"Abba, Father," he said, "thou canst do anything. Take this cup away from me. Yet, not what I will but what thou wilt."
whereupon Jesus said to Peter, "Sheathe your sword. Am I not to drink the cup which the Father has handed me?"
And summoning his twelve disciples he gave them power over unclean spirits, power to cast them out and also to heal every disease and every ailment.
Then he went up the hillside and summoned the men he wanted, and they went to him.
But then, I set no value on my own life as compared with the joy of finishing my course and fulfilling the commission I received from the Lord Jesus to attest the gospel of the grace of God.
through whom I have received the favour of my commission to promote obedience to the faith for his sake among all the Gentiles,
Then said Jesus, "What Moses gave you was not the bread from heaven; it is my Father who gives you the real bread from heaven ??33 for the bread of God is what comes down from heaven and gives life to the world." "Ah, sir," they said to him, "give us that bread always." Jesus said, "I am the bread of life; he who comes to me will never be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty again.
Then Jesus again addressed them, saying, "I am the light of the world: he who follows me will not walk in darkness, he will enjoy the light of life."
A tent was set up, the outer tent, containing the lampstand, the table, and the loaves of the Presence; this is called the Holy place.
Holy brothers, you who participate in a heavenly calling, look at Jesus then, at the apostle and high priest of our confession;
I appeal to you myself by the gentleness and consideration of Christ ??the Paul who is 'humble enough to your face when he is with you, but outspoken enough when he gets away from you.'
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find your souls refreshed;
Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me;
for I have been setting you an example, that you should do what I have done to you.
May the God who inspires stedfastness and encouragement grant you such harmony with one another, after Christ Jesus,
Treat one another with the same spirit as you experience in Christ Jesus.
our eyes fixed upon Jesus as the pioneer and the perfection of faith ??upon Jesus who, in order to reach his own appointed joy, steadily endured the cross, thinking nothing of its shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
It is your vocation; for when Christ suffered for you, he left you an example, and you must follow his footsteps.
and the crowds replied, "This is the prophet Jesus from Nazaret in Galilee!"
they tried to get hold of him, but they were afraid of the crowds, as the crowds held him to be a prophet.
others said, "It is Elijah," others again, "It is a prophet, like one of the old prophets."
All were seized with awe and glorified God. "A great prophet has appeared among us," they said, "God has visited his people."
But I must journey on, to-day, to-morrow, and the next day; it would never do for a prophet to perish except in Jerusalem!
"What is that?" he said to them. They replied, "All about Jesus of Nazaret! To God and all the people he was a prophet strong in action and utterance,
"Sir," said the woman, "I see you are a prophet.
Now when the people saw the Sign he had performed, they said, "This really is the Prophet who is to come into the world!"
On hearing this some of the people said, "This really is the Prophet";
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So they asked the blind man once more, "What have you to say about him, for opening your eyes?" The man replied, "I say he is a prophet."
for Moses said, The Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brotherhood, as he raised me: you must listen to whatever he may tell you.
And who does not admit how profound is the divine truth of our religion? ??it is He who was "manifest in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by the angels, preached among the nations, believed on throughout the world, taken up to glory."
He is the likeness of the unseen God, born first before all the creation ??16 for it was by him that all things were created both in heaven and on earth, both the seen and the unseen, including Thrones, angelic Lords, celestial Powers and Rulers; all things have been created by him and for him;
So Simon Peter replied, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
THE Logos existed in the very beginning, the Logos was with God, the Logos was divine. He was with God in the very beginning:
and installed as Son of God with power by the Spirit of holiness when he was raised from the dead ??concerning Jesus Christ our Lord,
the patriarchs are theirs, and theirs too (so far as natural descent goes) is the Christ. (Blessed for evermore be the God who is over all! Amen.)
It is in Christ that the entire Fulness of deity has settled bodily,
He, reflecting God's bright glory and stamped with God's own character, sustains the universe with his word of power; when he had secured our purification from sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high;
And on his robe, upon his thigh, his name is written, KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.
While daylight lasts, we must be busy with the work of God: night comes, when no one can do any work.
Now this came to the hearing of king Herod, for the name of Jesus had become well known; people said, "John the Baptizer has risen from the dead, that is why miraculous powers are working through him;"
Now when John heard in prison what the Christ was doing, he sent his disciples
Then he proceeded to upbraid the towns where his many miracles had been performed, because they would not repent.
and went to his native place, where he taught the people in the synagogue till they were astounded. They said, "Where did he get this wisdom and these miraculous powers?
When the sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and the large audience was astounded. "Where did he get all this?" they said. "What is the meaning of this wisdom he is endowed with? And these miracles, too, that his hands perform!
and as he was now close to the descent from the Hill of Olives, all the multitude of the disciples started joyfully to praise God with a loud voice for all they had seen,
But I possess a testimony greater than that of John, for the deeds which the Father has granted me to accomplish, the very deeds on which I am engaged, are my testimony that the Father has sent me.
Jesus replied, "I have told you, but you do not believe; the deeds I do in the name of my Father testify to me, but you do not believe,
but if I am, then believe the deeds, though you will not believe me ??that you may learn and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father."
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Believe me, I am in the Father and the Father is in me: ??or else, believe because of the deeds themselves.
They would not be guilty, if I had not done deeds among them such as no one has ever done; but, as it is, they have seen ??and they have hated ??both me and my Father.
The thief only comes to steal, to slay, and to destroy: I have come that they may have life and have it to the full.
just as the Son of man has not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."
For the Son of man has come to seek and save the lost."
Then said Jesus, "It is for judgment that I have come into this world, to make the sightless see, to make the seeing blind."
Do not imagine I have come to destroy the Law or the prophets; I have not come to destroy but to fulfil.
He answered them, "I must preach the glad news of the Reign of God to the other towns as well, for that is what I was sent to do."
I have come to throw fire on earth. Would it were kindled already!
God did not send his Son into the world to pass sentence on it, but to save the world by him.
If anyone hears my words and does not keep them, it is not I who judge him; for I have not come to judge the world but to save the world.
"So you are a king?" said Pilate, "you!" "Certainly," said Jesus, "I am a king. This is why I was born, this is why I came into the world, to bear testimony to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice."
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It is a sure word, it deserves all praise, that "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners"; and though I am the foremost of sinners,
As Jesus passed along from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax-office; he said to him, "Follow me"; and he rose and followed him.
And they dropped their nets at once and followed him.
Now, everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts upon them will be like a sensible man who built his house on rock.
So the disciples went and did as Jesus told them;
So the disciples did as Jesus had told them, and prepared the passover.
Simon replied, "Master, we worked all night and got nothing! However, I will lower the nets at your command."
Everyone who comes to me and listens to my words and acts upon them, I will show you whom he is like.
Jesus said, "Fill up the jars with water." So they filled them to the brim.
So, on hearing this, Mary rose hurriedly and went to him.
He who possesses my commands and obeys them is he who loves me, and he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and appear to him."
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So he told them, "Throw your net on the right of the boat, and you will have a take." At this they threw the net, and now they could not haul it in for the mass of fish.
but one of the Presbyters told me, "Weep not; lo, the Lion of Judah's tribe, the Scion of David, he has won the power of opening the scroll and its seven seals."
And a woman of Canaan came out of these parts and wailed, "Have pity on me, Lord, O Son of David! My daughter is cruelly possessed by a daemon."
The birth-roll of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
And all the crowds were amazed; they said, "Can this be the Son of David?"
And the crowds who went in front of him and who followed behind shouted, "Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed be he who comes in the Lord's name! Hosanna in high heaven!"
A number of the people checked him and told him to be quiet, but he shouted all the more, "Son of David, have pity on me!"
And as Jesus taught in the temple he asked, "How can the scribes say that the Christ is David's son?
Does not scripture say it is from the offspring of David, from David's village of Bethlehem, that the Christ is to come?"
concerning his Son, who was born of David's offspring by natural descent
Never forget "Jesus Christ risen from the dead, descended from David" ??that is my gospel,
but one of the Presbyters told me, "Weep not; lo, the Lion of Judah's tribe, the Scion of David, he has won the power of opening the scroll and its seven seals."
And a woman of Canaan came out of these parts and wailed, "Have pity on me, Lord, O Son of David! My daughter is cruelly possessed by a daemon."
The birth-roll of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
And all the crowds were amazed; they said, "Can this be the Son of David?"
And the crowds who went in front of him and who followed behind shouted, "Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed be he who comes in the Lord's name! Hosanna in high heaven!"
A number of the people checked him and told him to be quiet, but he shouted all the more, "Son of David, have pity on me!"
And as Jesus taught in the temple he asked, "How can the scribes say that the Christ is David's son?
Does not scripture say it is from the offspring of David, from David's village of Bethlehem, that the Christ is to come?"
concerning his Son, who was born of David's offspring by natural descent
Never forget "Jesus Christ risen from the dead, descended from David" ??that is my gospel,
As it is, however, the divine service he has obtained is superior, owing to the fact that he mediates a superior covenant, enacted with superior promises.
"Write your vision in a book, and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and Smyrna and Pergamum and Thyatira and Sardis and Philadelphia and Laodicea."
I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier, and I am not fit even to carry his sandals; he will baptize you with the holy Spirit and fire.
He who comes from above is far above all others; he who springs from earth belongs to earth and speaks of earth; he who comes from heaven [is far above all others.
You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right: that is what I am.
So let all the house of Israel understand beyond a doubt that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this very Jesus whom you have crucified."
it was for this that Christ died and rose and came to life, to be Lord both of the dead and of the living.
Also, he is the head of the Body, that is, of the church, in virtue of his primacy as the first to be born from the dead ??that gives him pre-eminence over all.
and thus he is superior to the angels, as he has inherited a Name superior to theirs.
Jesus has been adjudged greater glory than Moses, inasmuch as the founder of a house enjoys greater honour than the house itself.
As it is, however, the divine service he has obtained is superior, owing to the fact that he mediates a superior covenant, enacted with superior promises.
"Write your vision in a book, and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and Smyrna and Pergamum and Thyatira and Sardis and Philadelphia and Laodicea."
I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier, and I am not fit even to carry his sandals; he will baptize you with the holy Spirit and fire.
He who comes from above is far above all others; he who springs from earth belongs to earth and speaks of earth; he who comes from heaven [is far above all others.
You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right: that is what I am.
So let all the house of Israel understand beyond a doubt that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this very Jesus whom you have crucified."
it was for this that Christ died and rose and came to life, to be Lord both of the dead and of the living.
Also, he is the head of the Body, that is, of the church, in virtue of his primacy as the first to be born from the dead ??that gives him pre-eminence over all.
and thus he is superior to the angels, as he has inherited a Name superior to theirs.
Jesus has been adjudged greater glory than Moses, inasmuch as the founder of a house enjoys greater honour than the house itself.
He will despatch his angels with a loud trumpet call to muster his elect from the four winds, from the verge of heaven to the verge of earth.
When the Son of man comes in his glory and all the angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory,
and repay you who are troubled (as well as us) with rest and relief, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven together with the angels of his power
He said to him, "Truly, truly I tell you all, you shall see heaven open wide and God's angels ascending and descending upon the Son of man."
[And an angel from heaven appeared to strengthen him;
What! do you think I cannot appeal to my Father to furnish me at this moment with over twelve legions of angels?
Then a host of heaven's army suddenly appeared beside the angel extolling God and saying,
And further, when introducing the Firstborn into the world, he says, 'Let all God's angels worship him.'
Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels round the throne and of the living Creatures and of the Presbyters, numbering myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands,
Christ himself died for sins, once for all, a just man for unjust men, that he might bring us near to God; in the flesh he was put to death but he came to life in the Spirit.
and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the first-born from the dead, and the prince over the kings of earth; to him who loves us and has loosed us from our sins by shedding his blood ??6 he has made us a realm of priests for his God and Father, ??to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever: Amen.
To lay life down for his friends, man has no greater love than that.
and lead lives of love, just as Christ loved you and gave himself up for you to be a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil world ??by the will of our God and Father,
who gave himself up for us to redeem us from all iniquity and secure himself a clean people with a zest for good works.
(You know how gracious our Lord Jesus Christ was; rich though he was, he became poor for the sake of you, that by his poverty you might be rich.)
We know what love is by this, that He laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for the brotherhood.
I have said all this to you that in me you may have peace; in the world you have trouble, but courage! I have conquered the world.
He will not break the bruised reed, he will not put out the smouldering flax, till he carries religion to victory:
Then comes the end, when he hands over his royal power to God the Father, after putting down all other rulers, all other authorities and powers.
'The conqueror I will allow to sit beside me on my throne, as I myself have conquered and sat down beside my Father on his throne.'
but one of the Presbyters told me, "Weep not; lo, the Lion of Judah's tribe, the Scion of David, he has won the power of opening the scroll and its seven seals."
So I looked, and there was a white horse, its rider holding a bow; he was given a crown, and away he rode conquering and to conquer.
They will wage war on the Lamb, but the Lamb will conquer them because he is Lord of lords and King of kings ??the Lamb and the elect, the chosen, the faithful who are with him."
[Now to Him who can strengthen you by my gospel, by the preaching of Jesus Christ, by revealing the secret purpose which after the silence of long ages
And who does not admit how profound is the divine truth of our religion? ??it is He who was "manifest in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by the angels, preached among the nations, believed on throughout the world, taken up to glory."
May their hearts be encouraged! May they learn the meaning of love! May they have all the wealth of conviction that comes from insight! May they learn to know that open secret of God, the Father of Christ,
it is the mysterious Wisdom of God that we discuss, that hidden wisdom which God decreed from all eternity for our glory.
He has granted us complete insight and understanding of the open secret of his will, showing us how it was the purpose of his design
you can understand my insight into that secret of Christ
It is His will that they should understand the glorious wealth which this secret holds for the Gentiles, in the fact of Christ's presence among you as your hope of glory.
and pray for me as well, that God may give me an opening for the word, to speak of the open secret of Christ for which I am in custody.
Jesus said, "Cease clinging to me. I have not ascended yet to the Father, but go to my brothers and tell them, 'I am ascending to my Father and yours, to my God and yours.'"
For Christ has not entered a holy place which human hands have made (a mere type of the reality!); he has entered heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.
who is at God's right hand ??for he went to heaven after angels, authorities, and powers celestial had been made subject to him.)
And as he blessed them he parted from them [and was carried up to heaven].
Then what if you were to see the Son of man ascending to where he formerly existed?
Thus it is said, When he ascended on high he led a host captive and granted gifts to men.
On saying this he was lifted up while they looked on, and a cloud took him out of sight.
Then after speaking to them the Lord Jesus was taken up to heaven and sat down at the right hand of God,
As we have a great high priest, then, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession;
Whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this disloyal and sinful generation, the Son of man will be ashamed of him when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.
Who is the real liar? who but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is 'antichrist,' he who disowns the Father and the Son.
but you repudiated the Holy and Just One; the boon you asked was a murderer,
Jesus said to him, "I tell you truly, you will disown me three times this very night, before the cock crows."
They profess to know God, but they deny him by their deeds; they are detestable, disobedient, and useless for good work of any kind.
and whoever will disown me before men, I will disown him before my Father in heaven.
Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. A maidservant came up and said to him, "You were with Jesus the Galilean too." But he denied it before them all; "I do not know what you mean," he said.
if we endure, then we shall reign with him, if we disown him, then he shall disown us,
Still, false prophets did appear among the People, as among you also there will be false teachers, men who will insinuate destructive heresies, even disowning the Lord who ransomed them; they bring rapid destruction on themselves,
when he enjoined us to preach to the People, testifying that this was he whom God has appointed to be judge of the living and of the dead.
In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus who will judge the living and the dead, in the light of his appearance and his reign,
So do not criticize at all; the hour of reckoning has still to come, when the Lord will come to bring dark secrets to the light and to reveal life's inner aims and motives. Then each of us will get his meed of praise from God.
and all nations will be gathered in front of him; he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats,
Indeed the Father passes judgment on no one; he has committed the judgment which determines life or death entirely to the Son,
inasmuch as he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world justly by a man whom he has destined for this. And he has given proof of this to all by raising him from the dead."
on the day when God judges the secret things of men, as my gospel holds, by Jesus Christ.
So why do you criticize your brother? And you, why do you look down upon your brother? All of us have to stand before the tribunal of God ??11 for it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bend before me, every tongue shall offer praise to God.
but they will have to answer for that to Him who is prepared to judge the living and the dead
who is at God's right hand ??for he went to heaven after angels, authorities, and powers celestial had been made subject to him.)
thou hast loved justice and hated lawlessness, therefore God, thy God, has consecrated thee with the oil of rejoicing beyond thy comrades' ??10 and, 'Thou didst found the earth at the beginning, O Lord, and the heavens are the work at thy hands;
So let all the house of Israel understand beyond a doubt that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this very Jesus whom you have crucified."
Then after speaking to them the Lord Jesus was taken up to heaven and sat down at the right hand of God,
But after this the Son of man will be seated at God's right hand of power."
God lifted him up to his right hand as our pioneer and saviour, in order to grant repentance and remission of sins to Israel.
which he exerted in raising Christ from the dead and seating him at his right hand in the heavenly sphere,
Therefore God raised him high and conferred on him a Name above all names,
crying aloud, "The slain Lamb deserves to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honour and glory and blessing."
He had to resemble his brothers in every respect, in order to prove a merciful and faithful high priest in things divine, to expiate the sins of the People.
and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the first-born from the dead, and the prince over the kings of earth; to him who loves us and has loosed us from our sins by shedding his blood ??6 he has made us a realm of priests for his God and Father, ??to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever: Amen.
However, the Lord is faithful; he will be sure to strengthen you and protect you from the Evil one.
let us hold the hope we avow without wavering (for we can rely on him who gave us the Promise);
He who calls you is faithful, he will do this.
if we are faithless, he remains faithful" ??for he cannot be untrue to himself.
Then I saw heaven open wide ??and there was a white horse: his rider is faithful and true, yea, just are his judgments and his warfare.
not taking any blood of goats and oxen but his own blood, and entered once for all into the Holy place. He secured an eternal redemption.
Christ ransomed us from the curse of the Law by becoming accursed for us (for it is written, Cursed is everyone who hangs on a gibbet),
singing a new song: "Thou deservest to take the scroll and open its seals, for thou wast slain and by shedding thy blood hast ransomed for God men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation;
who gave himself up for us to redeem us from all iniquity and secure himself a clean people with a zest for good works.
but they are justified for nothing by his grace through the ransom provided in Christ Jesus,
This is the God to whom you owe your being in Christ Jesus, whom God has made our 'Wisdom,' that is, our righteousness and consecration and redemption;
In him we enjoy our redemption, that is, the forgiveness of sins.
you know it was not by perishable silver or gold that you were ransomed from the futile traditions of your past,
are placed in the middle of verse 13:31] "I am the real Vine, and my Father is the vine-dresser;
She did this for a number of days. Then Paul turned in annoyance and told the spirit, "In the name of Jesus Christ I order you out of her!" And it left her that very moment.
and I will do whatever you ask in my name, that the Father may be glorified in the Son;
and that repentance and the remission of sins must be preached in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
On that day you will ask in my name, and I do not say to you I will ask the Father on your behalf;
but these Signs are recorded so that you may believe Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and believing may have life through his Name.
But Peter said, "I have no silver or gold, but I will give you what I do have. In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, [get up and] walk!"
(He it is who has given strength to this man whom you see and know, by faith in His name; it is the faith He inspires which has made the man thus hale and whole before you all.)
you and the people of Israel must all understand that he stands before you strong and well, thanks to the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene whom you crucified and whom God raised from the dead.
and render thanks to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ at all times and for all things.
in their presence he was transfigured, his face shone like the sun, and his clothes turned white as light.
his head and hair were white as wool, white as snow; his eyes flashed like fire,
are placed in the middle of verse 13:31] "I am the real Vine, and my Father is the vine-dresser;
She did this for a number of days. Then Paul turned in annoyance and told the spirit, "In the name of Jesus Christ I order you out of her!" And it left her that very moment.
and I will do whatever you ask in my name, that the Father may be glorified in the Son;
and that repentance and the remission of sins must be preached in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
On that day you will ask in my name, and I do not say to you I will ask the Father on your behalf;
but these Signs are recorded so that you may believe Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and believing may have life through his Name.
But Peter said, "I have no silver or gold, but I will give you what I do have. In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, [get up and] walk!"
(He it is who has given strength to this man whom you see and know, by faith in His name; it is the faith He inspires which has made the man thus hale and whole before you all.)
you and the people of Israel must all understand that he stands before you strong and well, thanks to the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene whom you crucified and whom God raised from the dead.
and render thanks to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ at all times and for all things.
They will wage war on the Lamb, but the Lamb will conquer them because he is Lord of lords and King of kings ??the Lamb and the elect, the chosen, the faithful who are with him."
I tell you truly, there are some of those standing here who will not taste death till they see the Son of man coming himself to reign."
I assign you the right of eating and drinking at my table in my Realm and of sitting on thrones to rule the twelve tribes of Israel.
And he added, "Jesus, do not forget me when you come to reign."
Jesus replied, "My realm does not belong to this world; if my realm did belong to this world, my men would have fought to prevent me being handed over to the Jews. No, my realm lies elsewhere."
so that before the Name of Jesus every knee should bend in heaven, on earth, and underneath the earth,
he says of the Son, 'God is thy throne for ever and ever, thy royal sceptre is the sceptre of equity:
Then the seventh angel blew; and loud voices followed in heaven, crying, "The rule of the world has passed to our Lord and his Christ, and he shall reign for ever and ever."
Faithful is the God who called you to this fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
So let all the house of Israel understand beyond a doubt that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this very Jesus whom you have crucified."
God lifted him up to his right hand as our pioneer and saviour, in order to grant repentance and remission of sins to Israel.
And he said to them, "The Son of man is Lord even over the sabbath."
Confess with your mouth that 'Jesus is Lord,' believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, and you will be saved;
so I tell you now, that no one is speaking in the Spirit of God when he cries, 'Cursed be Jesus,' and that no one can say, 'Jesus is Lord,' except in the holy Spirit.
Faithful is the God who called you to this fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
So let all the house of Israel understand beyond a doubt that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this very Jesus whom you have crucified."
God lifted him up to his right hand as our pioneer and saviour, in order to grant repentance and remission of sins to Israel.
And he said to them, "The Son of man is Lord even over the sabbath."
Confess with your mouth that 'Jesus is Lord,' believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, and you will be saved;
so I tell you now, that no one is speaking in the Spirit of God when he cries, 'Cursed be Jesus,' and that no one can say, 'Jesus is Lord,' except in the holy Spirit.
Hence for all time he is able to save those who approach God through him, as he is always living to intercede on their behalf.
To-day you have a saviour born in the town of David, the Lord messiah.
For the Son of man has come to seek and save the lost."
God did not send his Son into the world to pass sentence on it, but to save the world by him.
It is a sure word, it deserves all praise, that "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners"; and though I am the foremost of sinners,
God lifted him up to his right hand as our pioneer and saviour, in order to grant repentance and remission of sins to Israel.
From his offspring God brought to Israel, as he had promised, a saviour in Jesus,
and has now revealed in the appearance of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who has put down death and brought life and immortality to light by the gospel.
and we have seen, we can testify, that the Father has sent the Son as the Saviour of the world.
Christ himself died for sins, once for all, a just man for unjust men, that he might bring us near to God; in the flesh he was put to death but he came to life in the Spirit.
Christ ransomed us from the curse of the Law by becoming accursed for us (for it is written, Cursed is everyone who hangs on a gibbet),
what we do see is Jesus who was put lower than the angels for a little while to suffer death, and who has been crowned with glory and honour that by God's grace he might taste death for everyone.
For our sakes He made him to be sin who himself knew nothing of sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
so Christ, after being once sacrificed to bear the sins of many, will appear again, not to deal with sin but for the saving of those who look out for him.
he bore our sins in his own body on the gibbet, that we might break with sin and live for righteousness; and by his wounds you have been healed.
So when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with taxgatherers and sinners?"
for he has considered the humiliation of his servant. From this time forth all generations will call me blessed,
he rose from table, laid aside his robe, and tied a towel round him,
So saying he showed them his hands and his side; and when the disciples saw the Lord, they rejoiced.
Then he said to Thomas, "Look at my hands, put your finger here; and put your hand here into my side; cease your unbelief and believe."
So the Pharisees withdrew and plotted against him, to destroy him;
and took counsel together to get hold of Jesus by craft and have him put to death.
When morning came, all the high priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, so as to have him put to death.
This filled them with fury, and they discussed what they could do to Jesus.
Day after day he taught within the temple. The high priests and scribes tried to have him put to death, and so did the leaders of the people,
who went off to discuss with the high priests and commanders how he could betray him to them.
And this was why the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did things like this on the sabbath.
whereupon the high priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the Sanhedrin. "Whatever is to be done?" they said. "The fellow is performing a number of Signs.
So from that day their plan was to kill him.
Now the Pharisees and Sadducees came up and, in order to tempt him, asked him to show them a Sign from heaven.
Then the Pharisees came up to tempt him. They asked, "Is it right to divorce one's wife for any reason?"
Then the Pharisees went and plotted to trap him in talk.
Now the Pharisees came out and started to argue with him, asking him for a Sign from heaven, by way of tempting him.
Now some Pharisees came up and asked him if a man was allowed to divorce his wife. This was to tempt him.
But they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to him for the purpose of catching him with a question.
lying in ambush to catch a word from his lips.
So watching their chance they sent spies who pretended to be honest persons, in order to seize on what he said and get him handed over to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor.
(They said this to test him, in order to get a charge against him.) Jesus stooped down, and began to write with his finger on the ground;
He was praying at a certain place, and when he stopped one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples." He said to them, "When you pray, say, Father, thy name be revered, thy Reign begin; give us our bread for the morrow day by day,
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and forgive us our sins for we do forgive everyone who has offended us; and lead us not into temptation." And he said to them, "Suppose one of you has a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say to him, 'Friend, let me have three loaves; for a friend of mine travelling has come to my house and I have nothing to set before him.' And suppose he answers from the inside, 'Don't bother me; the door is locked by this time, and my children are in bed with me. I can't get up and give you anything.' I tell you, though he will not get up and give you anything because you are a friend of his, he will at least rise and give you whatever you want, because you persist. So I tell you, ask and the gift will be yours, seek and you will find, knock and the door will open to you; for everyone who asks receives, the seeker finds, the door is opened to anyone who knocks. What father among you, if asked by his son for a loaf, will hand him a stone? Or, if asked for a fish, will hand him a serpent instead of a fish? Or, if asked for an egg, will he hand him a scorpion? Well, if for all your evil you know to give your children what is good, how much more will your Father give the holy Spirit from heaven to those who ask him?"
He also told them a parable about the need of always praying and never losing heart. "In a certain town," he said, "there was a judge who had no reverence for God and no respect even for man. And in that town there was a widow who used to go and appeal to him for 'Justice against my opponent!'
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For a while he would not, but afterwards he said to himself, 'Though I have no reverence for God and no respect even for man, still, as this widow is bothering me, I will see justice done to her ??not to have her for ever coming and pestering me.' Listen," said the Lord, "to what this unjust judge says! And will not God see justice done to his elect who cry to him by day and night? Will he be tolerant to their opponents? I tell you, he will quickly see justice done to his elect! And yet, when the Son of man does come, will he find faith on earth?"
Is this not the son of the joiner? Is not his mother called Mary, and his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas?
He was still speaking to the crowds when his mother and brothers came and stood outside; they wanted to speak to him.
Then came his brothers and his mother, and standing outside they sent to call him;
After this he travelled down to Capharnahum, with his mother and brothers and his disciples; they stayed there for a few days.
so his brothers said to him, "Leave this and go across into Judaea, to let your disciples witness what you can do;
(for even his brothers did not believe in him).
Have we no right to travel with a Christian wife, like the rest of the apostles, like the brothers of the Lord, like Cephas himself?
I saw no other apostle, only James the brother of the Lord.
He was praying at a certain place, and when he stopped one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples." He said to them, "When you pray, say, Father, thy name be revered, thy Reign begin; give us our bread for the morrow day by day,
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and forgive us our sins for we do forgive everyone who has offended us; and lead us not into temptation." And he said to them, "Suppose one of you has a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say to him, 'Friend, let me have three loaves; for a friend of mine travelling has come to my house and I have nothing to set before him.' And suppose he answers from the inside, 'Don't bother me; the door is locked by this time, and my children are in bed with me. I can't get up and give you anything.' I tell you, though he will not get up and give you anything because you are a friend of his, he will at least rise and give you whatever you want, because you persist. So I tell you, ask and the gift will be yours, seek and you will find, knock and the door will open to you; for everyone who asks receives, the seeker finds, the door is opened to anyone who knocks. What father among you, if asked by his son for a loaf, will hand him a stone? Or, if asked for a fish, will hand him a serpent instead of a fish? Or, if asked for an egg, will he hand him a scorpion? Well, if for all your evil you know to give your children what is good, how much more will your Father give the holy Spirit from heaven to those who ask him?"
He also told them a parable about the need of always praying and never losing heart. "In a certain town," he said, "there was a judge who had no reverence for God and no respect even for man. And in that town there was a widow who used to go and appeal to him for 'Justice against my opponent!'
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For a while he would not, but afterwards he said to himself, 'Though I have no reverence for God and no respect even for man, still, as this widow is bothering me, I will see justice done to her ??not to have her for ever coming and pestering me.' Listen," said the Lord, "to what this unjust judge says! And will not God see justice done to his elect who cry to him by day and night? Will he be tolerant to their opponents? I tell you, he will quickly see justice done to his elect! And yet, when the Son of man does come, will he find faith on earth?"
but the Pharisees and the scribes complained, "He welcomes sinners and eats along with them!"
"What does the man mean by talking like this? It is blasphemy! Who can forgive sins, who but God alone?"
So when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with taxgatherers and sinners?"
When the Pharisees noticed it, they said to him, "Look at your disciples, they are doing what is not allowed on the sabbath."
"Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? They do not wash their hands when they take their food."
So when some scribes of the Pharisees saw he was eating with sinners and taxgatherers they said to his disciples, "Why does he eat and drink with taxgatherers and sinners?"
They noticed that some of his disciples ate their food with 'common' (that is, unwashed) hands.
But when they saw this, everyone began to mutter that he had gone to be the guest of a sinner.
Now the Jews murmured at him for saying, "I am the bread which has come down from heaven."
"I tell you truly," said Jesus, "you will be in paradise with me this very day."
If anyone serves me, let him follow me, and where I am, there shall my servant be also: if anyone serves me, my Father will honour him.
And when I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me, so that you may be where I am.
Father, it is my will that these, thy gift to me, may be beside me where I am, to behold my glory which thou hast given me, because thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
and in this confidence I would fain get away from the body and reside with the Lord.
I am in a dilemma between the two. My strong desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far the best.
then we the living, who survive, will be caught up along with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall be with the Lord for ever.
From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he had to leave for Jerusalem and endure great suffering at the hands of the elders and high priests and scribes, and be killed and raised on the third day.
and hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and scourged and crucified; then on the third day he will be raised."
But after my rising I will precede you to Galilee."
As they went down the hill, he forbade them to tell anyone what they had seen, till such time as the Son of man rose from the dead.
But after my rising I will precede you to Galilee."
Jesus replied, "Destroy this sanctuary and I will raise it up in three days."
To this day I have had the help of God in standing, as I now do, to testify alike to low and high, never uttering a single syllable beyond what the prophets and Moses predicted was to take place. that the Christ is capable of suffering, and that he should be the first to rise from the dead and bring the message of light to the People and to the Gentiles?"
who were annoyed at them teaching the people and proclaiming Jesus as an instance of resurrection from the dead.
Philip travelled down to a town in Samaria, where he preached Christ to the people.
Then Philip opened his lips, and starting from this scripture preached the gospel of Jesus to him.
He lost no time in preaching throughout the synagogues that Jesus was the Son of God ??21 to the amazement of all his hearers, who said, "Is this not the man who in Jerusalem harried those who invoke this Name, the man who came here for the express purpose of carrying them all in chains to the high priests?"
You know the message he sent to the sons of Israel when he preached the gospel of peace by Jesus Christ (who is Lord of all);
explaining and quoting passages to prove that the messiah had to suffer and rise from the dead, and that "the Jesus I proclaim to you is the messiah."
but our message is Christ the crucified ??a stumbling-block to the Jews, 'sheer folly' to the Gentiles,
(It is Christ Jesus as Lord, not myself, that I proclaim; I am simply a servant of yours for Jesus' sake.)
When the festival was half over, Jesus went up to the temple and began to teach.
for he taught them like an authority, not like their own scribes.
Then he made a tour through the whole of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the Reign, and healing all the sickness and disease of the people.
and he opened his lips and began to teach them. He said:
So when Jesus disembarked he saw a large crowd, and out of pity for them, as they were like sheep without a shepherd, he proceeded to teach them at length.
He taught in their synagogues and was glorified by all.
So he entered one of the boats, which belonged to Simon, and asked him to push out a little from the land. Then he sat down and taught the people from the boat.
he came one night to Jesus and said, "Rabbi, we know you have come from God to teach us, for no one could perform these Signs of yours unless God were with him."
Early in the morning he returned to the temple, the people all came to him, and he sat down and taught them.
Then the apostles came back and described all they had done to Jesus. He took them and retired in private to a town called Bethsaida,
after he had dismissed the crowds he went up the hill by himself to pray. When evening came he was there alone,
Then Jesus removed from that country and went along the sea of Galilee; he went up the hillside and sat there.
Six days afterwards Jesus took Peter, James and his brother John, and led them up a high hill by themselves;
Now as Jesus was about to go up to Jerusalem he took the twelve aside by themselves and said to them as they were on the road,
And he said to them, "Come away to some lonely spot and get a little rest" (for there were many people coming and going, and they could get no time even to eat).
Leaving there, he went away to the territory of Tyre and Sidon. He went into a house and wished no one to know of it, but he could not escape notice;
He withdrew about a stone's throw and knelt in prayer,
[Relocated to follow vs 16] I am the alpha and the omega, the First and the Last, the beginning and the end.
Father, it is my will that these, thy gift to me, may be beside me where I am, to behold my glory which thou hast given me, because thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
THE Logos existed in the very beginning, the Logos was with God, the Logos was divine.
"Truly, truly I tell you," said Jesus, "I have existed before Abraham was born."
now, Father, glorify me in thy presence with the glory which I enjoyed in thy presence before the world began.
he is prior to all, and all coheres in him.
He has neither father nor mother nor genealogy, neither a beginning to his days nor an end of his life, but, resembling the Son of God, continues to be priest permanently.
"I am baptizing with water," John replied, "but my successor is among you, One whom you do not recognize,
Jesus said to him, "Philip, have I been with you all this time, and yet you do not understand me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. What do you mean by saying, 'Let us see the Father'?
he entered the world ??the world which existed through him ??yet the world did not recognize him;
Jesus answered, "If you knew what is the free gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked him instead, and he would have given you 'living' water."
"Where is your Father?" they said. Jesus replied, "You know neither me nor my Father; if you had known me you would have known my Father also."
The man replied to them, "Well, this is astonishing! You do not know where he comes from, and yet he has opened my eyes!
This they will do to you, because they have not known the Father nor me.
The inhabitants of Jerusalem and their rulers, by condemning him in their ignorance, fulfilled the words of the prophets which are read every sabbath;
anyone who remains in him does not sin ??anyone who sins has neither seen nor known him.
"Lord," said Judas (not Judas Iscariot), "why is it that you are to appear to us, and not to the world?" Jesus answered, "If anyone loves me he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up our abode with him.
If you love me you will keep my commands, and I will ask the Father to give you another Helper to be with you for ever,
for the Father loves you himself, because you have loved me and believed that I came forth from God.
Grace be with all who have an undying love for our Lord Jesus Christ.
Model yourself on the sound instruction you have had from me in the faith and love of Christ Jesus.
for as I hear of your love and loyalty to the Lord Jesus and to all the saints,
You never knew him, but you love him; for the moment you do not see him, but you believe in him, and you will thrill with an unspeakable and glorious joy
when he enjoined us to preach to the People, testifying that this was he whom God has appointed to be judge of the living and of the dead.
and teach them to obey all the commands I have laid on you. And I will be with you all the time, to the very end of the world."
Now this is what he commands, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another as he has commanded us to do;
He who possesses my commands and obeys them is he who loves me, and he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and appear to him."
I give you a new command, to love one another ??as I have loved you, you are to love one another.
If you love me you will keep my commands,
If you keep my commands you will remain within my love, just as I have kept my Father's commands and remain within his love.
You are my friends ??if you do what I command you;
she gave birth to her firstborn son, and as there was no room for them inside the khan she wrapped him up and laid him in a stall for cattle.
(You know how gracious our Lord Jesus Christ was; rich though he was, he became poor for the sake of you, that by his poverty you might be rich.)
Two robbers were also crucified with him at that time, one on the right hand and one on the left.
For I tell you, this word of scripture must be fulfilled in me: he was classed among criminals. Yes, there is an end to all that refers to me."
By humbling himself he had his doom removed. Who can tell his family? For his life is cut off from the earth.
but emptied himself by taking the nature of a servant; born in human guise and appearing in human form, he humbly stooped in his obedience even to die, and to die upon the cross.
Is this not the joiner, the son of Mary and the brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? Are not his sisters settled here among us?" So they were repelled by him.
And blessed is he who is repelled by nothing in me!"
but our message is Christ the crucified ??a stumbling-block to the Jews, 'sheer folly' to the Gentiles,
So they were repelled by him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet never goes without honour except in his native place and in his home."
And why? Simply because Israel has relied not on faith but on what they could do. They have stumbled over the stone that makes men stumble ??33 as it is written, Here I lay a stone in Sion that will make men stumble, even a rock to trip them up; but he who believes in Him will never be disappointed.
a stone over which men stumble and a rock of offence; they stumble over it in their disobedience to God's word. Such is their appointed doom.
On saying this, Jesus was disquieted in spirit: he testified and said, "Truly, truly I tell you, one of you will betray me."
and looking up to heaven with a sigh he said to him, "Ephphatha" (which means, Open).
But he sighed in spirit and said, "Why does this generation demand a Sign? I tell you truly, no Sign shall be given this generation."
And when he saw the city, as he approached, he wept over it,
Now when Jesus saw her wailing and saw the Jews who accompanied her wailing, he chafed in spirit and was disquieted.
Jesus burst into tears.
My soul is now disquieted. What am I to say? 'Father, save me from this hour'? Nay, it is something else that has brought me to this hour:
knowing as we do that our old self has been crucified with him in order to crush the sinful body and free us from any further slavery to sin
I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, Christ lives in me; the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.
As you died with Christ to the Elemental spirits of the world, why live as if you still belonged to the world? Why submit to rules and regulations like
(Because, as it is written, For thy sake we are being killed all the day long, we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.)
every day of my life I am being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may come out within my mortal flesh.
It is a sure word, that "If we have died with him, we shall live with him,
Then said Jesus, "I will be with you a little longer, then I go to Him who sent me;
You heard me tell you I was going away and coming back to you; if you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father ??for the Father is greater than I am.
but now I am going to him who sent me. And yet not one of you asks, 'Where are you going?'
I am to be in the world no longer, but they are to be in the world; I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them by the power of thy Name which thou hast given me, that they may be one as we are one.
My dear children, I am only to be with you a little longer; then you will look for me, and, as I told the Jews I tell you now, where I go you cannot come.
of righteousness, because I go to the Father and you see me no more;
In a little while, you will behold me no longer; then, after a little, you shall see me."
From the Father I came and I entered the world; again, I leave the world and I go to the Father."
I have said all this to you that in me you may have peace; in the world you have trouble, but courage! I have conquered the world.
And when the Lord saw her, he felt pity for her and said to her, "Do not weep."
Let not your hearts be disquieted; you believe ??believe in God and also in me.
I will not leave you forlorn; I am coming to you.
Then Jesus turned round, and when he saw her he said, "Courage, my daughter, your faith has made you well." And the woman was well from that hour.
Instantly Jesus ignored the remark and told the president, "Have no fear, only believe."
And may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father who has loved us and given us eternal encouragement and good hope,
While daylight lasts, we must be busy with the work of God: night comes, when no one can do any work.
Afterwards he sent them his son; 'They will respect my son,' he said.
for I have come down from heaven not to carry out my own will but the will of him who sent me,
but I know Him, because I have come from Him and He sent me."
Said Jesus, "If God were your father, you would love me, for I came here from God; I did not come of my own accord, I was sent by him.
for I have given them the words thou gavest me, and they have received them; they are now sure that I came from thee and believe that thou didst send me.
may they all be one! As thou, Father, art in me and I in thee, so may they be in us ??that the world may believe thou hast sent me.
Had not the Christ to suffer thus and so enter his glory?"
For I tell you, this word of scripture must be fulfilled in me: he was classed among criminals. Yes, there is an end to all that refers to me."
And he proceeded to teach them that the Son of man had to endure great suffering, to be rejected by the elders and the high priests and the scribes, to be killed and after three days to rise again;
The Son of man, he said, has to endure great suffering, to be rejected by the elders and high priests and scribes, to be killed, and on the third day to be raised.
I have a baptism to undergo. How I am distressed till it is all over!
that the Son of man had to be betrayed into the hands of sinful men and be crucified and rise on the third day."
"Thus," he said, "it is written that the Christ has to suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,
Indeed the Son of man must be lifted on high, just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert,
Had not the Christ to suffer thus and so enter his glory?"
For I tell you, this word of scripture must be fulfilled in me: he was classed among criminals. Yes, there is an end to all that refers to me."
And he proceeded to teach them that the Son of man had to endure great suffering, to be rejected by the elders and the high priests and the scribes, to be killed and after three days to rise again;
The Son of man, he said, has to endure great suffering, to be rejected by the elders and high priests and scribes, to be killed, and on the third day to be raised.
I have a baptism to undergo. How I am distressed till it is all over!
that the Son of man had to be betrayed into the hands of sinful men and be crucified and rise on the third day."
"Thus," he said, "it is written that the Christ has to suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,
Indeed the Son of man must be lifted on high, just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert,
Therefore God raised him high and conferred on him a Name above all names, so that before the Name of Jesus every knee should bend in heaven, on earth, and underneath the earth, and every tongue confess that 'Jesus Christ is Lord,' to the glory of God the Father.
And on his robe, upon his thigh, his name is written, KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.
and thus he is superior to the angels, as he has inherited a Name superior to theirs.
You are to conceive and bear a son, and you must call his name Jesus.
His eyes are a flame of fire, on his head are many diadems, he bears a written name which none knows but himself.
Tell the daughter of Sion, 'Here is your king coming to you, He is gentle and mounted on an ass, And on a colt the foal of a beast of burden.'
I appeal to you myself by the gentleness and consideration of Christ ??the Paul who is 'humble enough to your face when he is with you, but outspoken enough when he gets away from you.'
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find your souls refreshed;
Then Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back into its place; all who draw the sword shall die by the sword.
he was reviled and made no retort, he suffered and never threatened, but left everything to Him who judges justly;
and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the first-born from the dead, and the prince over the kings of earth; to him who loves us and has loosed us from our sins by shedding his blood ??6 he has made us a realm of priests for his God and Father, ??to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever: Amen.
In the presence of God who is the Life of all, and of Christ Jesus who testified to the good confession before Pontius Pilate, I charge you
"So you are a king?" said Pilate, "you!" "Certainly," said Jesus, "I am a king. This is why I was born, this is why I came into the world, to bear testimony to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice."
Truly, truly I tell you, we are speaking of what we do understand, we testify to what we have actually seen ??and yet you refuse our testimony.
He] is testifying to what he has seen and heard, and yet no one accepts his testimony.
Jesus replied to them, "Though I do testify to myself, my evidence is valid, because I know where I have come from and where I am going to ??whereas you do not know where I have come from or where I am going to.
a woman heard of him, whose daughter had an unclean spirit, and she came in and fell at his feet
A leper came up and knelt before him, saying, "If you only choose, sir, you can cleanse me";
As he said this, an official came in and knelt before him, saying, "My daughter is just dead; do come and lay your hand on her, and she will live."
But she came and knelt before him, saying, "Lord, do help me."
Then the mother of the sons of Zebedaeus came up to him with her sons, praying him for a favour.
A president of the synagogue called Jairus came up, and on catching sight of him fell at his feet
He said, "I do believe, Lord" ??and he worshipped him.
for Moses said, The Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brotherhood, as he raised me: you must listen to whatever he may tell you.
for I have given them the words thou gavest me, and they have received them; they are now sure that I came from thee and believe that thou didst send me.
I have a great deal to say about you and many a judgment to pass upon you; but he who sent me is true, and so I tell the world what I have learned from him."
for I have not spoken of my own accord ??the Father who sent me, he it was who ordered me what to say and what to speak.
Do you not believe I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I speak to you all I do not speak of my own accord; it is the Father who remains ever in me, who is performing his own deeds.
He who does not love me does not obey my word; and what you hear me say is not my word but the word of the Father who sent me.
for Moses said, The Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brotherhood, as he raised me: you must listen to whatever he may tell you.
for I have given them the words thou gavest me, and they have received them; they are now sure that I came from thee and believe that thou didst send me.
I have a great deal to say about you and many a judgment to pass upon you; but he who sent me is true, and so I tell the world what I have learned from him."
for I have not spoken of my own accord ??the Father who sent me, he it was who ordered me what to say and what to speak.
Do you not believe I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I speak to you all I do not speak of my own accord; it is the Father who remains ever in me, who is performing his own deeds.
He who does not love me does not obey my word; and what you hear me say is not my word but the word of the Father who sent me.
"I tell you truly," said Jesus, "you will be in paradise with me this very day."
Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, they do not know what they are doing." Then they distributed his clothes among themselves by drawing lots.
Then he said to the disciple, "And, there is your mother!" And from that hour the disciple took her to his home.
and about three o'clock Jesus gave a loud cry, "Eli, eli, lema sabachthani" (that is, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?)
After that, as Jesus knew that everything was now finished and fulfilled, he said (to fulfil the scripture), "I am thirsty."
And when Jesus took the vinegar, he said, "It is finished," bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.
Then with a loud cry Jesus said, "Father, I trust my spirit to thy hands," and with these words he expired.
The King will answer them, 'I tell you truly, in so far as you did it to one of these brothers of mine, even to the least of them, you did it to me.'
He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives Him who sent me.
and whoever receives a little child like this for my sake, receives me.
He who listens to you listens to me, he who rejects you rejects me, and he who rejects me rejects him who sent me."
he dropped to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?"
By sinning against the brotherhood in this way and wounding their weaker consciences, you are sinning against Christ.
rescuing us from the power of the Darkness and transferring us to the realm of his beloved Son!
Here is my servant whom I have selected, my Beloved in whom my soul delights; I will invest him with my Spirit, and he will proclaim religion to the Gentiles.
He was still speaking when a bright cloud overshadowed them, and from the cloud a voice said, "This is my Son, the Beloved, in him is my delight: listen to him."
then said a voice from heaven, 'Thou art my Son, the Beloved, in thee is my delight.'
redounding to the praise of his glorious grace bestowed on us in the Beloved,
Similarly Christ was not raised to the glory of the high priesthood by himself but by Him who declared to him, Thou art my son, to-day have I become thy father.
rescuing us from the power of the Darkness and transferring us to the realm of his beloved Son!
Here is my servant whom I have selected, my Beloved in whom my soul delights; I will invest him with my Spirit, and he will proclaim religion to the Gentiles.
He was still speaking when a bright cloud overshadowed them, and from the cloud a voice said, "This is my Son, the Beloved, in him is my delight: listen to him."
then said a voice from heaven, 'Thou art my Son, the Beloved, in thee is my delight.'
redounding to the praise of his glorious grace bestowed on us in the Beloved,
Similarly Christ was not raised to the glory of the high priesthood by himself but by Him who declared to him, Thou art my son, to-day have I become thy father.
Then I saw heaven open wide ??and there was a white horse: his rider is faithful and true, yea, just are his judgments and his warfare.
And further, when introducing the Firstborn into the world, he says, 'Let all God's angels worship him.'
and the men in the boat worshipped him, saying, "You are certainly God's Son."
And Jesus himself met them, saying, "Hail!" So they went up to him and caught hold of his feet and worshipped him;
on reaching the house they saw the child with his mother Mary, they fell down to worship him, and opening their caskets they offered him gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh.
They [worshipped him and] returned with great joy to Jerusalem,
And when it took the scroll, the four living Creatures and the four and twenty Presbyters fell down before the Lamb, each with his harp and with golden bowls full of incense (that is, full of the prayers of the saints),
No one who disowns the Son can possess the Father: he who confesses the Son possesses the Father as well.
I tell you, whoever acknowledges me before men, the Son of man will acknowledge him before the angels of God;
Confess with your mouth that 'Jesus is Lord,' believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, and you will be saved;
Everyone who will acknowledge me before men, I will acknowledge him before my Father in heaven;
and every tongue confess that 'Jesus Christ is Lord,' to the glory of God the Father.
Whoever confesses that 'Jesus is the Son of God,' in him God remains, and he remains in God;
to Jesus who mediates the new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood whose message is nobler than Abel's.
For "there is one God" and "one intermediary between God and men,
As it is, however, the divine service he has obtained is superior, owing to the fact that he mediates a superior covenant, enacted with superior promises.
He mediates a new covenant for this reason, that those who have been called may obtain the eternal inheritance they have been promised, now that a death has occurred which redeems them from the transgressions involved in the first covenant.
For Christ has not entered a holy place which human hands have made (a mere type of the reality!); he has entered heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.
My dear children, I am writing this to you that you may not sin; but if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father in Jesus Christ the just;
Also, he is the head of the Body, that is, of the church, in virtue of his primacy as the first to be born from the dead ??that gives him pre-eminence over all.
we are to hold by the truth, and by our love to grow up wholly into Him. For He, Christ, is the head, and under him,
for the husband is the head of the wife as Christ also (though he is the saviour of the Body) is the head of the church;
instead of keeping in touch with that Head under whom the entire Body, supplied with joints and sinews and thus compacted, grows with growth divine.
Do you not know your bodies are members of Christ? Am I to take Christ's members and devote them to a harlot? Never!
for we are members of his Body).
It is the same in your case, my brothers. The crucified body of Christ made you dead to the Law, so that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead that we might be fruitful to God.
for I feel a divine jealousy on your behalf; I betrothed you as a chaste maiden to present you to your one husband Christ,
Let that remain in you which you learned from the very beginning; if what you learned from the very beginning remains with you, then you will remain in the Son and in the Father.
But after this the Son of man will be seated at God's right hand of power." "Are you the Son of God then?" they all said. "Certainly," he replied, "I am."
I and my Father are one ??."
If I am not doing the deeds of my Father, do not believe me; but if I am, then believe the deeds, though you will not believe me ??that you may learn and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father."
and he who beholds me beholds him who sent me.
If you knew me, you would know my Father too. You know him now and you have seen him." "Lord," said Philip, "let us see the Father; that is all we want." Jesus said to him, "Philip, have I been with you all this time, and yet you do not understand me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. What do you mean by saying, 'Let us see the Father'?
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Do you not believe I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I speak to you all I do not speak of my own accord; it is the Father who remains ever in me, who is performing his own deeds.
All that the Father has is mine; that is why I say, 'he will draw upon what is mine and disclose it to you.'
It is in Christ that the entire Fulness of deity has settled bodily,
For we have all been receiving grace after grace from his fulness;
the church which is his Body, filled by him who fills the universe entirely.
till we should all attain the unity of the faith and knowledge of God's Son, reaching maturity, reaching the full measure of development which belongs to the fulness of Christ ??14 instead of remaining immature, blown from our course and swayed by every passing wind of doctrine, by the adroitness of men who are dexterous in devising error;
For it was in him that the divine Fulness willed to settle without limit,
the apostles gave their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus with great power, and great grace was upon them all.
As for what he did in the land of the Jews and of Jerusalem, we can testify to that. They slew him by hanging him on a gibbet, but God raised him on the third day, and allowed him to be seen not by all the People but by witnesses whom God had previously selected, by us who ate and drank with him after his resurrection from the dead,
and installed as Son of God with power by the Spirit of holiness when he was raised from the dead ??concerning Jesus Christ our Lord,
this Jesus, betrayed in the predestined course of God's deliberate purpose, you got wicked men to nail to the cross and murder; but God raised him by checking the pangs of death. Death could not hold him.
but you repudiated the Holy and Just One; the boon you asked was a murderer, and you killed the pioneer of Life. But God raised him from the dead, as we can bear witness.
and Paul as usual went in; for three sabbaths he argued with them on the scriptures, explaining and quoting passages to prove that the messiah had to suffer and rise from the dead, and that "the Jesus I proclaim to you is the messiah."
then poured water into a basin, and began to wash the feet of the disciples, wiping them with the towel he had tied round him.
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find your souls refreshed;
(You know how gracious our Lord Jesus Christ was; rich though he was, he became poor for the sake of you, that by his poverty you might be rich.)
and appearing in human form, he humbly stooped in his obedience even to die, and to die upon the cross.
through him all existence came into being, no existence came into being apart from him.
and enlighten all men upon the new order of that divine secret which God the Creator of all concealed from eternity ??10 intending to let the full sweep of the divine wisdom be disclosed now by the church to the angelic Rulers and Authorities in the heavenly sphere,
Many were the forms and fashions in which God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets, but in these days at the end he has spoken to us by a Son ??a Son whom he appointed heir of the universe, as it was by him that he created the world.
He said, "Go into the city to so-and-so; tell him that the Teacher says, 'My time is near, I will celebrate the passover at your house with my disciples.' "
Then he went to the disciples and said to them, "Still asleep? still resting? The hour is near, the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
So they tried to arrest him; but no one laid hands on him, because his time had not come yet.
And Jesus answered, "The hour has come for the Son of man to be glorified.
Now before the passover festival Jesus knew the time had come for him to pass from this world to the Father. He had loved his own in this world and he loved them to the end;
So Jesus spoke; then, lifting his eyes to heaven, he said: "Father, the time has now come; glorify thy Son that thy Son may glorify thee,
[vs omitted but shown in footnote] But the Pharisees said, "He casts out daemons by the prince of daemons."
But when the Pharisees heard of it they said, "This fellow only casts out daemons by Beelzebul the prince of daemons."
but some of them said, "It is by Beelzebul the prince of daemons that he casts out daemons."
And many another insult they uttered against him.
(This was because they said, "He has an unclean spirit.")
Is it not they who scoff at the noble Name you bear?
but for those who are called, whether Jews or Greeks, a Christ who is the power of God and the wisdom of God.
And the child grew and became strong; he was filled with wisdom, and the favour of God was on him.
and went to his native place, where he taught the people in the synagogue till they were astounded. They said, "Where did he get this wisdom and these miraculous powers?
in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge lie hidden!
Now on the last day, the great day, of the festival, Jesus stood and cried aloud, "If anyone is athirst, let him come to me and drink;
and about three o'clock Jesus gave a loud cry, "Eli, eli, lema sabachthani" (that is, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?)
some other seed fell on sound soil, and springing up bore a crop, a hundredfold." When he said this he called out, "He who has an ear, let him listen to this."
So Jesus cried aloud, as he was teaching in the temple, "You know me? you know where I come from? But I have not come on my own initiative; I am sent, and sent by Him who is real. You do not know Him,
And Jesus cried aloud, "He who believes in me believes not in me but in him who sent me,
Jesus again uttered a loud scream and gave up his spirit.
He was still speaking when a bright cloud overshadowed them, and from the cloud a voice said, "This is my Son, the Beloved, in him is my delight: listen to him."
And a voice from heaven said, "This is my Son, the Beloved, in him is my delight."
I have Another to bear testimony to me, and I know the evidence he bears for me is valid.
The Father who sent me has also borne testimony to me himself; but his voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen,
I testify to myself, and the Father who sent me also testifies to me."
If we accept human testimony, God's testimony is greater; for God's testimony consists in his testimony to his Son.
the Son of man has come eating and drinking, and men say, 'Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of taxgatherers and sinners!' Nevertheless, Wisdom is vindicated by all that she does."
[vs omitted but shown in footnote] But the Pharisees said, "He casts out daemons by the prince of daemons."
They proceeded to accuse him, saying, "We have discovered this fellow perverting our nation, forbidding tribute being paid to Caesar, and alleging he is king messiah."
They also brought forward false witnesses to say, "This fellow is never done talking against this holy Place and the Law!
Some others sneered, "They are brim-full of new wine!"
The fact is, we have found this man is a perfect pest; he stirs up sedition among the Jews all over the world and he is a ringleader of the Nazarene sect.
I tell you, One is here who is greater than the temple.
The queen of the South will rise at the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them; for she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon, and here is One greater than Solomon.
Therefore God raised him high and conferred on him a Name above all names, so that before the Name of Jesus every knee should bend in heaven, on earth, and underneath the earth,
As we are justified by faith, then, let us enjoy the peace we have with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
You know the message he sent to the sons of Israel when he preached the gospel of peace by Jesus Christ (who is Lord of all);
For he is our peace, he who has made both of us a unity and destroyed the barrier which kept us apart;
and by him it willed to reconcile in his own person all on earth and in heaven alike, in a peace made by the blood of his cross.
And I saw the holy City, the new Jerusalem, descending from God out of heaven, all ready like a bride arrayed for her husband.
Jesus said to them, "Can friends at a wedding mourn so long as the bride groom is beside them? A time will come when the bridegroom is taken from them, and then they will fast.
Then shall the Realm of heaven be compared to ten maidens who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom and the bride.
But at midnight the cry arose, 'Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!'
He who has the bride is the bridegroom; the bridegroom's friend, who stands by and listens to him, is heartily glad at the sound of the bridegroom's voice. Such is my joy, and it is complete.
"Why did you look for me?" he said, "Did you not know I had to be at my Father's house?"
(His disciples recalled the scripture saying, I am consumed with zeal for thy house.)
Jesus said, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.
While daylight lasts, we must be busy with the work of God: night comes, when no one can do any work.
For thus it stands in the scripture: Here I lay a Stone in Sion, a choice, a precious cornerstone: he who believes in him will never be disappointed.
Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the scriptures, The stone that the builders rejected is the chief stone now of the corner: this is the doing of the Lord, and a wonder to our eyes?
He is the stone despised by you builders, which has become head of the corner.
you are a building that rests on the apostles and prophets as its foundation, with Christ Jesus as the cornerstone;
and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the first-born from the dead, and the prince over the kings of earth; to him who loves us and has loosed us from our sins by shedding his blood ??6 he has made us a realm of priests for his God and Father, ??to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever: Amen.
They will wage war on the Lamb, but the Lamb will conquer them because he is Lord of lords and King of kings ??the Lamb and the elect, the chosen, the faithful who are with him."
And on his robe, upon his thigh, his name is written, KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.
and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the first-born from the dead, and the prince over the kings of earth; to him who loves us and has loosed us from our sins by shedding his blood ??6 he has made us a realm of priests for his God and Father, ??to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever: Amen.
They will wage war on the Lamb, but the Lamb will conquer them because he is Lord of lords and King of kings ??the Lamb and the elect, the chosen, the faithful who are with him."
And on his robe, upon his thigh, his name is written, KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.
If the world hates you, remember it hated me first.
This filled them with fury, and they discussed what they could do to Jesus.
Now his people hated him and sent envoys after him to say, 'We object to him having royal power over us.'
the world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that its deeds are evil.
It is that the word written in their Law may be fulfilled: they hated me for no cause.
Now when the high priests and their attendants saw him, they yelled, "Crucify him, crucify him!" Pilate said, "Take him and crucify him yourselves! I find nothing wrong about him."
and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the first-born from the dead, and the prince over the kings of earth; to him who loves us and has loosed us from our sins by shedding his blood ??6 he has made us a realm of priests for his God and Father, ??to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever: Amen.
They will wage war on the Lamb, but the Lamb will conquer them because he is Lord of lords and King of kings ??the Lamb and the elect, the chosen, the faithful who are with him."
And on his robe, upon his thigh, his name is written, KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.
Then Herod and his troops scoffed at him and made fun of him, and after arraying him in a bright robe he remitted him to Pilate.
And this was why the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did things like this on the sabbath.
they rose up, put him out of the town, and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, in order to hurl him down.
After this Jesus moved about in Galilee; he would not move in Judaea, because the Jews were trying to kill him.
I know you are Abraham's offspring! Yet you want to kill me, since my word makes no headway among you!
Once more they tried to arrest him, but he escaped their hands
As he passed along he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax-office; he said to him, "Follow me," and he rose and followed him.
so Jesus said to them, "Come, follow me and I will make you fish for men."
he called them at once, and they left their father Zebedaeus in the boat with the crew and went to follow him.
and when day broke he summoned his disciples, choosing twelve of them, to whom he gave the name of 'apostles':
Next day Jesus determined to leave for Galilee; there he met Philip and told him, "Follow me."
But he said to me, 'Go; I will send you afar to the Gentiles ????'"
Is this not the son of the joiner? Is not his mother called Mary, and his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas?
Those who passed by scoffed at him, nodding at him in derision and calling, "Ha! You were to destroy the temple and build it in three days! Come down from the cross and save yourself!"
Now the Pharisees who were fond of money heard all this, and they sneered at him.
A number of them said, "He is mad. Why listen to him?"
Then Herod and his troops scoffed at him and made fun of him, and after arraying him in a bright robe he remitted him to Pilate.
Meantime the men who had Jesus in custody flogged him and made fun of him;
plaited a crown of thorns and set it on his head, put a stick in his hand, and knelt before him in mockery, crying, "Hail, king of the Jews!"
So, too, the high priests made fun of him with the scribes and the elders of the people.
The soldiers made fun of him too by coming up and handing him vinegar,
We work together in God's service; you are God's field to be planted, God's house to be built.
while they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word by the miracles that endorsed it. (b) But they gave Peter and his companions a brief account of all these injunctions. And, after that, Jesus himself sent out by means of them from east to west the sacred and imperishable message of eternal salvation.
I appeal to you too, as a worker with God, do not receive the grace of God in vain.
Simon replied, "Master, we worked all night and got nothing! However, I will lower the nets at your command."
they went and woke him up. "Master, master," they cried, "we are drowning!" So he woke up and checked the wind and the surf; they ceased and there was a calm.
Jesus said, "Who touched me?" As everyone denied it, Peter and his companions said, "Master, the crowds are all round you pressing hard!"
When they were parting from him, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is a good thing we are here; let us put up three tents, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah" (not knowing what he was saying).
John said to him, "Master, we saw a man casting out daemons in your name, but we stopped him because he is not a follower of ours."
and lifted up their voice, saying, "Jesus, master, have pity on us."
So he replied, "He who sows the good seed is the Son of man;
so, whenever you see all this happen, you may be sure He is at hand, at the very door.
he never spoke to them except by way of parable, but in private he explained everything to his own disciples.
This is what the parable means. The seed is the word of God.
Then he began with Moses and all the prophets and interpreted to them the passages referring to himself throughout the scriptures.
Jesus said, "Who touched me?" As everyone denied it, Peter and his companions said, "Master, the crowds are all round you pressing hard!"
and a large number at once gathered, till there was no more room for them, not even at the door. He was speaking the word to them,
for he healed so many that all who had complaints were pressing on him to get a touch of him.
So Jesus went away with him. Now a large crowd followed him; they pressed round him.
Now as the crowd were pressing on him to listen to the word of God, he saw, as he stood beside the lake of Gennesaret,
His mother and brothers reached him but they were unable to join him for the crowd.
& 13] Lo, I am coming very soon, with my reward, to requite everyone for what he has done."
and thus we have gained fresh confirmation of the prophetic word. Pray attend to that word; it shines like a lamp within a darksome spot, till the Day dawns and the daystar rises within your hearts ??20 understanding this, at the outset, that no prophetic scripture allows a man to interpret it by himself;
also I will grant him to see the Morning-star.'
If you keep my commands you will remain within my love, just as I have kept my Father's commands and remain within his love.
his coming will only serve to let the world see that I love the Father and that I am acting as the Father ordered. Rise, let us be going."
Just as one man's disobedience made all the rest sinners, so one man's obedience will make all the rest righteous.
Thus, Son though he was, he learned by all he suffered how to obey,
he then adds, Here I come to do thy will. He does away with the first in order to establish the second.
& 13] Lo, I am coming very soon, with my reward, to requite everyone for what he has done."
and thus we have gained fresh confirmation of the prophetic word. Pray attend to that word; it shines like a lamp within a darksome spot, till the Day dawns and the daystar rises within your hearts ??20 understanding this, at the outset, that no prophetic scripture allows a man to interpret it by himself;
also I will grant him to see the Morning-star.'
Then he said, "All is over! I am the alpha and the omega, the First and the Last. I will let the thirsty drink of the fountain of the water of Life without price.
'And the conqueror, he who till the end lays to heart what I enjoin, I will give him authority over the nations ??27 aye, he will shepherd them with an iron flail, shattering them like a potter's jars ??as I myself have received authority from my Father;
also I will grant him to see the Morning-star.'
Peace I leave to you, my peace I give to you; I give it not as the world gives its 'Peace!' Let not your hearts be disquieted or timid.
It is of what existed from the very beginning, of what we heard, of what we saw, of what we witnessed and touched with our own hands, it is of the Logos of Life
THE Logos existed in the very beginning, the Logos was with God, the Logos was divine.
So the Logos became flesh and tarried among us; we have seen his glory ??glory such as an only son enjoys from his father ??seen it to be full of grace and reality.
The Spirit is the witness to this, for the Spirit is truth.
He is clad in a robe dipped in blood (his name is called THE LOGOS OF GOD),
In bringing many sons to glory, it was befitting that He for whom and by whom the universe exists, should perfect the Pioneer of their salvation by suffering.
So the Logos became flesh and tarried among us; we have seen his glory ??glory such as an only son enjoys from his father ??seen it to be full of grace and reality.
Again Pilate went out and said to them, "Look, I am bringing him out to you. Understand, I cannot find anything wrong about him."
and by being thus perfected he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him,
For the Law appoints human beings in their weakness to the priesthood; but the word of the Oath appoints a Son who is made perfect for ever.
Then Jesus was led into the desert by the Spirit to be tempted by the devil.
It is as he suffered by his temptations that he is able to help the tempted.
and for forty days he was led by the Spirit in the desert, while the devil tempted him. During these days he ate nothing, and when they were over he felt hungry.
It is you who have stood by me through my trials;
for ours is no high priest who is incapable of sympathizing with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in every respect like ourselves, yet without sinning.
He taught in their synagogues and was glorified by all.
Many also spread their clothes on the road, while others strewed leaves cut from the fields;
So they brought it to Jesus, and throwing their clothes on the colt they mounted Jesus upon it.
and taking palm-branches they went out to meet him, shouting, "Hosanna! Blessed be he who comes in the Lord's name, the king of Israel!"
And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth crying, "Blessing and honour and glory and dominion for ever and ever, to him who is seated on the throne and to the Lamb!"
For "there is one God" and "one intermediary between God and men,
The birth-roll of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
and appearing in human form, he humbly stooped in his obedience even to die, and to die upon the cross.
but when the time had fully expired, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the Law,
I am to be in the world no longer, but they are to be in the world; I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them by the power of thy Name which thou hast given me, that they may be one as we are one.
but if I am, then believe the deeds, though you will not believe me ??that you may learn and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father."
Do you not believe I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I speak to you all I do not speak of my own accord; it is the Father who remains ever in me, who is performing his own deeds.
I and my Father are one ??."
Yea, I have given them the glory thou gavest me, that they may be one as we are one ??23 I in them and thou in me ??that they may be made perfectly one, so that the world may recognize that thou hast sent me and hast loved them as thou hast loved me.
For "there is one God" and "one intermediary between God and men,
The birth-roll of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
and appearing in human form, he humbly stooped in his obedience even to die, and to die upon the cross.
but when the time had fully expired, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the Law,
They shrieked, "Son of God, what business have you with us? Have you come here to torture us before it is time?"
"Jesus of Nazaret, what business have you with us? Have you come to destroy us? We know who you are, you are God's holy One."
And whenever the unclean spirits saw him they fell down before him, screaming, "You are the Son of God!"
From many people daemons were also driven out, clamouring aloud, "You are God's son!" But he checked them and refused to let them say anything, as they knew he was the Christ.
But the evil spirit retorted, "Jesus I know and Paul I know, but you ??who are you?"
For on behalf of Christ you have the favour of suffering no less than of believing in him,
every day of my life I am being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may come out within my mortal flesh.
It makes me satisfied, for Christ's sake, with weakness, insults, trouble, persecution, and calamity; for I am strong just when I am weak.
They shrieked, "Son of God, what business have you with us? Have you come here to torture us before it is time?"
"Jesus of Nazaret, what business have you with us? Have you come to destroy us? We know who you are, you are God's holy One."
And whenever the unclean spirits saw him they fell down before him, screaming, "You are the Son of God!"
From many people daemons were also driven out, clamouring aloud, "You are God's son!" But he checked them and refused to let them say anything, as they knew he was the Christ.
But the evil spirit retorted, "Jesus I know and Paul I know, but you ??who are you?"
Then I looked, and there was a white cloud, and seated on the cloud One resembling a human being, a golden crown upon his head and a sharp sickle in his hand.
and in the middle of the lampstands One who resembled a human being, with a long robe, and a belt of gold round his breast; his head and hair were white as wool, white as snow; his eyes flashed like fire, his feet glowed like burnished bronze, his voice sounded like many waves,
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in his right hand he held seven stars, a sharp sword with a double edge issued from his mouth, and his face shone like the sun in full strength.
Then I saw heaven open wide ??and there was a white horse: his rider is faithful and true, yea, just are his judgments and his warfare. His eyes are a flame of fire, on his head are many diadems, he bears a written name which none knows but himself.
On those who have accepted him, however, he has conferred the right of being children of God, that is, on those who believe in his Name,
"Whoever receives one of these little ones in my name receives me, and whoever receives me receives not me but him who sent me."
He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives Him who sent me.
On his return Jesus was welcomed by the crowd; they were all looking out for him.
He came down at once and welcomed him gladly.
After that, as Jesus knew that everything was now finished and fulfilled, he said (to fulfil the scripture), "I am thirsty."
Now before the passover festival Jesus knew the time had come for him to pass from this world to the Father. He had loved his own in this world and he loved them to the end;
And yet there are some of you who do not believe" (for Jesus knew from the very first who the unbelieving were, and who was to betray him;
(he knew the traitor; that was why he said, "You are not all clean").
Then Jesus, who knew everything that was to happen to him, came forward and asked them, "Who are you looking for?"
After that, as Jesus knew that everything was now finished and fulfilled, he said (to fulfil the scripture), "I am thirsty."
Now before the passover festival Jesus knew the time had come for him to pass from this world to the Father. He had loved his own in this world and he loved them to the end;
And yet there are some of you who do not believe" (for Jesus knew from the very first who the unbelieving were, and who was to betray him;
(he knew the traitor; that was why he said, "You are not all clean").
Then Jesus, who knew everything that was to happen to him, came forward and asked them, "Who are you looking for?"
You think I am here to make peace on earth? No, I tell you, it is dissension.
And the crowd disputed about him hotly; some said, "He is a good man," but others said, "No, he is misleading the people."
So the people were divided over him;
Then said some of the Pharisees, "This man is not from God, for he does not keep the sabbath"; others said, "How can a sinner perform such Signs?" They were divided on this.
The Jews were again divided over these words.
But I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself."
When he came down from the hill, he was followed by large crowds.
On catching sight of Jesus from afar he ran and knelt before him,
Now when Jesus had crossed in the boat to the other side again, a large crowd gathered round him; so he remained beside the sea.
Next day, when they came down the hill, a large crowd met him.
You think I am here to make peace on earth? No, I tell you, it is dissension.
And the crowd disputed about him hotly; some said, "He is a good man," but others said, "No, he is misleading the people."
So the people were divided over him;
Then said some of the Pharisees, "This man is not from God, for he does not keep the sabbath"; others said, "How can a sinner perform such Signs?" They were divided on this.
The Jews were again divided over these words.
Now some Pharisees came up and asked him if a man was allowed to divorce his wife. This was to tempt him.
(They said this to test him, in order to get a charge against him.) Jesus stooped down, and began to write with his finger on the ground;
Now a jurist got up to tempt him. "Teacher," he said, "what am I to do to inherit life eternal?"
Others by way of tempting him demanded he should give them a Sign from heaven.
But he noted their knavery and said to them,
Now a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years came up behind him and touched the tassel of his robe; what she said to herself was this, "If I can only touch his robe, I will recover." Then Jesus turned round, and when he saw her he said, "Courage, my daughter, your faith has made you well." And the woman was well from that hour.
for he healed so many that all who had complaints were pressing on him to get a touch of him.
On crossing over they came to land at Gennesaret. The men of that place recognized him and sent all over the surrounding country, bringing him all who were ill and begging him to let them touch the mere tassel of his robe ??and all who touched it got perfectly well.
Indeed the whole of the crowd made efforts to touch him, for power issued from him and cured everybody.
After that, as Jesus knew that everything was now finished and fulfilled, he said (to fulfil the scripture), "I am thirsty."
Now before the passover festival Jesus knew the time had come for him to pass from this world to the Father. He had loved his own in this world and he loved them to the end;
And yet there are some of you who do not believe" (for Jesus knew from the very first who the unbelieving were, and who was to betray him;
(he knew the traitor; that was why he said, "You are not all clean").
Then Jesus, who knew everything that was to happen to him, came forward and asked them, "Who are you looking for?"
just as the Son of man has not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."
Which is the greatest, guest or servant? Is it not the guest? But I am among you as a servant.
he rose from table, laid aside his robe, and tied a towel round him, then poured water into a basin, and began to wash the feet of the disciples, wiping them with the towel he had tied round him.
but emptied himself by taking the nature of a servant; born in human guise
they came to Philip of Bethsaida in Galilee and appealed to him, saying, "Sir, we want to see Jesus."
and discovered him; they told him, "Everybody is looking for you,"
When day broke he went away out to a lonely spot, but the crowds made inquiries about him, came to where he was, and tried to keep him from leaving them.
who tried to see what Jesus was like; but he could not, on account of the crowd ??for he was small of stature.
and as the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they embarked in the boats themselves and made for Capharnahum in search of Jesus.
so Christ, after being once sacrificed to bear the sins of many, will appear again, not to deal with sin but for the saving of those who look out for him.
he bore our sins in his own body on the gibbet, that we might break with sin and live for righteousness; and by his wounds you have been healed.
and you know he appeared to take [our] sins away. In him there is no sin;
for he taught them like an authority, not like their own scribes.
Then Jesus came forward to them and said, "Full authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth;
Then they were all so amazed that they discussed it together, saying, "Whatever is this?" "It's new teaching with authority behind it!" "He orders even unclean spirits!" "Yes, and they obey him!"
and also granted him authority to act as judge, since he is Son of man.
for he taught them like an authority, not like their own scribes.
Then Jesus came forward to them and said, "Full authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth;
Then they were all so amazed that they discussed it together, saying, "Whatever is this?" "It's new teaching with authority behind it!" "He orders even unclean spirits!" "Yes, and they obey him!"
and also granted him authority to act as judge, since he is Son of man.
and be found at death in him, possessing no legal righteousness of my own but the righteousness of faith in Christ, the divine righteousness that rests on faith.
This is the God to whom you owe your being in Christ Jesus, whom God has made our 'Wisdom,' that is, our righteousness and consecration and redemption;
Now Christ is an end to law, so as to let every believer have righteousness.
As one of his disciples was reclining on his breast ??he was the favourite of Jesus ??24 Peter nodded to him, saying, "Tell us who he means."
[Relocated to follow vs 2] Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus;
Jesus burst into tears. Whereupon the Jews said, "See how he loved him!" ??37 though some of them asked, "Could he not have prevented him from dying, when he could open a blind man's eyes?"
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As one of his disciples was reclining on his breast ??he was the favourite of Jesus ??24 Peter nodded to him, saying, "Tell us who he means."
[Relocated to follow vs 2] Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus;
Jesus burst into tears. Whereupon the Jews said, "See how he loved him!" ??37 though some of them asked, "Could he not have prevented him from dying, when he could open a blind man's eyes?"
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Treat one another with the same spirit as you experience in Christ Jesus.
For who ever understood the thoughts of the Lord, so as to give him instruction? No one. Well, our thoughts are Christ's thoughts.
Well, as Christ has suffered for us in the flesh, let this very conviction that he who has suffered in the flesh gets quit of sin,
At that time Jesus spoke and said, "I praise thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for hiding all this from the wise and learned and revealing it to the simpleminded;
Now when all the people had been baptized and when Jesus had been baptized and was praying, heaven opened
So Jesus spoke; then, lifting his eyes to heaven, he said: "Father, the time has now come; glorify thy Son that thy Son may glorify thee,
Then they removed the boulder, and Jesus, lifting his eyes to heaven, said, "Father, I thank thee for listening to me.
That voice borne from heaven we heard, we who were beside him on the sacred hill,
in their presence he was transfigured, his face shone like the sun, and his clothes turned white as light.
Six days afterwards Jesus took Peter, James and John, and led them up a high hill by themselves alone; in their presence he was transfigured,
While he was praying the appearance of his face altered and his dress turned dazzling white.
After his sufferings he had shown them that he was alive by a number of proofs, revealing himself to them for forty days and discussing the affairs of God's Realm.
So off they went and made the tomb secure by putting a seal on the boulder and setting the guard.
So saying he showed them his hands and his side; and when the disciples saw the Lord, they rejoiced.
Look at my hands and feet. It is I! Feel me and see; a ghost has not flesh and bones as you see I have."
Anyone who is 'advanced' and will not remain by the doctrine of Christ, does not possess God: he who remains by the doctrine of Christ possesses both the Father and the Son.
When Jesus finished his speech, the crowds were astounded at his teaching;
He gave them many lessons in parables, and said to them in the course of his teaching:
Jesus told them in reply, "My teaching is not my own but his who sent me;
On entering the city they went to the upper room where they were in the habit of meeting; there were Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James (the son of Alphaeus) and Simon who had been a Zealot, with Judas the son of James.
These are the names of the twelve apostles: first Simon (who is called Peter) and Andrew his brother, James the son of Zebedaeus and John his brother,
Simon (to whom he gave the name of Peter), Andrew his brother, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew,
there was Simon, whom he surnamed Peter,
When evening fell, the disciples came up to him and said, "It is a desert place and the day is now gone; send off the crowds to buy food for themselves in the villages."
and he took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven he blessed them, broke the loaves in pieces which he handed to the disciples to set before them, and divided the two fish among them all.
Now as the day began to decline the twelve came up to him and said, "Send the crowd off to lodge in the villages and farms around and get provisions there, for here we are in a desert place."
On looking up and seeing a large crowd approaching, he said to Philip, "Where are we to buy bread for all these people to eat?"
Jesus, however, would not trust himself to them; he knew all men,
Now we are sure you know everything, and need no one to put questions to you. This makes us believe you have come forth from God."
For the third time he asked him, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Now Peter was vexed at being asked a third time, "Do you love me?" So he replied; "Lord, you know everything, you can see I love you." Jesus said, "Then feed my sheep.
and they prayed, "O Lord, who readest the hearts of all, do thou single out from these two men him whom thou hast chosen
Leaving there, he went away to the territory of Tyre and Sidon. He went into a house and wished no one to know of it, but he could not escape notice;
He was praying there when Simon and his companions hunted him out
but the crowd gathered again, so that it was impossible even to have a meal.
However a number of people who saw them start and recognized them, got to the place before them by hurrying there on foot from all the towns.
As he saw the crowds he was moved with pity for them; they were harassed and dejected, like sheep without a shepherd.
So when he disembarked he saw a large crowd, and out of pity for them he healed their sick folk.
Then Jesus called his disciples and said, "I am sorry for the crowd; they have been three days with me now, and they have nothing to eat. I will not send them away starving, in case they faint on the road."
The point of all this is, we do have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of Majesty in the heavens,
But when Christ arrived as the high priest of the bliss that was to be, he passed through the greater and more perfect tent which no hands had made (no part, that is to say, of the present order),
and since we have a great Priest over the house of God,
the law of the Spirit brings the life which is in Christ Jesus, and that law has set me free from the law of sin and death.
with the freedom for which Christ set us free. Make a firm stand then, do not slip into any yoke of servitude.
He was casting out a dumb daemon, and when the daemon had gone out the dumb man spoke. The crowds marvelled,
(It is Christ Jesus as Lord, not myself, that I proclaim; I am simply a servant of yours for Jesus' sake.)
We, for Christ's sake, are 'fools'; you in Christ are sensible. We are weak, you are strong; you are honoured, we are in disrepute.
The maiden will conceive and bear a son, and his name will be called Immanuel (which may be translated, God is with us).
Those who passed by scoffed at him, nodding at him in derision
Let 'the Christ,' 'the king of Israel' come down now from the cross! Let us see that and we will believe!" Those who were crucified with him also denounced him.
One of the criminals who had been hung also abused him, saying, "Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us as well."
In the fourth watch of the night he went to them, walking on the sea,
but when they saw him walking on the sea they thought it was a ghost and shrieked aloud ??50 for they all saw him and were terrified. Then he spoke to them at once; "Courage," he said, "it is I, have no fear."
After rowing about three or four miles they saw Jesus walking on the sea and nearing the boat. They were terrified,
Next day, when they came down the hill, a large crowd met him.
When they reached the crowd, a man came up and knelt to him.
And it did come out, after shrieking aloud and convulsing him violently. The child turned like a corpse, so that most people said, "he is dead";
Then they were all so amazed that they discussed it together, saying, "Whatever is this?" "It's new teaching with authority behind it!" "He orders even unclean spirits!" "Yes, and they obey him!"
Men marvelled at this; they said, "What sort of man is this? the very winds and sea obey him!"
the Father loves the Son and has given him control over everything.
On entering the house of Peter, Jesus noticed his mother-in-law was down with fever,
and he went up to her and taking her hand made her rise; the fever left her at once and she ministered to them.
When he got up to leave the synagogue he went to the house of Simon. Simon's mother-in-law was laid up with a severe attack of fever, so they asked him about her;
As he said this, an official came in and knelt before him, saying, "My daughter is just dead; do come and lay your hand on her, and she will live."
The girl got up at once and began to walk (she was twelve years old); and at once they were lost in utter amazement.
A man called Jairus came, who was a president of the synagogue, and falling at the feet of Jesus entreated him to come to his house,
He said to them, "Why are you afraid? How little you trust God!" Then he got up and checked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.
they went and woke him up. "Master, master," they cried, "we are drowning!" So he woke up and checked the wind and the surf; they ceased and there was a calm.
And he woke up, checked the wind, and told the sea, "Peace, be quiet." The wind fell and there was a great calm.
Now a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years came up behind him and touched the tassel of his robe;
And there was a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years ??26 she had suffered a great deal under a number of doctors and had spent all her means but was none the better; in fact she was rather worse.
and a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years which no one could cure,
Jesus has been adjudged greater glory than Moses, inasmuch as the founder of a house enjoys greater honour than the house itself.
Father, it is my will that these, thy gift to me, may be beside me where I am, to behold my glory which thou hast given me, because thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
now, Father, glorify me in thy presence with the glory which I enjoyed in thy presence before the world began.
He is not here, he has risen, as he told you he would. See, here is the place where he [the Lord] lay.
but he said to them, "Do not be bewildered. You are looking for Jesus of Nazaret, who was crucified? He has risen, he is not here. That is the place where he was laid.
He is not here, he has risen. Remember how he told you when he was still in Galilee
Is this not the joiner, the son of Mary and the brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? Are not his sisters settled here among us?" So they were repelled by him.
When they heard this, all in the synagogue were filled with rage; they rose up, put him out of the town, and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, in order to hurl him down.
But he must first endure great suffering and be rejected by the present generation.
Now when all the people had been baptized and when Jesus had been baptized and was praying, heaven opened
Then Jesus came on the scene from Galilee, to get baptized by John at the Jordan.
Now it was in those days that Jesus arrived from Nazaret in Galilee and got baptized in the Jordan by John.
When he has brought all his sheep outside, he goes in front of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice;
My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them and they follow me;
I have other sheep, too, which do not belong to this fold; I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice; so it will be one flock, one shepherd.
When he reached the opposite side, the country of the Gadarenes, he was met by two demoniacs who ran out of the tombs; they were so violent that nobody could pass along the road there.
Then they reached the opposite side of the sea, the country of the Gerasenes.
They put in at the country of the Gergesenes, on the shore facing Galilee.
so he stretched his hand out and touched him, with the words, "I do choose, be cleansed." And his leprosy was cleansed at once.
so he stretched his hand out in pity and touched him saying, "I do choose, be cleansed."
So he stretched his hand out and touched him, with the words, "I do choose, be cleansed." And the leprosy at once left him.
Now a man with a withered hand was there; so in order to get a charge against him they asked him, "Is it right to heal on the sabbath?"
Again he entered the synagogue. Now a man was there whose hand was withered,
Another sabbath he happened to go into the synagogue and teach. Now a man was there who had his right hand withered,
but he told me, "It is enough for you to have my grace: it is in weakness that [my] power is fully felt." So I am proud to boast of all my weakness, and thus to have the power of Christ resting on my life.
But each one of us is granted his own grace, as determined by the full measure of Christ's gift.
Jesus said to him, "I am the real and living way: no one comes to the Father except by means of me.
"So you are a king?" said Pilate, "you!" "Certainly," said Jesus, "I am a king. This is why I was born, this is why I came into the world, to bear testimony to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice."
So the Logos became flesh and tarried among us; we have seen his glory ??glory such as an only son enjoys from his father ??seen it to be full of grace and reality.
There a paralytic was brought to him, lying on a pallet; and when Jesus saw the faith of the bearers he said to the paralytic, "Courage, my son! your sins are forgiven."
when a paralytic was brought to him; four men carried him,
Some men came up carrying a man who was paralysed; they tried to carry him inside and lay him in front of Jesus,
He who rejects me and will not receive my words has indeed a judge: the word I have spoken will judge him on the last day,
he came to what was his own, yet his own folk did not welcome him.
here am I, come in the name of my Father, and you will not accept me: let someone else come in his own name, and you will accept him!
So when he disembarked he saw a large crowd, and out of pity for them he healed their sick folk.
Then Jesus removed from that country and went along the sea of Galilee; he went up the hillside and sat there. And large crowds came to him bringing the lame, and the blind, the dumb, the maimed, and many others; they laid them at his feet, and he healed them. This made the crowd wonder, to see dumb people speaking, the lame walking, and the blind seeing.
Much more then, now that we are justified by his blood, shall we be saved by him from Wrath.
Now, my son, be strong in the grace of Christ Jesus,
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, Christ lives in me; the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.
and lead lives of love, just as Christ loved you and gave himself up for you to be a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
"Who are you?" he asked. "I am Jesus," he said, "and you persecute me.
and finally he was seen by myself, by this so-called 'abortion' of an apostle.
Then you will receive the unfading crown of glory, when the chief Shepherd makes his appearance.
for the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, guiding them to fountains of living water; and God will wipe every tear from their eyes."
Jesus said to them, "I tell you truly, in the new world, when the Son of man shall sit on the throne of his glory, you who have followed me shall also sit on twelve thrones to govern the twelve tribes of Israel.
Then the Sign of the Son of man will appear in heaven; then all tribes on earth will wail, they will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with great power and glory.
but Jesus came forward and touched them, saying, "Rise, have no fear."
Then Jesus in pity touched their eyes, and they regained their sight at once and followed him.
Then he went forward and touched the bier; the bearers stopped, and he said, "Young man, I bid you rise." Then the corpse sat up and began to speak; and Jesus gave him back to his mother.
So saying, he exclaimed with a loud cry, "Lazarus, come out!" Out came the dead man, his feet and hands swathed in bandages, and his face tied up with a towel. Jesus said, "Untie him, and let him move."
Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the scriptures, The stone that the builders rejected is the chief stone now of the corner: this is the doing of the Lord, and a wonder to our eyes?
Then all the town came out to meet Jesus, and when they saw him they begged him to move out of their district.
I reprove and discipline those whom I love; so be in warm earnest and repent.
Then said Jesus, "Let her alone, let her keep what she has for the day of my burial.
and has now revealed in the appearance of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who has put down death and brought life and immortality to light by the gospel.
(the Life has appeared; we saw it, we testify to it, we bring you word of that eternal Life which existed with the Father and was disclosed to us) ??3 it is of what we heard and saw that we bring you word, so that you may share our fellowship; and our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.
He who does not love me does not obey my word; and what you hear me say is not my word but the word of the Father who sent me.
Anyone who teaches novelties and refuses to fall in with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the doctrine that tallies with piety,
Holy brothers, you who participate in a heavenly calling, look at Jesus then, at the apostle and high priest of our confession;
He had to resemble his brothers in every respect, in order to prove a merciful and faithful high priest in things divine, to expiate the sins of the People.
Then they reached Jericho; and as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a considerable crowd, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, the blind beggar who sat beside the road,
As Jesus passed along from there, he was followed by two blind men who shrieked, "Son of David, have pity on us!"
and when two blind men who were sitting beside the road heard Jesus was passing, they shouted, "O Lord, Son of David, have pity on us!"
Then a blind and dumb demoniac was brought to him, and he healed him, so that the dumb man spoke and saw.
As they went out, a dumb man was brought to him, who was possessed by a daemon,
He was casting out a dumb daemon, and when the daemon had gone out the dumb man spoke. The crowds marvelled,
But, to Pilate's great astonishment, he would not answer him a single word.
Then the high priest brought many accusations against him,
a woman heard of him, whose daughter had an unclean spirit, and she came in and fell at his feet
And a woman of Canaan came out of these parts and wailed, "Have pity on me, Lord, O Son of David! My daughter is cruelly possessed by a daemon."
Then Jesus called his disciples and said, "I am sorry for the crowd; they have been three days with me now, and they have nothing to eat. I will not send them away starving, in case they faint on the road."
So the people ate and were satisfied, and they picked up seven baskets of fragments which were left over.
On the other hand, if Christ is within you, though the body is a dead thing owing to Adam's sin, the spirit is living as the result of righteousness.
and installed as Son of God with power by the Spirit of holiness when he was raised from the dead ??concerning Jesus Christ our Lord,
He, reflecting God's bright glory and stamped with God's own character, sustains the universe with his word of power; when he had secured our purification from sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high;
The fact is, we have found this man is a perfect pest; he stirs up sedition among the Jews all over the world and he is a ringleader of the Nazarene sect.
He went and settled in a town called Nazaret, so that what had been said by the prophets might be fulfilled: 'He shall be called a Nazarene.'
Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God!"
Now people brought children for him to touch them, and the disciples checked them;
Then he put his arms round them, laid his hands on them and blessed them.
For he must reign until all his foes are put under his feet. (Death is the last foe to be put down.)
because thou wilt not forsake my soul in the grave, nor let thy holy one suffer decay.
In the morning he met his brother Simon and told him, "We have found the messiah" (which may be translated, 'Christ').
He said to them, "O foolish men, with hearts so slow to believe, after all the prophets have declared!
Jesus answered, "O faithless and perverse generation, how long must I still be with you and bear with you? Fetch your son here."
And when the Lord saw her, he felt pity for her and said to her, "Do not weep."
Jesus burst into tears.
When he entered Capharnahum an army-captain came up to him and appealed to him,
Now there was an army-captain who had a servant ill whom he valued very highly. This man was at the point of death;
He is not here, he has risen. Remember how he told you when he was still in Galilee
No one takes it from me, I lay it down of my own accord: I have power to lay it down and also power to take it up again; I have my Father's orders for this.
"What is that?" he said to them. They replied, "All about Jesus of Nazaret! To God and all the people he was a prophet strong in action and utterance,
for Moses said, The Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brotherhood, as he raised me: you must listen to whatever he may tell you.
A number of them said, "He is mad. Why listen to him?"
The crowd replied, "You are mad. Who wants to kill you?"
So taking him aside from the crowd by himself, he put his fingers into the man's ears, touched his tongue with saliva,
Then his ears were [at once] opened and his tongue freed from its fetter ??he began to speak correctly.
he has raised up a strong saviour for us in the house of his servant David
for mine eyes have seen thy saving power
And after convulsing him the unclean spirit did come out of him with a loud cry.
But Jesus checked it, saying, "Be quiet, come out of him." And after throwing him down before them the daemon did come out of him without doing him any harm.
And the child grew and became strong; he was filled with wisdom, and the favour of God was on him.
while the Law was given through Moses, grace and reality are ours through Jesus Christ.
In him life lay, and this life was the Light for men:
for as the Father has life in himself, so too he has granted the Son to have life in himself,
Thus it is written, 'The first man, Adam, became an animate being, the last Adam a life-giving Spirit';
for I am controlled by the love of Christ, convinced that as One has died for all, then all have died,
The foundation is laid, namely Jesus Christ, and no one can lay any other.
after that, he was seen by over five hundred brothers all at once, the majority of whom survive to this day, though some have died;
after that, he was seen by James, then by all the apostles,
that he was buried, that he rose on the third day as the scriptures had said,
There is a new creation whenever a man comes to be in Christ; what is old is gone, the new has come.
The foundation is laid, namely Jesus Christ, and no one can lay any other.
Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel. And to preach it with no fine rhetoric, lest the cross of Christ should lose its power!
and all drank the same supernatural drink (drinking from the supernatural Rock which accompanied them ??and that Rock was Christ),
and that he was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve;
Faithful is the God who called you to this fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
May Christ dwell in your hearts as you have faith! May you be so fixed and founded in love that you can grasp with all the saints what is the meaning of 'the Breadth,' 'the Length,' 'the Depth' and 'the Height,' by knowing the love of Christ which surpasses all knowledge! May you be filled with the entire fulness of God!
(You know how gracious our Lord Jesus Christ was; rich though he was, he became poor for the sake of you, that by his poverty you might be rich.)
I render thanks to Christ Jesus our Lord, who has made me able for this; he considered me trustworthy and appointed me to the ministry, though I had formerly been a blasphemer and a persecutor and a wanton aggressor. I obtained mercy because in my unbelief I had acted out of ignorance;
there the god of this world has blinded the minds of unbelievers, to prevent them seeing the light thrown by the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the likeness of God.
& 13] Lo, I am coming very soon, with my reward, to requite everyone for what he has done."
& 13] Lo, I am coming very soon, with my reward, to requite everyone for what he has done."
So the high priest rose and said to him, "Have you no reply to make? What of this evidence against you?" Jesus said nothing. Then the high priest addressed him, "I adjure you by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God!"
For many ??as I have often told you and tell you now with tears ??many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.
When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man; but he laid his hand on me, saying, "Do not be afraid; I am the First and Last,
Then he touched their eyes and said, "As you believe, so your prayer is granted," and their eyes were opened. Jesus sternly charged them, "See, nobody is to know of this."
Lo, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and sup with him, and he with me.
Then to the angel of the church at Laodicea write thus: These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the origin of God's creation.
Then to the angel of the church at Laodicea write thus: These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the origin of God's creation.
Lo, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and sup with him, and he with me.
his feet glowed like burnished bronze, his voice sounded like many waves,
I was dead and here I am alive for evermore, holding the keys that unlock death and Hades.
As we have a great high priest, then, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession; for ours is no high priest who is incapable of sympathizing with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in every respect like ourselves, yet without sinning.
and be found at death in him, possessing no legal righteousness of my own but the righteousness of faith in Christ, the divine righteousness that rests on faith.
It is His will that they should understand the glorious wealth which this secret holds for the Gentiles, in the fact of Christ's presence among you as your hope of glory.
Lo, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and sup with him, and he with me.
indeed I count anything a loss, compared to the supreme value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have lost everything (I count it all the veriest refuse) in order to gain Christ
He cancelled the regulations that stood against us ??all these obligations he set aside when he nailed them to the cross,
crying aloud, "The slain Lamb deserves to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honour and glory and blessing."
When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man; but he laid his hand on me, saying, "Do not be afraid; I am the First and Last,
and by him it willed to reconcile in his own person all on earth and in heaven alike, in a peace made by the blood of his cross.
and all the dwellers on earth will be his worshippers, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of Life.
For I am certain neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future, no powers of the Height or of the Depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to part us from God's love in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Lo, I have set a door open before you which no one is able to shut; for though your strength is small, you have kept my word, you have not renounced my Name.
I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, Christ lives in me; the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.
so as himself to give the death-blow to that feud by reconciling them both to God in one Body through the cross;
To the King of eternity, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honour and glory for ever and ever: Amen.
and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the first-born from the dead, and the prince over the kings of earth; to him who loves us and has loosed us from our sins by shedding his blood ??6 he has made us a realm of priests for his God and Father, ??to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever: Amen.
and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the first-born from the dead, and the prince over the kings of earth; to him who loves us and has loosed us from our sins by shedding his blood ??6 he has made us a realm of priests for his God and Father, ??to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever: Amen.
and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the first-born from the dead, and the prince over the kings of earth; to him who loves us and has loosed us from our sins by shedding his blood ??6 he has made us a realm of priests for his God and Father, ??to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever: Amen.
But no boasting for me, none except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me and I crucified to the world.
"I am the alpha and the omega," saith the Lord God, who is and was and is coming, the almighty.
And large crowds came to him bringing the lame, and the blind, the dumb, the maimed, and many others; they laid them at his feet, and he healed them.
He withdrew about a stone's throw and knelt in prayer, saying, "Father, if it please thee, take this cup away from me. But thy will, not mine, be done."
For where two or three have gathered in my name, I am there among them."
I will give you the keys of the Realm of heaven; whatever you prohibit on earth will be prohibited in heaven, and whatever you permit on earth will be permitted in heaven."
Come to me, all who are labouring and burdened, and I will refresh you.
From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he had to leave for Jerusalem and endure great suffering at the hands of the elders and high priests and scribes, and be killed and raised on the third day.
But he took Peter and the two sons of Zebedaeus along with him; and when he began to feel distressed and agitated,
and teach them to obey all the commands I have laid on you. And I will be with you all the time, to the very end of the world."
When they saw him they worshipped him, though some were in doubt.
May the God of peace who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great Shepherd of the sheep, with the blood of the eternal covenant,
If you love me you will keep my commands, and I will ask the Father to give you another Helper to be with you for ever,
Then he went forward a little and fell on his face praying, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass me. Yet, not what I will but what thou wilt."
So Simon Peter replied, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
This is why my Father loves me, because I lay down my life to take it up again. No one takes it from me, I lay it down of my own accord: I have power to lay it down and also power to take it up again; I have my Father's orders for this.
At that Jesus replied, "O woman, you have great faith; your prayer is granted as you wish." And from that hour her daughter was cured.
At that Jesus replied, "O woman, you have great faith; your prayer is granted as you wish." And from that hour her daughter was cured.
and begging him to let them touch the mere tassel of his robe ??and all who touched it got perfectly well.
Everyone who has left brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands or houses for my name's sake will get a hundred times as much and inherit life eternal.
Then Jesus in pity touched their eyes, and they regained their sight at once and followed him.
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! slaying the prophets and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often I would fain have gathered your children as a fowl gathers her brood under her wings! But you would not have it!
He who has found his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.
and you will be hated by all men on account of my name; but he will be saved who holds out to the very end.
and noticing a fig tree by the roadside he went up to it, but found nothing on it except leaves. He said to it, "May no fruit ever come from you after this!" And instantly the fig tree withered up.
When they reached Capharnahum, the collectors of the temple-tax came and asked Peter, "Does your teacher not pay the temple-tax?"
Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find your souls refreshed;
and lead lives of love, just as Christ loved you and gave himself up for you to be a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
when he finds a single pearl of high price, he is off to sell all he possesses and buy it.
For the Son of man is coming in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will reward everyone for what he has done.
and the crowds replied, "This is the prophet Jesus from Nazaret in Galilee!"
Here is my servant whom I have selected, my Beloved in whom my soul delights; I will invest him with my Spirit, and he will proclaim religion to the Gentiles.
For "there is one God" and "one intermediary between God and men,
Then Jesus came forward to them and said, "Full authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth;
the Son of man has come eating and drinking, and men say, 'Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of taxgatherers and sinners!' Nevertheless, Wisdom is vindicated by all that she does."
Then the high priest tore his dress and cried, "He has blasphemed! What more evidence do we want? Look, you have heard his blasphemy for yourselves!
A president of the synagogue called Jairus came up, and on catching sight of him fell at his feet with earnest entreaties. "My little girl is dying," he said, "do come and lay your hands on her that she may recover and live,"
Now there was a woman in the town who was a sinner, and when she found out that Jesus was at table in the house of the Pharisee, she brought an alabaster flask of perfume and stood behind him at his feet in tears; her tears began to wet his feet, so she wiped them with the hair of her head, pressed kisses on them, and anointed them with the perfume.
so he touched her hand; the fever left her and she rose and ministered to him.
But the news of him spread abroad more and more; large crowds gathered to hear him and to be healed of their complaints, while he kept in lonely places and prayed.
and after saying goodbye to them he went up the hill to pray. Now when evening came the boat was [far out] in the middle of the sea, and he was on the land alone;
Hence for all time he is able to save those who approach God through him, as he is always living to intercede on their behalf.
So Jesus said to the twelve, "You do not want to go, too?" Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, who are we to go to? You have got words of eternal life,
Indeed the Son of man must be lifted on high, just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.
And Jesus himself met them, saying, "Hail!" So they went up to him and caught hold of his feet and worshipped him;
You were astray like sheep, but you have come back now to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls.
Do not wonder at this; for there is a time coming when all who are in the tombs will listen to his voice and come out, the doers of good to be raised to life, ill-doers to be raised for the sentence of judgment.
so Christ, after being once sacrificed to bear the sins of many, will appear again, not to deal with sin but for the saving of those who look out for him.
When Jesus heard that, he marvelled; "I tell you truly," he said to his followers, "I have never met faith like this anywhere in Israel.
When he went indoors the blind men came up to him, and Jesus asked them, "Do you believe I can do this?" They said, "Yes, sir."
As he said this, an official came in and knelt before him, saying, "My daughter is just dead; do come and lay your hand on her, and she will live."
Blessed are you when men denounce you and persecute you and utter all manner of evil against you for my sake;
There Jesus entered for us in advance, when he became high priest for ever with the rank of Melchizedek.
Such was the high priest for us, saintly, innocent, unstained, lifted high above the heavens, far from all contact with the sinful,
who is at God's right hand ??for he went to heaven after angels, authorities, and powers celestial had been made subject to him.)
Now there was a man ill, Lazarus of Bethany ??the village of Mary and her sister Martha. (The Mary whose brother Lazarus was ill was the Mary who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair.) so the sisters sent to him, saying, "Lord, he whom you love is ill."
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When Jesus heard it, he said, "This illness is not to end in death; the end of it is the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified thereby." [Relocated to follow vs 2] Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus; So, when he heard of the illness, he stayed where he was for two days; then, after that, he said to the disciples, "Let us go back to Judaea." "Rabbi," said the disciples, "the Jews were trying to stone you only the other day; are you going back there?" Jesus replied, "Are there not twelve hours in the day? If one walks during the day he does not stumble, for he sees the light of this world: but if one walks during the night he does stumble, for the light is not in him." This he said, then added, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; I am going to waken him." "Lord," said the disciples, "if he has fallen asleep, he will get better." Jesus, however, had been speaking of his death; but as they imagined he meant natural sleep, he then told them plainly, "Lazarus is dead; and for your sakes I am glad I was not there, that you may believe. Come now, let us go to him." Whereupon Thomas (called 'the Twin') said to his fellow-disciples, "Let us go too, let us die along with him!" Now when Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had been buried for four days. [vss & placed between vss a number of Jews had gone to condole with Martha and Mary about their brother; Then Martha, hearing of the arrival of Jesus, went out to meet him, while Mary sat at home. Said Martha to Jesus, "Had you been here, Lord, my brother would not have died. But now ??well, I know whatever you ask God for, he will grant you." Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again." "I know," said Martha, "he will rise at the resurrection, on the last day." Jesus said to her, "I am myself resurrection and life: he who believes in me will live, even if he dies, and no one who lives and believes in me will ever die. You believe that?" "Yes, Lord," she said, "I do believe you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world" ??28 and with these words she went off to call her sister Mary, telling her secretly, "The Teacher is here, and he is calling for you." So, on hearing this, Mary rose hurriedly and went to him. & 31] Now as Bethany is not far from Jerusalem, only about two miles away, Jesus had not entered the village yet, he was still at the spot where Martha had met him. and when the Jews who were condoling with her inside the house noticed her rise hurriedly and go out, they followed her, as they imagined she was going to wail at the tomb. But when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she dropped at his feet, crying, "Had you been here, Lord, my brother would not have died." Now when Jesus saw her wailing and saw the Jews who accompanied her wailing, he chafed in spirit and was disquieted. "Where have you laid him?" he asked. They answered, "Come and see, sir." Jesus burst into tears. Whereupon the Jews said, "See how he loved him!" ??37 though some of them asked, "Could he not have prevented him from dying, when he could open a blind man's eyes?" This made Jesus chafe afresh, so he went to the tomb; it was a cave with a boulder to close it. Jesus said, "Remove the boulder." "Lord," said Martha, the dead man's sister, "he will be stinking by this time; he has been dead four days." "Did I not tell you," said Jesus, "if you will only believe, you shall see the glory of God?" Then they removed the boulder, and Jesus, lifting his eyes to heaven, said, "Father, I thank thee for listening to me. (I knew thou wouldst always listen to me, but I spoke on account of the crowd around, that they might believe thou hast sent me.)" So saying, he exclaimed with a loud cry, "Lazarus, come out!" Out came the dead man, his feet and hands swathed in bandages, and his face tied up with a towel. Jesus said, "Untie him, and let him move."
But he turned and checked them. Then they journeyed to another village.
As he saw the crowds he was moved with pity for them; they were harassed and dejected, like sheep without a shepherd.
Jesus was at table indoors, and many taxgatherers and sinners had come to be guests with him and his disciples.
There Jesus entered for us in advance, when he became high priest for ever with the rank of Melchizedek.
where he stayed until the death of Herod. This was to fulfil what the Lord had said by the prophet: I called my Son from Egypt.
Jesus said to him, "The foxes have their holes, the wild birds have their nests, but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head."
This done, all Israel will be saved ??as it is written, The deliverer will come from Sion, he will banish all godlessness from Jacob:
He went and settled in a town called Nazaret, so that what had been said by the prophets might be fulfilled: 'He shall be called a Nazarene.'
She will bear a son, and you will call him 'Jesus,' for he will save his people from their sins."
So when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with taxgatherers and sinners?"
our eyes fixed upon Jesus as the pioneer and the perfection of faith ??upon Jesus who, in order to reach his own appointed joy, steadily endured the cross, thinking nothing of its shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
so he stretched his hand out and touched him, with the words, "I do choose, be cleansed." And his leprosy was cleansed at once.
We know what love is by this, that He laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for the brotherhood.
What can ever part us from Christ's love? Can anguish or calamity or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or the sword?
who shall condemn? Will Christ? ??the Christ who died, yes and rose from the dead! the Christ who is at God's right hand, who actually pleads for us!
and by being thus perfected he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him,
A leper came up and knelt before him, saying, "If you only choose, sir, you can cleanse me";
Similarly Christ was not raised to the glory of the high priesthood by himself but by Him who declared to him, Thou art my son, to-day have I become thy father.
he who obeys his commands remains within him ??and He remains within him. And this is how we may be sure he remains within us, by means of the Spirit he has given us.
He who possesses the Son possesses life: he who does not possess the Son does not possess life.
so that, while sin had reigned the reign of death, grace might also reign with a righteousness that ends in life eternal through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Now you believe, you hold him 'precious,' but as for the unbelieving ??the very stone the builders rejected is now the cornerstone,
and by being thus perfected he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him,
Holy brothers, you who participate in a heavenly calling, look at Jesus then, at the apostle and high priest of our confession;
asking, "Where is the newly-born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose, and we have come to worship him."
The birth-roll of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
But to let you see the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins" ??he then said to the paralytic, "Get up, lift your pallet, and go home."
And you Bethlehem, in Judah's land, You are not least among the rulers of Judah: For a ruler will come from you, Who will shepherd Israel my people."
She had a sister called Mary, who seated herself at the feet of the Lord to listen to his talk.
But when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she dropped at his feet, crying, "Had you been here, Lord, my brother would not have died."
Jesus said, "Let me do this at least," and cured him by touching his ear.
but Mary stood sobbing outside the tomb. As she sobbed, she glanced inside the tomb
To lay life down for his friends, man has no greater love than that.
and during their conversation and discussion Jesus himself approached and walked beside them,
And they said to one another, "Did not our hearts glow within us when he was talking to us on the road, opening up the scriptures for us?"
Afterwards he appeared at table to the eleven themselves and reproached them for their unbelief and dulness of mind, because they had not believed those who saw him risen from the dead. [But they excused themselves, saying, "This age of lawlessness and unbelief lies under the sway of Satan, who will not allow what lies under the unclean spirits to understand the truth and power of God; therefore," they said to Christ, "reveal your righteousness now." Christ answered them, "The term of years for Satan's power has now expired, but other terrors are at hand. I was delivered to death on behalf of sinners, that they might return to the truth and sin no more, that they might inherit that glory of righteousness which is spiritual and imperishable in heaven."]
I have indeed given you the power of treading on serpents and scorpions and of trampling down all the power of the Enemy; nothing shall injure you.
and I give them eternal life; they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
I have a baptism to undergo. How I am distressed till it is all over!
and I will ask the Father to give you another Helper to be with you for ever,
but I have prayed that your own faith may not fail. And you in turn must be a strength to your brothers."
Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, they do not know what they are doing." Then they distributed his clothes among themselves by drawing lots.
Look at my hands and feet. It is I! Feel me and see; a ghost has not flesh and bones as you see I have."
Whereupon Thomas (called 'the Twin') said to his fellow-disciples, "Let us go too, let us die along with him!"
Again he asked him, for the second time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" "Why, Lord," he said, "you know I love you." "Then be a shepherd to my sheep," said Jesus.
Then Paul replied, "What do you mean by weeping and disheartening me? I am ready not only to be bound but also to die at Jerusalem for the sake of the Lord Jesus."
and I give them eternal life; they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
He led them out as far as Bethany; then, lifting his hands, he blessed them.
On the evening of that same day ??the first day of the week ??though the disciples had gathered within closed doors for fear of the Jews, Jesus entered and stood among them, saying, "Peace be with you!"
Eight days afterwards his disciples were together again, and Thomas with them. Though the doors were closed, Jesus entered and stood among them, saying, "Peace be with you!"
Just as they were speaking He stood among them [and said to them, "Peace to you!"]
and during their conversation and discussion Jesus himself approached and walked beside them,
I am the good shepherd; a good shepherd lays down his own life for the sheep.
When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth which issues from the Father, he will bear witness to me;
and you too are witnesses, for you have been with me from the very beginning.
He who rejects me and will not receive my words has indeed a judge: the word I have spoken will judge him on the last day,
Jesus answered, "If anyone loves me he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up our abode with him.
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words never.
This is how we may be sure we know him, by obeying his commands.
Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, they do not know what they are doing." Then they distributed his clothes among themselves by drawing lots.
"Yes, Lord," she said, "I do believe you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world" ??28 and with these words she went off to call her sister Mary, telling her secretly, "The Teacher is here, and he is calling for you."
Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God!"
"So you are a king?" said Pilate, "you!" "Certainly," said Jesus, "I am a king. This is why I was born, this is why I came into the world, to bear testimony to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice."
As he neared Damascus in the course of his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed round him; he dropped to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?"
and installed as Son of God with power by the Spirit of holiness when he was raised from the dead ??concerning Jesus Christ our Lord,
No, it is by the grace of the Lord Jesus that we believe and are saved, in the same way as they are."
I will no longer talk much with you, for the Prince of this world is coming. He has no hold on me;
there was a woman who for eighteen years had suffered weakness from an evil spirit; indeed she was bent double and quite unable to raise herself.
Jesus said, "Let me do this at least," and cured him by touching his ear.
On entering one village he was met by ten lepers who stood at a distance
You will understand, on that day, that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you.
I have said all this to you that in me you may have peace; in the world you have trouble, but courage! I have conquered the world.
As he neared Damascus in the course of his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed round him; he dropped to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?" "Who are you?" he asked. "I am Jesus," he said, "and you persecute me.
Six days afterwards Jesus took Peter, James and John, and led them up a high hill by themselves alone; in their presence he was transfigured, and his clothes glistened white, vivid white, such as no fuller on earth could bleach them.
Jesus said to her, "I am myself resurrection and life: he who believes in me will live, even if he dies,
The thief only comes to steal, to slay, and to destroy: I have come that they may have life and have it to the full.
Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, they do not know what they are doing." Then they distributed his clothes among themselves by drawing lots.
But they shouted one and all, "Away with him! Release Bar-Abbas for us!"
No one takes it from me, I lay it down of my own accord: I have power to lay it down and also power to take it up again; I have my Father's orders for this.
I am the good shepherd; a good shepherd lays down his own life for the sheep.
the patriarchs are theirs, and theirs too (so far as natural descent goes) is the Christ. (Blessed for evermore be the God who is over all! Amen.)
In the course of their journey he entered a certain village, and a woman called Martha welcomed him to her house.
but they pressed him, saying, "Stay with us, for it is getting towards evening and the day has now declined." So he went in to stay with them.
My dear children, I am writing this to you that you may not sin; but if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father in Jesus Christ the just;
This made Pilate anxious to release him, but the Jews yelled, "If you release him, you are no friend of Caesar's! Anyone who makes himself a king is against Caesar!"
He thrilled with joy at that hour in the holy Spirit, saying, "I praise thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for concealing this from the wise and learned and revealing it to the simple-minded; yes, Father, I praise thee that such was thy chosen purpose." Then turning to the disciples he said,
But now I come to thee (I speak thus in the world that they may have my joy complete within them).
I have told you this, that my joy may be within you and your joy complete.
Now before the passover festival Jesus knew the time had come for him to pass from this world to the Father. He had loved his own in this world and he loved them to the end;
a woman heard of him, whose daughter had an unclean spirit, and she came in and fell at his feet
The people came out to see what had occurred and when they reached Jesus they discovered the man whom the daemons had left, seated at the feet of Jesus, clothed and sane. That frightened them.
Now it happened that while he was praying by himself his disciples were beside him. So he inquired of them, "Who do the crowds say I am?"
It was in these days that he went off to the hillside to pray. He spent the whole night in prayer to God,
As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; remain within my love.
They were astonished to notice how outspoken Peter and John were, and to discover that they were uncultured persons and mere outsiders; they recognized them as having been companions of Jesus,
Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly I tell you, it is not because you saw Signs that you are in quest of me, but because you ate these loaves and had your fill.
I am the living bread which has come down from heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live for ever; and more, the bread I will give is my flesh, given for the life of the world."
but anyone who drinks the water I shall give him will never thirst any more; the water I shall give him will turn into a spring of water welling up to eternal life."
"Why did you look for me?" he said, "Did you not know I had to be at my Father's house?"
He answered them, "I must preach the glad news of the Reign of God to the other towns as well, for that is what I was sent to do."
I pray for them ??not for the world but for those whom thou hast given me do I pray; for they are thine
And the child grew and became strong; he was filled with wisdom, and the favour of God was on him.
Jesus said to him, "The foxes have their holes, the wild birds have their nests, but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head."
During the voyage he fell asleep. But when a gale of wind came down on the lake and they were being swamped and in peril,
Jesus said, "I am the bread of life; he who comes to me will never be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty again.
There is no salvation by anyone else, nor even a second Name under heaven appointed for us men and our salvation."
Therefore I tell you, many as her sins are, they are forgiven, for her love is great; whereas he to whom little is forgiven has but little love."
Then Mary, taking a pound of expensive perfume, real nard, anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair, till the house was filled with the scent of the perfume.
Remain in me, as I remain in you: just as a branch cannot bear fruit by itself, without remaining on the vine, neither can you, unless you remain in me.
After that, Jesus disclosed himself once more to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias. It was in this way.
(a) Now after he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary of Magdala out of whom he had cast seven daemons.
Jesus replied to them, "Though I do testify to myself, my evidence is valid, because I know where I have come from and where I am going to ??whereas you do not know where I have come from or where I am going to.
But I possess a testimony greater than that of John, for the deeds which the Father has granted me to accomplish, the very deeds on which I am engaged, are my testimony that the Father has sent me.
You search the scriptures, imagining you possess eternal life in their pages ??and they do testify to me ??40 but you refuse to come to me for life.
Now I did see it, and I testify that he is the Son of God."
The Father who sent me has also borne testimony to me himself; but his voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen,
Then he went down along with them to Nazaret, and did as they told him. His mother treasured up everything in her heart.
Then in the early morning, long before daylight, he got up and went away out to a lonely spot.
I have made thy Name known to the men whom thou hast given to me from the world (thine they were, and thou gavest them to me), and they have held to thy word.
The attendants replied, "No man ever spoke as he does."
Truly, truly I tell you, if anyone holds to what I say, he will never see death."
Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, who are we to go to? You have got words of eternal life,
What gives life is the Spirit: flesh is of no avail at all. The words I have uttered to you are spirit and life.
All spoke well of him and marvelled at the gracious words that came from his lips; they said, "Is this not Joseph's son?"
they were astounded at his teaching, for his word came with authority.
and we believe, we are certain, that you are the holy One of God."
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"Come here, look at a man who has told me everything I ever did! Can he be the Christ?"
"Rabbi," said Nathanael, "you are the Son of God, you are the king of Israel!"
He who has the bride is the bridegroom; the bridegroom's friend, who stands by and listens to him, is heartily glad at the sound of the bridegroom's voice. Such is my joy, and it is complete.
There is no salvation by anyone else, nor even a second Name under heaven appointed for us men and our salvation."
(I am the Gate; whoever enters by me will be saved, he will go in and out and find pasture.)
But though he put many questions to him, Jesus gave him no answer.
It was in these days that he went off to the hillside to pray. He spent the whole night in prayer to God,
Whereupon Jesus perceived they meant to come and seize him to make a king of him; so he withdrew by himself to the hill again.
While he was praying the appearance of his face altered and his dress turned dazzling white.
"if I can touch even his clothes," she said to herself, "I will recover."
I tell you, among the sons of women there is none greater than John, and yet the least in the Realm of God is greater than he is."
But Jesus said, "Let her alone. Why are you annoying her? She has done a beautiful thing to me.
Now when all the people had been baptized and when Jesus had been baptized and was praying, heaven opened
He said, "I tell you plainly, this poor widow has put in more than them all;
so he stretched his hand out in pity and touched him saying, "I do choose, be cleansed."
I will show him all he has to suffer for the sake of my Name."
So he told them, "Throw your net on the right of the boat, and you will have a take." At this they threw the net, and now they could not haul it in for the mass of fish.
It was shortly afterwards that he made his way to a town called Nain, accompanied by his disciples and a large crowd.
So taking him aside from the crowd by himself, he put his fingers into the man's ears, touched his tongue with saliva,
In front of him there was a man who had dropsy;
Once more he came to Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. There was a royal official, whose son was lying ill at Capernaum;
As he passed along he saw a man who had been blind from his birth;
So he took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village; then, after spitting on his eyes, he laid his hands on him and asked him, "Do you see anything?"
I am the vine, you are the branches. He who remains in me, as I in him, bears rich fruit (because apart from me you can do nothing).
If you remain in me and my words remain in you, then ask whatever you like and you shall have it.
Jesus said to him, "I am the real and living way: no one comes to the Father except by means of me.
He said to him, "Truly, truly I tell you all, you shall see heaven open wide and God's angels ascending and descending upon the Son of man."
Now when he entered the house of a ruler who belonged to the Pharisees to take a meal, they watched him closely.
So the Logos became flesh and tarried among us; we have seen his glory ??glory such as an only son enjoys from his father ??seen it to be full of grace and reality.
Now Peter and his companions had been overpowered with sleep, but on waking up they saw his glory and the two men who were standing beside him.
Now when he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, lying at table, a woman came up with an alabaster flask of pure nard perfume, which had cost a great sum; the flask she broke and poured the perfume over his head.
Nobody has ever seen God, but God has been unfolded by the divine One, the only Son, who lies upon the Father's breast.
he has raised up a strong saviour for us in the house of his servant David
There is no salvation by anyone else, nor even a second Name under heaven appointed for us men and our salvation."
One of the Pharisees asked him to dinner, and entering the house of the Pharisee he reclined at table.
Then said Jesus, "What Moses gave you was not the bread from heaven; it is my Father who gives you the real bread from heaven ??33 for the bread of God is what comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."
But when they saw this, everyone began to mutter that he had gone to be the guest of a sinner.
Next day he observed Jesus coming towards him and exclaimed, "Look, there is the lamb of God, who is to remove the sin of the world!
since thou hast granted him power over all flesh to give eternal life to all whom thou hast given to him.
Then he said to them, "Where is your faith?" They marvelled in awe, saying to one another, "Whatever can he be? He gives orders to the very winds and water, and they obey him!"
In this very city they actually mustered against thy holy Servant Jesus, whom thou didst consecrate ??Herod and Pontius Pilate, together with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel,
by the tender mercy of our God, who will make the Dawn visit us from on high,
but you repudiated the Holy and Just One; the boon you asked was a murderer,
but he turned on him and noticing his disciples reproved Peter, telling him, "Get behind me, you Satan! Your outlook is not God's but man's."
To-day you have a saviour born in the town of David, the Lord messiah.
so he said to them again, "Truly, truly I tell you, I am the shepherd of the sheep;
"Truly, truly I tell you," said Jesus, "I have existed before Abraham was born."
Then said some of the Pharisees, "This man is not from God, for he does not keep the sabbath"; others said, "How can a sinner perform such Signs?" They were divided on this.
And when his family heard this, they set out to get hold of him, for what they said was, "He is out of his mind."
When he finds it he puts it on his shoulders with joy,
While daylight lasts, we must be busy with the work of God: night comes, when no one can do any work.
THE Logos existed in the very beginning, the Logos was with God, the Logos was divine.
and Jacob's spring was there. Jesus, exhausted by the journey, sat down at the spring, just as he was. It was about noon,
and for forty days he was led by the Spirit in the desert, while the devil tempted him. During these days he ate nothing, and when they were over he felt hungry.
(They said this to test him, in order to get a charge against him.) Jesus stooped down, and began to write with his finger on the ground;
When Jesus heard this he marvelled at him, and turning to the crowd that followed he said, "I tell you, I have never met faith like this anywhere even in Israel."
and when the manager of the feast tasted the water which had become wine, not knowing where it had come from (though the servants who had drawn it knew), he called the bridegroom
Now one man was there, whose illness had lasted thirty-eight years.
And when they did so, they enclosed a huge shoal of fish, so that their nets began to break.
and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding.
through him all existence came into being, no existence came into being apart from him.
as a priest of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the service of God's gospel. My aim is to make the Gentiles an acceptable offering, consecrated by the holy Spirit.
This is how you are to look upon us, as servants of Christ and stewards of God's secret truths.
plaited a crown of thorns and set it on his head, put a stick in his hand, and knelt before him in mockery, crying, "Hail, king of the Jews!"
It was by faith that Moses was hidden for three months after birth by his parents, because they saw the child was beautiful, and had no fear of the royal decree.
Stiff-necked, uncircumcised in heart and ear, you are always resisting the holy Spirit! As with your fathers, so with you!
Then Pilate said, "You will not speak to me? Do you not know it is in my power to release you or to crucify you?" Jesus answered, "You would have no power over me, unless it had been granted you from above. So you are less guilty than he who betrayed me to you."
Certainly we cannot give up speaking of what we have seen and heard."
It was by faith that he left Egypt, not from any fear of the king's wrath; like one who saw the King Invisible, he never flinched.
Next day he observed Jesus coming towards him and exclaimed, "Look, there is the lamb of God, who is to remove the sin of the world!
he gazed at Jesus as he walked about, and said, "Look, there is the lamb of God!"
but by the precious blood of Christ, a lamb unblemished and unstained.
But about midnight, as Paul and Silas were praying and singing to God, while the prisoners listened,
It was in these days that he went off to the hillside to pray. He spent the whole night in prayer to God,
Compare him who steadily endured all that hostility from sinful men, so as to keep your own hearts from fainting and failing.
Jesus replied to them, "This is the work of God, to believe in him whom God has sent."
bearing my testimony, both to Jews and Greeks, of repentance before God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Twice a week I fast; on all my income I pay tithes.'
From the Jordan Jesus came back full of the holy Spirit, and for forty days he was led by the Spirit in the desert, while the devil tempted him. During these days he ate nothing, and when they were over he felt hungry.
The foundation is laid, namely Jesus Christ, and no one can lay any other.
Now before the passover festival Jesus knew the time had come for him to pass from this world to the Father. He had loved his own in this world and he loved them to the end;
Joanna the wife of Chuza the chancellor of Herod, Susanna, and a number of others, who ministered to him out of their means.
There were also a number of women there looking on from a distance, women who had followed Jesus from Galilee and waited on him,
women who had followed him when he was in Galilee and waited on him, besides a number of other women who had accompanied him to Jerusalem.
but on hearing that Archelaus reigned over Judaea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there and, by a divine injunction in a dream, withdrew to the region of Galilee.
Then he went down along with them to Nazaret, and did as they told him. His mother treasured up everything in her heart.
When they had finished all the regulations of the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazaret.
Then he made a tour through the whole of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the Reign, and healing all the sickness and disease of the people.
Then Jesus removed from that country and went along the sea of Galilee; he went up the hillside and sat there. And large crowds came to him bringing the lame, and the blind, the dumb, the maimed, and many others; they laid them at his feet, and he healed them. This made the crowd wonder, to see dumb people speaking, the lame walking, and the blind seeing.
But after my rising I will precede you to Galilee."
Now be quick and go to his disciples, tell them he has risen from the dead and that 'he precedes you to Galilee; you shall see him there.' That is my message for you."
As he was walking along the sea of Galilee he saw two brothers, Simon (who is called Peter) and his brother Andrew, casting a net in the sea ??for they were fishermen;
Then going on from there he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedaeus and his brother John, mending their nets in the boat beside their father Zebedaeus. He called them,
Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. A maidservant came up and said to him, "You were with Jesus the Galilean too."
They answered him, "And are you from Galilee, too? Search and you will see that no prophet ever springs from Galilee."
And he went preaching in their synagogues throughout the whole of Galilee, casting out daemons.
So he went preaching through the synagogues of Judaea.
Now when the Lord learned that the Pharisees had heard of Jesus gaining and baptizing more disciples than John
he left Judaea and went back to Galilee.
And he was followed by great crowds from Galilee and Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judaea and from across the Jordan.
on reaching Galilee, he was welcomed by the Galileans, who had seen all he did at the festival in Jerusalem ??for they too had gone to the festival.
For Christ has not entered a holy place which human hands have made (a mere type of the reality!); he has entered heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.
There Jesus entered for us in advance, when he became high priest for ever with the rank of Melchizedek.
not taking any blood of goats and oxen but his own blood, and entered once for all into the Holy place. He secured an eternal redemption.
who must be kept in heaven till the period of the great Restoration. Ages ago God spoke of this by the lips of his holy prophets;
who is at God's right hand ??for he went to heaven after angels, authorities, and powers celestial had been made subject to him.)
Then Jesus came forward to them and said, "Full authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth;
Such was the high priest for us, saintly, innocent, unstained, lifted high above the heavens, far from all contact with the sinful,
It is your vocation; for when Christ suffered for you, he left you an example, and you must follow his footsteps. He committed no sin, no guile was ever found upon his lips;
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to consecrate her by cleansing her in the bath of baptism as she utters her confession, in order to have the church as his very own, standing before him in all her glory, with never a spot or wrinkle or any such flaw, but consecrated and unblemished.
Consecrate them by thy truth: thy word is truth.
Compare him who steadily endured all that hostility from sinful men, so as to keep your own hearts from fainting and failing.
who appeared in a vision of glory and said he must go through with his death and departure at Jerusalem.
The inhabitants of Jerusalem and their rulers, by condemning him in their ignorance, fulfilled the words of the prophets which are read every sabbath;
and, after carrying out all that had been predicted of him in scripture, they lowered him from the gibbet and laid him in a tomb.
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! slaying the prophets and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often I would fain have gathered your children as a fowl gathers her brood under her wings! But you would not have it!
And when he saw the city, as he approached, he wept over it,
And the crowds who went in front of him and who followed behind shouted, "Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed be he who comes in the Lord's name! Hosanna in high heaven!" When he entered Jerusalem the whole city was in excitement over him. "Who is this?" they said,
By day he taught in the temple, but at night he went outside the city and passed the night on the hill called the Olive-Orchard. And all the people used to come early in the morning to listen to him in the temple.
on reaching Galilee, he was welcomed by the Galileans, who had seen all he did at the festival in Jerusalem ??for they too had gone to the festival.
Jacob the father of Joseph, and Joseph (to whom the virgin Mary was betrothed) the father of Jesus, who is called 'Christ.'
He said to them, "And who do you say I am?" Peter replied, "The Christ of God."
Now there was a man in Jerusalem called Symeon, an upright and devout man, who was on the outlook for the Consolation of Israel. The holy Spirit was upon him;
to ask him, "Are you the Coming One? Or are we to look out for someone else?"
Now at that very hour she came up, and she offered praise to God and spoke of him to all who were on the outlook for the redemption of Jerusalem.
He said to her, "What do you want?" She said, "Give orders that my two sons are to sit at your right hand and at your left in your Realm."
Our own hope was that he would be the redeemer of Israel; but he is dead, and that is three days ago!
Now when they met, they asked him, "Lord, is this the time you are going to restore the Realm to Israel?"
Is this not the joiner, the son of Mary and the brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? Are not his sisters settled here among us?" So they were repelled by him.
he came to what was his own, yet his own folk did not welcome him.
Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Just One. And here you have betrayed him, murdered him! ??53 you who got the Law that angels transmitted, and have not obeyed it!"
who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, who harassed ourselves, who offend God and oppose all men
the patriarchs are theirs, and theirs too (so far as natural descent goes) is the Christ. (Blessed for evermore be the God who is over all! Amen.)
for it is evident that our Lord sprang from Judah, and Moses never mentioned priesthood in connexion with that tribe.
Well then, whatever you would like men to do to you, do just the same to them; that is the meaning of the Law and the prophets.
He replied, "You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, with your whole soul, and with your whole mind. This is the greatest and chief command. There is a second like it: you must love your neighbour as yourself.
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The whole Law and the prophets hang upon these two commands."
Do not imagine I have come to destroy the Law or the prophets; I have not come to destroy but to fulfil.
By this the holy Spirit means that the way into the Holiest Presence was not disclosed so long as the first tent
For as the Law has a mere shadow of the bliss that is to be, instead of representing the reality of that bliss, it never can perfect those who draw near with the same annual sacrifices that are perpetually offered.
But when Christ arrived as the high priest of the bliss that was to be, he passed through the greater and more perfect tent which no hands had made (no part, that is to say, of the present order), not taking any blood of goats and oxen but his own blood, and entered once for all into the Holy place. He secured an eternal redemption. For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkled on defiled persons, give them a holiness that bears on bodily purity,
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how much more shall the blood of Christ, who in the spirit of the eternal offered himself as an unblemished sacrifice to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve a living God?
Again, while every priest stands daily at his service, offering the same sacrifices repeatedly, sacrifices which never can take sins away ??12 He offered a single sacrifice for sins and then seated himself for all time at the right hand of God, to wait until his enemies are made a footstool for his feet. For by a single offering he has made the sanctified perfect for all time.
Now on the last day, the great day, of the festival, Jesus stood and cried aloud, "If anyone is athirst, let him come to me and drink;
When he was in Jerusalem at the festival of the passover, many people believed in his name, as they witnessed the Signs which he performed.
Now the Jewish festival of booths was near,
But after his brothers had gone up to the festival, he went up too, not publicly but as it were privately.
Christ ransomed us from the curse of the Law by becoming accursed for us (for it is written, Cursed is everyone who hangs on a gibbet),
Christ, I mean, became a servant to the circumcised in order to prove God's honesty by fulfilling His promises to the fathers,
When the eight days had passed for his circumcision, he was named Jesus ??the name given by the angel before he had been conceived in the womb.
Do not imagine I have come to destroy the Law or the prophets; I have not come to destroy but to fulfil. (I tell you truly, till heaven and earth pass away not an iota, not a comma, will pass from the Law until it is all in force.
but when the time had fully expired, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the Law,
It is the same in your case, my brothers. The crucified body of Christ made you dead to the Law, so that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead that we might be fruitful to God.
He is like a man engaged in building a house, who dug deep down and laid his foundation on the rock; when a flood came, the river dashed against that house but could not shake it, for it had been well built.
She had a sister called Mary, who seated herself at the feet of the Lord to listen to his talk.
Finally, brothers, keep in mind whatever is true, whatever is worthy, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is attractive, whatever is high-toned, all excellence, all merit.
for you died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
And God has revealed it to us by the Spirit, for the Spirit fathoms everything, even the depths of God.
May you be so fixed and founded in love that you can grasp with all the saints what is the meaning of 'the Breadth,' 'the Length,' 'the Depth' and 'the Height,' by knowing the love of Christ which surpasses all knowledge! May you be filled with the entire fulness of God!
also, he must have a good reputation among outsiders, in case he incurs slander and is trapped by the devil.
Only, do lead a life that is worthy of the gospel of Christ. Whether I come and see you or only hear of you in absence, let me know you are standing firm in a common spirit, fighting side by side like one man for the faith of the gospel.
Who among you is wise and learned? Let him show by his good conduct, with the modesty of wisdom, what his deeds are.
Now as all things are thus to be dissolved, what holy and pious men ought you to be in your behaviour,
so that your life may be correct in the eyes of the outside world and self-supporting.
and no one who lives and believes in me will ever die. You believe that?"
and has now revealed in the appearance of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who has put down death and brought life and immortality to light by the gospel.
"I tell you truly," said Jesus, "you will be in paradise with me this very day."
Truly, truly I tell you, if anyone holds to what I say, he will never see death."
And Elijah along with Moses appeared to them, and conversed with Jesus.
He is not the God of dead people but of living. You are far wrong."
You are the light of the world. A town on the top of a hill cannot be hidden.
No one lights a lamp to put it in a cellar or under a bowl, but on a stand, so that those who come in can see the light.
For it seems to me that God means us apostles to come in at the very end, like the doomed gladiators in the arena! We are made a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men!
and has now revealed in the appearance of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who has put down death and brought life and immortality to light by the gospel.
(the Life has appeared; we saw it, we testify to it, we bring you word of that eternal Life which existed with the Father and was disclosed to us) ??3 it is of what we heard and saw that we bring you word, so that you may share our fellowship; and our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.
In him life lay, and this life was the Light for men:
for as the Father has life in himself, so too he has granted the Son to have life in himself,
He who possesses the Son possesses life: he who does not possess the Son does not possess life.
so that, while sin had reigned the reign of death, grace might also reign with a righteousness that ends in life eternal through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Jesus said to her, "I am myself resurrection and life: he who believes in me will live, even if he dies,
The thief only comes to steal, to slay, and to destroy: I have come that they may have life and have it to the full.
all ate the same supernatural food, and all drank the same supernatural drink (drinking from the supernatural Rock which accompanied them ??and that Rock was Christ),
Just as the living Father sent me and I live by the Father, so he who feeds on me will also live by me.
Since the children then share blood and flesh, he himself participated in their nature, so that by dying he might crush him who wields the power of death (that is to say, the devil)
So the Logos became flesh and tarried among us; we have seen his glory ??glory such as an only son enjoys from his father ??seen it to be full of grace and reality.
(For of course it is not angels that he succours, it is the offspring of Abraham.)
For since death came by man, by man came also resurrection from the dead; as all die in Adam, so shall all be made alive in Christ.
Man the first is from the earth, material; Man the second is from heaven.
But I would like you to understand this: Christ is the head of every man, man is the head of woman, and God is the head of Christ.
and appearing in human form, he humbly stooped in his obedience even to die, and to die upon the cross.
but emptied himself by taking the nature of a servant; born in human guise
Men of Israel, listen to my words. Jesus the Nazarene, a man accredited to you by God through miracles, wonders, and signs which God performed by him among you (as you yourselves know),
and required no evidence from anyone about human nature; well did he know what was in human nature.
Then said Jesus, "What Moses gave you was not the bread from heaven; it is my Father who gives you the real bread from heaven ??33 for the bread of God is what comes down from heaven and gives life to the world." "Ah, sir," they said to him, "give us that bread always." Jesus said, "I am the bread of life; he who comes to me will never be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty again.
whom God put forward as the means of propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to demonstrate the justice of God in view of the fact that sins previously committed during the time of God's forbearance had been passed over;
But behind the second veil was the tent called the Holy of Holies,
While daylight lasts, we must be busy with the work of God: night comes, when no one can do any work.
Afterwards he sent them his son; 'They will respect my son,' he said.
for I have come down from heaven not to carry out my own will but the will of him who sent me,
but I know Him, because I have come from Him and He sent me."
Said Jesus, "If God were your father, you would love me, for I came here from God; I did not come of my own accord, I was sent by him.
for I have given them the words thou gavest me, and they have received them; they are now sure that I came from thee and believe that thou didst send me.
may they all be one! As thou, Father, art in me and I in thee, so may they be in us ??that the world may believe thou hast sent me.
For the Son of man has come to seek and save the lost."
but the Pharisees and the scribes complained, "He welcomes sinners and eats along with them!"
But when they saw this, everyone began to mutter that he had gone to be the guest of a sinner.
But the Pharisees and their scribes complained to his disciples, "Why do you eat and drink with taxgatherers and sinners?"
Now the Jews murmured at him for saying, "I am the bread which has come down from heaven." They said, "Is this not Jesus the son of Joseph? We know his father and mother. How can he claim now, 'I have come down from heaven'?" Jesus replied to them, "Stop murmuring to yourselves.
The Jews then wrangled with one another, saying, "How can he give us his flesh to eat?"
Such was the high priest for us, saintly, innocent, unstained, lifted high above the heavens, far from all contact with the sinful,
As you know he is just, be sure that everyone who practises righteousness is born of him.
Thus, Son though he was, he learned by all he suffered how to obey,
Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to him, "Teacher, we would like to have some Sign from you." He replied to them, "It is an evil and disloyal generation that craves a Sign, but no Sign will be given to it except the Sign of the prophet Jonah;
Then the disciples came up and said to him, "Do you know that the Pharisees have taken offence at what they hear you say?"
Have any of the authorities or of the Pharisees believed in him?
Then the Pharisees came up to tempt him. They asked, "Is it right to divorce one's wife for any reason?"
and one of them, a jurist, put a question in order to tempt him.
Then the Pharisees went and plotted to trap him in talk. They sent him their disciples with the Herodians, who said, "Teacher, we know you are sincere and that you teach the Way of God honestly and fearlessly; you do not court human favour.
Now the Pharisees who were fond of money heard all this, and they sneered at him.
When the high priests and Pharisees heard these parables they knew he was speaking about them;
Then the disciples came up and said to him, "Do you know that the Pharisees have taken offence at what they hear you say?"
When his host the Pharisee noticed this, he said to himself, "If he was a prophet he would know what sort of a woman this is who is touching him; for she is a sinner."
So when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with taxgatherers and sinners?"
Now the tax gatherers and sinners were all approaching him to listen to him, but the Pharisees and the scribes complained, "He welcomes sinners and eats along with them!"
Jesus said to them, "See and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees."
Why do you not see that I was not speaking to you about bread? No, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees." Then they realized that what he told them to beware of was not leaven but the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
Blind guides that you are, filtering away the gnat and swallowing the camel!
You are senseless and blind! for which is the greater, the gold or the sanctuary that makes the gold sacred?
Now the Pharisees and Sadducees came up and, in order to tempt him, asked him to show them a Sign from heaven.
Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to him, "Teacher, we would like to have some Sign from you."
One of the Pharisees asked him to dinner, and entering the house of the Pharisee he reclined at table.
When he finished speaking, a Pharisee asked him to take a meal in his house; so he went in and lay down at table.
Woe to you, you impious scribes and Pharisees! you shut the Realm of heaven in men's faces; you neither enter yourselves, nor will you let those enter who are on the point of entering. ??- Woe to you, you impious scribes and Pharisees! you traverse sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when you succeed you make him a son of Gehenna twice as bad as yourselves.
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Woe to you, blind guides that you are! you say, 'Swear by the sanctuary, and it means nothing; but swear by the gold of the sanctuary, and the oath is binding.' You are senseless and blind! for which is the greater, the gold or the sanctuary that makes the gold sacred? You say again, 'Swear by the altar, and it means nothing; but swear by the gift upon it, and the oath is binding.' You are blind! for which is the greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred? He who swears by the altar swears by it and by all that lies on it; he who swears by the sanctuary swears by it and by Him who inhabits it; he who swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by Him who sits upon it. Woe to you, you impious scribes and Pharisees! you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and omit the weightier matters of the law, justice and mercy and faithfulness; these latter you ought to have practised ??without omit ting the former. Blind guides that you are, filtering away the gnat and swallowing the camel! Woe to you, you irreligious scribes and Pharisees! you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are filled with your rapacity and self-indulgence. Blind Pharisee! first clean the inside of the cup, so that the outside may be clean as well. Woe to you, you irreligious scribes and Pharisees! you are like tombs white-washed; they look comely on the outside, but inside they are full of dead men's bones and all manner of impurity. So to men you seem just, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. Woe to you, you irreligious scribes and Pharisees! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the tombs of the just, and you say 'If we had been living in the days of our fathers, we would not have joined them in shedding the blood of the prophets.' So you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are sons of those who killed the prophets! And you will fill up the measure that your fathers filled. You serpents! you brood of vipers! how can you escape being sentenced to Gehenna?
He replied to them, "It is an evil and disloyal generation that craves a Sign, but no Sign will be given to it except the Sign of the prophet Jonah;
You serpents! you brood of vipers! how can you escape being sentenced to Gehenna?
Woe to you, you irreligious scribes and Pharisees! you are like tombs white-washed; they look comely on the outside, but inside they are full of dead men's bones and all manner of impurity.
For I tell you, unless your goodness excels that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never get into the Realm of heaven.
Now when the Lord learned that the Pharisees had heard of Jesus gaining and baptizing more disciples than John (though Jesus himself did not baptize, it was his disciples), he left Judaea and went back to Galilee.
Woe to you! you are like unsuspected tombs; men walk over them unawares."
and the scribes and Pharisees watched to see if he would heal on the sabbath, so as to discover some charge against him.
He who sent me is at my side; he has not left me alone; for I always do what pleases him."
Jesus said to him, "The foxes have their holes, the wild birds have their nests, but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head."
Then he moved on from there and went into their synagogue.
Then he came to Nazaret, where he had been brought up, and on the sabbath he entered the synagogue as was his custom. He stood up to read the lesson
For where two or three have gathered in my name, I am there among them."
I tell you another thing: if two of you agree on earth about anything you pray for, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven.
Again, while every priest stands daily at his service, offering the same sacrifices repeatedly, sacrifices which never can take sins away ??12 He offered a single sacrifice for sins and then seated himself for all time at the right hand of God,
Then what about the Law? Well, it was interpolated for the purpose of producing transgressions till such time as the Offspring arrived to whom the Promise was made; also, it was transmitted by means of angels through the agency of an intermediary
Now the Promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring; it is not said, 'and to your offsprings' in the plural, but in the singular and to your offspring ??which is Christ.
hence, he who disregards this, disregards not man but the God who gave you his holy Spirit.
but the Pharisees and jurists, who had refused his baptism, frustrated God's purpose for themselves.)
You know how later on, when he wanted to obtain his inheritance of blessing, he was set aside; he got no chance to repent, though he tried for it with tears.
but he replied, 'I tell you frankly, I do not know you.'
'I tell you,' he will say, 'I do not know where you come from; begone everyone of you, you evildoers.'
Is this not the joiner, the son of Mary and the brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? Are not his sisters settled here among us?" So they were repelled by him.
When they heard this, all in the synagogue were filled with rage; they rose up, put him out of the town, and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, in order to hurl him down.
But he must first endure great suffering and be rejected by the present generation.
He who rejects me and will not receive my words has indeed a judge: the word I have spoken will judge him on the last day,
he came to what was his own, yet his own folk did not welcome him.
here am I, come in the name of my Father, and you will not accept me: let someone else come in his own name, and you will accept him!
Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the scriptures, The stone that the builders rejected is the chief stone now of the corner: this is the doing of the Lord, and a wonder to our eyes?
Then all the town came out to meet Jesus, and when they saw him they begged him to move out of their district.
But they shouted one and all, "Away with him! Release Bar-Abbas for us!"
He who sent me is at my side; he has not left me alone; for I always do what pleases him."
"Abba, Father," he said, "thou canst do anything. Take this cup away from me. Yet, not what I will but what thou wilt."
whereupon Jesus said to Peter, "Sheathe your sword. Am I not to drink the cup which the Father has handed me?"
No one is able to come to me unless he is drawn by the Father who sent me (and I will raise him up on the last day).
Do not wonder at this; for there is a time coming when all who are in the tombs will listen to his voice
and the will of him who sent me is that I lose none of those who are his gift to me, but that I raise them all up on the last day. It is the will of my Father that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him should possess eternal life, and that I should raise him up on the last day."
the Son of man has come eating and drinking, and you say, 'Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of taxgatherers and sinners!'
Those who passed by scoffed at him, nodding at him in derision
inasmuch as he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world justly by a man whom he has destined for this. And he has given proof of this to all by raising him from the dead."
Then I saw heaven open wide ??and there was a white horse: his rider is faithful and true, yea, just are his judgments and his warfare.
he says of the Son, 'God is thy throne for ever and ever, thy royal sceptre is the sceptre of equity:
thou hast loved justice and hated lawlessness, therefore God, thy God, has consecrated thee with the oil of rejoicing beyond thy comrades' ??10 and, 'Thou didst found the earth at the beginning, O Lord, and the heavens are the work at thy hands;
This is the God to whom you owe your being in Christ Jesus, whom God has made our 'Wisdom,' that is, our righteousness and consecration and redemption;
But Jesus answered him, "Come now, this is how we should fulfil all our duty to God." Then John gave in to him.
Now Christ is an end to law, so as to let every believer have righteousness.
Then he went down to Capharnahum, a town of Galilee, and on the sabbath he taught the people;
Another sabbath he happened to go into the synagogue and teach. Now a man was there who had his right hand withered,
Then he came to Nazaret, where he had been brought up, and on the sabbath he entered the synagogue as was his custom. He stood up to read the lesson
so that the Son of man is Lord even over the sabbath."
"Teacher, Moses said that if anyone dies without children, his brother is to espouse his wife and raise offspring for his brother. Now there were seven brothers in our number. The first married and died; as he had no children he left his wife to his brother. The same happened with the second and the third, down to the seventh.
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After them all, the woman died. Now at the resurrection whose wife will she be? They all had her." Jesus answered them, "You go wrong because you understand neither the scriptures nor the power of God. At the resurrection people neither marry nor are married, they are like the angels of God in heaven. And as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God, I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob? He is not a God of dead people but of living."
"Teacher," they said, "Moses has written this law for us, that if a man's brother dies leaving a wife but no child, his brother is to take the woman and raise offspring for his brother. Now there were seven brothers. The first married a wife and died leaving no offspring: the second took her and died without leaving any offspring: so did the third:
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none of the seven left any offspring. Last of all the woman died too. At the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be? She was wife to the seven of them." Jesus said to them, "Is this not where you go wrong? ??you understand neither the scriptures nor the power of God. When people rise from the dead they neither marry nor are married, they are like the angels in heaven. As for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, at the passage on the Bush, how God said to him, I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob? He is not the God of dead people but of living. You are far wrong."
Jesus said to them, "See and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees."
Why do you not see that I was not speaking to you about bread? No, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees." Then they realized that what he told them to beware of was not leaven but the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
When the Pharisees heard he had silenced the Sadducees, they mustered their forces,
Now the Pharisees and Sadducees came up and, in order to tempt him, asked him to show them a Sign from heaven.
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It is a sure word, it deserves all praise, that "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners"; and though I am the foremost of sinners,
Hence for all time he is able to save those who approach God through him, as he is always living to intercede on their behalf.
And Jesus said of him, "To-day salvation has come to this house, since Zacchaeus here is a son of Abraham.
In bringing many sons to glory, it was befitting that He for whom and by whom the universe exists, should perfect the Pioneer of their salvation by suffering.
Indeed the Son of man must be lifted on high, just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.
and by being thus perfected he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him,
God lifted him up to his right hand as our pioneer and saviour, in order to grant repentance and remission of sins to Israel.
he has raised up a strong saviour for us in the house of his servant David
For sanctifier and sanctified have all one origin. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers,
and so Jesus also suffered outside the gate, in order to sanctify the people by his own blood.
Now when the angels had left them and gone away to heaven, the shepherds said to one another, "Let us be off to Bethlehem to see this thing that the Lord has told us of." So they made haste and discovered Mary and Joseph and the baby lying in the stall for cattle.
Jesus said, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.
Now before the passover festival Jesus knew the time had come for him to pass from this world to the Father. He had loved his own in this world and he loved them to the end;
Jesus replied, "Destroy this sanctuary and I will raise it up in three days."
He meant the sanctuary of his body, however,
but he replied to them, "You see all this? I tell you truly, not a stone here will be left upon another, without being torn down."
Jesus said to him, "You see these great buildings? Not a stone shall be left on another, without being torn down."
"As for what you see, there are days coming when not a stone will be left upon another, without being torn down."
Then the devil conveyed him to the holy city and, placing him on the pinnacle of the temple,
Then he brought him to Jerusalem and placing him on the pinnacle of the temple said to him, "If you are God's son, throw yourself down from this;
By an inspiration of the Spirit he came to the temple, and when the parents of the child Jesus carried him in to perform the customary regulations of the law for him,
When the days for their purification in terms of the Mosaic law had elapsed, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord
Then Jesus went into the temple of God and drove out all who were buying and selling inside the temple; he upset the tables of the money-changers and the stalls of those who sold doves, and told them, "It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer, but you make it a den of robbers."
Making a scourge of cords, he drove them all, sheep and cattle together, out of the temple, scattered the coins of the brokers and upset their tables, and told the pigeon-dealers, "Away with these! My Father's house is not to be turned into a shop!" (His disciples recalled the scripture saying, I am consumed with zeal for thy house.)
Day after day I was beside you in the temple teaching, and you never seized me. However, it is to let the scriptures be fulfilled."
Now the Pharisees and Sadducees came up and, in order to tempt him, asked him to show them a Sign from heaven.
Now a jurist got up to tempt him. "Teacher," he said, "what am I to do to inherit life eternal?"
But Jesus detected their malice. He said, "Why do you tempt me, you hypocrites?
He answered, "It is written, Man is not to live on bread alone, but on every word that issues from the mouth of God."
Then Jesus told him, "Begone, Satan! it is written, You must worship the Lord your God, and serve him alone."
Jesus said to him, "It is written again, You shall not tempt the Lord your God."
Simon, Simon, Satan has claimed the right to sift you all like wheat, but I have prayed that your own faith may not fail. And you in turn must be a strength to your brothers."
It is as he suffered by his temptations that he is able to help the tempted.
for ours is no high priest who is incapable of sympathizing with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in every respect like ourselves, yet without sinning.
At this the devil left him, and angels came up and ministered to him.
and in the desert he remained for forty days, while Satan tempted him; he was in the company of wild beasts, but angels ministered to him.
"Abba, Father," he said, "thou canst do anything. Take this cup away from me. Yet, not what I will but what thou wilt."
whereupon Jesus said to Peter, "Sheathe your sword. Am I not to drink the cup which the Father has handed me?"
Jesus said, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.
He who sent me is at my side; he has not left me alone; for I always do what pleases him."
Leaving there, he went away to the territory of Tyre and Sidon. He went into a house and wished no one to know of it, but he could not escape notice;
Going away from there Jesus withdrew to the district of Tyre and Sidon.
Jerusalem, Idumaea, the other side of the Jordan, and the neighbourhood of Tyre and Sidon, as they had heard of his doings.
With them he came down the hill and stood on a level spot. There was a great company of his disciples with him, and a large multitude of people from all Judaea, from Jerusalem, and from the coast of Tyre and Sidon, who had come to hear him and to get cured of their diseases.
"Woe to you, Khorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! Had the miracles performed in you been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. I tell you this, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.
After sighting Cyprus and leaving it on our left, we sailed for Syria, landing at Tyre, where the ship was to unload her cargo. We found out the local disciples and stayed there for seven days. These disciples told Paul by the Spirit not to set foot in Jerusalem;
As there was a bitter feud between him and the inhabitants of Tyre and Sidon, they waited on him unanimously, and after conciliating the royal chamberlain Blastus they made overtures for peace, as their country depended for its food-supply upon the royal territory.
And this is eternal life, that they know thee, the only real God, and him whom thou hast sent, even Jesus Christ.
Jesus replied, "The chief one is: Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord,
(You know how gracious our Lord Jesus Christ was; rich though he was, he became poor for the sake of you, that by his poverty you might be rich.)
Of an experience like that I am prepared to boast, but not of myself personally ??not except as regards my weaknesses.