For the heart of his people is made fat, Their ears are dull of hearing; Their eyes, too, have they closed, Lest some day their eyes should perceive, And their ears should hear, And their heart should understand and turn, And I should heal them.

"Just so it is not the will of my Father in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

"But he would not; on the contrary he went and threw him into prison until he should pay the debt.

"Then in hot anger his master handed him over to the torturers, until he should pay him all his debt.

"If at that time any one should say to you, 'See, here is the Christ!' or 'There he is!' believe him not.

But if, because he is a bad slave, he should say to himself, 'My Master is a long time in coming,'

Then you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my property with interest.

"If this should reach the Governor's ears," they said, "we will satisfy him and screen you from punishment."

so that, "for all their looking they may not see, and for all their hearing, they may not understand, lest perchance they should turn and be pardoned.

"It is with the kingdom of God," he continued, "as if a man should have sown seed in the earth;

Jesus and his disciples, after leaving that place, passed through Galilee; but he was unwilling that any one should know it,

keep watch then, for you do not know when the master of the house is coming??n the evening, at midnight, at cockcrow, or in the morning??36 lest he should come unexpectedly and find you sleeping;

but, "Not on a feast-day," they said, "for fear there should be a riot among the people."

Then they crucified him, and divided his garments among them, casting lots upon them to see what each should take.

"But why is this honor done me, that the mother of my Lord should come me?

"That he we should be delivered out of the Hand of our enemies, And should serve him without fear,

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

And when it was daybreak he left the town, and went away to a solitary place; and the crowd kept seeking him. Coming at length upon him, they attempted to detain him so that he should not leave them.

And they, when they reached Jesus, asked him earnestly to do this. "He deserves that you should do this," they said,

So Jesus started to go with them, but while he was not far from the house, the captain sent friends to him with a message. "Lord do not trouble yourself, for I am not fit that you should come under my roof,

"But if that slave should say to himself, 'My master delays his coming,' and should begin to beat the men and the maids, and to eat and drink and to get drunk,

So he said to the gardener. "'See, for years I have come looking for fruit on this tree, and found none. Cut it down. Why should it actually cumber the ground?'

"'But it was fitting that we should make merry and rejoice, for this brother of yours was dead and is alive; he was lost and is found.'"

"'If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets,' said Father Abraham, 'neither will they be persuaded if one should rise from the dead.'"

Jesus said to his disciples. "It is not possible but that occasions of stumbling should occur, but woe to him through whom they come!

"It were well for him if a millstone were tied about his neck, and he were hurled into the sea, rather than he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.

"Even so, you also, after you have done all the things that are commanded you, should say, 'We are but slaves, we have only done what it was our duty to do.'"

"On that day, if a man is on the housetop and his goods inside, let him not go down to take them away; nor should a man in the field turn back.

"I tell you," he answered, "that if these should hold their peace, the very stones would cry out."

"Teacher, Moses wrote a law for us that if a man's brother should die, but leave no children, his brother should take up his wife and raise up his children for his brother.

But they kept shouting the more insistently, demanding that he should be crucified, and their shouts won the day.

So Pilate gave sentence what they wished should be done.

But their eyes continued to be held that they should not recognize him even for an instant,

"But we were hoping that it was he who should redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this is the third day since these things happened.

and he said: "Thus it is written that the Christ should suffer and rise again from the dead, the third day;

"and that repentance unto remission of sins should be preached in his name unto all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

"For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever trusts in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

"And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should not lose one of all those whom he has given me, but should raise them up at the last day.

"Yet there are some of you who do not believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who it was who should betray him.

Now he said this concerning the Spirit whom those who believed in him should receive. For the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

"You are not acquainted with him; I know him. Were I to say, 'I do not know him,' I should be like you, a liar. But I do know him, and I obey his teaching.

"Your father Abraham rejoiced that he should see my day; and he saw it and was glad."

This his parents said because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if any one should confess that he was the Christ, he should be expelled from the synagogue.

Jesus answered her, "Did I not tell you that if you would believe you should see the glory of God?"

"You know nothing at all, nor do you consider that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, rather than the whole nation be destroyed."

Now the chief priests and Pharisees had given orders that if any one knew where he was. he should give information, so that they might arrest him.

"The hour is come that the Son of man should be glorified.

He hath blinded their eyes and make their hearts hard, Lest they should see with their eyes, perceive with their minds, And should turn, and I should heal them.

Now just before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his hour was come when he should leave this world to go to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, showed forth his love to the end.

(For he knew who should betray him, for that reason he said that they were not every one of them clean.)

for I have given you an example, that you also should do what I have done to you.

for some were thinking, as Judas kept the purse, that Jesus meant to tell him, "Buy the things that we need for the feast," or that he should give something to the poor.

"You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

and led him to Annas first. (For Annas was the Father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was the high priest that year??14 the Caiaphas who had advised the Jews that it was for their advantage that one man should die for the people.)

In reply they said, "If he had not been a criminal, we should not have handed him over you."

Jesus answered him. "My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants have fought hard that I should not be handed the Jews; but in reality my kingdom is not of such origins."

"You are a king, then? You!" said Pilate. "You say truly that I am a king." answered Jesus, "for this purpose I was born, and to this end came I into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Every man who is of the truth listens to my voice."

Accordingly the report spread among the brothers that this disciple should not die; but Jesus did not say that he was not to die, but said, "If I choose that he remain until I come, what is that to you?"

from his baptism by John down to the day on which he was taken up from us, one should join us a witness to his resurrection."

"But God has thus fulfilled what he foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer.

"In this very city they did gather together against thy holy Servant, Jesus whom thou hast anointed??erod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and also the tribes of Israel??28 "to do all that thy power and thy will had predetermined should be done.

"He dealt craftily with our race, and oppressed our forefathers, by making them expose their infants so that they should not live.

To them he said: "You know, yourselves, that it is illegal for a Jew to associate with or to visit one of another nation; but God has taught me that I should not call any man common or unclean. For this reason, when sent for, I came without demur.

"Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish, For in your days I will do a deed, A deed which you will never believe, Though one should declare it unto you."

"but that we should write to them to abstain from the pollution of idols and from fornication, from meat killed by strangling, and from blood.

Now Paul, wishing that this man should accompany him on his journey, took him and circumcised him because of the local Jews, who all knew that his father was a Greek.

"The times of ignorance God overlooked, but he now commands all men that they should all, everywhere, repent;

sorrowing most of all for the words that he had spoken, that after that day they should look upon his face no more. And they began to escort him to the ship.

We looked up the local disciples and remained there seven days; and these disciples kept telling Paul, through the Spirit, that he should not set foot in Jerusalem.

"As for the Gentile believers, we wrote giving judgment that they should abstain from anything sacrificed to an idol, from blood, from what is strangled, and from fornication."

And he gave orders to the centurion that Paul should be kept in custody, but treated with indulgence, and that his personal friends were not to be forbidden to minister to him.

"I should like to hear the man, myself," said Agrippa to Festus. Festus answered, "You shall hear him tomorrow."

"But having obtained the help that comes from God, I stand even to this day witnessing both to small and great, saying nothing except what the prophets and Moses said should come;

"how that the Christ must suffer, and how he should be the first to rise from the dead, and should bring a message of light to the Jewish people and to the Gentiles."

When it was decided that we should sail for Italy, they proceeded to hand over Paul and a few other prisoners to the custody of Julius, a centurion of the Imperial Regiment.

After hauling it aboard, they used ropes to undergird the ship, and since they were fearful lest they should be driven upon the Syrtes, they lowered the gear and lay to.

Then when for many days neither sun nor stars were seen, and a great tempest still beat upon us, all hope that we should be saved was now taken away from us.

Then, fearing lest we should run ashore on the rocks, they threw out four anchors from the stern, and longed for day to come.

Now the soldiers were planning to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim off and so escape.

But the centurion kept them from their purpose, because he wished to save Paul. He gave orders that those who could swim should first jump overboard and get to land;

and that the rest should follow, some on planks and some on other bits of wreckage. And so it came to pass that all escaped safe to the land.

For this people's heart is grown obtuse, Their ears are heavy of hearing, Their eyes have they closed, Lest they should see with their eyes And hear with their ears, Lest they understand with their heart, And turn again, and heal them.

You who are preaching that a man should not steal, do you practise theft?

You who keep saying that a man should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who hold idols in abhorrence, are you plundering their temples?

For the promise that he should be heir of the world did not come to Abraham or to his posterity through law, but through faith-righteousness.

We have been buried together with him, then, through baptism into his death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we should live in a newness of life.

For this we know, that our old self was crucified with Christ, in order that the slave of sin might be destroyed; so that we should no longer be in slavery to sin??7 for he who is dead is set free from sin.

So also, my brother, you were made dead to the Law through the body of Christ; that you should be joined to another, even to Him who was raised from the dead that we might bear fruit for God.

What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? Certainly not. On the contrary I should not have become acquainted with sin had it not been for the Law; for except the Law had repeatedly said, "Thou shalt not lust," I should never have known the sin of lust.

and the very commandment which should have meant life, this I found to mean death.

For you have not received a spirit of slavery in order that you should once more be afraid; but you have received a spirit of adoption, in which we cry out, "My Father, my dear Father!"

Even as in an earlier passage, Isaiah says, Except the Lord of Sabbath had us some few descendants, we should have become like Sodom, and should have fared like Gomorrah.

According as it is written, God has given them a spirit of slumber, Eyes that they should not see, Ears that they should not hear, unto this day.

Every one should be in the higher authorities; for there is no authority apart from God. The authorities that now exist have been appointed by God.

and so that the Gentiles also should praise God for his mercy, as it is written, Therefore I will offer praise to thee among the Gentiles, And sing to thy name.

I beg you to give her a Christian welcome, as the saints should; and to assist her in any matter in which she may have need of you. For she herself has been made an overseer to many people, including myself.

For Christ did not think I baptized any one else. For Christ did not send me forth to baptize, but to proclaim the gospel; and that not in philosophic words, lest the Cross of Christ should be made an empty thing.

so that no mortal man should glory in his presence.

in order that your faith should rest, not on human philosophy, but on the power of God.

For what man understands the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct Him?