{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_25901/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_25901","id":"gutenberg_25901","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25901","summary":null,"tags":["Bible. New Testament","Category: Religion/Spirituality"],"text":"Produced by Keith G. Richardson. This file was produced\nfrom scans obtained from The Digital Christian Library\n(www.thedcl.org).\n\n\n\n\n\n  THE\n\n  NEW TESTAMENT,\n\n\n  TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL GREEK, WITH CHRONOLOGICAL\n  ARRANGEMENT OF THE SACRED BOOKS, AND IMPROVED\n  DIVISIONS OF CHAPTERS AND VERSES\n\n\n  BY\n  LEICESTER AMBROSE SAWYER.\n\n\n  BOSTON:\n  JOHN P. JEWETT AND COMPANY.\n  CLEVELAND, OHIO:\n  HENRY P. B. JEWETT.\n  LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, SON AND COMPANY.\n  1858.\n\n\n  Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1858, by\n  JOHN P. JEWETT AND COMPANY,\n  In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of\n    Massachusetts.\n\n\n  LITHOTYPED BY COWLES AND COMPANY,\n  17 WASHINGTON ST.,\n  BOSTON.\n  Press of Allen and Farnham.\n\n\nPREFACE.\n\nTHIS is not a work of compromises, or of conjectural interpretations of\nthe sacred Scriptures, neither is it a paraphrase, but a strict literal\nrendering. It neither adds nor takes away; but aims to express the\noriginal with the utmost clearness, and force, and with the utmost\nprecision. It adopts, however, except in the prayers, a thoroughly\nmodern style, and makes freely whatever changes are necessary for this\npurpose.\n\nBesides being a contribution to Biblical science, it is designed to be\na still more important contribution to practical religion, for which\nthe Bible in its original languages and in all its translations is\nchiefly valuable. The translation depends mainly on its superior\nadaptation to this end, under the blessing of God, for its success and\nusefulness. If it shall be found on trial to be a superior instrument\nof piety and virtue, it will doubtless meet with favor and do good. The\nascendency of practical religion is not so general or complete, that\nany additional help for its promotion can be deemed unnecessary.\n\nNew translations of the Scriptures are generally introduced with\napologies and received with caution and distrust. In many cases men\nhave resisted them as dangerous innovations, and attempted to\nexterminate them with fire and sword. This was the case with the\ntranslations of Wickliffe and of Tindal. But truth and the kind\nprovidence of God were too mighty for their enemies, and these\ntranslations lived to see their persecutors in the dust, and to laugh\nthem to scorn. Wickliffe's translation was published in 1380, in a dark\nage. Many good men anticipated from it the greatest calamities, and\nresisted it with the most intemperate zeal, and every species of\ndenunciation was used against it. It was made from the Vulgate, and not\nfrom the Greek and Hebrew, and was imperfect; but it was a great\nimprovement on what existed before, and it proved a great blessing.\n\nTindal was contemporary with Luther, and undertook to give a new\ntranslation of the Bible to England, as Luther did to Germany. He\ncompleted his New Testament against the greatest opposition, and\npublished it in 1526, and was engaged on the Old Testament, when he was\narrested, imprisoned a year, and then brought to the stake and\nstrangled and burnt, at the age of fifty-nine, A.D. 1536. He was the\nmorning star of the Reformation in England, and became by his\ntranslation of the New Testament and a part of the Old, and by the\ninterest he excited in the subject of improved translations in England,\none of the great benefactors of his race. He was a man of great\ngentleness, kindness, simplicity of character, and benevolence, and his\nlife is without a stain.  Coverdale translated the whole Bible, and\npublished it in 1535 while Tindal was in prison waiting for his crown\nof martyrdom.  Several other translations followed, and that of King\nJames last of all, in 1611.\n\nKing James's translation was made by forty-seven translators, divided\ninto six companies, and laboring on their work three years. The Douay\nBible was first translated and published complete in 1609, almost\nsimultaneously with the Bible of King James. It has the disadvantage of\nhaving been made from the Latin Vulgate, and not directly from the\noriginal Greek and Hebrew, but is a valuable version, and like the\nBible of King James, is one of the great monuments of the times which\nproduced it, as well as of the church which has adhered to it. It is\ngood but not perfect; and it is hoped that its friends will not be\nunwilling to accept an improvement.\n\nFrom the publication of Wickliffe's Bible in 1380, to that of Tindal's\nNew Testament in 1526, was one hundred and forty-six years. From the\npublication of Tindal's New Testament in 1526, to that of King James's\nBible in 1611, was eighty-five years. There was considerable progress\nmade in knowledge, and the English language was considerably changed,\nin the interval of one hundred and forty-six years between the\npublication of Wickliffe's Bible and Tindal's New Testament. There was\nalso considerable progress in knowledge, and some changes were made in\nthe English language, in the interval of eighty-five years between the\npublication of Tindal's New Testament and King James's Bible.\n\nThe period that has elapsed between the publication of King James's\nBible in 1611 and the present time (1858) is two hundred and\nforty-seven years, sixteen years more than the entire period from the\npublication of Wickliffe's Bible in 1380 to that of King James's in\n1611. Besides, this has been a period of unparalleled activity in the\ninvestigation of Biblical subjects, and the prosecution of Biblical\nstudies. Two hundred and forty-seven years, reckoning, thirty-three\nyears to a generation, are seven generations and a half; and these\nseven generations and a half have been engaged in Biblical studies with\nunprecedented diligence and success, making great improvements in the\ntext, detecting numerous interpolations and errors, making great\nimprovements in the rendering, and detecting numerous errors in it; but\nthe almost exclusive Bible of common life, of the family, the school,\nthe church, and of private and devotional reading and study, with\nEnglish Protestants, is still the Bible of King James, with its errors\nuncorrected, its interpolations unremoved, and its defects unsupplied.\n\nSeveral new translations have been made since King James's time, but\nnone of them have as yet been received with any considerable favor.\nKing James's Bible, though extravagantly eulogized, was an excellent\nversion for the times that produced it; yet it made much less\nimprovement on the Bishop's Bible, the Geneva Bible, and Tindal's,\nCoverdale's, and others which it superseded, than Tindal's and\nCoverdale's did on Wickliffe's. Tindal, in the face of constant\npersecution, and cut off from many of the advantages and facilities\nwhich in more auspicious times he might have enjoyed, did more for the\nEnglish Bible than all King James's translators. So did Luther for the\nBible in Germany.\n\nIt is an unfortunate result of King James's translation of the Bible by\nan imposing council of learned men, that it has tended to discourage\nindividual effort in respect to a labor of this kind, and to create a\nprejudice against it as necessarily incompetent and untrustworthy.\nSocieties and councils have their spheres in which they are useful; yet\nthey often transcend them and intrude on those of individuals. But\nthere are great works which individuals can perform better than\nmultitudes or councils.  Councils did not make the Bible at first. It\nwas made by individuals, each man acting for himself, and giving\nutterance to the mighty thoughts that God had given him. A council did\nnot make Paradise Lost, and could not; nor has a council ever produced\nany immortal work of genius or learning, unless it is the English Bible\nof King James. With this exception, these are all the works of\nindividuals. As individuals, therefore, have generally been the\nprosecutors of literary enterprises, in the department of Bible\ntranslation no less than in other departments, and as individuals have\nbeen eminently successful and useful in this department of labor\nheretofore, both in England and other countries, let it be hoped that\nthey may be again.\n\nThere is a vast accumulation of knowledge to be made available by some\none, or in some way, for the production of an improved English Bible,\nthat shall bear the same relation to the advanced knowledge of these\ntimes, which Tindal's, Coverdale's, and that of King James did to\ntheirs. More study has been expended on the sacred text and its\ninterpretation, and more progress made in Biblical knowledge in the\nlast seven generations, than in all time before. This knowledge is\ntreasured up in critical editions of the original Scriptures, critical\ncommentaries on them in Latin and other languages, in Greek and Hebrew\nLexicons, and in other works in the various departments of Biblical\nlearning, embracing commentaries on the English Scriptures, several of\nwhich are extensive and valuable. No man can gainsay them, no man can\ndisparage them. They are monuments of the most precious and valuable\nlearning of their times. Scholars with ample means and ample time for\ncritical research, and those whose tastes and professions and\nconvictions of duty incline them in that direction, may in a long\nseries of years become masters of much of this learning, and receive\nthe benefit of it. A few are masters of it, but how few! But how are\nthe people to obtain it?  When are they to find the time to obtain it?\nWhere are they to find the means? The clergy are the instructors of the\npeople on sacred subjects. Biblical learning is a part of their\nprofession.  They study it by day and by night, from youth to old age;\nbut how are the great mass of clergymen even, amidst their parish cares\nand homiletical labors, and with their limited means and restricted\nlibraries, to obtain much of this knowledge? Some of it they may\nobtain, but much of it they will not, and cannot.\n\nThe only way in which the vast stores of Biblical learning accumulated\nduring the last two hundred and forty-seven years, by the labors of\nseven and a half generations toiling in succession, each generation\nbeginning where that which preceded it left off, and each adding\nsomething to the stock which it received, can become available for the\ngeneral benefit of the people, is by an improved text and translation\nof the Bible, into which, as far as possible, they shall all be\nbrought, and to the perfection of which they shall contribute. This is\nthe task which has been undertaken in the present work, and with what\ndegree of success, the public will judge. The text which has been\nfollowed in this translation, is that of Tischendorf, published at\nLeipsic in 1850. It is not only a great improvement on the received\ntext, but on the critical texts that are in general use in this\ncountry. Tischendorf follows Griesbach, Lachman and others, and\navailing himself of their labors, together with his own accurate\ncollations of manuscripts extending to nearly all the most ancient\nmanuscripts in the world, and following in the steps of Lachman by\nediting solely from ancient authority, has brought the text of the New\nTestament to a degree of perfection not anticipated or even hoped for\nin past ages. It is a high recommendation of this translation, and will\ncommand for it an additional respect from all competent judges, that it\nfollows this highly improved text. Readers will be able by this to see\nwhat is the Bible and what is not. It is not claimed for the text of\nTischendorf that it is perfect; no text can be; but it is claimed for\nit, that it retains no known interpolation in the sacred books, and\nomits nothing known to belong to them. Future laborers will doubtless\nmake some improvements on the text of Tischendorf, as he has done on\nthat of Lachman; but they cannot be expected to change it essentially.\n\nI have deviated from Tischendorf in omitting Jesus as the proper name\nof Barabbas in two instances in Matt. xxv. 4, and occasionally in\npunctuation, and have retained two important interpolations in the\ntext, duly noted as such, Mark, xvii. and John, x. 8.\n\nThe recent work of Trench on the English Bible came to hand after\nconsiderable progress had been made in stereotyping this volume.  The\ntranslator was highly gratified to find that nearly all the\nimprovements and corrections suggested by that eminent scholar were\nalready made in this work, together with many others.\n\nThe arrangement of the books and divisions of the chapters and verses\nin this Translation are believed to be great improvements on those in\ncommon use. As such they are commended to the attention of translators\nand editors in different languages, and it is hoped will be found\nsatisfactory.\n\nThe chronology of the New Testament is involved in great obscurity. The\nChristian Era was first proposed by Dionysius Exiguus, about A.D. 550,\nand was gradually adopted in the seventh and eighth centuries. By a\nmistake of Dionysius it was made to commence from four to six years too\nlate. The birth of Christ was from 4 to 6 B.C.; his baptism, in the\nfifteenth year of Tiberius, A.D. 24; his death, probably, A.D. 28; and\nthe events recorded in the first part of Acts prior to the death of\nHerod, A.D. 44, occurred considerably earlier than the dates usually\nassigned to them.\n\nMatthew and Luke probably wrote their gospels A.D. 62 or 63; Mark and\nJohn, theirs A.D. 65-68. Acts was written A.D. 63. All the books of the\nNew Testament were probably written before the destruction of\nJerusalem, in the interval of seventeen years from A.D. 53 to 70.\n\nThe author of Revelation bears the same name as one of the Evangelists.\nBut this does not prove that he was the same person, neither is the\nchurch tradition on the subject entitled to undoubted confidence. The\nauthor of Revelation does not claim to be an apostle; and by not making\nthat claim in a book so extraordinary, virtually teaches that he is not\nsuch. His style also presents points of diversity from that of the\nEvangelist, that seem to be incompatible with the supposition that the\nsame author wrote both works.\n\nWith these few explanations I commend this volume to the acceptance and\nblessing of our kind Father in heaven, and send it forth, accompanied\nwith many prayers, to call men from sin to holiness, and from death and\nsorrow to the only true life and joy.\n\nBOSTON, Mass., October, 1858.\n\n\n\n\nCONTENTS.\n\nTHE HISTORICAL BOOKS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT.\n\n  1.  The Gospel of Matthew\n  2.  The Gospel of Mark\n  3.  The Gospel of Luke\n  4.  The Gospel of John\n  5.  Acts of the Apostles\n\nTHE EPISTLES OF PAUL.\n\n  1.  First Epistle to the Thessalonians\n  2.  Second Epistle to the Thessalonians\n  3.  The Epistle to the Galatians\n  4.  First Epistle to the Corinthians\n  5.  Second Epistle to the Corinthians\n  6.  The Epistle to the Romans\n  7.  The Epistle to Philemon\n  8.  The Epistle to the Colossians\n  9.  The Epistle to the Ephesians [Laodiceans]\n  10. The Epistle to the Philippians\n  11. The Epistle to Titus\n  12. First Epistle to Timothy\n  13. Second Epistle to Timothy\n\nTHE CATHOLIC EPISTLES.\n\n  1.  The Epistle of James\n  2.  First Epistle of Peter\n  3.  Second Epistle of Peter\n  4.  The Epistle of Judas\n  5.  First Epistle of John\n  6.  Second Epistle of John\n  7.  Third Epistle of John\n  8.  The Epistle to the Hebrews\n\n  1.  REVELATION\n\n\n\n\nTHE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW.\n\n\nCHAPTER I.\n\nTHE GENEALOGY AND BIRTH OF CHRIST.\n\n1 [1:1]AN account of the birth of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the\nson of Abraham. [1:2]Abraham begat Isaac, and Isaac begat Jacob, and\nJacob begat Judah and his brothers; [1:3]and Judah begat Pharez and\nZarah by Thamar; and Pharez begat Hezron, and Hezron begat Ram,\n[1:4]and Ram begat Aminadab, and Aminadab begat Nashon, and Nashon\nbegat Salmon, [1:5]and Salmon begat Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz begat Obed\nby Ruth, and Obed begat Jesse, [1:6]and Jesse begat David the king.\n\n2 And David begat Solomon by the wife of Uriah, [1:7]and Solomon begat\nRehoboam, and Rehoboam begat Abijah, and Abijah begat Asa, [1:8]and Asa\nbegat Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat begat Jehoram, and Jehoram begat\nUzziah, [1:9]and Uzziah begat Jotham, and Jotham begat Ahaz, and Ahaz\nbegat Hezekiah, [1:10]and Hezekiah begat Manassah, and Manassah begat\nAmon, and Amon begat Josiah, [1:11] and Josiah begat Jechoniah and his\nbrothers at the Babylonian exile.\n\n3 [1:12]After the Babylonian exile, Jechoniah begat Shealtiel, and\nShealtiel begat Zerubabel, [1:13]and Zerubabel begat Abiud, and Abiud\nbegat Eliakim, and Eliakim begat Azar, [1:14]and Azar begat Zadoc, and\nZadoc begat Achim, and Achim begat Eliud, [1:15]and Eliud begat\nEleazar, and Eleazar begat Matthan, and Matthan begat Jacob, [1:16]and\nJacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, called\nChrist. [1:17]All the generations therefore, from Abraham to David, are\nfourteen generations; and from David to the Babylonian exile, fourteen\ngenerations; and from the Babylonian exile to the Christ, fourteen\ngenerations.\n\n4 [1:18]The birth of Christ was thus. His mother Mary having been\nespoused to Joseph, before they came together, was found to be with\nchild by the Holy Spirit. [1:19]But Joseph her husband being a\nrighteous man, and not wishing to make her an example, was designing to\nput her away privately. [1:20]But while he was thinking of these\nthings, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream,\nsaying, Joseph, son of David, fear not to take Mary your wife, for that\nwhich is conceived in her is by the Holy Spirit, [1:21]and she shall\nbear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he shall save his\npeople from their sins.\n\n5 [1:22]But all this was done, that the word of the Lord might be\nfulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying; [1:23]Behold, the\nvirgin shall be with child, and shall bear a son, and they shall call\nhis name Emmanuel; which is interpreted, God is with us. [1:24]And when\nJoseph awoke from his sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord had\ncommanded him, and took his wife, [1:25]and knew her not till she bore\na son, and he called his name Jesus.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER II.\n\nTHE INFANCY OF CHRIST.\n\n1 [2:1]AND Jesus being born in Bethlehem in Judea, in the days of Herod\nthe king, behold Magi came from the East to Jerusalem, saying,\n[2:2]Where is the king of the Jews born? For we have seen his star in\nthe East, and have come to worship him. [2:3]And Herod the king hearing\nthis was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him; [2:4]and assembling all\nthe chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where\nthe Christ is born. [2:5]And they said to him, In Bethlehem of Judea;\nfor thus it is written by the prophet; [2:6]And you Bethlehem, land of\nJudah, are by no means least among the governors of Judah, for out of\nyou shall come a governor who shall rule my people Israel.\n\n2 [2:7]Then Herod, calling the Magi secretly, asked them the precise\ntime when the star appeared; [2:8]and sending them to Bethlehem, said,\nGo and inquire diligently for the young child, and when you have found\nhim, tell me, that I also may come and worship him. [2:9]And hearing\nthe king, they departed; and behold, the star which they saw in the\nEast went before them, till it came and stood over where the young\nchild was. [2:10]And seeing the star they rejoiced with great joy;\n[2:11]and coming into the house they saw the young child with Mary his\nmother; and they fell down and worshipped him; and opening their\ntreasures they presented him gifts, gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.\n[2:12] And being divinely instructed in a dream not to return to Herod,\nthey departed to their country another way.\n\n3 [2:13]And when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord\nappeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child\nand his mother, and flee into Egypt, and remain there till I tell you;\nfor Herod will seek the young child to destroy it.  [2:14]And he arose\nand took the young child and his mother by night, and fled into Egypt,\n[2:15]and was there till the death of Herod; that the word might be\nfulfilled, which the Lord spoke by the prophet, saying; Out of Egypt\nhave I called my son.\n\n4 [2:16]Then Herod seeing that he was despised by the Magi, was\nexceedingly angry, and sent and destroyed all the children in\nBethlehem, and in all its borders, from two years old and under,\naccording to the precise time which he had learned of the Magi.\n[2:17]Thus was fulfilled the word spoken by Jeremiah the prophet,\nsaying; [2:18]A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation and great\nmourning; Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted\nbecause they were not.\n\n5 [2:19]And when Herod had died, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared\nto Joseph in a dream, in Egypt, saying, [2:20]Arise, and take the young\nchild and his mother, and go into the land of Israel; for they are dead\nthat sought the young child's life.  [2:21]And he arose and took the\nyoung child and his mother, and went into the land of Israel. [2:22]But\nhearing that Archelaus reigned over Judea in the place of Herod his\nfather, he was afraid to go there; but being divinely instructed in a\ndream, he departed into the parts of Galilee, [2:23] and went and lived\nin a city called Nazareth, that the word spoken by the prophets might\nbe fulfilled, He shall be called a Nazoraean.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER III.\n\nCHRIST'S BAPTISM AND TEMPTATION.\n\n1 [3:1]AND in those days came John the Baptist preaching in the\nwilderness of Judea, saying, [3:2]Change your minds, for the kingdom of\nHeaven is at hand. [3:3]For this is he that was spoken of by Isaiah the\nprophet, saying; A voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare the\nway of the Lord, make his paths straight.  [3:4]And this John had his\nclothes of camel's hair, and a leather girdle about his loins, and his\nfood was locusts and wild honey.  [3:5]Then went out to him Jerusalem,\nand all Judea, and all the region about the Jordan, [3:6] and were\nbaptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.\n\n2 [3:7]And seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come for the\nbaptism, he said to them; Offspring of vipers, who has warned you to\nflee from the wrath to come? [3:8]Bear fruit, therefore, worthy of a\nchange of mind; [3:9]and think not to say within yourselves, We have\nAbraham for a father; for I tell you that God is able of these stones\nto raise up children to Abraham; [3:10]and already the axe lies at the\nroot of the trees; every tree, therefore, which bears not good fruit is\ncut down and cast into the fire. [3:11]I indeed baptize you with water\nto a change of mind; but he that comes after me is mightier than I,\nwhose shoes I am not fit to bear; he shall baptize you with the Holy\nSpirit, and fire; [3:12]whose winnowing shovel is in his hand, and he\nwill thoroughly clean his threshing floor, and gather his wheat into\nthe storehouse; but the chaff he will burn with an inextinguishable\nfire.\n\n3 [3:13]Then came Jesus from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be\nbaptized by him. [3:14]But, he refused him, saying, I have need to be\nbaptized by you, and do you come to me? [3:15]But Jesus answered and\nsaid to him, Suffer me now; for thus, it becomes us to complete all\nrighteousness. Then he suffered him; [3:16] and Jesus being baptized\nwent up immediately from the water, and behold, the heavens were\nopened, and he saw the Spirit of God descend like a dove and come upon\nhim. [3:17]And behold, a voice from the heavens, saying, This is my\nbeloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.\n\n4 [4:1]Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness, to be\ntempted by the devil. [4:2]And having fasted forty days and forty\nnights, he was afterwards hungry. [4:3]And the tempter came and said to\nhim, If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become bread.\n[4:4]And he answered and said; It is written, man shall not live by\nbread alone, but by every word which proceeds from the mouth of God.\n[4:5]Then the devil took him into the holy city, and placed him on the\npinnacle of the temple, [4:6]and said to him, If you are the Son of\nGod, cast yourself down; for it is written, He shall give his angels\ncharge concerning you, and they shall take you up on their hands, lest\nat any time you dash your foot against a stone. [4:7]Jesus said to him,\nAgain it is written, You shall not try the Lord your God.  [4:8]Again\nthe devil took him away on a very high mountain, and showed him all the\nkingdoms of the world, and their glory, [4:9]and said to him, All these\nthings will I give you, if you will fall down and worship me.\n[4:10]Then Jesus said to him, Get behind me Satan; for it is written,\nYou shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.\n[4:11]Then the devil left him; and behold angels came and waited on him.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER IV.\n\nCHRIST COMMENCING HIS PUBLIC MINISTRY.\n\n1 [4:12]AND when he heard that John was delivered up, he departed to\nGalilee; [4:13]and leaving Nazareth he came and lived at Capernaum on\nthe lake, in the bounds of Zebulon and Naphtali, [4:14]that the word\nmight be fulfilled, spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying; [4:15]Land of\nZebulon and Naphtali, by the way of the lake, beyond the Jordan,\nGalilee of the nations, [4:16]the people who sat in darkness have seen\na great light, and upon those who sat in the region and shade of death\nhas light arisen.  [4:17]From that time Jesus began to preach, and to\nsay, Change your minds; for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.\n\n2 [4:18]And walking by the lake of Galilee he saw two brothers, Simon,\ncalled Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the lake, for\nthey were fishermen. [4:19]And he said to them, Come after me, and I\nwill make you fishermen of men. [4:20]And they left their nets,\nimmediately, and followed him. [4:21]And going forward thence, he saw\ntwo other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in\nthe ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called\nthem. [4:22]And they immediately left the ship and their father, and\nfollowed him.\n\n3 [4:23]And he went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues,\npreaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and\nevery infirmity among the people. [4:24]And his fame went out into all\nSyria; and they brought him all that were ill, afflicted with various\ndiseases and torments, and demoniacs, and lunatics, and paralytics, and\nhe cured them; [4:25] and great multitudes followed him from Galilee,\nand Decapolis, and Jerusalem, and Judea, and beyond the Jordan.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER V.\n\nCHRIST'S SERMON ON THE MOUNT.\n\n1 [5:1]AND seeing the multitudes, he went on the mountain and sat down;\nand his disciples came to him. [5:2]And he opened his mouth and taught\nthem, saying; [5:3]Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the\nkingdom of heaven. [5:5] Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit\nthe earth. [5:4]Blessed are those that mourn, for they shall be\ncomforted. [5:6]Blessed are those that hunger and thirst for\nrighteousness, for they shall be filled.  [5:7]Blessed are the\nmerciful, for they shall obtain mercy.  [5:8]Blessed are the pure in\nheart, for they shall see God.  [5:9]Blessed are the peace makers, for\nthey shall be called children of God. [5:10]Blessed are the persecuted\nfor righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. [5:11]Blessed\nare you when they shall reproach you, and persecute you, and say every\nevil against you, falsely, for my sake. [5:12] Rejoice and exult, for\ngreat is your reward in heaven; for so persecuted they the prophets who\nwere before you.\n\n2 [5:13]You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has lost its\nstrength, with what shall it be seasoned? It is good for nothing more,\nexcept being cast out to be trodden upon by men.  [5:14]You are the\nlight of the world. A city situated on a mountain cannot be hid.\n[5:15]Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a modius [1.916\ngallon measure], but on a candlestick, and it shines to all in the\nhouse. [5:16]Let your light so shine before men that they may see your\ngood works, and glorify your father in heaven. [5:17]Think not that I\nhave come to destroy the law or the prophets; I have not come to\ndestroy but to complete. [5:18]For I tell you truly, that till heaven\nand earth pass away, one iota or one point shall by no means pass away\nfrom the law till all things are accomplished. [5:19]Whoever therefore\nshall break one of the least of these commandments, and teach men so,\nshall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever shall do\nand teach, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. [5:20]For\nI tell you, that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes\nand Pharisees, you shall by no means enter into the kingdom of heaven.\n\n3 [5:21]You have heard that it was said by the ancients, You shall not\nkill; and whoever kills shall be subject to the judgment. [5:22]But I\ntell you, that every one who is angry with his brother shall be subject\nto the judgment; and whoever says to his brother, Worthless fellow,\nshall be subject to the Sanhedrim; and whoever says, You fool, shall be\nsubject to the hell of fire.  [5:23]If, therefore, you offer your gift\non the altar, and there remember that your brother has any thing\nagainst you, [5:24]leave there your gift before the altar, and go and\nfirst be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.\n[5:25]Agree with your accuser quickly, while you are with him in the\nway, lest the accuser deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver\nyou to the officer, and you be cast into prison. [5:26]I tell you\ntruly, you shall not go out thence till you have paid the last quadrans\n[4 mills].\n\n4 [5:27]You have heard that it was said, You shall not commit adultery;\n[5:28] but I tell you, that every one who looks on a woman to desire\nher inordinately, has already committed adultery with her in his heart.\n[5:29]But if your right eye offends you, pluck it out and cast it from\nyou; for it is better for you that one of your members should perish,\nand not that your whole body should be cast into hell. [5:30]And if\nyour right hand offends you, cut it off and cast it from you; for it is\nbetter for you that one of your members should perish, and not that\nyour whole body should go into hell. [5:31]And it was said, Whoever\nwould put away his wife, let him give her a bill of divorcement. [5:32]\nBut I tell you, that whoever puts away his wife, except for adultery,\ncauses her to commit adultery; and whoever marries her that is put\naway, commits adultery. [5:33]Again, you have heard that it was said by\nthe ancients, You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform to the\nLord your oaths. [5:34]But I tell you, Swear not at all; neither by\nheaven, for it is God's throne; [5:35]nor by the earth, for it is his\nfootstool, nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King;\n[5:36]nor swear by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or\nblack.  [5:37]But let your speech be, yes, yes, and no, no; for any\nthing more than this is evil.\n\n5 [5:38]You have heard that it was said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth\nfor a tooth. [5:39]But I tell you not to resist the evil man; but\nwhoever shall strike you on the right cheek, turn to him the other\nalso; [5:40]and if a man wishes to have a law suit with you, and take\naway your coat, let him have your cloak also; [5:41]and whoever shall\ncompel you to go one mile, go two miles with him. [5:42]Give to him\nthat asks, and from him that would borrow of you turn not away.\n[5:43]You have heard that it was said, You shall love your neighbor,\nand hate your enemy.  [5:44]But I tell you, Love your enemies, and pray\nfor those that persecute you; [5:45]that you may be children of your\nFather in heaven; for he causes his sun to rise on the evil and the\ngood, and rains on the just and unjust. [5:46]For if you love those\nthat love you, what reward have you? Do not the publicans the same?\n[5:47]And if you salute your brothers only, what do you do more than\n[others]? Do not the gentiles also do the same?  [5:48]Be therefore\nperfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.\n\n6 [6:1]But take heed not to perform your righteousness before men, to\nbe seen by them; otherwise indeed, you have no reward from your Father\nin heaven. [6:2] When, therefore, you give in charity, sound not a\ntrumpet before you, as the hypocrites do, in the synagogues and in the\nstreets, that they may be glorified by men. I tell you truly, they have\ntheir reward. [6:3]But when you give in charity let not your left hand\nknow what your right hand does, [6:4]that your charity may be in\nsecret; and your Father who sees in secret shall reward you.\n\n7 [6:5]And when you pray, be not like the hypocrites; for they love to\npray standing in the synagogues, and at the corners of the streets,\nthat they may be seen by men. I tell you truly, they have their reward.\n[6:6]But when you pray enter into your private room, and having shut\nyour door pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who\nsees in secret shall reward you.  [6:7]And when you pray use not vain\nrepetitions, as the gentiles do; for they think they shall be heard for\ntheir much speaking.  [6:8]Be not, therefore, like them; for your\nFather knows what you need before you ask him. [6:9]Pray, therefore,\nthus; Our Father in heaven, hallowed be thy name; [6:10]thy kingdom\ncome; thy will be done, as in heaven, so on earth; [6:11]give us to-day\nour essential bread, [6:12]and forgive us our debts as we forgive our\ndebtors; [6:13]and bring us not into trial, but deliver us from evil.\n[6:14]For if you forgive men their offenses, your heavenly Father will\nforgive you; [6:15]but if you forgive not men, neither will your Father\nforgive your offenses.\n\n8 [6:16]And when you fast, be not like the hypocrites, of a sad\ncountenance; for they disfigure their faces that they may appear to men\nto fast. I tell you truly, they have their reward.  [6:17]But when you\nfast, anoint your head, and wash your face, [6:18]that you may not\nappear to men to fast, but to your Father in secret; and your Father\nwho sees in secret shall reward you.\n\n9 [6:19]Lay not up for yourselves treasures on the earth, where a moth\nand corrosion destroy, and where thieves dig through and steal.\n[6:20]But lay up treasures for yourselves in heaven, where neither a\nmoth nor corrosion destroys, and where thieves dig not through nor\nsteal; [6:21]for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.\n\n10 [6:22]The light of the body is the eye. If, therefore, your eye is\nsound, your whole body will be light; [6:23]but if your eye is evil,\nyour whole body will be dark. If, therefore, the light which is in you\nis darkness, how great is the darkness!  [6:24]No one can serve two\nmasters; for either he will hate the first, and love the other, or he\nwill adhere to the first, and despise the other. You cannot serve God\nand riches. [6:25]On this account I tell you, be not anxious for your\nsoul, what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor for your body,\nwhat you shall put on, is not the soul more than food, and the body\nmore than clothing? [6:26]Look at the birds of heaven; they sow not,\nneither do they reap, nor gather into store-houses; but your heavenly\nFather feeds them. Are you not much better than they?  [6:27]Which of\nyou by being anxious can add one cubit to his stature? [6:28]And why\nare you anxious concerning clothing?  Consider the lilies of the field,\nhow they grow; they perform no hard labor, neither do they spin;\n[6:29]but I tell you that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like\none of these.  [6:30]And if God so clothes the grass of the field,\nwhich to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, will he not much\nmore clothe you, men of little faith? [6:31]Be not anxious, therefore,\nsaying, What shall we eat? or what shall we drink? or with what shall\nwe be clothed? [6:32]For after all these things the gentiles seek; and\nyour heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. [6:33]But\nseek first righteousness and his kingdom, and all these things shall be\nadded to you. [6:34]Be not anxious, therefore, for to-morrow, for\nto-morrow will be anxious for its; sufficient for the day is its evil.\n\n11 [7:1]Judge not, that you be not judged; [7:2]for with what judgment\nyou judge you shall be judged; and with what measure you measure it\nshall be measured to you. [7:3]And why do you see a speck in your\nbrother's eye, and not consider a beam in your own eye? [7:4]or how\nwill you say to your brother, Let me cast out the speck from your eye,\nand behold a beam in your own eye? [7:5] Hypocrite, cast out first the\nbeam from your eye, and then will you see clearly to cast out the speck\nfrom your brother's eye.  [7:6]Give not a holy thing to dogs, neither\ncast your pearls before swine, lest they tread them down with their\nfeet, and turn and rend you. [7:7]Ask, and it shall be given you. Seek,\nand you shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you. [7:8]For\nevery one that asks, receives; and he that seeks, finds; and to him\nthat knocks, it shall be opened. [7:9]Or is there any man of you, who,\nif his son asks bread of him, will give him a stone?  [7:10]or if he\nasks a fish, will give him a serpent? [7:11]If you then, being evil,\nknow how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your\nFather in heaven give good gifts to them that ask him. [7:12]All\nthings, therefore, which you wish men to do to you, do also thus to\nthem; for this is the law and the prophets.\n\n12 [7:13]Enter in through the narrow gate, for wide is the gate; and\nspacious the way which leads to destruction, and many are they that\nenter in by it; [7:14]for narrow is the gate, and compressed the way\nwhich leads to life, and few are those who find it. [7:15]But beware of\nfalse prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but within they\nare rapacious wolves. [7:16]You shall know them by their fruits. Do men\ngather grapes from thorns? or figs from thistles? [7:17]So every good\ntree bears good fruits, but a bad tree bears bad fruits; [7:18]a good\ntree cannot bear bad fruits, nor a bad tree good fruits. [7:19] Every\ntree which bears not good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.\n[7:20] By their fruits, therefore, you shall know them.\n\n13 [7:21]Not every one that says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into\nthe kingdom of heaven, but he that does the will of my Father in\nheaven. [7:22]Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not\nprophesied in your name, and in your name cast out demons, and in your\nname performed many mighty works?  [7:23]and then will I confess to\nthem, I never knew you; depart from me you that commit wickedness.\n\n14 [7:24]Every one, therefore, that hears these words of mine and\nperforms them, I will liken to a wise man who built his house on the\nrock; [7:25]and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds\nblew and beat on that house, and it fell not, for it was founded on the\nrock. [7:26]And every one who hears these words of mine and performs\nthem not, shall be likened to a foolish man, who built his house on the\nsand; [7:27]and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds\nblew and beat on that house, and it fell; and its fall was great.\n[7:28]And when Jesus had finished these words the multitudes were\nastonished at his teaching; [7:29]for he taught them as having\nauthority, and not as their scribes.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER VI.\n\nCHRIST'S MIRACLES, PREVIOUS TO THE APPOINTMENT OF HIS TWELVE APOSTLES.\n\n1 [8:1]AND when he went down from the mountain great multitudes\nfollowed him; [8:2]and behold, a leper came and worshipped him, saying,\nLord, if you will, you can cleanse me. [8:3]And stretching out his\nhand, he touched him, saying, I will; be cleansed; and his leprosy was\nimmediately cleansed. [8:4]And Jesus said to him, See that you tell no\nman, but go and show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift which\nMoses commanded for a testimony to them.\n\n2 [8:5]And when he entered into Capernaum a centurion came to him,\nbeseeching him, [8:6]and saying; Lord, my servant lies sick in my house\nwith paralysis, exceedingly distressed. [8:7]He said to him, I will\ncome and cure him. [8:8] And the centurion answered and said, Lord, I\nam not fit that you should come under my roof; but only say the word\nand my servant will be cured.  [8:9]For I also am a man under\nauthority, having soldiers under me; and I say to this man, Go, and he\ngoes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my servant, Do this,\nand he does it.  [8:10]Jesus hearing wondered and said to those that\nfollowed him, I tell you truly, I have not found so great a faith with\nany one in Israel; [8:11]and I tell you that many shall come from the\nEast and from the West, and shall recline with Abraham, and Isaac, and\nJacob in the kingdom of heaven, [8:12]but the children of the kingdom\nshall be cast into the darkness outside; there shall be weeping and\ngnashing of teeth. [8:13]And Jesus said to the centurion, Go; as you\nhave believed be it to you; and the servant was cured at that hour.\n\n3 [8:14]And Jesus coming into the house of Peter, saw his wife's mother\nlying and sick with a fever. [8:15]And he touched her hand, and the\nfever left her; and she arose and waited on them.  [8:16]And when it\nwas evening they brought him many demoniacs, and he cast out the\nspirits with a word, and cured all that were sick, [8:17]that the word\nmight be fulfilled spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying; He took our\ninfirmities and bore our diseases.\n\n4 [8:18]And Jesus seeing great multitudes around him commanded them to\ngo away to the other side. [8:19]And a certain scribe came and said to\nhim, Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.  [8:20]And Jesus said\nto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of heaven have places of\nshelter, but the Son of man has not where to lay his head.\n[8:21]Another of the disciples said to him, Lord, permit me first to go\naway and bury my father.  [8:22]But Jesus said to him, Follow me, and\nlet the dead bury their dead. [8:23]And he entered into a ship, and his\ndisciples followed him. [8:24]And behold there was a great tempest on\nthe lake, so that the ship was covered with the waves; but he was\nasleep. [8:25] And they came and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us; we\nperish. [8:26]And he said to them, Why are you afraid, men of little\nfaith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the lake, and there was\na great calm. [8:27]And the men wondered, saying, What kind of a man is\nthis, that the winds and the lake obey him?\n\n5 [8:28]And when he had come to the other side, into the country of the\nGadarenes, two demoniacs met him, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly\nfierce, so that no man could pass that way. [8:29]And behold they\ncried, saying, What have you to do with us, Son of God? Have you come\nhither before the time to torment us?  [8:30]And there was far off from\nthem a herd of many swine feeding. [8:31]And, the demons besought him,\nsaying, If you cast us out, send us into the herd of swine. [8:32]And\nhe said to them, Go. And going out, they went away into the herd of\nswine, and, behold, the whole herd rushed down a precipice into the\nlake, and died in the waters; [8:33]and those who fed them fled, and\ngoing away into the city reported all things, and the events relating\nto the demoniacs. [8:34]And behold all the city came out to meet Jesus;\nand when they saw him they besought him to depart from their bounds.\n\n6 [9:1]And entering a ship, he crossed over, and came to his own city;\n[9:2] and behold they brought him a paralytic, lying on a bed. And\nJesus seeing their faith said to the paralytic, Son, be of good\ncourage; your sins are forgiven. [9:3]And behold some of the scribes\nsaid within themselves, This man blasphemes. [9:4]And Jesus observing\ntheir thoughts, said, Why do you think evil in your hearts? [9:5]For in\nwhat respect is it easier to say, Your sins are forgiven, than to say,\nArise and walk? [9:6]But that you may know that the Son of man has\npower on the earth to forgive sins, then he said to the paralytic,\nArise, take up your bed, and go to your house. [9:7]And he arose and\ndeparted to his house.  [9:8]And when the multitudes saw it they were\nafraid, and glorified God who had given such power to men.\n\n7 [9:9]And Jesus departing thence saw a man sitting at the\ncustom-house, called Matthew; and he said to him, Follow me. And he\narose and followed him. [9:10] And he was reclining in the house, and\nbehold, many publicans and sinners came and reclined with Jesus and his\ndisciples. [9:11]And when the Pharisees saw them they said to his\ndisciples, Why does your teacher eat with publicans and sinners?\n[9:12]And hearing it he said, The well need not a physician, but the\nsick. [9:13]Go and learn what this means: I wish for mercy and not a\nsacrifice; for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.\n\n8 [9:14]Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and\nthe Pharisees fast much, but your disciples fast not?  [9:15]And Jesus\nsaid to them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn as long as the\nbridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom\nwill be taken from them, and then they shalt fast. [9:16]But no one\nputs a piece of unfilled cloth on an old garment; for it takes away its\nfullness from the garment, and the rent is made worse. [9:17]Neither do\nthey put new wine into old bottles; otherwise the bottles break, and\nthe wine is poured out and the bottles destroyed; but they put new wine\ninto new bottles, and both are preserved.\n\n9 [9:18]While he was saying these words to them, behold a ruler came\nand worshipped him, saying, My daughter is now dead, but come and put\nyour hand on her and she shall live. [9:19]And Jesus arose and followed\nhim, and his disciples. [9:20]And behold a woman having a hemorrhage of\ntwelve years approached him from behind, and touched the fringe of his\ngarment; [9:21]for she said within herself, If I can only touch his\ngarment I shall be cured.  [9:22]And Jesus turning around and seeing\nher, said, Daughter, be of good courage, your faith has cured you. And\nthe woman was cured from that hour.\n\n10 [9:23]And Jesus coming into the house of the ruler, and seeing the\nmusicians and the multitude making a tumultuous noise, [9:24]said, Go\naway; for the girl is not dead, but asleep. And they derided him.\n[9:25]But when the multitude were removed he went in and took her hand,\nand the girl arose. [9:26]And the report went out into all that land.\n\n11 [9:27]And as Jesus was departing thence two blind men followed him,\ncrying and saying, Have mercy on us, Son of David! [9:28]And when he\nhad gone into the house the blind men came to him, and Jesus said to\nthem, Do you believe that I am able to do this?  They said to him, Yes,\nLord. [9:29]Then he touched their eyes, saying, According to your faith\nbe it to you; [9:30]and their eyes were opened. And Jesus charged them\nstrictly, saying, See that no one knows it. [9:31]But they went out and\nmade him known in all that land.\n\n12 [9:32]And when they had gone away, behold, the people brought to him\na man, a dumb demoniac. [9:33]And the demon being cast out, the dumb\nspoke; and the multitudes wondered, saying, It was never so seen in\nIsrael. [9:34]But the Pharisees said, He casts out demons by the ruler\nof the demons.\n\n13 [9:35]And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in\ntheir synagogues, and preaching the good news of the kingdom, and\ncuring every disease, and every infirmity. [9:36]And seeing the\nmultitudes he had compassion on them because they were faint and\nscattered, like sheep without a shepherd. [9:37]Then he said to his\ndisciples, The harvest indeed is great, but the laborers few.\n[9:38]Pray, therefore, the Lord of the harvest to thrust laborers into\nhis harvest.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER VII.\n\nTHE APPOINTMENT OF THE TWELVE APOSTLES.\n\n1 [10:1]AND calling his twelve disciples, he gave them power over\nimpure spirits to cast them out, and to cure every disease and every\ninfirmity. [10:2] And the names of the twelve apostles are these;\nFirst, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James, the\nson of Zebedee, and John his brother; [10:3]Philip and Bartholomew;\nThomas, and Matthew the publican; James, the son of Alpheus, and\nLebbeus, called Thaddeus; [10:4]Simon, the Zealot, and Judas Iscariot,\nwho also betrayed him. [10:5]These twelve Jesus sent out and charged\nthem, saying; Go not into a way of gentiles, and enter not into a city\nof Samaritans, [10:6]but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of\nIsrael; [10:7]and as you go, preach, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is\nat hand. [10:8] Cure the sick, cleanse lepers, cast out demons; you\nhave received gratuitously, gratuitously give. [10:9]Take not gold, nor\nsilver, nor copper for your purses, [10:10]nor a provision sack for the\nway, nor two coats, nor shoes, nor staves; for the laborer is worthy of\nhis support; [10:11]and into whatever city or village you enter,\ninquire who in it is worthy, and there remain till you leave.\n[10:12]And when you go into a house, salute it; [10:13]and if the house\nis worthy, your blessing shall come upon it; but if the house is not\nworthy, your blessing shall return to you.  [10:14]And if any one does\nnot receive you, nor hear your words, when you go out of that house or\nthat city, shake off the dust of your feet. [10:15]I tell you truly, it\nshall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in a day of\njudgment, than for that city.\n\n2 [10:16]Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves; be\ntherefore wise as serpents and harmless as doves.  [10:17]But beware of\nmen; for they will deliver you to Sanhedrims, and scourge you in their\nsynagogues, [10:18]and you shall be brought before governors, and\nkings, for my sake, for a testimony to them and the nations. [10:19]But\nwhen they have delivered you up be not anxious how you shall speak, or\nwhat you shall say, for it shall be given you in that hour what to say;\n[10:20]for it is not you that speak, but the Spirit of your Father that\nspeaks in you. [10:21]And a brother shall deliver a brother to death,\nand a father a son; and children shall rise up against their parents\nand put them to death; [10:22]and you shall be hated by all men for my\nsake. But he that endures to the end shall be saved. [10:23]And when\nthey persecute you in one city, flee to another. For I tell you truly,\nthat you will not finish the cities of Israel till the Son of man shall\ncome.\n\n3 [10:24]A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his\nmaster. [10:25]It is sufficient for the disciple to be as his teacher,\nand the servant as his master. If they have called the master of the\nhouse Beelzebul, how much more will they call the members of his family\nby that name. [10:26]Fear them not, therefore, for there is nothing\nconcealed that shall not be revealed, nor hid that shall not be known.\n[10:27]What I tell you in darkness, speak in the light, and what you\nhear in the ear, preach on the house-tops. [10:28]And fear not those\nwho kill the body and are not able to kill the soul; but rather fear\nhim who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.\n\n4 [10:29]Are not two sparrows sold for an assarion [1.5 mills]?  and\none of them cannot fall to the ground without your Father.  [10:30]Even\nthe hairs of your head are all numbered. [10:31]Fear not, therefore,\nyou are of more value than many sparrows.  [10:32]Every one, therefore,\nwho shall confess me before men, him will I also confess before my\nFather in heaven; [10:33]and whoever denies me before men, him will I\nalso deny before my Father in heaven.\n\n5 [10:34]Think not that I have come to send peace on the earth. I have\nnot come to send peace, but a sword. [10:35]I have come to set a man at\nvariance against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a\nbride against her mother-in-law; [10:36]and a man's enemies shall be\nthose of his own house. [10:37]He that loves father or mother more than\nme is not worthy of me; and he that loves son or daughter more than me\nis not worthy of me; [10:38]and he that does not take up his cross and\nfollow me is not worthy of me. [10:39]He that finds his life shall lose\nit, and he that loses his life for my sake shall find it. [10:40]He\nthat receives you receives me, and he that receives me receives him\nthat sent me. [10:41]He that receives a prophet in the name of a\nprophet shall receive a prophet's reward, and he that receives a\nrighteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous\nman's reward. [10:42]And whoever shall give one of these little ones a\ncup of cold water only, in the name of a disciple, I tell you truly, he\nshall by no means lose his reward. [11:1]And when Jesus had finished\nhis charge to his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and\npreach in their cities.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER VIII.\n\nJOHN THE BAPTIST QUESTIONING CHRIST'S MESSIAHSHIP.\n\n1 [11:2]AND John hearing in the prison of the works of Christ, sending\nby his disciples, [11:3]said to him, Are you he that was coming, or\nlook we for another? [11:4]And Jesus answered and said to them, Go and\ntell John what you see and hear; [11:5]the blind see, the lame walk,\nthe lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the\npoor have the good news preached to them; [11:6]and blessed is he that\nis not offended with me.\n\n2 [11:7]And when they had gone, Jesus began to say to the multitudes,\nconcerning John, What went you out to the wilderness to see? A reed\nshaken with the wind? [11:8]But what went you out to see? A man wearing\nfine clothes? Behold, they that wear fine clothes are in the houses of\nkings. [11:9]But what went you out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you,\nand more than a prophet.  [11:10]For this is he of whom it is written;\nBehold, I send my messenger before your face, to prepare your way\nbefore you.  [11:11]I tell you truly, there has not arisen among those\nborn of woman a greater than John the Baptist; but the least in the\nkingdom of heaven is greater than he. [11:12]And from the days of John\nthe Baptist till now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the\nviolent take it by force. [11:13]For all the prophets and the law\nprophesied till John. [11:14]And if you will receive it, this is\nElijah, who was to come.\n\n3 [11:15]He that has ears, let him hear. [11:16]To what shall I liken\nthis generation? It is like little children sitting in the markets, who\ncall to their companions, [11:17]and say, We have played on pipes for\nyou, and you have not danced; we have mourned, and you have not\nlamented. [11:18]For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they\nsay, He has a demon; [11:19]the Son of man came eating and drinking,\nand they say, Behold a glutton, and a wine drinker, a friend of\npublicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified by her children.\n\n4 [11:20]Then he began to rebuke those cities in which most of his\nmighty works had been done, because they changed not their minds.\n[11:21]Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! for if the mighty\nworks which have been done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they\nwould have changed their minds long ago in sackcloth and ashes.\n[11:22]But I tell you, it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in\na day of judgment than for you.  [11:23]And you, Capernaum, which are\nexalted even to heaven, shall go down even to hades; for if the mighty\nworks which have been done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have\nremained to this day. [11:24]But I tell you, that it shall be more\ntolerable for the land of Sodom in a day of judgment, than for you.\n\n5 [11:25]At that time Jesus answering said, I thank thee, Father, Lord\nof heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and\nintelligent, and hast revealed them to babes.  [11:26]Yes, Father, for\nso it has seemed good in thy sight.  [11:27]All things are given me by\nmy Father; and no one knows the Son but the Father; and no one knows\nthe Father but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.\n[11:28]Come to me all you that labor hard and are heavy laden, and I\nwill give you rest.  [11:29]Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me, for\nI am meek and lowly in heart, and you shall find rest for your souls;\n[11:30]for my yoke is easy, and my burden light.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER IX.\n\nCHRIST'S DOCTRINE OF THE SABBATH.\n\n1 [12:1]AT that time Jesus went through the grain fields on the\nsabbath; and his disciples were hungry, and began to pick the heads and\neat. [12:2]And the Pharisees seeing it, said to him, Behold, your\ndisciples do what it is not lawful to do on the sabbath. [12:3]But he\nsaid to them, Have you not read what David did, when he was hungry, and\nthose who were with him? [12:4]how he entered into the house of God and\neat the show bread, which it was not lawful for him to eat, nor for\nthose with him, but only for the priests? [12:5]Or have you not read in\nthe law, that the priests profane the sabbath in the temple, and are\nblameless?  [12:6]But I tell you that here is an object greater than\nthe temple. [12:7]But if you had known what, I wish for mercy and not a\nsacrifice, means, you would not have condemned the innocent; [12:8]for\nthe Son of man is Lord of the Sabbath.\n\n2 [12:9]And departing thence he went into their synagogue, [12:10]and\nbehold a man having a withered hand [was there]. And they asked him,\nsaying, Is it lawful to cure on the sabbath? that they might accuse\nhim. [12:11]And he said to them, What man is there of you having one\nsheep, who if this falls into a pit on the sabbath, will not take hold\nof it and lift it out? [12:12]How much then is a man better than a\nsheep! So that it is lawful to do good on the sabbath. [12:13] Then he\nsaid to the man, Stretch out your hand; and he stretched it out, and it\nwas restored as sound as the other; [12:14]and the Pharisees went out\nand took counsel against him to destroy him.\n\n3 [12:15]But Jesus knowing it departed thence, and great multitudes\nfollowed him; and he cured them all, [12:16]and charged them not to\nmake him known; [12:17]that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by\nIsaiah the prophet, saying; [12:18]Behold my servant, whom I have\nchosen; my beloved, with whom my soul is well pleased; I will put my\nspirit on him, and he shall declare judgment to the nations. [12:19]He\nshall not strive nor cry aloud, nor shall any one hear his voice in the\nstreets.  [12:20]A bruised reed shall he not break, and a smoking flax\nshall he not extinguish, till he sends forth judgment to victory.\n[12:21]And in his name shall nations hope.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER X.\n\nCHRIST'S MIRACLES ATTRIBUTED TO DEMONS. HIS RELATIONS.\n\n1 [12:22]THEN a blind and dumb demoniac was brought to him, and he\ncured him, so that the blind and dumb spoke and saw.  [12:23]And all\nthe multitudes wondered and said, Is this the Son of David? [12:24]But\nthe Pharisees hearing it, said, This man does not cast out demons,\nexcept by Beelzebul, a ruler of the demons. [12:25]But knowing their\nthoughts, he said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is\ndestroyed; and no city or house divided against itself can stand.\n[12:26]If Satan casts out Satan he is divided against himself. How then\ncan his kingdom stand?  [12:27]And if I by Beelzebul cast out demons,\nby whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they shall be your\njudges. [12:28] But if I by the Spirit of God cast out demons, then the\nkingdom of God has come upon you. [12:29]Or how can one enter into the\nhouse of a strong man and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the\nstrong man, and then he will plunder his house.\n\n2 [12:30]He that is not with me is against me, and he that gathers not\nwith me scatters. [12:31]Therefore, I tell you, every sin and blasphemy\nshall be forgiven men, but the blasphemy of the Spirit shall not be\nforgiven men. [12:32] And if one speaks a word against the Son of man\nit shall be forgiven him; but if one speaks against the Holy Spirit it\nshall not be forgiven him either in this life or in that to come.\n[12:33]Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree\nbad, and its fruit bad; for a tree is known by its fruit.\n[12:34]Offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things?\nFor out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. [12:35]The good\nman, out of his good treasury, casts forth good things; and the evil\nman, out of his evil treasury, casts forth evil things.  [12:36]But I\ntell you, that for every idle word which men speak they shall render an\naccount in a day of judgment; [12:37] for by your words you shall be\njustified, and by your words you shall be condemned.\n\n3 [12:38]Then answered some of the scribes and Pharisees, saying,\nTeacher, we wish to see a sign from you. [12:39]But he answered and\nsaid to them, An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, and\nno sign shall be given it but the sign of the prophet Jonah. [12:40]For\nas Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the fish, so\nshall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the\nearth. [12:41]The men of Nineveh shall rise up in the judgment with\nthis generation and condemn it; for they changed their minds at the\npreaching of Jonah; and behold a greater than Jonah is here. [12:42]The\nqueen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation\nand condemn it; for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the\nwisdom of Solomon; and behold a greater than Solomon is here.\n[12:43]But when the impure spirit has gone out of a man, it goes\nthrough dry places seeking a rest, and finds none. [12:44]Then it says,\nI will return to my house from which I went out; and coming, it finds\nit empty, swept, and adorned. [12:45]Then it goes and takes with itself\nseven other spirits worse than itself, and they enter in and dwell\nthere; and the last state of that man is worse than the first. So shall\nit be also with this evil generation.\n\n4 [12:46]And while he was speaking to the multitudes, behold his mother\nand his brothers stood without, desiring to speak to him.  [12:47]And\nsome one said to him, Behold your mother and your brothers stand\nwithout, desiring to speak to you. [12:48]And he answered and said to\nhim that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brothers?\n[12:49]and stretching out his hand to his disciples, he said, Behold my\nmother, and my brothers! [12:50]For whoever does the will of my Father\nin heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XI.\n\nCHRIST'S PARABLES ON THE LAKE OF GALILEE.\n\n1 [13:1]AND on that day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the\nlake. [13:2] And great multitudes came together to him; and he went\ninto the ship and sat down; and all the multitude stood on the shore.\n[13:3]And he spoke to them many things in parables, saying; Behold, a\nsower went out to sow; [13:4]and as he sowed, some fell by the way, and\nthe birds came and devoured it.  [13:5]And some fell on rocky places,\nwhere it had not much earth, and it came up immediately, because it had\nno depth of earth; [13:6]and when the sun arose it was scorched, and\nbecause it had no root it was dried up. [13:7]And some fell among\nthorns, and the thorns came up and choked it. [13:8]But some fell on\ngood ground, and bore fruit; some a hundred, some sixty, and some\nthirty-fold. [13:9]He that has ears let him hear.\n\n2 [13:10]And his disciples came and said to him, Why do you speak to\nthem in parables? [13:11]And he answered and said to them, Because it\nis given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to\nthem it is not given; [13:12]for whoever has, to him shall be also\ngiven, and he shall abound; but whoever has not, from him shall be\ntaken away even what he has. [13:13]For this reason I speak to them in\nparables; because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear,\nnor understand. [13:14]And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah,\nwhich says; Hearing you shall hear and not understand, and seeing you\nshall see and not perceive; [13:15]for the hearts of this people have\nbecome hard, and they hear imperfectly with their ears, and their eyes\nhave they closed, lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with\ntheir ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn, and I should\nheal them. [13:16]But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your\nears, for they hear. [13:17]For I tell you truly, that many prophets\nand righteous men have desired to see what you see and have not seen\nit, and to hear what you hear and have not heard it.\n\n3 [13:18]Hear, therefore, the parable of the sower. [13:19]When any one\nhears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one\ncomes and takes away the seed sown in his heart.  This is he that\nreceived seed by the way. [13:20]He that received seed on the rocky\nplaces is he that hears the word and immediately receives it with joy\n[13:21]but has no root in himself, but is only a temporary [disciple];\nand when affliction or persecution arises on account of the word, he is\nimmediately offended. [13:22]And he that received seed among thorns is\nhe that hears the word, and the cares of this life and the\ndeceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.\n[13:23]But he that received the seed in the good ground is he that\nhears the word, and understands it, who also bears fruit, and produces\nsome one hundred, and some sixty, and some thirty-fold.\n\n4 [13:24]And he delivered them another parable, saying; The kingdom of\nheaven is like a man sowing good seed in his field; [13:25]and while\nthe men slept, his enemy came and sowed poisonous darnel in the midst\nof the wheat, and went away.  [13:26]But when the stalk grew up and\nbore fruit, then the poisonous darnel appeared. [13:27]And the servants\nof the householder came and said to him, Sir, did you not sow good seed\nin your field? Whence then has it poisonous darnel? [13:28]And he said\nto them, An enemy has done this. And they said to him, Do you wish us\nto go and take them out? [13:29]And he said, No; lest in taking out the\npoisonous darnel, you pull up the wheat with it; [13:30]let both grow\ntogether till the harvest, and at the time of the harvest, I will say\nto the reapers, Collect first the poisonous darnel, and bind it in\nbundles to be burnt; but collect the wheat in my storehouse.\n\n5 [13:31]He delivered them another parable, saying, The kingdom of\nheaven is like a mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his field,\n[13:32]which is the least of all seeds, but when it is grown is the\ngreatest of plants, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of heaven\ncome and lodge on its branches. [13:33]He spoke another parable to\nthem; The kingdom of heaven is like leaven which a woman took and hid\nin three sata [33 quarts] of flour, till the whole was leavened.\n[13:34]All these things spoke Jesus to the multitudes in parables; and\nwithout a parable spoke he not to them; [13:35]that it might be\nfulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth\nin parables; I will declare things which have been concealed from the\nfoundation of the world.\n\n6 [13:36]Then leaving the multitudes; he went into the house, and his\ndisciples came to him, saying, Explain to us the parable of the\npoisonous darnel of the field. [13:37]And he answered and said to them,\nHe that sows the good seed is the Son of man; [13:38]the field is the\nworld; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; the poisonous\ndarnel are the children of the wicked one; [13:39] the enemy that sowed\nthem is the devil; the harvest is the consummation of the world; and\nthe reapers are angels.  [13:40]As, therefore, poisonous darnel is\ncollected and burned with fire, so shall it be at the consummation of\nthe world.  [13:41]The Son of man will send his angels, and they shall\ncollect out of his kingdom all offenses, and all that commit\nwickedness, [13:42]and cast them into a furnace of fire; and there\nshall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. [13:43] Then the righteous\nshall shine out like the sun, in the kingdom of their Father. He that\nhas ears, let him hear.\n\n7 [13:44]The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hid in a field, which\na man found, and concealed, and went away with joy, and sold all that\nhe had and bought that field. [13:45]Again; the kingdom of heaven is\nlike a merchant seeking beautiful pearls, [13:46]who, finding one very\ncostly, went and sold all that he had and bought it. [13:47]Again; the\nkingdom of heaven is like a net cast into the sea, and collecting\n[fish] of every kind, [13:48]which, when it was full, men drew to the\nshore, and sifting down put up the good in vessels and cast the bad\naway.  [13:49]So shall it be at the consummation of the world. The\nangels shall come forth and separate the evil from the midst of the\ngood, [13:50]and cast them into the furnace of fire; there shall be\nweeping and gnashing of teeth. [13:51]Have you understood all these\nthing? They said to him, Yes, Lord.  [13:52]And he said to them, Every\nscribe therefore that is instructed in the kingdom of heaven, is like a\nhouseholder who casts out of his treasury things new and old.\n\n8 [13:53]And when Jesus had finished these parables he departed thence,\n[13:54] and coming to his native country he taught them in their\nsynagogues, so that they were astonished and said, Whence has this man\nthis wisdom and these mighty works? [13:55]Is not this the carpenter's\nson? Is not his mother called Mary? And are not his brothers James, and\nJoseph, and Simon, and Judas?  [13:56]And are not his sisters all with\nus? Whence then has this man all these things? [13:57]And they were\noffended with him. But Jesus said to them, A prophet is not without\nhonor, except in his native country, and in his own house; [13:58] and\nhe did not many mighty works there, because of their unbelief.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XII.\n\nTHE DEATH OF JOHN THE BAPTIST.--CHRIST FEEDING FIVE THOUSAND, AND\nWALKING ON THE LAKE.\n\n1 [14:1]AT that time Herod the Tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus,\n[14:2]and said to his servants, This is John the Baptist; he is raised\nfrom the dead; and on that account the mighty works are performed by\nhim. [14:3]For Herod having seized John, had bound him, and put him in\nprison, on account of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife. [14:4]For\nJohn had said to him, It is not lawful for you to have her. [14:5]And\nhe wished to kill him; but feared the people, because they regarded him\nas a prophet.  [14:6]And Herod's birthday being kept, the daughter of\nHerodias danced before them and pleased Herod, [14:7]on account of\nwhich he promised with an oath to give her whatever she should ask;\n[14:8]and she, having been put forward by her mother, said, Give me\nhere on a plate the head of John the Baptist.\n\n2 [14:9]And the king was sorry; but on account of the oath, and those\nreclining with him, he commanded it to be given. [14:10]And he sent and\nbeheaded John in the prison; [14:11]and his head was brought on a plate\nand given to the girl, and she carried it to her mother. [14:12]And his\ndisciples went and took up the body and buried it, and came and told\nJesus.\n\n3 [14:13]And when Jesus heard of it he departed thence in a ship to a\nsolitary place by himself. And the multitudes hearing of it followed\nhim on foot from the cities.\n\n4 [14:14]And going out he saw a great multitude, and had compassion on\nthem, and cured their sick. [14:15]And when it was evening his\ndisciples came to him, saying, The place is solitary, and the hour is\nalready past; dismiss the multitudes that they may go to the villages\nand buy themselves food. [14:16]But Jesus said to them, They need not\ngo away; give them food to eat.  [14:17]And they said to him, We have\nhere only five loaves and two fishes. [14:18]And he said, Bring them\nhere to me. [14:19]And commanding the multitudes to sit down on the\ngrass, he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and, looking up to\nheaven, blessed them, and having broken them gave the bread to the\ndisciples, and the disciples to the multitudes. [14:20]And they all eat\nand were filled; and they took up the fragments which remained over,\ntwelve travelling-baskets full; [14:21]and those that eat were about\nfive thousand men, besides women and children.\n\n5 [14:22]And he immediately constrained the disciples to go into a ship\nand go before him to the other side, till he should dismiss the\nmultitudes. [14:23]And having dismissed the multitudes, he went on a\nmountain by himself to pray. And when it was evening he was there\nalone. [14:24]But the ship was now in the midst of the lake tossed by\nthe waves, for the wind was contrary. [14:25]And in the fourth watch of\nthe night he came to them walking on the lake. [14:26]And when the\ndisciples saw him walking on the lake, they were troubled and said, It\nis an apparition; and they cried out for fear. [14:27]But Jesus\nimmediately spoke to them, saying, Be of good courage; it is I; be not\nafraid. [14:28]And Peter answered and said to him, Lord, if it is you,\ncommand me to come to you on the waters. [14:29]And he said, Come. And\nPeter going down from the ship walked on the waters to go to Jesus.\n[14:30]But seeing the wind strong he was afraid; and beginning to sink,\ncried, saying, Lord save me!  [14:31]and Jesus immediately stretching\nout his hand, took hold of him and said, Man of little faith, why did\nyou doubt?  [14:32]And when they entered into the ship, the wind\nceased; [14:33]and those in the ship came and worshipped him; saying,\nTruly you are the Son of God.\n\n6 [14:34]And having crossed over, they came to Gennesaret.  [14:35]And\nwhen the men of that place knew him, they sent to all the country\naround, and brought to him all that were sick, [14:36]and requested of\nhim that they might only touch the fringe of his garment; and as many\nas touched it were entirely cured.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XIII.\n\nCHRIST'S DOCTRINE OF JEWISH TRADITIONS, ETC.\n\n1 [15:1]THEN came the scribes and Pharisees from Jerusalem, saying,\n[15:2]Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders, for\nthey wash not their hands when they eat bread?  [15:3]And he answered\nand said to them, Why do you transgress the command of God by your\ntradition? [15:4]For God said, Honor your father and mother; and he\nthat reviles father or mother, let him surely die. [15:5]But you say,\nWhoever says to his father or mother what you might be profited with by\nme is a gift, [15:6]then he shall not honor his father or his mother;\nand you have made the law of God of no effect by your tradition. [15:7]\nHypocrites, well did Isaiah prophecy of you, saying; [15:8]This people\nhonors me with the lips, but their heart is far from me.  [15:9]But in\nvain do they worship me, teaching teachings and commandments of men.\n\n2 [15:10]And having called the multitude, he said, Hear and understand.\n[15:11] Not that which enters into the mouth, defiles the man; but that\nwhich proceeds out of the mouth that defiles the man. [15:12]Then the\ndisciples came to him, and said to him, Do you know that the Pharisees\nwere offended when they heard this word? [15:13]And he answered and\nsaid, Every plant which my heavenly Father has not planted, shall be\nrooted up. [15:14]Let them go; they are blind guides of the blind. But\nif the blind lead the blind, they will both fall into the pit.\n[15:15]And Peter answered and said to him, Explain the parable to us.\n[15:16]And he said, Are you so entirely without understanding?\n[15:17]Do you not understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes\ninto the stomach, and is cast out on the earth? [15:18]But the things\nwhich proceed from the mouth come from the heart, and these defile the\nman. [15:19]For from the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders,\nadulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies:\n[15:20]these are the things which defile the man; but to eat with\nunwashed hands does not defile the man.\n\n3 [15:21]And Jesus going out thence departed to the regions of Tyre and\nSidon. [15:22]And behold, a woman of Canaan from those regions came out\nand cried, saying, Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is\nbadly affected with a demon. [15:23]But he answered her not a word. And\nhis disciples came and asked him, saying, Dismiss her, for she cries\nafter us. [15:24]But he answered and said, I am not sent, except to the\nlost sheep of the house of Israel. [15:25]And she came and worshipped\nhim, saying, Lord, help me! [15:26]But he answered and said, It is not\nright to take the children's bread and cast to the dogs. [15:27]But she\nsaid, Yes, Lord; for even the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from\nthe table of their masters. [15:28]Then Jesus answered and said to her,\nO woman, great is your faith! Be it to you as you wish; and her\ndaughter was cured from that hour.\n\n4 [15:29]And returning thence Jesus came to the lake of Galilee, and\ngoing up on the mountain sat down there. [15:30]And great multitudes\ncame to him, having with them the lame, the blind, the dumb, the\ncrippled, and many others; and they cast them at Jesus' feet, and he\ncured them; [15:31]so that the multitude wondered, seeing the dumb\ntalk, the crippled sound, the lame walk, and the blind see; and they\nglorified the God of Israel.\n\n5 [15:32]And Jesus calling his disciples, said, I pity the multitude,\nfor it is now three days that they have continued with me, and they\nhave nothing to eat; I will not dismiss them fasting lest they faint by\nthe way. [15:33]But his disciples said to him, Whence shall we obtain\nso much bread in the wilderness as to fill so great a multitude?\n[15:34]And Jesus said to them, How many loaves have you? And they said,\nSeven, and a few small fishes.  [15:35]And he commanded the people to\nsit down on the ground, [15:36]and taking the seven loaves and the\nfishes, and giving thanks, he broke, and gave them to the disciples,\nand the disciples to the multitudes. [15:37]And they all eat and were\nfilled; and they took up the fragments that remained, seven\nstore-baskets full. [15:38]And those who eat were four thousand men,\nbesides women and children. [15:39]And dismissing the multitude he went\ninto the ship, and came into the bounds of Magadan.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XIV.\n\nCHRIST REPLYING TO THE PHARISEES AND SADDUCEES, ETC.\n\n1 [16:1]AND the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to Jesus to try him\ndesired him to show them a sign from heaven. [16:2]But he answered and\nsaid to them, When it is evening you say, It will be fair weather for\nthe sky is red; [16:3]and in the morning, It will rain to-day for the\nsky is red and lowering. You know how to distinguish the face of the\nsky, but you cannot distinguish the signs of the times. [16:4]An evil\nand adulterous generation seeks a sign; and no sign shall be given it\nexcept the sign of Jonah.  And he left them and departed.\n\n2 [16:5]And when his disciples came to the other side they forgot to\ntake bread. [16:6]And Jesus said to them, Observe and beware of the\nleaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees. [16:7]But they reasoned within\nthemselves, saying, It is because we have not taken bread. [16:8]But\nJesus knowing it, said, Why do you reason within yourselves, men of\nlittle faith, because you have not taken bread? [16:9]Do you not yet\nunderstand nor remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how\nmany travelling-baskets you took up? [16:10]nor the seven loaves of the\nfour thousand, and how many store-baskets you took up? [16:11]Why do\nyou not understand that I spoke to you not of bread, to beware of the\nleaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees? [16:12]Then they understood that\nhe did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the\nteaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.\n\n3 [16:13]And Jesus coming into the parts of Cesarea Philippi, asked his\ndisciples, saying, Who do men say that the Son of man is? [16:14]And\nthey said, Some, John the Baptist; others, Elijah; and others,\nJeremiah, or one of the prophets. [16:15]And he said to them, Who say\nyou that I am? [16:16]And Simon Peter answered and said, You are the\nChrist, the Son of the living God. [16:17] And Jesus answered and said\nto him, Blessed are you, Simon, son of Jonas, for flesh and blood has\nnot revealed this to you, but my Father in heaven. [16:18] And I tell\nyou that you are Peter [a rock], and upon this rock will I build my\nassembly, and the gates of hades shall not prevail against it.\n[16:19]And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and\nwhatever you bind on the earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever\nyou unbind on the earth shall be unbound in heaven. [16:20]Then he\ncharged his disciples to tell no man that he was the Christ.\n\n4 [16:21]From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must\ngo to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders, and chief\npriests, and scribes, and be killed, and raised on the third day.\n[16:22]And Peter taking hold of him said, rebuking him, Far be it from\nyou, Lord! This shall not be to you.  [16:23]But he turned and said to\nPeter, Get behind me, Satan! You are an offense to me! For you regard\nnot the things of God, but those of men.\n\n5 [16:24]Then Jesus said to his disciples, If any one will come after\nme, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.\n[16:25]For whoever wishes to save his life shall lose it, and whoever\nloses his life for my sake, shall find it. [16:26]For what is a man\nprofited, if he shall gain the whole world and lose his life? Or what\nwill a man give as an exchange for his life?  [16:27]For the Son of man\nis about to come in the glory of his Father, with his angels, and then\nshall he render to every one according to his doing. [16:28]I tell you\ntruly, that some of those standing here shall not taste death till they\nsee the Son of man coming in his kingdom.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XV.\n\nCHRIST TRANSFIGURED.--CURING A DEMONIAC, AND PAYING THE SACRED TRIBUTE.\n\n1 [17:1]AND after six days Jesus took Peter, and James, and John, his\nbrother, and led them up on a high mountain by themselves.  [17:2]And\nhe was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and\nhis garments were white as the light. [17:3]And behold there appeared\nto them Moses and Elijah conversing with him. [17:4]And Peter answered\nand said to Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here; if you please,\nwe will make here three tabernacles, one for you, and one for Moses,\nand one for Elijah.  [17:5]While he was yet speaking, behold a bright\ncloud overshadowed them; and behold a voice from the cloud, saying,\nThis is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; hear him.\n[17:6]And when they heard this the disciples fell on their faces, and\nwere greatly afraid. [17:7]And Jesus came and touched them, and said,\nArise, and be not afraid. [17:8]And lifting up their eyes they saw no\nman, except Jesus alone.\n\n2 [17:9]And when they went down from the mountain Jesus charged them,\nsaying, Tell no man the vision till the Son of man is raised from the\ndead. [17:10]And the disciples asked him, saying, Why then do the\nscribes say that Elijah must first come?  [17:11]And he answered and\nsaid, Elijah indeed comes, and shall restore all things. [17:12]But I\ntell you Elijah has come already, and they knew him not, but did to him\nwhat they pleased.  In like manner, also, the Son of man is about to\nsuffer from them. [17:13]Then the disciples understood that he spoke to\nthem of John the Baptist.\n\n3 [17:14]And when they came to the multitude, a man came to him,\nkneeling to him and saying, [17:15]Lord, have mercy on my son, for he\nis a lunatic, and suffers greatly. For he often falls into the fire,\nand often into the water. [17:16]And I brought him to your disciples\nand they could not cure him. [17:17] Jesus answered and said, O\nunbelieving and perverse generation! How long shall I be with you? How\nlong shall I suffer you? Bring him here to me. [17:18]And Jesus rebuked\nhim, and the demon went out of him, and the child was cured from that\nhour. [17:19]Then the disciples came to Jesus privately, and said, Why\ncould we not cast it out? [17:20]And Jesus said to them, On account of\nyour unbelief. For I tell you truly, if you have a faith like a mustard\nseed, you shall say to this mountain, Be removed thence to that place,\nand it shall be removed; and nothing shall be impossible to you.\n[17:21]But this kind goes not out, except by prayer and fasting.\n\n4 [17:22]And as they were returning in Galilee, Jesus said to them, The\nSon of man is about to be delivered into the hands of men, [17:23]and\nthey will kill him, and on the third day he shall be raised; and they\nwere grieved exceedingly.\n\n5 [17:24]And when they came to Capernaum, those who received the\ndidrachma [28 cents], came to Peter, and said, Does not your teacher\npay the didrachma? [17:25]He said, Yes. And when he came into the\nhouse, Jesus anticipated him, saying, What do you think, Simon? From\nwhom do the kings of the earth receive taxes, or a tribute? From their\nchildren, or from strangers? [17:26]He said to him, From strangers.\nJesus said to him; Then are the children free; [17:27]but that we may\nnot offend them, go to the lake, and cast in a hook, and take the first\nfish that comes up, and opening its mouth you will find a stater [56\ncents]. Take that and give it to them, for me and you.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XVI.\n\nCHRIST'S DOCTRINE OF GREATNESS.--OFFENSES AND THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS.\n\n1 [18:1]AT that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, Who is the\ngreatest in the kingdom of heaven? [18:2]And calling a little child, he\nset it in the midst of them, [18:3]and said, I tell you truly, that if\nyou do not turn and become like little children, you can by no means\nenter into the kingdom of heaven.  [18:4]Whoever humbles himself like\nthis little child, shall be greatest in the kingdom of heaven;\n[18:5]and whoever receives one such little child in my name, receives\nme; [18:6]but whoever offends one of these little ones that believe in\nme, it would be better for him that a millstone should be hung to his\nneck, and that he should be plunged into the depths of the sea.\n\n2 [18:7]Woe to the world because of offenses! For offenses must\nnecessarily come, but woe to that man by whom the offense comes!\n[18:8]If your hand or foot offends you, cut it off and cast it from\nyou. It is better for you to enter into life lame, or crippled, than\nhaving two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire.\n[18:9]And if your eye offends you, pluck it out and cast it from you.\nIt is better for you to enter into life having one eye, than having two\neyes to be cast into the hell of fire.\n\n3 [18:10]See that you despise not one of these little ones; for I tell\nyou that their angels always behold the face of my Father in heaven.\n[18:12]What think you? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them is\nlost, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountain, and go and\nseek for the lost one? [18:13]And if he finds it, I tell you truly that\nhe rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which were not lost.\n[18:14]So it is not the will of your Father in heaven that one of these\nlittle ones should perish.\n\n4 [18:15]But if your brother sins against you, go and reprove him\nbetween you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your\nbrother. [18:16]But if he does not hear you, take with you one or two\nmore, that by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be\nestablished; [18:17]and if he will not hear them, tell the assembly;\nand if he will not hear the assembly, let him be to you as a gentile\nand a publican. [18:18]I tell you truly, that whatever you bind on the\nearth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you unbind on the earth\nshall be unbound in heaven.  [18:19]Again, I tell you, that if two of\nyou shall agree on the earth concerning any thing for which they shall\nask, they shall have it from my Father in heaven; [18:20]for where two\nor three are assembled together in my name, there am I in the midst of\nthem.\n\n5 [18:21]Then came Peter and said to him, Lord, how many times shall my\nbrother sin against me and I forgive him? Till seven times?\n[18:22]Jesus said to him, I say not to you till seven times, but till\nseventy times seven. [18:23]On this account, the kingdom of heaven is\nlike a king who wished to settle with his servants. [18:24]And\nbeginning to settle, a debtor of ten thousand talents [$10,000,000] was\nbrought to him. [18:25]And he having nothing to pay, the lord commanded\nhim to be sold, and his wife and children, and all that he had, and\npayment to be made.  [18:26]Then the servant fell down and worshipped\nhim, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay all. [18:27]And the\nlord of that servant having compassion on him released him, and forgave\nhim the debt.\n\n6 [18:28]But that servant went out and found one of his fellow-servants\nwho owed him one hundred denarii [$14], and seizing him, he choked him,\nsaying, Pay what you owe me.  [18:29]Then his fellow-servant fell down\nand besought him, saying, Have patience with me and I will pay you.\n[18:30]But he would not; but went and cast him into prison till he\nshould pay the debt. [18:31]Then his fellow-servants seeing what was\ndone, were greatly displeased, and went and related to their lord all\nthings that were done. [18:32]Then his lord called him, and said to\nhim, Evil servant; I forgave you all that debt because you besought me\n[to do it]. [18:33]Ought you not also to pity your fellow-servant, as I\npitied you? [18:34]And his lord was displeased, and delivered him to\nthe tormentors till he should pay all the debt. [18:35]So also will my\nheavenly Father do to you, if you forgive not each one his brother from\nyour hearts.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XVII.\n\nCHRIST'S DOCTRINE OF MARRIAGE, DIVORCE, ETC.\n\n1 [19:1]AND when Jesus had finished these words he departed from\nGalilee, and came into the bounds of Judea beyond the Jordan; [19:2]and\ngreat multitudes followed him, and he cured them there.  [19:3]And the\nPharisees came to him to try him, and said, Is it lawful [for a man] to\nput away his wife for every cause?  [19:4]And he answered and said,\nHave you not read that the Creator at the beginning made them male and\nfemale? [19:5]and he said, On this account shall a man leave his father\nand mother, and be joined to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh.\n[19:6]So that they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God\nhas yoked together, let not man separate.\n\n2 [19:7]They said to him, Why then did Moses command us to give a bill\nof divorcement, and put her away? [19:8]He said to them, Moses, on\naccount of your hardness of heart, allowed you to put away your wives;\nbut from the beginning it was not so. [19:9]And I tell you, that\nwhoever puts away his wife, except for adultery, and marries another,\ncommits adultery; and whoever marries her that is put away, commits\nadultery.\n\n3 [19:10]The disciples said to him, If the case of a man is thus with\nhis wife, it is not expedient to marry. [19:11]And he said to them, All\ndo not receive this word, but those to whom it is given. [19:12]For\nthere are eunuchs from birth, who were born so from their mother; and\nthere are eunuchs who are made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs\nwho have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven.\nHe that is able to receive [this doctrine] let him receive it.\n\n4 [19:13]Then little children were brought to him that he should put\nhis hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them.  [19:14]But\nJesus said, Suffer the little children to come to me, and forbid them\nnot, for of such is the kingdom of heaven.  [19:15]And he put his hands\non them and departed thence.\n\n5 [19:16]And behold one came and said to him, Teacher, what good [work]\nshall I do that I may have eternal life? [19:17]And he said to him, Why\ndo you ask me of the good? one is the good. But if you wish to enter\ninto life, keep the commandments. [19:18]He said to him, What? And\nJesus said, this; You shall not kill; You shall not commit adultery;\nYou shall not steal; You shall not testify falsely; [19:19]Honor your\nfather and mother; and you shall love your neighbor as yourself.\n[19:20]The young man said to him, All these have I kept; what do I lack\nyet? [19:21]Jesus said to him, If you will be perfect, go and sell your\nproperty, and give to the poor, and you shall have a treasure in\nheaven; and come and follow me. [19:22]And when the young man heard\n[this] he went away sad, for he had great possessions.\n\n6 [19:23]And Jesus said to his disciples, I tell you truly, that a rich\nman will enter into the kingdom of heaven with difficulty.  [19:24]And\nagain I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a\nneedle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.\n[19:25]And the disciples hearing this, were greatly astonished, and\nsaid, Who then can be saved? [19:26]But Jesus looking on them, said,\nWith men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.\n\n7 [19:27]Then Peter answered and said, Behold we have left all and\nfollowed you; what shall we have therefore? [19:28]And Jesus said to\nthem, I tell you truly, that you who have followed me, in the\nregeneration when the Son of man shall sit on the throne of his glory,\nshall yourselves also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes\nof Israel; [19:29]and whoever has left brothers or sisters, or a father\nor mother, or children, or lands or houses, for my name's sake, shall\nreceive many times as much, and inherit eternal life. [19:30]But many\nfirst shall be last; and last, first.\n\n8 [20:1]For the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who went out\nearly in the morning to hire laborers in his vineyard.  [20:2]And\nagreeing with the laborers for a denarius [14 cents] a day, he sent\nthem into his vineyard. [20:3] And going out about the third hour, he\nsaw others standing idle in the market; [20:4]and he said to them, go\nalso into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you. And they\nwent. [20:5]Again going out about the sixth and ninth hours, he did\nlikewise.  [20:6]And going out about the eleventh hour he found others\nstanding, and said to them, Why stand you all the day idle?  [20:7]They\nsaid to him, Because no man has hired us. He said to them, Go also into\nthe vineyard. [20:8]And when it was evening the lord of the vineyard\nsaid to his steward, Call the laborers, and pay them the wages\n[stipulated], beginning from the last even to the first. [20:9]And\nthose who came about the eleventh hour, received a denarius [14 cents]\neach. [20:10]And those who came first supposed that they should receive\nmore. And they also received a denarius [14 cents] each; [20:11]and\nwhen they had received it, they complained of the householder,\n[20:12]saying, These last have worked but one hour, and you have made\nthem equal with us, who have borne the burden and heat of the day.\n[20:13]But he answered and said to one of them, Neighbor, I do you no\nwrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius [14 cents]? [20:14]Take\nwhat belongs to you, and go, for I will give to the last even as to\nyou. [20:15]Is it not right for me to do what I will with my own? Is\nyour eye evil because I am good?  [20:16]So the last shall be first,\nand the first last.\n\n9 [20:17]And Jesus going up to Jerusalem, took his twelve disciples\naside privately, and said to them on the way, [20:18]Behold we go up to\nJerusalem, and the Son of man will be delivered to the chief priests\nand scribes, and they will condemn him to death, [20:19]and deliver him\nto the gentiles, to mock, and scourge, and crucify him; and on the\nthird day he shall be raised.\n\n10 [20:20]Then came to him the mother of Zebedee's children with her\nsons, worshipping, and asking a certain thing of him.  [20:21]And he\nsaid to her, What do you wish? She said to him, Say that these my two\nsons shall sit, one on your right hand, and the other on your left, in\nyour kingdom. [20:22]But Jesus answered and said, You know not what you\nask. Can you drink of the cup of which I am about to drink? They said\nto him, We can. [20:23]He said to them; you shall drink indeed of my\ncup; but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give,\nbut to those for whom it is prepared by my Father. [20:24]And the ten\nhearing this were displeased with the two brothers. [20:25]But Jesus\ncalled them to him, and said, You know that the rulers of the gentiles\nexercise lordship over them, and the great exercise authority over\nthem; but it shall not be so among you. [20:26]But whoever wishes to be\ngreat among you, let him be your minister; [20:27]and whoever wishes to\nbe first among you, let him be your servant, [20:28]as the Son of man\ncame not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for\nmany.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XVIII.\n\nCHRIST CURING TWO BLIND MEN.--ENTERING JERUSALEM IN TRIUMPH, AND\nCURSING THE FIG TREE.\n\n1 [20:29]AND as they proceeded from Jericho a great multitude followed\nhim. [20:30]And behold two blind men who sat by the way, hearing that\nJesus was passing by cried, saying, Have mercy on us Lord, Son of\nDavid! [20:31]And the multitude charged them to be still; but they\ncried the more, saying, Have mercy on us Lord, Son of David! [20:32]And\nJesus stopped, and called them and said, What do you wish me to do for\nyou? [20:33]They said to him, Lord, that our eyes may be opened.\n[20:34]And Jesus having compassion on them, touched their eyes; and\nimmediately they recovered their sight and followed him.\n\n2 [21:1]And when they approached Jerusalem, and came to Bethphage, at\nthe Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, [21:2]and said to\nthem, Go into the village opposite to you, and you will immediately\nfind an ass tied, and a colt with her; untie them, and lead them to me:\n[21:3]and if any one asks you why, say that the Lord has need of them,\nand he will immediately send them. [21:4] But all this was done that\nthe words spoken by the prophet might be fulfilled, who says;\n[21:5]Tell the daughter of Zion, Behold, your king comes to you, meek,\nseated on an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.\n\n3 [21:6]And the disciples went and did as Jesus commanded them,\n[21:7]and brought the ass and the colt, and put garments on them, and\nhe sat on them. [21:8]And a vast multitude spread their garments in the\nway, and others cut branches from the trees and scattered them in the\nway; [21:9]and the multitudes that went before, and those that\nfollowed, cried saying, Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he that\ncomes in the name of the Lord!  Hosanna in the highest [heavens]!\n\n4 [21:10]And when he entered Jerusalem the whole city was moved,\nsaying, Who is this? [21:11]And the multitude said, This is Jesus, the\nprophet who is from Nazareth of Galilee. [21:12]And Jesus entered into\nthe temple of God, and cast out all that sold and bought in the temple,\nand overturned the tables of the brokers, and the seats of those that\nsold doves, [21:13]and said to them, It is written, my house shall be\ncalled a house of prayer; but you make it a den of robbers.\n\n5 [21:14]And the blind and crippled came to him in the temple, and he\ncured them. [21:15]And when the chief priests and scribes saw the\nwonderful works which he performed, and the children crying in the\ntemple and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David!  they were displeased,\n[21:16]and said to him, Do you hear what these say? And Jesus said to\nthem, Yes. Have you never read, that out of the mouths of babes and\nnursing infants, you have perfected praise? [21:17]And he left them,\nand went out of the city to Bethany, and lodged there.\n\n6 [21:18]And returning into the city in the morning he was hungry;\n[21:19]and seeing a fig tree by the way he went to it, and found\nnothing on it, except leaves only, and he said to it, Let there be no\nfruit on you forever. And the fig tree immediately withered, [21:20]and\nthe disciples seeing it, wondered and said, How soon is this fig tree\nwithered!  [21:21]Jesus answered and said to them, I tell you truly,\nthat if you have faith and doubt not, you shall not only do this of the\nfig tree, but if you should say to this mountain, Be taken up and be\ncast into the sea, it would be done; [21:22]and all things whatever\nwhich you ask in prayer believing, you shall receive.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XIX.\n\nCHRIST QUESTIONED BY THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND ELDERS. THE PARABLE OF THE\nVINEYARD.\n\n1 [21:23]AND Jesus having gone into the temple, the chief priests and\nelders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, By what\nauthority do you do these things? and who gave you this authority?\n[21:24]Jesus answered and said to them, I also will ask you one\nquestion, which, if you tell me, I will tell you by what authority I do\nthese things. [21:25]Whence was the baptism of John? from heaven or\nfrom men? And they reasoned within themselves, saying, If we say from\nheaven, he will say to us, Why did you not believe him? [21:26]But if\nwe say from men, we fear the multitude, for all regard John as a\nprophet. [21:27] And they answered Jesus, and said, We do not know. And\nhe said to them, Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these\nthings.\n\n2 [21:28]But what do you think? A man had two sons; and he went to the\nfirst, and said, Son, go and work to-day in the vineyard.  [21:29]But\nhe answered and said, I will not; but afterwards he repented, and went.\n[21:30]And he came to the other, and said the same. And he answered and\nsaid, I will go sir, but went not.  [21:31]Which of the two did the\nwill of the father? They said to him, The first. Jesus said to them, I\ntell you truly, that the publicans and harlots go into the kingdom of\nGod before you.  [21:32]For John came to you in a way of righteousness,\nand you believed him not; but the publicans and harlots believed him;\nand when you saw this, you did not afterwards repent, that you might\nbelieve him.\n\n3 [21:33]Hear another parable: There was a man, a householder, who\nplanted a vineyard, and made a hedge around it, and dug a wine vat in\nit, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went abroad.\n[21:34]And when the time of the fruits approached he sent his servants\nto the husbandmen to receive his fruits. [21:35]And the husbandmen took\nhis servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.\n[21:36]Again he sent other servants more than the first; and they\ntreated them in the same manner. [21:37]And afterwards he sent them his\nson, saying, They will reverence my son. [21:38]But when the husbandmen\nsaw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us\nkill him and take his inheritance. [21:39]And they took him, and cast\nhim out of the vineyard, and killed him. [21:40]When, therefore, the\nlord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those husbandmen?\n[21:41]They said to him, He will inflict on those men a miserable\ndeath, and let out his vineyard to other husbandmen, who will render\nhim the fruits in their seasons.\n\n4 [21:42]Jesus said to them, Have you never read in the Scriptures, The\nstone which the builders rejected, the same has become the head of a\ncorner? this is from the Lord, and is wonderful in our eyes? [21:43]I\ntell you, therefore, that the kingdom of God shall be taken from you,\nand given to a nation yielding its fruits.\n\n5 [21:45]And the chief priests and Pharisees hearing his parables, knew\nthat he spoke of them; [21:46]and they sought to take him, but feared\nthe people, because they regarded him as a prophet.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XX.\n\nTHE PARABLE OF THE WEDDING, AND QUESTIONS OF THE PHARISEES AND\nSADDUCEES.\n\n1 [22:1]AND Jesus answered and spoke to them again in parables saying,\n[22:2] The kingdom of heaven is like a man, a king, who made a wedding\nfor his son. [22:3]And he sent his servants to call the invited to the\nwedding, and they would not come.  [22:4]Again he sent other servants,\nsaying, Tell the invited, Behold, I have prepared my supper, my oxen\nand fatted creatures are killed, and all things are ready; come to the\nwedding.  [22:5]But they neglected it, and went away, one to his farm,\nand another to his merchandise; [22:6]and the rest took his servants\nand treated them injuriously, and killed them. [22:7]And the king was\nangry, and sent his armies and destroyed those murderers, and burnt up\ntheir city.\n\n2 [22:8]Then he said to his servants, The wedding indeed is ready, but\nthe invited were not worthy. [22:9]Go, therefore, to the crossings of\nthe ways, and invite all you find to the wedding. [22:10]And those\nservants went out into the highways, and collected all whom they found,\nboth bad and good, and the wedding was furnished with guests.\n\n3 [22:11]And the king coming in to see the guests observed there a man\nwho had not on a wedding garment, [22:12]and said to him, Friend, how\ncame you in here not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.\n[22:13]Then the king said to the servants, Bind his feet and hands, and\ncast him into the darkness outside. There shall be weeping and gnashing\nof teeth. [22:14]For many are called, but few chosen.\n\n4 [22:15]Then the Pharisees went and took counsel to ensnare him in his\nwords. [22:16]And they sent to him their disciples, with the Herodians,\nsaying, Teacher, we know that you are true, and teach the way of God in\ntruth, and care not for any man; for you regard not the face of men.\n[22:17]Tell us, therefore, what you think; is it right to pay tribute\nto Caesar or not? [22:18]Jesus knowing their wickedness, said, Why do\nyou hypocrites try me?  [22:19]Show me the tribute money. And they\nbrought him a denarius [14 cents]. [22:20]And he said to them, Whose is\nthis image and this inscription? [22:21]They said to him, Caesar's.\nThen he said to them, Give therefore Caesar's dues to Caesar, and God's\nto God. [22:22]And hearing, they wondered, and went away and left him.\n\n5 [22:23]On that day the Sadducees came to him, who say there is no\nresurrection, and asked him, [22:24]saying, Teacher, Moses said, If any\none dies having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and\nraise up children for his brother. [22:25]Now there were with us seven\nbrothers; and the first married, and died; and having no children he\nleft his wife to his brother; [22:26]in like manner also the second,\nand third, till the seventh; [22:27] last of all the woman died also.\n[22:28]In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will she be of the\nseven? for they all had her. [22:29]And Jesus answered and said to\nthem, You err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.\n[22:30]For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are married, but\nare as angels in heaven. [22:31]But concerning the resurrection of the\ndead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God, saying, [22:32]I\nam the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God\nis not a God of the dead, but of the living.  [22:33]And the multitudes\nwho heard were astonished at his teaching.\n\n6 [22:34]And the Pharisees hearing that he had silenced the Sadducees,\nwere assembled together, [22:35]and one of them, a lawyer, asked him,\nto try him, [22:36]Teacher, what is the great commandment in the law?\n[22:37]And he said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all\nyour heart, and all your soul, and all your mind. [22:38]This is the\ngreat and first commandment.  [22:39]And the second is like it, You\nshall love your neighbor as yourself. [22:40]On these two commandments\nhang all the law and the prophets.\n\n7 [22:41]And the Pharisees being assembled together, Jesus asked them,\n[22:42] saying, What do you think of the Christ? whose son is he? They\nsaid to him, David's. [22:43]He said to them, How then does David in\nspirit call him Lord, saying, [22:44]The Lord said to my Lord, Sit on\nmy right hand till I make your enemies your footstool? [22:45]If then\nDavid calls him Lord, how is he his son? [22:46]And no one was able to\nanswer him a word, neither dared any one after that day to question him\nfarther.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XXI.\n\nCHRIST DENOUNCING THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES.\n\n1 [23:1]THEN Jesus spoke to the multitudes and his disciples,\n[23:2]saying, The scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses' seat.  [23:3]All\nthings therefore which they tell you, do and keep. But do not their\nworks. For they say and do not, [23:4]but bind heavy burdens and put\nthem on the shoulders of men, but will not move them with their finger.\n[23:5]And they do all their works to be seen by men. For they make\nbroad their prayer fillets, and enlarge the fringes, [23:6] and love\nthe first tables at feasts, and the first seats in the synagogues,\n[23:7]and salutations in the markets, and to be called by men, Rabbi.\n[23:8] But do not you be called Rabbi; For one is your teacher, and you\nare all brothers. [23:9]And call no man your father on the earth, for\none is your heavenly Father. [23:10]Neither be called leaders, for one\nis your leader, the Christ. [23:11]But the greatest of you shall be\nyour servant, [23:12]and whoever exalts himself shall be humbled, and\nhe that humbles himself shall be exalted.\n\n2 [23:13]But woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut\nup the kingdom of heaven before men; for you enter not into it, neither\ndo you suffer those entering to go in.  [23:15]Woe to you scribes and\nPharisees, hypocrites! For you compass the sea and the dry land to make\none proselyte; and when he is gained you make him twice as much a child\nof hell as yourselves. [23:16]Woe to you blind guides, who say, Whoever\nswears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of\nthe temple, he is bound. [23:17]Fools and blind! for which is greater,\nthe gold, or the temple which sanctifies the gold? [23:18] If a man\nswears by the altar, it is nothing; but if he swears by the gift which\nis on it, he is bound. [23:19]Fools and blind! For which is greater,\nthe gift, or the altar which sanctifies the gift? [23:20]He then that\nswears by the altar, swears by it, and by all things on it; [23:21]and\nhe that swears by the temple, swears by it, and by him that inhabits\nit; [23:22]and he that swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God,\nand by him that sits on it.\n\n3 [23:23]Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe\nmint, and anise, and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters\nof the law, justice, mercy, and faith. These you ought to do, and not\nneglect the others. [23:24] Blind guides! who strain out a gnat and\nswallow down a camel.  [23:25]Woe to you scribes and Pharisees,\nhypocrites! For you cleanse the outside of the cup and platter, but\nwithin they are full of plunder and excess. [23:26]Blind Pharisee!\ncleanse first that which is in the cup and platter, that its outside\nmay be clean also. [23:27]Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!\nFor you are like whitewashed tombs, which appear fair without, but\nwithin are full of the bones of the dead and of all impurity.\n[23:28]So also you on the outside appear just to men, but within you\nare full of hypocrisy and wickedness. [23:29]Woe to you scribes and\nPharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and\nadorn the tombs of the righteous, [23:30]and say, If we had been in the\ndays of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the\nblood of the prophets. [23:31]So that you testify to yourselves that\nyou are children of those who killed the prophets; [23:32]and you have\nfilled up the measure of your fathers. [23:33]Serpents, offspring of\nvipers! How can you escape the judgment of hell?\n\n4 [23:34]Therefore, behold, I send you prophets, and wise men, and\nscribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you\nwill scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;\n[23:35]that all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood\nof righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah, son of Bararchiah, whom\nyou killed between the temple and the altar, may come upon you.\n[23:36]I tell you truly, that all these [crimes] shall come on this\ngeneration.\n\n5 [23:37]Jerusalem, Jerusalem, killing the prophets, and stoning those\nsent to you, how often would I have gathered your children together, as\na bird gathers her brood under her wings, but you would not!\n[23:38]Behold, your house is left to you desolate; [23:39]for I tell\nyou that you shall not see me henceforth, till you say, Blessed is he\nthat comes in the name of the Lord!\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XXII.\n\nCHRIST PREDICTING THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM, AND THE ESTABLISHMENT\nOF HIS KINGDOM.\n\n1 [24:1]AND Jesus went out and departed from the temple; and his\ndisciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple.\n[24:2]And he answered and said to them, Do you not see all these\nthings? I tell you truly, there shall not be left here stone upon stone\nthat shall not be thrown down. [24:3]And as he sat on the Mount of\nOlives the disciples came to him privately, saying, Tell us when these\nthings shall be; and what shall be the sign of your coming, and of the\nconsummation of the world? [24:4]And Jesus answered and said to them,\nSee that no man deceives you; [24:5]for many shall come in my name,\nsaying, I am the Christ, and shall deceive many. [24:6]And you shall\nhear of wars and rumors of wars; see that you be not terrified, for all\nthings must be accomplished; but the end is not yet. [24:7]For nation\nshall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall\nbe famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in different places;\n[24:8]but all these things are the beginning of sorrows.\n\n2 [24:9]Then they shall deliver you to affliction, and kill you, and\nyou shall be hated by all nations on my account; [24:10]and then many\nshall be offended, and shall betray one another, and hate one another;\n[24:11]and many false prophets shall be raised up and deceive many,\n[24:12]and because wickedness shall abound the love of the many shall\nbecome cold: [24:13]but he that endures to the end shall be saved.\n[24:14]And this good news of the kingdom shall be preached in all the\nworld, for a testimony to all nations; and then shall the end come.\n\n3 [24:15]When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, spoken\nof by Daniel the prophet, standing in a holy place--let him that reads\nunderstand,-- [24:16]then let those in Judea flee to the mountains.\n[24:17]Let not him that is on his house come down to take the things\nfrom his house; [24:18]and let not him that is in the field return back\nto take his clothes; [24:19]and woe to those with child and giving\nnurse in those days!  [24:20]But pray that your flight may not be in\nthe winter, nor on the Sabbath; [24:21]for at that time there shall be\ngreat affliction, such as has not been from the beginning of the world\neven till now, nor ever shall be. [24:22]And unless those days were\nshortened no flesh would be saved: but on account of the elect those\ndays shall be shortened.\n\n4 [24:23]Then if one says to you, Behold, here is the Christ, or there!\nbelieve it not. [24:24]For false Christs and false prophets shall be\nraised up, and shall show great signs and wonders, so as to deceive, if\npossible, even the elect.  [24:25]Behold, I have told you before.\n[24:26]If, therefore, they say to you, Behold he is in the wilderness,\ngo not forth; Behold he is in private rooms, believe it not. [24:27]For\nas the lightning comes forth from the East, and shines even to the\nWest, so shall the coming of the Son of man be. [24:28] Wherever the\ndead body is, there will the eagles be gathered together.\n\n5 [24:29]And immediately after the affliction of those days the sun\nshall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars\nshall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.\n[24:30]And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven; and\nthen shall all the tribes of the earth mourn; and they shall see the\nSon of man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory.\n[24:31]And he shall send his angels with a loud sound of a trumpet, and\nthey shall gather his elect from the four winds, from the one end of\nheaven to the other.\n\n6 [24:32]But learn the parable of the fig tree. When its branch is now\ngreen, and puts forth leaves, you know that the summer is nigh.\n[24:33]So also when you see all these things, know that [the Son of\nman] is nigh, at the doors. [24:34]I tell you truly, that this\ngeneration shall not pass away till all these things shall be\naccomplished. [24:35]Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words\nshall not pass away.\n\n7 [24:36]But of that day and hour no man knows, nor the angels of\nheaven; but my Father only. [24:37]And as the days of Noah, so shall\nthe coming of the Son of man be. [24:38]For as in the days before the\nflood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage,\ntill the day that Noah entered the ark, [24:39]and knew not till the\nflood came and took them all away, so shall the coming of the Son of\nman be. [24:40]Then two shall be in the field; one is taken and the\nother left. [24:41]Two women shall be grinding at the mill; one is\ntaken and the other left.\n\n8 [24:42]Watch, therefore, for you know not on what day your Lord\ncomes, [24:43]But know this, that if the householder had known in what\nwatch the thief comes, he would have watched, and not have suffered his\nhouse to be broken into. [24:44]Therefore be you also ready, for in\nsuch an hour as you think not the Son of man comes. [24:45]Who then is\nthe faithful and wise servant whom the Lord has placed over his family\nto give them food in due season?  [24:46]Blessed is that servant whom\nhis Lord, when he comes, shall find so doing. [24:47]I tell you truly,\nthat he will place him over all his estates.\n\n9 [24:48]But if that evil servant says in his heart, My Lord delays his\ncoming, [24:49]and begins to beat his fellow-servants, and eats and\ndrinks with drunkards, [24:50]the Lord of that servant will come on a\nday when he looks not for him, and at an hour that he knows not of,\n[24:51]and will punish him with the utmost severity, and appoint his\nportion with hypocrites. There shall be weeping and gnashing of the\nteeth.\n\n10 [25:1]Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who\ntook their own lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom; [25:2]and\nfive of them were foolish, and five wise.  [25:3]The foolish took their\nlamps and took no oil with them; [25:4]but the wise took oil in the\nvessels with their lamps.  [25:5] And while the bridegroom delayed, all\nslumbered and slept; [25:6]but at midnight there was a cry, Behold the\nbridegroom; go out to meet him. [25:7]Then all those virgins arose and\ntrimmed their own lamps. [25:8]And the foolish said to the wise, Give\nus of your oil, for our lamps have gone out. [25:9]But the wise\nanswered, saying, [No]; lest there be not enough for us and you; go\nrather to those that sell, and buy for yourselves. [25:10]And while\nthey went to buy the bridegroom came; and the ready went in with him to\nthe wedding, and the door was shut. [25:11]And afterwards the other\nvirgins came, and said, Lord, Lord, open to us. [25:12]But he answered\nand said, I tell you truly I know you not. [25:13]Watch, therefore, for\nyou know not the day nor the hour.\n\n11 [25:14]For, as a man going abroad called his servants, and delivered\nto them his estates; [25:15]to one he gave five talents [$5,000], to\nanother two [$2,000], and to another one [$1,000]; to each according to\nhis ability, and immediately went abroad.  [25:16]And he that received\nthe five talents went and traded with them, and made other five;\n[25:17]in like manner, also, he that received the two gained two\nothers; [25:18]but he that received the one went away and dug in the\nearth and hid his lord's money.  [25:19]And after a long time the lord\nof those servants came, and had a settlement with them. [25:20] And he\nthat received the five talents came and brought five other talents,\nsaying, Lord, you committed to me five talents; behold, I have gained\nfive other talents. [25:21]His lord said to him, Well done, good and\nfaithful servant; you have been faithful over a few [talents], I will\nplace you over many: enter into the joy of your lord.  [25:22]And he\nthat received the two talents also came to him and said, Lord, you\ncommitted to me two talents; behold, I have gained two others.\n[25:23]His Lord said to him, Well done, good and faithful servant; you\nhave been faithful over a few [talents], I will place you over many:\nenter into the joy of your lord.\n\n12 [25:24]And he that received the one talent also came and said, Lord,\nI knew you that you are a hard man, reaping where you have not sowed,\nand gathering where you have not scattered, [25:25]and being afraid I\nwent away and hid your talent in the earth; behold, you have what is\nyours. [25:26]And his Lord answered and said to him, Evil and slothful\nservant, you knew that I reap where I have not sowed, and gather whence\nI have not scattered?  [25:27]And you ought then to have given my money\nto the brokers, and at my coming, I should have received my own with\ninterest.  [25:28]Take his talent, therefore, from him, and give it to\nhim that has ten talents; [25:29]for to every one that has shall be\ngiven, and he shall have an abundance; but from him that has not, even\nwhat he has shall be taken away; [25:30]and cast the unprofitable\nservant into the darkness outside; there shall be weeping and gnashing\nof the teeth.\n\n13 [25:31]But when the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the\nangels with him, then shall he sit on the throne of his glory,\n[25:32]and all the nations shall be assembled before him, and he shall\nseparate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from\nthe goats; [25:33]and he shall place the sheep on his right hand, and\nthe goats on his left.\n\n14 [25:34]Then shall the king say to those on his right hand, Come,\nblessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the\nfoundation of the world; [25:35]for I was hungry and you gave me food;\nI was thirsty and you gave me drink; I was a stranger and you took me\nin; [25:36]naked and you clothed me; I was sick and you visited me; I\nwas in prison, and you came to me.  [25:37]Then shall the righteous\nanswer him, saying, Lord, when did we see you hungry, and feed you? or\nthirsty, and give you drink? [25:38]when did we see you a stranger, and\ntake you in? or naked, and clothe you? [25:39]when did we see you sick,\nor in prison, and come to you? [25:40]And the king shall answer and say\nto them, I tell you truly, that inasmuch as you have done it to one of\nthe least of these my brothers, you have done it to me.\n\n15 [25:41]Then shall he say to those on his left hand, Depart from me\naccursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.\n[25:42]For I was hungry and you gave me no food; I was thirsty and you\ngave me no drink; [25:43] a stranger, and you took me not in; sick and\nin prison and you visited me not.  [25:44]Then shall they also answer\nand say, Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger,\nor naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not serve you? [25:45]Then he\nshall answer them saying, I tell you truly, that inasmuch as you have\nnot done it to one of the least of these my brothers, you have not done\nit to me. [25:46]And these shall go away into eternal punishment, but\nthe righteous into life eternal.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XXIII.\n\nCHRIST AT BETHANY, THE PASCHAL AND LORD'S SUPPER, ETC.\n\n1 [26:1]WHEN Jesus had finished all these words he said to his\ndisciples, [26:2]You know that after two days is the passover, and the\nSon of man is delivered up to be crucified. [26:3]Then the chief\npriests and the elders of the people were assembled in the court of the\nchief priest, who was called Caiaphas, [26:4]and they took counsel to\nseize Jesus by stratagem, and kill him.  [26:5]But they said, Not at\nthe feast, lest there be a tumult among the people.\n\n2 [26:6]And Jesus being at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,\n[26:7]a woman came to him having a vase of very costly ointment, and\npoured it on his head, as he reclined. [26:8]And his disciples seeing\nit were displeased, and said, Why is this waste? [26:9]This could have\nbeen sold for much and given to the poor. [26:10]But Jesus knowing it,\nsaid to them, Why do you trouble the woman? for she has done a good\nwork for me; [26:11]for the poor you always have with you, but me you\nhave not always. [26:12]For in putting this ointment on my body, she\nhas done it to prepare me for burial. [26:13]I tell you truly, that\nwherever this good news is preached in all the word, what this woman\nhas done shall be told for a memorial of her.\n\n3 [26:14]Then went one of the twelve called Judas Iscariot to the chief\npriests, [26:15]and said, What will you give me to deliver him to you?\nAnd they gave him thirty [shekels] of silver [$16.80]. [26:16]And from\nthat time he sought a good opportunity to deliver him up. [26:17]And on\nthe first day of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying,\nWhere do you wish us to prepare for you to eat the passover? [26:18]And\nhe said, Go into the city to such a one, and say to him, The Teacher\nsays, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover with you, together\nwith my disciples. [26:19]And the disciples did as Jesus commanded\nthem, and prepared the passover; [26:20]and when it was evening he\nreclined with the twelve. [26:21]And as they were eating, he said, I\ntell you truly, that one of you will betray me.  [26:22]And being\ngrieved exceedingly, they each one began to say to him, Lord, is it I?\n[26:23]But he answered and said, He that dips his hand with me in the\ndish, he shall betray me. [26:24]The Son of man goes indeed, as it is\nwritten of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed!\nit would be good for him if that man had not been born. [26:25]And\nJudas, who betrayed him, answered and said, Is it I, Rabbi? He said to\nhim, As you say.\n\n4 [26:26]And as they were eating Jesus took the bread, and having\nblessed, broke and gave to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is\nmy body. [26:27] And taking the cup, and giving thanks, he gave it to\nthem, saying, Drink you all of it; [26:28]this is my blood of the new\ncovenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.\n[26:29]And I tell you that I will not drink henceforth of this product\nof the vine, till that day when I drink it with you new in the kingdom\nof my Father. [26:30]And having sung a hymn they went out to the Mount\nof Olives.\n\n5 [26:31]Then Jesus said to them, You will all be offended with me this\nnight; for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of\nthe flock shall be scattered; [26:32]but after I have risen I will go\nbefore you into Galilee. [26:33]And Peter answered and said to him, If\nall men shall be offended with you, I will not. [26:34]Jesus said to\nhim, I tell you truly, that this night, before the cock crows, you will\ndeny me thrice.  [26:35]Peter said to him, If it should be necessary\nfor me to die with you, I will by no means deny you. And all the\ndisciples said the same.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XXIV.\n\nCHRIST IN GETHSEMANE, AND BEFORE THE SANHEDRIM.\n\n1 [26:36]THEN Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane, and\nsaid to the disciples, Sit here, till I go and pray there.  [26:37]And\ntaking Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and\ndejected. [26:38]Then he said to them, My soul is sorrowful even to\ndeath; remain here and watch with me.  [26:39]And going forward a\nlittle, he fell on his face, and prayed and said, My Father, if it is\npossible let this cup pass from me; but not as I will, but as thou\nwilt. [26:40]And he came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and\nsaid to Peter, Are you so unable to watch with me one hour?\n[26:41]Watch and pray that you enter not into trial; the spirit indeed\nis willing, but the flesh is weak.\n\n2 [26:42]Going away again a second time, he prayed, saying, My Father,\nif this cup cannot pass from me unless I drink it, thy will be done.\n[26:43]And he came and found them sleeping again, for their eyes were\nheavy. [26:44]And leaving them, again he went away and prayed, saying\nthe same words. [26:45]Then he came to the disciples and said to them,\nDo you sleep still and take your rest? Behold the hour is at hand, and\nthe Son of man is delivered into the hands of sinners. [26:46]Arise,\nlet us go; behold, he that betrays me is at hand.\n\n3 [26:47]And while he was yet speaking, behold, Judas, one of the\ntwelve, came, and with him a great multitude, with swords and clubs,\nfrom the chief priests and elders of the people.  [26:48]And he that\nbetrayed him gave them a sign, saying, The one that I shall kiss is he;\ntake him. [26:49]And immediately coming forward to Jesus, he said,\nHail, Rabbi, and kissed him.  [26:50]But Jesus said to him, Comrade,\nfor what have you come?  Then they came forward, and laid hands on\nJesus, and took him.  [26:51]And behold, one of those with Jesus,\nstretching out his hand, drew his sword, and striking the servant of\nthe chief priest cut off his ear. [26:52]Then Jesus said to him, Put up\nyour sword in its place; for all who take the sword shall perish by the\nsword. [26:53]Do you think that I could not ask my Father, and he would\nfurnish me more than twelve legions of angels?  [26:54]How then would\nthe Scriptures be accomplished, that it must be so?\n\n4 [26:55]At that time Jesus said to the multitudes, Have you come out\nas against a robber, with swords and clubs to take me? I sat daily\nteaching in the temple, and you did not take me; [26:56]but all this\nwas done that the writings of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then the\ndisciples all forsook him and fled.  [26:57]And having taken Jesus,\nthey led him away to Caiaphas, the chief priest, where the scribes and\nelders were assembled.  [26:58]But Peter followed him at a distance,\neven to the court of the chief priest, and going in sat with the\nofficers to see the end.\n\n5 [26:59]And the chief priests and all the sanhedrim sought false\ntestimony against Jesus to kill him, [26:60]and did not find it, though\nmany false witnesses came forward. But afterwards, two coming forward\n[26:61]said, This man said, I can destroy the temple of God and build\nit in three days. [26:62] And the chief priest rising up said to him,\nDo you answer nothing? What do these testify against you? [26:63]But\nJesus was silent. And the chief priest answering, said to him, I adjure\nyou, by the living God, to tell me if you are the Christ, the Son of\nGod.  [26:64]Jesus said to him, As you say; but I tell you that\nhereafter you shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of the\npower, and coming on the clouds of heaven.\n\n6 [26:65]Then the chief priest rent his clothes, saying, He has\nblasphemed; what further need have we of witnesses? Behold, now you\nhave heard the blasphemy. [26:66]What do you think? And they answered\nand said, He is worthy of death. [26:67]Then they spit in his face, and\nstruck him with their fists, and some struck him with the palms of\ntheir hands, [26:68]saying, Prophesy to us, Christ, who is it that\nstruck you?\n\n7 [26:69]But Peter sat without in the court; and a female servant came\nto him, saying, You also were with Jesus the Galilean.  [26:70]But he\ndenied it before all, saying, I know not what you say. [26:71]And going\nout into the porch, another [female servant] saw him, and said to those\nthere, This man was also with Jesus the Nazoraean. [26:72]And again he\ndenied with an oath, saying, I know not the man. [26:73]But after a\nlittle while those standing by came forward, and said to Peter,\nCertainly you are also one of them, for your speech makes you manifest.\n[26:74]Then he began to curse and swear, saying, I know not the man.\nAnd immediately a cock crew; [26:75]and Peter remembered the word of\nJesus, who said, Before a cock crows you will deny me thrice; and he\nwent out and wept bitterly.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XXV.\n\nCHRIST BEFORE PONTIUS PILATE.\n\n1 [27:1]AND when it was morning all the chief priests and the elders of\nthe people took counsel against Jesus to kill him.  [27:2]And having\nbound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate, the\nprocurator. [27:3]Then Judas, who betrayed him, seeing that he was\ncondemned, repenting, returned the thirty shekels of silver [$16.80] to\nthe chief priests and elders, [27:4] saying, I have sinned, betraying\ninnocent blood. But they said, What is that to us? see you to it.\n[27:5]And throwing down the silver in the temple he departed; and\nhaving gone away strangled himself.\n\n2 [27:6]And the chief priests taking the silver said, It is not lawful\nto put it into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.\n[27:7]And taking counsel, they bought with it the potter's field for a\nburying place for strangers. [27:8]For this reason, the field is called\na field of blood to this day. [27:9]Then was fulfilled the word spoken\nby Jeremiah the prophet, saying; And they took the thirty shekels of\nsilver, the price of him that was prized, whom [men] from the sons of\nIsrael set a price upon, [27:10]and gave them for the potter's field,\nas the Lord commanded me.\n\n3 [27:11]And Jesus stood before the procurator; and the procurator\nasked him, saying, Are you the king of the Jews? And Jesus said to him,\nAs you say. [27:12] And when he was accused by the chief priests and\nelders he answered nothing. [27:13]Then Pilate said to him, Do you not\nhear how many things they testify against you? [27:14]And he answered\nhim not a word; so that the procurator wondered greatly.\n\n4 [27:15]And at the feast the procurator was accustomed to release to\nthe multitude one prisoner, whom they chose; [27:16]and he then had a\nnoted prisoner called Barabbas.  [27:17]When, therefore, they were\nassembled together, Pilate said to them, Which do you wish me to\nrelease to you? Barabbas? or Jesus, called Christ? [27:18]For he knew\nthat they had delivered him up from envy. [27:19]And as he sat on the\ntribunal his wife sent to him, saying, Have nothing to do with that\njust man, for I have suffered much to-day on his account, from a dream.\n\n5 [27:20]But the chief priests and elders persuaded the people to ask\nfor Barabbas, and to destroy Jesus. [27:21]And the procurator answered\nand said to them, Which of the two do you wish me to release to you?\nAnd they said, Barabbas. [27:22]Pilate said to them, What then shall I\ndo to Jesus, called Christ? They all said, Let him be crucified.\n[27:23]But he said, [No]; for what evil has he done? And they cried\nmore vehemently, saying, Let him be crucified.\n\n6 [27:24]And Pilate seeing that he accomplished nothing, but that\nrather a tumult was made, took water and washed his hands before the\nmultitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this man; see you to\nit. [27:25]And all the people answered and said, His blood be upon us\nand upon our children. [27:26]Then he released Barabbas to them, and\nhaving scourged Jesus delivered him up to be crucified.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XXVI.\n\nCHRIST'S DEATH AND BURIAL.\n\n1 [27:27]THEN the soldiers of the procurator taking Jesus to the\nPraetorium assembled about him the whole cohort, [27:28]and stripped\nhim, and put on him a crimson cloak, [27:29]and making a crown of\nthorns they put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they\nknelt before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!\n[27:30]And they spit on him, and took the reed and beat him on his\nhead. [27:31]And when they had mocked him, they took the cloak off from\nhim, and put on him his own clothes, and led him away to crucify him.\n\n2 [27:32]And going out, they found a Cyrenian by the name of Simon,\nwhom they compelled to bear his cross. [27:33]And coming to a place\ncalled Golgotha, which is called A place of a cranium, [27:34]they gave\nhim vinegar to drink mixed with gall; and when he had tasted of it he\nwould not drink.\n\n3 [27:35]And having crucified him, they parted his garments, casting\nlots, [27:36]and sat down and watched him there.  [27:37]And they put\nover his head his accusation, written; THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE\nJEWS. [27:38]Then two robbers were crucified with him, one on the right\nhand, and the other on the left.\n\n4 [27:39]And those who went by blasphemed him, wagging their heads,\n[27:40]and saying, You that destroy the temple and build it in three\ndays, save yourself. If you are the Son of God, come down from the\ncross. [27:41]And the chief priests in like manner also mocked him,\nwith the scribes and elders, and said, [27:42]He saved others, himself\nhe cannot save. If he is the king of Israel let him come down now from\nthe cross, and we will believe on him; [27:43]he trusted in God; let\nhim deliver him if he wishes for him; for he said, I am a Son of God.\n[27:44]The robbers also that were crucified with him did the same, and\nreproached him.  [27:45]And from the sixth hour there was darkness on\nall the land till the ninth hour; [27:46]and at about the ninth hour\nJesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that\nis, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? [27:47]And some of those\nstanding there hearing him, said, He calls for Elijah.  [27:48]And one\nof them ran immediately to him, and took a sponge, and filled it with\nvinegar, and putting it on a reed gave it to him to drink. [27:49]But\nthe rest said, Let him alone; let us see if Elijah will come and save\nhim. [27:50]And Jesus crying again with a loud voice, gave up the\nspirit.\n\n5 [27:51]And behold, the vail of the temple was rent in two, from top\nto bottom, and the earth was shaken, and the rocks rent, [27:52]and the\ntombs were opened, and many bodies of saints that slept arose,\n[27:53]and going out of the tombs, after his resurrection entered into\nthe holy city, and appeared to many.\n\n6 [27:54]And the centurion and those with him watching Jesus, seeing\nthe earthquake, and the [other] events which occurred, were greatly\nafraid, and said, Certainly, this was a Son of God.  [27:55]And there\nwere many women there, beholding from afar, who had followed Jesus from\nGalilee, to wait upon him; [27:56]among whom were Mary the Magdalene,\nand Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of\nZebedee.\n\n7 [27:57]And when it was evening a rich man came from Arimathea, by the\nname of Joseph, who himself also was a disciple of Jesus; [27:58]this\nman went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.  Then Pilate\ncommanded it to be given him; [27:59]and Joseph took the body, and\nwrapped it in clean linen, [27:60] and placed it in a new tomb of his\nwhich he had excavated in a rock, and having rolled a great stone to\nthe door of the tomb he went away; [27:61]and Mary the Magdalene and\nthe other Mary were there, sitting opposite to the tomb.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XXVII.\n\nCHRIST AFTER HIS RESURRECTION.\n\n1 [27:62]AND on the next day, which is after the preparation, the chief\npriests and Pharisees were assembled together to Pilate, [27:63]and\nsaid, Sir, we remember that this deceiver said when he was yet alive,\nAfter three days I will rise. [27:64]Command, therefore, the tomb to be\nmade safe till the third day, lest his disciples should come and steal\nhim, and say to the people, He is raised from the dead, and the last\nerror be worse than the first.  [27:65]Pilate said to them, You have a\nguard; go and make it as safe as you can. [27:66]And they went and made\nthe tomb safe with a guard, having sealed the stone.\n\n2 [28:1]And after the sabbath, when it began to dawn on the first day\nof the week, came Mary the Magdalene, and the other Mary, to see the\ntomb. [28:2]And behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of\nthe Lord descending from heaven came and rolled away the stone and sat\nupon it. [28:3]And his appearance was like lightning, and his clothing\nas white as snow; [28:4]and from fear of him the keepers shook and\nbecame like dead men. [28:5]And the angel answered and said to the\nwomen, Fear not, for I know that you seek Jesus the crucified. [28:6]He\nis not here, for he is raised, as he said. Come and see the place where\nthe Lord lay, [28:7]and go immediately and tell his disciples that he\nis raised from the dead; and behold, he will go before you into\nGalilee; there shall you see him. Behold, I have told you. [28:8]And\ngoing out immediately from the tomb with fear and great joy, they ran\nto tell his disciples.\n\n3 [28:9]And behold, Jesus also met them, saying, Hail! And they\napproached him, and took hold of his feet, and worshipped him.\n[28:10]Then Jesus said to them, Fear not; go and tell my brothers to go\nto Galilee, and there they shall see me. [28:11]And as they went,\nbehold, some of the guard came into the city and told the chief priests\nall the things which had happened. [28:12]And being assembled with the\nelders, and taking counsel, they gave large sums of money to the\nsoldiers, [28:13]saying, Say that his disciples came by night and stole\nhim while we slept; [28:14]and if this is heard of by the procurator we\nwill satisfy him and secure you. [28:15]And they took the silver and\ndid as they were told; and this report is circulated among the Jews to\nthis day.\n\n4 [28:16]And the eleven disciples went to Galilee on the mountain where\nJesus had appointed them; [28:17]and they saw and worshipped him; but\nsome doubted. [28:18]And Jesus coming near spoke to them, saying, All\npower is given me in heaven and on the earth; [28:19]go and disciple\nall nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son,\nand of the Holy Spirit; [28:20]teaching them to keep all things which I\nhave commanded you; and behold, I am with you always till the\nconsummation of the world.\n\n\n\n\nTHE GOSPEL OF MARK.\n\n\nCHAPTER I.\n\nTHE MINISTRY OF JOHN THE BAPTIST, THE BAPTISM OF CHRIST, HIS\nTEMPTATIONS, AND THE COMMENCEMENT OF HIS MINISTRY.\n\n1 [1:1]THE beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, the Son of God,\n[1:2]as it is written in Isaiah the prophet; Behold, I send my\nmessenger before your face, who shall prepare your way. [1:3]A voice of\none crying in the wilderness, Prepare the way of the Lord! Make his\npaths straight.\n\n2 [1:4]John baptized in the wilderness, preaching the baptism of a\nchange of mind for the forgiveness of sins. [1:5]And all the country of\nJudea and all the people of Jerusalem went out to him and were baptized\nby him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.\n\n3 [1:6]And John was clothed with camel's hairs and a leather girdle\nabout his loins, and he eat locusts and wild honey, [1:7]and preached,\nsaying, After me comes one mightier than I, the strings of whose shoes\nI am not fit to stoop down and untie; [1:8]I have baptized you with\nwater, but he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit.\n\n4 [1:9]In those days came Jesus from Nazareth of Galilee, and was\nbaptized in the Jordan by John; [1:10]and going up immediately out of\nthe water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit descend like a\ndove upon him; [1:11]and there was a voice from heaven, You are my\nbeloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.  [1:12]And the Spirit\nimmediately drove him into the wilderness, [1:13]and he was in the\nwilderness forty days, tempted by Satan, and was with the beasts; and\nthe angels waited on him.\n\n5 [1:14]And after John was delivered up Jesus came into Galilee\npreaching the good news of God, [1:15]saying, The time is completed,\nand the kingdom of God is at hand; change your minds and believe in the\ngood news. [1:16]And passing along by the lake of Galilee, he saw\nSimon, and Andrew, Simon's brother, casting [a net] into the lake, for\nthey were fishermen. [1:17]And Jesus said to them, Come after me, and I\nwill make you fishermen of men.  [1:18]And immediately leaving their\nnets they followed him.  [1:19]And proceeding a little further on he\nsaw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; and they were in\nthe ship mending the nets; [1:20]and he immediately called them. And\nleaving their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired men, they went\naway after him.\n\n6 [1:21]And they entered into Capernaum, and immediately on the sabbath\nhe taught in the synagogues. [1:22]And they were astonished at his\nteaching, for he taught them as having authority, and not as the\nscribes.\n\n7 [1:23]And immediately there was in their synagogue a man with an\nimpure spirit, and he cried out, [1:24]saying, What have you to do with\nus, Jesus Nazarene? have you come to destroy us? We know you who you\nare, the holy [Son] of God! [1:25]And Jesus rebuked him saying, Be\nstill, and come out of him. [1:26]And the impure spirit affecting him\nwith convulsions, and crying with a loud voice, came out of him.\n[1:27]And all were astonished, so that they inquired among themselves,\nsaying, What is this? a new teaching with authority, and does he\ncommand the impure spirits and they obey him? [1:28]And his fame went\nout immediately into all the country about Galilee.\n\n8 [1:29]And going immediately out of the synagogue, they came into the\nhouse of Simon and Andrew with James and John; [1:30]and Simon's\nmother-in-law was lying with a fever; and immediately they told him of\nher. [1:31]And coming, he took her by the hand, and raised her up, and\nthe fever immediately left her, and she waited on them.\n\n9 [1:32]And at evening when the sun went down they brought to him all\nthat were sick, and the demoniacs; [1:33]and the whole city was\nassembled at the door. [1:34]And he healed many that were sick with\nvarious diseases, and cast out many demons, and suffered not the demons\nto say that they knew him.\n\n10 [1:35]And in the morning while it was quite dark he arose and went\nout, and departed to a solitary place, and there prayed.  [1:36]And\nSimon and those with him followed him, [1:37]and said to him, All men\nseek you. [1:38]And he said to them, Let us go elsewhere to the\nadjoining villages to preach there; because for this purpose have I\ncome. [1:39]And he preached in their synagogues in all Galilee, and\ncast out demons.\n\n11 [1:40]And a leper came to him beseeching him, saying to him, If you\nwill, you can cleanse me. [1:41]And having compassion on him, he\nstretched out his hand and touched him, and said to him, I will; be\ncleansed. [1:42]And the leprosy immediately left him, and he was\ncleansed. [1:43]And giving him a strict charge, he immediately sent him\naway, [1:44]and said to him, See that you say nothing to any one, but\ngo and show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing what\nMoses commanded, for a testimony to them. [1:45]And going out he spread\nand published abroad the report, to such an extent that he [Jesus]\ncould no longer go openly into a city, but was without in solitary\nplaces; and they came to him from every quarter.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER II.\n\nCHRIST FORGIVING SINS, EATING WITH PUBLICANS AND SINNERS, AND HIS\nDOCTRINE OF FASTING, OF THE SABBATH, ETC.\n\n1 [2:1]AND entering again into Capernaum after some days, it was\nreported that he was in the house. [2:2]And many came together\nimmediately, so that there was no room, not even in the places about\nthe door; and he spoke to them the word. [2:3]And they came to him\nbringing a paralytic, borne by four; [2:4]and not being able to\napproach him on account of the multitude, they uncovered the roof where\nhe was, and having made an opening let down the bed on which the\nparalytic was laid. [2:5]And Jesus seeing their faith, said to the\nparalytic, Son, your sins are forgiven.\n\n2 [2:6]And some of the scribes were sitting there, and reasoned in\ntheir minds, [2:7]Why does this man speak so? he blasphemes.  Who can\nforgive sins but God alone? [2:8]And Jesus immediately knowing in his\nspirit that they so reasoned within themselves, said to them, Why do\nyou reason in your minds? [2:9]in what respect is it easier to say to\nthe paralytic, Your sins are forgiven you, than to say, Arise, take up\nyour bed and walk?  [2:10]But that you may know that the Son of man has\npower to forgive sins on the earth, he said to the paralytic, [2:11]I\ntell you, arise, take your bed and go to your house. [2:12]And he was\nraised up and immediately taking his bed he went away before all; so\nthat all were astonished, and glorified God, saying, We never saw the\nlike.\n\n3 [2:13]And he went out again by the lake, and all the multitude came\nto him, and he taught them. [2:14]And passing by he saw Levi, the son\nof Alpheus, sitting at the custom house, and said to him, Follow me;\nand he arose and followed him. [2:15]And he was reclining in his house,\nand many publicans and sinners also reclined with Jesus and his\ndisciples, for many also followed him. [2:16]And the scribes and\nPharisees seeing him eating with sinners and publicans, said to his\ndisciples, Why does he eat and drink with sinners and publicans?\n[2:17]And Jesus hearing it, said to them, The well need not a\nphysician, but the ill; I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.\n\n4 [2:18]And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fasted.  And\nthey came and said to him, Why do the disciples of John and the\ndisciples of the Pharisees fast, and your disciples fast not?\n[2:19]And Jesus said to them, Can the sons of the bridechamber fast as\nlong as the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the\nbridegroom with them, they cannot fast, [2:20]but days will come when\nthe bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then they shall fast at\nthat time. [2:21]No one sews a piece of undressed cloth on an old\ngarment; if he does the new piece takes away its fullness from the old,\nand the rent is made worse. [2:22]And no one puts new wine into old\nbottles; if he does the wine breaks the bottles, and the wine and the\nbottles are destroyed.\n\n5 [2:23]And he was passing on the sabbath through the grain fields, and\nhis disciples began to make their way, picking heads of grain.\n[2:24]And the Pharisees said to him, See what they do on the sabbath,\nwhich it is not lawful to do. [2:25]And he said to them, Have you never\nread what David did, when he had need, and was hungry? both he and\nthose with him? [2:26]How he entered into the house of God under\nAbiathar the chief priest, and eat the show bread, which it was not\nlawful to eat, except for the priests, and gave also to them that were\nwith him? [2:27]And he said to them, The sabbath was made for man, and\nnot man for the sabbath; [2:28]so that the Son of man is Lord even of\nthe sabbath.\n\n6 [3:1]And he entered again into the synagogue, and there was a man\nthere having a withered hand. [3:2]And they watched him [to see] if he\nwould cure him on the sabbath, that they might accuse him. [3:3]And he\nsaid to the man having the withered hand, Arise in the midst. [3:4]And\nhe said to them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath, or to do evil?\nto save life, or to kill? And they were silent. [3:5]And looking around\non them in anger, being grieved at the hardness of their hearts, he\nsaid to the man, Stretch out your hand. And he stretched it out, and\nhis hand was restored. [3:6]And the Pharisees went out immediately with\nthe Herodians, and took counsel against him to kill him.\n\n7 [3:7]And Jesus went away with his disciples to the lake; and a great\nmultitude followed him from Galilee, [3:8]and from Jerusalem, and from\nJudea, and from Idumea, and beyond the Jordan. And those about Tyre and\nSidon, a great multitude, hearing what he did, came to him. [3:9]And he\ntold his disciples to have a boat constantly attend him on account of\nthe multitude, that they might not throng him. [3:10]For he cured many,\nso that all who had diseases fell down before him, that they might\ntouch him; [3:11]and the impure spirits when they saw him fell down\nbefore him, and cried, saying, You are the Son of God. [3:12] And he\nstrictly charged them not to make him known.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER III.\n\nCHRIST CALLING THE TWELVE APOSTLES, THE CHARACTER OF HIS MIRACLES,\nETC., AND HIS LOVE FOR HIS DISCIPLES.\n\n1 [3:13]AND he went up on the mountain, and called whom he would; and\nthey went to him. [3:14]And he appointed twelve, that they should be\nwith him, and that he might send them out to preach, [3:15]and have\npower to cast out demons. [3:16]And he gave to Simon the name of Peter.\n[He appointed him], [3:17]and James the son of Zebedee, and John the\nbrother of James--and he gave them the names of Boanerges, which is,\nSons of thunder-- [3:18]and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and\nMatthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alpheus, and Thaddeus, and\nSimon the Zealot, [3:19]and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. And\nthey came into a house, [3:20]and again a multitude came together, so\nthat they could not eat bread. [3:21]And those with him hearing of it,\nwent out to take him; for they said, He is beside himself.\n\n2 [3:22]And the scribes coming down from Jerusalem said, He has\nBeelzebul, and casts out demons by the ruler of demons. [3:23]And\ncalling them, he said to them in parables, How can Satan cast out\nSatan? [3:24]And if a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom\ncannot stand; [3:25]and if a house is divided against itself, that\nhouse cannot stand; [3:26]and if Satan has risen up against himself,\nand is divided, he cannot stand, but has an end.  [3:27]But no one can\nenter into the house of a strong man, and plunder his goods, unless he\nfirst binds the strong man, and then he will plunder his house. [3:28]I\ntell you truly, That all sins and blasphemies with which they blaspheme\nshall be forgiven the children of men; [3:29]but whoever blasphemes\nagainst the Holy Spirit shall never have forgiveness, but is the\nsubject of an eternal mistake; [3:30]because they said, He has an\nimpure spirit.\n\n3 [3:31]Then came his brothers and his mother, and standing without,\nsent to him to call him. [3:32]And a multitude sat around him. And they\nsaid to him, Behold your mother, and your brothers, and your sisters\nseek you without. [3:33] And he answered them and said, Who is my\nmother, or my brothers?  [3:34]And looking round on those sitting about\nhim, he said, Behold my mother, and my brothers! [3:35]Whoever shall do\nthe will of God, this is my brother, and sister, and mother.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER IV.\n\nCHRIST'S PARABLES BY THE LAKE, AND HIS STILLING A TEMPEST.  1 [4:1]AND\nagain he taught by the lake; and a very great multitude came together\nto him, so that entering into a ship he sat on the lake, and all the\nmultitude were by the lake on the land.  [4:2]And he taught them many\nthings in parables, and said to them, in his teaching, [4:3]Hear!\nbehold a sower went out to sow; [4:4]and in sowing, some fell on the\nway, and the birds came and devoured it. [4:5]And some fell on a rocky\nplace, where it had not much earth, and it came up immediately, because\nit had no depth of earth; [4:6]and when the sun rose, it was scorched,\nand because it had no root it was dried up. [4:7]And some fell among\nthorns; and the thorns came up and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.\n[4:8]And some fell on good ground, and produced fruit, growing up and\nincreasing, and bore one thirty, one sixty, and one a hundred. [4:9]And\nhe said, He that has ears, let him hear.\n\n2 [4:10]And when he was alone, those about him, with the twelve, asked\nhim the parable. [4:11]And he said to them, To you is given the mystery\nof the kingdom of God, but to those without all things are in parables;\n[4:12]that seeing they may see, and not perceive, and hearing they may\nhear, and not understand, lest at any time they should turn, and be\nforgiven. [4:13]And he said to them, Do you not know this parable? How\nthen will you know all parables?\n\n3 [4:14]The sower sows the word. [4:15]And these are those where the\nword is sown by the way; and when they hear, Satan comes immediately\nand takes away the word which was sown upon them.  [4:16]And these in\nlike manner are those sown on the rocky places; when they hear the\nword, they immediately receive it with joy, [4:17]and have no root in\nthemselves, but are temporary [disciples]. Then, when affliction or\npersecution occurs on account of the word, they are immediately\noffended. [4:18]And those sown among thorns are different. They are\nthose who hear the word, [4:19]and the cares of life, and the\ndeceitfulness of riches, and the desires of other things coming in,\nchoke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. [4:20]And these are those\nsown in good ground, who hear the word, and receive it, and bear fruit,\none thirty, and one sixty, and one a hundred.\n\n4 [4:21]And he said to them, Does a light come to be put under a modius\n[1.916 gallon measure], or under a bed? and not to be put in a\ncandlestick? [4:22]For there is nothing hid that shall not be made\nmanifest, nor any thing concealed that shall not come to light.\n[4:23]If any one has ears to hear, let him hear. [4:24]And he said to\nthem, Consider what you hear. With what measure you measure it shall be\nmeasured to you, and more shall be given you.  [4:25]For whoever has,\nto him shall be given; and whoever has not, from him even what he has\nshall be taken away.\n\n5 [4:26]And he said, So is the kingdom of God as a man casts the seeds\ninto the earth, [4:27]and sleeps and wakes, night and day, and the seed\ngerminates, and grows he knows not how. [4:28]The earth produces\nspontaneously, first the stalk, then the head, then the full wheat in\nthe head. [4:29]And when the wheat delivers itself, he immediately\nsends out the sickle, because the harvest has come. [4:30]And he said,\nTo what shall I liken the kingdom of God? or with what parable shall I\npresent it? [4:31]It is like a mustard seed, which when sown in the\nearth is the least of all seeds on the earth; [4:32]but when sown, it\ncomes up, and becomes the greatest of all plants, and produces great\nbranches, so that the birds of heaven can dwell under its shade.\n[4:33]And with many such parables spoke he the word to them as they\ncould hear; [4:34]but without a parable spoke he not to them; and,\nprivately, he explained all things to his disciples.\n\n6 [4:35]And on that day, when it was evening, he said to them, Let us\ncross over to the other side. [4:36]And dismissing the multitude, they\ntook him as he was in the ship; and other ships also were with him.\n[4:37]And there was a great tempest of wind, and the waves beat over\nthe ship, so that the ship was already filled. [4:38]And he was in the\nstern, on the pillow, asleep. And they awoke him and said to him,\nTeacher, do you not care that we perish? [4:39]And he arose, and\nrebuked the wind, and said to the lake, Hush! Be still! And the wind\nceased, and there was a great calm. [4:40]And he said to them, Why are\nyou so fearful? How have you no faith? [4:41]And they were greatly\nafraid, and said one to another, What man is this, that even the wind\nand the lake obey him?\n\n\n\nCHAPTER V.\n\nCHRIST CURING A DEMONIAC AND THE WOMAN WITH A HEMORRHAGE, AND RAISING A\nDEAD CHILD.\n\n1 [5:1]AND they came across the lake to the country of the Gerasenes.\n[5:2]And as he went out of the ship, a man with an impure spirit\nimmediately met him from the tombs, [5:3]who lived in the tombs, and\nnone could bind him with a chain; [5:4]for he was often bound with\nfetters and chains, and his chains were broken by him, and his fetters\ncrushed, and no one could subdue him. [5:5]And he was always night and\nday in the tombs, and in the mountains, crying, and cutting himself\nwith stones. [5:6]And seeing Jesus at a distance, he ran and worshipped\nhim, [5:7]and crying with a loud voice, said, What have you to do with\nme, Jesus, son of the most high God? I adjure you, by God, not to\ntorment me. [5:8] For he said to him, Impure spirit, come out of the\nman. [5:9]And he asked him, What is your name? And he said to him, My\nname is Legion, for we are many.\n\n2 [5:10]And they besought him much that he would not send them out of\nthe country. [5:11]And there was there on the mountain a great herd of\nswine feeding. [5:12]And they besought him, saying, Send us to the\nswine, that we may go into them. [5:13]And Jesus immediately permitted\nthem. And the impure spirits going out entered into the swine, and the\nherd rushed down a precipice into the lake, about two thousand, and\nwere drowned in the lake.\n\n3 [5:14]And those who fed them fled and told it in the city and in the\ncountry; and they came out to see what was done. [5:15]And they came to\nJesus, and saw the demoniac who had the legion, sitting down, clothed,\nand in his right mind, and they were afraid. [5:16]And those who saw\nrelated to them how it had been with the demoniac, and concerning the\nswine. [5:17]And they besought him to depart from their bounds.\n[5:18]And entering into the ship, the man that had been a demoniac\nbesought him that he might go with him; [5:19]and he permitted him not,\nbut said to him, Go to your home, to your friends, and relate to them\nwhat the Lord has done for you, and what mercy he has shown you.\n[5:20]And he went away and proclaimed in the Decapolis what great\nthings Jesus had done for him; and all wondered.\n\n4 [5:21]And Jesus having crossed again in the ship to the other side, a\ngreat multitude came together to him; and he was by the lake. [5:22]And\none of the synagogue rulers came, Jairus by name, and seeing him, fell\nat his feet, [5:23] and besought him much, saying, My little daughter\nis at the point of death; come and lay hands on her, that she may be\nrestored, and she shall live.  [5:24]And he went away with him; and a\ngreat multitude followed him, and thronged him. [5:25]And a certain\nwoman having a hemorrhage of twelve years, [5:26]and having taken many\nthings by many physicians, and expended all her property, and not being\nbenefited, but rather growing worse, [5:27]hearing of Jesus, came in\nthe crowd behind him and touched his clothes. [5:28]For she said, If I\ncan touch his clothes I shall be cured.\n\n5 [5:29]And immediately the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she\nknew in herself that she was cured of the plague.  [5:30]And Jesus\nimmediately knowing in himself that a power had gone out from him,\nturning round in the crowd said, Who touched my clothes? [5:31]And his\ndisciples said to him, You see the multitude throng you, and do you\nsay, Who touched me? [5:32]And he looked round to see her that had done\nthis. [5:33]And the woman being afraid, and trembling, knowing what was\ndone to her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth.\n[5:34]And he said to her, Daughter, your faith has cured you; go in\npeace, and be well of your plague.\n\n6 [5:35]And while he was yet speaking persons came from the house of\nthe synagogue ruler, saying, Your daughter is dead; why trouble the\nteacher? [5:36] And Jesus hearing the word spoken, said to the\nsynagogue ruler, Fear not, only believe. [5:37]And he permitted no man\nto accompany him except Peter, and James, and John the brother of\nJames. [5:38]And they came to the house of the synagogue ruler, and saw\nthe tumult, and the people weeping and lamenting much. [5:39]And he\nwent in and said to them, Why do you make a tumult and weep? the little\nchild is not dead, but sleeps. [5:40]And they derided him. And putting\nthem all out, he took the father and mother of the little child, and\nthose with him, and went in where the little child was; [5:41]and\ntaking the hand of the little child, he said to her, Talitha cum, which\nis interpreted, Girl, I tell you arise; [5:42]and immediately the girl\narose and walked about, for she was twelve years old. And they were\nastonished with great astonishment. [5:43]And he charged them strictly\nthat no one should know it, and directed that food should be given her.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER VI.\n\nCHRIST AT NAZARETH, SENDING OUT HIS TWELVE APOSTLES TO PREACH, THE\nDEATH OF JOHN THE BAPTIST, THE REPORT OF THE APOSTLES, FEEDING FIVE\nTHOUSAND, AND WALKING ON THE LAKE.\n\n1 [6:1]AND he departed thence, and came into his own country. And his\ndisciples followed him. [6:2]And when it was the sabbath, he taught in\nthe synagogue; and many heard him and were astonished, and said, Whence\nhas this man these things? and what is the wisdom given to him? And\n[what are] these mighty works done by his hands? [6:3]Is not this the\ncarpenter? the son of Mary? and a brother of James, and Joset, and\nJudas, and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us? And they were\noffended with him.  [6:4]And Jesus said to them, A prophet is not\nwithout honor, except in his own country, and with his relations, and\nin his own house. [6:5]And he could not do any mighty work there,\nexcept that he laid hands on a few sick persons, and cured them.\n[6:6]And he wondered at their unbelief. And he went about the villages\nin order, teaching.\n\n2 [6:7]And he called the twelve, and sent them out two and two, and\ngave them power over impure spirits; [6:8]and charged them to take\nnothing for the way, except a staff only; not bread, nor a provision\nsack, nor copper in the girdle, [6:9]but to wear sandals, and not to\nput on two coats. [6:10]And he said to them, Where you enter into a\nhouse, there remain till you go out thence. [6:11] And whatever place\nwill not receive you, nor hear you, when you go out thence shake off\nthe dust which is under your feet for a testimony to them. [6:12]And\ngoing out, they preached that [men] should change their minds,\n[6:13]and cast out many demons, and anointed many sick persons with\noil, and cured them.\n\n3 [6:14]And Herod the king, heard [of Jesus], for his name was widely\nknown, and said, John the Baptist has risen from the dead; and on this\naccount the mighty works are performed by him.  [6:15]But others said,\nhe is Elijah; and others said, He is a prophet, like one of the\nprophets. [6:16]But Herod hearing of him, said, This is John whom I\nbeheaded; he has been raised up.  [6:17]For Herod had sent and taken\nJohn, and, put him bound in prison on account of Herodias, his brother\nPhilip's wife, because he had married her. [6:18]For John said to\nHerod, It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife. [6:19]And\nHerodias was displeased with him, and wished to kill him, but was not\nable. [6:20]For Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and\nholy man, and he preserved him, and hearing him, did many things, and\nheard him gladly. [6:21] And on a convenient day, when Herod made a\nsupper in honor of his birthday, for his great men, and the chiliarchs,\nand the first men of Galilee, [6:22]the daughter of this Herodias came\nin and danced, and pleased Herod, and those that reclined with him. And\nthe king said to the girl, Ask me what you will and I will give it to\nyou; [6:23]and he swore to her, Whatever you shall ask of me I will\ngive you, to half of my kingdom. [6:24]And she went out and said to her\nmother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptist.\n[6:25]And coming in immediately with haste to the king, she asked,\nsaying, I wish you to give me immediately on a plate the head of John\nthe Baptist.\n\n4 [6:26]And the king was extremely sorry, but on account of the oaths,\nand those reclining with him, he was not willing to refuse her.\n[6:27]And the king immediately sending an executioner, commanded him to\nbring his head. And he went out and beheaded him in the prison,\n[6:28]and brought his head on a plate, and gave it to the girl, and the\ngirl gave it to her mother. [6:29]And his disciples hearing of it, came\nand took up his body, and laid it in a tomb.\n\n5 [6:30]And the apostles came together to Jesus and reported to him all\nthings, both what they had done and what instructions they had given.\n[6:31]And he said to them, Come to a solitary place by yourselves, and\nrest a little; for many were coming and going, and there was no\nconvenient time to eat. [6:32]And they went away to a solitary place in\nthe ship by themselves.  [6:33]And many saw them going, and knew them;\nand they ran together there from all the cities on foot, and went\nbefore them.  [6:34]And going out he saw a great multitude, and had\ncompassion on them, for they were as sheep not having a shepherd; and\nhe taught them much.\n\n6 [6:35]And when much time had already passed, his disciples came to\nhim and said, This is a solitary place, and much time has already\npassed; [6:36]dismiss them, that they may go to the farms and villages\naround, and buy them something to eat. [6:37]And he answered and said\nto them, Give them something to eat. And they said to him, Shall we go\nand buy two hundred denarii [$28] worth of bread, and give them to eat?\n[6:38]And he said to them, How many loaves have you? go and see. And\nknowing, they said, Five, and two fishes. [6:39]And he commanded them\nto cause all to recline in companies on the green grass. [6:40]And they\nsat down in squares, by hundreds and by fifties. [6:41]And taking the\nfive loaves and two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and\nbroke the loaves, and gave them to his disciples to set before them.\nAnd he divided the two fishes to all. [6:42]And they all eat, and were\nfilled; [6:43]and they took up of fragments twelve traveling-baskets\nfull, and of the fishes. [6:44] And they that eat the bread were five\nthousand men.\n\n7 [6:45]And he immediately constrained his disciples to go into the\nship, and to go before him to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he\ndismissed the multitude; [6:46]and having dismissed them, he went away\nto the mountain to pray. [6:47]And when it was evening, the ship was in\nthe midst of the lake, and he alone on the land. [6:48]And seeing them\ntroubled to proceed, for the wind was against them, about the fourth\nwatch of the night he came to them walking on the lake, and wished to\npass by them. [6:49]And seeing him walking on the lake, they thought it\nwas an apparition, and cried out, [6:50]for they all saw and were\ntroubled. And immediately he spoke with them, and said to them, Be of\ngood courage; it is I; be not afraid. [6:51]And he went up to them into\nthe ship, and the wind ceased, and they were astonished in themselves\nabove measure, and wondered; [6:52]for they understood not concerning\nthe bread, for their heart was hardened.\n\n8 [6:53]And crossing over they came to the land of Gennesaret, and came\nto anchor. [6:54]And going out of the ship, they immediately knew him,\n[6:55]and ran about through that whole country, and brought those that\nwere sick on beds where they heard that he was. [6:56]And wherever he\nwent, in villages, or cities, or country places, they placed the sick\nin the markets, and besought him that they might touch the fringe of\nhis garment, and as many as touched him were cured.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER VII.\n\nCHRIST'S DOCTRINE OF DEFILEMENT; CURING A GENTILE DEMONIAC, AND A DEAF\nAND DUMB PERSON.\n\n1 [7:1]AND the Pharisees and some of the scribes having come from\nJerusalem came together to him, [7:2]and seeing some of his disciples\neat bread with defiled, that is, unwashed hands, [they found fault].\n[7:3]For the Pharisees and all the Jews eat not unless they wash their\nhands with the fist, holding the tradition of the elders. [7:4]And from\na market, unless they baptize they eat not; and there are many other\n[customs] which they have received to hold; baptisms, of cups and\nsextuses [1 1-2 pint measures], and brass vessels, and beds. [7:5]And\nthe Pharisees and scribes asked, Why do not your disciples conform to\nthe tradition of the elders; but eat bread with defiled hands?\n\n2 [7:6]And he said to them, Well did Isaiah prophecy of you,\nhypocrites, as it is written; This people honors me with the lips, but\ntheir heart is far from me; [7:7]but in vain do they worship me,\nteaching for teachings the commandments of men; [7:8]for leaving the\ncommandment of God, you hold the tradition of men.\n\n3 [7:9]And he said to them, Well do you reject the commandment of God,\nto keep your tradition; [7:10]for Moses said, Honor your father and\nyour mother, and, He that reviles father or mother, let him surely die.\n[7:11]But you say, If a man says to his father or mother, It is a\ncorban, which is a gift, by whatever you might be profited by me, [he\nshall be free]; [7:12]and suffer him no longer to do any thing for his\nfather or his mother; [7:13]making the word of God of no effect by your\ntradition which you have delivered; and many such things you do.\n[7:14]And again calling all the people, he said to them, Hear me, all\nof you, and understand. [7:15]Nothing which being out of a man entering\ninto him, can defile him; but those things which proceed from the man,\nthese are the things which defile the man.\n\n4 [7:17]And when he had gone from the multitude into the house, his\ndisciples asked him concerning the parable. [7:18]And he said to them,\nAre you also so without understanding? Do you not understand that\nnothing which enters into a man from without can defile him,\n[7:19]because it enters not into his heart, but into the stomach, and\ngoes out to the earth, purifying all aliments?  [7:20] But he said,\nthat which comes out of the man, this defiles him; [7:21]for from\nwithin, from the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, fornications,\n[7:22] thefts, murders, adulteries, covetousness, malice, deceit,\nlewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. [7:23]All these\nevil things proceed from within, and defile the man.\n\n5 [7:24]And he rose up, and departed thence to the regions of Tyre. And\nentering into a house he wished no one to know it; and he could not be\nhid. [7:25]But immediately, a woman whose little daughter had an impure\nspirit, hearing of him, came and fell down at his feet; [7:26]and she\nwas a Greek, a Syrophenician by race; and she asked him to cast the\ndemon out of her daughter.  [7:27]And he said to her, Suffer the\nchildren first to be filled; it is not right to take the children's\nbread, and cast it to the little dogs. [7:28]And she answered and said\nto him, Yes, Lord; for even the little dogs under the table eat of the\nchildren's crumbs. [7:29]And he said to her, For this speech, go; the\ndemon has gone out of your daughter. [7:30]And departing to her house,\nshe found the little child laid on the bed, and the demon gone out.\n\n6 [7:31]And again going out of the bounds of Tyre, he came through\nSidon, to the lake of Galilee, in the midst of the bounds of Decapolis.\n[7:32]And they brought him a dumb man that stammered, and besought him\nto put his hand on him. [7:33]And taking him from the multitude by\nhimself, he put his fingers in his ears, and spit, and touched his\ntongue, [7:34]and looking up to heaven he groaned, and said to him,\nEphphatha, which is, Be opened. [7:35]And immediately his ears were\nopened, and the cord of his tongue was loosed, and he spoke correctly.\n[7:36]And he charged them to tell no one; but as much as he charged\nthem, so much the more they proclaimed [his works]. [7:37]And they were\nastonished above measure, and said, He has done all things well; he\nmakes both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER VIII.\n\nCHRIST FEEDING THE FOUR THOUSAND, REFUSING TO GIVE A SIGN FROM HEAVEN,\nWARNING HIS DISCIPLES AGAINST THE PHARISEES, CURING A BLIND MAN,\nCALLING FORTH PETER'S CONFESSION, AND PREDICTING HIS OWN DEATH.\n\n1 [8:1]IN those days, again a very great multitude being [around him],\nand not having any thing to eat, calling his disciples, he said to\nthem, [8:2]I have compassion on the multitude, because already they\nhave continued with me three days, and have nothing to eat; [8:3]and if\nI send them fasting to their homes, they will faint by the way, for\nsome of them are from afar. [8:4]And his disciples answered him, Whence\nwill one be able to satisfy these with bread here in a wilderness?\n[8:5]And he asked them, How many loaves have you? And they said, Seven.\n[8:6]And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground; and\ntaking the seven loaves, and giving thanks, he broke and gave them to\nhis disciples to set before them, and they set them before the people.\n[8:7]And they had a few small fishes; and having blessed them, he\ncommanded to present them also. [8:8]And they eat and were filled; and\nthey took up of the fragments that remained over, seven store-baskets;\n[8:9]and they were about four thousand. And he dismissed them.\n\n2 [8:10]And entering immediately into the ship, with his disciples, he\ncame into the parts of Dalmanutha. [8:11]And the Pharisees went out and\nquestioned him, seeking of him a sign from heaven, to try him.\n[8:12]And groaning in his spirit, he said, Why does this generation\nseek a sign? I tell you truly, there shall no sign be given to this\ngeneration. [8:13]And leaving them, he entered again into the ship, and\nwent away to the other side.\n\n3 [8:14]And they forgot to take bread, and had but one loaf with them\nin the ship. [8:15]And he charged them, saying, Observe and beware of\nthe leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod. [8:16]And they\nreasoned with themselves, because they had no bread. [8:17]And Jesus\nknowing it, said to them, Why do you reason because you have no bread?\nDo you not yet perceive nor understand? Is your heart hardened?\n[8:18]Having eyes, do you not see? And having ears, do you not hear?\nAnd do you not remember?  [8:19]When I broke the five loaves for the\nfive thousand, how many traveling baskets of fragments took you up?\nThey said to him, Twelve. [8:20]And when I broke the seven loaves for\nthe four thousand, how many store-baskets of fragments took you up? And\nthey said, Seven. [8:21]And he said to them, Do you not yet understand?\n\n4 [8:22]And they came to Bethsaida; and they brought him a blind man,\nand besought him to touch him. [8:23]And taking the hand of the blind\nman, he brought him out of the village, and spitting on his eyes, and\nputting his hands on him, he asked him, Do you see any thing? [8:24]And\nlooking up he said, I see men, as trees walking. [8:25]Then he put his\nhands on his eyes again, and he looked, and was restored, and saw all\nthings clearly. [8:26]And he sent him to his house, saying, Go not into\nthe village.\n\n5 [8:27]And Jesus went away, and his disciples, to the villages of\nCaesarea Philippi; and on the way he asked his disciples, saying to\nthem, Who do men say that I am? [8:28]And they spoke to him, saying,\nJohn the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and others still, One of the\nprophets. [8:29]And he asked them, And who say you that I am? Peter\nanswered and said to him, You are the Christ. [8:30] And he charged\nthem to tell no one of him.  [8:31]And he began to teach them that the\nSon of man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, and\nthe chief priests, and the scribes; and be killed, and after three days\nbe raised again. [8:32]And he spoke this word plainly; and Peter taking\nhold of him, rebuked him. [8:33]But turning round, and looking on his\ndisciples, he rebuked Peter, and said, Get behind me, Satan! for you\nregard not the things of God, but the things of men.\n\n6 [8:34]And calling the multitude, with his disciples, he said to them,\nWhoever wishes to follow after me, let him deny himself, and take up\nhis cross and follow me. [8:35]For whoever wishes to save his life,\nshall lose it; and whoever shall lose his life for my sake, and that of\nthe good news, shall save it. [8:36]For what will it profit a man to\ngain the whole world and lose his life?  [8:37]for what is the exchange\nfor his life? [8:38]For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words, in\nthis adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of man also\nbe ashamed, when he comes in the glory of his Father, with the holy\nangels. [9:1]And he said to them, I tell you truly, that there are some\nof those standing here, who shall not taste death till they see the\nkingdom of God having come with power.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER IX.\n\nCHRIST TRANSFIGURED, CURING A DEMONIAC, AGAIN PREDICTING HIS DEATH, THE\nPRINCIPLES OF HIS KINGDOM.\n\n1 [9:2]AND after six days Jesus took Peter, and James, and John, and\nbrought them up on a high mountain by themselves alone, and was\ntransfigured before them; [9:3]and his garments became shining,\nextremely white, so that no fuller on the earth could whiten them.\n[9:4]And Elijah appeared to them; with Moses, and they conversed with\nJesus. [9:5]And Peter answered and said to Jesus, Rabbi, it is good for\nus to be here; and we will make three tabernacles, one for you, and one\nfor Moses, and one for Elijah; [9:6]for he knew not what he answered,\nfor they were afraid. [9:7]And a cloud overshadowed them, and a voice\ncame from the cloud, This is my beloved Son; hear him. [9:8]And looking\nround immediately they no longer saw any one but Jesus alone with them.\n\n2 [9:9]And coming down from the mountain he charged them to tell no man\nwhat they had seen, till the Son of man should have risen from the\ndead. [9:10]And they kept the word, inquiring with themselves what the\nrising from the dead meant. [9:11]And they asked him, saying, Why do\nthe scribes say that Elijah must first come? [9:12]And he said to them,\nElijah comes first, and restores all things; as also it is written of\nthe Son of man, That he shall suffer many things, and be set at naught;\n[9:13]but I tell you, that Elijah has come, and they have done to him\nwhat they wished, as it was written of him.\n\n3 [9:14]And coming to the disciples, he saw a great multitude about\nthem, and the scribes disputing with them. [9:15]And immediately all\nthe multitude seeing him, were highly pleased, and ran forward and\nsaluted him. [9:16]And he asked, What were you disputing about with\nthem? [9:17]And one of the multitude answered him, Teacher, I have\nbrought my son to you, having a dumb spirit; [9:18]and wherever it\ntakes him it convulses him, and he foams and grates his teeth, and\nbecomes emaciated. And I spoke to your disciples to cast it out, and\nthey could not.  [9:19]And he answered and said to them, O faithless\nand perverse generation! How long shall I be with you? How long shall I\nsuffer you? Bring him to me. [9:20]And they brought him to him. And\nseeing him, the spirit immediately affected him with convulsions, and\nhe fell on the ground, and rolled about, foaming. [9:21]And he asked\nhis father, How long a time is it since this came upon him? And he\nsaid, From a little child; [9:22]and it often casts him into fire, and\ninto waters, to destroy him; but if you are able, help us, and have\nmercy on us. [9:23]And Jesus said to him, If you are able? all things\nare possible to him that believes.  [9:24]And the father of the little\nchild immediately crying out, said, I believe; help my unbelief.\n\n4 [9:25]And Jesus seeing that a multitude ran together, rebuked the\nimpure spirit, saying to him, Deaf and dumb spirit, I command you, come\nout of him, and enter into him no more. [9:26]And crying out and\naffecting him with many convulsions, he went out.  And he was like a\ndead person, so that many said, He is dead.  [9:27]But Jesus took him\nby the hand and raised him up, and he stood up. [9:28]And when he went\ninto the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could we not\ncast it out? [9:29]And he said to them, This kind can go out by nothing\nbut prayer.\n\n5 [9:30]And departing thence, he passed through Galilee, and desired\nthat no one should know him, [9:31]for he taught his disciples, and\nsaid to them, The Son of man is delivered into the hands of men, and\nthey shall kill him. And when he is killed, on the third day he shall\nrise again. [9:32]And they understood not the word, and were afraid to\nask him.\n\n6 [9:33]And he came to Capernaum; and when he was in the house, he\nasked them, What did you dispute about on the way? [9:34]And they were\nsilent; for they had disputed with each other on the way as to who was\nthe greatest. [9:35]And he sat down and called the twelve, and said to\nthem, If any one wishes to be first, he shall be last of all, and a\nservant of all. [9:36]And taking a little child, he put it in the midst\nof them, and taking it in his arms, said to them, [9:37] Whoever\nreceives one such little child in my name, receives me, and whoever\nreceives me, receives not me, but him that sent me. [9:38]And John\nspoke to him, saying, Teacher, we saw some one casting out demons in\nyour name, who follows not us, and we forbade him. [9:39]And Jesus\nsaid, Forbid him not; for no one will perform a mighty work in my name,\nand be able lightly to speak evil of me. [9:40]For whoever is not\nagainst us is for us; [9:41]and whoever gives you a cup of water\nbecause you are Christ's, truly he shall not lose his reward.\n\n7 [9:42]And whoever shall offend one of the little ones having faith,\nit would be better for him if a millstone was put about his neck and he\nwas cast into the sea. [9:43]And if your hand offends you, cut it off;\nit is better for you to enter into life crippled, than having two hands\nto go away into hell, into the inextinguishable fire. [9:45]And if your\nfoot offends you, cut it off: it is better for you to enter into life\nlame, than having two feet to be cast into hell. [9:47]And if your eye\noffends you, pluck it out; it is better for you to enter into the\nkingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell,\n[9:48]where the worm dies not and the fire is not extinguished.  [9:49]\nFor every man shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be\nsalted with salt. [9:50]Salt is good; but if the salt has become\ninsipid, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be\nat peace one with another.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER X.\n\nCHRIST'S DOCTRINE OF MARRIAGE, CHILDREN AND THE WAY OF SALVATION, HIS\nDEATH PREDICTED, AND SIGHT RESTORED TO BARTIMEUS.\n\n1 [10:1]AND he arose and went thence into the bounds of Judea, and\nbeyond the Jordan; and again multitudes came together to him, and again\nhe taught them as he was accustomed. [10:2]And the Pharisees came and\nasked him, to try him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife?\n[10:3]And he answered and said to them, What did Moses command you?\n[10:4]And they said, Moses permitted us to write a bill of divorcement\nand put her away. [10:5]And Jesus said to them, Because of your\nhardness of heart, he wrote you this ordinance; [10:6]but from the\nbeginning of creation, he made them male and female. [10:7]For this\ncause shall a man leave his father and mother, and the two shall be one\nflesh; [10:8] so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. [10:9]What\nGod therefore has yoked together, let not man separate.\n\n2 [10:10]And his disciples asked him again, in the house, concerning\nthis. [10:11]And he said to them, Whoever puts away his wife and\nmarries another, commits adultery with her; [10:12]and if a woman puts\naway her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.\n\n3 [10:13]And they brought him little children that he should touch\nthem; and the disciples rebuked those who brought them.  [10:14]But\nJesus seeing it, was displeased, and said to them, Suffer the little\nchildren to come to me, and forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom\nof God. [10:15]I tell you truly, that whoever does not receive the\nkingdom of God as a little child, shall not enter into it. [10:16]And\nhe took them in his arms, and laid his hands on them, and blessed them.\n\n4 [10:17]And as he was going on the way, one ran before and kneeled\ndown to him, and asked him, Good teacher, what shall I do to inherit\neternal life? [10:18]And Jesus said to him, Why do you call me good?\nnone is good but one, God. [10:19]You know the commandments; You shall\nnot commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall\nnot testify falsely, You shall not defraud, Honor your father and\nmother. [10:20]And he answered and said to him, Teacher, all these have\nI kept from my youth.  [10:21]And Jesus looking at him, loved him, and\nsaid to him, One thing you lack; go and sell what you have, and give to\nthe poor, and you shall have a treasure in heaven; and come and take up\nyour cross and follow me. [10:22]And he was grieved at this saying, and\nwent away sad, for he had great possessions.\n\n5 [10:23]And Jesus looking around said to his disciples, With what\ndifficulty shall those having riches enter into the kingdom of God!\n[10:24]And the disciples were astonished at his words.  But Jesus\nanswered again and said to them, Children, with what difficulty shall\nthose who trust in riches enter into the kingdom of God! [10:25]It is\neasier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle, than for a\nrich man to enter into the kingdom of God. [10:26]And they were greatly\nastonished, and said to themselves, Who then can be saved? [10:27]Jesus\nlooking on them, said, With men it is impossible, but not with God; for\nwith God all things are possible.\n\n6 [10:28]Peter said to him, Behold we have left all things and followed\nyou. [10:29]Jesus said, I tell you truly, there is no one who has left\na house, or brothers, or sisters, or a mother, or father, or children,\nor lands, for my sake, and for the sake of the good news, [10:30]who\nshall not receive a hundred fold now at this present time, houses, and\nbrethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with\npersecutions, and in the life to come eternal life. [10:31]But many\nfirst shall be last, and the last first.\n\n7 [10:32]And they were on the way going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus went\nbefore them; and they were amazed, and afraid, as they followed him.\nAnd again taking the twelve aside, he told them the things that were\nabout to befall him; [10:33] Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son\nof man will be delivered up to the chief priests and scribes, and they\nwill condemn him to death, and deliver him to the gentiles, [10:34]and\nthey will mock him, and spit on him, and scourge him, and kill him, and\nafter three days he shall rise again.\n\n8 [10:35]And James and John, sons of Zebedee, came to him, saying,\nTeacher, we wish you to do for us what we will ask of you. [10:36]And\nhe said to them, What do you wish me to do for you? [10:37]And they\nsaid to him, Grant us that we may sit one on your right hand, and the\nother on your left, in your glory.  [10:38] And Jesus said to them, You\nknow not what you ask. Can you drink of the cup of which I drink? or be\nbaptized with the baptism with which I am baptized? [10:39] And they\nsaid to him, We can. And Jesus said to them, You shall drink of the cup\nof which I drink, and be baptized with the baptism with which I am\nbaptized; [10:40]but to sit on my right hand, or left, is not mine to\ngive but to those for whom it is prepared.\n\n9 [10:41]And the ten, hearing this, were displeased with James and\nJohn. [10:42]And Jesus called them and said to them, You know that\nthose who desire to rule the gentiles exercise lordship over them, and\ntheir great men exercise authority over them; [10:43]but it shall not\nbe so with you. But whoever wishes to be great among you, let him be\nyour minister; [10:44]and whoever wishes to be first of you, let him be\na servant of all.  [10:45]For the Son of man also came not to be\nserved, but to serve and to give his life a ransom for many.\n\n10 [10:46]And they came to Jericho. And as he went from Jericho, and\nhis disciples and a great multitude, the son of Timeus, Bartimeus, a\nblind beggar, sat by the way. [10:47]And hearing that Jesus was the\nNazarene, he cried, saying, Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me.\n[10:48]And many charged him to be still.  But he cried much more, Son\nof David, have mercy on me.  [10:49]And Jesus stopping, said, Call him.\nAnd they called the blind man, saying to him, Be of good courage;\narise, he calls you. [10:50]And he cast aside his garment, and leaping\nup went to Jesus. [10:51]And Jesus answered him and said, What do you\nwish me to do for you? And the blind man said to him, Rabboni, that I\nmay receive my sight. [10:52]And Jesus said to him, Go; your faith has\ncured you. And he immediately received sight, and followed him in the\nway.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XI.\n\nCHRIST ENTERING JERUSALEM IN TRIUMPH, CURSING THE BARREN FIG TREE,\nPURIFYING THE TEMPLE, INCULCATING FAITH IN GOD, AND REPLYING TO THE\nPHARISEES.\n\n1 [11:1]AND when they came near to Jerusalem, at Bethphage and Bethany,\nat the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples, [11:2]and said to\nthem, Go into the village opposite to you, and as you enter it you will\nimmediately find a colt tied, on which no man ever sat; untie him and\nbring him. [11:3]And if any one says to you, Why do you do this? say,\nThe Lord has need of him, and he will immediately send him. [11:4]And\nthey went and found a colt tied at the door without, at the crossing of\nthe streets, and they untied him. [11:5]And some of those standing\nthere said to them, Why do you untie the colt? [11:6]And they said as\nJesus directed, and they let them go.\n\n2 [11:7]And they brought the colt to Jesus, and put on it their\nclothes, and he sat on it. [11:8]And many spread their clothes in the\nway; and others cutting branches from the trees spread them in the way;\n[11:9]and those who went before, and those who followed, cried,\nHosanna! Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord!\n[11:10]Blessed is the kingdom of our father David, which is coming!\nHosanna in the highest [heavens]! [11:11]And Jesus went into Jerusalem,\nand into the temple, and looking round on all things when it was now\nevening he went out to Bethany with the twelve.\n\n3 [11:12]And on the next day as they returned from Bethany he was\nhungry; [11:13]and seeing a fig tree at a distance having leaves, he\nwent to see if he could find any thing on it. And having come to it, he\nfound nothing except leaves, for it was not time for figs. [11:14]And\nhe spoke and said to it, Let no one eat fruit of you forever! And his\ndisciples heard him.\n\n4 [11:15]And they came to Jerusalem, and going into the temple he cast\nout those that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables\nof the brokers, and the seats of those that sold doves, [11:16]and\npermitted no one to carry a vessel through the temple. [11:17]And he\ntaught them, saying, It is written, my house shall be called a house of\nprayer for all nations; but you have made it a den of robbers.\n[11:18]And the scribes and chief priests came and sought how they might\ndestroy him, for they feared him, because all the people were\nastonished at his teaching. [11:19]And when it was evening he went out\nof the city.\n\n5 [11:20]And passing along in the morning, they saw the fig tree dried\nup from the roots. [11:21]And Peter remembering, said to him, Rabbi,\nbehold the fig tree which you cursed is dried up.  [11:22]And Jesus\nanswered and said to them, Have faith in God; [11:23]I tell you truly,\nthat whoever shall say to this mountain, be raised up and be cast into\nthe sea, and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that what\nhe says will be done, whatever he says shall be done for him.\n[11:24]Therefore I tell you, all things whatever which you ask in\nprayer, believe that you shall receive them, and you shall have them.\n[11:25] And when you stand praying, forgive if you have any thing\nagainst any, that your Father in heaven may also forgive your offenses.\n\n6 [11:27]And they came again to Jerusalem; and as he was walking in the\ntemple, the chief priests, and scribes, and elders came to him,\n[11:28]and said to him, By what authority do you do these things? or\nwho gave you this authority to do them? [11:29]And Jesus said to them,\nI will ask you one question; answer me, and I will tell you by what\nauthority I do these things. [11:30]The baptism of John; was it from\nheaven, or of men? answer me.  [11:31]And they reasoned with\nthemselves, saying, If we say from heaven, he will say, Why did you not\nbelieve him? [11:32]But if we say from men, they feared the people, for\nall considered John as a prophet indeed. [11:33]And they answered and\nsaid to Jesus, We do not know. And Jesus said to them, Neither do I\ntell you by what authority I do these things.\n\n7 [12:1]And he said to them, in parables, A man planted a vineyard and\nmade a hedge about it, and dug a wine-vat, and built a tower, and let\nit out to husbandmen, and went abroad. [12:2]And he sent a servant to\nthe husbandmen at the time to receive from the husbandmen of the fruits\nof the vineyard; [12:3] and they took him, and beat him, and sent him\naway empty. [12:4]And again he sent another servant to them, and they\nwounded him on the head, and treated him shamefully. [12:5]And he sent\nanother, and they killed him; and many others, and they beat some, and\nkilled some. [12:6]Having yet one beloved son, he sent him last to\nthem, saying, They will reverence my son.\n\n8 [12:7]But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir;\ncome, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.  [12:8]And\nseizing him, they killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.\n[12:9]What will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy\nthose husbandmen, and let the vineyard to others. [12:10]Have you not\nread this Scripture, The stone which the builders rejected, has become\nthe head of a corner; [12:11]this is from the Lord, and it is wonderful\nin our eyes?  [12:12]And they sought to take him, and feared the\nmultitude, for they knew that he spoke this parable against them. And\nthey left him, and went away.\n\n9 [12:13]And they sent to him some of the Pharisees and Herodians to\nensnare him in his words. [12:14]And they came and said to him,\nTeacher, we know that you are true, and care for no one, for you\nrespect not the face of men, but teach the way of God in truth. Is it\nlawful to pay tribute to Caesar or not? [12:15]Shall we pay? or shall\nwe not pay? But he knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, Why do you\ntry me? Bring me a denarius [14 cents], that I may see it. [12:16]And\nthey brought him one. And he said to them, Whose is this figure, and\nthe inscription? And they said to him, Caesar's. [12:17]And Jesus said,\nRender Caesar's dues to Caesar, and God's to God. And they wondered at\nhim.\n\n10 [12:18]And the Sadducees came to him, who say there is no\nresurrection, and asked him, saying, [12:19]Teacher, Moses wrote to us,\nthat if one's brother dies and leaves a wife, and leaves no child, his\nbrother shall take his wife and raise up children for his brother.\n[12:20]There were seven brothers; and the first took a wife and died,\nand left no child; [12:21]and the second took her, and died leaving no\nchild; and the third in like manner. [12:22]And the seven left no\nchild. Last of all, the woman died also. [12:23]In the resurrection,\nwhen they rise, whose wife shall she be? for the seven had her as a\nwife.  [12:24]Jesus said to them, Do you not err on this account, not\nknowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God? [12:25]For when they rise\nfrom the dead, they neither marry nor are married, but are like angels\nin heaven. [12:26]But concerning the dead, that they rise, have you not\nread in the book of Moses, how God spoke to him at the bush, saying, I\nam the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?\n[12:27]He is not a God of the dead, but of the living; you greatly err.\n\n11 [12:28]And one of the scribes coming forward hearing them disputing,\nknowing that he answered them well, asked him, What commandment is\nfirst of all? [12:29] Jesus answered, First is, Hear Israel, the Lord\nour God is one Lord; [12:30]and you shall love the Lord your God with\nall your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength.\n[12:31]Second is this, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There\nis no other commandment greater than these. [12:32]And the scribe said\nto him, Well, teacher, you have said truly; there is one [God], and no\nother but him; [12:33]and to love him with all the heart, and all the\nunderstanding, and all the strength, and to love one's neighbor as\nhimself, is more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices. [12:34]And\nJesus seeing him, that he answered understandingly, said to him, You\nare not far from the kingdom of God; and no one dared to question him\nmore.\n\n12 [12:35]And Jesus answered and said, teaching in the temple, How do\nthe scribes say that the Christ is the Son of David?  [12:36]David\nhimself said, by the Holy Spirit, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit on my\nright hand, till I make your enemies your footstool. [12:37]David\nhimself calls him Lord, and whence is he his son? And the great\nmultitude heard him gladly.\n\n13 [12:38]And he said to them in his teaching, Beware of the scribes\nwho desire to walk in long robes, and desire salutations in the\nmarkets, [12:39]and the first seats in the synagogues, and the first\nplaces at feasts; [12:40]who devour widows' houses, and for a pretence\nmake long prayers. They shall receive a greater judgment.\n\n14 [12:41]And sitting opposite to the treasury, he observed how the\nmultitude cast copper into the treasury. And many rich men cast in\nmuch; [12:42]and one poor widow came and cast in two lepta, which is a\nquadrans [4 mills]. [12:43] And calling his disciples, he said to them,\nI tell you truly, that this poor widow has cast in more than all who\nhave cast into the treasury.  [12:44]For all [others] have cast in of\ntheir abundance; but she of her want has cast in all that she had her\nentire living.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XII.\n\nCHRIST PREDICTING THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM, AND OF THE JEWISH\nCOMMONWEALTH.\n\n1 [13:1]AND as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples said to\nhim, Teacher, see what stones, and what buildings!  [13:2]And Jesus\nsaid to him, Do you see these great buildings?  There shall not be left\na stone upon a stone, which shall not be thrown down. [13:3]And as he\nsat on the mount of Olives, opposite to the temple, Peter, and James,\nand John, and Andrew, asked him privately, [13:4]Tell us when shall\nthese things be? And what shall be the sign when all these things are\nabout to be accomplished? [13:5]And Jesus said to them, See that no man\ndeceives you; [13:6]for many shall come in my name, saying, I am [the\nChrist], and shall deceive many. [13:7]And when you hear of wars and\nrumors of wars, be not afraid, for these things must be; but the end is\nnot yet. [13:8]For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom\nagainst kingdom, and there shall be earthquakes in [different] places,\nand there shall be famines.  These are the beginnings of sorrows.\n\n2 [13:9]But take heed to yourselves; they shall deliver you up to\nSanhedrims, and you shall be beaten in synagogues, and shall be brought\nbefore governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them.\n[13:10]And the good news must first be preached to all nations.\n[13:11]And when they deliver you to afflictions, be not anxious\nbeforehand what you shall say; but whatever is given you in that hour,\nthis speak; for it is not you that speak, but the Holy Spirit.\n[13:12]And brother shall deliver brother to death, and father, son; and\nchildren shall rise up against their parents and kill them; [13:13]and\nyou shall be hated by all on my account; but he that endures to the end\nshall be saved.\n\n3 [13:14]And when you see the abomination of desolation standing where\nit ought not, let him that reads understand, then let those in Judea\nflee to the mountains; [13:15]and let not him that is on the house go\ndown into the house, nor enter to take any thing out of his house;\n[13:16]and let not him that is in the field turn back to take his\ngarment. [13:17]And woe to those with child, and those giving nurse in\nthose days! [13:18]But pray that it may not be in the winter,\n[13:19]for those days shall be an affliction, such as has not been from\nthe beginning of the creation that God created till now, and shall not\nbe. [13:20]And unless the Lord had shortened those days no flesh would\nbe saved; but for the elects' sake, whom he has chosen, he has\nshortened the days.\n\n4 [13:21]And then if any one says to you, Behold the Christ is here!\nBehold there! believe it not. [13:22]For false prophets shall arise,\nand perform miracles and wonders, to deceive, if possible, the elect.\n[13:23]But beware; I have foretold you all things.\n\n5 [13:24]But in those days, after that affliction, the sun shall be\ndarkened, and the moon shall not give her light, [13:25]and the stars\nshall fall from heaven, and the powers in the heavens shall be shaken.\n[13:26]And then shall they see the Son of man coming in clouds, with\ngreat power and glory. [13:27] And then shall he send his angels and\ngather together the elect, from the four winds, from the end of the\nearth to the end of heaven.\n\n6 [13:28]But learn the parable of the fig tree. When its branch is now\ntender and it puts forth leaves, it is known that the summer is nigh;\n[13:29]so also when you see all these things occur, know that [the Son\nof man] is nigh, at the doors. [13:30]I tell you truly, that this\ngeneration shall not pass away till all these things are accomplished.\n[13:31]Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass\naway. [13:32]But of that day, and hour, knows no man, not an angel in\nheaven, nor the Son; but the Father. [13:33]Observe, watch, for you\nknow not when the time is.\n\n7 [13:34]As a man leaving his house to go abroad, and giving authority\nto his servants, and to each one his work, commanded the porter to\nwatch, [13:35] watch, therefore, for you know not when the master of\nthe house comes; at evening, at midnight, at the cock crowing, or in\nthe morning; [13:36]lest, coming suddenly, he should find you sleeping.\n[13:37]And what I say to you, I say to all, Watch.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XIII.\n\nCHRIST AT BETHANY, THE CONSPIRACY OF JUDAS, THE PASCHAL AND LORD'S\nSUPPER, ETC.\n\n1 [14:1]AND after two days was the passover and the unleavened bread.\nAnd the chief priests and scribes sought how they might take him by\ndeception, and kill him. [14:2]But they said, Not at the feast, lest\nthere be a tumult of the people. [14:3]And when he was at Bethany, and\nwas reclining at the house of Simon the leper, a woman came, having a\nvase of ointment of genuine nard, extremely costly, and breaking the\nvase she poured it out on his head.\n\n2 [14:4]And some were displeased, [and said] to themselves, Why was\nthis waste of the ointment? [14:5]For this ointment could have been\nsold for more than three hundred denarii [$42] and given to the poor;\nand they blamed her. [14:6] But Jesus said, Let her alone; why do you\ntrouble her? She has performed a good work on me. [14:7]The poor you\nhave always with you, and you can do them good when you will; but me\nyou have not always. [14:8]She has done what she could. She anticipated\nanointing my body for the burial. [14:9]I tell you truly, that wherever\nthis good news shall be preached in all the world, this also which she\nhas done shall be told for a memorial of her.\n\n3 [14:10]And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went to the chief\npriests to betray him to them. [14:11]And when they heard him they were\nglad, and promised to give him money. And he sought how he might betray\nhim at a convenient time.\n\n4 [14:12]And on the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the\npassover, his disciples said to him, Where do you wish us to go and\nprepare to eat the passover? [14:13]And he sent two of his disciples,\nand said to them, Go into the city, and a man shall meet you bearing an\nearthen pitcher of water. Follow him, [14:14]and where he enters in,\nsay to the master of the house, The teacher says, where is the public\nroom in which I may eat the passover with my disciples? [14:15]And he\nwill show you a large upper room, furnished, ready; and there prepare\nfor us.  [14:16]And his disciples went out, and came into the city, and\nfound as he had said to them, and prepared the passover.\n\n5 [14:17]And when it was evening he came, with the twelve, [14:18]And\nas they reclined, and were eating, Jesus said, I tell you truly, that\none of you who eats with me will betray me.  [14:19]And they were\nsorry, and said to him, one by one, Is it I?  And another, Is it I?\n[14:20]And he said to them, It is one of the twelve who dips with me in\nthe dish. [14:21]The Son of man goes indeed as it is written of him,\nbut woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! It would be\ngood for him if that man had not been born.\n\n6 [14:22]And as they eat he took the bread, and having blessed, broke\nand, gave to them, and said, Take, this is my body.  [14:23]And he took\nthe cup, and having given thanks gave them, and they all drank of it.\n[14:24]And he said to them, This is my blood of the covenant, which is\npoured out for many. [14:25]I tell you truly, that I will drink of the\nproduct of the vine no more till that day when I drink it new in the\nkingdom of God.  [14:26]And having sung a hymn they went out to the\nMount of Olives.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XIV.\n\nCHRIST AT THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, AND IN GETHSEMANE.\n\n1 [14:27]AND Jesus said to them, You will all be offended; for it is\nwritten, I will smite the shepherd and the sheep shall be scattered;\n[14:28]but after I am raised I will go before you into Galilee.\n[14:29]But Peter said to him, Even if all should be offended, yet I\nwill not. [14:30]And Jesus said to him, I tell you truly, that to-day,\non this night, before the cock crows twice, you will deny me thrice.\n[14:31]And he said, more strongly, If it should be necessary for me to\ndie with you I will by no means deny you; and they all said the same.\n\n2 [14:32]And they came to a place which was called Gethsemane; and he\nsaid to his disciples, Sit here, till I pray. [14:33]And he took Peter,\nand James, and John with him, and began to be amazed and dejected.\n[14:34]And he said to them, My soul is extremely sorrowful, even to\ndeath; remain here and watch.  [14:35] And going forward a little he\nfell on the ground, and prayed that, if it was possible, the hour might\npass away from him. [14:36]And he said, Abba, father, all things are\npossible to thee. Take away this cup from me; but not what I will but\nwhat thou wilt. [14:37]And he came and found them sleeping, and said to\nPeter, Simon, do you sleep? Could you not watch one hour?  [14:38]Watch\nand pray that you enter not into trial; the spirit indeed is willing,\nbut flesh is weak. [14:39]And again going away he prayed, saying the\nsame words. [14:40]And again coming he found them sleeping; for their\neyes were heavy; and they knew not what to answer him. [14:41]And he\ncame a third time, and said to them, Sleep henceforth, and be\nrefreshed. It is enough; the hour has come. Behold, the Son of man is\nbetrayed into the hands of sinners! [14:42]arise, let us go; behold, he\nthat betrays me is at hand!\n\n3 [14:43]And immediately, while he was yet speaking, Judas the\nIscariot, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude, with\nswords and clubs, from the chief priests, and scribes, and elders.\n[14:44]And the traitor had given them this signal, saying, Whom I shall\nkiss, he is the one; take him, and lead him away safely. [14:45]And\ncoming, he immediately approached him, and said, Rabbi! Rabbi! and\nkissed him.  [14:46]And they laid hands on him and took him.\n\n4 [14:47]And one of those who stood by drew a sword and struck the\nservant of the chief priest, and cut off his car. [14:48]And Jesus\nanswered and said to them, Have you come out as against a robber, with\nswords and clubs to apprehend me? [14:49]I was daily with you in the\ntemple teaching, and you did not take me. But [it was done] that the\nScriptures might be fulfilled. [14:50]And all forsook him and fled.\n[14:51]And one young man followed him with a linen cloth wrapped about\nhis naked body. And the young men caught him; [14:52]and leaving the\nlinen cloth he escaped from them naked.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XV.\n\nCHRIST BEFORE THE SANHEDRIM, AND BEFORE PILATE.\n\n1 [14:53]AND they led away Jesus to the chief priest; and all the chief\npriests, and elders, and scribes came together to him.  [14:54]And\nPeter followed him at a distance, till he came into the court of the\nchief priest; and he sat with the officers and warmed himself before\nthe light. [14:55]And the chief priests and all the Sanhedrim sought\ntestimony against Jesus to kill him, and did not find it. [14:56]For\nmany testified falsely against him, but their testimony did not agree;\n[14:57]and some arose and testified falsely against him, saying,\n[14:58]We heard him say, I will destroy this temple made with hands,\nand in three days will build another made without hands. [14:59]And\nneither in this did their testimony agree. [14:60]And the chief priest\nstanding up in the midst asked Jesus, saying, Do you not answer any\nthing to what these testify against you? [14:61]And he was silent, and\nanswered nothing.\n\n2 Again the chief priest asked him, and said to him, Are you the\nChrist, the Son of the Blessed? [14:62]And Jesus said, I am; and you\nshall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of the power, and\ncoming with the clouds of heaven. [14:63]And the high priest rent his\nclothes, and said, What further need have we of witnesses? [14:64]You\nhave heard the blasphemy; what do you think? And they all condemned him\nto be deserving of death.  [14:65]And some spit on him; and they\nblindfolded him, and beat him with the fist, and said to him, Prophesy.\nAnd the officers beat him with open hands.\n\n3 [14:66]And Peter being in the court below, one of the female servants\nof the chief priest came, [14:67]and seeing Peter warming himself,\nlooked at him, and said, You also were with Jesus the Nazarene.\n[14:68]But he denied it, saying, I do not know [him]; neither do I know\nwhat you say. And he went out into the porch, and a cock crew.\n[14:69]And the female servant seeing him said to those standing by,\nThis is one of them. [14:70]But he again denied it. And after a short\ntime those standing by again said to Peter, You are certainly one of\nthem, for you are also a Galilean. [14:71]And he cursed and swore, I\nknow not this man of whom you speak. [14:72]And a cock crew a second\ntime. And Peter was reminded of the word, how Jesus said to him, Before\na cock crows twice, you will deny me thrice. And he wept bitterly.\n\n4 [15:1]And immediately in the morning, the chief priests taking\ncounsel with the elders, and scribes, and all the Sanhedrim, bound\nJesus, and brought and delivered him to Pilate. [15:2]And Pilate asked\nhim, Are you the king of the Jews? And Jesus answered and said to him,\nAs you say. [15:3]And the chief priests accused him of many things.\n[15:4]And Pilate again asked him saying, Do you answer nothing? see how\nmany things they charge against you. [15:5]And Jesus answered him not\nany more; so that Pilate wondered.\n\n5 [15:6]And at the feast he released to them a prisoner, whomsoever\nthey chose. [15:7]And there was a man called Barabbas, bound with the\ninsurgents, who had committed murder in a sedition. [15:8]And the\nmultitude went up and requested as he had always done to them.\n[15:9]And Pilate answered them, saying, Do you wish me to release to\nyou the king of the Jews? [15:10]For he knew that the chief priests had\ndelivered him up from envy.  [15:11]But the chief priests moved the\npeople that he should rather release Barabbas to them.\n\n6 [15:12]And Pilate again answered and said to them, What, then, do you\nwish me to do to him whom you call the king of the Jews?  [15:13]And\nthey cried again, Crucify him! [15:14]And Pilate said to them, [Why]?\nfor what evil has he done? But they cried more violently, Crucify him!\n[15:15]And Pilate wishing to satisfy the multitude released to them\nBarabbas; and having scourged Jesus delivered him up to be crucified.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XVI.\n\nCHRIST CRUCIFIED, HIS DEATH, BURIAL AND RESURRECTION.\n\n1 [15:16]AND the soldiers led him away into the court which is the\nPraetorium, and called together all the cohort. [15:17]And they put on\nhim a purple garment, and plaiting a thorny crown put it on him.\n[15:18]And they saluted him, Hail, king of the Jews!  [15:19]And they\nstruck his head with a reed, and beat him, and kneeling down worshipped\nhim. [15:20]And when they had mocked him they took off the purple\ngarment, and put on him his own clothes, and they led him away to\ncrucify him, [15:21]and compelled one Simon, a Cyrenian, who was\npassing along, coming from the country, the father of Alexander and\nRufus, to bear his cross.\n\n2 [15:22]And they brought him to Golgotha, which is interpreted A place\nof a cranium, [15:23]and gave him wine mingled with myrrh; but he did\nnot take it. [15:24]And they crucified him, and divided his clothes,\ncasting lots for them which should take any thing. [15:25]And it was\nthe third hour when they crucified him, [15:26]and the inscription of\nhis accusation was written, THE KING OF THE JEWS.\n\n3 [15:27]And they crucified with him two robbers, one on his right hand\nand the other on his left. [15:29]And those who passed by reviled him,\nwagging their heads, and saying, Aha, you that destroy the temple and\nbuild it in three days! [15:30]save yourself, and come down from the\ncross. [15:31]In like manner also the chief priests mocking him, with\nthe scribes, said one to another, He saved others; himself he cannot\nsave; [15:32]let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the\ncross, that we may see and believe. And those crucified with him\nreproached him.\n\n4 [15:33]And when it was the sixth hour, there was darkness over all\nthe earth till the ninth hour. [15:34]And at the ninth hour Jesus cried\nwith a loud voice, saying, Eloi! Eloi! lama sabachthani? which is\ninterpreted, my God! my God! why hast thou forsaken me? [15:35]And some\nof those standing by, hearing him, said, See, he calls Elijah.\n[15:36]And one ran, and filled a sponge with vinegar, and putting it on\na reed gave it to him to drink, saying, Let him alone; let us see if\nElijah will come to take him down.\n\n5 [15:37]And Jesus crying with a loud voice, expired. [15:38]And the\nvail of the temple was rent in two, from top to bottom; [15:39]and the\ncenturion who stood near, opposite to him, seeing that he so expired,\nsaid, Truly, this man was a Son of God.\n\n6 [15:40]And the women also saw from afar, among whom were Mary the\nMagdalene and Mary the mother of James the less, and of Joset, and\nSalome, [15:41]who also followed him when he was in Galilee, and waited\non him, and many others who had come up with him to Jerusalem.\n\n7 [15:42]And when it was now evening, because it was the preparation,\nwhich is before the sabbath, [15:43]Joseph came, who was from\nArimathea, an honorable counsellor, who also himself expected the\nkingdom of God, and went in boldly to Pilate and asked for the body of\nJesus. [15:44]And Pilate wondered that he was already dead; and calling\nthe centurion asked him if he had been dead for some time. [15:45]And\nknowing [his death,] from the centurion, he gave the body to Joseph.\n[15:46]And having bought linen, he took him down and wrapped him in the\nlinen, and placed him in a tomb which was cut from a rock, and rolled a\nstone against the door of the tomb. [15:47]And Mary the Magdalene and\nMary the mother of Joset saw where he was laid.\n\n8 [16:1]And when the sabbath was passed, Mary the Magdalene and Mary\nthe mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come\nand anoint him. [16:2] And very early in the morning, on the first day\nof the week, they came to the tomb at the rising of the sun. [16:3]And\nthey said to themselves, Who will roll away the stone for us from the\ndoor of the tomb?-- [16:4]and looking up they saw that the stone was\nrolled away--for it was very great.\n\n9 [16:5]And coming to the tomb they saw a young man sitting on the\nright side, clothed with a white robe; and they were astonished.\n[16:6]And he said to them, Be not astonished; you seek Jesus the\nNazarene, who was crucified. He is raised; he is not here. See the\nplace where they laid him. [16:7]But go, tell his disciples and Peter\nthat he goes before you to Galilee; there you shall see him as he said\nto you. [16:8]And they went out and fled from the tomb; and trembling\nand amazement seized them; and they said nothing to any one, for they\nwere afraid.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XVII.\n\nAN ADDITION BY AN UNKNOWN WRITER.\n\n1 [16:9]AND having arisen early on the first day of the week, he\nappeared first to Mary the Magdalene from whom he had cast out seven\ndemons. [16:10]She went and told those who had been with him, who were\nweeping and lamenting; [16:11] and when they heard that he was alive,\nand had been seen by her, they did not believe it.\n\n2 [16:12]Afterwards he appeared in another form to two of them as they\nwalked, going into the country. [16:13]And they went and announced it\nto the rest; they did not believe it.\n\n3 [16:14]And afterwards he appeared to the eleven, as they reclined,\nand reproached their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they\nbelieved not those who had seen him since he rose from the dead.\n[16:15]And he said to them, Go into all the world, preach the good news\nto all the creation; [16:16]he that believes and is baptized shall be\nsaved, but he that disbelieves shall be condemned. [16:17]And these\nsigns shall follow those that believe; in my name they shall cast out\ndemons, they shall speak with new tongues, [16:18]they shall take up\nserpents, and if they drink any deadly [poison] it shall not hurt them;\nand they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall be well.\n\n4 [16:19]Then the Lord, after speaking with them, was taken up to\nheaven, and sat on the right hand of God. [16:20]And they went abroad\nand preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the\nword by the accompanying miracles.\n\n\n\n\nTHE GOSPEL OF LUKE.\n\n\nCHAPTER I.\n\nINTRODUCTION, AND THE TWO ANNUNCIATIONS.\n\n1 [1:1]SINCE many have undertaken to arrange a complete digest of the\nthings fully believed among us, [1:2]as they delivered them to us who,\nfrom the beginning, were eye witnesses and ministers of the word,\n[1:3]it seemed good to me also, having traced all things accurately\nfrom the first, to write in order to you, most excellent Theophilus,\n[1:4]that you may know the certainty of the words concerning which you\nhave been taught.\n\n2 [1:5]In the days of Herod the king of Judea, there was a certain\npriest by the name of Zachariah, of the class of Abijah; and his wife\nwas of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. [1:6]And\nthey were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments\nand ordinances of the Lord blameless.  [1:7] And they had no son,\nbecause Elizabeth was barren, and both were advanced in years.\n\n3 [1:8]And when he was performing the priest's office in the order of\nhis class before God, it fell to his lot, [1:9]according to the custom\nof the priesthood, to go into the temple of the Lord to burn incense;\n[1:10]and all the multitude of the people were praying without, at the\nhour of incense. [1:11]And an angel of the Lord appeared to him,\nstanding on the right side of the altar of incense; [1:12]and Zachariah\nwas troubled when he saw him, and fear fell upon him.\n\n4 [1:13]And the angel said to him, Fear not, Zachariah, for your prayer\nis heard, and your wife Elizabeth shall bear you a son; and you shall\ncall his name John. [1:14]And he shall be to you a joy and rejoicing;\nand many shall rejoice at his birth; [1:15]for he shall be great in the\nsight of the Lord, and shall not drink wine and strong drink, but shall\nbe filled with the Holy Spirit even from his birth; [1:16]and many of\nthe children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God. [1:17]And\nhe shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the\nhearts of fathers to children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the\nrighteous, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord. [1:18] And\nZachariah said to the angel, By what shall I know this? for I am an old\nman, and my wife advanced in years. [1:19]And the angel answered and\nsaid to him, I am Gabriel, who stand before God; and I was sent to\nspeak to you, and to tell you this good news.  [1:20]And behold you\nshall be silent, and not able to speak, till the day these things are\naccomplished; because you have not believed my words, which shall be\nfulfilled in their time.\n\n5 [1:21]And the people waited for Zachariah, and wondered that he staid\nso long in the temple. [1:22]And when he came out he could not speak to\nthem; and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple. And\nhe made signs to them, and continued dumb.  [1:23]And when the days of\nhis service were completed he departed to his house. [1:24]And after\nthese days Elizabeth his wife became pregnant, and hid herself five\nmonths, saying, [1:25]Thus has the Lord dealt with me, in the days in\nwhich he looked upon me to take away my reproach among men.\n\n6 [1:26]And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a\ncity of Galilee, by the name of Nazareth, [1:27]to a virgin espoused to\na man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the name of the\nvirgin was Mary. [1:28]And coming in to her, he said, Hail, favored\none! The Lord is with you! [1:29]And she was troubled at his word, and\ndoubted what this salutation meant.  [1:30]And the angel said to her,\nFear not, Mary, for you have found favor with God. [1:31]And behold you\nshall be with child, and bear a son, and shall call his name Jesus.\n[1:32]He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Most High.\nAnd the Lord God shall give him the throne of David his father,\n[1:33]and he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his\nkingdom there shall be no end.\n\n7 [1:34]And Mary said to the angel, How shall this be, since I know not\na man? [1:35]And the angel answered and said to her, The Holy Spirit\nshall come upon you, and the power of the Most High shall overshadow\nyou; and on that account the holy child shall be called the Son of God.\n[1:36]And behold Elizabeth, your relative, even she is pregnant with a\nson in her old age, and this is the sixth month to her called barren;\n[1:37]for nothing is impossible with God. [1:38] And Mary said, Behold,\nI am the servant of the Lord! Let it be to me according to your word.\nAnd the angel departed from her.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER II.\n\nMARYS VISIT TO ELIZABETH, AND THE BIRTH OF JOHN.\n\n1 [1:39]AND Mary arose in those days and went in haste to the\nmountainous country, to the city of Juda. [1:40]And she went unto the\nhouse of Zachariah and saluted Elizabeth. [1:41]And when Elizabeth\nheard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb. And\nElizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit, [1:42]and cried with a loud\nvoice, and said, Blessed are you among women!  and blessed is the fruit\nof your womb! [1:43]And whence is this to me, that the mother of my\nLord has come to me? [1:44]For, behold, when the voice of your\nsalutation came to my ears, the babe leaped in my womb with exultation.\n[1:45] And blessed is she that believed; for there shall be an\naccomplishment of the words spoken to her by the Lord.\n\n2 [1:46]And Mary said, My soul magnifies the Lord, [1:47]and my spirit\nexults in God my Saviour; [1:48]for he has looked on the low condition\nof his servant; for, behold, from this time all generations shall call\nme blessed, [1:49] because the mighty One has done great things for me,\nand holy is his name; [1:50]and his mercy is to generations and\ngenerations of them that fear him.  [1:51]He has made strong his arm;\nhe has scattered the proud with the thought of their hearts; [1:52]he\nhas brought down the mighty from thrones, and exalted the humble;\n[1:53]he has filled the hungry with goods, and sent the rich away\nempty. [1:54]He has helped Israel his servant, and remembered his\nmercy, [1:55] as he said to our fathers, to Abraham and his posterity\nforever.  [1:56]And Mary remained with her about three months, and\nreturned to her house.\n\n3 [1:57]And when Elizabeth's time to bear had fully come, she bore a\nson; [1:58]and her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had\nmagnified his mercy to her, and congratulated her.  [1:59]And they came\non the eighth day to circumcise the little child, and called it by the\nname of its father, Zachariah.  [1:60]And his mother answered and said,\nNo; but he shall be called John. [1:61] And they said to her, There is\nno one of your relations who is called by this name; [1:62]and they\nmade signs to his father, what he wished it to be called. [1:63]And\nasking for a writing-tablet, he wrote, saying, His name is John. And\nall wondered. [1:64]And his mouth was immediately opened, and his\ntongue [loosed], and he spoke and blessed God. [1:65]And fear came on\nall living around them. All these things were talked of in all the\nmountainous country of Judea. [1:66]And all who heard laid them to\nheart, saying, What then is this child to be? For the hand of the Lord\nwas also with him.\n\n4 [1:67]And Zachariah his father was filled with the Holy Spirit, and\nprophesied, saying, [1:68]Blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel,\nbecause he has visited and redeemed his people, [1:69]and raised up a\nhorn of salvation for us in the house of David his servant; [1:70]as he\nsaid by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old; [1:71]A salvation\nfrom our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us, [1:72]to\nperform his mercy with our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant,\n[1:73]the oath which he swore to Abraham our father, [1:74]to grant us\nwithout fear, being delivered from the hand of our enemies, to serve\nhim [1:75]in holiness and righteousness before him all our days.\n[1:76]And you, little child, shall be called a prophet of the Most\nHigh; for you shall go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways,\n[1:77]to give a knowledge of salvation to his people, with a\nforgiveness of sins, [1:78]on account of the compassionate mercies of\nour God, by which a morning from on high has visited us, [1:79]to\nilluminate those sitting in darkness and the shade of death, to direct\nour feet in the way of peace. [1:80]And the child grew, and became\nstrong in spirit, and was in the wilderness till the day of his\nmanifestation to Israel.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER III.\n\nTHE BIRTH OF CHRIST, HIS INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD.\n\n1 [2:1]In those days there went out an ordinance from Caesar Augustus\nthat a census should be taken of all the world.  [2:2]This first census\nwas taken when Cyrenius was proconsul of Syria. [2:3]And all went to be\nenrolled, each one to his own city. [2:4]And Joseph went up from\nGalilee, from the city of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David,\nwhich is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of\nDavid, [2:5]to be enrolled with Mary his espoused [wife,] who was with\nchild. [2:6]And while they were there the days for her delivery were\ncompleted; [2:7]and she bore her first-born son, and wrapped him in\nbandages, and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them\nin the khan.\n\n2 [2:8]And there were shepherds in that country staying in the fields\nand watching their flock by night. [2:9]And behold, an angel of the\nLord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and\nthey were greatly afraid. [2:10]And the angel said to them, Fear not;\nfor, behold, I bring you good news of a great joy, which shall be for\nall people. [2:11]For to you was born to-day in the city of David, a\nSaviour who is the anointed Lord. [2:12]And this shall be a sign to\nyou. You shall find the babe wrapped in bandages, lying in a manger.\n[2:13]And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly\nhost, praising God, and saying, [2:14]Glory to God in the highest\n[heavens], on earth peace, and among men good will!\n\n3 [2:15]And when the angels had departed from them to heaven, the\nshepherds said one to another, Let us go now to Bethlehem, and see this\nthing which has occurred, which the Lord has made known to us.\n[2:16]And they came in haste, and found Mary and Joseph, and the babe\nlying in the manger. [2:17]And when they saw it they related the word\nspoken to them concerning this child; [2:18] and all who heard wondered\nat the things told them by the shepherds.  [2:19]But Mary kept all\nthese words, revolving them in her mind.  [2:20]And the shepherds\nreturned, glorifying and praising God for all that they had heard and\nseen, as it was told them.\n\n4 [2:21]And when eight days were completed, [the time] to circumcise\nhim, his name was called Jesus, the name given him by the angel before\nhe was conceived in the womb. [2:22]And when the days of their\npurification were completed according to the law of Moses, they carried\nhim up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord, [2:23]as it is written\nin the law of the Lord that every male which is a first born shall be\ncalled holy to the Lord, [2:24]and to offer a sacrifice according to\nwhat is said in the law of the Lord, A pair of turtle doves, or two\nyoung pigeons.\n\n5 [2:25]And behold, there was a man at Jerusalem whose name was Simeon;\nand this man was just and pious, waiting for the consolation of Israel,\nand the Holy Spirit was on him. [2:26]And he was informed by the Holy\nSpirit that he should not see death till he had seen the Lord's\nanointed. [2:27]And he came by the spirit into the temple, and when the\nparents brought in the child Jesus, to do according to the custom of\nthe law concerning him, [2:28]he also took it in his arms, and blessed\nGod, and said, [2:29]Now, Master, dismiss thy servant according to thy\nword, in peace; [2:30]for my eyes have seen thy salvation, [2:31]which\nthou hast prepared before all people; [2:32]a light for enlightening\nGentiles, and a glory of thy people Israel.  [2:33]And his father and\nmother wondered at the words spoken of him.\n\n6 [2:34]And Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary his mother, Behold,\nthis child is set for the fall and rise of many in Israel, and for a\nsign spoken against, [2:35]and a sword shall pierce your own soul also,\nthat the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.\n\n7 [2:36]And there was Anna, a prophetess, a daughter of Phanuel, of the\ntribe of Asher; she was far advanced in years, having lived with a\nhusband seven years from her virginity; [2:37]and she had been a widow\neighty-four years, and departed not from the temple, serving God night\nand day with fastings and prayers.  [2:38]And she coming by at that\ntime, praised God, and spoke of him [the child] to all who expected a\nredemption in Jerusalem.  [2:39]And when they had finished all things\naccording to the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their\ncity Nazareth.  [2:40]And the little child grew, and became strong,\nbeing filled with wisdom; and the grace of God was upon it.\n\n8 [2:41]And his parents went up yearly to Jerusalem to the feast of the\npassover. [2:42]And when he was twelve years old they went up to\nJerusalem, according to the custom of the feast. [2:43]And having\ncompleted the days, on their return, the child Jesus remained behind at\nJerusalem. And his parents knew it not.  [2:44]But supposing that he\nwas in the company went a day's journey and sought him among their\nrelations and acquaintances.  [2:45]And not finding him they returned\nto Jerusalem to seek him.  [2:46]And after three days they found him\nsitting in the temple in the midst of the teachers, both hearing and\nquestioning them.  [2:47]And all who heard him were astonished at his\nunderstanding and his answers.\n\n9 [2:48]And when they saw him they were astonished; and his mother said\nto him, Son, why have you dealt thus with us? Behold, your father and I\nhave sought you with sorrow. [2:49]And he said to them, Why did you\nseek me? did you not know that I must be in [the courts] of my father?\n[2:50]And they understood not the word which he spoke to them.\n[2:51]And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject\nto them. And his mother kept all these things in her heart. [2:52]And\nJesus advanced in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER IV.\n\nTHE MINISTRY OF JOHN THE BAPTIST, CHRIST'S BAPTISM AND GENEALOGY.\n\n1 [3:1]AND in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar,\nPontius Pilate being procurator of Judea, and Herod tetrarch of\nGalilee, and Philip his brother tetrarch of Ituria and the country of\nTrachonitis, and Lysanias being tetrarch of Abilene, [3:2]under the\nchief priest Annas, and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son\nof Zachariah, in the wilderness. [3:3]And he went into all the region\nabout the Jordan, preaching the baptism of a change of mind for the\nforgiveness of sins; [3:4]as it is written in the book of the words of\nIsaiah the prophet; A voice of one crying in the wilderness, prepare\nthe way of the Lord, make his paths straight. [3:5]Every ravine shall\nbe filled up, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the\ncrooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways smooth; [3:6]and all\nflesh shall see the salvation of God.\n\n2 [3:7]Then John said to the multitudes who went out to be baptized by\nhim, Offspring of vipers, who has warned you to flee from the wrath to\ncome? [3:8] Bear fruits, therefore, worthy of a change of mind. And say\nnot within yourselves, We have Abraham for a father; for I tell you\nthat God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham.\n[3:9]And already also the axe lies at the root of the trees; every tree\ntherefore which bears not good fruit, is cut down and cast into the\nfire. [3:10]And the multitudes asked him, saying, What then shall we\ndo? [3:11]And he answered and said to them, Let him that has two coats\ngive to him that has none; and let him that has food do the same.\n[3:12]And publicans, also, came to be baptized, and said to him,\nTeacher, what shall we do? [3:13]And he said to them, Do nothing more\nthan is appointed for you. [3:14]And the soldiers asked him, saying,\nAnd what shall we do? And he said to them, Oppress, and falsely accuse,\nno one; and be contented with your wages.\n\n3 [3:15]And the people being in expectation, and all doubting in their\nminds concerning John, whether he was the Christ, [3:16]John answered\nall, saying, I indeed baptize you with water, but a mightier than I is\ncoming, the strings of whose shoes I am not fit to untie; he shall\nbaptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. [3:17]His winnowing shovel\nis in his hand, and he will thoroughly clean his threshing floor, and\ngather the wheat into his storehouse; but the chaff he will burn with\nan inextinguishable fire.\n\n4 [3:18]With many other exhortations, also, he preached the good news\nto the people. [3:19]But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him on\naccount of Herodias his brother's wife and for all the evil deeds which\nHerod had done, [3:20]added also this to all, and shut up John in\nprison.\n\n5 [3:21]And when all the people were baptized, Jesus also being\nbaptized, and praying, heaven was opened, [3:22]and the Holy Spirit\ndescended in a bodily form like a dove upon him; and there was a voice\nfrom heaven, saying, You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.\n\n6 [3:23]And Jesus was about thirty years old, being, as was supposed,\nthe son of Joseph, the son of Eli, [3:24]the son of Matthat, the son of\nLevi, the son of Melchi, the son of Jannai, the son of Joseph,\n[3:25]the son of Mattathias, the son of Amos, the son of Nahum, the son\nof Esli, the son of Naggai, [3:26] the son of Maath, the son of\nMattathias, the son of Shimei, the son of Josech, the son of Juda,\n[3:27]the son of Joannas, the son of Resa, the son of Zerubabel, the\nson of Shealtiel, the son of Neri, [3:28]the son of Melchi, the son of\nAddi, the son of Cosam, the son of Elmodam, the son of Er, [3:29]the\nson of Joshua, the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim, the son of\nMatthat, the son of Levi, [3:30]the son of Simeon, the son of Judah,\nthe son of Joseph, the son of Jonan, the son of Eliakim, [3:31]the son\nof Meleas, the son of Mennas, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan,\nthe son of David, [3:32]the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of\nBoaz, the son of Salmon, the son of Naason, [3:33]the son of Aminadab,\nthe son of Admein, the son of Arni, the son of Hezron, the son of\nPharez, the son of Judah, [3:34]the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the\nson of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor, [3:35]the son of\nSerug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Heber, the son of\nSelah, [3:36]the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem,\nthe son of Noah, the son of Lamech, [3:37]the son of Methusaleh, the\nson of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahaleel, the son of Cainan,\n[3:38]the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the Son of God.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER V.\n\nCHRIST'S FASTING, TEMPTATION, AND THE COMMENCEMENT OF HIS MINISTRY.\n\n1 [4:1]AND Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan,\nand was led by the Spirit in the wilderness, [4:2]being tempted by the\ndevil forty days. And he eat nothing in those days; and when they were\ncompleted he was hungry. [4:3]And the devil said to him, If you are the\nSon of God, command this stone to become bread. [4:4]And Jesus answered\nhim, It is written, that man shall not live by bread alone. [4:5]And\ntaking him up he showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment\nof time.  [4:6]And the devil said to him, All this power will I give\nyou, and the glory of these; for it is given to me, and I give it to\nwhom I will. [4:7]If you, therefore, will worship me, it all shall be\nyours. [4:8]And Jesus answered and said to him, It is written, You\nshall worship the Lord your God, and him alone shall you serve.\n[4:9]And he brought him to Jerusalem and placed him on the pinnacle of\nthe temple, and said to him, If you are the Son of God, cast yourself\ndown from here; [4:10]for it is written, He will charge his angels\nconcerning you, to guard you, [4:11]and they shall bear you up on their\nhands, lest at any time you dash your foot against a stone. [4:12]And\nJesus answered and said to him, It is said, You shall not try the Lord\nyour God. [4:13]And the devil having finished all the temptation,\ndeparted from him for a time.\n\n2 [4:14]And Jesus returned with the power of the Spirit to Galilee; and\nhis fame went out into all the region around.  [4:15]And he taught in\ntheir synagogues, glorified by all.\n\n3 [4:16]And he came to Nazareth, where he was brought up, and entered,\naccording to his custom on the sabbath day, into the synagogue, and\nstood up to read. [4:17]And the book of Isaiah the prophet was given to\nhim. And unrolling the book he found the place where it was written,\n[4:18]The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to\npreach good news to the poor; he has sent me to proclaim a release to\nthe captives, and a recovery of sight to the blind, to send the\noppressed away free, [4:19]to proclaim an acceptable year of the Lord.\n[4:20]And folding up the book, he gave it to the minister, and sat\ndown; and the eyes of all in the synagogue were steadfastly fixed upon\nhim.\n\n4 [4:21]And he said to them, To-day is this scripture fulfilled in your\nears. [4:22]And they all bore him witness, and wondered at the gracious\nwords which proceeded from his mouth, and said, Is not this the son of\nJoseph? [4:23]And he said to them, You will undoubtedly tell me this\nproverb; Physician, cure yourself; things which we heard were done in\nCapernaum, do also here in your own country. [4:24]And he said, I tell\nyou truly, that no prophet is acceptable in his own country. [4:25]I\nalso tell you of a truth, that there were many widows in Israel in the\ndays of Elijah, when heaven was shut up three years and six months, so\nthat there was a great famine over all the land; [4:26]and to none of\nthem was Elijah sent, but to Sarepta, of Sidon, to a widow woman.\n[4:27]And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the\nprophet, and none of them was cleansed but Naaman the Syrian. [4:28]And\nall in the synagogue when they heard these things were filled with\nwrath; [4:29]and they arose and cast him out of the city, and led him\neven to the brow of the mountain on which the city was built, to\nprecipitate him down.  [4:30]But he passed through the midst of them\nand went away.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER VI.\n\nCHRIST AT CAPERNAUM, AND HIS PREACHING AND MIRACLES IN GALILEE.\n\n1 [4:31]AND he went down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught\nthem on the sabbath; [4:32]and they were astonished at his teaching,\nfor his word was with power. [4:33]And there was a man in the synagogue\nhaving a spirit of an impure demon; and he cried with a loud voice,\n[4:34]Alas! what have you to do with us, Jesus Nazarene? Have you come\nto destroy us? I know you who you are, the Holy [Son] of God! [4:35]And\nJesus rebuked him, saying, Hush!  and come out of him. And the demon\ncasting him into the midst came out of him, doing him no injury.\n[4:36]And they were all amazed, and talked with each other, saying,\nWhat word is this, that with authority and power he commands the impure\nspirits, and they come out? [4:37]And a report of him went abroad into\nevery place in the country about.\n\n2 [4:38]And going up from the synagogue he entered into the house of\nSimon. And Simon's mother-in-law was sick with a violent fever; and\nthey asked him in her behalf. [4:39]And standing over her he rebuked\nthe fever, and it left her. And she immediately arose and waited on\nthem.\n\n3 [4:40]And when the sun went down, all who had friends sick with\nvarious diseases brought them to him; and putting his hands on each one\nof them he cured them; [4:41]and demons also went out of many, crying\nand saying, You are the Son of God! And he rebuked them, and charged\nthem not to say that they knew him to be the Christ.\n\n4 [4:42]And when it was day, coming out he went to a solitary place;\nand the multitudes sought him, and came to him, and urged him not to\ndepart from them. [4:43]But he said to them, I must preach the good\nnews of the kingdom of God in the other cities also, because for this\nam I sent; [4:44]and he preached in the synagogues of Galilee.\n\n5 [5:1]And as the multitude pressed upon him to hear the word of God,\nand he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret, [5:2]he saw two boats\nstanding by the lake; and the fishermen having gone out of them were\nwashing their nets. [5:3] And entering into one of the ships, which was\nSimon's, he asked him to put out a little from the land, and sat down\nand taught the multitudes from the ship. [5:4]And when he ceased\nspeaking, he said to Simon, Put out into the deep water, and let down\nyour nets for a draught.  [5:5]And Simon answered and said to him,\nMaster, we have labored all night and taken nothing; but at your word I\nwill let down the net. [5:6]And doing this he enclosed a great number\nof fishes; and their net broke. [5:7]And he made signs to his\ncompanions in the other ship to come and help him; and they came, and\nfilled both ships, so that they began to sink. [5:8]And Simon Peter\nseeing it fell on his knees to Jesus, saying, Depart from me, Lord, for\nI am a sinful man. [5:9]For he was amazed, and all that were with him,\nat the draught of fishes which they had taken.  [5:10]So also were\nJames and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And\nJesus said to Simon, Fear not; from this time you shall take men.\n[5:11]And bringing the ships to the land they left all and followed him.\n\n6 [5:12]And he was in one of the cities, and behold, a man full of\nleprosy; and seeing Jesus he fell on his face, and asked him, saying,\nLord, if you will, you can cleanse me. [5:13]And stretching out his\nhand he touched him, saying, I will; be cleansed. And immediately the\nleprosy left him. [5:14]And he charged him to tell no one, but go and\nshow yourself to the priest, and present an offering for your\npurification, as Moses commanded, for a testimony to them. [5:15]And\nthe report concerning him went abroad extensively; and great multitudes\ncame together to hear him, and to be cured of their diseases. [5:16]\nAnd he withdrew into solitary places and prayed.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER VII.\n\nCHRIST FORGIVING SINS, CALLING LEVI, EATING WITH PUBLICANS AND SINNERS,\nAND EXPOUNDING THE LAWS OF FASTING AND THE SABBATH.\n\n1 [5:17]AND on one of those days he was teaching, and the Pharisees and\nteachers of the law were present, having come from every village of\nGalilee, and of Judea, and from Jerusalem; and the power of the Lord\nwas present to cure them. [5:18]And behold, men bringing on a bed a man\nwho was paralytic; and they sought to bring him in to place him before\nhim. [5:19]And not finding how they could bring him in, on account of\nthe multitude, they went up on the house, and let him down through the\ntiles, with his little bed, into the midst before Jesus. [5:20]And\nseeing their faith, he said, Man, your sins are forgiven you.\n\n2 [5:21]And the scribes and Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is\nthis that speaks blasphemies? who can forgive sins, but God alone?\n[5:22]And Jesus knowing their thoughts answered and said to them, Why\ndo you reason in your minds? [5:23]in what is it easier to say, Your\nsins are forgiven you, than to say, Arise and walk? [5:24]But that you\nmay know that the Son of man has power on the earth to forgive sins, he\nsaid to the paralytic, I tell you, arise, and take up your little bed,\nand go to your house. [5:25]And he arose immediately before them, and\ntaking up that on which he had lain departed to his house, glorifying\nGod.  [5:26]And all were astonished, and glorified God, and were filled\nwith fear, saying, We have seen strange things to-day.\n\n3 [5:27]And after these things he went out and saw a publican by the\nname of Levi, sitting at the custom house, and said to him, Follow me.\n[5:28]And leaving all he arose and followed him.  [5:29]And Levi made a\ngreat feast for him at his house; and there was a great multitude of\npublicans and of others who reclined with them. [5:30]And the Pharisees\nand their scribes complained to his disciples, saying, Why do you eat\nand drink with publicans? [5:31]And Jesus answered and said to them,\nThe well need not a physician, but the ill. [5:32]I have not come to\ncall the righteous, but sinners to a change of mind.\n\n4 [5:33]And they said to him, The disciples of John fast much and make\nprayers; and likewise those of the Pharisees; but yours eat and drink.\n[5:34]And he said to them, Can you make the children of the\nbridechamber fast while the bridegroom is with them?  [5:35]But days\nwill come when the bridegroom shall be taken from them; then shall they\nfast in those days.\n\n5 [5:36]And he spoke also a parable to them; That no one puts a piece\nof a new garment on an old garment; if he does, the new both tears the\nold, and that from the new disagrees with the old.  [5:37]And no one\nputs new wine into old bottles; if he does, the new wine will break the\nbottles, and itself be poured out, and the bottles be destroyed.\n[5:38]But new wine must be put into new bottles. [5:39]And no one\ndrinking old wine desires new; for he says the old is good.\n\n6 [6:1]And on the second-first sabbath he went through the grain\nfields, and his disciples picked the heads and eat, rubbing them in\ntheir hands. [6:2]And some of the Pharisees said, Why do you do what is\nnot lawful on the sabbath? [6:3]And Jesus answered and said to them,\nHave you not read what David did when he was hungry, he and those with\nhim? [6:4]He entered into the house of God, and took the show bread,\nand eat, and gave to those with him, which it was not lawful for any to\neat, except the priests alone. [6:5]And he said to them, The Son of man\nis Lord even of the sabbath.\n\n7 [6:6]And on another sabbath he went into the synagogue and taught.\nAnd there was a man there whose right hand was withered.  [6:7]And the\nscribes and Pharisees watched him [to see] if he would perform a cure\non the sabbath, that they might find [something of which] to accuse\nhim. [6:8]But he knew their thoughts, and said to the man having the\nwithered hand, Arise, and stand in the midst. And he arose and stood.\n[6:9]And Jesus said to them, I will ask you whether it is lawful on the\nsabbath to do good or to do evil? to save a life or to destroy?\n[6:10]And looking round upon them all he said to him, Stretch out your\nhand. And he did so; and his hand was restored. [6:11]And they were\nfilled with madness, and conferred with each other as to what they\nshould do to Jesus.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER VIII.\n\nCHRIST CALLING THE TWELVE APOSTLES.\n\n1 [6:12]AND in those days he went out on the mountain to pray, and\nspent the whole night in prayer to God. [6:13]And when it was day he\ncalled his disciples; and having chosen twelve of them, whom he named\napostles, [6:14] Simon, whom he also named Peter, and Andrew his\nbrother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew, [6:15]Matthew and\nThomas, James, the son of Alpheus, and Simon called Zealot, [6:16]Judas\nthe brother of James, and Judas Iscariot, who was the traitor, [6:17]he\nwent down with them and stood on a plain; and a multitude of his\ndisciples, and a great multitude of the people from all Judea and\nJerusalem, and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him,\nand to be cured of their diseases; [6:18]and those troubled with impure\nspirits were cured. [6:19]And all the multitude sought to touch him,\nfor a power went out from him and cured all.\n\n2 [6:20]And he lifted up his eyes upon his disciples and said, Blessed\nare you poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.  [6:21]Blessed are you\nthat hunger now, for you shall be filled.  Blessed are you that weep\nnow, for you shall laugh. [6:22]Blessed are you when men shall hate\nyou, and when they shall exclude you from their company, and reproach\nand cast out your names as evil, on account of the Son of man.\n[6:23]Rejoice in that day, and be exceedingly glad; for behold, your\nreward is great in heaven. For in this manner did their fathers to the\nprophets. [6:24]But woe to you rich! for you have your consolation.\n[6:25]Woe to you full! for you shall be hungry. Woe to you who laugh\nnow! for you shall mourn and weep. [6:26]Woe, when all men speak well\nof you!  for in this manner did their fathers of the false prophets.\n\n3 [6:27]But I tell you that hear, Love your enemies; do good to those\nthat hate you; [6:28]bless those that curse you; pray for those that\ninjure you; [6:29] to him that strikes you on the cheek, present also\nthe other; and forbid not him who takes away your cloak to take your\ncoat also. [6:30]Give to every one that asks; and from him who takes\nthat which is yours, ask it not back. [6:31]And as you wish men to do\nto you, do you also in like manner to them. [6:32]And if you love those\nthat love you, what thanks have you? for sinners also love those that\nlove them.  [6:33]And if you do good to those who do good to you, what\nthanks have you? for sinners do the same. [6:34]And if you lend to\nthose from whom you hope to receive, what thanks have you? sinners also\nlend to sinners, to receive back as much again. [6:35]But love your\nenemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your\nreward shall be great, and you shall be children of the Most High; for\nhe is good to the unthankful and evil.  [6:36]Be merciful, as your\nfather is merciful; [6:37]and judge not, and you shall not be judged;\nand condemn not, and you shall not be condemned; release, and you shall\nbe released; [6:38]give, and it shall be given to you; good measure,\npressed down, shaken together, running over, shall they give into your\nbosom. For with what measure you measure it shall be measured back to\nyou.\n\n4 [6:39]And he spoke also a parable to them; Can the blind lead the\nblind? Will not both fall into the pit? [6:40]A disciple is not above\nhis teacher, but every perfect one will be as his teacher. [6:41]And\nwhy do you see the speck in your brother's eye, and observe not the\nbeam in your own eye? [6:42]How can you say to your brother, Brother,\nlet me cast out the speck in your eye, and you yourself see not the\nbeam in your own eye?  Hypocrite, cast out first the beam from your\neye, and then you will see clearly to cast out the speck from your\nbrother's eye.  [6:43]For there is no good tree which bears bad fruit,\nnor, again, a bad tree which bears good fruit. [6:44]For every tree is\nknown by its own fruit. For they do not gather figs from thorns, nor do\nthey pick grapes from brambles. [6:45]The good man out of the good\ntreasury of his heart brings forth good, and the evil man out of the\nevil brings forth evil; for out of the abundance of the heart its mouth\nspeaks.\n\n5 [6:46]And why do you call me Lord! Lord! and do not what I say?\n[6:47]Every one that comes to me, and hears my words and does them, I\nwill show you whom he is like. [6:48]He is like a man building a house,\nwho dug and went deep, and laid the foundation on the rock; and when\nthere was a flood, the stream beat against that house and could not\nshake it, because it was built on a rock. [6:49]But he that hears and\ndoes not, is like a man building a house on the earth, without a\nfoundation, against which the stream beat, and it fell immediately; and\nthe ruin of that house was great.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER IX.\n\nCHRIST AT CAPERNAUM AND NAIN, HIS REPLY TO JOHN THE BAPTIST, ETC.\n\n1 [7:1]WHEN he had finished all his discourses in the hearing of the\npeople, he entered into Capernaum. [7:2]And a certain centurion's\nservant, who was dear to him, was sick, and about to die; [7:3]and he\nhearing of Jesus, sent to him the elders of the Jews, asking him to\ncome and cure his servant. [7:4]And having come to Jesus they besought\nhim earnestly, saying, He is worthy for whom you should do this;\n[7:5]for he loves our nation, and has built us a synagogue. [7:6]And\nJesus went with them. And when he was now not far from the house, the\ncenturion sent friends to him, saying, Lord, trouble not yourself, for\nI am not fit that you should come under my roof. [7:7]Wherefore I did\nnot think myself worthy to come to you; but say the word, and my\nservant shall be cured; [7:8] for I also am a man placed under\nauthority, having soldiers under me, and I say to one, Go, and he goes,\nand to another, Come, and he comes; and to my servant, Do this, and he\ndoes it. [7:9]And Jesus hearing these things wondered at him, and\nturning around said to the multitude following him, I tell you I have\nnot found in Israel so great a faith; [7:10]and those sent returning to\nthe house found the sick servant well.\n\n2 [7:11]And on the next day he went to a city called Nain, and a\nconsiderable number of his disciples and a great multitude went with\nhim. [7:12]And as he approached the gate of the city, behold, a dead\nman was carried out, an only son of his mother, and she was a widow.\nAnd a great multitude from the city was with her. [7:13]And seeing her,\nthe Lord had compassion on her, and said to her, Weep not. [7:14]And\napproaching he touched the bier, and those who bore it stopped. And he\nsaid, Young man, I tell you, arise! [7:15]And the dead sat up, and\nbegan to speak; and he gave him to his mother. [7:16]And fear seized\nall; and they glorified God, saying, A great prophet is raised up among\nus; and, God has visited his people. [7:17]And this report of him went\nout into all Judea, and into all the region around.\n\n3 [7:18]And his disciples told John of all these things.  [7:19]And\ncalling two of his disciples, John sent to the Lord, saying, Are you he\nthat was to come, or look we for another?  [7:20]And coming to him the\nmen said, John the Baptist has sent us to you to say, Are you he that\nwas to come, or look we for another? [7:21]And in that hour he cured\nmany of diseases, and plagues, and of evil spirits, and gave sight to\nmany blind.  [7:22]And Jesus answered and said to them, Go and tell\nJohn what you have seen and heard; that the blind see, the lame walk,\nthe lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the\npoor have the good news preached to them; [7:23]and blessed is he who\nshall not be offended with me.\n\n4 [7:24]And when the messengers of John had gone away, he said to the\nmultitudes concerning John, What went you out into the wilderness to\nsee? A reed shaken with a wind? [7:25]But what went you out to see? A\nman dressed in fine clothes? Behold, those who wear fine clothes, and\nlive in luxury, are in royal palaces.  [7:26]But what went you out to\nsee? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet. [7:27]This is\nhe of whom it is written; Behold, I send my messenger before your face,\nwho shall prepare your way before you. [7:28]I tell you, that among\nthose born of women there is no greater prophet than John; but the\nleast in the kingdom of God is greater than he. [7:29]And all the\npeople who heard this, and the publicans, justified God, having\nreceived the baptism of John. [7:30]But the Pharisees and lawyers\nrejected the counsel of God as to themselves, not having been baptized\nby him.\n\n5 [7:31][And he said], To what then shall I compare the men of this\ngeneration? and what are they like? [7:32]They are like little children\nsitting in the market, and they call to each other, saying, We have\nplayed on pipes to you, and you have not danced; we have mourned to\nyou, and you have not lamented. [7:33] For John the Baptist came\nneither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, He has a demon.\n[7:34]The Son of man has come eating and drinking, and you say, Behold\na glutton and a wine drinker! a friend of publicans and sinners! [7:35]\nAnd Wisdom is justified by all her children.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER X.\n\nCHRIST ANOINTED BY THE WOMAN, HIS TRAVELS AND ATTENDANTS, THE PARABLE\nOF THE SOWER.\n\n1 [7:36]AND one of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him; and going\ninto the Pharisee's house he reclined. [7:37]And behold, a certain\nwoman in the city, a sinner, knowing that he was reclining in the house\nof the Pharisee, brought a vase of ointment, [7:38]and standing behind,\nby his feet, weeping, washed his feet with tears, and wiped them with\nthe hairs of her head; and she kissed his feet, and anointed them with\nthe ointment.  [7:39]And the Pharisee who invited him, seeing it, spoke\nwithin himself, saying, If this was a prophet he would have known who\nand what kind of a woman this is who touches him; for she is a sinner.\n\n2 [7:40]And Jesus answered and said to him, Simon, I have something to\nsay to you. And he said, Teacher, say it. [7:41]A certain creditor had\ntwo debtors; one owed him five hundred denarii [$70], and the other\nfifty [$7]. [7:42]And having nothing to pay, he gave [the debt] to\nboth. Tell me, therefore, which of them will love him most? [7:43]Simon\nanswered and said, I suppose the one to whom he gave most. And he said\nto him, You have judged rightly. [7:44]And turning to the woman, he\nsaid to Simon, Do you see this woman? I came into your house; you gave\nme no water for my feet; but she has wet my feet with tears, and wiped\nthem with her hairs. [7:45]You gave me no kiss; but she, from the time\nthat I came in, has not ceased to kiss my feet. [7:46]You anointed not\nmy head with oil; but she has anointed my feet with ointment.\n[7:47]Therefore, I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven;\nfor she has loved much; but he to whom little is forgiven, loves\nlittle. [7:48]And he said to her, Your sins are forgiven. [7:49]And\nthose who reclined with him said within themselves, Who is this that\nforgives sins also? [7:50]And he said to the woman, Your faith has\nsaved you; go in peace.\n\n3 [8:1]And he travelled in order through the cities and villages,\nproclaiming and preaching the good news of the kingdom of God; and the\ntwelve were with him, [8:2]and certain women who had been cured of evil\nspirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, from whom went out\nseven demons, [8:3]and Joanna the wife of Chusa, Herod's steward, and\nSusannah, and many others, who served them with their property.\n\n4 [8:4]And a great multitude having come together, and persons having\ncome to him from every city, he said in a parable, [8:5]A sower went\nout to sow his seed; and in his sowing, some fell by the way, and was\ntrodden down, and the birds of heaven devoured it; [8:6]and some fell\non the rock, and springing up it was dried up, because it had no\nmoisture; [8:7]and some fell in the midst of thorns, and the thorns\nspringing up choked it; [8:8]and some fell on good ground, and growing\nup bore fruit a hundred fold.  Having said these things, he cried, He\nthat has ears to hear, let him hear.\n\n5 [8:9]And his disciples asked him, What does this parable mean?\n[8:10]And he said, It is given to you to know the mysteries of the\nkingdom of God, but to others in parables; that seeing they may not\nsee, and hearing they may not understand. [8:11]But the parable\nsignifies this; the seed is the word of God; [8:12]those by the way are\nthose who hear, then comes the devil and takes away the word from their\nhearts, that they may not believe and be saved; [8:13]those on the rock\nare those who, when they hear, receive the word with joy, and they have\nno root; they believe for a time, and in a time of trial fall away;\n[8:14] and that which fell among thorns signifies those who hear, and\ngoing away are choked by cares and riches and the pleasures of this\nlife, and bring no fruit to perfection. [8:15]But that on the good\nground signifies those who, with a noble and good heart, hearing the\nword retain it, and bear fruit persistently.\n\n6 [8:16]But no one lights a candle and covers it with a vessel, or puts\nit under a bed; but he puts it in a candlestick, that those coming in\nmay see the light. [8:17]For there is nothing hid which shall not be\nmanifest, nor concealed which shall not be known and come to light.\n[8:18]See therefore how you hear; for whoever has, to him shall be\ngiven, and whoever has not, from him shall be taken away even what he\nseems to have.\n\n7 [8:19]And his mother and brothers came to him, and were not able to\napproach him on account of the multitude. [8:20]And it was told him by\nsome, saying, Your mother and your brothers stand without, wishing to\nsee you. [8:21]And he answered and said to them, My mother and my\nbrothers are those who hear the word of God and perform it.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XI.\n\nCHRIST STILLING A TEMPEST, CURING A DEMONIAC, RAISING THE DAUGHTER OF\nJAIRUS.\n\n1 [8:22]AND on one of those days both he and his disciples went into\nthe ship; and he said to them, Let us cross over to the other side of\nthe lake. And they set sail; [8:23]and as they were sailing he fell\nasleep. And a tempest of wind came down on the lake, and they were\nflooded with water, and in peril. [8:24] And they came and awoke him,\nsaying, Master! Master! we are perishing! And he arose, and rebuked the\nwind and the waves, and they ceased, and there was a calm. [8:25]And he\nsaid to them, Where is your faith? And they were afraid, and wondered,\nsaying one to another, What man then is this, that he commands the\nwinds and the water and they obey him?\n\n2 [8:26]And they sailed to the country of the Gerasenes, which is\nopposite to Galilee. [8:27]And as he went out on the land, there met\nhim a certain man from the city who had had demons for a long time; and\nhe wore no clothes, and remained not in a house, but in the tombs.\n[8:28]And seeing Jesus, he cried out, and worshipped him, and said with\na loud voice, What have you to do with me, Jesus, son of the Most High\nGod? I beg of you not to torment me; [8:29]for he had commanded the\nimpure spirit to go out of the man; for it had often seized him; and he\nhad been bound with chains, and confined with fetters; and breaking his\nbonds he had been driven by the demon into solitary places. [8:30]And\nJesus asked him, saying, What is your name? And he said, Legion;\nbecause many demons had entered into him. [8:31]And he besought him not\nto command them to go into the abyss. [8:32]And there was a herd of\nmany swine feeding on the mountain, and they besought him to permit\nthem to enter into them; and be permitted them.  [8:33]And the demons\ngoing out of the man entered into the swine; and the herd rushed down\nthe precipice into the lake and were drowned.\n\n3 [8:34]And those who fed them, seeing what was done, fled and reported\nit in the city and in the country places. [8:35]And they went out to\nsee what had happened, and came to Jesus, and found the man from whom\nthe demons had gone out sitting, clothed and of a sound mind, at the\nfeet of Jesus; and they were afraid.  [8:36]And those who had seen\nrelated to them how the demoniac had been cured. [8:37]And all the\nmultitude of the region about the Gerasenes requested him to depart\nfrom them, because they were seized with great fear. And entering into\nthe ship, he returned.  [8:38]And the man from whom the demons had gone\nout desired to be with him; but he sent him away, saying, [8:39]Return\nto your house, and declare how great things God has done for you. And\nhe went away proclaiming in all the city what great things Jesus had\ndone for him.\n\n4 [8:40]And when Jesus returned the multitude received him; for they\nwere all waiting for him. [8:41]And behold, a man by the name of Jairus\ncame; and he was the ruler of a synagogue. And falling at the feet of\nJesus, he besought him to come to his house, [8:42]for he had an only\ndaughter twelve years old, and she was dying. And when he was going,\nthe multitudes thronged him. [8:43]And a woman having a hemorrhage of\ntwelve years, who had spent all her living on physicians, and could not\nbe cured by any one, [8:44]coming up behind, touched the fringe of his\ngarment, and immediately her flow of blood was stopped. [8:45] And\nJesus said, Who touched me? And all denying, Peter and those with him\nsaid, Master, the multitudes press upon and throng you, and do you say,\nWho touched me? [8:46]And Jesus said, Some one touched me; for I\nperceived a power going from me. [8:47]And the woman seeing that she\nwas not concealed, came trembling, and falling down related to him in\nthe presence of all the people for what cause she had touched him, and\nhow she was immediately cured. [8:48]And he said to her, Daughter, your\nfaith has cured you; go in peace.\n\n5 [8:49]While he was yet speaking some one came from the synagogue\nruler's house and said to him, Your daughter has died; trouble not the\nteacher. [8:50] But Jesus hearing it answered him, Fear not; only\nbelieve, and she shall be cured. [8:51]And when he entered into the\nhouse, he permitted no one to go in with him, except Peter, and John,\nand James, and the father and mother of the child. [8:52]And all wept\nand lamented her. But he said, Weep not; she is not dead, but sleeps.\n[8:53]And they laughed at him, knowing that she was dead. [8:54]And\ntaking her hand, he called, saying, Child, arise! [8:55]And her spirit\nreturned, and she arose immediately. And he commanded food to be given\nher.  [8:56]And her parents were astonished; and he commanded them to\ntell no one what was done.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XII.\n\nCHRIST ENDOWING THE TWELVE APOSTLES WITH MIRACULOUS POWERS, THE\nPERPLEXITY OF HEROD, THE FEEDING OF THE FIVE THOUSAND, PETER'S\nCONFESSION, ETC.\n\n1 [9:1]AND calling together the twelve, he gave them power and\nauthority over all demons, and to cure diseases, [9:2]and sent them out\nto proclaim the kingdom of God, and to cure the sick.  [9:3]And he said\nto them, Take for the way neither a staff nor a provision sack, nor\nbread, nor silver, and have not two coats apiece. [9:4]And into\nwhatever house you enter, there remain and thence depart. [9:5]And\nwhoever does not receive you, when you go out of that city shake off\nthe dust from your feet for a testimony to them. [9:6]And they went out\nand passed through the villages, everywhere proclaiming the good news\nand performing cures.\n\n2 [9:7]And Herod the tetrarch heard all things which were done, and was\nperplexed, because it was said by some that John was raised from the\ndead, [9:8] and by some that Elijah had appeared, and by others that\none of the old prophets had arisen. [9:9]And Herod said, John I\nbeheaded; but who is this, of whom I hear such things? And he sought to\nsee him.\n\n3 [9:10]And the apostles returned and reported to him all things which\nthey had done. And taking them aside, he departed privately to the city\ncalled Bethsaida. [9:11]And the multitudes knowing it followed him. And\nhaving received them, he spoke to them of the kingdom of God, and cured\nthose having need of cure. [9:12] And the day began to decline; and the\ntwelve came and said to him, Dismiss the multitude, that they may go to\nthe villages and farms around, and lodge, and find provisions; for we\nare here in a solitary place. [9:13]And he said to them, Give them\nsomething to eat. And they said, We have not more than five loaves and\ntwo fishes, unless we go and buy provisions for all this multitude;\n[9:14]for they were about five thousand men. And he said to his\ndisciples, Make them recline in companies of fifty each; [9:15]and they\ndid so, and caused them all to recline. [9:16]And taking the five\nloaves and two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them, and\nbroke, and gave to the disciples to set before the multitude. [9:17]And\nthey eat and were all filled; and there was taken up what remained over\nto them, twelve traveling-baskets of fragments.\n\n4 [9:18]And when he was praying alone, the disciples came to him, and\nhe asked them, saying, Who do the multitudes say that I am?  [9:19]And\nthey answered and said, John the Baptist; and some Elijah, and others\nthat one of the old prophets has arisen.  [9:20]And he said to them,\nWho do you say that I am? And Peter answered and said, The Christ of\nGod. [9:21]And he charged and commanded them to tell this to no one;\n[9:22]saying, The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected\nby the elders, and chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and be\nraised on the third day.\n\n5 [9:23]And he said to all, If any one wishes to come after me, let him\ndeny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.  [9:24]For whoever\nwishes to save his life, shall lose it; and whoever shall lose his life\nfor my sake, shall save it. [9:25]For what is a man profited if he\ngains the whole world and destroys himself, or loses his life?\n[9:26]For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son\nof man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and that of the Father,\nand of the holy angels. [9:27]And I tell you of a truth, there are some\nof those standing here who shall not taste death till they see the\nkingdom of God.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XIII.\n\nCHRIST TRANSFIGURED, CURING A DEMONIAC, AND REPROVING AMBITION.\n\n1 [9:28]AND about eight days after these words, taking Peter, and\nJames, and John, he went up on the mountain to pray. [9:29]And while he\nwas praying, the appearance of his face was changed, and his clothes\nbecame white and shining; [9:30]and behold, two men conversed with him,\nwho were Moses and Elijah, [9:31] who appearing in glory spoke of his\ndeparture which he was about to accomplish at Jerusalem. [9:32]And\nPeter and those with him were oppressed with sleep; and when they awoke\nthey saw his glory, and the two men standing with him. [9:33] And when\nthey were departing from him, Peter said to Jesus, Master, it is good\nfor us to be here; and let us make three tabernacles; one for you, and\none for Moses, and one for Elijah; not knowing what he said.  [9:34]And\nwhen he had said this, a cloud came and overshadowed them; and they\nwere afraid when they entered into the cloud.  [9:35]And there was a\nvoice from the cloud, saying, This is my chosen Son; hear him.\n[9:36]And when the voice had passed, Jesus was found alone. And they\nwere silent and told no man in those days any thing of what they had\nseen.\n\n2 [9:37]And on the next day, when they came down from the mountain, a\ngreat multitude met him. [9:38]And behold, a man from the multitude\ncried, saying, Teacher, I desire you to look upon my son, for he is my\nonly child; [9:39]and behold a spirit takes him, and suddenly cries out\nand convulses him, with foam and crushing him departs from him with\ndifficulty; [9:40]and I desired your disciples to cast it out, and they\ncould not.  [9:41]And Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse\ngeneration! How long shall I be with you, and suffer you! Bring your\nson hither. [9:42]And while he was coming, the demon tore him with\nspasms and convulsed him. And Jesus rebuked the impure spirit, and\ncured the child, and gave him back to his father.  [9:43]And they were\nall astonished at the majesty of God.\n\n3 And while all wondered at all things which he did, he said to his\ndisciples, [9:44]Commit these words to your ears; for the Son of man is\nabout to be delivered into the hands of men. [9:45]But they understood\nnot this saying; and it was concealed from them, that they might not\nperceive it; and they feared to ask him concerning this saying.\n\n4 [9:46]And there arose a debate among them, which of them should be\nthe greatest. [9:47]And Jesus perceiving the debate in their minds,\ntook a little child and set it by him, [9:48]and said to them, Whoever\nreceives this little child in my name, receives me; and whoever\nreceives me, receives him that sent me. For he that is least among you\nall, he shall be the greatest. [9:49]And John answered and said,\nMaster, we saw one casting out demons in your name, and we forbade him,\nbecause he follows not with us.  [9:50]And Jesus said to him, Forbid\nhim not; for whoever is not against us is for us.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XIV.\n\nCHRIST ON HIS LAST JOURNEY FROM GALILEE TO JERUSALEM.\n\n1 [9:51]AND when the days were completed for his being taken up, he set\nhis face firmly to go to Jerusalem. [9:52]And he sent messengers before\nhim; and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to\nprepare for him. [9:53]And they did not receive him, because he was\ngoing to Jerusalem. [9:54] And his disciples James and John seeing it,\nsaid, Lord, do you wish us to call fire to come down from heaven and\nconsume them? [9:55]And he turned around and rebuked them; and they\nwent to another village.\n\n2 [9:57]And as they were traveling on the way, one said to him, I will\nfollow you wherever you go. [9:58]And Jesus said to him, The foxes have\nholes, and the birds of heaven places of shelter; but the Son of man\nhas not where to lay his head. [9:59]And he said to another, Follow me.\nAnd he said, Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father. [9:60]But\nhe said to him, Let the dead bury their dead, but do you go and\nproclaim abroad the kingdom of God.  [9:61]And another also said, Lord,\nI will follow you, but permit me first to bid farewell to those in my\nhouse. [9:62]But Jesus said, No man putting his hand on the plow, and\nlooking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.\n\n3 [10:1]And after these things the Lord designated seventy others also,\nand sent them out, two by two, before his face, into every city and\nplace where he was about to come. [10:2]And he said to them, The\nharvest indeed is great, but the laborers few; pray, therefore, the\nLord of the harvest to thrust out laborers into his harvest. [10:3]Go;\nbehold I send you as lambs in the midst of wolves. [10:4]Carry neither\na purse, nor provision sack, nor sandals; and salute no one by the way.\n[10:5]And into whatever house you enter, first say, Peace to this\nhouse! [10:6]And if a son of peace is there, your peace shall rest upon\nhim; but if not, it shall return to you. [10:7]And in the same house\nremain, eating and drinking the things with them; for the laborer is\nworthy of his reward. Go not about from house to house. [10:8]And into\nwhatever city you enter, and they receive you, eat what is set before\nyou; [10:9]and cure the sick in it, and say to them, The kingdom of God\nhas come nigh to you. [10:10] And into whatever city you enter, and\nthey receive you not, going out into its streets, say, [10:11]Even the\ndust of your city which adheres to our feet we wipe off for you; but\nknow this, that the kingdom of God is at hand. [10:12]I tell you, it\nshall be more tolerable for Sodom in that day than for that city.\n[10:13]Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty\nworks had been done in Tyre and Sidon which have been done in you, they\nwould long ago have changed their minds, sitting in sackcloth and\nashes. [10:14]But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the\njudgment, than for you. [10:15]And you, Capernaum, even to heaven will\nyou be exalted? even to hades shall you be cast down.  [10:16]He that\nhears you, hears me; and he that rejects you, rejects me; and he that\nrejects me, rejects him that sent me.\n\n4 [10:17]And the seventy returned with joy, saying, Lord, even the\ndemons are subject to us by your name. [10:18]And he said to them, I\nsaw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. [10:19]Behold, I give you\npower to tread on serpents and scorpions, and on all the power of the\nenemy; and nothing shall by any means injure you; [10:20]but in this\nrejoice not, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your\nnames are written in heaven.\n\n5 [10:21]In the same hour he rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee\nFather, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from\nthe wise and intelligent, and revealed them to babes. Yes, Father, for\nso it has seemed good in thy sight.  [10:22]And turning to his\ndisciples, he said, All things are delivered to me by my Father; and no\none knows who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is but the\nSon, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him. [10:23]And turning\naround to his disciples he said privately, Blessed are the eyes which\nsee what you see! [10:24]For I tell you that many prophets and kings\nhave desired to see the things which you see, and have not seen them,\nand to hear the things which you hear, and have not heard them.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XV.\n\nTHE WAY OF SALVATION, MARY'S CHOICE, AND LESSONS ON PRAYER.\n\n1 [10:25]AND behold, a certain lawyer stood up to try him, saying,\nTeacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?  [10:26]And he said\nto him, What is written in the law? how do you read? [10:27]And he\nanswered and said, You shall love the Lord your God with all your\nheart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all\nyour mind, and your neighbor as yourself. [10:28] And he said to him,\nYou have answered well; do this, and you shall live.\n\n2 [10:29]But he, wishing to justify himself, said to Jesus, And who is\nmy neighbor? [10:30]And Jesus replied and said, A certain man went down\nfrom Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among robbers, who both stripped\nhim and inflicted blows upon him, and went away leaving him half dead.\n[10:31]And, providentially, a certain priest went down that way, and\nseeing him passed by on the other side. [10:32]And in like manner a\nLevite also, being at the place, came and saw him, and passed by on the\nother side.  [10:33]But a certain Samaritan, on a journey, came where\nhe was, and seeing him had compassion on him; [10:34]and he came and\nbound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine; and putting him on his\nown beast, brought him to a khan, and took care of him.  [10:35]And on\nthe next day, putting out two denarii [28 cents], he gave them to the\nkhan-keeper, and said, Take care of him, and whatever you expend more,\nwhen I return I will pay you.  [10:36]Which of these three think you\nwas a neighbor to him who fell among the robbers? [10:37]And he said,\nHe that had mercy on him. Then said Jesus to him, Do you go and do\nlikewise.\n\n3 [10:38]And as they were pursuing their journey he entered into a\ncertain village. And a woman by the name of Martha received him into\nher house. [10:39] And she had a sister called Mary, and she sat at the\nfeet of the Lord and heard his word. [10:40]But Martha was distracted\nwith much serving, and came and said, Lord, do you not care that my\nsister has left me to serve alone? Tell her, therefore, to help me.\n[10:41]And the Lord answered and said to her, Martha, Martha, you are\nanxious and disturbed about many things, [10:42]but of one thing there\nis need; and Mary has chosen the good part, which shall not be taken\naway from her.\n\n4 [11:1]And as he was in a certain place praying, when he ceased one of\nhis disciples said to him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught\nhis disciples. [11:2]And he said to them, When you pray, say, Father,\nhallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; [11:3]give us daily our\nessential bread; [11:4]and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also\nforgive every one who is indebted to us; and bring us not into trial.\n\n5 [11:5]And he said to them, Which of you shall have a friend, and go\nto him at midnight, and say, Friend, lend me three loaves, [11:6]for a\nfriend of mine has come to me from a journey, and I have nothing to set\nbefore him; [11:7]and he will answer from within, and say, Trouble me\nnot, for the door is already shut, and my little children are with me\nin bed, I cannot arise and give you; [11:8]I tell you if he will not\narise and give him on account of being his friend, yet, on account of\nhis importunity, he will arise and give him as many as he needs.\n[11:9]And I tell you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you\nshall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you; [11:10]for every one\nthat asks, receives; and he that seeks, finds; and to him that knocks,\nit shall be opened. [11:11] And what father is there of you, who, if\nhis son asks for bread, will give him a stone? or if he asks also for a\nfish, will for a fish give him a serpent? [11:12]or if he asks also for\nan egg, will give him a scorpion? [11:13]If you then, being evil, know\nhow to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall the Father\nfrom heaven give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XVI.\n\nCHRIST DEFENDS THE DIVINE CHARACTER OF HIS MIRACLES, AND DENOUNCES THE\nPHARISEES.\n\n1 [11:14]AND he cast out a demon, and it was dumb. And when the demon\nhad gone out, the dumb spoke; and the multitudes wondered.  [11:15]But\nsome of them said, He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the ruler of\ndemons; [11:16]and others, trying him, asked of him a sign from heaven.\n[11:17]But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, Every kingdom\ndivided against itself is desolated, and house falls upon house.\n[11:18]And if Satan is divided against himself, how shall his kingdom\nstand? because you say that I cast out demons by Beelzebul. [11:19]But\nif I by Beelzebul cast out demons, by whom do your sons cast them out?\nthey, therefore, shall be your judges. [11:20]But if by a finger of God\nI cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.\n[11:21]When a strong man armed keeps his court, his goods are in peace;\n[11:22]but when a stronger man than he comes upon him, and overcomes\nhim, he takes away all his arms in which he trusted, and distributes\nhis spoils. [11:23]He that is not with me is against me; and he that\ngathers not with me scatters.\n\n2 [11:24]When an impure spirit has gone out of a man, it passes through\nplaces destitute of water, seeking a rest; and not finding one, says, I\nwill return to my house from which I came out. [11:25]And coming, it\nfinds it swept and adorned.  [11:26]Then it goes and takes seven other\nspirits more evil than itself; and they come and dwell there; and the\nlast condition of that man is worse than the first.\n\n3 [11:27]And when he was saying these things, a certain woman from the\nmultitude lifted up her voice, and said to him, Blessed is the mother\nthat bore you, and the breasts which you nursed!  [11:28]And he said,\nYes indeed, blessed are those that hear the word of God and keep it.\n\n4 [11:29]And multitudes being assembled, he said, This generation is an\nevil generation. It seeks for a sign, and no sign shall be given it but\nthe sign of Jonah. [11:30]For as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so\nalso shall the Son of man be to this generation. [11:31]The queen of\nthe south shall rise in the judgment with the men of this generation\nand condemn them; for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the\nwisdom of Solomon, and behold, a greater than Solomon is here.\n[11:32]The men of Nineveh shall arise in the judgment with this\ngeneration and condemn it; for they changed their minds at the\npreaching of Jonah, and behold, a greater than Jonah is here.\n\n5 [11:33]No one lights a candle and puts it in a secret place, or under\na modius [1.916 gallon measure], but on a candlestick, that all who go\nin may see the light. [11:34]The light of the body is the eye; when,\ntherefore, your eye is sound, your whole body is light; but when your\neye is evil, your whole body is dark.  [11:35]See, therefore, that the\nlight which is in you be not darkness. [11:36]If, therefore, your whole\nbody is light, not having any part dark, the whole will be light, as\nwhen a candle lights you clearly.\n\n6 [11:37]And when he was speaking, a certain Pharisee asked him to\nbreakfast with him; and he went in and immediately sat down.\n[11:38]And the Pharisee seeing him, wondered that he was not first\nbaptized before breakfast. [11:39] And the Lord said to him, Now you\nPharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and plate, but your inside is\nfull of plunder and wickedness.  [11:40]Senseless men! did not he that\nmade the outside make also the inside? [11:41]But give the things\nwithin in charity, and behold, all things are pure to you.\n\n7 [11:42]But woe to you, Pharisees! for you tithe mint, and rue, and\nevery kind of plant, and omit justice and the love of God.  These\nthings you ought to do, and not to omit those. [11:43]Woe to you,\nPharisees! for you love the first seat in the synagogues, and\nsalutations in the markets. [11:44]Woe to you! for you are like\nconcealed tombs; and men walk over them and know it not.\n\n8 [11:45]And one of the lawyers answered and said to him, Teacher, in\nsaying these things you reproach us also. [11:46]And he said, Woe to\nyou, lawyers! for you load men with burdens difficult to be borne, and\nyou yourselves will not touch the burdens with one of your fingers.\n[11:47]Woe to you! for you build the tombs of the prophets, and your\nfathers killed them; [11:48]therefore you are witnesses, and approve\nthe deed of your fathers; for they killed them, and you build.\n[11:49]Therefore also the wisdom of God said, I will send them prophets\nand apostles, and some of them they shall kill and persecute, [11:50]\nthat the blood of all the prophets which has been poured out since the\nfoundation of the world may be required of this generation, [11:51]from\nthe blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the\naltar and the house. Yes, I tell you, it shall be required of this\ngeneration. [11:52]Woe to you, lawyers! for you have taken away the key\nof knowledge; you do not enter in yourselves, and you forbid those\nentering.\n\n9 [11:53]And when he had gone out thence the scribes and Pharisees were\nextremely angry, and questioned him on many subjects, [11:54]watching\nhim, to catch something from his mouth.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XVII.\n\nCHRIST'S DOCTRINE OF HYPOCRISY, OF THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD, OF WORLDLY\nCARES, AND OF THE TIMES.\n\n1 [12:1]AT that time, the multitude being assembled by ten thousands,\nso that they trod one on another, he said to his disciples, Beware,\nfirst, of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy; [12:2]for\nthere is nothing concealed that shall not be revealed, nor hid that\nshall not be known. [12:3]Whatever, therefore, you have said in the\ndarkness, shall be heard in the light; and what you have spoken to the\near in private rooms, shall be proclaimed on the houses. [12:4]And I\ntell you, my friends, fear not those that kill the body, and after this\nhave [power] to do nothing more. [12:5]But I will show you whom to\nfear; Fear him, who after killing has power to cast into hell; yes, I\ntell you, Fear him. [12:6]Are not five sparrows sold for two assarions\n[3 cents], and one of them is not forgotten before God? [12:7]But even\nthe hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not, therefore, for you\nare of more value than many sparrows.\n\n2 [12:8]And I tell you, that whoever shall confess me before men, him\nwill the Son of man confess before the angels of God; [12:9]but he that\nhas denied me before men, shall be denied before the angels of God.\n[12:10]And every one that speaks a word against the Son of man shall\nhave forgiveness; but he that blasphemes against the Holy Spirit shall\nnot be forgiven.  [12:11]And when they bring you to the synagogues, and\npowers, and authorities, be not anxious how you shall defend\nyourselves, or what you shall say; [12:12]for the Holy Spirit shall\nteach you in that hour what you ought to say.\n\n3 [12:13]And one of the multitude said to him, Teacher, tell my brother\nto divide with me the inheritance. [12:14]And he said to him, Man, who\nmade me a judge or a divider over you? [12:15]And he said to them, See,\nand beware of all covetousness; for one's life depends not on the\nabundance of his property. [12:16]And he told them a parable, saying,\nThe farm of a certain rich man produced abundantly; [12:17]and he\nreasoned in himself, saying, What shall I do, for I have no place where\nI shall bring together my fruits? [12:18]And he said, I will do this; I\nwill take down my storehouses and build greater; and there will I bring\ntogether all my produce and my goods; [12:19]and I will say to my soul,\nSoul, you have many goods laid up for many years rest, eat, drink, and\nenjoy yourself. [12:20]But God said to him, Foolish man, this night\nthey shall require your soul from you; and who then will have the goods\nwhich you have provided? [12:21]So is every one that lays up treasures\nfor himself and is not rich in God.\n\n4 [12:22]And he said to his disciples, I tell you, therefore, be not\nanxious for your soul what you shall eat, nor for the body what you\nshall put on. [12:23]Is not the soul more than the food, and the body\nthan the clothing? [12:24]Consider the ravens; for they neither sow nor\nreap, and they have no private room, no storehouse; and God feeds them.\nHow much are you better than the birds! [12:25]And which of you can add\na cubit to his stature?  [12:26]And if you cannot do the least, why are\nyou anxious for the rest? [12:27]Consider the lilies; how they neither\nspin nor weave; but I tell you that Solomon in all his glory was not\narrayed like one of them. [12:28]And if God so clothes the grass in the\nfield, which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, will he\nnot much more clothe you, men of little faith?  [12:29]And seek not\nwhat you shall eat, and what you shall drink, and be not of a doubtful\nmind; [12:30]for all these things do the nations of the world seek; and\nyour Father knows that you need them. [12:31]But seek his kingdom, and\nthese shall be added to you. [12:32]Fear not, little flock, for your\nFather is well pleased to give you the kingdom. [12:33]Sell your\nproperty and bestow charity; make yourselves purses that become not\nold, and a treasury that fails not, in heaven, where no thief\napproaches, nor moth destroys; [12:34]for where your treasury is, there\nwill your heart be also.\n\n5 [12:35]Stand with your loins girded, and your candles lighted,\n[12:36]and be like men waiting for the coming of their lord, when he\nshall return from the wedding, that when he comes and knocks they may\nopen to him immediately. [12:37] Blessed are those servants whom their\nlord when he comes shall find watching. I tell you truly, that he will\ngird himself, and cause them to recline, and he will come and wait upon\nthem. [12:38]And if he comes in the second watch, and comes in the\nthird watch, and finds them thus, blessed are they. [12:39]But know\nthis, that if the householder had known at what hour the thief comes,\nhe would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken\nthrough. [12:40]Be you also ready; for in an hour when you think not\nthe Son of man comes.\n\n6 [12:41]And Peter said to him, Lord, do you speak this parable to us,\nor also to all? [12:42]And the Lord said, Who then is a faithful, a\nwise steward, whom the lord shall place over his family, to give them\ntheir proper food in due time?  [12:43]Blessed is that servant whom his\nlord when he comes shall find so doing. [12:44]I tell you truly, that\nhe will set him over all his property. [12:45]But if that servant says\nin his heart, My lord delays to come, and begins to beat the younger\nservants, and female servants, and to eat and drink and be drunk,\n[12:46]the lord of that servant will come in a day that he looks not\nfor him, and at an hour that he knows not of, and will punish him\nseverely, and give him his part with the faithless.  [12:47]And that\nservant who knew his lord's will and prepared not himself, nor did\naccording to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes; [12:48]but he\nthat knew not, and did things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with\nfew. And from any one to whom much is given, much will be demanded; and\nof him with whom men have deposited much, they will ask more.\n\n7 [12:49]I have come to send a fire on the earth; and what will I if it\nis already kindled? [12:50]But I have a baptism to be baptized with;\nand how am I straitened till it is fully accomplished! [12:51]Do you\nthink that I have come to give peace on the earth? I tell you, no; but\nrather division. [12:52]For from this time there shall be five in one\nhouse divided, three against two, and two shall be divided against\nthree; [12:53]a father against a son, and a son against a father; a\nmother against the daughter, and a daughter against the mother; a\nmother-in-law against the daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law\nagainst the mother-in-law.\n\n8 [12:54]And he also said to the multitudes, When you see a cloud rise\nin the west you immediately say, There comes a shower; and it is so.\n[12:55]And when the south wind blows you say, There will be heat; and\nthere is. [12:56] Hypocrites! You know how to distinguish the\nappearance of the earth and sky, and how do you not distinguish this\ntime? [12:57]And why even of yourselves do you not judge what is right?\n[12:58]For when you go with your adversary to a ruler, on the way labor\nto be released from him, lest he take you to the judge, and the judge\ndeliver you to the officer, and the officer cast you into prison;\n[12:59] I tell you that you shall not go out thence till you have paid\neven the last lepton [2 mill].\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XVIII.\n\nCHRIST COMMENTING ON THE SLAUGHTER OF CERTAIN GALILEANS, CURING A\nDEMONIAC ON THE SABBATH, THE SAVED, ETC.\n\n1 [13:1]AND some were present at that time, telling him of the\nGalileans whose blood Pilate mingled with their sacrifices.  [13:2]And\nhe answered and said to them, Do you think those Galileans were sinners\nabove all the Galileans, because they suffered such things? [13:3]I\ntell you, No; but unless you change your minds you shall all in like\nmanner be destroyed. [13:4]Or those eighteen on whom the tower in the\nSiloam fell, and killed them; do you think they were sinners above all\nmen that live at Jerusalem? [13:5]I tell you, No; but unless you change\nyour minds you shall all in like manner be destroyed.\n\n2 [13:6]And he spoke this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted\nin his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none.\n[13:7]And he said to his vine dresser, Behold, I have come three years\nseeking fruit on this fig tree and find none; cut it down; why should\nit make the ground unproductive? [13:8] And he answered and said to\nhim, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I dig about it, and put on\nmanure; [13:9]and if it bears fruit, well; but if not, at a future time\nyou shall cut it down.\n\n3 [13:10]And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath,\n[13:11] and behold, there was a woman who had been subject to a spirit\nof infirmity eighteen years, and was bent down, and was not able to\nlift herself up at all. [13:12]And Jesus seeing her, called to her and\nsaid, Woman, you are released from your infirmity; [13:13]and he put\nhis hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and glorified\nGod. [13:14]And the synagogue ruler answered, being angry because Jesus\nhad performed a cure on the sabbath, and said to the multitude, There\nare six days in which you ought to work; in them, therefore, come and\nbe cured, and not on the sabbath. [13:15]Then the Lord answered him and\nsaid, Hypocrites, does not each of you on the sabbath untie his ox or\nhis ass from the manger, and lead him away to drink? [13:16]And ought\nnot this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound,\nbehold, eighteen years, to be released from this bond on the sabbath?\n[13:17]And when he had said these things all his enemies were ashamed;\nand all the people rejoiced on account of all the glorious works\nperformed by him.\n\n4 [13:18]And he said, What is the kingdom of God like? and to what\nshall I liken it? [13:19]It is like a mustard seed which a man took and\ncast into his garden; and it grew and became a great tree, and the\nbirds of heaven lodged in its branches.  [13:20]Again he said, To what\nshall I liken the kingdom of God?  [13:21]It is like leaven which a\nwoman took and hid in three sata [33 quarts] of flour, till the whole\nwas leavened.\n\n5 [13:22]And he went through the cities and villages teaching, and\nmaking his way towards Jerusalem. [13:23]And some one said to him,\nLord, are there few who are saved? And he said to them, [13:24]Strive\nto enter in by the narrow gate; for many, I tell you, shall seek to\nenter in, and shall not be able. [13:25] When the householder has risen\nand shut the door, and you stand without and knock at the door, saying,\nLord, open to us, and he will answer and say to you, I know you not\nwhence you are, [13:26]then you will say, We eat and drank in your\npresence, and you have taught in our streets; [13:27]and he will say to\nyou, I know not whence you are; depart from me, all doers of\nwickedness.  [13:28] There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when\nyou shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets in\nthe kingdom of God, and you cast out. [13:29]And they shall come from\nthe east and west, and from the north and south, and shall recline in\nthe kingdom of God. [13:30]And behold, there are last who shall be\nfirst, and there are first who shall be last.\n\n6 [13:31]On the same day some of the Pharisees came to him, saying, Go\nout and depart hence, for Herod wishes to kill you.  [13:32]And he said\nto them, Go and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out demons, and finish\n[performing] cures to-day and to-morrow, and on the third day I shall\nfinish my course. [13:33]But I must go on to-day and to-morrow, and the\nday following; for it is not possible for a prophet to be destroyed out\nof Jerusalem.  [13:34]Jerusalem, Jerusalem, killing the prophets and\nstoning those sent to her, how often would I have gathered your\nchildren together, as a bird gathers her young under her wings, and you\nwould not! [13:35]Behold, your house is left to you. And I tell you,\nthat you shall not see me, till [the day] shall come when you shall\nsay, Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XIX.\n\nCHRIST DINING WITH A RULER ON THE SABBATH, THE PARABLE OF THE GREAT\nSUPPER, QUALIFICATIONS FOR DISCIPLESHIP.\n\n1 [14:1]AND he came into the house of one of the rulers of the\nPharisees to eat bread on the sabbath; and they watched him closely.\n[14:2]And behold, there was a man before him having the dropsy.\n[14:3]And Jesus answered and said to the lawyers and Pharisees, Is it\nlawful to cure on the sabbath, or not? [14:4]And they were silent. And\nhe took and cured him, and dismissed him.  [14:5]And he answered and\nsaid to them, If a son or an ox of any of you shall fall into a pit,\nwill he not immediately take him out on the sabbath day? [14:6]And they\ncould not answer to these things.\n\n2 [14:7]And he spoke a parable to the invited, when he observed how\nthey selected the first places at the table; saying to them, [14:8]When\nyou are invited by any one to a wedding, do not sit down in the first\nplace, lest at some time a more honorable man than you should have been\ninvited by him, [14:9] and he that invited you and him come and say to\nyou, Give this man a place; and then with shame you take the last\nplace. [14:10]But when you are invited, go and sit down in the last\nplace, that when he who invited you comes, he may say to you, Friend,\ngo up higher; then you shall have honor in the presence of those that\nrecline with you; [14:11]for every one that exalts himself shall be\nhumbled, and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.\n\n3 [14:12]And he said also to him that had invited him, When you make a\nbreakfast, or a supper, call not your friends, nor your brothers, nor\nyour relatives, nor your rich neighbors, lest they also at some time\ninvite you in return, and a compensation be made to you. [14:13]But\nwhen you make a feast, invite the poor, crippled, lame, blind,\n[14:14]and you shall be blessed; for they cannot compensate you; for\nyou shall be compensated at the resurrection of the just.\n\n4 [14:15]And one of those reclining with him, hearing these things,\nsaid to him, Blessed is he that eats bread in the kingdom of God.\n[14:16]And he said to him, A certain man made a great supper, and\ninvited many. [14:17]And he sent his servant at the time of the supper\nto say to the invited, Come, for all things are now ready. [14:18]And\nthey all with one consent excused themselves. The first said to him, I\nhave bought a field and I must go to see it; I pray you have me\nexcused. [14:19]And another said, I have bought five yokes of oxen and\nI go to try them; I pray you have me excused. [14:20]And another said,\nI have married a wife, and on this account I cannot come. [14:21]And\nthe servant came and reported to his lord these things. Then the master\nof the house; being angry, said to his servant, Go out quickly into the\nstreets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and\nmaimed, and blind, and lame. [14:22]And the servant said, Lord, it is\ndone as you commanded, and yet there is room.  [14:23]And the Lord said\nto the servant, Go out into the ways and along the hedges, and compel\nthem to come in, that my house may be filled; [14:24]for I tell you\nthat none of those men that were invited shall taste of my supper.\n\n5 [14:25]And great multitudes were travelling with him; and turning\naround he said to them, [14:26]If any one comes to me, and hates not\nhis father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and\nsisters, and still more his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.\n[14:27]And whoever does not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot\nbe my disciple. [14:28]For what man of you wishing to build a tower,\ndoes not first sit down and estimate the expense, whether he has the\nmeans to finish?  [14:29]lest having laid its foundation, and not being\nable to finish, all who see ridicule him, [14:30]saying, This man began\nto build and was not able to finish. [14:31]Or what king going to\nengage in war with another king, does not first sit down and consult\nwhether he is able with ten thousand to meet him that comes against him\nwith twenty thousand? [14:32]And if not, while he is yet a great way\noff, sending an embassy he desires conditions of peace. [14:33]So,\ntherefore, no one of you can be my disciple who does not forsake all\nthat he has. [14:34]Salt, therefore, is good; but if the salt has lost\nits strength, with what shall it be seasoned? [14:35] It is not fit for\nland, nor for manure; they cast it away. He that has ears to hear, let\nhim hear.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XX.\n\nPARABLES OF THE LOST SHEEP, THE LOST MONEY, AND THE PRODIGAL SON.\n\n1 [15:1]AND all the publicans and sinners came near him to hear him.\n[15:2]And both the Pharisees and scribes complained, saying, This man\nreceives sinners and eats with them. [15:3]And he spoke to them this\nparable; saying, [15:4]What man of you having a hundred sheep, and\nlosing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness,\nand go after the lost sheep till he finds it. [15:5]And finding it, he\nputs it on his shoulders rejoicing; [15:6]and coming to the house, he\ncalls together his friends and neighbors, saying, Congratulate me; for\nI have found my sheep that was lost. [15:7]So, I tell you, there shall\nbe joy in heaven over one sinner that changes his mind, more than over\nninety-nine righteous persons who do not need a change of mind.\n\n2 [15:8]Or what woman having ten drachmas [140 cents], if she loses one\ndrachma [14 cents], does not light a candle, and sweep the house, and\nseek carefully till she finds it? [15:9]And when she finds it, she\ncalls her female friends and neighbors together, saying, Congratulate\nme, for I have found the drachma which I lost. [15:10]So, I tell you,\nthere is joy before the angels of God over one sinner that changes his\nmind.\n\n3 [15:11]And he said, A certain man had two sons. [15:12]And the\nyoungest of them said to the father, Father, give me the portion of the\nestate that falls to me; and he divided to them his living. [15:13]And\nnot many days after, the youngest son, collecting all his property,\nwent abroad to a distant country; and there wasted his property, living\nintemperately. [15:14]And when he had spent all, there was a severe\nfamine in that country; and he began to be in want. [15:15]And he went\nand attached himself to one of the citizens of that country; and he\nsent him into his field to feed swine. [15:16]And he desired to fill\nhis stomach with the carob pods which the swine eat; and no man gave\nhim.\n\n4 [15:17]And coming to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my\nfather abound in bread, but I perish here with hunger!  [15:18]I will\narise and go to my father, and say to him, Father, I have sinned to\nHeaven, and before you; [15:19]I am no longer worthy to be called your\nson; make me as one of your hired servants. [15:20]And he arose, and\ncame to his father. But while he was yet far off, his father saw him,\nand had compassion on him, and ran and fell on his neck, and kissed\nhim. [15:21]And the son said to him, Father, I have sinned to Heaven,\nand before you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son. [15:22]\nBut the father said to his servants, Bring out the best robe and put on\nhim; and put a ring on his hand, and sandals on his feet; [15:23]and\nbring the fatted calf and kill it; let us eat, and rejoice; [15:24]for\nthis my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.\nAnd they began to rejoice.\n\n5 [15:25]But his older son was in the field; and when he came and\napproached the house he heard music and the dancers. [15:26]And calling\none of the servants he inquired what these things meant.  [15:27]And he\nsaid to him, Your brother has come; and your father has killed the\nfatted calf, because he has received him back in health. [15:28]And he\nwas angry, and would not go in; but his father came out and entreated\nhim. [15:29]And he answered and said to his father, Behold, I have\nserved you so many years, and have never disobeyed your command; and\nyou have never given me a kid, that I might rejoice with my friends;\n[15:30]but when this your son came who has consumed his living with\nharlots, you killed for him the fatted calf. [15:31]But he said to him,\nSon, you are always with me, and all mine is yours. [15:32]We ought\nalso to rejoice and be glad; for this your brother was dead, and is\nalive again; and was lost, and is found.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XXI.\n\nTHE UNFAITHFUL STEWARD, AND THE RICH MAN AND LAZARUS.\n\n1 [16:1]AND he also said to the disciples, There was a certain rich man\nthat had a steward; and he was accused to him of wasting his property.\n[16:2]And calling him, he said to him, What is this which I hear of\nyou? Render an account of your stewardship; for you can be no longer a\nsteward. [16:3]And the steward said within himself, What shall I do,\nbecause my lord takes the stewardship away from me? I am not strong\nenough to dig; I am ashamed to beg.  [16:4]I know what I will do, that\nwhen I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their\nhouses. [16:5]And calling each one of his lord's debtors, he said to\nthe first, How much do you owe my lord? [16:6]And he said, A hundred\nbaths [1,350 gallons] of oil. And he said to him, Take your bill, and\nsit down quickly, and write fifty. [16:7]Then he said to another, And\nhow much do you owe? And he said, A hundred cors [1,445 bushels] of\nwheat. And he said to him, Take your bill, and write eighty. [16:8]And\nthe lord praised the unjust steward, because he did wisely; for the\nchildren of this life are wiser, for their generation, than the\nchildren of light.\n\n2 [16:9]And I tell you, Make yourselves friends of the riches procured\nby injustice, that when it fails they may receive you into the eternal\ntabernacles. [16:10]He that is faithful in the least is faithful also\nin much; and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.\n[16:11]If, therefore, you have not been faithful in the riches procured\nby injustice, who will commit to you the true? [16:12]And if you have\nnot been faithful in another's, who will give you yours? [16:13]No\ndomestic can serve two masters; for he will either hate the first and\nlove the other, or he will adhere to the first and despise the other.\nYou cannot serve God and riches.\n\n3 [16:14]And the Pharisees, who are avaricious, heard all these things,\nand derided him. [16:15]And he said to them, You are they that justify\nyourselves before men; but God knows your hearts; for that which is\nhigh among men is an abomination before God.  [16:16]The law and the\nprophets were till John; since that time the kingdom of God is\npreached, and every one presses violently into it. [16:17]And it is\neasier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one point of the law\nto fail. [16:18]Every one that puts away his wife and marries another,\ncommits adultery; and he that marries a woman put away from a husband,\ncommits adultery.\n\n4 [16:19]There was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and\nfine linen, and feasted sumptuously every day.  [16:20]And a certain\npoor man by the name of Lazarus was laid at his gate, afflicted with\nulcers, [16:21]and desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from\nthe rich man's table; but the dogs also came and licked his ulcers.\n[16:22]And the poor man died, and was carried away by the angels to\nAbraham's bosom. And the rich man also died, and was buried; [16:23]and\nin hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and saw Abraham from\nafar, and Lazarus in his bosom. [16:24]And he called and said, Father\nAbraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his\nfinger in water and cool my tongue; for I am in pain in this flame.\n\n5 [16:25]But Abraham said, Son, remember that you received your good\nthings in your life, and Lazarus in like manner evil things; but now he\nis comforted here, and you are in pain. [16:26]And besides all this,\nthere is a great chasm fixed between us and you, so that those wishing\nto pass from hence to you cannot, neither can they pass from thence to\nus. [16:27]And he said, I beseech you then, father, send him to my\nfather's house, [16:28]for I have five brothers, to testify fully to\nthem, that they may not also come to this place of torment [16:29]But\nAbraham said, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.\n[16:30]But he said, No, father Abraham, but if one went to them from\nthe dead they would change their minds. [16:31]But he said to him, If\nthey hear not Moses and the prophets, they would not be persuaded if\none arose from the dead.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XXII.\n\nCHRIST'S DOCTRINE RESPECTING OFFENSES, CURING TEN LEPERS, AND\nPREDICTING THE COMING OF HIS KINGDOM.\n\n1 [17:1]AND he said to his disciples, It is inevitable that offenses\nshould come; but woe to him by whom they come; [17:2]it would be\nprofitable for him if a millstone was placed around his neck, and he\nwas cast into the sea, rather than that he should offend one of these\nlittle ones. [17:3]Take heed to yourselves; if your brother sins,\nreprove him; and if he changes his mind, forgive him; [17:4]and if he\nsins against you seven times in a day, and turn seven times, saying, I\nchange my mind, you shall forgive him.\n\n2 [17:5]And the apostles said to the Lord, Increase our faith.\n[17:6]And the Lord said, If you had a faith like a mustard seed, you\nwould say to this sycamore tree, Be taken up by the roots and planted\nin the sea, and it would obey you. [17:7]But which of you having a\nservant plowing, or keeping sheep, will say to him when he comes in\nfrom the field, Come immediately and sit down?  [17:8]but will he not\nsay to him, Prepare something that I may take supper, and gird yourself\nand wait on me till I eat and drink, and after that do you eat and\ndrink? [17:9]Does he thank the servant because he did the things\ncommanded him? [17:10]So also you, when you have done all things\ncommanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants; what we owed the\ndoing of; we have done.\n\n3 [17:11]And he was going to Jerusalem, and he passed through the midst\nof Samaria and Galilee. [17:12]And coming to a certain village, ten\nlepers met him, who stood afar off. [17:13]And they lifted up their\nvoice saying, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.  [17:14]And seeing them,\nhe said, Go and show yourselves to the priests. And as they were going\nthey were cleansed. [17:15] And one of them seeing that he was cured,\nreturned, glorifying God with a loud voice, [17:16]and fell on his face\nat his feet and thanked him. And he was a Samaritan. [17:17]And Jesus\nanswered and said to him, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are\nthe nine? [17:18]There are not found returning to give glory to God any\nbut this stranger. [17:19]And he said to him, Arise and go; your faith\nhas cured you.\n\n4 [17:20]And being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God\ncomes, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God comes not with\nobservation; [17:21] neither shall they say, Behold here!  or, there!\nfor behold, the kingdom of God is within you.  [17:22]And he said to\nthe disciples, The days will come when you shall desire to see one of\nthe days of the Son of man, and shall not see it. [17:23]And they shall\nsay to you, Behold there!  behold here! go not away, nor follow them.\n[17:24]For as the lightning flashing from one part under heaven shines\nto another part under heaven, so shall the Son of man be in his day.\n[17:25]But first he must suffer many things, and be rejected by this\ngeneration. [17:26]And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be\nalso in the days of the Son of man. [17:27]They eat, they drank, they\nmarried, they were married, till the day that Noah entered into the\nark, and the flood came and destroyed all.  [17:28]In like manner also\nas it was in the days of Lot; they eat, drank, bought, sold, planted,\nbuilt; [17:29]but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire\nand sulphur from heaven, and destroyed all; [17:30]so shall it be in\nthe day when the Son of man is revealed.\n\n5 [17:31]In that day let not him that shall be on the house, and his\nfurniture in the house, come down to take it away; and in like manner\nlet not him in the field turn back for things which are behind;\n[17:32]remember Lot's wife. [17:33]Whoever shall seek to save his life\nshall lose it; and whoever shall lose shall save it. [17:34]I tell you,\non that night two shall be on one bed; one shall be taken and the other\nleft; [17:35]two shall be grinding together; one shall be taken and the\nother left. [17:37]And they answered and said to him, Where, Lord? And\nhe said to them, Where the body is, there will the eagles be gathered\ntogether.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XXIII.\n\nTHE PARABLE OF THE UNJUST JUDGE, INFANTS, AND THE WAY OF SALVATION.\n\n1 [18:1]AND he spoke also a parable to them, that men ought to pray at\nall times, and not to faint; [18:2]saying, There was a certain judge in\na certain city, who feared not God and regarded not man. [18:3]And\nthere was a widow in that city, and she came to him, saying, Give me\njudgment against my adversary. [18:4]And he would not for a time; but\nafterwards he said within himself, Though I fear not God and regard not\nman, [18:5]yet because this widow makes me trouble I will give her\njudgment, that she may not vex me by her continual coming. [18:6]And\nthe Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge says. [18:7]And will not God\nexecute the judgment of his elect, who cry day and night to him, even\nthough he waits long on them? [18:8]I tell you, he will execute their\njudgment speedily. But when the Son of man comes will he find faith on\nthe earth?\n\n2 [18:9]And he also spoke this parable to some who trusted in\nthemselves that they were righteous, and despised others: [18:10]Two\nmen went up to the temple to pray; one a Pharisee, and the other a\npublican. [18:11]The Pharisee, standing by himself, offered this\nprayer; God, I thank thee that I am not as other men, rapacious,\nunjust, adulterers, or even as this publican; [18:12]I fast twice a\nweek; I tithe all I acquire. [18:13]And the publican, standing afar\noff, would not lift up his eyes to heaven, but smote on his breast,\nsaying, God, be propitious to me a sinner. [18:14]I tell you this man\nwent down to his house justified rather than that; for every one that\nexalts himself shall be humbled, and he that humbles himself shall be\nexalted.\n\n3 [18:15]And they brought him also infants, that he should touch them;\nand the disciples seeing it reproved them. [18:16]But Jesus calling\nthem, said, Suffer the little children to come to me, and forbid them\nnot; for of such is the kingdom of God. [18:17]I tell you truly, that\nwhoever receives not the kingdom of God as a little child, shall by no\nmeans enter into it.\n\n4 [18:18]And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good teacher, what\nshall I do to inherit eternal life? [18:19]And Jesus said to him, Why\ndo you call me good? There is none good but one, God.  [18:20]You know\nthe commandments; You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill,\nYou shall not steal, You shall not testify falsely, Honor your father\nand your mother. [18:21]And he said, All these have I kept from my\nyouth. [18:22]And Jesus hearing it, said to him, One thing you yet\nwant; sell all that you have, and distribute to the poor, and you shall\nhave a treasure in heaven, and come, follow me. [18:23]And when he\nheard these things he was sad; for he was very rich. [18:24]And Jesus\nseeing him, said, With what difficulty do those who have riches enter\ninto the kingdom of God! [18:25]It is easier for a camel to enter\nthrough the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the\nkingdom of God. [18:26]And those hearing him, said, And who can be\nsaved? [18:27]And he said, Things impossible with man are possible with\nGod.\n\n5 [18:28]And Peter said, Behold, we have left our [property] and\nfollowed you. [18:29]And he said to them, I tell you truly, that there\nis no one who has left a house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or\nchildren, on account of the kingdom of God, [18:30]who shall not\nreceive manifold more in this time, and in the life to come eternal\nlife.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XXIV.\n\nCHRIST PREDICTING HIS DEATH, GIVING SIGHT TO A BLIND MAN, STOPPING WITH\nZACCHEUS, AND THE PARABLE OF THE NOBLEMAN RECEIVING A KINGDOM.\n\n1 [18:31]AND Jesus took the twelve aside, and said to them, Behold, we\ngo up to Jerusalem; and all things written by the prophets concerning\nthe Son of man will be finished. [18:32]For he will be delivered to the\nGentiles, and be mocked, and injuriously treated, and spit upon,\n[18:33]and they will scourge and kill him, and on the third day he will\nrise again. [18:34]And they understood nothing of these things; and\nthis word was concealed from them, and they did not perceive what was\nsaid.\n\n2 [18:35]And when they came nigh to Jericho, a certain blind man sat by\nthe way, begging. [18:36]And hearing the multitude passing by he\ninquired what it meant. [18:37]And they told him, Jesus the Nazoraean\nis passing by. [18:38]And he cried, saying, Jesus, Son of David, have\nmercy on me. [18:39]And those going before charged him to be still; but\nhe cried much more, Son of David, have mercy on me. [18:40]And Jesus\nstopping, commanded him to be brought to him. And when he came near he\nasked him, [18:41]saying, What do you wish me to do for you? And he\nsaid, Lord, that I may receive my sight. [18:42]And Jesus said to him,\nReceive your sight; your faith has cured you. [18:43]And he immediately\nreceived his sight, and followed him, glorifying God; and all the\npeople seeing it gave praise to God.\n\n3 [19:1]And entering into Jericho he passed through it. [19:2]And\nbehold, there was a man called Zaccheus, and he was chief publican, and\nwas rich. [19:3] And he sought to see Jesus, who he was; and could not\non account of the multitude, because he was of small stature. [19:4]And\nrunning before, he went up on a sycamore that he might see him; for he\nwas to pass by it. [19:5]And when he came to the place, Jesus looking\nup saw him, and said to him, Zaccheus, make haste and come down, for\nto-day I must stop at your house; [19:6]and he made haste and came\ndown, and received him rejoicing. [19:7]And seeing it, they all\ncomplained, saying, He has gone in to stop with a sinner.\n\n4 [19:8]And Zaccheus stood up and said to the Lord, Behold, half of my\nproperty, Lord, I give to the poor; and if I have defrauded any one of\nany thing, I restore fourfold. [19:9]And Jesus said to him, To-day has\nsalvation come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham;\n[19:10]for the Son of man has come to seek and save the lost.\n\n5 [19:11]And when they were hearing these things, he added and spoke a\nparable, because he was nigh Jerusalem; and they thought that the\nkingdom of God was immediately to appear. [19:12]He said, therefore, A\ncertain nobleman went into a distant country to receive a kingdom for\nhimself, and to return. [19:13]And calling his ten servants, he gave\nthem ten minas [$163.30], and said to them, Use them in business till I\ncome. [19:14]And his citizens hated him, and sent an embassy after him,\nsaying, We wish not this man to reign over us. [19:15]And he returned,\nhaving received the kingdom, and ordered those servants to be called to\nhim to whom he had given the money, that he might know what each one\nhad done.\n\n6 [19:16]And the first came, saying, Lord, your mina [$16.33] has\ngained ten minas. [19:17]And he said to him, Well, good servant;\nbecause you have been faithful in the least, have authority over ten\ncities. [19:18]And the second came, saying, Lord, your mina has made\nfive minas. [19:19]And he said to him, Be you over five cities.\n[19:20]And the other came, saying, Lord, behold your mina, which I had\nlaid up in a napkin; [19:21]for I feared you, because you are an\naustere man; you take up what you laid not down, and reap what you did\nnot sow. [19:22]He said to him, Out of your mouth will I judge you,\nevil servant. You knew that I am an austere man, taking up what I laid\nnot down, and reaping what I did not sow? [19:23]then why did you not\nput my silver on the [broker's] table, and when I came I should have\nhad the same, with interest? [19:24]And he said to those standing by,\nTake from him the mina, and give it to him that has ten minas,--\n[19:25]and they said to him, Lord, he has ten minas,-- [19:26]for I\ntell you, that to every one that has shall be given; but from him that\nhas not, even what he has shall be taken away; [19:27]but those my\nenemies that wished me not to reign over them, bring hither and kill\nthem before me.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XXV.\n\nCHRIST ENTERING JERUSALEM, AND PURIFYING THE TEMPLE.\n\n1 [19:28]AND having said these things he went forward going up to\nJerusalem. [19:29]And when he came near to Bethphage and Bethany, at\nthe mountain called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of the disciples,\n[19:30]saying, Go into the village opposite to you, and having entered\ninto it you will find a colt tied, on which no man ever sat; untie and\nbring him; [19:31]and if any one asks you, Why do you untie him? Say\nthus to him; The Lord has need of him. [19:32]And those sent, going,\nfound as he said to them.  [19:33]And untying the colt, his owners said\nto them, Why do you untie the colt? [19:34]And they said, The Lord has\nneed of him.  [19:35]And they brought him to Jesus; and spreading their\nclothes on the colt they put Jesus on him. [19:36]And as he proceeded\nthey spread their clothes in the way. [19:37]And when he was now\napproaching, at the descent of the Mount of Olives, all the multitude\nof the disciples began to rejoice, and praise God with a loud voice for\nall the mighty works which they saw, [19:38]saying, Blessed is the king\nwho comes in the name of the Lord; peace be in heaven, and glory in the\nhighest [heavens].  [19:39]And some of the Pharisees, from the\nmultitude, said to him, Teacher, rebuke your disciples. [19:40]And he\nanswered and said to them, I tell you that if these should be silent\nthe stones would cry out.\n\n2 [19:41]And when he came near and saw the city he wept over it,\n[19:42] saying, O, that you had known, even you, and indeed in this\nyour day, the things which are for your peace! But now they are hid\nfrom your eyes. [19:43]For days of [trouble] will come upon you, and\nyour enemies shall throw an embankment around you, and shut you in, and\npress you on every side, [19:44]and destroy you and your children with\nyou, and not leave stone upon stone in you; because you knew not the\ntime of your visitation.\n\n3 [19:45]And going into the temple he cast out those that sold,\n[19:46]saying to them, it is written, My house shall be a house of\nprayer; but you have made it a den of robbers.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XXVI.\n\nCHRIST IN THE TEMPLE REPLYING TO THE PHARISEES AND SADDUCEES.\n\n1 [19:47]AND he taught daily in the temple; and the chief priests, and\nscribes, and the first of the people sought to destroy him. [19:48]And\nthey found nothing that they could do; for all the people were\nattentive to hear him. [20:1]And on one of those days, as he was\nteaching the people in the temple, and proclaiming the good news, the\nchief priests and scribes, with the elders, came upon him, [20:2]and\nspoke to him saying, Tell us by what authority you do these things? and\nwho gave you this authority? [20:3]And he answered and said to them, I\nalso will ask you a question; and tell me, [20:4]Was the baptism of\nJohn from heaven, or from men? [20:5]And they reasoned with themselves,\nsaying, If we say, From heaven, he will say, Why did you not believe\nhim? [20:6]But if we say, From men, all the people will stone us; for\nthey are persuaded that John is a prophet. [20:7]And they answered,\nThey did not know whence.  [20:8]And Jesus said to them, Neither do I\ntell you by what authority I do these things.\n\n2 [20:9]And he spoke to the people this parable; A man planted a\nvineyard, and let it out to husbandmen, and went abroad for a long\ntime. [20:10]And at the time he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that\nthey should give him of the fruit of the vineyard; and the husbandmen\nbeat him, and sent him away empty. [20:11] And again he sent another\nservant; and they beat him, and treated him shamefully, and sent him\naway empty. [20:12]And again he sent a third; and they wounded him, and\ncast him out. [20:13]And the lord of the vineyard said, What shall I\ndo? I will send my beloved son; doubtless, when they see him they will\nrespect him.  [20:14]But seeing him, the husbandmen reasoned with\nthemselves, saying, This is the heir; let us kill him, that the\ninheritance may be ours. [20:15]And they cast him out of the vineyard,\nand killed him. What, therefore, will the lord of the vineyard do to\nthem? [20:16]He will come and destroy those husbandmen, and let the\nvineyard to others. And hearing this, they said, By no means.\n[20:17]And he looked at them and said, What, then, is this which is\nwritten? The stone which the builders rejected has become the head of a\ncorner; [20:18]every one that falls on that stone shall be bruised; but\non whomsoever it shall fall it shall crush him to atoms. [20:19]And the\nscribes and chief priests sought to lay hands on him at that time; and\nthey feared the people; for they knew that he spoke this parable to\nthem.\n\n3 [20:20]And they sent spies to watch him, who pretended to be\nrighteous men, that they might take advantage of his speech, to deliver\nhim to the power and authority of the procurator.  [20:21]And they\nasked him saying, Teacher, we know that you speak and teach correctly,\nand respect no person, but teach the way of God in truth. [20:22]Is it\nlawful for us to pay tribute to Caesar, or not? [20:23]And perceiving\ntheir craftiness, he said to them, [20:24]Show me a denarius [14\ncents]. Whose figure and inscription has it? And they answered and\nsaid, Caesar's.  [20:25]And he said to them, Render therefore Caesar's\ndues to Caesar, and God's to God. [20:26]And they were not able to take\nadvantage of his word before the people; and they wondered at his\nanswer, and were silent.\n\n4 [20:27]And some of the Sadducees came forward, who deny that there is\na resurrection, and asked him, [20:28]saying, Teacher, Moses wrote to\nus, that if one's brother dies, having a wife, and dies childless, his\nbrother shall take his wife and raise up children for his brother.\n[20:29]There were, therefore, seven brothers; and the first took a\nwife, and died childless; [20:30]and the second and third took her;\n[20:31]and in like manner also the seven; [and they] left no children,\nand died.  [20:32]And last, the woman died also. [20:33]In the\nresurrection, therefore, which of them has her for a wife? for the\nseven had her for a wife. [20:34]And Jesus said to them, The children\nof this life marry and are married; [20:35]but those who are judged\nworthy to attain that life, and the resurrection of the dead, neither\nmarry nor are married; [20:36]neither can they die any more; for they\nare equal to the angels, and are sons of God, being sons of the\nresurrection. [20:37]But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at\nthe bush, when he called the Lord, The God of Abraham, and God of\nIsaac, and God of Jacob.  [20:38]But God is not [a God] of the dead,\nbut of the living; for all live to him. [20:39]And some of the scribes\nanswered and said, Teacher, you have spoken well. [20:40]And they dared\nnot question him any more.\n\n5 [20:41]And he said to them, How do they say that the Christ is the\nson of David? [20:42]And David himself says in the book of Psalms, The\nLord said to my Lord, Sit on my right hand, [20:43]till I make your\nenemies your footstool. [20:44]David, therefore, calls him Lord; and\nhow is he his son?\n\n6 [20:45]And in the hearing of all the people he said to them,\n[20:46]Beware of the scribes, who delight to walk in long robes, and\nlove salutations in the markets, and the first seats in the synagogues,\nand the first places at feasts; [20:47]who devour widows' houses, and\nfor a pretence make long prayers; they shall receive a greater judgment.\n\n7 [21:1]And looking up he saw the rich casting their gifts into the\ntreasury. [21:2]And he saw also a certain poor widow cast in there two\nlepta [4 mills]. [21:3]And he said, I tell you truly, that this poor\nwidow has cast in more than all; [21:4]for all these have cast among\nthe gifts from their abundance; but she from her want has cast in all\nthe living she had.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XXVII.\n\nCHRIST PREDICTING THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM AND HIS OWN EXALTATION.\n\n1 [21:5]AND some speaking of the temple, that it was adorned with\nbeautiful stones and votive offerings, he said, [21:6]As to these\nthings which you see, the days will come in which stone shall not be\nleft upon stone that shall not be thrown down. [21:7]And they asked\nhim, saying, Teacher, when then shall these things be? and what sign\n[shall there be], when these things are about to occur?  [21:8]And he\nsaid, See that you be not deceived; for many shall come in my name,\nsaying, I am [Christ], and the time is at hand; go not after them.\n[21:9] And when you hear of wars and insurrections, be not terrified,\nfor these things must be first; but the end is not immediately.\n\n2 [21:10]Then said he to them, Nation shall rise against nation, and\nkingdom against kingdom; [21:11]and in places there shall be great\nearthquakes, and famines, and pestilences; and there shall also be\nfearful sights and great signs from heaven. [21:12]But before all these\nthings they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, committing\nyou to synagogues and prisons, to be brought before kings and governors\non my account; [21:13]and it shall result to you for a testimony.\n[21:14]Settle it in your minds, therefore, not to premeditate what\ndefense you shall make, [21:15]for I will give you a mouth and wisdom\nwhich all your enemies shall not be able to resist or dispute.\n[21:16]And you shall be delivered up by parents, and brothers, and\nrelatives, and friends; and they shall kill some of you; [21:17]and you\nshall be hated by all on my account; [21:18]and a hair of your heads\nshall by no means perish; [21:19]by your patience you shall save your\nsouls.\n\n3 [21:20]But when you see Jerusalem surrounded with encampments, then\nknow that its desolation is at hand. [21:21]Then let those in Judea\nflee to the mountains; and those in the midst of it depart out of it;\nand let those in country places not enter into it. [21:22]For these are\ndays of judgment, that all things which are written may be fully\naccomplished. [21:23]But woe to those with child, and having children\nat the breast in those days; for there shall be great distress on the\nearth, and wrath against this people. [21:24]And they shall fall by the\nedge of the sword, and be carried away captive to all nations, and\nJerusalem shall be trodden down by gentiles, till the times of gentiles\nare fully accomplished.\n\n4 [21:25]And there shall be signs in the sun, and moon, and stars; and\non the earth distress of nations, with perplexity [at] the roaring of\nthe sea and waves, [21:26]men dying with fear and an expectation of\nevils to come on the world; for the hosts of the heavens shall be\nshaken. [21:27]And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud\nwith power and great glory.  [21:28]When these things begin to occur,\narise and lift up your heads, for your redemption is near.\n\n5 [21:29]And he spoke to them a parable; See the fig tree and all the\ntrees; [21:30]when they now put forth, observing you know of yourselves\nthat summer already is nigh; [21:31]so, also, when you see all these\nthings occur, know that the kingdom of God is nigh.  [21:32]I tell you\ntruly, that this generation shall by no means pass away till all these\nthings are accomplished. [21:33] Heaven and earth shall pass away, but\nmy words shall not pass away.  [21:34]Take heed to yourselves, that\nyour hearts be not oppressed with revelling and drunkenness, and\nworldly cares, and that day come upon you suddenly; [21:35]for it shall\ncome like a snare on all who live on the face of the whole earth.\n[21:36]But watch continually, praying that you may be accounted worthy\nto escape all these things which are about to occur, and to stand\nbefore the Son of man.\n\n6 [21:37]And he taught during the days in the temple, and went out and\nspent the nights on the mountain called the Mount of Olives. [21:38]And\nall the people came early to him in the temple to hear him.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XXVIII.\n\nJUDAS AGREES TO BETRAY HIS MASTER, THE LAST SUPPER, AMBITION\nDISCOURAGED, THE DISCIPLES WARNED.\n\n1 [22:1]AND the feast of unleavened bread approached, called the\npassover. [22:2]And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might\ndestroy him, for they feared the people. [22:3]And Satan entered into\nJudas, called Iscariot, who was of the number of the twelve; [22:4]and\nhe went and conferred with the chief priests and commanders as to how\nhe might deliver him to them. [22:5]And they were glad, and agreed to\ngive him money. [22:6]And he promised, and sought a convenient\nopportunity to betray him to them in the absence of the people.\n\n2 [22:7]And the day of unleavened bread came, in which it was necessary\nto kill the paschal lamb. [22:8]And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go,\nprepare for us the passover, that we may eat.  [22:9]And they said to\nhim, Where do you wish us to prepare?  [22:10]And he said to them,\nBehold, as you enter into the city, a man will meet you, bearing an\nearthen vessel of water; follow him into the house where he enters,\n[22:11]and say to the master of the house, The teacher says to you,\nwhere is the public room in which I may eat the passover with my\ndisciples? [22:12]And he will show you a large upper room furnished;\nthere prepare.  [22:13]And they went and found as he had said to them\nand prepared the passover.\n\n3 [22:14]And when the hour had come, he sat down, and the apostles with\nhim; [22:15]and he said to them, I have greatly desired to eat this\npassover with you before I suffer; [22:16]for I tell you that I will\neat it no more till it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God. [22:17]And\ntaking a cup, he gave thanks, and said, Take this and divide it among\nyou; [22:18]for I tell you that I will not drink of the product of the\nvine, till the kingdom of God has come. [22:19] And taking bread, and\ngiving thanks, he broke and gave them, saying, This is my body given\nfor you; this do in remembrance of me. [22:20]And the cup in like\nmanner, after supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant [sealed]\nwith my blood, which is poured out for you. [22:21]But behold, the hand\nof the traitor is with me on the table; [22:22]for the Son of man goes\nas it has been determined, but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed.\n[22:23]And they inquired among themselves which of them it was who was\nabout to do this.\n\n4 [22:24]And there was a contention among them as to which of them\nshould be the greatest. [22:25]And he said to them, The kings of the\nnations exercise lordship over them; and those having power are called\ntheir benefactors. [22:26] But you shall not be so. But let the greater\namong you be as the younger, and the chief as he that serves.\n[22:27]For which is greater, he that reclines, or he that serves? Is\nnot he that reclines? But I am with you as he that serves. [22:28]And\nyou have continued with me in my trials, [22:29]and I appoint you, as\nmy Father has appointed me, a kingdom, [22:30]that you may eat and\ndrink at my table, in my kingdom, and sit on thrones, judging the\ntwelve tribes of Israel.\n\n5 [22:31]Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has desired you, to sift like\nwheat; [22:32]but I have prayed for you, that your faith may not\nentirely fail; and when you recover yourself, confirm your brothers.\n[22:33]And he said to him, Lord, I am ready to go with you to prison\nand to death. [22:34]And he said, I tell you, Peter, a cock shall not\ncrow today, before you shall deny thrice that you know me.\n\n6 [22:35]And he said to them, When I sent you out without a purse, and\nprovision sack, and sandals, did you want any thing?  And they said,\nNothing. [22:36]Then he said to them, But now let him that has a purse\ntake it, and a provision sack likewise; and he that has not a sword,\nlet him sell his cloak and buy one.  [22:37]For I tell you, that this\nwhich is written must be fully accomplished in me, And he was numbered\nwith transgressors; for also the things concerning me have an end.\n[22:38]And they said, Lord, behold, here are two swords. And he said to\nthem, It is sufficient.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XXIX.\n\nCHRIST IN GETHSEMANE AND BEFORE THE SANHEDRIM.\n\n1 [22:39]AND going out, he went, according to his custom to the Mount\nof Olives; and the disciples followed him. [22:40]And arriving at the\nplace, he said to them, Pray that you may not enter into trial.\n[22:41]And he withdrew from them about a stone's throw, and kneeling\ndown, prayed, [22:42]saying, Father, if thou wilt, take this cup away\nfrom me; but not my will, but thine be done. [22:43]And an angel\nappeared to him from heaven, strengthening him. [22:44]And being in\nagony, he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat was like large drops of\nblood falling down to the ground. [22:45]And rising from prayer, and\ncoming to the disciples, he found them sleeping from grief, [22:46]and\nhe said to them, Why do you sleep? Arise, and pray that you may not\nenter into trial.\n\n2 [22:47]And while he was yet speaking, behold a multitude, and he that\nwas called Judas, one of the twelve, came before them, and he\napproached Jesus to kiss him. [22:48]But Jesus said to him, Judas, do\nyou betray the Son of man with a kiss? [22:49]And those about him\nseeing what was about to occur, said, Lord, shall we strike with the\nsword? [22:50]And one of them struck the servant of the chief priest,\nand took off his right ear.  [22:51]But Jesus answered and said, Suffer\neven this; and touching his ear he healed him. [22:52]And Jesus said to\nthe chief priests, and commanders of the temple, and elders who came\nagainst him, Have you come with swords and clubs, as against a robber?\n[22:53] When I was daily with you in the temple you stretched not out\nyour hands upon me but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.\n\n3 [22:54]And apprehending him, they led him away, and conducted him to\nthe house of the chief priest; and Peter followed at a distance.\n[22:55]And they having kindled a fire in the midst of the court, and\nsat down, Peter sat in the midst of them.  [22:56]And a certain female\nservant seeing him sitting by the light, and looking steadily at him,\nsaid, This man also was with him. [22:57] But he denied him, saying, I\ndo not know him, woman.  [22:58]And after a little, another seeing him,\nsaid, You also are one of them. But Peter said, Man, I am not.\n[22:59]And about an hour intervening, another strongly affirmed,\nsaying, Certainly, this man was also with him; for he is also a\nGalilean. [22:60]But Peter said, Man, I know not what you say. And\nimmediately, while he was yet speaking, a cock crew. [22:61]And the\nLord turned and looked at Peter; and Peter was reminded of the Lord's\nword, that he said to him, Before a cock crows to-day you shall deny me\nthrice; [22:62]and going out, Peter wept bitterly.\n\n4 [22:63]And the men having him in custody mocked him, beating him;\n[22:64]and blindfolding him they asked him, saying, Prophecy who it is\nthat struck you? [22:65]And they reviled him with many other words.\n\n5 [22:66]And when it was day, the eldership of the people, and the\nchief priests, and scribes were assembled, and they brought him into\ntheir sanhedrim, saying, [22:67]If you are the Christ, tell us? And he\nsaid to them, If I tell you you will not believe; [22:68]and if I ask\nyou will not answer. [22:69]But from this time the Son of man will sit\non the right hand of the power of God. [22:70]And they all said, Are\nyou the Son of God then? And he said to them, I am as you say.\n[22:71]And they said, What further need have we of testimony? for we\nourselves have heard from his mouth.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XXX.\n\nCHRIST BEFORE PILATE AND HEROD, HIS CONDEMNATION.\n\n1 [23:1]AND all the multitude arose and led him to Pilate.  [23:2]And\nthey accused him, saying, We have found this man perverting our nation,\nand forbidding to pay tribute to Caesar, saying that he is an anointed\nking. [23:3] And Pilate asked him, saying, Are you the king of the\nJews? And he answered and said to him, As you say. [23:4]And Pilate\nsaid to the chief priests, and the multitudes, I find no fault with\nthis man. [23:5]And they were more violent, saying, He excites the\npeople, teaching in all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this\nplace. [23:6]And Pilate hearing of Galilee asked if the man was a\nGalilean.  [23:7]And learning that he was of the province of Herod, he\nsent him to Herod, who was himself also at Jerusalem in those days.\n\n2 [23:8]And when Herod saw Jesus he was much pleased; for he had wished\nfor a long time to see him, because he had beard about him, and he\nhoped to see some miracle performed by him. [23:9]And he questioned him\nwith many words; but he answered him nothing.  [23:10]And the chief\npriests and scribes stood up, violently accusing him. [23:11]And Herod,\nwith his soldiers, treated him with contempt, and mocked him, and put\non him a splendid garment, and sent him back to Pilate. [23:12]And\nPilate and Herod became friends to each other on that day; for they had\nbefore been enemies to each other.\n\n3 [23:13]And Pilate having called the chief priests, and rulers, and\nthe people, [23:14]said to them, You have brought me this man as one\nthat perverts the people; and behold, having had an examination before\nyou, I have found in this man no cause for the charges which you bring\nagainst him, [23:15]but neither has Herod, for I sent you to him, and\nbehold, nothing worthy of death has been done by him; [23:16]having\nchastised him therefore, I will release him. [23:18]And the whole\nmultitude cried out, saying, Take away this man, and release to us\nBarabbas; [23:19]who had been cast into prison for a certain sedition\nmade in the city, and a murder.\n\n4 [23:20]Pilate therefore addressed them again, wishing to release\nJesus; [23:21]but they replied, saying, Crucify him, crucify him.\n[23:22]And he said to them a third time, [Why], for what evil has this\nman done? I have found no cause of death in him; having chastised him\ntherefore, I will release him.  [23:23]And they beset him with loud\ncries, demanding that he should be crucified; and their cries, and\nthose of the chief priests, prevailed; [23:24] and Pilate answered,\nthat their demand should be granted. [23:25]And he released him that\nwas cast into prison for sedition and murder, whom they desired, and\ndelivered up Jesus to their will.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XXXI.\n\nCHRIST'S CRUCIFIXION, DEATH, AND BURIAL.\n\n1 [23:26]AND when they led him away, they took Simon, a certain\nCyrenian, coming from the country, and put on him the cross to bear\nafter Jesus. [23:27] And there followed him a great multitude of the\npeople, and of women; and they bewailed and lamented him. [23:28]And\nturning to them, Jesus said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me,\nbut weep for yourselves, and for your children. [23:29]For behold, days\ncome in which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and those who\nhave not borne children, and the breasts which have not nursed them!\n[23:30]Then shall they say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the\nhills, Cover us; [23:31]for if they do these things with the green\ntree, what shall be done with the dry? [23:32]And two other criminals\nwere led out to be put to death with him.\n\n2 [23:33]And when they arrived at the place called Cranium, there they\ncrucified him, and the criminals; one on his right hand, and the other\non his left. [23:34]And Jesus said, Father, forgive them, for they know\nnot what they do. And distributing his garments they cast lots [for\nthem]. [23:35]And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also\nscoffed, saying, He saved others; if this is the Christ, the elect of\nGod, let him save himself.  [23:36]And the soldiers also mocked him,\nand came and presented him vinegar, [23:37]and said, If you are the\nking of the Jews, save yourself. [23:38]And there was an inscription\nover him; THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.\n\n3 [23:39]And one of the criminals crucified, reviled him, [saying], Are\nyou not the Christ? save yourself and us.  [23:40]But the other\nanswered and rebuked him, and said, Do you not fear God, since you are\nunder the same sentence? [23:41]and we indeed justly, for we receive\nthe desert of our doings; but this man has done nothing amiss.\n[23:42]And he said, Jesus, remember me when you come in your kingdom.\n[23:43]And he said to him, I tell you truly, to-day you shall be with\nme in paradise.\n\n4 [23:44]And it was now about the sixth hour [noon]; and there was a\ndarkness over all the land till the ninth hour [3 P.M.].  [23:45]And\nthe sun was obscured; and the vail in the midst of the temple was rent\nin two. [23:46]And Jesus crying with a loud voice, said, Father, into\nthy hands I commit my spirit; and having said this, he expired.\n[23:47]And the centurion seeing what was done, glorified God, saying,\nTruly this was a righteous man. [23:48]And all the multitudes who had\ncome together to this spectacle, beholding what was done, returned\nbeating their breasts. [23:49]And all his friends stood at a distance,\nand the women who had followed him from Galilee, seeing these things.\n\n5 [23:50]And behold, a man by the name of Joseph, a counsellor, a good\nand righteous man, [23:51]this man had not consented to their design\nand doing, [he was] from Arimathea, a city of the Jews, and he expected\nthe kingdom of God. [23:52]This man coming to Pilate asked for the body\nof Jesus; [23:53]and taking it down, he wrapped it in linen, and laid\nit in a tomb cut out of a rock, in which no man had yet been laid.\n[23:54]And the day was the preparation; the sabbath was dawning.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XXXII.\n\nCHRIST AFTER HIS RESURRECTION.\n\n1 [23:55]AND women following him who had come up with him from Galilee\nsaw the tomb, and how his body was laid. [23:56]And they returned and\nprepared spices and ointments, and rested on the sabbath, according to\nthe commandment.\n\n2 [24:1]And on the first day of the week, early in the morning, they\ncame to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared. [24:2]And\nthey found the stone rolled away from the tomb; [24:3]and entering,\nfound not the body. [24:4] And while they were in doubt about this,\nbehold, two men stood by them in shining clothing. [24:5]And [the\nwomen] being afraid, and bowing their faces to the earth, they said to\nthem, Why do you seek the living with the dead? [24:6] He is not here,\nbut is raised.  Remember how he told you while he was yet in Galilee,\n[24:7]saying, The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of wicked\nmen to be crucified, and on the third day rise again.  [24:8]And they\nremembered his words; [24:9]and returning from the tomb related all\nthese things to the eleven, and to all the rest.  [24:10]And they were\nthe Magdalene Mary, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and the\nothers with them, who told these things to the apostles. [24:11]And\ntheir words appeared to them like idle talk; and they believed them not.\n\n3 [24:13]And behold, two of them went the same day to a village about\nsixty stadiums [7 miles] from Jerusalem, called Emmaus; [24:14]and they\nconversed together of all these things which had happened. [24:15]And\nas they conversed and reasoned together, Jesus also himself approaching\nwalked with them; [24:16] but their eyes were restrained that they did\nnot know him. [24:17]And he said to them, What reports are these which\nyou relate one to the other as you walk and are sad? [24:18]And one of\nthem answered, whose name was Cleopas, and said to him, Do you live\nalone at Jerusalem and not know the things which have occurred in it in\nthese days? [24:19]And he said to them, What things? And they said to\nhim, The things relating to Jesus the Nazoraean, who was a prophet,\nmighty in work and word before God and all the people; [24:20]and how\nour chief priests and rulers delivered him up to the sentence of death,\nand crucified him, [24:21]But we hoped that he was the one who was to\nredeem Israel. But indeed, also, in addition to all these things, today\nis the third day since these things occurred; [24:22]but some of our\nwomen also astonished us, who being early at the tomb [24:23]and not\nfinding his body, came, saying that they had seen a vision of angels,\nwho said that he was alive. [24:24]And some of those with us went to\nthe tomb, and found even as the women had said; and him they saw not.\n\n4 [24:25]And he said to them, O foolish men, and of a mind slow to\nbelieve all that the prophets have spoken. [24:26]Ought not the Christ\nto suffer these things, and to enter into his glory?  [24:27]And from\nMoses, and from all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the\nScriptures the things concerning himself.  [24:28]And they approached\nthe village to which they were going; and he pretended to be going\nfarther. [24:29]And they urged him, saying, Remain with us, for it is\nnear evening, and the day is already past. And he went in to remain\nwith them; [24:30]and when he reclined with them, taking bread, he\nblessed, and breaking, gave them. [24:31]And their eyes were opened,\nand they knew him; and he vanished from their sight. [24:32]And they\nsaid one to the other, Did not our hearts burn within us when he spoke\nto us on the way? when he opened to us the Scriptures? [24:33]And\nrising up the same hour they returned to Jerusalem, and found the\neleven, and those with them, assembled together, [24:34]saying, The\nLord has risen indeed and has appeared to Simon. [24:35]And they\nrelated the things on the way, and how he was known to them by the\nbreaking of bread.\n\n5 [24:36]And as they were saying these things he stood in the midst of\nthem; [24:37]and they being terrified and afraid, thought they saw a\nspirit. [24:38] And he said to them, Why are you troubled? and why do\ndoubts arise in your minds? [24:39]See my hands and my feet, that I am\nhe; feel of me, and see; for a spirit has not flesh and bones as you\nsee me have. [24:41]And while they yet disbelieved from joy, and\nwondered, he said to them, Have you any food here? [24:42]And they gave\nhim part of a broiled fish, and of a honeycomb; [24:43] and taking it,\nhe eat before them.\n\n6 [24:44]And he said to them, These are my words which I spoke to you\nwhile I was yet with you, that all things written in the law of Moses,\nand Prophets, and Psalms, concerning me, must be fully accomplished.\n[24:45]Then he opened their understanding to understand the Scriptures,\n[24:46]and said to them, Thus it is written, that the Christ should\nsuffer, and rise from the dead on the third day, [24:47]and that a\nchange of mind and forgiveness of sins should be preached in his name\nto all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. [24:48]You are witnesses of\nthese things.  [24:49]Behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you;\nbut remain in the city till you are endued with power from on high.\n\n7 [24:50]And he led them out as far as Bethany, and lifting up his\nhands, blessed them; [24:51]and while he was blessing them he departed\nfrom them. [24:52]And they returned to Jerusalem with great joy,\n[24:53]and were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God.\n\n\n\n\nTHE GOSPEL OF JOHN.\n\n\nCHAPTER I.\n\nTHE WORD.\n\n1 [1:1]IN the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and\nthe Word was God. [1:2]This [Word] was in the beginning with God.\n[1:3]All things existed through him, and without him not one thing\nexisted, which existed. [1:4] In him was life, and the life was the\nlight of men; [1:5]and the light shone in darkness, and the darkness\ncomprehended it not.\n\n2 [1:6]There was a man, sent by God, whose name was John.  [1:7]This\nman came for a testimony, to testify of the light, that all might\nbelieve through him. [1:8]He was not the light, but to testify of the\nlight. [1:9]The light was the true [light] which lights every man that\ncomes into the world. [1:10]He was in the world, and the world existed\nthrough him, and the world knew him not. [1:11] He came to his own, and\nhis own received him not.  [1:12]But as many as received him, to them\ngave he power to become sons of God, to them that believe on his name,\n[1:13]who are born not of superior blood, nor of a will of the flesh,\nnor of a will of man, but of God.\n\n3 [1:14]And the Word became flesh and tabernacled with us and we beheld\nhis glory, a glory as of an only child with a father, full of grace and\ntruth. [1:15]John testified of him, and cried, saying, This is the one\nof whom I said, He that comes after me existed before me, for he was\nbefore me. [1:16]For we all have received of his fullness, and grace\nfor grace; [1:17]for the law was given by Moses, the grace and truth\nwere by Jesus Christ.  [1:18]No one has ever seen God; the only Son,\nwho is in the bosom of the Father, he declared [him].\n\n\n\nCHAPTER II.\n\nCHRIST DECLARED TO BE THE MESSIAH, AND COMMENCING HIS MINISTRY.\n\n1 [1:19]AND this is the testimony of John, when the Jews from Jerusalem\nsent priests and Levites to ask him, Who are you?  [1:20]And he\nconfessed and denied not, and confessed, I am not the Christ. [1:21]And\nthey asked him, What then? are you Elijah?  And he said, I am not. Are\nyou the prophet? And he answered, No.  [1:22]Then they said to him, Who\nare you? that we may give an answer to them that sent us; what say you\nof yourself? [1:23]He said, I am the voice of one crying in the\nwilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as Isaiah the prophet\nsaid.\n\n2 [1:24]And those sent were of the Pharisees. [1:25]And they asked him,\nand said to him, Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ,\nnor Elijah, nor the prophet? [1:26]John answered them saying, I baptize\nwith water; but among you stands one whom you know not. [1:27]He is the\none coming after me, the strings of whose sandal I am not worthy to\nuntie. [1:28]These things occurred in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where\nJohn was baptizing.\n\n3 [1:29]On the next day he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, Behold\nthe Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.  [1:30]This is he\nof whom I said, After me comes a man who was before me, for he was\nbefore me. [1:31]And I knew him not; but that he might be made manifest\nto Israel, for this reason have I come baptizing with water. [1:32]And\nJohn testified saying, I saw the Spirit descend like a dove from\nheaven, and it remained on him. [1:33]And I knew him not, but he that\nsent me to baptize with water, he said to me, On whom you see the\nSpirit descend and remain on him, this is he that baptizes with the\nHoly Spirit.  [1:34]And I have seen and testified that this is the Son\nof God.\n\n4 [1:35]On the next day John was again standing, and two of his\ndisciples, [1:36]and looking at Jesus as he walked, he said, Behold the\nLamb of God. [1:37]And his two disciples heard him say this, and\nfollowed Jesus. [1:38]And Jesus turning around, and seeing them\nfollowing, said to them, What do you seek? And they said to him, Rabbi,\nwhich interpreted signifies Teacher, where do you stay? [1:39]He said\nto them, Come and see. Then they went and saw where he staid, and staid\nwith him that day; it was about the tenth hour. [1:40]Andrew, the\nbrother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who heard from John, and\nfollowed him; [1:41]he first found his brother Simon, and said to him,\nWe have found the Messiah; which is interpreted, Christ [Anointed].\n[1:42]He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looking at him said, You are\nSimon, the son of Jonas; you shall be called Cephas; which is\ninterpreted, Peter [Rock].\n\n5 [1:43]On the next day he wished to go to Galilee, and he found\nPhilip. And Jesus said to him, Follow me. [1:44]Now Philip was from\nBethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter. [1:45]Philip found\nNathanael, and said to him, We have found him of whom Moses in the law,\nand the prophets, wrote, Jesus, the son of Joseph, from Nazareth.\n[1:46]And Nathanael said to him, Can any good thing come out of\nNazareth? Philip said to him, Come and see.  [1:47]Jesus saw Nathanael\ncoming to him, and said of him, See an Israelite indeed, in whom is no\nguile. [1:48]Nathanael said to him, Whence do you know me? Jesus\nanswered and said to him, Before Philip called you, when you were under\nthe fig tree I saw you. [1:49]Nathanael answered him, Rabbi, you are\nthe Son of God; you are the King of Israel. [1:50]Jesus answered and\nsaid to him, Because I said to you I saw you under the fig tree, do you\nbelieve? You shall see greater things than these. [1:51]And he said to\nhim, I tell you most truly, you shall see heaven opened and the angels\nof God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER III.\n\nCHRIST CHANGING WATER INTO WINE, RESIDING AT CAPERNAUM, AND PURIFYING\nTHE TEMPLE.\n\n1 [2:1]AND on the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and\nthe mother of Jesus was there; [2:2]and Jesus also was invited, and his\ndisciples, to the wedding. [2:3]And the wine falling short the mother\nof Jesus said to him, They have no wine.  [2:4]Jesus said to her, What\nhave you to do with me, woman? My hour has not yet come. [2:5]His\nmother said to the servants, Do whatever he tells you. [2:6]And there\nwere six stone water jars there, placed for the purification of the\nJews, containing two or three metretes [16.75 or 25.125 gallons] each.\n[2:7]Jesus said to them, Fill the water jars with water; and they\nfilled them to the top. [2:8]And he said to them, Now draw out and bear\nto the master of the feast; and they bore it. [2:9]And when the master\nof the feast tasted of the water made wine, and knew not whence it\nwas,--but the servants knew who had drawn the water,--the master of the\nfeast called the bridegroom [2:10]and said to him, Every man first\npresents the good wine, and when they have drunk freely, the poorer;\nbut you have kept the good wine till now.  [2:11]This first miracle did\nJesus perform at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory; and his\ndisciples believed on him.  [2:12]After this he went down to Capernaum,\nhe and his mother, and his brothers, and his disciples, and remained\nthere a few days.\n\n2 [2:13]And the passover of the Jews was nigh; and Jesus went up to\nJerusalem. [2:14]And he found in the temple those that sold cattle, and\nsheep, and doves, and the brokers sitting; [2:15]and making a whip of\ncords he drove them all out of the temple, also the sheep and cattle,\nand poured out the money of the brokers, and overturned the tables,\n[2:16]and said to those that sold doves, Take these things hence; make\nnot my Father's house a house of merchandise. [2:17]And his disciples\nremembered that it was written, The zeal of thy house consumes me.\n\n3 [2:18]Then the Jews answered and said to him, What sign do you show\nus, that you do these things? [2:19]Jesus answered and said to them,\nDestroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it.  [2:20]Then the\nJews said to him, Forty-six years was this temple being built, and will\nyou raise it in three days? [2:21]But he spoke of the temple of his\nbody. [2:22]When, therefore, he was raised from the dead, his disciples\nremembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture and the\nword which Jesus spoke.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER IV.\n\nCHRIST'S DISCOURSE WITH NICODEMUS.\n\n1 [2:23]AND when he was at Jerusalem at the feast of the passover many\nbelieved on him, seeing his miracles which he performed; [2:24]but\nJesus did not trust himself to them, because he knew all men, [2:25]for\nhe had no need that any should testify of man, for he knew what was in\nman.\n\n2 [3:1]And there was a man of the Pharisees whose name was Nicodemus, a\nruler of the Jews. [3:2]This man came to him by night and said to him,\nRabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can\nperform these miracles which you perform unless God is with him.\n[3:3]Jesus answered and said to him, I tell you most truly, unless one\nhas been born again he cannot see the kingdom of God. [3:4]Nicodemus\nsaid to him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he become an\nunborn infant of his mother a second time, and be born? [3:5]Jesus\nanswered, I tell you most truly, unless a man is born of water and of\nthe Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. [3:6]That which is\nborn of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is a\nspirit.  [3:7]Wonder not that I said to you, You must be born again.\n[3:8]The Spirit breathes where it wills, and you hear its voice, but\nyou know not whence it comes, nor whither it goes; so is every one that\nhas been born of the Spirit.\n\n3 [3:9]Nicodemus answered and said to him, How can these things be?\n[3:10] Jesus answered and said to him, Are you a teacher of Israel and\nknow not these things? [3:11]I tell you most truly, that we speak what\nwe know, and what we have seen we testify; and you receive not our\ntestimony. [3:12]If I have told you earthly things and you believe not,\nhow will you believe if I should tell you heavenly things? [3:13]And no\none has ascended into heaven but he that came down from heaven, the Son\nof man who is in heaven. [3:14]And as Moses lifted up the serpent in\nthe wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up; [3:15]that every\none believing in him may have eternal life. [3:16]For God so loved the\nworld that he gave his only Son, that every one believing in him may\nnot perish but have eternal life. [3:17]For God sent not his Son into\nthe world to judge the world, but that the world through him might be\nsaved. [3:18]He that believes in him is not judged; but he that\nbelieves not has been judged already; because he has not believed in\nthe name of the only Son of God. [3:19]And this is the judgment; that\nthe light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than\nthe light, because their deeds are evil. [3:20]For every one that does\nevil hates the light, and comes not to the light, lest his deeds should\nbe reproved; [3:21]but he that does good comes to the light, that his\ndeeds may be made manifest, for they are wrought in God.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER V.\n\nCHRIST BAPTIZING, AND PREACHING TO THE SAMARITANS.\n\n1 [3:22]AFTER these things Jesus and his disciples came into the\ncountry of Judea; and there he staid with them, and baptized.\n[3:23]And John also was baptizing at AEnon, near Salim, because there\nwere many waters there; and they came and were baptized, [3:24]for John\nwas not yet cast into prison. [3:25] Then there was a controversy of\nthe disciples of John with a Jew concerning purification. [3:26]And\nthey came to John and said to him, Rabbi, he that was with you beyond\nthe Jordan, to whom you testified, behold, this [man] baptizes and all\nmen come to him. [3:27]John answered and said, A man can receive\nnothing unless it is given him from heaven. [3:28]You yourselves bear\nme witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but am sent before him.\n[3:29]He that has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the\nbridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the\nbridegroom's voice; this my joy, therefore, is fully attained.\n[3:30]He must increase, but I must decrease. [3:31]He that comes from\nabove is above all; he that is of the earth is of the earth, and speaks\nof the earth. He that comes from heaven is above all; [3:32] and what\nhe has seen and heard this he testifies; and no one receives his\ntestimony. [3:33]He that receives his testimony has sealed that God is\ntrue. [3:34]For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God\ngives not the Spirit by measure.  [3:35]The Father loves the Son, and\nhas given all things into his hand. [3:36]He that believes on the Son\nhas eternal life; but he that disbelieves the Son shall not see life,\nbut the wrath of God continues on him.\n\n2 [4:1]When, therefore, the Lord knew that the Pharisees heard that\nJesus made and baptized more disciples than John, [4:2]though Jesus\nhimself indeed baptized not, but his disciples, [4:3]he left Judea and\ndeparted again to Galilee. [4:4]And it was necessary that he should\npass through Samaria. [4:5] He came, therefore, to a city of Samaria\ncalled Sychar, near the lot which Jacob gave his son Joseph. [4:6]And\nJacob's well was there.  Jesus, therefore, being fatigued with\ntravelling sat thus by the well; it was about the sixth hour [noon].\n[4:7]A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, Give me\na drink; [4:8]for his disciples had gone away into the city to buy\nprovisions.  [4:9]Then the Samaritan woman said to him, How do you,\nbeing a Jew, ask a drink of me, who am a Samaritan? for the Jews do no\nbusiness with the Samaritans. [4:10]Jesus answered and said to her, If\nyou knew the gift of God, and who it is that says to you, Give me a\ndrink, you would have asked him, and he would have given you living\nwater. [4:11]The woman said to him, Sir, you have nothing to draw with,\nand the well is deep; whence then have you the living water? [4:12]Are\nyou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and who drank\nof it himself, and his sons, and his cattle? [4:13]Jesus answered and\nsaid to her, Every one that drinks of this water will thirst again;\n[4:14]but whoever drinks of the water which I will give him shall never\nthirst; but the water which I will give him shall be in him a fountain\nof water springing up to eternal life. [4:15]The woman said to him,\nSir, give me this water, that I thirst not, nor come here to draw.\n[4:16]He said to her, Go and call your husband, and come here.\n[4:17]The woman answered and said, I have no husband.  Jesus said to\nher, You have said well, I have no husband; [4:18]for you have had five\nhusbands, and he whom you now have is not your husband. In this you\nhave spoken truly.\n\n3 [4:19]The woman said to him, Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.\n[4:20] Our fathers worshipped in this mountain, and you say that\nJerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.  [4:21]Jesus said to\nher, Believe me, woman, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain,\nnor in Jerusalem, you shall worship the Father. [4:22]You worship what\nyou know not; we worship what we know; for salvation is of the Jews.\n[4:23]But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers shall\nworship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father seeks such to\nworship him.  [4:24]God is a Spirit, and those that worship him must\nworship in spirit and truth. [4:25]The woman said to him, I know that\nthe Messiah is coming, called Christ; when he comes he will tell us all\nthings. [4:26]Jesus said to her, I that speak to you am [the Messiah].\n\n4 [4:27]And upon this his disciples came, and wondered that he talked\nwith the woman; but no one said to him, What do you seek?  or why do\nyou talk with her? [4:28]Then the woman left her bucket, and went to\nthe city, and said to the men, [4:29]Come and see a man who has told me\nall things which I have done; is this the Christ? [4:30]They came out\nfrom the city and came to him.\n\n5 [4:31]In the meantime the disciples asked him saying, Rabbi, eat.\n[4:32]But he said to them, I have food to eat which you know not of.\n[4:33]Then the disciples said one to another, Has any one brought him\nfood to eat? [4:34]Jesus said to them, My food is to do the will of him\nthat sent me, and to finish his work. [4:35]Do you not say, There are\nyet four months, and the harvest comes?  behold, I say to you, lift up\nyour eyes and see the fields; for they are white for a harvest.\n[4:36]Already he that reaps receives wages and gathers fruit for life\neternal, that he that sows and he that reaps may rejoice together.\n[4:37] For in this is the saying true; He that sows is one, and he that\nreaps is another. [4:38]I have sent you to reap that on which you have\nnot labored; others have labored and you have entered into their labor.\n\n6 [4:39]And many of the Samaritans in that city believed on him, on\naccount of the word of the woman, testifying, He told me all things\nwhich I have done. [4:40]When, therefore, the Samaritans came to him,\nthey desired him to remain with them; and he remained there two days.\n[4:41]And many more believed on account of his word, [4:42]and said to\nthe woman, We no longer believe on account of your report, for we have\nheard him ourselves, and know that this is truly the Saviour of the\nworld.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER VI.\n\nCHRIST IN GALILEE, CURING A NOBLEMAN'S SON.\n\n1 [4:43]AND after two days he departed thence to Galilee.  [4:44]For\nJesus himself testified that a prophet is without honor in his native\ncountry. [4:45] When, therefore, he came into Galilee, the Galileans\nreceived him, having seen all that he did at Jerusalem at the feast;\nfor they also came to the feast.  [4:46]Then he came again to Cana in\nGalilee, where he had made the water wine.\n\n2 And there was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum.\n[4:47] Hearing that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, he went to\nhim, and desired him to come down and cure his son, for he was about to\ndie. [4:48]Then Jesus said to him, Unless you see miracles and\nprodigies you will not believe.  [4:49] The nobleman said to him, Lord,\ncome down before my child dies. [4:50]Jesus said to him, Go; your son\nlives. The man believed the word which Jesus said to him, and went.\n[4:51]And as he was now going down his servants met him, and told,\nsaying, Your child lives. [4:52]Then he inquired of them the hour in\nwhich he became better. Then they said to him, The fever left him\nyesterday, at the seventh hour. [4:53]Then the father knew that it was\nin that hour in which Jesus said to him, Your son lives; and he\nbelieved, and all his house. [4:54] This second miracle did Jesus,\nhaving come from Judea into Galilee.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER VII.\n\nCHRIST CURING A SICK MAN ON THE SABBATH, AT JERUSALEM.\n\n1 [5:1]AFTER these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went\nup to Jerusalem. [5:2]And there is at Jerusalem, by the sheep-gate, a\npool, called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches. [5:3]In these\nlay a multitude of sick, blind, lame, withered. [5:5]And there was a\ncertain man there who had been sick thirty-eight years. [5:6]Jesus\nseeing him lying, and knowing that he had now been sick a long time,\nsaid to him, Do you wish to become well? [5:7]The sick man answered\nhim, Sir, I have no man, when the water is disturbed, to put me into\nthe pool; but while I am coming another goes down before me. [5:8]Jesus\nsaid to him, Arise, take up your bed and walk. [5:9]And the man\nimmediately became well, and took up his bed and walked. That day was\nthe sabbath.\n\n2 [5:10]The Jews, therefore, said to him that was cured, It is the\nsabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry the bed. [5:11]He answered\nthem, He that made me well, he said to me, Take up your bed and walk.\n[5:12]They asked him, Who is the man that said to you, Take up your bed\nand walk? [5:13]And the sick man knew not who it was; for Jesus had\ngone away, a multitude being in that place. [5:14]Afterwards Jesus\nfound him in the temple, and said to him, Behold, you have become well;\nsin no more, lest a worse thing happen to you. [5:15]The man went away\nand told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well; [5:16]and on\nthis account the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he had done these\nthings on the sabbath. [5:17]But Jesus answered them, My Father works\neven till now, and I work. [5:18]Then, for this reason, the Jews sought\nthe more to kill him, because he not only broke the sabbath but also\nsaid, that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.\n[5:19]Then Jesus answered and said to them, I tell you most truly, the\nSon can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father do; for\nwhatever he does, these things also does the Son in like manner.\n[5:20]For the Father loves the Son, and shows him all things which he\ndoes; and greater works than these will he show him, that you may\nwonder. [5:21]For as the Father raises the dead, and makes them alive,\nso also the Son makes alive whom he will. [5:22]For the Father judges\nno man, but has given all judgment to the Son, [5:23]that all should\nhonor the Son as they honor the Father. He that honors not the Son\nhonors not the Father that sent him.\n\n3 [5:24]I tell you most truly, he that hears my word and believes him\nthat sent me has eternal life, and comes not into judgment, but has\npassed from death to life. [5:25]I tell you most truly, that the hour\ncomes, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of\nGod, and those that hear shall live.  [5:26]For as the Father has life\nin himself, so has he also given to the Son to have life in himself;\n[5:27]and has given him authority and judgment to execute, because he\nis the Son of man.  [5:28]Wonder not at this; for the hour comes in\nwhich all that are in the tombs shall hear his voice [5:29]and shall\ncome forth; those that have done good to a resurrection of life, and\nthose that have done evil to a resurrection of judgment. [5:30]I can do\nnothing of myself; as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, for I\nseek not my will, but the will of him that sent me.\n\n4 [5:31]If I testify of myself my testimony is not true.  [5:32]There\nis another who testifies of me, and I know that the testimony which he\ntestifies of me is true. [5:33]You sent to John, and he testified to\nthe truth; [5:34]but I receive not testimony from a man; but I say\nthese things that you may be saved. [5:35]He was a burning and shining\nlight, and you were willing for a time to rejoice in his light.\n[5:36]But I have greater testimony than John's; for the works which the\nFather has given me to finish, these works which I do, testify of me\nthat the Father has sent me; [5:37]and the Father who sent me, he has\ntestified of me. You have not heard his voice at any time, nor seen his\nform; [5:38]and his word you have not continuing in you, for whom he\nhas sent, him you believe not. [5:39]You search the Scriptures, because\nyou think by them to have eternal life; and they testify of me;\n[5:40]and you will not come to me that you may have life.\n\n5 [5:41]I receive not glory from men, [5:42]but I know you, that you\nhave not the love of God in you. [5:43]I have come in my Father's name\nand you receive me not; if another comes in his own name, him will you\nreceive. [5:44]How can you believe, receiving glory one from another,\nand the glory from God alone you seek not? [5:45]Think not that I will\naccuse you to the Father; there is one that accuses you, Moses, in whom\nyou trust. [5:46]For if you had believed Moses, you would have believed\nme; for he wrote of me. [5:47]But if you believe not his writings, how\nwill you believe my words?\n\n\n\nCHAPTER VIII.\n\nCHRIST FEEDING FIVE THOUSAND, AND WALKING ON THE LAKE.\n\n1 [6:1]AFTER these things Jesus went across the lake of Galilee, the\nTiberias. [6:2]And a great multitude followed him, because they saw the\nmiracles which he performed on the sick. [6:3]And Jesus went up on the\nmountain and sat there with his disciples.  [6:4]And the passover was\nnigh, the feast of the Jews. [6:5]Then Jesus lining up his eyes, and\nseeing many people come to him, said to Philip, Whence shall we buy\nbread that these may eat?\n\n2 [6:6]But this he said to try him; for he knew what he was about to\ndo. [6:7] Philip answered him, Two hundred denarii [$28] worth of bread\nis not sufficient for them, that each may take a little.  [6:8]One of\nhis disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to him, [6:9]There\nis a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fishes; but what are\nthese for so many? [6:10]Jesus said, Make the men sit down. And there\nwas much grass in the place. The men, therefore, sat down in number\nabout five thousand. [6:11]Then Jesus took the bread, and having given\nthanks, distributed it to those reclining; likewise also of the fishes,\nas much as they wished. [6:12]And when they were filled he said to his\ndisciples, Collect the fragments that remain over, that nothing may be\nlost.  [6:13]Then they collected, and filled twelve traveling-baskets\nwith the fragments of the five barley loaves which remained over to\nthose who had eaten.\n\n3 [6:14]Then the men, seeing what a miracle Jesus had performed, said,\nThis is truly the prophet who was to come into the world.  [6:15]And\nJesus knowing that they were about to come and take him by force to\nmake him a king, went up to the mountain himself alone.\n\n4 [6:16]And when it was evening, his disciples went down to the lake,\n[6:17] and entering into the ship were crossing the lake to Capernaum.\nAnd it was now dark, and Jesus had not come to them, [6:18]and the lake\nwas made rough by a great wind blowing.  [6:19]Then having gone about\ntwenty-five or thirty stadiums [3 or 3 1-2 miles], they saw Jesus\nwalking on the lake and coming near the ship, and they were afraid.\n[6:20]But he said to them, It is I; be not afraid. [6:21] Then they\nwillingly took him into the ship, and immediately the ship was at the\nland to which they were going.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER IX.\n\nCHRIST AT CAPERNAUM PROCLAIMING HIMSELF THE SON OF GOD AND THE BREAD OF\nLIFE.\n\n1 [6:22]ON the next day, the multitude standing on the other side of\nthe lake seeing that there was no other boat there except one, and that\nJesus entered not into the ship with his disciples but his disciples\nhad gone away alone,-- [6:23] but other boats came from Tiberias near\nthe place where they had eaten bread after the Lord gave thanks,--\n[6:24]when, therefore, the multitude saw that Jesus was not there,\nneither his disciples, they went into the ships and came to Capernaum,\nseeking Jesus. [6:25]And finding him on the other side of the lake they\nsaid to him, Rabbi, when came you hither? [6:26]Jesus answered them and\nsaid, I tell you most truly, you seek me not because you saw miracles,\nbut because you eat of the bread and were filled. [6:27]Work not for\nthe food which perishes, but for the food which endures to eternal\nlife, which the Son of man will give you; for him has God the Father\nsealed.\n\n2 [6:28]Then they said to him, What shall we do to perform the works of\nGod? [6:29]Jesus answered and said to them, This is the work of God; to\nbelieve on him whom he has sent. [6:30]Then they said to him, What\nmiracle do you perform, that we may see and believe you? what work do\nyou perform? [6:31]Our fathers eat the manna in the wilderness, as it\nis written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat. [6:32]Then Jesus\nsaid to them, I tell you most truly, Moses gave you not bread from\nheaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven; [6:33]for\nthe bread of God is he that comes down from heaven and gives life to\nthe world.\n\n3 [6:34]Then they said to him, Sir, always give us this bread.\n[6:35]Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life; he that comes to me\nshall never hunger, and he that believes in me shall never thirst.\n[6:36]But I said to you, that you have seen me and believe not.\n[6:37]Every thing which the Father gives to me shall come to me, and\nhim that comes to me I will by no means cast out; [6:38]for I came down\nfrom heaven not to do my will, but the will of him that sent me.\n[6:39]And this is the will of him that sent me; that I should lose\nnothing of all that he has given me, but should raise it up at the last\nday. [6:40]For this is the will of my Father, that every one who sees\nthe Son and believes in him should have eternal life; and I will raise\nhim up at the last day.\n\n4 [6:41]Then the Jews complained of him because he said, I am the bread\nwhich came down from heaven. [6:42]And they said, Is not this Jesus,\nthe son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know?  how, then, does he\nsay, I came down from heaven? [6:43]Then Jesus answered and said to\nthem, Complain not among yourselves.  [6:44]No one can come to me\nunless the Father who sent me shall draw him; and I will raise him up\nat the last day. [6:45]It is written in the prophets, And all shall be\ntaught of God. Every one who has heard and learned of the Father comes\nto me.  [6:46]Not that any one has seen the Father except he that is\nfrom God; he has seen the Father.\n\n5 [6:47]I tell you most truly, He that believes has eternal life.\n[6:48]I am the bread of life. [6:49]Your fathers eat manna in the\nwilderness, and died; [6:50]this is the bread which comes down from\nheaven, that one may eat of it and not die. [6:51]I am the living bread\nwhich came down from heaven; if any one eats of this bread, he shall\nlive forever; and the bread which I will give for the life of the world\nis my flesh.\n\n6 [6:52]Then the Jews contended one with another, saying, How can this\nman give us his flesh to eat? [6:53]Then Jesus said to them, I tell you\nmost truly, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his\nblood, you have no life in you. [6:54]He that eats my flesh and drinks\nmy blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.\n[6:55]For my flesh is the true food, and my blood is the true drink.\n[6:56]He that eats my flesh and drinks my blood continues in me, and I\nin him. [6:57]As the living Father sent me and I live by the Father, so\nhe that eats me shall live by me. [6:58]This is the bread which came\ndown from heaven; not as your fathers eat and died, he that eats this\nbread shall live forever. [6:59]These things he said in a synagogue,\nteaching in Capernaum.\n\n7 [6:60]Then many of his disciples hearing him said, This is a hard\nsaying; who can hear him? [6:61]And Jesus knowing in himself that his\ndisciples complained of this, said to them, Does this offend you?\n[6:62][What], then if you should see the Son of man ascend where he was\nformerly? [6:63]The Spirit is that which makes alive; the flesh profits\nnothing; the words which I have spoken to you are spirit and life.\n[6:64]But there are some of you who believe not. For Jesus knew from\nthe beginning who they were that believed not, and who he was that\nwould betray him.  [6:65]And on that account he said, I told you that\nno one can come to me unless it has been given him by my Father.\n\n8 [6:66]From this time many of his disciples went away from following\nhim, and walked no more with him. [6:67]Then Jesus said to the twelve\nWill you also go away? [6:68]Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom\nshall we go? you have words of eternal life, [6:69]and we have believed\nand know that you are the Holy [Son] of God. [6:70]He answered them,\nHave I not chosen you twelve? and of you one is a devil. [6:71]But he\nspoke of Judas the son of Simon Iscariot, for he was about to betray\nhim, being one of the twelve. [7:1]And after these things Jesus walked\nin Galilee, for he would not walk in Judea because the Jews sought to\nkill him.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER X.\n\nCHRIST AT THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES.\n\n1 [7:2]AND the feast of the Jews was nigh, the feast of tabernacles.\n[7:3]Then his brothers said to him, Go down from here, and go into\nJudea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do;\n[7:4]for no one does any thing in secret, and seeks himself to be in\npublic. If you do these things, show yourself to the world. [7:5]For\nhis brothers did not believe on him. [7:6]Then Jesus said to them, My\ntime has not yet come, but your time is always ready. [7:7]The world\ncannot hate you, but me it hates, because I testify of it that its\nworks are evil.  [7:8]Do you go up to the feast; I go not up to this\nfeast, because my time has not yet fully come. [7:9]Having said these\nthings he continued in Galilee.\n\n2 [7:10]But when his brothers had gone up, then he also went up to the\nfeast, not openly, but as it were in secret. [7:11]Then the Jews sought\nhim at the feast, and said, Where is he?  [7:12]And there was much\ncomplaining concerning him among the multitude; some said, He is a good\nman; others said, No; but he deceives the people. [7:13]Nevertheless,\nno one spoke openly for him from fear of the Jews.\n\n3 [7:14]And in the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and\ntaught. [7:15]Then the Jews wondered, saying, How does this man know\nletters, not having learned? [7:16]Then Jesus answered them and said,\nMy teaching is not mine but his that sent me. [7:17]If any one will do\nhis will, he shall know of the teaching whether it is from God or\nwhether I speak from myself.  [7:18]He that speaks from himself seeks\nhis own glory; but he that seeks the glory of him that sent him, this\n[man] is true, and no unrighteousness is in him. [7:19]Did not Moses\ngive you the law? and no one of you performs the law. Why do you seek\nto kill me? [7:20]The multitude answered, You have a demon; who seeks\nto kill you? [7:21]Jesus answered and said to them, I performed one\nwork and you all wonder. [7:22]Moses gave you circumcision, not that it\nis of Moses but of the fathers, and you circumcise a man on the\nsabbath. [7:23]If a man receives circumcision on the sabbath, that the\nlaw of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because I made a\nman entirely sound on the sabbath? [7:24]Judge not according to the\nappearance, but judge a righteous judgment.\n\n4 [7:25]Then some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem said, Is not this he\nwhom they seek to kill? [7:26]And behold, he speaks boldly, and they\nsay nothing to him. Have the rulers at length learned that this is the\nChrist? [7:27]But we know this man whence he is; but when the Christ\ncomes, no one knows whence he is. [7:28]Then Jesus cried, teaching in\nthe temple and saying, You both know me and know whence I am; and I\nhave not come of myself; but he that sent me is true, whom you know\nnot; [7:29]I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.\n[7:30]Then they sought to take him by force; but no man laid a hand on\nhim, for his hour had not yet come.\n\n5 [7:31]And many of the multitude believed on him, and said, When the\nChrist comes will he perform more miracles than this man has performed?\n[7:32]The Pharisees heard the multitude saying these things concerning\nhim, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent to take him by force.\n[7:33]Then Jesus said, Yet a little while am I with you, and I go to\nhim that sent me. [7:34]You shall seek and shall not find, and where I\nam you cannot come. [7:35]Then the Jews said one to another, Where is\nthis man about to go, that we shall not find him? Will he go to the\ndispersion of the Greeks, and teach the Greeks? [7:36]What does the\nword which he said mean; You shall seek and shall not find me, and\nwhere I am you cannot come?\n\n6 [7:37]And on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood\nand cried, saying, If any one thirsts, let him come to me and drink.\n[7:38]He that believes in me, as the Scripture has said, out of him\nshall flow rivers of living water. [7:39]But he said this of the Spirit\nwhich those believing in him were about to receive; for the Spirit was\nnot yet [given], because Jesus was not yet glorified. [7:40]Then some\nof the multitude hearing these words, said, This is truly the prophet;\n[7:41]others said, This is the Christ; others said, [No]; for does the\nChrist come from Galilee? [7:42]Has not the Scripture said that the\nChrist comes from the offspring of David, and from Bethlehem, the\nvillage where David was? [7:43]Then there was a division among the\nmultitude on his account; [7:44]and some of them wished to take him by\nforce, but no one laid hands on him.\n\n7 [7:45]Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees, and\nthey said to them, Why have you not brought him?  [7:46]The officers\nanswered, A man never spoke thus. [7:47]The Pharisees answered them,\nAre you also deceived? [7:48]Has any one of the rulers believed on him,\nor of the Pharisees? [7:49] But this multitude which know not the law\nare accursed.  [7:50]Nicodemus, he that came to him, being one of them,\nsaid to them, [7:51]Does our law judge a man unless it first hears from\nhim and knows what he does? [7:52]They answered and said to him, Are\nyou also from Galilee? search and see; for no prophet is raised up from\nGalilee.\n\n8 [7:53][An early interpolation, but probably true]. And every man went\nto his own house; [8:1]and Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. [8:2]And\nin the morning he went again to the temple, and all the people came to\nhim, and he sat and taught them. [8:3]And the scribes and Pharisees\nbrought him a woman taken in adultery, and placing her in the midst\n[8:4]said to him, Teacher, this woman was taken in adultery, in the\nvery act. [8:5]In the law, Moses commanded us that such should be\nstoned; what therefore do you say? [8:6]They said this to try him, that\nthey might have something of which to accuse him. But Jesus, stooping\ndown, wrote with his finger on the ground. [8:7]And when they continued\nasking him, rising up, he said to them, Let him that has not sinned\namong you first cast the stone at her. [8:8]And again stooping down he\nwrote on the ground. [8:9]But they hearing, and being convicted by\ntheir consciences, went out, one by one, beginning with the oldest,\neven to the last; and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in\nthe midst. [8:10]And Jesus rising up and seeing no one but the woman,\nsaid to her, Woman, where are those your accusers? Has no man condemned\nyou?  [8:11]And she said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said to her, Neither\ndo I condemn you; go, and sin no more.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XI.\n\nCHRIST DECLARING HIMSELF THE SON OF GOD.\n\n1 [8:12]THEN Jesus spoke to them again, saying, I am the light of the\nworld; he that follows me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the\nlight of life. [8:13]Then the Pharisees said to him, You testify of\nyourself; your testimony is not true.  [8:14]Jesus answered and said to\nthem, Even if I testify of myself, my testimony is true, for I know\nwhence I came and whither I go; but you know not whence I come or\nwhither I go.  [8:15]You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one;\n[8:16]and even if I judge, my judgment is true, because I am not alone,\nbut I and the Father who sent me. [8:17]And it is written also in your\nlaw, that the testimony of two men is true; [8:18]I am one, testifying\nof myself, and the Father who sent me testifies of me.  [8:19]Then they\nsaid to him, Where is your Father? Jesus answered, You have neither\nknown me nor my Father; if you had known me you would also have known\nmy Father. [8:20]These words he said in the treasury, teaching in the\ntemple; and no one took him by force, for his hour had not yet come.\n\n2 [8:21]Then Jesus said to them again, I go away, and you shall seek me\nand die in your sin; where I go, you cannot come.  [8:22]Then the Jews\nsaid, Will he kill himself, that he says, Where I go you cannot come?\n[8:23]And he said to them, You are from below; I am from above; you are\nfrom this world; I am not from this world. [8:24]Therefore I said to\nyou, You shall die in your sins; for if you believe not that I am [the\nChrist], you shall die in your sins. [8:25] Then they said to him, Who\nare you? And Jesus said to them, What at the beginning, and what I tell\nyou [now]. [8:26]I have many things to say and judge of you; but he\nthat sent me is true; and what I have heard from him, these things I\nspeak in the world. [8:27]They understood not that he spoke to them of\nthe Father. [8:28]Then Jesus said to them, When you shall lift up the\nSon of man, then shall you know that I am [the Christ]; and I do\nnothing of myself; but I speak these things as the Father has taught\nme; [8:29]and he having sent me is with me, he has not left me alone,\nfor I always do the things which please him.\n\n3 [8:30]When he said these things many believed on him.  [8:31]Then\nJesus said to the Jews who believed on him, If you continue in my word,\nyou are my disciples indeed; [8:32]and you shall know the truth, and\nthe truth shall make you free.  [8:33]They answered him, We are\nchildren of Abraham, and were never in servitude to any one; how say\nyou, You shall become free? [8:34]Jesus answered them, I tell you most\ntruly, that every one who commits sin is a servant of the sin.\n[8:35]But the servant continues not in the house for ever; the Son\ncontinues for ever. [8:36]If, therefore, the Son shall make you free,\nyou shall be free indeed. [8:37]I know that you are children of\nAbraham; but you seek to kill me because my word has no place in you.\n[8:38]What I have seen with my Father I speak, and you also do what you\nhave heard from your father. [8:39]They answered and said to him, Our\nfather is Abraham. Jesus said to them, If you were children of Abraham,\nyou would have done the works of Abraham; [8:40]but now you seek to\nkill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I have heard from God;\nAbraham did not do this. [8:41]You do the works of your father. They\nsaid to him, We were not born by fornication, we have one father, God.\n[8:42]Jesus said to them, If God was your father you would have loved\nme; for I came forth and come from God; for I came not of myself, but\nhe sent me. [8:43]Why do you not understand my speech? because you\ncannot hear my word. [8:44]You are of your father the devil, and the\ndesires of your father you will to do.  He was a murderer from the\nbeginning and stood not by the truth; for truth is not in him. When he\nspeaks a lie, he speaks from his own; for he is a liar, and the father\nof him [that lies].  [8:45]But because I tell you the truth you believe\nme not.  [8:46]Who of you convicts me of a sin? If I say the truth, why\ndo you not believe me? [8:47]He that is of God hears the words of God;\nyou, therefore, hear not, because you are not of God.\n\n4 [8:48]The Jews answered and said to him, Say we not well that you are\na Samaritan, and have a demon? [8:49]Jesus answered, I have not a\ndemon; but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.  [8:50]But I seek\nnot my glory; there is one that seeks and judges. [8:51]I tell you most\ntruly, if any one shall keep my word he shall never see death.\n[8:52]The Jews said to him, Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham\ndied, and the prophets; and you say, If any one shall keep my word he\nshall never taste death. [8:53]Are you greater than our father Abraham,\nwho died?  and the prophets died; whom do you make yourself? [8:54]\nJesus answered, If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing; it is my\nFather who glorifies me, of whom you say, He is our God; [8:55]and you\nhave not known him, but I have known him; and if I should say I do not\nknow him, I should be a liar like you; but I know him and keep his\nword. [8:56]Abraham your father rejoiced to see my day, and he saw, and\nwas glad. [8:57]Then the Jews said to him, You have not yet fifty\nyears, and have you seen Abraham?  [8:58]Jesus said to them, I tell you\nmost truly, that before Abraham existed, I am. [8:59]Then they took up\nstones to cast at him; but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the\ntemple.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XII.\n\nCHRIST CURING A MAN BORN BLIND, AND HIS PARABLE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD.\n\n1 [9:1]AND passing by he saw a man that was blind from birth; [9:2]and\nhis disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his\nparents, that he was born blind? [9:3]Jesus answered, Neither did this\nman sin, nor his parents, but that the works of God might appear in\nhim. [9:4]I must perform the works of him that sent me, while it is\nday; night comes when no man can work.  [9:5]While I am in the world I\nam the light of the world.  [9:6]Saying these things he spit on the\nground, and made a paste of the spittle, and put the paste on his eyes,\n[9:7]and said to him, Go, and wash in the pool of the Siloam; which is\ninterpreted, Sent. Then he went away and washed, and came seeing.\n\n2 [9:8]Then the neighbors and those who had seen him before, because he\nwas a beggar, said, Is not this he that sat and begged? [9:9]Some said,\nThis is he; others said, No, but he is like him; he said, I am he.\n[9:10]Then they said to him, How then were your eyes opened? [9:11]He\nanswered, A man called Jesus made paste and anointed my eyes, and said\nto me, Go to the Siloam and wash; then I went and washed, and obtained\nsight. [9:12]They said to him, Where is he? He said, I know not.\n\n3 [9:13]They brought to the Pharisees him that was formerly blind;\n[9:14]and it was on the sabbath when Jesus made the paste and opened\nhis eyes. [9:15]Then the Pharisees also asked him again how he obtained\nsight. And he said to them, He put a paste on my eyes, and I washed,\nand see. [9:16]Then some of the Pharisees said, This man is not of God,\nfor he does not keep the sabbath. Others said, How can a sinful man\nperform such miracles?  And there was a division among them. [9:17]They\nsaid to the blind man again, What do you say of him, because he opened\nyour eyes?  And he said, He is a prophet.\n\n4 [9:18]Then the Jews did not believe of him that he had been blind and\nreceived his sight, till they called the parents of him that had\nreceived his sight. [9:19]And they asked them, saying, Is this your\nson, of whom you say that he was born blind? How then does he now see?\n[9:20]His parents answered and said, We know that this is our son, and\nthat he was born blind; [9:21]but how he now sees we know not, or who\nhas opened his eyes we know not; ask him, he is of age, he will speak\nfor himself. [9:22]His parents said these things because they feared\nthe Jews; for already the Jews had agreed that if any one confessed him\nto be Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue; [9:23] therefore\nhis parents said, He is of age, ask him.\n\n5 [9:24]Then they called the man who had been blind, a second time, and\nsaid to him, Give glory to God; we know that this man is a sinner.\n[9:25]Then he answered, Whether he is a sinner I know not; one thing I\nknow, that having been blind, I now see.  [9:26]Then they said to him,\nWhat did he do to you? how did he open your eyes? [9:27]He answered\nthem, I have told you already, and you did not hear; why do you wish to\nhear again? Do you also wish to be his disciples? [9:28]They reproached\nhim, and said, You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.\n[9:29]We know that God spoke to Moses, but we know not whence this man\nis.  [9:30]The man answered and said to them, It is a strange thing,\nthat you know not whence he is, and he has opened my eyes.  [9:31]We\nknow that God hears not sinners; but if one is a worshipper of God, and\ndoes his will, him he hears. [9:32]Since the world began it has not\nbeen heard that any one opened the eyes of one born blind; [9:33]unless\nthis man was from God he would have been able to do nothing. [9:34]They\nanswered and said to him, You were born entirely in sins, and do you\nteach us? And they cast him without.\n\n6 [9:35]Jesus heard that they had cast him without, and finding him he\nsaid to him, Do you believe in the Son of God? [9:36]And he answered\nand said, Who is he, sir, that I shall believe on him? [9:37]Jesus said\nto him, You have both seen him, and he that speaks to you is he.\n[9:38]And he said, Lord, I believe, and worshipped him. [9:39]And Jesus\nsaid, I came into this world for judgment, that those not seeing may\nsee, and those seeing become blind.\n\n7 [9:40]And the Pharisees who were with him heard these things and said\nto him, Are we also blind? [9:41]Jesus said to them, If you were blind\nyou would not have had sin; but now you say, We see, your sin remains.\n[10:1]I tell you most truly, he that enters not by the door into the\nsheepfold, but climbs in at some other place, he is a thief and robber;\n[10:2]but he that enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.\n[10:3]To him the gate-keeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and\nhe calls his sheep by name, and leads them out. [10:4]When he puts out\nall his sheep he goes before them, and the sheep follow him; for they\nknow his voice. [10:5]But a stranger they will not follow, but will\nflee from him, for they know not the voice of strangers.  [10:6]This\nparable spoke Jesus to them, but they knew not what the words which he\nspoke to them meant.\n\n8 [10:7]Then said Jesus to them again, I tell you most truly, I am the\ndoor of the sheep. [10:8]All who came before me are thieves and\nrobbers; but the sheep have not heard them. [10:9]I am the door; by me\nif any one enters in he shall be saved, and go in and out, and find\npasturage. [10:10]The thief comes not, except to steal, and kill, and\ndestroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.\n\n9 [10:11]I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives his life for\nthe sheep. [10:12]But the hired servant, and one who is not a shepherd,\nwho does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep\nand flees, and the wolf seizes and scatters them; [10:13]for he is a\nhired servant and cares not for the sheep. [10:14]I am the good\nshepherd, and I know mine and mine know me, [10:15]as the Father knows\nme and I know the Father; and I give my life for the sheep.\n\n10 [10:16]And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; and them I\nmust lead, and they shall hear my voice, and there shall be one flock,\none shepherd. [10:17]Therefore my Father loves me, because I lay down\nmy life that I may take it again. [10:18]No one takes it from me, but I\nlay it down of myself. I have a right to lay it down, and I have a\nright to take it again; this commandment have I received from my\nFather. [10:19]There was a division again among the Jews on account of\nthese words; [10:20]and many of them said, He has a demon, and is mad;\nwhy do you hear him? [10:21]Others said, These are not the words of a\ndemoniac; can a demon open the eyes of the blind?\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XIII.\n\nCHRIST AT THE FEAST OF THE DEDICATION, AND BEYOND THE JORDAN.\n\n1 [10:22]IT was the dedication at Jerusalem; it was winter; [10:23]and\nJesus walked in the temple, in Solomon's porch.  [10:24]Then the Jews\ncame around him and said to him, How long do you hold our minds [in\ndoubt]? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly. [10:25]Jesus answered\nthem, I have told you and you believe not; the works which I perform in\nmy Father's name, these testify of me; [10:26]but you believe not,\nbecause you are not of my sheep. As I said to you, [10:27]My sheep hear\nmy voice and I know them, and they follow me, [10:28]and I give them\neternal life, and they shall never perish nor shall any one pluck them\nout of my hand. [10:29]My Father who gave [them] to me is greater than\nall, and no one can pluck them out of my Father's hand.  [10:30]I and\nthe Father are one.\n\n2 [10:31]Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.  [10:32]Jesus\nanswered them, Many good works have I shown you from the Father; for\nwhich of these works do you stone me? [10:33]The Jews answered him, We\ndo not stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy, and because you,\nbeing a man, make yourself God.  [10:34]Jesus answered them, Is it not\nwritten in your law, I said you are gods? [10:35]If he called them gods\nto whom the word of God came, and the Scripture cannot be broken,\n[10:36]do you tell him whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the\nworld, You blaspheme, because I said, I am the Son of God? [10:37]If I\ndo not my Father's works, believe me not; [10:38]but if I do, though\nyou believe not me, believe the works, that you may know and understand\nthat the Father is in me and I in the Father.  [10:39]Then they sought\nagain to take him by force; and he escaped out of their hand.\n\n3 [10:40]And he went away again beyond the Jordan to the place where\nJohn first baptized, and continued there. [10:41]And many came to him\nand said, John performed no miracle, but all things which John said of\nthis man were true. [10:42]And many believed on him there.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XIV.\n\nCHRIST RAISING LAZARUS FROM THE DEAD.\n\n1 [11:1]A CERTAIN man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, of the village of\nMary and Martha her sister. [11:2]It was the Mary who anointed the Lord\nwith ointment and wiped his feet with her hairs, whose brother Lazarus\nwas sick. [11:3]Then the sisters sent to him, saying, Lord, behold, he\nwhom you love is sick.  [11:4] But Jesus hearing it said, This sickness\nis not to death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be\nglorified by it. [11:5]And Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and\nLazarus.  [11:6]When, therefore, he heard that he was sick, he\ncontinued in the place where he was two days.\n\n2 [11:7]Then after that he said to the disciples, Let us go again into\nJudea. [11:8]The disciples said to him, Rabbi, the Jews lately sought\nto stone you, and do you go there again?  [11:9]Jesus answered, Are\nthere not twelve hours of the day? and if one walks in the day he does\nnot stumble, because he sees the light of this world; [11:10]but if he\nwalks in the night he stumbles, because the light is not in it.\n[11:11]He said these things, and after this he said to them, Our friend\nLazarus has fallen asleep; but I go that I may awake him. [11:12]Then\nthey said to him, Lord, if he has fallen asleep he will recover.\n[11:13]But Jesus spoke of his death; but they thought that he spoke of\nthe rest of sleep. [11:14]Then Jesus, therefore, said to them plainly,\nLazarus has died; [11:15]and I am glad for your sakes that I was not\nthere, that you may believe; but let us go to him. [11:16]Then Thomas,\nwho is called The twin, said to the fellow disciples, Let us go also,\nthat we may die with him.\n\n3 [11:17]Then Jesus coming found that he had been four days in the\ntomb. [11:18]And Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadiums [1\n3-4 miles] distant. [11:19]And many of the Jews came to those with\nMartha and Mary, to console them for their brother.  [11:20]Then when\nMartha heard that Jesus had come, she went out to meet him; but Mary\nsat in the house. [11:21]Then Martha said to Jesus, Lord, if you had\nbeen here, my brother would not have died; [11:22]but now also I know\nthat whatever you ask of God, God will give you. [11:23]Jesus said to\nher, Your brother shall rise again. [11:24]Martha said to him, I know\nthat he will rise at the resurrection at the last day. [11:25]Jesus\nsaid to her, I am the resurrection and the life; he that believes in\nme, even if he has died, shall live, [11:26]and no one who lives and\nbelieves in me shall ever die; do you believe this? [11:27]She said to\nhim, Yes, Lord; I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who\ncomes into the world.\n\n4 [11:28]And having said this she went away and called Mary her sister,\nprivately, saying, The teacher has come and calls for you. [11:29]When\nshe heard, she arose quickly and came to him; [11:30]but Jesus had not\nyet entered into the village, but was at the place where Martha met\nhim. [11:31]Then the Jews who were with her in the house and consoling\nher, seeing Mary that she arose and went out quickly, followed her,\nsaying, She goes to the tomb to weep there. [11:32]Then Mary, when she\ncame where Jesus was, and saw him, fell down at his feet, saying to\nhim, Lord, if you had been here my brother would not have died.\n\n5 [11:33]Then when Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came\nwith her, he was greatly agitated in spirit and affected, [11:34]and\nsaid, Where have you laid him? They said to him, Lord, come and see.\n[11:35]Jesus wept. [11:36]Then the Jews said, Behold, how he loved him.\n[11:37]And some of them said, Could not this man who opens the eyes of\nthe blind, cause that even he should not have died? [11:38]Then Jesus\nagain being agitated within himself came to the tomb; it was a cave,\nand a stone lay upon it. [11:39]Jesus said, Take away the stone.\nMartha, the sister of the dead, said to him, Lord, by this time he\nsmells; for he has been dead four days. [11:40]Jesus said to her, Did I\nnot tell you that if you will believe you shall see the glory of God?\n[11:41] Then they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted his eyes above,\nand said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me; [11:42]and I\nknew that thou hearest me always; but for the sake of the multitude who\nstand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.\n[11:43]And having said these things, he cried with a loud voice,\nLazarus, come forth. [11:44]And the dead came forth, bound as to his\nfeet and hands with bandages, and his face was bound with a napkin.\nJesus said to them, Unbind him, and let him go.\n\n6 [11:45]Then many of the Jews who came with Mary, and saw what Jesus\ndid, believed on him; [11:46]but some of them went away to the\nPharisees and told them what Jesus had done.\n\n7 [11:47]Then the chief priests and Pharisees convened the Sanhedrim,\nand said, What do we accomplish? for this man performs many miracles.\n[11:48]If we leave him thus all will believe on him; and the Romans\nwill come and take away our place and nation.  [11:49]And one of them,\nCaiaphas, being chief priest that year, said to them, You know nothing\nat all, [11:50]neither consider that it is expedient for us that one\nman should die for the people, and not that all the nation should\nperish. [11:51]This he said not of himself, but being chief priest that\nyear he prophesied that Jesus was about to die for the nation;\n[11:52]and not for the nation only, but to bring together into one\n[body] all the children of God scattered abroad. [11:53]From that day,\ntherefore, they took counsel to kill him.\n\n8 [11:54]Then Jesus walked no more openly among the Jews, but went\nthence to a region near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and\nthere he staid with his disciples. [11:55]And the passover of the Jews\nwas nigh, and many went up from the country to Jerusalem, before the\npassover, to purify themselves.  [11:56]Then they sought Jesus, and\nstanding in the temple said one to another, What do you think? that he\nwill not come to the feast? [11:57]And the chief priests and Pharisees\nhad given commandment, that if any one knew where he was he should make\nit known, that they might take him by force.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XV.\n\nCHRIST AT BETHANY, HIS TRIUMPHANT ENTRANCE INTO JERUSALEM, ETC.\n\n1 [12:1]THEN Jesus, six days before the passover, came to Bethany,\nwhere Lazarus was whom Jesus had raised from the dead.  [12:2]Then they\nmade him a supper there, and Martha served; but Lazarus was one of\nthose that reclined with him. [12:3]Then Mary taking a pound of genuine\nnard, very costly, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with\nher hairs. And the house was filled with the odor of the ointment.\n[12:4]But the Iscariot, one of his disciples, who was about to betray\nhim, said, [12:5]Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred\ndenarii [$42], and given to the poor? [12:6]But he said this, not that\nhe cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the\ntreasure-chest, and carried off the things put in it. [12:7]Then Jesus\nsaid, Let her alone, that she may keep this for the day of preparation\nfor my burial; [12:8]the poor you always have with you, but me you have\nnot always.\n\n2 [12:9]A great multitude of the Jews, therefore, knew that he was\nthere, and came, not on account of Jesus only, but also to see Lazarus\nwhom he had raised from the dead. [12:10]And the chief priests took\ncounsel to kill Lazarus also, [12:11]because many of the Jews withdrew\non his account and believed in Jesus.\n\n3 [12:12]On the next day a great multitude having come to the feast,\nhaving heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, [12:13]took branches\nof palm trees, and went out to meet him, and cried, Hosanna, blessed is\nhe that comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel! [12:14]And\nJesus finding a young ass sat on it, as it is written; [12:15]Fear not,\nDaughter of Zion; behold, your King comes sitting on the colt of an\nass. [12:16]His disciples did not understand these things at first; but\nwhen Jesus was glorified then they remembered that these things were\nwritten of him, and that they had done these things to him.  [12:17]The\nmultitude, therefore, which was with him, testified that he called\nLazarus from the tomb, and raised him from the dead. [12:18]On this\naccount also the multitude met him, because they heard that he had\nperformed this miracle. [12:19]The Pharisees, therefore, said among\nthemselves, You see that you have gained nothing; behold, the world has\ngone after him.  [12:20]And there were some Greeks of those who went up\nto Jerusalem to worship at the feast; [12:21]these, therefore, came to\nPhilip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, Sir,\nwe wish to see Jesus. [12:22]Philip went and told Andrew, and again\nAndrew and Philip went and told Jesus.  [12:23]And Jesus answered them,\nsaying, The hour has come that the Son of man should be glorified.\n[12:24]I tell you most truly, that unless the kernel of wheat falls\ninto the earth and dies, it continues alone; but if it dies, it bears\nmuch fruit. [12:25]He that loves his life shall lose it, and he that\nhates his life in this world shall preserve it to eternal life.\n[12:26]If any man serves me let him follow me; and where I am there\nalso shall my servant be. If anyone serves me, him will the Father\nhonor.  [12:27]Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father,\nsave me from this hour. But for this cause came I to this hour;\n[12:28]Father, glorify thy name. Then came a voice from heaven, I have\nboth glorified and will glorify it again. [12:29]Then the multitude\nstanding and hearing, said, It was thunder; others said, An angel spoke\nto him. [12:30] Jesus answered and said, This voice was not on my\naccount, but for you. [12:31] There is now a judgment of this world;\nthe ruler of this world shall now be cast out; [12:32]and if I am\nraised on high from the earth I will draw all men to me. [12:33]But\nthis he said, signifying by what death he was about to die.\n\n5 [12:34]Then the multitude answered him, We have heard from the law\nthat the Christ continues forever; and how say you, The Son of man must\nbe raised on high? Who is this Son of man?  [12:35]Then Jesus said to\nthem, Yet a little while is the light with you; walk while you have the\nlight, that darkness may not overtake you; for he that walks in\ndarkness knows not where he goes. [12:36] While you have the light,\nbelieve in the light, that you may be children of light. Jesus said\nthese things, and went away and concealed himself from them.\n\n6 [12:37]But though he had performed so many miracles before them they\ndid not believe in him; [12:38]that the word of Isaiah the prophet,\nwhich he spoke, might be fulfilled; Lord, who has believed our report?\nand to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? [12:39]For this\nreason they could not believe, because, Isaiah said again, [12:40]He\nhas blinded their eyes, and hardened their hearts, that they should not\nsee with their eyes and understand with their hearts, and be converted,\nand I should cure them. [12:41]Isaiah said these things because he saw\nhis glory, and spoke of him. [12:42]Nevertheless, many of the rulers\nbelieved on him, but on account of the Pharisees did not confess him,\nlest they should be put out of the synagogues; [12:43]for they loved\nthe glory of men more than the glory of God.\n\n7 [12:44]And Jesus cried and said, He that believes on me, believes not\non me but on him that sent me; [12:45]and he that beholds me beholds\nhim that sent me. [12:46]I have come a light into the world, that no\none who believes in me should continue in darkness. [12:47]And if any\none hears my words and keeps them not, I do not judge him; for I came\nnot to judge the world but to save the world. [12:48]He that rejects me\nand receives not my words, has one that judges him; the word which I\nhave spoken, that shall judge him at the last day. [12:49] For I have\nnot spoken of myself; but the Father who sent me gave me commandment\nwhat to say and what to speak; [12:50]and I know that his commandment\nis eternal life. What things I speak, therefore, I so speak as the\nFather has told me.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XVI.\n\nCHRIST AT THE LAST SUPPER, AND HIS SERMON TO THE ELEVEN.\n\n1 [13:1]AND before the feast of the passover, Jesus knowing that his\nhour had come to depart from this world to the Father, having loved his\nown in the world he loved them to the end. [13:2]And supper being over,\nthe devil having already put it in the heart that Judas Iscariot, the\nson of Simon, should betray him, [13:3]he knowing that the Father had\ngiven all things into his hands, and that he came from God and was\ngoing to God, [13:4]arose from supper, and laid aside his clothes, and\ntaking a towel girded himself: [13:5]Then he put water into the\nwash-basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them\nwith the towel with which he was girded.\n\n2 [13:6]Then he came to Simon Peter; he said to him, Lord, do you wash\nmy feet? [13:7]Jesus answered and said to him, What I do you know not\nnow, but you shall know hereafter. [13:8]Peter said to him, You shall\nnever by any means wash my feet. He answered him, Unless I wash you you\nhave no part with me. [13:9]Simon Peter said to him, Lord, not my feet\nonly, but my hands and my head.  [13:10] Jesus said to him, He that is\nwashed needs only that his feet should be washed, but is wholly pure;\nand you are pure, but not all. [13:11]For he knew him that was to\nbetray him; therefore, he said, You are not all pure.\n\n3 [13:12]When, therefore, he had washed their feet, and taken his\nclothes and sat down again, he said to them, Do you know what I have\ndone to you? [13:13] You call me Teacher and Lord; and you say well,\nfor I am. [13:14]If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your\nfeet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.  [13:15]For I have\ngiven you an example, that you also should do as I have done. [13:16]I\ntell you most truly, the servant is not greater than his lord, nor the\napostle greater than he that sent him. [13:17]If you know these things,\nblessed are you if you do them. [13:18]I speak not of you all; I know\nwhom I have chosen; but that the Scripture may be fulfilled, He that\neats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me. [13:19]I tell you\nfrom this time, before it occurs, that when it occurs you may believe\nthat I am [the Christ]. [13:20]I tell you most truly, He that receives\none that I send receives me; and he that receives me receives him that\nsent me.\n\n4 [13:21]Having said these things Jesus was troubled in spirit, and\ntestified and said, I tell you most truly, that one of you shall betray\nme. [13:22]The disciples looked one on another, doubting of whom he\nspoke. [13:23]One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was reclining on\nthe bosom of Jesus. [13:24]Then Simon Peter made signs to this man, and\nsaid to him, Ask who it is of whom he speaks. [13:25]He, falling down\non the breast of Jesus, said to him, Lord, who is it? [13:26]Then Jesus\nanswered, It is he to whom I will dip and give the mouthful. Then\ndipping the mouthful, he took and gave it to Judas, the son of Simon\nIscariot. [13:27]And after the mouthful, then Satan entered into him.\nThen Jesus said to him, What you do, do quickly. [13:28]No one of those\nreclining knew for what purpose he said this to him, [13:29]for some\nthought, since Judas had the treasure-chest, that Jesus said to him,\nBuy what we need for the feast; or, that he should give something to\nthe poor. [13:30]He, therefore, having taken the mouthful, immediately\nwent out; and it was night.\n\n5 [13:31]When he had gone out Jesus said, Now the Son of man has been\nglorified, and God has been glorified in him. [13:32]If God has been\nglorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and will\nimmediately glorify him. [13:33]My little children, I am with you yet a\nlittle while. You shall seek me, and as I said to the Jews, Where I go\nyou cannot come, I now also say to you.  [13:34]I give you a new\ncommandment to love another, as I have loved you that you also should\nlove one another. [13:35]By this shall all know that you are my\ndisciples, if you have love one for another. [13:36]Simon Peter said to\nhim, Lord, where do you go? Jesus answered Where I go you cannot follow\nme now, but you shall follow afterwards. [13:37]Peter said to him,\nLord, why can I not follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.\n[13:38]Jesus answered, Will you lay down your life for me? I tell you\nmost truly, a cock shall not crow till you shall deny me thrice.\n\n6 [14:1]Let not your hearts be troubled; believe in God and believe in\nme. [14:2]In my Father's house are many mansions; if there were not I\nwould have told you. [14:3]For I go to prepare a place for you; and if\nI go and shall prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive\nyou to myself, that where I am you may also be. [14:4]And where I go,\nyou know the way. [14:5]Thomas said to him, Lord, we know not where you\ngo, and how do we know the way? [14:6] Jesus said to him, I am the way,\nand the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except by me.\n[14:7]If you had known me you would have known my Father; and from this\ntime you know him and have seen him.\n\n7 [14:8]Philip said to him, Lord, show us the Father, and we shall be\nsatisfied. [14:9]Jesus said to him, Have I been so long a time with you\nand have you not known me, Philip? He that has seen me has seen the\nFather; and how say you, Show us the Father?  [14:10]Do you not believe\nthat I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words which I speak\nto you I speak not of myself, but the Father continuing in me, he does\nthe works. [14:11]Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father in\nme; but if not, believe on account of the works themselves. [14:12]I\ntell you most truly, he that believes on me, the works that I do shall\nhe do; and greater works than these shall he do, because I go to the\nFather; [14:13]and whatever you ask in my name I will do, that the\nFather may be glorified in the Son. [14:14]If you shall ask any thing\nin my name, I will do it.\n\n8 [14:15]If you love me, keep my commandments; [14:16]and I will pray\nthe Father, and he will give you another Comforter, to be with you\nforever, [14:17] the Spirit of truth, which the world cannot receive,\nbecause it beholds it not nor knows it; but you know it, because it\ncontinues with you, and shall be in you.  [14:18]I will not leave you\norphans; I will come to you.  [14:19]Yet a little while and the world\nbeholds me no more; but you shall behold me; because I live, you shall\nlive also.  [14:20]In that day you shall know that I am in my Father,\nand you in me, and I in you. [14:21]He that has my commandments and\nkeeps them, he it is that loves me; and he that loves me shall be loved\nby my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.\n\n9 [14:22]Judas said to him, not the Iscariot, Lord, and how is it that\nyou are about to manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?\n[14:23]Jesus answered and said to him, If any one loves me he will keep\nmy word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make\nour mansion with him. [14:24]He that loves me not, keeps not my words;\nand the word which you hear is not mine, but the Father's that sent me.\n\n10 [14:25]I have said these things to you while yet continuing with\nyou, [14:26]but the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, which the Father will\nsend in my name, he shall teach you all things, and remind you of all\nthings which I have told you. [14:27]Peace I leave with you; my peace I\ngive you; not as the world gives give I to you. Let not your hearts be\ntroubled, neither let them be afraid. [14:28]You heard that I said to\nyou, I will go away and come to you. If you loved me you would rejoice\nbecause I go to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.\n[14:29]And now I have told you before it occurs, that when it occurs\nyou may believe. [14:30]I will not speak with you much more; for the\nruler of this world comes and has nothing in me; [14:31]but [I have\nsaid this] that the world may know that I love the Father, and that as\nthe Father has commanded me, so I do. Arise, let us go hence.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XVII.\n\nCHRIST'S SERMON AFTER THE LAST SUPPER.\n\n1 [15:1]I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.\n[15:2]Every branch in me that bears not fruit he takes away; and every\nbranch that bears fruit he trims, that it may bear more fruit.\n[15:3]You are now pure, by means of the word which I have spoken to\nyou; [15:4]continue in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear\nfruit of itself unless it continues in the vine, so you cannot, unless\nyou continue in me. [15:5]I am the vine, you are the branches. He that\ncontinues in me and I in him, this man bears much fruit; for separated\nfrom me, you can do nothing.  [15:6]If any one continues not in me he\nis cast without as a branch, and is withered; and they collect them and\ncast them into the fire, and they are burned. [15:7]If you continue in\nme, and my words continue in you, you shall ask whatever you will, and\nit shall be [given] you. [15:8]By this is my Father glorified, that you\nbear much fruit and be my disciples. [15:9]As the Father has loved me,\nI also have loved you; continue in my love. [15:10]If you keep my\ncommandments you shall continue in my love, as I have kept my Father's\ncommandments and continue in his love. [15:11]I have spoken these\nthings to you that my joy may be in you, and your joy be completed.\n[15:12]This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have\nloved you. [15:13]No man has greater love than this, that one should\ngive his life for his friends.  [15:14]You are my friends if you do\nwhat I command you; [15:15]I no longer call you servants, for the\nservant knows not what his Lord does; but I have called you friends:\nfor all things which I have heard from my Father I have made known to\nyou. [15:16]You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and\nappointed you to go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should\ncontinue, that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you.\n[15:17]These things I charge you, that you love one another.\n\n2 [15:18]If the world hates you, you know that it hated me before you.\n[15:19] If you were of this world, the world would be a friend to its\nown; but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of\nthe world, therefore the world hates you.  [15:20]Remember the word\nwhich I said to you, a servant is not greater than his lord. If they\nhave persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my\nword, they will also keep yours. [15:21]But all these things they will\ndo to you, on my account, because they know not him that sent me.\n[15:22]If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had\nsin; but now they have no pretext for their sin. [15:23]He that hates\nme, hates my Father also. [15:24]If I had not done among them the works\nwhich no other one has done, they would not have had sin; but now they\nhave both seen and hated both me and my Father.  [15:25]But [they do\nthis] that the word written in their law may be fulfilled, They hated\nme without cause. [15:26]But when the Comforter has come, whom I will\nsend you from the Father, the Spirit of truth which proceeds from the\nFather, he shall testify of me; [15:27]and you shall also testify,\nbecause you have been with me from the beginning.\n\n3 [16:1]These things I have said to you, that you may not be offended.\n[16:2] They shall put you out of the synagogues; but the hour is coming\nwhen every one that kills you will think he renders God a service.\n[16:3]And these things they will do, because they have not known the\nFather nor me. [16:4]But these things I have told you, that when the\ntime comes you may remember that I told you of them. But I told you not\nthese things at the beginning, because I was with you. [16:5]But now I\ngo to him that sent me, and no one of you asks me, Where do you go?\n[16:6]But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled\nyour hearts. [16:7]But I tell you the truth; it is expedient for you\nthat I should go away; for if I do not go away, the Comforter will not\ncome to you; but if I go I will send him to you.  [16:8]And when he has\ncome, he will convince the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of\njudgment: [16:9]of sin, because they believe not on me; [16:10]and of\nrighteousness, because I go to my Father, and you behold me no more;\n[16:11]and of judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.\n\n4 [16:12]I have many things yet to say to you, but you cannot bear them\nnow; [16:13]but when he, the Spirit of truth has come, he will lead you\nin all the truth; for he will not speak of himself, but he will speak\nwhatever he shall hear, and tell you things to come. [16:14]He shall\nglorify me, because he shall receive from me and tell you. [16:15]All\nthings that the Father has, are mine; on this account I said, He shall\nreceive of me and tell you.\n\n5 [16:16]A little while and you shall not see me; and again a little\nwhile and you shall see me. [16:17]Then some of his disciples said one\nto another, What is this that he says to us, A little while and you\nshall not see me, and again a little while and you shall see me? and,\nBecause I go to the Father?  [16:18]They said therefore, What is this\nthat he says, The little while? We do not know what he says.\n\n6 [16:19]Jesus knew that they wished to ask him, and said to them, Do\nyou inquire among yourselves concerning this that I said, A little\nwhile and you shall not see me, and again a little while and you shall\nsee me? [16:20]I tell you most truly, that you shall weep and lament,\nbut the world shall rejoice; and you shall be sorrowful, but your\nsorrow shall become joy. [16:21]For when a woman is in labor she has\npain, because her time has come; but when she has borne the child she\nno longer remembers the distress, because of joy that a man is born\ninto the world.  [16:22]And you therefore now indeed have sorrow; but I\nwill see you again, and your hearts shall rejoice, and your joy no one\nshall take from you. [16:23]And in that day you shall ask me nothing; I\ntell you most truly, whatever you shall ask the Father, he will give\nyou in my name. [16:24] Till now you have asked nothing in my name; ask\nand you shall receive, that your joy may be complete.\n\n7 [16:25]These things have I spoken to you in parables. The time is\ncoming when I will no more speak to you in parables, but I will tell\nyou plainly of the Father. [16:26]In that day you shall ask in my name,\nand I tell you not that I will ask the Father for you; [16:27]for the\nFather himself is a friend to you, because you have been friends to me,\nand believed that I came forth from God. [16:28]I came forth from the\nFather and have come into the world; again I leave the world and go to\nthe Father.\n\n8 [16:29]Then his disciples said to him, Behold, now you speak plainly,\nand say no parable; [16:30]now we know that you know all things, and\nhave no need that any one should ask you; on this account we believe\nthat you have come forth from God.  [16:31]Jesus answered them, Do you\nnow believe? [16:32]Behold, the time is coming, and has come, that you\nshall be scattered every one to his own, and leave me alone; and I am\nnot alone, for the Father is with me. [16:33]These things have I told\nyou, that in me you may have peace. In the world you shall have\naffliction; but be of good courage, I have overcome the world.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XVIII.\n\nCHRIST'S PRAYER FOR HIS DISCIPLES.\n\n1 [17:1]JESUS spoke these words and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and\nsaid, Father, the hour has come; glorify thy Son, that the Son may\nglorify thee, [17:2]as thou hast given him power over all flesh, that\nas to all that thou hast given him he should give them eternal life.\n[17:3]And this is the eternal life; that they shall know thee, the only\ntrue God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent. [17:4]I have glorified\nthee on the earth; I have finished the work which thou gayest me to do.\n[17:5]And now glorify thou me, Father, with thyself, with the glory\nwhich I had with thee before the world was.\n\n2 [17:6]I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou gayest me out\nof the world; they were thine, and thou gavest them me, and they have\nkept thy word. [17:7]Now they have known that all things which thou\nhast given me are of thee, [17:8]because the words which thou hast\ngiven me I have given them; and they have received and known truly that\nI came forth from thee, and believed that thou didst send me. [17:9]I\npray for them. I pray not for the world, but for those whom thou hast\ngiven me, for they are thine, [17:10]and all mine are thine, and thine\nmine, and I am glorified in them. [17:11]And I am no longer in the\nworld, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father,\nkeep in thy name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one as\nwe also are. [17:12]When I was with them in the world, I kept them in\nthy name which thou gayest me, and preserved [them], and no one of them\nhas been lost, except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be\nfulfilled; [17:13]but now I come to thee, and I say these things in the\nworld that they may have my joy made complete in them.\n\n3 [17:14]I have given them thy word, and the world has hated them\nbecause they are not of the world, as I am not of the world.  [17:15]I\nask not that thou wouldst take them out of the world, but that thou\nwouldst keep them from evil. [17:16]They are not of the world, as I am\nnot of the world. [17:17]Sanctify them by thy truth; thy word is truth.\n[17:18]As thou hast sent me into the world, I also have sent them into\nthe world: [17:19]and I sanctify myself for them, that they also may be\nsanctified by truth.\n\n4 [17:20]And I ask not for these only, but for those also who shall\nbelieve on me through their word, [17:21]that all may be one, as thou,\nFather, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us, that\nthe world may believe that thou hast sent me. [17:22]And the glory\nwhich thou hast given me I have given them, that they may be one as we\nare one, [17:23]I in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfected\ninto one, that the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved\nthem as thou hast loved me. [17:24]Father, what thou hast given me, I\nwill that they should be with me where I am, that they may behold my\nglory which thou hast given me; because thou didst love me before the\nfoundation of the world; [17:25]and, righteous Father, the world has\nnot known thee, but I have known thee, and these have known that thou\ndidst send me. [17:26]And I have declared to them thy name, and will\ndeclare it, that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them,\nas I also am in them.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XIX.\n\nTHE APPREHENSION OF CHRIST, HIS EXAMINATION BY THE JEWS, PETER'S DENIAL\nOF HIM.\n\n1 [18:1]JESUS having said these words went out with his disciples\nacross the brook Cedron, where there was a garden, into which he\nentered and his disciples. [18:2]And Judas who betrayed him knew the\nplace, for Jesus often retired there with his disciples.  [18:3]Then\nJudas taking the guard and the officers of the chief priests and\nPharisees, came there with torches, and lamps, and weapons.\n[18:4]Jesus, therefore, knowing all things that were coming upon him,\nwent out and said to them, Whom do you seek?  [18:5]They answered him,\nJesus the Nazoraean. Jesus said to them, I am he. And Judas who\nbetrayed him stood with them. [18:6]When, therefore, he said to them, I\nam he, they went backwards and fell on the ground. [18:7]Then he asked\nthem again, Whom do you seek?  And they said, Jesus, the Nazoraean.\n[18:8]Jesus answered, I told you that I am he; if, therefore, you seek\nme, let these go; [18:9]that the word might be fulfilled which he said,\nOf those whom thou gayest me I have lost none. [18:10]Then Simon Peter\nhaving a sword drew it and struck the servant of the chief priest, and\ncut off his right ear; and the name of the servant was Malchus.\n[18:11]Then Jesus said to Peter, Put the sword in the sheath. The cup\nwhich the Father has given me, shall I not drink it?\n\n2 [18:12]Then the guard and the chiliarch and the officers of the Jews\napprehended Jesus, and bound him, [18:13]and led him away to Annas\nfirst; for he was father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was chief priest that\nyear; [18:14]and Caiaphas was the one who advised the Jews that it was\nexpedient that one man should be destroyed for the people.\n\n3 [18:15]But Simon Peter followed Jesus, and the other disciple; and\nthat disciple was known to the chief priest, and went in with Jesus to\nthe chief priest's court; [18:16]but Peter stood at the door without.\nThen the other disciple who was known to the chief priest went out and\nspoke to the door-keeper, and brought in Peter. [18:17]Then the female\nservant, the door-keeper, said to Peter, Are you also one of the\ndisciples of this man? He said, I am not. [18:18]And the servants and\nofficers having made a fire because it was cold, stood and warmed\nthemselves. And Peter stood with them and warmed himself.\n\n4 [18:19]Then the chief priest asked Jesus of his disciples, and his\nteaching. [18:20]Jesus answered him, I have spoken openly to the world;\nI always taught in a synagogue, and in the temple, where the Jews\nalways assemble, and in secret I have said nothing. [18:21]Why do you\nask me? Ask those who have heard me, what I said to them; behold, they\nknow what I said. [18:22]He having said these things, one of the\nofficers who stood by gave Jesus a blow, saying, Do you answer the\nchief priest thus?  [18:23]Jesus answered him, If I spoke wrong,\ntestify of the wrong; but if well, why do you beat me? [18:24]Then\nAnnas sent him bound to Caiaphas the chief priest.\n\n5 [18:25]And Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. Then they\nsaid to him, Are you also one of his disciples? He denied, and said, I\nam not. [18:26] One of the servants of the chief priest, being a\nrelation of him whose ear Peter cut off, said, Did I not see you in the\ngarden with him? [18:27]Then Peter denied again; and immediately a cock\ncrew.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XX.\n\nCHRIST'S TRIAL AND CONDEMNATION BEFORE PILATE.\n\n1 [18:28]THEN they led him from Caiaphas to the Praetorium. And it was\nmorning; and they entered not into the Praetorium, that they might not\nbe defiled, but might eat the passover.  [18:29]Then Pilate went out to\nthem and said, What accusation do you bring against this man?\n[18:30]They answered and said to him, If he was not a criminal we\nshould not have delivered him up to you. [18:31] Then Pilate said to\nthem, Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law. The\nJews said to him, It is not lawful for us to put any one to death;\n[18:32]that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke,\nsignifying by what death he was about to die.\n\n2 [18:33]Then Pilate went into the Praetorium and called Jesus, and\nsaid to him, Are you the king of the Jews? [18:34]Jesus answered, Do\nyou say this of yourself, or did others tell you of me? [18:35]Pilate\nanswered, Am I a Jew? Your nation and the chief priests have delivered\nyou to me; what have you done?  [18:36]Jesus answered, My kingdom is\nnot of this world. If my kingdom had been of this world my officers\nwould have fought for me, that I should not be given up to the Jews;\nbut now my kingdom is not here. [18:37]Then Pilate said to him, Are you\na king then?  Jesus answered, As you say, I am a king. For this was I\nborn, and for this I came into the world, that I should testify to the\ntruth; every one who is of the truth hears my voice.  [18:38]Pilate\nsaid to him, What is truth? And having said this he went out again to\nthe Jews, and said to them, I find no fault in him. [18:39]But you have\na custom that I should release one to you at the passover; are you\nwilling, therefore, that I should release to you the king of the Jews?\n[18:40]Then all cried again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. But\nBarabbas was a robber.\n\n3 [19:1]Then Pilate took and scourged Jesus. [19:2]And the soldiers\nhaving plaited a crown of thorns put it on his head; and they put a\npurple garment about him, [19:3]and came to him and said, Hail, king of\nthe Jews! And they struck him with the open hand. [19:4]Then Pilate\ncame out again and said to them, Behold, I bring him out to you, that\nyou may know that I find no fault in him. [19:5]Then Jesus came out,\nwearing the thorny crown and the purple garment. And he said to them,\nBehold the man! [19:6]When therefore the chief priests and officers saw\nhim, they cried, saying, Crucify him! crucify him! Pilate said to them,\nTake him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no fault in him.\n[19:7]The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to\ndie because he made himself the Son of God.\n\n4 [19:8]When therefore Pilate heard this charge he was more afraid,\n[19:9]and entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus, Whence\nare you? But Jesus gave him no answer.  [19:10]Pilate said to him, Do\nyou not speak to me? Do you not know that I have power to release you,\nand I have power to crucify you? [19:11]Jesus answered, You would have\nhad no power against me if it had not been given you from above;\ntherefore he that delivered me to you has a greater sin.\n\n5 [19:12]From that time Pilate sought to release him; but the Jews\ncried, saying, If you release this man you are not a friend of Caesar;\nevery one who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar. [19:13]Then\nPilate hearing these words led Jesus out, and sat on the tribunal, in a\nplace called the Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha. [19:14]And it was\nthe preparation of the passover, it was about the sixth hour [noon];\nand he said to the Jews, Behold your king! [19:15]Then they cried out,\nAway with him, away with him! crucify him! Pilate said to them, Shall I\ncrucify your king? The chief priests answered, We have no king but\nCaesar. [19:16]Then therefore he delivered him to them to be crucified.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XXI.\n\nCHRIST'S CRUCIFIXION, DEATH, AND BURIAL.\n\n1 [19:17]THEN they took Jesus, and putting the cross on him he went out\nto what is called the place of a cranium, which in Hebrew is called\nGolgotha, [19:18] where they crucified him, and two others with him,\none on one side and the other on the other, and Jesus between.\n[19:19]And Pilate wrote an inscription and put on the cross. And it was\nwritten, JESUS THE NAZORAEAN, THE KING OF THE JEWS. [19:20]Many of the\nJews therefore read this inscription, because the place where Jesus was\ncrucified was nigh the city; and it was written in Hebrew, Latin, and\nGreek.  [19:21]Then the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, Write\nnot, The King of the Jews, but that he said, I am King of the Jews.\n[19:22]Pilate answered, what I have written I have written.\n\n2 [19:23]Then the soldiers, when they crucified Jesus, took his clothes\nand made four parts, a part to each soldier, and his coat. But his coat\nwas without seam, woven from the top through the whole. [19:24]They\nsaid, therefore, one to another, Let us not divide this, but cast lots\nfor it whose it shall be; that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which\nsays, They parted my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast\nlots. The soldiers therefore did indeed these things.\n\n3 [19:25]And there stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother, and the\nsister of his mother, Mary the wife of Cleopas, and Mary the Magdalene.\n[19:26]Then Jesus seeing his mother, and the disciple standing by whom\nhe loved, said to his mother, Woman, behold your son. [19:27]Then he\nsaid to the disciple, Behold your mother. And from that hour the\ndisciple took her to his own [house].\n\n4 [19:28]After this, Jesus knowing that all things were already\nfinished, that the Scripture might be fully accomplished, said, I\nthirst. [19:29]Then a vessel was set full of vinegar; and filling a\nsponge with vinegar, and putting it on a hyssop stalk, they presented\nit to his mouth. [19:30]When therefore Jesus took the vinegar, he said,\nIt is finished; and inclining his head gave up the spirit.\n\n5 [19:31]Then the Jews, that the bodies might not continue on the cross\non the sabbath, for it was the preparation, for that was a great\nsabbath, asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and they be taken\ndown. [19:32]Then the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and\nof the other crucified with him, [19:33]and coming to Jesus, when they\nsaw him already dead, they broke not his legs; [19:34]but one of the\nsoldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately there came out\nblood and water. [19:35]He who saw has testified, and his testimony is\ntrue, for he knows that he says what is true, that you also may\nbelieve. [19:36]For these things were done that the Scripture might be\nfulfilled, Not a bone of him shall be broken; [19:37]and again another\nScripture says, They shall look on him whom they have pierced.\n\n6 [19:38]After these things Joseph from Arimathea, being a disciple of\nJesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might\ntake down the body of Jesus; and Pilate permitted him. Then he came and\ntook his body. [19:39]And Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by\nnight, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred\npounds.  [19:40]Then they took the body of Jesus, and bound it with\nbandages, with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to prepare for\nburial. [19:41]And there was in the place where he was crucified a\ngarden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one was yet laid.\n[19:42]In that therefore they laid Jesus, on account of the preparation\nof the Jews, because the tomb was near.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XXII.\n\nCHRIST AFTER THE RESURRECTION.\n\n1 [20:1]AND on the first day of the week, Mary the Magdalene came in\nthe morning, while it was yet dark, to the tomb and saw the stone taken\naway from the tomb. [20:2]Then she ran and came to Simon Peter, and to\nthe other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, They have taken\naway the Lord from the tomb, and we know not where they have laid him.\n[20:3]Then went Peter and the other disciple, and came to the tomb.\n[20:4]And the two ran together; and the other disciple outran Peter and\ncame first to the tomb, [20:5]and stooping down saw the bandages lying,\nbut he went not in. [20:6]Then Simon Peter came following him, and went\ninto the tomb, and beheld the bandages lying, [20:7]and the napkin\nwhich was on his head not lying with the bandages but folded up in a\nplace by itself. [20:8]Then the other disciple who came first to the\ntomb also entered in, and saw and believed; [20:9]for they did not yet\nknow the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.  [20:10]Then the\ndisciples went away by themselves.\n\n2 [20:11]But Mary stood at the tomb outside, weeping. Then as she wept\nshe stooped down to the tomb, [20:12]and saw two angels in white\nsitting one at the head and the other at the feet, where the body of\nJesus had lain. [20:13]And they said to her, Woman, why do you weep?\nShe said to them, Because they have taken my Lord and I know not where\nthey have laid him. [20:14]Having said these words she turned around\nand beheld Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus. [20:15]Jesus\nsaid to her, Woman, why do you weep? whom do you seek? She, supposing\nthat he was the gardener, said to him, Sir, if you have borne him away,\ntell me where you have laid him, and I will take him. [20:16]Jesus said\nto her, Mary. She, turning around, said to him in Hebrew, Rabboni,\nwhich is interpreted, Teacher. [20:17]Jesus said to her, Do not touch\nme; for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers\nand tell them, I ascend to my Father and your Father, and my God and\nyour God. [20:18]Mary the Magdalene came and told the disciples that\nshe had seen the Lord, and that he said these things to her.\n\n3 [20:19]Then when it was evening, on that first day of the week, and\nthe doors were shut where the disciples were for fear of the Jews,\nJesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, Peace be to you.\n[20:20]And having said this he showed them both his hands and his side;\nthen the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. [20:21]Then he said\nto them again, Peace be to you; as the Father has sent me, I also send\nyou. [20:22]And having said this he breathed on them, and said to them,\nReceive the Holy Spirit.  [20:23]Those whose sins you forgive, are\nforgiven; and whose you retain, are retained.\n\n4 [20:24]But Thomas, one of the twelve, called the Twin, was not with\nthem when Jesus came. [20:25]Then the other disciples said to him, We\nhave seen the Lord; but he said to them, Unless I see in his hands the\nimpression of the nails, and put my finger in the impression of the\nnails, and put my hand in his side, I will not believe. [20:26]And\nafter eight days his disciples were again within, and Thomas with them.\nJesus came, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said,\nPeace be to you. [20:27]Then he said to Thomas, Reach here your finger\nand behold my hands, and reach your hand and put it in my side, and be\nnot faithless but believing. [20:28]Thomas answered and said to him, My\nLord and my God. [20:29]Jesus said to him, Because you have seen me you\nhave believed; blessed are those who have not seen and believed.\n\n5 [20:30]Jesus performed also many other miracles in the presence of\nhis disciples which are not recorded in this book; [20:31]but these are\nrecorded that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God,\nand that believing you may have life in his name.\n\n6 [21:1]After these things he showed himself again to the disciples at\nthe lake of Tiberias; and he showed himself thus.  [21:2]Simon Peter,\nand Thomas called the Twin, and Nathaniel who was from Cana in Galilee,\nand the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples were together.\n[21:3]Simon Peter said to them, I am going a fishing. They said to him,\nWe will also go with you.  They went out and entered into the ship; and\non that night caught nothing, [21:4]but when it was now morning Jesus\nstood on the shore; but the disciples knew not that it was Jesus.\n[21:5]Then Jesus said to them, Children, have you any thing to eat?\nThey answered him, No. [21:6]And he said to them, Cast the net on the\nright side of the ship and you shall find. Then they cast it, and they\nwere not able to draw it from the number of fishes.  [21:7]Then that\ndisciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, It is the Lord. Then Simon\nPeter, hearing that it was the Lord, girded on his coat, for he was\nnaked, and cast himself into the lake.  [21:8]But the other disciples\ncame with the boat, drawing the net of fishes, for they were not far\nfrom the land, but about two hundred cubits distant. [21:9]Then when\nthey came to land they saw coals placed, and a fish laid upon [them],\nand bread. [21:10] Jesus said to them, Bring of the fish that you have\nnow caught.  [21:11]Simon Peter went and drew the net to the land, full\nof great fishes a hundred and fifty-three; and though there were so\nmany the net was not broken. [21:12]Jesus said to them, Come and\nbreakfast. No one of the disciples dared to ask him, Who are you?  for\nthey knew that he was the Lord. [21:13]Jesus came and took the bread\nand gave them, and the fish likewise. [21:14]This was now the third\ntime that Jesus appeared to his disciples after he had arisen from the\ndead.\n\n7 [21:15]When therefore they had breakfasted, Jesus said to Simon\nPeter, Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these? He said to\nhim, Yes, Lord, you know that I am a friend to you. He said to him,\nFeed my lambs. [21:16]Again he said to him a second time; Simon, son of\nJohn, do you love me? He said to him, Yes, Lord, you know that I am a\nfriend to you. He said to him, Feed my sheep. [21:17] He said to him a\nthird time; Simon, son of John, are you a friend to me? Peter was\ngrieved that he said to him the third time, Are you a friend to me? and\nhe said to him, Lord you know all things; you know that I am a friend\nto you. Jesus said to him, Feed my sheep. [21:18]I tell you most truly,\nthat when you were young you girded yourself and walked where you\nwould; but when you become old, you shall stretch out your hands and\nanother shall bind you and carry you where you would not; [21:19]but he\nsaid this signifying by what death he should glorify God; and having\nsaid this, he said to him, Follow me.\n\n8 [21:20]And Peter turning around saw the disciple whom Jesus loved\nfollowing, who also reclined at the supper on his breast and said,\nLord, who is it that is to betray you? [21:21]Peter seeing him said to\nJesus, Lord, and what shall this man [do]?  [21:22]Jesus said to him,\nIf I wish him to continue till I come, what is that to you? follow me.\n[21:23]The report then went out among the brothers that this disciple\nwould not die; but Jesus said not to him, He shall not die; but, If I\nwish him to continue till I come, what is that to you?\n\n9 [21:24]This is the disciple who testifies of these things and has\nwritten them; and we know that his testimony is true.  [21:25]And there\nare many other things which Jesus did, which, if they should be written\nparticularly, I do not suppose the world itself could contain the books\nwritten.\n\n\n\n\nACTS OF THE APOSTLES.\n\n\nCHAPTER I.\n\nCHRIST'S ASCENSION, AND THE ELECTION OF AN APOSTLE IN THE PLACE OF\nJUDAS.\n\n1 [1:1]I WROTE my first account, O Theophilus, of all things which\nJesus did and taught, [1:2]till the day that having given charge to the\napostles whom he chose by the Holy Spirit he was taken up; [1:3]to whom\nalso he presented himself living after his suffering, by many proofs,\nbeing seen by them during forty days, and speaking things relating to\nthe kingdom of God. [1:4]And assembling them, he charged them not to\ndepart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which\n[says he] you have heard from me; [1:5]that John baptized indeed with\nwater, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit after a few days.\n\n2 [1:6]They therefore having come together asked him, saying, Lord,\nwill you at this time restore the kingdom of Israel?  [1:7]And he said\nto them, It is not your [province] to know the times or seasons which\nthe Father has appointed by his own authority; [1:8]but you shall\nreceive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and shall be my\nwitnesses both in Jerusalem, and all Judea, and Samaria, and to the end\nof the earth. [1:9]And having said these words, as they were looking on\nhe was taken up, and a cloud received him from their sight. [1:10]And\nas they looked steadily to heaven while he went, behold, two men stood\nby them in white clothing; [1:11]and they said, Men of Galilee, why do\nyou stand looking at heaven? This Jesus taken up from you to heaven\nshall so come in the manner in which you have seen him go to heaven.\n\n3 [1:12]Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called [the\nMount] of Olives, which is near Jerusalem, a sabbath day's journey\n[distant]. [1:13]And when they came, they went up into the upper room\nwhere staid Peter and John, and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas,\nBartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alpheus and Simon the Zealot,\nand Judas the [brother] of James.  [1:14]All these continued with one\naccord in prayer, with the women, and with Mary the mother of Jesus,\nand his brothers.\n\n4 [1:15]And in those days Peter standing up in the midst of the\nbrothers, said--the multitude together was about a hundred and twenty--\n[1:16]Men and brothers, it was necessary that the Scripture should be\nfulfilled which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David,\nconcerning Judas who became a guide to them that apprehended Jesus;\n[1:17]For he was numbered with us, and obtained the inheritance of this\nservice. [1:18]This man therefore purchased a field with the price of\nthe wickedness, and falling headlong burst in the middle and all his\nbowels were poured out; [1:19]and this became known to all who lived at\nJerusalem, so that that field was called in their language Aceldamach,\nwhich is Field of blood. [1:20]For it is written in the book of Psalms,\nLet his dwelling be desolate and let no one dwell in it, and his\nsuperintendency let another take. [1:21]It is necessary therefore that\none of the men who have gone with us all the time in which the Lord\nJesus went in and out among us, [1:22]beginning from the baptism of\nJohn till the day on which he was taken up from us, should be made with\nus a witness of his resurrection.\n\n5 [1:23]And they proposed two; Joseph called Barsabbas, who was also\ncalled Justus, and Matthias. [1:24]And praying, they said, Do thou,\nLord, the searcher of all hearts, show which of these two thou hast\nchosen [1:25]to take the place of this service and apostleship from\nwhich Judas fell by transgression to go to his place. [1:26]And they\ncast their lots, and the lot fell to Matthias, and he was numbered with\nthe eleven apostles.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER II.\n\nTHE DAY OF PENTECOST AND ITS BLESSINGS.\n\n1 [2:1]AND when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one\nmind together. [2:2]And suddenly there came from heaven a sound as of a\nviolent wind borne along, and it filled all the house where they were\nsitting; [2:3]and there appeared to them divided tongues as of fire,\nand [one] sat on each one of them; [2:4]and they were all filled with\nthe Holy Spirit, and began to speak with tongues as the Spirit gave\nthem utterance.\n\n2 [2:5]And there were Jews living at Jerusalem, pious men, of every\nnation under heaven; [2:6]and when this sound was [heard], the\nmultitude came together and were astonished, for they each one heard\nthem speaking in his own language. [2:7]And they were astonished and\nwondered, saying, Are not all these that speak Galileans? [2:8]And how\ndo we hear each one in our own language in which we were born,\n[2:9]Parthians and Medes and Elamites, and those who live in\nMesopotamia, Judea, and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, [2:10]Phrygia and\nPamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Lybia about Cyrene, and the Roman\nstrangers, both Jews and proselytes, [2:11]Cretes and Arabs, do we hear\nthem speak in our tongues of the great works of God. [2:12]And they\nwere all astonished and perplexed, saying one to another, What does\nthis mean? [2:13]But others mocking said, They are full of sweet wine.\n\n3 [2:14]But Peter standing up with the eleven lifted up his voice and\nsaid to them, Men of Judea, and all who live at Jerusalem, be this\nknown to you, and attend to my words. [2:15]For these are not drunk as\nyou suppose, for it is the third hour of the day [9 A.M.], [2:16]but\nthis is what was said by the prophet; [2:17]In the last days, says God,\nI will pour out of my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your\ndaughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and\nyour old men shall dream dreams; [2:18]and upon my male servants and\nupon my female servants in those days will I pour out of my Spirit, and\nthey shall prophesy.  [2:19]And I will show prodigies in heaven above\nand signs on the earth below, blood and fire and a cloud of smoke.\n[2:20]The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood,\nbefore the great and illustrious day of the Lord comes. [2:21]And\nwhoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.\n\n4 [2:22]Men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus the Nazoraean, a man\napproved by God to you by mighty works and prodigies and miracles,\nwhich God performed by him in the midst of you, as you yourselves know,\n[2:23]this man, delivered up by the determinate counsel and\nforeknowledge of God, you have affixed to the cross, and killed by the\nhand of the wicked, [2:24]him has God raised up, having loosed the\npains of death, as it was not possible that he should be held by it.\n[2:25]For David says of him, I saw the Lord always before me, he is on\nmy right hand that I should not be moved; [2:26]therefore my heart\nrejoiced and my tongue was glad, and my flesh, moreover, shall also\nlive in hope; [2:27]for thou wilt not leave my soul in hades, nor\nsuffer thy Holy One to see destruction. [2:28]Thou hast made me know\nthe ways of life, thou wilt fill me with joy with thy presence.\n\n5 [2:29]Men and brothers, let me speak to you freely of the patriarch\nDavid, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to\nthis day. [2:30] Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God swore\nwith an oath to him to set a descendant of his on his throne,\n[2:31]foreseeing he spoke of the resurrection of Christ, that he was\nnot left in hades neither did his flesh see destruction. [2:32]This\nJesus has God raised up, whose witnesses we all are. [2:33]Being\ntherefore exalted on the right hand of God, and receiving the promise\nof the Holy Spirit from the Father, he has poured this out which you\nboth see and hear.  [2:34]For David ascended not to heaven, but he\nsays, The Lord said to my lord, Sit on my right hand [2:35]till I make\nyour enemies your footstool. [2:36]Let all the house of Israel\ntherefore know certainly, that God has made this Jesus whom you\ncrucified both Lord and Christ.\n\n6 [2:37]And hearing [this] they were distressed in mind, and said to\nPeter and the rest of the apostles, Men and brothers, what shall we do?\n[2:38]And Peter said to them, Change your minds, and be baptized every\none of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and\nyou shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. [2:39]For the promise is\nto you and your children, and to all that are afar off, as many as the\nLord our God shall call.  [2:40]And with many other words he testified\nand exhorted, saying, Save yourselves from this perverse generation.\n\n7 [2:41]Then those that received his word were baptized, and there were\nadded on that day about three thousand souls; [2:42]and they attended\nconstantly to the teaching and companionship of the apostles, the\nbreaking of bread and the prayers. [2:43]And fear was on every soul,\nand many prodigies and miracles were performed by the apostles.\n[2:44]And all who believed were together and had all things common;\n[2:45]and they sold their possessions and estates, and distributed them\nto all as any one had need; [2:46]and continuing day by day with one\naccord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they\npartook of food with gladness and simplicity of mind, [2:47]praising\nGod, and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added the\nsaved, day by day, to the assembly [church].\n\n\n\nCHAPTER III.\n\nTHE IMPRISONMENT OF PETER AND JOHN.\n\n1 [3:1]AND Peter and John went up together to the temple at the hour of\nprayer, which is the ninth hour. [3:2]And a certain man lame from his\nbirth was carried and placed daily at the gate of the temple which is\ncalled Beautiful, to ask charity of those going into the temple;\n[3:3]who seeing Peter and John about to enter into the temple, asked to\nreceive a charity. [3:4]But Peter looking steadily at him with John,\nsaid, Look on us. [3:5]And he gave his attention to them, expecting to\nreceive something from them. [3:6]But Peter said, Silver and gold have\nI none; but what I have, this I give you; in the name of Jesus Christ\nthe Nazoraean, walk. [3:7]And taking him by the right hand he raised\nhim up; and immediately his feet and ankles were strengthened, [3:8]and\nleaping up he stood and walked and entered with them into the temple,\nwalking and leaping, praising God. [3:9]And all the people saw him\nwalking and praising God; [3:10] and they knew him, that he was the one\nwho sat for charity at the beautiful gate of the temple, and they were\nfilled with wonder and astonishment at what had happened to him.\n\n2 [3:11]And as he held Peter and John, all the people ran to them in\nthe porch which is called Solomon's, greatly wondering.  [3:12]And\nPeter seeing it answered the people, Men of Israel, why do you wonder\nat this? or why do you look intently at us as if by our power or piety\nwe had made him walk? [3:13]The God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob,\nthe God of our fathers, glorified his servant Jesus, whom you delivered\nup and denied before Pilate when he decided to release him; [3:14]but\nyou denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked a murderer to be given\nyou, [3:15]but killed the Prince of life, whom God has raised from the\ndead, whose witnesses we are. [3:16]And by the faith of his name, his\nname has made strong this man whom you behold and know, and the faith\nwhich is by him has given him this entire soundness before you all.\n[3:17]And now, brothers, I know that you did it without knowledge, as\ndid also your rulers; [3:18]but what God had before declared by the\nmouth of all the prophets that his Anointed should suffer, he has so\naccomplished. [3:19]Change your minds, therefore, and turn yourselves,\nthat your sins may be blotted out, that times of refreshing may come\nfrom the presence of the Lord, [3:20]and he send to you Jesus Christ\nbefore appointed, [3:21]whom heaven must receive till the times of the\nrestoration of all things of which God has spoken by the mouth of his\nholy prophets since the world began. [3:22]Moses indeed said, A prophet\nshall the Lord your God raise up to you, of your brothers, like me; him\nshall you hear in all things which he shall speak to you; [3:23]and\nevery soul which will not hear that prophet shall be destroyed from the\npeople. [3:24]And all the prophets, from Samuel and those following him\nin order, who have spoken, have also announced these days. [3:25]You\nare the children of the prophets, and of the promise which God promised\nto our fathers, saying to Abraham, And in your offspring shall all the\nfamilies of the earth be blessed. [3:26]God having raised up his\nservant has sent him to you first, to bless you by turning each [one of\nyou] from your evil ways.\n\n3 [4:1]And while they were speaking to the people, the priests, and the\ncommander of the temple, and the Sadducees came upon them, [4:2]being\ndispleased because they taught the people and declared by Jesus the\nresurrection of the dead; [4:3]and they laid hands on them and put them\nin prison till the next day; for it was now evening. [4:4]But many of\nthose that heard the word believed, and the number of the men became\nabout five thousand.\n\n4 [4:5]And on the next day the rulers, and elders, and scribes\n[4:6]assembled at Jerusalem, and Annas the chief priest, and Caiaphas,\nand John, and Alexander, and all that were of the family of the chief\npriesthood, [4:7]and placing them in the midst, asked, By what power,\nor by what name, have you done this?  [4:8] Then Peter, full of the\nHoly Spirit, said to them, Rulers of the people and elders of Israel,\n[4:9]if we are to-day examined concerning the good work done to the\nsick man, by what means he has been cured, [4:10]be it known to you\nall, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ\nthe Nazoraean, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by\nhim has this man stood before you sound. [4:11]This is the stone\nrejected by you builders, which has become the head of a corner.\n[4:12]And there is salvation in no other; for there is no other name\ngiven under heaven among men, by which we can be saved.\n\n5 [4:13]And seeing the boldness of Peter and John, and supposing that\nthey were illiterate and common men, they wondered, and perceived that\nthey had been with Jesus; [4:14]and seeing the man standing with them\ncured, they could not dispute it. [4:15]And commanding them to withdraw\nfrom the Sanhedrim, they conferred one with another, [4:16]saying, What\nshall we do to these men?  for that a notable miracle has been\nperformed by them is manifest to all that live at Jerusalem, and we\ncannot deny it; [4:17]but that it spread no further among the people,\nlet us threaten them severely, [and charge them] to speak no more to\nany man in this name. [4:18]And calling them, they charged them not to\nspeak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. [4:19]But Peter and John\nanswered and said to them, Whether it is right in the sight of God to\nobey you rather than God, judge; [4:20]for we cannot but tell what we\nhave seen and heard. [4:21]And threatening them still further, they\ndismissed them, not being able to punish them, on account of the\npeople, because all glorified God for what was done; [4:22]for the man\nwas more than forty years old on whom this miracle of the cure was\nperformed.\n\n6 [4:23]And being dismissed they came to their friends, and related to\nthem what the chief priests and elders said to them.  [4:24]And when\nthey heard it they lifted up their voice with one consent to God, and\nsaid, Master, thou who hast made heaven, and the earth, the sea, and\nall things in them, [4:25]who by the mouth of thy servant David hast\nsaid, Why did the nations rage and the peoples devise vain things?\n[4:26]the kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were assembled\ntogether against the Lord, and against his anointed. [4:27]For of a\ntruth, in this city, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the gentiles\nand people of Israel, were assembled together against thy holy servant\nJesus whom thou hast anointed, [4:28]to do what thy hand and counsel\nbefore appointed to be done. [4:29]And now, Lord, look down upon their\nthreatenings, and grant to thy servants with all boldness to speak thy\nword, [4:30]by stretching out thy hand, that cures and miracles and\nprodigies may be performed by the name of thy holy servant Jesus.\n[4:31]And when they had prayed the place was shaken in which they were\nassembled, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and spoke the\nword of God with boldness.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER IV.\n\nTHE LIBERALITY OF THE FIRST CHRISTIANS, ANANIAS AND SAPPHIRA, FURTHER\nPERSECUTION.\n\n1 [4:32]AND the multitude that believed had one heart and one soul, and\nnone said that anything of his possessions was his; but they had all\nthings common. [4:33]And the apostles delivered the testimony of the\nresurrection of the Lord Jesus with great power, and great favor was\ntowards them all. [4:34]For no one among them was needy; for those who\npossessed lands or houses sold and brought the prices of the things\nsold, [4:35]and laid them at the apostles' feet; and distribution was\nmade to each as any one had need. [4:36]And Joseph, called Barnabas by\nthe apostles, which is interpreted, A son of consolation, a Levite, a\nCyprian by birth, [4:37]having land, sold it, and brought the money and\nlaid it at the feet of the apostles.\n\n2 [5:1]And one Ananias by name, with Sapphira his wife, sold a\npossession, [5:2]and he kept back a part of the price, his wife also\nbeing privy to it, and bringing a certain part laid it at the apostles'\nfeet. [5:3]But Peter said, Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart\nthat you should lie to the Holy Spirit, and that you should keep back a\npart of the price of the land?  [5:4]Continuing unsold was it not\nyours, and when it was sold was it not at your disposal? Why did you\npropose this thing in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God.\n[5:5]And Ananias hearing these words fell down and expired; and great\nfear was upon all who heard. [5:6]And the young men arose and laid him\nout, and having carried him out buried him.\n\n3 [5:7]And after an interval of about three hours, his wife, not\nknowing what had happened, came in. [5:8]And Peter answered her, Tell\nme whether you sold the field for so much? And she said, Yes; for so\nmuch. [5:9]And Peter said to her, Why have you agreed together to try\nthe Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those that buried your\nhusband are at the door, and they shall carry you out. [5:10]And she\nfell down immediately at his feet, and expired; and the young men\ncoming in found her dead, and carried her out, and buried her by her\nhusband. [5:11]And great fear was on all the assembly [church], and on\nall that heard of these things.\n\n4 [5:12]And many miracles and prodigies were performed among the people\nby the hands of the apostles; and they were all of one accord in\nSolomon's porch; [5:13]and no one of the rest dared to join them, but\nthe people magnified them; [5:14]and believers were added the more to\nthe Lord, multitudes both of men and women; [5:15]so that they brought\nthe sick into the streets and placed them on little beds and couches,\nthat as Peter passed along even his shadow might overshadow some of\nthem. [5:16]And the multitude came together from the cities about\nJerusalem, bringing the sick and those troubled by impure spirits, all\nof whom were cured.\n\n5 [5:17]And the chief priest arose, and all those with him, being the\nsect of the Sadducees, and were filled with wrath, [5:18]and laid hands\non the apostles, and put them in the public prison.  [5:19]But an angel\nof the Lord opening the prison doors by night led them out and said,\n[5:20]Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of\nthis life. [5:21]And hearing this they entered into the temple early in\nthe morning and taught. And the chief priest coming, and those with\nhim, called the Sanhedrim together, and all the eldership of the\nchildren of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.\n\n6 [5:22]But the officers going did not find them in the prison; and\nreturning they reported, [5:23]saying, The prison found we shut with\nall safety, and the guards standing before the doors, but opening we\nfound no one within. [5:24]And when they heard these words, both the\npriest and the commander of the temple and the chief priests doubted\nconcerning them, what this could mean.  [5:25]But some one came and\ntold them, Behold, the men whom you put in prison are standing in the\ntemple, and teaching the people.\n\n7 [5:26]Then the commander going away with the officers brought them\nwithout violence, for they feared the people, lest they should be\nstoned; [5:27]and having brought them they placed them before the\nSanhedrim. And the chief priest asked them, [5:28]saying, We charged\nyou strictly not to teach in this name, and behold, you have filled\nJerusalem with your teaching, and wish to bring this man's blood on us.\n[5:29]And Peter answering, and the apostles, said, It is necessary to\nobey God rather than man. [5:30]The God of our fathers raised up Jesus,\nwhom you took and hung on a cross; [5:31]him has God exalted, a Prince\nand Saviour at his right hand, to give a change of mind to Israel and\nthe forgiveness of sins. [5:32]And we are his witnesses of these\nthings, and also the Holy Spirit which God has given to those that obey\nhim.\n\n8 [5:33]And when they heard this they were highly offended, and took\ncounsel to kill them. [5:34]But a certain Pharisee in the Sanhedrim, by\nthe name of Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, in honor with all the\npeople, standing up requested them to put the men out a little while;\n[5:35]and he said to them, Men of Israel, take heed to yourselves what\nyou are about to do to these men.  [5:36]For before these days Theudas\narose, saying that he was somebody, to whom a number of men, about four\nhundred, adhered, who was destroyed, and all who obeyed him passed away\nand came to nothing.\n\n9 [5:37]After him arose Judas the Galilean, in the days of the census,\nand drew away people after him; and he was destroyed, and all who\nobeyed him were dispersed. [5:38]And now I tell you, abstain from these\nmen, and let them alone; because if this design, or this work, is from\nmen, it will be destroyed; [5:39]but if it is from God, you cannot\ndestroy them; lest you be found at some time to be fighting against\nGod. [5:40]And they were persuaded by him, and calling the apostles and\nscourging them, they charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus,\nand dismissed them. [5:41]They went therefore from the presence of the\nSanhedrim, rejoicing that they were accounted worthy to suffer shame\nfor the name of [Christ]; [5:42]and every day in the temple, and from\nhouse to house, they ceased not teaching and preaching the good news of\nChrist Jesus.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER V.\n\nTHE APPOINTMENT OF SEVEN DEACONS, THE SERMON AND MARTYRDOM OF STEPHEN,\nAND A GENERAL PERSECUTION.\n\n1 [6:1]AND in those days the disciples being multiplied, there was a\ncomplaint of the Hellenists against the Hebrews, that their widows were\nneglected in the daily service. [6:2]And the twelve calling the\nmultitude of the disciples, said, It is not desirable that we should\nleave the word of God to serve tables. [6:3]Look out therefore,\nbrothers, from among you seven men of good repute, full of the Holy\nSpirit, and of wisdom, whom we may set over this business; [6:4]but we\nwill attend continually to prayer, and the ministry of the word.\n\n2 [6:5]And the proposition pleased all the multitude, and they elected\nStephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip and\nProchorus, and Nicanor and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus a\nproselyte of Antioch, [6:6]and set them before the Apostles; and they\nhaving prayed imposed hands on them. [6:7]And the word of God\nincreased, and the number of the disciples was greatly multiplied at\nJerusalem, and a great multitude of the priests obeyed the faith.\n\n3 [6:8]And Stephen, full of grace and power, performed prodigies and\ngreat miracles among the people. [6:9]But some members of the synagogue\ncalled that of the Libertines and Cyrenians and Alexandrians and of\nthose from Cilicia and Asia, arose and disputed with Stephen, [6:10]and\nwere not able to resist the wisdom and spirit with which he spoke.\n[6:11]Then they bribed men who said, We heard him speak blasphemous\nwords against Moses and God. [6:12]And they stirred up both the people,\nand the elders, and the scribes, and coming suddenly they seized him\nand led him to the Sanhedrim, [6:13]and brought forward false witnesses\nwho said, This man speaks incessantly against this holy place, and the\nlaw; [6:14]for we have heard him say, that Jesus this Nazoraean will\ndestroy this place and change the customs which Moses gave us.\n[6:15]And all who sat in the Sanhedrin looking steadily at him saw his\nface like the face of an angel.\n\n4 [7:1]And the chief priest said, Are these things then so?  [7:2]And\nhe said, Men, brothers, and fathers, hear. The God of glory appeared to\nour father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in\nHaran, [7:3]and said to him, Go out from your country and your kindred,\nand come to a land which I will show you. [7:4]Then going out from the\nland of the Chaldeans, he lived in Haran. And thence, after the death\nof his father, he removed into this land in which you now live.\n[7:5]And [God] gave him no inheritance in it, not the breadth of a\nfoot, and promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his\nposterity after him, when as yet he had no son. [7:6]And God said thus;\nthat his posterity should be a stranger in a foreign land, and they\nshall enslave it and treat it injuriously four hundred years; [7:7]and\nthe nation which they shall serve will I judge, said God, and after\nthat they shall come forth and serve me in this place.\n\n5 [7:8]And he gave him the ordinance of circumcision; and so he begat\nIsaac and circumcised him on the eighth day, and Isaac, Jacob, and\nJacob the twelve patriarchs. [7:9]And the patriarchs envying Joseph\nsold him into Egypt; and God was with him [7:10]and delivered him from\nall his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom in the sight of\nPharaoh king of Egypt, and [he] made him governor over Egypt and all\nhis house.\n\n6 [7:11]And there came a famine on all the land of Egypt and Canaan,\nand great affliction, and our fathers found no provisions. [7:12]But\nJacob hearing that there was grain in Egypt, sent our fathers the first\ntime; [7:13]and the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers,\nand Joseph's family was made known to Pharaoh. [7:14]And Joseph sent\nand called for his father Jacob, and all the family of seventy-five\nsouls. [7:15]And Jacob went down to Egypt, and died, he and our\nfathers; [7:16]and they carried him back to Shechem and buried him in\nthe tomb which Abraham bought for money of the sons of Hamor the father\nof Shechem.\n\n7 [7:17]But when the time of the promise which God made with an oath to\nAbraham was at hand, the people increased and became numerous in Egypt,\n[7:18]till another king arose who knew not Joseph. [7:19]This [king]\ndealt deceitfully with our race, and treated injuriously our fathers,\ncausing their infants to be exposed that they might not be preserved\nalive.\n\n8 [7:20]At that time Moses was born, and was beautiful in the sight of\nGod, and was nourished three months in his father's house; [7:21]but\nbeing exposed, the daughter of Pharaoh took him up and nourished him as\nher own son. [7:22]And Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the\nEgyptians, and was mighty in his words and works. [7:23]And when he was\nforty years old, it came into his mind to visit his brothers, the\nchildren of Israel. [7:24]And seeing one injured he defended him, and\nexecuted judgment for the oppressed, smiting the Egyptian. [7:25]And he\nthought his brothers would understand that God would give them\nsalvation by his hand; but they understood not.\n\n9 [7:26]On the following day also he showed himself to them as they\ncontended, and urged them to peace, saying, Men, you are brothers; why\ndo you injure one another? [7:27]But he that injured his neighbor\nrepelled him, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?\n[7:28]Will you kill me as you did the Egyptian, yesterday? [7:29]And\nMoses fled at that saying, and lived a stranger in the land of Midian,\nwhere he begat two sons.\n\n10 [7:30]And forty years being completed there appeared to him in the\nwilderness of Mount Sinai, an angel in a flame of fire, in a bush.\n[7:31]And Moses seeing it, wondered at the sight; and coming near to\nlook at it, there was a voice of the Lord, [7:32]I am the God of your\nfathers, the God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob. And Moses being\nafraid dared not look at it. [7:33]And the Lord said to him, Put off\nyour shoes from your feet; for the place on which you stand is holy\nground. [7:34]I have seen the affliction of my people in Egypt, and\nhave heard their groaning, and have come down to deliver them; and now\ncome, I will send you to Egypt.\n\n11 [7:35]This is the Moses whom they denied, saying, Who made you a\nruler and a judge? Him did God send to be a ruler and a redeemer by the\nhand of the angel that appeared to him in the bush. [7:36]This man\nbrought them out, having performed prodigies and miracles in Egypt, and\nat the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years. [7:37]This is the\nMoses who said to the children of Israel, A prophet shall God raise up\nfor you, of your brothers, like me. [7:38] This is he that was with the\nassembly in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him on Mount\nSinai, and with our fathers, who received the living oracles to give\nus, [7:39]whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him away and\nturned back in their hearts to Egypt, [7:40]saying to Aaron, Make us\ngods to go before us; for this Moses who led us up out of Egypt, we\nknow not what has happened to him.\n\n12 [7:41]And they made a calf in those days, and offered a sacrifice to\nthe idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.  [7:42]And God\nturned and gave them up to serve the host of heaven, as it is written\nin the book of the prophets; Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me\nforty years in the wilderness, house of Israel, [7:43]and take up the\ntabernacle of Moloch, and the star of the god Rephan, figures which you\nmade to worship? I will even remove you beyond Babylon.\n\n13 [7:44]Our fathers in the wilderness received the tabernacle of the\ntestimony, as he that spoke to Moses charged him to make it according\nto the pattern which he had seen; [7:45]which also our fathers\nreceiving it in succession brought with Joshua into the possession of\nthe nations, whom God expelled before the face of our fathers till the\ndays of David; [7:46]who found favor with God and desired to find a\ndwelling for the God of Jacob.  [7:47]And Solomon built him a house.\n[7:48]But the Most High dwells not in [temples] made with hands, as the\nprophet says; [7:49]Heaven is my throne, and the earth my footstool;\nwhat house will you build me, says the Lord, or what is the place of my\nrest? [7:50]has not my hand made all these things? [7:51]Stiff necked,\nand uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always fight against the Holy\nSpirit; as your fathers did, you also do.  [7:52]Which of the prophets\ndid not your fathers persecute? And they killed those who foretold the\ncoming of the Righteous One, of whom you now have become betrayers and\nmurderers, [7:53]who have received the law by orders of angels and have\nnot kept it.\n\n14 [7:54]And when they heard these things they were enraged in their\nminds and gnashed their teeth upon him. [7:55]But he being full of the\nHoly Spirit, looking steadily to heaven saw the glory of God and Jesus\nstanding on the right hand of God, [7:56]and said, Behold, I see the\nheavens opened and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.\n[7:57]And crying with a loud voice they stopped their ears and rushed\nupon him with one accord, [7:58]and casting him out of the city, stoned\nhim. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young\nman called Saul, [7:59]and they stoned Stephen, calling and saying,\nLord Jesus, receive my spirit. [7:60]And kneeling down he cried with a\nloud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And having said\nthis he fell asleep. [8:1]And Saul consented to his death.\n\n15 And at that time there was a great persecution of the church at\nJerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad through the regions of\nJudea and Samaria, except the apostles. [8:2]And pious men buried\nStephen and made a great lamentation for him. [8:3]But Saul persecuted\nthe church, and going from house to house, seizing men and women,\ncommitted them to prison.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER VI.\n\nTHE EARLY MINISTRY OF PHILIP THE DEACON, THE CONVERSION OF THE\nSAMARITANS, THE ETHIOPIAN EUNUCH.\n\n1 [8:4]Being scattered abroad, therefore, they went everywhere\npreaching the good news of the word; [8:5]and Philip going down to a\ncity of Samaria preached Christ to them. [8:6]And the multitudes\nattended with one accord to the things said by Philip, when they heard\nhim and saw the miracles which he performed.  [8:7]For impure spirits\ncame out of many who had them, crying with a loud voice; and many\nparalytics and lame persons were cured; [8:8]and there was great joy in\nthat city.\n\n2 [8:9]And there was a man by the name of Simon who formerly practised\nmagic in that city, and astonished the nation of Samaria, saying that\nhe was some great person, [8:10]to whom all from the least to the\ngreatest attended, saying, This is the power of God which is called\ngreat. [8:11]And they attended to him because for a long time he had\nastonished them with his magic arts. [8:12]But because they believed\nPhilip preaching the good news of the kingdom of God and the name of\nJesus Christ, they were baptized both men and women. [8:13]And Simon\nalso himself believed, and being baptized attended constantly on\nPhilip; and beholding the mighty works and miracles that were\nperformed, he was astonished.\n\n3 [8:14]And the apostles at Jerusalem hearing that Samaria had received\nthe word of God, sent to them Peter and John, [8:15]who came down and\nprayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit; [8:16]for it\nhad not yet fallen on any of them, only they were baptized in the name\nof the Lord Jesus. [8:17] Then they laid hands on them and they\nreceived the Holy Spirit. [8:18]And Simon seeing that the Holy Spirit\nwas given by the imposition of the hands of the apostles, offered them\nmoney, [8:19]saying, Give me this power, that on whomsoever I lay my\nhand he may receive the Holy Spirit. [8:20]But Peter said to him, Your\nmoney go to perdition with you; because you have thought to purchase\nthe gift of God with money. [8:21]You have no part nor inheritance in\nthis work; for your heart is not right before God. [8:22]Turn your mind\ntherefore from this your wickedness, and pray the Lord if perhaps the\nthought of your mind may be forgiven you; [8:23]for I see you are in\nthe gall of bitterness and bond of wickedness.  [8:24]And Simon\nanswered and said, Pray to the Lord for me, that none of the things\nwhich you have said may come upon me.\n\n4 [8:25]They then having fully testified and spoken the word of the\nLord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the good news to many\nvillages of the Samaritans. [8:26]And an angel of the Lord spoke to\nPhilip, saying, Arise and go to the south, by the way that leads from\nJerusalem to Gaza; this is a wilderness.  [8:27]And he arose and went.\nAnd behold a man, an Ethiopian eunuch, an officer of Candace queen of\nthe Ethiopians, who was over all her treasures, who had come to\nJerusalem to worship, [8:28]and he was returning and sitting in his\nchariot reading the prophet Isaiah.\n\n5 [8:29]And the Spirit said to Philip, Go forward and join yourself to\nhis chariot. [8:30]And Philip running forward heard him reading the\nprophet Isaiah, and he said, Do you really understand what you read?\n[8:31]And he said [No]; for how can I unless some one teaches me? And\nhe invited Philip to come up and sit with him. [8:32]And the passage of\nScripture which he was reading, was this; As a sheep is led to\nslaughter, and as a lamb before one that shears him is dumb, so he\nopened not his mouth.  [8:33]In his humiliation his judgment was taken\naway; and who will tell of his generation? for his life was taken from\nthe earth.\n\n6 [8:34]And the eunuch answered and said to Philip, Of whom I pray you\ndoes the prophet say this? of himself or of some other one? [8:35]And\nPhilip opening his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached\nto him the good news of Jesus. [8:36]And as they went on the way they\ncame to a certain water, and the eunuch said, Behold water; what\nhinders me from being baptized?  [8:38]And he commanded the chariot to\nstop, and they both went down to the water, both Philip and the eunuch,\nand he baptized him. [8:39]And when they went up from the water the\nSpirit of the Lord caught away Philip, and the eunuch saw him no more;\nfor he went his way rejoicing. [8:40]But Philip was found at Azotus,\nand passing through he preached the good news to all the cities till he\ncame to Caesarea.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER VII.\n\nTHE CONVERSION OF SAUL, PETER CURING AENEAS, AND RAISING DORCAS FROM\nTHE DEAD.\n\n1 [9:1]BUT Saul, yet breathing out threatening and slaughter against\nthe disciples of the Lord, went to the chief priest [9:2]and asked of\nhim letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of that\nway, he might bring them bound, men and women, to Jerusalem. [9:3]And\nhe was going and had come nigh to Damascus, and suddenly a light shone\naround him from heaven, [9:4]and falling on the earth he heard a voice\nsaying to him, Saul, Saul, Why do you persecute me? [9:5]And he said,\nWho are you, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom you persecute. [9:6]But\narise and enter into the city, and it shall be told you what you must\ndo. [9:7]And the men travelling with him stood amazed, hearing indeed\nthe voice, but beholding no one. [9:8]And Saul arose from the earth,\nand his eyes being opened he saw nothing; and leading him by the hand\nthey conducted him to Damascus.  [9:9]And he was three days without\nsight, and neither eat nor drank.\n\n2 [9:10]And there was a certain disciple at Damascus by the name of\nAnanias, and the Lord said to him in a vision, Ananias. And he said,\nBehold, I am here, Lord. [9:11]And the Lord said to him, Arise and go\nto the street called Straight, and inquire at the house of Judas for [a\nman] by the name of Saul of Tarsus; for behold, he prays, [9:12]and has\nseen a man by the name of Ananias coming and putting a hand on him,\nthat he might receive his sight. [9:13]And Ananias answered, Lord, I\nhave heard by many of this man, how much evil he has done to your\nsaints at Jerusalem; [9:14]and here he has power from the chief priests\nto bind all that call on your name. [9:15]But the Lord said to him, Go,\nfor he is a chosen vessel to me, to bear my name both before nations\nand kings, and the children of Israel; [9:16]for I will show him how\ngreat things he must suffer for my name.\n\n3 [9:17]And Ananias went and entered into the house, and laying hands\non him said, Brother Saul, the Lord has sent me, Jesus who appeared to\nyou on the way which you came, that you may receive sight and be filled\nwith the Holy Spirit. [9:18]And immediately there fell from his eyes as\nit were scales, and he received his sight, and rising up was baptized,\n[9:19]and having received food was strengthened.\n\n4 And he was with the disciples at Damascus some days; [9:20]and\nimmediately in the synagogues he preached Jesus, that this is the Son\nof God. [9:21]And all that heard him were astonished and said, Is not\nthis he that destroyed those who called on this name at Jerusalem, and\nhas come here for this purpose, that he might lead them bound to the\nchief priests? [9:22]But Saul increased in power and confounded the\nJews living at Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.\n\n5 [9:23]And when some days had passed, the Jews took counsel to kill\nhim; [9:24]and their design was made known to Saul. And they watched\nthe gates day and night to kill him; [9:25]but the disciples took him\nby night and sent him away by the wall, letting him down in a\nstore-basket.\n\n6 [9:26]And going to Jerusalem he endeavored to join the disciples; and\nthey all feared him, not believing that he was a disciple. [9:27]But\nBarnabas took him and brought him to the apostles, and related to them\nhow he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him, and\nhow he had spoken boldly in Damascus in the name of Jesus. [9:28]And he\nwas with them, entering in and going out at Jerusalem, [9:29]and\nspeaking boldly in the name of the Lord; and he spoke and disputed with\nthe Hellenists; and they undertook to kill him; [9:30]but the brothers\nknowing it led him away to Caesarea and sent him to Tarsus.\n\n7 [9:31]Then had the church peace in all Judea and Galilee and Samaria,\nand being built up, and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the\ncomfort of the Holy Spirit, they were multiplied.  [9:32]And Peter\npassing through all places, went down also to the saints living at\nLydda. [9:33]And he found there a certain man by the name of AEneas,\nwho had lain on a bed for eight years, and was a paralytic. [9:34]And\nPeter said to him, AEneas, Jesus Christ cures you; arise and make your\nbed for yourself. And he immediately arose; [9:35]and all those who\nlived at Lydda and Sharon saw him, and turned to the Lord.\n\n8 [9:36]And there was at Joppa a certain female disciple called\nTabitha, which being interpreted is called, Dorcas; she was full of\ngood works and charities which she bestowed. [9:37]And in those days\nshe was sick and died; and having washed they put her in an upper room.\n[9:38]But Lydda being nigh to Joppa, the disciples hearing that Peter\nwas there sent two men to him requesting, Do not delay to come to us.\n[9:39]And Peter arose and came with them; and when he had come they led\nhim into the upper room, and all the widows stood by weeping and\nshowing the coats and garments which Dorcas made while she was with\nthem. [9:40] And Peter putting them all out knelt down and prayed, and\nturning to the body he said, Tabitha, arise! And she opened her eyes,\nand seeing Peter sat up. [9:41] And giving her his hand he raised her\nup, and calling the saints and widows presented her living.  [9:42]And\nthis was known in all Joppa, and many believed on the Lord. [9:43]And\nPeter continued many days at Joppa with one Simon a tanner.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER VIII.\n\nTHE CONVERSION OF CORNELIUS, AND OTHER GENTILES.\n\n1 [10:1]AND a certain man at Caesarea, named Cornelius, a centurion of\nthe cohort which was called the Italian, [10:2]a pious man, and one\nfearing God with all his house, and bestowing many charities on the\npeople, and praying to God always, [10:3]saw clearly in a vision, about\nthe ninth hour of the day, an angel of God coming to him, and saying to\nhim, Cornelius.  [10:4]And looking steadily at him and being afraid, he\nsaid, What is wanted, Lord? And he said to him, Your prayers and\ncharities have come up as a memorial before God. [10:5] And now send\nmen to Joppa and call for a certain Simon who is called Peter; [10:6]he\nlodges with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea.  [10:7]And\nwhen the angel who spoke to him had departed, he called two of the\nhouse servants, and a pious soldier of those that attended constantly\non him, [10:8] and having related all things to them sent them to Joppa.\n\n2 [10:9]And on the next day, as they were pursuing their journey and\nhad come nigh to the city, Peter went upon the house to pray, about the\nsixth hour. [10:10]And he was hungry and wished to eat; and while they\nwere preparing a trance came upon him, [10:11]and he beheld heaven\nopened, and a certain vessel like a great sheet descending, let down by\nfour corners to the earth, [10:12]in which were all the quadrupeds and\nreptiles of the earth, and birds of heaven. [10:13]And a voice came to\nhim, Arise, Peter, kill and eat. [10:14]But Peter said, By no means,\nLord, for I have never eaten any thing common and impure. [10:15]And a\nvoice came to him again, a second time, What God has purified, regard\nnot common. [10:16]And this was done thrice, and immediately the vessel\nwas taken up to heaven.\n\n3 [10:17]And while Peter doubted with himself what the vision which he\nhad seen meant, behold, even [then] the men sent by Cornelius, having\ninquired for the house of Simon, stood at the gate, [10:18]and calling\naloud asked if Simon who was called Peter lodged there. [10:19]And\nwhile Peter was considering of the vision, the Spirit said to him,\nBehold, men seek you; [10:20]arise and go down and go with them without\nhesitation, for I have sent them. [10:21]And Peter went down to the men\nand said, Behold, I am the man whom you seek; what is the cause for\nwhich you have come? [10:22]And they said, Cornelius a centurion, a\nrighteous man, and one that fears God, and esteemed by all the nation\nof the Jews, was divinely instructed by a holy angel to send for you to\nhis house and hear words from you. [10:23]Then he called them in and\nentertained them.\n\n4 And the next day he arose and went with them, and some of the\nbrothers from Joppa went with him. [10:24]And on the day following they\ncame to Caesarea; and Cornelius was expecting them, and had called\ntogether his relations and particular friends. [10:25]And when Peter\ncame in Cornelius met him, and falling down at his feet worshipped him.\n[10:26]But Peter raised him up saying, Arise, I also am a man.\n[10:27]And conversing with him he went in, and found many come\ntogether; [10:28]and he said to them, You know that it is not lawful\nfor a Jew to associate with a man of another nation, or come into his\nhouse; and God has taught me not to call any man common or impure;\n[10:29]wherefore, being sent for I also came without objecting. I ask\ntherefore for what reason you have sent for me? [10:30]And Cornelius\nsaid, From the fourth hour of the day I fasted till this hour, and at\nthe ninth hour I was praying in my house, and behold, a man stood\nbefore me in splendid clothing, [10:31]and said, Cornelius, your prayer\nis heard and your charities are remembered before God.  [10:32]Send\ntherefore to Joppa and call Simon who is called Peter; he lodges at the\nhouse of Simon a tanner, by the sea, who when he has come will speak to\nyou. [10:33] Immediately therefore I sent to you, and you have done\nwell to come. Now therefore we are all present before God to hear all\nthings which God has commanded you.\n\n5 [10:34]And Peter opening his mouth said, Of a truth I perceive that\nGod is not a respecter of persons, [10:35]but in every nation he that\nfears him and does righteousness is acceptable to him. [10:36]The word\nwhich he sent to the children of Israel, preaching the good news of\npeace by Jesus Christ,--he is Lord of all,-- [10:37]you know; the word\nwhich was [preached] through all Judea, beginning in Galilee after the\nbaptism which John preached, [10:38]Jesus from Nazareth, how God\nanointed him with the Holy Spirit and power, who went about doing good\nand curing all that were subjugated by the devil, for God was with him;\n[10:39]and we are witnesses of all things which he did, both in the\nland of Judea, and at Jerusalem, whom also they killed, hanging him on\na cross. [10:40]This [man] did God raise up on the third day, and\npermitted him to be made manifest, [10:41]not to all the people, but to\nwitnesses chosen before by God, to us, who eat and drank with him after\nhe rose from the dead; [10:42]and he commanded us to preach to the\npeople and testify fully that he is appointed by God the judge of\nliving and dead. [10:43]To him all the prophets bear witness, that\nevery one who believes in him has forgiveness of sins through his name.\n\n6 [10:44]While Peter was yet speaking these words the Holy Spirit fell\non all who heard the word. [10:45]And those of the circumcision who\ncame with Peter were astonished, that on the gentiles also the gift of\nthe Holy Spirit was poured out; [10:46]for they heard them speaking\nwith tongues and magnifying God. Then Peter answered, [10:47]Can any\nforbid water that these should be baptized, who have received the Holy\nSpirit as we also have? [10:48]And he commanded that they should be\nbaptized in the name of the Lord. Then they desired him to remain some\ndays.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER IX.\n\nPETER CALLED TO ACCOUNT FOR ASSOCIATING WITH GENTILES, AND JUSTIFIED;\nPREACHING TO THE GENTILES CONTINUED.\n\n1 [11:1]AND the apostles and brothers who were in Judea heard that the\ngentiles received the word of God. [11:2]And when Peter went up to\nJerusalem, those of the circumcision contended with him, [11:3]saying,\nYou went in to men that were uncircumcised, and eat with them.\n[11:4]And Peter began and related to them in order, saying, [11:5]I was\nin the city of Joppa praying, and I saw a vision in a trance, a vessel\nlike a great sheet descending, let down by the four corners from\nheaven, and it came to me; [11:6]and looking into it attentively I\nperceived and saw the quadrupeds of the earth and wild beasts and\nreptiles and birds of heaven. [11:7]And I heard a voice saying to me,\nArise, Peter, kill and eat. [11:8]And I said, By no means, Lord, for\nnothing common or impure has ever entered into my mouth. [11:9]And a\nvoice answered from heaven a second time, What God has purified do not\nyou regard common. [11:10]And this was done thrice, and again all were\ntaken up to heaven.\n\n2 [11:11]And behold, immediately three men came to the house in which I\nwas, being sent for me from Caesarea. [11:12]And the Spirit told me to\ngo with them. And these six brothers also went with me, and we entered\ninto the house of the man. [11:13]And he told us how he had seen the\nangel in his house standing and saying to him, Send to Joppa and call\nSimon who is called Peter, [11:14]who will speak words to you by which\nyou shall be saved and all your house. [11:15] And when I began to\nspeak the Holy Spirit fell on them as also on us in the beginning.\n[11:16]And I remembered the word of the Lord how he said, John indeed\nbaptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit.\n[11:17]If therefore God gave the gift equally to them and to us, who\nbelieved on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I should be able to\nforbid God? [11:18] And hearing these things they were silent, and\nglorified God, saying, Then to the gentiles also has God indeed given\nthe change of mind to life.\n\n3 [11:19]And those scattered abroad by the affliction which commenced\nwith Stephen, went even to Phenicia, and Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking\nthe word to no one but Jews only. [11:20]But some of them, Cyprians and\nCyrenians, who came to Antioch, spoke to the Greeks preaching the good\nnews of the Lord Jesus. [11:21] And the hand of the Lord was with them,\nand a great number believed and turned to the Lord. [11:22]And a report\nconcerning them was brought to the ears of the church at Jerusalem, and\nthey sent Barnabas to go as far as Antioch; [11:23]who having come and\nseen the grace of God rejoiced, and exhorted all to adhere to the Lord\nwith the purpose of the heart; [11:24]for he was a good man and full of\nthe Holy Spirit and of faith. And a great multitude were added to the\nLord.\n\n4 [11:25]And he went to Tarsus to seek for Saul, [11:26]and found and\nbrought him to Antioch. And he was with them, and they met a whole year\nwith the church and taught a great multitude; and the disciples first\ntook the name of Christians at Antioch.\n\n5 [11:27]And in those days prophets came down from Jerusalem to\nAntioch; [11:28]and one of them, by the name of Agabus, standing up\nsignified by the spirit that a great famine was about to come on all\nthe world; which also came under Claudius Caesar.  [11:29]And each of\nthe disciples, according to his ability, determined to send help to the\nbrethren living in Judea; [11:30]which they also did, sending to the\nelders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER X.\n\nPERSECUTION BY HEROD AGRIPPA, HIS DEATH.--A.D. 44.\n\n1 [12:1]AND at that time Herod the king put forth his hands to injure\nsome of the church. [12:2]And he killed James the brother of John with\nthe sword. [12:3]And seeing that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to\napprehend Peter also,--and it was during the days of unleavened\nbread,-- [12:4]and having seized he put him in prison, committing him\nto four companies of four soldiers each to guard him, wishing after the\npassover to bring him before the people. [12:5]Peter therefore was kept\nby the guard; but prayer was made incessantly by the church to God for\nhim.  [12:6]And when Herod was about to bring him forward, on that\nnight Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains,\nand guards kept watch before the door. [12:7]And behold, an angel of\nthe Lord came, and a light shone in the building; and striking Peter on\nthe side he awoke him saying, Arise quickly.  And his chains fell off\nfrom his hands. [12:8]And the angel said to him, Gird yourself, and tie\non your sandals. And he did so.  And he said to him, Put your cloak\nabout you, and follow me.  [12:9]And going out he followed him, and\nknew not that it was real which was done by the angel, but thought he\nsaw a vision.  [12:10]And passing through the first guard, and the\nsecond, they came to the iron gate leading into the city, which opened\nto them of itself, and going out they went forward one street, and\nimmediately the angel left him. [12:11]And Peter coming to himself\nsaid, Now I know that the Lord has really sent his angel and delivered\nme from the hand of Herod and all the expectation of the Jews.\n\n2 [12:12]And considering within himself he came to the house of Mary\nthe mother of John called Mark, where a great number were assembled\ntogether and praying. [12:13]And knocking at the door of the gate, a\nfemale servant, called Rhoda, came to listen, [12:14]and knowing the\nvoice of Peter she did not open the gate from joy, but ran in and told\nthat Peter stood before the gate.  [12:15]But they said to her, You are\nmad. But she asserted strongly that it was so. And they said, It is his\nangel.  [12:16]But Peter continued knocking; and having opened they saw\nhim, and were astonished. [12:17]And making signs to them with his hand\nto be silent, he related how the Lord had conducted him out of the\nprison, and said, Tell these things to James and the brothers. And\ngoing out he departed to another place.\n\n3 [12:18]And when it was day there was no small stir among the soldiers\nas to what had become of Peter. [12:19]And Herod seeking and not\nfinding him, examined the guards, and commanded them to be put to\ndeath, and going down from Judea to Caesarea remained [there].\n\n4 [12:20]And he was displeased with the Tyrians and Sidonians; but they\ncame with one accord to him, and having persuaded Blastus who was over\nthe king's bedchamber, desired peace, because their country was\nnourished by the king's. [12:21]And on an appointed day Herod having\nput on his royal apparel, and sitting on the tribunal, made a speech to\nthem; [12:22]and the people shouted, It is the voice of a god, and not\nof a man.  [12:23]And an angel of the Lord instantly smote him because\nhe gave not glory to God, and being eaten with worms he expired.\n[12:24]And the word of God grew and was increased.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XI.\n\nTHE FIRST MISSION OF PAUL AND BARNABAS TO CYPRUS AND ASIA MINOR.--A.D.\n46-49.\n\n1 [12:25]AND Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, having\nperformed the service, taking with them also John who was called Mark.\n[13:1]And there were prophets and teachers in the church at Antioch;\nBarnabas and Simeon called Niger [the black], and Lucius the Cyrenian,\nand Manaen the foster brother of Herod the Tetrarch, and Saul.\n[13:2]And while they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said,\nSeparate me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.\n[13:3]Then having fasted and prayed and imposed hands on them, they\nsent them forth.  [13:4]They, therefore, being sent forth by the Holy\nSpirit went down to Seleucia, and thence sailed to Cyprus; [13:5]and\ncoming to Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of\nthe Jews; and they also had John for a servant.\n\n2 [13:6]And having gone through the whole island to Paphos, they found\na certain magian, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Barjesus,\n[13:7]who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man.\nThis man having called for Barnabas and Saul desired to hear the word\nof God; [13:8]but Elymas the magian, for so his name is interpreted,\nopposed them, seeking to turn away the proconsul from the faith.\n[13:9]But Saul, [called] also Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit,\nlooking steadily at him [13:10]said, O full of all deceit and all\ncraft, son of a devil, enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease\nto pervert the right ways of the Lord? [13:11]And now, behold, the hand\nof the Lord is upon you, and you shall be blind, not seeing the sun for\na season. And immediately there fell upon him a mist and darkness, and\ngoing about he sought guides. [13:12]Then the proconsul seeing what was\ndone believed, and was astonished at the teaching of the Lord.\n\n3 [13:13]And those with Paul, sailing from Paphos, went to Perga in\nPamphylia; but John left them and returned to Jerusalem.  [13:14]And\npassing on from Perga, they went to Antioch in Pisidia, and going into\nthe synagogue on the Sabbath they sat down. [13:15]And after the\nreading of the law and the prophets, the synagogue rulers sent to them,\nsaying, Men and brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the\npeople, speak.\n\n4 [13:16]And Paul stood up, and motioning with his hand, said, Men of\nIsrael, and you that fear God, hear. [13:17]The God of this people\nchose our fathers, and raised up the people in the exile in the land of\nEgypt, and brought them out of it with a high arm. [13:18]And when he\nhad borne with their conduct forty years in the wilderness, [13:19]and\nhad destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he distributed their\nland to them by lot.  [13:20]And after this he gave judges four hundred\nand fifty years till Samuel the prophet. [13:21]And then they asked for\na king, and God gave them Saul the son Kish, a man of the tribe of\nBenjamin, forty years; [13:22]and removing him, he raised up for them\nDavid for a king, of whom also he said and testified, I have found\nDavid, the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.\n\n5 [13:23]Of the posterity of this man, according to his promise, has\nGod raised up to Israel a Saviour, Jesus; [13:24]John having preached\nbefore his coming the baptism of a change of mind to all the people of\nIsrael. [13:25]And when John completed his course, he said, Who do you\nsuppose I am? I am not [the Christ]; but behold, there comes after me\none the sandal of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.\n\n6 [13:26]Men and brothers, children of the race of Abraham, and you\nthat fear God, the word of this salvation is sent to you.  [13:27]For\nthose living at Jerusalem, and their rulers, not knowing him and the\nwords of the prophets which are read every sabbath, fulfilled them by\ncondemning [him]; [13:28]and [although] they found no cause of death\n[in him], they requested of Pilate that he might be destroyed;\n[13:29]and when they had performed all things written of him, they took\nhim down from the cross and placed him in a tomb. [13:30]But God raised\nhim from the dead, [13:31]and he appeared many days to those who went\nup with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses to the\npeople. [13:32]And we declare to you the good news of the promise made\nto the fathers, [13:33]that God has fulfilled this to us their children\nin raising up Jesus, as it is written also in the first psalm, You are\nmy son, to-day have I begotten you.  [13:34]And that he raised him from\nthe dead never more to return to destruction, he said thus; I will give\nyou the sure promises of David. [13:35] Wherefore also in another place\nhe says, Thou wilt not suffer thy holy one to see destruction.\n[13:36]For David, having in his generation served the will of God, fell\nasleep, and was gathered to his fathers and saw destruction; [13:37]\nbut he whom God raised up saw not destruction. [13:38]Be it known to\nyou therefore, men and brothers, that through this man is preached to\nyou the forgiveness of sins, [13:39]and every one who believes is\njustified by him from all things from which you could not be justified\nby the law of Moses. [13:40] See then that what is said by the prophets\ndoes not come upon you; [13:41] Behold, despisers, and wonder and\nperish, for I perform a work in your days, a work which you shall by no\nmeans believe even if one declares it to you.\n\n7 [13:42]And when they had gone out, [the people] requested that these\nwords might be spoken to them on the next sabbath.  [13:43]And the\ncongregation being dismissed, many of the Jews and pious proselytes\nfollowed Paul and Barnabas, who gave them additional instructions, and\npersuaded them to continue in the grace of God. [13:44]And on the\nfollowing sabbath almost all the city came together to hear the word of\nthe Lord. [13:45]And the Jews seeing the multitudes were filled with\nenvy, and contradicted the things said by Paul, disputing and\nblaspheming.  [13:46]And both Paul and Barnabas speaking boldly said,\nIt was necessary that the word of God should first be spoken to you;\nbut since you cast it away, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal\nlife, behold, we turn to the gentiles. [13:47]For thus has the Lord\ncommanded us; I have set you for a light of nations, that you should be\na salvation even to the end of the earth. [13:48] And the gentiles\nhearing this rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord, and as many\nas were appointed to eternal life believed; [13:49]and the word of the\nLord was spread through all the country. [13:50]But the Jews excited\nthe pious and honorable women, and the first men of the city, and\nraised a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and cast them out from\ntheir limits.  [13:51]And shaking off the dust of their feet against\nthem, they went to Iconium; [13:52] and the disciples were filled with\njoy and the Holy Spirit.\n\n8 [14:1]And at Iconium they went together into the synagogue of the\nJews, and so spoke that a great multitude of the Jews and Greeks\nbelieved. [14:2]But the unbelieving Jews excited the minds of the\ngentiles against the brothers, and made them ill-disposed.  [14:3]Then\nthey spent a long time in speaking boldly for the Lord, who testified\nto the word of his grace by granting miracles and prodigies to be\nperformed by their hands. [14:4]And the multitude of the city were\ndivided; some were with the Jews, and some with the apostles. [14:5]And\nwhen a design was formed by the gentiles and Jews with their rulers to\ntreat them injuriously, and stone them, [14:6]knowing it, they fled to\nthe cities of Lycaonia, Lystra and Derbe, and the surrounding country,\n[14:7]and preached the good news there.\n\n9 [14:8]And there sat a certain man at Lystra, infirm in his feet, lame\nfrom his birth, who had never walked. [14:9]This man heard Paul\nspeaking, who, looking steadily at him and seeing that he had faith to\nbe cured, [14:10]said with a loud voice, Stand up erect on your feet.\nAnd he leaped, and walked. [14:11]And the multitude seeing what Paul\ndid, lifted up their voice in the language of Lycaonia, saying, The\ngods have come down to us in the likeness of men; [14:12]and they\ncalled Barnabas, Jupiter, and Paul, Mercury, because he was a master of\neloquence.  [14:13]And the priest of the Jupiter which was before the\ncity brought bulls and garlands to the gates, and wished to offer\nsacrifices with the multitudes. [14:14]But the apostles Barnabas and\nPaul hearing of it, rending their clothes ran among the multitude,\ncrying [14:15]and saying, Men, why do you do these things? We are also\nmen subject to like sufferings with you, preaching that you should turn\nfrom these vain [services] to the living God, who made heaven and\nearth, and the sea, and all things in them, [14:16]who in past\ngenerations permitted all nations to walk in their own ways;\n[14:17]although indeed he left not himself without a witness, doing\ngood, giving rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts\nwith food and gladness. [14:18]And saying these things they with\ndifficulty restrained the multitudes from sacrificing to them.\n\n10 [14:19]But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and having persuaded\nthe multitudes, and having stoned Paul, they dragged him out of the\ncity, supposing that he was dead. [14:20]But while the disciples stood\naround him, he arose and entered into the city. And on the next day he\nwent away with Barnabas to Derbe.  [14:21]And having preached the good\nnews to that city, and made many disciples, they returned to Lystra,\nand Iconium, and Antioch, [14:22]confirming the souls of the disciples,\nand exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many\nafflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God. [14:23]And having\nappointed them elders in every church, and having prayed with fasting,\nthey commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed.\n\n11 [14:24]And passing through Pisidia they came to Pamphylia,\n[14:25]and having spoken the word in Perga they went down to Attalia,\n[14:26]and thence sailed to Antioch, whence they had been commended to\nthe favor of God for the work which they performed. [14:27]And having\narrived, and assembled the church, they reported what God had done with\nthem, and that he had opened the door of faith to the gentiles.\n[14:28]And they remained there not a little time with the disciples.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XII.\n\nTHE COUNCIL AT JERUSALEM ON CIRCUMCISION.--A.D. 50.\n\n1 [15:1]AND certain persons having come down from Judea taught the\nbrothers, If you are not circumcised according to the custom of Moses\nyou cannot be saved. [15:2]There being therefore no little dissension\nand disputation of Paul and Barnabas with them, they determined that\nPaul and Barnabas and some others of them should go up to the apostles\nand elders at Jerusalem, concerning this question. [15:3]They,\ntherefore, being sent forward by the church, went to Phenicia and\nSamaria, relating the conversion of the gentiles, and caused great joy\nto all the brothers. [15:4]And when they came to Jerusalem they were\nreceived by the church, and the apostles, and the elders, and related\nwhat things God had done with them. [15:5]But some of those of the sect\nof the Pharisees who had believed, rose and said, that it is necessary\nto circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.\n\n2 [15:6]And the apostles and elders were assembled together to see\nabout this matter. [15:7]And after there had been much debate, Peter\nrose and said to them, Men and brothers, you know that in former days\nGod chose among you that the gentiles should hear by my mouth the word\nof the gospel and believe. [15:8] And the heart-searching God testified\nto them, giving to them the Holy Spirit even as to us, [15:9]and made\nno difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by the faith.\n[15:10]Now, therefore, why do you try God, to put on the necks of the\ndisciples a yoke which neither our fathers nor we could bear?\n[15:11]But we believe that we shall be saved through the grace of the\nLord Jesus in the same manner as they.\n\n3 [15:12]And all the multitude was silent, and heard Barnabas and Paul\nrelate what miracles and prodigies God performed among the gentiles\nthrough them. [15:13]And after they were silent, James answered,\nsaying, Men and brothers, hear me. [15:14]Simeon has related how God\nfirst visited the gentiles to take a people for his name. [15:15]And\nwith this agree the words of the prophets, as it is written,\n[15:16]After this will I return and build up the tabernacle of David\nwhich had fallen down, and rebuild its ruins, and set it up,\n[15:17]that the rest of men may seek the Lord, even all the nations on\nwhom my name has been called, says the Lord who does these things,\n[15:18]known from eternity.  [15:19]Wherefore I judge that we ought not\nto trouble those who turned to God from the gentiles, [15:20]but to\nsend to them to abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and\nfornication, and things strangled, and blood. [15:21]For Moses from\nancient times has those who preach him in every city, being read in the\nsynagogues every sabbath.\n\n4 [15:22]Then it seemed good to the apostles and elders, with all the\nassembly [the church], to send delegates from themselves to Antioch\nwith Paul and Barnabas, Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, leading men\namong the brothers, [15:23]writing by their hand, The apostles and\nelders and brothers, to the brothers in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia,\nwho are of the gentiles, greeting.  [15:24]Since we heard that some\ngoing out from us have troubled you with words subverting your souls,\nto whom we gave no charge, [15:25]it seemed good to us, being of one\nopinion, to send delegates to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,\n[15:26]men who have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus\nChrist. [15:27]We have sent, therefore, Judas and Silas, and they will\ntell you the same things by word. [15:28]For it seemed good to the Holy\nSpirit, and to us, to put no greater burden upon you except these\nnecessary things; [15:29] that you should abstain from things\nsacrificed to idols, and blood, and things strangled, and fornication,\nfrom which if you keep yourselves you will do well. Farewell.\n\n5 [15:30]They, therefore, being dismissed went to Antioch, and\nassembling the multitude delivered the epistle. [15:31]And reading it\nthey rejoiced at the exhortation. [15:32]And Judas and Silas being\nthemselves also prophets, exhorted the brothers with much argument, and\nconfirmed them. [15:33]And having staid [some] time, they were\ndismissed in peace by the brothers to those that sent them. [15:35]But\nPaul and Barnabas remained at Antioch, teaching and preaching with many\nothers the word of the Lord.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XIII.\n\nPAUL'S SECOND MISSION TO ASIA MINOR.--A.D. 51-52.\n\n1 [15:36]AND after some days Paul said to Barnabas, Let us return and\nvisit the brothers in every city in which we preached the word of the\nLord, [and see] how they do. [15:37]And Barnabas wished to take with\nthem John called Mark; [15:38] but Paul thought not best to take with\nthem one who deserted them at Pamphylia and did not go with them to the\nwork. [15:39]And there was a sharp contention, so that they separated\nfrom each other; and Barnabas taking Mark sailed to Cyprus.\n\n2 [15:40]But Paul choosing Silas went out, commended to the favor of\nthe Lord by the brothers. [15:41]And he passed through Syria and\nCilicia confirming the churches. [16:1]And he went to Derbe and Lystra.\nAnd behold, there was a certain disciple there by the name of Timothy,\na son of a Jewish woman, a believer, but of a Greek father, [16:2]who\nwas commended by the brothers in Lystra and Iconium. [16:3]Him Paul\nwished to have go with him; and he took and circumcised him on account\nof the Jews who were in those places; for all knew that his father was\na Greek.\n\n3 [16:4]And when he went through the cities he gave them the ordinances\nto observe which had been determined by the apostles and elders at\nJerusalem.\n\n4 [16:5]Then the churches were strengthened in the faith, and increased\nin number daily. [16:6]And passing through Phrygia and the country of\nGalatia, being forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia,\n[16:7]coming by Mysia they endeavored to go into Bithynia; and the\nSpirit of Jesus did not permit them; [16:8]and passing by Mysia they\nwent down to Troas. [16:9]And a vision appeared by night to Paul; a\ncertain man of Macedonia standing, asking him, and saying, Come over\ninto Macedonia and help us. [16:10]And when he saw the vision we\nimmediately sought to go into Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had\ncalled us to preach the good news to them.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XIV.\n\nPAUL AND HIS COMPANY AT PHILIPPI ON THEIR FIRST MISSION TO\nEUROPE.--A.D. 52-53.\n\n1 [16:11]AND sailing from Troas we came in a direct course to\nSamothracia, and on the next day to Neapolis, [16:12]and thence to\nPhilippi, which is the chief city of that part of Macedonia, [and] a\ncolony. And we spent some days in that city. [16:13]And on the sabbath\nwe went out of the gate, by the river, where the proseuche [place of\nprayer] usually was, and sitting down we spoke to the women who came\ntogether. [16:14]And a certain woman by the name of Lydia, a dealer in\npurple, of the city of Thyatira, who worshipped God, heard, whose heart\nthe Lord opened to attend to the [words] spoken by Paul.\n\n2 [16:15]And when she was baptized, and her house, she requested\nsaying, If you have judged me faithful to the Lord, come into my house\nand stay; and she constrained us.\n\n3 [16:16]And when we went to the proseuche, a certain female servant\nhaving a spirit, a diviner, met us, who brought her masters much gain\nby divining. [16:17]She following Paul and us, cried, saying, These men\nare servants of the Most High God, who declare to us the way of\nsalvation; [16:18]and this she did for many days. And Paul being\ngrieved turned around and said to the spirit, I command you, in the\nname of Jesus Christ, to come out of her. And it came out of her in\nthat hour. [16:19]And her masters seeing that the hope of their gain\nwas gone, seizing Paul and Silas dragged them to the market, to the\nrulers, [16:20] and bringing them before the prefects said, These men,\nbeing Jews, greatly trouble the city, [16:21]and preach customs which\nit is not lawful for us, being Romans, to receive or observe.\n[16:22]And the multitude came together against them, and the prefects\ntearing off their clothes gave orders to beat them with rods,\n[16:23]and having inflicted many blows on them cast them into prison,\ncharging the jailer to keep them safely; [16:24]who, having received\nsuch a charge, cast them into the inner prison, and made their feet\nfast in the stocks.\n\n4 [16:25]But at midnight Paul and Silas prayed and sung praises to God,\nand the prisoners heard them. [16:26]And suddenly there was a great\nearthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and all\nthe doors were immediately opened, and the bands of all were removed.\n[16:27]And the jailer awaking from sleep and seeing the doors of the\nprison opened, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing\nthat the prisoners had escaped. [16:28]But Paul cried with a loud\nvoice, saying, Do yourself no harm, for we are all here. [16:29]And\nasking for a light he sprang in, and fell down trembling before Paul\nand Silas, [16:30]and bringing them out said, Sirs, what must I do to\nbe saved? [16:31] And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus, and you\nshall be saved, and your house. [16:32]And they spoke the word of the\nLord to him and all those in his house.\n\n5 [16:33]And taking them that hour of the night, he washed them from\ntheir stripes, and was baptized, he and all his, immediately,\n[16:34]and conducting them up into his house he set a table, and\nrejoiced with all his house, having believed in God.  [16:35]And when\nit was day the prefects sent the lictors, saying, Let those men go.\n[16:36]And the jailer told these words to Paul; The prefects have sent\nto let you go; now, therefore, go, and depart in peace.\n\n6 [16:37]But Paul said to him, They have beaten us publicly\nuncondemned, being Romans, and cast us into prison; and now do they\nprivately cast us out? No, indeed: but let them come themselves and\nconduct us out. [16:38]And the lictors told these words to the\nprefects, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans;\n[16:39]and they came and besought them, and conducting them out desired\nthem to leave the city. [16:40]And going out of the prison they entered\ninto the house of Lydia, and having seen the brothers they exhorted\nthem, and departed.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XV.\n\nPAUL AND HIS COMPANY AT THESSALONICA, BEREA, AND ATHENS.--A.D.  53.\n\n1 [17:1]AND travelling through Amphipolis and Apollonia they came to\nThessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.  [17:2]And\naccording to his custom Paul went in to them, and reasoned with them\nthree sabbaths from the Scriptures, [17:3]explaining and asserting that\nthe Christ ought to suffer and to rise from the dead; and that this\nJesus whom I preach to you is the Christ. [17:4]And some of them\nbelieved and adhered to Paul and Silas; of the pious Greeks a great\nmultitude, and of the chief women not a few. [17:5]But the unbelieving\nJews taking certain base men of those about the markets, and exciting a\nmob, disturbed the city; and coming to the house of Jason sought to\nbring them out to the people; [17:6]but not finding them, they dragged\nJason and some brothers to the rulers of the city, crying, These men\nwho have turned the world upside down have come here also, [17:7]and\nJason has received them; and they all do things contrary to the\nordinances of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus.\n[17:8]And they excited the multitude and the rulers of the city hearing\nthese things, [17:9]and taking security of Jason and the rest they let\nthem go.\n\n2 [17:10]And the brothers immediately, by night, sent away Paul and\nSilas to Berea; and when they came they went into the synagogue of the\nJews; [17:11]but these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, for\nthey received the word with all readiness, examining the Scriptures\ndaily [to see] if these things were so. [17:12]Many of them therefore\nbelieved, both of honorable Grecian women, and of men not a few.\n[17:13]And when the Jews in Thessalonica knew that the word of God was\npreached by Paul at Berea, they came there exciting the multitudes.\n\n3 [17:14]Then the brothers immediately sent Paul away, as if to go by\nsea; but Silas and Timothy remained there. [17:15]And those conducting\nPaul brought him to Athens, and receiving a charge to Silas and Timothy\nto come to him as soon as possible, they departed.\n\n4 [17:16]And while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was moved\nwithin him as he saw the city wholly devoted to idolatry.  [17:17]Then\nhe reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and those that were pious,\nand in the market every day with those he met.  [17:18]And some of the\nEpicurean and Stoic philosophers disputed with him, and some said, What\ndoes this trifler mean to say? And others, He seems to be a preacher of\nstrange demons; because he preached to them Jesus and the resurrection.\n[17:19]And laying hold of him they brought him to the Areopagus,\nsaying, May we know what this new teaching is which is taught by you?\n[17:20]for you bring certain strange things to our ears; we wish\ntherefore to know what these things mean. [17:21]And all the Athenians\nand the strangers living there spend their leisure in nothing else but\ntelling or hearing something new.\n\n5 [17:22]And Paul standing in the midst of the Areopagus said, Men of\nAthens, I perceive that in all things you are extremely devoted to the\nworship of demons. [17:23]For as I passed through, and observed your\nobjects of worship, I found also an altar on which was inscribed, TO AN\nUNKNOWN GOD. What therefore you worship as unknown, this I declare to\nyou. [17:24]The God who made the world and all things in it, this [God]\nbeing Lord of heaven and earth dwells not in temples made with hands,\n[17:25]neither is he served by the hands of men as needing any thing,\nsince he gives to all life, and breath, and all things; [17:26]and he\nmade of one blood every nation of men to live on all the face of the\nearth, determining their appointed times and the bounds of their\nhabitation, [17:27]that they should seek God, if perhaps they might\nfeel after and find him, and indeed he is not far from every one of us.\n[17:28]For in him we live, and move, and are; as some also of your own\npoets have said, For we are his offspring. [17:29]Being therefore an\noffspring of God, we ought not to think the Deity to be like gold or\nsilver or stone, a work of art and human device.\n\n6 [17:30]Overlooking therefore the times of ignorance, God now commands\nall men everywhere to change their minds, [17:31]because he has\nappointed a day in which he is about to judge the world in\nrighteousness, by the man whom he has appointed, giving assurance to\nall by raising him from the dead. [17:32]But when they heard of a\nresurrection of the dead, some scoffed; but others said, We will hear\nyou again of this. [17:33]So Paul went out from the midst of them;\n[17:34]but certain men adhering to him believed, among whom were\nDionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with\nthem.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XVI.\n\nPAUL AND HIS COMPANY AT CORINTH, HIS VISIT TO SYRIA AND ASIA\nMINOR.--A.D. 53-55.\n\n1 [18:1]AND after this Paul left Athens and came to Corinth.  [18:2]And\nfinding a certain Jew by the name of Aquila, a native of Pontus, who\nhad recently come from Italy, and his wife Priscilla, because Claudius\nhad ordered all the Jews to leave Rome, he went to them, [18:3]and\nbecause he was of the same trade continued and labored with them; for\nthey were tent makers.  [18:4]And he reasoned in the synagogue every\nsabbath, and persuaded both Jews and Greeks.\n\n2 [18:5]And when Silas and Timothy came from Macedonia, Paul gave\nhimself wholly to preaching the word, testifying to the Jews Christ\nJesus. [18:6]But when they disputed and blasphemed, shaking his\ngarments he said to them, Your blood be upon your heads; I, pure, from\nthis time will go to the gentiles.\n\n3 [18:7]And departing thence he came into the house of a man called\nJustus, who worshipped God, and whose house adjoined the synagogue.\n[18:8]And Crispus the synagogue ruler believed in the Lord, with all\nhis house; and many of the Corinthians who heard believed and were\nbaptized. [18:9]And the Lord said to Paul, in a vision by night, Fear\nnot, but speak and be not silent, [18:10]for I am with you; and no one\nshall attack you to hurt you, for I have many people in this city.\n[18:11]And he remained there a year and six months, teaching among them\nthe word of God.\n\n4 [18:12]And when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews rose with\none consent against Paul and brought him to the tribunal,\n[18:13]saying, This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the\nlaw. [18:14]And when Paul was about to open his mouth Gallio said to\nthe Jews, If there was any injustice or evil imposition, O Jews, I\nwould bear with you in a reasonable manner; [18:15] but if it is a\nquestion of doctrine, and of names, and of your law, look to it\nyourselves; for I will not be a judge of these things.  [18:16]And he\ndrove them from the tribunal. [18:17]And they all took Sosthenes the\nsynagogue-ruler and beat him before the tribunal; and Gallio cared for\nnone of these things.\n\n5 [18:18]And Paul having remained yet many days took leave of the\nbrothers, and sailed to Syria; and Priscilla was with him, and Aquila,\nhaving shaved his head at Cenchrea; for he had a vow.  [18:19]And they\ncame to Ephesus, and he left them there, and entering himself into the\nsynagogue reasoned with the Jews.  [18:20]And they asking him to stay a\nlonger time with them he did not consent, [18:21]but taking leave of\nthem and saying, I will return to you again, if God will, he sailed\nfrom, Ephesus, [18:22]and coming down to Caesarea, and going up and\nsaluting the church, he went down to Antioch; [18:23]and having spent\nsome time there he went away, passing in order through the country of\nGalatia and Phrygia, confirming all the disciples.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XVII.\n\nPAUL AT EPHESUS.--A.D. 55-58.\n\n1 [18:24]AND a certain Jew by the name of Apollos, an Alexandrian by\nbirth, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus, being powerful in the\nScriptures. [18:25]This man was instructed in the way of the Lord, and\nbeing fervent in spirit spoke and taught correctly the doctrines\nconcerning Jesus, knowing only the baptism of John; [18:26]and this man\nbegan to speak boldly in the synagogue, and Priscilla and Aquila\nhearing him took him and taught him more accurately the way. [18:27]\nAnd he wishing to go into Achaia, the brothers sent him, and wrote to\nthe disciples to receive him. And when he came he helped those much who\nhad believed through the grace; [18:28]for he argued powerfully against\nthe Jews, publicly showing by the Scriptures that Jesus is the Christ.\n\n2 [19:1]And when Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, passing through the\nhigher portions of the country, came to Ephesus, and found certain\ndisciples; [19:2] and he said to them, Have you received the Holy\nSpirit since you believed? And they said to him, We have not heard that\nthere is a Holy Spirit. [19:3]And he said to them, With what then were\nyou baptized? And they said, With John's baptism. [19:4]Paul said, John\nindeed baptized [administered] the baptism of a change of mind, telling\nthe people to believe on him that was to come after him, that is, on\nJesus. [19:5]And hearing this they were baptized in the name of the\nLord Jesus: [19:6]and Paul putting his hands on them, the Holy Spirit\ncame on them, and they spoke with tongues and prophesied. [19:7]And all\nthe men were about twelve.\n\n3 [19:8]And going into the synagogue he spoke boldly, for three months,\nreasoning and persuading in favor of the kingdom of God.  [19:9]But\nwhen some were hardened and believed not, speaking evil of the way\nbefore the multitude, he left them and separated the disciples from\nthem, and reasoned day by day in the school of one Tyrannus. [19:10]And\nthis was done for two years, so that all who lived in Asia heard the\nword of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.\n\n4 [19:11]And God performed unusual miracles by the hands of Paul,\n[19:12]so that napkins and aprons were brought from him to the sick,\nand their diseases left them, and the evil spirits went out of them.\n[19:13]And some of the travelling Jewish exorcists undertook to call\nover those that had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, I\nadjure you by the Jesus whom Paul preaches. [19:14]And there were some\nseven sons of Sceva, a Jew, a chief priest, who did this. [19:15]But\nthe evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but\nwho are you?  [19:16]And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped\nupon them, and overcome them, and prevailed against them, so that they\nescaped from his house, naked and wounded. [19:17]And this was known\nboth to all the Jews and Greeks who lived at Ephesus, and fear fell on\nthem all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified; [19:18]and many\nof those who believed came and confessed, and showed their practices.\n[19:19]And many of those who practised secret arts brought their books,\nand burnt them before all; and they computed the price of them, and\nfound it to be fifty thousand [didrachmas] of silver [$8,333].\n[19:20]So the word of the Lord increased powerfully and prevailed.\n\n6 [19:21]And when these things were accomplished, Paul was disposed by\nthe Spirit, passing through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem,\nsaying, After I have been there I must see Rome.  [19:22]And sending\ntwo that served him into Macedonia, Timothy and Erastus, he continued a\ntime in Asia.\n\n7 [19:23]And there was at that time no small tumult about the way [of\nthe Lord]. [19:24]For a certain Demetrius by name, a silversmith, who\nmade silver temples of Diana, and afforded his artisans no small gain,\n[19:25]assembling them together and laborers of like employments, said,\nMen, you know that our prosperity is derived from this employment,\n[19:26]and you see and hear, that not only at Ephesus, but in almost\nall Asia, this Paul has led away a great multitude by persuasion,\nsaying that things which are made by hands are not gods. [19:27]And not\nonly this work of ours is in danger of coming into contempt, but even\nthe temple of the great goddess Diana of being set at nought, and her\nmajesty also which all Asia and the world worships, of being destroyed.\n\n8 [19:28]And hearing this they were full of wrath, and cried, saying,\nGreat is Diana of the Ephesians! [19:29]And the whole city was full of\nconfusion; and they rushed with one accord to the theatre, taking Gaius\nand Aristarchus, Macedonians, fellow travellers of Paul. [19:30]And\nPaul wishing to go in to the people, the disciples did not permit him;\n[19:31]and some of the rulers of Asia also, who were friendly to him,\nsending to him, besought him not to expose himself in the theatre.\n[19:32]Some therefore cried one thing, and some another; for the\nassembly was confused, and the greater part knew not for what reason\nthey had come together. [19:33]And they advanced Alexander from the\nmultitude, the Jews putting him forward; and Alexander motioning with\nhis hand, wished to defend himself before the people.  [19:34]But\nknowing that he was a Jew, there was one voice from all, for about two\nhours, crying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.\n\n9 [19:35]And the clerk having stilled the multitude, said, Men of\nEphesus, what man is there who does not know that the city of the\nEphesians is a worshipper of the great Diana, and of the Jove descended\n[image]? [19:36]These things therefore being indisputable, it is best\nto be quiet, and do nothing rashly.  [19:37]For you have brought these\nmen here, who are neither temple-robbers nor blasphemers of your\ngoddess. [19:38]If, therefore, Demetrius and the artisans with him have\na charge against any, court days are held, and there are pro-consuls;\nlet them accuse one another. [19:39]And if you desire any thing of\nother matters, let it be determined in a lawful assembly.  [19:40]For\nwe are in danger of being called to account for the tumult of to-day,\nthere being no cause by which we can excuse this concourse. [19:41]And\nhaving said these words he dismissed the assembly.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XVIII.\n\nPAUL'S VISIT TO GREECE AND MACEDONIA AND HIS RETURN TO MILETUS.--A.D.\n58, 59.\n\n1 [20:1]AFTER the tumult was allayed, Paul calling the disciples and\nembracing them departed to go into Macedonia. [20:2]And going through\nthose parts, and exhorting them with many words, he went into Greece;\n[20:3]and when he had staid there three months, and a conspiracy was\nformed against him by the Jews as he was about to sail to Syria, he\ndetermined to return through Macedonia.  [20:4] And there followed him\nto Asia, Sopater the son of Pyrrhus of Berea, and of those of\nThessalonica, Aristarchus and Secundus, and Gaius of Derbe, and\nTimothy, and those of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus; [20:5]these going\nbefore waited for us at Troas.  [20:6]And we sailed from Philippi,\nafter the days of unleavened bread, and came to those at Troas in five\ndays, where we staid seven days.\n\n2 [20:7]And on the first day of the week, we being assembled to break\nbread, Paul preached to them, being about to depart on the next day,\nand continued his discourse till midnight; [20:8]and there were many\nlamps in the upper room where we were assembled.  [20:9]And a young man\nby the name of Eutychus sitting in a window, falling into a deep sleep\nwhile Paul preached long, and being overcome by sleep, fell from the\nthird story down, and was taken up dead. [20:10]But Paul going down\nfell on him, and embracing him, said, Be not troubled, for his life is\nin him.  [20:11]And going up and breaking bread, and tasting it, and\nconversing a long time till the break of day, he departed.  [20:12]And\nthey brought away the child alive, and were not a little comforted.\n\n3 [20:13]And we going before by ship sailed to Assos, being about to take\nin Paul at that place; for so had he appointed, being about to go on\nfoot himself. [20:14]And when he met us at Assos, we took him in and\ncame to Mitylene, [20:15]and sailing thence, on the next day we came\nopposite to Chios, and in another day we touched at Samos, and stopping\nat Trogylium, on the day following we came to Miletus. [20:16]For Paul\nhad determined to sail by Ephesus, that it might not be necessary for\nhim to spend a long time in Asia; for he hastened, if it was possible\nfor him, to be at Jerusalem at the day of Pentecost.\n\n4 [20:17]And from Miletus sending to Ephesus he called for the elders\nof the church. [20:18]And when they had come to him, he said to them,\nYou know from the first day that I came into Asia, how I was with you\nat all times, [20:19] serving the Lord with all humility, and tears and\ntrials that befell me by the conspiracies of the Jews, [20:20]how I\nkept not back from declaring to you and teaching you publicly and from\nhouse to house any thing that was profitable, [20:21]testifying both to\nJews and Greeks the change of mind to God, and the faith in our Lord\nJesus. [20:22]And behold now, I go constrained by the Spirit to\nJerusalem, not knowing the things which shall befall me there,\n[20:23]except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city,\nsaying, That bonds and afflictions await me. [20:24]But life precious\nto myself, I make of no account that I may finish my course and the\nservice which I received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of\nthe grace of God.\n\n5 [20:25]And now, behold, I know that you all among whom I have gone\npreaching the kingdom shall see my face no more.  [20:26]Wherefore I\ncall you to witness this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men;\n[20:27]for I have not kept back from declaring to you all the counsel\nof God. [20:28]Take heed to yourselves, therefore, and to all the flock\nin which the Holy Spirit has made you bishops, to feed the church of\nthe Lord which he has purchased with his blood. [20:29]For I know that\nafter my departure grievous wolves will come among you, not sparing the\nflock, [20:30]and of yourselves men will arise speaking perverse\nthings, to draw away disciples after them. [20:31]Wherefore watch,\nremembering that for three years, night and day, I ceased not to\nadmonish every one of you with tears. [20:32]And now I commend you to\nGod, and the word of his grace, who is able to build you up and to give\nyou an inheritance with all the sanctified. [20:33]I have coveted no\nman's silver or gold or clothing; [20:34]you yourselves know that these\nhands have served my necessities and those with me. [20:35]I have\nshowed you all things, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and\nto remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he said, It is more\nblessed to give than to receive.\n\n6 [20:36]And having said these words he kneeled down, and prayed with\nthem all. [20:37]And they all wept much, and fell on Paul's neck and\nkissed him, [20:38] grieving most of all for the word which he said,\nthat they should see his face no more. And they accompanied him to the\nship.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XIX.\n\nPAUL AND HIS COMPANY PURSUING THEIR JOURNEY TO CAESAREA AND JERUSALEM,\nETC.--A.D. 59.\n\n1 [21:1]AND when we had torn ourselves from them we set sail, and going\nin a straight course came to Cos, and on the next day to Rhodes, and\nthence to Patara. [21:2]And finding a ship crossing to Phenicia, going\non board we set sail. [21:3]And observing Cyprus, and leaving it on the\nleft, we sailed to Syria, and landed at Tyre; for there the ship was to\ndischarge her cargo.  [21:4] And finding the disciples we continued\nthere seven days; and they told Paul, by the Spirit, not to go on to\nJerusalem.  [21:5]And when we had completed the days we went out and\nproceeded on our journey, they all attending us with their wives and\nchildren till without the city, and kneeling down on the shore we\nprayed, [21:6]and having saluted each other we went to the ship, and\nthey returned to their homes.\n\n2 [21:7]Having completed our voyage from Tyre we went to Ptolemais, and\nhaving saluted the brothers continued with them one day. [21:8]And\ndeparting on the next day we came to Caesarea, and going to the house\nof Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, we staid with him.\n[21:9]This man had four virgin daughters who prophesied. [21:10]And\nhaving continued there many days, there came down a certain prophet\nfrom Judea by the name of Agabus, [21:11]and coming to us, and taking\nPaul's girdle, and binding his hands and feet, he said, These things,\nsays the Holy Spirit; Thus will the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that\nowns this girdle, and deliver him into the hands of the gentiles.\n[21:12]And when we heard these things, we and the people of the place\nbesought him not to go up to Jerusalem. [21:13]But Paul answered, What\ndo you do, to weep and break my heart? For I am ready not only to be\nbound, but also to die at Jerusalem, for the name of the Lord Jesus.\n[21:14]And he not being persuaded, we were silent, saying, The will of\nthe Lord be done.\n\n3 [21:15]And after these days, having made preparation, we went up to\nJerusalem; [21:16]and some of the disciples from Caesarea went up with\nus, conducting [us] to Mnason a Cyprian, an early disciple with whom we\nlodged.\n\n4 [21:17]And when we arrived at Jerusalem the brothers received us\ngladly. [21:18]And on the following day Paul went with us to James, and\nall the elders were present. [21:19]And having saluted them, he related\nparticularly what God had done among the gentiles by his ministry;\n[21:20]and having heard, they glorified God, and said to him, You see,\nbrother, how many ten thousands there are of those who have believed,\namong the Jews, and all are zealots of the law; [21:21]and they have\nbeen informed of you, that you teach all the Jews among the gentiles to\napostatize from Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children,\nnor to walk according to the customs. [21:22]What then is [to be done]?\nThey will hear everywhere that you have come. [21:23]Do this,\ntherefore, which we tell you. We have four men having a vow upon them;\n[21:24]take them and be purified with them, and pay their expenses,\nthat they may shave their heads, and all will know that the information\nwhich they have of you is not correct, but that you walk also yourself\nkeeping the law. [21:25]But concerning the gentiles who have believed,\nwe have sent, judging that they should avoid things offered to idols,\nand blood, and things strangled, and fornication. [21:26]Then Paul\ntaking the men, on the following day being purified with them went into\nthe temple, announcing the completion of the days of purification till\nan offering should be offered for each one of them.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XX.\n\nPAUL'S APPREHENSION BY THE JEWS, HIS RESCUE BY THE ROMANS, HIS ADDRESS,\nETC.--A.D. 59.\n\n1 [21:27]AND when the seven days were nearly completed, the Jews from\nAsia seeing him in the temple excited all the multitude, and laid hands\non him, [21:28]crying, Men of Israel, help; this is the man who teaches\nall men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place, and\nbesides he has brought Greeks into the temple, and defiled this holy\nplace. [21:29]For they had before seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the\ncity with him, and supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.\n[21:30]And all the city was moved, and there was a concourse of the\npeople, and taking hold of Paul they dragged him without the temple,\nand immediately the gates were shut.\n\n2 [21:31]And while they were seeking to kill him, a report went up to\nthe chiliarch of the cohort that all Jerusalem was in commotion;\n[21:32]who immediately taking soldiers and centurions ran down upon\nthem; and seeing the chiliarch and the soldiers, they ceased beating\nPaul. [21:33]Then the chiliarch approaching took him, and commanded him\nto be bound with two chains, and inquired who he was and what he had\ndone. [21:34]But some cried one thing, and some another, in the\nmultitude, and not being able to learn the truth, on account of the\ntumult, he commanded him to be carried into the fortress. [21:35] And\nwhen he was on the steps, it happened that he was borne by the\nsoldiers, on account of the violence of the multitude; [21:36]for the\nmultitude of the people followed, crying, Take him away.\n\n3 [21:37]And being about to be carried into the fortress, Paul said to\nthe chiliarch, May I have permission to speak to you? And he said, Do\nyou understand Greek? [21:38]Are you not the Egyptian who before these\ndays excited a sedition, and led out into the wilderness the four\nthousand men who were murderers? [21:39]And Paul said, I am a Jew, of\nTarsus of Cilicia, a citizen of a not undistinguished city, I beg of\nyou, permit me to speak to the people. [21:40]And he giving him\npermission, Paul stood up on the steps, and motioned with his hand to\nthe people; and when there was great silence, he spoke in the Hebrew\nlanguage, and said, [22:1]Men, brothers and fathers, hear my present\ndefense before you. [22:2]And hearing that he spoke to them in the\nHebrew language, they kept the greater silence.\n\n5 [22:3]And he said, I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought\nup in this city, instructed at the feet of Gamaliel in the accurate\ninterpretation of the law of our fathers, and am a zealous worshipper\nof God as you all are to-day; [22:4]and I persecuted this way to death,\nbinding and committing to prison both men and women, [22:5]as the chief\npriest also bears me witness, and all the eldership, from whom also\nreceiving letters to the brothers I went to Damascus, to bring those\nwho were there bound to Jerusalem to be punished.\n\n6 [22:6]And when I was on the way and had come nigh to Damascus, about\nnoon suddenly a great light from heaven shone around me, [22:7]and I\nfell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to me, Saul, Saul, why do\nyou persecute me? [22:8]And I answered, Who are you, Lord? And he said\nto me, I am Jesus the Nazoraean, whom you persecute. [22:9]And those\nthat were with me saw the light, but they heard not the voice of him\nthat spoke to me. [22:10]And I said, What shall I do, Lord? And the\nLord said to me, Arise, and go to Damascus, and there it shall be told\nyou of all things which are appointed for you to do.\n\n7 [22:11]And when I could not see from the brightness of that light,\nbeing led by the hand by those with me, I came to Damascus. [22:12]And\na certain Ananias, a man [living] according to the law, approved by all\nthe Jews living [there], [22:13]coming and standing by, said to me,\nBrother Saul, Receive your sight. And in that hour I looked upon him.\n[22:14]And he said, The God of our fathers chose you to know his will,\nand to see the Righteous One, and hear the voice of his mouth,\n[22:15]for you shall be a witness for him to all men of what you have\nseen and heard. [22:16]And now, why do you delay? Arising, baptize and\nwash away your sins, calling on his name.\n\n8 [22:17]And when I returned to Jerusalem and was praying in the\ntemple, I was in a trance, [22:18]and saw him [Christ], saying to me,\nHasten and depart immediately from Jerusalem, for they will not receive\nyour testimony of me. [22:19]And I said, Lord, they know that I\nimprisoned and beat in the synagogues those who believed on you;\n[22:20]and when the blood of your martyr Stephen was poured out, I also\nstood by and consented, and kept the clothes of those that killed him.\n[22:21]And he said to me, Go, for I will send you to nations far away.\n\n9 [22:22]And they heard him to this word, and lifted up their voice\nsaying, Take away such a man from the earth; it is not fit that he\nshould live. [22:23] And as they cried and rent their clothes and cast\ndust in the air, [22:24]the chiliarch commanded him to be brought into\nthe fortress, ordering that he should be examined with scourges, that\nhe might know for what reason they cried so against him. [22:25]But\nwhen they extended him with cords, he said to the centurion standing\nby, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man, a Roman, and uncondemned?\n[22:26]And the centurion hearing this, went and told the chiliarch,\nsaying, What are you about to do? for this man is a Roman. [22:27] And\nthe chiliarch came to him and said, Tell me, are you a Roman? And he\nsaid, Yes. [22:28]And the chiliarch answered, I acquired this\ncitizenship for a great price. But Paul said, I am indeed, and was also\nborn [one]. [22:29]Then those about to examine him immediately withdrew\nfrom him; and the chiliarch was afraid, knowing that he was a Roman,\nand because he had bound him.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XXI.\n\nPAUL BEFORE THE SANHEDRIM, AND SENT TO CAESAREA FOR SAFE KEEPING.--A.D.\n59.\n\n1 [22:30]AND on the next day, wishing to know the truth in respect to\nwhat he was accused of by the Jews, [the chiliarch] released him, and\ncommanded the chief priests and all the Sanhedrim to come together; and\nbringing Paul down he set him before them. [23:1]And Paul looking\nsteadily at the Sanhedrim, said, Men and brothers, I have lived before\nGod in all good conscience to this day. [23:2]And the chief priest\nAnanias commanded those standing by to strike him on the mouth.\n[23:3]Then Paul said to him, God is about to strike you, whitewashed\nwall; and do you sit to judge me according to the law, and command me\nto be struck contrary to the law? [23:4]And those standing by said, Do\nyou revile God's chief priest?  [23:5]And Paul said, I knew not\nbrothers that he was a chief priest; for it is written, You shall not\nspeak evil of the ruler of your people.\n\n2 [23:6]And Paul knowing that one part were Sadducees and the other\nPharisees, cried in the Sanhedrim, Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee\nand the son of Pharisees; for the hope and resurrection of the dead am\nI under trial. [23:7] And having said this, there was a dissension\nbetween the Pharisees and Sadducees, and the multitude were divided.\n[23:8]For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither\nangel, nor spirit, but the Pharisees confess both. [23:9]And there was\na great cry, and the scribes of the party of the Pharisees rising up\ncontended, saying, We find no evil in this man; but [what] if a spirit\nor an angel has spoken to him? [23:10]And there being a great\ndissension, the chiliarch, fearing that Paul would be torn in pieces by\nthem, commanded the troops to come down and take him by force from the\nmidst of them, and conduct him to the fortress.\n\n3 [23:11]And on the following night the Lord stood by him and said, Be\nof good courage, for as you have testified of me at Jerusalem, so you\nmust also testify at Rome. [23:12]And when it was day, the Jews formed\na conspiracy and bound themselves by an oath, saying that they would\nnot eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. [23:13]And there were more\nthan forty who took this oath, [23:14] who came to the chief priests\nand elders and said, We have bound ourselves under a curse to taste\nnothing till we kill Paul. [23:15]Now, therefore, speak to the\nchiliarch, with the Sanhedrim, to bring him down to you tomorrow, as if\nyou were about to investigate his case more accurately, and we, before\nhe comes nigh, are ready to kill him.\n\n4 [23:16]But a son of Paul's sister hearing of this lying in wait, went\nand entering into the fortress told Paul. [23:17]And Paul calling one\nof the centurions, said, Lead this young man to the chiliarch, for he\nhas something to tell him. [23:18]He therefore took him and led him to\nthe chiliarch, and said, Paul the prisoner called me and asked me to\nlead this young man to you, who has something to tell you. [23:19]And\nthe chiliarch taking him by the hand and leading him aside, inquired,\nWhat is it that you have to tell me? [23:20]And he said, The Jews have\nentered into a compact to ask you to bring down Paul to the Sanhedrim\nto-morrow, as if about to learn more accurately of something concerning\nhim. [23:21]But do not therefore be persuaded by them; for more than\nforty men of them lie in wait, who have taken an oath not to eat nor\ndrink till they have killed him, and now they are ready, awaiting an\nanswer from you.  [23:22]Then the chiliarch dismissed the young man,\ncharging him, Tell no one that you have informed me of these things.\n\n5 [23:23]And calling two of the centurions he said, Prepare two hundred\nsoldiers to go to Caesarea, and seventy horsemen and two hundred light\narmed troops, after the third hour of the night.  [23:24]And provide\nanimals to put Paul on, and take him safely to Felix the procurator.\n[23:25]And he wrote a letter having this form; [23:26]Claudius Lysias\nto the most excellent procurator Felix, greeting. [23:27]I went with\nthe soldiery and rescued this man, when he was seized by the Jews, and\nabout to be killed by them, having learned that he is a Roman;\n[23:28]and wishing to know the cause for which they accuse him, I took\nhim down to their Sanhedrim, [23:29]and found him criminated in respect\nto questions of their law, but charged with nothing worthy of death or\nbonds. [23:30]Being informed that a conspiracy was about to be formed\nagainst the man, I immediately sent to you, commanding also his\naccusers to speak before you.\n\n6 [23:31]The soldiers therefore took Paul as they were commanded and\nbrought him by night to Antipatris, [23:32]and the next day leaving the\nhorsemen to go with him, they returned to the fortress. [23:33]And when\nthey came to Caesarea, and had delivered the letter to the procurator,\nthey also presented Paul to him. [23:34]And having read, he asked of\nwhat province he was; and learning that he was of Cilicia, [23:35]I\nwill hear you, he said, when your accusers have come; and he commanded\nhim to be kept in the Praetorium of Herod.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XXII.\n\nPAUL'S TRIAL BEFORE FELIX THE PROCURATOR.--A.D. 59, 60.\n\n1 [24:1]AND after five days the chief priest Ananias, with the elders,\nand a certain orator, Tertullus, went down and gave information to the\nprocurator against Paul. [24:2]And he being called, Tertullus began to\naccuse him, saying, Having obtained great peace by you, and things\nbeing happily arranged for this nation by your oversight in all things\nand in all places [24:3]we accept [it] most excellent Felix, with all\nthankfulness.  [24:4]But that I may not further weary you, I beg you to\nhear us briefly, with your clemency. [24:5]For finding this man a\npestilence and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the\nworld, and a chief of the sect of the Nazoraeans, [24:6]who also\nendeavored to profane the temple, whom we also took, [24:8]from whom\nyou will be able to learn by examination of all these things of which\nwe accuse him. [24:9]And the Jews also assented, saying, These things\nare so.\n\n2 [24:10]And the procurator making a sign to him to speak, Paul\nanswered, Knowing that you have been for many years a judge of this\nnation, I shall defend myself cheerfully, [24:11]you being able to know\nthat it is not more than twelve days since I went up to worship at\nJerusalem. [24:12]And they did not find me in the temple disputing with\nany one, or making a disturbance of the multitude, neither in the\nsynagogues nor in the city; [24:13]neither can they prove the things of\nwhich they now accuse me.\n\n3 [24:14]But this I confess to you, that in the way which they call a\nheresy, so worship I the God of my fathers; believing all things\nwritten in the law and the prophets, [24:15]having a hope in God which\nthey also hold, that there will be a resurrection both of the righteous\nand wicked. [24:16]And in this also I endeavor always to have a\nconscience without offense towards God and man.\n\n4 [24:17]But after many years I came to bring charities and offerings\nto my nation, [24:18]in which certain Jews from Asia found me purified\nin the temple, not with a multitude, nor with a tumult, [24:19]who\nought to be present and accuse me before you, if they have any thing\nagainst me. [24:20]Or let them say whether they found any\nunrighteousness in me when I stood before the Sanhedrim, [24:21]except\nin this one statement which I made, as I stood among them, that I am\nunder trial by you to-day concerning the resurrection of the dead.\n\n5 [24:22]But Felix put them off, saying, Having learned more accurately\nof this way, when Lysias the chiliarch comes down I will decide\nconcerning your matters, [24:23]and he commanded the centurion that\nPaul should be kept, and be freed from bonds, and that he should forbid\nnone of his friends to serve him.\n\n6 [24:24]And after some days Felix coming with Drusilla his wife, who\nwas a Jewess, sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in\nChrist. [24:25]And as he discoursed of righteousness, and temperance,\nand the judgment about to come, Felix being terrified answered, Go for\nthe present; but when I have time I will call you. [24:26]At the same\ntime also he hoped that money would be given him by Paul; and on this\naccount sent for him the oftener, and conversed with him. [24:27]But\nafter two years had passed, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus; and\nwishing to gratify the Jews, Felix left Paul bound.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XXIII.\n\nPAUL'S TRIAL BEFORE FESTUS, HIS APPEAL TO CAESAR, AND HIS SUBSEQUENT\nDEFENSE BEFORE AGRIPPA.--A.D. 61.\n\n1 [25:1]FESTUS therefore coming into the province, after three days\nwent up from Caesarea to Jerusalem. [25:2]And the chief priests and the\nfirst men of the Jews informed him against Paul, and besought him,\n[25:3]asking favor against him, that he would send for him to\nJerusalem, having provided an ambuscade to kill him on the way.\n[25:4]Then Festus answered that Paul should be kept at Caesarea, and\nthat he would go down there shortly; [25:5]and then, he said, the\nprincipal men among you may go down with me; if there is any thing\nagainst this man they may prosecute him. [25:6]And staying with them\nnot more than eight or ten days, he went down to Caesarea, and on the\nnext day, sitting on the tribunal, commanded Paul to be brought.\n\n2 [25:7]And when he had come, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem\nstood around him, bringing many and weighty accusations which they\ncould not prove, [25:8]while Paul maintained in his defense, Neither\nagainst the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against\nCaesar, have I done any wrong.\n\n3 [25:9]But Festus wishing to gratify the Jews, answered Paul and said,\nAre you willing to go up to Jerusalem, and there be tried by me for\nthese things? [25:10]And Paul said, I stand at the tribunal of Caesar,\nwhere I ought to be tried. I have not injured the Jews, as you also\nknow very well. [25:11]If indeed I have done wrong or committed any\nthing worthy of death, I refuse not to die; but if those things of\nwhich they accuse me are nothing, no man may give me up to them; I\nappeal to Caesar. [25:12]Then Festus having conferred with the council\nanswered, You have appealed to Caesar; to Caesar you shall go.\n\n4 [25:13]But after some days king Agrippa and Bernice came down to\nCaesarea to salute Festus. [25:14]And when they had staid there many\ndays, Festus proposed the case of Paul to the king, saying, There is a\ncertain man left a prisoner by Felix, [25:15]concerning whom when I was\nat Jerusalem the chief priests and elders of the Jews gave me\ninformation, asking judgment against him; [25:16]to whom I answered, It\nis not the custom of the Romans to give up any man before the accused\nhas the accusers face to face, and is allowed an opportunity to defend\nhimself against the accusation.\n\n5 [25:17]When therefore, they came here, making no delay, the next day\nI sat on the tribunal, and ordered the man to be brought;\n[25:18]concerning whom his accusers standing up brought no charge of\nsuch things as I supposed, [25:19]but had certain questions with him\nconcerning their religion, and concerning one Jesus that was dead, who\nPaul said was alive. [25:20]Being in doubt on the question concerning\nthese things, I asked if he was willing to go to Jerusalem and be tried\nby me there on these charges. [25:21]But Paul appealing, to be kept for\nthe hearing of Augustus, I commanded him to be kept till I could send\nhim to Caesar. [25:22]And Agrippa [said] to Festus, I should like to\nhear the man also myself. And he said, To-morrow you shall hear him.\n\n6 [25:23]On the next day, therefore, Agrippa and Bernice coming with\ngreat pomp, and entering into the place of hearing with chiliarchs and\nmen of distinction in the city, at the command of Festus Paul was\nbrought. [25:24]And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all the men present\nwith us, you see this man, of whom all the multitude of the Jews\nbesought me, both at Jerusalem and here, crying out that he ought no\nlonger to live. [25:25]But finding that he had done nothing deserving\ndeath, and he having appealed to Augustus, I have determined to send\nhim. [25:26]But I have nothing certain to write to the sovereign\nconcerning him, wherefore I have brought him before you, and especially\nbefore you, King Agrippa, that on examination I may have something to\nwrite; [25:27] for it seems to me unreasonable to send a prisoner, and\nnot to signify the charges against him.\n\n7 [26:1]And Agrippa said to Paul, You are permitted to speak for\nyourself. Then Paul stretched out his hand and made his defense.\n[26:2]I think myself happy, King Agrippa, in being allowed to make my\ndefense before you to-day in respect to all things of which I am\naccused by the Jews, [26:3]especially as you are acquainted with all\nthe customs and questions of the Jews; wherefore, I beg you to hear me\npatiently. [26:4]My mode of life from my childhood, the early part of\nit being with my nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews, [26:5]who knew\nme from the first, if they would testify, that according to the\nstrictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee. [26:6]And now I\nstand on trial for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,\n[26:7]which our twelve tribes, serving God continually, day and night,\nhope to attain; of this hope, King Agrippa, I am accused by the Jews.\n[26:8]Why is it judged by you incredible that God raises the dead?\n[26:9]I indeed thought with myself that I ought to do many things\ncontrary to the name of Jesus the Nazoraean, [26:10]which I also did at\nJerusalem, and many of the saints I shut up in prison, having received\nauthority from the chief priests, and when they were killed I gave my\nvote against them.  [26:11]And punishing them often in all the\nsynagogues, I compelled them to blaspheme, and being exceedingly mad\nagainst them, I pursued them even to cities abroad.\n\n8 [26:12]In which [persecutions] also, going to Damascus with\nauthority, and a commission from the chief priests, [26:13]at midday I\nsaw in the way O king, a light from heaven shining around me and those\ngoing with me, exceeding the brightness of the sun; [26:14]and when we\nhad all fallen on the earth, I heard a voice speaking to me and saying\nin the Hebrew language, Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? it is hard\nfor you to kick against the goads. [26:15]And I said, Who are you,\nLord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom you persecute. [26:16]But rise\nand stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to\nmake you a minister and witness both of what you have seen and [of\nvisions ] in which I will appear to you, [26:17]delivering you from the\npeople, and the gentiles, to whom I send you [26:18]to open their eyes,\nto turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to\nGod, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among\nthe sanctified by faith in me.  [26:19]Whence, King Agrippa, I was not\ndisobedient to the heavenly vision, [26:20]but preached first to those\nat Damascus and Jerusalem, and in all the country of Judea, and to the\ngentiles, that they should change their minds and turn to God,\nperforming works worthy of a change of mind.\n\n9 [26:21]On this account the Jews seized me in the temple and\nendeavored to kill me. [26:22]Having obtained therefore help from God,\nI have continued to this day, testifying to small and great, saying\nnothing but what the prophets and Moses said should take place;\n[26:23]that the Christ should suffer, and that he first from the\nresurrection of the dead should proclaim light both to the people and\nthe nations.\n\n10 [26:24]And when Paul had said these words, Festus said with a loud\nvoice, You are mad, Paul; much learning has driven you to madness.\n[26:25]But he said, I am not mad, most excellent Festus, but utter\nwords of truth and sobriety. [26:26]For the king knows of these things,\nbefore whom I speak freely; for I am persuaded that none of these\nthings have escaped his notice; for this was not done in a corner.\n[26:27]King Agrippa, believe you the prophets? I know that you believe.\n[26:28]And Agrippa said to Paul, You almost persuade me to be a\nChristian. [26:29]And Paul said, I would to God that not only you but\nalso all who hear me this day were both almost and altogether such as I\nam, except these bonds. [26:30]And the king arose, and the procurator,\nand Bernice, and those who sat with them, [26:31]and departing they\nconversed with each other, saying, This man has done nothing deserving\ndeath or bonds. [26:32]And Agrippa said to Festus, If he had not\nappealed to Caesar, this man might be released.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XXIV.\n\nPAUL'S VOYAGE TO ROME.--A.D. 61, 62.\n\n1 [27:1]AND when it was determined that we should sail to Italy, they\ndelivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion by the name\nof Julius, of the cohort of Augustus. [27:2]And going on board of a\nship of Adramyttium, which was about to sail to places in Asia, we set\nsail, Aristarchus a Macedonian of Thessalonica being with us; [27:3]and\non the next day we came to Sidon, and Julius treating Paul with\nhumanity allowed him to go to his friends, and receive attention.\n\n2 [27:4]Proceeding thence we sailed under Cyprus, because the winds\nwere contrary, [27:5]and sailing through the sea by Cilicia and\nPamphylia we came to Myra in Lycia; [27:6]and the centurion finding\nthere an Alexandrian ship sailing to Italy, put us into it. [27:7]And\nsailing slowly in those days, and scarcely being by Cnidus, the wind\nnot permitting us [to proceed in a direct course] we sailed under\nCrete, by Salmone, [27:8]and sailing by it with difficulty, we came to\na place called Fair Havens, near which is the city Lasea.\n\n3 [27:9]But some time being spent and navigation not being safe,\nbecause the fast had already passed by, Paul advised, [27:10]saying to\nthem, Men, I see that the voyage will be with injury and much loss, not\nonly of the cargo and ship, but also of our lives. [27:11]But the\ncenturion believed the master and owner rather than the words spoken by\nPaul. [27:12]And the harbor being inconvenient to winter in, the\ngreater part advised to depart thence, and, if they were able, to come\nto Phenice to winter, a harbor of Crete, which opens to the South and\nSouthwest.\n\n4 [27:13]And the South wind blowing gently, supposing that they had\nattained their purpose, setting sail they proceeded along the coast of\nCrete. [27:14]But not long after a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon,\nrushed against it, [27:15] and the ship being caught and not being able\nto bear up against the wind, we gave up, and were borne along.\n[27:16]And running a little under the island called Clauda, we with\ndifficulty became masters of the boat, [27:17]and taking it out they\nused helps, under-girding the ship; and fearing lest they should fall\non the shoal, letting down the mast they were driven in that condition.\n[27:18]And we being exceedingly pressed with the storm, on the next day\nthey cast the cargo overboard, [27:19]and on the third day with our own\nhands we cast overboard the furniture of the ship. [27:20]And neither\nsun nor stars appearing for many days, and no slight storm being upon\nus, at last all hope that we should be saved was taken away.\n\n5 [27:21]Then there having been long abstinence from food, Paul stood\nup in the midst of them and said, You ought, men, taking my advice, not\nto have sailed from Crete, and to have saved this injury and loss.\n[27:22]And now I advise you to be of good courage; for there shall be\nno loss of a life of you, but only of the ship. [27:23]For an angel of\nthe God whose I am, and whom I serve, came to me this night [27:24]and\nsaid, Fear not, Paul; you must stand before Caesar, and behold, God has\ngiven you all that sail with you. [27:25]Wherefore, men, be of good\ncourage; for I believe God, that it will be as he has told me; [27:26]\nbut we must be cast on a certain island.\n\n6 [27:27]And on the fourteenth night, when we were borne along in the\nAdriatic, at about midnight the sailors suspected that some land was\napproaching them. [27:28]And sounding they found twenty fathoms, and\ngoing a little distance and sounding again they found fifteen fathoms;\n[27:29]and fearing lest we should fall on rough places, casting out\nfour anchors from the stern, they prayed for day. [27:30]And the\nsailors seeking to escape from the ship, and letting down the boat into\nthe sea, with the pretence that they were about to put out anchors from\nthe fore part of the ship, [27:31]Paul said to the centurion and\nsoldiers, Unless these continue in the ship you cannot be saved.\n[27:32]Then the soldiers cut the ropes of the boat and let it fall off.\n\n7 [27:33]And when day was about to appear, Paul exhorted all to take\nfood, saying, It is the fourteenth day to-day that you have watched and\ncontinued without food, taking nothing.  [27:34]Wherefore I exhort you\nto partake of food; for this is necessary to your safety, for there\nshall not a hair perish from the head of any one of you. [27:35]And\nhaving said these things, and taken bread, he thanked God before all,\nand having broken began to eat. [27:36]And all being in good spirits\nthey also partook of food; [27:37]and all the souls in the ship were\ntwo hundred and seventy-six. [27:38]And being satisfied with food they\nlightened the ship, casting the wheat into the sea.\n\n8 [27:39]And when it was day they did not know the land, but they\nperceived a bay having a shore, on which they wished if possible to\nthrust the ship. [27:40] And taking up the anchors, they committed [the\nship] to the sea, loosening at the same time the fastenings of the\nrudder and raising the top sail to the wind, they bore down towards the\nshore. [27:41]And falling on a place with a sea on both sides, they run\nthe ship aground. And the bow being firmly fixed, remained immoveable;\nand the stern was broken by violence.\n\n9 [27:42]And the design of the soldiers was to kill the prisoners, that\nnone might escape by swimming; [27:43]but the centurion wishing to save\nPaul, prohibited them from this design, and commanded those able to\nswim to cast themselves into the water first, and go to the land;\n[27:44]and the rest, some on boards, and some on parts of the ship; and\nin this way all were brought safely to land.\n\n10 [28:1]And when they were saved, they learned that the island was\ncalled Melita. [28:2]And the barbarians showed us no ordinary humanity;\nfor kindling a fire they received us all, on account of the rain which\nwas falling, and the cold. [28:3]And Paul having collected a bundle of\nsticks and put them on the fire, a viper coming out from the heat\nfastened on his hand. [28:4]And when the barbarians saw the creature\nhanging from his hand, they said one to another, This man is\nundoubtedly a murderer, whom though saved from the sea justice has not\npermitted to live. [28:5]Then shaking off the creature into the fire he\nsuffered no harm; [28:6]but they expected that he would swell up, or\nsuddenly fall down dead. And waiting a long time, and seeing nothing\nextraordinary happen to him, they thought differently, and said, He is\na god.\n\n11 [28:7]Near that place were the lands of the first man in the island,\nwhose name was Poplius, who received and entertained us kindly three\ndays. [28:8]And the father of Poplius lay sick with a fever and\ndysentery, and Paul came to him, and prayed, and put his hands on him,\nand cured him. [28:9]And this being done, the rest also who had\nsicknesses in the island came and were cured, [28:10]and they bestowed\non us many rewards, and when we left supplied us with things that we\nneeded.\n\n12 [28:11]And after three months we sailed away in an Alexandrian\nvessel, that had wintered in the island, with the sign of Castor and\nPollux. [28:12]And coming to Syracuse we remained there three days;\n[28:13]and proceeding thence we came to Rhegium, and after one day, a\nsouth wind blowing, we came the second day to Puteoli, [28:14]where\nfinding brothers we were invited to remain with them seven days; and\nthus we came to Rome. [28:15]And thence, the brothers hearing of us\ncame out to meet us even to the Forum of Appius, and the Three Taverns\n[fifty-one miles]; and when Paul saw them, thanking God he took courage.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XXV.\n\nPAUL AT ROME.--A.D. 62, 64.\n\n1 [28:16]AND when we came to Rome the centurion committed the prisoners\nto the prefect of the camp, and Paul was allowed to remain by himself,\nwith a soldier to guard him. [28:17]And after three days he called the\nchief men of the Jews together; and when they had convened, said to\nthem, Men and brothers, having done nothing contrary to the people or\nto the customs of the fathers, I was delivered up from Jerusalem a\nprisoner into the hands of the Romans, [28:18]who on trial wished to\nrelease me, because they found no cause of death in me; [28:19]but the\nJews opposing it I was compelled to appeal to Caesar; not that I have\nany thing of which to accuse my nation. [28:20]For this reason,\ntherefore, I have called you to see and converse with you, because I am\nloaded with this chain on account of the hope of Israel.\n\n2 [28:21]And they said to him, We have neither received letters\nconcerning you from Judea, nor has any one of the brothers come and\nreported or told any evil of you. [28:22]But we would like to hear from\nyou what you think, for it is known to us concerning this sect, that it\nis everywhere spoken against.\n\n3 [28:23]And appointing him a day they came in great numbers to his\nlodging, to whom he set forth and testified the kingdom of God,\npersuading them concerning Jesus both from the law of Moses and the\nprophets, from morning till evening. [28:24]And some believed the\nthings which were spoken, and others believed not; [28:25]and\ndisagreeing among themselves they were dismissed by Paul, saying one\nword; Well did the Holy Spirit speak by Isaiah the prophet to our\nfathers, [28:26]saying, Go to this people and say, Hearing you shall\nhear and not understand, and seeing you shall see and not perceive;\n[28:27]for the heart of this people has become hard, and they hear\nimperfectly with their ears, and they have shut their eyes, lest at any\ntime they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and\nunderstand with their hearts, and turn, and I should cure them.\n[28:28]Be it known to you, therefore, that the salvation of God is sent\nto the gentiles, and they will hear it.\n\n4 [28:30]But Paul continued two entire years in his hired house, and\nreceived all who came to him, [28:31]preaching the kingdom of God, and\nteaching the doctrines concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all\nboldness and without hindrance.\n\n\n\n\nTHE EPISTLES OF PAUL.\n\n\nFIRST EPISTLE TO THE THESSALONIANS.\n\n\nCORINTH, A.D. 53. (ACTS 16, 3.)\n\n\n\nCHAPTER I.\n\nTHE INTRODUCTION OF THE GOSPEL TO THE THESSALONIANS, TIMOTHY'S VISIT\nAND REPORT, ETC.\n\n1 [1:1]PAUL and Sylvanus [Silas] and Timothy to the church of the\nThessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace be to\nyou and peace.\n\n2 [1:2]We thank God always for you all, making mention of you in our\nprayers, [1:3]remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor\nof love and patience of the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ before God\neven our Father, [1:4] knowing, brothers beloved by God, your election,\n[1:5]that our gospel came not to you in word only, but with power and\nwith the Holy Spirit and with full assurance, as you know what we were\namong you for your sakes.\n\n3 [1:6]And you became followers of us and of the Lord, having received\nthe word in much affliction with the joy of the Holy Spirit, [1:7]so\nthat you became an example to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.\n[1:8]For from you the word of the Lord was proclaimed not only in\nMacedonia and Achaia, but your faith with respect to God went into\nevery place, so that we had no need to say any thing; [1:9]for they\ndeclare of us what introduction we had to you, and how you turned from\nidols to God, to serve the living and true God, [1:10]and to wait for\nhis Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus, who delivers\nus from the wrath to come.\n\n4 [2:1]For you know, brothers, our introduction to you that it was not\nin vain, [2:2]but having suffered before, and been injuriously treated,\nas you know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak to you the\ngospel of God with much contention.  [2:3]For our exhortation was not\nof error, nor of impurity, nor with deceit, [2:4]but as we were judged\nworthy by God to be intrusted with the gospel so we speak, not as\npleasing men, but God who tries our hearts. [2:5]For we used at no time\na word of flattery, as you know, nor a pretext for covetousness, God is\nwitness, [2:6]neither did we seek glory of men, either of you or of\nothers, when we might have been burdensome as apostles of Christ;\n[2:7]but we were gentle among you, as a nurse would cherish her own\nchildren; [2:8]so being greatly desirous of you, we were well pleased\nto impart to you not only the gospel of God, but our own souls, because\nyou were dear to us. [2:9]For you remember, brothers, our labor and\nweariness; that working night and day not to be burdensome to any one\nof you, we preached to you the gospel of God. [2:10]You are witnesses,\nand God, how piously, and righteously, and blamelessly we were with you\nthat believe, [2:11]as you know how we exhorted and comforted you, as a\nfather each one of his own children, [2:12]and charged you to walk\nworthily of God who calls you into his kingdom and glory.\n\n5 [2:13]For this cause also we thank God without ceasing, that\nreceiving the word of God heard from us, you received not a word of\nmen, but, as it is in truth, a word of God, who also works in you that\nbelieve. [2:14]For you, brothers, became followers of the churches of\nGod in Christ Jesus which were in Judea, for you also suffered the same\nthings from your countrymen, which they did from the Jews [2:15]who\nalso killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and persecuted us, and who\nplease not God and are hostile to all men, [2:16] forbidding us to\nspeak to the gentiles that they may be saved, that they may fill up\ntheir sins always; and the wrath has come on them to the utmost.\n\n6 [2:17]But we, brothers, being deprived of you for a short time in\npresence, not in heart, used greater diligence to see your face, with\nmuch desire. [2:18] For which reason we wished to come to you; I Paul\nindeed once and again, and Satan hindered us.  [2:19]For what is our\nhope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Is it not even you before our Lord\nJesus at his coming? [2:20]For you are our glory and joy.\n\n7 [3:1]When therefore we could no longer refrain, we thought it best to\nbe left alone at Athens, [3:2]and sent Timothy, our brother and God's\nco-laborer in the gospel of Christ, to confirm you and to exhort you in\nbehalf of your faith, [3:3]that no one should be moved by these\nafflictions. For you know that we are appointed for this; [3:4]for\nindeed when we came to you, we told you before that we were about to\nsuffer affliction, as it also happened, and you know. [3:5]For this\nreason, being no longer able to forbear, I sent to know your faith,\nlest in some way the tempter should have tempted you, and our labor be\nin vain.\n\n8 [3:6]But now Timothy having come to us from you and told us the good\nnews of your faith and love, and that you have a good remembrance of us\nalways, desiring to see us, as we also you, [3:7]therefore we were\ncomforted, brothers, on your account in all our affliction and distress\nby your faith, [3:8]for now we live, if you stand firm in the Lord.\n[3:9]For what thanksgiving can we render to God for you for all the joy\nwith which we rejoice on your account before our God, [3:10]desiring\nexceedingly, night and day, to see your face, and to perfect what is\nlacking of your faith?\n\n9 [3:11]And may God himself, even our Father, and our Lord Jesus direct\nour way to you; [3:12]and the Lord cause you to be full and abound with\nlove one to another and to all men, as we also to you, [3:13]to confirm\nyour hearts without blame in holiness before God, even our Father, at\nthe coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER II.\n\nCHASTITY, BROTHERLY LOVE, THE STATE OF THE DEAD, THE COMING OF CHRIST,\nETC.\n\n1 [4:1]FINALLY, therefore, brothers, we beseech and exhort you by the\nLord Jesus, as you have received from us how you ought to walk and\nplease God, that you abound still more. [4:2]For you know what\ncommandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus. [4:3]For this is the will\nof God, your purity, that you should abstain from fornication,\n[4:4]that each one should know how to have his wife in purity and\nhonor, [4:5]not with inordinate desires like the gentiles who know not\nGod, [4:6]that he should not go beyond and defraud his brother in the\nmatter, because the Lord is a punisher of all these, as we also told\nyou before and fully testified. [4:7]For God has not called us to\nimpurity, but to purity. [4:8]He therefore that despises, despises not\nman, but God, who also gives us his Holy Spirit.\n\n2 [4:9]But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that I should\nwrite to you; for you are taught by God to love one another; [4:10]for\nyou also do the same to all the brothers in all Macedonia. But we\nexhort you, brothers, to abound still more, [4:11]and strive to be\nquiet and pursue your own business, and work with your hands, as we\ncharged you, [4:12]that you may walk becomingly towards those without\nand have need of nothing.\n\n3 [4:13]And we wish you not to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those\nthat have fallen asleep, that you may not grieve as others who have no\nhope. [4:14] For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also\nwill God bring with him those that have fallen asleep on account of\nJesus. [4:15]For we tell you this by the word of the Lord, that we who\nlive and remain till the coming of the Lord, shall not anticipate those\nthat have fallen asleep, [4:16]for the Lord himself will descend from\nheaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the\ntrumpet of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first, [4:17] then we\nthe living who remain shall be caught up together with them in clouds,\nto meet the Lord in the air; and so we shall be always with the Lord.\n[4:18] Comfort one another, therefore, with these words.\n\n4 [5:1]But concerning the times and season, brothers, you have no need\nthat I should write to you; [5:2]for you yourselves know perfectly that\nthe day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night. [5:3]When they\nsay, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes, like pain upon a\nwoman with child, and they shall not escape. [5:4]But you, brothers,\nare not in darkness, that the day should come upon you like a thief;\n[5:5]for you are all children of light, and children of day; we are not\nof night nor of darkness.\n\n5 [5:6]Therefore let us not sleep as others, but let us watch and be\nsober. [5:7]For they that sleep sleep in the night, and they that are\ndrunk drink in the night; [5:8]but let us who are of day be sober,\nputting on a cuirass of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of\nsalvation, [5:9]for God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain\nsalvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, [5:10] who died for us, that,\nwhether we wake or sleep, we may live together with him.\n[5:11]Wherefore exhort one another, and edify one another, as you also\ndo.\n\n6 [5:12]And we beseech you, brothers, to know those who labor among\nyou, and preside over you in the Lord and admonish you, [5:13]and to\nesteem them very highly in love on account of their work. Be at peace\namong yourselves. [5:14] And we exhort you, brothers, admonish the\ndisorderly, comfort the dispirited, assist the sick, be of long\nsuffering towards all men. [5:15]See that no one renders evil for evil,\nbut always pursue the good both one to another and to all.\n\n7 [5:16]Rejoice always; [5:17]pray without ceasing, [5:18]give thanks\non every occasion; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus to us.\n[5:19]Quench not the Spirit, [5:20]despise not prophecies. [5:21]Prove\nall things, hold fast the good; [5:22]abstain from every form of evil.\n[5:23]And may the God of peace himself purify you wholly, and your\nwhole spirit, and soul, and body, be preserved blameless at the coming\nof our Lord Jesus Christ. [5:24]Faithful is he that calls you, who will\nalso perform.\n\n8 [5:25]Brothers, pray for us. [5:26]Salute all the brothers with a\nholy kiss. [5:27]I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read to\nall the holy brothers. [5:28]The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with\nyou.\n\n\n\n\nSECOND EPISTLE TO THE THESSALONIANS.\n\n\nCORINTH, A.D. 53. (ACTS, 16:3.)\n\n\n\nCHAPTER I.\n\nPAUL'S LOVE AND PRAYERS FOR THE THESSALONIAN CHRISTIANS, THE COMING OF\nCHRIST, ETC.\n\n1 [1:1]PAUL and Silvanus [Silas] and Timothy, to the church of the\nThessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.  [1:2]Grace\nbe to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.\n\n2 [1:3]We ought to thank God always for you, brothers, as is fit,\nbecause your faith increases greatly, and the love of every one of you\nall one for another abounds, [1:4]so that we boast of you in the\nchurches of God, of your patience and faith, in all your persecutions\nand the afflictions which you endure, [1:5] a token of the righteous\njudgment of God that you should be deemed worthy of the kingdom of God,\nfor which you also suffer, [1:6]since it is just with God to repay\naffliction to those who afflict you, [1:7]and to you who are afflicted\nrest with us at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his\nmighty angels [1:8]in a flame of fire, executing judgment on all that\nknow not God and obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus; [1:9]who shall\nsuffer the punishment of eternal destruction from the presence of the\nLord and from the glory of his power, [1:10]when he shall come to be\nglorified in his saints and to be admired by all that believe in that\nday, for our testimony was believed by you. [1:11] For which also we\npray always for you, that our God will account you worthy of the\ncalling, and accomplish all the good pleasure of [his] goodness and the\nwork of faith with power; [1:12]that the name of our Lord Jesus may be\nglorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and\nthe Lord Jesus Christ.\n\n3 [2:1]And we beseech you, brothers, in respect to the coming of our\nLord Jesus Christ, and our being brought together to him, [2:2]that you\nbe not soon shaken in mind, nor terrified, neither by a spirit, nor by\na discourse, nor by an epistle as from us, as though the day of the\nLord was at hand. [2:3]Let no one deceive you in any way, for [he shall\nnot come] unless the apostacy comes first, and the man of sin is\nrevealed, the son of destruction, [2:4]who opposes and exalts himself\nabove every thing that is called a god or an object of worship, so that\nhe sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. [2:5]Do\nyou not remember that when I was with you I told you of these things?\n[2:6]And now you know what hinders him from being revealed in his time.\n[2:7]For the mystery of wickedness already works, [God] only restrains\nit just now, till it shall be out of the way; [2:8]and then shall the\nwicked one be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of\nhis mouth and destroy with the brightness of his coming, [2:9]whose\ncoming is according to the power of Satan, with all power and miracles\nand false prodigies [2:10]and with every unrighteous deceit among those\nwho are destroyed, because they received not the love of the truth that\nthey might be saved. [2:11]And therefore, God sends them a power of\ndelusion that they should believe a lie, [2:12]that they all may be\ncondemned who believe not the truth but have pleasure in wickedness.\n\n4 [2:13]But we ought to thank God always for you, brothers beloved by\nthe Lord, because God from the beginning chose you to salvation by\npurification of spirit, and belief of the truth, [2:14]to which he\ncalled you by our gospel, to obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.\n[2:15]Therefore, brothers, stand firm, and hold the traditions which\nyou have been taught, whether by word or by our epistle; [2:16]and our\nLord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father, who has loved us and\ngiven us eternal consolation and a good hope by grace, [2:17] comfort\nand confirm your hearts in every good work and word.\n\n5 [3:1]Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may\nrun and be glorified, as also with you, [3:2]and that we may be\ndelivered from unreasonable and wicked men; for all have not faith.\n[3:3]But the Lord is faithful, who will confirm you, and guard you from\nevil. [3:4]And we trust in the Lord with respect to you, that you both\ndo and will do what we direct. [3:5] And may the Lord direct your\nhearts in the love of God, and in the patience of Christ.\n\n6 [3:6]And we charge you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus\nChrist, to withdraw from every brother who walks disorderly and not\naccording to the tradition which you received from us.  [3:7]For you\nknow yourselves how you ought to follow us, for we walked not\ndisorderly among you, [3:8]neither did we eat bread of any one for\nnought, but worked with labor and fatigue, night and day, not to be\nburdensome to any of you; [3:9]not that we have not a right [to a\nsupport], but that we may make ourselves an example for you to follow\nus. [3:10]For when we were with you, we gave you this charge, that if\nany one will not work, neither let him eat. [3:11]For we hear that some\ngo about among you in a disorderly manner, not working, but being above\nwork; [3:12]we charge and exhort such, by our Lord Jesus Christ, to\nwork quietly, and eat their own bread. [3:13]But, brothers, be not\nweary of well doing. [3:14]But if any one obeys not our word by this\nepistle, mark that one, and have no association with him, that he may\nbe ashamed; [3:15]and account him not as an enemy, but admonish him as\na brother. [3:16]And may the Lord of peace give you peace always in\nevery way. The Lord be with you all.\n\n7 [3:17]The salutation by my hand, Paul's, which is [the] sign in every\nepistle; so I write. [3:18]The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with\nyou all.\n\n\n\n\nEPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS.\n\n\nEPHESUS, A.D. 56. (ACTS, 17:3.)\n\n\n\nCHAPTER I.\n\nPAUL'S ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF AND OF THE GOSPEL.\n\n1 [1:1]PAUL an apostle, not from men nor by man but by Jesus Christ and\nGod the Father who raised him from the dead, [1:2]and all the brothers\nwith me, to the churches of Galatia. [1:3]Grace be to you and peace\nfrom God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, [1:4]who gave himself\nfor our sins, that he might deliver us from the present evil life\naccording to the will of God even our Father, [1:5] to whom be the\nglory forever and ever; amen.\n\n2 [1:6]I wonder that you have so quickly turned away from him that\ncalled you in the grace of Christ to another gospel, [1:7]which is not\nanother; but there are some who disturb you and wish to subvert the\ngospel of Christ. [1:8]But if we or an angel from heaven preach you\nanother gospel contrary to what we have preached you let him be\naccursed. [1:9]As we said before I now also say again, If any one\npreaches you a gospel contrary to what you have received let him be\naccursed. [1:10]For do I now obey man, or God? or do I seek to please\nmen? For if I yet pleased men, I could not have been a servant of\nChrist.\n\n3 [1:11]For I certify you, brothers, of the gospel preached by me, that\nit is not according to man; [1:12]for I neither received it from man\nnor was I taught it, but by a revelation of Jesus Christ. [1:13]For you\nheard of my conduct formerly in Judaism, that I greatly persecuted the\nchurch of God and destroyed it; [1:14]and was a proficient in Judaism\nbeyond many of my age among my people, being more exceedingly zealous\nfor the traditions of my fathers. [1:15] But when God who gave me being\nand called me by his grace, [1:16]was pleased to reveal his Son in me,\nthat I might preach him among the gentiles, immediately I conferred not\nwith flesh and blood, [1:17]neither did I go to Jerusalem to those who\nwere apostles before me, but I went to Arabia and returned again to\nDamascus.\n\n4 [1:18]Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas,\nand staid with him fifteen days; [1:19]and I saw no other of the\napostles except James, the Lord's brother. [1:20]And what I write to\nyou, behold, before God, I lie not.\n\n5 [1:21]Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.  [1:22]But I\nwas unknown by face to the churches of Christ in Judea, [1:23]only they\nheard that he who persecuted us formerly, now preached the faith which\nhe formerly destroyed; [1:24]and they glorified God in me.\n\n6 [2:1]Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with\nBarnabas, taking also Titus; [2:2]and I went up by a revelation, and\nproposed to them the gospel which I preach to the gentiles, but\nprivately to persons of distinction, lest I should run or had run in\nvain. [2:3]But Titus who was with me, and was a Greek, was not\ncompelled to be circumcised; [2:4]but on account of false brothers\nbrought in secretly to act as spies against our liberty which we have\nin Christ Jesus, to bring us into servitude, [2:5]we did not yield to\nthem by subjection, for an hour, that the truth of the gospel might\ncontinue with you.  [2:6]But from those of distinction, whatever they\nwere it makes no difference to me,--God is partial to no man,--for\nthose of distinction added nothing to me, [2:7]but on the contrary\nseeing that I was intrusted with the gospel of the uncircumcision, as\nPeter was of the circumcision,-- [2:8]for he that operated in Peter for\nthe apostleship of the circumcision, operated also in me for the\ngentiles,-- [2:9]and knowing the grace given me, James and Cephas and\nJohn, who were manifest pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand\nof fellowship that we should go to the gentiles and they to the\ncircumcision; [2:10]only [they wished] that we should remember the\npoor, which I was also forward to do.\n\n7 [2:11]But when Peter came to Antioch I opposed him to his face,\nbecause he was to blame. [2:12]For before some came from James he eat\nwith the gentiles; but when they came, he withdrew and separated\nhimself; fearing those of the circumcision; [2:13]and the other Jews\nalso dissembled with him, so that Barnabas was carried away with their\ndissimulation. [2:14]But when I saw that they walked not correctly,\naccording to the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before all, If\nyou being a Jew live after the manner of the gentiles, and not after\nthe manner of the Jews, why do you compel the gentiles to practise\nJudaism? [2:15]For we Jews by race and not sinners of the gentiles,\n[2:16] knowing that a man is not justified by works of the law but by\nthe faith of Jesus Christ, we also have believed in Jesus Christ, that\nwe may be justified by faith and not by works of the law, because by\nworks of the law shall no flesh be justified. [2:17]But if seeking to\nbe justified by Christ we are found to be ourselves also sinners, is\nChrist then a minister of sin? By no means.  [2:18] For if I build up\nagain what I have destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. [2:19]For by\na law I have died to the law, that I may live to God. [2:20]I am\ncrucified with Christ; and I no longer live myself, but Christ lives in\nme; and the present life which I live in the flesh, I live by the faith\nof the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. [2:21]I do not\nreject the grace of God; for if rightousness is through the law, then\nChrist died for nothing.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER II.\n\nRIGHTEOUSNESS EXPLAINED.\n\n1 [3:1]O FOOLISH Galatians, who has fascinated you, before whose eyes\nJesus Christ has been set forth among you crucified?  [3:2]This only\nwould I learn of you. Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law,\nor by a hearing of faith? [3:3]Are you so foolish? Having begun in the\nSpirit do you now end in the flesh?  [3:4]Have you suffered so much in\nvain? if indeed also it is in vain. [3:5]He then that imparts to you\nthe Spirit, and exercises miraculous powers among you, does he do it by\nworks of the law, or by the doctrine of faith? [3:6] As Abraham\nbelieved God and it was accounted to him a righteousness.\n\n2 [3:7]Know, therefore, that those of faith, these are children of\nAbraham. [3:8]And the Scripture foreseeing that God would justify the\nnations by faith, promised before to Abraham, In you shall all the\nnations be blessed. [3:9]Those of faith, therefore, are blessed with\nbelieving Abraham. [3:10]For as many as are of works of the law are\nunder a curse; for it is written, Cursed is every one that continues\nnot in all things written in the book of the law to do them. [3:11]And\nit is evident that no one is justified by the law before God, because\nthe just shall live by faith, [3:12]but the law is not of faith, but he\nthat does these things shall live by them. [3:13]Christ redeemed us\nfrom the curse of the law, having become a curse for us, for it is\nwritten, Cursed is every one that hangs on a tree, [3:14]that the\nblessing of Abraham may come on the nations, in Christ Jesus, that we\nmay receive the promise of the Spirit through the faith.\n\n3 [3:15]Brothers, I speak according to man. But no one abolishes a\nman's covenant when it is established, or makes additions to it.\n[3:16]The promises were spoken to Abraham and his offspring.  He said\nnot, And to offsprings, as of many, but as of one, And to your\noffspring, which is Christ. [3:17]And this I say; that the law which\nwas four hundred and thirty years after, cannot abrogate the covenant\npreviously established by God, to make the promise of no effect.\n[3:18]For if the inheritance is by the law, it is no longer by the\npromise. But God gave it to Abraham by the promise. [3:19]What then?\nThe law was added on account of transgressions, till the offspring\nshould come to which the promise was made, being appointed by angels by\nthe hand of a mediator. [3:20]But there is no mediator of one; but God\nis one.\n\n4 [3:21]Is the law then against the promises of God? By no means.  For\nif a law had been given, able to give life, righteousness would really\nhave been by the law; [3:22]but the Scripture has shut up all under\nsin, that the promise of the faith of Jesus Christ may be given to them\nthat believe. [3:23]But before the faith came, we were kept shut up\nunder the law for the faith to be revealed. [3:24]So that the law was\nour schoolmaster to lead to Christ, that we might be justified by\nfaith; [3:25]but the faith having come, we are no longer under a\nschoolmaster.  [3:26]For you are all children of God by the faith in\nJesus Christ; [3:27]for as many of you as are baptized in Christ, have\nput on Christ. [3:28]There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither\nservant nor freeman, there is neither male nor female; for you are all\none in Christ Jesus. [3:29] And if you are of Christ, then are you\nAbraham's children and heirs according to the promise.\n\n5 [4:1]But I say, that as long as the heir is a child, he differs not\nfrom a servant, though he is lord of all, [4:2]but is under tutors and\nstewards till the time appointed by the father.  [4:3]So also we, when\nwe were children, were in servitude under the rudiments of the world;\n[4:4]but when the fullness of time came, God sent forth his Son, born\nof a woman, born under the law, [4:5] that he might redeem those under\nthe law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. [4:6]And because\nyou are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your\nhearts, crying, Abba, Father. [4:7]So that you are no longer a servant,\nbut a son; and if a son, also an heir of God.\n\n6 [4:8]But formerly, not knowing God you served beings which are not\nreally Gods; [4:9]but now knowing God, or rather being known by God,\nhow do you turn again to the weak and imperfect rudiments, which you\nwish again to serve? [4:10] Do you observe days, and months, and times,\nand years? [4:11]I am afraid of you, lest I have expended labor on you\nin vain.\n\n7 [4:12]I beseech you, brothers, be as I am, for I am as you [ought to\nbe]. You did not injure me; [4:13]but you knew I preached the gospel to\nyou on my former [visit] in weakness of the flesh, [4:14]and my trial\nin my flesh you despised not nor rejected, but received me as an angel\nof God, as Christ Jesus.  [4:15] What then was your blessedness? For I\nbear you witness that, if possible, you would have dug out your eyes\nand have given them to me. [4:16]Have I therefore become your enemy, by\ntelling you the truth? [4:17]They are zealous for you, but not well,\nbut they wish to exclude you that you may be zealous for them. [4:18]It\nis good to be zealous for a good object always, and not only when I am\npresent with you. [4:19]My little children, with whom I am again in\npain till Christ is formed in you, [4:20]I wish to be present with you\nnow and change my voice with you, for I am in doubt of you.\n\n8 [4:21]Tell me, you that wish to be under the law, do you not hear the\nlaw? [4:22]For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, one by a\nservant woman, and the other by a free woman. [4:23]But he by the\nservant woman was born of the flesh, and he by the free woman, by the\npromise. [4:24]These things are allegorical, for those [women] are two\ncovenants, one from Mount Sinai, bearing children for servitude, which\nis Hagar; [4:25]for Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; and the present\nJerusalem answers to her, for she is in servitude with her children.\n[4:26]But the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us;\n[4:27]for it is written, Rejoice, barren woman, that did not bear,\nbreak forth and cry, woman that had no pain, for the children of the\ndesolate are more numerous than those of her who had a husband.\n[4:28]But we, brothers, like Isaac, are children of the promise.\n[4:29]But as then he that was born of the flesh persecuted him that was\nborn of the Spirit, so also now. [4:30]But what says the Scripture?\nCast out the servant-woman and her son; for the son of the servant\nwoman shall not be an heir, with the son of the free.  [4:31]Wherefore,\nbrothers, we are not children of the servant woman, but of the free.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER III.\n\nMORAL DUTIES.\n\n1 [5:1]STAND firm in the liberty with which Christ has made you free,\nand be not again subject to a yoke of servitude.  [5:2]Behold, I Paul\ntell you, that if you are circumcised Christ will not profit you.\n[5:3]For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is\nbound to perform the whole law. [5:4] You have departed from Christ,\nwhoever of you are justified by the law, you have fallen from the\ngrace. [5:5]For we wait in spirit for the hope of righteousness, by\nfaith. [5:6]For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails any thing\nnor uncircumcision, but faith which works by love.\n\n2 [5:7]You ran well; who hindered you from obeying the truth?\n[5:8]This persuasion is not of him that calls you. [5:9]A little leaven\nleavens the whole mass. [5:10]I have confidence in you, in the Lord,\nthat you will not be of another mind; but he that troubles you shall\nbear his sin, whoever he is. [5:11] And I, brothers, if I preach\ncircumcision, why am I yet persecuted? Then has the offense of the\ncross ceased. [5:12]I would that they were cut off that disturb you.\n[5:13]For you are called to liberty, brothers, only make not your\nliberty an occasion for the flesh, but by love serve one another.\n[5:14]For all the law is fully contained in one precept; you shall love\nyour neighbor as yourself. [5:15]But if you bite and devour one\nanother, see that you be not consumed one by another.\n\n3 [5:16]And I say, walk in the Spirit and perform not the desire of the\nflesh. [5:17]For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit\nagainst the flesh; and these are opposed one to another, so that you do\nnot what you wish. [5:18]But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not\nunder the law. [5:19]For the works of the flesh are manifest, which\nare, fornication, impurity, lewdness, [5:20]idolatry, magic, enmities,\nstrife, envy, anger, contentions, dissensions, heresies, [5:21]murders,\ndrunkenness, revellings and the like, of which I tell you before, as I\nhave also previously told you, that those who do such things shall not\ninherit the kingdom of God. [5:22]But the fruit of the Spirit is love,\njoy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, [5:23]meekness,\ntemperance; against such there is no law.  [5:24]And the [subjects] of\nChrist Jesus have crucified the flesh with its affections and desires.\n[5:25]If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.\n[5:26]Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another,\nenvying one another.\n\n4 [6:1]Brothers, if a man is overtaken with any fault, do you that are\nspiritual restore such a one with a spirit of meekness, considering\nyourself; lest you also be tried. [6:2]Bear one another's burdens, and\nso perform the law of Christ. [6:3]For if any one thinks he is\nsomething, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. [6:4]But let each\none prove his work, and then shall he have joy in himself alone and not\nin another, [6:5]for every one shall bear his own burden.\n\n5 [6:6]Let him that is taught the word communicate with him that\nteaches of all good things. [6:7]Be not deceived, God is not mocked.\nFor what a man sows, that shall he also reap; [6:8]for he that sows for\nhis flesh, shall of the flesh reap destruction; but he that sows for\nthe Spirit, shall of the Spirit reap life eternal. [6:9]Let us not be\nweary of well doing; for in due season we shall reap if we faint not.\n[6:10]As we have opportunity, therefore, let us do good to all, but\nespecially to the members of the family of the faith.\n\n6 [6:11]You see with how long a letter I have written to you.\n[6:12]Those who wish to make a fair appearance in the flesh compel you\nto be circumcised, only that they may not be persecuted for the cross\nof Christ. [6:13]For the circumcised themselves do not keep the law,\nbut they wish you to be circumcised that they may glory in your flesh.\n[6:14]But far be it from me to glory, except in the cross of our Lord\nJesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me and I to the world.\n[6:15]For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision any thing, nor\nuncircumcision, but a new creation. [6:16]And whoever walk by this\nrule, peace and mercy be on them, and on the Israel of God.\n\n7 [6:17]Finally, let no man trouble me; for I bear in my body the marks\nof Jesus. [6:18]The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit,\nbrothers; amen.\n\n\n\n\nFIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS.\n\n\nEPHESUS, A.D. 57. (ACTS, 19:10.)\n\n\n\nCHAPTER I.\n\nSALUTATION, EXHORTATION TO UNITY, THE MYSTERY OF THE GOSPEL, ETC.\n\n1 [1:1]PAUL, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of\nGod, and Sosthenes the brother, [1:2]to the church of God which is at\nCorinth, to the sanctified in Jesus Christ, called to be saints, with\nall that call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both\ntheirs and ours. [1:3]Grace and peace be to you from God our Father,\nand the Lord Jesus Christ.\n\n2 [1:4]I thank my God always for you, for the grace of God given you in\nChrist Jesus, [1:5]that in every thing you are enriched in him, in all\nspeech and all knowledge, [1:6]as the testimony of Christ was confirmed\nin you, [1:7]so that you are behind in no gift, waiting for the\nrevelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, [1:8]who also will confirm you to\nthe end, without blame, in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. [1:9]God\nis faithful by whom you are called into the society of his Son Jesus\nChrist our Lord.\n\n3 [1:10]I exhort you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,\nthat you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among\nyou, but that you be perfected in the same mind and the same will.\n[1:11]For I have been informed of you, my brothers, by the family of\nChloe, that there are contentions among you. [1:12]I mean this; that\neach one of you says I indeed am of Paul, and I of Apollos, and I of\nCephas, and I of Christ.  [1:13]Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified\nfor you? or were you baptized in the name of Paul? [1:14]I thank God I\nbaptized none of you, except Crispus and Gaius; [1:15]that no one may\nsay that I baptized in my name. [1:16]And I also baptized the family of\nStephanus; besides I do not know that I baptized any other.  [1:17]For\nChrist sent me not to baptize but to preach the good news, not with a\nwisdom of speech lest the cross of Christ should be without effect.\n[1:18]For the word of the cross is to the lost foolishness, but to the\nsaved the power of God. [1:19]For it is written, I will destroy the\nwisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the\nintelligent. [1:20]Where is the wise? where the scribe? where the\ndisputer of this life? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the\nworld? [1:21]For since, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew\nnot God, God was pleased by the foolishness of preaching to save those\nthat believe; [1:22]and since the Jews seek signs, and the Greeks seek\nwisdom, [1:23]we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews indeed an\noffense, and to the gentiles foolishness, [1:24]but to the called, both\nJews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and wisdom of God; [1:25]for\nthe foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is\nstronger than men. [1:26]For you see your calling, brothers, that not\nmany wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble [are\ncalled]; [1:27]but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to\nconfound the wise, and the weak things of the world has God chosen to\nput to shame the mighty, [1:28]and the ignoble things of the world and\nthings that are despised has God chosen, and things that are not, to\ndestroy things that are, [1:29]that no flesh may glory in the sight of\nGod. [1:30]But you are of him in Christ Jesus, who has become to us\nwisdom from God, and righteousness, and sanctification and redemption,\n[1:31]that as it is written, He that glories, let him glory in the Lord.\n\n4 [2:1]And when I came to you, brothers, I came not with excellency of\nspeech, or wisdom, declaring to you the mystery of God. [2:2]For I\ndetermined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him\ncrucified. [2:3]And I was with you in weakness, and with fear and with\nmuch trembling, [2:4]and my speech and my preaching were not with\npersuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the spirit and\npower, [2:5]that your faith might not be in the wisdom of men but in\nthe power of God.\n\n5 [2:6]But we speak wisdom among the perfect, but not the wisdom of\nthis life, nor of the rulers of this life, who are destroyed; [2:7]but\nwe speak a wisdom of God hid in mystery, which God appointed from\neternity for our glory, [2:8] which none of the rulers of this life\nknew, for if they had known they would not have crucified the Lord of\nglory; [2:9]but as it is written, An eye has not seen, an ear has not\nheard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things which God\nhas prepared for those that love him; [2:10]but God has revealed them\nto us by his Spirit.  For the Spirit searches all things, even the\ndepths of God.  [2:11]For who knows the [things] of man, except the\nspirit of man which is in him? So also no one knows the [things] of God\nexcept the Spirit of God. [2:12]And we have received not the spirit of\nthe world, but the Spirit which is of God, that we may know the things\ngiven us by God, [2:13]which we also speak, not in words taught by\nhuman wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, comparing spiritual\nthings with spiritual. [2:14]But the natural man receives not the\n[things] of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he\ncannot know them, for they are spiritually discerned. [2:15]But the\nspiritual man discerns all things, and is himself perceived by no one.\n[2:16] For who has known the mind of the Lord, who shall instruct him?\nBut we have the mind of Christ.\n\n6 [3:1]And I, brothers, was not able to speak to you as spiritual, but\nas carnal, as babes in Christ. [3:2]I have fed you milk, not solid\nfood; for you were not yet able; but you are not able even now;\n[3:3]for you are yet carnal. For when there is envy and strife among\nyou are you not carnal and walk as men?  [3:4]For when one says, I am\nof Paul, and another, I, of Apollos, are you not men? [3:5]Who then is\nApollos? and who is Paul? but ministers by whom you believed, and to\neach as the Lord gave.  [3:6]I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused\n[the seed] to grow; [3:7]so neither is he that plants any thing, nor he\nthat waters, but God that causes it to grow. [3:8]He that plants and he\nthat waters are one; and each shall receive his reward according to his\nlabor. [3:9] For we are God's co-laborers; you are God's field, God's\nbuilding.\n\n7 [3:10]According to the grace of God given me as a wise architect I\nhave laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one see\nhow he builds on it. [3:11]For no one can lay another foundation\nbesides that laid, which is Christ Jesus.  [3:12]And if any man builds\non this foundation, gold, silver, precious stones, wood, grass, reeds,\n[3:13]each one's work shall be manifest; for the day shall show it,\nbecause it shall be revealed by fire, and the same fire shall try every\nman's work what it is. [3:14]If any one's work continues which he has\nbuilt, he shall receive a reward; [3:15]if any one's work is consumed,\nhe shall suffer loss, and he shall be saved, but so as by fire.\n\n8 [3:16]Know you not that you are a temple of God and the Spirit of God\ndwells in you? [3:17]If any one destroys the temple of God, him shall\nGod destroy; for the temple of God which you are is holy. [3:18]Let no\none deceive himself; if any one seems to be wise among you in this\nlife, let him be a fool, that he may be wise. [3:19]For the wisdom of\nthis world is foolishness with God.  For it is written; He takes the\nwise in their craftiness.  [3:20]And again; The Lord knows the thoughts\nof the wise that they are vain. [3:21]Let no one therefore glory in\nmen; for all things are yours, [3:22]whether Paul, or Apollos, or\nCephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things\nto come, all are yours, [3:23]and you Christ's, and Christ God's.\n\n9 [4:1]Let a man so regard us as servants of Christ and stewards of the\nmysteries of God. [4:2]But, moreover, it is required of stewards that\none should be found faithful. [4:3]But it is of little account to me\nthat I should be judged by you or by man's day [judgment]; but I judge\nnot myself; [4:4]for I am not conscious to myself [of wrong], but I am\nnot on this account justified; but he that judges me is the Lord.\n[4:5]Judge nothing therefore before the time, till the Lord comes, who\nwill both bring to light the hidden deeds of darkness, and make known\nthe purposes of the hearts; and then shall each one have praise from\nGod.\n\n10 [4:6]I have applied these things figuratively, brothers, to myself\nand Apollos on your account, that you may learn by us not to [go\nbeyond] what is written, that you may not be puffed up for one against\nanother. [4:7]For who made you to differ? And what have you that you\ndid not receive? And if you received, why do you boast as one that\nreceives not? [4:8]You are already full, you are already enriched; you\nhave reigned without us; and I would that you did reign, that we also\nmight reign with you.  [4:9]For I think that God has shown us the\napostles last, as devoted to death, for we have been made a spectacle\nto the world, both to angels and men. [4:10]For we are foolish for\nChrist's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are\nstrong; and you are glorious, but we are infamous. [4:11]Even to this\nhour we suffer hunger and thirst and nakedness, and are beaten, and are\nunsettled, [4:12]and labor, working with our hands; being reviled we\nbless, being persecuted we endure, [4:13]being defamed we entreat; we\nare made like the offscouring of the world and the vilest of all\nthings, even till now.\n\n11 [4:14]I write these things not to shame you, but as my beloved\nchildren, I admonish you. [4:15]For if you have ten thousand teachers\nin Christ still you have not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have\nbegotten you by the gospel. [4:16]I exhort you therefore, be followers\nof me. [4:17]For this reason I sent you Timothy, who is my beloved and\nfaithful son in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways in Christ, as\nI teach everywhere, in every church. [4:18]Some are puffed up as though\nI would not come to you; [4:19]but I will come to you shortly, if the\nLord will, and will know not the word of those who are puffed up but\nthe power; [4:20]for the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.\n[4:21]What do you wish? shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and\na spirit of meekness?\n\n\n\nCHAPTER II.\n\nINCEST, LITIGATION, EXPEDIENCY, AND CHASTITY.\n\n1 [5:1]IT is commonly reported that there is fornication among you, and\nsuch fornication as is not among the gentiles, that a man should have\nhis father's wife. [5:2]And you are puffed up, and have not rather\nmourned, that he who has done this deed should be removed from among\nyou. [5:3]For I indeed as absent in body, but present in spirit, have\nalready judged as present him that has so done this, [5:4]in the name\nof our Lord Jesus you being assembled together and my spirit with the\npower of our Lord Jesus [5:5]to deliver such a one to Satan for the\ndestruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of\nthe Lord.  [5:6]Your rejoicing is not good. Do you not know that a\nlittle leaven leavens the whole mass? [5:7]Remove the old leaven, that\nyou may be a new mass, as you are unleavened; for Christ our passover\nwas also sacrificed for us. [5:8] Let us therefore keep the feast, not\nwith old leaven, nor with a leaven of vice and wickedness, but with the\nunleavened bread of sincerity and truth.\n\n2 [5:9]I wrote to you in the epistle not to associate with fornicators;\n[5:10] not altogether the fornicators of this world, or the covetous\nand rapacious, or idolaters, since then you would have to go out of the\nworld. [5:11]But now I have written to you not to associate, if any one\ncalled a brother is a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a\nrailer, or a drunkard, or rapacious, even to eat with such a one.\n[5:12]For what business have I to judge those without? Do you not judge\nthose within?  [5:13]but those without, God judges. Remove therefore\nthe evil man from among you.\n\n3 [6:1]Dare any of you having a business with another be judged by the\nwicked, and not by the saints? [6:2]Do you not know that the saints\nshall judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you\nunworthy of the lowest courts? [6:3]Know you not that we shall judge\nangels? Much more then things pertaining to this life? [6:4]If then you\nhave courts for the business of this life, do you constitute them of\nthe most abject in the church?  [6:5]I speak to your shame. Is there\nnot now a wise man among you? not one who can judge between his\nbrothers? [6:6]But brother goes to law with brother, and that before\nunbelievers. [6:7]Now therefore there is a great fault among you, that\nyou go to law one with another. Why not rather suffer injustice? why\nnot rather be defrauded? [6:8]But you injure and defraud, and that your\nbrothers. [6:9]Know you not that the unjust shall not inherit the\nkingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters,\nnor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor sodomites, [6:10]nor thieves,\nnor covetous persons, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor the rapacious,\nshall inherit the kingdom of God.  [6:11]And such were some of you; but\nyou are washed, you are sanctified, but you are justified in the name\nof the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.\n\n4 [6:12]All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient;\nall things are lawful, but I will not be brought under the power of\nany. [6:13]Food for the stomach, and the stomach for food; but God will\ndestroy both it and them. And the body is not for fornication but for\nthe Lord; and the Lord for the body; [6:14]and God both raised the\nLord, and will raise us up by his power. [6:15]Know you not that your\nbodies are Christ's members?  Shall I then take the members of Christ\nand make them a harlot's members? by no means. [6:16]Know you not that\nhe who is joined to a harlot is one body [with her]? For the two, says\nhe, shall be one flesh. [6:17]But he that is joined to the Lord is one\nspirit [with him]. [6:18]Avoid fornication. Every crime that a man\ncommits is out of his body; but he that commits fornication sins in his\nbody. [6:19]Know you not that your bodies are a temple of the Holy\nSpirit in you which you have from God, and you are not your own?\n[6:20]For you are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your\nbody.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER III.\n\nMARRIAGE, CELIBACY, ETC., AND THINGS OFFERED TO IDOLS.\n\n1 [7:1]CONCERNING what you wrote to me, it is good for a man not to\ntouch a woman; [7:2]but on account of fornications, let each man have\nhis wife, and each woman have her husband. [7:3]Let the husband render\nto the wife her due, and in like manner also the wife the husband.\n[7:4]The wife has not the right to her body, but the husband; and in\nlike manner the husband has not the right to his body, but the wife.\n[7:5]Withhold not yourselves from one another, except by agreement for\na time that you may be at leisure for prayer, and come together again,\nthat Satan may not tempt you by your incontinence. [7:6]But this I say\nby suggestion, not by command. [7:7]For I wish that all men were even\nas I am; but each one has his gift from God, and one is of one kind and\nanother of another.\n\n2 [7:8]And I say to the unmarried and to the widows, that it is good\nfor them to continue as I am; [7:9]but if they have not self-control,\nlet them marry; it is better to marry than to be incontinent. [7:10]But\nthe married I charge, not I, but the Lord, Let not a wife separate from\nher husband, [7:11]and also if she is separated let her remain\nunmarried or be reconciled to the husband, and let not a husband leave\nhis wife.\n\n3 [7:12]But to the rest I speak, not the Lord, If any brother has an\nunbelieving wife, and she is pleased to live with him, let him not\nleave her; [7:13]and if any wife has an unbelieving husband and he is\npleased to live with her, let her not leave the husband. [7:14]For the\nunbelieving husband is sanctified by the believing wife, and the\nunbelieving wife is sanctified by the brother; else were your children\nimpure, but now are they holy.  [7:15]But if the unbelieving companion\ndeparts, let him depart; the brother or the sister is not bound in such\ncases; but God has called us to peace. [7:16]For how do you know, wife,\nthat you will not save your husband? or how do you know, husband, that\nyou will not save your wife?\n\n4 [7:17]Unless as the Lord has imparted to each one, as God has called\neach one, so let him walk; and so I appoint in all the churches.\n[7:18]Is any one called being circumcised, let him not be\nuncircumcised; is any one called in uncircumcision, let him not be\ncircumcised. [7:19]Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is\nnothing, but keeping God's commandments.  [7:20]Let each one remain in\nthe calling in which he was called; [7:21]were you called being a\nservant, care not for it; but if you can be free, use it rather.\n[7:22]For the servant called in the Lord is the Lord's freeman; in like\nmanner the called freeman is Christ's servant. [7:23]You are bought\nwith a price; be not servants of men. [7:24]Let each one continue,\nbrothers, in the calling in which he was called under God.\n\n5 [7:25]And concerning the virgins I have no ordinance of the Lord, but\nI give an opinion as one that has obtained mercy of the Lord to be\nfaithful. [7:26]I think then that this is good on account of the\npresent necessity, because it is good for man to be so. [7:27]Are you\nbound to a wife, seek not a release; are you released from a wife, seek\nnot a wife. [7:28]But if you marry, you do not sin and if the virgin\nmarries she does not sin. But such will have affliction in the flesh;\nbut I spare you.  [7:29]But this I say, brothers, the time is short, so\nthat in future those who have wives should be as those not having them,\n[7:30]and those who weep as those not weeping, and those who rejoice as\nthose not rejoicing, and those who buy as not possessing, [7:31]and\nthose who use the world as those not abusing it; for the fashion of\nthis world passes away. [7:32] But I wish you to be without cares. The\nunmarried man cares for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the\nLord; [7:33]but he that is married cares for the things of the world,\nhow he shall please the wife. [7:34]And the wife and the virgin are\ndifferent; the unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that\nshe may be holy in body and spirit; but she that is married cares for\nthe things of the world, how she shall please the husband.  [7:35]But I\nsay this for your own profit; not to impose a snare on you, but for\n[your] honor, and [your] attending on the Lord without distraction.\n\n6 [7:36]But if any one thinks that he behaves improperly to his virgin,\nif she is past her prime, and it must be so, let him do what he wishes;\nhe does not sin; let them marry. [7:37]But he that stands firm in mind,\nnot having a necessity, but has power over his will, and has determined\nin his mind to keep his virgin, does well. [7:38]He that gives in\nmarriage therefore does well, and he that gives not in marriage does\nbetter.\n\n7 [7:39]A woman is bound as long as her husband lives; but if her\nhusband is dead then she is free to be married to whom she will; only\nin the Lord. [7:40] But she is happier if she continues thus, in my\nopinion, and I think also I have the Spirit of God.\n\n8 [8:1]And concerning things offered to idols we all have knowledge.\nKnowledge puffs up, but love edifies. [8:2]And if any one thinks he\nknows any thing, he yet knows nothing as he ought to know; [8:3]but if\nany one loves God, this [man] is known by him. [8:4]Concerning eating\nthings offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world,\nand that there is no other God but one. [8:5]For even if there are\nthose called Gods, whether in heaven or on earth, as there are many\ngods and many lords, [8:6]yet to us there is one God the Father, of\nwhom are all things, and we in him, and one Lord Jesus Christ, through\nwhom are all things and we through him. [8:7]But all have not this\nknowledge; and some with the conscience [unenlightened] even till now\neat an idol's [sacrifice] as an idol's sacrifice, and their conscience\nbeing weak is defiled. [8:8]But food does not commend us to God; for\nneither if we eat not are we worse, nor if we eat are we better.\n[8:9]But beware lest your liberty should become an offense to the weak.\n[8:10]For if any one sees you who have knowledge reclining in an idol's\ntemple, will not the conscience of him that is weak be emboldened to\neat things offered to idols?  [8:11]And will not the weak brother for\nwhom Christ died perish by your knowledge? [8:12]But when you thus sin\nagainst the brothers, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against\nChrist. [8:13] Wherefore, if food offends my brother, I will eat no\nmeat forever, that I may not offend my brother.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER IV.\n\nTHE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY ENTITLED TO A SUPPORT, PAUL'S LABORS WITHOUT\nCHARGE.\n\n1 [9:1]AM I not a freeman? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus\nChrist our Lord? Are not you my work in the Lord? [9:2]If I am not an\napostle to others, I certainly am to you; for you are a seal of my\napostleship in the Lord. [9:3]My defense to those who condemn me is\nthis; [9:4]Have we not a right to eat and drink?  [9:5]Have we not a\nright to lead about a sister, a wife, as also the other apostles; and\nthe brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?  [9:6]Or I only and Barnabas,\nhave we not a right to abstain from labor? [9:7]Who ever goes on a\nmilitary expedition at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and eats\nnot the fruit of it? or who feeds a flock and eats not of the milk of\nthe flock? [9:8] Do I say these things in the manner of men? or does\nnot the law also say the same? [9:9]For it is written in the law of\nMoses, You shall not muzzle the ox that threshes. Does God care for\noxen?  [9:10]or does he speak entirely for our sakes? For our sakes,\ndoubtless, it was written, that he who plows should plow in hope, and\nthat he who threshes in hope should partake of it. [9:11]If we have\nsown for you spiritual things, is it too much if we reap your earthly\nthings? [9:12]And if others have this right, do we not have it more?\nBut we have not used this right, but endure all things, that we may not\nimpede the gospel of Christ. [9:13]Know you not that those who perform\nsacred rites eat from the temple?  Those who wait on the altar partake\nof the altar? [9:14]So also the Lord has appointed to those who preach\nthe gospel to live by the gospel. [9:15]But I have used none of these\nthings, and I have not written these things that it should be so done\nto me; for I prefer to die, rather than that any one should make my\nboasting vain.\n\n2 [9:16]For if I preach the gospel I have nothing to boast of; for a\nnecessity is laid upon me; for woe is me, if I preach not the gospel.\n[9:17]For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if unwillingly,\nI am intrusted with a stewardship. [9:18]What then is my reward? That\npreaching I may make the gospel without expense, that I may not abuse\nmy right in the gospel. [9:19]For being free from all men, I have made\nmyself a servant of all, that I may gain more; [9:20]to the Jews I have\nbeen as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to those under the law, as\nunder the law, not being myself under the law, that I might gain those\nunder the law; [9:21]to those without law, as without law, being not\nwithout law to God, but with law to Christ, that I might gain those\nwithout law; [9:22]to the weak I have been as weak, that I might gain\nthe weak; I have been all things to all men, that I may save some in\nall conditions; [9:23]and I do all things for the sake of the gospel,\nthat I may be a partaker of it.\n\n3 [9:24]Know you not that those who run in the race all indeed run, but\none takes the prize. So run that you may obtain.  [9:25]And every one\nthat contends in the games is temperate in all things, they indeed to\nobtain a perishable crown, we an imperishable. [9:26]I therefore so\nrun, not as uncertainly, and so strike, not as one who beats the air;\n[9:27]but I brow-beat my body, and bring it into subjection, lest\nhaving preached to others I should myself be a reprobate.\n\n4 [10:1]For I wish you not to be ignorant, brothers, that all our\nfathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, [10:2]and\nall were baptized to Moses by the cloud and by the sea, [10:3]and all\neat the same spiritual food, [10:4]and all drank the same spiritual\ndrink; for they drank of the spiritual rock which followed them, and\nthat rock was Christ; [10:5]but with many of them God was not pleased;\nfor they were destroyed in the wilderness. [10:6]But these things are\nexamples for us, that we should not desire evil things, as they did.\n[10:7]Neither be idolaters, as some of them were, as it is written; The\npeople sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. [10:8]Neither\nlet us commit fornication, as some of them did and fell in one day\ntwenty-three thousand. [10:9]Neither let us try Christ, as some of them\ndid and were destroyed by serpents. [10:10]Neither do you complain as\nsome of them complained and were destroyed by the destroyer. [10:11]All\nthese things happened to them as examples, and are recorded for our\nadmonition on whom the ends of the ages have come; [10:12]so that he\nwho thinks he stands, let him take heed lest he fall. [10:13]For no\ntrial has befallen you but what is common to man; and God is faithful,\nwho will not permit you to be tried beyond what you are able, but with\nthe trial will order the event, that you may be able to endure.\n\n5 [10:14]Wherefore, my beloved, avoid idolatry. [10:15]I speak as to\nwise men; judge what I say. [10:16]The cup of blessing which we bless,\nis it not a participation of the blood of Christ? The bread which we\nbreak, is it not a participation of the body of Christ? [10:17]For we,\nbeing many, are one bread, one body; for we all partake of the one\nbread. [10:18]Consider Israel after the flesh; are not those who eat\nthe sacrifices partakers of the altar? [10:19]What then do I say? that\nan idol sacrifice is any thing, or that an idol is any thing?\n[10:20]But what the gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and\nnot to God; and I do not wish you to be partakers with demons.\n[10:21]You cannot drink the Lord's cup and the cup of demons; you\ncannot partake at the Lord's table and the table of demons. [10:22]Do\nwe provoke the Lord to anger? Are we stronger than he?\n\n6 [10:23]All things are lawful, but all things are not expedient; all\nthings are lawful, but all things do not edify. [10:24]Let no one seek\nhis own but the good of another. [10:25]Whatever is sold in the market\neat, asking no questions for conscience' sake; [10:26]for the earth is\nthe Lord's and all it contains.  [10:27]But if an unbeliever invites\nyou and you wish to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no\nquestions for conscience' sake. [10:28]But if any one says to you, This\nhas been offered to an idol, eat not for his sake that informed you,\nand for conscience' sake. [10:29]I mean not your conscience, but that\nof the other. For why is my freedom limited by the conscience of\nanother? [10:30]If I partake with thanks, why am I blamed for that for\nwhich I give thanks? [10:31]Whether then you eat or drink, or whatever\nyou do, do all to the glory of God. [10:32]Be without offense both to\nJews and Greeks, and the church of God, [10:33]as I also please all in\nall things, not seeking my own profit but that of many, that they may\nbe saved. [11:1]Be followers of me as I also am of Christ.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER V.\n\nPUBLIC WORSHIP, THE LORD'S SUPPER.\n\n1 [11:2]I COMMEND you, brothers, that you have remembered all my\n[instructions], and that you retain the traditions as I delivered them\nto you. [11:3]But I wish you to know that the head of every man is\nChrist, and the head of the woman, the man, and the head of Christ,\nGod. [11:4]Every man praying or prophesying with his head covered\ndisgraces his head. [11:5]But every woman praying or prophesying with\nher head uncovered disgraces her head; for it is one and the same as if\nshe was shaved. [11:6]For if a woman is not veiled then let her hair be\ncut off; but if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut off,\nor to be shaved, let her wear a veil.\n\n2 [11:7]For a man ought not to cover his head, being an image and glory\nof God; but the woman is a glory of man. [11:8]For man is not of woman,\nbut woman of man; [11:9]for man also was not created because of the\nwoman, but woman because of the man.  [11:10]For this reason ought the\nwoman to have a power [veil] on her head because of the angels.\n[11:11]But neither is woman without man, nor man without woman in the\nLord; [11:12]for as the woman is of the man, so also the man is through\nthe woman, but all things are from God. [11:13]Judge of yourselves; is\nit becoming that a woman should pray to God unveiled? [11:14] Does not\nnature herself teach you that if a man wears long hair it is a disgrace\nto him? [11:15]but if a woman wears long hair it is her glory; for the\nhair is given her for a covering. [11:16]But if any one is disposed to\nbe contentious, we have no such custom neither have the churches of God.\n\n3 [11:17]But I tell you this, not to praise you, that you come together\nnot for the better but for the worse. [11:18]For first, when you come\ntogether in an assembly, I hear that there are divisions among you, and\nsome part of it I believe. [11:19]For it is necessary that there should\nbe heresies among you, that the approved may be manifest among you.\n[11:20]When you come together therefore, it is not to eat the Lord's\nsupper, [11:21]for each one in eating takes his supper before the rest,\nand one is hungry and another drunk. [11:22] Have you not [food] to eat\nand drink at your houses? or do you despise the church of God, and\nshame those who have not [houses]? What shall I say to you? Shall I\ncommend you? In this I commend you not.\n\n4 [11:23]For I received of the Lord, what I also delivered to you; that\non the night in which he was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took bread\n[11:24]and giving thanks broke, and said, This is my body, which is for\nyou; this do in remembrance of me. [11:25]In like manner also the cup,\nafter supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant [sealed] with my\nblood; this do, as often as you drink, in remembrance of me. [11:26]For\nas often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you declare the\nLord's death till he comes. [11:27]So that whoever eats this bread or\ndrinks this cup of the Lord unworthily, is guilty of the body and blood\nof the Lord. [11:28]But let a man prove himself, and so let him eat of\nthe bread and drink of the cup; [11:29]for he eats and drinks judgment\nto himself, who eats and drinks not discerning the body.\n\n5 [11:30]For this reason many are weak and sick among you and some\nsleep. [11:31]For if we judged ourselves we should not be judged;\n[11:32]but being judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not\nbe condemned with the world. [11:33]Therefore, my brothers, when you\ncome together to eat, wait one for another.  [11:34]If any one is\nhungry let him eat at home, that you come not together for judgment.\nThe other things I will arrange when I come.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER VI.\n\nSPIRITUAL GIFTS.\n\n1 [12:1]AND I wish you not to be ignorant, brothers, of the spiritual\ngifts. [12:2]You know that when you were gentiles, you followed dumb\nidols as you were led. [12:3]I assure you, therefore, that no one\nspeaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus an accursed thing, and no one\ncan call Jesus Lord, except by the Holy Spirit.\n\n2 [12:4]And there are diversities of gifts but the same Spirit;\n[12:5]and there are diversities of services and the same Lord;\n[12:6]and there are diversities of operations and the same God, who\nperforms all things in all. [12:7]But a manifestation of the Spirit is\ngiven to each one for a useful purpose. [12:8]For to one is given by\nthe Spirit a word of wisdom, and to another a word of knowledge by the\nsame Spirit, [12:9]and to another faith by the same Spirit, and to\nanother gifts of performing cures by the same Spirit, [12:10]and to\nanother the performance of mighty works, and to another prophecy, and\nto another discrimination of spirits, and to another different tongues,\nand to another an interpretation of tongues; [12:11]but all these\n[works] performs one and the same Spirit, distributing to each in\nparticular as it wills.\n\n3 [12:12]For as the body is one and has many members, and all the\nmembers of the body being many are one body, so also is Christ;\n[12:13]for we have all been baptized with one Spirit in one body,\nwhether Jews or Greeks, whether servants or freemen, and have all been\nmade to drink one Spirit. [12:14]For the body also is not one member\nbut many. [12:15]If the foot says, Because I am not a hand, I am not of\nthe body, is it therefore not of the body?  [12:16]and if the ear says,\nBecause I am not an eye, I am not of the body, is it therefore not of\nthe body? [12:17]If the whole body was an eye, where would be the\nhearing? If the whole was a hearing, where would be the smelling?\n[12:18]But now God has placed the members each one of them in the body,\nas he pleased.  [12:19]But if all were one member, where would be the\nbody?  [12:20]But now there are many members, but one body. [12:21]The\neye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of you, or again, the head\nto the feet, I have no need of you; [12:22]but much more those members\nof the body which seem to be weak are necessary, [12:23]and those which\nwe esteem to be less honorable members of the body, on these we bestow\nmore abundant honor, and our uncomely members have more abundant\ncomeliness, [12:24]for our comely ones have no need. But God has\ncommingled the body, giving more abundant honor to that part which was\nlacking, [12:25]that there should be no schism in the body, but that\nthe members should have the same care one for another. [12:26]And if\none member suffers, all the members suffer with it; and if one member\nis glorified, all the members rejoice with it.\n\n4 [12:27]And you are a body of Christ, and members in particular.\n[12:28]And God has set some in the church, first apostles, secondly\nprophets, thirdly teachers, then powers, then gifts of performing\ncures, aids, governments, different tongues.  [12:29]Are all apostles?\nare all prophets? are all teachers? are all powers? [12:30]have all\ngifts of performing cures? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?\n[12:31]But desire earnestly the best gifts: and I will still more fully\nshow you the way.\n\n5 [13:1]If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not\nlove, I am a sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal. [13:2]And if I have\nprophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge, and if I\nhave all faith so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am\nnothing. [13:3]And if I deal out all my property to feed the poor, and\nif I deliver my body to be burned, and have not love, I shall not be\nprofited.\n\n6 [13:4]Love suffers long and is kind; love envies not; love is not\nboastful, is not puffed up, [13:5]does not behave unbecomingly, seeks\nnot her own, is not easily provoked, devises not evil, [13:6]rejoices\nnot in wickedness, but rejoices in the truth; [13:7]bears all things,\nbelieves all things, hopes for all things, and endures all things.\n\n7 [13:8]Love never fails; but if there are prophecies, they shall pass\naway; if tongues, they shall cease; if knowledge, it shall pass away.\n[13:9]And we know in part and we prophesy in part; [13:10]when the\nperfect has come, that which is in part shall pass away. [13:11]When I\nwas a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, I reasoned as a\nchild; when I became a man I put away childish things. [13:12]For now\nwe see by a mirror darkly, but then we shall see face to face; now I\nknow in part, but then I shall know fully as I also am known.\n[13:13]And now remain faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest\nof these is love.\n\n8 [14:1]Cherish love, and be earnestly desirous of spiritual gifts, but\nrather that you may prophesy. [14:2]For he that speaks with a tongue\nspeaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but in spirit\nhe speaks mysteries; [14:3]but he that prophesies speaks to men to\nedification and exhortation and consolation. [14:4]He that speaks with\na tongue edifies himself; but he that prophesies edifies an assembly.\n[14:5]I wish you all to speak with tongues, but rather that you should\nprophesy; and he that prophesies is greater than he that speaks with\ntongues, unless he interprets, that the assembly may receive\nedification.\n\n9 [14:6]But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what\nshall I profit you, unless I speak to you by a revelation, or by a\nknowledge, or by a prophecy, or by a doctrine? [14:7]So of irrational\nobjects making a sound, whether a flute or harp; if it makes no\ndistinction of sounds, how shall it be known what is played on the\nflute or harp? [14:8]For also if the trumpet gives an uncertain sound,\nwho will prepare himself for the battle? [14:9]So also you by a tongue\nif you utter a word not easily understood, how shall it be known what\nis spoken? for you will speak to the air. [14:10]There are perhaps as\nmany kinds of voices in the world, and no one is without significance;\n[14:11]if therefore I do not know the meaning of the voice, I shall be\nto him that speaks a barbarian, and he that speaks will be a barbarian\nto me. [14:12]So also you, since you are earnestly desirous of spirits\n[spiritual gifts], seek to abound for the edification of the church.\n[14:13]Let him therefore that speaks with a tongue pray that he may\ninterpret, [14:14]For if I pray with a tongue, my spirit prays, but my\nunderstanding is unfruitful. [14:15]What then is [to be done]? I will\npray with the spirit, I will pray also with the understanding; I will\nsing with the spirit, I will sing also with the understanding; [14:16]\nsince if you bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupies the\nplace of the unlearned say, Amen, to your thanksgiving, since he knows\nnot what you say? [14:17]For you indeed give thanks well; but the other\nis not edified. [14:18]I thank God I speak with a tongue more than you\nall; [14:19]but in an assembly I had rather speak five words with my\nunderstanding, that I may also teach others, than ten thousand words in\na tongue.\n\n10 [14:20]Brothers, be not children in understanding, but in malice be\nchildren, and in understanding be perfect men.  [14:21]For it is\nwritten in the law, With other tongues, and with other lips will I\nspeak to this people, and so they shall not understand me, says the\nLord. [14:22]Tongues therefore are a sign, not for believers but for\nunbelievers, but prophecy is not for unbelievers but for believers.\n[14:23]If, therefore, the whole church comes together, and all speak\nwith tongues, and there come in the unlearned and unbelieving, will\nthey not say that you are mad? [14:24]But if all prophesy, and there\ncomes in an unbeliever or an unlearned man, he is convinced by all, he\nis examined by all, [14:25]and the secrets of his heart are made\nmanifest, and so falling down on his face he worships God, declaring\nthat God is really among you.\n\n11 [14:26]What then is [to be done] brothers? When you come together,\neach one of you has a psalm, has a doctrine, has a revelation, has an\ninterpretation; let all things be done for edification. [14:27]If any\none speaks with a tongue, let it be by two or at most by three, and by\nturns, and let one interpret; [14:28] and if there is no interpreter,\nlet him be silent in the assembly, and let him speak to himself and to\nGod. [14:29]Let two or three prophets speak, and let the rest judge;\n[14:30]but if any thing is revealed to another sitting by, let the\nfirst be silent. [14:31]For you can all prophesy one by one, that all\nmay learn, and all be comforted. [14:32]And the spirits of prophets are\nsubject to the prophets; [14:33]for God is not [the friend] of disorder\nbut of peace.\n\n12 [14:34]As in all the churches of the saints, let your women keep\nsilence in the assemblies; for it is not permitted to them to speak,\nbut to be in subjection, as the law also says.  [14:35]But if they wish\nto learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home; for it is a\nshame for a woman to speak in an assembly. [14:36]Did the word of God\ngo out from you, or did it come to you alone?\n\n13 [14:37]If any one thinks he is a prophet, or a spiritual man, let\nhim acknowledge the [things] which I write to you, that they are the\nLord's; [14:38] but if any one is ignorant, let him be ignorant.\n[14:39]Therefore, brothers, desire earnestly to prophesy, and forbid\nnot to speak with tongues; [14:40]but let all things be done becomingly\nand in order.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER VII.\n\nTHE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD.\n\n1 [15:1]I DECLARE to you, brothers, the gospel which I preached to you,\nwhich you also received, in which also you stand, [15:2]by which also\nyou are saved, if you adhere to the word we preached to you, unless\nindeed you believed in vain. [15:3]For I delivered to you at first,\nwhat I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the\nScriptures, [15:4]and that he was buried, and that he rose on the third\nday according to the Scriptures, [15:5]and that he appeared to Cephas,\nthen to the twelve. [15:6]Afterwards he appeared to more than five\nhundred brothers at once, of whom the most continue even to the present\ntime, but some have fallen asleep. [15:7]Then he appeared to James,\nthen to all the apostles, [15:8]and last of all he appeared to me also,\nas one born out of due time. [15:9]For I am the least of the apostles,\nand am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the\nchurch of God; [15:10] but by the grace of God I am what I am, and his\ngrace to me was not in vain, but I labored more abundantly than they\nall, but not I but the grace of God with me. [15:11]Whether therefore\nit is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.\n\n2 [15:12]But if Christ is preached that he was raised from the dead,\nhow say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?\n[15:13]But if there is not a resurrection of the dead, Christ has not\nbeen raised; [15:14]and if Christ has not been raised, then both our\npreaching is vain, and your faith also vain; [15:15]and we are found\nalso false witnesses of God, because we testified in regard to God that\nhe raised up Christ, whom he raised not up if indeed the dead are not\nraised.  [15:16]For if the dead are not raised, Christ was not raised;\n[15:17]and if Christ was not raised, your faith is vain, you are yet in\nyour sins, [15:18]and those then who have fallen asleep in Christ have\nperished. [15:19]If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of\nall men most miserable.\n\n3 [15:20]But now Christ has been raised from the dead, a first fruit of\nthose that have slept. [15:21]For since by a man came death, by a man\nalso came the resurrection of the dead.  [15:22]For as in Adam all die,\nso in Christ also shall all be made alive. [15:23]But each one in his\nown order; Christ a first fruit, then those who are Christ's at his\ncoming; [15:24]then is the end, when he delivers up the kingdom to the\nGod and Father, when he will destroy every principality and every\nauthority and power. [15:25]For he must reign till he has put all\nenemies under his feet. [15:26]The last enemy, death, shall be\ndestroyed, [15:27]for he put all things under his feet. But when he\nsays that all things are put under him, it is clear that he is excepted\nwho puts all things under him; [15:28]and when all things have been put\nunder him, then will the Son also himself be subject to him that put\nall things under him, that God may be all in all.\n\n4 [15:29]Else what will they do who are baptized for the dead, if the\ndead rise not at all? and why are they baptized for them?  [15:30]Why\nalso do we encounter danger every hour? [15:31]By the joy on account of\nyou which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily. [15:32]If after\nthe manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, of what\nadvantage is it to me? If the dead rise not, let us eat and drink, for\nto-morrow we die. [15:33]Be not deceived; evil companionships corrupt\ngood morals.  [15:34]Awake to righteousness and sin not; for some have\nnot a knowledge of God. I speak to your shame.\n\n5 [15:35]But some one will say, How are the dead raised up? and with\nwhat body do they come? [15:36]Foolish man, what you sow is not made\nalive unless it dies; [15:37]and what you sow, you sow not the body\nwhich shall be, but the naked grain, it may be of wheat, or some of the\nother grains; [15:38]but God gives it a body as he pleases, and to each\nof the grains its own body.  [15:39] All flesh is not the same flesh;\nbut there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another\nflesh of birds, and another of fishes. [15:40]And there are heavenly\nbodies and earthly bodies; but the glory of the heavenly is one, and of\nthe earthly another. [15:41]There is one glory of the sun, and another\nglory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs\nfrom star in glory. [15:42]So also is the resurrection of the dead. It\nis sown in destruction, it is raised in indestructibleness; [15:43]it\nis sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it\nis raised in power; [15:44]it is sown a natural body, it is raised a\nspiritual body.  If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual\nbody.  [15:45]And thus it is written; The first man Adam became a\nliving soul; the last Adam is a life-giving spirit. [15:46] But the\nspiritual was not first, but the natural; then the spiritual.  [15:47]\nThe first man was from the earth, earthly, the second man is from\nheaven. [15:48]Like the earthly, such also are the earthly; and like\nthe heavenly, such also are the heavenly; [15:49]and as we have borne\nthe image of the earthly, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.\n\n6 [15:50]But I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit\nthe kingdom of God, nor shall destruction inherit indestructibleness.\n[15:51] Behold, I tell you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we\nshall all be changed, [15:52]in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye,\nat the last trumpet; for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead be\nraised, indestructible, and we shall be changed. [15:53]For this\ndestructible must put on indestructibleness, and this mortal must put\non immortality.  [15:54]And when this destructible has put on\nindestructibleness, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall\nthe word be accomplished that is written; Death was swallowed up in\nvictory.  [15:55]Where, death, is your sting? where, death, is your\nvictory? [15:56]And the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is\nthe law; [15:57]but thanks be to God who gives us the victory through\nour Lord Jesus Christ. [15:58] Therefore, my beloved brothers, be\nsteadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing\nthat your labor is not in vain in the Lord.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER VIII.\n\nCHARITABLE COLLECTIONS, TIMOTHY, APOLLOS, FAMILY OF STEPHANAS,\nSALUTATIONS.\n\n1 [16:1]CONCERNING the collection for the saints, as I directed the\nchurches of Galatia, so also do you. [16:2]On the first day of the week\nlet each one of you lay aside by himself in store as God has prospered\nhim, that there may be no collections made when I come. [16:3]And when\nI come, whom you shall approve, these will I send with letters to carry\nyour charity to Jerusalem; [16:4]and if it seems best that I should go,\nthey shall go with me.  [16:5]And I will come to you when I pass\nthrough Macedonia; for I will pass through Macedonia [16:6]and perhaps\nremain and spend the winter, that you may send me forward wherever I\ngo. [16:7]For I do not wish now to see you by the way; for I hope to\ncontinue some time with you, if the Lord permits. [16:8]But I will\nremain at Ephesus till Pentecost, [16:9]for a great and effectual door\nis opened to me, and there are many adversaries.\n\n2 [16:10]If Timothy comes, see that he is with you without fear, for he\nperforms the work of the Lord, as I also do; [16:11]let no one\ntherefore despise him. But send him forward in peace, that he may come\nto me; for I look for him with the brothers.\n\n3 [16:12]But concerning Apollos the brother, I have exhorted him much\nto come to you with the brothers; but he was entirely indisposed to\ncome now, but he will come when he has a convenient time.\n\n4 [16:13]Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, be manly, be strong,\n[16:14]let all your [works] be in love.\n\n5 [16:15]And I exhort you, brothers, know the family of Stephanas, for\nit is a first fruit of Achaia, and they devoted themselves to serving\nthe saints; [16:16]that you also be in subjection to such, and to every\none that works and labors with us. [16:17]I am glad of the coming of\nStephanas and Fortunatus and Achaiacus, for they supplied your lack,\n[16:18]and refreshed my spirit and yours. Know therefore such.\n\n6 [16:19]The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute\nyou much in the Lord, with the assembly [church] at their house.\n[16:20]All the brothers salute you. Salute one another with a holy kiss.\n\n7 [16:21]The salutation with my hand, Paul's. [16:22]If any one is not\na friend to the Lord, let him be accursed. The Lord comes.  [16:23]The\ngrace of the Lord Jesus be with you. [16:24]My love be with you all in\nChrist Jesus.\n\n\n\n\nSECOND EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS.\n\n\nPHILIPPI, A.D. 58. (ACTS, 16:1.)\n\n\n\nCHAPTER I.\n\nTHE APOSTLE'S LOVE OF THE CORINTHIANS, HIS TRIALS, HIS DESIGN TO VISIT\nTHEM, HIS FORMER LETTER, ETC.\n\n1 [1:1]PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy\nthe brother, to the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the\nsaints who are in all Achaia. [1:2]Grace be to you, and peace from God\nour Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.\n\n2 [1:3]Blessed be the God and lather of our Lord Jesus Christ, the\nFather of mercies and God of all comfort, [1:4]who comforts us in all\nour affliction, that we may be able to comfort those in every\naffliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by\nGod, [1:5]because as Christ's sufferings abound in us, so also through\nChrist does our comfort abound. [1:6]And if we are afflicted, it is for\nyour comfort and salvation, wrought by a patient endurance the same\nsufferings which we also suffer, and our hope for you is strong; and if\nwe are comforted, it is for your comfort and salvation, [1:7] knowing\nthat as you are partakers of the sufferings, so you are also of the\ncomfort.\n\n3 [1:8]For we wish you not to be ignorant, brothers, of our affliction\nwhich befell us in Asia, that we were exceedingly oppressed beyond our\npower, so that we despaired even of life; [1:9]but we had the sentence\nof death in ourselves, that we might not trust in ourselves, but in God\nwho raises the dead, [1:10]who delivered us from so great a death and\nwill deliver, in whom we hope that he will also still deliver,\n[1:11]you also striving together for us in prayer, that thanks may be\nrendered for us by many persons for the gift bestowed on us by many.\n\n4 [1:12]For this is our rejoicing; the testimony of our conscience that\nin purity and godly sincerity, not with a carnal wisdom, but with a\ndivine grace, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and most\nabundantly towards you. [1:13]For we do not write to you of other\nthings, but of what you read and acknowledge; and I hope you will also\nacknowledge to the end, [1:14]as you have also acknowledged us in part,\nthat we are your rejoicing as you also are ours in the day of the Lord\nJesus.\n\n5 [1:15]And in this confidence I wished to come to you before, that you\nmight have a second benefit, [1:16]and to pass by you into Macedonia,\nand to come again from Macedonia to you, and by you to be sent forward\nto Judea. [1:17] Wishing this therefore, did I use lightness? or what I\nwish do I wish according to the flesh, that with me there may be the\nyes, yes, and the no, no?  [1:18]But as God is faithful, our word to\nyou was not yes and no.  [1:19]For Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who\nwas preached among you by us, by me and Silvanus and Timothy, was not\nyes and no, but was yes in him; [1:20]for all the promises of God, the\nyes in him, and the Amen in him, are for glory to God by us. [1:21]And\nhe that establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us, is God,\n[1:22] who has also sealed us and given us the pledge of the Spirit in\nour hearts.\n\n6 [1:23]But I call God to witness on my soul, that to spare you I have\nnot yet come to Corinth. [1:24]Not that we are lords of your faith, but\nco-laborers of your joy; for you stand firm by the faith. [2:1]But I\ndetermined this with myself, not to come again to you in sorrow;\n[2:2]for if I grieve you, who is he that gladdens me, but he that is\ngrieved by me? [2:3]And I wrote the same to you that coming I might not\nhave sorrow for those in whom I ought to have joy, having trusted in\nyou all that my joy is the joy of you all. [2:4]For I wrote to you in\nmuch affliction and distress of mind with many tears, not that you\nshould be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have\nabundantly for you.\n\n7 [2:5]But if any one has caused grief, he has not grieved me, but in\npart, that I may not be hard upon you, [has grieved you] all,\n[2:6]Sufficient for such a one is this rebuke by many; [2:7]so that on\nthe other hand you ought to forgive and comfort him, that he may not be\noverwhelmed with excessive sorrow. [2:8]I exhort you, therefore, to\nconfirm your love to him; [2:9]for I wrote for this purpose, that I\nmight know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.\n[2:10]But whom you favor I also will favor; for what favor I have\nshown, if I have shown any favor, has been for your sakes, in the\npresence of Christ, [2:11]that we may not be circumvented by Satan; for\nwe are not ignorant of his devices.\n\n8 [2:12]But when I came to Troas for the gospel of Christ, and a door\nwas opened to me by the Lord, [2:13]I had no rest in my spirit from not\nfinding Titus my brother; but leaving them I went to Macedonia.\n[2:14]But thanks be to God, who always triumphs over us in Christ and\nreveals the odor of his knowledge by us in every place; [2:15]for we\nare a sweet odor of Christ to God, in the saved and in the lost,\n[2:16]in one an odor of death to death, and in the other an odor of\nlife to life. And who is sufficient for these things? [2:17]For we are\nnot as many, who adulterate the word of God, [for gain]; but as of\nsincerity, but as of God, we speak before God in Christ.\n\n9 [3:1]Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some,\ncommendatory epistles to you or from you? [3:2]You are our epistle,\nwritten by our hearts, known and read by all men, [3:3]for you are\nmanifestly an epistle of Christ delivered by us, written not with ink\nbut with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on\ntablets of hearts of flesh. [3:4]And we have such confidence through\nJesus Christ in God; [3:5]not that we are sufficient of ourselves to\nreason out any thing as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God,\n[3:6]who also has made us able ministers of the new covenant, not of\nthe writing but of the spirit; for the writing kills, but the spirit\nmakes alive.\n\n10 [3:7]But if the ministry of death engraved in a writing on stones\nwas glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at\nthe face of Moses on account of the brightness of his face, which\npassed away, [3:8]how shall not the ministry of the spirit be glorious?\n[3:9]For if the ministry of condemnation was a glory, much more will\nthe ministry of righteousness abound in glory. [3:10]For that which was\nmade glorious was not glorious in this respect, on account of the\nsurpassing glory. [3:11]For if that which has passed away was with\nglory, much more will that which continues be in glory.\n\n11 [3:12]Having therefore this hope we use great boldness, [3:13]and\nnot as Moses put a vail on his face, that the children of Israel might\nnot see to the end of that which has passed away; [3:14]but their minds\nwere blinded. For to this day in reading the old covenant the same vail\nremains, not taken away because it is taken away in Christ; [3:15]but\nto this day when Moses is read a vail lies upon their minds; [3:16]but\nwhen they turn to the Lord the vail is taken away. [3:17]And the Lord\nis the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty.\n[3:18]And we all with unvailed face beholding as in a glass the glory\nof the Lord, are transformed into the same likeness, from glory to\nglory, as by the Spirit of the Lord.\n\n12 [4:1]Therefore, having this ministry, as we have obtained mercy we\nfaint not, [4:2]but have renounced the hidden things of shame, not\nwalking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but\ncommending ourselves by the manifestation of the truth to every\nconscience of men before God. [4:3]But if our gospel is vailed it is\nvailed among the lost, [4:4]in whom the god of this life has blinded\nthe minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory\nof Christ, who is the likeness of God, may not shine. [4:5]For we\npreach not ourselves but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your\nservants for Jesus' sake. [4:6]For God who commanded the light to shine\nout of darkness, has shone in our hearts to give us the light of the\nknowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.\n\n13 [4:7]But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the\nexcellency of the power may be of God and not of us, [4:8]being\nafflicted in every thing but not distressed, being perplexed but not in\ndespair, [4:9]being persecuted but not deserted, being cast down but\nnot destroyed, [4:10]always carrying about the death of Jesus in the\nbody, that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.\n[4:11]For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake,\nthat the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our mortal flesh.\n[4:12]So that death works in us, but life in you. [4:13]And having the\nsame spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, therefore\nI spoke, we also believe and therefore speak, [4:14]knowing that he who\nraised up the Lord Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus, and present\nus with you. [4:15]For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant\ngrace may abound through the thanksgiving of many to the glory of God.\n\n14 [4:16]Wherefore we faint not, but if our outward man is destroyed\nour inward man is renewed day by day. [4:17]For the light affliction\nwhich is for a moment, works out for us more abundantly an eternal\nweight of glory, [4:18] while we look not on the things which are seen\nbut on the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are\nfor a time, but those which are unseen are eternal.\n\n15 [5:1]For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle was\ndestroyed, we have an edifice from God, a house not made with hands,\neternal in the heavens. [5:2]For in this we also groan, earnestly\ndesiring to put on our dwelling which is from heaven, [5:3]if indeed\nalso having put it on we may not be found naked.  [5:4]For being in\nthis tabernacle we groan, being burdened, because we do not wish to put\nit off, but to put on [the other], that the mortal may be swallowed up\nby life. [5:5]And he that has made us for this is God, who has given us\nthe pledge of the Spirit. [5:6]Being always confident therefore, and\nknowing that while we are present in the body we are absent from the\nLord,-- [5:7]we walk by faith, not by sight;-- [5:8]but we are\nconfident, and are pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be\npresent with the Lord. [5:9] Wherefore also we strive, whether present\nor absent, to be well pleasing to him. [5:10]For we must all appear\nbefore the tribunal of Christ, that each one may receive through the\nbody for what he has done, whether it is good or evil.\n\n16 [5:11]Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord we persuade men, but\nare made manifest to God; and I hope also to be made manifest in your\nconsciences. [5:12] For we do not again commend ourselves to you, but\ngive you occasion to glory on our account, that you may have something\nfor those that glory in appearance and not in heart. [5:13]For if we\nare beside ourselves it is for God; and if we are sober it is for you.\n[5:14]For the love of Christ constrains us, judging this, that if one\ndied for all then were all dead; [5:15]and he died for all, that those\nwho live should no more live for themselves but for him that died for\nthem and rose again. [5:16]So that from henceforth we know no man after\nthe flesh; and if we have known Christ after the flesh, we now know him\nno more. [5:17]So that if any one is in Christ he is a new creation;\nold things have passed away, behold, all things have become new.\n[5:18]And all things are of God, who has reconciled us to himself by\nJesus Christ, and given us the ministry of the reconciliation, [5:19]to\nwit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not\nimputing to them their offenses, and has given to us the word of\nreconciliation.  [5:20]We are embassadors therefore for Christ, as\nthough God besought you by us; we pray you, for Christ, be reconciled\nto God. [5:21]For he made him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we\nmight become God's righteousness in him.\n\n17 [6:1]And being also co-laborers we exhort you not to receive the\ngrace of God in vain,-- [6:2]for he says, In an acceptable time I heard\nyou, and in a day of salvation I helped you; behold, now is an\nacceptable time, behold, now is a day of salvation,-- [6:3]giving no\noffense in any thing, that the ministry may not be blamed, [6:4]but in\nevery thing commending ourselves as ministers of God, in great\npatience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, [6:5]in\nstripes, in imprisonments, in dissensions, in labors, in watchings, in\nfastings, [6:6]in purity, in knowledge, in long-suffering, in kindness,\nin the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned, [6:7]in the word of truth, in\nthe power of God; with the arms of righteousness on the right hand and\non the left, [6:8]with honor and dishonor, with evil report and good\nreport; as deceivers and true, [6:9]as unknown and well-known, as dying\nand behold we live, as chastened and not killed, [6:10]as grieving but\nalways rejoicing, as poor but making many rich, as having nothing and\npossessing all things.\n\n18 [6:11]Our mouth is opened to you, Corinthians, our heart is\nenlarged; [6:12] you are not straitened in us, but you are straitened\nin your own souls; [6:13] and now as a return of benefits, I speak as\nto children, do you also be enlarged.\n\n19 [6:14]Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers; for what\nparticipation has righteousness with wickedness? or what communion has\nlight with darkness? [6:15] and what agreement has Christ with Beliar,\nor what part has a believer with an unbeliever? [6:16]and what\nagreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the\nliving God; as God said, I will dwell in them, and I will walk in them,\nand I will be to them a God and they shall be to me a people. [6:17]Go\nout therefore from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, and\ntouch not the impure; and I will receive you, [6:18]and will be to you\na father, and you shall be to me sons and daughters, says the Lord\nAlmighty. [7:1] Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us purify\nourselves from every defilement of the flesh and spirit, perfecting\nholiness in the fear of God.\n\n20 [7:2]Receive us; we have injured no one, we have destroyed no one,\nwe have defrauded no one. [7:3]I say this not to condemn you, for I\nhave said before that you are in our hearts both to die and live\ntogether. [7:4]I have great boldness towards you, and great glorying on\nyour account; I am full of comfort, I have a super-abounding joy in all\nour afflictions. [7:5]For when we came into Macedonia our flesh had no\nrest, but we were distressed on every hand; without were conflicts,\nwithin fears; [7:6]but God who comforts the humble comforted us by the\ncoming of Titus; [7:7]and not only by his coming but also by the\ncomfort with which he was comforted on your account, telling us of your\ngreat desire, your deep sorrow, your zeal for me, so that I rather\nrejoiced. [7:8]For if I even grieved you by the epistle, I do not\nrepent, though I did repent; for because I see that the epistle grieved\nyou but for a time, [7:9]now I rejoice, not that you were grieved, but\nthat you grieved to a change of mind; for you were grieved in a godly\nmanner, to suffer injury from us in nothing.  [7:10]For godly sorrow\nproduces a change of mind to salvation not to be repented of; but the\nsorrow of the world produces death.  [7:11]For behold, this same thing,\nthat you grieved in a godly manner, how great diligence it produced in\nyou, what a defense, what indignation, what fear, what desire, what\nzeal, what a punishment! In every thing you proved yourselves to be\nclear in this matter.\n\n21 [7:12]If therefore I wrote to you, it was not on account of him that\ndid the wrong, nor on account of him that suffered wrong, but that our\ndiligence in your behalf might be manifest before God. [7:13]On this\naccount we were comforted. And in addition to our comfort, we rejoiced\nmore abundantly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed\nby you all; [7:14]for if I had boasted of you to him I was not ashamed,\nbut as we said all things to you in truth, so also the boasting of you\nto Titus was truth. [7:15]And his affection is more abundant for you,\nremembering the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling you\nreceived him. [7:16]I rejoice that I have confidence in you in every\nthing.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER II.\n\nA CONTRIBUTION SOLICITED FOR THE SAINTS AT JERUSALEM.\n\n1 [8:1]AND I make known to you, brothers, the grace of God given to the\nchurches of Macedonia, [8:2]that in much trying affliction the\nabundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of\ntheir liberality. [8:3]For according to their ability, I testify, and\nbeyond their ability, of their own accord, [8:4]with much entreaty they\ndesired of us the favor of a participation in the service to the\nsaints; [8:5]and not as we hoped, but they first gave themselves to the\nLord and to us by the will of God, [8:6]so that we requested Titus, as\nhe before began, that he would complete also this charity with you.\n[8:7]But as you abound in every thing, in faith, and speech, and\nknowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love for us, [we desire]\nthat you may abound in this grace also.\n\n2 [8:8]I do not speak by command, but on account of the diligence of\nothers, and to prove the genuineness of your love; [8:9]for you know\nthe grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for your sakes he became poor,\nthough rich, that you by his poverty might be rich. [8:10]And in this\ncase I give an opinion; for this is expedient for you, who began before\nto act in this matter and to act willingly a year ago. [8:11]And now,\ntherefore, perform the doing also, that as there was a readiness to\nwill, so also there may be a performance from what you have. [8:12]For\nif there is a willing mind, a man is acceptable according to what he\nhas, and not according to what he has not. [8:13]Not that others may be\nrelieved and you burdened, [8:14]but that there may be an equality;\nthat at the present time your abundance may supply their deficiency,\nand that their abundance may supply your deficiency, that there may be\nan equality, [8:15]as it is written; He that [gathered] much had\nnothing over, and he that [gathered] little had no deficiency.\n\n3 [8:16]But thanks be to God, who put this care for you into the heart\nof Titus, [8:17]for he received the exhortation, and being extremely\ndiligent went to you of his own accord. [8:18]And we sent with him the\nbrother, whose praise in the gospel is in all the churches, [8:19]and\nnot only so, but he has also been chosen by the churches as our\ntravelling companion in this charity ministered by us for the glory of\nthe same Lord and our promptitude, [8:20] guarding against this, that\nno one may blame us in this abundance administered by us; [8:21]for we\nprovide things honorable not only before the Lord, but also before men.\n[8:22]And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have often proved\nin many services to be diligent, and who is now much more diligent from\nthe great confidence in you. [8:23]If [any one inquires] respecting\nTitus, he is my companion and co-laborer for you; if our brothers, they\nare apostles of churches and the glory of Christ. [8:24]Show them\ntherefore the proof of your love, and of our boasting of you before the\nchurches.\n\n4 [9:1]For concerning the service for the saints it is superfluous for\nme to write to you; [9:2]for I know your readiness, of which I boasted\nin your behalf to the Macedonians that Achaia was ready a year ago, and\nyour zeal has excited many.  [9:3]But I sent the brothers, that our\nboasting of you may not be in vain in this respect, as I said you were\nprepared, [9:4]lest if the Macedonians should come with me and find you\nunprepared, we, not to say you, should be ashamed of this confidence.\n[9:5]I thought it necessary, therefore, to exhort the brothers to go to\nyou before, and to make ready your free gift before announced, that it\nmay be ready as a free gift and not as an exaction.\n\n5 [9:6]And [consider] this, He that sows sparingly shall reap also\nsparingly, and he that sows liberally shall reap also liberally.\n[9:7]Let each one contribute as he chooses in his heart, not with\nregret or from necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver. [9:8]And God\nis able to make every favor abound to you, that having always every\nsufficiency in every thing you may abound in every good work; [9:9]as\nit is written, He scattered abroad, he gave to the poor, his\nrighteousness continues forever. [9:10]And may he that supplies seed to\nthe sower and bread for eating multiply your grain, and increase the\nproducts of your righteousness; [9:11]that you may be enriched in every\nthing for all liberality, which produces through us thanksgiving to\nGod. [9:12]For the performance of this service not only supplies the\nneed of the saints, but also abounds with the thanksgivings of many to\nGod; [9:13][they] glorifying God on account of the proof of this\nministry for your professed subjection to the gospel of Christ and the\nliberality of the contribution to them and to all, [9:14]and by their\nprayer for you, greatly longing for you on account of the abounding\ngrace of God upon you. [9:15]Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER III.\n\nPAUL'S REPLY TO HIS DETRACTORS.\n\n1 [10:1]I PAUL also exhort you by the meekness and gentleness of\nChrist, who in appearance am humble among you, but being absent am bold\ntowards you; [10:2]and I desire that I may not be bold when present,\nwith that confidence which I design to use against some who speak of us\nas if we walked according to the flesh.  [10:3]For though we walk in\nthe flesh we do not war according to the flesh, [10:4]for the arms of\nour warfare are not of flesh, but mighty with God to the pulling down\nof strongholds, [10:5]destroying [false] reasonings and every height\nwhich is exalted against the knowledge of God, and subjecting every\nthought to the obedience of Christ, [10:6]and being ready to punish\nevery disobedience, when your obedience is completed.\n\n2 [10:7]You see things according to appearances. If any one trusts in\nhimself that he is Christ's, let him consider again with himself that\nas he is Christ's so also are we. [10:8]For if I should even boast some\nof our authority which the Lord gave for your edification, and not for\nyour destruction, I should not be ashamed. [10:9][But I forbear,] that\nI may not seem as though I would terrify you by epistles. [10:10]For\nthe epistles, say they, are weighty and powerful, but the bodily\npresence is weak and speech contemptible. [10:11]Let such a one think,\nthat such as we are in word by epistles when absent, such also will we\nbe in work when present. [10:12]For we dare not judge or compare\nourselves with some who commend themselves; but they, measuring\nthemselves with themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves,\nare not wise. [10:13]But we will not boast of things not measured, but\naccording to the measure of the rule which God has given us, to come\neven to you. [10:14]For we do not stretch ourselves out too far, as if\nwe had not come to you, for we came even to you with the gospel of\nChrist; [10:15]not boasting of things unmeasured in the labors of\nothers, but having a hope, your faith being increased, that we shall be\nmagnified among you according to our rule abundantly, [10:16]to preach\nthe gospel in the parts beyond you, not to boast of things prepared by\nanother's rule.  [10:17]But let him that glories glory in the Lord;\n[10:18]for not he that commends himself is approved, but he whom the\nLord commends.\n\n3 [11:1]I wish you would bear a little with my folly; and indeed do\nbear with me. [11:2]For I am zealous for you with a godly zeal, for I\njoined you, a chaste virgin, to one husband, to present to Christ;\n[11:3]but I fear lest as the serpent deceived Eve with his craftiness,\nso also your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity which is in\nChrist. [11:4]For if he that comes preaches another Jesus whom we did\nnot preach, or you receive another spirit which you did not receive, or\nanother gospel which you did not receive, you might well bear it;\n[11:5]for I judge that I am not behind the chief of the apostles.\n[11:6]And even if I am rude in speech, I certainly am not in knowledge,\nbut we have been made fully manifest to you in all things. [11:7] Have\nI done wrong to humble myself that you might be exalted, that I\npreached the gospel of God to you gratuitously? [11:8]I robbed other\nchurches taking wages to serve you; [11:9]and when I was with you and\nwas in want, I was burdensome to no one; for the brothers who came from\nMacedonia supplied beforehand my need; and in every thing I kept myself\nwithout being burdensome to you, and will keep myself so.\n\n4 [11:10]As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting in respect to\nmyself shall not be silenced in the regions of Achaia.  [11:11]Why?\nBecause I love you not? God knows. [11:12]But what I do I also will do,\nthat I may take away an occasion from those who wish an occasion, that\nwherein they boast they may be found even as we are. [11:13]For such\nfalse apostles, deceitful laborers, transform themselves into apostles\nof Christ.  [11:14]And no wonder; for Satan himself transforms himself\ninto an angel of light. [11:15]It is no great thing, therefore, if his\nministers transform themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end\nwill be according to their works.\n\n5 [11:16]Again, I say let no one think me to be foolish; but if\notherwise, even as a foolish man bear with me that I may boast a\nlittle. [11:17]What I say, I do not say according to the Lord, but as\nit were in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.  [11:18]Since\nmany boast of the flesh, I also will boast.  [11:19]You endure fools\npatiently being wise; [11:20]for you endure it if any one reduces you\nto servitude, if any one devours you, if any one takes from you, if any\none exalts himself against you, if any one beats you in the face.\n\n6 [11:21]I speak of reproach as if we were weak; wherein any one is\nbold, I speak foolishly, I am bold also. [11:22]Are they Hebrews? so am\nI. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the posterity of Abraham? so\nam I. [11:23]Are they ministers of Christ? I speak foolishly, I am\nmore; in labors most abundant, in stripes above measure, in\nimprisonments most abundant, in deaths often; [11:24]five times I\nreceived of the Jews forty [stripes] lacking one, [11:25] thrice was I\nbeaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice have I been shipwrecked, a\nnight and a day have I spent in the deep; [11:26]often on journeys, in\ndangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, in dangers from [my own]\nrace, in dangers from gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in\nthe wilderness, in dangers on the sea, in dangers among false brothers,\n[11:27]in labor and weariness, in watchings often, in hunger and\nthirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.  [11:28]Besides\nthings without, that which comes upon me daily, the care of all the\nchurches. [11:29]Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is offended, and I\nam not displeased? [11:30]If it is necessary to boast, I will boast of\nmy infirmities. [11:31]The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who\nis blessed forever, knows that I lie not. [11:32]In Damascus, the\nethnarch, when Aretas was king, guarded the city of the Damascenes,\ndesiring to take me, [11:33]and I was let down in a rope-basket, by a\nwindow in the wall, and escaped from his hands.\n\n7 [12:1]It is not expedient therefore for me to boast [of these\nthings]; for I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.\n[12:2]I know a man, in Christ above fourteen years, whether in the body\nI know not, or out of the body I know not, God knows,--such a one\ncaught up to the third heaven. [12:3]I know even such a man,--whether\nin the body or out of the body I know not, God knows,-- [12:4]that he\nwas caught up to paradise, and heard unutterable words, which it is not\nlawful for man to speak.  [12:5]Of such a one will I boast, but of\nmyself I will not boast except of my infirmities. [12:6]For if I shall\nwish to boast I shall not be foolish, for I will tell the truth. But I\nforbear, lest any one should think of me beyond what he sees or hears\nof me.\n\n8 [12:7]And that I might not be elated with my extraordinary\nrevelations, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, an angel of Satan\nto beat me, that I should not be too much exalted.  [12:8]For this I\nbesought the Lord thrice that it might leave me.  [12:9]And he said to\nme, My grace is sufficient for you; for power is perfected in weakness.\n[12:10]Most gladly, therefore, will I glory in my infirmities, that the\npower of Christ may rest upon me. Wherefore I am well pleased with\ninfirmities, with injuries, with necessities, with persecutions, with\ndistresses for Christ; for when I am weak, then am I strong.\n\n9 [12:11]I have become foolish; you compelled me. For I ought to have\nbeen commended by you; for in nothing am I behind the chief of the\napostles, though I also am nothing. [12:12]The signs of an apostle were\nperformed among you with all patience, in miracles, and prodigies, and\nmighty works. [12:13]For what is there in which you were inferior to\nthe rest of the churches, except that I was not burdensome to you?\nForgive me this wrong.\n\n10 [12:14]Behold, I am ready to come to you a third time, and I will\nnot be burdensome to you; for I seek not yours, but you. For the\nchildren ought not to lay up treasure for the parents, but the parents\nfor the children. [12:15]And I most gladly will spend and will be spent\nfor your souls, even if the more abundantly I love you the less I am\nloved. [12:16]Be it so, I was not burdensome to you; but being crafty I\ncaught you with deceit.  [12:17]Did I make any thing out of you by any\nof those I sent to you? [12:18]I requested Titus, and sent the brother\nwith him; did Titus make any thing out of you? Did we not walk in the\nsame spirit, in the same steps?\n\n\n\nCHAPTER IV.\n\nPROPOSED VISIT, ETC.\n\n1 [12:19]Do you again think that we are defending ourselves? We speak\nin Christ before God; all these things, beloved, are for your\nedification. [12:20]For I fear lest when I come I shall not find you\nsuch as I wish, and that I shall be found such as you wish not; lest\nthere shall be strife, envy, anger, contentions, evil speakings,\nwhisperings, pride, dissensions; [12:21]lest when I come again my God\nshall humble me before you, and I shall mourn for many who have sinned,\nand not changed their minds, in respect to impurity and fornication and\nlewdness which they have committed.\n\n2 [13:1]This third time I am coming to you; by the mouth of two or\nthree witnesses shall every word be established. [13:2]I have said\nbefore, and I now foretell as if present a second time, although\nabsent, to those who have already sinned and to all the rest, that if I\ncome again I will not spare; [13:3]since you seek a proof in me of\nChrist speaking, who is not weak to you but powerful in you; [13:4]for\nthough he was crucified in weakness, yet he lives by the power of God;\nand we also are weak in him, but live with him by the power of God in\nyou.\n\n3 [13:5]Try yourselves, whether you are in the faith; prove yourselves;\nor know you not yourselves that Christ is in you unless you are\nreprobates? [13:6]But I hope you will know that we are not reprobates.\n[13:7]We wish to God that you may do no evil, not that we may appear\napproved, but that you may do good though we should be as reprobates.\n[13:8]For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.\n[13:9]For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong; and we desire\nthis, your perfection.  [13:10]For this reason, being absent, I write\nthese things, that I may not use sharpness when present, with the power\nwhich the Lord has given me for building up, and not for pulling down.\n\n4 [13:11]Finally, brothers, rejoice, be perfect, be of good comfort, be\nof the same mind, live in peace, and the God of love and peace shall be\nwith you. [13:12]Salute one another with a holy kiss. [13:13]All the\nsaints salute you. [13:14]The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the\nlove of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.\n\n\n\n\nTHE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS.\n\n\nCORINTH, A.D., 58. (ACTS, 18:1)\n\n\n\nCHAPTER I.\n\nHIMSELF, JESUS CHRIST, AND THE GOSPEL.\n\n1 [1:1]PAUL, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set\napart to the gospel of God,-- [1:2]which he promised by his prophets in\nthe Holy Scriptures,-- [1:3]concerning his Son born of the posterity of\nDavid as to the flesh, [1:4]declared to be the Son of God in power as\nto the Spirit of holiness by the resurrection from the dead,--Jesus\nChrist our Lord,-- [1:5]through whom we have received grace and an\napostleship for the obedience of the faith in all nations in behalf of\nhis name, [1:6]among whom are you also the called of Jesus Christ,--\n[1:7]to all who are at Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints.\nGrace be to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.\n\n2 [1:8]First, indeed, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all,\nthat your faith is proclaimed in all the world. [1:9]For God is my\nwitness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how\nincessantly I make mention of you, always in my prayers [1:10]asking if\nby any means I may now at some time have a prosperous journey by the\nwill of God to come to you. [1:11]For I greatly desire to see you, that\nI may impart to you some spiritual gift, that you may be strengthened,\n[1:12]that is, that I may be comforted in you by the mutual faith both\nof you and me.\n\n3 [1:13]But I wish you not to be ignorant, brothers, that I often\npurposed to come to you, and was hindered hitherto, that I might have\nsome fruit also among you, as among the other gentiles.  [1:14]I am a\ndebtor both to the Greeks and the Barbarians, both to the wise and the\nignorant; [1:15]so that as far as depends upon me I am ready also to\npreach the gospel to those at Rome.  [1:16] For I am not ashamed of the\ngospel; for it is the power of God to salvation to every one that\nbelieves, the Jew first and also the Greek. [1:17]For God's\nrighteousness is revealed in it by faith in the faith [the gospel]; as\nit is written; The righteous shall live by faith.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER II.\n\nWICKEDNESS DESTROYS GENTILES AND JEWS.\n\n1 [1:18]FOR the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all\nimpiety and wickedness of men who hold the truth in wickedness,\n[1:19]because what can be known of God is manifest among them; for God\nhas manifested [himself] to them. [1:20]For his invisible [attributes]\nare clearly seen from the creation of the world, being perceived by the\nthings which are made, even his eternal power and deity, so that they\nhave no defense, [1:21]because having known God they glorified him not\nas God neither were thankful, but became vain in their reasonings and\ntheir ignorant mind was darkened. [1:22]Saying that they were wise they\nbecame foolish, [1:23]and changed the glory of the imperishable God\ninto the likeness of the image of perishable man, and of birds, and\nquadrupeds, and reptiles.\n\n2 [1:24]Wherefore God also gave them up with the desires of their\nhearts to impurity, to disgrace their bodies among themselves,\n[1:25]who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and\nserved the creation more than the Creator, who is blessed forever, amen.\n\n3 [1:26]Therefore God gave them up to infamous affections; for their\nfemales changed a natural enjoyment for that which is against nature,\n[1:27]and in like manner also the males, leaving the natural enjoyment\nof the female, became the subjects of inordinate desires for each\nother, males with males committing indecency, and receiving in return\nthe recompense of their error which was fit.\n\n4 [1:28]And as they did not choose to retain God in their knowledge,\nGod gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do things which are not\nproper, [1:29]being filled with all wickedness, malice, covetousness,\nvice, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions,\nwhisperers, [1:30]evil speakers, haters of God, injurious, proud,\nboasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,\n[1:31]unintelligent, covenant-breakers, without natural affection,\nunmerciful, [1:32]who knowing the ordinance of God, that those who do\nsuch things deserve death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in\nthose who do them.\n\n5 [2:1]Wherefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are that\njudge, for in that in which you judge another you condemn yourself; for\nyou who judge do the same things. [2:2]But we know that the judgment of\nGod is according to truth against those who do such things. [2:3]But do\nyou think this, O man, who judge those doing such things and do the\nsame, that you shall escape the judgment of God? [2:4]or do you despise\nthe riches of his goodness and forbearance and long suffering, not\nknowing that the goodness of God leads you to a change of mind?\n[2:5]But according to your hardness and unchanged heart you treasure up\nwrath for yourself in the day of wrath and of a revelation of the\nrighteous judgment of God, [2:6]who will render to each according to\nhis works; [2:7]to those who by patience in good works seek for glory\nand honor and immortality, eternal life; [2:8]but to those who are\ncontentions and disobey the truth, and obey unrighteousness,\nindignation and wrath. [2:9]Affliction and distress [shall be] on every\nsoul of man that does evil, both the Jew first and the Greek; [2:10]\nand glory and honor and peace to every one that does good, both the Jew\nfirst and the Greek.\n\n6 [2:11]For there is no respect of persons with God. [2:12]For as many\nas have sinned without the law shall perish without the law, and as\nmany as have sinned with the law shall be judged by the law,--\n[2:13]for not the hearers of the law are righteous with God, but the\ndoers of the law shall be justified; [2:14]for when the nations which\nhave not the law perform by nature [the commandments] of the law, these\nwho have not the law are a law to themselves, [2:15]and they show the\nwork of the law written in their minds, their consciences testifying\nwith them, and their judgments mutually accusing or defending one\nanother;-- [2:16]in the day when God shall judge the secret [doings] of\nmen according to my gospel through Jesus Christ.\n\n7 [2:17]But [what] if you are called a Jew and rest on the law, and\nboast of God, [2:18]and know his will, and approve of things which are\nexcellent, being instructed by the law, [2:19]and believe yourself to\nbe a guide of the blind, a light of those in darkness, [2:20]an\ninstructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of\nknowledge and of the truth in the law; [2:21]you that teach another, do\nyou not teach yourself? You that preach not to steal, do you steal?\n[2:22]You that command not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery?\nYou that abhor idols, do you commit sacrilege? [2:23]You who boast of\nthe law, by the transgression of the law do you dishonor God? [2:24]For\nthe name of God is blasphemed on your account among the nations as it\nis written.\n\n8 [2:25]For circumcision indeed is profitable if you perform the law,\nbut if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision becomes\nuncircumcision. [2:26]If therefore the uncircumcision keeps the\nordinances of the law, shall not its uncircumcision be accounted for\ncircumcision? [2:27]And the uncircumcision by nature which keeps the\nlaw shall judge you who with the written law and circumcision are a\ntransgressor of the law. [2:28]For not that which is external is the\nJew, nor is that which is external in the flesh circumcision. [2:29]But\nthat which is in secret is the Jew, and circumcision of the heart is in\nthe spirit not in the writing, the commendation of which is not of men\nbut of God.\n\n9 [3:1]What then is the preeminence of the Jew? or what the profit of\ncircumcision? [3:2]Much in every way. For first, indeed, that they were\nentrusted with the oracles of God.  [3:3]For what if some did not\nbelieve? Will their unbelief destroy the faith of God? [3:4]By no\nmeans; but let God be true, and every man a liar; as it is written,\nThat thou mayest be justified in thy sayings and overcome when thou art\njudged.\n\n10 [3:5]But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God,\nwhat shall we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak as a\nman;-- [3:6] by no means;--since [if he was] how shall God judge the\nworld? [3:7]For if the truth of God abounded by my falsehood to his\nglory, why am I also yet judged as a sinner?  [3:8]And as we are\nfalsely accused and as some declare that we say, [do we say] Let us do\nevil that good may come? Whose judgment is just.\n\n11 [3:9]What defense then have we? None at all; for we before asserted\nthat both Jews and Greeks are all under sin, [3:10]as it is written,\nThere is none righteous not one, [3:11]there is none that understands,\nthere is none that seeks God; [3:12]all have turned aside, they have\ntogether become unprofitable; there is no one that does good, there is\nnot even one; [3:13]their throat is an opened tomb, with their tongues\nthey practise deceit, the poison of asps is under their lips.\n[3:14]Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. [3:15] Their feet\nare swift to shed blood, [3:16]destruction and misery are in their\nways, [3:17]and the way of peace they have not known. [3:18]There is no\nfear of God before their eyes. [3:19]But we know that whatever the law\nsays, it says to those having the law, that every mouth may be stopped\nand all the world become guilty before God.  [3:20]Wherefore by the\nworks of the law there shall no flesh be justified is his sight, for by\nthe law there is an acknowledgment of sin.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER III.\n\nGOD'S RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH SAVES BOTH JEWS AND GENTILES.\n\n1 [3:21]BUT now God's righteousness has been made manifest without the\nlaw, being testified to by the law and the prophets, [3:22]but God's\nrighteousness is through the faith of Jesus Christ, in all and upon all\nthat believe. For there is no difference; [3:23]for all have sinned and\ncome short of the glory of God, [3:24]being justified freely by his\ngrace through the redemption in Christ Jesus, [3:25]whom God set forth\n[to be] a propitiator through faith in his blood, to show his\nrighteousness because of the passing by of the errors committed\npreviously in the forbearance of God, [3:26]to show his righteousness\nat the present time, that he may be righteous and justify him that is\nof faith.\n\n2 [3:27]Where then is the boasting [of the Jew]? It is excluded.  By\nwhat law? Of works? No; but by the law of faith. [3:28]We conclude then\nthat a man is justified by faith without the works of the law. [3:29]Is\nGod [a God] of the Jews alone? and not also of the gentiles? Yes, also\nof the gentiles, [3:30] since there is one God who will justify the\ncircumcision by faith and the uncircumcision through the [same] faith.\n[3:31]Do we then abrogate the law by the faith? By no means; but we\nestablish the law.\n\n3 [4:1]What shall we say then that Abraham our father found according\nto the flesh? [4:2]For if Abraham was justified by works he has\n[occasion for] boasting, but not before God.  [4:3]For what says the\nScripture? And Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for\nrighteousness. [4:4]But to one that works the reward is not accounted\nby grace but by debt. [4:5]But to one that works not, but believes on\nhim that justifies the wicked, his faith is [accounted] for\nrighteousness. [4:6]As David describes the blessedness of the man to\nwhom the Lord accounts righteousness without works, [4:7]Blessed are\nthey whose transgressions are forgiven and whose sins are covered;\n[4:8]blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not account sin.\n\n4 [4:9]Is this blessedness then on the circumcision? or also on the\nuncircumcision? [Also on the uncircumcision.] For we say that faith was\naccounted to Abraham for righteousness. [4:10]How then was it\naccounted? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in\ncircumcision, but in uncircumcision.  [4:11]And he received the symbol\nof circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which was in\nuncircumcision, so that he became the father of all that believe in\nuncircumcision, that righteousness may also be accounted to them,\n[4:12]and a father of circumcision not to those of the circumcision\nonly, but to those also who walk in the steps of the faith of our\nfather Abraham which was in uncircumcision.\n\n5 [4:13]For the promise to Abraham and his posterity that he should\ninherit the world was not through the law but through the righteousness\nof faith. [4:14]For if the subjects of the law are heirs, the faith is\ndone away and the promise abrogated.  [4:15]For the law produces wrath;\nfor where there is no law there is no transgression. [4:16]Therefore it\nis by faith that it may be by grace, that the promise may be sure to\nall the posterity, not to that of the law only but to that of the faith\nof Abraham, who is a father of us all, [4:17]as it is written, I have\nmade you a father of many nations before God in whom he believed, who\nmakes the dead alive and calls things which do not exist as existing.--\n[4:18]who against hope believed in hope that he should become a father\nof many nations according to the saying shall your posterity be. [4:19]\nAnd being not weak in faith, he did not regard himself as dead, being\nnow about a hundred years old, nor Sarah's incapacity for\nchild-bearing, [4:20]and he did not doubt the promise of God by\nunbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory to God, [4:21]being\nfully persuaded that what he had promised he was able to perform.\n[4:22]Wherefore also it was accounted to him for righteousness. [4:23]\nBut it was not written for his sake alone, that it was accounted to\nhim, [4:24] but also for our sakes, to whom it is about to be accounted\nif we believe on him that raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,\n[4:25]who was delivered up for our sins and raised for our\njustification.\n\n6 [5:1]Having been justified therefore by faith, we have peace with God\nthrough our Lord Jesus Christ, [5:2]through whom also we have been\nintroduced into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in the hope\nof the glory of God. [5:3]And not only [this], but we rejoice also in\nafflictions, knowing that affliction works out patience, [5:4]and\npatience, experience, and experience, hope; [5:5] and the hope makes\nnot ashamed, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts\nthrough the Holy Spirit given us. [5:6]For when we were yet weak, in\ndue time Christ died for the wicked; [5:7]for scarcely for a righteous\nman will one die, but for a good man some one perhaps would even dare\nto die; [5:8]but God commends his love to us, that while we were yet\nsinners Christ died for us; [5:9]much more then being now justified by\nhis blood, we shall be saved through him from wrath.  [5:10]For if when\nenemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much\nmore having become reconciled we shall be saved in his life. [5:11]And\nnot only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ,\nthrough whom we received the present reconciliation.\n\n7 [5:12]Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world and\ndeath through sin, and so came upon all men because all sinned,--\n[5:13]for till the law there was sin in the world, but sin is not\naccounted where there is no law [5:14]but death reigned from Adam till\nMoses even over those that sinned not after the similitude Adam's\ntransgression, who is a type of him that was to come; [5:15]but not as\nthe fall so also is the gift; for if by the fall of one the many died,\nmuch more the grace of God and the gift by grace which is of the one\nman Jesus Christ, abounded to the many; [5:16]and not as through one\nthat sinned is the gift; for the judgment was by one to condemnation,\nbut the gift was from many sins to a righteous ordinance; [5:17]for if\nby one fall death reigned through the one, much more those who receive\nthe abundance of the grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign\nin life through the one, Jesus Christ;-- [5:18]therefore, as through\nthe fall of one [judgment came] on all men to condemnation, so also\nthrough the righteous ordinance of one [the gift comes] on all men to\njustification of life; [5:19]for as through the disobedience of the one\nman the many were constituted sinners, so also through the obedience of\nthe one shall the many be constituted righteous. [5:20]For the law\nsupervened that the fall might abound; but where the sin abounded the\ngrace was superabundant, [5:21]that as sin reigned in death, so the\ngrace shall reign through righteousness in life eternal through Jesus\nChrist our Lord.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER IV.\n\nSIN IS ON NO ACCOUNT TO BE ALLOWED.\n\n1 [6:1]WHAT shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that the grace\nmay abound? [6:2]By no means. How shall we who died to sin any longer\nlive in it? [6:3]Do you not know that as many of us as were baptized in\nChrist were baptized in his death? [6:4]We have been buried therefore\nwith him through baptism in death, that as Christ was raised from the\ndead through the glory of the Father, so we also should walk in newness\nof life. [6:5]For if we have been planted together in the likeness of\nhis death, we shall much more be of his resurrection; [6:6]knowing this\nthat our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be\ndestroyed, that we should no longer serve sin; [6:7] for he that died\nwas justified from sin. [6:8]And if we died with Christ, we believe\nthat we shall also live with him; [6:9]knowing that Christ being raised\nfrom the dead dies no more; death has no longer a lordship over him.\n[6:10]For [the death] which he died, he died to sin once; but [the\nlife] which he lives, he lives to God. [6:11]So also account yourselves\ndead indeed to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus.\n\n2 [6:12]Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies, to obey its\ndesires, [6:13]neither present your members as instruments of\nwickedness to sin, but present yourselves to God as living from the\ndead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.\n[6:14]For sin shall not have a Lordship over you; for you are not under\nthe law but under the grace.\n\n3 [6:15]What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but\nunder the grace? By no means. [6:16]Know you not that to whom you\npresent yourselves servants for obedience, his servants you are whom\nyou obey, whether of sin in death or of obedience in righteousness?\n[6:17]But thanks be to God that you were servants of sin, but obeyed\nfrom the heart the form of teaching in which you were instructed,\n[6:18]and having become free from sin you served righteousness. [6:19]I\nspeak after the manner of men on account of the weakness of your flesh.\nFor as you presented your members servants to impurity and to\nwickedness in wickedness, so now present your members servants to\nrighteousness in sanctification. [6:20]For when you were servants of\nsin, you were free from righteousness. [6:21]What fruit had you\ntherefore then in things of which you are now ashamed? for the end of\nthem is death. [6:22]But now having been made free from sin and made\nservants to God, you have your fruit in sanctification, and the end\neternal life. [6:23]For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God\nis eternal life by Christ Jesus our Lord.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER V.\n\nTHOSE IN CHRIST DEAD TO THE LAW, THE FLESH THE PRINCIPLE OF SIN, ITS\nDOMINION OVER THE MIND, ETC.\n\n1 [7:1]ARE you ignorant, brothers, for I speak to them who understand\nlaw, that the law has authority over a man as long as he lives?\n[7:2]For a woman under a husband is bound by law to a living husband;\nbut if the husband has died she is released from the law of the\nhusband. [7:3]Therefore while the husband lives, she shall be called an\nadulteress if she is married to another man; but if the husband has\ndied, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress if\nmarried to another man. [7:4]So, my brothers, you have also died to the\nlaw through the body of Christ, that you should be married to another,\nto him that was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.\n[7:5]For when we were in the flesh, the sinful affections operated\nthrough the law in our members to bear fruit to death; [7:6]but now we\nare released from the law by which we were held having died, that we\nshould serve [God] in newness of spirit, not in the old age of a\nwriting.\n\n2 [7:7]What shall we say then? Is the law sin? By no means. On the\ncontrary I knew not sin except through the law; for I had not known\ninordinate desire, unless the law had said, You shall not desire\ninordinately. [7:8]But Sin having taken occasion through the\ncommandment wrought in me every inordinate desire; for without the law\nsin was dead.\n\n3 [7:9]And I was alive without the law once, but when the commandment\ncame, sin revived, and I died, [7:10]and the commandment which was for\nlife was found to be for death.  [7:11]For sin having taken occasion\nthrough the commandment deceived me, and through it killed me.\n[7:12]The law therefore is holy, and the commandment holy and righteous\nand good. [7:13]Did then that which is good become death to me? By no\nmeans, but sin; that sin might be made manifest, producing death to me\nthrough that which is good, that sin might become exceedingly sinful\nthrough the commandment. [7:14]For we know that the law is spiritual;\nbut I am carnal, sold under sin. [7:15]For what I do this I approve\nnot; for I do not what I wish, but what I hate, this I do. [7:16]But if\nwhat I wish not this I do, I consent to the law that it is good;\n[7:17]and now I no longer do it, but the sin that dwells in me.\n[7:18]For I know that in me, that is in my flesh, there dwells no good.\nFor to wish is present with me, but to do the good is not; [7:19]for\nthe good which I wish I do not, but the evil which I wish not this I do.\n\n4 [7:20]But if what I wish not this I do, I no longer do it, but sin\nwhich dwells in me. [7:21]I find therefore the law, that when I wish to\ndo good evil is present with me; [7:22]for I consent to the law of God\nas to my inward man, [my soul], [7:23]but I see another law in my\nmembers warring against the law of my mind, and making me captive to\nthe law of sin which is in my members.  [7:24] Miserable man that I am;\nwho will deliver me from the body of this death? [7:25] Thanks be to\nGod through Jesus Christ our Lord; therefore I myself with the mind\nserve the law of God, and with the flesh the law of sin.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER VI.\n\nTHOSE IN CHRIST NOT SUBJECT TO CONDEMNATION, NOR TO THE FLESH, BUT\nRULED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT, ETC.\n\n1 [8:1]THERE is no condemnation therefore to those in Christ Jesus;\n[8:2]for the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free\nfrom the law of sin and death. [8:3]For what the law could not do\nbecause it was weak through the flesh, God having sent his Son in the\nlikeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned the sin in the flesh,\n[8:4]that the righteous ordinance of the law may be performed by us who\nwalk not according to the flesh, but according to the spirit. [8:5]For\nthey who are according to the flesh mind the things of the flesh, but\nthey who are according to the spirit the things of the spirit; [8:6]\nfor the minding of the flesh is death, but the minding of the Spirit is\nlife and peace. [8:7]Because the minding of the flesh is enmity against\nGod; for it is not subject to the law of God; for it can not be.\n[8:8]And they that are in the flesh cannot please God. [8:9]But you are\nnot in the flesh but in the spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells\nin you. And if any man has not the spirit of Christ he is not his.\n[8:10]But if Christ is in you, the body is dead on account of sin, but\nthe spirit is life on account of righteousness. [8:11]And if the Spirit\nof him that raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he that raised\nChrist from the dead shall make alive your mortal bodies through his\nSpirit that dwells in you.\n\n2 [8:12]Therefore, brothers, we are debtors not to the flesh to live\naccording to the flesh. [8:13]For if you live according to the flesh,\nyou shall die; but if by the spirit you kill the deeds of the body, you\nshall live. [8:14]For as many as are led by the Spirit of God they are\nsons of God. [8:15]For you received not the spirit of servitude again\nto fear, but you received the spirit of adoption, by which we cry;\nAbba, Father. [8:16]The Spirit itself is a co-witness with our spirits\nthat we are children of God. [8:17]And if children, [we are] also\nheirs, heirs indeed of God and co-heirs with Christ, if we suffer with\nhim that we may also be glorified with him.\n\n3 [8:18]For I think that the sufferings of the present time are of no\naccount in comparison with the glory to be revealed in us.  [8:19]For\nthe earnest expectation of the creation waits for the revelation of the\nsons of God. [8:20] For the creation was subjected to a perishable\ncondition, not willingly, but by him that subjected it, in hope\n[8:21]that the same creation will be delivered from the servitude of\ndestruction and [brought] into the glorious liberty of the sons of God.\n[8:22]For we know that all the creation groans and is in pain till now;\n[8:23]and not only it, but we ourselves also who have the first fruit\nof the Spirit, even ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the\nadoption, the redemption of our bodies. [8:24]For we are saved by hope;\nbut a hope that is seen is not a hope; for why does one hope for what\nhe sees? [8:25]but if we hope for what we see not, we wait for it with\npatience.\n\n4 [8:26]And in like manner also the Spirit helps our weakness.  For we\nknow not what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit makes\nintercession for us with groanings unutterable; [8:27]and he that\nsearches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because it\nmakes intercession with God for the saints. [8:28]And we know that all\nthings work together for good to those who love God, to those who are\ncalled according to [his] purpose.  [8:29]For whom he foreknew, he also\npredestinated to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he may\nbe a first-born among many brothers; [8:30]and whom he predestinated\nthem he also called; and whom he called them he also justified; and\nwhom he justified them he also glorified.\n\n5 [8:31]What shall we say then to these things? If God is for us, who\nis against us? [8:32]He who spared not his Son, but gave him up for us\nall, how shall he not also with him freely give us all things?\n[8:33]Who will bring a charge against God's elect? It is God that\njustifies; [8:34]who is he that condemns? Is it Christ who died, and\nstill more, who has also been raised, and who is on the right hand of\nGod, and who makes intercession for us?  [8:35]Who shall separate us\nfrom the love of Christ? Shall affliction or distress, persecution or\nfamine, or nakedness, or peril, or the sword? [8:36]As it is written,\nFor thy sake we are killed all the day; we are accounted as sheep for\nslaughter.  [8:37]But in all these things we more than conquer, through\nhim who loved us. [8:38]For I am persuaded that neither death nor life,\nnor angels nor principalities, nor things present nor things to come,\nnor powers, [8:39]nor height, nor depth, nor any other creation, shall\nbe able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER VII.\n\nTHE REJECTION OF THE UNBELIEVING JEWS.\n\n1 [9:1]I SPEAK the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing me\nwitness with the Holy Spirit, [9:2]that I have great grief and\ncontinual pain in my heart; [9:3]for I have wished that I was myself\naccursed from Christ for my brothers, my kindred according to the\nflesh, [9:4]who are Israelites, whose are the adoption and the glory,\nand the covenants and the giving of the law, and the service, and the\npromises, [9:5]whose are the fathers, and of whom is Christ, according\nto the flesh. He who is over all is God blessed forever, amen. [9:6]\nNot that the word of God has failed of being accomplished. For all are\nnot Israel who are of Israel; [9:7]neither, because they are a\nposterity of Abraham, are they all children; but in Isaac shall your\nposterity be called; [9:8]that is, the children of the flesh are not\nthe children of God, but the children of the promise are accounted the\nposterity. [9:9]For this was the word of promise; According to this\ntime I will come, and Sarah shall have a son. [9:10]And not only this,\nbut Rebecca also being with child by one, by our father Isaac--\n[9:11]for the children not yet being born, nor having done any thing\ngood or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might\ncontinue, not of works but of him that calls,-- [9:12]it was said to\nher that the older shall serve the younger; [9:13]as it is written;\nJacob I loved, but Esau I hated.\n\n2 [9:14]What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? By\nno means. [9:15]For he says to Moses, I will be merciful to him to whom\nI may be merciful, and I will compassionate him whom I may\ncompassionate. [9:16] Therefore, it is not of him that wills nor of him\nthat runs, but of God that exercises mercy.  [9:17]For the Scripture\nsays to Pharaoh, For this same cause I raised you up, to show my power\nin you, and that my name may be declared in all the earth. [9:18]He\ntherefore has mercy on whom he will, and whom he will he hardens.\n[9:19]You will say to me then, Why then does he yet find fault? for who\nhas resisted his will? [9:20]Yes indeed, O man, who are you that reply\nagainst God? Shall the work say to him that made it, Why did you make\nme thus? [9:21]or has not the potter a right, in respect to the clay,\nto make of the same mass one vessel to honor and another to dishonor?\n[9:22]But if God wishing to show his wrath and to make known his power\nendured with much long suffering vessels of wrath fitted for\ndestruction, [9:23]and that he might make known the riches of his glory\non the vessels of mercy, which he before prepared for glory, [9:24]whom\nhe also called, us not of the Jews only but also of the gentiles,\n[9:25]as he says also in Hosea, I will call them that were not my\npeople, my people, and her that was not beloved, beloved, [9:26]and in\nthe place where it was said to them, You are not my people, there they\nshall be called children of the living God. [9:27]But Isaiah cries\nconcerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel is as\nthe sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved; [9:28]for he executes\nand performs his word in righteousness, for a finished work will the\nLord perform on the earth. [9:29]As also Isaiah said before, Unless the\nLord of Sabaoth had left us a posterity, we should have been like\nSodom, and should have resembled Gomorrah.\n\n3 [9:30]What shall we say then? That nations who did not pursue\nrighteousness attained a righteousness, but the righteousness which is\nby faith; [9:31]but Israel who pursued the law of righteousness did not\nattain to the law of righteousness.  [9:32]For what reason? Because\nthey are not of faith, but as it were of works of the law; for they\nstumbled at the stone of stumbling, [9:33]as it is written; Behold, I\nlay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, and he that\nbelieves on him shall not be ashamed.\n\n4 [10:1]Brothers, the earnest desire and prayer of my heart for Israel\nis for their salvation. [10:2]For I bear them witness that they have a\nzeal for God but not according to knowledge; [10:3]for not knowing\nGod's righteousness, and seeking to set up their righteousness, they\nhave not submitted themselves to God's righteousness. [10:4]For Christ\nis the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believes.\n[10:5]For Moses describes the righteousness of the law, that the man\nthat does these things shall live by them. [10:6]But the righteousness\nby faith speaks thus; Say not in your mind, who shall ascend into\nheaven?--that is, to bring Christ down,-- [10:7]or who shall descend\ninto the abyss?--that is, to bring Christ up from the dead. [10:8]But\nwhat does it say? The word is nigh you, in your mouth and in your mind;\nthat is, the word of the faith which we preach. [10:9]For if you\nconfess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe with your mind that\nGod raised him from the dead, you shall be saved; [10:10]for with the\nmind we believe to righteousness, and with the mouth we confess to\nsalvation.  [10:11]For the Scripture says, No one that believes in him\nshall be ashamed. [10:12]For there is no difference between Jew and\nGreek; for the same Lord of all is rich to all that call upon him.\n[10:13]For every one that calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.\n[10:14]How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed?\nand how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how\nshall they hear without one preaching? [10:15]and how shall they preach\nunless they have been sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the\nfeet of those that publish good news of peace, that publish good news\nof good things.\n\n5 [10:16]But all did not obey the gospel; for Isaiah says, Lord, who\nbelieved our report? [10:17]Faith therefore comes by the report, and\nthe report by the word of God. [10:18]But I say, Did they not hear? Yes\nindeed; their voice went into all the earth, and their words to the\nends of the world. [10:19]But I say, did not Israel know? First, Moses\nsays, I will provoke you by that which is not a nation, and by a\nfoolish nation will I excite you to anger. [10:20]But Isaiah is more\nbold and says, I was found by them that sought me not, I was made\nmanifest to them that inquired not after me. [10:21]But in respect to\nIsrael he says, All the day I stretched out my hands to a disobedient\nand contradicting people.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER VIII.\n\nTHE SALVATION OF BELIEVING JEWS AND THE CALLING OF THE GENTILES.\n\n1 [11:1]I SAY then, has God cast away his people? By no means; for I\nalso am an Israelite, of the race of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.\n[11:2]God has not cast away his people whom he foreknew. Know you not\nwhat the Scripture says in Elijah, how he intercedes with God against\nIsrael? [11:3]Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have dug down\nthy altars, and I am left alone, and they seek my life. [11:4]But what\nsays the response to him? I have reserved for myself seven thousand\nmen, who have not bowed the knee to Baal. [11:5]So then also at the\npresent time there is a remnant according to the election of grace;\n[11:6] but if by grace, no longer by works; for otherwise grace is no\nlonger grace; but if by works, it is no longer grace; for otherwise a\nwork is no longer a work. [11:7]What then? What Israel seeks, this it\ndid not obtain, but the election obtained; and the rest were\nhardened,-- [11:8]as it is written, God gave them a spirit of stupor,\neyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear--to\nthis day. [11:9]And David says, Let their table become a trap and a\nsnare and an offense and a stumbling block to them; [11:10]let their\neyes be darkened that they may not see, and bow down their back always.\n\n2 [11:11]I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? By no\nmeans; but by their fall the nations have salvation to excite them to\nemulation. [11:12] But if their fall is the riches of the world, and\ntheir diminution the riches of nations, how much more will their\nfullness be. [11:13]For I speak to you, gentiles.  Inasmuch as I am an\napostle of the gentiles, I glorify my ministry, [11:14]if perhaps I may\nexcite my flesh [race] to emulation and save some of them. [11:15]For\nif their falling away is the reconciling of the world, what will their\nrecovery be but life from the dead? [11:16]And if the first fruit is\nholy, the mass is also; and if the root is holy, the branches also are.\n\n3 [11:17]But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a\nwild olive, were grafted in among them and became a partaker of the\nroot and excellence of the olive, [11:18]boast not against the\nbranches; but if you boast, you bear not the root, but the root you.\n[11:19]You will say then, The branches were broken off that I might be\ngrafted in. [11:20]Well; they were broken off by unbelief, and you\nstand by faith. Be not high-minded, but fear; [11:21]for if God spared\nnot the natural branches, perhaps he will not spare you. [11:22]See\nthen the goodness and severity of God; towards those that fell,\nseverity, but towards you, the goodness of God, if you continue in\ngoodness, for otherwise you also will be cut off. [11:23]And they, if\nthey continue not in unbelief, will be grafted in; for God is able to\ngraft them in again. [11:24] For if you have been cut from an olive\nwild by nature, and grafted contrary to nature into a good olive, how\nmuch more shall they according to nature be grafted into their own\nolive.\n\n4 [11:25]For I wish you not to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery;\nthat you may not be wise in your own conceit. For hardness in part has\ncome upon Israel, till the fullness of the gentiles shall come in,\n[11:26]and so all Israel shall be saved; as it is written, A deliverer\nshall come from Zion, he shall turn away impiety from Jacob. [11:27]And\nthis is the promise to them from me, when I take away their sins.\n[11:28]As to the gospel, they are enemies on your account, but as to\nthe election, they are beloved on account of the fathers; [11:29]for\nthe gifts and calling of God are without a change of mind. [11:30]For\nas you once disobeyed God, but now have obtained mercy by their\ndisobedience, [11:31]so also they now have disobeyed that they may\nobtain mercy by your mercy. [11:32] For God has concluded all in\ndisobedience that he may have mercy on all. [11:33] O the depth of the\nriches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how inscrutable are his\njudgments, and his ways can not be explored!  [11:34]For who knew the\nmind of the Lord? or who was his counsellor? [11:35]or who first gave\nto him, and it shall be repaid him? [11:36]For of him and through him,\nand in him are all things; to him be glory forever; amen.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER IX.\n\nMORAL AND POLITICAL DUTIES.\n\n1 [12:1]I EXHORT you, therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to\npresent your bodies a living sacrifice; holy, well pleasing to God,\nyour reasonable service; [12:2]and be not conformed to this life, but\nbe transformed by the renewing of the mind, that you may prove what is\nthe will of God which is good and well-pleasing and perfect. [12:3]For\nI say through the grace given me, to every one among you, not to be\nhigher-minded than he ought to be, but to think soberly, as God has\ndistributed to each the measure of faith. [12:4]For as we have many\nmembers in one body, and all the members have not the same office,\n[12:5]so we, the many, are one body in Christ, and each one members one\nof another; [12:6]but having different gifts according to the grace\ngiven us, if prophecy [let us prophesy] according to the analogy of the\nfaith, [12:7]if a service [let us labor] in the service, if one\nteaches, in teaching, [12:8]if one exhorts in the exhortation, he that\ngives, with simplicity, he that rules, with diligence, he that\nexercises mercy, with cheerfulness.\n\n2 [12:9]Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor evil, adhere to that which\nis good, [12:10]be kindly disposed one to another with brotherly love,\nin honor prefer one another, [12:11]be not slothful in business, be\nfervent in spirit, serve the Lord, [12:12]rejoice in the hope, be\npatient in affliction, be persevering in prayer, [12:13]contribute to\nthe necessity of saints, practise hospitality. [12:14]Bless those that\npersecute, bless and curse not. [12:15] Rejoice with the rejoicing,\nweep with the weeping. [12:16]Desire the same thing one for another;\ndesire not the high, but be satisfied with the humble. Be not wise in\nyour own conceit. [12:17]Render evil for evil to no one, provide things\nhonorable in the sight of all men; [12:18]if possible, as much as may\nbe in your power, live peaceably with all men, [12:19]not vindicating\nyourselves, beloved, but give place to wrath; for it is written,\nJudgment is mine, I will repay, says the Lord. [12:20]If therefore your\nenemy is hungry, give him food; if he is thirsty, give him drink; for\ndoing this you shall heap coals of fire on his head. [12:21]Be not\novercome by evil, but overcome evil with good.\n\n3 [13:1]Let every soul be subject to the superior powers. For there is\nno power except from God, and the [powers] which exist have been\nordained by God. [13:2] So that he who resists the power resists the\nordinance of God; and those who resist shall receive judgment on\nthemselves. [13:3]For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to\nevil. Will you not fear the power? Do good, and you shall have praise\nfrom it; [13:4]for [the power] is God's minister to you for good. But\nif you do evil, fear; for it bears not the sword in vain; for it is\nGod's minister of justice for punishment to him that does evil.\n[13:5]Wherefore it is necessary to be in subjection, not only on\naccount of punishment, but also on account of conscience.\n\n4 [13:6]For on this account also you pay taxes; for [magistrates] are\nservants of God attending constantly to this same thing.  [13:7]Pay to\nall their dues; a tax to whom a tax is due, a toll to whom a toll is\ndue, fear to whom fear, and honor to whom honor. [13:8]Owe no man any\nthing, except to love one another; for he that loves another has fully\nperformed the law. [13:9]For this, You shall not commit adultery, You\nshall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not desire inordinately,\nand if there is any other commandment, it is summarily comprehended in\nthis word; You shall love your neighbor as yourself. [13:10] Love does\nno evil to a neighbor; love therefore is the sum of the law.  [13:11]\nAnd [do] this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour that we\nshould be waked from sleep, for now is our salvation nearer than when\nwe believed. [13:12] The night is far advanced, and the day is at hand;\nlet us lay aside therefore the works of darkness, and let us put on the\narmor of light. [13:13]Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in\nrevelries and drinking, not in lewdness and excesses, not in strife and\nenvy; [13:14]but put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision\nfor desires of the flesh.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER X.\n\nDUTIES TO THE WEAK, ETC.\n\n1 [14:1]RECEIVE the weak in faith, not to doubtful reasonings.\n[14:2]For one has faith to eat all things, but he that is weak eats\nvegetables. [14:3]Let not him that eats despise him that eats not; and\nlet not him that eats not judge him that eats; for God has accepted\nhim. [14:4]Who are you that judge another man's servant? To his master\nhe stands or falls; and he shall be made to stand, for God is able to\nmake him stand.\n\n2 [14:5]One judges one day to be better than another, but another\njudges every day [to be alike]. Let each one be fully persuaded in his\nmind. [14:6]He that observes the day observes it to the Lord, and he\nthat observes not the day observes it not to the Lord. And he that eats\neats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he that eats not eats\nnot to the Lord, and gives God thanks.  [14:7] For no one of us lives\nfor himself; and no one dies for himself; [14:8]for if we live, we live\nfor the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord; whether therefore we\nlive, or whether we die, we are the Lord's. [14:9]For this end Christ\ndied and lived again, that he might exercise lordship over the dead and\nliving. [14:10]But why do you judge your brother? why do you set at\nnought your brother? for we must all stand at the tribunal of God.\n[14:11]For it is written, [As] I live, says the Lord, to me every knee\nshall bow, and every tongue confess to God.  [14:12]Each of us\ntherefore shall give account of himself to God.\n\n3 [14:13]Let us not therefore judge one another, but judge this rather,\nnot to place a stumbling-block or an offense before a brother. [14:14]I\nknow, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is defiled in\nitself, except to him that thinks any thing to be defiled; to him it is\ndefiled. [14:15]For if your brother is grieved by your food, you no\nlonger walk in love. Destroy not with your food him for whom Christ\ndied. [14:16]Let not your good therefore be injuriously spoken of.\n[14:17]For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but\nrighteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit; [14:18]for he\nthat in this serves Christ is well pleasing to God and approved by men.\n[14:19]Let us therefore pursue the things of peace and those which\nedify one another.  [14:20]On account of food destroy not the work of\nGod. All things indeed are pure, but evil is to the man that eats with\noffense; [14:21]it is good not to eat meat nor drink wine, nor [do] any\nthing by which your brother stumbles. [14:22]You have faith; have it\nfor yourself before God, Blessed is he that condemns not himself in\nwhat he approves; [14:23]but he that doubts is condemned if he eats,\nbecause it is not of faith; and every thing which is not of faith is\nsin.\n\n4 [15:1]And we, the strong, ought to bear the infirmities of those who\nare not strong, and not to please ourselves. [15:2]Let us each please\nour neighbor in that which is good for edification; [15:3]for Christ\nalso pleased not himself, but, as it is written, The reproaches of\nthose that reproached thee fell on me. [15:4]For those things which\nwere written before were written for our instruction, that through\npatience and the consolation of the Scriptures we may have hope.\n[15:5]And the God of patience and consolation grant you to have the\nsame mind one to another, according to Christ Jesus, [15:6]that being\nof one mind you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ\nwith one mouth.\n\n5 [15:7]Wherefore receive one another, as Christ also received you to\nthe glory of God. [15:8]For I say that Christ was made a minister of\nthe circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises of the\nfathers, [15:9]and that the nations should glorify God for mercy; as it\nis written, For this cause will I praise thee among nations, and sing\nto thy name. [15:10]And again he says, Rejoice nations with his people.\n[15:11]And again, Praise the Lord, all nations, and let all peoples\npraise him.  [15:12]And again, Isaiah says, There shall be a root of\nJesse and he shall stand up to rule nations, in him shall nations hope.\n[15:13]And may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in\nbelieving, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.\n\n6 [15:14]And I am persuaded, my brothers, even I myself, concerning\nyou, that you are full of kindness, filled with all knowledge, and able\nto admonish one another; [15:15]but I have written more boldly to you\nin part, to refresh your minds on account of the grace given me by God\n[15:16]that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the nations,\nadministering as a priest the gospel of God, that the offering of the\nnations may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit. [15:17]I have\ntherefore cause of boasting in Christ Jesus in respect to things\nrelating to God; [15:18]for I dare not to speak of what Christ has not\nperformed by me for the obedience of the nations, by word and work,\n[15:19]by the power of miracles and prodigies, by the power of the\nSpirit, so that from Jerusalem and around as far as Illyricum I have\nfully preached the gospel of Christ. [15:20]And I have been anxious so\nto preach where Christ was not named, that I might not build on\nanother's foundation; [15:21]but as it is written, They shall see to\nwhom nothing was told concerning him, and they who have not heard shall\nunderstand.\n\n7 [15:22]Wherefore I was also much hindered from coming to you;\n[15:23]but now having no longer a place in these regions, and having a\ndesire to come to you for many years, [15:24]should I go to Spain I\nwill come to you; for I hope, going by, to see you, and to be sent\nforward by you there, when first I am in part filled with you.\n[15:25]But now I am going to Jerusalem to serve the saints. [15:26]For\nMacedonia and Achaia have been pleased to make some contribution for\nthe poor of the saints at Jerusalem.  [15:27]They have been pleased\nindeed, and their debtors they are; for if the nations have\nparticipated in their spiritual things, they ought also to serve them\nin things pertaining to the flesh.  [15:28]Having therefore performed\nthis, and sealed to them this service, I will go by you to Spain;\n[15:29]and I know that when I come to you I shall come in the fullness\nof the blessing of Christ. [15:30]But I exhort you by the Lord Jesus\nChrist, and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in\nprayers to God for me, [15:31]that I may be delivered from those that\nobey not in Judea, and that my service which is for Jerusalem may be\nacceptable to the saints, [15:32]that I may come to you with joy by the\nwill of God, and be refreshed together with you.  [15:33]And may the\nGod of peace be with you all; amen.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XI.\n\nCOMMENDATION OF PHOEBE, SALUTATIONS, ETC.\n\n1 [16:1]AND I commend to you Phoebe our sister, who is a minister of\nthe church in Cenchrea, [16:2]that you receive her in the Lord worthily\nof the saints, and assist her in any thing in which she may have need\nof you; for she has been an assistant of many, and of myself also.\n\n2 [16:3]Salute Prisca [Priscilla] and Aquila my co-laborers in Christ\nJesus, [16:4]who exposed their necks for my life, to whom not only I\ngive thanks but all the churches of the nations; [16:5]and [salute] the\nassembly at their house. Salute Epenetus my beloved, who is the first\nfruit of Asia to Christ.  [16:6]Salute Mary, who labored much for us.\n[16:7]Salute Andronicus and Junius, my relatives and my\nfellow-captives, who are distinguished among the apostles, and who were\nbefore me in Christ. [16:8]Salute Amplias my beloved in the Lord.\n[16:9]Salute Urbanus our co-laborer in Christ, and Stachus my beloved.\n[16:10]Salute Apelles, the approved in Christ. Salute those of the\n[family] of Aristobulus. [16:11]Salute Herodion, my relative.  Salute\nthose of the [family] of Narcissus who are in the Lord.  [16:12]Salute\nTryphena and Tryphosa, who labored in the Lord.  Salute Persis the\nbeloved, who labored much in the Lord.  [16:13]Salute Rufus the elect\nin the Lord, and his mother and mine. [16:14]Salute Asyncritus,\nPhlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brothers with them.\n[16:15]Salute Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas,\nand all the saints with them. [16:16]Salute one another with a holy\nkiss. All the churches of Christ salute you.\n\n3 [16:17]I exhort you, brothers, to observe those that cause\ndissensions and offenses contrary to the teaching which you learned,\nand avoid them; [16:18]for such serve not our anointed Lord, but\nthemselves, And by kind and complimentary words deceive the minds of\nthe simple. [16:19]For your obedience has come to all; I rejoice in you\ntherefore, but I wish you to be wise for that which is good, and simple\nfor evil. [16:20]And the God of peace shall crush Satan under your feet\nshortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.\n\n4 [16:21]Timothy my co-laborer salutes you, and Lucius and Jason and\nSosipater, my relatives. [16:22]I, Tertius, who wrote the epistle,\nsalute you in the Lord. [16:23]Gaius my entertainer, and the\nentertainer of all the church, salutes you. Erastus the treasurer of\nthe city and Quartus the brother salute you.  [16:24]The grace of our\nLord Jesus Christ be with you all; amen.\n\n5 [16:25]And to him that is able to confirm you according to my gospel,\nand the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the\nmystery not revealed in ancient times, [16:26]but made manifest now by\nthe scriptures of the prophets, by the command of the eternal God, for\nthe obedience of the faith among all nations, [16:27]to the only wise\nGod, through Jesus Christ, to him be the glory forever; amen.\n\n\n\n\nTHE EPISTLE TO PHILEMON.\n\n\nROME, A.D. 63. (ACTS 25:4.)\n\nCONCERNING ONESIMUS, ETC.\n\n1 [1:1]PAUL, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy the brother, to\nthe beloved. Philemon and our fellow-laborer, [1:2]and to the beloved\nApphia, and to Archippus our fellow-soldier, and to the assembly at\nyour house. [1:3]Grace be to you and peace from God our Father and the\nLord Jesus Christ.\n\n2 [1:4]I thank my God, always making mention of you in my prayers,\n[1:5] hearing of your love and faith which you have for the Lord Jesus\nand for all the saints, [1:6]that your participation of the faith may\nbe made effectual by a knowledge of all the good which we have in\nChrist Jesus. [1:7]For I have great joy and comfort in your love,\nbecause the saints are refreshed by you, brother. [1:8]Wherefore,\nhaving great boldness to command you what is fit, [1:9]on account of\nlove I rather request; being such as Paul the aged, and now also a\nprisoner of Christ Jesus, [1:10]I request you for my son Onesimus, whom\nI obtained in my bonds, [1:11]who was formerly not useful to you but is\nnow most useful to you and me, [1:12]whom I have sent back. And do you\nreceive him, that is, my soul, [1:13]whom I should like to retain for\nmyself, that he might serve me for you in the bonds of the gospel,\n[1:14]but without your consent I will do nothing, that your service may\nnot be compulsory but voluntary; [1:15]for perhaps he has been\nseparated from you for a time that you may have him back forever,\n[1:16]no longer as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved,\nespecially to me, but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in\nthe Lord.  [1:17]If therefore you regard me as a friend receive him as\nmyself. [1:18]If he injured you, or owes you any thing, set it to my\naccount. [1:19]I, Paul, have written with my hand; I will pay; not to\ntell you that you owe yourself to me. [1:20]Yes, brother, let me be\nprofited by you in the Lord; refresh my soul in Christ.\n\n3 [1:21]I have written to you, having confidence in your obedience,\nknowing that you will do even more than I say.  [1:22]But at the same\ntime also prepare me a lodging; for I hope that through your prayers I\nshall be given to you.  [1:23]Epaphras, who is my fellow-captive in\nChrist Jesus, [1:24]Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, Luke, my co-laborers,\nsalute you.  [1:25]The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your\nspirit.\n\n\n\n\nTHE EPISTLE TO THE COLOSSIANS.\n\n\nROME, A.D. 63. (ACTS 25:4.)\n\n\n\nCHAPTER I.\n\nPAUL'S PRAYERS FOR THE COLOSSIANS, THE DIGNITY OF CHRIST, PAUL'S\nMINISTRY, FALSE TEACHERS, ETC.\n\n1 [1:1]PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy\nthe brother, [1:2]to the saints in Colosse and the faithful brothers in\nChrist. Grace be to you and peace from God our Father.\n\n2 [1:3]We thank the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying\nalways for you, [1:4]having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and the\nlove which you have for all the saints, [1:5]on account of the hope\nlaid up for you in heaven, of which you heard before in the true word\nof the gospel [1:6]which is present with you as also in all the world,\nand is fruitful and increases, as also with you, from the day that you\nheard and knew the grace of God in truth; [1:7]as you learned from\nEpaphras our beloved fellow-servant, who is a faithful minister of\nChrist for you, [1:8]and who made known to us your love in the Spirit.\n\n3 [1:9]Therefore we also, from the day that we heard, cease not to pray\nfor you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of his\nwill in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, [1:10]that you may walk\nworthily of the Lord in all that is pleasing [to him], being fruitful\nin every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; [1:11]being\nstrengthened with all power, according to his glorious power, for all\npatience and long suffering with joy; [1:12]giving thanks to the Father\nwho has made us fit for a portion in the inheritance of the saints in\nlight, [1:13]who delivered us from the power of darkness and translated\nus into the kingdom of the Son of his love, [1:14]in whom we have\nredemption, the forgiveness of sins, [1:15]who is the likeness of the\ninvisible God, the first-born of all creation, [1:16]for by him were\nall things created which are in heaven and on the earth, the visible\nand the invisible, whether thrones, or lordships, or principalities, or\npowers. All things were created through him and for him, [1:17]and he\nis before all things, and in him all things consist, [1:18]and he is\nthe head of the body, the church; who is the beginning, the first-born\nfrom the dead, that he might himself be preeminent in all things,\n[1:19]for in him [God] was well pleased that all fullness should dwell,\n[1:20]and through him to reconcile all things to himself, making peace\nthrough the blood of his cross, through him, whether things on the\nearth or things in the heavens. [1:21]And you, formerly alienated and\nenemies in mind by evil works, he has now reconciled [1:22]by the body\nof his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blame and\nwithout fault before him, [1:23]if indeed you continue founded and\nestablished in the faith, and not moved from the hope of the gospel\nwhich you heard, which was preached in all the creation under heaven;\nof which I, Paul, was made a minister.\n\n4 [1:24]Now I rejoice in sufferings for you, and supply the\ndeficiencies of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body,\nwhich is the church, [1:25]of which I was made a minister according to\nthe dispensation of God given me for you, to complete the word of God,\n[1:26]the mystery concealed from ages and from generations, but now it\nhas been manifested to his saints, [1:27]to whom God was pleased to\nmake known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the\nnations, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory, [1:28]whom we\npreach, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom,\nthat we may present every man perfect in Christ; [1:29]for which I also\nlabor, striving with his power which operates in me with power.\n\n5 [2:1]For I wish you to know what a conflict I have for you and those\nin Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh,\n[2:2]that your hearts may be comforted, being united in love and\n[raised] to all the riches of the full assurance of understanding, to\nthe knowledge of the mystery of God, [2:3]in which are hid all the\ntreasures of wisdom and knowledge. [2:4]But I say this that no one may\nmislead you with persuasive words.  [2:5]For if I am absent in the\nflesh, still I am present in spirit with you, rejoicing and beholding\nyour order and the strength of your faith in Christ. [2:6]As therefore\nyou have received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him, [2:7]founded and\nbuilt up in him, and established in the faith as you were taught,\nabounding in thanksgiving.\n\n6 [2:8]See that no one leads you off as a prey through philosophy and\nvain deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the\nrudiments of the world, and not according to Christ, [2:9]for in him\ndwells all the fullness of the Deity bodily [2:10]and you are made\nperfect in him, who is the head of all principality and power, [2:11]in\nwhom you are also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands,\nwith the putting off of the body of the flesh, with the circumcision of\nChrist, [2:12]having been buried with him in baptism, in which you have\nalso been raised together through the effectual faith of God who raised\nhim from the dead; [2:13]and you being dead in sins and in the\nuncircumcision of your flesh, he has made you alive with him, having\nforgiven us all sins, [2:14]having blotted out what was written by the\nhand in ordinances which was against us, and has taken it away from\nbetween [us], having nailed it to the cross; [2:15][and] having\nsubjugated principalities and powers, he made a public exhibition of\nthem, leading them in triumph by it.\n\n7 [2:16]Let no man therefore judge you in eating and in drinking, or in\nrespect to a feast, or new moon, or sabbath, [2:17]which are a shadow\nof things that were to come; but the body is Christ's. [2:18]Let no one\nwishing [it] deprive you of your reward by humility and a worship of\nangels, intruding into what he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his\ncarnal mind, [2:19]and not holding the head, from which all the body\nbeing supplied and compacted by means of joints and tendons grows with\nan increase of God. [2:20]If therefore you died with Christ from the\nrudiments of the world, why do you practice ordinances as living in the\nworld,-- [2:21]you shall not touch, you shall not taste, you shall not\nfeel,-- [2:22]all which are to perish in the using--according to the\ncommandments and instructions of men?  [2:23]Which have an appearance\nof wisdom in voluntary worship and humiliation, and in a rigorous\ntreatment of the body, [which is held] in no respect for the surfeiting\nof the flesh.\n\nCHAPTER II.\n\nMORAL DUTIES, ETC.\n\n1 [3:1]IF you, therefore, have been raised with Christ, seek the things\nabove, where Christ sits on the right hand of God; [3:2]employ your\nminds on things above, not on things on the earth. [3:3]For you have\ndied, and your life is hid with Christ in God; [3:4]when Christ your\nlife shall be made manifest, then shall you also be made manifest in\nglory.\n\n2 [3:5]Put to death, therefore, your members which are on the earth,\nfornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness which is\nidolatry, [3:6]for which comes the wrath of God. [3:7]In which also you\nwalked formerly when you lived in them; [3:8]but now do you put away\nalso all these, anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, vile conversation out\nof your mouth; [3:9]lie not one to another; put off the old man with\nhis doings, [3:10]and put on the new man, renewed in knowledge in the\nlikeness of him that created him, [3:11]where there are not Greek and\nJew, circumcision and uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, servant,\nfreeman, but Christ is all things and in all.\n\n3 [3:12]Put on, therefore, as elect and beloved saints of God, hearts\nof compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, long-suffering,\n[3:13]forbearing one another, and forgiving one another if any one has\na charge against any, as Christ forgave you, so [do] you also,\n[3:14]and in addition to all these [put on] love, which is the bond of\nperfection. [3:15]And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, for\nwhich you have been called in one body; and be thankful. [3:16]Let the\nword of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching with all wisdom, and\nadmonishing one another, with psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, singing\nwith grace in your hearts to God, [3:17]and whatever you do in word or\nin work, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to the God\n[and] Father through him.\n\n4 [3:18]Wives, be subject to the husbands, as is fit in the Lord.\n[3:19] Husbands, love the wives and be not bitter to them.\n[3:20]Children, obey [your] parents in all things; for this is well\npleasing in the Lord. [3:21]Fathers, be not fault-finding with your\nchildren, that they be not discouraged. [3:22] Servants, obey in all\nthings masters according to the flesh, not with eye service, as those\npleasing men, but with a sincere heart, fearing the Lord. [3:23]And\nwhatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men;\n[3:24]knowing that you will receive from the Lord the recompense of the\ninheritance. You serve Christ the Lord; [3:25]for he that does wrong\nshall receive for the wrong which he has done, and there is no respect\nof persons. [4:1]Masters, render to your servants what is just and\nequal, knowing also that you have a master in heaven.\n\n5 [4:2]Be constant in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving,\n[4:3]praying also at the same time for us, that God will open to us a\ndoor of utterance to declare the mystery of Christ, for which also I am\nbound, [4:4]that I may declare it plainly, as I ought to speak.\n[4:5]Walk in wisdom towards those without, redeeming the time. [4:6]Let\nyour words always be with kindness, seasoned with salt, that you may\nknow how to answer every one.\n\n6 [4:7]Tychicus will inform you of all things relating to me, who is a\nbeloved brother, and faithful minister, and fellow-servant in the Lord,\n[4:8]whom I have sent to you for this purpose, that he may know your\naffairs and comfort your hearts, [4:9]with Onesimus the faithful and\nbeloved brother, who is of you; they will tell you of all things here.\n\n7 [4:10]Aristarchus my fellow-prisoner salutes you, and Mark the nephew\nof Barnabas,--concerning whom you received commandments, if he comes to\nyou receive him,-- [4:11]and Jesus called Justus, who are of the\ncircumcision; these are the only co-laborers for the kingdom of God who\nhave been a comfort to me. [4:12]Epaphras, who is of you, a servant of\nChrist Jesus, salutes you, always striving for you in prayers that you\nmay stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. [4:13]For I bear\nhim witness that he has great zeal for you and for those in Laodicea,\nand for those in Hierapolis. [4:14]Luke the beloved physician, and\nDemas, salute you. [4:15]Salute the brothers in Laodicea, and Nymphas,\nand the assembly at his house. [4:16]And when this letter has been read\nwith you, cause that it be also read by the church of the Laodiceans;\nand do you also read that from Laodicea.  [4:17]And say to Archippus,\nAttend to your ministry which you received in the Lord, to perform it\nfully. [4:18]The salutation with my hand, Paul's. Remember my bonds.\nThe grace be with you.\n\n\n\n\nTHE EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS [LAODICEANS].\n\n\nROME, A.D. 63. (ACTS 25:4.)\n\n\n\nCHAPTER I.\n\nTHE BENEFICENCE OF GOD TO THE ELECT, CHRIST THE SAVIOUR, THE SALVATION\nOF THE GENTILES, ETC.\n\n1 [1:1]PAUL, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, to the\nsaints in [Ephesus] and the faithful in Christ Jesus.  [1:2]Grace be to\nyou and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.\n\n2 [1:3]Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has\nblessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly [worlds] in\nChrist, [1:4]as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world,\nthat we should be holy and blameless before him, [1:5]having\npredestinated us in love to an adoption through Jesus Christ to\nhimself, according to the good pleasure of his will, [1:6]to the praise\nof his glorious grace, which he bestowed upon us in the beloved,\n[1:7]in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the forgiveness\nof sins, according to the riches of his grace, [1:8]which he bestowed\non us abundantly with all wisdom and knowledge [1:9]making known to us\nthe mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he\npurposed in himself [1:10]in respect to the dispensation of the\nfullness of times, to bring all things into one in Christ, the things\nwhich are in heaven and the things which are on earth, in him [1:11]in\nwhom also we have been called, having been predestinated according to\nthe purpose of him who works out all things according to the counsel of\nhis will, [1:12]that we should be for a praise of his glory, who first\ntrusted in Christ; [1:13]in whom also you, when you heard the word of\ntruth, the gospel of your salvation, in whom also you having believed\nwere sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, [1:14]which is a pledge of\nour inheritance for the redemption of the purchased possession, to the\npraise of his glory.\n\n3 [1:15]Therefore, I also, having heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus\nand love to all the saints, [1:16]do not cease to give thanks for you,\nmaking mention of you in my prayers, [1:17]that the God of our Lord\nJesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and\nrevelation in the knowledge of him; [1:18]the eyes of your minds being\nenlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his call, and what\nthe riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, [1:19]and\nwhat the exceeding greatness of his power towards us who believe,\naccording to the operation of his mighty power, [1:20]which he\nperformed in Christ, when he raised him from the dead and seated him at\nhis right hand in the heavenly [worlds], [1:21]above every principality\nand authority and power and lordship, and every name that is named, not\nonly in this life but also in that to come, [1:22]and put all things in\nsubjection under his feet, and made him head over all things to the\nchurch, [1:23]which is his body, the fullness of him that fills all\nthings in all.\n\n4 [2:1]And you being dead in trespasses and sins,-- [2:2]in which you\nformerly walked according to the life of this world, according to the\nruler of the power of the air, the spirit which now operates in the\nchildren of disobedience, [2:3] among whom also we all formerly lived\nin the desires of our flesh, performing the wishes of the flesh and the\nmind, and were by nature children of wrath even as others; [2:4]but God\nwho is rich in mercy, on account of his great love with which he loved\nus,-- [2:5]even when we were dead in sins he made us alive with\nChrist,--by grace are you saved, [2:6]and raised us up and seated us\ntogether with Christ Jesus in the heavenly worlds, [2:7]that he might\nshow in the ages to come the transcendent riches of his grace in\ngoodness to us by Jesus Christ. [2:8]For by grace are you saved through\nthe faith; and that not of you; [it is] the gift of God; [2:9]not of\nworks, that no one may boast; [2:10]for we are his creation, created in\nChrist Jesus for good works, in which God before appointed that we\nshould walk.\n\n5 [2:11]Wherefore, remember that you were formerly gentiles by birth,\ncalled uncircumcision by that called circumcision made in the flesh by\nthe hand, [2:12] that at that time you were without Christ, alienated\nfrom the polity of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise,\nhaving no hope and without God in the world; [2:13]but now, in Christ\nJesus you who were formerly far off have been made nigh by the blood of\nChrist. [2:14]For he is our peace, who made both one and broke down the\nmiddle wall of partition, [2:15]the enmity, and abolished by his flesh\nthe law of commandments [consisting] of ordinances, that of the two he\nmight create in himself one new man, making peace, [2:16]and reconcile\nboth in one body to God through the cross, having destroyed the enmity\nby it. [2:17]And he came and preached the good news of peace to you who\nwere far off, and peace to those nigh, [2:18]for through him we both\nhave access by one spirit to the Father. [2:19]Therefore you are no\nlonger strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow-citizens of the\nsaints and of the family of God, [2:20]being built on the foundation of\nthe apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief\ncorner-stone, [2:21]by which all the building being fitted together\ngrows into a holy temple in the Lord, [2:22]in which you also are built\nup together for a spiritual habitation of God.\n\n6 [3:1]For this cause I Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ for you\ngentiles, [3:2]if indeed you heard of the dispensation of the grace of\nGod given to me for you, [3:3]that by revelation the mystery was made\nknown to me,--as I wrote before in a few words, [3:4]by reading which\nyou can understand my knowledge of the mystery of Christ,-- [3:5]which\nin other generations was not made known to the children of men as it\nhas now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit,\n[3:6]that the gentiles are co-heirs and of the same body and joint\npartakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel, [3:7]of\nwhich I was made a minister by the gracious gift of God, given to me by\nthe operation of his power. [3:8]To me, who am the least of all saints,\nwas this grace given, to preach to the nations the unsearchable riches\nof Christ, [3:9]and to enlighten all men as to the dispensation of the\nmystery concealed from eternity in God who created all things,\n[3:10]that now to the principalities and powers in the heavenly\n[worlds] should be made known, through the church, the manifold wisdom\nof God, [3:11]according to the eternal purpose which he made in Christ\nJesus our Lord, [3:12]in whom we have boldness and access with\nconfidence through faith in him.\n\n7 [3:13]Wherefore I desire you not to faint on account of my\nafflictions for you, which are your glory. [3:14]For this reason I bow\nmy knees to the Father, [3:15]of whom all the family in heaven and on\nearth is named, [3:16]that he would grant to you according to the\nriches of his glory, to be strengthened with power through his Spirit\nin the inward man, [3:17]that Christ may dwell in your hearts through\nthe faith, you being founded and established in love, [3:18]that you\nmay be able to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and\nlength, and depth and height, [3:19]and to know the love of Christ\nwhich exceeds knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness\nof God.  [3:20]To him that is able to do far beyond all that we ask or\nthink, by the power which operates in us, [3:21]to him be the glory in\nthe church in Jesus Christ to all generations, for ever and ever; amen.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER II.\n\nPERSONAL AND SOCIAL DUTIES.\n\n1 [4:1]I THEREFORE, the prisoner of the Lord, exhort you to walk\nworthily of the call with which you were called, [4:2]with all humility\nand meekness, with long suffering, forbearing one another in love,\n[4:3]using diligence to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of\npeace. [4:4]There is one body, and one spirit, as you also are called\nin one hope of your call; [4:5]one Lord, one faith, one baptism;\n[4:6]one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in\nall. [4:7]And to each one of us is given grace according to the measure\nof the gift of Christ.\n\n2 [4:8]Wherefore he says, When he ascended on high, he took captivity\ncaptive, and gave gifts to men. [4:9]But this, that he ascended, what\nis it but that he first descended into the lower parts of the earth?\n[4:10]He that descended is the same also that ascended above all\nheavens, that he might fill all [places].  [4:11]And he gave some\napostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some pastors and\nteachers, [4:12]for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the\nministry, for the edification of the body of Christ, [4:13]till we all\ncome to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God,\nto a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of\nChrist, [4:14] that we may be no longer children, driven about like\nwaves and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the art of men,\nand the craftiness of deceitful wiles, [4:15]but speaking the truth\nwith love we may grow to him in all things, who is the head, Christ;\n[4:16]by whom all the body being joined together and compacted by the\nsupply of every joint, according to the proportionate operation of\nevery part, makes increase of the body to the edification of itself in\nlove.\n\n3 [4:17]This I say then and testify in the Lord, that you no longer\nwalk as the other gentiles walk, in the vanity of their minds,\n[4:18]with their understandings darkened, alienated from the life of\nGod on account of the ignorance which is in them, on account of the\nhardness of their hearts, [4:19] who being without feeling have given\nthemselves up to lewdness, to commit every impurity with greediness.\n[4:20]But you have not so learned Christ, [4:21]if you have indeed\nheard him, and been instructed by him as the truth is in Jesus,\n[4:22]that you should lay aside your former mode of life the old man\ndestroyed by deceitful desires, [4:23]and be renewed in the spirit of\nyour minds, [4:24] and put on the new man, created after God in\nrighteousness and true holiness.\n\n4 [4:25]Wherefore, laying aside lying let every one speak the truth to\nhis neighbor, for we are members one of another.  [4:26]Be angry and\nsin not; let not the sun go down on your wrath, [4:27]neither give\nplace to the devil. [4:28]Let him that has stolen steal no more, but\nrather let him labor, doing that which is good with his hands, that he\nmay have to give to him that needs. [4:29]Let no evil word proceed out\nof your mouth, but that which is good for useful edification, that it\nmay afford benefit to those that hear. [4:30]And grieve not the Holy\nSpirit of God, by which you were sealed to the day of redemption.\n[4:31]Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and\nblasphemy, be banished from among you, with all malice. [4:32]But be\nkind one to another, merciful, giving one to another, as God also in\nChrist gave to you. [5:1]Be therefore followers of God, as dear\nchildren, [5:2]and walk in love, as Christ also loved us and gave\nhimself for us, an offering and sacrifice to God of good odor.\n\n5 [5:3]Let not fornication and any impurity or covetousness be named\namong you, as becomes saints, [5:4]nor indecorum and foolish talking,\nor jesting, things not becoming, but rather giving of thanks. [5:5]For\nyou know this, that no fornicator, or impure, or covetous person, who\nis an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.\n[5:6]Let no man deceive you with vain words; for on account of these\ncomes the wrath of God on the children of disobedience. [5:7]Be not\ntherefore partakers with them. [5:8]For you were formerly darkness, but\nnow you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,-- [5:9]for\nthe fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and\ntruth,-- [5:10]proving what is well pleasing to the Lord, [5:11]and be\nnot partakers of the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove\nthem. [5:12] For the things which are done by them in secret it is base\neven to mention; [5:13]but all things proved to be wrong are made\nmanifest by the light; for every thing which makes manifest is light.\n[5:14]Wherefore he says, Awake you that sleep, and arise from the dead,\nand Christ shall give you light.\n\n6 [5:15]See then that you walk discreetly, not as unwise but as wise,\n[5:16] redeeming the time, because the days are evil.  [5:17]Be not\nfoolish therefore, but understand what the will of the Lord is.\n[5:18]And be not drunk with wine, in which is excess, but be filled\nwith the spirit, [5:19]speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and\nspiritual songs, singing and making music in your hearts to the Lord,\n[5:20]giving thanks always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus\nChrist to the God and Father, [5:21]being subject one to another in the\nfear of Christ. [5:22]Let wives [be subject] to their husbands as to\nthe Lord, [5:23]for the husband is the head of the wife, as also Christ\nis the head of the church; he is the savior of the body.  [5:24]But as\nthe church is subject to Christ, so also let wives be subject to\nhusbands in every thing. [5:25] Husbands, love your wives as Christ\nalso loved the church and gave himself for it, [5:26]that he might\nsanctify it, purifying it with the washing of water with the word,\n[5:27]that he might present the church to himself glorious, not having\na spot or wrinkle or any thing of the kind, but that it should be holy\nand blameless.  [5:28]Husbands ought to love their wives as their own\nbodies. He that loves his wife loves himself; [5:29]for no one ever\nhated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ also the\nchurch; [5:30]for we are members of his body. [5:31]For this cause a\nman shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and\nthey two shall be one flesh. [5:32]This is a great mystery; but I speak\nof Christ and the church. [5:33]But do you also, individually, each one\nso love his wife as himself, and the wife [see] that she reverences the\nhusband.\n\n7 [6:1]Children, obey your parents in the Lord; for this is right.\n[6:2]Honor your father and your mother, which is the first commandment\nwith a promise, [6:3]that it may be well with you, and you shall live\nlong in the land. [6:4] And, fathers, provoke not your children, but\nbring them up in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.\n\n8 [6:5]Servants, be subject to masters according to the flesh, with\nfear and trembling, in the sincerity of your hearts as to Christ,\n[6:6]not with eye service as pleasing men, but as servants of Christ\ndoing the will of God from the heart, [6:7]performing service kindly as\nto the Lord and not to men, [6:8] knowing that whatever good each one\ndoes, for this he shall receive from the Lord, whether a servant or a\nfreeman. [6:9]And, masters, do the same things to them, forbearing\nthreatening, knowing also that their master and yours is in heaven, and\nthere is no respect of persons with him.\n\n9 [6:10]Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might.\n[6:11] Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand\nagainst the wiles of the devil; [6:12]for our conflict is not against\nflesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against\nthe potentates of the darkness of this world, against the spiritual\n[hosts] of evil in the heavenly [worlds]. [6:13] Take therefore the\nwhole armor of God, that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and\nhaving done all to stand. [6:14]Stand, therefore, girded about your\nloins with truth, and having put on the cuirass of righteousness,\n[6:15] and bound your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace;\n[6:16]over all, taking the shield of the faith, with which you may be\nable to extinguish all the fiery darts of evil. [6:17]And take the\nhelmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of\nGod, [6:18]praying with all prayer and supplication on every occasion\nwith the spirit, and watching in the same with all perseverance and\nsupplication for all the saints, [6:19]and for me, that a word may be\ngiven me at the opening of my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of\nthe gospel, [6:20]in behalf of which I perform an embassy in bonds,\nthat I may speak boldly in them, as I ought to speak.\n\n10 [6:21]But that you may also know the things concerning me, how I do,\nTichycus the beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord will\ninform you of all things; [6:22]whom I have sent to you for this\npurpose, that you may know the things concerning us and that he may\ncomfort your hearts. [6:23]Peace and love be to the brothers with\nfaith, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. [6:24]The grace\nbe with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with constancy.\n\n\n\n\nTHE EPISTLE TO THE PHILIPPIANS.\n\n\nROME, A.D. 63. (ACTS, 25:4.)\n\n\n\nCHAPTER I.\n\nPAUL'S LOVE FOR THE PHILIPPIANS, AFFAIRS AT ROME, MORAL DUTIES, ETC.\n\n1 [1:1]PAUL and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in\nChrist Jesus at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons.  [1:2]Grace be\nto you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.\n\n2 [1:3]I thank my God at every remembrance of you, [1:4]always in every\nprayer of mine for you all making request with joy, [1:5]for your\nfellowship in the gospel from the first day till now, [1:6]having this\nsame confidence, that he who has begun a good work in you will carry it\non till the day of Jesus Christ, [1:7]as it is right for me to think\nthis of you all, because I have you in my heart, both in my bonds and\nin the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you being all partakers\nof my grace.  [1:8]For God is my witness, how much I desire you all\nwith the tender affections of Christ Jesus. [1:9]And this I pray, that\nyour love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all\nunderstanding, [1:10]that you may prove the excellent, that you may be\nwithout fault and without offense in the day of Christ, [1:11]filled\nwith the fruit of righteousness, through Jesus Christ, to the glory and\npraise of God.\n\n3 [1:12]But I wish you to know, brothers, that the things as to me have\nresulted in the advancement of the gospel, [1:13]so that my bonds in\nChrist are manifest in all the Praetorium and in all other places,\n[1:14]and many of the brothers having been made confident by my bonds\nin the Lord have more abundant courage to speak the word without fear.\n[1:15]For some indeed preach Christ because of envy and strife, and\nsome also because of good will; [1:17]those from love, knowing that I\nam set for the defense of the gospel, [1:16]but those from contention\npreach Christ not sincerely, thinking to raise up affliction for my\nbonds.  [1:18]What then? nevertheless, in every way, whether in\npretence or in truth, Christ is preached, and in this I rejoice. But I\nalso will rejoice; [1:19]for I know that this will result in salvation\nto me, through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus\nChrist, [1:20]according to my expectation and hope that I shall be\nashamed in nothing, but with all boldness as always also now Christ\nshall be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.\n[1:21]Because for me to live is Christ and to die is gain. [1:22]But if\nto live in the flesh [is allowed me], I have this fruit of my work, and\nwhich I shall choose I know not.  [1:23]But I am in a strait between\nthe two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ; for this is far\nbetter; [1:24]but to continue in the flesh is more necessary for you.\n[1:25]And fully believing this, I know that I shall continue, and\ncontinue with you all, for your advancement and joy of the faith,\n[1:26]that your rejoicing may abound in Christ Jesus by me through my\ncoming again to you.\n\n4 [1:27]Only conduct yourselves as citizens worthily of the gospel of\nChrist, that whether I come and see you, or be absent, I may hear of\nyour affairs, that you stand firm in one spirit, striving together with\none mind for the faith of the gospel, [1:28]terrified in nothing by the\nadversaries, which is to them a token of destruction, but to you of\nsalvation, and this from God; [1:29]because it was given to you in\nbehalf of Christ, not only to believe on him but also to suffer for\nhim, [1:30]having the same conflict which you saw in me and now hear of\nin me.\n\n5 [2:1]If therefore there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort\nin love, if any participation of the Spirit, if any affections and\ncompassions, [2:2] fulfil my joy, that you have the same mind, having\nthe same love, sympathizing with each other, having one opinion.\n[2:3]Do nothing in strife or vain glory, but in humility let each\nesteem others better than himself, [2:4]and let each consider not his\nown interests, but also those of others. [2:5]Let this mind be in you\nwhich was also in Christ Jesus, [2:6]who being in the form of God\nthought it not a robbery to be equal with God; [2:7]but he abased\nhimself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of\nman, [2:8]and being found in form like a man, he humbled himself, and\nbecame obedient even till death, and the death of the cross.\n[2:9]Wherefore God also highly exalted him, and gave him a name which\nis above every name, [2:10]that at the name of Jesus every knee shall\nbow, of beings in heaven and in the earth and under the earth,\n[2:11]and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the\nglory of God the Father.\n\n6 [2:12]And so, my beloved, as you always obeyed, not in my presence\nonly, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with\nfear and trembling; [2:13]for God works in you both to will and to work\nof his good pleasure. [2:14]Do all things without complainings and\ndisputations, [2:15]that you may be blameless and sincere, children of\nGod without blame in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, in\nwhich you shine as luminaries in the world, [2:16]holding fast the word\nof life, for my glorying in the day of Christ, that I did not run in\nvain, nor labor in vain. [2:17]But if I am even poured out as a\nlibation on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and\ncongratulate you all; [2:18]do you also rejoice with the same joy and\ncongratulate me.\n\n7 [2:19]But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you shortly,\nthat I may be refreshed when I know your affairs.  [2:20]For I have no\none like minded who really will care for your interests; [2:21]for all\nseek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ. [2:22]But you know his\ntried virtue, that as a son with a father he has served with me in the\ngospel. [2:23]Him therefore I hope to send to you as soon as I know how\nit will be with me; [2:24]and I hope in the Lord that I also myself\nshall come shortly.\n\n8 [2:25]But I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, the\nbrother and my fellow-laborer and fellow-soldier, but your apostle and\nservant of my need, [2:26]for he greatly desired you all and was\nanxious, because you heard that he was sick.  [2:27]For indeed he was\nsick nigh to death; but God had mercy on him, and not on him only but\non me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow. [2:28]I have sent\nhim therefore the more diligently, that seeing him again you may\nrejoice and I be less sorrowful. [2:29]Receive him therefore in the\nLord with all joy, and have such in estimation, [2:30]because on\naccount of the work he was nigh to death, not having consulted properly\nfor his life, that he might fully supply your lack of service to me.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER II.\n\nJUDAIZING TEACHERS, EXHORTATIONS, ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, ETC.\n\n1 [3:1]FINALLY, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord; for to write the same\nthings to you is not grievous to me, and is safe for you. [3:2]Beware\nof the dogs, beware of evil laborers, beware of the concision. [3:3]We\nare the circumcision, who serve God in spirit, and rejoice in Christ\nJesus, and trust not in the flesh, [3:4]although I have ground of\nconfidence in the flesh. If any other one thinks he may trust in the\nflesh, I [may] more; [3:5]circumcised the eighth day, of the race of\nIsrael, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews, as to the\nlaw a Pharisee, [3:6]as to zeal persecuting the church, as to\nrighteousness by the law being blameless. [3:7]But whatever things were\nmy gain, these I have considered a loss for the sake of Christ.\n[3:8]But for the same reason also I consider all things to be a loss on\naccount of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for\nwhose sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and consider them\nworthless that I may gain Christ [3:9]and be found in him, not having\nmy righteousness by the law, but that which is through the faith of\nChrist, the righteousness of God by the faith, [3:10]that I may know\nhim, and the power of his resurrection, and the participation of his\nsufferings, being conformed to his death, [3:11]that I may attain the\nresurrection from the dead. [3:12]Not that I have already obtained it,\nor have been already made perfect; but I follow on that I may attain\nthat for which also I was arrested by Christ. [3:13]I consider not\nmyself, brothers, to have attained it; but this one thing I do;\nforgetting the things behind, and reaching forward to those before,\n[3:14]I press forward to the mark for the prize of the high call of God\nin Christ Jesus. [3:15]Let us, as many as are perfect therefore, be of\nthis mind; and if any one thinks at all otherwise, God shall also\nreveal this to you; [3:16]but in what we have attained, in this let us\nwalk.\n\n2 [3:17]Be followers of me, brothers, and observe those who walk so as\nyou have us for an example. [3:18]For many walk, of whom I told you\noften and now also tell you weeping, that they are enemies of the cross\nof Christ; [3:19]whose end is destruction, whose God is their stomach,\nand their glory in their shame; who regard earthly things. [3:20]But\nour kingdom is in heaven, from which also we expect the Saviour, the\nLord Jesus Christ, [3:21]who will change our humble body, and make it\nlike his glorious body, by the power by which he is able also to\nsubject all things to himself. [4:1]So, my beloved and much desired\nbrothers, my joy and crown, so stand firm in the Lord, beloved.\n\n3 [4:2]I beseech Euodias and I beseech Syntyche to have the same mind\nin the Lord. [4:3]Yes, I beseech you also, faithful yoke-fellow, help\nthose women who strove in the gospel with me, with Clement and the rest\nof my co-laborers, whose names are in the book of life.\n\n4 [4:4]Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, rejoice. [4:5]Let your\ngentleness be known to all men; the Lord is near. [4:6]Be anxious for\nnothing, but with all prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let\nyour requests be made known to God. [4:7]And may the peace of God which\npasses all understanding keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.\n\n5 [4:8]Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are\nhonorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever\nthings are lovely, whatever things are reputable, if there is any\nvirtue, and if there is any praise, consider these things; [4:9]and\nwhat you learned and received and heard and knew in me, these things\ndo; and the God of peace shall be with you.\n\n6 [4:10]But I rejoice greatly in the Lord, that now at length you began\nagain to care for me, for whom also you did care, but had no\nopportunity [to serve me]. [4:11]Not that I speak of want; for I have\nlearned in whatever circumstances I am to be contented.  [4:12]I know\nboth how to be humbled, and I know how to abound; in every thing and in\nall conditions I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both\nto abound and to suffer want. [4:13]I endure all things with him that\nstrengthens me. [4:14]But you did well to communicate with my\naffliction, [4:15]And you know also, Philippians, that at the beginning\nof the gospel, when I went out from Macedonia, no church communicated\nwith me in the matter of giving and receiving except you only;\n[4:16]for even in Thessalonica and once and again you sent to my need.\n[4:17]Not that I desire a gift, but I desire the fruit which abounds to\nyour account. [4:18]But I have all things and abound, I am fully\nsupplied, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you, a\nperfume of good odor, an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God.\n[4:19]And God shall fully supply all your need, according to his riches\nin glory in Christ Jesus. [4:20]To our God and Father be the glory\nforever and ever; amen.\n\n7 [4:21]Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brothers with me salute\nyou. [4:22]All the saints salute you, especially those of Caesar's\nfamily. [4:23] The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirits.\n\n\n\n\nTHE EPISTLE TO TITUS.\n\n\nPHILIPPI, A.D. 64.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER I.\n\nA CHARGE TO TITUS IN RESPECT TO HIS MINISTRY.\n\n1 [1:1]PAUL, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ,\naccording to the faith of God's elect, and the knowledge of the truth\nwhich is according to piety, [1:2]for the hope of eternal life, which\nGod who cannot lie announced before eternal ages, [1:3]but manifested\nhis word in the times which were suitable for it by the preaching with\nwhich I was intrusted, according to the command of our Saviour God,\n[1:4]to Titus my faithful son in the common faith; grace and peace from\nGod the Father, and Christ Jesus our Saviour.\n\n2 [1:5]For this cause I left you in Crete, that you might regulate\nthings which are deficient, and appoint elders in every city, as I\ncharged you, [1:6]if any one is blameless, a husband of one wife,\nhaving faithful children, not accused of intemperance or of\ninsubordination. [1:7]For a bishop must be blameless as a steward of\nGod, not self-indulgent, not soon angry, not given to wine, not\ncontentious, not devoted to base gain, [1:8]but a lover of hospitality,\nkind, sober, just, holy, self-denying, [1:9]holding firmly the faithful\nword taught, that he may be able both to exhort with sound instruction\nand to convince those who contradict. [1:10]For there are many\ndisorderly wranglers and deceivers, especially those of the\ncircumcision, [1:11]whom it is necessary to silence, who mislead whole\nfamilies, teaching for base gain what they ought not.\n\n3 [1:12]A certain one of them, their own poet, said, Cretans are always\nliars, evil beasts, lazy gormandizers. [1:13]This testimony is true.\nWherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,\n[1:14]not attending to Jewish myths, and commandments of men who\nsubvert the truth. [1:15]To the pure all things are pure; but to the\ndefiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but their mind and conscience\nare defiled. [1:16]They profess to know God, but by works deny him,\nbeing abominable and disobedient, and as to every good work reprobate.\n\n4 [2:1]Speak things which become sound teaching. [2:2]That the aged men\nbe sober, grave, of sound mind, sound in faith, in love, in patience;\n[2:3]that the aged women, in like manner, be of behavior becoming\nholiness, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what\nis good, [2:4]that they may instruct the young women to be lovers of\ntheir husbands, lovers of their children, [2:5]sober, pure, fond of\nhome, kind, subject to their husbands, that the word of God may not be\nblasphemed.\n\n5 [2:6]In like manner exhort the younger to be of a sound mind, [2:7]\npresenting yourself as an example of good works in all things, in\nteaching [exhibiting] integrity, gravity, [2:8]sound argument not to be\ncondemned, that the adversary may be ashamed, having nothing evil to\nsay of us. [2:9]Let servants be subject to their masters, please them\nin all things, not contradicting, [2:10]not pilfering, but showing all\ngood fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of our Saviour God in\nall things.\n\n6 [2:11]For the grace of God that pertains to salvation appeared to all\nmen, [2:12]teaching us, that denying impiety and worldly desires we\nshould live soberly, and righteously, and piously in the present life,\n[2:13]looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of the\ngreat God and of our Saviour Jesus Christ, [2:14]who gave himself for\nus, that he might redeem us from all wickedness, and purify for himself\na peculiar people, zealous of good works.\n\n7 [2:15]These things speak, and exhort, and reprove with all authority;\nlet no man despise you. [3:1]Admonish them to be subject to\nprincipalities, to powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready for every\ngood work, [3:2]to speak evil of no one, to be peaceable, gentle,\nshowing all meekness to all men. [3:3]For we formerly were foolish,\ndisobedient, deceived, serving various desires and pleasures, living in\nmalice and envy, detestable, and hating one another; [3:4] but when the\ngoodness and philanthropy of the Saviour our God appeared, [3:5] not by\nworks of righteousness which we did but according to his mercy he saved\nus through the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy\nSpirit, [3:6]which he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our\nSaviour; [3:7] that having been justified by his grace we should become\nheirs according to the hope of eternal life.  [3:8]The word is true,\nand I wish you to insist strongly concerning these things, that those\nwho have believed in God may be careful to maintain good works. For\nthese things are honorable and useful to men. [3:9]But foolish\nquestions, and genealogies, and strifes and contentions about the law,\navoid; for they are unprofitable and vain. [3:10]A man that is a\nheretic, after the first and second admonition, reject, [3:11]knowing\nthat such a one is subverted, and sins, being self-condemned.\n\n8 [3:12]When I send you Artemas, or Tychicus, make haste to come to me\nat Nicopolis; for there I have determined to spend the winter.\n[3:13]Send forward Zenas the lawyer and Apollos with diligence, and let\nnothing be wanting to them; [3:14]and let ours also learn to maintain\ngood works for necessary purposes, that they may not be unfruitful.\n[3:15]All who are with me salute you.  Salute those who love us in the\nfaith. The grace be with you all.\n\n\n\n\nFIRST EPISTLE TO TIMOTHY.\n\n\nPHILIPPI, A.D. 65.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER I.\n\nA CHARGE TO TIMOTHY CONCERNING THE GOSPEL, PUBLIC PRAYER, AND THE\nDUTIES OF WOMEN.\n\n1 [1:1]PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our\nSaviour and Christ Jesus our hope, [1:2]to Timothy my true son in the\nfaith; grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father and Christ Jesus our\nLord.\n\n2 [1:3]As I requested you to remain at Ephesus, when going into\nMacedonia, that you might charge some not to preach another doctrine,\n[1:4]nor attend to myths or interminable genealogies, which occasion\ndisputes rather than a dispensation of God by faith, [do.] [1:5]But the\nend of the commandment is love from a pure heart and good conscience\nand faith unfeigned, [1:6]which some having missed turned aside to vain\nwords, [1:7]desiring to be teachers of the law, not understanding what\nthey say nor about what they make confident assertions. [1:8] But we\nknow that the law is good if one uses it lawfully; [1:9]knowing this,\nthat a law is not made for a righteous man, but for the wicked and\ndisorderly, the impious and sinful, the unholy and profane, murderers\nof fathers and murderers of mothers and murderers of their fellow-men,\n[1:10]fornicators, sodomites, men-stealers, liars, perjurers, and\nwhatever else is contrary to sound doctrine, [1:11]according to the\nglorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I have been intrusted.\n[1:12]And I thank our Lord Jesus Christ who has empowered me [to\npreach,] that he accounted me faithful, putting me in the ministry,\n[1:13]who formerly was a blasphemer and persecutor and an injurious\nman; but I obtained mercy because I did those things ignorantly in\nunbelief; [1:14]and the grace of our Lord greatly abounded with the\nfaith and love which is in Christ Jesus. [1:15]The word is true and\nworthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to\nsave sinners, of whom I am chief; [1:16]but on this account I obtained\nmercy, that Jesus Christ might exhibit in me first all long-suffering,\nfor an example to those who should hereafter believe in him to life\neternal. [1:17]And to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only\nGod, be honor and glory forever and ever; amen.\n\n3 [1:18]This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the\nprophecies which went before concerning you, that by them you may\nperform an honorable service, [1:19]having faith and a good conscience,\nwhich some having cast away have suffered shipwreck of the faith;\n[1:20]of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan,\nthat they may learn not to blaspheme.\n\n4 [2:1]I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers,\nintercessions, thanksgivings should be offered for all men, [2:2]for\nkings and all in authority, that we may lead quiet and peaceful lives\nin all piety and sanctity. [2:3]For this is good and acceptable in the\nsight of God our Saviour, [2:4]who wishes all men to be saved and to\ncome to a knowledge of truth. [2:5] For there is one God, and one\nmediator of God and man, the man Christ Jesus, [2:6]who gave himself a\nransom for all, a testimony for its own times, [2:7]of which I was made\na herald and an apostle,--I speak the truth, I lie not,--a teacher of\nnations in faith and truth.\n\n5 [2:8]I wish also that men should pray everywhere, lifting up holy\nhands, without wrath and disputations; [2:9]and in like manner also,\nthat women in becoming apparel with modesty and sobriety adorn\nthemselves, not with plaited hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly\nclothing, [2:10]but with good works, which become women professing\ngodliness. [2:11]Let a woman learn quietly in all subjection; [2:12]but\nI permit not a woman to teach, nor to have authority over a man, but to\nbe quiet.  [2:13]For Adam was first formed, then Eve. [2:14]And Adam\nwas not deceived; but the woman being deceived fell into transgression;\n[2:15]but she shall be saved through child-bearing, if they continue in\nfaith, and love, and holiness, with sobriety.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER II.\n\nTHE APPOINTMENT OF MINISTERS, THE DOCTRINES OF THE GOSPEL, WIDOWS,\nELDERS, SERVANTS, ETC.\n\n1 [3:1]IT is a true saying, If any one desires an episcopate he desires\na good work. [3:2]It is necessary therefore that a bishop should be\nblameless, a husband of one wife, circumspect, sober, well-behaved,\nhospitable, apt to teach, [3:3]not a wine-drinker, not a quarrelsome\nman, but gentle, not contentious, not avaricious, [3:4]ruling well his\nown house, having his children in subjection with all dignity,--\n[3:5]but if any one knows not how to rule his own house, how will he\ntake care of the church of God?-- [3:6]not a novice, lest being\ninflated with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil. [3:7]\nAnd he must also have a good name from those without, that he may not\nfall into reproach and a snare of the devil.\n\n2 [3:8]The deacons in like manner ought to be grave, not\ndouble-tongued, not given to much wine, not devoted to base gain,\n[3:9]having the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.  [3:10]And\nlet these be proved first, then let them serve, being found blameless.\n[3:11]The women in like manner must be grave, not slanderers,\ncircumspect, faithful in all things. [3:12]Let the deacons be husbands\nof one wife, ruling well their children and their own houses. [3:13]\nFor they who exercise the deaconship well, procure for themselves an\nhonorable standing, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ\nJesus.\n\n3 [3:14]These things I write to you, hoping to come to you shortly;\n[3:15]but if I delay, that you may know how you ought to conduct\nyourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God,\nthe pillar and foundation of the truth. [3:16]And confessedly great is\nthe mystery of piety; [Christ,] who was manifested in the flesh, was\njustified in the spirit, was seen by angels, was preached to the\nnations, was believed on in the world, was received up into glory.\n\n4 [4:1]But the Spirit says expressly, that in the last times some shall\napostatize from the faith, attending to lying spirits and doctrines of\ndemons, [4:2][misled] by the hypocrisy of false teachers, whose\nconsciences are cauterized, [4:3]who forbid to marry, [command] to\nabstain from meat, which God created to be received with thanksgiving\nby the faithful and those who know the truth. [4:4]For every creature\nof God is good, and nothing to be rejected, [but] to be received with\nthanksgiving; [4:5]for it is sanctified through the word of God and\nprayer.\n\n5 [4:6]Suggesting these things to the brothers, you will be a good\nminister of Christ Jesus, nourished with the words of the faith and the\ngood instruction which you have followed; [4:7]but avoid profane and\nsilly myths; exercise yourself in piety; [4:8]for bodily exercise\nprofits little; but piety is profitable in all things, having a promise\nof the present life and of the life to come. [4:9]It is a faithful\nsaying, and worthy of all acceptation. [4:10] For to this end we also\nlabor and suffer reproach, because we hope in the living God, who is\nthe Saviour of all men, especially of the faithful.\n\n6 [4:11]These things command and teach. [4:12]Let no one despise your\nyouth, but be an example to the faithful, in word, in conduct, in love,\nin faith, in purity. [4:13]Till I come attend to reading, exhortation,\nteaching. [4:14] Neglect not the gift which is in you, which was given\nyou by prophecy, with the imposition of hands of the eldership.\n[4:15]Study these things, be much in them, that your improvement may be\nmanifest to all.  [4:16]Attend to yourself, and to teaching; continue\nin it, for doing this you will both save yourself and those that hear\nyou.\n\n7 [5:1]Rebuke not an aged man, but entreat him as a father, the younger\nmen as brothers, [5:2]the aged women as mothers, the younger as\nsisters, with all purity. [5:3]Support the widows who are widows\nindeed. [5:4]But if any widow has children or relatives, let them learn\nfirst to support their family and to make returns to their parents, for\nthis is acceptable in the sight of God. [5:5] But one that is a widow\nindeed and alone hopes in God, and continues in petitions and prayers\nnight and day; [5:6]but a woman that lives voluptuously is dead while\nshe lives. [5:7]And command these things, that they be blameless.\n[5:8]And if any one provides not for his own, and especially for those\nof his own house, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an\nunbeliever.\n\n8 [5:9]Let not a widow be enrolled under sixty years of age, a wife of\none husband, [5:10]well reputed for good works, if she has brought up\nchildren, if she has exercised hospitality, if she has washed the\nsaints' feet, if she has relieved the distressed, if she has pursued\nevery good work. [5:11]But reject the younger widows; for when they\nfall into pleasure to the neglect of Christ, they wish to marry,\n[5:12]being condemned because they have rejected the first faith;\n[5:13]and at the same time also, being idle, they learn to go from\nhouse to house, and not only are they idle, they are also tattlers and\nmischief makers, saying what they ought not. [5:14]I wish therefore the\nyounger women to marry, bear children, keep house, give no occasion of\nreproach to the enemy; [5:15]for some have already turned back after\nSatan.  [5:16]If any faithful man or faithful woman has widows, let\nthem give them relief, and let not the church be burdened, that it may\nbe able to relieve those really widows.\n\n9 [5:17]Let the elders who rule well be accounted worthy of a double\ncompensation, especially those who labor in word and teaching.\n[5:18]For the Scripture says, You shall not muzzle the ox that\nthreshes; and, The laborer is worthy of his reward.  [5:19]Against an\nelder receive not an accusation, except by two or three witnesses.\n[5:20]Those that sin, rebuke before all, that others also may fear.\n\n10 [5:21]I charge you before God, and Jesus Christ, and the elect\nangels, that you keep these things without prejudice, doing nothing\nfrom partiality. [5:22] Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither partake\nof others' sins. Keep yourself pure. [5:23]Drink no longer water, but\nuse a little wine on account of your stomach and your frequent\ninfirmities. [5:24]The sins of some men are manifest, going before to\njudgment; but some they follow; [5:25]in like manner also good works\nare manifest, and those which are otherwise cannot be hid.\n\n11 [6:1]Let as many servants as are under the yoke account their\nmasters worthy of all honor, that the name and doctrine of God may not\nbe blasphemed. [6:2]And let those who have believing masters not\ndespise them, because they are brothers, but rather serve, because they\nare believers and beloved, who partake of the benefit.\n\n12 These things teach and exhort. [6:3]If any one teaches differently,\nand consents not to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ,\nand the doctrine which is according to piety, [6:4]he is blinded and\nknows nothing, but has a sickly longing for debates and wars of words,\nfrom which arise envy, contention, blasphemies, evil suspicions,\n[6:5]and wranglings of men of unsound judgments and destitute of the\ntruth, supposing that piety is gain. [6:6]But piety with contentment is\ngreat gain.  [6:7]For we brought nothing into the world; it is clear\nthat we can carry nothing out of it; [6:8]but having food and clothing\nlet us be contented with them. [6:9]But those who wish to be rich fall\ninto trial and a snare, and many foolish and injurious desires, which\nplunge men into destruction and perdition.  [6:10]For the love of money\nis a root of all evils, which some having desired have been misled from\nthe faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.\n\n13 [6:11]But do you, O man of God, avoid these things; but pursue\nrighteousness, piety, faith, love, patience, meekness.  [6:12]Fight the\ngood fight of the faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were\ncalled and made the good profession before many witnesses. [6:13]I\ncharge you before the God who gives life to all [creatures], and Christ\nJesus who made the good profession before Pontius Pilate, [6:14]that\nyou keep the charge without spot, without blame, till the appearing of\nour Lord Jesus Christ, [6:15]which the blessed and only Potentate will\nshow in its times, the King of kings and Lord of Lords, [6:16]who only\nhas immortality, dwelling in light unapproachable, whom no man has seen\nnor can see; to whom be honor and power eternal; amen.\n\n14 [6:17]Charge the rich in the present life not to be high-minded, nor\ntrust in uncertain riches, but in the living God who gives us all\nthings richly to enjoy, [6:18]to perform good works, to be rich in good\nworks, to be liberal, benevolent, [6:19]treasuring up for themselves a\ngood foundation for the future, that they may lay hold on the true life.\n\n15 [6:20]O Timothy, keep the trust, turning away from profane and empty\nwords, and contradictions of mis-named science, [6:21]which some having\nprofessed have erred from the faith. The grace be with you.\n\n\n\n\nSECOND EPISTLE TO TIMOTHY.\n\n\nROME, A.D. 65.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER I.\n\nINFORMATION, ADMONITION, ETC.\n\n1 [1:1]PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according\nto the promise of life in Christ Jesus, [1:2]to Timothy my beloved son.\nGrace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.\n\n2 [1:3]I thank God, whom I serve from my ancestors with a pure\nconscience, that I mention you incessantly in my prayers night and day,\n[1:4]desiring to see you, remembering your tears, that I might be\nfilled with joy, [1:5]having a remembrance of the unfeigned faith in\nyou, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother\nEunice, and I am persuaded that [it dwells] also in you. [1:6]For which\ncause I admonish you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through\nthe imposition of my hands.  [1:7]For God gave us not a spirit of fear,\nbut of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.\n\n3 [1:8]Be not ashamed therefore of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me\nhis prisoner, but endure affliction with us in the gospel according to\nthe power of God, [1:9]who saved us, and called us with a holy calling,\nnot according to our works, but according to his purpose and grace\ngiven us in Christ Jesus from eternity, [1:10]but made known now\nthrough the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who destroyed death,\nand brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, [1:11]of\nwhich I was made a herald, and an apostle, and a teacher of the\nnations; [1:12]for which cause I suffer these things; but I am not\nashamed; for I know in whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he\nis able to keep my trust to that day.\n\n4 [1:13]Retain the form of sound words which you heard from me in faith\nand the love in Christ Jesus. [1:14]Guard the good trust, through the\nHoly Spirit which dwells in us. [1:15]You know this, that all those in\nAsia left me, of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes. [1:16]May the Lord\nshow mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and\nwas not ashamed of my chains, [1:17] but being at Rome he sought most\ndiligently, and found me. [1:18]The Lord grant him to find mercy with\nthe Lord in that day. And what services he performed at Ephesus, you\nknow very well.\n\n5 [2:1]Do you therefore, my son, be strong in the grace in Christ\nJesus, [2:2] and what you heard from me through many witnesses, these\nthings commit to faithful men, who shall be competent to teach others\nalso. [2:3]Endure evil as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. [2:4]No one\nwho serves as a soldier is involved in the business of life, that he\nmay please him who has employed him as a soldier. [2:5]And if a man\ncontends as an athlete, he is not crowned unless he contends lawfully.\n[2:6]The husbandman who labors must first partake of the fruits of the\nearth.  [2:7]Consider what I say; for the Lord shall give you\nunderstanding in all things.\n\n6 [2:8]Remember Jesus Christ raised from the dead, a descendant of\nDavid, according to my gospel, [2:9]in which I suffer even to chains as\nan evil doer; but the word of God is not bound.  [2:10]Therefore I\nendure all things for the elect, that they may obtain the salvation in\nChrist Jesus with eternal glory.  [2:11]The saying is true, For if we\ndied together we shall live together; [2:12]if we endure patiently we\nshall reign together; if we deny him he will deny us; [2:13]if we\nbelieve not he continues faithful; for he cannot deny himself.\n\n7 [2:14]Call to mind these things, charging [men] before the Lord not\nto debate about words, to no profit, to the subversion of the hearers.\n[2:15]Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a workman that\nwill not be put to shame, rightly dividing the word of truth. [2:16]But\nprofane and vain words, avoid; for they greatly increase impiety,\n[2:17]and their word will eat like a gangrene; of whom are Hymenaeus\nand Philetus, [2:18]who have erred from the truth, saying that the\nresurrection has passed already, and overturn the faith of some.\n[2:19]But the foundation of God stands firm, having this seal, The Lord\nknows them that are his; and, Let every one who names the name of the\nLord depart from wickedness. [2:20]But in a great house there are not\nonly vessels of gold and silver, but those also of wood and clay, and\nsome for honor and some for dishonor; [2:21]if therefore any one\npurifies himself from these [errors], he shall be a vessel for honor,\nsanctified, of good use to the master, prepared for every good work.\n\n8 [2:22]But avoid youthful desires, and pursue righteousness, faith,\nlove, peace, with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.\n[2:23]But foolish and trifling disputes avoid, knowing that they\nproduce contentions; [2:24]and the servant of the Lord must not\ncontend, but must be gentle to all, apt to teach, patient under evil,\n[2:25]in meekness correcting the adversaries, that God may give them a\nchange of mind to a knowledge of the truth, [2:26]and that they may\nrecover themselves from the snare of the devil, who are made captives\nby him to his will.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER II.\n\nTHE LAST TIME, HIS APPROACHING MARTYRDOM, ETC.\n\n1 [3:1]AND know this, that in the last days perilous times shall come.\n[3:2] Men will be selfish, avaricious, vain, proud, blasphemers,\ndisobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, [3:3]without natural\naffection, covenant breakers, slanderers, intemperate, ungentle,\ndespisers of the good, [3:4]traitors, rash, boasters, lovers of\npleasure more than lovers of God, [3:5]having a form of piety but\ndenying its power; and these avoid. [3:6]Of these are those who go into\nthe houses and take captive foolish women loaded with sins, and led by\nvarious desires, [3:7]always learning and never able to come to a\nknowledge of the truth. [3:8]As Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so\nalso these oppose the truth, men of no judgment, reprobate in respect\nto the faith. [3:9]But they shall proceed no further; for their\nfoolishness shall become manifest to all, as theirs also was. [3:10]But\nyou have followed my instruction,--mode of life, purpose, faith,\nlong-suffering, love, patience, [3:11]persecutions, sufferings, which\nbefell me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; the great persecutions\nwhich I suffered, and the Lord delivered me from all. [3:12]And all who\nwill live piously in Christ Jesus shall be persecuted. [3:13]But evil\nmen and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being\ndeceived. [3:14]But do you continue in what you learned and understood,\nknowing from whom you learned, [3:15]and that from a child you have\nknown the sacred Scriptures, which can make you wise to salvation\nthrough faith in Christ Jesus. [3:16]All Scripture is divinely inspired\nand is profitable for instruction, for conviction, for correction, for\neducation in righteousness, [3:17]that the man of God may be perfect,\nthoroughly fitted for every good work.\n\n2 [4:1]I earnestly charge you before God and Christ Jesus who is about\nto judge the living and dead, and [by] his appearing and his kingdom,\n[4:2]preach the word, press it in season, out of season, reprove,\nrebuke, exhort, with all long-suffering and instruction; [4:3]for the\ntime will come when they will not endure sound instruction, but will\naccumulate for themselves teachers according to their desires, pleasing\ntheir ear, [4:4]and they will turn away their ears from the truth, and\nbe turned to myths. [4:5]But do you be sober in all things, endure\nevil, do the work of an evangelist, perform fully your ministry. [4:6]\nFor I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come.\n[4:7]I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have\nkept the faith; [4:8]henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of\nrighteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge will give me in that\nday, and not me only but all who love his appearing.\n\n3 [4:9]Make haste to come to me quickly; [4:10]for Demas forsook me\nhaving loved the present life and went to Thessalonica, Cresces to\nGalatia, Titus to Dalmatia; [4:11]Luke only is with me. Take Mark and\nbring him with you; for [he will be] useful to me for service.\n[4:12]But I sent Tychicus to Ephesus. [4:13] The cloak which I left at\nTroas with Carpus, when you come, bring, and the books, especially the\nparchments.\n\n4 [4:14]Alexander the coppersmith did me much harm; may the Lord reward\nhim according to his work. [4:15]And do you beware of him, for he\ngreatly opposed our words. [4:16]At my first defense no one stood by\nme, but all forsook me; may it not be set to their account; [4:17]but\nthe Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that the word should be\nfully declared by me, and all the nations should hear, and I was\ndelivered from the mouth of the lion.  [4:18]The Lord will deliver me\nfrom every evil work, and bring me safe to his heavenly kingdom; to\nwhom be the glory forever and ever; amen.\n\n5 [4:19]Salute Prisca [Priscilla] and Aquila and the house of\nOnesiphorus. [4:20]Erastus remained at Corinth, and Trophimus I left\nsick at Miletus. [4:21] Make haste to come before winter.  Eubulus and\nPudens and Linus and Claudia, and all the brothers, salute you.\n[4:22]The Lord be with your spirit. The grace be with you.\n\n\n\n\nTHE CATHOLIC EPISTLES.\n\n\nTHE EPISTLE OF JAMES.\n\n\nJERUSALEM, A.D. 61-66.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER I.\n\nTRIALS, PRAYER, FAITH AND WORKS.\n\n1 [1:1]JAMES, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the\ntwelve tribes in the dispersion, greeting. [1:2]Account it all joy, my\nbrothers, when you fall into various trials, [1:3]knowing that the\ntrial of your faith produces patience.  [1:4]But let patience have a\nperfect work, that you may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.\n[1:5]And if any one of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives\nto all liberally and upbraids not, and it shall be given him. [1:6]But\nlet him ask in faith, not doubting; for he that doubts is like a wave\nof the sea, driven with the wind and agitated. [1:7]For let not that\nman think that he shall receive any thing from the Lord, [1:8]a\ndouble-minded man, unstable in all his ways. [1:9]But let the brother\nthat is humble rejoice in his exaltation, [1:10]and the rich in his\nhumiliation, for he shall pass away like a flower of the grass.\n[1:11]For the sun rose hot, and withered the grass, and its flower fell\noff, and the beauty of its appearance perished; so also shall the rich\nman perish in his ways.\n\n2 [1:12]Blessed is the man who endures trial, for when proved he shall\nreceive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love\nhim. [1:13]Let no tempted one say, I am tempted by God; for God is not\nsubject to temptation by evils, and he tempts no one. [1:14]But every\none is tempted when he is drawn away by his desires, and enticed;\n[1:15]then the desire taking effect produces sin, and sin being\nfinished brings forth death.\n\n3 [1:16]Be not deceived, my beloved brothers. [1:17]All good giving,\nand every perfect gift, comes down from above, from the Father of\nlights, with whom there is no change or shadow of turning. [1:18]Of his\nown will begat he us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of\nfirst fruit of his creatures.\n\n4 [1:19]Understand, my beloved brothers, and let every man be swift to\nhear, slow to speak, slow to anger; [1:20]for man's anger performs not\nGod's righteousness. [1:21]Wherefore, laying aside all filthiness and\nabounding vice, receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able\nto save your souls. [1:22]But be doers of the word, and not hearers\nonly, deceiving yourselves.  [1:23]For if any one is a hearer of the\nword and not a doer, he is like a man perceiving his natural face in a\nglass; [1:24]for he perceived himself, and went away, and immediately\nforgot what kind of a man he was. [1:25]But he that looks into the\nperfect law of liberty and continues in it, not being a forgetful\nhearer but a doer of work, he shall be blessed in his doing. [1:26]But\nif any one among you thinks he is religious, and bridles not his\ntongue, but deceives his mind, that man's religion is vain.  [1:27]Pure\nreligion and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to visit the\norphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self\nunspotted from the world.\n\n5 [2:1]My brothers, have not the faith of our glorious Lord Jesus\nChrist with a respect of persons. [2:2]For if there comes into your\nassembly a man with a gold ring, in splendid clothing, and there also\ncomes in a poor man in vile clothing, [2:3]and you look upon him who\nwears the splendid clothing, and say to him, Sit here in a good place,\nand say to the poor man, Stand there, or sit under my footstool,\n[2:4]are you not condemned in yourselves and judges of evil thoughts?\n\n6 [2:5]Hear, my beloved brothers. Has not God chosen the poor of the\nworld rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to those\nwho love him? [2:6] But you dishonor the poor.  Do not the rich oppress\nyou and drag you to tribunals? [2:7]And do they not blaspheme the good\nname by which you are called?  [2:8]If you keep indeed the royal law\naccording to the Scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself,\nyou do well; [2:9]but if you respect persons, you commit sin, convicted\nby the law as transgressors. [2:10]For whoever shall keep the whole\nlaw, and offend in one point, is guilty of all. [2:11]For he that said,\nYou shall not commit adultery, said also, You shall not kill; and if\nyou do not commit adultery, but kill, you are a transgressor of the\nlaw. [2:12]So speak and so do, as being about to be judged by the law\nof liberty. [2:13]For he shall have judgment without mercy who shows\nnot mercy; mercy rejoices over judgment.\n\n7 [2:14]What is the profit, my brothers, if a man says he has faith,\nbut has not works? Can faith save him? [2:15]And if a brother or sister\nis naked, or destitute of daily food, [2:16]and one of you says to\nthem, Go in peace, be warmed and be filled, but gives them not the\nnecessary supplies for the body, what is the profit? [2:17]So also\nfaith, if it has not works, is dead, being alone. [2:18]But some one\nwill say, You have faith, and I have works; show me your faith without\nworks, and I will show you my faith by works. [2:19]You believe that\nthere is one God? You do well; demons also believe and tremble.\n[2:20]But will you know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?\n[2:21] Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he offered\nup Isaac his son on the altar? [2:22]You see that faith cooperated with\nhis works, and by works was faith made perfect, [2:23]and the Scripture\nwas fulfilled which says, And Abraham believed God and it was accounted\nto him a righteousness, and he was called God's friend. [2:24]You see\nthen that a man is justified by works and not by faith only. [2:25]And\nin like manner also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when\nshe received the messengers and sent them out another way? [2:26]For as\nthe body without a spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER II.\n\nON CENSORIOUSNESS, WISDOM, CONTENTION, ETC.\n\n1 [3:1]BE not many of you teachers, my brothers, knowing that we shall\nreceive a severer judgment. [3:2]For in many things we all offend; if\none offends not in word he is a perfect man, able to keep in subjection\nalso the whole body. [3:3]But we put bits into the mouths of horses\nthat they may obey us, and direct their whole body; [3:4]behold also\nthe ships, though of so great size and driven by powerful winds, are\ndirected by a very small helm wherever the will of the pilot chooses;\n[3:5]so also the tongue is a small member and boasts of great things.\nBehold, how much wood a little fire kindles! [3:6]And the tongue is a\nfire, the tongue is made a world of wickedness among our members, it\ndefiles the whole body and sets on fire the course of nature and is set\non fire by hell. [3:7]For every kind of beasts, and birds, and\nreptiles, and fishes, is tamed and has been tamed by the human race,\n[3:8]but the tongue can no man tame; it is a disorderly evil, full of a\ndeadly poison. [3:9]With it bless we the Lord and Father, and with it\ncurse we men made in the likeness of God. [3:10]Out of the same mouth\nproceeds a blessing and a curse. My brothers, these things ought not so\nto be.  [3:11]Does a fountain send forth sweet water and bitter from\nthe same opening? [3:12]Can a fig tree, my brothers, produce olives, or\na vine, figs? So you cannot make salt water sweet.\n\n2 [3:13]What wise and intelligent man is there among you? Let him show\nhis works by good conduct, in the meekness of wisdom.  [3:14]But if you\nhave bitter envying and strife in your hearts, boast not and lie not\nagainst the truth. [3:15]This wisdom comes not from above, but is\nearthly, natural, demoniacal. [3:16]For where envy and strife are,\nthere are disorder and every evil work. [3:17]But the wisdom from above\nis first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be persuaded, full of\nmercy and of good fruits, without partiality, without hypocrisy.\n[3:18]And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace to those who make\npeace.\n\n3 [4:1]Whence come wars and contentions among you? Come they not\nthence, from your pleasures that war in your members? [4:2]You desire\nand have not; you kill, and envy, and cannot obtain; you fight and\ncarry on war. You have not, because you do not ask; [4:3]you ask and do\nnot receive, because you ask amiss, to expend on your pleasures.\n[4:4]Adulteresses, know you not that the friendship of the world is\nenmity against God? Whoever therefore wishes to be a friend of the\nworld, is made an enemy of God.  [4:5]Or do you suppose that the\nScripture says in vain, The spirit which dwells in us desires to envy?\n[4:6]But he gives more grace; wherefore he says, God resists the proud,\nbut gives grace to the humble. [4:7]Be subject therefore to God; resist\nthe devil and he will flee from you; [4:8]draw nigh to God and he will\ndraw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, purify your hearts,\ndouble-minded. [4:9]Lament, and mourn, and weep; let your laughter be\nturned into mourning, and your joy into sorrow.  [4:10]Humble\nyourselves before the Lord and he will exalt you.\n\n4 [4:11]Speak not one against one another, brothers. He that speaks\nagainst a brother or judges his brother, speaks against the law and\njudges the law. But if you judge the law you are not a doer of the law,\nbut a judge. [4:12]There is one law-giver and judge, who is able to\nsave and to destroy; but who are you that judge a neighbor?\n\n5 [4:13]Come now, you that say, To-day and to-morrow we will go to such\na city and engage in business there a year, and trade and make profits,\n[4:14]who know not what will be on the morrow; for what is your life?\nYou are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes away;\n[4:15]for you ought to say, If the Lord wills, we shall both live and\ndo this or that. [4:16]But now you glory in your boasting; all such\nglorying is evil. [4:17]He therefore that knows how to do good and does\nit not, to him it is sin.\n\n6 [5:1]Come now, rich men, weep and lament for the miseries which are\ncoming upon you. [5:2]Your riches have decayed, and your garments are\nmoth-eaten, [5:3]your gold and silver are destroyed with rust, and\ntheir rust will be a witness against you, and consume your flesh like\nfire. You have laid up treasures for the last days. [5:4]Behold, the\nwages of the laborers who harvested your fields, kept back by you, cry,\nand the loud calls of the reapers have entered into the ears of the\nLord of sabaoth.  [5:5]You have lived in luxury on the earth and in\npleasure, you have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.\n[5:6]You have condemned and killed the just, and he does not resist you.\n\n7 [5:7]Wait patiently therefore, brothers, till the coming of the Lord.\nBehold, the husbandman waits for the precious fruit of the earth, and\nis of long patience, till he receives the autumnal and vernal rain.\n[5:8]Do you also have long patience, confirm your hearts, for the\ncoming of the Lord is at hand. [5:9] Complain not, brothers, against\none another, that you be not judged; behold, the judge stands before\nthe doors. [5:10]You have the prophets who spoke in the name of the\nLord, my brothers, as an example of patience and long-suffering.\n[5:11]Behold, we account them blessed who are patient. You have heard\nof the patience of Job, and you know the purpose of the Lord, that he\nis very merciful and compassionate.\n\n8 [5:12]Above all things, my brothers, swear not, neither by heaven,\nnor the earth, nor any other oath. But let your yes be yes, and your\nno, no, that you may not fall under condemnation.\n\n9 [5:13]If any one among you is afflicted, let him pray; if any one is\nhappy, let him sing psalms; [5:14]if any one is sick among you, let him\nsend for the elders of the church, and let them pray for him, anointing\nhim with oil in the name of the Lord.  [5:15]And the prayer of faith\nshall save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up; and if he has\ncommitted sins, they shall be forgiven him. [5:16]Confess your faults\none to another, and pray one for another, that you may be cured, for\nthe prayer of the righteous operates with great power. [5:17]Elijah was\na man of like passions with us, and he prayed that it might not rain,\nand it rained not on the land for three years and six months; [5:18]\nand again he prayed, and heaven gave rain, and the earth yielded her\nfruit.\n\n10 [5:19]Brothers, if any one among you errs from the truth, and one\nconverts him, [5:20]let him know that he who converts a sinner from an\nerror of [his] way, shall save a soul from death, and hide a multitude\nof sins.\n\n\n\n\nFIRST EPISTLE OF PETER.\n\n\nBABYLON, A.D. 64.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER I.\n\nA FIRM ADHERENCE TO CHRIST, ETC.\n\n1 [1:1]PETER, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the elect strangers of the\ndispersion of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia,\n[1:2]according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by\nsanctification of the Spirit, to obedience and the sprinkling of the\nblood of Jesus Christ. Grace and peace be multiplied to you.\n\n2 [1:3]Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who in\nhis great mercy has begotten us to a living hope through the\nresurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, [1:4]to an inheritance\nincorruptible and undefiled and unfading, kept in heaven for you\n[1:5]who are kept by the power of God through faith to salvation ready\nto be revealed in the last time. [1:6]In which you rejoice, though now\nfor a little while if need be made sad by manifold trials, [1:7]that\nthe trial of your faith, which is much more precious than gold that is\ndestroyed but proved by fire, may be found to praise and glory and\nhonor at the revelation of Jesus Christ, [1:8]whom not having seen you\nlove, in whom believing though now you see him not you rejoice with joy\nunspeakable and glorious, [1:9] receiving the end of the faith, the\nsalvation of souls. [1:10]Concerning which salvation the prophets also\nwho prophesied concerning the grace [bestowed] on us inquired\ndiligently and sought, [1:11]inquiring as to what person or what time\nthe Spirit of Christ which was in them signified, when it declared\nbefore the sufferings of Christ and after these the glories, [1:12]to\nwhom it was revealed that they ministered not to themselves but to us\nthose things which have now been declared to you by those who preached\nto you the good news, with the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, into which\nthe angels desire to look.\n\n3 [1:13]Wherefore, girding up the loins of your minds, be sober, and\nhope to the end for the gift to be brought to you by the revelation of\nJesus Christ. [1:14]As obedient children, not conforming yourselves to\nthe desires of your former ignorance, [1:15]but as he that called you\nis holy be you also holy in all [your] conduct, [1:16]because it is\nwritten, Be you holy, for I am holy. [1:17]And if you call on the\nFather, who without respect of persons judges according to each one's\nwork, spend the time of your life with fear, [1:18] knowing that you\nwere not redeemed from your vain mode of life received by tradition\nfrom your fathers, with destructible things, silver or gold, [1:19] but\nwith the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish, and\nwithout a spot; [1:20]who was foreknown before the foundation of the\nworld, but made manifest in these last times for you, [1:21]who through\nhim believed in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory,\nso that your faith and hope may be in God.\n\n4 [1:22]Having purified your souls by obeying the truth to unfeigned\nbrotherly love, love one another fervently, from the heart,\n[1:23]having been born again, not from destructible seed but from\nindestructible, through the word of God which lives and endures.\n[1:24]For all flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of\nthe grass; the grass has withered, and its flower fell off; [1:25]but\nthe word of the Lord continues forever. And this is the word preached\nto you.\n\n5 [2:1]Laying aside therefore all malice and all deceit and hypocrisies\nand envies and all evil speakings, [2:2]as new born babes desire\nearnestly the pure milk of the word, that you may grow by it to\nsalvation, [2:3]if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.\n[2:4]To whom coming, a living stone, rejected indeed by men but\napproved by God, elect, precious, [2:5]do you also yourselves be built\nup living stones, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer\nspiritual sacrifices well pleasing to God through Jesus Christ,\n[2:6]for it is said in the Scripture, Behold, I lay in Zion a chief\ncorner stone, elect, precious, and he that believes on him shall not be\nashamed. [2:7]To you therefore who believe he is precious; but to the\ndisobedient, the stone which the builders rejected has become the head\nof a corner [2:8]and a stone of stumbling and rock of offense, who\nstumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were\nappointed.  [2:9]But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy\nnation, a peculiar people, that you should declare the virtues of him\nwho called you out of darkness into his glorious light; [2:10] who\nformerly were not a people, but now are a people of God, who had not\nobtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER II.\n\nPERSONAL, POLITICAL, AND SOCIAL DUTIES, ETC.\n\n1 [2:11]BELOVED, I exhort you as strangers and foreigners, abstain from\ncarnal desires, which war against the soul, [2:12]having your conduct\nhonorable among the gentiles, that wherein they speak against you as\nevil-doers, from the good works which they see they may glorify God in\nthe day of visitation.\n\n2 [2:13]Be subject therefore to every human government, for the Lord's\nsake, whether to the king, as superior, [2:14]to governors, sent by him\nfor the punishment of evil doers and the praise of those who do well;\n[2:15]for this is the will of God, that by well-doing you may silence\nthe ignorance of foolish men; [2:16]as free, and not using freedom for\na cloak of vice, but as servants of God. [2:17]Honor all men, love the\nbrotherhood, fear God, honor the king.\n\n3 [2:18]Let servants be subject with all fear to masters, not only to\nthe good and gentle but also to the perverse. [2:19]For this deserves\nthanks, if on account of a knowledge of God one endures pain, suffering\nunjustly. [2:20]For what glory is it if when you sin and are punished\nyou bear it patiently? But if you do well and suffer and bear it\npatiently, [this deserves thanks], for it is acceptable to God.\n[2:21]For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us,\nleaving you a copy that you should follow his steps, [2:22]who\ncommitted no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth, [2:23]who\nbeing reviled reviled not, suffering threatened not, but committed\nhimself to him that judges righteously, [2:24]who himself bore our sins\nin his body on the cross, that we having died to sins, may live to\nrighteousness; by whose stripes you were healed. [2:25]For you were\nlike lost sheep, but are now returned to the shepherd and bishop of\nyour souls.\n\n4 [3:1]In like manner let the women be subject to their husbands, that\neven if some disobey the word, they may be gained through the conduct\nof their wives without the word, [3:2]seeing your pure mode of life in\nthe fear [of God]. [3:3]Whose ornament let it not be the external\n[ornament] of braided hair and the putting on of chains of gold or of\nclothing, [3:4]but let the hidden man of the heart be adorned with the\nimperishable [ornaments] of a meek and quiet spirit, which are of great\nprice before God.  [3:5]For so formerly also the holy women who hoped\nin God adorned themselves, being subject to their husbands, [3:6]as\nSarah obeyed Abraham, calling him Lord, whose children you are, doing\ngood and having no fear. [3:7]In like manner let the husbands [do],\nliving together in knowledge with the wife as with a vessel of less\nstrength, deeming them precious, co-heirs of the grace of life, that\nyour prayers may not be hindered.\n\n5 [3:8]Finally, be all of one mind, sympathising, loving as brothers,\ncompassionate, humble, [3:9]not returning evil for evil or railing for\nrailing, but on the contrary blessing [your enemies], because to this\nyou are called, that you may inherit blessing. [3:10]For he that will\nlove life and see good days, let him withhold his tongue from evil and\nhis lips from speaking deceit, [3:11]let him abstain from evil and do\ngood, let him seek peace and pursue it, [3:12]for the eyes of the Lord\nare on the righteous and his ears attend to their prayer, but the face\nof the Lord is against them that do evil.\n\n6 [3:13]And who is he that will injure you if you are followers of what\nis good? [3:14]But even if you suffer on account of righteousness, you\nare blessed. But fear not with their fear, neither be troubled;\n[3:15]and sanctify the anointed Lord in your hearts, and be always\nready with a defense to every one that asks you a reason for the hope\nthat is in you; but with meekness and fear, [3:16]having a good\nconscience, that in what they speak evil of you they may be ashamed who\nslander your good conduct in Christ. [3:17]For it is better to suffer\ndoing good, if the will of God allows, than doing evil. [3:18]For\nChrist also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that he\nmight lead us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in\nthe spirit, [3:19] in which also he went and preached to the spirits in\nprison, [3:20]who were formerly disobedient when the long suffering of\nGod waited in the days of Noah while the ark was being prepared, in\nwhich a few, that is eight souls, were saved by water. [3:21]The\narchetype of which, baptism, also now saves us, not the putting away of\nthe filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience in God,\nthrough the resurrection of Jesus Christ, [3:22]who is on the right\nhand of God, having gone to heaven, angels and authorities and powers\nbeing made subject to him.\n\n7 [4:1]Christ therefore having suffered for us in the flesh, arm\nyourselves also with the same mind, for he that has suffered in the\nflesh has ceased from sin, [4:2]that you may no longer live the rest of\nyour time in the flesh according to the desires of men, but according\nto the will of God. [4:3]For the time past is sufficient for us to have\nperformed the will of the gentiles, walking in lewdness, inordinate\ndesires, drunkenness, revellings, drinkings and unlawful idolatries,\n[4:4]in which they think it strange that you run not with them to the\nsame excessive intemperance, blaspheming, [4:5]who shall give an\naccount to him that is ready to judge the living and dead. [4:6]And for\nthis cause was the gospel preached also to the dead, that they might be\njudged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the\nSpirit.\n\n8 [4:7]But the end of all things is at hand. Be sober therefore, and\nwatch in prayers; [4:8]above all things have fervent love one for\nanother, for love hides a multitude of sins. [4:9]Be hospitable one to\nanother, without complaining; [4:10]as each has received a gift,\nminister the same among yourselves as good stewards of the manifold\ngrace of God. [4:11]If any one speaks, let him speak as the oracles of\nGod, if any one serves, let it be as of the strength which God\nsupplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ,\nwhose is the glory and the power for ever and ever; amen.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER III.\n\nTRIALS, ADMONITIONS TO PRESBYTERS, ETC.\n\n1 [4:12]BELOVED, think not strange of the fiery trial which is to try\nyou, as if some strange thing happened to you, [4:13]but as you partake\nof the sufferings of Christ rejoice, that you may also rejoice exulting\nat the revelation of his glory. [4:14]If you are reproached for the\nname of Christ, happy are you, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests\non you. [4:15]But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or\nan evil doer, or as a meddler in other men's affairs; [4:16]but as a\nChristian, let him not be ashamed, let him glorify God on this account.\n[4:17]For it is time for judgment to begin at the house of God; and if\nit first begins with us, what will the end be of those that obey not\nthe gospel of God? [4:18]And if the righteous man is scarcely saved,\nwhere will the ungodly and the sinner appear? [4:19]Let those therefore\nwho suffer by the will of God, commit their souls to him in well doing\nas a faithful creator.\n\n2 [5:1]The elders among you I exhort, who am a co-elder and witness of\nthe sufferings of Christ, and a partaker of the glory to be revealed;\n[5:2]feed the flock of God which is among you, not by constraint but\nwillingly, not for base gain but of a ready mind, [5:3]not as having a\nlordship over God's inheritance but being examples to the flock;\n[5:4]and when the chief shepherd shall appear, you shall receive an\nunfading crown of glory.\n\n3 [5:5]Let the younger in like manner be subject to the elder, and do\nyou all be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility; for\nGod resists the proud but gives grace to the humble. [5:6]Humble\nyourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt\nyou in due time; [5:7]casting all your care upon him, for he cares for\nyou.\n\n4 [5:8]Be sober, be watchful. Your adversary the devil goes about like\na roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour; [5:9]whom resist, firm in\nthe faith, knowing that the same sufferings are accomplished by your\nbrothers in the world. [5:10]And may the God of all grace, who called\nyou to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, when you have suffered a\nlittle while, himself make you perfect, confirm, strengthen, establish\nyou. [5:11]To him be the glory and the power for ever; amen.\n\n5 [5:12]I have written to you in a few words by Silvanus [Silas], a\nfaithful brother as I suppose, exhorting you, and testifying that this\nis the true grace of God in which you stand. [5:13]The co-elect\n[church] at Babylon salutes you, and Mark my son.  [5:14]Salute one\nanother with a kiss of love. Peace be to you all in Christ.\n\n\n\n\nSECOND EPISTLE OF PETER.\n\n\nBABYLON, A.D. 67.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER I.\n\nTHE PURSUIT OF THE VIRTUES, THE GLORY OF CHRIST, FALSE TEACHERS, ETC.\n\n1 [1:1]SIMEON Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those\nwho have obtained a like precious faith with us by the righteousness of\nour God and Saviour Jesus Christ. [1:2]Grace and peace be multiplied to\nyou by a knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.\n\n2 [1:3]As his divine power has given us all things which pertain to\nlife and piety, through the knowledge of him that has called us to his\nown glory and virtue, [1:4]through which have been given us very great\nand precious promises, that by these you might be partakers of the\ndivine nature, having escaped from the corruption which is in the world\nby inordinate desire, [1:5]and for the same purpose also, giving all\ndiligence add to your faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge, [1:6]and\nto knowledge temperance, and to temperance patience, and to patience\npiety, [1:7]and to piety brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness\nlove. [1:8]For if these are in you and abound, they will make you not\ninactive nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ;\n[1:9]for a man that is without these is blind, not seeing to a\ndistance, and has forgotten the purification from his former errors.\n[1:10]Wherefore, brothers, use the greater diligence to make your\ncalling and election sure; for doing these things you shall never fall.\n[1:11]For thus shall you have an abundant entrance given you into the\neternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.\n\n3 [1:12]Wherefore I will not neglect always to remind you of these\nthings, although you have known them, and have been established in the\npresent truth. [1:13]I think it right as long as I am in this\ntabernacle, to excite you by remembrance, [1:14]knowing that the\nputting off of my tabernacle is at hand, as our Lord Jesus Christ\nshowed me. [1:15]But I will also be diligent and especially that you\nmay be able to make mention of these things after my departure.\n[1:16]For we did not follow skilfully constructed myths in making known\nto you the power and appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye\nwitnesses of his majesty. [1:17]For he received from God the Father\nhonor and glory, when this voice was brought to him from the\nmagnificent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.\n[1:18]And this voice we heard brought from heaven when we were with him\non the holy mount. [1:19]And we have the more sure prophetic word, to\nwhich you will do well to attend, as to a light shining in a dark\nplace, till the day dawns and the day-star arises in your hearts,\n[1:20]knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of its own\nsolution. [1:21]For prophecy was never brought by the will of man, but\nmoved by the Holy Spirit men spoke from God.\n\n4 [2:1]But there were also false prophets among the people, as there\nshall also be false teachers among you, who shall bring in by stealth\ndestructive heresies, even denying the master that bought them,\nbringing on themselves swift destruction; [2:2]and many shall follow\ntheir lewdness, on account of whom the way of truth shall be reviled,\n[2:3]and with covetousness they will make a gain of you with feigned\nwords, whose judgment a long time lingers not, and their destruction\nslumbers not. [2:4]For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but\nplunging them into Tartarus delivered them up in chains to be kept in\ndarkness till the judgment, [2:5]and spared not the old world, but\npreserved Noah a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, bringing\nthe flood on the world of the ungodly, [2:6]and condemned Sodom and\nGomorrah to be overthrown, reducing them to ashes, making them an\nexample to those who should afterwards be wicked, [2:7]and delivered\nrighteous Lot, vexed by the lewd conduct of the wicked;-- [2:8]for that\nrighteous man living among them vexed his righteous soul from day to\nday by seeing and hearing their wicked deeds;-- [2:9]the Lord knows how\nto deliver the pious from trial, and to keep the wicked to the day of\njudgment to be punished, [2:10]but especially those who walk after the\nflesh, in corrupt desires, and despise government. Presumptuous,\nself-complacent, they fear not to revile glories, [2:11]where the\nangels who are greater in strength and power do not bring against them\na reproachful judgment; [2:12]but these, like irrational animals,\nbrutes made to be taken and destroyed, reviling things which they do\nnot understand, will also be destroyed in their depravity, [2:13]\nreceiving the wages of wickedness, accounting luxury in the day-time a\npleasure, spots and blemishes, revelling in their deceptions while\nfeasting with you, [2:14]having eyes full of an adulteress, and unable\nto cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart exercised in\ncovetousness, cursed children, [2:15]having left the right way they\nhave gone astray, following in the way of Balaam the son of Beor who\nloved the wages of wickedness, [2:16]but had a rebuke of his\ntransgression; the dumb ass, speaking with a man's voice, forbade the\nmadness of the prophet.\n\n5 [2:17]These are fountains without water, clouds driven by a tempest,\nto which is reserved the blackness of darkness.  [2:18]For speaking\nextravagant words of vanity, they entice with carnal desires of\nlewdness those scarcely escaped from them, those living in error,\n[2:19]promising them liberty, when they themselves are servants of\ncorruption; for by whatever a man is overcome, to this is he made a\nservant. [2:20]For if having escaped the defilements of the world by a\nknowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again\nentangled and overcome by them, the last state of those persons is\nworse than the first.  [2:21]For it is better for them not to have\nknown the way of righteousness, than, having known, to turn from the\nholy commandment delivered to them. [2:22] But it has happened to them\naccording to the true proverb, The dog returned to his vomit, and the\nswine that was washed to wallowing in filth.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER II.\n\nTHE COMING OF CHRIST, ETC.\n\n1 [3:1]THIS second epistle, beloved, I now write to you, in which I\nexcite your pure minds by remembrance, [3:2]to remember the words\nspoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandment of us the\napostles of the Lord and Saviour, [3:3] knowing this first, that in the\nlast days scoffers shall come with scoffing walking after their\ninordinate desires, [3:4]and saying, Where is the promise of his\ncoming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they\nwere from the beginning of the world.  [3:5]For of this they are\nwillingly ignorant, that the heavens were of old, and the earth was\nmade of water and by water by the word of God, [3:6]by which the world\nthat then was, being overflowed with water, was destroyed. [3:7]But the\npresent heavens and the earth have been preserved by his word, being\nkept for fire, at the day of the judgment and destruction of wicked men.\n\n2 [3:8]But let not this one thing escape you, beloved, that one day\nwith the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.\n[3:9]The Lord is not slow in respect to his promise, as some men\naccount slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, not willing that any\nshould perish, but that all should come to a change of mind.\n\n3 [3:10]But the day of the Lord will come as a thief, in which the\nheavens shall pass away with a crash, and the elements be melted with\nheat, and the earth and the works in it be consumed.  [3:11]All these\nthings therefore being dissolved, what persons ought we to be in holy\nconduct and piety, [3:12] expecting and hastening the coming of the day\nof God, in which the heavens being burnt up will be dissolved and the\nelements be melted with heat. [3:13]But we, according to his promise,\nlook for a new heaven and a new earth, in which dwells righteousness.\n\n4 [3:14]Wherefore, beloved, looking for these things, be diligent that\nyou may be found in him without a spot and blemish, in peace, [3:15]and\nconsider the long-suffering of the Lord our salvation; as also our\nbeloved brother Paul according to the wisdom given to him wrote to you,\n[3:16]as also in all his epistles speaking of these things, in which\nare some things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable\nwrest as they also do the other Scriptures to their destruction.\n[3:17]Do you therefore, beloved, knowing [these things] before, be on\nyour guard not to be carried away with the error of the wicked and fall\nfrom your steadfastness, [3:18]but grow in grace and in the knowledge\nof our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and\nforever.\n\n\n\n\nTHE EPISTLE OF JUDAS\n\n\nA.D. 67.\n\nFALSE TEACHERS, ETC.\n\n1 [1:1]JUDAS, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to the\nbeloved in God the Father, and the called who are kept by Jesus Christ.\n[1:2]Mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you.\n\n2 [1:3]Beloved, giving all diligence to write to you concerning the\ncommon salvation, I was under a necessity to write and exhort you to\ncontend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints. [1:4]For\nsome men have come in by deception, who were of old appointed to this\njudgment, impious, changing the grace of our God into lewdness, and\ndenying our only master and Lord, Jesus Christ.\n\n3 [1:5]But I wish to remind you, though you once knew all, that the\nLord having saved his people from Egypt, afterwards destroyed those\nthat believed not, [1:6] and the angels who kept not their own\nprovince, but left their habitation, he has kept under darkness in\neternal chains, for the judgment of the great day; [1:7]as Sodom and\nGomorrah and the cities about them, committing fornication in the same\nmanner as these and going after unnatural lewdness, are made an\nexample, enduring the punishment of eternal fire.\n\n4 [1:8]In like manner also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject\ngovernment, and blaspheme glories. [1:9]But Michael the arch-angel,\nwhen disputing with the devil he reasoned about the body of Moses,\ndared not bring against him a charge of blasphemy, but said, The Lord\nrebuke you. [1:10]But these blaspheme what they do not understand, and\nwhat they know naturally, as brute beasts, in these things they corrupt\nthemselves. [1:11]Woe to them; for they have gone in the way of Cain,\nand rushed into the error of Balaam for a reward, and perished in the\ncontradiction of Korah. [1:12]These are breakers at your love-feasts,\nfeasting with you without fear, feeding themselves, clouds without\nwater driven about by winds, autumnal trees without fruit, twice dead,\nplucked up by the roots, [1:13]wild waves of the sea foaming with their\nown shame, wandering stars to which is reserved the blackness of\ndarkness for ever.\n\n5 [1:14]And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of them,\nsaying, Behold, the Lord came with ten thousand of his saints [1:15]to\nexecute judgment on all, and to convict all the wicked among them of\nall the deeds of impiety which they have impiously committed, and of\nall the hard speeches which impious sinners have spoken against him.\n[1:16]These are complainers, censorious, walking after their inordinate\ndesires, and their mouth speaks proud words, showing admiration of\npersons for the sake of gain.\n\n6 [1:17]But do you, beloved, remember the words spoken before by the\napostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, [1:18]that they said to you, That in\nthe last time there shall be scoffers, walking in their own impious\ndesires. [1:19]These are they who separate themselves, sensual, having\nnot the Spirit. [1:20]But you, beloved, build yourselves up in your\nmost holy faith, pray with the Holy Spirit. [1:21]Keep yourselves in\nthe love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to\neternal life.  [1:22]And reprove some, separatists, [1:23]and some\nsave, plucking them from the fire, but have mercy on others with fear,\nhating even the garment that is defiled by the flesh.\n\n7 [1:24]And to him that is able to keep you without falling, and to\npresent you blameless before his glory, with great joy, [1:25]to God\nour only Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty,\npower and authority before all worlds, both now and for ever more; amen.\n\n\n\n\nFIRST EPISTLE OF JOHN.\n\n\nA. D. 68.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER I.\n\nCHRIST THE LIFE, GOD IS LIGHT, WALKING WITH HIM, FALSE TEACHERS, ETC.\n\n1 [1:1]THAT which was from the beginning, that which we have heard,\nthat which we have seen with our eyes, that which we beheld and our\nhands felt, concerning the Word of life,-- [1:2]and the life was made\nmanifest, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the eternal\nlife, which was with the Father, and was manifested to us,-- [1:3]that\nwhich we have seen and heard, we declare to you, that you also may have\nfellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his\nSon Jesus Christ. [1:4]And these things we write to you, that your joy\nmay be complete.\n\n2 [1:5]And this is the message which we have heard from him and declare\nto you, That God is light, and with him there is no darkness. [1:6]If\nwe say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie\nand observe not the truth; [1:7]but if we walk in the light, as he is\nin the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of\nJesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. [1:8]If we say we have not sin,\nwe deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. [1:9]If we confess\nour sins, he is faithful and just to forgive our sins, and to cleanse\nus from all wickedness. [1:10]If we say that we have not sinned, we\nmake him a liar, and his word is not in us.\n\n3 [2:1]My little children, these things I write to you that you may not\nsin. But if any one has sinned, we have an advocate with the Father,\nJesus Christ the righteous, [2:2]and he is a propitiation for our sins,\nand not for ours only but for all the world. [2:3]And by this we know\nthat we have known him, if we keep his commandments. [2:4]He that says,\nI have known him, and keeps not his commandments, is a liar, and the\ntruth is not in him; [2:5]but whoever keeps his word, in him truly is\nthe love of God perfected. By this we know that we are in him. [2:6]He\nthat says he continues in him, ought also himself so to walk as he\nwalked.\n\n4 [2:7]Beloved, I write not a new commandment to you, but an old\ncommandment, which you had from the beginning; the old commandment is\nthe word which you heard. [2:8]Again, a new commandment I write you,\nwhich is true in him and in you, because the darkness is past and the\ntrue light now appears. [2:9]He that says he is in the light, and hates\nhis brother, is in darkness till now. [2:10] He that loves his brother\ncontinues in the light, and there is no offense in him; [2:11]but he\nthat hates his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness, and knows\nnot where he goes, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.\n\n5 [2:12]I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven\non account of his name. [2:13]I write to you, fathers, because you have\nknown him that is from the beginning. I write to you, young men,\nbecause you have overcome the evil one. I wrote to you, little\nchildren, because you have known the Father.  [2:14]I wrote to you,\nfathers, because you have known him that is from the beginning. I wrote\nto you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God\ncontinues in you, and you have overcome the evil one. [2:15]Love not\nthe world, nor the things in the world. If any one loves the world, the\nlove of the Father is not in him; [2:16]for all that is in the world,\nthe desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the pride of\nlife, is not of the Father, but is of the world. [2:17]And the world\npasses away, and its desires; but he that does the will of God\ncontinues for ever.\n\n6 [2:18]Little children, it is the last time; and as you heard that\nantichrist is coming, even now many have become anti-christs; whence we\nknow that it is the last time. [2:19]They went out from us, but they\nwere not of us; for if they had been of us they would have continued\nwith us; but [they went out from us] that they might be manifest that\nthey are not all of us.  [2:20]And you have an anointing from the Holy\nOne, and know all things. [2:21]I have not written to you because you\nknow not the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of\nthe truth. [2:22]Who is a liar but he that denies that Jesus is the\nChrist? This is the anti-christ, [the man that] denies the Father and\nthe Son. [2:23]No one that denies the Son has the Father; he that\nconfesses the Son has the Father also. [2:24]Let that which you heard\nfrom the beginning continue in you. If that which you heard from the\nbeginning continues in you, you also shall continue in the Son and in\nthe Father. [2:25]And this is the promise which he promised us, the\neternal life.\n\n7 [2:26]I have written these things to you concerning those who deceive\nyou. [2:27]And the anointing which you received from him continues in\nyou, and you have no need that any one should teach you; but as his\nanointing teaches you of all things, and is true and is not a lie, even\nas it has taught you, continue in him.\n\n8 [2:28]And now, little children, continue in him, that when he shall\nappear we may have boldness, and not be put to shame by him at his\ncoming. [2:29]If you know that he is righteous, you know that every one\nwho does righteousness has been born of him.\n\n9 [3:1]See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called\nchildren of God. The world therefore knows us not, because it knew him\nnot.\n\n10 [3:2]Beloved, now are we children of God, and it does not yet appear\nwhat we shall be. We know, that if he shall appear, we shall be like\nhim, for we shall see him as he is. [3:3]And every one that has this\nhope in him purifies himself, as he is pure.  [3:4]Every one that\ncommits sin commits also wickedness, and sin is wickedness. [3:5]And we\nknow that he was manifested to take away sins, and in him there is no\nsin. [3:6]No one that continues in him sins; no one that sins has seen\nhim, or known him.\n\n11 [3:7]Little children, let no one deceive you. He that does\nrighteousness is righteous, as he is righteous; [3:8]he that commits\nsin is of the devil, for the devil sinned from the beginning. For this\nwas the Son of God manifested, to destroy the works of the devil.\n[3:9]No one that has been born of God commits sin, for his seed\ncontinues in him, and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.\n[3:10]By this are the children of God manifest, and the children of the\ndevil; no one that does not righteousness is of God, and no one that\nloves not his brother.  [3:11]For this is the message which you heard\nfrom the beginning; that we should love one another; [3:12]not as Cain\nwas of the evil one and killed his brother; and why did he kill him?\nbecause his works were evil, and his brother's righteous.\n\n12 [3:13]Wonder not, brothers, if the world hates you. [3:14]We know\nthat we have passed from death to life, because we love the brothers;\nhe that loves not, continues in death. [3:15]Every one that hates his\nbrother is a murderer; and we know that no murderer has eternal life\ncontinuing in him. [3:16]By this we have known love, because he laid\ndown his life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the\nbrothers. [3:17]And whoever has the goods of the world and sees his\nbrother have need, and withholds his compassions from him, how\ncontinues the love of God in him?\n\n13 [3:18]My little children, let us not love in word nor tongue, but in\nwork and truth. [3:19]And by this we know that we are of the truth, and\nshall assure our hearts before him; [3:20]for if our minds condemn us,\nGod is greater than our minds and knows all things.\n\n14 [3:21]Beloved, if our minds do not condemn us, we have boldness\nbefore God, [3:22]and what we ask we receive from him, because we keep\nhis commandments and do the things which are pleasing in his sight.\n[3:23]And this is his commandment; that we should believe in the name\nof his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another as he gave commandment.\n[3:24]And he that keeps his commandments continues in him and he in\nhim; and by this we know that he continues in us, by the Spirit which\nhe gave us.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER II.\n\nFALSE SPIRITS, BROTHERLY LOVE, THE LOVE OF GOD, THE THREE WITNESSES,\nETC.\n\n1 [4:1]BELOVED, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits whether\nthey are of God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world.\n[4:2]By this you know the Spirit of God; every spirit which confesses\nthat Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, [4:3]and every\nspirit which does not confess Jesus is not of God. And this is the\n[spirit] of anti-christ, of which you have heard that he is coming, and\nhe is now in the world already.\n\n2 [4:4]You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because\ngreater is he that is in you than he that is in the world. [4:5]They\nare of the world; therefore they speak of the world and the world hears\nthem. [4:6]We are of God; he that knows God hears us, he that is not of\nGod does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the\nspirit of error.\n\n3 [4:7]Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God, and every\none that loves has been born of God and knows God. [4:8]He that loves\nnot has not known God; for God is love. [4:9]The love of God was\nmanifested to us in this; that God has sent his only Son into the world\nthat we may live through him. [4:10]In this is love; not that we loved\nGod, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins.\n\n4 [4:11]Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.\n[4:12] No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God continues\nin us and his love is perfected in us. [4:13]By this we know that we\ncontinue in him and he in us, that he has given us of his Spirit.\n[4:14]And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son,\nthe Saviour of the world.  [4:15]Whoever confesses that Jesus is the\nSon of God, God continues in him and he in God. [4:16]And we have known\nand believed the love which God has for us. God is love; and he that\ncontinues in love continues in God and God in him.\n\n5 [4:17]By this is love perfected with us, that we may have boldness in\nthe day of judgment, that as he is we also are in this world.\n[4:18]There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear; for\nfear has pain; and he that is afraid is not made perfect in love.\n[4:19]We love, because he first loved us.  [4:20] If any one says, I\nlove God, and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he that loves not\nhis brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?\n[4:21]And we have this commandment from him, that he who loves God\nshould also love his brother.\n\n6 [5:1]Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of\nGod, and every one who loves the Father loves also the Son who is born\nto him. [5:2] By this we know that we love the children of God, when we\nlove God and keep his commandments.  [5:3]For this is the love of God,\nthat we keep his commandments; and his commandments are not grievous;\n[5:4]for every child that has been born of God overcomes the world; and\nthis is the victory which overcomes the world, our faith. [5:5]Who is\nhe that overcomes the world, but he that believes that Jesus is the Son\nof God?\n\n7 [5:6]This is he that came by water and blood, Jesus, the Christ; not\nby water only, but by water and by blood; and the Spirit is that which\ntestifies, for the Spirit is the truth.  [5:7]For there are three that\ntestify; the Spirit, and the water, and the blood; and the three are\none. [5:9]If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is\ngreater; for this is the testimony of God that he has testified\nconcerning his Son.  [5:10]He that believes on the Son of God has the\ntestimony in himself; he that believes not God has made him a liar,\nbecause he has not believed in the testimony which God has testified\nconcerning his Son. [5:11]And this is the testimony, that God gave us\neternal life, and this life is in his Son. [5:12]He that has the Son\nhas the life; he that has not the Son has not the life.\n\n8 [5:13]These things have I written to you, that you who believe in the\nname of the Son of God may know that you have eternal life. [5:14]And\nthis is the confidence which we have in respect to him, that if we ask\nany thing according to his will he hears us. [5:15]And if we know that\nhe hears us whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which\nwe have asked of him.  [5:16]If any one sees his brother commit a sin,\nnot to death, he shall ask, and he will give him life, for those who\nsin not to death. There is a sin to death; I say not that you should\npray for it. [5:17]All wickedness is sin, and there is sin not to death.\n\n9 [5:18]We know that every one who has been born of God does not sin,\nbut he that has been born of God keeps himself, and the evil one does\nnot touch him. [5:19]We know that we are of God, and the whole world\nlies in wickedness. [5:20]And we know that the Son of God has come, and\nhas given us understanding that we may know the true One; and we are in\nthe true One, in his Son Jesus Christ; this is the true God, and\neternal life. [5:21]Little children, keep yourselves from idols.\n\n\n\n\nSECOND EPISTLE OF JOHN.\n\n\nA.D. 68.\n\n\nA COMMENDATION OF CURIA'S CHILDREN, ETC.\n\n1 [1:1]THE elder to the elect Curia and her children, whom I love in\ntruth, and not I only but also all who have known the truth, [1:2]on\naccount of the truth which continues in you, and shall be with you\nforever. [1:3]Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and from Jesus\nChrist the Son of the Father, shall be with you in truth and love.\n\n2 [1:4]I rejoiced exceedingly that I found your children walking in the\ntruth as we received commandment from the Father. [1:5]And now I\nbeseech you, Curia, not as if writing a new commandment to you, but\n[one] which we had from the beginning, that we should love one another.\n[1:6]And this is love, that we should walk according to his\ncommandments; this is the commandment, as you heard from the beginning,\nthat you should walk in it. [1:7]For many deceivers have gone out into\nthe world, who do not confess Jesus Christ coming in the flesh; this is\nthe deceiver, and the antichrist. [1:8]Take heed to yourselves, that ye\nlose not the labor which you performed, but receive a full reward.\n[1:9]Every one who goes beyond, and continues not in the doctrine of\nChrist, is without God. He that continues in the doctrine has both the\nSon and the Father. [1:10] If any one comes to you and brings not this\ndoctrine, receive him not into your houses, and salute him not;\n[1:11]for he that salutes him is a partaker of his evil works.\n\n3 [1:12]Having many things to write, I do not wish to write with paper\nand ink, but I hope to be with you and to speak face to face, that our\njoy may be full. [1:13]The children of your elect sister salute you.\n\n\n\n\nTHIRD EPISTLE OF JOHN.\n\n\nA.D. 68.\n\n\nA COMMENDATION OF GAIUS AND DEMETRIUS, AND A DENUNCIATION OF DIOTREPHES.\n\n1 [1:1]THE elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth.\n[1:2]Beloved, I desire above all things that you may prosper and be in\nhealth, as your soul prospers. [1:3]For I rejoiced exceedingly when the\nbrothers came and testified of your truth, as you walk in truth. [1:4]I\nhave no greater joy than this, that I hear of my children walking in\nthe truth.\n\n2 [1:5]Beloved, you did faithfully whatever you do to the brothers, and\nthat to strangers, [1:6]who testified of your love before the church,\nwhom you will do well to send forward worthily of God. [1:7]For they\nwent out for his name, taking nothing of the gentiles. [1:8]We\ntherefore ought to receive such, that we may be co-laborers for the\ntruth.\n\n3 [1:9]I wrote something to the church, but Diotrephes desiring the\npre-eminence does not receive us. [1:10]Therefore if I come I will\nremember his works which he performs, prating against us with evil\nwords, and not being satisfied, in addition to these [things] he does\nnot receive the brothers, and forbids and casts out of the church those\nwishing to do it.\n\n4 [1:11]Beloved, do not imitate evil but good. He that does good is of\nGod; he that does evil has not seen God. [1:12]Testimony is borne to\nDemetrius by all, and by the truth itself; and we also testify, and you\nknow that our testimony is true.\n\n5 [1:13]I had many things to write, but wish not to write to you with\nink and pen; [1:14]but hope soon to see you, and we will speak face to\nface. Peace be to you. The friends salute you; salute the friends by\nname.\n\n\n\n\n[THE EPISTLE] TO THE HEBREWS.\n\n\nA.D. 68.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER I.\n\nCHRIST THE SON OF GOD SUPERIOR TO ANGELS AND TO MOSES.\n\n1 [1:1]GOD, who at many times and in many ways spoke anciently to the\nfathers by the prophets, [1:2]in these last days spoke to us by his\nSon, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made\nthe worlds, [1:3]who being the brightness of his glory and the express\nimage of his substance, and sustaining all things by the word of his\npower, having made a purification of sins, sat down on the right hand\nof the majesty on high, [1:4]being made as much greater than the angels\nas he has inherited a more excellent name than they. [1:5]For to which\nof the angels said he at any time, You are my Son, to-day have I\nbegotten you? And again, I will be to him a Father and he shall be to\nme a Son? [1:6]And again, when he brings the first-born into the world\nhe says, And let all the angels of God worship him. [1:7]And of the\nangels he says, Who makes his angels winds, and his ministers a flame\nof fire; [1:8]but of the Son, Thy throne, God, is forever and ever; the\nsceptre of thy kingdom is a sceptre of rectitude. [1:9]Thou hast loved\nrighteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, thy God, anointed\nthee with the oil of gladness above thy companions. [1:10]And thou,\nLord, in the beginning didst build from its foundations the earth, and\nthe heavens are works of thy hands; [1:11]they shall perish, but thou\nshalt continue; and they shall all become old like a garment, [1:12]and\nlike a mantle thou shalt fold them up, and they shall be changed, but\nthou art the same and thy years shall not fail.  [1:13]And to which of\nthe angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand till I make thy\nenemies thy footstool? [1:14]Are they not all ministering spirits, sent\nforth to serve on account of those who are about to inherit salvation?\n\n2 [2:1]We ought therefore to attend the more to the things which we\nheard, lest at any time we should glide away [from them].  [2:2]For if\nthe word spoken by angels was firm, and every transgression and\ndisobedience received a just recompense, [2:3]how shall we escape who\nhave neglected so great a salvation?  which began to be spoken by the\nLord, and was affirmed to us by those who heard, [2:4]God bearing them\nwitness with signs and prodigies, and various mighty works and gifts of\nthe holy Spirit, according to his will.\n\n3 [2:5]For he did not subject to angels the world to come, of which we\nspeak. [2:6]But one somewhere testified, saying, What is man that thou\nart mindful of him, or a son of man that thou visitest him? [2:7]Thou\ndidst make him a little lower than angels, thou didst crown him with\nglory and honor, [2:8]thou didst subject all things under his feet. For\nin subjecting all things to him, he left nothing not subjected to him.\nBut now we do not yet see all things subjected to him. [2:9]But we see\nJesus, made a little less than angels, on account of the suffering of\ndeath crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should\ntaste death for every [man]. [2:10]For it became him, for whom are all\nthings and through whom are all things, to perfect by sufferings the\nprince of their salvation, bringing many sons to glory. [2:11]For both\nhe that sanctifies and the sanctified are all of one; for which cause\nhe is not ashamed to call them brothers, [2:12]saying, I will declare\nthy name to my brothers, in the midst of the assembly will I sing to\nthee. [2:13]And again, I will trust in him. And again, Behold me and\nthe children which God gave me. [2:14]Since then the children have\npartaken of blood and flesh, he in like manner also partook of them,\nthat through death he might destroy him that has the power of death,\nthat is the devil, [2:15]and liberate those who all their life were\nsubjects of servitude to the fear of death.  [2:16]For indeed he helped\nnot angels, but he helped the descendants of Abraham. [2:17]Whence he\nought in all things to be assimilated to the brothers, that he may be a\nmerciful and faithful chief priest as to things relating to God, to\nmake propitiation for the sins of the people. [2:18]For because he has\nhimself suffered, having been tried, he is able to help the tried.\n\n4 [3:1]Whence, holy brothers, partakers of the heavenly call, consider\nthe apostle and chief priest of our profession, Jesus, [3:2]who is\nfaithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was in his house.\n[3:3]For this man is judged worthy of more glory than Moses, as much as\nhe has more honor than the house [tabernacle] which he built. [3:4]For\nevery house is built by some one; but he that built all things is God.\n[3:5]And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for\na testimony of things to be spoken; [3:6]but Christ as a son over his\nhouse, whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and rejoicing\nof the hope.\n\n5 [3:7]Wherefore, as the Holy Spirit says, To-day if you will hear his\nvoice, [3:8]harden not your hearts as in the provocation, in the day of\nthe trial in the wilderness, [3:9]where your fathers fully proved and\nsaw my works forty years. [3:10]Wherefore I was displeased with that\ngeneration and said, They always err in mind, and they did not know my\nways, [3:11]so I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.\n[3:12]See, brothers, that there be not at any time in any one of you an\nevil mind of unbelief in departing from the living God; [3:13]but\nexhort one another daily, while it is called to-day, that no one of you\nmay be hardened by the deception of sin; [3:14]for we have been made\npartakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of the confidence firm to\nthe end. [3:15]It was said, To-day if you will hear his voice, harden\nnot your hearts as in the provocation; [3:16]for who having heard\ncommitted provocation? Did not all indeed who came out of Egypt with\nMoses?  [3:17]And with whom was he displeased forty years? Was it not\nwith those that sinned? whose bodies fell in the wilderness?  [3:18]And\nto whom did he swear that they should not enter into his rest? was it\nnot to them that disobeyed? [3:19]And we see that they could not enter\nin because of unbelief.\n\n6 [4:1]Let us fear, therefore, lest at any time a promise being left us\nof entering into his rest, any one of you should seem to come short.\n[4:2]For we have also received the good news as they did; but the word\nof the report did not profit them, not being accompanied with faith in\nthose who heard. [4:3]For we enter into the rest who believed, as he\nsaid, I swore in my wrath that they shall not enter into my rest,\nalthough of works made from the foundation of the world. [4:4]For he\nspoke in a certain place of the seventh day, thus; And God rested on\nthe seventh day from all his works. [4:5]And in this place again, They\nshall not enter into my rest. [4:6]Since then it remains that some\nentered into it, and those to whom it was first preached entered not in\non account of unbelief, [4:7]again he defines a certain day, To-day,\nsaying in David, after so long a time, as it was said before, To-day if\nyou will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.  [4:8]For if Joshua\ncaused them to rest he would not have spoken of another day afterwards.\n\n7 [4:9]Therefore a sabbatism remains for the people of God.  [4:10]For\nhe [Christ] who entered into his rest, also himself rested from his\nworks, as God from his.\n\n8 [4:11]Let us use diligence, therefore to enter into that rest [the\nheavenly rest], that no one may fall, after the same example of\ndisobedience. [4:12]For the word of God is living, and effective, and\nsharper than any two-edged sword, and reaching even to the division of\nsoul and spirit, and of joints and marrows, and distinguishes thoughts\nand intentions of mind; [4:13]and there is nothing which is not\nmanifest in his sight; for all things are naked and exposed to his\neyes, to whom our discourse relates.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER II.\n\nCHRIST A CHIEF PRIEST AFTER THE ORDER OF MELCHISEDEC.\n\n1 [4:14]HAVING therefore a great chief priest who has gone through the\nheavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast the profession.\n[4:15]For we have not a chief priest who cannot sympathise with our\ninfirmities, but one tried in all respects as we are, without sin.\n[4:16]Let us therefore approach with boldness the throne of grace, that\nwe may obtain mercy and find grace for timely aid.\n\n2 [5:1]For every chief priest taken from men is appointed in behalf of\nmen over things relating to God, that he may offer gifts and sacrifices\nfor sins, [5:2] being able to deal gently with the ignorant and erring,\nsince he is himself encompassed with infirmity, [5:3]and as for the\npeople, so also for himself, he is obliged to present offerings for\nsins. [5:4]And no one takes the honor on himself but he that is called\nby God, even as Aaron also was. [5:5]So also Christ did not put on\nhimself the honor of being made a chief priest, but he that said to\nhim, Thou art my Son, to-day have I begotten thee; [5:6]as also in\nanother place he says, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of\nMelchisedec. [5:7]Who in the days of his flesh having offered both\nprayers and supplications to him that was able to save him from death,\nwith loud cries and tears, [and being heard and delivered] from fear,--\n[5:8]although he was a Son, learned obedience from what he suffered,\n[5:9]and being made perfect became to all who obey him an author of\neternal salvation, [5:10]being called by God a chief priest after the\norder of Melchisedec.\n\n3 [5:11]Concerning whom we have much to say, and that which is\ndifficult to explain, because you have become dull of hearing.\n[5:12]For you who ought on account of the time to be teachers, have\nneed that one should teach you again what are the first rudiments of\nthe oracles of God, and have need of milk and not solid food. [5:13]For\nevery one that partakes of milk is unskilful in the word of\nrighteousness, for he is a babe; [5:14]but solid food is for the\nperfect, having their perceptive faculties exercised by practice to\ndistinguish both good and evil.\n\n4 [6:1]Wherefore leaving the account of the beginning of Christ, let us\ngo on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of a change of\nmind from dead works, and of faith in God, [6:2]of baptisms taught, and\nthe imposition of hands, and of the resurrection of the dead, and of\nthe eternal judgment. [6:3] And this we will do if God permits.\n[6:4]For those once enlightened and having tasted of the heavenly gift\nand been made partakers of the Holy Spirit, [6:5] and having tasted of\nthe good word of God and the powers of the life to come, [6:6]and\nhaving fallen away, it is impossible again to renew to a change of\nmind, they having crucified again and exposed to shame the Son of God.\n[6:7]But the land which drinks in the rain that often falls on it, and\nproduces plants beneficial to those by whom it is cultivated, receives\na blessing from God; [6:8]but that which produces thorns and thistles\nis disapproved, and is nigh to a curse, the end of which is to be\nburned.\n\n5 [6:9]But we are persuaded better things of you, beloved, and things\npertaining to salvation, though we thus speak. [6:10]For God is not\nunjust, to forget your work, and the love which you showed for his\nname, having served the saints and [still] serving them. [6:11]But we\ndesire each of you to show the same diligence to the full assurance of\nhope to the end, [6:12]that you be not stupid, but followers of those\nwho through faith and patience inherit the promises. [6:13]For God\nhaying promised Abraham, when he could not swear by a greater, swore by\nhimself, [6:14]saying, Surely, blessing I will bless you, and\nmultiplying I will multiply you; [6:15]and so having waited long he\nobtained the promise. [6:16]For men indeed swear by a greater, and an\noath for confirmation is to them an end of all dispute; [6:17]for which\ncause, God wishing more abundantly to show to the heirs of the promise\nthe immutability of his purpose, interposed with an oath, [6:18]that by\ntwo immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we\nmight have strong consolation, who fled to lay hold on the hope set\nbefore us, [6:19]which we have as an anchor of the soul, sure and firm,\nand entering within the vail, [6:20]where our forerunner Jesus entered,\nmade after the order of Melchisedec a chief priest forever.\n\n6 [7:1]For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high\nGod, who met Abraham as he returned from the slaughter of the kings and\nblessed him, [7:2]to whom also Abraham gave a tenth of all, first being\ninterpreted king of righteousness, and then also king of Salem, which\nis king of peace, [7:3] without father, without mother, without\ngenealogy, having neither a beginning of days nor end of life, but\nbeing made like the Son of God, continues a priest forever.\n\n7 [7:4]And behold, how great this man was, to whom even Abraham the\npatriarch gave a tenth of the spoils. [7:5]And the sons of Levi who\nreceive the priesthood, have a commandment to tithe the people\naccording to the law, that is their brothers, although descended from\nAbraham; [7:6]but he whose descent is not reckoned from them received\ntithes of Abraham, and blessed him who has the promises. [7:7]But\nbeyond all contradiction, the less is blessed by the greater. [7:8]And\nhere, men who die receive tithes, but there, one of whom it is\ntestified that he lives. [7:9]And so to speak, Levi also who receives\ntithes paid tithes through Abraham; [7:10]for he was yet in his father\nwhen Melchisedec met him.\n\n8 [7:11]If therefore there was perfection through the Levitical\npriesthood,--for the people received the law under it,--what need was\nthere that another priest should arise after the order of Melchisedec\nand not to be called after the order of Aaron?  [7:12]For the\npriesthood being changed, of necessity also there is made a change of\nthe law. [7:13]For he of whom these things are said belonged to another\ntribe, of which no one attended to the altar; [7:14] for it is evident\nthat our Lord arose from Judah, in respect to which tribe Moses said\nnothing concerning priests. [7:15]And moreover, [this] is still further\nevident, if another priest is raised up according to the likeness of\nMelchisedec, [7:16]who was not a priest after the law of an external\ncommandment, but after the power of imperishable life.  [7:17]For it is\ntestified, Thou art a priest forever, after the order of Melchisedec.\n[7:18]For there is an abrogation of the commandment which goes before,\non account of its weakness and unprofitableness; [7:19]for the law made\nnothing perfect, but was the introduction of a better hope through\nwhich we draw nigh to God. [7:20]And as he was not [constituted]\nwithout swearing,-- [7:21]for they were made priests without swearing,\nbut he with swearing by him who says to him, The Lord swore, and he\nwill not change, You are a priest forever;-- [7:22]by so much is Jesus\nthe pledge of a better covenant. [7:23]And they indeed were made many\npriests, on account of being forbidden by death to continue; [7:24]but\nhe, on account of his continuing for ever, has a priesthood which\npasses not away, [7:25]whence also he is able to save forever those who\ncome to God through him, always living to intercede for them.\n\n9 [7:26]For such a chief priest also was suitable for us, holy,\nharmless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the\nheavens, [7:27]who has no need daily as the chief priests first to\npresent sacrifices for their sins, then for those of the people; for\nthis he did once for all, having offered himself.  [7:28]For the law\nconstitutes men chief priests having infirmity, but the word of the\noath which is after the law the Son made perfect forever.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER III.\n\nCHRIST THE AUTHOR OF A NEW COVENANT AND OF ITS BLESSINGS.\n\n1 [8:1]BUT the chief thing in addition to what has been said is, that\nwe have such a chief priest who sat on the right hand of the throne of\nthe majesty in the heavens, [8:2]a minister of the sanctuary, and of\nthe true tabernacle, which the Lord set up, not man. [8:3]For every\nchief priest is constituted to offer gifts and sacrifices, whence it\nwas necessary that this man also should have something to offer.\n[8:4]For if he had been on earth he would not have been a priest, there\nbeing priests to offer, the gifts according to the law, [8:5]who serve\nfor a symbol and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was divinely\ninstructed when about to make the tabernacle; for see, he says, that\nyou make all things after the pattern shown you in the Mount; [8:6]but\nnow he has obtained a more excellent service, by as much also as he is\nthe mediator of a better covenant, which is established on better\npromises.  2 [8:7]For if that first covenant had been faultless, no\nplace would have been sought for the second. [But it was not].\n[8:8]For finding fault with them he says, Behold, the days come, says\nthe Lord, that I will make with the house of Israel and the house of\nJudah, a new covenant, [8:9]not according to the covenant which I made\nwith their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to lead\nthem out of Egypt, for they continued not in my covenant, and I\nneglected them, says the Lord.  [8:10]This is the covenant that I will\nmake with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will\nput my laws in their minds, and will write them in their hearts, and I\nwill be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people. [8:11]And they\nshall not teach every one his [fellow] citizen, and every one his\nbrother, saying, Know the Lord, for all shall know me, from the least\nto the greatest of them. [8:12]For I will be merciful to their\nwickedness, and their sins and transgressions will I remember no more.\n[8:13]By saying new, he made the first old; but that which is ancient\nand weak is about to perish.\n\n3 [9:1]The first covenant then had ordinances of divine service and a\nworldly sanctuary. [9:2]For the first tabernacle was provided, in which\nwere the candlestick and the table and the show bread, which is called\nthe sanctuary. [9:3]But behind the second vail is the tabernacle,\ncalled the inner sanctuary, [9:4]having the golden censer and the ark\nof the covenant overlaid on every side with gold, in which were the\ngolden vase that had the manna and Aaron's rod that budded and the\ntables of the covenant, [9:5]and over it were the cherubs of glory,\novershadowing the propitiation; of which it is not necessary now to\nspeak particularly.\n\n4 [9:6]And these being thus provided, the priests enter into the first\ntabernacle continually, performing the services, [9:7]but into the\nsecond once a year only the chief priest [enters], not without blood,\nwhich he offers for his errors and those of the people, [9:8]the Holy\nSpirit showing this, that the way into the sanctuary is not made\nmanifest while the first tabernacle yet has a standing, [9:9]which is a\ntype of the time at hand, in which gifts and sacrifices are offered\nthat cannot perfect the worshipper as to the conscience, [9:10]only in\nmeats and drinks and different baptisms, and external ordinances,\nimposed till the time of reformation.\n\n5 [9:11]But Christ having come, a chief priest of the good times that\nwere to come, with a greater and a more perfect tabernacle not made\nwith hands, that is, not of this creation, [9:12]not with blood of\ngoats and bullocks, but with his own blood, entered once into the\nsanctuary having found eternal redemption.  [9:13]For if the blood of\nbulls and goats, and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the defiled,\nsanctifies to the purification of the flesh, [9:14]how much more shall\nthe blood of Christ, who with an eternal spirit offered himself without\nfault to God, purify your conscience from dead works to serve the\nliving God.\n\n6 [9:15]And for this cause he is the mediator of the new covenant, that\ndeath having been for a redemption of transgressions [transgressors]\nunder the first covenant, the called might receive the promise of the\neternal inheritance.  [9:16]For where there is a covenant, there must\nfollow the death of the covenant-maker. [9:17]For a covenant is strong\nfor the dead, since it is never strong [unalterable] when the\ncovenant-maker lives; [9:18]whence also the first [covenant] was not\ninitiated without blood. [9:19]For every commandment of the law having\nbeen spoken by Moses to all the people, taking the blood of bullocks\nand goats with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, he sprinkled both the\nbook itself and all the people, [9:20]saying, This is the blood of the\ncovenant which God has enjoined upon you. [9:21]And he sprinkled also\nthe tabernacle, and all the implements of the service, in like manner,\nwith blood. [9:22]And almost all things, according to the law, are\npurified with blood, and without the pouring out of blood there is no\nforgiveness.\n\n7 [9:23]It was necessary, therefore, that the symbols of things in the\nheavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things\nthemselves with better sacrifices than these. [9:24]For Christ did not\nenter into the sanctuary made with hands, a type of the true, but into\nheaven itself, and already has appeared before God for us, [9:25]not\nthat he may often present himself, as the chief priest enters into the\nsanctuary once a year with the blood of another [being]; [9:26]since it\nwas necessary that it should suffer often from the foundation of the\nworld, but now once at the consummation of the world he has been\nmanifested to destroy sins by the sacrifice of himself. [9:27]And as it\nis appointed to men once to die, but after this is the judgment,\n[9:28]so also Christ having been once offered to bear the sins of many,\nshall appear a second time without sin, to those who look for him for\nsalvation.\n\n8 [10:1]For the law having a shadow of the good things that were to\ncome, not the very likeness of the things, could not by the sacrifices\nwhich they offered continually every year perfect the offerers;\n[10:2]if they could, would they not have ceased to be offered, because\nthose serving would have had no longer a knowledge of sins, having been\nonce purified? [10:3]But in them there was a remembrance of sins, year\nby year; [10:4]for it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats\nshould take away sins. [10:5]Wherefore, coming into the world, he says,\nA sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire, but a body didst thou\nprepare me. [10:6]Whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou\nwast not pleased with; [10:7]then I said, Behold, I come,--in the\nvolume of the book it is written of me,--to do thy will, O God.\n[10:8]Saying before, Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings\nand [sacrifices] for sin thou didst not desire and wast not pleased\nwith, which are offered according to the law, [10:9] then he said,\nBehold, I come to do thy will. He takes away the first, that he may\nestablish the second, [10:10]by which will we have been sanctified\nthrough the offering of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all.\n\n9 [10:11]And every priest stood daily performing service and presenting\noften the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins; [10:12]but\nthis [priest] having offered one sacrifice forever for sins, sat down\non the right hand of God, [10:13]henceforth waiting till his enemies\nare made his footstool. [10:14] For by one offering he has perfected\nforever the sanctified. [10:15]The Holy Spirit also testifies [this] to\nus; for after it had said before, [10:16]This is the covenant which I\nwill make with them after those days, the Lord says, I will put my laws\nin their hearts, and in their minds will I write them, [10:17] and\ntheir sins and transgressions will I remember no more. [10:18]But where\nthere is a forgiveness of these, an offering for sin is no longer\nrequired.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER IV.\n\nTHE CONTEMPLATION OF CHRIST, FAITH AND ITS MARTYRS.\n\n1 [10:19]HAVING therefore, brothers, confidence in respect to the\nentrance into the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus, [10:20]which\n[entrance] he consecrated for us a new and living way through the vail,\nthat is his flesh, [10:21]and [having] a great priest over the house of\nGod, [10:22]let us approach with a true heart in a full assurance of\nfaith, sprinkled in heart from an evil conscience, and washed in body\nwith pure water, [10:23]let us hold firmly the profession of the faith,\nwithout declining; for he is faithful that promised; [10:24]and let us\nobserve one another for a provocation of love and of good works,\n[10:25]not forsaking our own congregation as some are in the habit of\n[doing], but exhorting [others], and so much the more as you see the\nday approaching.\n\n2 [10:26]For if we sin willingly after having received the knowledge of\nthe truth, there is no longer a sacrifice left for sins, [10:27]but a\nfearful expectation of judgment and fiery indignation, which is about\nto consume the adversaries.  [10:28]Any one who despised the law of\nMoses died without mercy by two or three witnesses; [10:29]of how much\ngreater punishment do you suppose he will be thought worthy, who has\ntrodden down the Son of God, and accounted defiled the blood of the\ncovenant with which he was purified, and treated injuriously the Spirit\nof grace. [10:30]For we know him that said, Judgment belongs to me, I\nwill repay. And again, The Lord will judge his people. [10:31] It is\nfearful to fall into the hands of the living God.\n\n3 [10:32]But remember the former days, in which having been enlightened\nyou endured a great conflict with sufferings, [10:33]partly in being\nmade a spectacle by reproaches and afflictions, and partly being\ncompanions of those so treated.  [10:34]For you sympathized with those\nin bonds, and received with joy the plunder of your property, knowing\nthat you have for yourselves a better possession, and one that endures.\n[10:35]Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has a great\nreward.  [10:36]For you have need of patience, that having done the\nwill of God you may receive the promise. [10:37]For yet a very little\nwhile, and he that is to come will come and will not delay; [10:38] but\nmy righteous one shall live by faith, and if he draws back my soul\ntakes no pleasure in him. [10:39]But we are not of those who draw back\nto perdition, but of faith to the saving of the soul.\n\n4 [11:1]But faith is a confidence in respect to things hoped for, a\nconviction of things not seen. [11:2]For by it the ancients obtained a\ngood repute. [11:3] We know by faith that the worlds were made by the\nword of God, that the seen was not made from the apparent. [11:4]By\nfaith Abel offered to God a greater sacrifice than Cain, through which\nhe was declared to be righteous, God testifying to his gifts, and\nthrough the same, having died, he speaks still. [11:5]By faith Enoch\nwas translated without seeing death, and was not found because God\ntranslated him. For before the translation he was said to have pleased\nGod; [11:6]but without faith it is impossible to please; for he that\ncomes to God, must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of\nthose that seek him.\n\n5 [11:7]By faith Noah having been divinely instructed concerning things\nnot yet seen, fearing built the ark for the salvation of his house, by\nwhich he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness\nby faith.\n\n6 [11:8]By faith Abraham being called obeyed and went out to a place\nwhich he was to receive for an inheritance, and went out not knowing\nwhere he was going. [11:9]By faith he resided temporarily in the land\nof promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents, with Isaac and\nJacob, co-heirs of the same promise; [11:10]for he looked for the city\nwhich has foundations [fixed abodes] whose designer and builder is God.\n[11:11]By faith also Sarah herself received power to become a mother,\neven beyond the usual age, because she regarded him faithful that\npromised.  [11:12]Wherefore also there were born of one, and those of\none dead, [a posterity] like the stars of heaven for multitude, and\nlike the sands on the sea-shore innumerable.\n\n7 [11:13]All these died in faith not having received the promises, but\nhaving seen and saluted them from a distance, and having professed that\nthey were foreigners and strangers on the earth. [11:14]For those who\nsay such things show that they seek a native country. [11:15]And if\nthey had remembered that country from which they went out, they would\nhave had opportunity to return; [11:16]but now they seek a better, that\nis a heavenly [country]. Wherefore God is not ashamed of them to be\ncalled their God; for he has prepared for them a city.\n\n8 [11:17]By faith Abraham when tried offered Isaac, and he that\nreceived the promises offered his only son, [11:18]of whom it was said,\nIn Isaac shall your posterity be called, [11:19]judging that God was\nable to raise even from the dead; whence also in a figure he received\nhim. [11:20]By faith also Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau in respect to\nthings to come. [11:21]By faith Jacob dying, blessed each of the sons\nof Joseph and worshipped leaning on the top of his staff. [11:22]By\nfaith Joseph at the close of life made mention of the exodus of the\nchildren of Israel and gave charge concerning his bones.\n\n9 [11:23]By faith Moses when he was born was hid three months by his\nparents, because they saw that the child was beautiful, and they feared\nnot the command of the king. [11:24]By faith Moses when he became a man\nrefused to be called a son of Pharaoh's daughter, [11:25]choosing\nrather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to have an\nenjoyment of sin for a time, [11:26]judging the reproach of Christ\ngreater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he had respect to the\nreward. [11:27]By faith he left Egypt, not having feared the\ndispleasure of the king; for he endured as seeing him that is\ninvisible. [11:28] By faith he observed the passover and the pouring\nout of blood, that the destroyer of the first-born might not touch\nthem. [11:29]By faith they passed through the Red Sea as through dry\nland, which the Egyptians attempting were swallowed up. [11:30]By faith\nthe walls of Jericho fell down when they had been surrounded seven\ndays. [11:31]By faith Rahab the harlot escaped destruction with the\ndisobedient, having received the spies in peace.\n\n10 [11:32]And why should I say more? For time would fail me to relate\nof Gideon and Barak, and Sampson and Jepthah, and David and Samuel and\nthe prophets, [11:33]who by faith subdued kingdoms, performed\nrighteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,\n[11:34]extinguished the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword,\nfrom weakness were made strong, became mighty in war, put to flight\nencampments of foreigners; [11:35]women received their dead from a\nresurrection, others were tortured having not accepted redemption, that\nthey might obtain a better resurrection; [11:36]and others had trial of\nmockings and scourges, and besides of bonds and imprisonment;\n[11:37]they were stoned, they were cut to pieces with saws, they were\ntried, they died with the death of the sword, they wandered about in\nsheep-skins and goat-skins, destitute, afflicted, injuriously treated,\n[11:38]of whom the world was not worthy, wandering in deserts and\nmountains, and in caves and openings of the earth.  [11:39]And none of\nthese who became martyrs through faith received the promise, [11:40]God\nhaving provided something better for us, that they without us should\nnot be made perfect.\n\n11 [12:1]Therefore also we, having so great a cloud of witnesses lying\naround us, laying aside every impediment and sin which entirely\nsurrounds us, let us run with patience the race set before us,\n[12:2]looking to the chief guide and perfecter of the faith, Jesus, who\nfor the joy set before him despised the shame and endured the cross,\nand sat down on the right hand of God.  [12:3]For consider him that has\nendured such a contradiction from sinners, that you may not become\nfaint and weary in your minds.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER V.\n\nDIVINE CHASTENING, MOUNT SINAI AND MOUNT ZION, MORAL DUTIES, ETC.\n\n1 [12:4]You have not yet resisted to blood contending against sin.\n[12:5]And you have forgotten the exhortation which says to you as to\nsons, My son, despise not the correction of the Lord and faint not when\nrebuked by him, [12:6]for the Lord corrects those whom he loves, and\nchastises every son whom he receives.  [12:7]If you endure correction,\nGod deals with you as sons; for what son is there whom his father does\nnot correct? [12:8]But if you are without correction of which all are\npartakers, then you are of foreign birth, and not sons. [12:9]\nMoreover, we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us and we\nrespected them; shall we not much more be subject to the Father of\nspirits and live? [12:10]For they for a few days corrected us as seemed\ngood to them, but he for the best, that we may partake of his holiness.\n[12:11]And no correction seems to be joyful for the present but\npainful, but afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness\nto those exercised by it.\n\n2 [12:12]Wherefore hold up the hands that hang down, and the feeble\nknees, [12:13]and make straight courses for your feet, that the lame\nmay not be turned out of the way, but may rather be healed.\n[12:14]Follow peace with all men and holiness, without which no one\nshall see the Lord, [12:15]taking care that no one may come short of\nthe grace of God, that no root of bitterness springing up may make\ntrouble and by it many be defiled, [12:16]that no one may be a\nfornicator or unholy person like Esau, who for one meal sold his\nbirthright. [12:17]For you know that afterwards, wishing also to\ninherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no place for a\nchange of mind, though he sought it with tears. [12:18]For you have not\ncome to a mountain that may be touched, and to a burning fire, and\nblackness and darkness and a tempest [12:19]and the sound of a trumpet\nand the voice of words, which those who heard desired that the word\nmight not be spoken to them any more,-- [12:20]for they could not bear\nwhat was commanded, And if a beast touches the mountain it shall be\nstoned; [12:21]and so fearful was the sight, that Moses said, I fear\nand tremble,-- [12:22]but you have come to Zion, the mountain and city\nof the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels in\ngeneral assembly, [12:23]and to the church of the first-born who are\nenrolled in heaven, and to a judge the God of all, and to spirits of\nthe righteous made perfect, [12:24]and to Jesus the mediator of the new\ncovenant, and to a sprinkled blood which speaks better than Abel.\n\n3 [12:25]See that you refuse not him that speaks; for if they did not\nescape who refused him that gave answers on earth, much more shall we\n[not escape] who turn ourselves away from him in heaven; [12:26]whose\nvoice then shook the earth, but now it has been promised, saying,\nHereafter once for all I will shake not only the earth, but also\nheaven. [12:27]And this, Hereafter once for all, signifies the removal\nof the things shaken as of things made, that those not shaken may\ncontinue. [12:28]Wherefore, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken,\nlet us have grace through which we may serve God acceptably, with piety\nand fear; [12:29]for our God is also a consuming fire.\n\n4 [13:1]Let brotherly love continue. [13:2]Forget not hospitality; for\nby this some without knowing it have entertained angels. [13:3]Remember\nthose bound as bound with them, and those injured as being yourselves\nalso in the body. [13:4] Marriage is honorable in all, and married life\nwithout blame; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge. [13:5]Let\nyour life be without avarice, and be contented with what you have; for\nhe said, I will never leave you, I will never forsake you; [13:6]so\nthat we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear;\nwhat can man do to me?\n\n5 [13:7]Remember your guides who spoke to you the word of God, and\nconsidering the end of their life follow the faith.  [13:8]Jesus Christ\nis the same yesterday, to-day, and forever.  [13:9]Be not carried about\nwith various and strange doctrines; for it is good that the mind should\nbe established with grace, not with aliments, in which those walking\nare not profited.\n\n6 [13:10]We have an altar of which those who serve the tabernacle have\nno right to eat. [13:11]For the bodies of those animals whose blood is\ncarried into the sanctuary by the chief priest are burnt without the\nencampment. [13:12] Wherefore also Jesus, that he might purify the\npeople through his blood, suffered without the gate. [13:13]Let us\ntherefore go out to him without the encampment, bearing his reproach;\n[13:14]for we have not here a city that continues, but we seek that\nwhich is to come.  [13:15]Through him, therefore, let us offer the\nsacrifice of praise continually to God, that is, the fruit of lips\nconfessing his name. [13:16]And forget not beneficence and liberality;\nfor with such sacrifices God is well pleased.\n\n7 [13:17]Obey your guides and be in subjection; for they watch for your\nsouls as having to give an account, that they may do this with joy and\nnot with grief; for this is unprofitable for you.\n\n8 [13:18]Pray for us; for we trust we have a good conscience, in all\nthings wishing to live well. [13:19]And I exhort you do this the more,\nthat I may sooner be restored to you.\n\n9 [13:20]And may the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the\ngreat shepherd of the sheep with the blood of the eternal covenant, our\nLord Jesus, [13:21]perfect you in every good work to do his will, doing\nin you that which is pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ, to\nwhom be the glory forever; amen.\n\n10 [13:22]And I beseech you, brothers, suffer the word of exhortation;\nfor I have sent to you a letter in a few words.  [13:23]Know that\nbrother Timothy has been released, with whom, if he comes soon, I will\nsee you. [13:24]Salute all your guides and all the saints. Those from\nItaly salute you. [13:25]The grace be with you all; amen.\n\n\n\n\nREVELATION BY JOHN.\n\n\nPATMOS, A.D. 68.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER I.\n\nINTRODUCTION, A VISION OF CHRIST\n\n1 [1:1]A REVELATION of Jesus Christ, which God gave him, to show his\nservants [things] which must shortly occur, and he sent and made them\nknown by his angel to his servant John, [1:2]who declared the word of\nGod and the testimony of Jesus Christ which he saw. [1:3]Blessed is he\nthat reads, and those that hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the\nthings written in it; for the time is at hand.\n\n2 [1:4]John, to the seven churches in Asia. Grace and peace be to you,\nfrom the Is and the Was and the Is to come, and from the seven spirits\nwhich are before his throne, [1:5]and from Jesus Christ, the faithful\nwitness, the first born from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of\nthe earth. To him that loved us and washed us from our sins with his\nblood, [1:6]and made us a kingdom, priests to God even his Father, to\nhim be the glory and the power forever; amen.\n\n3 [1:7]Behold, he comes with the clouds, and every eye shall see him\nand those who pierced him, and all the tribes of the earth shall mourn\nbecause of him. Yes, amen. [1:8]I am the Alpha and the Omega, says the\nLord God; the Is, and the Was, and the Is to come, the Almighty.\n\n4 [1:9]I, John, your brother and companion in the affliction and\nkingdom and patience in Christ Jesus, was in the island called Patmos\non account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.  [1:10]I was\nin the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a loud voice as of\na trumpet, [1:11]saying, What you see write in a book, and send to the\nseven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamus and to\nThyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.\n\n5 [1:12]And I turned to see the voice which spoke with me; and having\nturned around I saw seven golden candlesticks, [1:13]and in the midst\nof the candlesticks one like the Son of man, clothed with a robe\nextending down to his feet, girded about the breasts with a golden\ngirdle; [1:14]and his head and hairs were white as white wool, as snow,\nand his eyes like a flame of fire, [1:15]and his feet like fine brass\nas if they were burned in a furnace, and his voice like the sound of\nmany waters, [1:16]and he had in his right hand seven stars, and out of\nhis mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword, and his face shone like\nthe sun in his strength.\n\n6 [1:17]And when I saw him I fell at his feet as dead; and he put his\nright hand on me, saying, Fear not; I am the first and the last\n[1:18]and the living, and I was dead, and behold, I am living forever\nand ever; and I have the keys of death and of hades. [1:19]Write\ntherefore the things which you saw, and which are, and which are about\nto appear hereafter, [1:20]the mystery of the seven stars which you saw\nin my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars\nare angels of the seven churches, and the seven candlesticks the seven\nchurches.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER II.\n\nLETTERS TO THE SEVEN CHURCHES.\n\n1 [2:1]To the angel of the church in Ephesus write, These things says\nhe that holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks in the midst\nof the seven golden candlesticks, [2:2]I know your works and your labor\nand your patience, and that you cannot bear the wicked, and you tried\nthose who say they are apostles and are not, and found them false;\n[2:3]and you have patience, and suffered for my name, and did not\nfaint. [2:4]But I have against you that you have left your first love.\n[2:5]Remember therefore whence you have fallen, and change your minds,\nand do the first works, otherwise I will come to you and remove your\ncandlestick from its place, unless you change your minds. [2:6]But you\nhave this, that you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also\nhate. [2:7]Let him that has an ear hear what the Spirit says to the\nchurches; To him that conquers will I give to eat of the tree of life,\nwhich is in the paradise of my God.\n\n2 [2:8]And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write, These things\nsays the first and the last, who was dead and lived, [2:9]I know your\naffliction and poverty, but you are rich, and the blasphemy of those\nwho say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.\n[2:10]Fear not what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about\nto cast some of you into prison, that you may be tried, and you shall\nhave affliction ten days. Be faithful till death, and I will give you\nthe crown of life. [2:11]Let him that has an ear hear what the Spirit\nsays to the churches; He that conquers shall not be injured by the\nsecond death.\n\n3 [2:12]And to the angel of the church in Pergamus write, These things\nsays he that has the two-edged sharp sword, [2:13]I know your works and\nwhere you live; where Satan's throne is; and you hold my name, and did\nnot deny my faith in the days in which Antipas my faithful martyr was\nkilled among you, where Satan dwells. [2:14]But I have a few things\nagainst you; you have there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who\ntaught Balak to put an occasion of sin before the children of Israel,\nboth to eat things offered to idols and to commit fornication. [2:15]So\nin like manner you have also those who hold the doctrine of the\nNicolaitans. [2:16]Change your minds therefore; otherwise I will come\nto you quickly, and fight with them with the sword of my mouth.\n[2:17]Let him that has an ear hear what the Spirit says to the\nchurches; To him that conquers will I give of the hidden manna, and I\nwill give him a white token, and on the token a new name engraved,\nwhich no one knows but he that receives it.\n\n4 [2:18]And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write, These things\nsays the Son of God, he that has his eyes like a flame of fire and his\nfeet like fine brass, [2:19]I know your works and love and faith and\nservice and your patience, and your last works more than the first.\n[2:20]But I have against you that you allow your wife Jezebel, who says\nshe is a prophetess and teaches and deceives my servants to commit\nfornication and eat things offered to idols. [2:21]And I gave her time\nto change her mind, and she will not change her mind from her\nfornication. [2:22]Behold, I will cast her on a [sick] bed, and those\ncommitting adultery with her into great affliction, unless they change\ntheir minds from her works. [2:23]And her children will I kill with\npestilence, and all the churches shall know that I am he that searches\nthe minds and hearts, and I will give you each one according to your\nworks. [2:24]But I say to the rest of you in Thyatira who have not this\ndoctrine, who have not known the depths of Satan, as they say, I will\nput on you no other burden; [2:25]but what you have, hold fast till I\ncome. [2:26]And to him that conquers and keeps my works till the end, I\nwill give power over the nations, [2:27]and he shall rule them with a\nrod of iron, and crush them like earthen vessels, as I also have\nreceived of my Father, [2:28]and I will give him the star of the\nmorning. [2:29]Let him that has an ear hear what the Spirit says to the\nchurches.\n\n5 [3:1]And to the angel of the church in Sardis write, These things\nsays he that has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars, I know\nyour works, that you have a name to live, and are dead. [3:2]Be\nwatchful, confirm the rest who are about to die.  For I have not found\nyour works perfect before my God. [3:3] Remember therefore how you have\nreceived and heard, and watch, and change your minds. If therefore you\ndo not watch, I will come as a thief, and you shall not know at what\nhour I will come upon you. [3:4]But you have a few names in Sardis who\nhave not defiled their garments, and they shall walk with me in white,\nfor they are worthy. [3:5]He that conquers shall be clothed in white\nrobes, and I will not obliterate his name from the book of life, and I\nwill confess his name before my Father and before his angels. [3:6]Let\nhim that has an ear hear what the Spirit says to the churches.\n\n6 [3:7]And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write, These\nthings says the Holy One, the True, he that has the key of David, he\nthat opens and no one shall shut, and shuts and no one shall open,\n[3:8]I know your works; behold, I have placed before you an opened\ndoor, which no man can shut; because you have a little power, and kept\nmy word, and did not deny my name.  [3:9]Behold, I will make those of\nthe synagogue of Satan who say they are Jews, and are not, but lie,\nbehold, I will make them come and worship at your feet, and they shall\nknow that I have loved you. [3:10]Because you have kept the word of my\npatience, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which is to come\non all the world, to try those who dwell on the earth. [3:11]I come\nquickly; keep what you have, that no man may take your crown.\n[3:12]Him that overcomes will I make a pillar in the temple of my God,\nand he shall go out of it no more, and I will write on him the name of\nmy God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which\ncomes down out of heaven from my God, and my new name. [3:13]Let him\nthat has an ear hear what the Spirit says to the churches.\n\n7 [3:14]And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write, These things\nsays the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the\ncreation of God, [3:15]I know your works, that you are neither cold nor\nhot. I wish you were cold or hot.  [3:16]Because therefore you are\nwarm, and neither hot nor cold, I am about to spew you out of my mouth.\n[3:17]For you say, I am rich and have become rich and have need of\nnothing, and know not that you are miserable, and pitiable, and poor,\nand blind, and naked. [3:18]I advise you to buy of me gold purified in\nthe fire that you may be rich, and white robes that you may put on, and\nthe shame of your nakedness not appear, and an eye-salve to anoint your\neyes that you may see. [3:19]As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten;\nbe zealous therefore and change your minds.  [3:20]Behold, I stand at\nthe door and knock; if any one shall hear my voice and open the door, I\nwill enter in to him, and feast with him, and he with me. [3:21]To him\nthat conquers will I give to sit down with me on my throne, as I\nconquered and sat down with my Father on his throne. [3:22]Let him that\nhas an ear hear what the Spirit says to the churches.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER III.\n\nTHE HEAVENLY WORLD, THE THRONE OF GOD AND HIS COURT--THE ELDERS,\nCHERUBS, SEALED BOOK, LAMB, ETC.\n\n1 [4:1]AFTER this I saw, and behold, a door was opened in heaven, and\nthe first voice which I heard was of a trumpet speaking to me, saying,\nCome up hither, and I will show you things that must occur hereafter.\n[4:2]And immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne was set\nin heaven, and one sat on the throne.  [4:3]And he that sat was like a\njasper and sardine stone, and there was an iris about the throne,\nsimilar in appearance to an emerald. [4:4]And about the throne were\ntwenty-four thrones; and on the thrones twenty-four elders sitting\nclothed in white robes, and having crowns of gold on their heads.\n\n2 [4:5]And there proceeded from the throne lightnings and voices and\nthunders; and seven lamps of fire were burning before the throne, which\nare the seven spirits of God, [4:6]and before the throne was as it were\na sea of glass like crystal; and in the midst of the throne and about\nthe throne were four living ones [cherubs] full of eyes before and\nbehind. [4:7]And the first cherub was like a lion, and the second\ncherub like a bullock, and the third cherub had the face of a man, and\nthe fourth cherub was like a flying eagle.\n\n3 [4:8]And the four cherubs had each six wings apiece. And they were\nfull of eyes around and within, and they had no rest day nor night,\nsaying, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty the Was and the Is\nand the Is to come. [4:9]And when the cherubs gave glory and honor and\nthanks to him that sat on the throne who lives forever and ever,\n[4:10]the twenty-four elders fell down on their faces before him that\nsat on the throne, and worshipped him that lives forever and ever, and\ncast their crowns before his throne, saying, [4:11]Thou art worthy, our\nLord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for thou hast\ncreated all things, and on account of thy will they are and were\ncreated.\n\n4 [5:1]And I saw at the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book\nwritten within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals. [5:2]And I\nsaw a mighty angel proclaim with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open\nthe book and to break its seven seals?  [5:3]And no one in heaven\nabove, nor on the earth, nor under the earth, could open the book, or\nlook in it. [5:4]And I wept much because no one was found worthy to\nopen the book or to look in it. [5:5]And one of the elders said to me,\nWeep not; behold, the lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David,\nhas conquered, he is opening the book and its seven seals.\n\n5 [5:6]And I saw in the midst of the throne and of the four cherubs and\nin the midst of the elders, a lamb standing as if killed, having seven\nhorns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent into all\nthe earth. [5:7]And he came and took [the book] from the right hand of\nhim that sat on the throne.\n\n6 [5:8]And when he took the book, the four cherubs and the twenty-four\nelders fell down before the lamb, each having a harp and golden bowls\nfull of incense, which is the prayers of the saints: [5:9]And they sung\na new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book and to open its\nseals, for thou wast killed and hast redeemed to God with thy blood\n[men] from every tribe and tongue and people and nation, [5:10]and hast\nmade them a kingdom and priests, and they shall reign on the earth.\n[5:11]And I saw, and heard a voice of many angels about the throne, and\nof the cherubs, and of the elders,--and the number of them was ten\nthousands of ten thousands and thousands of thousands,-- [5:12]saying\nwith a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was killed to receive power,\nand riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and\nblessing. [5:13]And every creature which is in heaven, and on the\nearth, and under the earth, and those which are on the sea, and all\nthings in them, all heard I saying, To him that sits on the throne and\nto the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and power forever and ever.\n[5:14]And the four cherubs said, Amen. And the elders fell down and\nworshipped:\n\n\n\nCHAPTER IV.\n\nTHE FIRST SIX SEALS OF THE BOOK OF PROPHECY, THE SEALING OF GOD'S\nSERVANTS, ETC.\n\n1 [6:1]AND I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and heard\none of the four cherubs say like the sound of thunder, Come. [6:2]And I\nsaw, and behold, a white horse, and he that sat on it had a bow, and a\ncrown was given him, and he went forth conquering and to conquer.\n\n2 [6:3]And when he opened the second seal, I heard the second cherub\nsay, Come. [6:4]And there went out another fiery horse, and it was\ngiven to him that sat on it to take peace from the earth, and that they\nshould kill one another, and there was given him a great sword.\n\n3 [6:5]And when he opened the third seal, I heard the third cherub say,\nCome. And I saw, and behold, a black horse, and he that sat on it had a\npair of scales in his hand. [6:6]And I heard a voice in the midst of\nthe four cherubs, saying, A choenix [a quart] of wheat for a denarius\n[14 cents], and three choenices of barley for a denarius; and injure\nnot the oil and wine.\n\n4 [6:7]And when he opened the fourth seal, I heard the fourth cherub\nsay, Come. [6:8]And I saw, and behold, a pale horse, and one sat on it,\nwhose name was Death, and Hades followed him, and there was given him\npower over a fourth part of the earth to kill with the sword and with\nfamine and with pestilence and by the beasts of the earth.\n\n5 [6:9]And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the\nsouls of those killed for the word of God and for the testimony which\nthey had. [6:10] And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long,\nMaster, holy and true, do you not judge and avenge our blood on those\nthat dwell on the earth? [6:11]And a white robe was given them, and it\nwas told them to rest yet a little while, till their fellow servants\nand their brothers and those about to be killed as they also had been\nshould finish [their testimony].\n\n6 [6:12]And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great\nearthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and all the\nmoon became as blood, [6:13]and the stars of heaven fell to the earth,\nas a fig tree casts down its unseasonable figs when shaken with a\nmighty wind, [6:14]and heaven departed like a book rolled up, and every\nmountain and island were moved from their places. [6:15]And the kings\nof the earth and the great men and the chiliarchs and the rich and the\nmighty and every servant and freeman hid themselves in caves and in the\nrocks of the mountains, [6:16]and said to the mountains and rocks, Fall\non us, and hide us from the face of him that sits on the throne and\nfrom the wrath of the Lamb, [6:17]for the great day of his wrath has\ncome, and who can stand?\n\n7 [7:1]And after this I saw four angels standing on the four corners of\nthe earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that no wind might blow\non the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.  [7:2]And I saw another\nangel ascend from the east, having the seal of the living God, and he\ncried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was given to\ninjure the earth and the sea, [7:3] saying, Injure not the earth nor\nthe sea nor the trees, till we seal the servants of our God on their\nforeheads. [7:4]And I heard the number of the sealed, a hundred and\nforty-four thousand were sealed from every tribe of the children of\nIsrael.\n\n8 [7:5]From the tribe of Judah were sealed twelve thousand, from the\ntribe of Reuben twelve thousand, from the tribe of Gad twelve thousand,\n[7:6]from the tribe of Asher twelve thousand, from the tribe of\nNaphtali twelve thousand, from the tribe of Manasseh twelve thousand,\n[7:7]from the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand, from the tribe of Levi\ntwelve thousand, from the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand, [7:8]from\nthe tribe of Zebulon twelve thousand, from the tribe of Joseph twelve\nthousand, from the tribe of Benjamin twelve thousand.\n\n9 [7:9]After this I saw, and behold, a great multitude, which no man\ncould number, of every nation and of all tribes and peoples and\ntongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with\nwhite robes, and having palm branches in their hands; [7:10]and they\ncried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation be to our God who sits on\nthe throne and to the Lamb. [7:11]And all the angels stood around the\nthrone and the elders and the four cherubs, and fell down before the\nthrone on their faces, and worshipped God, [7:12]saying, Amen, blessing\nand glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and strength\nbe to our God forever and ever.\n\n10 [7:13]And one of the elders answered and said to me, Who are those\nclothed with white robes, and whence did they come?  [7:14]And I said\nto him, My Lord, you know. And he said to me, These are those who come\nout from great affliction, and washed their robes and made them white\nin the blood of the Lamb. [7:15] Therefore they are before the throne\nof God, and serve him day and night in his temple, and he that sits on\nthe throne will dwell among them. [7:16]And they shall hunger no more,\nneither thirst any more, neither shall the sun strike them nor any\nheat, [7:17]for the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne shall feed\nthem and lead them to fountains of the waters of life, and God shall\nwipe away every tear from their eyes.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER V.\n\nTHE SEVENTH SEAL, THE FIRST FIVE TRUMPETS, THE STAR THAT FELL FROM\nHEAVEN, THE LOCUSTS, ETC.\n\n1 [8:1]AND when he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven\nabout half an hour. [8:2]And I saw the seven angels who stand before\nGod, and there were given them seven trumpets.  [8:3]And another angel\ncame and stood by the altar, having a golden censer, and there was\ngiven him much incense to present with the prayers of all the saints on\nthe golden altar before the throne. [8:4] And a cloud of incense\nascended with the prayers of the saints from the hand of the angel\nbefore God. [8:5]And the angel took the censer and filled it from the\nfire of the altar, and cast it on the earth; and there were thunders\nand lightning and voices and an earthquake.\n\n2 [8:6]And the seven angels having the seven trumpets prepared\nthemselves to sound. [8:7]And the first sounded; and there was hail and\nfire mingled with blood, and it was cast on the earth; and a third part\nof the earth was consumed, and a third part of the trees were consumed,\nand all the green grass was consumed.\n\n3 [8:8]And the second angel sounded; and the appearance of a great\nmountain burning with fire was cast into the sea; and a third part of\nthe sea became blood, [8:9]and a third part of the creatures in the sea\nhaving life died, and a third part of the ships were destroyed.\n\n4 [8:10]And the third angel sounded; and there fell from heaven a great\nstar, burning like a lamp, and it fell on a third part of the rivers\nand on the fountains of waters. [8:11]And the name of the star was\ncalled Bitterness. And a third part of the waters became bitter, and\nmany men died by the waters, because they were bitter.\n\n5 [8:12]And the fourth angel sounded; and a third part of the sun was\nsmitten, and a third part of the moon, and a third part of the stars,\nand a third part of them were darkened, and the day did not appear a\nthird part of it, nor the night. [8:13]And I saw, and heard an eagle\nflying in the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe,\nto those who live on the earth on account of the other voices of the\ntrumpet of the three angels who are about to sound.\n\n6 [9:1]And the fifth angel sounded; and I saw a star fall from heaven\nto the earth, and there was given him the key of the pit of the abyss.\n[9:2]And he opened the pit of the abyss; and there arose up a smoke\nfrom the pit, like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the\nair were darkened by the smoke of the pit.  [9:3]And from the smoke\nwent out locusts on the earth, and power was given them like the power\nwhich scorpions of the earth have.  [9:4]And it was told them not to\ninjure the grass of the earth nor any green thing nor any tree, but the\nmen who had not the seal of God on their foreheads. [9:5]And it was\ngiven them not to kill them, but to sting them five months; and their\nsting was like the sting of a scorpion, when he strikes a man. [9:6]And\nin those days men shall seek death and not find it, and shall desire to\ndie and death flee from them.\n\n7 [9:7]And the forms of the locusts were like horses prepared for\nbattle, and upon their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and\ntheir faces were like the faces of men, [9:8]and they had hair like the\nhair of women, and their teeth were like [those] of lions, [9:9]and\nthey had cuirasses like steel cuirasses, and the sound of their wings\nwas like the sound of chariots with many horses running to battle.\n[9:10]And they had tails like scorpions and stings, and in their tails\nwas their power to injure men five months. [9:11]They had over them a\nking, an angel of the abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, but in\nthe Greek he is called Apollyon. [9:12]One woe has passed; behold,\nthere come yet two woes after this.\n\n8 [9:13]And the sixth angel sounded; and I heard a voice from the four\nhorns of the golden altar before God, [9:14]saying to the sixth angel\nwho had the trumpet, Unbind the four angels bound by the river, the\ngreat Euphrates. [9:15] And the four angels were unbound, who were\nprepared for the hour, and day, and month, and year, to kill a third\npart of men. [9:16]And the number of the armies of the horse was two\nten thousands of ten thousands; I heard the number of them. [9:17]And\nthus I saw the horses in the vision and those sitting on them, having\ncuirassess of fire, of hyacinth and of sulphur; and the heads of the\nhorses were like the heads of lions, and from their mouths proceeded\nfire and smoke and sulphur.\n\n9 [9:18]By these three plagues a third part of men were killed, by the\nfire and the smoke and the sulphur which proceeded from their mouths.\n[9:19]For the power of the horses was in their mouths and in their\ntails; for their tails were like serpents, having heads, and with them\nthey did injury. [9:20]And the rest of men, who were not killed with\nthese plagues, did not change their minds [to turn] from the works of\ntheir hands, not to worship demons and idols of gold and silver and\nbrass and stone and wood, which cannot see nor hear nor walk, [9:21]\nand did not change their minds [to turn] from their murders, nor from\ntheir magic arts, nor from their fornication, nor from their thefts.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER VI.\n\nTHE LITTLE BOOK AND THE TWO WITNESSES.\n\n1 [10:1]AND I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed\nwith a cloud, and an iris was about his head, and his face was like the\nsun, and his feet like pillars of fire, [10:2]and he had in his hand a\nlittle book opened. And he set his right foot on the sea, and his left\non the land, [10:3]and cried with a loud voice, as a lion roars. And\nwhen he cried, seven thunders spoke their words. [10:4]And when the\nseven thunders spoke, I was about to write; and I heard a voice from\nheaven, saying, Seal up what the seven thunders spoke, and write it not.\n\n2 [10:5]And the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land,\nlifted up his right hand to heaven, [10:6]and swore by him that lives\nforever and ever, that created heaven and the things in it and the\nearth and the things in it and the sea and the things in it, that time\nshould be no longer, [10:7]but in the days of the sounding of the\nseventh angel, when he is about to sound, then the mystery of God shall\nbe finished, as he told his servants the prophets.\n\n3 [10:8]And the voice which I heard from heaven [I heard] again speak\nto me and say, Go and take the little opened book in the hand of the\nangel who stands on the sea and on the land.  [10:9]And I went to the\nangel, and said to him, Give me the little book. And he said to me,\nTake and eat it, and it will embitter your stomach, but in your mouth\nit will be sweet as honey. [10:10]And I took the little book from the\nhand of the angel and eat it; and it was in my mouth as sweet as honey;\nand when I eat it, my stomach was bitter. [10:11]And they said to me,\nYou must prophesy again before peoples and nations and tongues and many\nkings.\n\n4 [11:1]And a rod was given me like a staff, and he said, Arise and\nmeasure the temple of God and the altar and those that worship in it.\n[11:2]And leave out the exterior court of the temple and measure it\nnot, for it has been given to the gentiles, and they shall tread the\nholy city under foot forty-two months [three years and a half].\n[11:3]And I will give charge to my two witnesses, and they shall\nprophesy twelve hundred and sixty days [three years and a half] clothed\nwith sackcloth. [11:4]These are the two olive trees, and the two lamps,\nwhich stand before the Lord of the earth. [11:5]And if any one will\ninjure them, fire proceeds from their mouth and devours their\nadversaries; and if any one will injure them, he must thus be killed.\n[11:6]These have power to shut heaven, that it may not rain in the days\nof their prophecy, and they have power over the waters to turn them\ninto blood and to smite the earth with every plague as often as they\nwill.\n\n5 [11:7]And when they shall finish their testimony, the beast which\nascends from the abyss shall make war with them, and conquer them, and\nkill them. [11:8] And their dead bodies shall lie in the streets of the\ngreat city, which is spiritually called Sodom and Egypt, where also\ntheir Lord was crucified. [11:9] And the peoples and tribes and tongues\nand nations shall see their dead bodies three days and a half, and\nshall not permit their dead bodies to be buried. [11:10]And those that\ndwell on the earth shall be glad, and rejoice over them, and shall send\ngifts one to another, because these two prophets tormented those that\ndwell on the earth. [11:11]And after three days and a half the spirit\nof life from God entered into them, and they stood on their feet, and\ngreat fear fell on those that saw them.  [11:12]And I heard a loud\nvoice from heaven saying to them, Ascend hither; and they ascended to\nheaven in a cloud, and their enemies beheld them. [11:13]And in that\nhour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth part of the city fell,\nand seven thousand men were killed by the earthquake, and the rest were\nterrified and gave glory to the God of heaven. [11:14]The second woe\nhas passed; behold, the third woe comes quickly.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER VII.\n\nTHE SEVENTH TRUMPET, THE WOMAN, THE DRAGON AND THE BEASTS.\n\n1 [11:15]AND the seventh angel sounded; and there were loud voices in\nheaven, saying, the kingdom of the world has become our Lord's and his\nChrist's, and he shall reign forever and ever.  [11:16]And the\ntwenty-four elders who sit before God on their thrones fell on their\nfaces, and worshipped God, [11:17]saying, We thank thee, Lord God\nAlmighty, the Is and the Was, that thou didst take thy great power and\nreign, [11:18]and the nations were angry, and thy wrath came, and the\ntime of the dead to be judged and to give the reward to thy servants\nthe prophets and to the saints and those that fear thy name, small and\ngreat, and to destroy those that destroy the earth.\n\n2 [11:19]And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and the ark of his\ncovenant appeared in his temple, and there were lightnings and voices\nand thunders and great hail.\n\n3 [12:1]And a great symbol appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the\nsun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve\nstars, [12:2]and being with child she cried out in pain and distress to\ngive it birth. [12:3]And there appeared another symbol in heaven, and\nbehold, a great fiery dragon, having seven heads and ten horns and upon\nhis heads seven diadems, [12:4]and his tail drew a third of the stars\nof heaven, and cast them on the earth. And the dragon stood before the\nwoman who was about to bear [a child], that when she had borne he might\ndevour her son. [12:5]And she bore a male child, who is about to rule\nall nations with a rod of iron; and her child was caught up to God, and\nto his throne. [12:6]And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she\nhas a place prepared by God, that they may nourish her there twelve\nhundred and sixty days [three years and a half].\n\n4 [12:7]And there was a war in heaven, Michael and his angels fighting\nwith the dragon. And the dragon fought and his angels, [12:8]and were\nnot strong, neither was their place found any longer in heaven.\n[12:9]And the great dragon, the old serpent, who is called the devil\nand Satan, and who deceives all the world, was cast to the earth, and\nhis angels were cast [to the earth] with him. [12:10]And I heard a loud\nvoice in heaven saying, Now has come the salvation and power and\nkingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ, for the accuser of the\nbrothers, that accused them day and night before God, has been cast [to\nthe earth]. [12:11]And they conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and\nby the word of their testimony, and exposed their lives to death.\n[12:12]Therefore rejoice, heavens, and those who dwell in them; woe to\nthe earth and the sea, for the devil has come down to you, having great\nanger, knowing that he has a short time.\n\n5 [12:13]And when the dragon saw that he was cast to the earth, he\npersecuted the woman who bore the male child. [12:14]And there were\ngiven to the woman two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly to\nthe wilderness to her place, where she is nourished a time and times\nand half a time [three years and a half], from before the serpent.\n[12:15]And the serpent cast out of his mouth after the woman water like\na river, that he might carry her away.  [12:16]And the earth helped the\nwoman, and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed up the river which\nthe dragon cast out of his mouth. [12:17]And the dragon was angry with\nthe woman, and went to make war with the rest of her children who keep\nthe commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus.\n\n6 [13:1]And I stood on the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast come up\nout of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and upon his horns\nten diadems, and upon his heads names of blasphemy. [13:2]And the beast\nwhich I saw was like a leopard, and his feet like those of a bear, and\nhis mouth like the mouth of a lion. And the dragon gave him his power\nand his throne and great authority. [13:3]And one of his heads [was as\nif] mortally wounded, and its mortal wound was healed. And all the\nearth wondered after the beast, [13:4]and they worshipped the dragon,\nbecause he gave power to the beast, and worshipped the beast, saying,\nWho is like the beast, and who is able to make war with him? [13:5]And\nthere was given him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemy, and\npower was given him to continue forty-two months [three years and a\nhalf]. [13:6]And he opened his mouth in blasphemies against God, to\nblaspheme his name and his tabernacle and those that dwell in heaven.\n[13:7]And it was given him to make war with the saints and to conquer\nthem, and power was given him over every tribe and people and tongue\nand nation. [13:8]And all who dwell on the earth shall worship him,\n[every one] whose name is not enrolled in the Lamb's book of life who\nwas killed from the foundation of the world. [13:9]If any one has an\near let him hear. [13:10]If any one [leads] into captivity, he shall go\ninto captivity; if any one kills with the sword, he shall be killed\nwith the sword. Here is the patience and faith of the saints.\n\n7 [13:11]And I saw another beast come up out of the earth, and he had\ntwo horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon. [13:12]And he exercised\nall the power of the first beast in his presence. And he caused the\nearth and those that dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose\nmortal wound was healed. [13:13]And he performs great miracles, so as\neven to make fire come down from heaven to the earth in the sight of\nmen. [13:14]And he deceives those that dwell on the earth by the\nmiracles which it was given him to perform before the beast, telling\nthose that dwell on the earth to make an image of the beast which had\nthe wound with the sword and lived. [13:15]And it was given him to give\na spirit to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should\nboth speak, and cause that all who would not worship the image of the\nbeast should be killed. [13:16] And he caused all, small and great, and\nrich and poor, and freemen and servants, to receive the mark on their\nright hand or on their forehead, [13:17]and that no one should buy or\nsell unless he had the mark, the name of the beast or the number of his\nname. [13:18]Here is wisdom.  Let him that has a mind count the number\nof the beast; for the number is man's. And his number is six hundred\nand sixty-six.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER VIII.\n\nTHE LAMB ON MOUNT ZION, AND HIS JUDGMENTS.\n\n1 [14:1]AND I saw, and behold, the Lamb stood on Mount Zion, and with\nhim a hundred and forty-four thousand having his name and the name of\nhis father written on their foreheads. [14:2]And I heard a voice from\nheaven like the sound of many waters and like the sound of loud\nthunder, and the voice which I heard was like harpers playing on their\nharps. [14:3]And they sung a new song before the throne and before the\nfour cherubs and the elders; and no one could learn the song except the\nhundred and forty-four thousand, who had been redeemed from the earth.\n[14:4]These are they who were not defiled with women; for they are\nvirgins; these are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These\nwere redeemed from men a first fruit to God and the Lamb, [14:5]and in\ntheir mouth was found no deceit; for they are blameless.\n\n2 [14:6]And I saw another angel flying in mid-heaven, having the\neternal gospel to preach to those who dwell on the earth and to every\nnation and tribe and tongue and people, [14:7]saying with a loud voice,\nFear God and give him glory, for the hour of his judgment has come, and\nworship him that made heaven and the earth and the sea and fountains of\nwaters.\n\n3 [14:8]And another, a second angel, followed, saying, Babylon the\ngreat has fallen, who made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath\nof her fornication.\n\n4 [14:9]And another, a third angel, followed them, saying with a loud\nvoice, if any one worships the beast and his image, and receives the\nmark on his forehead or on his hand, [14:10]he shall drink of the wine\nof the wrath of God, mingled undiluted in the cup of his indignation,\nand he shall be tormented with fire and sulphur before the angels and\nbefore the Lamb. [14:11]And the smoke of their torment rises up forever\nand ever, and they have no rest day nor night who worship the beast and\nhis image, and whoever receives the mark of his name. [14:12]Here is\nthe patience of the saints, who keep the commandments of God and the\nfaith of Jesus. [14:13]And I heard a voice from heaven, saying, Write,\nBlessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth.  Yes, says\nthe Spirit, they shall rest from their labors; and their works follow\nafter them.\n\n5 [14:14]And I saw, and behold, a white cloud, and on the cloud one\nsitting like the Son of man, having on his head a crown of gold and in\nhis hand a sharp sickle. [14:15]And another angel came out of the\ntemple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Send\nyour sickle and reap, for the time has come to harvest, for the harvest\nof the earth is dry. [14:16]And he that sat on the cloud cast his\nsickle upon the earth, and the earth was harvested.\n\n6 [14:17]And another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he had\na sharp sickle; [14:18]and another angel came out from the altar, who\nhad power over fire, and cried with a loud voice to him who had the\nsharp sickle, saying, Send your sharp sickle and gather the grapes of\nthe vine of the earth, for its grapes are ripe. [14:19]And the angel\ncast his sharp sickle on the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth\nand cast it into the great wine-press of the wrath of God. [14:20]And\nthe wine-press was trodden without the city, and the blood went out\nfrom the wine-press to the horses' bridles, a distance of sixteen\nhundred stadia [158 English miles].\n\n\n\nCHAPTER IX.\n\nTHE LAST SEVEN PLAGUES OF THE KINGDOM OF THE BEAST.\n\n1 [15:1]AND I saw another symbol in heaven, great and wonderful, seven\nangels having the last seven plagues, because by them the wrath of God\nwas finished. [15:2]And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with\nfire, and those becoming victors over the beast and his image and the\nnumber of his name standing on the sea of glass, having harps of God.\n[15:3]And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God and the song\nof the Lamb, saying, Great and wonderful are thy works, Lord God\nAlmighty; just and true are thy ways, king of the nations; [15:4]who\nshall not fear thee, Lord, and glorify thy name? For thou only art\nholy, for all the nations shall come and worship before thee, for thy\nrighteous ordinances have been made manifest.\n\n2 [15:5]And after this I saw, and the temple of the tabernacle of the\ntestimony was opened in heaven, [the inner temple], [15:6]and the seven\nangels went out who have the last seven plagues, clothed with pure\nbright linen, and girded about the breasts with golden girdles.\n[15:7]And one of the four cherubs gave the seven angels seven golden\nbowls full of the wrath of the God who lives forever and ever.\n[15:8]And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and\nfrom his power, and no one could enter into the temple till the seven\nplagues of the seven angels were finished.\n\n3 [16:1]And I heard a loud voice saying to the seven angels, Go, pour\nout the seven bowls of the wrath of God on the earth.  [16:2]And the\nfirst went and poured out his bowl on the earth; and there was an evil\nand malignant ulcer on the men who have the mark of the beast and those\nwho worship his image.\n\n4 [16:3]And the second poured out his bowl on the sea; and it became as\nthe blood of a dead body, and every living soul died, the [creatures]\nin the sea.\n\n5 [16:4]And the third poured out his bowl on the rivers and the\nfountains of waters; and they became blood. [16:5]And I heard the angel\nof the waters say, Thou art just, the Is and the Was, [the] Holy One,\nbecause thou hast judged thus, [16:6]for they shed the blood of saints\nand prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; they are worthy.\n[16:7]And I heard the altar say, Yes, Lord God Almighty, true and\nrighteous are thy judgments.\n\n6 [16:8]And the fourth poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given\nit to scorch men with fire. [16:9]And men were scorched with great\nheat, and blasphemed the name of God who had power over these plagues,\nand changed not their minds to give him glory.\n\n7 [16:10]And the fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast;\nand his kingdom was darkened, and they gnawed their tongues from\npainful labor, [16:11] and blasphemed the God of heaven on account of\ntheir painful labors and their ulcers, and they changed not their minds\nto turn from their works.\n\n8 [16:12]And the sixth poured out his bowl on the river, the great\nEuphrates; and its water was dried up, that the way of the kings from\nthe East might be prepared. [16:13]And I saw three impure spirits like\nfrogs [proceed] from the mouth of the dragon and from the mouth of the\nbeast and from the mouth of the false prophet;-- [16:14]for [these] are\nspirits of demons that perform miracles, that go to the kings of all\nthe world, to assemble them for the battle of that great day of God\nAlmighty. [16:15]Behold, I come as a thief; blessed is he that watches\nand keeps on his clothes, lest he walk naked and they see his shame.\n[16:16]And they assembled them in the place called in Hebrew Armagedon.\n\n9 [16:17]And the seventh angel poured out his bowl on the air; and\nthere came out a loud voice from the temple, from the throne, saying,\nIt is done. [16:18] And there were lightnings and voices and thunders,\nand there was a great earthquake, such as has not been since a man was\non the earth, such an earthquake and one so great. [16:19]And the great\ncity was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell.\nAnd Babylon the great was remembered before God, to give her the cup of\nthe wine of his indignant wrath. [16:20]And every island fled, and the\nmountains were not found. [16:21]And great hail of about the weight of\na talent [the Attic talent, 56 pounds, the Jewish, 113] came down from\nheaven upon men; and men blasphemed God on account of the plague of the\nhail because its plague was very great.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER X.\n\nTHE FALL OF BABYLON.\n\n1 [17:1]AND one of the seven angels having the seven bowls came and\nspoke to me, saying, Come, I will show you the judgment of the great\nharlot who sits on many waters, [17:2]with whom the kings of the earth\nhave committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth were made\ndrunk with the wine of her fornication.\n\n2 [17:3]And he bore me away into the wilderness in the Spirit.  And I\nsaw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast, [the beast] full of blasphemous\nnames, having seven heads and ten horns. [17:4]And the woman was\nclothed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious\nstones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations\nand the impurities of the fornication of the earth, [17:5]and on her\nforehead the names inscribed, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF\nHARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. [17:6]And I saw the woman\ndrunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the martyrs of\nJesus, and I wondered when I saw her with great wonder.\n\n3 [17:7]And the angel said to me, Why did you wonder? I will tell you\nthe mystery of the woman and of the beast which carries her, having the\nseven heads and ten horns. [17:8]The beast which you saw was and is\nnot, and is about to come up from the abyss, and goes to destruction;\nand those who live on the earth, whose names are not written in the\nbook of life from the foundation of the world, will wonder, when they\nsee the beast that he was and is not and is to come. [17:9]Here is the\nmind which has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which\nthe woman sits, [17:10]and are seven kings; five have fallen, one is,\nthe other has not yet come, and when he comes must continue a short\ntime.  [17:11]And the beast which was and is not, he also is the\neighth, and is of the seven, and goes to destruction.\n\n4 [17:12]And the ten horns which you saw are ten kings, which have not\nyet received a kingdom, but receive power as kings one hour with the\nbeast. [17:13] These have one will, and give their power and their\nauthority to the beast. [17:14]They shall make war with the Lamb, and\nthe Lamb shall conquer them,--for he is Lord of lords and King of\nkings, and those with him are called and chosen and faithful.\n[17:15]And he said to me, The waters which you saw, where the harlot\nsits, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues. [17:16]And\nthe ten horns which you saw and the beast shall hate the harlot, and\nmake her desolate and naked, and eat her flesh, and burn her with fire;\n[17:17]for God has put it into their hearts to do his will and to have\none will and give their kingdom to the beast, till the words of God are\nfinished. [17:18]And the woman which you saw is the great city which\nreigns over the kings of the earth.\n\n5 [18:1]After this I saw another angel come down from heaven, having\ngreat power, and the earth was lighted by his glory.  [18:2]And he\ncried with a loud voice, saving, Babylon the great has fallen, has\nfallen, and has become a habitation of demons, and a haunt of every\nimpure spirit, and a haunt of every impure and hateful bird,\n[18:3]because all nations have drank of the wine of the wrath of her\nfornication, and the kings of the earth committed fornication with her,\nand the merchants of the earth became rich from the greatness of her\nluxury.\n\n6 [18:4]And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her,\nmy people, that you may not partake of her sins, and receive of her\nplagues; [18:5] for her sins have reached to heaven and God has\nremembered her wickedness. [18:6]Render to her as she rendered to you,\nand repay her double according to her works; of the cup that she has\nmixed, mix to her double; [18:7]as much as she glorified herself, and\nlived luxuriously, so much distress and sorrow give her. For she says\nin her mind, I sit a queen and am not a widow and I see not sorrow.\n[18:8]Therefore in one day shall her plagues come, death and sorrow and\nfamine, and she shall be burnt with fire; for mighty is the Lord God\nwho has judged her.\n\n7 [18:9]And the kings of the earth who committed fornication and lived\nluxuriously with her shall weep and lament for her, when they see the\nsmoke of her burning, [18:10]standing at a distance on account of fear\nof her torment, saying, Alas, alas, the great city, Babylon the mighty\ncity, for in one hour your judgment has come. [18:11]And the merchants\nof the earth shall weep and lament for her, because no one buys their\nwares any more, [18:12]wares of gold and silver and precious stones and\npearls, and linen and purple and silk and scarlet, and all thyine wood,\nand every implement of ivory and every implement of most precious wood,\nof brass and iron and marble, [18:13]cinnamon and amomum and incense\nand ointment and frankincense, and wine and oil and fine flour and\nwheat and cattle and sheep, and of horses and chariots and servants,\nand souls of men. [18:14]And the fruit of your soul's desire has gone\nfrom you, and all precious and shining stores have perished from you,\nand you shall find them no more.\n\n8 [18:15]And dealers in these things, and those who became rich by her,\nshall stand afar off for fear of her distress, weeping and lamenting,\n[18:16]saying, Alas, alas, the great city, that was clothed with fine\nlinen and purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones\nand pearls, [18:17]for in one hour are so great riches made a\ndesolation. And every sailing-master and every one who sails to the\nplace, and sailors and all that work on the sea, shall stand afar off,\n[18:18]and looking on the smoke of its burning, cry, saying, What city\nis like this great city? [18:19]And they shall cast dust on their\nheads, and cry weeping and lamenting, saying, Alas, alas, the great\ncity, by which all were enriched who had ships on the sea on account of\nher costly merchandise, for in one hour is it made desolate.\n[18:20]Rejoice over her, heaven, and you holy angels and apostles and\nprophets, for God has executed your judgment on her.\n\n9 [18:21]And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and\ncast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall Babylon the\ngreat city be cast down, and shall be found no more. [18:22]And the\nvoice of harpers and singers and of those that play on flutes and\ntrumpets shall be heard in you no more.  And no artisan of any art\nshall be found in you any more, and the sound of a mill shall be heard\nin you no more, [18:23]and the light of a candle shall shine in you no\nmore, and the voice of a bridegroom and of a bride shall be heard in\nyou no more, for your merchants were the great ones of the earth, for\nall nations were deceived by your magic arts, [18:24]and in her was\nfound the blood of prophets and saints, and of all that have been\nkilled on the earth.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XI.\n\nSATAN CONQUERED AND IMPRISONED, HIS RELEASE AND FINAL OVERTHROW.\n\n1 [19:1]AFTER this I heard a loud voice as of a great multitude in\nheaven, saying, Halleluia, the salvation and glory and power of our\nGod, [19:2]for true and righteous are his judgments, for he has judged\nthe great harlot who destroyed the earth with her fornication, and\navenged the blood of his servants at her hand.  [19:3]And again they\nsaid, Halleluia, and her smoke ascends forever and ever. [19:4]And the\ntwenty-four elders fell down, and the four cherubs, and worshipped God\nwho sat on the throne, saying, Amen, Halleluia. [19:5]And a voice came\nout from the throne, saying, Praise our God, all his servants and those\nthat fear him, small and great. [19:6]And I heard them as the voice of\na great multitude, and as the sound of many waters and as the sound of\nmighty thunders, saying, Halleluia, for the Lord our God the Almighty\nreigns. [19:7]Let us rejoice and be glad, and give glory to him, for\nthe marriage of the Lamb has come and his wife has prepared herself,\n[19:8]and it was given her to be arrayed in fine linen white and\nclean;--for fine linen represents the righteous ordinances of the\nsaints.\n\n2 [19:9]And he said to me, Write, Blessed are those who are called to\nthe wedding supper of the Lamb. And he told me, These are the true\nwords of God. [19:10]And I fell before his feet to worship him. And he\nsaid to me, See [that you do it] not; I am your fellow-servant and of\nyour brothers who have the testimony of Jesus; worship God. For the\ntestimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.\n\n3 [19:11]And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he\nthat sat on it is called faithful and true, and in righteousness he\njudges and makes war. [19:12]And his eyes are a flame of fire, and on\nhis head are many diadems; he has a name written that no man knows\nexcept himself, [19:13]and he is clothed in a mantle dipped in blood,\nand his name is called The Word of God. [19:14]And the armies of heaven\nfollow him upon white horses, clothed with fine white clean linen.\n[19:15]And out of his mouth proceeds a sharp sword, that with it he may\nsmite the nations; and he shall rule them with a rod of iron, and he\nshall tread the wine-press of the indignant wrath of God Almighty.\n[19:16]And he has on the mantle and on the thigh his name written, King\nof kings and Lord of lords.\n\n4 [19:17]And I saw an angel standing on the sun, and he cried with a\nloud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in mid-heaven, Come,\nassemble yourselves to the great supper of God, [19:18]that you may eat\nthe flesh of kings and the flesh of chiliarchs and the flesh of mighty\n[men] and the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the\nflesh of all, both free-men and servants and both small and great.\n[19:19]And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies\nassembled together to make war with him that sat on the horse and with\nhis army.  [19:20]And the beast was taken and with him the false\nprophet who performed miracles before him, with which he deceived those\nwho received the mark of the beast and those who worship his image; and\nthe two were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with sulphur.\n[19:21]And the rest were killed with the sword of him that sits on the\nhorse, which proceeded out of his mouth, and all the birds were filled\nwith their flesh.\n\n5 [20:1]And I saw an angel descending from heaven, having the key of\nthe abyss and a great chain in his hand. [20:2]And he took the dragon,\nwhich is the old serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him a\nthousand years, [20:3]and cast him into the abyss, and shut him up and\nput a seal over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till\nthe thousand years were finished; after that he must be released a\nshort time.\n\n6 [20:4]And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given\nthem, and the souls of those who have been beheaded for the testimony\nof Jesus and the word of God, and who did not worship the beast nor his\nimage and did not receive the mark on their forehead and on their right\nhand; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years;\n[20:5]the rest of the dead did not live till the thousand years were\nfinished. This is the first resurrection. [20:6]Blessed and holy is he\nthat has part in the first resurrection; on these the second death has\nno power, but they shall be priests of God and Christ, and reign with\nhim a thousand years.\n\n7 [20:7]And when the thousand years are finished, Satan shall be\nreleased from his prison, [20:8]and go forth to deceive the nations\nwhich are in the four quarters of the earth, the Gog and the Magog [the\nking and the people], and to assemble them together to battle, whose\nnumber is as the sand of the sea.  [20:9] And they went up on the\nbreadth of the earth, and surrounded the encampment of the saints and\nthe beloved city; and fire came down from heaven and consumed them.\n[20:10]And the devil who deceived them was cast into the lake of fire\nand sulphur, where also the beast and the false prophet [were cast],\nand they shall be tormented day and night forever and ever.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XII.\n\nTHE FINAL JUDGMENT, THE NEW JERUSALEM, ETC.\n\n1 [20:11]AND I saw a great white throne and him that sat on it, from\nwhose presence the earth and heaven fled away, and no place was found\nfor them. [20:12]And I saw the dead, great and small, stand before the\nthrone, and the books were opened; and another book was opened, which\nis of life. And the dead were judged from the things written in the\nbooks according to their works.  [20:13]And the sea gave up the dead\nwho were in it, and Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them,\nand they were judged each according to their works. [20:14]And Death\nand Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death,\nthe lake of fire. [20:15]And whoever was not found enrolled in the book\nof life was cast into the lake of fire.\n\n2 [21:1]And I saw a new heaven and new earth; for the first heaven and\nthe first earth passed away, and the sea was no more.  [21:2]And I saw\nthe holy city New Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God,\nprepared as a bride adorned for her husband.  [21:3]And I heard a loud\nvoice from heaven, saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men,\nand he will tabernacle with them, and they shall be his people, and God\nhimself will be with them, their God, [21:4]and he will wipe away every\ntear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, nor shall lamentation\nnor crying nor pain be any more, for the former things have passed away.\n\n3 [21:5]And he that sits on the throne said, Behold, I make all things\nnew. And he said, Write that these words are faithful and true.\n[21:6]And he said to me, It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the\nbeginning and the end. I will give to him that thirsts of the fountain\nof the water of life freely. [21:7]He that conquers shall inherit these\nthings, and I will be to him a God and he shall be to me a son.\n[21:8]But the fearful and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and\nfornicators and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars shall have their\npart in the lake which burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second\ndeath.\n\n4 [21:9]And one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the\nlast seven plagues came, and spoke with me, saying, Come, I will show\nyou the wife, the bride of the Lamb. [21:10]And he bore me away in the\nSpirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the city, the holy\nJerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, [21:11]having the glory\nof God; its luminary was like the most precious stone, like a\ncrystalline jasper. [21:12]It had a great and high wall, it had twelve\ngates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names inscribed, which are\nthe names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel. [21:13]On the\neast were three gates, and on the north three gates, and on the south\nthree gates, and on the west three gates. [21:14]And the wall of the\ncity has twelve foundations, and on them the twelve names of the twelve\napostles of the Lamb.\n\n5 [21:15]And he that spoke with me had a golden measuring rod, to\nmeasure the city and its gates and its wall. [21:16]And the city was\nsquare, and its length equal to its breadth. And he measured the city\nwith the rod, twelve thousand stadia [1372 English miles]; and the\nlength and breadth and height of it are equal.  [21:17]And he measured\nits wall, a hundred and forty-four cubits, the measure of a man, which\nwas of the angel. [21:18]And the building of its wall was jasper, and\nthe city was of pure gold like clear glass. [21:19]And the foundations\nof the wall of the city were adorned with every precious stone; the\nfirst foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony,\nthe fourth emerald, [21:20]the fifth sardonyx, the sixth sardine stone,\nthe seventh chrysolyte, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth\nchrysoprase, the eleventh hyacinth, and the twelfth amethyst.\n\n6 [21:21]And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; each of the gates was\nof one pearl. And the street of the city was of pure gold, transparent\nas glass. [21:22]And I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty\nis its temple, and the Lamb. [21:23]And the city has no need of the\nsun, nor of the moon, to give a light to it; for the glory of God\nlights it, and its light the Lamb.  [21:24] And the nations shall walk\nin its light, and the kings of the earth bring their glory to it,\n[21:25]and its gates shall not be shut by day,--for there shall be no\nnight there,-- [21:26]and they shall bring the glory and honor of the\nnations into it.  [21:27]And there shall not enter into it any thing\nthat is defiled, nor any one that commits an abomination and falsehood,\nbut those enrolled in the Lamb's book of life.\n\n7 [22:1]And he showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal,\nproceeding from the throne of God and the Lamb. [22:2]In the midst of\nits broad plain and along the river on each side was the tree of life,\nbearing twelve fruits, and yielding monthly each of its fruits, and the\nleaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. [22:3]And no\ncurse shall be there any more. And the throne of God and of the Lamb\nshall be in it, and his servants shall serve him, [22:4]and shall see\nhis face, and his name shall be on their foreheads. [22:5] And there\nshall be no night, and they shall have no need of a lamp and light, for\nthe Lord God shall shed light on them, and they shall reign forever and\never.\n\n8 [22:6]And he said to me, These words are faithful and true, and the\nLord God of the spirits of the prophets sent his angel to show his\nservants what must shortly occur. [22:7]Behold, I come quickly. Blessed\nis he that keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.\n\n9 [22:8]And I am John who heard and saw these thing; and when I heard\nand when I saw I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel that\nshowed me these things. [22:9]And he said to me, See [that you do it]\nnot; for I am your fellow servant and of your brothers the prophets and\nof those that keep the words of this book; worship God. [22:10]And he\nsaid to me, Seal not up the words of the prophecy of this book; the\ntime is at hand.  [22:11]Let the unjust be unjust still, and let the\nfilthy be filthy still, and let the righteous do righteousness still,\nand let the holy be made holy still.\n\n10 [22:12]Behold, I come quickly, and my reward is with me, to give\nevery one as his work is. [22:13]I am the Alpha and the Omega, first\nand last, the beginning and end. [22:14]Blessed are they that keep his\ncommandments, that they may have a right to the tree of life, and enter\nby the gates into the city.  [22:15]Without are dogs and sorcerers, and\nfornicators, and murderers and idolaters and whoever loves and\npractises falsehood.\n\n11 [22:16]I Jesus sent my angel to testify to you these things for the\nchurches. I am the root and offspring of David, and the bright star of\nthe morning. [22:17]And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him\nthat hears say, Come. And let him that thirsts, come; let him that\nwill, take the water of life freely.\n\n12 [22:18]I testify to every one that hears the words of the prophecy\nof this book. If any one adds to them, God shall add to him the plagues\nwritten in this book; [22:19]and if any one takes away from the words\nof the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the\ntree of life, and the holy city, described in this book. [22:20]He that\ntestifies these things says, Yes, I come quickly. Amen, come Lord\nJesus. [22:21]The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all.","title":"The New Testament: Translated From the Original Greek, With Chronological Arrangement of the Sacred Books, and Improved Divisions of Chapters and Verses.","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":176946}