When he saw the crowds of people he went up on the mountain. There he seated himself, and when his disciples had come up to him,

and, if you are ready to accept the idea, he is himself Elijah who was to come.

After he had dismissed them he went up the hill by himself to pray. And when evening came on he was there alone,

Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wants to go with me, he must disregard himself and take his cross and follow me.

When they looked up, they saw no one but Jesus himself.

So the slave threw himself down before him and implored him, 'Give me time, and I will pay you all of it.'

So his fellow-slave threw himself down before him, and begged him, 'Give me time, and I will pay you.'

they brought the ass and the colt, and laid their coats upon them, and Jesus seated himself upon them.

Whoever exalts himself will be humbled and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

But if he is a bad slave and says to himself, 'My master is going to stay a long time,'

And he went on a little way, and threw himself on his face, and prayed, saying, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass by me. Yet not as I please but as you do!"

And he threw down the silver and left the Temple and went off and hung himself.

"He saved others, but he cannot save himself! He is King of Israel; let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him.

In the evening a rich man named Joseph, from Arimathea, who had himself been a disciple of Jesus, came.

And Jesus himself met them, and said, "Good morning!" And they went up to him and clasped his feet, and bowed to the ground before him.

And if Satan has rebelled against himself and become disunited, he cannot last but is coming to his end.

When he was by himself, those who stayed about him with the Twelve asked him about the figures he had used.

and night and day he was always shrieking among the tombs and on the hills and cutting himself with stones.

And a man named Jairus, the leader of a synagogue, came up and seeing him threw himself at his feet,

He took him off by himself away from the crowd, and put his fingers in the man's ears, and touched his tongue with saliva.

And he called the people and his disciples to him and said to them, "If anyone wants to go with me, he must disregard himself, and take his cross and follow me.

But Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but God himself.

For the Son of Man himself has not come to be waited on, but to wait on other people, and to give his life to free many others."

David himself, under the influence of the holy Spirit, said, " 'The Lord has said to my lord, "Sit at my right hand Until I put your enemies under your feet." '

David himself calls him lord, and how can he be his son?" The mass of the people liked to hear him.

And he went on a little way and threw himself on the ground and prayed that if it were possible he might be spared the hour of trial,

And Peter followed him at a distance, right into the courtyard of the high priest and sat down with the attendants and warmed himself at the fire.

and seeing Peter warming himself, she looked at him and said, "You were with this Jesus of Nazareth too!"

The high priests too made sport of him to one another with the scribes and said, "He saved others, but he cannot save himself!

Joseph of Arimathea, a highly respected member of the council, who was himself living in expectation of the reign of God, made bold to go to Pilate and ask for Jesus' body.

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

Afterward he showed himself in a different form to two of them as they were walking along, on their way into the country.

And the child grew up and became strong in the Spirit, and he lived in the desert until the day when he proclaimed himself to Israel.

Jesus himself was about thirty years old when he began his work. He was the son, it was supposed, of Joseph, the son of Eli,

But Jesus himself would retire into the desert and pray.

When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, "If this man were really a prophet, he would know who and what the woman is who is touching him, for she leads a wicked life."

When he saw Jesus he cried out and threw himself down before him, and said in a loud voice, "What do you want of me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you not to torture me!"

Once when he was praying by himself, with only the disciples near him, he asked them, "Who do the people say that I am?"

And he said to everyone, "If anyone wants to go with me, he must disregard himself, and take his cross day after day and follow me.

What good does it do a man to gain the whole world and lose or forfeit himself?

Which of these three do you think proved himself a neighbor to the man who fell into the robbers' hands?"

I tell you, even if he will not get up and give him some because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will rouse himself and give him all he needs.

And he said to himself, 'What am I going to do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?'

That is the way with the man who lays up money for himself, and is not rich with God."

But if the slave says to himself, 'My master is not coming back for a long time,' and begins to beat the men and women slaves and to eat and drink and get drunk,

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the man who humbles himself will be exalted."

And he went and hired himself out to a resident of the country, and he sent him into his fields to tend pigs.

And he was ready to fill himself with the pods the pigs were eating, and no one would give him anything.

When he came to himself he said, 'How many hired men my father has, who have more than enough to eat, and here I am, dying of hunger!

Then the manager said to himself, 'What am I going to do, because my master is going to take my position away from me? I cannot dig; I am ashamed to beg.

And he would not for a time, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I have no fear of God nor respect for men,

The Pharisee stood up and uttered this prayer to himself: 'O God, I thank you that I am not like other men, greedy, dishonest, or adulterous, like that tax-collector.

I tell you, it was he who went back to his house with God's approval, and not the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the man who humbles himself will be exalted."

Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but God himself.

For David himself says in the Book of Psalms, " 'The Lord has said to my lord, "Sit at my right hand,

and they made this charge against him: "Here is a man whom we have found misleading our nation, and forbidding the payment of taxes to the emperor, and claiming to be an anointed king himself."

while the people stood looking on. Even the leading councilors jeered at him, and said, "He has saved others, let him save himself, if he is really God's Christ, his Chosen One!"

And as they were talking and discussing them, Jesus himself came up and went with them,

And he began with Moses and all the prophets and explained to them the passages all through the Scriptures that referred to himself.

While they were still talking of these things, he himself stood among them.

But Jesus on his part would not trust himself to them, for he knew them all,

So when the Lord learned that the Pharisees had been told that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John??2 though it was not Jesus himself who baptized them, but his disciples??3 he left Judea and went back again to Galilee.

Are you a greater man than our forefather Jacob, who gave us this well, and drank from it himself, with his sons and his flocks?"

for he himself declared that a prophet is not honored in his own country.

On account of this the Jews were all the more eager to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath but actually called God his Father, thus putting himself on an equality with God.

For the Father loves the Son and lets him see everything that he himself is doing, and he will let him see greater deeds than these, to make you wonder.

So Jesus, seeing that they meant to come and carry him off to make him king, retired again to the hill by himself.

Whoever speaks simply for himself is looking for honor for himself, but whoever looks for honor for the person who has sent him shows his sincerity; there is no dishonesty about him.

So the Jews said, "Is he going to kill himself, and is that why he says, 'You cannot come where I am going'?"

You are doing as your father does." They said to him, "We are not illegitimate children. We have one father, God himself."

Some said, "Yes! It is he!" Others said, "No! but he looks like him." He himself said, "I am the man."

But we do not know how it is that he can see now, or who has made him able to see. You must ask him. He is grown up. Let him tell you about himself."

for I have not spoken on my account, but the Father who has sent me has himself given me orders what to tell and what to say.

and God will through himself honor him; he will honor him immediately.

Do you not believe that I am in union with the Father and the Father is in union with me? I am not the source of the words that I say to you, but the Father who is united with me is doing these things himself.

but when the Spirit of Truth comes, he will guide you into the full truth, for he will not speak for himself but will tell what he hears, and will announce to you the things that are to come.

for the Father loves you himself because you love me and believe that I have come from the Father.

As it was cold the slaves and attendants had made a charcoal fire, and stood about it warming themselves. And Peter also was among them, standing and warming himself.

But Simon Peter still stood warming himself. So they said to him, "Are you also one of his disciples?" He denied it and said, "No, I am not."

The Jews answered, "We have a law, and by our law he deserves death, for declaring himself to be a son of God."

This made Pilate try to find a way to let him go, but the Jews shouted, "If you let him go, you are no friend of the emperor's! Anyone who calls himself a king utters treason against the emperor!"

and he went out carrying the cross by himself to a spot called the Place of the Skull, or in Hebrew, Golgotha.

After this Jesus again showed himself to the disciples at the Sea of Tiberias, and he did so in this way.

This was the third time that Jesus showed himself to his disciples, after he had risen from the dead.

He had shown himself alive to them after he had suffered, in many convincing ways, appearing to them through forty days, and telling them about the Kingdom of God.

On their second visit, Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and Pharaoh learned of Joseph's parentage.

Even Simon himself believed and after his baptism devoted himself to Philip, and he was amazed at seeing such signs and great wonders taking place.

"Tell me, of whom is the prophet speaking?" said the eunuch to Philip, "Of himself, or of someone else?"

while Philip found himself at Ashdod and went on telling the good news in all the towns all the way to Caesarea.

Then Peter came to himself, and he said, "Now I am certain that the Lord sent his angel and rescued me from the power of Herod and all that the Jewish people were expecting."

though he did not fail to give some evidence about himself, through his kindnesses to you, in sending you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, giving you food and happiness to your heart's content."

It woke up the jailer, and when he saw that the doors of the jail were open, he drew his sword and was just going to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.

nor is he waited on by human hands as though he were in need of anything, for he himself gives all men life and breath and everything.

Paul wanted to go before the people himself, but the disciples would not allow it.

But Paul went downstairs, and threw himself upon him, and put his arms around him. "Do not be alarmed," he said, "he is still alive."

Then the men who had been going to examine him immediately left him, and the colonel himself was alarmed to find that Paul was a Roman citizen and that he had had him bound.

Festus answered that Paul was being kept in custody at Caesarea, and that he himself was going there soon.

I told them that it was not the Roman custom to give anybody up until the accused met his accusers face to face and had a chance to defend himself against their accusations.

When we reached Rome, Paul was given permission to live by himself, with a soldier to guard him.

For God showed him publicly dying as a sacrifice of reconciliation to be taken advantage of through faith. This was to vindicate his own justice (for in his forbearance, God passed over men's former sins)??26 to vindicate his justice at the present time, and show that he is upright himself, and that he makes those who have faith in Jesus upright also.