(for the Pharisees and all the Jews, unless they wash their hands diligently, do not eat, holding what has been delivered by the ancients;

And when they come from the market-place, they take no food till their hands are washed; and a number of other orders there are, which have been handed down to them to keep--washings of cups and pots and brass vessels.

then the Pharisees and the scribes ask him, Why do thy disciples not walk according to what has been delivered by the ancients, but eat the bread with defiled hands?

and he answering said to them -- 'Well did Isaiah prophesy concerning you, hypocrites, as it hath been written, This people with the lips doth honour Me, and their heart is far from Me;

And he said to them, Truly you put on one side the law of God, so that you may keep the rules which have been handed down to you.

but ye say, If a man shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is Corban, that is to say, Given to God ;

You are making God's message useless by [enforcing] the tradition you have been following. And you do many things like that."

She was a heathen who spoke Greek and had been born in Syro-Phenicia. And she kept begging Him to drive the demon out of her daughter.

She went away to her house, and found the child having been laid on the bed, with the demon gone out.

And they were overcome with wonder, saying, He has done all things well: he even gives back the power of hearing and the power of talking to those who have been without them.

I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat:

Jesus had been warning them, "Watch out! Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod!"

And knowing [this], he said to them, "Why are you discussing that you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive or understand? Have your hearts been hardened?

Every one, however, who has been ashamed of me and of my teachings in this faithless and sinful age, of him the Son of Man also will be ashamed when He comes in His Father's glory with the holy angels."

And he answering said to them, 'Elijah indeed, having come first, doth restore all things; and how hath it been written concerning the Son of Man, that many things he may suffer, and be set at nought?

But I say to you, That also Elijah hath come, and they did to him what they willed, as it hath been written of him.'

And wherever it takes him, it puts him down violently, streaming at the lips and twisted with pain; and his strength goes from him; and I made a request to your disciples to send it out, and they were not able.

And he asked his father, How long a time is it that it has been like this with him? And he said, From childhood;

And the spirit cried, and rent him sore and came out: And he was as one that had been dead, insomuch that many said, "He is dead."

for he taught his disciples and said to them, The Son of man is delivered into men's hands, and they shall kill him; and having been killed, after three days he shall rise again.

And they remained silent, for by the way they had been reasoning with one another who was greatest.

and whoever may cause to stumble one of the little ones believing in me, better is it for him if a millstone is hanged about his neck, and he hath been cast into the sea.

And having risen thence, he doth come to the coasts of Judea, through the other side of the Jordan, and again do multitudes come together unto him, and, as he had been accustomed, again he was teaching them.

Let not that which has been joined together by God be parted by man.

And Jesus, having seen, felt pain, and said to them, Permit children to come to me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.

And he replied, "Teacher, I have [already] been observing all these commandments since I was a young lad."

Now Jesus and his disciples had been on the road going up to Jerusalem, with Jesus walking ahead of them. They were astonished, and the others who followed were afraid.

but to sit on my right hand or on my left hand is not mine to give; but it is for them for whom it hath been prepared.

And the ten having heard, began to feel pain about James and John.

saying to them, “Go into the village in front of you, and immediately as you enter it, you will find a [donkey’s] colt tied, which has never been ridden by anyone; untie it and bring it here.

and he was teaching, saying to them, 'Hath it not been written -- My house a house of prayer shall be called for all the nations, and ye did make it a den of robbers?'

And in the morning, passing by, they saw the fig-tree having been dried up from the roots,

And having remembered, Peter says to him, Rabbi, behold, the fig tree that thou cursed has been dried out.

For this reason I say to you, Whatever you make a request for in prayer, have faith that it has been given to you, and you will have it.

Or should we say, 'human?'" They were afraid of the people; for all agreed in holding John to have been really a Prophet.

And he called his disciples to him and said, "I tell you that this poor widow has put in more than all these others who have been putting money into the treasury.

For those days shall be tribulation, such as there hath not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never shall be.

And except the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh would have been saved; but for the elect's sake, whom he chose, he shortened the days.

And while Jesus was in Bethany [Note: This was a small village fewer than two miles east of Jerusalem], sitting at the dinner table in the house of Simon, the man with an infectious skin disease [Note: This man had probably been healed by now], a woman with an alabaster [i.e., stone] jar of very expensive perfume came to Him, broke the jar and poured the perfume on His head.

But there were some that had indignation among themselves,'saying , To what purpose hath this waste of the ointment been made?

For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.

And having been evening, he comes with the twelve.

The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him: but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! good were it for that man if he had never been born.

When they had been eating, Jesus took bread, and having given thanks, he brake it, and gave it to them, and said, take it, this represents my body.

and Jesus saith to them -- 'All ye shall be stumbled at me this night, because it hath been written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered abroad,

But after I have been resurrected, I will go ahead of you to Galilee.”

And he comes and finds them sleeping. And he says to Peter, Simon, dost thou sleep? Hast thou not been able to watch one hour?

Then He came back again and found His disciples still asleep, because they had not been able to keep their eyes open at all.

And He came the third time and said to them, Sleep on now and take your rest. It is enough, the hour has come. Behold, the Son of Man has been betrayed into the hands of sinners.

Now he who had been false to him had given them a sign, saying, The one to whom I give a kiss, that is he; take him, and get him away safely.

I have been among you day after day in the Temple Courts teaching, and yet you did not arrest me; but this is in fulfillment of the Scriptures."

And a certain one young man followed with him, having been wrapped naked in a linen cloth. And the young men seized him,

Now there was a man in prison named Barabbas. He had been with the insurgents who had committed murder during the rebellion.

The crowd went up and began asking him to do as he had been accustomed to do for them.

And Pilate, desiring to do what was pleasing to the people, let Barabbas go free, and gave up Jesus, when he had been whipped, to be put to death on the cross.

They offered Him wine, mixed with aromatic spices, but He refused to accept it. [Note: Matt. 27:34 calls this "gall," a bitter drug for the purpose of dulling the pain of crucifixion].

And the inscription of his accusation, had been inscribed - THE KING OF THE JEWS.

The Christ, the King of Israel - let him come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe. And, they who had been crucified with him, were casting it in his teeth.

The Roman Officer, who was standing facing Jesus, on seeing the way in which he expired, exclaimed: "This man must indeed have been 'God's Son'!"

all of whom in the Galilaean days had habitually been with Him and cared for Him, as well as many other women who had come up to Jerusalem with Him.

And Pilate marvelled if he were already dead: and calling unto him the centurion, he asked him whether he had been any while dead.

And having been informed by the centurion, he gave the body to Joseph.

And he bought a linen cloth, and taking him down, wound him in the linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb which had been hewn out of a rock; and he rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.

Now, Mary the Magdalene, and Mary the mother of Joses, were viewing how he had been laid.

And very early after dawn on the first day of the week, they came at the time of the coming up of the sun to the place where the body had been put.

They had been asking each other, "Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?"

And when they looked, they see that the stone has been rolled away, for it was very great.

And he saith unto them, Be not amazed: ye seek Jesus, the Nazarene, who hath been crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold, the place where they laid him!

And they fled out of the tomb, for they were all trembling and bewildered, and they said nothing about it to anyone, for they were afraid to do so. AN ANCIENT APPENDIX But they reported briefly to Peter and his companions all they had been told. And afterward Jesus himself sent out by them from the east to the west the sacred and incorruptible message of eternal salvation. \b ANOTHER ANCIENT APPENDIX

And she went and told them that had been with him, as they mourned and wept.

And they, when they had heard that he was alive, and had been seen of her, believed not.

And later, [while] they were reclining at table, he appeared to the eleven. And he reprimanded their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen him [after he] had been raised.

he who hath believed, and hath been baptized, shall be saved; and he who hath not believed, shall be condemned.

Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to draw up a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us,

just as they were passed down to us by those who had been eyewitnesses and servants of the word from the beginning,

That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed.

But the angel said to him, Fear not, Zacharias, because thy supplication has been heard, and thy wife Elizabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.

And he will go before his face in the spirit and power of Elijah, turning the hearts of fathers to their children, and wrongdoers to the way of righteousness; to make ready a people whose hearts have been turned to the Lord.

And the angel answering, said to him, I am Gabriel, who stand before God, and I have been sent to speak to thee, and to bring these glad tidings to thee;

"This is what the Lord has done for me at the time when he has been gracious to me, to take away my disgrace among people."

to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, a descendant of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary.

And the angel came in to her and said, Peace be with you, to whom special grace has been given; the Lord is with you.

Mary asked the angel, “How can this be, since I have not been intimate with a man?”

And blessed is'she that believed; for there shall be a fulfilment of the things which have been spoken to her from the Lord.

And it came to the ears of her neighbours and relations that the Lord had been very good to her, and they took part in her joy.

As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began:

To give to us, without fear, Out of the hand of our enemies having been delivered,

He went there to be registered with Mary, who had been promised to him in marriage and was pregnant.

for to-day a Saviour has been born to you in David's city, who is Christ the Lord.

And when the angels went from them into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, Let us go to Bethlehem, and see this which hath been told us, which the Lord hath made known unto us.

and having seen it they made known about the country the thing which had been said to them concerning this child.

And all who heard [it] were astonished concerning what had been said to them by the shepherds.

And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all things which they had heard and seen, as it had been said to them.

And when eight days were fulfilled for circumcising him, his name was called Jesus, which was the name given by the angel before he had been conceived in the womb.

as it hath been written in the Law of the Lord, -- 'Every male opening a womb shall be called holy to the Lord,'

and to offer a sacrifice according to that which has been written in the law of the Lord, a pair of turtle-doves, or two young pigeons.

And it had been revealed unto him by the Holy Spirit, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ.

and thus reveal the thoughts of many hearts. Yes, and a sword will cut you [Mary] to the heart [i.e., causing you inward pain]."

There was also a prophetess, Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was very old, having been married to her husband for seven years until his death.

and she had been a widow even unto fourscore and four years), who departed not from the temple, worshipping with fastings and supplications night and day.