right cheek, offer turn offer the other to him as well . . , 40 And And and from the person who if someone from the person who wants to sue you and takes take takes away your tunic tunic coat , do not withhold let him have do not withhold your tunic coat tunic either also either . 41 And if anyone forces you to go one mile, go with him two. 4230 Give to everyone the one everyone who asks you, and do not ask for your possessions back from reject ask for your possessions back from the person one person who wants to borrow from you wants to borrow from you takes them away .
43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor’ and ‘hate your enemy.’ ▷ ◁4427 “But I say to you But I say to you “But I say to you who are listening ,,: love your love your Love your enemies enemy enemies , do good to those who hate you, 28 bless those who curse you, and pray for those who persecute persecute mistreat you, you, you.▷ ◁4535 But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back. Then your reward will be great, so that so that and you will may will be like your like your sons of Father in heaven Father in heaven the Most High , because, since, because he is kind to ungrateful and evil people , he causes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.▷ ◁4632 For For “ if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you reward do you have credit is that to you ? For Even Even even the tax collectors the tax collectors sinners love those who love them. do the same, don’t they? love those who love them. 4733 And if you only do good to greet do good to those who do good to you your brothers those who do good to you , what credit is that to you more do you do credit is that to you ? Even the Gentiles the Gentiles sinners do the same , don’t they?, don’t they?. 34 And if you lend to those from whom you hope to be repaid, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, so that they may be repaid in full. ▷ ◁4836 So then, be be Be merciful perfect merciful , just as your heavenly Father is merciful perfect merciful .
61 “Be careful not to display your righteousness merely to be seen by people. Otherwise you have no reward with your Father in heaven. 2 Thus whenever you do charitable giving, do not blow a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in synagogues and on streets so that people will praise them. I tell you the truth, they have their reward! 3 But when you do your giving, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 so that your gift may be in secret. And your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.
◁111 Now Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he stopped, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.” 52 So he said to them, “ Whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, because they love to pray while standing in synagogues and on street corners so that people can see them. Truly I say to you, they have their reward! 6 But whenever you pray, go into your inner room, close the door, and pray to your Father in secret. And your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you. 7 When you pray, do not babble repetitiously like the Gentiles, because they think that by their many words they will be heard. 8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
9 So when you pray, pray this way pray this way say :
Our Father in heaven , may your name be honored; , may your name be honored, may your name be honored; ,
10 may your kingdom come, may your kingdom come, may your kingdom come.
may your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
113 Give us each day today each day our daily bread,
124 and forgive us our debts debts sins , as asfor we ourselves ourselves also have forgiven have forgiven forgive everyone who sins against us our debtors everyone who sins against us .
13 And do not lead us into temptation , but deliver us from the evil one .” . .”
14 “For if you forgive others their sins, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 But if you do not forgive others, your Father will not forgive you your sins.
5 Then he said to them, “Suppose one of you has a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread, 6 because a friend of mine has stopped here while on a journey, and I have nothing to set before him.’ 7 Then he will reply from inside, ‘Do not bother me. The door is already shut, and my children and I are in bed. I cannot get up and give you anything.’ 8 I tell you, even though the man inside will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of the first man’s sheer persistence he will get up and give him whatever he needs.
16 “When you fast, do not look sullen like the hypocrites, for they make their faces unattractive so that people will see them fasting. I tell you the truth, they have their reward! 17 When you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, 18 so that it will not be obvious to others when you are fasting, but only to your Father who is in secret. And your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.
19 “Do not accumulate for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and devouring insect destroy and where thieves break in and steal. 20 But accumulate for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and devouring insect do not destroy, and thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
◁2234 “ YourThe Your eye is the lamp of your the your body. If then If then When your eye is healthy, your whole body will be will be is full of light . . , 23 But But but when if when your eye your eye it is diseased, your whole body will be will be is full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness! 35 Therefore see to it that the light in you is not darkness. 36 If then your whole body is full of light, with no part in the dark, it will be as full of light as when the light of a lamp shines on you.”
24 “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
◁2522 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink , or about your body, what you will wear. 23 For Isn’t there Isn’t there there is more to life than food , and more to the body than clothing . ?. 2624 Consider Look at Consider the birds in the sky the birds in the sky the ravens: : They do not sow , or reap, they have no storeroom or barn, or gather into barns, they have no storeroom or barn, yet your heavenly Father your heavenly FatherGod feeds them. How much more valuable are you Aren’t you more valuable How much more valuable are you than the birds! they are? the birds! 2725 And which of you by worrying can add even one even one an hour to his life? 2826 So if you cannot do such a very little thing as this, why do you worry about the rest? Why do you worry about clothing? 27 Think about Think about Consider how the flowers of the field grow; they do not work or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that that, not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed like one of these! 3028 And if this is how God clothes the wild grass, which is here today and tomorrow is tossed into the fire to heat the oven, how much more will he clothe you, won’t he clothe you even more how much more will he clothe you, , you people of little faith?, you people of little faith? you people of little faith! 3129 So then, So then, So do not don’t do not be overly concerned worry be overly concerned saying, ‘ saying, ‘ about WhatWhatwhat you will eat will we eat you will eat ?’ or ‘?’ or ‘ and whatWhat what you will drink will we drink you will drink ?’ or ‘What will we wear?’ , and do not worry about such things. 3230 For all the nations of the world the unconverted all the nations of the world pursue these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 3331 But above all But above all Instead, pursue his kingdom and righteousness , and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 So then, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Today has enough trouble of its own. 32 “Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father is well pleased to give you the kingdom. 33 Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves purses that do not wear out—a treasure in heaven that never decreases, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys. 34 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
◁7137 “Do not judge so that so that, and you will not be judged ; do not condemn, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven . 38 Give, and it will be given to you: A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be poured into your lap. 2 For by the standard you judge you will be judged, and the measure you use will be the measure you receive. ”
39 He also told them a parable: “Someone who is blind cannot lead another who is blind, can he? Won’t they both fall into a pit? 40 A disciple is not greater than his teacher, but everyone when fully trained will be like his teacher. 341 Why do you see the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to see the beam of wood in your own? 442 Or how how How can you say to your brother, ‘ Brother, LetLetlet me remove the speck from your eye,’ while you yourself don’t see there is a there is a the beam in your own? 5 You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye. 6 Do not give what is holy to dogs or throw your pearls before pigs; otherwise they will trample them under their feet and turn around and tear you to pieces.
◁79 “ So I tell you: Ask, and it will be given to you;Ask and it will be given to you;Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; seek and you will find; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. knock and the door will be opened for you. knock, and the door will be opened for you. 810 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. 911 Is there anyone Is there anyone What father among you who , if your his your son asks for son asks for son bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead of a fish ? 12 Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? 1113 If you then, although you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven your Father in heaven the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit good gifts the Holy Spirit to those who ask him! ”
12 In everything, treat others as you would want them to treat you, for this fulfills the law and the prophets.
13 “Enter through the narrow gate, because the gate is wide and the way is spacious that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. 14 How narrow is the gate and difficult the way that leads to life, and there are few who find it!
15 “ Watch out for false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are voracious wolves. ▷ ◁1644 You will recognize them You will recognize themfor each tree is known by its own their its own fruit. For Grapes Grapes figs are not gathered from thorns , nor are or, nor are grapes figs grapes picked from thistles thistles brambles , are they ? ▷ ◁1743
In the same way, In the same way,For every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 no A no good tree is not able to bear is not able to bear bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree to bear good fruit . 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire., 20 So then, you will recognize them by their fruit.
◁45 The good person out of the good treasury of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasury produces evil, for his mouth speaks from what fills his heart.
◁31 Treat others in the same way that you would want them to treat you.
◁2146 “ Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do what I tell you? Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the kingdom of heaven—only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. 22 On that day, many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many powerful deeds in your name?’ 23 Then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you. Go away from me, you lawbreakers!’
2447 “Everyone who comes to me and listens to hears listens to these words of mine these words of mine my words and puts them into practice does them puts them into practice —I will show you what he is like: 48 He is like a wise man who built who built building his his a house , who dug down deep, and laid the foundation on bed rock. 25 When The When rain fell, the the a flood came, the river burst and the winds beat against that house , but it did not collapse it did not collapse could not shake it , because it had been well built its foundation had been laid on rock its foundation had been laid on rock. . 2649 But the person Everyone the person who hears these words of mine and does not put my words into practice do them put my words into practice is like a foolish man who built his his a house on the ground sand the ground without a foundation . 27 When The rain fell, the flood came, the river burst against that house, and the winds beat against that house, and it collapsed immediately , and—it, and was utterly destroyed!”
28 When Jesus finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed by his teaching, 29 because he taught them like one who had authority, not like their experts in the law.
◁751 When WhenAfter Jesus had finished teaching all this to the people, he entered Capernaum . ,. 2 a a A centurion there had a slave who was highly regarded, but who was sick and at the point of death. 3 When the centurion heard about Jesus, he came When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to him sent some Jewish elders to him, asking him to come and heal his slave for help him to come and heal his slave : : . 6 “Lord, my servant is lying at home paralyzed, in terrible anguish.”
4 When they came to Jesus, they urged him earnestly, “He is worthy to have you do this for him, 5 because he loves our nation, and even built our synagogue.” 76 So Jesus said to him, “I will come and heal him.” said to him, “I will come and heal him.” went with them.
But when he was not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to say to him replied sent friends to say to him , “Lord, do not trouble yourself, for I am not worthy to have you come under my roof! 7 That is why I did not presume to come to you. Instead, just say the word , and my servant will will must be healed. 98 For I too am a man set under authority, For I too am a man under authority, For I too am a man set under authority, with soldiers under me. I say to this one, ‘Go!’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come!’ ‘Go!’ and he goes, and to another ‘Come!’ ‘Go!’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come!’ and he comes, and to my slave, ‘Do this!’ and he comes, and to my slave ‘Do this!’ and he comes, and to my slave, ‘Do this!’ and he does it.”
109 When Jesus heard this , he was amazed at him. He turned and said to the crowd that those who the crowd that followed him, “I tell you the truth , I have not found in anyone in Israel, I have not found in anyone in Israel, not even in Israel have I found such faith! 11 I tell you, many will come from the east and west to share the banquet with Abraham, Isaac, the banquet with Abraham, Isaac,” and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven, 12 but the sons of the kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” 13 Then Jesus said to the centurion, “Go; just as you believed, it will be done for you.” And the servant was healed at that hour.
10 So when those who had been sent returned to the house, they found the slave well.
11 Soon afterward Jesus went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a large crowd went with him. 12 As he approached the town gate, a man who had died was being carried out, the only son of his mother (who was a widow ), and a large crowd from the town was with her. 13 When the Lord saw her, he had compassion for her and said to her, “Do not weep.” 14 Then he came up and touched the bier, and those who carried it stood still. He said, “Young man, I say to you, get up!” 15 So the dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him back to his mother. 16 Fear seized them all, and they began to glorify God, saying, “A great prophet has appeared among us!” and “God has come to help his people!” 17 This report about Jesus circulated throughout Judea and all the surrounding country.
◁218 John’s disciples informed him about all these things. Now when John heard in prison about the deeds Christ had done, So John he John called two of his disciples 19 and sent his disciples his disciples them to Jesus to ask a question : : , 3 “Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?” 20 When the men came to Jesus, they said, “John the Baptist has sent us to you to ask, ‘Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?’” 21 At that very time Jesus cured many people of diseases, sicknesses, and evil spirits, and granted sight to many who were blind. 422 So Jesus Jesus he answered them, “Go tell John what you have seen and heard hear and see have seen and heard : 5 The blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have good news proclaimed to them proclaimed to them proclaimed to them. 623 —and blessed blessed Blessed is anyone who takes no offense at me ! ! . ”
724 While While When John’s messengers they John’s messengers were going away, were going away, had gone, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about Jesus began to speak to the crowd about Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind? 825 What did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft clothing? Look, those who wear soft clothing and live in luxury are in the palaces of kings palaces of kings royal palaces ! 926 What did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet! Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet! Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet. 1027 This is the one about whom it is written:
‘Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you,
who will prepare your way before you.’">
1128 “I tell you “I tell you I tell you the truth , among those born of women , no one has arisen has arisen is greater than John the Baptist . Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven heaven God is greater than he is ! ! . ” 29 (Now all the people who heard this, even the tax collectors, acknowledged God’s justice, because they had been baptized with John’s baptism. 30 However, the Pharisees and the experts in religious law rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John. )
1231 From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has suffered violence, and forceful people lay hold of it. 13 For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John appeared. 14 And if you are willing to accept it, he is Elijah, who is to come. 15 The one who has ears had better listen!
16 “To what then should I compare “To what should I compare“To what then should I compare the people of this generation , and what are they like ? 32 They are like children sitting in the marketplace s and calling who call and calling out to one another,
17 ‘We played the flute for you, yet you did not dance;
we wailed in mourning, yet you did not weep.’
1833 For John the Baptist has come came has come eating no bread and drinking no wine neither eating nor drinking eating no bread and drinking no wine , and they they you say, ‘He has a demon!’ 1934 The Son of Man has come came has come eating and drinking, and they they you say, ‘Look at him, a glutton and a drunk, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ 35 But wisdom is vindicated by all her children deeds children .”
20 Then Jesus began to criticize openly the cities in which he had done many of his miracles, because they did not repent. 21 “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! If the miracles done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. 22 But I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you! 23 And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will be thrown down to Hades! For if the miracles done among you had been done in Sodom, it would have continued to this day. 24 But I tell you, it will be more bearable for the region of Sodom on the day of judgment than for you!”
25 At that time Jesus said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent, and have revealed them to little children. 26 Yes, Father, for this was your gracious will. 27 All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him. 28 Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke on you and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy to bear, and my load is not hard to carry.”
36 Now one of the Pharisees asked Jesus to have dinner with him, so he went into the Pharisee’s house and took his place at the table. 37 Then when a woman of that town, who was a sinner, learned that Jesus was dining at the Pharisee’s house, she brought an alabaster jar of perfumed oil. 38 As she stood behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears. She wiped them with her hair, kissed them, and anointed them with the perfumed oil. 39 Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know who and what kind of woman this is who is touching him, that she is a sinner.” 40 So Jesus answered him, “Simon, I have something to say to you.” He replied, “Say it, Teacher.” 41 “A certain creditor had two debtors; one owed him 500 silver coins, and the other fifty. 42 When they could not pay, he canceled the debts of both. Now which of them will love him more?” 43 Simon answered, “I suppose the one who had the bigger debt canceled.” Jesus said to him, “You have judged rightly.” 44 Then, turning toward the woman, he said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered your house. You gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair. 45 You gave me no kiss of greeting, but from the time I entered she has not stopped kissing my feet. 46 You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with perfumed oil. 47 Therefore I tell you, her sins, which were many, are forgiven, thus she loved much; but the one who is forgiven little loves little.” 48 Then Jesus said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.” 49 But those who were at the table with him began to say among themselves, “Who is this, who even forgives sins?” 50 He said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you; go in peace.”
81 Some time afterward he went on through towns and villages, preaching and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God. The twelve were with him, 2 and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and disabilities: Mary (called Magdalene), from whom seven demons had gone out, 3 and Joanna the wife of Cuza (Herod’s household manager), Susanna, and many others who provided for them out of their own resources.
◁20 Now Jesus went home, and a crowd gathered so that they were not able to eat. 21 When his family heard this they went out to restrain him, for they said, “He is out of his mind.”▷▷ ◁◁2214 Then Then Now they brought to him they brought to him he was casting a demon-possessed man a demon-possessed man out a demon that who that was blind and mute . When Jesus healed him so that the demon had gone out, the man who had been mute he the man who had been mute began to could began to speak and see . . , 23 All All and the crowds were amazed and said, “Could this one be the Son of David ?”?”.
242215 But when The experts in the law the Pharisees The experts in the law some of them who came down from Jerusalem heard this they said, “ He does not cast out demons except does not cast out demons except is possessed by byBy the power of Beelzebul ,” and, “By , the ruler of demons, the ruler of demons the ruler of demons , he casts out demons !” 16 Others, to test him, began asking for a sign from heaven.
252317 Now Now So But when Jesus , realizing realized, realizing what they were thinking, what they were thinking, their thoughts, he called them and spoke said spoke to them in parables ,,: “ How can Satan cast out Satan? 24 If a kingdom isEvery kingdom If a kingdom is divided against itself is destroyed, and is destroyed, and, that kingdom no town or house divided against no town or house divided against will not be able to a divided household itself will stand. itself will stand. stand. falls. 25 If a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. 262618 And So And if Satan rises against himself casts out Satan, rises against himself he too is divided against himself is divided against himself and is divided, . . , How How how then will his kingdom stand? he is not able to stand and his end has come.
I ask you this because you claim that I cast out demons by Beelzebul. 2719 And And Now if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? For this reason For this reason Therefore they will be your judges. 2820 But if I cast out demons by the Spirit Spirit finger of God, then the kingdom of God has already overtaken you. 21 When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his possessions are safe. 22 But when a stronger man attacks and conquers him, he takes away the first man’s armor on which the man relied and divides up his plunder. 2927 But no one is able to How else can someone But no one is able to enter a strong man’s house and steal his property, and steal his property, and steal his property unless he first ties up the strong man . ?. Then he can thoroughly plunder the the his house. 3023 Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters. 3128 For this reason I tell you the truth , people will be forgiven for every sin every sin all sins , even all the and, even all the blasphemies blasphemy blasphemies they utter . ,. 29 but but But whoever blasphemes the blasphemy whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never not never be forgiven . . , but is guilty of an eternal sin” 30 (because they said, “He has an unclean spirit” ). 32 Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven. But whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.
33 “Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is known by its fruit. 34 Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say anything good, since you are evil? For the mouth speaks from what fills the heart. 35 The good person brings good things out of his good treasury, and the evil person brings evil things out of his evil treasury. 36 I tell you that on the day of judgment, people will give an account for every worthless word they speak. 37 For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”
◁3829 Then As the crowds were increasing some of the experts in the law along with some Pharisees answered him, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.” 39 But , Jesus he, Jesus answered them answered them began to say , “ This generation is a wickedAn evil a wicked and adulterous generation ; it looks asks looks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. 4030 For just as Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish was in the belly of the huge fish became a sign for three days and three nights for three days and three nights to the people of Nineveh , so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth for three days in the heart of the earth for three days a sign to and three nights and three nights this generation . ▷ ◁4132 The people of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented when Jonah preached to them —and now, something greater than Jonah is here!▷ ◁4231 The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with the people of this generation and condemn them it them , because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon— and now, something greater than Solomon is here!
◁4324 “When an unclean spirit goes out of a person, it passes through waterless places looking for rest but does not find it does not find it not finding any . 44 Then it says, ‘I will return to the home I left.’ 25 When it returns, it finds the house empty, swept clean , and put in order. 4526 Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there, so the last state of that person is worse than the first. It will be that way for this evil generation as well! ”
◁27 As he said these things, a woman in the crowd spoke out to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you and the breasts at which you nursed!” 28 But he replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it!”
◁463119 WhileWhileThenNow Jesus was still speaking to the crowds, his his’ mother and his brothers came to him, but they could not get near him because of the crowd . and stood and stood Standing outside, asking to speak asking to speak they sent word to him , to summon him . 473220 A crowd was sitting around him and Someone A crowd was sitting around him and they said to himtold him they said to him So he was told , “ Look, your yourYour mother and your brothers are standing outside looking for wanting to looking for, wanting to speak to speak to see you.” 483321 But To the one who had said this, Jesus Jesus He he answered them and said replied answered them and said replied to them , “ Who are is are my mother and who are my brothers?” 4934 And pointing pointing looking toward toward at his disciples his disciples those who were sitting around him in a circle, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! 5035 For whoever For whoeverthose who hear the word of God and does does do the will of the will of it my Father my Father God in heaven are is are my brothers brother brothers and my sister and mother.”
◁134114 On that day On that day Again after Jesus went out of the house, he began to teach sat began to teach by the lake. 2 And while such Such while a large crowd was gathering gathered was gathering around him and people were coming to Jesus from one town after another, that he got into a boat on the lake and sat there to sit and sat there while the whole crowd stood stood was on the shore by the lake . 32 He He he taught told taught spoke them many things them many things to them in parables, in parables, in a parable and in his teaching said to them saying said to them : 35 “ Listen! A sower went out to sow his seed . 44 And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path some seeds fell along the path some seed fell along the path some fell along the path and was trampled on , and the wild birds came and devoured them. devoured them. devoured it. 556 Other seeds seeds seed fell on rocky ground rocky ground rock where they they it did not have much soil. They They It sprang up quickly quickly at once because the soil was not deep. 66 , and But, and when when When the sun the sun it came up , they were, they were it was, scorched, and because they they it did not have sufficient root, did not have sufficient root, had no moisture they they it withered. 777 Other seeds seeds seed fell among the thorns, and they grew up with it and choked them them it , and it did not produce grain . 888 But other seeds seeds seed fell on good soil and grew, and it produced grain, produced grain, produced sprouting and growing; some yielded thirty times as much, some sixty, and some a hundred times as much grain . ” 99 As he said this, And As he said this, he called out said called out , “ The one whoThe one whoWhoever has ears to hear had better listen!”
10109 Then Then When he was alone, those around him those around him his disciples with the twelve the disciples with the twelve came to him and came to him and asked him what this parable meant said about the parables what this parable meant , “Why do you, “Why do you. speak to them in parables?” 111110 He replied replied said to them , “To you has, “You have, “To you has been given the opportunity to know the secrets secrets secret of the kingdom of heaven heaven God mark mark1,. mark mark1 but but Butmark mark1 to those outside, they to those outside, for others everything is in parables, have not. everything is in parables, they are in parables, 1212 For whoever has will be given more, and will have an abundance. But whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him. 13 For this reason I speak to them in parables: so that Although they Although they although they look see look they may look but may do may not see, and although they hear they may hear but do may hear but may not hear nor do they understand , so they may not repent and be forgiven . 14 And concerning them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says:
‘You will listen carefully yet will never understand,
you will look closely yet will never comprehend.
15 For the heart of this people has become dull;
they are hard of hearing,
and they have shut their eyes,
so that they would not see with their eyes
and hear with their ears
and understand with their hearts
and turn, and I would heal them.’
16 “But your eyes are blessed because they see, and your ears because they hear. 17 For I tell you the truth, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it. ”
181311 He said to them, “ Don’t you understand this parable? Then how will you understand any parable?So listen to Then how will you understand any parable?
Now the parable of the sower means this : 14 The seed is the word of God. The sower sows the word. 191512 These areThis is These are Those are the seed the seed the ones sown along along on the path where the word is sown where the word is sownwho have heard ::; When anyone hears the word When anyone hears the word Whenever they hear then about the kingdom and does not understand it , immediately the evil one the evil one Satan the devil comes and takes away snatches takes away the word that what the word that the word was sown was sown from in their hearts, his heart them their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved . 201613 These are the ones The seed These are the ones Those sown on rocky ground: rocky ground rocky ground: the rock is the person is the person are the ones who as soon as theyas soon as theywhen they hears hears hear the word, the word the word, it they and they immediately receives receives receive the word it the word with joy . . , 2117 But But but they have he has they have no root in themselves himself themselves and does does do not endure . ;. They believe for a while, but Then, in a time of testing when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately they he they falls falls fall away. 221814 Others are Others are As for The The the seed seed ones that fell sown that fell among thorns ::, these They these are is are the person the person those the ones who hears hears hear the word , 19 but as they go on their way worldly cares and and, the seductiveness of wealth the worries and riches and pleasures of life , and the desire for other things come in and choke the word the word them , and so and their fruit does not mature. it produces nothing. their fruit does not mature. 232015 But these are as for these are the seed seed ones that landed sown that landed on good soil ,,: these this these are is are the person the person They the ones who , after hearing hears hear hearing the word and , cling to it understands receive it, cling to it with an honest and good heart, . He. He and bears bears bear fruit with steadfast endurance , yielding one thirty times as much, a hundred, thirty times as much, one one. sixty, and one a hundred or thirty times and one a hundred what was sown .”
24 He presented them with another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a person who sowed good seed in his field. 25 But while everyone was sleeping, an enemy came and sowed darnel among the wheat and went away. 26 When the plants sprouted and produced grain, then the darnel also appeared. 27 So the slaves of the landowner came and said to him, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Then where did the darnel come from?’ 28 He said, ‘An enemy has done this!’ So the slaves replied, ‘Do you want us to go and gather it?’ 29 But he said, ‘No, since in gathering the darnel you may uproot the wheat along with it. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest. At harvest time I will tell the reapers, “First collect the darnel and tie it in bundles to be burned, but then gather the wheat into my barn.”’”
2116 He also said to them, “ A lamp isn’t broughtA lamp isn’t broughtNo one lights a lamp and then to be and then covers it with put under covers it with a basket a basket a jar or puts it under a bed , is it ??, Isn’t it to be placed Isn’t it to be placed but puts it on a lampstand so that those who come in can see the light . ?. 2217 For nothing is hidden that will not except to that will not be revealed, and nothing concealed that will not except to that will not be made known and brought to light.
23 If anyone has ears to hear, he had better listen!” 2418 And he said to them, “ Take care about what you hear.Take care about what you hear. So listen carefully, The measure you use will be the measure you receive, and more will be added to you. 25 For For for whoever has will be given more, but whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken from him.”
26 He also said, “The kingdom of God is like someone who spreads seed on the ground. 27 He goes to sleep and gets up, night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. 28 By itself the soil produces a crop, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head. 29 And when the grain is ripe, he sends in the sickle because the harvest has come.”
◁313013 Thus Jesus He Jesus also gave them another parable: gave them another parable: asked, “ To what can we compareTo what can we compareWhat is theThe the kingdom of heaven heaven God like?, or like? to what parable can we use to present parable can we use to present should I compare it?▷ ◁3119 It is like a mustard seed that a man took and a man took and when sowed in sowed in sown in the ground his field the ground his garden . . , 32 even though It It it is the smallest of all the seeds in the ground— 32 , but when it it It is sown, has grown it has grown it it grows up, grew becomes is becomes the greatest of all garden plants plant plants , and becomes becomes became a tree, and grows large branches so that the wild birds can come and nested nest nested in its branches branches shade .”
3320 Again He He he told them told them said another parable ::, “ To what should I compare theThe the kingdom of heaven heaven God ? 21 It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with three measures of flour until all the dough had risen.”
34 Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the crowds; he did not speak to them without a parable. 35 This fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet:
“I will open my mouth in parables,
I will announce what has been hidden from the foundation of the world.”
36 Then he left the crowds and went into the house. And his disciples came to him saying, “Explain to us the parable of the darnel in the field.” 37 He answered, “The one who sowed the good seed is the Son of Man. 38 The field is the world and the good seed are the people of the kingdom. The poisonous weeds are the people of the evil one, 39 and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels. 40 As the poisonous weeds are collected and burned with fire, so it will be at the end of the age. 41 The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather from his kingdom everything that causes sin as well as all lawbreakers. 42 They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 43 Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. The one who has ears had better listen!
44 “The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure, hidden in a field, that a person found and hid. Then because of joy he went and sold all that he had and bought that field.
45 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant searching for fine pearls. 46 When he found a pearl of great value, he went out and sold everything he had and bought it.
47 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was cast into the sea that caught all kinds of fish. 48 When it was full, they pulled it ashore, sat down, and put the good fish into containers and threw the bad away. 49 It will be this way at the end of the age. Angels will come and separate the evil from the righteous 50 and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
51 “Have you understood all these things?” They replied, “Yes.” 52 Then he said to them, “Therefore every expert in the law who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house who brings out of his treasure what is new and old.”
33 So with many parables like these, he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear. 34 He did not speak to them without a parable. But privately he explained everything to his own disciples.
◁◁233522 On that As On that One day , when evening came, Jesus he Jesus got into the the a boat with, with his disciples and said to them said to his disciples his disciples and said to them , “Let’s go across to the other side of the lake.” 36 So after leaving the crowd, his disciples his disciples they followed him. followed him. took him along set out ,
just as he was, in the boat, and other boats were with him. 23 and as they sailed he fell asleep. 2437 And And Now a violent great violent windstorm storm windstorm developed developed came down on the lake, sea lake, so that so that and the waves were breaking into began to swamp were breaking into the boat , so that the boat started filling up with water was nearly swamped started filling up with water , and they were in danger . 3824 But he was in the stern, sleeping asleep sleeping on a cushion . 25 So they they They came and woke him up and said saying and said, saying to him , “ Master, MasterLordTeacherMaster, Master , save us! don’t you care that We We we are about to die ! ! ? ” 39 ThenThen So he got up and rebuked the winds winds wind and the sea , and said to the raging waves sea waves ,,; “Be quiet! Calm down!” Then the wind the wind they died down stopped died down , and it was dead calm. 264025 Then But And Then he said to them, “ Why are you cowardly ,,? Do you still not have you people of little Do you still not haveWhere is your faith?” 2741 And And But the men the men They they were overwhelmed by fear overwhelmed by fear afraid and amazed and said and said, saying to one another , “ What sort of personWhat sort of personWho then is this? He commands Even Even even the winds winds wind and the water sea water , and they obey him!”
528126 When When So they he they sailed over came sailed over to the other side of the lake opposite Galilee , to the region of the Gadarenes, to the region of the Gadarenes, to the region of the Gerasenes . ,. 227 Just as as As Jesus was getting out of the boat was getting out of the boat stepped ashore two two, a certain man from the town who was possessed by demons demon-possessed men with an unclean spirit who was possessed by demons coming coming came from the tombs and from the tombs from the tombs and met him. 3 For a long time this man He this man had worn no clothes and had not lived in a house, but among the tombs , and no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain . 4 For his hands and feet had often been bound with chains and shackles, but he had torn the chains apart and broken the shackles in pieces. No one was strong enough to subdue him. They were extremely violent, so that no one was able to pass by that way. 5 Each night and every day among the tombs and in the mountains, he would cry out and cut himself with stones. 628 When he saw Jesus from a distance , he cried out, ran and bowed bowed fell down before him. before him. before him 297 Then Then, and they they he cried out cried out shouted with a loud voice , “ leaveleaveLeave us us me alone, Jesus, Son of the Most High God! Have you come here to torment us before the time? I implore implore beg you by God — —, do not torment me! ” 829 ” ” ( For Jesus had said to him, “Come out of that man, said to him, “Come out of that man, started commanding the evil spirit to come out of the man. you unclean spirit!” to come out of the man. (For it had seized him many times, so he would be bound with chains and shackles and kept under guard. But he would break the restraints and be driven by the demon into deserted places. ) 930 Jesus then asked him, “What is your name?” And he he He said, “ My name is Legion , for we are many .” .” ,” because many demons had entered him. 1031 And they He they began to beg begged began to beg Jesus Jesus him repeatedly not to order send order them out of the region to depart into the abyss . 301132 Now There on the hillside, There on the hillside, there on the hillside aA a large large great herd of pigs was feeding some distance from them . . , 3112 Then Then And and the demonic spirits demons demonic spirits begged Jesus him Jesus , “ If you drive us out, to let them gosend to let them go us into the herd of pigs. pigs pigs. Let us enter them . ” 3213 And Jesus he Jesus He gave them permission. said, “Go!” gave them permission. 33 So the unclean spirits they the unclean spirits the demons came out of the man and went into the pigs . Then, and. Then the herd of pigs rushed down the steep slope into the lake , and about 2,000 were drowned in the water water lake . 331434 When Now When The The the herdsmen saw what had happened, they ran off , went into the town, and told everything that had happened and told everything that had happened and spread the news to the demon-possessed men in the town and countryside , and the people went out to see what had happened . 341535 Then Then So the entire town the entire town They the people came came went out to see what had happened, and they came to meet Jesus . And And and when they they They found saw found the demon-possessed him, the demon-possessed the man man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting there at Jesus’ feet , clothed and in his right mind —the one who had the “Legion”——the one who had the “Legion”—, and they were afraid. 1636 Those who had seen what had happened to what had happened to it the demon-possessed man told them reported told them how the man who had been it how the man who had been demon-possessed had been healed , and they also told about the pigs . 1737 Then all the people of the Gerasenes they all the people of the Gerasenesluke luke1 and the surrounding region began to beg begged began to beg askedmark mark1 Jesus him Jesus to leave their region their region them alone , for they were seized with great fear . So he got into the boat and left. 1838 As he was getting into the boat the the The man from whom the demons had gone out who had been demon-possessed from whom the demons had gone out begged asked begged if he could if he could to go with him . . , 19 But But but Jesus did not permit him to do so. did not permit him to do so. sent him away, Instead, he said to him said to him saying , 39 “ ReturnGoReturn to your home and to your people , and tell them tell them declare what the Lord the Lord God has done for you , that he had mercy on you .” 20 So he went away and began to proclaim and began to proclaim, proclaiming throughout the whole town in the Decapolis throughout the whole town what Jesus had done for him , and all were amazed .
2140 Now When When when Jesus had crossed again had crossed again returned in a boat to the other side , a large a large the crowd gathered around gathered around welcomed him , because they were all waiting for him , and he was by the sea . ▷ ◁182241 Then As he was saying these things, a man who was one of the a one of the synagogue leaders leader leaders , named Jairus,, named Jairus, named Jairus, came up , and when he saw Jesus . ,. he bowed low bowed low fell Falling at Jesus’ feet before him, at his feet at Jesus’ feet . . , 23 and and He he pleaded with him to said asked him pleaded with him to urgently , “My little daughter has just died has just died is near death . ,. but come come Come and lay your hands on her and lay your hand on her and lay your hands on her to his house so that and so that she may be healed and will may be healed and live .” .” , 42 because he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying.
1924 Jesus and his disciples got up and went with followed went with him . . , As Jesus was on his way, andAs Jesus was on his way, a large a large the crowds crowd crowds followed and pressed around him. 202543 But But Now a woman was there who had been suffering from a hemorrhage for twelve years . 26 She had endured a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all that she had. Yet Yet but instead of getting better, she grew worse. instead of getting better, she grew worse. could not be healed by anyone. 2744 When she heard about Jesus, she she She came up behind Jesus him Jesus in the crowd and touched the edge of his cloak . . , 2128 For she kept saying For she kept saying for she kept saying to herself , “If only I touch his clothes cloak clothes , I will be healed.” 29 and at once the bleeding stopped, once the bleeding stopped, once the bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease . 3045 Jesus knew at once that power had gone out from him. Then Jesus He Jesus turned around in the crowd and asked said asked , “Who was it who touched my clothes my clothes me ?” 31 When they all denied it, His disciples His disciples Peter said to him , “ Master, You see the crowds crowd crowds are surrounding you and pressing against you and you say, ‘Who touched me ?’?’! ” 223246 But Jesus he Jesus looked around to see who had done it when Jesus turned and saw her looked around to see who had done it said, “Someone touched me, for I know that power has gone out from me . ” 3347 Then Then When the woman saw that she could not escape notice,
, with fear and trembling , knowing what had happened to her, she came and fell down before him and told him the whole truth . In the presence of all the people, she explained why she had touched him and how she had been immediately healed. 3448 Then he he He said to her , “ Have courage, daughterdaughterDaughter ! ! , Your Your your faith has made you well. faith has made you well faith has made you well. Go in peace , and be healed of your disease .” And the woman was healed from that hour.
3549 While he was still speaking, someone people someone came from the synagogue leader’s house and said saying and said , “Your daughter has died, “Your daughter has died, “Your daughter is dead ; do not. Why; do not trouble the teacher any longer . ?. ” 3650 But when Jesus heard this , paying no attention to what was said , he told the synagogue leader the synagogue leader him , “Do not be afraid; just believe , and she will be healed .” 3751 Now when he came to the house, Jesus He Jesus did not let anyone go in with follow go in with him except Peter, James, and John James, and John John, and James , the brother of James , and the child’s father and mother . 3852 They came to the house They came to the house Now of the synagogue leader where he saw noisy confusion and people and people they were all weeping and wailing loudly and mourning for her . . , 2339 When When but Jesus Jesus he entered the leader’s house and saw the flute players and the disorderly crowd, 24 he said to them , “ Why are youWhy are youStop your distressed and distressed and weeping weeping weeping; ? Go away, for the the The child girl child she is not dead but asleep!” 4053 And they began making fun of him , because they knew that she was dead . 2554 But he forced them all outside, and when the crowd had been forced outside, Jesus he Jesus took the child’s father and mother and his own companions and went into in into the room where the child was. 41 Then, and Then, gently taking took taking the child her the child by the hand, by the hand, by the hand and he and said to her , “ Talitha koum,” which means, “ Little girlLittle girlChild , I say to you , get up.” 4255 and Her spirit returned, and the girl the girl The girl she got up immediately at once immediately and began to walk around (she was twelve years old) . Then he told them to give her something to eat. 56 Her parents They Her parents were completely astonished at this . . , 43 but He He he strictly ordered them to tell that them to tell no one should know about this should know about this what had happened , and told them to give her something to eat . ▷ 26 And the news of this spread throughout that region.
27 As Jesus went on from there, two blind men began to follow him, shouting, “Have mercy on us, Son of David!” 28 When he went into the house, the blind men came to him. Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” They said to him, “Yes, Lord.” 29 Then he touched their eyes saying, “Let it be done for you according to your faith.” 30 And their eyes were opened. Then Jesus sternly warned them, “See that no one knows about this!” 31 But they went out and spread the news about him throughout that entire region.▷ 32 As they were going away, a man who was demon-possessed and unable to speak was brought to him. ◁33 After the demon was cast out, the man who had been mute began to speak. The crowds were amazed and said, “Never has anything like this been seen in Israel!” 34 But the Pharisees said, “By the ruler of demons he casts out demons!”
◁6531 Now when Jesus finished these parables, he moved on from moved on from left that place there that place . 54 Then Then and he came to his hometown , and his disciples followed him. 2 When the Sabbath came, he began to teach the people in their their the synagogue. Many who heard him They Many who heard him were astonished and said and said, saying , “Where did this man this man he get these ideas? And what is such such this wisdom that has been given to him? What are these and What are these miraculous powers miraculous powers miracles that are done through his hands ? 553 Isn’t this the carpenter , the’s, the son ? Isn’t his mother named Isn’t his mother named of Mary ? And And and aren’t his brothers aren’t his brothers brother of James, Joseph, Joseph, Joses, Simon, and Judas? 56 And aren’t all his sisters here with us? So where did he get all this? ” 57 And so they took offense at him. 4 Then But Then Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown , and among his relatives, and in his own house.” 585 And he he He was not able to did not was not able to do many many a miracles miracles miracle there , except to lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them because of their unbelief, except to lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them . 6 And he was amazed because of their unbelief.
◁35 Then Jesus Jesus he went throughout all throughout all around among the towns and villages and taught, teaching and taught in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and sickness . 36 When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them because they were bewildered and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. 37 Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. 38 Therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest-ready fields.”
◁109171 Jesus called his his the twelve disciples together and then he began to send began to send sent them out two by two and and. He gave them power and authority over all the unclean spirits unclean spirits demons so they could cast them out and to cure heal to cure every kind of diseases disease diseases and sickness . . , 2 and to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal the sick.
◁583 Jesus Jesus He sent out these twelve, instructing instructing instructed said to them as follows as follows to ::, “▷ ◁9 take nothing for Do not take take nothing forTake nothing for your the your journey except a staff — no gold, silver, or copper gold, silver, or copper money in their your their belts, belts, belts , 10 no bread, no bag for the journey ,,— 9 and to put on sandals , and but, and not to not to do not take an extra tunic or an extra tunic, wear two tunics take an extra tunic or sandals or orno staff , for the worker deserves his provisions . Do not go on a road that leads to Gentile regions and do not enter any Samaritan town. ▷ ◁6 Go instead to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. 7 As you go, preach this message: ‘The kingdom of heaven is near!’ 8 Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons. Freely you received, freely give.▷ ◁11104 He said to them, “ Whenever you enter a town or village, find out who is worthy there and wherever you enter a house wherever you enter a house whatever house you enter , stay stay, stay with them with them there until you leave the area .
12 As you enter the house, greet those within it. 13 And if the house is worthy, And if the house is worthy, let your peace come on it, but if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you. 1411 And Wherever if If Wherever a place anyone a place they will will do not welcome welcome receive you or listen to your message your message you , as you go out from leave that go out from leave house or that town that town there , shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them . ” 15 I tell you the truth, it will be more bearable for the region of Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town!
16 “I am sending you out like sheep surrounded by wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves. 17 Beware of people, because they will hand you over to councils and flog you in their synagogues. ▷ ◁1811 And And But you will be brought you will be brought when they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities governors and kings the rulers, and the authorities because of me, as a witness to them and to the Gentiles. 19 Whenever they hand you over for trial , do not worry about how you should make your defense or to speak or you should make your defense or what you should to you should say, 12 for the Holy Spirit will teach you it will be given to you the Holy Spirit will teach you at that moment time moment what you should should must say. ” 20 For it is not you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.
21 “Brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against parents and have them put to death. 22 And you will be hated by everyone because of my name. But the one who endures to the end will be saved! 23 Whenever they persecute you in one town, flee to another! I tell you the truth, you will not finish going through all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.
24 “A disciple is not greater than his teacher, nor a slave greater than his master. 25 It is enough for the disciple to become like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they have called the head of the house ‘Beelzebul,’ how much worse will they call the members of his household!
◁34 “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace but a sword! 35 For I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, 36 and a man’s enemies will be the members of his household.
37 “Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 38 And whoever does not take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. 39 Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life because of me will find it.
40 “Whoever receives you receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me. 41 Whoever receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward. Whoever receives a righteous person in the name of a righteous person will receive a righteous person’s reward. 42 And whoever gives only a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple, I tell you the truth, he will never lose his reward.”
◁126 Then So Then they went out went out departed and went throughout the villages, preached that all should repent. preached that all should repent. proclaiming the good news 13 They cast out many demons and anointed many sick people with olive oil and healing healed healing people them people everywhere . 111 When Jesus had finished instructing his twelve disciples, he went on from there to teach and preach in their towns.
◁141147 Now at that time King Herod the tetrarch heard about everything that was happening reports about Jesus this about everything that was happening , 2 for Jesus’ name had become known , and he was thoroughly perplexed . . , because Some Some some people were saying that , “ that John the baptizer has has had been raised from the dead, 8 and because of this, miraculous powers are at work in him. ” 15 while Others Others others were saying that said, “ were saying that He is Elijah had appeared . . , and still” and still othersOthers others said , “He is a prophet, like, “He is a prophet, like that one of the prophets from the past from the past of long ago had risen .” .” . 16 and and But when Herod heard this, Herod he Herod said to his servants , “ This is This is I had 9 John the Baptist , whom I beheaded . . , but who is this about whom I hear such things?” He has been raised from the dead ! And because of this, miraculous powers are at work in him. ” 317 For Herod himself had sent men, arrested John, arrested John arrested John, and, and bound him , and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, 4 because Herod had married her . 18 For John had repeatedly told Herod him Herod , “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife her your brother’s wife .”
519 So Herodias nursed a grudge against him and wanted to kill him. But she could not 20 because Herod stood in awe of John and protected him, since he knew that John was a righteous and holy man. When Herod heard him, he was thoroughly baffled, and yet he liked to listen to John. So Herod wanted to learn about Jesus.▷ Although Herod wanted to kill John, he feared the crowd because they accepted John as a prophet. 621 But a suitable day came, when Herod gave a banquet on Herod’s Herod’s his birthday for his court officials, military commanders, and leaders of Galilee. 22 When, When the the his daughter of Herodias came in and danced before them , she and, she pleased Herod and his dinner guests . ,. 7 so much that the king said to the girl, “Ask me for whatever you want and I will give it to you.” 23 Hehe He promised with an oath promised with an oath swore to her , “ I will give her her you whatever she she you askedasked ask , up to half my kingdom . ”
824 So she went out and said to her mother, “What should I ask for?” Instructed by “What should I ask for?” her her Her mother said , “The head of John the baptizer.” 25 Immediately she hurried back to the king and made her request said made her request ,,: “ Give meGive meI want the head of John the Baptist here on a platter immediately .” 926 Although it grieved the king deeply , he did not want to reject her request because of his oath and the the his dinner guests he commanded it to be given . 1027 So the king he the king sent an executioner at once to bring and an executioner at once to bring John’s head, and he went and had he went and John beheaded John beheaded beheaded John in the prison. 1128 His head was brought His head was brought He brought his head on a platter and gave it given gave it to the girl, and the girl she the girl brought brought gave it to her mother. 1229 Then Then When John’s disciples heard this, they came and took the body and came and took the body and came and took his body and buried buried placed it in a tomb and went and told Jesus .
◁◁630101 When the apostles returned, Then When the apostles returned, After this the apostles the apostles they gathered around Jesus and told Jesus him Jesus everything they had done and taught . 1331 Now when Jesus heard of John’s death he he He said to them, “Come with me privately to an isolated place and rest a while” (for many were coming and going, and there was no time to eat). 32 Then So Then he took them with him and Jesus they Jesus went away went away withdrew from there by themselves privately by themselves in a boat to the other side of the Sea of Galilee (also called the Sea of Tiberias) to some an some a isolated isolated remote place place town called Bethsaida . 33112 But many saw them leaving and recognized them, and when the the A large crowds crowd crowds found out heard found out about it , they they was following him followed him hurried following him on foot from all the towns and arrived there ahead of them because they were observing the miraculous signs he was performing on the sick . 1434 As Jesus he Jesus came ashore got out came ashore he saw the large crowd , and he had compassion on them , because they were like sheep without a shepherd . 3 So Jesus he He Jesus welcomed them, went on up the mountainside and sat down there with his disciples spoke to taught spoke to them about the kingdom of God many things about the kingdom of God , and and, and healed healed cured those who needed healing their sick those who needed healing .
4 (Now the Jewish Feast of the Passover was near.) 1535125 Now the day began to draw to a close, so When When Then it was already late, evening arrived, it was already late, Jesus, when he looked up and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, said to Philip, “Where can we buy bread so that these people may eat?” 6 (Now Jesus said this to test him, for he knew what he was going to do.) his disciples his disciples The twelve came to Jesus him Jesus and said saying and said , “ This is an isolated place and the hour the hour it is already very late. 36 Send the crowds the crowds them the crowd away , so that they can go into the so that they can go into the so they can go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy something for themselves to eat food for themselves something for themselves to eat find lodging and food , because we are in an isolated place .” 163713 But he answered replied answered said to them , “ They don’t need to go. You give them something to eat.” 7 17 Philip And Philip replied they replied said , “ Should we go and buy bread for 200 silver coins and give it to them to eat? 200 silver coins worth of bread would not be enough for them, for each one to get a little. ” 38 He said to them, “How many loaves do you have? Go and see.” When they found out, 8 One of Jesus’ disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, They One of Jesus’ disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, replied said replied to him , 9 “ Here is a boyWe a boy who has have who has no more than here only no more than five fiveFive barley— barley loaves and two fish , but what good are these for so many people? —unless we go and buy food for all these people . ” 18 “Bring them here to me,” he replied. 19391410 (Now about 5,000 men were there.) Then Jesus he Jesus instructed instructed directed said to his disciples the crowds to them all to to his disciples , “Have the people them the people sit down in groups of about fifty each on the green grass . ” (Now there was a lot of grass in that place.) 4015 So the men they the men did as Jesus directed, did as Jesus directed, sat down and the people all reclined reclined sat down in groups of hundreds and fifties , about 5,000 in number . 411611 Then Jesus He he Jesus took the five loaves , and when he had given thanks, he distributed the bread to those who were seated. He then did the same with the two fish, and looking up to heaven , he gave thanks and broke the loaves the loaves them . He gave them to the the his disciples , who in turn, who in turn to gave them to gave them to serve set before the crowds crowds people crowd , and he divided the two fish among them all as much as they wanted . 20421712 When They They they all ate and were all satisfied, 43 Jesus said to his disciples, “Gather up the broken pieces that are left over, so that nothing is wasted.” 13 and and So they picked up picked up gathered the broken pieces the broken pieces them up and fish that were and fish that were what was left over, left over, left over — and filled twelve baskets full with of with broken pieces from the five barley loaves left over by the people who had eaten . ▷ 2144 Now not counting women and children, there were about 5,000 men who ate the bread . 14 Now when the people saw the miraculous sign that Jesus performed, they began to say to one another, “This is certainly the Prophet who is to come into the world.” 15 Then Jesus, because he knew they were going to come and seize him by force to make him king, withdrew again up the mountainside alone.
16 Now when evening came, his disciples went down to the lake, 224517 Immediately Jesus made the the his disciples get get got into the the a boat , and started go started on ahead of him to the other side, to the other side, to cross the lake to Bethsaida Bethsaida Capernaum , while he dispersed the crowds crowds crowd . 2346 After saying goodbye to them, And after he sent the crowds away, he went up up to the mountain by himself to pray. 47 When evening came, the boat was in the middle of the sea and he was there alone on the land . (It had already become dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them.) 18 By now a strong wind was blowing and the sea was getting rough. 2448 Meanwhile the boat, already far from land, was taking a beating from the waves; He saw them straining at the oars, because the wind was against them it them . 2519 Then as the night was ending, as the night was ending, As the night was ending, , when they had rowed about three or four miles, Jesus Jesus he came to them walking on the sea , for he wanted to pass by them . 2649 When the disciples the disciples they caught sight of saw caught sight of Jesus him Jesus walking on the water water lake , approaching the boat, and they were frightened terrified frightened and they thought he was a ghost said, “It’s a ghost!” they thought he was a ghost. . They and They cried out with fear , 50 for they all saw him and were terrified.. for they all saw him and were terrified. 2720 But immediately Jesus Jesus he spoke spoke said to them : “: “, “ Have courage! It is I. Do not be afraid.” 28 Peter said to him, “Lord, if it is you, order me to come to you on the water.” 29 So he said, “Come.” Peter got out of the boat, walked on the water, and came toward Jesus. 30 But when he saw the strong wind he became afraid. And starting to sink, he cried out, “Lord, save me!” 31 Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him, saying to him, “You of little faith, why did you doubt?” 325121 Then they wanted to take him into the boat. When When Then they they he went up with them into the boat, and the wind ceased. 33 Then those who were in the boat worshiped him, saying, “Truly you are the Son of God.” They were completely astonished, 52 because they did not understand about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.
3453 After they had crossed over, After they had crossed over,, and immediately the boat they the boat came to the land where they had been heading at Gennesaret and anchored there and anchored there. . 3554 As they got out of the boat, When the As they got out of the boat, people there immediately recognized Jesus him Jesus . ,. 55 they they They sent word into sent word into ran through all the surrounding area, all the surrounding area, that whole region and they began to bring brought began to bring all their all their the sick on mats to wherever he was rumored to be. him. wherever he was rumored to be.
3656 And wherever he would go— into villages, towns, or countryside— They Theythey would place the sick in the marketplaces, and would ask begged would ask him if they could only only just touch the edge of his cloak, and all who touched it were healed.▷▷ 22 The next day the crowd that remained on the other side of the lake realized that only one small boat had been there, and that Jesus had not boarded it with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away alone. 23 Other boats from Tiberias came to shore near the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks. 24 So when the crowd realized that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and came to Capernaum looking for Jesus.
25 When they found him on the other side of the lake, they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you get here?” 26 Jesus replied, “I tell you the solemn truth, you are looking for me not because you saw miraculous signs, but because you ate all the loaves of bread you wanted. 27 Do not work for the food that disappears, but for the food that remains to eternal life—the food which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has put his seal of approval on him.”
28 So then they said to him, “What must we do to accomplish the deeds God requires?” 29 Jesus replied, “This is the deed God requires —to believe in the one whom he sent.” 30 So they said to him, “Then what miraculous sign will you perform, so that we may see it and believe you? What will you do? 31 Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”
32 Then Jesus told them, “I tell you the solemn truth, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but my Father is giving you the true bread from heaven. 33 For the bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” 34 So they said to him, “Sir, give us this bread all the time!”
35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. The one who comes to me will never go hungry, and the one who believes in me will never be thirsty. 36 But I told you that you have seen me and still do not believe. 37 Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never send away. 38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me. 39 Now this is the will of the one who sent me—that I should not lose one person of every one he has given me, but raise them all up at the last day. 40 For this is the will of my Father—for everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him to have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”
41 Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus began complaining about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven,” 42 and they said, “Isn’t this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?” 43 Jesus replied, “Do not complain about me to one another. 44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day. 45 It is written in the prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who hears and learns from the Father comes to me. 46 (Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God—he has seen the Father.) 47 I tell you the solemn truth, the one who believes has eternal life. 48 I am the bread of life. 49 Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. 50 This is the bread that has come down from heaven, so that a person may eat from it and not die. 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats from this bread he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
52 Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus began to argue with one another, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” 53 Jesus said to them, “I tell you the solemn truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in yourselves. 54 The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. 55 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. 56 The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood resides in me, and I in him. 57 Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so the one who consumes me will live because of me. 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the bread your ancestors ate, but then later died. The one who eats this bread will live forever.”
59 Jesus said these things while he was teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum. 60 Then many of his disciples, when they heard these things, said, “This is a difficult saying! Who can understand it?” 61 When Jesus was aware that his disciples were complaining about this, he said to them, “Does this cause you to be offended? 62 Then what if you see the Son of Man ascending where he was before? 63 The Spirit is the one who gives life; human nature is of no help! The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life. 64 But there are some of you who do not believe.” (For Jesus had already known from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.) 65 So Jesus added, “Because of this I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has allowed him to come.”
66 After this many of his disciples quit following him and did not accompany him any longer. 67 So Jesus said to the twelve, “You don’t want to go away too, do you?” 68 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life. 69 We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God!” 70 Jesus replied, “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and yet one of you is the devil?” 71 (Now he said this about Judas son of Simon Iscariot, for Judas, one of the twelve, was going to betray him.)
71 After this Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. He stayed out of Judea because the Jewish leaders wanted to kill him.▷
◁◁15711 Then Then Now the Pharisees and some of the experts in the law who came from Jerusalem gathered around him. to Jesus gathered around him. 2 And they saw that some of Jesus’ disciples ate their bread with unclean hands, that is, unwashed. 3 (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they perform a ritual washing, holding fast to the tradition of the elders. 4 And when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. They hold fast to many other traditions: the washing of cups, pots, kettles, and dining couches. ) 5 The Pharisees and the experts in the law asked him and said asked him , 2 “Why do your disciples not live according to disobey not live according to the tradition of the elders ? For? For, but when they eat when they eat eat with they don’t wash their they don’t wash their unwashed hands . . ? ” 3 He answered answered said to them, “▷ ◁9 And why do you youYou neatly reject disobey neatly reject the commandment of God in order to set up because of in order to set up your tradition . ?. 410 For Moses God Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ said, ‘Honor your father and mother,’ said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever insults his father and ‘Whoever insults his father and, ‘Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.’ or mother must be put to death.’ or mother must be put to death.’ 511 But you say that , ‘ that IfIfif someone someone anyone tells his father or mother, “Whatever help tells his father or mother, “Whatever help tells his father or mother, ‘Whatever help you would have received from me is corban’ (that is, a gift for given to a gift for God ) ,” ,” , 612 then you he you no longer permit him does not need no longer permit him to do anything for honor do anything for his father or mother . 13 Thus’ Thus You You you have nullified have nullified nullify the word of God on account of on account of by your tradition that you have handed down . And you do many things like this.”
◁76 Hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written: when he said, as it is written:
8 ‘This people honors me with their lips,
but their heart is far from me. 97 They worship me in vain,
teaching as doctrine
the commandments of men.’
8 Having no regard for the command of God, you hold fast to human tradition.”
◁1014 Then he called the crowd to him again and said to them , “Listen to me, everyone, and understand. 1115 There is nothing outside of a person that can defile him by going into him. What defiles a person is not what goes into the mouth ; Rather, it is what comes out of the mouth the mouth a person that defiles a person a person him .”
◁1217 Now when Jesus had left the crowd Then Now when Jesus had left the crowd and entered the house the the his disciples came to him and said, “Do you know that when the Pharisees heard this saying they were offended?” 13 And he replied, “Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant will be uprooted. 14 Leave them! They are blind guides. If someone who is blind leads another who is blind, both will fall into a pit.” 15 But Peter said to him, said to him, asked “Explain this “Explain this him about the parable to us .” .” .
1618 Jesus Jesus He said to them , “ Even after all this, are you are youAre you still so foolish? 17 Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth the mouth a person from outside cannot defile him? 19 For it does not enter his heart but enters the the his stomach , and then passes passes goes out into the sewer .” ? .” (This means all foods are clean.) 1820 He said, “ But the things that the things thatWhat comes come comes out of the mouth the mouth a person come from the heart, and these things defiles defile defiles a person a person him . 1921 For from within, out of the human heart , come evil ideas, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, 22 false testimony, greed, evil, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander , pride, and folly . 2023 All These These these are the things that are the things that evils come from within and defile a person ; it is not eating with unwashed hands that defiles a person .”
2124 After going out from going out from Jesus left there, Jesus Jesus he went to the region of Tyre and Sidon . When he went into a house, he did not want anyone to know, but he was not able to escape notice. 2225 Instead, A A a Canaanite woman from that area whose young daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him and came and fell at his feet. 26 The woman was a Greek, of Syrophoenician origin. She asked him to cast the demon out of her daughter and cried out, “Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is horribly demon-possessed !”!”. 2327 But he did not answer her a word. Then his disciples came and begged him, “Send her away, because she keeps on crying out after us.” 24 So he answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” 25 But she came and bowed down before him and said, “Lord, help me!” 26 He said to her , “ Let the children be satisfied first, for itIt it is not right to take the children’s bread and to throw it to the dogs.” 2728 She answered replied answered , “Yes, Lord, but even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs that fall from their masters’ table .” 2829 Then Jesus Jesus he answered answered said to her, “ Woman, your faith is great! Because you said this, you may go. Let what you want be done for you. The demon has left your daughter. ” 30 And her daughter was healed from that hour. She went home and found the child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.
2931 When When Then Jesus he Jesus went out left went out again from the region of Tyre there the region of Tyre , Jesus went, Jesus went and came through Sidon along along to the Sea of Galilee in the region of the Decapolis . Then he went up a mountain, where he sat down. 30 Then large crowds came to him bringing with them the lame, blind, crippled, mute, and many others. They laid them at his feet, and he healed them. 31 As a result, the crowd was amazed when they saw the mute speaking, the crippled healthy, the lame walking, and the blind seeing, and they praised the God of Israel.
32 They brought to him a deaf man who had difficulty speaking, and they asked him to place his hands on him. 33 After Jesus took him aside privately, away from the crowd, he put his fingers in the man’s ears, and after spitting, he touched his tongue. 34 Then he looked up to heaven and said with a sigh, “Ephphatha” (that is, “Be opened”). 35 And immediately the man’s ears were opened, his tongue loosened, and he spoke plainly. 36 Jesus ordered them not to tell anyone. But as much as he ordered them not to do this, they proclaimed it all the more. 37 People were completely astounded and said, “He has done everything well. He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.”
8321 In those days Then In those days there was another large crowd with nothing to eat. So Jesus called his disciples and said to them , 2 “I have compassion on the crowd, because they have already been here with me three days , and they have nothing to eat. 3 I don’t want to I don’t want to If I send them away away home hungry since since, they will may will faint on the way , and some of them have come from a great distance .”
334 The The His disciples answered said to answered him, “Where can someone we someone get enough bread in this desolate place to satisfy so great a crowd so great a crowd these people ?” 345 Jesus Jesus He said to said to asked them, “How many loaves do you have?” They replied, “Seven —and a few small fish .” 356 After instructing After instructing Then he directed the crowd to sit down on the ground . ,. 36 After he took the seven loaves and the fish, and after giving giving gave thanks, he broke them and began giving them to the disciples, the disciples, the disciples to serve. So they served who then gave them to to serve. So they served the crowds. the crowds. the crowd. 7 They also had a few small fish. After giving thanks for these, he told them to serve these as well. 378 They all They all Everyone ate and were were was satisfied, and they picked up the broken pieces left over, seven baskets full. 389 Not counting children and women, there were there were There were about four thousand men who ate. 39 After After Then sending away sending away he dismissed the crowd the crowd them . ,. 10 Immediately he got into the the a boat with his disciples and went to the district region district of Dalmanutha Magadan Dalmanutha .
16111 Now when Now when Then the Pharisees and Sadducees came and began to argue with test argue with Jesus, they asked him asked him asking to show them to show them for a sign from heaven to test him . 212 Sighing deeply in his spirit He He he said, “ When evening comes you say, ‘It will be fair weather, because the sky is red,’ 3 and in the morning, ‘It will be stormy today, because the sky is red and darkening.’ You know how to judge correctly the appearance of the sky, but you cannot evaluate the signs of the times. 4 A wicked and adulterous A wicked and adulterousWhy does this generation asks asks look for a sign ,,? but I tell you the truth, no sign will be given to this generation it this generation except the sign of Jonah .” 13 Then he left them , got back into the boat, and went away to the other side .
514 When When Now the disciples went to the other side, they had forgotten forgot had forgotten to take bread , except for one loaf they had with them in the boat . 615 And Jesus said to said to ordered them, “Watch out ! ,! beware beware Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees and the yeast of Herod . . ! ” 716 So they began to discuss this among themselves this among themselves with one another , saying, “It is because we because we about brought brought having no bread.” no bread.” no bread. 817 When Jesus Jesus he learned of this, Jesus he Jesus said to them , “ You who have such little faith! Why are you arguing among yourselves about having no bread? 9 Do you still not see or understand? Have your hearts been hardened? 18 Though you have eyes, don’t you see? And though you have ears, can’t you hear? Don’t you remember ? 19 When I broke the five loaves for the 5,000, and how many baskets full of pieces did you took took pick up?” up? up?” They replied, “Twelve.” 1020 “ When OrWhen I broke the seven loaves for the 4,000 and and, how many baskets full of pieces did you took took pick up? ” They replied, “Seven.” 1121 Then he said to them, How could you How could you “Do you still not understand that I was not speaking to you about bread ? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees! ” 12 Then they understood that he had not told them to be on guard against the yeast in bread, but against the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
22 Then they came to Bethsaida. They brought a blind man to Jesus and asked him to touch him. 23 He took the blind man by the hand and brought him outside of the village. Then he spit on his eyes, placed his hands on his eyes and asked, “Do you see anything?” 24 Regaining his sight he said, “I see people, but they look like trees walking.” 25 Then Jesus placed his hands on the man’s eyes again. And he opened his eyes, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly. 26 Jesus sent him home, saying, “Do not even go into the village.”
◁132718 When When Then Once Jesus and his disciples came came went to the villages area villages of Caesarea Philippi. of Caesarea Philippi of Caesarea Philippi. On the way , when Jesus was praying by himself, and his disciples were nearby, he asked his disciples his disciples them , “Who do the crowds people the crowds say that the Son of Man the Son of Man I am is am ?” 142819 They answered answered said , “ Some say John the Baptist ,,; others say Elijah, and Elijah, and Elijah; and still others Jeremiah , or that one of the prophets of long ago has risen .” 152920 Then He He he said to said to asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” 16 Simon Peter answered him , “ You are thetheThe Christ , the Son of the living God .” 17 And Jesus answered him, “You are blessed, Simon son of Jonah, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but my Father in heaven! 18 And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overpower it. 19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever you release on earth will have been released in heaven.” 203021 But Then Then then he forcefully instructed instructed warned commanded his disciples his disciples them not to tell anyone that he was the Christ that he was the Christ about him about this . . ,
213122 From that time on From that time on Then Jesus began to saying show teach saying his disciples his disciples them that that, “ the Son of Man he the Son of ManThe Son of Man must go to Jerusalem and must suffer many things suffer many things must suffer many things and be rejected by at the hands of and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and experts in the law, and be killed, and on the on the after third third three days day days be raised be raised rise again . ” 2232 He spoke openly about this. So Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him : “God forbid, Lord!: “God forbid, Lord!. This must not happen to you!” 2333 But after turning and looking at his disciples, he turned and rebuked Peter and said said to Peter rebuked Peter and said , “Get behind me, Satan ! ! . You are a stumbling block to me, because you are not setting your mind on God’s interests, but on man’s.”
243423 Then Jesus Jesus he called the crowd, along with said to along with his disciples , and said to them all , “If anyone wants to become my follower, he must deny himself, take up his cross daily , and follow me. 253524 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me and because of the gospel will find find save it. 263625 For what benefit is it for does it benefit benefit is it for a person if he if he to gains gains gain the whole world , yet but, yet loses or forfeits forfeits forfeit his life his life himself ? 37 Or what what What can a person give in exchange for his life? 3826 For if anyone if anyone whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation , the Son of Man will also be ashamed of that person him that person when he comes in his glory and in the glory of his his the Father and of with and of the holy angels. 27 For the Son of Man will come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will reward each person according to what he has done. ” 928127 And he said to them, “ But I tell you most certainly the truth most certainly , there are some standing here who will not experience death before they see the kingdom of God the Son of Man the kingdom of God coming in his kingdom coming in his kingdom come with power .”
171228 Now about eight Six about eight days after these sayings, later after these sayings, Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John the brother of James, and led them led them went alone up a high a high the mountain privately to pray . 229 And as he was praying, he was transfigured before them . the appearance of His face His face his face shone like the sun shone like the sun was transformed , 3 and his clothes became radiantly radiantly very bright, a brilliant white , more so than any launderer in the world as light, more so than any launderer in the world could bleach them . 3430 Then two men, Moses along with and along with Elijah also appeared before them , and they began were began talking with Jesus him Jesus . 31 They appeared in glorious splendor and spoke about his departure that he was about to carry out at Jerusalem. 32 Now Peter and those with him were quite sleepy, but as they became fully awake, they saw his glory and the two men standing with him. 4533 Then So Then as the men were starting to leave, Peter said to Jesus, “ MasterLordRabbiMaster , it is good for us to be here. If you want, I will I will Let us make three shelters — —, one for you and, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah.” one for Moses, and one for Elijah.” one for Moses and one for Elijah” 6 (For they were afraid, and he did not know and he did not know—not knowing what he was to he was saying say saying . ) 5734 While While Then As he was still saying this speaking saying this , a bright cloud came and overshadowed them, and they were afraid as they entered the cloud. 35 Then a voice came from the cloud , saying said, saying , “This is my one dear Son , in whom I take great delight , my Chosen One . Listen to him!” 636 After When After the disciples heard this, the disciples heard this, the voice had spoken, they were overwhelmed with fear and threw themselves down with their faces to the ground. 7 But Jesus came and touched them. “Get up,” he said. “Do not be afraid.” 88 Suddenly When they looked When they looked when they looked around up, around , they saw no one with them any more except all they saw was, they saw no one with them any more except Jesus Jesus was found alone alone. . 99 As they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus Jesus he commanded them, “ commanded them, “ gave them orders not toDo not not to tell anyone about about what they had seen the vision they had seen until after the Son of Man is raised is raised had risen from the dead. ” 10 They They So kept kept they this statement to themselves, this statement to themselves, kept silent and told no one at that time anything of what they had seen. discussing what this rising from the dead meant. silent and told no one at that time anything of what they had seen. 1011 Then The disciples The disciples they asked him, “Why then do the experts in the law say that Elijah must come first?” 1112 He said to them answered said to them , “Elijah does indeed come first , and will restore will restore restores all things. 1213 And And But I tell you that Elijah has certainly already certainly come . Yet. Yet, and they did not recognize him, but did to him whatever they wanted , just as it is written about him . And why is it written that In the same way,And why is it written that the Son of Man will will must suffer many things at their hands and be despised . . ? ” 13 Then the disciples understood that he was speaking to them about John the Baptist.
141437 Now on the next day, When When when they had come down from came to had come down from the disciples the disciples the mountain, , they saw a large the a large crowd around them around them met him and experts in the law arguing with them . 15 When the whole crowd saw him , they were amazed and ran at once and greeted him. 16 He asked them, “What are you arguing about with them?” 1738 Then a a A member of man member of man from the crowd came to him, knelt before him, 15 and cried out said cried out to him , “ Teacher,Lord,Teacher, I beg you to look at have mercy on I brought you I beg you to look at my son , who is possessed by a spirit, because he has, who is possessed by a spirit that makes him mute —he is my only child . . ! 1839 A spirit seizes him, and he suddenly screams; it throws him into convulsions and causes him to foam at the mouth seizures and causes him to foam at the mouth and he suffers terribly, for he often falls into the fire and into the water and into the water. . Whenever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth, It hardly ever leaves him alone, and becomes rigid. It hardly ever leaves him alone, torturing him severely. 1640 I brought him to brought him to asked begged your disciples to cast it out , but they were not able to were not able to could not heal him heal him do so .” 171941 Jesus Jesus He answered them , “You unbelieving and perverse generation! How much longer must I be with you ? How much longer must I? How much longer must I and endure you? Bring your son him your son here to me .”
2042 So they brought the boy to him. As the boy was approaching, When the spirit saw him, the demon it the demon immediately threw the boy the boy him into a convulsion. He fell on on to the ground and rolled around, foaming at the mouth and it shook him with convulsions . 21 Jesus asked his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” And he said, “From childhood. 22 It has often thrown him into fire or water to destroy him. But if you are able to do anything, have compassion on us and help us.” 23 Then Jesus said to him, “‘If you are able?’ All things are possible for the one who believes.” 24 Immediately the father of the boy cried out and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!”
1825 Now Now But Then Then when Jesus saw that a crowd was quickly gathering, Jesus Jesus he rebuked the rebuked the rebuked the unclean spirit demon unclean spirit the unclean spirit , saying to it, “Mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him and never enter him again.” 26 It shrieked, threw him into terrible convulsions, and it came out of came out of came out, healed him . The boy The boy the boy looked so much like a corpse that many said, “He is dead!” 27 But Jesus gently took his hand and raised him to his feet , and he stood up , and Jesus gave him back to his father , and the boy was healed from that moment, and the boy was healed from that moment. .
1928 Then , after he went into the house, the the his disciples came to Jesus privately and asked him said asked him , “Why couldn’t we cast it out?” 2029 He told them, “ It was because of your little faith. I tell you the truth, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; nothing will be impossible for you. This kind can come out only by prayer. ” 43 Then they were all astonished at the mighty power of God.
◁2230 They went out from there and passed through Galilee. But ButBut Jesus did not want anyone to know. 31 When When For they gathered together in Galilee, while the entire crowd was amazed at everything Jesus was doing, Jesus Jesus he was teaching told was teaching said to his disciples and telling them , 44 “ Take these words to heart, for TheThethe Son of Man is going to is going to will be betrayed into the hands of men. be betrayed into the hands of men. be betrayed into the hands of men. 23 They will kill him, and on the third day on the third day after three days he will be raised be raised rise . ” ”” 3245 And they became greatly distressed. But they did not understand this statement ; its meaning had been concealed from them, so that they could not grasp it. and and Yet they were afraid to ask him about this statement .
24 After they arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the temple tax came to Peter and said, “Your teacher pays the double drachma tax, doesn’t he?” 25 He said, “Yes.” When Peter came into the house, Jesus spoke to him first, “What do you think, Simon? From whom do earthly kings collect tolls or taxes—from their sons or from foreigners?” 26 After he said, “From foreigners,” Jesus said to him, “Then the sons are free. 27 But so that we don’t offend them, go to the lake and throw out a hook. Take the first fish that comes up, and when you open its mouth, you will find a four drachma coin. Take that and give it to them for me and you.”
18133 Then they came to Capernaum. 46 At that time At that time Now an argument started among the disciples as to which of them might be the greatest. After Jesus was inside the house he asked them, “What were you discussing on the way?” 34 But they were silent, for on the way they had argued with one another about who was the greatest. 35 After he sat down, he called the twelve and , the disciples came to Jesus saying, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?”
And Jesus said to them , “If anyone wants to be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.”
23647 But when Jesus discerned their innermost thoughts, He He he called called took a little child and, and had him stand among them, among them, among them by his side . . , 48 Taking and Taking him in his arms, he said to them , 37 “ I tell you the truth, unless you turn around and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven! 4 Whoever then humbles himself like this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 5 And whoever whoever Whoever welcomes one of these little children a child like this one of these little children this child in my name welcomes me, in my name welcomes me in my name welcomes me, , and whoever welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but welcomes the one who sent me , for the one who is least among you all is the one who is great . ”
3849 John answered said to answered him , “ TeacherTeacherMaster , we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him because he is not a disciple along with was not following is not a disciple along with us.” 3950 But Jesus said to him , “Do not stop him, because no one who does a miracle in my name will be able soon afterward to say anything bad about me. 40 For For for whoever is not against you us you is for you us you . 41 For I tell you the truth, whoever gives you a cup of water because you bear Christ’s name because you bear Christ’s name”▷ will never lose his reward.
642 “ But ififIf anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a huge millstone hung around his neck huge millstone hung around his neck huge millstone tied around his neck and to be thrown into drowned in thrown into the open sea. 7 Woe to the world because of stumbling blocks! It is necessary that stumbling blocks come, but woe to the person through whom they come. 843 If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away . . ! It is better for you to enter into life crippled It is better for you to enter life crippled It is better for you to enter into life crippled or lame than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into be thrown into go into hell, to the unquenchable eternal unquenchable fire. ▷ ◁45 If your foot causes you to sin, cut it off! It is better to enter life lame than to have two feet and be thrown into hell. ▷ ◁947 And if if If your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away . . ! It is better for you to enter into the kingdom of God life the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into fiery hell , 48 where their worm never dies and the fire is never quenched . 49 Everyone will be salted with fire. 50 Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with each other.”▷
10 “See that you do not disdain one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven. ▷ ◁12 What do you think? If someone owns a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go look for the one that went astray? 13 And if he finds it, I tell you the truth, he will rejoice more over it than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray. 14 In the same way, your Father in heaven is not willing that one of these little ones be lost.
15 “If your brother sins, go and show him his fault when the two of you are alone. If he listens to you, you have regained your brother. 16 But if he does not listen, take one or two others with you, so that at the testimony of two or three witnesses every matter may be established. 17 If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. If he refuses to listen to the church, treat him like a Gentile or a tax collector.
18 “I tell you the truth, whatever you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever you release on earth will have been released in heaven. 19 Again, I tell you the truth, if two of you on earth agree about whatever you ask, my Father in heaven will do it for you. 20 For where two or three are assembled in my name, I am there among them.”
21 Then Peter came to him and said, “Lord, how many times must I forgive my brother who sins against me? As many as seven times?” 22 Jesus said to him, “Not seven times, I tell you, but seventy-seven times!
23 “For this reason, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his slaves. 24 As he began settling his accounts, a man who owed 10,000 talents was brought to him. 25 Because he was not able to repay it, the lord ordered him to be sold, along with his wife, children, and whatever he possessed, and repayment to be made. 26 Then the slave threw himself to the ground before him, saying, ‘Be patient with me, and I will repay you everything.’ 27 The lord had compassion on that slave and released him, and forgave him the debt. 28 After he went out, that same slave found one of his fellow slaves who owed him 100 silver coins. So he grabbed him by the throat and started to choke him, saying, ‘Pay back what you owe me!’ 29 Then his fellow slave threw himself down and begged him, ‘Be patient with me, and I will repay you.’ 30 But he refused. Instead, he went out and threw him in prison until he repaid the debt. 31 When his fellow slaves saw what had happened, they were very upset and went and told their lord everything that had taken place. 32 Then his lord called the first slave and said to him, ‘Evil slave! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me! 33 Should you not have shown mercy to your fellow slave, just as I showed it to you?’ 34 And in anger his lord turned him over to the prison guards to torture him until he repaid all he owed. 35 So also my heavenly Father will do to you, if each of you does not forgive your brother from your heart.”
◁1912 Now when Jesus finished these sayings, the Jewish Feast of Shelters was near. 3 So Jesus’ brothers advised him, “Leave here and go to Judea so your disciples may see your miracles that you are performing. 4 For no one who seeks to make a reputation for himself does anything in secret. If you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.” 5 (For not even his own brothers believed in him.)
6 So Jesus replied, “My time has not yet arrived, but you are ready at any opportunity! 7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it that its deeds are evil. 8 You go up to the feast yourselves. I am not going up to this feast because my time has not yet fully arrived.” 9 When he had said this, he remained in Galilee.
◁5110 Now Now But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, when the days drew near for him to be taken up, then Jesushe Jesus himself also left Galilee and set out went set out went up resolutely to the region of Judea beyond the Jordan River to go to Jerusalem , not openly but in secret . 2 Large crowds followed him, and he healed them there. 52 He sent messengers on ahead of him. As they went along, they entered a Samaritan village to make things ready in advance for him, 53 but the villagers refused to welcome him, because he was determined to go to Jerusalem. 54 Now when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, “Lord, do you want us to call fire to come down from heaven and consume them?” 55 But Jesus turned and rebuked them, 56 and they went on to another village.
◁18 Now when Jesus saw a large crowd around him, he gave orders to go to the other side of the lake. 1957 Then As they were walking along the road, an expert in the law an expert in the law someone came to him and said to him , “ Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.” 2058 Jesus said to him, “Foxes have dens , and the birds in the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.” 2159 Jesus said to Another Another another of the disciples , “Follow me.” But he said to him said to him replied , “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.”, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.”, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.” 2260 But Jesus said to him, “ Follow me, and letletLet the dead bury their own dead , but as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God .” ▷ 61 Yet another said, “I will follow you, Lord, but first let me say goodbye to my family.” 62 Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”▷
11 So the Jewish leaders were looking for him at the feast [of the Tabernacles], asking, “Where is he?” 12 There was a lot of grumbling about him among the crowds. Some were saying, “He is a good man,” but others, “He deceives the common people.” 13 However, no one spoke openly about him for fear of the Jewish leaders.
14 When the feast was half over, Jesus went up to the temple courts and began to teach. 15 Then the Jewish leaders were astonished and said, “How does this man know so much when he has never had formal instruction?” 16 So Jesus replied, “My teaching is not from me, but from the one who sent me. 17 If anyone wants to do God’s will, he will know about my teaching, whether it is from God or whether I speak from my own authority. 18 The person who speaks on his own authority desires to receive honor for himself; the one who desires the honor of the one who sent him is a man of integrity, and there is no unrighteousness in him. 19 Hasn’t Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law! Why do you want to kill me?”
20 The crowd answered, “You’re possessed by a demon! Who is trying to kill you?” 21 Jesus replied, “I performed one miracle and you are all amazed. 22 However, because Moses gave you the practice of circumcision (not that it came from Moses, but from the forefathers), you circumcise a male child on the Sabbath. 23 But if a male child is circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath? 24 Do not judge according to external appearance, but judge with proper judgment.”
25 Then some of the residents of Jerusalem began to say, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill? 26 Yet here he is, speaking publicly, and they are saying nothing to him. Do the ruling authorities really know that this man is the Christ? 27 But we know where this man comes from. Whenever the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from.”
28 Then Jesus, while teaching in the temple courts, cried out, “You both know me and know where I come from! And I have not come on my own initiative, but the one who sent me is true. You do not know him, 29 but I know him, because I have come from him and he sent me.”
30 So then they tried to seize Jesus, but no one laid a hand on him, because his time had not yet come. 31 Yet many of the crowd believed in him and said, “Whenever the Christ comes, he won’t perform more miraculous signs than this man did, will he?”
32 The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about Jesus, so the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him. 33 Then Jesus said, “I will be with you for only a little while longer, and then I am going to the one who sent me. 34 You will look for me but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come.”
35 Then the Jewish leaders said to one another, “Where is he going to go that we cannot find him? He is not going to go to the Jewish people dispersed among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he? 36 What did he mean by saying, ‘You will look for me but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come’?”
37 On the last day of the feast, the greatest day, Jesus stood up and shouted out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and 38 let the one who believes in me drink. Just as the scripture says, ‘From within him will flow rivers of living water.’” 39 (Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were going to receive, for the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.)
40 When they heard these words, some of the crowd began to say, “This really is the Prophet!” 41 Others said, “This is the Christ!” But still others said, “No, for the Christ doesn’t come from Galilee, does he? 42 Don’t the scriptures say that the Christ is a descendant of David and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?” 43 So there was a division in the crowd because of Jesus. 44 Some of them were wanting to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him.
45 Then the officers returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why didn’t you bring him back with you?” 46 The officers replied, “No one ever spoke like this man!” 47 Then the Pharisees answered, “You haven’t been deceived too, have you? 48 None of the members of the ruling council or the Pharisees have believed in him, have they? 49 But this rabble who do not know the law are accursed!”
50 Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus before and who was one of the rulers, said, 51 “Our law doesn’t condemn a man unless it first hears from him and learns what he is doing, does it?” 52 They replied, “You aren’t from Galilee too, are you? Investigate carefully and you will see that no prophet comes from Galilee!”
53 [[ And each one departed to his own house. ◁81 But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
2 Early in the morning he came to the temple courts again. All the people came to him, and he sat down and began to teach them. 3 The experts in the law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught committing adultery. They made her stand in front of them 4 and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of adultery. 5 In the law Moses commanded us to stone to death such women. What then do you say?” 6 (Now they were asking this in an attempt to trap him, so that they could bring charges against him.) Jesus bent down and wrote on the ground with his finger. 7 When they persisted in asking him, he stood up straight and replied, “Whoever among you is guiltless may be the first to throw a stone at her.” 8 Then he bent over again and wrote on the ground.
9 Now when they heard this, they began to drift away one at a time, starting with the older ones, until Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. 10 Jesus stood up straight and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Did no one condemn you?” 11 She replied, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “I do not condemn you either. Go, and from now on do not sin any more.”]]
12 Then Jesus spoke out again, “I am the light of the world! The one who follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” 13 So the Pharisees objected, “You testify about yourself; your testimony is not true!” 14 Jesus answered, “Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you people do not know where I came from or where I am going. 15 You people judge by outward appearances; I do not judge anyone. 16 But if I judge, my evaluation is accurate, because I am not alone when I judge, but I and the Father who sent me do so together. 17 It is written in your law that the testimony of two men is true. 18 I testify about myself and the Father who sent me testifies about me.”
19 Then they began asking him, “Who is your father?” Jesus answered, “You do not know either me or my Father. If you knew me you would know my Father too.” 20 (Jesus spoke these words near the offering box while he was teaching in the temple courts. No one seized him because his time had not yet come.)
21 Then Jesus said to them again, “I am going away, and you will look for me but will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come.” 22 So the Jewish leaders began to say, “Perhaps he is going to kill himself, because he says, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’” 23 Jesus replied, “You people are from below; I am from above. You people are from this world; I am not from this world. 24 Thus I told you that you will die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”
25 So they said to him, “Who are you?” Jesus replied, “What I have told you from the beginning. 26 I have many things to say and to judge about you, but the Father who sent me is truthful, and the things I have heard from him I speak to the world.” 27 (They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father.)
28 Then Jesus said, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing on my own initiative, but I speak just what the Father taught me. 29 And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do those things that please him.” 30 While he was saying these things, many people believed in him.
31 Then Jesus said to those Judeans who had believed him, “If you continue to follow my teaching, you are really my disciples 32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” 33 “We are descendants of Abraham,” they replied, “and have never been anyone’s slaves! How can you say, ‘You will become free’?” 34 Jesus answered them, “I tell you the solemn truth, everyone who practices sin is a slave of sin. 35 The slave does not remain in the family forever, but the son remains forever. 36 So if the son sets you free, you will be really free. 37 I know that you are Abraham’s descendants. But you want to kill me, because my teaching makes no progress among you. 38 I am telling you the things I have seen while with the Father; as for you, practice the things you have heard from the Father!”
39 They answered him, “Abraham is our father!” Jesus replied, “If you are Abraham’s children, you would be doing the deeds of Abraham. 40 But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth I heard from God. Abraham did not do this! 41 You people are doing the deeds of your father.”
Then they said to Jesus, “We were not born as a result of immorality! We have only one Father, God himself.” 42 Jesus replied, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here. I have not come on my own initiative, but he sent me. 43 Why don’t you understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot accept my teaching. 44 You people are from your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies. 45 But because I am telling you the truth, you do not believe me. 46 Who among you can prove me guilty of any sin? If I am telling you the truth, why don’t you believe me? 47 The one who belongs to God listens and responds to God’s words. You don’t listen and respond, because you don’t belong to God.”
48 The Judeans replied, “Aren’t we correct in saying that you are a Samaritan and are possessed by a demon?” 49 Jesus answered, “I am not possessed by a demon, but I honor my Father—and yet you dishonor me. 50 I am not trying to get praise for myself. There is one who demands it, and he also judges. 51 I tell you the solemn truth, if anyone obeys my teaching, he will never see death.”
52 Then the Judeans responded, “Now we know you’re possessed by a demon! Both Abraham and the prophets died, and yet you say, ‘If anyone obeys my teaching, he will never experience death.’ 53 You aren’t greater than our father Abraham who died, are you? And the prophets died too! Who do you claim to be?” 54 Jesus replied, “If I glorify myself, my glory is worthless. The one who glorifies me is my Father, about whom you people say, ‘He is our God.’ 55 Yet you do not know him, but I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him, and I obey his teaching. 56 Your father Abraham was overjoyed to see my day, and he saw it and was glad.”
57 Then the Judeans replied, “You are not yet fifty years old! Have you seen Abraham?” 58 Jesus said to them, “I tell you the solemn truth, before Abraham came into existence, I am!” 59 Then they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden from them and went out from the temple area.
91 Now as Jesus was passing by, he saw a man who had been blind from birth. 2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who committed the sin that caused him to be born blind, this man or his parents?” 3 Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but he was born blind so that the acts of God may be revealed through what happens to him. 4 We must perform the deeds of the one who sent me as long as it is daytime. Night is coming when no one can work. 5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” 6 Having said this, he spat on the ground and made some mud with the saliva. He smeared the mud on the blind man’s eyes 7 and said to him, “Go wash in the pool of Siloam” (which is translated “sent”). So the blind man went away and washed, and came back seeing.
8 Then the neighbors and the people who had seen him previously as a beggar began saying, “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?” 9 Some people said, “This is the man!” while others said, “No, but he looks like him.” The man himself kept insisting, “I am the one!” 10 So they asked him, “How then were you made to see?” 11 He replied, “The man called Jesus made mud, smeared it on my eyes and told me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed, and was able to see.” 12 They said to him, “Where is that man?” He replied, “I don’t know.”
13 They brought the man who used to be blind to the Pharisees. 14 (Now the day on which Jesus made the mud and caused him to see was a Sabbath.) 15 So the Pharisees asked him again how he had gained his sight. He replied, “He put mud on my eyes and I washed, and now I am able to see.”
16 Then some of the Pharisees began to say, “This man is not from God, because he does not observe the Sabbath.” But others said, “How can a man who is a sinner perform such miraculous signs?” Thus there was a division among them. 17 So again they asked the man who used to be blind, “What do you say about him, since he caused you to see?” “He is a prophet,” the man replied.
18 Now the Jewish religious leaders refused to believe that he had really been blind and had gained his sight until at last they summoned the parents of the man who had become able to see. 19 They asked the parents, “Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?” 20 So his parents replied, “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind. 21 But we do not know how he is now able to see, nor do we know who caused him to see. Ask him, he is a mature adult. He will speak for himself.” 22 (His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jewish religious leaders. For the Jewish leaders had already agreed that anyone who confessed Jesus to be the Christ would be put out of the synagogue. 23 For this reason his parents said, “He is a mature adult, ask him.”)
24 Then they summoned the man who used to be blind a second time and said to him, “Promise before God to tell the truth. We know that this man is a sinner.” 25 He replied, “I do not know whether he is a sinner. I do know one thing—that although I was blind, now I can see.” 26 Then they said to him, “What did he do to you? How did he cause you to see?” 27 He answered, “I told you already and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You people don’t want to become his disciples too, do you?”
28 They heaped insults on him, saying, “You are his disciple! We are disciples of Moses! 29 We know that God has spoken to Moses! We do not know where this man comes from!” 30 The man replied, “This is a remarkable thing, that you don’t know where he comes from, and yet he caused me to see! 31 We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is devout and does his will, God listens to him. 32 Never before has anyone heard of someone causing a man born blind to see. 33 If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.” 34 They replied, “You were born completely in sinfulness, and yet you presume to teach us?” So they threw him out.
35 Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, so he found the man and said to him, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?” 36 The man replied, “And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?” 37 Jesus told him, “You have seen him; he is the one speaking with you.” 38 [He said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him. 39 Jesus said,] “For judgment I have come into this world, so that those who do not see may gain their sight, and the ones who see may become blind.”
40 Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this and asked him, “We are not blind too, are we?” 41 Jesus replied, “If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin, but now because you claim that you can see, your guilt remains.
101 “I tell you the solemn truth, the one who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber. 2 The one who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 The doorkeeper opens the door for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. 4 When he has brought all his own sheep out, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they recognize his voice. 5 They will never follow a stranger, but will run away from him, because they do not recognize the stranger’s voice.” 6 Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.
7 So Jesus said again, “I tell you the solemn truth, I am the door for the sheep. 8 All who came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. 9 I am the door. If anyone enters through me, he will be saved, and will come in and go out, and find pasture. 10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12 The hired hand, who is not a shepherd and does not own sheep, sees the wolf coming and abandons the sheep and runs away. So the wolf attacks the sheep and scatters them. 13 Because he is a hired hand and is not concerned about the sheep, he runs away.
14 “I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me— 15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life for the sheep. 16 I have other sheep that do not come from this sheepfold. I must bring them too, and they will listen to my voice, so that there will be one flock and one shepherd. 17 This is why the Father loves me—because I lay down my life, so that I may take it back again. 18 No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down of my own free will. I have the authority to lay it down, and I have the authority to take it back again. This commandment I received from my Father.”
19 Another sharp division took place among the Jewish people because of these words. 20 Many of them were saying, “He is possessed by a demon and has lost his mind! Why do you listen to him?” 21 Others said, “These are not the words of someone possessed by a demon. A demon cannot cause the blind to see, can it?”▷
◁101 After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of him two by two into every town and place where he himself was about to go. 2 He said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest. 3 Go! I am sending you out like lambs surrounded by wolves. 4 Do not carry a money bag, a traveler’s bag, or sandals, and greet no one on the road. 5 Whenever you enter a house, first say, ‘May peace be on this house!’ 6 And if a peace-loving person is there, your peace will remain on him, but if not, it will return to you. 7 Stay in that same house, eating and drinking what they give you, for the worker deserves his pay. Do not move around from house to house. 8 Whenever you enter a town and the people welcome you, eat what is set before you. 9 Heal the sick in that town and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God has come upon you!’ 10 But whenever you enter a town and the people do not welcome you, go into its streets and say, 11 ‘Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this: The kingdom of God has come.’ 12 I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town!
13 “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. 14 But it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you! 15 And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will be thrown down to Hades!
16 “The one who listens to you listens to me, and the one who rejects you rejects me, and the one who rejects me rejects the one who sent me.”
17 Then the seventy-two returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name!” 18 So he said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. 19 Look, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions and on the full force of the enemy, and nothing will hurt you. 20 Nevertheless, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names stand written in heaven.”
21 On that same occasion Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was your gracious will. 22 All things have been given to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him.”
23 Then Jesus turned to his disciples and said privately, “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see! 24 For I tell you that many prophets and kings longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.”
25 Now an expert in religious law stood up to test Jesus, saying, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” 26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you understand it?” 27 The expert answered, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and love your neighbor as yourself.” 28 Jesus said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.”
29 But the expert, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” 30 Jesus replied, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell into the hands of robbers, who stripped him, beat him up, and went off, leaving him half dead. 31 Now by chance a priest was going down that road, but when he saw the injured man he passed by on the other side. 32 So too a Levite, when he came up to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. 33 But a Samaritan who was traveling came to where the injured man was, and when he saw him, he felt compassion for him. 34 He went up to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring olive oil and wine on them. Then he put him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him. 35 The next day he took out two silver coins and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, ‘Take care of him, and whatever else you spend, I will repay you when I come back this way.’ 36 Which of these three do you think became a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?” 37 The expert in religious law said, “The one who showed mercy to him.” So Jesus said to him, “Go and do the same.”
38 Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a certain village where a woman named Martha welcomed him as a guest. 39 She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to what he said. 40 But Martha was distracted with all the preparations she had to make, so she came up to him and said, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do all the work alone? Tell her to help me.” 41 But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things, 42 but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the best part; it will not be taken away from her.”
◁37 As he spoke, a Pharisee invited Jesus to have a meal with him, so he went in and took his place at the table. 38 The Pharisee was astonished when he saw that Jesus did not first wash his hands before the meal. 39 But the Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness. 40 You fools! Didn’t the one who made the outside make the inside as well? 41 But give from your heart to those in need, and then everything will be clean for you.
42 “But woe to you Pharisees! You give a tenth of your mint, rue, and every herb, yet you neglect justice and love for God! But you should have done these things without neglecting the others. 43 Woe to you Pharisees! You love the best seats in the synagogues and elaborate greetings in the marketplaces! 44 Woe to you! You are like unmark mark1ed graves, and people walk over them without realizing it!”
45 One of the experts in religious law answered him, “Teacher, when you say these things you insult us too.” 46 But Jesus replied, “Woe to you experts in religious law as well! You load people down with burdens difficult to bear, yet you yourselves refuse to touch the burdens with even one of your fingers! 47 Woe to you! You build the tombs of the prophets whom your ancestors killed. 48 So you testify that you approve of the deeds of your ancestors, because they killed the prophets and you build their tombs! 49 For this reason also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute,’ 50 so that this generation may be held accountable for the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the beginning of the world, 51 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it will be charged against this generation. 52 Woe to you experts in religious law! You have taken away the key to knowledge! You did not go in yourselves, and you hindered those who were going in.”
53 When he went out from there, the experts in the law and the Pharisees began to oppose him bitterly, and to ask him hostile questions about many things, 54 plotting against him, to catch him in something he might say.
121 Meanwhile, when many thousands of the crowd had gathered so that they were trampling on one another, Jesus began to speak first to his disciples, “Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
◁262 “Do not be afraid of them, for nothing nothing Nothing is hidden that will not be revealed, and nothing is secret that will not be made known. 273 So then whatever What whatever you have said I say to you you have said in the dark will be heard, tell will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in in the light, and what is whispered in in the light, and what you have whispered in private rooms your ear private rooms will be, will be proclaimed proclaim proclaimed from the housetops. 284 “I tell you, my friends, Do Do do not be afraid of those who kill the body, not be afraid of those who kill the body not be afraid of those who kill the body, but but and after that have nothing more they can do cannot kill the soul after that have nothing more they can do . 5 Instead, Instead, But I will warn you whom you should fear: fear fear Fear the one who , after the killing, has authority is able has authority to destroy both soul and body destroy both soul and body throw you into in into hell . Yes, I tell you, fear him! 296 Aren’t five two five sparrows sold for two a two pennies penny pennies ? Yet not one of them falls to the ground falls to the ground is forgotten apart from your Father’s will apart from your Father’s will before God . 307 In fact, Even Even even all the hairs on your head are all numbered. 31 So do do Do not be afraid; you are more valuable than many sparrows.
328 “ I tell you, whoeverWhoever whoever , then, acknowledges me before people people men , the Son of Man I the Son of Man will also acknowledge before my Father in heaven my Father in heaven God’s angels . 339 But the one who whoever the one who denies me before people people men , I will deny him, I will deny him will be denied also before my Father in heaven my Father in heaven God’s angels . ▷ 10 And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but the person who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.
◁13 Then someone from the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.” 14 But Jesus said to him, “Man, who made me a judge or arbitrator between you two?” 15 Then he said to them, “Watch out and guard yourself from all types of greed, because one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.” 16 He then told them a parable: “The land of a certain rich man produced an abundant crop, 17 so he thought to himself, ‘What should I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’ 18 Then he said, ‘I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. 19 And I will say to myself, “You have plenty of goods stored up for many years; relax, eat, drink, celebrate!”’ 20 But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you, but who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’ 21 So it is with the one who stores up riches for himself, but is not rich toward God.”
◁35 “Get dressed for service and keep your lamps burning; 36 be like people waiting for their master to come back from the wedding celebration, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him. 37 Blessed are those slaves whom their master finds alert when he returns! I tell you the truth, he will dress himself to serve, have them take their place at the table, and will come and wait on them! 38 Even if he comes in the second or third watch of the night and finds them alert, blessed are those slaves! 39 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. 40 You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.”
41 Then Peter said, “Lord, are you telling this parable for us or for everyone?” 42 The Lord replied, “Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom the master puts in charge of his household servants, to give them their allowance of food at the proper time? 43 Blessed is that slave whom his master finds at work when he returns. 44 I tell you the truth, the master will put him in charge of all his possessions. 45 But if that slave should say to himself, ‘My master is delayed in returning,’ and he begins to beat the other slaves, both men and women, and to eat, drink, and get drunk, 46 then the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not foresee, and will cut him in two, and assign him a place with the unfaithful. 47 That servant who knew his master’s will but did not get ready or do what his master asked will receive a severe beating. 48 But the one who did not know his master’s will and did things worthy of punishment will receive a light beating. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required, and from the one who has been entrusted with much, even more will be asked.
49 “I have come to bring fire on the earth—and how I wish it were already kindled! 50 I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is finished! 51 Do you think I have come to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division! 52 For from now on there will be five in one household divided, three against two and two against three. 53 They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”
54 Jesus also said to the crowds, “When you see a cloud rising in the west, you say at once, ‘A rainstorm is coming,’ and it does. 55 And when you see the south wind blowing, you say, ‘There will be scorching heat,’ and there is. 56 You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how can you not know how to interpret the present time?
57 “And why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right? 58 As you are going with your accuser before the magistrate, make an effort to settle with him on the way, so that he will not drag you before the judge, and the judge hand you over to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison. 59 I tell you, you will never get out of there until you have paid the very last cent!”
131 Now there were some present on that occasion who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. 2 He answered them, “Do you think these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered these things? 3 No, I tell you! But unless you repent, you will all perish as well! 4 Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower in Siloam fell on them, do you think they were worse offenders than all the others who live in Jerusalem? 5 No, I tell you! But unless you repent you will all perish as well!”
6 Then Jesus told this parable: “A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it and found none. 7 So he said to the worker who tended the vineyard, ‘For three years now, I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and each time I inspect it I find none. Cut it down! Why should it continue to deplete the soil?’ 8 But the worker answered him, ‘Sir, leave it alone this year too, until I dig around it and put fertilizer on it. 9 Then if it bears fruit next year, very well, but if not, you can cut it down.’”
10 Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath, 11 and a woman was there who had been disabled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten herself up completely. 12 When Jesus saw her, he called her to him and said, “Woman, you are freed from your infirmity.” 13 Then he placed his hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and praised God. 14 But the president of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the crowd, “There are six days on which work should be done! So come and be healed on those days, and not on the Sabbath day.” 15 Then the Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from its stall, and lead it to water? 16 Then shouldn’t this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen long years, be released from this imprisonment on the Sabbath day?” 17 When he said this all his adversaries were humiliated, but the entire crowd was rejoicing at all the wonderful things he was doing.
◁22 Then came the feast of the Dedication in Jerusalem. 23 It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple area in Solomon’s Portico. 24 The Jewish leaders surrounded him and asked, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.” 25 Jesus replied, “I told you and you do not believe. The deeds I do in my Father’s name testify about me. 26 But you refuse to believe because you are not my sheep. 27 My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; no one will snatch them from my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can snatch them from my Father’s hand. 30 The Father and I are one.”
31 The Jewish leaders picked up rocks again to stone him to death. 32 Jesus said to them, “I have shown you many good deeds from the Father. For which one of them are you going to stone me?” 33 The Jewish leaders replied, “We are not going to stone you for a good deed but for blasphemy, because you, a man, are claiming to be God.”
34 Jesus answered, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods’? 35 If those people to whom the word of God came were called ‘gods’ (and the scripture cannot be broken), 36 do you say about the one whom the Father set apart and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? 37 If I do not perform the deeds of my Father, do not believe me. 38 But if I do them, even if you do not believe me, believe the deeds, so that you may come to know and understand that I am in the Father and the Father is in me.” 39 Then they attempted again to seize him, but he escaped their clutches.
40 Jesus went back across the Jordan River again to the place where John had been baptizing at an earlier time, and he stayed there. 41 Many came to him and began to say, “John performed no miraculous sign, but everything John said about this man was true!” 42 And many believed in Jesus there.▷
◁22 Then Jesus traveled throughout towns and villages, teaching and making his way toward Jerusalem. 23 Someone asked him, “Lord, will only a few be saved?” So he said to them, 24 “Exert every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to. 25 Once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door, then you will stand outside and start to knock on the door and beg him, ‘Lord, let us in!’ But he will answer you, ‘I don’t know where you come from.’ 26 Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’ 27 But he will reply, ‘I don’t know where you come from! Go away from me, all you evildoers!’ 28 There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but you yourselves thrown out. 29 Then people will come from east and west, and from north and south, and take their places at the banquet table in the kingdom of God. 30 But indeed, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.”
31 At that time, some Pharisees came up and said to Jesus, “Get away from here, because Herod wants to kill you.” 32 But he said to them, “Go and tell that fox, ‘Look, I am casting out demons and performing healings today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will complete my work. 33 Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the next day, because it is impossible that a prophet should be killed outside Jerusalem.’ 34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would have none of it! 35 Look, your house is forsaken! And I tell you, you will not see me until you say, ‘Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!’”
141 Now one Sabbath when Jesus went to dine at the house of a leader of the Pharisees, they were watching him closely. 2 There right in front of him was a man whose body was swollen with fluid. 3 So Jesus asked the experts in religious law and the Pharisees, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?” 4 But they remained silent. So Jesus took hold of the man, healed him, and sent him away. 5 Then he said to them, “Which of you, if you have a son or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?” 6 But they could not reply to this.
7 Then when Jesus noticed how the guests chose the places of honor, he told them a parable. He said to them, 8 “When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not take the place of honor, because a person more distinguished than you may have been invited by your host. 9 So the host who invited both of you will come and say to you, ‘Give this man your place.’ Then, ashamed, you will begin to move to the least important place. 10 But when you are invited, go and take the least important place, so that when your host approaches he will say to you, ‘Friend, move up here to a better place.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all who share the meal with you. 11 For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
12 He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you host a dinner or a banquet, don’t invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors so you can be invited by them in return and get repaid. 13 But when you host an elaborate meal, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind. 14 Then you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”
15 When one of those at the meal with Jesus heard this, he said to him, “Blessed is everyone who will feast in the kingdom of God!” 16 But Jesus said to him, “A man once gave a great banquet and invited many guests. 17 At the time for the banquet he sent his slave to tell those who had been invited, ‘Come, because everything is now ready.’ 18 But one after another they all began to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it. Please excuse me.’ 19 Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going out to examine them. Please excuse me.’ 20 Another said, ‘I just got married, and I cannot come.’ 21 So the slave came back and reported this to his master. Then the master of the household was furious and said to his slave, ‘Go out quickly to the streets and alleys of the city, and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame.’ 22 Then the slave said, ‘Sir, what you instructed has been done, and there is still room.’ 23 So the master said to his slave, ‘Go out to the highways and country roads and urge people to come in, so that my house will be filled. 24 For I tell you, not one of those individuals who were invited will taste my banquet!’”
25 Now large crowds were accompanying Jesus, and turning to them he said, 26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. 27 Whoever does not carry his own cross and follow me cannot be my disciple. 28 For which of you, wanting to build a tower, doesn’t sit down first and compute the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it? 29 Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish the tower, all who see it will begin to make fun of him. 30 They will say, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish!’ 31 Or what king, going out to confront another king in battle, will not sit down first and determine whether he is able with 10,000 to oppose the one coming against him with 20,000? 32 If he cannot succeed, he will send a representative while the other is still a long way off and ask for terms of peace. 33 In the same way therefore not one of you can be my disciple if he does not renounce all his own possessions.
34 “Salt is good, but if salt loses its flavor, how can its flavor be restored? 35 It is of no value for the soil or for the manure pile; it is to be thrown out. The one who has ears to hear had better listen!”
151 Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming to hear him. 2 But the Pharisees and the experts in the law were complaining, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”
3 So Jesus told them this parable: 4 “Which one of you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, would not leave the ninety-nine in the open pasture and go look for the one that is lost until he finds it? 5 Then when he has found it, he places it on his shoulders, rejoicing. 6 Returning home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, telling them, ‘Rejoice with me, because I have found my sheep that was lost.’ 7 I tell you, in the same way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need to repent.
8 “Or what woman, if she has ten silver coins and loses one of them, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search thoroughly until she finds it? 9 Then when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.’ 10 In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of God’s angels over one sinner who repents.”
11 Then Jesus said, “A man had two sons. 12 The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of the estate that will belong to me.’ So he divided his assets between them. 13 After a few days, the younger son gathered together all he had and left on a journey to a distant country, and there he squandered his wealth with a wild lifestyle. 14 Then after he had spent everything, a severe famine took place in that country, and he began to be in need. 15 So he went and worked for one of the citizens of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs. 16 He was longing to eat the carob pods the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything. 17 But when he came to his senses he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired workers have food enough to spare, but here I am dying from hunger! 18 I will get up and go to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. 19 I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me like one of your hired workers.”’ 20 So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still a long way from home his father saw him, and his heart went out to him; he ran and hugged his son and kissed him. 21 Then his son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’ 22 But the father said to his slaves, ‘Hurry! Bring the best robe, and put it on him! Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet! 23 Bring the fattened calf and kill it! Let us eat and celebrate, 24 because this son of mine was dead, and is alive again—he was lost and is found!’ So they began to celebrate.
25 “Now his older son was in the field. As he came and approached the house, he heard music and dancing. 26 So he called one of the slaves and asked what was happening. 27 The slave replied, ‘Your brother has returned, and your father has killed the fattened calf because he got his son back safe and sound.’ 28 But the older son became angry and refused to go in. His father came out and appealed to him, 29 but he answered his father, ‘Look! These many years I have worked like a slave for you, and I never disobeyed your commands. Yet you never gave me even a goat so that I could celebrate with my friends! 30 But when this son of yours came back, who has devoured your assets with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!’ 31 Then the father said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and everything that belongs to me is yours. 32 It was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost and is found.’”
161 Jesus also said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who was informed of accusations that his manager was wasting his assets. 2 So he called the manager in and said to him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Turn in the account of your administration, because you can no longer be my manager.’ 3 Then the manager said to himself, ‘What should I do, since my master is taking my position away from me? I’m not strong enough to dig, and I’m too ashamed to beg. 4 I know what to do so that when I am put out of management, people will welcome me into their homes.’ 5 So he contacted his master’s debtors one by one. He asked the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ 6 The man replied, ‘100 measures of olive oil.’ The manager said to him, ‘Take your bill, sit down quickly, and write fifty.’ 7 Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ The second man replied, ‘100 measures of wheat.’ The manager said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write 80.’ 8 The master commended the dishonest manager because he acted shrewdly. For the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their contemporaries than the people of light. 9 And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by how you use worldly wealth, so that when it runs out you will be welcomed into the eternal homes.
10 “The one who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and the one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much. 11 If then you haven’t been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will entrust you with the true riches? 12 And if you haven’t been trustworthy with someone else’s property, who will give you your own ? 13 No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.”
14 The Pharisees (who loved money) heard all this and ridiculed him. 15 But Jesus said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves in men’s eyes, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly prized among men is utterly detestable in God’s sight.
16 “The law and the prophets were in force until John; since then, the good news of the kingdom of God has been proclaimed, and everyone is urged to enter it. 17 But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one tiny stroke of a letter in the law to become void.
18 “Everyone who divorces his wife and marries someone else commits adultery, and the one who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.
19 “There was a rich man who dressed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. 20 But at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus whose body was covered with sores, 21 who longed to eat what fell from the rich man’s table. In addition, the dogs came and licked his sores.
22 “Now the poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried. 23 And in Hades, as he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far off with Lazarus at his side. 24 So he called out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in anguish in this fire.’ 25 But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things and Lazarus likewise bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in anguish. 26 Besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us, so that those who want to cross over from here to you cannot do so, and no one can cross from there to us.’ 27 So the rich man said, ‘Then I beg you, father—send Lazarus to my father’s house 28 (for I have five brothers) to warn them so that they don’t come into this place of torment.’ 29 But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; they must respond to them.’ 30 Then the rich man said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.’ 31 He replied to him, ‘If they do not respond to Moses and the prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.’”
171 Jesus said to his disciples, “Stumbling blocks are sure to come, but woe to the one through whom they come! 2 It would be better for him to have a millstone tied around his neck and be thrown into the sea than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin. 3 Watch yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him. 4 Even if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times returns to you saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”
5 The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!” 6 So the Lord replied, “If you had faith the size of a mustard seed, you could say to this black mulberry tree, ‘Be pulled out by the roots and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.
7 “Would any one of you say to your slave who comes in from the field after plowing or shepherding sheep, ‘Come at once and sit down for a meal’? 8 Won’t the master instead say to him, ‘Get my dinner ready, and make yourself ready to serve me while I eat and drink. Then you may eat and drink’? 9 He won’t thank the slave because he did what he was told, will he? 10 So you too, when you have done everything you were commanded to do, should say, ‘We are slaves undeserving of special praise; we have only done what was our duty.’”▷
◁111 Now a certain man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village where Mary and her sister Martha lived. 2 (Now it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and wiped his feet dry with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.) 3 So the sisters sent a message to Jesus, “Lord, look, the one you love is sick.” 4 When Jesus heard this, he said, “This sickness will not lead to death, but to God’s glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” 5 (Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.)
6 So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he remained in the place where he was for two more days. 7 Then after this, he said to his disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.” 8 The disciples replied, “Rabbi, the Jewish leaders were just now trying to stone you to death! Are you going there again?” 9 Jesus replied, “Are there not twelve hours in a day? If anyone walks around in the daytime, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. 10 But if anyone walks around at night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”
11 After he said this, he added, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep. But I am going there to awaken him.” 12 Then the disciples replied, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.” 13 (Now Jesus had been talking about his death, but they thought he had been talking about real sleep.)
14 Then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus has died, 15 and I am glad for your sake that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.” 16 So Thomas (called Didymus) said to his fellow disciples, “Let us go too, so that we may die with him.”
17 When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had been in the tomb four days already. 18 (Now Bethany was less than two miles from Jerusalem, 19 so many of the Jewish people of the region had come to Martha and Mary to console them over the loss of their brother.) 20 So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary was sitting in the house. 21 Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. 22 But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will grant you.”
23 Jesus replied, “Your brother will come back to life again.” 24 Martha said, “I know that he will come back to life again in the resurrection at the last day.” 25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live even if he dies, 26 and the one who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?” 27 She replied, “Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God who comes into the world.”
28 And when she had said this, Martha went and called her sister Mary, saying privately, “The Teacher is here and is asking for you.” 29 So when Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him. 30 (Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still in the place where Martha had come out to meet him.) 31 Then the people who were with Mary in the house consoling her saw her get up quickly and go out. They followed her, because they thought she was going to the tomb to weep there.
32 Now when Mary came to the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” 33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the people who had come with her weeping, he was intensely moved in spirit and greatly distressed. 34 He asked, “Where have you laid him?” They replied, “Lord, come and see.” 35 Jesus wept. 36 Thus the people who had come to mourn said, “Look how much he loved him!” 37 But some of them said, “This is the man who caused the blind man to see! Couldn’t he have done something to keep Lazarus from dying?”
38 Jesus, intensely moved again, came to the tomb. (Now it was a cave, and a stone was placed across it.) 39 Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the deceased, replied, “Lord, by this time the body will have a bad smell, because he has been buried four days.” 40 Jesus responded, “Didn’t I tell you that if you believe, you would see the glory of God?” 41 So they took away the stone. Jesus looked upward and said, “Father, I thank you that you have listened to me. 42 I knew that you always listen to me, but I said this for the sake of the crowd standing around here, that they may believe that you sent me.” 43 When he had said this, he shouted in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” 44 The one who had died came out, his feet and hands tied up with strips of cloth, and a cloth wrapped around his face. Jesus said to them, “Unwrap him and let him go.”
45 Then many of the people, who had come with Mary and had seen the things Jesus did, believed in him. 46 But some of them went to the Pharisees and reported to them what Jesus had done. 47 So the chief priests and the Pharisees called the council together and said, “What are we doing? For this man is performing many miraculous signs. 48 If we allow him to go on in this way, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away our sanctuary and our nation.”
49 Then one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said, “You know nothing at all! 50 You do not realize that it is more to your advantage to have one man die for the people than for the whole nation to perish.” 51 (Now he did not say this on his own, but because he was high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the Jewish nation, 52 and not for the Jewish nation only, but to gather together into one the children of God who are scattered.) 53 So from that day they planned together to kill him.
54 Thus Jesus no longer went around publicly among the Judeans, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and stayed there with his disciples.▷
◁11 Now on the way to Jerusalem, Jesus was passing along between Samaria and Galilee. 12 As he was entering a village, ten men with leprosy met him. They stood at a distance, 13 raised their voices and said, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.” 14 When he saw them he said, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went along, they were cleansed. 15 Then one of them, when he saw he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice. 16 He fell with his face to the ground at Jesus’ feet and thanked him. (Now he was a Samaritan.) 17 Then Jesus said, “Were not ten cleansed? Where are the other nine? 18 Was no one found to turn back and give praise to God except this foreigner?” 19 Then he said to the man, “Get up and go your way. Your faith has made you well.”
20 Now at one point the Pharisees asked Jesus when the kingdom of God was coming, so he answered, “The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed, 21 nor will they say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘There!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is in your midst.”
22 Then he said to the disciples, “The days are coming when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it. 23 Then people will say to you, ‘Look, there he is!’ or ‘Look, here he is!’ Do not go out or chase after them. 24 For just like the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day. 25 But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation. 26 Just as it was in the days of Noah, so too it will be in the days of the Son of Man. 27 People were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage—right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all. 28 Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot, people were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building; 29 but on the day Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. 30 It will be the same on the day the Son of Man is revealed. 31 On that day, anyone who is on the roof, with his goods in the house, must not come down to take them away, and likewise the person in the field must not turn back. 32 Remember Lot’s wife! 33 Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it. 34 I tell you, in that night there will be two people in one bed; one will be taken and the other left. 35 There will be two women grinding grain together; one will be taken and the other left.”
◁37 Then the disciples said to him, “Where, Lord?” He replied to them, “Where the dead body is, there the vultures will gather.”
181 Then Jesus told them a parable to show them they should always pray and not lose heart. 2 He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected people. 3 There was also a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’ 4 For a while he refused, but later on he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor have regard for people, 5 yet because this widow keeps on bothering me, I will give her justice, or in the end she will wear me out by her unending pleas.’” 6 And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unrighteous judge says! 7 Won’t God give justice to his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he delay long to help them? 8 I tell you, he will give them justice speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”
9 Jesus also told this parable to some who were confident that they were righteous and looked down on everyone else. 10 “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood and prayed about himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people: extortionists, unrighteous people, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week; I give a tenth of everything I get.’ 13 The tax collector, however, stood far off and would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, be merciful to me, sinner that I am!’ 14 I tell you that this man went down to his home justified rather than the Pharisee. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”▷
◁101 Then Jesus left that place and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan River. Again crowds gathered to him, and again, as was his custom, he taught them. ◁32 Then some Pharisees came to him , and in order to test him . They. They they asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his a his wife for any cause ?” 43 He answered them , “ What did Moses command you?” 4 They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her.” 5 But Jesus said to them, “ He wrote this commandment for you because of your hard hearts. 6 But have you not read that from the beginning of creation the Creator the Creator he made them male and female, made them male and female, made them male and female. 57 and said, ‘ For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be united with his wife , 8 and the two will become one flesh ’? 6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. 9 Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate. ”
710 In the house once again, the disciples They the disciples said to said to asked him about this , “Why then did Moses command us to give a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her ?” ?” .
811 So Jesus Jesus he said to said to told them, “ Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of your hard hearts, but from the beginning it was not this way. 9 Now I say to you that whoever whoeverWhoever divorces his wife , except for immorality, and marries another commits adultery against her. 12 And if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery .”
10 The disciples said to him, “If this is the case of a husband with a wife, it is better not to marry!” 11 He said to them, “Not everyone can accept this statement, except those to whom it has been given. 12 For there are some eunuchs who were that way from birth, and some who were made eunuchs by others, and some who became eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who is able to accept this should accept it.”
◁131315 Then Then Now people were even bringing little children little children their babies to him for him to lay his hands on them lay his hands on them touch and pray . But. But, but when the disciples saw it, they began to scold scolded began to scold those who brought them. 141416 But when Jesus saw this, he was indignant called for the children, and saying said saying to them , “Let the little children come to me and do not try to stop them, for the kingdom of heaven heaven God belongs to such as these. 1517 I tell you the truth, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will never enter it. ” 1516 After AndAfter he took the children in his arms, he placed his hands on them and blessed them and went on his way .
161718 Now as Jesus was starting out on his way, a certain leader someone a certain leader came came ran up to him , fell on his knees, and asked him said asked him , “ Good Teacher,Teacher,teacher, what good thing must I do to inherit gain inherit eternal life?”
171819 Jesus HeJesus said to him, “Why do you ask me about what is ask me about what is call me good? No one is good There is only No one is good except God alone one who is good except God alone . 1920 But if you want to enter into life, You know keepYou know the commandments .” .” : 18 “Which ones?” he asked. Jesus replied , “, “ ‘ Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, 19 do not defraud, honor your father and mother and love your neighbor as yourself .’” 202021 The young man said to him said to him replied , “ Teacher, I have wholeheartedly obeyed all these laws since my youth . What do I still lack? ” 212122 WhenAsWhen Jesus looked at him, looked at him, heard this, he felt love for him and said to him , “ One thing you still lack. If you wish to be perfect, Go, go Go, sell sell Sell whatever you have your possessions whatever you have all that you have and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.” 222223 But when when at the young man heard this statement , the man he the man looked looked became sad and sad and very went away sorrowful went away sorrowful sad , for he was extremely very extremely wealthy rich wealthy . 232324 Then Then Then When Jesus noticed this, he looked around and said to his disciples , “ I tell you the truth, it will be hard it will be hardHow hard it is for a rich person a rich person the rich to enter the kingdom of heaven heaven God ! ! !” 242425 The disciples were astonished at these words. But again Jesus said to them, “ Children, again I say, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God! 25 In fact, it itIt is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter into the kingdom of God.” 252626 The disciples The disciplesTheyThose who heard this were even more greatly even more astonished when they heard this and said to one another , “Then who can be saved?” 262727 JesusJesusHe looked at them and replied, “ ThisThisWhat is impossible for mere humans , but not for God ; all things are are is possible for God .” 272828 Then ThenAnd Peter began to speak said speak to him , “Look, we have left everything we own to follow you! What then will there be for us? ” 282929 Then Jesus said to them , “I tell you the truth : In the age when all things are renewed , when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. 29 And there is no one who whoever there is no one who has left houses houses home or wife or brothers or sisters or brothers or sisters or brothers or parents or father or mother or children or fields for my sake and for my sake for my sake and for the sake of God’s kingdom the gospel God’s kingdom 3030 who will not receive in this age a hundred a hundred many times as much as much more — homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, fields, all with persecutions— and in the age to come, will inherit eternal life. 3031 But many who are first will be last, and the last first. ”
201 “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. 2 And after agreeing with the workers for the standard wage, he sent them into his vineyard. 3 When it was about nine o’clock in the morning, he went out again and saw others standing around in the marketplace without work. 4 He said to them, ‘You go into the vineyard too, and I will give you whatever is right.’ 5 So they went. When he went out again about noon and three o’clock that afternoon, he did the same thing. 6 And about five o’clock that afternoon he went out and found others standing around, and said to them, ‘Why are you standing here all day without work?’ 7 They said to him, ‘Because no one hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You go and work in the vineyard too.’ 8 When it was evening the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages starting with the last hired until the first.’ 9 When those hired about five o’clock came, each received a full day’s pay. 10 And when those hired first came, they thought they would receive more. But each one also received the standard wage. 11 When they received it, they began to complain against the landowner, 12 saying, ‘These last fellows worked one hour, and you have made them equal to us who bore the hardship and burning heat of the day.’ 13 And the landowner replied to one of them, ‘Friend, I am not treating you unfairly. Didn’t you agree with me to work for the standard wage? 14 Take what is yours and go. I want to give to this last man the same as I gave to you. 15 Am I not permitted to do what I want with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?’ 16 So the last will be first, and the first last.”
173231 As Jesus was As Jesus was They were on the way, going up to Jerusalem . ,. Jesus was going ahead of them, and they were amazed, but those who followed were afraid. Then Jesus he He Jesus took the twelve aside again privately and began to tell said to began to tell them on the way, what was going to happen to him . . , 1833 “Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written about the Son of Man by the prophets will be accomplished. 32 For he will be handed over to the chief priests and the experts in the law. They will condemn him to death , 19 and will turn him over to the Gentiles . . ; 34 he will be to beThey will he will be mock him, mocked mock him, mocked, mistreated, spit on him, spit on him, and spat on . 33 They will andThey will flog him flogged flog him severely, severely severely, and crucified crucified kill him . Yet on the third on the third after three days, day, days, day he will be raised be raised rise again .” 34 But the twelve understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they did not grasp what Jesus meant.▷
2035 Then the mother of James and John, the sons of Zebedee , came to him with her sons , and kneeling down she asked asked said him for a favor , “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask . ” 2136 He said to them her them , “What do you want me to do for you ?” 37 She SheThey said to him replied said to him , “Permit these two sons of mine these two sons of mine one of us to sit , one at your right hand and the other one the other at your left , in your kingdom kingdom glory .” 2238 But Jesus answered answered said to them , “You don’t know what you are asking! Are you able to drink the cup I am about to drink or be baptized with the baptism I experience ?” 39 They said to him, “We are able.” 23 Then Jesus He Jesus said to told said to them, “You will drink the cup I drink my cup the cup I drink , and you will be baptized with the baptism I experience , 40 but to sit at my right and and or at my left is not mine to give. Rather, it it It is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father .”
2441 Now when the other ten heard this, they became were became angry with the two brothers the two brothers James and John . 2542 But Jesus called them and said to them , “You know that those the those who are recognized as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those in high positions use their authority over them. 2643 But It It it must must is not be this way among you ! ! . Instead whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant, 2744 and whoever wants to be first among you must be the slave of all your slave the slave of all — —. 2845 just as just asFor even the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
◁294635 They came to Jericho. As Jesus they Jesus and his disciples and a large crowd were leaving were leaving approached Jericho , a large crowd followed them . . , 30 Bartimaeus the son of Timaeus, Two Two a blind beggar men beggar man , were were was sitting by the road begging . 4736 When he heard a crowd going by, he asked what was going on. 37 They told him, “Jesus the Nazarene is passing by.” 38 When WhenSo they they he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene was passing by , they they he began to shout shouted began to shout called out , “ JesusLordJesus , Son of David, Have mercy on, Son of David, Have mercy on, Son of David, have mercy on us us me !” 314839 And The crowd The crowdMany those who were in front scolded them them him to get them them him to be quiet . But. But, but they they he shouted all the even all the more loudly , “ Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us us me !” 324940 So Jesus stopped and, and ordered the beggar to be brought to him called them said, “Call him.” ordered the beggar to be brought to him So they called the blind man and said to him, “Have courage! Get up! He is calling you.” 50 He threw off his cloak, jumped up , and came to Jesus. 51 Then Then When the man came near, Jesus said to said said to asked him , 41 “What do you want me to do for you?” 33 The blind man They The blind man He replied said replied to him , “ Rabbi,Lord,Rabbi, let our eyes be opened our eyes be opened me see again .” 345242 Moved with compassion, Jesus touched their eyes and said to him, “ Receive your sight; Go, your faith has healed you . ” 43 And Immediately Immediately immediately they they he received received regained their their his sight and followed Jesus him Jesus on the road , praising God . When all the people saw it, they too gave praise to God.
191 Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through it. 2 Now a man named Zacchaeus was there; he was a chief tax collector and was rich. 3 He was trying to get a look at Jesus, but being a short man he could not see over the crowd. 4 So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, because Jesus was going to pass that way. 5 And when Jesus came to that place, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, come down quickly, because I must stay at your house today.” 6 So he came down quickly and welcomed Jesus joyfully. 7 And when the people saw it, they all complained, “He has gone in to be the guest of a man who is a sinner.” 8 But Zacchaeus stopped and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord, half of my possessions I now give to the poor, and if I have cheated anyone of anything, I am paying back four times as much!” 9 Then Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this household, because he too is a son of Abraham! 10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
11 While the people were listening to these things, Jesus proceeded to tell a parable, because he was near to Jerusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of God was going to appear immediately. 12 Therefore he said, “A nobleman went to a distant country to receive for himself a kingdom and then return. 13 And he summoned ten of his slaves, gave them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Do business with these until I come back.’ 14 But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to be king over us!’ 15 When he returned after receiving the kingdom, he summoned these slaves to whom he had given the money. He wanted to know how much they had earned by trading. 16 So the first one came before him and said, ‘Sir, your mina has made ten minas more.’ 17 And the king said to him, ‘Well done, good slave! Because you have been faithful in a very small matter, you will have authority over ten cities.’ 18 Then the second one came and said, ‘Sir, your mina has made five minas.’ 19 So the king said to him, ‘And you are to be over five cities.’ 20 Then another slave came and said, ‘Sir, here is your mina that I put away for safekeeping in a piece of cloth. 21 For I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man. You withdraw what you did not deposit and reap what you did not sow.’ 22 The king said to him, ‘I will judge you by your own words, you wicked slave! So you knew, did you, that I was a severe man, withdrawing what I didn’t deposit and reaping what I didn’t sow? 23 Why then didn’t you put my money in the bank, so that when I returned I could have collected it with interest?’ 24 And he said to his attendants, ‘Take the mina from him, and give it to the one who has ten.’ 25 But they said to him, ‘Sir, he has ten minas already!’ 26 ‘I tell you that everyone who has will be given more, but from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away. 27 But as for these enemies of mine who did not want me to be their king, bring them here and slaughter them in front of me!’”
◁55 Now the Jewish Feast of Passover was near, and many people went up to Jerusalem from the rural areas before the Passover to cleanse themselves ritually. 56 Thus they were looking for Jesus, and saying to one another as they stood in the temple courts, “What do you think? That he won’t come to the feast?” 57 (Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where Jesus was should report it, so that they could arrest him.) 121 Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom he had raised from the dead.
◁9 Now a large crowd of Judeans learned that Jesus was there, and so they came not only because of him but also to see Lazarus whom he had raised from the dead. 10 So the chief priests planned to kill Lazarus too, 11 for on account of him many of the Jewish people from Jerusalem were going away and believing in Jesus.
28 After Jesus had said this, he continued on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. 2111112912 Now the next day when when as they they he approached Jerusalem and came to and came to, near Bethphage and Bethany , at the place called the Mount of Olives,▷ ◁14 Jesus Jesus he sent two of his his the disciples, disciples, disciples 2230 and said totellingand said to them, “Go to the village ahead of you. Right away Right away As soon as When you enter it, you will find a you will find a found a young donkey donkey colt young donkey tied there , and a colt with her. that has never been ridden. that has never been ridden. and sat on it, Untie them them it and bring them them it to me. to me. here. 3331 If anyone says to says says to asks you, ‘Why are you anything you, ‘Why are you doing this to you, doing this untying it ?’ you are to you are to just say, ‘The Lord needs them, them, it and he will send them them it back here soon at once back here soon . ’”. ’”.’” 4 This took place to fulfillThis took place to fulfill just as it is written, what was spoken by the prophet: 515 “ Do not be afraid, Tell the people of Zion ,','; Look, Look, look, your king is coming to you , unassuming and seated on a donkey , and on a, and on a’s colt colt colt , the foal of a donkey .'.'! ” 16 (His disciples did not understand these things when they first happened, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him and that these things had happened to him.)
6432 So those the those disciples disciples they who were sent ahead went and did as Jesus had instructed them and found a colt tied at a door, outside in the street a colt tied at a door, outside in the street it exactly as he had told them , and untied it . 533 As they were untying the colt, Some peopleSome people its owners standing there said to said to asked them, “ What are you doing, Why are you untying that colt?” 634 They replied as Jesus had told them , “The Lord needs it” , and the bystanders let them go . 7735 Then They brought They brought they brought the donkey and the colt the colt it to Jesus and and, placed placed threw their cloaks on the colt, them, it, the colt, and had Jesus and he and had Jesus sat on sat on get on them them it . The large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem.▷ ◁883613 So as he rode along, a very large crowda very large crowdMany they spread their cloaks on the road and. and Others Others others they took cut took branches from the from the of palm trees in the fields and went out to meet him and spread them on the road on the road. . 9937 As he approached the road leading down from the Mount of Olives, the whole crowdThe crowds the whole crowd of his disciples Both those who that those who went ahead of him and those who followed following who followed began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works they had seen: 38 They began to shout, kept shouting, began to shout, “ HosannaHosannaHosanna to the Son of David ! Blessed is the king one king who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest! 10 Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David! Blessed is the king of Israel! Hosanna in the highest! ”▷ ◁17 So the crowd who had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead were continuing to testify about it. 18 Because they had heard that Jesus had performed this miraculous sign, the crowd went out to meet him. 19 Thus the Pharisees said to one another, “You see that you can do nothing. Look, the world has run off after him!”▷
39 But some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples.” 40 He answered, “I tell you, if they keep silent, the very stones will cry out!”
41 Now when Jesus approached and saw the city, he wept over it, 42 saying, “If you had only known on this day, even you, the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. 43 For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and surround you and close in on you from every side. 44 They will demolish you—you and your children within your walls—and they will not leave within you one stone on top of another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.” 11 Then Jesus entered Jerusalem and went to the temple. 10 As he entered Jerusalem the whole city was thrown into an uproar, saying, “Who is this?” 11 And the crowds were saying, “This is the prophet Jesus, from Nazareth in Galilee.” And after looking around at everything, he went out to Bethany with the twelve since it was already late.
◁1812 Now the next day, early in the morning, as they he they went out from Bethany, returned to the city, went out from Bethany, he was hungry. 1913 After noticing in the distance a fig tree with leaves by the road , he went to see if he could find any fruit on it . ,. When he came to it he but When he came to it he found nothing on it except on it except but leaves , for it was not the season for figs . 14 He said to it, “ Never again will there beNever again will there beMay no one ever eat fruit from you again ! ! . ” And his disciples heard it.
◁121545 Then they came to Jerusalem. Jesus entered the temple courts area courts and began to drove drove drive out all those who were selling and buying things there in the temple courts . ,. and and He turned over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves . . , 16 and he would not permit anyone to carry merchandise through the temple courts. 131746 ThenAndThen he began to teach them and said, said to them, began to teach them and said,saying to them, “Is it not written “It is written “Is it not written ,,: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations ,’,’’? but but But you are turning are turning have turned it into a den of robbers!”
47 Jesus was teaching daily in the temple courts. 14 The blind and lame came to him in the temple courts, and he healed them. 15 But when the chief priests and the experts in the law saw the wonderful things he did and heard the children crying out in the temple courts, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they became indignant 16 and said to him, “Do you hear what they are saying?” Jesus said to them, “Yes. Have you never read, ‘Out of the mouths of children and nursing infants you have prepared praise for yourself’?”
18 The chief priests and the experts in the law and the prominent leaders among the people heard it and they considered how they could considered how they could were seeking to assassinate him, for they feared him, because the whole crowd was amazed by his teaching. 171948 but they could not find a way to do it, for all the people hung on his words.▷ And when evening came, leaving them, Jesus he Jesus and his disciples went out of the city to Bethany and spent the night there .
◁20 Now some Greeks were among those who had gone up to worship at the feast. 21 So these approached Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and requested, “Sir, we would like to see Jesus.” 22 Philip went and told Andrew, and they both went and told Jesus. 23 Jesus replied, “The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. 24 I tell you the solemn truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it produces much grain. 25 The one who loves his life destroys it, and the one who hates his life in this world guards it for eternal life. 26 If anyone wants to serve me, he must follow me, and where I am, my servant will be too. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
27 “Now my soul is greatly distressed. And what should I say? ‘Father, deliver me from this hour’? No, but for this very reason I have come to this hour. 28 Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven, “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.” 29 The crowd that stood there and heard the voice said that it had thundered. Others said that an angel had spoken to him. 30 Jesus said, “This voice has not come for my benefit but for yours. 31 Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out. 32 And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.” 33 (Now he said this to indicate clearly what kind of death he was going to die.)
34 Then the crowd responded, “We have heard from the law that the Christ will remain forever. How can you say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up’? Who is this Son of Man?” 35 Jesus replied, “The light is with you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going. 36 While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become sons of light.” When Jesus had said these things, he went away and hid himself from them.
37 Although Jesus had performed so many miraculous signs before them, they still refused to believe in him, 38 so that the word of the prophet Isaiah would be fulfilled. He said, “Lord, who has believed our message, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?” 39 For this reason they could not believe, because again Isaiah said,
40 “He has blinded their eyes
and hardened their heart,
so that they would not see with their eyes
and understand with their heart,
and turn to me, and I would heal them.”
41 Isaiah said these things because he saw Christ’s glory, and spoke about him.
42 Nevertheless, even among the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they would not confess Jesus to be the Christ, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue. 43 For they loved praise from men more than praise from God.
44 But Jesus shouted out, “The one who believes in me does not believe in me, but in the one who sent me, 45 and the one who sees me sees the one who sent me. 46 I have come as a light into the world, so that everyone who believes in me should not remain in darkness. 47 If anyone hears my words and does not obey them, I do not judge him. For I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world. 48 The one who rejects me and does not accept my words has a judge; the word I have spoken will judge him at the last day. 49 For I have not spoken from my own authority, but the Father himself who sent me has commanded me what I should say and what I should speak. 50 And I know that his commandment is eternal life. Thus the things I say, I say just as the Father has told me.”▷
20 In the morning as they passed by, they sawAnd In the morning as they passed by, they saw the fig tree withered from the roots at once from the roots . ▷ ◁20 When the disciples saw it they were amazed, saying, “How did the fig tree wither so quickly?” 21 Peter remembered and said to him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree you cursed has withered.” 2122 Jesus answered answered said to them, “ Have faith in God. 23 I tell you the truth, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only will you do what was done to the fig tree, but even if someone you someone says say says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him happen be done for him . 2224 For this reason I tell you,AndFor this reason I tell you, whatever you pray and ask for ask in prayer pray and ask for , if you believe that you have received it , and it will be yours you will receive and it will be yours . 25 Whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven will also forgive you your sins. ”
◁◁2023271 They came again to Jerusalem. They came again to Jerusalem.Now one day, Now after after while as Jesus was teaching the people in entered was walking in was teaching the people in the temple courts and proclaiming the gospel , the chief priests and, and the experts in the law, the experts in the law, the experts in the law with and with the elders of the people came up to him as he was teaching 282 and said, “ Tell us: By what authority are you doing these things , and, and? Or who is it who gave you this authority to do these things ?” 24293 JesusJesusHe answered answered said to them, “I will also ask you one one a question . . , If you answer me answer me Answer me then then and I will I will you also tell you by what authority I do these things tell you by what authority I do these things tell me . . : 25304 John’s baptism— where did come from? Was it From heaven or from people? From heaven or from people? from heaven or from people? Answer me. ” 315 So They discussed They discussed they discussed this this it among themselves, among themselves, with one another, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘ Then why did you not believe him?’ why did you not believe him?’Why did you not believe him?’ 26326 But if we say, ‘From people ,,— ’ all the people will stone us, we fear the crowd, all the people will stone us, because for because they are convinced that all consider are convinced that John to be to be was a prophet.” ” (they feared the crowd, for they all considered John to be truly a prophet).
27337 So they answered Jesus, “ answered Jesus, “ replied that they We don’t knowWe don’t know did not know where it came from . ” 8 Then Jesus he Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by whose what whose authority I am doing am doing do these things. ” these things. ” these things.”
28 “What do you think? A man had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work in the vineyard today.’ 29 The boy answered, ‘I will not.’ But later he had a change of heart and went. 30 The father went to the other son and said the same thing. This boy answered, ‘I will, sir,’ but did not go. 31 Which of the two did his father’s will?” They said, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “I tell you the truth, tax collectors and prostitutes will go ahead of you into the kingdom of God! 32 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him. But the tax collectors and prostitutes did believe. Although you saw this, you did not later change your minds and believe him.
123319 Then he began to “Listen toThen he began to tell the people another speak to them tell the people this parable: “ parable: in parables: “ this parable: “ There was a landowner a landownerA man who planted a vineyard . He put a fence around it, dug a pit for its winepress, and built a watchtower . . , Then he leased it to tenant farmers , and went on a journey for a long time . 34210 WhenWhenAt the harvest time was near was near came , he sent his slaves his slaves a slave to the tenants so that they would give him to collect to collect from them so that they would give him his portion of the crop. 353 However,But However, those the those tenants seized his tenants seized his tenants slaves, slaves, slave, killed one, and stoned another, killed one, and stoned another, beat his slave beat another beat another beat him, and sent him away empty-handed . 36411 AgainAgainSo he sent another slave other slaves another slave to them again , more than the first . ,. This one and This one they they They struck on the head and struck on the head and beat this one too, treated them them him outrageously , and sent him away empty-handed the same way, and sent him away empty-handed . 12 So he sent still a third. They even wounded this one, and threw him out. 5 He sent another, and that one they killed. This happened to many others, some of whom were beaten, others killed. 37613 He had one left, his one dear son. Finally FinallyThen the owner of the vineyard he the owner of the vineyard sent his son his son him to them, saying saying said , ‘ What should I do? I will send my one dear son; perhaps they will respectThey will respect they will respect my son my son him .’ 38714 But when those the those tenants saw the son, the son, him, they said to they said to said to one another themselves one another , ‘This is the heir . . ; Come, let’s kill him and and so his his the inheritance will be ours!’ 39815 So they seized him, killed him , and threw his body him his body out of the vineyard. 409 Now when he comes, what what What then will the owner of the vineyard do to those tenants those tenants them ? ” 4116 They said to him, “ He will come and utterly destroy those evil tenants men tenants ! Then he will Then he will and lease lease give the vineyard to other tenants other tenants others who will give him his portion at the harvest . ” When the people heard this, they said, “May this never happen!” 421017 But Jesus looked straight at them and said, “ said to them, “ them and said, “ Then what is the meaning ofHave you never readHave you not readThen what is the meaning of that which is written: in the scriptures: this scripture: that which is written: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone118:22-23."> . 11 This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes ’? 4318 For this reason I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit. 44 EveryoneThe oneEveryone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, and the one on whom it falls will be crushed. ” 451219 WhenWhenNowThen the experts in the law and the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they realized that he had told this parable was speaking told this parable had told this parable against about against them . . , 46 so theyThey they wanted to arrest him that very hour . ,(. butbutBut they were afraid of were afraid of feared the crowds crowds crowd people , because the crowds regarded him as a prophet ) . So they left him and went away.
221 Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying: 2 “The kingdom of heaven can be compared to a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son. 3 He sent his slaves to summon those who had been invited to the banquet, but they would not come. 4 Again he sent other slaves, saying, ‘Tell those who have been invited, “Look! The feast I have prepared for you is ready. My oxen and fattened cattle have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.”’ 5 But they were indifferent and went away, one to his farm, another to his business. 6 The rest seized his slaves, insolently mistreated them, and killed them. 7 The king was furious! He sent his soldiers, and they put those murderers to death and set their city on fire. 8 Then he said to his slaves, ‘The wedding is ready, but the ones who had been invited were not worthy. 9 So go into the main streets and invite everyone you find to the wedding banquet.’ 10 And those slaves went out into the streets and gathered all they found, both bad and good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests. 11 But when the king came in to see the wedding guests, he saw a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes. 12 And he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ But he had nothing to say. 13 Then the king said to his attendants, ‘Tie him up hand and foot and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth!’ 14 For many are called, but few are chosen.”
151320 Then the Pharisees the Pharisees they went out and planned together went out and planned together watched him carefully to entrap him with his own words . 16 theyThey they and sent to him some of the Pharisees their disciples some of the Pharisees spies along with the along with the and Herodians who pretended to be sincere. They wanted to take advantage of what he might say so that they could deliver him up to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor. 1421 When they cameWhen they cameThus they said to him, saying said to him asked him , “Teacher, we know that you are truthful, are truthful, are truthful and do not court anyone’s favor, and do not court anyone’s favor, speak and teach correctly, because you because you and show no partiality , but teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. 1722 Tell us then, what do you think? Is it right for us to pay the tribute tax taxes the tribute tax to Caesar or not ? Should we pay or shouldn’t we? ” 181523 But Jesus Jesus he realized their evil intentions realized their evil intentions saw through their hypocrisy perceived their deceit and said to them , 24 “ Hypocrites! Why are you testing me? 19 BringShow Bring me the coin used for the tax the coin used for the tax a denarius and let me look at it . ” 16 So they brought him a denarius. a denarius. one, and 20 JesusJesus he said to them, “ Whose image is this, and whose inscription are on it ?” 21 They replied, “Caesar’s.” 1725 ThenThenSo Jesus He Jesus he said to them, “ Then give giveGive to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” 2226 AndNow AndThus they were unable in the presence of utterly amazed at him. unable in the presence of the people to trap him with his own words. And when they heard this they were stunned by his answer , and they fell silent, left him and went away and went away. .
231827 The same day The same dayNow some Sadducees (who contend that say contend that there is no resurrection) also came to him . 28 and andThey asked him, 2419 “Teacher, Moses wrote for us said, wrote for us that ‘: ‘ that IfIfif a man ’s brother dies and leaves without and leaves leaving a wife but no having a wife but no children, his brother his brother that man must marry the widow and father children for his brother.’ and father children for his brother.’ and father children for his brother. 252029 Now therethereThere were seven brothers among us . The first one married a woman , and and, and when he died; died; died since he had no he had no without children , he left his wife to his brother . 262130 The second did the same, did the same, married her and died without any children, 31 and likewise likewise then the third married her,. married her, and in this same way, down to and in this same way 22 all seven died, leaving no the seventhNone of the seven had all seven died, leaving no children . 2732 Last of allLast of all Finally , the woman died too . 282333 In the resurrection, therefore, when they rise again, whose wife of the seven will the woman be? will she be? will the woman be? For all seven had married her.” For they all had married her.” For all seven had married her.” 292434 So Jesus answered answered said to them, “ Aren’t youYou areAren’t you deceived for this reason , because you don’t know the scriptures or the power of God . . ? 30 The people of this age marry and are given in marriage. 2535 ForForBut those who are regarded when they those who are regarded as worthy to share in that age and in the resurrection in the resurrection rise from the dead, from the dead they neither marry nor are given in marriage . ,. 36 In fact, butIn fact, they can no longer die, because they are equal to like equal to angels in heaven and are sons of God, since they are sons of the resurrection . 312637 NowNowBut as for the resurrection of the dead, resurrection of the dead, dead being raised, even Moses revealed that the dead are raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, what was spoken in the passage about the bush, how God said to him, to you by God, how God said to him, where he calls the 32 ‘I am ‘I amLord the God of Abraham and, and the God of Isaac and, and and the God of Jacob and the God of Jacob the God of Jacob ’?’?. 2738 Now He is not the God of the dead He is not the God of the dead he is not God of the dead, but of the living . . , for all live before him You are badly mistaken .” !”.” 33 When the crowds heard this, they were amazed at his teaching. 39 Then some of the experts in the law answered, “Teacher, you have spoken well!”
3428 Now when one of the experts in the law Pharisees experts in the law came and heard them debating. When he saw that Jesus he Jesus had silenced had silenced answered the Sadducees, the Sadducees, them well, they assembled together. 35 And one one he of them, an expert in religious law, asked him a question to test him: a question to test him: asked him, 36 “ Teacher, which commandmentwhich commandmentWhich commandment in the law is the most important of all?” greatest?” most important of all?” 3729 Jesus said to him, said to him, answered, “ The most important is: ‘ Listen, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind , and with all your strength .’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 3931 The second is like it : ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 There is no other commandment greater than these. All the law and the prophets depend on these two commandments. ”
32 The expert in the law said to him, “That is true, Teacher; you are right to say that he is one, and there is no one else besides him. 33 And to love him with all your heart, with all your mind, and with all your strength and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.” 34 When Jesus saw that he had answered thoughtfully, he said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.”▷ ◁4640 No one was able to answer him a word, and from that day on and from that day on ThenFor they did not dare no one dared they did not dare any longer to ask him anything to question him to ask him anything .
◁413541 WhileWhileBut Jesus was teaching in the temple courts, While the Pharisees were assembled, Jesus asked them a question 42 : “ What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?” They said, “The son of David.” 43 heHe he said to them , “How is it that then is it that the experts in the law does the experts in the law they say that the Christ is David’s son? 3642 For David himself, himself, himself by the Holy Spirit, Spirit Spirit, call him ‘Lord,’ saying, saying, said, says in the book of Psalms,
44 ‘The Lord said to my lord,‘The Lord said to my lord,‘The Lord said to my lord,
“Sit at my right hand,“Sit at my right hand,“Sit at my right hand,
43 until I make put make your enemies a footstool for under a footstool for your feet .”’
453744 If David himself then himself calls him ‘Lord,’ how can he be his son?” And the large crowd was listening to him with delight.
◁2313845 As all the people were listening,ThenAs all the people were listening, In his teaching Jesus also said to the crowds and to his disciples , 246 “ Watch out forWatch out forBeware of the experts in the law. The experts in the law and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat. 3 Therefore pay attention to what they tell you and do it. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they teach. 4 They tie up heavy loads, hard to carry, and put them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing even to lift a finger to move them. 5 They do all their deeds to be seen by people, for they make their phylacteries wide and their tassels long. 6 They love love like walking around in long robes, 39 and the best seats in the synagogues , and the places place places of honor at banquets 7, and they love elaborate greetings in the mark mark1etplaces , and to have people call them ‘Rabbi .’.’. 4047 They devour widows’ property, and as a show make long prayers. These men These men They will receive a more severe punishment.”▷▷ 8 But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’ for you have one Teacher and you are all brothers. 9 And call no one your ‘father’ on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven. 10 Nor are you to be called ‘teacher,’ for you have one teacher, the Christ. 11 The greatest among you will be your servant. 12 And whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
13 “But woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You keep locking people out of the kingdom of heaven! For you neither enter nor permit those trying to enter to go in.
◁15 “Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You cross land and sea to make one convert, and when you get one, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves!
16 “Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple is bound by nothing. But whoever swears by the gold of the temple is bound by the oath.’ 17 Blind fools! Which is greater, the gold or the temple that makes the gold sacred? 18 And, ‘Whoever swears by the altar is bound by nothing. But if anyone swears by the gift on it he is bound by the oath.’ 19 You are blind! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred? 20 So whoever swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it. 21 And whoever swears by the temple swears by it and the one who dwells in it. 22 And whoever swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and the one who sits on it.
23 “Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You give a tenth of mint, dill, and cumin, yet you neglect what is more important in the law—justice, mercy, and faithfulness! You should have done these things without neglecting the others. 24 Blind guides! You strain out a gnat yet swallow a camel!
25 “Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. 26 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup, so that the outside may become clean too!
27 “Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of the bones of the dead and of everything unclean. 28 In the same way, on the outside you look righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
29 “Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous. 30 And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have participated with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ 31 By saying this you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets. 32 Fill up then the measure of your ancestors! 33 You snakes, you offspring of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?
34 “For this reason I am sending you prophets and wise men and experts in the law, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town, 35 so that on you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. 36 I tell you the truth, this generation will be held responsible for all these things!
37 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would have none of it! 38 Look, your house is left to you desolate! 39 For I tell you, you will not see me from now until you say, ‘Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!’”
◁◁21411 Then he sat down opposite the offering box, and watched the crowd putting coins into it. Jesus looked up and saw Many Many the rich people were throwing in were throwing in putting large amounts large amounts their gifts into the offering box . 422 And he also saw a poor widow came and put in two small copper coins , worth less than a penny . 433 He called his disciples and said to them , “I tell you the truth, this poor widow has put more into more into in more the offering box than all the others the others of them . 444 For they all offered gave offered their gifts out of their wealth. But she, out of her poverty, put in everything what everything she had to live on , everything she had .”
2413115 Now as Jesus was going out as Jesus was going as Jesus was going out while out of the temple courts out of the temple courts of the temple courts and walking away , one of his disciples his disciples some came to show him the temple buildings came to show him the temple buildings were speaking about the temple , how it was adorned with beautiful stones and offerings,[and] beautiful stones and offerings, said to him, “Teacher, look at these tremendous stones and buildings . . !” 22 And Jesus he Jesus said to them them him , 6 “ Do you see all these great buildings? things? great buildings? I tell you the truth, As for these things that you are gazing at, the days will come when not not Not one stone will be left on another. All will be torn down!”
337 So whileAs while he was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple he was sitting on the Mount of Olives he was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple , Peter, James, John, and Andrew his disciples Peter, James, John, and Andrew they came to him privately and asked him, said, asked him, 4 “ Tell us, Teacher, when will these things happen? And what will be the sign that all these things are of your coming and of that all these things are that these things are about to take place?” the end of the age?” about to take place?” 458 JesusJesusHe began to say to answered began to say to said them , “Watch out that no one misleads you. no one misleads you. you are not misled. 56 For many many Many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ the Christ he ,’ and, ‘The time is near’ and they will mislead many . Do not follow them! 679 And when youYou will when you hear of wars and rumors of wars rumors of wars rebellions . Make sure that you are not. Make sure that you are not, do not be alarmed alarmed afraid . ,. for for For These These these things this things must happen first , but the end will not come at once. is still to come. will not come at once. ” 7810 Then he said to them, “ For nation nation Nation will rise up in arms against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. 11 And there there There will be great earthquakes in various places , and there will beand, and there will be, famines and plagues, and there will be terrifying sights and great signs from heaven . 8 All these these These things are but the beginning of birth pains.
9912 “ You must watch out for yourselves. But before all this, they will seize you and persecute you,Then they will You will be they will seize you and persecute you, handing you hand you handed handing you over to councils and beaten in the synagogues and prisons to be persecuted, and will kill you . You will be hated by all the nations because of my name. 10 Then many will be led into sin, and they will betray one another and hate one another. 11 And many false prophets will appear and deceive many, 12 and because lawlessness will increase so much, the love of many will grow cold.▷ ◁14 You will be brought stand be brought before kings and governors because of my name me my name , as a witness to them . 13 This will be a time for you to serve as witnesses. 10 FirstAndFirst this this the gospel of the kingdom will will must be preached throughout the whole inhabited earth as a testimony to all the nations , and then the end will come .
1114 Therefore when they arrest you and hand you over for trial, be resolved not to do not be resolved not to rehearse worry rehearse ahead of time about ahead of time how to make your defense what to speak how to make your defense . But say whatever is given you at that time, for it is not you speaking, but the Holy Spirit. 15 For I will give you the words along with the wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict.
1216 Brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends; Children will rise against parents and they will have some of you and have them and they will have some of you put to death. 1317 You will be hated by everyone because of my name. 18 Yet not a hair of your head will perish.▷ ◁1319 But by your endurance you will gain your lives; the person person one who endures to the end will be saved .
◁151420 “But“So“But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, the abomination of desolation —spoken about by Daniel the prophet— standing in the holy place where it should not be ” (let the reader understand), then know that its desolation has come near. 1621 “then “thenThen those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains. Those who are inside the city must depart. Those who are out in the country must not enter it, 22 because these are days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written.
1715 The one on the roof must not come down or go inside to take anything out of his house . ,. 1816 and the theThe one in the field must not turn back to get his cloak. 191723 Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days! 2018 Pray that your flight your flight it may not be in winter or on a Sabbath . 2119 For in those days then in those days there will be great suffering suffering distress on the earth and wrath against this people unlike anything that has happened from the beginning of the creation that God created world creation that God created until now, or ever will happen . 24 They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led away as captives among all nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. 2220 And if the Lord had not cut short those days those days had not been cut short the Lord had not cut short those days , no one would be saved. But for the sake for the sake because of the elect , whom he chose, those days will be cut short. those days will be cut short. he has cut them short. 2321 Then if anyone says to you , ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘ Look, ThereTherethere he is!’ do not believe him. 2422 For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs will appear and perform great signs will appear and perform signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. even the elect. the elect. 2523 Be careful! Remember, I have told you everything ahead of time. 26 So then, if someone says to you, ‘Look, he is in the wilderness,’ do not go out, or ‘Look, he is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe him. 27 For just like the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so the coming of the Son of Man will be. 28 Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.
292425 “ ButButAnd immediately after that the that suffering of of in those days, there will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth nations will be in distress, anxious over the roaring of the sea and the surging waves. People will be fainting from fear and from the expectation of what is coming on the world, for the sun will be darkened , and the moon will not give its light; 25 the stars will be falling fall be falling from heaven, 26 and the powers in the heavens of heaven in the heavens of the heavens will be shaken. 30 Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and all the tribes of the earth will mourn. 2627 Then everyone They everyone they will see the Son of Man arriving on on in the clouds the clouds a cloud of heaven with great power and great glory. 3127 ThenAndThen he will send his angels with a loud trumpet blast, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven. one end of heaven to the other. the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven. 28 But when these things begin to happen, stand up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”
322829 Then he told them a parable: “ Learn this parable fromLearn this parable fromLook at the fig tree and all the other trees . :. 30 Whenever WheneverWhen its branch becomes tender and its branch becomes tender and they puts out puts out sprout its leaves, you see for yourselves and know that summer is now near. 332931 So also you, when you see all these things happening , know that the kingdom of God he the kingdom of God is near , right at the door . 343032 I tell you the truth, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place. 353133 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
34 “But be on your guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life, and that day close down upon you suddenly like a trap. 35 For it will overtake all who live on the face of the whole earth. 36 But stay alert at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that must happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.
3632 “But as for that day and and or hour no one knows it— not evennot evenneither the angels in heaven , nor the Son —except the Father alone . 37 For just like the days of Noah were, so the coming of the Son of Man will be. 38 For in those days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark. 39 And they knew nothing until the flood came and took them all away. It will be the same at the coming of the Son of Man. 40 Then there will be two men in the field; one will be taken and one left. 41 There will be two women grinding grain with a mill; one will be taken and one left.
4233 “Therefore watch out! stay stay Stay alert , because, because! For you do not know on what day your Lord on what day your Lord when the time will come. 34 It is like a man going on a journey. He left his house and put his slaves in charge, assigning to each his work, and commanded the doorkeeper to stay alert. 35 Stay alert, then, because you do not know when the owner of the house will return— whether during evening, at midnight, when the rooster crows, or at dawn— 36 or else he might find you asleep when he returns suddenly. 43 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have been alert and would not have let his house be broken into. 44 Therefore you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him. 37 What I say to you I say to everyone: Stay alert! ”▷
37 So every day Jesus was teaching in the temple courts, but at night he went and stayed on the Mount of Olives. 38 And all the people came to him early in the morning to listen to him in the temple courts.▷
45 “Who then is the faithful and wise slave, whom the master has put in charge of his household, to give the other slaves their food at the proper time? 46 Blessed is that slave whom the master finds at work when he comes. 47 I tell you the truth, the master will put him in charge of all his possessions. 48 But if that evil slave should say to himself, ‘My master is staying away a long time,’ 49 and he begins to beat his fellow slaves and to eat and drink with drunkards, 50 then the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not foresee, 51 and will cut him in two, and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
251 “At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. 2 Five of the virgins were foolish, and five were wise. 3 When the foolish ones took their lamps, they did not take extra olive oil with them. 4 But the wise ones took flasks of olive oil with their lamps. 5 When the bridegroom was delayed a long time, they all became drowsy and fell asleep. 6 But at midnight there was a shout, ‘Look, the bridegroom is here! Come out to meet him.’ 7 Then all the virgins woke up and trimmed their lamps. 8 The foolish ones said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, because our lamps are going out.’ 9 ‘No,’ they replied. ‘There won’t be enough for you and for us. Go instead to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.’ 10 But while they had gone to buy it, the bridegroom arrived, and those who were ready went inside with him to the wedding banquet. Then the door was shut. 11 Later, the other virgins came too, saying, ‘Lord, lord! Let us in!’ 12 But he replied, ‘I tell you the truth, I do not know you!’ 13 Therefore stay alert, because you do not know the day or the hour.
14 “For it is like a man going on a journey, who summoned his slaves and entrusted his property to them. 15 To one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, each according to his ability. Then he went on his journey. 16 The one who had received five talents went off right away and put his money to work and gained five more. 17 In the same way, the one who had two gained two more. 18 But the one who had received one talent went out and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master’s money in it. 19 After a long time, the master of those slaves came and settled his accounts with them. 20 The one who had received the five talents came and brought five more, saying, ‘Sir, you entrusted me with five talents. See, I have gained five more.’ 21 His master answered, ‘Well done, good and faithful slave! You have been faithful in a few things. I will put you in charge of many things. Enter into the joy of your master.’ 22 The one with the two talents also came and said, ‘Sir, you entrusted two talents to me. See, I have gained two more.’ 23 His master answered, ‘Well done, good and faithful slave! You have been faithful with a few things. I will put you in charge of many things. Enter into the joy of your master.’ 24 Then the one who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Sir, I knew that you were a hard man, harvesting where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter seed, 25 so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. See, you have what is yours.’ 26 But his master answered, ‘Evil and lazy slave! So you knew that I harvest where I didn’t sow and gather where I didn’t scatter? 27 Then you should have deposited my money with the bankers, and on my return I would have received my money back with interest! 28 Therefore take the talent from him and give it to the one who has ten. 29 For the one who has will be given more, and he will have more than enough. But the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken from him. 30 And throw that worthless slave into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. 32 All the nations will be assembled before him, and he will separate people one from another like a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. 34 Then the king will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. 35 For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me.’ 37 Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or naked and clothe you? 39 When did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’ 40 And the king will answer them, ‘I tell you the truth, just as you did it for one of the least of these brothers or sisters of mine, you did it for me.’
41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you accursed, into the eternal fire that has been prepared for the devil and his angels! 42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink. 43 I was a stranger and you did not receive me as a guest, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’ 44 Then they too will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not give you whatever you needed?’ 45 Then he will answer them, ‘I tell you the truth, just as you did not do it for one of the least of these, you did not do it for me.’ 46 And these will depart into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
261 When Jesus had finished saying all these things, he told his disciples, 2 “You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be handed over to be crucified.”
◁221 Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which is called the Passover, was approaching. ◁14312 Two days before the Passover Then Two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the chief priests the chief priests The chief priests and the experts in the law and the elders of the people met together in the palace of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas. 4 They were trying to find planned to were trying to find some a some way to arrest Jesus by stealth and execute kill execute Jesus him Jesus , for they were afraid of the people . ▷ 52 But But For they said, “Not during the feast, so that there won’t be a riot among the people.”
◁632 Now while Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, Now while Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, NowSo while Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, they prepared a dinner for Jesus there. Martha was serving, and Lazarus was among those present at the table with him. 3 Then while Jesus was reclining at the table, 7 a woman a woman Mary came to him with with took an alabaster jar of three quarters of a pound of expensive expensive costly perfumed perfumed aromatic oil from pure nard . ,. After and After breaking open the jar, she anointed the feet of Jesus poured it on his head anointed the feet of Jesus as he was at the table . She then wiped his feet dry with her hair. (Now the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfumed oil.) 844 But when some who were present the disciples some who were present Judas Iscariot , one of his disciples (the one who was going to betray him) saw this, they became indignant and indignant and indignantly said, said said, to one another 5 , “Why, “Why“Why this waste of expensive ointment ? 95 It could have been It could have been wasn’t this oil sold for more than three hundred silver coins at a high price for more than three hundred silver coins for 300 silver coins and the money given to the poor !”!”?” So they spoke angrily to her. 6 (Now Judas said this not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief. As keeper of the money box, he used to steal what was put into it.)
1067 When When ButSo Jesus learned of this, he said to them , “ Leave her alone. Why are you bothering this woman this woman her ? She has done a good service for me. 1178 For you will always have the poor with you, and you can do good for them whenever you want. but but But you will not always have me! 128 She did what she could. When she sheShe poured this oil on poured this oil on anointed has kept it my body , she did it to prepare me beforehand for the day of my burial. 139 I tell you the truth, wherever this gospel I tell you the truth, wherever this gospel I tell you the truth, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her. ”▷
◁14103 Then Satan entered Judas , the one called the one named, the one called Iscariot, who was one of the twelve . ,. 4 He went away to away and discussed with the chief priests and officers of the temple guard how he might to how he might betray Jesus , handing him over to them into their hands, handing him over to them 15 and said, “What will you give me to betray him into your hands ?”?”. 115 When they heard this, So When they heard this, they they They were delighted and promised set out promised arranged to givefor to give him thirty silver coins thirty silver coins money money. . . 16 So Judas agreed and from that time on began looking for an opportunity to betray Jesus him Jesus when no crowd was present .
17127 Then Now Then on the first day for of for the feast of Unleavened Bread came, on which, when on which the Passover lamb had to be is had to be sacrificed . ,. 8 Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, “Go and prepare the Passover for us to eat.” 9 Jesus’ the Jesus’ disciples disciples They came to Jesus and said to him, to him to him, , “Where do you want us to prepare, “Where do you want us to prepare “Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat for you to eat it the Passover ?” 181310 He sent two of his disciples and said to said told said to them , “ Go into the cityGo into the cityListen, , and to, and when you have entered the city, a certain man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him. Follow him. Follow him 14 into the house that Wherever into the house that he enters, 11 and tell the owner of the house, him, the owner of the house, ‘The Teacher says to you , “ My time is near. I will observe the Passover with my disciples at your house. Where is the guest room where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?Where is my guest room where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?Where is the guest room where I may eat the Passover with my disciples? ’” ’” ”’ 1512 Then he will show you a large room He will show you a large room Then he will show you a large room upstairs, furnished and ready . Make preparations for us there.” 191613 So the disciples did as Jesus had instructed them, they left, went into the city, and found things just as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover. and they prepared the Passover.
201714 Then, Then, Now When When when it was evening it was evening the hour came , Jesus he Jesus took his place at the table took his place at the table came to the house took his place at the table with with and the apostles the twelve the apostles joined him . 15 And he said to them, “I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. 16 For I tell you, I will not eat it again until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.”
◁24 A dispute also started among them over which of them was to be regarded as the greatest. 25 So Jesus said to them, “The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those in authority over them are called ‘benefactors.’ 26 Not so with you; instead the one who is greatest among you must become like the youngest, and the leader like the one who serves. 27 For who is greater, the one who is seated at the table, or the one who serves? Is it not the one who is seated at the table? But I am among you as one who serves.
28 “You are the ones who have remained with me in my trials. 29 Thus I grant to you a kingdom, just as my Father granted to me, 30 that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
◁131 Just before the Passover Feast, Jesus knew that his time had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now loved them to the very end. 2 The evening meal was in progress, and the devil had already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, that he should betray Jesus. 3 Because Jesus knew that the Father had handed all things over to him, and that he had come from God and was going back to God, 4 he got up from the meal, removed his outer clothes, took a towel and tied it around himself. 5 He poured water into the washbasin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to dry them with the towel he had wrapped around himself.
6 Then he came to Simon Peter. Peter said to him, “Lord, are you going to wash my feet?” 7 Jesus replied, “You do not understand what I am doing now, but you will understand after these things.” 8 Peter said to him, “You will never wash my feet!” Jesus replied, “If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.” 9 Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, wash not only my feet, but also my hands and my head!” 10 Jesus replied, “The one who has bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean. And you disciples are clean, but not every one of you.” 11 (For Jesus knew the one who was going to betray him. For this reason he said, “Not every one of you is clean.”)
12 So when Jesus had washed their feet and put his outer clothing back on, he took his place at the table again and said to them, “Do you understand what I have done for you? 13 You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and do so correctly, for that is what I am. 14 If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you too ought to wash one another’s feet. 15 For I have given you an example—you should do just as I have done for you. 16 I tell you the solemn truth, the slave is not greater than his master, nor is the one who is sent as a messenger greater than the one who sent him. 17 If you understand these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
18 “What I am saying does not refer to all of you. I know the ones I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the scripture, ‘The one who eats my bread has turned against me.’ 19 I am telling you this now, before it happens, so that when it happens you may believe that I am he. 20 I tell you the solemn truth, whoever accepts the one I send accepts me, and whoever accepts me accepts the one who sent me.”
◁21182121 When And When he had said these things, while they were while they were While they were at the table eating , Jesus he Jesus was greatly distressed in spirit, and testified, said, testified, “ I tell you theI tell you theBut look, solemn truth, one of you truth, one of youthe hand of one eating with me on the table will betray me.” will betray me.” will betray me. 221922 The disciplesThey The disciples began to look at one another, became were began to look at one another, greatly distressed distressedworried and perplexed to know which of them he was talking about , and one by one and each one, and one by one began to say began to say said to him, “Surely not I , Lord ?” ?” . 2320 He said to them answered said to them , “ It is one of theThe the twelve, one who has dipped his hand one who has dipped his hand one who dips his hand into the bowl with me will betray me . 242122 For the Son of Man is to go The Son of Man will go For the Son of Man will go For the Son of Man is to go just as it has been is has been determined written determined about him , but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man the Son of Man he is betrayed! It would be better for him if he had never been born. ” 23 So they began to question one another as to which of them it could possibly be who would do this.
23 One of his disciples, the one Jesus loved, was at the table to the right of Jesus in a place of honor. 24 So Simon Peter gestured to this disciple to ask Jesus who it was he was referring to. 25 Then the disciple whom Jesus loved leaned back against Jesus’ chest and asked him, “Lord, who is it?” 26 Jesus replied, “It is the one to whom I will give this piece of bread after I have dipped it in the dish.” Then he dipped the piece of bread in the dish and gave it to Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son. 27 And after Judas took the piece of bread, Satan entered into him. Jesus said to him, “What you are about to do, do quickly.” 28 (Now none of those present at the table understood why Jesus said this to Judas. 29 Some thought that, because Judas had the money box, Jesus was telling him to buy whatever they needed for the feast, or to give something to the poor.) 25 Then Judas, the one who would betray him, said, “Surely not I, Rabbi?” Jesus replied, “You have said it yourself.” 30 Judas took the piece of bread and went out immediately. (Now it was night.) 31 When Judas had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in him. 32 If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him right away. 33 Children, I am still with you for a little while. You will look for me, and just as I said to the Jewish religious leaders, ‘Where I am going you cannot come,’ now I tell you the same.
34 “I give you a new commandment—to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. 35 Everyone will know by this that you are my disciples—if you have love for one another.”
36 Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, where are you going?” Jesus replied, “Where I am going, you cannot follow me now, but you will follow later.” 37 Peter said to him, “Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you!” ▷▷ ◁◁312738 Then Jesus said to them said to them answered , “,“, “ Will you lay down your life for me? This night you youYou will all fall away because of me , for it is written:, for it is written:, for it is written,
‘I will strike the shepherd,
and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’
3228 But after I am raised, I will go ahead of you into Galilee.” 3329
Peter said to him, “ Even if they all fall awayIf they all fall away if they all fall away because of you , I will never fall away never fall away not !” ▷ ◁31 “Simon, Simon, pay attention! Satan has demanded to have you all, to sift you like wheat, 32 but I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. When you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.” 33 But Peter said to him, “ Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death!” 343034 Jesus replied said replied to him , “ I tell you the solemn truth , Peter , today— on this very night , , — before the the a rooster will not crow today until rooster crows rooster will not crow today until rooster will not crow until twice you have denied me, you will deny me you have denied you have denied me three times that you know me three times three times that you know me .” .” !”▷ 3531 But Peter said to him said to him insisted emphatically , “Even if I must die with you, I will never deny you.” And all the disciples the disciples of them said the same thing.
35 Then Jesus said to them, “When I sent you out with no money bag, or traveler’s bag, or sandals, you didn’t lack anything, did you?” They replied, “Nothing.” 36 He said to them, “But now, the one who has a money bag must take it, and likewise a traveler’s bag too. And the one who has no sword must sell his cloak and buy one. 37 For I tell you that this scripture must be fulfilled in me, ‘And he was counted with the transgressors.’ For what is written about me is being fulfilled.” 38 So they said, “Look, Lord, here are two swords.” Then he told them, “It is enough.”
◁17 Then he took a cup, and after giving thanks he said, “Take this and divide it among yourselves. 18 For I tell you that from now on I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.” ▷▷ ◁◁262219 While they were eating, While they were eating, Then Jesus Jesus he took bread, and after giving thanks he broke it and, and gave it to his disciples his disciples them, them , and said, and said and said, saying , “ Take it , eat . ,. this is my body this is my body This is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me .” 272320 And in the same way he took the cup after they had eaten, And after taking the cup and giving thanks, he gave it to them, he gave it to them, he gave it to them. 24 He said to them saying He said to them , “ Drink from it, all of you, 28 for this thisThis cup is my blood, the blood of the new covenant in my blood , that is poured out for many many you for the forgiveness of sins . ▷ 2925 I tell you the truth , from now on I will no longer not no longer drink of this this the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in the kingdom of in kingdom of in the kingdom of my father my father God .” ▷ And they all drank from it.▷
◁141 “Do not let your hearts be distressed. You believe in God; believe also in me. 2 There are many dwelling places in my Father’s house. Otherwise, I would have told you, because I am going away to make ready a place for you. 3 And if I go and make ready a place for you, I will come again and take you to be with me, so that where I am you may be too. 4 And you know the way where I am going.”
5 Thomas said, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going. How can we know the way?” 6 Jesus replied, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7
8 Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father, and we will be content.” 9 Jesus replied, “Have I been with you for so long, and you have not known me, Philip? The person who has seen me has seen the Father! How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you, I do not speak on my own initiative, but the Father residing in me performs his miraculous deeds. 11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me, but if you do not believe me, believe because of the miraculous deeds themselves. 12 I tell you the solemn truth, the person who believes in me will perform the miraculous deeds that I am doing, and will perform greater deeds than these, because I am going to the Father.
And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.
15 “If you love me, you will obey my commandments. 16 Then I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you forever— 17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it does not see him or know him. But you know him, because he resides with you and will be in you.
18 “I will not abandon you as orphans, I will come to you. 19 In a little while the world will not see me any longer, but you will see me; because I live, you will live too. 20 You will know at that time that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you. 21 The person who has my commandments and obeys them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him.”
22 “Lord,” Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, “what has happened that you are going to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?” 23 Jesus replied, “If anyone loves me, he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up residence with him. 24 The person who does not love me does not obey my words. And the word you hear is not mine, but the Father’s who sent me.
25 “I have spoken these things while staying with you. 26 But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything, and will cause you to remember everything I said to you.
27 “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you; I do not give it to you as the world does. Do not let your hearts be distressed or lacking in courage. 28 You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am. 29 I have told you now before it happens, so that when it happens you may believe. 30 I will not speak with you much longer, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me, 31 but I am doing just what the Father commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up, let us go from here.
151 “I am the true vine and my Father is the gardener. 2 He takes away every branch that does not bear fruit in me. He prunes every branch that bears fruit so that it will bear more fruit. 3 You are clean already because of the word that I have spoken to you. 4 Remain in me, and I will remain in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me.
5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me—and I in him—bears much fruit, because apart from me you can accomplish nothing. 6 If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown out like a branch, and dries up; and such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, and are burned up. 7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you want, and it will be done for you. 8 My Father is honored by this, that you bear much fruit and show that you are my disciples.
9 “Just as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you; remain in my love. 10 If you obey my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. 11 I have told you these things so that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be complete. 12 My commandment is this—to love one another just as I have loved you. 13 No one has greater love than this—that one lays down his life for his friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15 I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have revealed to you everything I heard from my Father. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that remains, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you. 17 This I command you—to love one another.
18 “If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me first. 19 If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you do not belong to the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you. 20 Remember what I told you, ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they obeyed my word, they will obey yours too. 21 But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. But they no longer have any excuse for their sin. 23 The one who hates me hates my Father too. 24 If I had not performed among them the miraculous deeds that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen the deeds and have hated both me and my Father. 25 Now this happened to fulfill the word that is written in their law, ‘They hated me without reason.’ 26 When the Advocate comes, whom I will send you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me, 27 and you also will testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.
161 “I have told you all these things so that you will not fall away. 2 They will put you out of the synagogue, yet a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God. 3 They will do these things because they have not known the Father or me. 4 But I have told you these things so that when their time comes, you will remember that I told you about them.
“I did not tell you these things from the beginning because I was with you. 5 But now I am going to the one who sent me, and not one of you is asking me, ‘Where are you going?’ 6 Instead your hearts are filled with sadness because I have said these things to you. 7 But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I am going away. For if I do not go away, the Advocate will not come to you, but if I go, I will send him to you. 8 And when he comes, he will prove the world wrong concerning sin and righteousness and judgment— 9 concerning sin, because they do not believe in me; 10 concerning righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will see me no longer; 11 and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been condemned.
12 “I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. 13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. For he will not speak on his own authority, but will speak whatever he hears, and will tell you what is to come. 14 He will glorify me, because he will receive from me what is mine and will tell it to you. 15 Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what is mine and will tell it to you. 16 In a little while you will see me no longer; again after a little while, you will see me.”
17 Then some of his disciples said to one another, “What is the meaning of what he is saying, ‘In a little while you will not see me; again after a little while, you will see me,’ and, ‘because I am going to the Father’?” 18 So they kept on repeating, “What is the meaning of what he says, ‘In a little while’? We do not understand what he is talking about.”
19 Jesus could see that they wanted to ask him about these things, so he said to them, “Are you asking each other about this—that I said, ‘In a little while you will not see me; again after a little while, you will see me’? 20 I tell you the solemn truth, you will weep and wail, but the world will rejoice; you will be sad, but your sadness will turn into joy. 21 When a woman gives birth, she has distress because her time has come, but when her child is born, she no longer remembers the suffering because of her joy that a human being has been born into the world. 22 So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you. 23 At that time you will ask me nothing. I tell you the solemn truth, whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you. 24 Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive it, so that your joy may be complete.
25 “I have told you these things in obscure figures of speech; a time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in obscure figures, but will tell you plainly about the Father. 26 At that time you will ask in my name, and I do not say that I will ask the Father on your behalf. 27 For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God. 28 I came from the Father and entered into the world, but in turn, I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.”
29 His disciples said, “Look, now you are speaking plainly and not in obscure figures of speech! 30 Now we know that you know everything and do not need anyone to ask you anything. Because of this we believe that you have come from God.”
31 Jesus replied, “Do you now believe? 32 Look, a time is coming—and has come—when you will be scattered, each one to his own home, and I will be left alone. Yet I am not alone, because my Father is with me. 33 I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble and suffering, but take courage—I have conquered the world.”
171 When Jesus had finished saying these things, he looked upward to heaven and said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, so that your Son may glorify you— 2 just as you have given him authority over all humanity, so that he may give eternal life to everyone you have given him. 3 Now this is eternal life—that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent. 4 I glorified you on earth by completing the work you gave me to do. 5 And now, Father, glorify me at your side with the glory I had with you before the world was created.
6 “I have revealed your name to the men you gave me out of the world. They belonged to you, and you gave them to me, and they have obeyed your word. 7 Now they understand that everything you have given me comes from you, 8 because I have given them the words you have given me. They accepted them and really understand that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me. 9 I am praying on behalf of them. I am not praying on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those you have given me, because they belong to you. 10 Everything I have belongs to you, and everything you have belongs to me, and I have been glorified by them. 11 I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them safe in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one. 12 When I was with them I kept them safe and watched over them in your name that you have given me. Not one of them was lost except the one destined for destruction, so that the scripture could be fulfilled. 13 But now I am coming to you, and I am saying these things in the world, so they may experience my joy completed in themselves. 14 I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. 15 I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but that you keep them safe from the evil one. 16 They do not belong to the world just as I do not belong to the world. 17 Set them apart in the truth; your word is truth. 18 Just as you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world. 19 And I set myself apart on their behalf, so that they too may be truly set apart.
20 “I am not praying only on their behalf, but also on behalf of those who believe in me through their testimony, 21 that they will all be one, just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you. I pray that they will be in us, so that the world will believe that you sent me. 22 The glory you gave to me I have given to them, that they may be one just as we are one— 23 I in them and you in me—that they may be completely one, so that the world will know that you sent me, and you have loved them just as you have loved me.
24 “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they can see my glory that you gave me because you loved me before the creation of the world . 25 Righteous Father, even if the world does not know you, I know you, and these men know that you sent me. 26 I made known your name to them, and I will continue to make it known, so that the love you have loved me with may be in them, and I may be in them.” ◁◁3026 After singing a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
◁◁◁183632391 Then when he had said these things, Jesus Jesus they went out with his disciples them and his disciples made his way, as he customarily did, across the Kidron Valley to the Mount of Olives, to a place called Gethsemane and the disciples followed him . ,. There was an orchard there, and he and his disciples went into it. ▷ 40 When he came to the place, and When he came to the place, Jesus he Jesus He said to the disciples the disciples his disciples them , “Sit here while I, “Sit here while I, “ go over there and pray. Pray that you will not fall into temptation. ” 373341 He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee and the two sons of Zebedee, James, and John with him , and became very troubled anguished very troubled and distressed. 3834 Then he said to them, Then he said to them, He said to them, “My soul is deeply grieved, even to the point of death. Remain here and stay awake with me awake with me alert .” 3935 Going Going He a little farther a little farther went away from them , about a stone’s throw, he threw himself to the ground , knelt down with his face to the ground to the ground, and prayed that if it were possible the hour would pass from him. 36 He said , 42 “ Abba, My Father, all things are possible for you. if you are willing possible you are willing , Take let Take take this cup pass pass away from me ! ! . Yet not what I what I my will , but what you will what you will yours be done .” 43 [Then an angel from heaven appeared to him and strengthened him. 44 And in his anguish he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.]
403745 Then Then When he got up from prayer, he came to the disciples and found them sleeping , exhausted from grief . 46 and and So He He he said to Peter Peter them , “ Simon, why are you sleeping? So, couldn’t you stay awake couldn’t you stay awake Couldn’t you stay awake with me for one hour? 4138 Get up Stay awake and pray that you will not fall into temptation . . ! The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. ” 4239 He went away a second time a second time again and prayed the same thing . ,. “My Father, if this cup cannot be taken away unless I drink it, your will must be done.” 4340 When He He he came again and and he found them sleeping; they could not keep their eyes open. And they did not know what to tell him. 44 So leaving them again, he went away and prayed for the third time, saying the same thing once more. 4541 Then he he He came to the disciples a third time and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? Enough of that! Look, the the The hour is approaching is approaching has come . Look,, and. Look, the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. 4642 Get up, let us go. Look! My betrayer is approaching!”
474347 Right away, While While while Jesus he Jesus was still speaking, suddenly a crowd appeared, and the man named Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them arrived was leading them . ◁2 (Now Judas, the one who betrayed him, knew the place too, because Jesus had met there many times with his disciples.) 3 With Judas him Judas had obtained was came had obtained a large squad of soldiers crowd squad of soldiers and some officers of the chief priests and Pharisees. They came to the orchard armed with lanterns and torches and swords and clubs, swords and clubs, weapons sent by the chief priests and experts in the law and elders of the people . 4844 (Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, “The one I kiss is the man. Arrest him and lead him away under guard ! ! . ”) 4 Then Jesus, because he knew everything that was going to happen to him, came and asked them, “Who are you looking for?” 5 They replied, “Jesus the Nazarene.” He told them, “I am he.” (Now Judas, the one who betrayed him, was standing there with them.) 6 So when Jesus said to them, “I am he,” they retreated and fell to the ground. 7 Then Jesus asked them again, “Who are you looking for?” And they said, “Jesus the Nazarene.” 8 Jesus replied, “I told you that I am he. If you are looking for me, let these men go.” 9 He said this to fulfill the word he had spoken, “I have not lost a single one of those whom you gave me.” 4945 When Judas arrived, Immediately When Judas arrived, he he He walked went walked up to Jesus immediately to kiss him and said, “ Greetings, Rabbi ! ,! . ” and kissed him. 5048 But Jesus said to him, “ Friend,Friend,Judas, would you betray the Son of Man with a kiss? Do what you are here to do. ” 46 Then they came and took hold of Jesus Jesus him and arrested him. 51474910 But When those who were around him saw what was about to happen, they said, “Lord, should we use our swords?” 50 Then one of one of One of those with Jesus those with Jesus the bystanders them Simon Peter , who had a sword, grabbed his sword, drew his sword drew it out, drew his sword pulled it out and struck the high priest’s slave, cutting off his right ear. (Now the slave’s name was Malchus.) 52485111 Then Then But Jesus said to Jesus said to Jesus said Peter him Peter , “ Enough of this! Put your sword back into itsPut your sword back in itsPut your sword back into its sheath place sheath ! For all who take hold of the sword will die by the sword. 53 Or do you think that I cannot call on my Father, and that he would send me more than twelve legions of angels right now? 54 How then would the scriptures that say it must happen this way be fulfilled? Am I not to drink the cup that the Father has given me? ” And he touched the man’s ear and healed him. 5552 At that moment At that moment Then Jesus said to the chief priests, the crowd them the chief priests, the officers of the temple guard, and the elders who had come out to get him , “Have you come out with swords, “Have you come out with swords, “Have you come with swords and clubs to arrest me like you would against an outlaw? 4953 Day after day when I was with you sat was with you , teaching in the temple courts, yet you did not arrest me. 56 But this is your hour, and that of the power of darkness! this has happened so that the scriptures of the prophets would be fulfilled. ” 50 Then all the disciples left him and fled. 51 A young man was following him, wearing only a linen cloth. They tried to arrest him, 52 but he ran off naked, leaving his linen cloth behind.
5412 Then the squad of soldiers they the squad of soldiers with their commanding officer and the officers of the Jewish leaders arrested Jesus and tied him up . ,. 575313 ThenNowThen the ones who had arrested Jesus the ones who had arrested Jesus they They led Jesus him Jesus away , and brought him first into to into Annas, for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was the high priest’s high priest high priest’s that year , in whose in whose and house all the chief priests and experts in the law and the elders came together had gathered came together. . . (Now it was Caiaphas who had advised the Jewish leaders that it was to their advantage that one man die for the people.)
585415 But But And Simon Peter and another disciple was was had following following followed them him them from from at a distance as they brought Jesus to Annas , all the way all the way up to the high priest’s courtyard . (Now the other disciple was acquainted with the high priest, and he went with Jesus into the high priest’s courtyard.) 16 But Peter was left standing outside by the door. So the other disciple who was acquainted with the high priest came out and spoke to the slave girl who watched the door, and brought Peter inside. ▷ ◁5518 When When (Now the slaves and the guards They the slaves and the guards were standing around had made were standing around a charcoal fire they had made in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together , warming themselves because it was cold . ,. After going in, Peter he He Peter also was standing sat was sitting sat down was standing among with among the guards the guards them to see the outcome , and warming himself by the fire . . .)▷▷ ◁◁696656 Then Now Then while Peter was sitting outside outside below in the courtyard . . ,▷ ◁17 one of the high priest’s A one of the high priest’s a The slave girls girl girls who was the doorkeeper came by . . , 67 When she saw When she saw seeing Peter Peter him as he sat in the firelight warming himself, she looked directly looked directly, stared to him to him at him and said to Peter , “ You’re not one of this man’s disciples too, are you? You also were with that Nazarene, Jesus the Galilean . This man was with him too! ” 706857 But Peter he Peter He denied it denied it replied in front of them all ::, “ Woman, I am not. I don’t know him! I don’t even understand know understand what you’re talking about! ”▷ Then he went out to the gateway, and a rooster crowed.
◁19 While this was happening, the high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching. 20 Jesus replied, “I have spoken publicly to the world. I always taught in the synagogues and in the temple courts, where all the Jewish people assemble together. I have said nothing in secret. 21 Why do you ask me? Ask those who heard what I said. They know what I said.” 22 When Jesus had said this, one of the high priest’s officers who stood nearby struck him on the face and said, “Is that the way you answer the high priest?” 23 Jesus replied, “If I have said something wrong, confirm what is wrong. But if I spoke correctly, why strike me?” 24▷ Then Annas sent him, still tied up, to Caiaphas the high priest.
◁◁5955 The chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were trying to find false testimony trying to find false testimony looking for evidence against Jesus so that they could put him to death . . , 60 But But but they did not find anything . ,. 56 though many though many Many gave false testimony against him false witnesses came forward gave false testimony against him , but their testimony did not agree . 57 Finally some two some came forward came forward stood up 61 and gave this false testimony declared gave this false testimony against him : ,: 58 “ We heard him sayThis man saidWe heard him say , ‘ I am able to am able to will destroy this the this temple of God made with hands and in three days rebuild rebuild build another it another not made with hands .’” 6259 Yet even on this point their testimony did not agree. 60 Then So Then the high priest stood up before them and said to said to asked Jesus him Jesus , “Have you no answer? What is this that they are testifying against you?” 6361 But Jesus Jesus he was silent and did not answer . Again The high priest The high priest the high priest questioned said to questioned him, “ I charge you under oath by the living God, tell us if you are tell us if you areAre you the Christ, the Son of the the Son of the Son of the Blessed One God Blessed One . . ? ” 6462 “I am,” Jesus said to him , “ You have said it yourself. But ButAnd I tell you, from now on you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power and coming with on with the clouds of heaven.” 6563 Then the high priest tore his clothes and declared declared Said , “ He has blasphemed! Why do we still need witnesses? 64 Now you you You have heard the blasphemy! 66 What is your verdict?” They all answered, “He is guilty and answered, “He is guilty and condemned him as deserving deserves deserving death . ” 676563 Then Then Now the men who were holding Jesus they some the men who were holding Jesus under guard began to mock him and beat him. ◁64 They spat in spat in spit on his face his face him, and to blindfold him, to blindfold him, blindfolded him and to strike struck to strike him with their fists . And some slapped him , 68 and asked him saying and asked him repeatedly , “ Prophesy for us, you Christ ! Who hit you?” Who hit you? Who hit you?” 65” The guards The guards They also said many other things against him, took him and beat him. said many other things against him, reviling him.
◁◁◁◁71695825 Meanwhile When Then Meanwhile a little later Simon Peter he Simon Peter was standing in the courtyard went out to the gateway, was standing in the courtyard warming himself. Another Another the some slave girl slave girlone else saw him , she began again and, she began again to say said to say to the bystanders people bystanders there , “ This manThis manYou was with Jesus the Nazarene was with Jesus the Nazarene is one of them are one of them too .” They said to him , “ You aren’t one of his disciples too, are you?” 7270 But Peter He Peter denied it denied it said again with an oath , “, “: “ Man, I am not! I do not know the man ! ! . ” 735926 And After After after a little while a little whilea short time about an hour , One of the high priest’s slaves, those standing there the bystanders still another One of the high priest’s slaves, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, came up to Peter and again insisted said insisted to Peter , “ Did I not see you in the orchard with him? Certainly this manYou really areYou must beCertainly this man was with him one of them was with him too , because you you he are are is also a Galilean —even your accent gives you away ! ! . ” 74716027 At that At that Then But Peter He he Peter began to curse, and he denied it again swore said denied it again with an oath , “, “, Man, and immediately a rooster crowed.I do not know I don’t know and immediately a rooster crowed. this man the man this man what you are talking about you are talking about you’re talking about !” 72 At that moment At that moment Immediately , while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed a second time . 7561 Then the Lord turned and looked straight at Peter, and Peter remembered the word of the Lord, what what how Jesus Jesus he had said to him : “: “, “ Before the the a rooster crows twice twice today , you will deny me three times.” 62 And he went outside and broke down and wept bitterly .
◁66 When day came, the council of the elders of the people gathered together, both the chief priests and the experts in the law. Then they led Jesus away to their council 67 and said, “If you are the Christ, tell us.” But he said to them, “If I tell you, you will not believe, 68 and if I ask you, you will not answer. 69 But from now on the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God.” 70 So they all said, “Are you the Son of God, then?” He answered them, “You say that I am.” 71 Then they said, “Why do we need further testimony? We have heard it ourselves from his own lips!”
27152311128 Then when it was when it was(Now it was early in the morning, early in the morning, Early in the morning, very early morning) after forming a plan, All the chief priests with and with the elders of the people and the experts in the law and the whole group of them Sanhedrin group of them plotted against Jesus to execute him. 2 They They they rose up and tied Jesus him Jesus up, led him away, led him away, brought Jesus from Caiaphas and handed him over before to before Pilate the Roman governor ’s residence .
3 Now when Judas, who had betrayed him, saw that Jesus had been condemned, he regretted what he had done and returned the thirty silver coins to the chief priests and the elders, 4 saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood!” But they said, “What is that to us? You take care of it yourself!” 5 So Judas threw the silver coins into the temple and left. Then he went out and hanged himself. 6 The chief priests took the silver and said, “It is not lawful to put this into the temple treasury, since it is blood money.” 7 After consulting together they bought the Potter’s Field with it, as a burial place for foreigners. 8 For this reason that field has been called the “Field of Blood” to this day. 9 Then what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled: “They took the thirty silver coins, the price of the one whose price had been set by the people of Israel, 10 and they gave them for the potter’s field, as the Lord commanded me.”
2 They did not go into the governor’s residence so they would not be ceremonially defiled, but could eat the Passover meal. 29 So Pilate came outside to them and said, “What accusation do you bring against this man?” 30 They began to accuse him, saying began to accuse him, saying replied , “ We found this man subverting our nation, forbidding us to pay the tribute tax to Caesar and claiming that he himself is Christ, a king. If this man were not a criminal, we would not have handed him over to you . ” 31 Pilate told them, “Take him yourselves and pass judgment on him according to your own law!” The Jewish leaders replied, “We cannot legally put anyone to death.” 32 (This happened to fulfill the word Jesus had spoken when he indicated what kind of death he was going to die.)
112333 Then Then So Pilate went back into the governor’s residence, summoned Jesus, and Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor Pilate asked Jesus, him, Jesus, “Are you the king of the Jews?” 34 Jesus Jesus He replied, said, replied, “ You say so. Are you saying this on your own initiative, or have others told you about me? ” 35 Pilate answered, “I am not a Jew, am I? Your own people and your chief priests handed you over to me. What have you done?” 36 Jesus replied, “My kingdom is not from this world. If my kingdom were from this world, my servants would be fighting to keep me from being handed over to the Jewish authorities. But as it is, my kingdom is not from here.” 37 Then Pilate said, “So you are a king!” Jesus replied, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I was born, and for this reason I came into the world—to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.” 38 Pilate asked, “What is truth?”
4 When he had said this ThenWhen he had said this Pilate Pilate he went back outside to the Jewish leaders and announced said announced to the chief priests and the crowds , “I find no basis for an accusation against this man this man him . ” 35 But then the chief priests the chief priests They persisted in began to persisted in accuse him repeatedly saying, “He incites the people by teaching throughout all Judea . It started in Galilee and ended up here!” 12 But when he was accused by the chief priests and the elders, he did not respond. 134 Then Then So Pilate said to said to asked him again , “ Have you nothing to say? Don’t you hearDon’t you hear See how many charges they are bringing against you ! ?! ” 145 But Jesus he Jesus did not answer even one accusation did not answer even one accusation made no further reply , so that the governor the governor Pilate was quite amazed.
6 Now when Pilate heard this, he asked whether the man was a Galilean. 7 When he learned that he was from Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent him over to Herod, who also happened to be in Jerusalem at that time. 8 When Herod saw Jesus, he was very glad, for he had long desired to see him because he had heard about him and was hoping to see him perform some miraculous sign. 9 So Herod questioned him at considerable length; Jesus gave him no answer. 10 The chief priests and the experts in the law were there, vehemently accusing him. 11 Even Herod with his soldiers treated him with contempt and mocked him. Then, dressing him in elegant clothes, Herod sent him back to Pilate. 12 That very day Herod and Pilate became friends with each other, for prior to this they had been enemies.
13 Then Pilate called together the chief priests, the leaders, and the people, 14 and said to them, “You brought me this man as one who was misleading the people. When I examined him before you, I did not find this man guilty of anything you accused him of doing. 15 Neither did Herod, for he sent him back to us. Look, he has done nothing deserving death. 16 I will therefore have him flogged and release him.”
156 During the feast the governor was accustomed the governor was accustomed it was customary to release one prisoner to the peoplecrowdpeople , whomever they requested. , whomever they wanted. , whomever they requested. ▷ ◁16719 At that time they had in custody a a A notorious prisoner prisoner man named Jesus Barabbas . He Had been was Had been thrown into prison imprisoned thrown into prison with rebels who had committed who had committed for murder, murder murder, during duringand for an insurrection started in the city . 8 Then the crowd came up and began to ask Pilate to release a prisoner for them, as was his custom. 17939 But So But after they had assembled, Pilate said to said to Asked them, “ it is your custom that I release one prisoner for you at the Passover. So whom do do Do you want me to release for you, for you, for you Jesus Barabbas, or Jesus who is called the Christ the king of the Jews for you ?” 1810 (For he knew that the chief priests they the chief priests had handed him over because of envy.) ▷▷ ◁◁201118 But the chief priests and the elders stirred up persuaded stirred up the crowds crowds crowd to have him release to ask for to have him release Barabbas instead and to have Jesus killed . 21 The governor asked them [again], “Which of the two do you want me to release for you?” 40 Then And Then they all shouted said shouted back out back together , “ Take this man away! Not this man, but Release Barabbas for us !” (Now Barabbas was a revolutionary.)
◁221220 So Pilate spoke to said to spoke to addressed them once again because he wanted to release Jesus , “Then what do you want me to should I do you want me to do with the one Jesus the one who is called who is called you call king of the Jews the Christ king of the Jews ?” ?” . 1321 But They all kept on shouting,saidshouted back kept on shouting, , “Crucify, “Crucify “Crucify , crucify him!” 231422 A third time Pilate He Pilate said to asked said to them , “Why? What wrong has he done wrong has he done has he done wrong ?”?”? I have found him guilty of no crime deserving death. I will therefore flog him and release him.” 23 But they shouted more insistently, shouted more insistently, were insistent, demanding with loud shouts that he be crucified. “Crucify him!” that he be crucified.
191 Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged severely. 2 The soldiers braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and they clothed him in a purple robe. 3 They came up to him again and again and said, “Hail, king of the Jews!” And they struck him repeatedly in the face. Post-Flogging Attempt by Pilate 4 Again Pilate went out and said to the Jewish leaders, “Look, I am bringing him out to you, so that you may know that I find no reason for an accusation against him.” 5 So Jesus came outside, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Look, here is the man!” 6 When the chief priests and their officers saw him, they shouted out, “Crucify him! Crucify him!” Pilate said, “You take him and crucify him! Certainly I find no reason for an accusation against him!” 7 The Jewish leaders replied, “We have a law, and according to our law he ought to die because he claimed to be the Son of God!” Pilate & Jesus’s Second Private Conversation 8 When Pilate heard what they said, he was more afraid than ever, 9 and he went back into the governor’s residence and said to Jesus, “Where do you come from?” But Jesus gave him no answer. 10 So Pilate said, “Do you refuse to speak to me? Don’t you know I have the authority to release you and to crucify you?” 11 Jesus replied, “You would have no authority over me at all, unless it was given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of greater sin.” 12 From this point on, Pilate tried to release him. But the Jewish leaders shouted out, “If you release this man, you are no friend of Caesar! Everyone who claims to be a king opposes Caesar!”
13 When Pilate heard these words he brought Jesus outside and sat down on the judgment seat in the place called “The Stone Pavement” (Gabbatha in Aramaic). ▷ ◁19 As he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent a message to him: “Have nothing to do with that innocent man; I have suffered greatly as a result of a dream about him today.” 14 (Now it was the day of preparation for the Passover, about noon.) Pilate said to the Jewish leaders, “Look, here is your king!” 15 Then they shouted out, “Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!” Pilate asked, “Shall I crucify your king?” The high priests replied, “We have no king except Caesar!”
And their shouts prevailed.▷ ◁2424 When Pilate saw that he could do nothing, but that instead a riot was starting, he took some water, washed his hands before the crowd and said, “I am innocent of this man’s blood. You take care of it yourselves!” 25 In reply all the people said, “Let his blood be on us and on our children!” So Pilate decided that their demand should be granted. 26152516 Then Because he wanted to satisfy the crowd, Pilate Pilate He released the man they asked for Barabbas for them the man they asked for , who had been thrown in prison for insurrection and murder . But Then, after he had Jesus flogged, Pilate he Pilate handed Jesus him Jesus over to their will their will them to be crucified .
2716 Then Then So the governor’s soldiers took took led Jesus Jesus him into the palace (that is, the governor’s residence ) and called together gathered called together the whole cohort around him . 2817 They stripped him and put a scarlet scarlet purple cloak robe cloak around around on him, him, him 29 and after braiding a crown of thorns, they put it on his head his head him . 18 They put a staff in his right hand, and kneeling down before him, they began to salute mocked began to salute him: “Hail, king of the Jews!” 3019 They took the staff and struck him again and again repeatedlyagain and again on the head with a staff and spit on him. Then they knelt down and paid homage to him.
3120 When they had finished mocking mocked finished mocking him, they stripped him of the purple cloak robe purple cloak and put his own clothes back on him. Then they led him away to crucify him. So they took Jesus, 17 and carrying his own cross he went out . 322126 As they were going out, were going out, led him away, the soldiers they the soldiers seized found seized a passerby a man a passerby from Cyrene from Cyrene of Cyrene named Simon, named Simon, Simon , who was coming in from the country (he was the father of Alexander and Rufus) . They placed the cross on his back and whom they They placed the cross on his back and forced to forced to made him carry his cross, carry his cross carry his cross, carry it behind Jesus . 27 A great number of the people followed him, among them women who were mourning and wailing for him. 28 But Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. 29 For this is certain: The days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore children, and the breasts that never nursed!’ 30 Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us!’ 31 For if such things are done when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?” 32 Two other criminals were also led away to be executed with him.
332233 So when They They they brought Jesus came brought Jesus to the place to a place to the place that is called called that is called in Aramaic Golgotha. Golgotha Golgotha. (which is translated, means translated, called “ The Place of the Skull , ” ) . ▷ ◁342336 The soldiers They The soldiers also mocked him, coming up andAnd and offering offered offering Jesus Jesus him sour wine mixed with myrrh gall myrrh to drink . . , 37 and saying, “If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself!” But after tasting it, he wouldwoulddid drink drink take it. 18 They crucified him there, They crucified him there, There they crucified him along with the criminals, the criminals, two others, one on his right and one on his left. one on his right and one on his left. one on each side , with Jesus in the middle.▷ ◁34 [But Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.”]▷ ◁352423 Now when the soldiers crucified Jesus, Then they crucified him Now when the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and made four shares, and they took his clothes and made four shares, one for each soldier, and the tunic remained. (Now the tunic was seamless, woven from top to bottom as a single piece.) 24 So the soldiers said to one another, “Let’s not tear it, but throw dice to see who will get it.” when they had crucified him, when they had crucified him, Then they divided his clothes, divided his clothes divided his clothes, by throwing dice. by throwing dice. throwing dice threw dice for them, to decide what each would take. to decide what each would take. to divide his clothes. This took place to fulfill the scripture that says, “They divided my garments among them, and for my clothing they threw dice.” So the soldiers did these things. 36 Then they sat down and kept guard over him there.
35 The people also stood there watching, but the leaders ridiculed him, saying, “He saved others. Let him save himself if he is the Christ of God, his chosen one!” 25 It was nine o’clock in the morning when they crucified him. ▷▷ ◁◁37263819 Pilate also had a notice written [with] There was also Pilate also had a notice written [with] the inscription of the inscription of an inscription the charge against him [which] they fastened to the cross putfastened to the cross above his head above his head over him, , which read:, which read: read, “ This is Jesus the Nazarene , the king of the Jews.” 20 Thus many of the Jewish residents of Jerusalem read this notice because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the notice was written in Aramaic, Latin, and Greek. 21 Then the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The king of the Jews,’ but rather, ‘This man said, I am king of the Jews.’” 22 Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.” 3827 Then Then And two outlaws were were they crucified with him, one on his right and one on his left.▷ ◁3929 Those who passed by defamed him, shaking their heads 40 and saying, “ Aha! You who can destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, 30 save yourself ! If you are God’s Son, and come down from the cross!” 4131 In the same way even the chief priests— together with the experts in the law and elders —were mocking him among themselves : 42 “He saved others, but he cannot save himself! 32 Let the Christ, He is Let the Christ, the king of Israel ! ! , If he comes down now from the cross, If he comes down now from the cross, come down from the cross now, that we may see and believe!” we will believe in him! that we may see and believe!” 43 He trusts in God—let God, if he wants to, deliver him now because he said, ‘I am God’s Son’!” 44 The robbers The robbersThose who were crucified with him also spoke abusively to him. 39 One of the criminals who was hanging there railed at him, saying, “Aren’t you the Christ? Save yourself and us!” 40 But the other rebuked him, saying, “Don’t you fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? 41 And we rightly so, for we are getting what we deserve for what we did, but this man has done nothing wrong.” 42 Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come in your kingdom.” 43 And Jesus said to him, “I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise.”
◁25 Now standing beside Jesus’ cross were his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26 So when Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, “Woman, look, here is your son!” 27 He then said to his disciple, “Look, here is your mother!” From that very time the disciple took her into his own home. 453344 Now It was now about from when it was It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole all the the whole land until three in the afternoon, in the afternoon in the afternoon, 45 because the sun’s light failed. . 4634 At about At about Around three o’clock Jesus cried out shouted cried out with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, that is, which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” 4735 When some of the bystanders heard it , they said, “ Listen, heThis manListen, he is calling for Elijah .” .” !”
28 After this Jesus, realizing that by this time everything was completed, said (in order to fulfill the scripture), “I am thirsty!” 483629 A jar full of sour wine was there, so Immediately Then A jar full of sour wine was there, so #CALC! one of them one of them someone they ran and got a sponge, filled it with and got a sponge, filled it with, filled a sponge with put a sponge soaked in sour wine, sour wine, sour wine on a branch of hyssop put it on a stick, on a branch of hyssop and gave it to him to drink and gave it to him to drink and lifted it to his mouth. . . , 4930 When he had received the sour wine, Jesus said, “It is completed!” But the rest said But the rest said Saying , “Leave him alone! Let’s see if Elijah will come to take him down!” to save him.” to take him down!” 503746 Then Then But Jesus , calling out cried out, calling out again with a loud voice , said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” And after he said this he bowed his head and gave up his spirit gave up his spirit breathed his last . 5138▷ ◁ Just then Just then And the theThe temple curtain was torn in two . ,. from top to bottom. The earth shook and the rocks were split apart. 52 And tombs were opened, and the bodies of many saints who had died were raised. 53 (They came out of the tombs after his resurrection and went into the holy city and appeared to many people.)▷ ◁543947 Now when the centurion , who stood in front of him, and those with him who were guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and what took place, what took place, how he died, they they he were extremely terrified and praised God and said, “ CertainlyTrulyCertainly this one was this one was this man was God’s Son God’s Son innocent !” 48 And all the crowds that had assembled for this spectacle, when they saw what had taken place, returned home beating their breasts. 554049 And all those who knew Jesus [and] there were also [and] there were alsoThe many women, women women, who had followed him from Galilee, were also there,were also there,stood and saw these things watchingsaw these things from a distance . 56 Among them were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James Mary the mother of James and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, Joseph, of Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee. the mother of the sons of Zebedee. Salome. 41 who whoThey had followed Jesus had followed Jesus had followed him from when he was in Galilee, and given him support . Many other women who had come up with him to Jerusalem were there too.
57425031 Now when Now when Now Then evening had already come, it was evening, evening had already come, because since because it was the day of preparation, it was the day of preparation it was the day of preparation, (that is, the day before the Sabbath), so that the bodies should not stay on the crosses on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was an especially important one), the Jewish leaders asked Pilate to have the victims’ legs broken and the bodies taken down. 32 So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the two men who had been crucified with Jesus, first the one and then the other. 33 But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. 34 But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and blood and water flowed out immediately. 35 And the person who saw it has testified (and his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth), so that you also may believe. 36 For these things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled, “Not a bone of his will be broken.” 37 And again another scripture says, “They will look on the one whom they have pierced.”
4338 After this, there came came was a rich man named Joseph, Joseph, Joseph who was a highly regarded member of the council, a good and righteous man [and] also a disciple of Jesus (but secretly because he feared the Jewish leaders) . . , 51 (He had not consented to their plan and action.) He was from from of the Judean town of Arimathea, 58 who who and was himself looking forward to the kingdom of God . ,. 52 He went boldly asked Pilate to Pilate asked Pilate if he could remove and asked for if he could remove the body of Jesus. 4453 Pilate was surprised that he was already dead. He called the centurion and asked him if he had been dead for some time. 45 WhenThen When Pilate was informed by the centurion, Pilate Pilate he ordered that it be given ordered that it be given gave the body gave him permission, to Joseph. him. Joseph. 5946 After After Then So Joseph Joseph he bought a linen cloth and bought a linen cloth and went and took the body took the body took it down down away . ,. 39 Nicodemus, the man who had previously come to Jesus at night, accompanied Joseph, carrying a mixture of myrrh and aloes weighing about seventy-five pounds. 40 Then they he they took Jesus’ body and wrapped it , with the aromatic spices, in strips of a the strips of clean linen cloth according to Jewish burial customs . ,. 6041 and placed it in and placed it inThere was his own his own a new tomb in a garden at the place where Jesus was crucified, that he had cut out of in out of the rock , where no one had yet been buried . 5442 And so, because it was the Jewish day of preparation , and the Sabbath was beginning and the tomb was nearby, they placed Jesus’ body there. Then he rolled a great stone across the entrance of the tomb and went away . 614755 ( Now Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses the other Mary Mary the mother of Joses , the women who had accompanied Jesus from Galilee followed, and were sitting there, opposite the tomb; they saw the tomb where the body was placed and how his body was laid in it . ) 56 Then they returned and prepared aromatic spices and perfumes. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.
62 The next day (which is after the day of preparation) the chief priests and the Pharisees assembled before Pilate 63 and said, “ Sir, we remember that while that deceiver was still alive he said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’ 64 So give orders to secure the tomb until the third day. Otherwise his disciples may come and steal his body and say to the people, ‘He has been raised from the dead,’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.” 65 Pilate said to them, “Take a guard of soldiers. Go and make it as secure as you can.” 66 So they went with the soldiers of the guard and made the tomb secure by sealing the stone.
281624201111 Now when the Sabbath was over, after the Sabbath, when the Sabbath was over, at early dawn at dawn very early at early dawn on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, at sunrise, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene Mary Magdalene the women , Mary the mother of James and the other Mary, Mary the mother of James , and Salome bought aromatic spices bought aromatic spices brought aromatic spices they had prepared so that they might go and anoint him [and they] went to went to came to look at the tomb . ▷ ◁3 The women had been asking each other, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?” ▷ ◁22 Suddenly there was a severe earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descending from heaven came and rolled away the stone and sat on it. 3 His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow. 4 The guards were shaken and became like dead men because they were so afraid of him.
◁42 But when they [the women] looked up, they found saw found that the stone , which was very large, had been rolled rolled moved back back away from the entrance tomb entrance . . , 2 So she [Mary Magdalene] went running to Simon Peter and the other disciple whom Jesus loved and told them, “They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!”▷
53 but when they went in Then as they went in but when they went in to the tomb , they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. 4 While they were perplexed about this, suddenly they saw a young man a young man two men stood beside them dressed in dazzling attire a white robe dazzling attire sitting sitting stood on the right sidestoneright side beside them . 5 The womenThey The women were terribly frightened alarmed terribly frightened and bowed their faces to the ground . . , 56 But But but the angel the angel he the men said to the women the women them , “ Do not be alarmed afraid alarmed . ;. I know that you are looking for Jesus the Nazarene , who was crucified. Why do you look for the living among the dead? 66 He is not here , for, for, but he has been raised , just as he said . . ! Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee, 7 that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and on the third day rise again. Come and see Come and see Look , there is the place where they laid him he was lying they laid him . 77 Then Then But go quickly , and tell his disciples, even Peter, that he has been raised from the dead. He is going ahead of you into Galilee. You will see him there , just as he told you . Listen, I have told you ! ”
8 Then the women remembered his words 9 , and. , and 88 Then So Then when they went out and ran from left went out and ran from returned from the tomb , quickly , with fear and great joy, for terror and bewilderment had seized them . And they said nothing to anyone, because they were afraid. [But] they and they ran to tell ran to tell told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest his disciples the eleven and to all the rest . ▷ 10 Now it was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them who told these things to the apostles. 11 But these words seemed like pure nonsense to them, and they did not believe them.
◁123 Then But Then Peter and the other disciple got up and ran got up and ran set out to go to the tomb. 4 The two were running together, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and reached the tomb first. 5 He bent down and saw the strips of linen cloth lying there, but he did not go in. 6 Then Simon Peter, who had been following him, arrived and went right into the tomb. He bent down and saw only the strips of linen cloth lying there, 7 and the face cloth, which had been around Jesus’ head, not lying with the strips of linen cloth but rolled up in a place by itself . 8 Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, came in, and he saw and believed. 9 (For they did not yet understand the scripture that Jesus must rise from the dead . ;. ) 10 then then So the disciples he the disciples went back to their home homehomes , wondering what had happened .
9 Early on the first day of the week, after he arose, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had driven out seven demons. 11 But Mary stood outside the tomb weeping. As she wept, she bent down and looked into the tomb. 12 And she saw two angels in white sitting where Jesus’ body had been lying, one at the head and one at the feet. 13 They said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” Mary replied, “They have taken my Lord away, and I do not know where they have put him!” 14 When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus. 15 Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?” Because she thought he was the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will take him.” 16 Jesus said to her, “Mary. ” She turned and said to him in Aramaic, “Rabboni” (which means “Teacher”). 17 Jesus replied, “Do not touch me, for I have not yet ascended to my Father. Go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’” 1018 Mary Magdalene She Mary Magdalene went out went out came and informed told informed those who were with him those who were with him the disciples , while they were mourning and weeping . . , “I have seen the Lord!” 11 And she told them what Jesus had said to her.▷ When they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they did not believe.
◁9 But Jesus met them [the other women], saying, “Greetings!” They came to him, held on to his feet and worshiped him. 10 Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee. They will see me there.”
11 While they were going, some of the guards went into the city and told the chief priests everything that had happened. 12 After they had assembled with the elders and formed a plan, they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers, 13 telling them, “You are to say, ‘His disciples came at night and stole his body while we were asleep.’ 14 If this matter is heard before the governor, we will satisfy him and keep you out of trouble.” 15 So they took the money and did as they were instructed. And this story is told among the Jews to this day.▷
12 After this he appeared in a different form to two of them while they were on their way to the country. 13 Now that very day two of them were on their way to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem. 14 They were talking to each other about all the things that had happened. 15 While they were talking and debating these things, Jesus himself approached and began to accompany them 16 (but their eyes were kept from recognizing him).
17 Then he said to them, “What are these matters you are discussing so intently as you walk along?”
And they stood still, looking sad. 18 Then one of them, named Cleopas, answered him, “Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who doesn’t know the things that have happened there in these days?”
19 He said to them, “What things?”
“The things concerning Jesus the Nazarene,” they replied, “a man who, with his powerful deeds and words, proved to be a prophet before God and all the people; 20 and how our chief priests and leaders handed him over to be condemned to death, and crucified him. 21 But we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. Not only this, but it is now the third day since these things happened. 22 Furthermore, some women of our group amazed us. They were at the tomb early this morning, 23 and when they did not find his body, they came back and said they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive. 24 Then some of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but they did not see him.”
25 So he said to them, “You foolish people— how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! 26 Wasn’t it necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and enter into his glory?” 27 Then beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them the things written about himself in all the scriptures.
28 So they approached the village where they were going. He acted as though he wanted to go farther, 29 but they urged him, “Stay with us because it is getting toward evening and the day is almost done.” So he went in to stay with them.
30 When he had taken his place at the table with them, he took the bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them. 31 At this point their eyes were opened and they recognized him. Then he vanished out of their sight. 32 They said to each other, “Didn’t our hearts burn within us while he was speaking with us on the road, while he was explaining the scriptures to us?”
1333 So They They they got up that very hour and went back went back returned to Jerusalem. They found the eleven and those with them gathered together 34 and saying, “The Lord has really risen and has appeared to Simon!” ◁19 [On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the disciples had gathered together and locked the doors of the place because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders.] 35 Then they told what had happened and told the rest, Then they told what had happened on the road, and how they recognized him when he broke the bread. But they did not believe them.
36 While they were saying these things, Jesus himself came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” 3720 But they were startled and terrified, thinking they saw a ghost. 38 Then he said to them, “Why are you frightened, and why do doubts arise in your hearts? 39 Look at my hands and my feet; it’s me! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones like you see I have.” 40 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet feet side . 41 And while they still could not believe it (because of their joy) and were amazed, he said to them, “Do you have anything here to eat?” 42 So they gave him a piece of broiled fish, 43 and he took it and ate it in front of them. 44 Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled.” 45 Then he opened their minds so they could understand the scriptures.▷ The disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. 21 So Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. Just as the Father has sent me, I also send you.” 22 And after he said this, he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. 23 If you forgive anyone’s sins, they are forgiven; if you retain anyone’s sins, they are retained.”
24 Now Thomas (called Didymus), one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. 25 The other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he replied, “Unless I see the wounds from the nails in his hands, and put my finger into the wounds from the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will never believe it!”
1426 Eight days later Then Eight days later the disciples were again together in the house, to the Eleven themselves the disciples were again together in the house, and Thomas was with them. Although the doors were locked, Jesus he Jesus came and stood among them appeared, came and stood among them while they were eating, and said, “Peace be with you!” 27 Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here, and examine my hands. Extend your hand and put it into my side. Do not continue in your unbelief, but believe.” and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart because they did not believe those who had seen him resurrected.▷ 28 Thomas replied to him, “My Lord and my God!” 29 Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are the people who have not seen and yet have believed.” 30 Now Jesus performed many other miraculous signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not recorded in this book. 31 But these are recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
211 After this Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias. Now this is how he did so. 2 Simon Peter, Thomas (called Didymus), Nathanael (who was from Cana in Galilee), the sons of Zebedee, and two other disciples of his were together. 3 Simon Peter told them, “I am going fishing.” “We will go with you,” they replied. They went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing. 4 When it was already very early morning, Jesus stood on the beach, but the disciples did not know that it was Jesus. 5 So Jesus said to them, “Children, you don’t have any fish, do you?” They replied, “No.” 6 He told them, “Throw your net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some.” So they threw the net and were not able to pull it in because of the large number of fish. 7 Then the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It is the Lord!” So Simon Peter, when he heard that it was the Lord, tucked in his outer garment (for he had nothing on underneath it), and plunged into the sea. 8 Meanwhile the other disciples came with the boat, dragging the net full of fish, for they were not far from land, only about a hundred yards. 9 When they got out on the beach, they saw a charcoal fire ready with a fish placed on it, and bread. 10 Jesus said, “Bring some of the fish you have just now caught.” 11 So Simon Peter went aboard and pulled the net to shore. It was full of large fish, 153, but although there were so many, the net was not torn. 12 “Come, have breakfast,” Jesus said. But none of the disciples dared to ask him, “Who are you?” because they knew it was the Lord. 13 Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them, and did the same with the fish. 14 This was now the third time Jesus was revealed to the disciples after he was raised from the dead.
15 Then when they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these do?” He replied, “Yes, Lord, you know I love you.” Jesus told him, “Feed my lambs.” 16 Jesus said a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” He replied, “Yes, Lord, you know I love you.” Jesus told him, “Shepherd my sheep.” 17 Jesus said a third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was distressed that Jesus asked him a third time, “Do you love me?” and said, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I love you.” Jesus replied, “Feed my sheep. 18 I tell you the solemn truth, when you were young, you tied your clothes around you and went wherever you wanted, but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and others will tie you up and bring you where you do not want to go.” 19 (Now Jesus said this to indicate clearly by what kind of death Peter was going to glorify God.) After he said this, Jesus told Peter, “Follow me.”
20 Peter turned around and saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them. (This was the disciple who had leaned back against Jesus’ chest at the meal and asked, “Lord, who is the one who is going to betray you?”) 21 So when Peter saw him, he asked Jesus, “Lord, what about him?” 22 Jesus replied, “If I want him to live until I come back, what concern is that of yours? You follow me!” 23 So the saying circulated among the brothers and sisters that this disciple was not going to die. But Jesus did not say to him that he was not going to die, but rather, “If I want him to live until I come back, what concern is that of yours?”
24 This is the disciple who testifies about these things and has written these things, and we know that his testimony is true. 25 There are many other things that Jesus did. If every one of them were written down, I suppose the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.
◁16 So the eleven disciples went to Galilee to the mountain Jesus had designated. 17 When they saw him, they worshiped him, but some doubted. ◁◁181546 Then Then and Jesus Jesus He came up and said to them, “ All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go into all the world and preach the gospel make disciples preach the gospel to every creature of all nations, to every creature baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you . 16 The one who believes and is baptized will be saved, but the one who does not believe will be condemned. 17 These signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new languages; 18 they will pick up snakes with their hands, and whatever poison they drink will not harm them; they will place their hands on the sick and they will be well Thus it stands written that the Christ would suffer and would rise from the dead on the third day, 47 and repentance for the forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. 48 You are witnesses of these things. 49 And look, I am sending you what my Father promised. But stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age .”
50 Then Jesus led them out as far as Bethany, and lifting up his hands, he blessed them. 1951 Now during the blessing, after the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he departed and was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God . 52 So they worshiped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy, 53 and were continually in the temple courts blessing God. 20 They went out and proclaimed everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the word through the accompanying signs.