Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and you have left undone the weightier matters of the Law, judgment, mercy, and faith. You ought to have done these and not to leave the other undone.

Then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ! Or, There! Do not believe it.

And I was afraid and went and hid your talent in the earth. Lo, you have yours.

And he who betrayed Him gave them a sign, saying, Whomever I shall kiss, He is the one, lay hold on Him.

In that hour Jesus said to the crowds, Have you come out in order to take Me with swords and clubs, as against a thief? I sat daily with you, teaching in the temple, and you did not lay hands on Me.

He is not here, for He has risen, as He said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.

And go quickly and tell His disciples that He has risen from the dead. And, behold, He goes before you into Galilee. There you shall see Him. Lo, I have told you.

But Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever, and at once they told Him about her.

And he begged Him greatly, saying, My little daughter lies at the point of death. Come, lay Your hands on her, so that she may be healed, and she shall live.

And when she had come to her house, she found the demon had gone out, and her daughter lay on the couch.

Then Peter began to say to Him, Lo, we have left all and have followed You.

And then if anyone shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ! Or, lo, there! Do not believe him.

Rise up, let us go. Lo, he who betrays Me is at hand.

they will take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not hurt them. They will lay hands on the sick, and they will be well.

For lo, as the voice of your greeting sounded in my ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.

And lo, the angel of the Lord came on them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them. And they were grievously afraid.

And when the days of her purification according to the Law of Moses were fulfilled, they brought Him to Jerusalem, to present Him to the Lord

(as it is written in the Law of the Lord, Every male that opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord)

and to offer a sacrifice according to that said in the Law of the Lord, A pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons.

And he came by the Spirit into the temple. And as the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do according to the custom of the Law concerning Him,

And when they had finished all things according to the Law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth.

Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low, and the crooked shall be straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth.

And it happened on one of the days, even He was teaching. And Pharisees and teachers of the Law were sitting by, who had come out of every village of Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was there, for the curing of them.

And behold, men carrying, on a cot, a man who was paralyzed. And they sought to bring him in and to lay him before Him.

And immediately he rose up before them and took up that on which he lay. And he departed to his own house, glorifying God.

For he had an only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay dying. But as He went, the people thronged Him.

And lo, a spirit takes him, and he suddenly cries out. And it throws him into convulsions, with foaming, and with pain departs from him, bruising him.

And Jesus said to him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.

He said to him, What is written in the Law? How do you read it?

The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham whom Satan has bound, lo these eighteen years, be loosened from this bond on the Sabbath day?

And answering he said to his father, Lo, these many years I have served you, neither did I transgress your commandment at any time. And yet you never gave me a kid so that I might make merry with my friends.

The Law and the Prophets were until John. Since that time the kingdom of God is proclaimed, and everyone is pressing into it.

And it is easier for the heaven and earth to pass than for one tittle of the Law to fail.

Nor shall they say, Lo here! or, behold, there! For behold, the kingdom of God is in your midst.

And they shall say to you, Lo, here! or, behold, there! Do not go away, nor follow.

And Peter said, Lo, we have left all and have followed You.

For I feared you, because you are a harsh man. You take up what you did not lay down, and you reap what you did not sow.

And the chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on Him the same hour. And they feared the people, for they perceived that He had spoken this parable against them.

But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for My name's sake.

no, nor even Herod, for I sent you to him, and lo, nothing worthy of death has been done by Him.

And He said to them, These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and in the Prophets and in the Psalms about Me.

For the Law came through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Philip found Nathanael and said to him, We have found Him of whom Moses wrote in the Law and the Prophets, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.

In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, of blind, lame, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.

Did not Moses give you the Law? And yet not one of you keeps the Law! Why do you seek to kill Me?

If a man receives circumcision on the sabbath day so that the Law of Moses should not be broken, are you angry at Me because I have made a man entirely sound on the sabbath day?

But lo, he speaks publicly, and they say nothing to him. Perhaps the rulers truly know that this is the Christ indeed?

But this crowd, not knowing the Law, is cursed.

Does our law judge the Man before it hears Him and knows what He does?

Now Moses in the Law commanded us that such should be stoned. You, then, what do you say?

It is also written in your Law that the testimony of two men is true.

You are of the Devil as father, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and did not abide in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own, for he is a liar and the father of it.

Even as the Father knows Me, I also know the Father. And I lay down My life for the sheep.

Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life so that I might take it again.

No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down from Myself. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it again. I have received this commandment from My Father.

Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your Law, "I said, You are gods?"

Then Jesus, groaning in Himself again, came to the tomb. And it was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.

The crowd answered Him, We have heard out of the Law that Christ lives forever. How do you say, The Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?

Peter said to Him, Lord, why cannot I follow You now? I will lay down my life for Your sake.

Jesus answered him, Will you lay down your life for My sake? Truly, truly, I say to you, The cock shall not crow until you have denied Me three times.

No one has greater love than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

But that the Word might be fulfilled that is written in their Law, "They hated Me without a cause."

The disciples said to Him, Lo, now You speak plainly and speak no parable.

And they led Him away to Annas first, for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas, who was the high priest that year.

Then Pilate said to them, You take him and judge him according to your Law. Then the Jews said to him, It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death

The Jews answered him, We have a Law, and by our Law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.

But Peter said, Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart for you to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

Then there stood up one in the sanhedrin, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a doctor of the Law honored among all the people. And he commanded the apostles to be put outside a little space.

And they set up false witnesses, who said, This man does not cease speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the Law.

who received the Law through disposition of angels, and did not keep it.

And kneeling down, he cried with a loud voice, Lord, do not lay this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

saying, Give me this power also, that on whomever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Spirit.

And after the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, Men, brothers, if you have any word of comfort for the people, speak.

And by Him all who believe are justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the Law of Moses.

But speaking boldly, Paul and Barnabas said, It was necessary for the Word of God to be spoken to you first. But since indeed you put it far from you and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the nations.

But some of those from the sect of the Pharisees, having believed, rose up, saying, It was necessary to circumcise them and to command them to keep the Law of Moses.

Because we have heard that certain ones who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, Be circumcised and keep the law! (to whom we gave no such command);

For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay on you no greater burden than these necessary things:

saying, This one persuades men to worship God contrary to the Law.

But if it is a question of a word and names, and of your law, you look to it. For I do not wish to be a judge of such things.

And hearing, they glorified the Lord, and said to him, You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are who believe, and they are all zealous of the Law.

taking them, be purified with them, and be at expense for them, so that they may shave their heads. And all may know that what they have been told about you is nothing, but you yourself also walk orderly and keep the Law.

crying out, Men, Israelites, help! This is the man who teaches all everywhere against the people and the Law and this place. And even he brought Greeks into the temple and has polluted this holy place.

I am truly a man, a Jew born in Tarsus in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, taught according to the exactness of the Law of the fathers, being a zealous one of God, as you all are today.

And one Ananias, a devout man according to the Law, testified to by all the Jews who lived there,

Then Paul said to him, God shall strike you, whitened wall! For do you sit judging me according to the Law, and against law command me to be stricken?

whom I found be accused of questions of their law, and having no charge worthy of death or of bonds.

who also attempted to profane the temple, whom we took and would have judged according to our Law.

But I confess this to you, that after the Way which they call heresy, so I worship the God of my fathers, believing all things that are written in the Law and in the Prophets.

Defending himself, Paul said, Neither against the Law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar have I offended in anything.

And they having appointed him a day, many came to him in his lodging; to whom he expounded, testifying the kingdom of God, and persuading them the things concerning Jesus, both out of the Law of Moses and out of the Prophets, from morning until evening.

For they changed the truth of God into a lie, and they worshiped and served the created thing more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

For as many as sinned without Law will also perish without Law. And as many as have sinned within Law shall be judged through Law.

For it is not the hearers of the Law who are just before God, but the doers of the Law will be justified.

For when the nations, who do not have the Law, do by nature the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law unto themselves;

who show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and the thoughts between one another accusing or even excusing one another,

Behold, you are called a Jew, and rest in the Law, and boast in God;

and know His will and approve the things excelling, being instructed out of the Law;

an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, who have the form of knowledge and of the truth in the Law.