And he said, 'A certain man had two sons,

And he said also unto his disciples, 'A certain man was rich, who had a steward, and he was accused to him as scattering his goods;

'No domestic is able to serve two lords, for either the one he will hate, and the other he will love; or one he will hold to, and of the other he will be heedless; ye are not able to serve God and mammon.'

'Take heed to yourselves, and, if thy brother may sin in regard to thee, rebuke him, and if he may reform, forgive him,

and the Lord said, 'If ye had faith as a grain of mustard, ye would have said to this sycamine, Be uprooted, and be planted in the sea, and it would have obeyed you.

And they none of these things understood, and this saying was hid from them, and they were not knowing the things said.

'And it came to pass, on his coming back, having taken the kingdom, that he commanded these servants to be called to him, to whom he gave the money, that he might know what any one had done in business.

'And another came, saying, Sir, lo, thy pound, that I had lying away in a napkin;

and as he is coming nigh now, at the descent of the mount of the Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began rejoicing to praise God with a great voice for all the mighty works they had seen,

saying -- 'If thou didst know, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things for thy peace; but now they were hid from thine eyes.

and he, having looked upon them, said, 'What, then, is this that hath been written: A stone that the builders rejected -- this became head of a corner?

in the rising again, then, of which of them doth she become wife? -- for the seven had her as wife.'

'Take heed of the scribes, who are wishing to walk in long robes, and are loving salutations in the markets, and first seats in the synagogues, and first couches in the suppers,

for all these out of their superabundance did cast into the gifts to God, but this one out of her want, all the living that she had, did cast in.'

and a hair out of your head shall not perish;

'And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts may be weighed down with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and anxieties of life, and suddenly that day may come on you,

who had been, because of a certain sedition made in the city, and murder, cast into prison.

and because he had no need that any should testify concerning man, for he himself was knowing what was in man.

for five husbands thou hast had, and, now, he whom thou hast is not thy husband; this hast thou said truly.'

But he that was healed had not known who he is, for Jesus did move away, a multitude being in the place.

and this he said, trying him, for he himself had known what he was about to do.

and having entered into the boat, they were going over the sea to Capernaum, and darkness had already come, and Jesus had not come unto them,

but there are certain of you who do not believe;' for Jesus had known from the beginning who they are who are not believing, and who is he who will deliver him up,

the world is not able to hate you, but me it doth hate, because I testify concerning it that its works are evil.

They were seeking, therefore, to seize him, and no one laid the hand on him, because his hour had not yet come,

They said, therefore, to him, 'Where is thy father?' Jesus answered, 'Ye have neither known me nor my Father: if me ye had known, my Father also ye had known.'

These sayings spake Jesus in the treasury, teaching in the temple, and no one seized him, because his hour had not yet come;

they took up, therefore, stones that they may cast at him, but Jesus hid himself, and went forth out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.

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

Jesus said to them, 'If ye were blind, ye were not having had sin, but now ye say -- We see, therefore doth your sin remain.

but Jesus had spoken about his death, but they thought that about the repose of sleep he speaketh.

and many of the Jews had come unto Martha and Mary, that they might comfort them concerning their brother;

Martha, therefore, said unto Jesus, 'Sir, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died;

and Jesus had not yet come to the village, but was in the place where Martha met him;

Mary, therefore, when she came where Jesus was, having seen him, fell at his feet, saying to him, 'Sir, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died;'

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

Jesus, therefore, six days before the passover, came to Bethany, where was Lazarus, who had died, whom he raised out of the dead;

and he said this, not because he was caring for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and what things were put in he was carrying.

while ye have the light, believe in the light, that sons of light ye may become.' These things spake Jesus, and having gone away, he was hid from them,

Simon Peter saith to him, 'Sir, not my feet only, but also the hands and the head.'

for certain were thinking, since Judas had the bag, that Jesus saith to him, 'Buy what we have need of for the feast;' or that he may give something to the poor;

if ye had known me, my Father also ye would have known, and from this time ye have known Him, and have seen Him.'

if the world doth hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before you;

if I had not come and spoken to them, they were not having sin; but now pretext they have not for their sin.

'He who is hating me, doth hate also my Father;

'And now, glorify me, Thou Father, with Thyself, with the glory that I had before the world was, with Thee;

I have given to them Thy word, and the world did hate them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world;

and Judas also, who delivered him up, had known the place, because many times did Jesus assemble there with his disciples.

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

Jesus answered, 'My kingdom is not of this world; if my kingdom were of this world, my officers had struggled that I might not be delivered up to Jews; but now my kingdom is not from hence.'

and the soldiers having plaited a crown of thorns, did place it on his head, and a purple garment they put around him,

when, therefore, Jesus received the vinegar, he said, 'It hath been finished;' and having bowed the head, gave up the spirit.

and the napkin that was upon his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but apart, having been folded up, in one place;

one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had been laid.

and these things having said, she turned backward, and seeth Jesus standing, and she had not known that it is Jesus.

and all those believing were at the same place, and had all things common,

and the possessions and the goods they were selling, and were parting them to all, according as any one had need.

and he was giving heed to them, looking to receive something from them;

and God, what things before He had declared through the mouth of all His prophets, that the Christ should suffer, He did thus fulfil;

This is the stone that was set at nought by you -- the builders, that became head of a corner;

And beholding the openness of Peter and John, and having perceived that they are men unlettered and plebeian, they were wondering -- they were taking knowledge also of them that with Jesus they had been --

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

for above forty years of age was the man upon whom had been done this sign of the healing.

and of the multitude of those who did believe the heart and the soul was one, and not one was saying that anything of the things he had was his own, but all things were to them in common.

and were laying them at the feet of the apostles, and distribution was being made to each according as any one had need.

and said unto them, 'Men, Israelites, take heed to yourselves about these men, what ye are about to do,

till another king rose, who had not known Joseph;

'The tabernacle of the testimony was among our fathers in the wilderness, according as He did direct, who is speaking to Moses, to make it according to the figure that he had seen;

the multitudes also were giving heed to the things spoken by Philip, with one accord, in their hearing and seeing the signs that he was doing,

to whom they were all giving heed, from small unto great, saying, 'This one is the great power of God;'

and they were giving heed to him, because of his having for a long time amazed them with deeds of magic.

And having arisen, he went on, and lo, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch, a man of rank, of Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to worship to Jerusalem;

And all those hearing were amazed, and said, 'Is not this he who laid waist in Jerusalem those calling on this name, and hither to this intent had come, that he might bring them bound to the chief priests?'

Then, indeed, the assemblies throughout all Judea, and Galilee, and Samaria, had peace, being built up, and, going on in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, they were multiplied.

and having come unto Salamis, they declared the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews, and they had also John as a ministrant;

And a certain man in Lystra, impotent in the feet, was sitting, being lame from the womb of his mother -- who never had walked,

and having appointed to them by vote elders in every assembly, having prayed with fastings, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

and thence did sail to Antioch, whence they had been given by the grace of God for the work that they fulfilled;

for passing through and contemplating your objects of worship, I found also an erection on which had been inscribed: To God -- unknown; whom, therefore -- not knowing -- ye do worship, this One I announce to you.

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

and Paul being about to open his mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, 'If, indeed, then, it was anything unrighteous, or an act of wicked profligacy, O Jews, according to reason I had borne with you,

And Paul having remained yet a good many days, having taken leave of the brethren, was sailing to Syria -- and with him are Priscilla and Aquilas -- having shorn his head in Cenchera, for he had a vow;

and many of those who had practised the curious arts, having brought the books together, were burning them before all; and they reckoned together the prices of them, and found it five myriads of silverlings;

And we having gone before unto the ship, did sail to Assos, thence intending to take in Paul, for so he had arranged, intending himself to go on foot;

'Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, to feed the assembly of God that He acquired through His own blood,

sorrowing most of all for the word that he had said -- that they are about no more to see his face; and they were accompanying him to the ship.

and this one had four daughters, virgins, prophesying.

these having taken, be purified with them, and be at expence with them, that they may shave the head, and all may know that the things of which they have been instructed concerning thee are nothing, but thou dost walk -- thyself also -- the law keeping.

for they had seen before Trophimus, the Ephesian, in the city with him, whom they were supposing that Paul brought into the temple.

and the centurion having heard, having gone near to the chief captain, told, saying, 'Take heed what thou art about to do, for this man is a Roman;'

Immediately, therefore, they departed from him who are about to examine him, and the chief captain also was afraid, having learned that he is a Roman, and because he had bound him,

whom it behoveth to be present before thee, and to accuse, if they had anything against me,

but certain questions concerning their own religion they had against him, and concerning a certain Jesus who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive;

and Agrippa said to Festus, 'This man might have been released if he had not appealed to Caesar.'

and a south wind blowing softly, having thought they had obtained their purpose, having lifted anchor, they sailed close by Crete,

wherefore I call upon you to take nourishment, for this is for your safety, for of not one of you shall a hair from the head fall;'

but Paul having gathered together a quantity of sticks, and having laid them upon the fire, a viper -- out of the heat having come -- did fasten on his hand.

And after three months, we set sail in a ship (that had wintered in the isle) of Alexandria, with the sign Dioscuri,

What, then, shall we say? the law is sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said:

for that which I work, I do not acknowledge; for not what I will, this I practise, but what I hate, this I do.