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And he that had received the five talents went and trafficked with them, and made five other talents.


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And he that had received the five talents came to <n>[him]</n> and brought five other talents, saying, <n>[My]</n> lord, thou deliveredst me five talents; behold, I have gained five other talents besides them.


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His lord said to him, Well, good and faithful bondman, thou wast faithful over a few things, I will set thee over many things enter into the joy of thy lord.


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And he also that had received the two talents came to <n>[him]</n> and said, <n>[My]</n> lord, thou deliveredst me two talents; behold, I have gained two other talents besides them.


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His lord said to him, Well, good and faithful bondman, thou wast faithful over a few things, I will set thee over many things enter thou into the joy of thy lord.


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And he also that had received the one talent coming to <n>[him]</n> said, <n>[My]</n> lord, I knew thee that thou art a hard man, reaping where thou hadst not sowed, and gathering from where thou hadst not scattered,


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and being afraid I went away and hid thy talent in the earth; behold, thou hast that which is thine.


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And his lord answering said to him, Wicked and slothful bondman, thou knewest that I reap where I had not sowed, and gather from where I had not scattered;


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thou oughtest then to have put my money to the money-changers, and when I came I should have got what is mine with interest.


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for to every one that has shall be given, and he shall be in abundance; but from him that has not, that even which he has shall be taken from him.


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And cast out the useless bondman into the outer darkness; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.


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But when the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then shall he sit down upon his throne of glory,


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and all the nations shall be gathered before him; and he shall separate them from one another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats;


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Then shall the King say to those on his right hand, Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from <n>[the]</n> world's foundation


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for I hungered, and ye gave me to eat; I thirsted, and ye gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in;


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Then shall the righteous answer him saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungering, and nourished thee; or thirsting, and gave thee to drink?


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And the King answering shall say to them, Verily, I say to you, Inasmuch as ye have done it to one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it to me.


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Then shall he say also to those on the left, Go from me, cursed, into eternal fire, prepared for the devil and his angels


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I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye did not clothe me; ill, and in prison, and ye did not visit me.


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Then shall *they* also answer saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungering, or thirsting, or a stranger, or naked, or ill, or in prison, and have not ministered to thee?


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Then shall he answer them saying, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye have not done it to one of these least, neither have ye done it to me.


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Ye know that after two days the passover takes place, and the Son of man is delivered up to be crucified.


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Then the chief priests and the elders of the people were gathered together to the palace of the high priest who was called Caiaphas,


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a woman, having an alabaster flask of very precious ointment, came to him and poured it out upon his head as he lay at table.


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But Jesus knowing <n>[it]</n> said to them, Why do ye trouble the woman? for she has wrought a good work toward me.


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Verily I say to you, Wheresoever these glad tidings may be preached in the whole world, that also which this <n>[woman]</n> has done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.


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and said, What are ye willing to give me, and *I* will deliver him up to you? And they appointed to him thirty pieces of silver.


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Now on the first <n>[day]</n> of <n>[the feast of]</n> unleavened bread, the disciples came to Jesus, saying, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover?


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And he said, Go into the city unto such a one, and say to him, The Teacher says, My time is near, I will keep the passover in thy house with my disciples.


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But he answering said, He that dips his hand with me in the dish, *he* it is who shall deliver me up.


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The Son of man goes indeed, according as it is written concerning him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is delivered up; it were good for that man if he had not been born.


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And Judas, who delivered him up, answering said, Is it *I*, Rabbi? He says to him, *Thou* hast said.


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And as they were eating, Jesus, having taken <n>[the]</n> bread and blessed, broke <n>[it]</n> and gave <n>[it]</n> to the disciples, and said, Take, eat this is my body.


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And having taken <n>[the]</n> cup and given thanks, he gave <n>[it]</n> to them, saying, Drink ye all of it.


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But I say to you, that I will not at all drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in the kingdom of my Father.


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Then saith Jesus to them, All *ye* shall be offended in me during this night. For it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.


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Jesus said to him, Verily I say to thee, that during this night, before <n>[the]</n> cock shall crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.


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Peter says to him, If I should needs die with thee, I will in no wise deny thee. Likewise said all the disciples also.


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Then Jesus comes with them to a place called Gethsemane, and says to the disciples, Sit here until I go away and pray yonder.


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And taking with <n>[him]</n> Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and deeply depressed.


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And going forward a little he fell upon his face, praying and saying, My Father, if it be possible let this cup pass from me; but not as *I* will, but as *thou* <n>[wilt]</n>.


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And he comes to the disciples and finds them sleeping, and says to Peter, Thus ye have not been able to watch one hour with me?


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Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation the spirit indeed <n>[is]</n> ready, but the flesh weak.


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Again going away a second time he prayed saying, My Father, if this cannot pass <n>[from me]</n> unless I drink it, thy will be done.


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Then he comes to the disciples and says to them, Sleep on now and take your rest; behold, the hour has drawn nigh, and the Son of man is delivered up into the hands of sinners.


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And while he was yet speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great crowd with swords and sticks from the chief priests and elders of the people.


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Now he that delivered him up had given them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, he it is seize him.


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But Jesus said to him, <n>[My]</n> friend, for what purpose art thou come? Then coming up they laid hands upon Jesus and seized him.


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And behold, one of those with Jesus stretched out his hand and drew his sword, and smiting the bondman of the high priest took off his ear.


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Then saith Jesus to him, Return thy sword to its place; for all who take the sword shall perish by the sword.


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Or thinkest thou that I cannot now call upon my Father, and he will furnish me more than twelve legions of angels?


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In that hour Jesus said to the crowds, Are ye come out as against a robber with swords and sticks to take me? I sat daily <n>[with you]</n> teaching in the temple, and ye did not seize me.


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But all this is come to pass that the scriptures of the prophets may be fulfilled. Then all the disciples left him and fled.


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Now they that had seized Jesus led <n>[him]</n> away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled.


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And Peter followed him at a distance, even to the palace of the high priest, and entering in sat with the officers to see the end.


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And the chief priests and the elders and the whole sanhedrim sought false witness against Jesus, so that they might put him to death.


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And they found none, though many false witnesses came forward. But at the last two false witnesses came forward


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And the high priest standing up said to him, Answerest thou nothing? What do these witness against thee?


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But Jesus was silent. And the high priest answering said to him, I adjure thee by the living God that thou tell us if *thou* art the Christ the Son of God.


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Jesus says to him, *Thou* hast said. Moreover, I say to you, From henceforth ye shall see the Son of man sitting at the right hand of power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.


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Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He has blasphemed what need have we any more of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard the blasphemy.


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But Peter sat without in the palace-court; and a maid came to him, saying, And *thou* wast with Jesus the Galilaean.


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And when he had gone out into the entrance, another <n>[maid]</n> saw him, and says to those there, This <n>[man]</n> also was with Jesus the Nazaraean.


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And after a little, those who stood <n>[there]</n>, coming to <n>[him]</n>, said to Peter, Truly *thou* too art of them, for also thy speech makes thee manifest.


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And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, who had said <n>[to him]</n>, Before <n>[the]</n> cock crow thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went forth without, and wept bitterly.


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And when it was morning all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus so that they might put him to death.


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Then Judas, who delivered him up, seeing that he had been condemned, filled with remorse, returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders,


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saying, I have sinned <n>[in]</n> having delivered up guiltless blood. But they said, What is that to us? see *thou* <n>[to that]</n>.


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And having cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, he left the place, and went away and hanged himself.


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And the chief priests took the pieces of silver and said, It is not lawful to cast them into the Corban, since it is <n>[the]</n> price of blood.


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And having taken counsel, they bought with them the field of the potter for a burying-ground for strangers.


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Then was fulfilled that which was spoken through Jeremias the prophet, saying, And I took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was set a price on, whom <n>[they who were]</n> of the sons of Israel had set a price on,


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But Jesus stood before the governor. And the governor questioned him, saying, Art *thou* the King of the Jews? And Jesus said to him, Thou sayest.


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Now at <n>[the]</n> feast the governor was accustomed to release one prisoner to the crowd, whom they would.


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They therefore being gathered together, Pilate said to them, Whom will ye that I release to you, Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?


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But, as he was sitting on the judgment-seat, his wife sent to him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that righteous <n>[man]</n>; for I have suffered to-day many things in a dream because of him.


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But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds that they should beg for Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.


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And the governor answering said to them, Which of the two will ye that I release unto you? And they said, Barabbas.


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Pilate says to them, What then shall I do with Jesus, who is called Christ? They all say, Let him be crucified.


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And the governor said, What evil then has he done? But they cried more than ever, saying, Let him be crucified.


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And Pilate, seeing that it availed nothing, but that rather a tumult was arising, having taken water, washed his hands before the crowd, saying, I am guiltless of the blood of this righteous one see *ye* <n>[to it]</n>.


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Then he released to them Barabbas; but Jesus, having scourged <n>[him]</n>, he delivered up that he might be crucified.


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Then the soldiers of the governor, having taken Jesus with <n>[them]</n> to the praetorium, gathered against him the whole band,


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and having woven a crown out of thorns, they put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and, bowing the knee before him, they mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!


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And when they had mocked him, they took the cloak off him, and put his own clothes on him, and led him away to crucify.


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And as they went forth they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name; him they compelled to go <n>[with them]</n> that he might bear his cross.


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they gave to him to drink vinegar mingled with gall; and having tasted <n>[it]</n>, he would not drink.


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and saying, Thou that destroyest the temple and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou art Son of God, descend from the cross.


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He saved others, himself he cannot save. He is King of Israel let him descend now from the cross, and we will believe on him.


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He trusted upon God; let him save him now if he will <n>[have]</n> him. For he said, I am Son of God.


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Now from <n>[the]</n> sixth hour there was darkness over the whole land until <n>[the]</n> ninth hour;


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but about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?


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And some of those who stood there, when they heard <n>[it]</n>, said, This <n>[man]</n> calls for Elias.


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And immediately one of them running and getting a sponge, having filled <n>[it]</n> with vinegar and fixed <n>[it]</n> on a reed, gave him to drink.


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And lo, the veil of the temple was rent in two from the top to the bottom, and the earth was shaken, and the rocks were rent,


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But the centurion, and they who were with him on guard over Jesus, seeing the earthquake and the things that took place, feared greatly, saying, Truly this <n>[man]</n> was Son of God.


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And there were there many women beholding from afar off, who had followed Jesus from Galilee ministering to him,


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among whom was Mary of Magdala, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.


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Now when even was come there came a rich man of Arimathaea, his name Joseph, who also himself was a disciple to Jesus.


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and laid it in his new tomb which he had hewn in the rock; and having rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, went away.


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Now on the morrow, which is after the preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees came together to Pilate,


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saying, Sir, we have called to mind that that deceiver said when he was still alive, After three days I arise.


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Command therefore that the sepulchre be secured until the third day, lest his disciples should come and steal him away, and say to the people, He is risen from the dead; and the last error shall be worse than the first.


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Now late on sabbath, as it was the dusk of the next day after sabbath, came Mary of Magdala and the other Mary to look at the sepulchre.


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And behold, there was a great earthquake; for an angel of <n>[the]</n> Lord, descending out of heaven, came and rolled away the stone and sat upon it.


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And the angel answering said to the women, Fear not *ye*, for I know that ye seek Jesus the crucified one.


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And go quickly and say to his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and behold, he goes before you into Galilee, there shall ye see him. Behold, I have told you.


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And as they went to bring his disciples word, behold also, Jesus met them, saying, Hail! And they coming up took him by the feet, and did him homage.


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Then Jesus says to them, Fear not; go, bring word to my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there they shall see me.


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And as they went, behold, some of the watch went into the city, and brought word to the chief priests of all that had taken place.


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And having assembled with the elders, and having taken counsel, they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers,


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And if this should come to the hearing of the governor, *we* will persuade him, and save *you* from all anxiety.


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And they took the money and did as they had been taught. And this report is current among the Jews until this day.


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Go <n>[therefore]</n> and make disciples of all the nations, baptising them to the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit;


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teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have enjoined you. And behold, *I* am with you all the days, until the completion of the age.


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as it is written in <n>[Isaiah]</n> the prophet, Behold, *I* send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way.


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Voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare the way of <n>[the]</n> Lord, make his paths straight.


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There came John baptising in the wilderness, and preaching <n>[the]</n> baptism of repentance for remission of sins.


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And there went out to him all the district of Judaea, and all they of Jerusalem, and were baptised by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.


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And John was clothed in camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins, and ate locusts and wild honey.


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And he preached, saying, There comes he that is mightier than I after me, the thong of whose sandals I am not fit to stoop down and unloose.


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And it came to pass in those days <n>[that]</n> Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptised by John at the Jordan.


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And straightway going up from the water, he saw the heavens parting asunder, and the Spirit, as a dove, descending upon him.


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And there came a voice out of the heavens *Thou* art my beloved Son, in thee I have found my delight.


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And he was in the wilderness forty days tempted by Satan, and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered to him.


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But after John was delivered up, Jesus came into Galilee preaching the glad tidings of the kingdom of God,


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and saying, The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God has drawn nigh; repent and believe in the glad tidings.


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And walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon, and Andrew, <n>[Simon's]</n> brother, casting out a net in the sea, for they were fishers.


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And going on thence a little, he saw James the <n>[son]</n> of Zebedee, and John his brother, and these <n>[were]</n> in the ship repairing the trawl-nets;


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and straightway he called them; and leaving their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, they went away after him.


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And they go into Capernaum. And straightway on the sabbath he entered into the synagogue and taught.


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And they were astonished at his doctrine, for he taught them as having authority, and not as the scribes.


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saying, Eh! what have we to do with thee, Jesus, Nazarene? Art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the holy one of God.


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And all were amazed, so that they questioned together among themselves, saying, What is this? what new doctrine is this? for with authority he commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him.


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And straightway going out of the synagogue, they came with James and John into the house of Simon and Andrew.


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And he went up to <n>[her]</n> and raised her up, having taken her by the hand, and straightway the fever left her, and she served them.


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But evening being come, when the sun had gone down, they brought to him all that were suffering, and those possessed by demons;


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And he healed many suffering from various diseases; and he cast out many demons, and did not suffer the demons to speak because they knew him.


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And rising in the morning long before day, he went out and went away into a desert place, and there prayed.


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And he says to them, Let us go elsewhere into the neighbouring country towns, that I may preach there also, for for this purpose am I come forth.


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And there comes to him a leper, beseeching him, and falling on his knees to him, and saying to him, If thou wilt thou canst cleanse me.


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But Jesus, moved with compassion, having stretched out his hand, touched him, and says to him, I will, be thou cleansed.


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and says to him, See thou say nothing to any one, but go, shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing what Moses ordained, for a testimony to them.


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But he, having gone forth, began to proclaim <n>[it]</n> much, and to spread the matter abroad, so that he could no longer enter openly into the city, but was without in desert places, and they came to him from every side.


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And he entered again into Capernaum after <n>[several]</n> days, and it was reported that he was at <n>[the]</n> house;


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and straightway many were gathered together, so that there was no longer any room, not even at the door; and he spoke the word to them.


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and, not being able to get near to him on account of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where he was, and having dug <n>[it]</n> up they let down the couch on which the paralytic lay.


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And straightway Jesus, knowing in his spirit that they are reasoning thus within themselves, said to them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts?


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Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, <n>[Thy]</n> sins are forgiven <n>[thee]</n>; or to say, Arise, and take up thy couch and walk?


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But that ye may know that the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins, he says to the paralytic,


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And he rose up straightway, and, having taken up his couch, went out before <n>[them]</n> all, so that all were amazed, and glorified God, saying, We never saw it thus.


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And passing by, he saw Levi the <n>[son]</n> of Alphaeus sitting at the tax-office, and says to him, Follow me. And he rose up and followed him.


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And it came to pass as he lay at table in his house, that many tax-gatherers and sinners lay at table with Jesus and his disciples; for they were many, and they followed him.


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And the scribes and the Pharisees, seeing him eating with sinners and tax-gatherers, said to his disciples, Why <n>[is it]</n> that he eats and drinks with tax-gatherers and sinners?


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And Jesus having heard <n>[it]</n> says to them, They that are strong have not need of a physician, but those who are ill. I have not come to call righteous <n>[men]</n>, but sinners.


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And the disciples of John and the Pharisees were fasting; and they come and say to him, Why do the disciples of John and <n>[the disciples]</n> of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not?


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And Jesus said to them, Can the sons of the bride-chamber fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them they cannot fast.


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But days will come when the bridegroom shall have been taken away from them, and then shall they fast in that day.


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No one sews a patch of new cloth on an old garment otherwise its new filling-up takes from the old <n>[stuff]</n>, and there is a worse rent.


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And no one puts new wine into old skins; otherwise the wine bursts the skins, and the wine is poured out, and the skins will be destroyed; but new wine is to be put into new skins.


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And it came to pass that he went on the sabbath through the cornfields; and his disciples began to walk on, plucking the ears.


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And *he* said to them, Have ye never read what David did when he had need and hungered, *he* and those with him,


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how he entered into the house of God, in <n>[the section of]</n> Abiathar <n>[the]</n> high priest, and ate the shew-bread, which it is not lawful unless for the priests to eat, and gave even to those that were with him?


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And he says to them, Is it lawful on the sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill? But they were silent.


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And looking round upon them with anger, distressed at the hardening of their heart, he says to the man, Stretch out thy hand. And he stretched <n>[it]</n> out, and his hand was restored.


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And the Pharisees going out straightway with the Herodians took counsel against him, how they might destroy him.


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And Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea; and a great multitude from Galilee followed him, and from Judaea,


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and from Jerusalem, and from Idumaea and beyond the Jordan; and they of around Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, having heard what things he did, came to him.


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And he spoke to his disciples, in order that a little ship should wait upon him on account of the crowd, that they might not press upon him.


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And the unclean spirits, when they beheld him, fell down before him, and cried saying, *Thou* art the Son of God.


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and James the <n>[son]</n> of Zebedee, and John the brother of James, and he gave them the surname of Boanerges, that is, Sons of thunder;


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and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the <n>[son]</n> of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Cananaean,


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And his relatives having heard <n>[of it]</n> went out to lay hold on him, for they said, He is out of his mind.


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And the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem said, He has Beelzebub, and, By the prince of the demons he casts out demons.


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But no one can, having entered into his house, plunder the goods of the strong <n>[man]</n> unless he first bind the strong <n>[man]</n>, and then he will plunder his house.


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Verily I say unto you, that all sins shall be forgiven to the sons of men, and all the injurious speeches <n>[with]</n> which they may speak injuriously;


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but whosoever shall speak injuriously against the Holy Spirit, to eternity has no forgiveness; but lies under the guilt of an everlasting sin;


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And a crowd sat around him. And they said to him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren seek thee without.


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And looking around in a circuit at those that were sitting around him, he says, Behold my mother and my brethren


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And again he began to teach by the sea. And a great crowd was gathered together to him, so that going on board ship he sat in the sea, and all the crowd were close to the sea on the land.


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And another fell on the rocky ground, where it had not much earth, and immediately it sprung up out <n>[of the ground]</n> because it had no depth of earth;


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And another fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing; and bore, one thirty, and one sixty, and one a hundred.


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And he said to them, To you is given <n>[to know]</n> the mystery of the kingdom of God; but to them who are without, all things are done in parables,


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that beholding they may behold and not see, and hearing they may hear and not understand, lest it may be, they should be converted and they should be forgiven.


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And he says to them, Do ye not know this parable? and how will ye be acquainted with all the parables?


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and these are they by the wayside where the word is sown, and when they hear, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them.


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And these are they in like manner who are sown upon the rocky places, who when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy,


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and they have no root in themselves, but are for a time then, tribulation arising, or persecution on account of the word, immediately they are offended.


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and the cares of life, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things, entering in, choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.


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And these are they who have been sown on the good ground, such as hear the word and receive it, and bear fruit; one thirty, and one sixty, and one a hundred <n>[fold]</n>.


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And he said to them, Does the lamp come that it should be put under the bushel or under the couch? <n>[Is it]</n> not that it should be set upon the lamp-stand?


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For there is nothing hidden which shall not be made manifest; nor does any secret thing take place, but that it should come to light.


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And he said to them, Take heed what ye hear; with what measure ye mete, it shall be meted to you; and there shall be <n>[more]</n> added to you.


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For whosoever has, to him shall be given; and he who has not, even what he has shall be taken from him.


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and should sleep and rise up night and day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he does not know how.


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As to a grain of mustard <n>[seed]</n>, which, when it is sown upon the earth, is less than all seeds which are upon the earth,


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and when it has been sown, mounts up and becomes greater than all herbs, and produces great branches, so that the birds of heaven can roost under its shadow.


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but without a parable spoke he not to them; and in private he explained all things to his disciples.


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and having sent away the crowd, they take him with <n>[them]</n>, as he was, in the ship. But other ships also were with him.


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And there comes a violent gust of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it already filled.


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And *he* was in the stern sleeping on the cushion. And they awake him up and say to him, Teacher, dost thou not care that we are perishing?


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And awaking up he rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, Silence; be mute. And the wind fell, and there was a great calm.


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And they feared <n>[with]</n> great fear, and said one to another, Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?


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And immediately on his going out of the ship there met him out of the tombs a man possessed by an unclean spirit,


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because he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been torn asunder by him, and the fetters were shattered; and no one was able to subdue him.


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And continually night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying and cutting himself with stones.


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and crying with a loud voice he says, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure thee by God, torment me not.


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And Jesus <n>[immediately]</n> allowed them. And the unclean spirits going out entered into the swine, and the herd rushed down the steep slope, into the sea (about two thousand), and were choked in the sea.


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And those that were feeding them fled and reported it in the city and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that had taken place.


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And they come to Jesus, and they see the possessed of demons sitting <n>[and]</n> clothed and sensible, <n>[him]</n> that had had the legion and they were afraid.


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And they that had seen <n>[it]</n> related to them how it had happened to the <n>[man]</n> possessed by demons, and concerning the swine.


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And as he went on board ship, the man that had been possessed by demons besought him that he might be with him.


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And he suffered him not, but says to him, Go to thine home to thine own people, and tell them how great things the Lord has done for thee, and has had mercy on thee.


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And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him; and all wondered.


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And Jesus having passed over in the ship again to the other side, a great crowd gathered to him; and he was by the sea.


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And <n>[behold]</n> there comes one of the rulers of the synagogue, by name Jairus, and seeing him, falls down at his feet;


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and he besought him much, saying, My little daughter is at extremity; <n>[I pray]</n> that thou shouldest come and lay thy hands upon her so that she may be healed, and may live.


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and had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent everything she had and had found no advantage from it, but had rather got worse,


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And immediately her fountain of blood was dried up, and she knew in her body that she was cured from the scourge.


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And immediately Jesus, knowing in himself the power that had gone out of him, turning round in the crowd said, Who has touched my clothes?


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And his disciples said to him, Thou seest the crowd pressing on thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?


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But the woman, frightened and trembling, knowing what had taken place in her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth.


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While he was yet speaking, they come from the ruler of the synagogue's <n>[house]</n>, saying, Thy daughter has died, why troublest thou the teacher any further?


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But Jesus <n>[immediately]</n>, having heard the word spoken, says to the ruler of the synagogue, Fear not; only believe.


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And he comes to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and sees the tumult, and people weeping and wailing greatly.


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And entering in he says to them, Why do ye make a tumult and weep? the child has not died, but sleeps.


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And they derided him. But he, having put <n>[them]</n> all out, takes with <n>[him]</n> the father of the child, and the mother, and those that were with him, and enters in where the child was lying.


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And having laid hold of the hand of the child, he says to her, Talitha koumi, which is, interpreted, Damsel, I say to thee, Arise.


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And immediately the damsel arose and walked, for she was twelve years old. And they were astonished with great astonishment.


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And he charged them much that no one should know this; and he desired that <n>[something]</n> should be given her to eat.


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And when sabbath was come he began to teach in the synagogue, and many hearing were amazed, saying, Whence <n>[has]</n> this <n>[man]</n> these things? and what <n>[is]</n> the wisdom that is given to him, and such works of power are done by his hands?


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Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, and Joses, and Judas, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended in him.


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But Jesus said to them, A prophet is not despised save in his own country, and among <n>[his]</n> kinsmen, and in his own house.


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And he could not do any work of power there, save that laying his hands on a few infirm persons he healed <n>[them]</n>.


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And he calls the twelve to <n>[him]</n>; and he began to send them out two <n>[and]</n> two, and gave to them power over the unclean spirits;


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and he commanded them that they should take nothing for the way, save a staff only; no scrip, no bread, no money in their belt;


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And whatsoever place shall not receive you nor hear you, departing thence, shake off the dust which is under your feet for a testimony to them.


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And Herod the king heard <n>[of him]</n> (for his name had become public), and said, John the baptist is risen from among <n>[the]</n> dead, and on this account works of power are wrought by him.


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But Herod when he heard <n>[it]</n> said, John whom *I* beheaded, he it is; *he* is risen <n>[from among the dead]</n>.


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For the same Herod had sent and seized John, and had bound him in prison on account of Herodias, the wife of Philip his brother, because he had married her.


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for Herod feared John knowing that he was a just and holy man, and kept him safe; and having heard him, did many things, and heard him gladly.


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And a holiday being come, when Herod, on his birthday, made a supper to his grandees, and to the chiliarchs, and the chief <n>[men]</n> of Galilee;


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and the daughter of the same Herodias having come in, and danced, pleased Herod and those that were with <n>[him]</n> at table; and the king said to the damsel, Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt and I will give it thee.


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And she went out, and said to her mother, What should I ask? And she said, The head of John the baptist.


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And immediately going in with haste to the king, she asked saying, I desire that thou give me directly upon a dish the head of John the baptist.


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And the king, <n>[while]</n> made very sorry, on account of the oaths and those lying at table with <n>[him]</n> would not break his word with her.


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And immediately the king, having sent one of the guard, ordered his head to be brought. And he went out and beheaded him in the prison,


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And the apostles are gathered together to Jesus. And they related to him all things, <n>[both]</n> what they had done and what they had taught.


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And he said to them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place and rest a little. For those coming and those going were many, and they had not leisure even to eat.


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And many saw them going, and recognised them, and ran together there on foot, out of all the cities, and got <n>[there]</n> before them.


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And on leaving <n>[the ship]</n> <n>[Jesus]</n> saw a great crowd, and he was moved with compassion for them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd. And he began to teach them many things.


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And when it was already late in the day, his disciples coming to him say, The place is desert, and it is already late in the day;


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send them away that they may go into the country and villages around, and buy themselves bread, for they have not anything they can eat.


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And he answering said to them, Give *ye* them to eat. And they say to him, Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread and give them to eat?


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And he says to them, How many loaves have ye? Go <n>[and]</n> see. And when they knew they say, Five, and two fishes.


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And having taken the five loaves and the two fishes, looking up to heaven, he blessed, and broke the loaves, and gave <n>[them]</n> to his disciples that they might set <n>[them]</n> before them. And the two fishes he divided among all.


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And immediately he compelled his disciples to go on board ship, and to go on before to the other side to Bethsaida, while *he* sends the crowd away.


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And seeing them labouring in rowing, for the wind was contrary to them, about the fourth watch of the night he comes to them walking on the sea, and would have passed them by.


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For all saw him and were troubled. And immediately he spoke with them, and says to them, Be of good courage it is *I*; be not afraid.


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And he went up to them into the ship, and the wind fell. And they were exceedingly beyond measure astonished in themselves and wondered;


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they ran through that whole country around, and began to carry about those that were ill on couches, where they heard that he was.


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And wherever he entered into villages, or cities, or the country, they laid the sick in the market-places, and besought him that they might touch if it were only the hem of his garment; and as many as touched him were healed.


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


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and <n>[on coming]</n> from the market-place, unless they are washed, they do not eat; and there are many other things which they have received to hold, the washing of cups and vessels, and brazen utensils, and couches),


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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?


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But he answering said to them, Well did Esaias prophesy concerning you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honour me with their lips, but their heart is far away from me.


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<n>[For]</n>, leaving the commandment of God, ye hold what is delivered by men <n>[to keep]</n> -- washings of vessels and cups, and many other such like things ye do.


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And he said to them, Well do ye set aside the commandment of God, that ye may observe what is delivered by yourselves <n>[to keep]</n>.


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For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, he who speaks ill of father or mother, let him surely die.


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But *ye* say, If a man say to his father or his mother, <n>[It is]</n> corban (that is, gift), whatsoever thou mightest have profit from me by ...


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making void the word of God by your traditional teaching which ye have delivered; and many such like things ye do.


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There is nothing from outside a man entering into him which can defile him; but the things which go out from him, those it is which defile the man.


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And he says to them, Are *ye* also thus unintelligent? Do ye not perceive that all that is outside entering into the man cannot defile him,


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because it does not enter into his heart but into his belly, and goes out into the draught, purging all meats?


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thefts, covetousness, wickednesses, deceit, licentiousness, a wicked eye, injurious language, haughtiness, folly;


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And he rose up and went away thence into the borders of Tyre and Sidon; and having entered into a house he would not have any one know <n>[it]</n>, and he could not be hid.


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But immediately a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having heard of him, came and fell at his feet


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(and the woman was a Greek, Syrophenician by race), and asked him that he would cast the demon out of her daughter.


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But <n>[Jesus]</n> said to her, Suffer the children to be first filled; for it is not right to take the children's bread and cast it to the dogs.


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But she answered and says to him, Yea, Lord; for even the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.


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And again having left the borders of Tyre and Sidon, he came to the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis.


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And they bring to him a deaf <n>[man]</n> who could not speak right, and they beseech him that he might lay his hand on him.


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And having taken him away from the crowd apart, he put his fingers to his ears; and having spit, he touched his tongue;


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And he charged them that they should speak to no one <n>[of it]</n>. But so much the more *he* charged them, so much the more abundantly *they* proclaimed it;


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and they were astonished above measure, saying, He does all things well; he makes both the deaf to hear, and the speechless to speak.


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I have compassion on the crowd, because they have stayed with me already three days and they have not anything they can eat,


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and if I should dismiss them to their home fasting, they will faint on the way; for some of them are come from far.


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And his disciples answered him, Whence shall one be able to satisfy these with bread here in a desert place?


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And he commanded the crowd to sit down on the ground. And having taken the seven loaves, he gave thanks, and broke <n>[them]</n> and gave <n>[them]</n> to his disciples, that they might set <n>[them]</n> before <n>[them]</n>; and they set <n>[them]</n> before the crowd.


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And they had a few small fishes, and having blessed them, he desired these also to be set before <n>[them]</n>.


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And the Pharisees went out and began to dispute against him, seeking from him a sign from heaven, tempting him.


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And groaning in his spirit, he says, Why does this generation seek a sign? Verily I say unto you, A sign shall in no wise be given to this generation.


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And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and <n>[of]</n> the leaven of Herod.


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And Jesus knowing <n>[it]</n>, says to them, Why reason ye because ye have no bread? Do ye not yet perceive nor understand? Have ye your heart <n>[yet]</n> hardened?


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When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many hand-baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say to him, Twelve.


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And when the seven for the four thousand, the filling of how many baskets of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven.


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And taking hold of the hand of the blind man he led him forth out of the village, and having spit upon his eyes, he laid his hands upon him, and asked him if he beheld anything.


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Then he laid his hands again upon his eyes, and he saw distinctly, and was restored and saw all things clearly.


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And he sent him to his house, saying, Neither enter into the village, nor tell <n>[it]</n> to any one in the village.


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And Jesus went forth and his disciples, into the villages of Caesarea-Philippi. And by the way he asked his disciples, saying unto them, Who do men say that I am?


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And they answered him, saying, John the baptist; and others, Elias; but others, One of the prophets.


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And he asked them, But *ye*, who do ye say that I am? And Peter answering says to him, *Thou* art the Christ.


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And he began to teach them that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and of the chief priests and of the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise <n>[again]</n>.


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But he, turning round and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter, saying, Get away behind me, Satan, for thy mind is not on the things that are of God, but on the things that are of men.


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And having called the crowd with his disciples, he said to them, Whoever desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow me.


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For whosoever shall desire to save his life shall lose it, but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's shall save it.


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For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him shall the Son of man also be ashamed when he shall come in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.


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And he said to them, Verily I say unto you, There are some of those standing here that shall not taste death until they shall have seen the kingdom of God come in power.


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And after six days Jesus takes with <n>[him]</n> Peter and James and John, and takes them up on a high mountain by themselves apart. And he was transfigured before them


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and his garments became shining, exceeding white <n>[as snow]</n>, such as fuller on earth could not whiten <n>[them]</n>.


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And Peter answering says to Jesus, Rabbi, it is good that we should be here; and let us make three tabernacles, for thee one, and for Moses one, and for Elias one.


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And there came a cloud overshadowing them, and there came a voice out of the cloud, *This* is my beloved Son hear him.


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And as they descended from the mountain, he charged them that they should relate to no one what they had seen, unless when the Son of man should be risen from among <n>[the]</n> dead.


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And they kept that saying, questioning among themselves, what rising from among <n>[the]</n> dead was.


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And he answering said to them, Elias indeed, having first come, restores all things; and how is it written of the Son of man that he must suffer much, and be set at nought


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but I say unto you that Elias also is come, and they have done to him whatever they would, as it is written of him.


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And when he came to the disciples he saw a great crowd around them, and scribes disputing against them.


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and wheresoever it seizes him it tears him, and he foams and gnashes his teeth, and he is withering away. And I spoke to thy disciples, that they might cast him out, and they could not.


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But he answering them says, O unbelieving generation! how long shall I be with you? how long shall I bear with you? bring him to me.


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And they brought him to him. And seeing him the spirit immediately tore him; and falling upon the earth he rolled foaming.


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


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and often it has cast him both into fire and into waters that it might destroy him but if thou couldst <n>[do]</n> anything, be moved with pity on us, and help us.


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And Jesus said to him, The 'if thou couldst' is <n>[if thou couldst]</n> believe all things are possible to him that believes.


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And immediately the father of the young child crying out said <n>[with tears]</n>, I believe, help mine unbelief.


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But Jesus, seeing that <n>[the]</n> crowd was running up together, rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, *I* command thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him.


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And having cried out and torn <n>[him]</n> much, he came out; and he became as if dead, so that the most said, He is dead.


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And when he was entered into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Wherefore could not *we* cast him out?


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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.


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And he came to Capernaum, and being in the house, he asked them, Of what were ye reasoning by the way?


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And they remained silent, for by the way they had been reasoning with one another who <n>[was]</n> greatest.


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And sitting down he called the twelve; and he says to them, If any one would be first, he shall be last of all, and minister of all.


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And John answered him saying, Teacher, we saw some one casting out demons in thy name, who does not follow us, and we forbad him, because he does not follow us.


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But Jesus said, Forbid him not; for there is no one who shall do a miracle in my name, and be able soon <n>[after]</n> to speak ill of me;


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For whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in <n>[my]</n> name, because ye are Christ's, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.


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And whosoever shall be a snare to one of the little ones who believe <n>[in me]</n>, it were better for him if a millstone were hung about his neck, and he cast into the sea.


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And if thy hand serve as a snare to thee, cut it off it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having thy two hands to go away into hell, into the fire unquenchable;


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And if thy foot serve as a snare to thee, cut it off it is better for thee to enter into life lame, than having thy two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire unquenchable;


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And if thine eye serve as a snare to thee, cast it out it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the hell of fire,


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And rising up thence he comes into the coasts of Judaea, and the other side of the Jordan. And again crowds come together to him, and, as he was accustomed, again he taught them.


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And Pharisees coming to <n>[him]</n> asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away <n>[his]</n> wife? (tempting him).


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And Jesus answering said to them, In view of your hard-heartedness he wrote this commandment for you;


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And he says to them, Whosoever shall put away his wife and shall marry another, commits adultery against her.


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And they brought little children to him that he might touch them. But the disciples rebuked those that brought <n>[them]</n>.


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But Jesus seeing <n>[it]</n>, was indignant, and said to them, Suffer the little children to come to me; forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of God.


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And as he went forth into the way, a person ran up to <n>[him]</n>, and kneeling to him asked him, Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?


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Thou knowest the commandments Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honour thy father and mother.


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And Jesus looking upon him loved him, and said to him, One thing lackest thou go, sell whatever thou hast and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, <n>[taking up the cross]</n>.


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And Jesus looking around says to his disciples, How difficultly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!


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And the disciples were amazed at his words. And Jesus again answering says to them, Children, how difficult it is that those who trust in riches should enter into the kingdom of God!


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It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.


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Jesus answering said, Verily I say to you, There is no one who has left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, <n>[or wife]</n>, or children, or lands, for my sake and for the sake of the gospel,


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that shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions, and in the coming age life eternal.


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And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was going on before them; and they were amazed, and were afraid as they followed. And taking the twelve again to <n>[him]</n>, he began to tell them what was going to happen to him


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Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man shall be delivered up to the chief priests and to the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him up to the nations


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and they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit upon him, and shall kill him; and after three days he shall rise again.


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And there come to him James and John, the sons of Zebedee, saying <n>[to him]</n>, Teacher, we would that whatsoever we may ask thee, thou wouldst do it for us.


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And they said to him, Give to us that we may sit, one on thy right hand, and one on thy left hand, in thy glory.


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And Jesus said to them, Ye do not know what ye ask. Are ye able to drink the cup which *I* drink, or be baptised with the baptism that *I* am baptised with?


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And they said to him, We are able. And Jesus said to them, The cup that *I* drink ye will drink and with the baptism that *I* am baptised with ye will be baptised,


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but to sit on my right hand or on my left is not mine to give, but for those for whom it is prepared.


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But Jesus having called them to <n>[him]</n>, says to them, Ye know that those who are esteemed to rule over the nations exercise lordship over them; and their great men exercise authority over them;


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And they come to Jericho, and as he was going out from Jericho, and his disciples and a large crowd, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, the blind <n>[man]</n>, sat by the wayside begging.


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And having heard that it was Jesus the Nazaraean, he began to cry out and to say, O Son of David, Jesus, have mercy on me.


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And many rebuked him, that he might be silent; but he cried so much the more, Son of David, have mercy on me.


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And Jesus, standing still, desired him to be called. And they call the blind <n>[man]</n>, saying to him, Be of good courage, rise up, he calls thee.


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And Jesus answering says to him, What wilt thou that I shall do to thee? And the blind <n>[man]</n> said to him, Rabboni, that I may see.


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And Jesus said to him, Go, thy faith has healed thee. And he saw immediately, and followed him in the way.


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And when they draw near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount of Olives, he sends two of his disciples,


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and says to them, Go into the village which is over against you, and immediately on entering into it ye will find a colt tied, upon which no <n>[child]</n> of man has ever sat loose it and lead it <n>[here]</n>.


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and many strewed their clothes on the way, and others cut down branches from the trees <n>[and went on strewing them on the way]</n>.


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And those going on before and those following cried out, Hosanna! blessed <n>[be]</n> he that comes in <n>[the]</n> Lord's name.


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And he entered into Jerusalem and into the temple; and having looked round on all things, the hour being already late, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.


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And seeing from afar off a fig-tree which had leaves, he came, if perhaps he might find something on it. And having come up to it he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the time of figs.


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And answering he said to it, Let no one eat fruit of thee any more for ever. And his disciples heard <n>[it]</n>.


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And they come to Jerusalem, and entering into the temple, he began to cast out those who sold and who bought in the temple, and he overthrew the tables of the moneychangers and the seats of the dove-sellers,


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And he taught saying to them, Is it not written, My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations? but *ye* have made it a den of robbers.


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And the chief priests and the scribes heard <n>[it]</n>, and they sought how they might destroy him; for they feared him, because all the crowd were astonished at his doctrine.


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And Peter, remembering <n>[what Jesus had said]</n>, says to him, Rabbi, see, the fig-tree which thou cursedst is dried up.


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Verily I say to you, that whosoever shall say to this mountain, Be thou taken away and cast into the sea, and shall not doubt in his heart, but believe that what he says takes place, whatever he shall say shall come to pass for him.


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For this reason I say to you, All things whatsoever ye pray for and ask, believe that ye receive it, and it shall come to pass for you.


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And when ye stand praying, forgive if ye have anything against any one, that your Father also who is in the heavens may forgive you your offences.


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And they come again to Jerusalem. And as he walked about in the temple, the chief priests and the scribes and the elders come to him,


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and they say to him, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority, that thou shouldest do these things?


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And Jesus answering said to them, *I* also will ask you one thing, and answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things


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And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we should say, Of heaven, he will say, Why <n>[then]</n> have ye not believed him?


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but should we say, Of men -- they feared the people; for all held of John that he was truly a prophet.


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And they answering say to Jesus, We do not know. And Jesus <n>[answering]</n> says to them, Neither do *I* tell you by what authority I do these things.


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And he began to say to them in parables, A man planted a vineyard, and made a fence round <n>[it]</n> and dug a wine-vat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and left the country.


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And he sent a bondman to the husbandmen at the season, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.


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And again he sent to them another bondman; and <n>[at]</n> him they <n>[threw stones, and]</n> struck <n>[him]</n> on the head, and sent <n>[him]</n> away with insult.


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And <n>[again]</n> he sent another, and him they killed; and many others, beating some and killing some.


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Having yet therefore one beloved son, he sent also him to them the last, saying, They will have respect for my son.


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But those husbandmen said to one another, This is the heir come, let us kill him and the inheritance will be ours.


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What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others.


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Have ye not even read this scripture, The stone which they that builded rejected, this has become the corner-stone


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And they sought to lay hold of him, and they feared the crowd; for they knew that he had spoken the parable of them. And they left him and went away.


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And they send to him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, that they might catch him in speaking.


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And they come and say to him, Teacher, we know that thou art true, and carest not for any one; for thou regardest not men's person, but teachest the way of God with truth Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar or not?


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Should we give, or should we not give? But he knowing their hypocrisy said unto them, Why tempt ye me? Bring me a denarius that I may see <n>[it]</n>.


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And they brought <n>[it]</n>. And he says to them, Whose <n>[is]</n> this image and superscription? And they said to him, Caesar's.


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And Jesus answering said to them, Pay what is Caesar's to Caesar, and what is God's to God. And they wondered at him.


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Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if any one's brother die, and leave a wife behind, and leave no children, that his brother shall take his wife, and raise up seed to his brother.


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In the resurrection, when they shall rise again, of which of them shall she be wife, for the seven had her as wife?


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And Jesus answering said to them, Do not ye therefore err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God?


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For when they rise from among <n>[the]</n> dead they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as angels <n>[who are]</n> in the heavens.


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But concerning the dead that they rise, have ye not read in the book of Moses, in <n>[the section of]</n> the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, *I* <n>[am]</n> the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?


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And one of the scribes who had come up, and had heard them reasoning together, perceiving that he had answered them well, demanded of him, Which is <n>[the]</n> first commandment of all?


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And Jesus answered him, <n>[The]</n> first commandment of all <n>[is]</n>, Hear, Israel the Lord our God is one Lord;


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and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding, and with all thy strength. This is <n>[the]</n> first commandment.


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And a second like it <n>[is]</n> this Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is not another commandment greater than these.


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And the scribe said to him, Right, teacher; thou hast spoken according to <n>[the]</n> truth. For he is one, and there is none other besides him;


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and to love him with all the heart, and with all the intelligence, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbour as one's self, is more than all the burnt-offerings and sacrifices.


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And Jesus, seeing that he had answered intelligently, said to him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no one dared question him any more.


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And Jesus answering said <n>[as he was]</n> teaching in the temple, How do the scribes say that the Christ is son of David?


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<n>[for]</n> David himself said <n>[speaking]</n> in the Holy Spirit, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit on my right hand until I put thine enemies <n>[as]</n> footstool of thy feet.


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David himself <n>[therefore]</n> calls him Lord, and whence is he his son? And the mass of the people heard him gladly.


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And he said to them in his doctrine, Beware of the scribes, who like to walk about in long robes, and salutations in the marketplaces,


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who devour the houses of widows, and as a pretext make long prayers. These shall receive a severer judgment.


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And Jesus, having sat down opposite the treasury, saw how the crowd was casting money into the treasury; and many rich cast in much.


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And having called his disciples to <n>[him]</n> he said to them, Verily I say unto you, This poor widow has cast in more than all who have cast into the treasury


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for all have cast in of that which they had in abundance, but she of her destitution has cast in all that she had, the whole of her living.


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And as he was going out of the temple, one of his disciples says to him, Teacher, see what stones and what buildings!


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And Jesus answering said to him, Seest thou these great buildings? not a stone shall be left upon a stone, which shall not be thrown down.


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And as he sat on the mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately,


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Tell us, when shall these things be, and what is the sign when all these things are going to be fulfilled?


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But when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be not disturbed, for <n>[this]</n> must happen, but the end is not yet.


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For nation shall rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be earthquakes in <n>[different]</n> places, and there shall be famines and troubles these things <n>[are the]</n> beginnings of throes.


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But *ye*, take heed to yourselves, for they shall deliver you up to sanhedrims and to synagogues ye shall be beaten and brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them;


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But when they shall lead you away to deliver you up, be not careful beforehand as to what ye shall say, <n>[nor prepare your discourse]</n> but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak; for *ye* are not the speakers, but the Holy Spirit.


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But brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child; and children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.


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And ye will be hated of all on account of my name; but he that has endured to the end, *he* shall be saved.


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But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not, (he that reads let him consider <n>[it]</n>,) then let those in Judaea flee to the mountains;


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and him that is upon the housetop not come down into the house, nor enter <n>[into it]</n> to take away anything out of his house;


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for those days shall be distress such as there has not been the like since <n>[the]</n> beginning of creation which God created, until now, and never shall be;


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and if <n>[the]</n> Lord had not cut short those days, no flesh should have been saved; but on account of the elect whom he has chosen, he has cut short those days.


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And then if any one say to you, Lo, here <n>[is]</n> the Christ, or Lo, there, believe <n>[it]</n> not.


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For false Christs and false prophets will arise, and give signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.


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But in those days, after that distress, the sun shall be darkened and the moon shall not give its light;


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and the stars of heaven shall be falling down, and the powers which are in the heavens shall be shaken;


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and then shall he send his angels and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from end of earth to end of heaven.


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But learn the parable from the fig-tree when its branch already becomes tender and puts forth the leaves, ye know that the summer is near.


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Verily I say unto you, This generation shall in no wise pass away, till all these things take place.


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But of that day or of that hour no one knows, neither the angels who are in heaven, nor the Son, but the Father.


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<n>[it is]</n> as a man gone out of the country, having left his house and given to his bondmen the authority, and to each one his work, and commanded the doorkeeper that he should watch.


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Watch therefore, for ye do not know when the master of the house comes evening, or midnight, or cock-crow, or morning;


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Now the passover and the <n>[feast of]</n> unleavened bread was after two days. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how they might seize him by subtlety and kill him.


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And when he was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he lay at table, there came a woman having an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly; and having broken the alabaster flask, she poured it out upon his head.


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And there were some indignant in themselves, and saying, Why has this waste been made of the ointment?


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for this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor. And they spoke very angrily at her.


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for ye have the poor always with you, and whenever ye would ye can do them good; but me ye have not always.


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And verily I say unto you, Wheresoever these glad tidings may be preached in the whole world, what this <n>[woman]</n> has done shall be also spoken of for a memorial of her.


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And Judas Iscariote, one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests that he might deliver him up to them;


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and they, when they heard it, rejoiced, and promised him to give money. And he sought how he could opportunely deliver him up.


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And the first day of unleavened bread, when they slew the passover, his disciples say to him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare, that thou mayest eat the passover?


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And he sends two of his disciples, and says to them, Go into the city, and a man shall meet you carrying a pitcher of water; follow him.


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And wheresoever he enters, say to the master of the house, The Teacher says, Where is my guest-chamber where I may eat the passover with my disciples?


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And his disciples went away and came into the city, and found as he had said to them; and they made ready the passover.


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And as they lay at table and were eating, Jesus said, Verily I say to you, One of you shall deliver me up; he who is eating with me.


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And they began to be grieved, and to say to him, one by one, Is it *I*? <n>[and another, Is it *I*?]</n>


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The Son of man goes indeed as it is written concerning him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is delivered up; <n>[it were]</n> good for that man if he had not been born.


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And as they were eating, Jesus, having taken bread, when he had blessed, broke <n>[it]</n>, and gave <n>[it]</n> to them, and said, Take <n>[this]</n> this is my body.


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And having taken <n>[the]</n> cup, when he had given thanks, he gave <n>[it]</n> to them, and they all drank out of it.


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Verily I say to you, I will no more drink at all of the fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.


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And Jesus says to them, All ye shall be offended, for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered abroad.


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And Jesus says to him, Verily I say to thee, that thou to-day, in this night, before <n>[the]</n> cock shall crow twice, thou shalt thrice deny me.


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But he said <n>[so much]</n> exceedingly the more, If I should have to die with thee, I will in no wise deny thee. And likewise said they all too.


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And they come to a place of which the name <n>[is]</n> Gethsemane, and he says to his disciples, Sit here while I shall pray.


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And, going forward a little, he fell upon the earth; and he prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass away from him.


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And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible to thee take away this cup from me; but not what *I* will, but what *thou* <n>[wilt]</n>.


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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?


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Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation. The spirit indeed <n>[is]</n> willing, but the flesh weak.


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And returning, he found them again sleeping, for their eyes were heavy; and they knew not what they should answer him.


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And he comes the third time and says to them, Sleep on now, and take your rest. It is enough; the hour is come; behold, the Son of man is delivered up into the hands of sinners.


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And immediately, while he was yet speaking, Judas comes up, <n>[being]</n> one of the twelve, and with him a great crowd, with swords and sticks, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders.


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Now he that delivered him up had given them a sign between them, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that is he; seize him, and lead <n>[him]</n> away safely.


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And being come, straightway coming up to him, he says, Rabbi, Rabbi; and he covered him with kisses.


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But a certain one of those who stood by, having drawn his sword, struck the bondman of the high priest, and took off his ear.


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And Jesus answering said to them, Are ye come out as against a robber, with swords and sticks to take me?


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I was daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye did not seize me; but <n>[it is]</n> that the scriptures may be fulfilled.


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And a certain young man followed him with a linen cloth cast about his naked <n>[body]</n>; and <n>[the young men]</n> seize him;


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And they led away Jesus to the high priest. And there come together to him all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes.


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And Peter followed him at a distance, till <n>[he was]</n> within the court of the high priest's palace; and he was sitting with the officers and warming himself in the light <n>[of the fire]</n>.


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And the chief priests and the whole sanhedrim sought testimony against Jesus to cause him to be put to death, and did not find <n>[any]</n>.


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*We* heard him saying, *I* will destroy this temple which is made with hands, and in the course of three days I will build another not made with hands.


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And the high priest, rising up before them all, asked Jesus, saying, Answerest thou nothing? What do these testify against thee?


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But he was silent, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, and says to him, *Thou* art the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?


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And Jesus said, *I* am, and ye shall see the Son of man sitting at the right hand of power, and coming with the clouds of heaven.


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And some began to spit upon him, and cover up his face, and buffet him, and say to him, Prophesy; and the officers struck him with the palms of their hands.


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and seeing Peter warming himself, having looked at him, says, And *thou* wast with the Nazarene, Jesus.


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But he denied, saying, I know not nor understand what thou sayest. And he went out into the vestibule; and a cock crew.


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And he again denied. And again, after a little, those that stood by said to Peter, Truly thou art <n>[one]</n> of them, for also thou art a Galilean.


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And the second time a cock crew. And Peter remembered the word that Jesus said to him, Before <n>[the]</n> cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice; and when he thought thereon he wept.


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And immediately in the morning the chief priests, having taken counsel with the elders and scribes and the whole sanhedrim, bound Jesus and carried <n>[him]</n> away, and delivered <n>[him]</n> up to Pilate.


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And Pilate asked him, Art *thou* the King of the Jews? And he answered and said to him, *Thou* sayest.


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And Pilate asked him again, saying, Answerest thou nothing? See of how many things they bear witness against thee.


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Now there was the <n>[person]</n> named Barabbas bound with those who had made insurrection with <n>[him]</n>, <n>[and]</n> that had committed murder in the insurrection.


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And Pilate answering said to them again, What will ye then that I do <n>[to him]</n> whom ye call King of the Jews?


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And Pilate said to them, What evil then has he done? But they cried out the more urgently, Crucify him.


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And Pilate, desirous of contenting the crowd, released to them Barabbas, and delivered up Jesus, when he had scourged him, that he might be crucified.


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And the soldiers led him away into the court which is <n>[called the]</n> praetorium, and they call together the whole band.


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And when they had mocked him, they took the purple off him, and put his own clothes on him; and they lead him out that they may crucify him.


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And they compel to go <n>[with them]</n> a certain passer-by, Simon, a Cyrenian, coming from the field, the father of Alexander and Rufus, that he might carry his cross.


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And they bring him to the place <n>[called]</n> Golgotha, which, being interpreted, is Place of a skull.


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And having crucified him, they part his clothes amongst <n>[themselves]</n>, casting lots on them, what each one should take.


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And they that passed by reviled him, shaking their heads, and saying, Aha, thou that destroyest the temple and buildest it in three days,


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In like manner the chief priests also, with the scribes, mocking with one another, said, He saved others; himself he cannot save.


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And when <n>[the]</n> sixth hour was come, there came darkness over the whole land until <n>[the]</n> ninth hour;


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and at the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice, <n>[saying]</n>, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?


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And one, running and filling a sponge with vinegar, fixed it on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let alone, let us see if Elias comes to take him down.


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And the centurion who stood by over against him, when he saw that he had expired having thus cried out, said, Truly this man was Son of God.


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who also, when he was in Galilee, followed him and ministered to him; and many others who came up with him to Jerusalem.


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And when it was already evening, since it was <n>[the]</n> preparation, that is, <n>[the day]</n> before a sabbath,


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Joseph of Arimathaea, an honourable councillor, who also himself was awaiting the kingdom of God, coming, emboldened himself and went in to Pilate and begged the body of Jesus.


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And Pilate wondered if he were already dead; and having called to <n>[him]</n> the centurion, he inquired of him if he had long died.


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And having bought fine linen, <n>[and]</n> having taken him down, he swathed him in the fine linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was cut out of rock, and rolled a stone to the door of the sepulchre.


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And the sabbath being <n>[now]</n> past, Mary of Magdala, and Mary the <n>[mother]</n> of James, and Salome, bought aromatic spices that they might come and embalm him.


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And very early on the first <n>[day]</n> of the week they come to the sepulchre, the sun having risen.


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And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right, clothed in a white robe, and they were amazed and alarmed;


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but he says to them, Be not alarmed. Ye seek Jesus, the Nazarene, the crucified one. He is risen, he is not here; behold the place where they had put him.


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But go, tell his disciples and Peter, he goes before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him, as he said to you.


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And they went out, and fled from the sepulchre. And trembling and excessive amazement possessed them, and they said nothing to any one, for they were afraid.


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Now when he had risen very early, the first <n>[day]</n> of the week, he appeared first to Mary of Magdala, out of whom he had cast seven demons.


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*She* went and brought word to those that had been with him, <n>[who were]</n> grieving and weeping.


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And after these things he was manifested in another form to two of them as they walked, going into the country;


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Afterwards as they lay at table he was manifested to the eleven, and reproached <n>[them with]</n> their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who had seen him risen.


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And these signs shall follow those that have believed in my name they shall cast out demons; they shall speak with new tongues;


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they shall take up serpents; and if they should drink any deadly thing it shall not injure them; they shall lay hands upon the infirm, and they shall be well.


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The Lord therefore, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven, and sat at the right hand of God.


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And they, going forth, preached everywhere, the Lord working with <n>[them]</n>, and confirming the word by the signs following upon <n>[it]</n>.


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as those who from the beginning were eye-witnesses of and attendants on the Word have delivered them to us,


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it has seemed good to *me* also, accurately acquainted from the origin with all things, to write to thee with method, most excellent Theophilus,


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There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest, by name Zacharias, of the course of Abia, and his wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name Elizabeth.


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And they were both just before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.


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it fell to him by lot, according to the custom of the priesthood, to enter into the temple of the Lord to burn incense.


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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.


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For he shall be great before <n>[the]</n> Lord, and he shall drink no wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with <n>[the]</n> Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.


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And *he* shall go before him in <n>[the]</n> spirit and power of Elias, to turn hearts of fathers to children, and disobedient ones to <n>[the]</n> thoughts of just <n>[men]</n>, to make ready for <n>[the]</n> Lord a prepared people.


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And Zacharias said to the angel, How shall I know this, for *I* am an old man, and my wife advanced in years?


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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;


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and behold, thou shalt be silent and not able to speak, till the day in which these things shall take place, because thou hast not believed my words, the which shall be fulfilled in their time.


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But when he came out he could not speak to them, and they recognised that he had seen a vision in the temple. And he was making signs to them, and continued dumb.


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Thus has <n>[the]</n> Lord done to me in <n>[these]</n> days in which he looked upon <n>[me]</n> to take away my reproach among men.


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But in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent of God to a city of Galilee, of which <n>[the]</n> name <n>[was]</n> Nazareth,


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to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name <n>[was]</n> Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name <n>[was]</n> Mary.


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And the angel came in to her, and said, Hail, <n>[thou]</n> favoured one! the Lord <n>[is]</n> with thee <n>[blessed art *thou* amongst women]</n>.


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But she, <n>[seeing]</n> <n>[the angel]</n>, was troubled at his word, and reasoned in her mind what this salutation might be.


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*He* shall be great, and shall be called Son of <n>[the]</n> Highest; and <n>[the]</n> Lord God shall give him the throne of David his father;


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and he shall reign over the house of Jacob for the ages, and of his kingdom there shall not be an end.


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And the angel answering said to her, <n>[The]</n> Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and power of <n>[the]</n> Highest overshadow thee, wherefore the holy thing also which shall be born shall be called Son of God.


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And behold, Elizabeth, thy kinswoman, she also has conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month to her that was called barren


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And Mary said, Behold the bondmaid of <n>[the]</n> Lord; be it to me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.


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And it came to pass, as Elizabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with <n>[the]</n> Holy Spirit,


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and cried out with a loud voice and said, Blessed <n>[art]</n> *thou* amongst women, and blessed the fruit of thy womb.


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And blessed <n>[is]</n> she that has believed, for there shall be a fulfilment of the things spoken to her from <n>[the]</n> Lord.


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For he has looked upon the low estate of his bondmaid; for behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.


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He has wrought strength with his arm; he has scattered haughty <n>[ones]</n> in the thought of their heart.


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And her neighbours and kinsfolk heard that <n>[the]</n> Lord had magnified his mercy with her, and they rejoiced with her.


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And it came to pass on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they called it after the name of his father, Zacharias.


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And fear came upon all who dwelt round about them; and in the whole hill-country of Judaea all these things were the subject of conversation.


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And all who heard them laid them up in their heart, saying, What then will this child be? And <n>[the]</n> Lord's hand was with him.


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Blessed be <n>[the]</n> Lord the God of Israel, because he has visited and wrought redemption for his people,


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And *thou*, child, shalt be called <n>[the]</n> prophet of <n>[the]</n> Highest; for thou shalt go before the face of <n>[the]</n> Lord to make ready his ways;


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on account of <n>[the]</n> bowels of mercy of our God; wherein <n>[the]</n> dayspring from on high has visited us,


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to shine upon them who were sitting in darkness and in <n>[the]</n> shadow of death, to guide our feet into <n>[the]</n> way of peace.


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But it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that a census should be made of all the habitable world.


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and Joseph also went up from Galilee out of the city Nazareth to Judaea, to David's city, the which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David,


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to be inscribed in the census roll with Mary who was betrothed to him <n>[as his]</n> wife, she being great with child.


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And it came to pass, while they were there, the days of her giving birth <n>[to her child]</n> were fulfilled,


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and she brought forth her first-born son, and wrapped him up in swaddling-clothes and laid him in the manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.


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And there were shepherds in that country abiding without, and keeping watch by night over their flock.


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And lo, an angel of <n>[the]</n> Lord was there by them, and <n>[the]</n> glory of <n>[the]</n> Lord shone around them, and they feared <n>[with]</n> great fear.


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And the angel said to them, Fear not, for behold, I announce to you glad tidings of great joy, which shall be to all the people;


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And this is the sign to you ye shall find a babe wrapped in swaddling-clothes, and lying in a manger.


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And it came to pass, as the angels departed from them into heaven, that the shepherds said to one another, Let us make our way then now as far as Bethlehem, and let us see this thing that is come to pass, which the Lord has made known to us.


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and having seen <n>[it]</n> they made known about the country the thing which had been said to them concerning this child.


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


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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.


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And when the days were fulfilled for their purifying according to the law of Moses, they brought him to Jerusalem to present <n>[him]</n> to the Lord


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(as it is written in the law of <n>[the]</n> Lord Every male that opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord),


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and to offer a sacrifice according to what is said in the law of <n>[the]</n> Lord A pair of turtle doves, or two young pigeons.


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And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon; and this man was just and pious, awaiting the consolation of Israel, and <n>[the]</n> Holy Spirit was upon him.


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And it was divinely communicated to him by the Holy Spirit, that he should not see death before he should see <n>[the]</n> Lord's Christ.


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And he came in the Spirit into the temple; and as the parents brought in the child Jesus that they might do for him according to the custom of the law,


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And Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary his mother, Lo, this <n>[child]</n> is set for the fall and rising up of many in Israel, and for a sign spoken against;


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(and even a sword shall go through thine own soul;) so that <n>[the]</n> thoughts may be revealed from many hearts.


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And there was a prophetess, Anna, daughter of Phanuel, of <n>[the]</n> tribe of Asher, who was far advanced in years, having lived with <n>[her]</n> husband seven years from her virginity,


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and herself a widow up to eighty-four years; who did not depart from the temple, serving night and day with fastings and prayers;


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and she coming up the same hour gave praise to the Lord, and spoke of him to all those who waited for redemption in Jerusalem.


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And when they had completed all things according to the law of <n>[the]</n> Lord, they returned to Galilee to their own city Nazareth.


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And the child grew and waxed strong <n>[in spirit]</n>, filled with wisdom, and God's grace was upon him.


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And when he was twelve years old, and they went up <n>[to Jerusalem]</n> according to the custom of the feast


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and had completed the days, as they returned, the boy Jesus remained behind in Jerusalem, and his parents knew not <n>[of it]</n>;


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but, supposing him to be in the company that journeyed together, they went a day's journey, and sought him among their relations and acquaintances


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And it came to pass, after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers and hearing them and asking them questions.


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And when they saw him they were amazed and his mother said to him, Child, why hast thou dealt thus with us? behold, thy father and I have sought thee distressed.


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And he said to them, Why <n>[is it]</n> that ye have sought me? did ye not know that I ought to be <n>[occupied]</n> in my Father's business?


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And he went down with them and came to Nazareth, and he was in subjection to them. And his mother kept all these things in her heart.


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Now in the fifteenth year of the government of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother tetrarch of Ituraea and the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,


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in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, <n>[the]</n> word of God came upon John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness.


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And he came into all the district round the Jordan, preaching <n>[the]</n> baptism of repentance for <n>[the]</n> remission of sins,


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as it is written in <n>[the]</n> book of <n>[the]</n> words of Esaias the prophet Voice of one crying in the wilderness Prepare ye the way of <n>[the]</n> Lord, make straight his paths.


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Every gorge shall be filled up, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low, and the crooked <n>[places]</n> shall become a straight <n>[path]</n>, and the rough places smooth ways,


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He said therefore to the crowds which went out to be baptised by him, Offspring of vipers, who has forewarned you to flee from the coming wrath?


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Produce therefore fruits worthy of repentance; and begin not to say in yourselves, We have Abraham for <n>[our]</n> father, for I say unto you that God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.


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And already also the axe is applied to the root of the trees; every tree therefore not producing good fruit is cut down and cast into <n>[the]</n> fire.


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And he answering says to them, He that has two body-coats, let him give to him that has none; and he that has food, let him do likewise.


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And persons engaged in military service also asked him saying, And we, what should we do? And he said to them, Oppress no one, nor accuse falsely, and be satisfied with your pay.


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But as the people were in expectation, and all were reasoning in their hearts concerning John whether *he* might be the Christ,


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John answered all, saying, *I* indeed baptise you with water, but the mightier than I is coming, the thong of whose sandals I am not fit to unloose; *he* shall baptise you with <n>[the]</n> Holy Spirit and fire;


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whose winnowing-fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his threshing-floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner, but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.


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But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him as to Herodias, the wife of his brother, and as to all the wicked things which Herod had done,


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And it came to pass, all the people having been baptised, and Jesus having been baptised and praying, that the heaven was opened,


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and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form as a dove upon him; and a voice came out of heaven, *Thou* art my beloved Son, in thee I have found my delight.


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And Jesus himself was beginning to be about thirty years old; being as was supposed son of Joseph; of Eli,


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But Jesus, full of <n>[the]</n> Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness


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forty days, tempted of the devil; and in those days he did not eat anything, and when they were finished he hungered.


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And Jesus answered unto him saying, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.


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And <n>[the devil]</n>, leading him up into a high mountain, shewed him all the kingdoms of the habitable world in a moment of time.


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And the devil said to him, I will give thee all this power, and their glory; for it is given up to me, and to whomsoever I will I give it.


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And Jesus answering him said, It is written, Thou shalt do homage to <n>[the]</n> Lord thy God, and him alone shalt thou serve.


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And he led him to Jerusalem, and set him on the edge of the temple, and said to him, If thou be Son of God, cast thyself down hence;


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and on <n>[their]</n> hands shall they bear thee, lest in any wise thou strike thy foot against a stone.


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And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee; and a rumour went out into the whole surrounding country about him;


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And he came to Nazareth, where he was brought up; and he entered, according to his custom, into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up to read.


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And <n>[the]</n> book of the prophet Esaias was given to him; and having unrolled the book he found the place where it was written,


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<n>[The]</n> Spirit of <n>[the]</n> Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach glad tidings to <n>[the]</n> poor; he has sent me to preach to captives deliverance, and to <n>[the]</n> blind sight, to send forth <n>[the]</n> crushed delivered,


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And having rolled up the book, when he had delivered it up to the attendant, he sat down; and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed upon him.


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And all bore witness to him, and wondered at the words of grace which were coming out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this the son of Joseph?


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And he said to them, Ye will surely say to me this parable, Physician, heal thyself; whatsoever we have heard has taken place in Capernaum do here also in thine own country.


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But of a truth I say to you, There were many widows in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up for three years and six months, so that a great famine came upon all the land,


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And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, and none of them was cleansed but Naaman the Syrian.


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and rising up they cast him forth out of the city, and led him up to the brow of the mountain upon which their city was built, so that they might throw him down the precipice;


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And there was in the synagogue a man having a spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried with a loud voice,


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saying, Eh! what have we to do with thee, Jesus, Nazarene? hast thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy <n>[One]</n> of God.


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And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out from him. And the demon, having thrown him down into the midst, came out from him without doing him any injury.


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And astonishment came upon all, and they spoke to one another, saying, What word <n>[is]</n> this? for with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out.


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And rising up out of the synagogue, he entered into the house of Simon. But Simon's mother-in-law was suffering under a bad fever; and they asked him for her.


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And standing over her, he rebuked the fever, and it left her; and forthwith standing up she served them.


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And when the sun went down, all, as many as had persons sick with divers diseases, brought them to him, and having laid his hands on every one of them, he healed them;


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and demons also went out from many, crying out and saying, *Thou* art the Son of God. And rebuking them, he suffered them not to speak, because they knew him to be the Christ.


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And when it was day he went out, and went into a desert place, and the crowds sought after him, and came up to him, and <n>[would have]</n> kept him back that he should not go from them.


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But he said to them, I must needs announce the glad tidings of the kingdom of God to the other cities also, for for this I have been sent forth.


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And it came to pass, as the crowd pressed on him to hear the word of God, that he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret


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and he saw two ships standing by the lake, but the fishermen, having come down from them, were washing their nets.


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And getting into one of the ships, which was Simon's, he asked him to draw out a little from the land; and he sat down and taught the crowds out of the ship.


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But when he ceased speaking, he said to Simon, Draw out into the deep <n>[water]</n> and let down your nets for a haul.


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And Simon answering said to him, Master, having laboured through the whole night we have taken nothing, but at thy word I will let down the net.


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And they beckoned to their partners who were in the other ship to come and help them, and they came, and filled both the ships, so that they were sinking.


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But Simon Peter, seeing it, fell at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord.


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For astonishment had laid hold on him, and on all those who were with him, at the haul of fishes which they had taken;


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and in like manner also on James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, Fear not; henceforth thou shalt be catching men.


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And it came to pass as he was in one of the cities, that behold, there was a man full of leprosy, and seeing Jesus, falling upon his face, he besought him saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou art able to cleanse me.


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And stretching forth his hand he touched him, saying, I will; be thou cleansed and immediately the leprosy departed from him.


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And he enjoined him to tell no one; but go, shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing as Moses ordained, for a testimony to them.


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But the report concerning him was spread abroad still more, and great crowds came together to hear, and to be healed from their infirmities.


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And it came to pass on one of the days, that *he* was teaching, and there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, who were come out of every village of Galilee and Judaea and <n>[out of]</n> Jerusalem; and <n>[the]</n> Lord's power was <n>[there]</n> to heal them.


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And lo, men bringing upon a couch a man who was paralysed; and they sought to bring him in, and put <n>[him]</n> before him.


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And not finding what way to bring him in, on account of the crowd, going up on the housetop they let him down through the tiles, with his little couch, into the midst before Jesus.


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And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason <n>[in their minds]</n>, saying, Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who is able to forgive sins but God alone?


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But that ye may know that the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins, he said to the paralysed man, I say to thee, Arise, and take up thy little couch and go to thine house.


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And immediately standing up before them, having taken up that whereon he was laid, he departed to his house, glorifying God.


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And astonishment seized all, and they glorified God, and were filled with fear, saying, We have seen strange things to-day.


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And after these things he went forth and saw a tax-gatherer, Levi by name, sitting at the receipt of taxes, and said to him, Follow me.


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And Levi made a great entertainment for him in his house, and there was a great crowd of tax-gatherers and others who were at table with them.


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And their scribes and the Pharisees murmured at his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with tax-gatherers and sinners?


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And Jesus answering said to them, They that are in sound health have not need of a physician, but those that are ill.


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And they said to him, Why do the disciples of John fast often and make supplications, in like manner those also of the Pharisees, but thine eat and drink?


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And he said to them, Can ye make the sons of the bridechamber fast when the bridegroom is with them?


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But days will come when also the bridegroom will have been taken away from them; then shall they fast in those days.


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And he spoke also a parable to them No one puts a piece of a new garment upon an old garment, otherwise he will both rend the new, and the piece which is from the new will not suit with the old.


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And no one puts new wine into old skins, otherwise the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be poured out, and the skins will be destroyed;


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And no one having drunk old wine <n>[straightway]</n> wishes for new, for he says, The old is better.


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And it came to pass on <n>[the]</n> second-first sabbath, that he went through cornfields, and his disciples were plucking the ears and eating <n>[them]</n>, rubbing <n>[them]</n> in their hands.


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And Jesus answering said to them, Have ye not read so much as this, what David did when he hungered, he and those who were with him,


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how he entered into the house of God and took the shewbread and ate, and gave to those also who were with him, which it is not lawful that <n>[any]</n> eat, unless the priests alone?


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And it came to pass on another sabbath also that he entered into the synagogue and taught; and there was a man there, and his right hand was withered.


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And the scribes and the Pharisees were watching if he would heal on the sabbath, that they might find something of which to accuse him.


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But *he* knew their thoughts, and said to the man who had the withered hand, Get up, and stand in the midst. And having risen up he stood <n>[there]</n>.


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Jesus therefore said to them, I will ask you if it is lawful on the sabbath to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy <n>[it]</n>?


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And having looked around on them all, he said to him, Stretch out thy hand. And he did <n>[so]</n> and his hand was restored as the other.


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But *they* were filled with madness, and they spoke together among themselves what they should do to Jesus.


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And it came to pass in those days that he went out into the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God.


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And when it was day he called his disciples, and having chosen out twelve from them, whom also he named apostles


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Simon, to whom also he gave the name of Peter, and Andrew his brother, <n>[and]</n> James and John, <n>[and]</n> Philip and Bartholomew,


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<n>[and]</n> Matthew and Thomas, James the <n>[son]</n> of Alphaeus and Simon who was called Zealot,


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<n>[and]</n> Judas <n>[brother]</n> of James, and Judas Iscariote, who was also <n>[his]</n> betrayer;


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and having descended with them, he stood on a level place, and a crowd of his disciples, and a great multitude of the people from all Judaea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases;


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And *he*, lifting up his eyes upon his disciples, said, Blessed <n>[are]</n> ye poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.


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Blessed are ye when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you <n>[from them]</n>, and shall reproach <n>[you]</n>, and cast out your name as wicked, for the Son of man's sake


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rejoice in that day and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in the heaven, for after this manner did their fathers act toward the prophets.


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Woe to you that are filled, for ye shall hunger. Woe to you who laugh now, for ye shall mourn and weep.


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To him that smites thee on the cheek, offer also the other; and from him that would take away thy garment, forbid not thy body-coat also.


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And if ye love those that love you, what thank is it to you? for even sinners love those that love them.


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And if ye do good to those that do good to you, what thank is it to you? for even sinners do the same.


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And if ye lend to those from whom ye hope to receive, what thank is it to you? <n>[for]</n> even sinners lend to sinners that they may receive the like.


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But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return, and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be sons of <n>[the]</n> Highest; for *he* is good to the unthankful and wicked.


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And judge not, and ye shall not be judged; condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned. Remit, and it shall be remitted to you.


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Give, and it shall be given to you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall be given into your bosom for with the same measure with which ye mete it shall be measured to you again.


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And he spoke also a parable to them Can a blind <n>[man]</n> lead a blind <n>[man]</n>? shall not both fall into <n>[the]</n> ditch?


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But why lookest thou on the mote which is in the eye of thy brother, but perceivest not the beam which is in thine own eye?


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or how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, allow <n>[me]</n>, I will cast out the mote that is in thine eye, thyself not seeing the beam that is in thine eye? Hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine eye, and then thou shalt see clear to cast out the mote which is in the eye of thy brother.


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For there is no good tree which produces corrupt fruit, nor a corrupt tree which produces good fruit;


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for every tree is known by its own fruit, for figs are not gathered from thorns, nor grapes vintaged from a bramble.


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The good man, out of the good treasure of his heart, brings forth good; and the wicked <n>[man]</n> out of the wicked, brings forth what is wicked for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.


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He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid a foundation on the rock; but a great rain coming, the stream broke upon that house, and could not shake it, for it had been founded on the rock.


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And he that has heard and not done, is like a man who has built a house on the ground without <n>[a]</n> foundation, on which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the breach of that house was great.


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and having heard of Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, begging him that he might come and save his bondman.


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But they, being come to Jesus, besought him diligently, saying, He is worthy to whom thou shouldest grant this,


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And Jesus went with them. But already, when he was not far from the house, the centurion sent to him friends, saying to him, Lord, do not trouble thyself, for I am not worthy that thou shouldest enter under my roof.


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Wherefore neither did I count myself worthy to come to thee. But say by a word and my servant shall be healed.


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For *I* also am a man placed under authority, having under myself soldiers, and I say to this <n>[one]</n>, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my bondman, Do this, and he does <n>[it]</n>.


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And Jesus hearing this wondered at him, and turning to the crowd following him said, I say to you, Not even in Israel have I found so great faith.


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And it came to pass afterwards he went into a city called Nain, and many of his disciples and a great crowd went with him.


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And as he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, a dead man was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she a widow, and a very considerable crowd of the city <n>[was]</n> with her.


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and coming up he touched the bier, and the bearers stopped. And he said, Youth, I say to thee, Wake up.


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And fear seized on all, and they glorified God, saying, A great prophet has been raised up amongst us; and God has visited his people.


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and John, having called two of his disciples, sent to Jesus, saying, Art *thou* he that is coming, or are we to wait for another?


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But the men having come to him said, John the baptist has sent us to thee, saying, Art *thou* he that is coming, or are we to wait for another?


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In that hour he healed many of diseases and plagues and evil spirits, and to many blind he granted sight.


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And Jesus answering said to them, Go, bring back word to John of what ye have seen and heard that blind see, lame walk, lepers are cleansed, deaf hear, dead are raised, poor are evangelized;


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And the messengers of John having departed, he began to speak to the crowds concerning John What went ye out into the wilderness to behold? a reed shaken by the wind?


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But what went ye out to see? a man clothed in delicate garments? Behold, those who are in splendid clothing and live luxuriously are in the courts of kings.


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But what went ye out to see? a prophet? Yea, I say to you, and <n>[what is]</n> more excellent than a prophet.


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This is he concerning whom it is written, Behold, *I* send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee;


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for I say unto you, Among them that are born of women a greater <n>[prophet]</n> is no one than John <n>[the baptist]</n>; but he who is a little one in the kingdom of God is greater than he.


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(And all the people who heard <n>[it]</n>, and the tax-gatherers, justified God, having been baptised with the baptism of John;


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but the Pharisees and the lawyers rendered null as to themselves the counsel of God, not having been baptised by him.)


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They are like children sitting in the market-place, and calling one to another and saying, We have piped to you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.


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The Son of man has come eating and drinking, and ye say, Behold an eater and wine-drinker, a friend of tax-gatherers and sinners;


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But one of the Pharisees begged him that he would eat with him. And entering into the house of the Pharisee he took his place at table;


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and behold, a woman in the city, who was a sinner, and knew that he was sitting at meat in the house of the Pharisee, having taken an alabaster box of myrrh,


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and standing at his feet behind <n>[him]</n> weeping, began to wash his feet with tears; and she wiped them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed <n>[them]</n> with the myrrh.


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And the Pharisee who had invited him, seeing it, spoke with himself saying, This <n>[person]</n> if he were a prophet would have known who and what the woman is who touches him, for she is a sinner.


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And Jesus answering said to him, Simon, I have somewhat to say to thee. And he says, Teacher, say <n>[it]</n>.


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but as they had nothing to pay, he forgave both of them <n>[their debt]</n> <n>[say,]</n> which of them therefore will love him most?


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And Simon answering said, I suppose he to whom he forgave the most. And he said to him, Thou hast rightly judged.


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And turning to the woman he said to Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thy house; thou gavest me not water on my feet, but *she* has washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with her hair.


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For which cause I say to thee, Her many sins are forgiven; for she loved much; but he to whom little is forgiven loves little.


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And they that were with <n>[them]</n> at table began to say within themselves, Who is this who forgives also sins?


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And it came to pass afterwards that *he* went through <n>[the country]</n> city by city, and village by village, preaching and announcing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God; and the twelve <n>[were]</n> with him,


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and certain women who had been healed of wicked spirits and infirmities, Mary who was called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out,


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and Joanna, wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, who ministered to him of their substance.


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And a great crowd coming together, and those who were coming to him out of each city, he spoke by parable


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The sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed, some fell along the way, and it was trodden under foot, and the birds of the heaven devoured it up;


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and other fell in the midst of the thorns, and the thorns having sprung up with <n>[it]</n> choked it;


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and other fell into the good ground, and having sprung up bore fruit a hundredfold. As he said these things he cried, He that has ears to hear, let him hear.


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And he said, To you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest in parables, in order that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.


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But those by the wayside are those who hear; then comes the devil and takes away the word from their heart that they may not believe and be saved.


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But those upon the rock, those who when they hear receive the word with joy; and these have no root, who believe for a time, and in time of trial fall away.


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But that that fell where the thorns were, these are they who having heard go away and are choked under cares and riches and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to perfection.


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But that in the good ground, these are they who in an honest and good heart, having heard the word keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.


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And no one having lighted a lamp covers it with a vessel or puts it under a couch, but sets it on a lamp-stand, that they who enter in may see the light.


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For there is nothing hid which shall not become manifest, nor secret which shall not be known and come to light.


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Take heed therefore how ye hear; for whosoever has, to him shall be given, and whosoever has not, even what he seems to have shall be taken from him.


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And it was told him <n>[saying]</n>, Thy mother and thy brethren stand without, wishing to see thee.


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But he answering said to them, My mother and my brethren are those who hear the word of God and do <n>[it]</n>.


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And it came to pass on one of the days, that *he* entered into a ship, himself and his disciples; and he said to them, Let us pass over to the other side of the lake; and they set off from shore.


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And as they sailed, he fell asleep; and a sudden squall of wind came down on the lake, and they were filled <n>[with water]</n>, and were in danger;


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and coming to <n>[him]</n> they woke him up, saying, Master, master, we perish. But he, rising up, rebuked the wind and the raging of the water; and they ceased, and there was a calm.


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And he said to them, Where is your faith? And, being afraid, they were astonished, saying to one another, Who then is this, that he commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him?


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And as he got out <n>[of the ship]</n> on the land, a certain man out of the city met him, who had demons a long time, and put on no clothes, and did not abide in a house, but in the tombs.


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But seeing Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus Son of the Most High God? I beseech thee torment me not.


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For he had commanded the unclean spirit to go out from the man. For very often it had seized him; and he had been bound, kept with chains and fetters; and breaking the bonds he was driven by the demon into the deserts.


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And Jesus asked him saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion for many demons had entered into him.


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And there was there a herd of many swine feeding on the mountain, and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into those; and he suffered them.


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And the demons, going out from the man, entered into the swine, and the herd rushed down the precipice into the lake, and were choked.


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But they that fed <n>[them]</n>, seeing what had happened, fled, and told <n>[it]</n> to the city and to the country.


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And they went out to see what had happened, and came to Jesus, and found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting, clothed and sensible, at the feet of Jesus. And they were afraid.


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And all the multitude of the surrounding country of the Gadarenes asked him to depart from them, for they were possessed with great fear; and *he*, entering into the ship, returned.


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But the man out of whom the demons had gone besought him that he might be with him. But he sent him away, saying,


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Return to thine house and relate how great things God has done for thee. And he went away through the whole city, publishing how great things Jesus had done for him.


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And it came to pass when Jesus returned, the crowd received him gladly, for they were all expecting him.


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And behold, a man came, whose name was Jairus, and he was <n>[a]</n> ruler of the synagogue, and falling at the feet of Jesus besought him to come to his house,


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because he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying. And as he went the crowds thronged him.


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And a woman who had a flux of blood since twelve years, who, having spent all her living on physicians, could not be cured by any one,


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And Jesus said, Who has touched me? But all denying, Peter and those with him said, Master, the crowds close thee in and press upon thee, and sayest thou, Who has touched me?


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And the woman, seeing that she was not hid, came trembling, and falling down before him declared before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and how she was immediately healed.


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While he was yet speaking, comes some one from the ruler of the synagogue, saying to him, Thy daughter is dead; do not trouble the teacher.


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And when he came to the house he suffered no one to go in but Peter and John and James and the father of the child and the mother.


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And her spirit returned, and immediately she rose up; and he commanded <n>[something]</n> to eat to be given to her.


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And having called together the twelve, he gave them power and authority over all demons, and to heal diseases,


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And he said to them, Take nothing for the way, neither staff, nor scrip, nor bread, nor money; nor to have two body-coats apiece.


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And as many as may not receive you, going forth from that city, shake off even the dust from your feet for a witness against them.


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And going forth they passed through the villages, announcing the glad tidings and healing everywhere.


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And Herod the tetrarch heard of all the things which were done <n>[by him]</n>, and was in perplexity, because it was said by some that John was risen from among <n>[the]</n> dead,


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And Herod said, John *I* have beheaded, but who is this of whom I hear such things? and he sought to see him.


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And the apostles having returned related to him whatever they had done. And he took them and withdrew apart into <n>[a desert place of]</n> a city called Bethsaida.


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But the crowds knowing <n>[it]</n> followed him; and he received them and spake to them of the kingdom of God, and cured those that had need of healing.


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But the day began to decline, and the twelve came and said to him, Send away the crowd that they may go into the villages around, and <n>[into]</n> the fields, and lodge and find victuals, for here we are in a desert place.


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And he said to them, Give *ye them to eat. And they said, We have not more than five loaves and two fishes, unless *we* should go and buy food for all this people;


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for they were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, Make them sit down in companies by fifties.


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And taking the five loaves and the two fishes, looking up to heaven he blessed them, and broke and gave to the disciples to set before the crowd.


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And they all ate and were filled; and there was taken up of what had remained over and above to them in fragments twelve hand-baskets.


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And it came to pass as he was praying alone, his disciples were with him, and he asked them saying, Who do the crowds say that I am?


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But they answering said, John the baptist; but others, Elias; and others, that one of the old prophets has risen again.


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And he said to them, But *ye*, who do ye say that I am? And Peter answering said, The Christ of God.


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saying, The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.


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And he said to <n>[them]</n> all, If any one will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me;


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for whosoever shall desire to save his life shall lose it, but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake, *he* shall save it.


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For what shall a man profit if he shall have gained the whole world, and have destroyed, or come under the penalty of the loss of himself?


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For whosoever shall have been ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of man be ashamed when he shall come in his glory, and <n>[in that]</n> of the Father, and of the holy angels.


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But I say unto you of a truth, There are some of those standing here who shall not taste death until they shall have seen the kingdom of God.


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And it came to pass after these words, about eight days, that taking Peter and John and James he went up into a mountain to pray.


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And as he prayed the fashion of his countenance became different and his raiment white <n>[and]</n> effulgent.


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But Peter and those with him were oppressed with sleep but having fully awoke up they saw his glory, and the two men who stood with him.


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And it came to pass as they departed from him, Peter said to Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here; and let us make three tabernacles, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias not knowing what he said.


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But as he was saying these things, there came a cloud and overshadowed them, and they feared as they entered into the cloud


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And as the voice was <n>[heard]</n> Jesus was found alone and *they* kept silence, and told no one in those days any of the things they had seen.


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And it came to pass on the following day, when they came down from the mountain, a great crowd met him.


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And lo, a man from the crowd cried out saying, Teacher, I beseech thee look upon my son, for he is mine only child


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and behold, a spirit takes him, and suddenly he cries out, and it tears him with foaming, and with difficulty departs from him after crushing him.


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And Jesus answering said, O unbelieving and perverted generation, how long shall I be with you and suffer you? Bring hither thy son.


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But as he was yet coming, the demon tore him and dragged him all together. And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the child and gave him back to his father.


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And all were astonished at the glorious greatness of God. And as all wondered at all the things which <n>[Jesus]</n> did, he said to his disciples,


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Do *ye* let these words sink into your ears. For the Son of man is about to be delivered into men's hands.


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But they understood not this saying, and it was hid from them that they should not perceive it. And they feared to ask him concerning this saying.


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and said to them, Whosoever shall receive this little child in my name receives me, and whosoever shall receive me receives him that sent me. For he who is the least among you all, *he* is great.


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And John answering said, Master, we saw some one casting out demons in thy name, and we forbad him, because he follows not with us.


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And it came to pass when the days of his receiving up were fulfilled, that *he* stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem.


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And he sent messengers before his face. And having gone they entered into a village of the Samaritans that they might make ready for him.


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And his disciples James and John seeing <n>[it]</n> said, Lord, wilt thou that we speak <n>[that]</n> fire come down from heaven and consume them, as also Elias did?


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And it came to pass as they went in the way, one said to him, I will follow thee wheresoever thou goest, Lord.


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And Jesus said to him, The foxes have holes and the birds of the heaven roosting-places, but the Son of man has not where he may lay his head.


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But Jesus said to him, Suffer the dead to bury their own dead, but do *thou* go and announce the kingdom of God.


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And another also said, I will follow thee, Lord, but first allow me to bid adieu to those at my house.


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But Jesus said to him, No one having laid his hand on <n>[the]</n> plough and looking back is fit for the kingdom of God.


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Now after these things the Lord appointed seventy others also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place where he himself was about to come.


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And he said to them, The harvest indeed <n>[is]</n> great, but the workmen few; supplicate therefore the Lord of the harvest that he may send out workmen into his harvest.


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And if a son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it; but if not it shall turn to you again.


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And in the same house abide, eating and drinking such things as they have; for the workman is worthy of his hire. Remove not from house to house.


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But into whatsoever city ye may have entered and they do not receive you, go out into its streets and say,


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Even the dust of your city, which cleaves to us on the feet, do we shake off against you; but know this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh.


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Woe to thee, Chorazin! woe to thee, Bethsaida! for if the works of power which have taken place in you had taken place in Tyre and Sidon, they had long ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.


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He that hears you hears me; and he that rejects you rejects me; and he that rejects me rejects him that sent me.


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And the seventy returned with joy, saying, Lord, even the demons are subject to us through thy name.


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Behold, I give you the power of treading upon serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall in anywise injure you.


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Yet in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subjected to you, but rejoice that your names are written in the heavens.


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In the same hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit and said, I praise thee, Father, Lord of the heaven and of the earth, that thou hast hid these things from wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to babes yea, Father, for thus has it been well-pleasing in thy sight.


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All things have been delivered to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is but the Father, and who the Father is but the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son is pleased to reveal <n>[him]</n>.


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And having turned to the disciples privately he said, Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see.


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For I say to you that many prophets and kings have desired to see the things which ye behold, and did not see <n>[them]</n>; and to hear the things which ye hear, and did not hear <n>[them]</n>.


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And behold, a certain lawyer stood up tempting him, and saying, Teacher, having done what, shall I inherit life eternal?


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But he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thine understanding; and thy neighbour as thyself.


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And Jesus replying said, A certain man descended from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell into <n>[the hands of]</n> robbers, who also, having stripped him and inflicted wounds, went away leaving him in a half-dead state.


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and in like manner also a Levite, being at the spot, came and looked <n>[at him]</n> and passed on on the opposite side.


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and came up <n>[to him]</n> and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine; and having put him on his own beast, took him to <n>[the]</n> inn and took care of him.


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And on the morrow <n>[as he left]</n>, taking out two denarii he gave them to the innkeeper, and said to him, Take care of him, and whatsoever thou shalt expend more, *I* will render to thee on my coming back.


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Which <n>[now]</n> of these three seems to thee to have been neighbour of him who fell into <n>[the hands of]</n> the robbers?


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And it came to pass as they went that *he* entered into a certain village; and a certain woman, Martha by name, received him into her house.


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And she had a sister called Mary, who also, having sat down at the feet of Jesus was listening to his word.


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Now Martha was distracted with much serving, and coming up she said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Speak to her therefore that she may help me.


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And it came to pass as he was in a certain place praying, when he ceased, one of his disciples said to him, Lord, teach us to pray, even as John also taught his disciples.


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and remit us our sins, for we also remit to every one indebted to us; and lead us not into temptation.


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And he said to them, Who among you shall have a friend, and shall go to him at midnight and say to him, Friend, let me have three loaves,


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and he within answering should say, Do not disturb me; the door is already shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise up to give <n>[it]</n> thee?


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-- I say to you, Although he will not get up and give <n>[them]</n> to him because he is his friend, because of his shamelessness, at any rate, he will rise and give him as many as he wants.


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And *I* say to you, Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.


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For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it will be opened.


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But of whom of you that is a father shall a son ask bread, and <n>[the father]</n> shall give him a stone? or also a fish, and instead of a fish shall give him a serpent?


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If therefore *ye*, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much rather shall the Father who is of heaven give <n>[the]</n> Holy Spirit to them that ask him?


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And he was casting out a demon, and it was dumb; and it came to pass, the demon being gone out, the dumb <n>[man]</n> spoke. And the crowds wondered.


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But *he*, knowing their thoughts, said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation and a house set against a house falls;


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and if also Satan is divided against himself, how shall his kingdom subsist? because ye say that I cast out demons by Beelzebub.


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But if *I* by Beelzebub cast out demons, your sons -- by whom do they cast <n>[them]</n> out? For this reason *they* shall be your judges.


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but when the stronger than he coming upon <n>[him]</n> overcomes him, he takes away his panoply in which he trusted, and he will divide the spoil <n>[he has taken]</n> from him.


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When the unclean spirit has gone out of the man, he goes through dry places seeking rest; and not finding <n>[any]</n> he says, I will return to my house whence I came out.


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Then he goes and takes seven other spirits worse than himself, and entering in, they dwell there; and the last condition of that man becomes worse than the first.


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And it came to pass as he spake these things, a certain woman, lifting up her voice out of the crowd, said to him, Blessed is the womb that has borne thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.


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But as the crowds thronged together, he began to say, This generation is a wicked generation it seeks a sign, and a sign shall not be given to it but the sign of Jonas.


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A queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and shall condemn them for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, more than Solomon is here.


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Men of Nineveh shall stand up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it for they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and behold, more than Jonas is here.


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But no one having lit a lamp sets it in secret, nor under the corn-measure, but on the lamp-stand, that they who enter in may see the light.


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The lamp of the body is thine eye when thine eye is simple, thy whole body also is light; but when it is wicked, thy body also is dark.


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If therefore thy whole body <n>[is]</n> light, not having any part dark, it shall be all light as when the lamp lights thee with its brightness.


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But as he spoke, a certain Pharisee asked him that he would dine with him; and entering in he placed himself at table.


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But the Lord said to him, Now do ye Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but your inward <n>[parts]</n> are full of plunder and wickedness.


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But woe unto you, Pharisees, for ye pay tithes of mint and rue and every herb, and pass by the judgment and the love of God these ye ought to have done, and not have left those aside.


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Woe unto you, Pharisees, for ye love the first seat in the synagogues and salutations in the market-places.


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Woe unto you, for ye are as the sepulchres which appear not, and the men walking over them do not know <n>[it]</n>.


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And one of the doctors of the law answering says to him, Teacher, in saying these things thou insultest us also.


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And he said, To you also woe, doctors of the law, for ye lay upon men burdens heavy to bear, and yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers.


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Ye bear witness then, and consent to the works of your fathers; for *they* killed them, and *ye* build <n>[their sepulchres]</n>.


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For this reason also the wisdom of God has said, I will send to them prophets and apostles, and of these shall they kill and drive out by persecution,


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that the blood of all the prophets which has been poured out from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation,


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from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zacharias, who perished between the altar and the house; yea, I say to you, it shall be required of this generation.


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Woe unto you, the doctors of the law, for ye have taken away the key of knowledge; yourselves have not entered in, and those who were entering in ye have hindered.


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And as he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press him urgently, and to make him speak of many things;


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watching him, <n>[and seeking]</n> to catch something out of his mouth, <n>[that they might accuse him]</n>.


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therefore whatever ye have said in the darkness shall be heard in the light, and what ye have spoken in the ear in chambers shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.


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But I say to you, my friends, Fear not those who kill the body and after this have no more that they can do.


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But I will shew you whom ye shall fear Fear him who after he has killed has authority to cast into hell; yea, I say to you, Fear *him*.


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But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore, ye are better than many sparrows.


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But I say to you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, the Son of man will confess him also before the angels of God;


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and whoever shall say a word against the Son of man it shall be forgiven him; but to him that speaks injuriously against the Holy Spirit it shall not be forgiven.


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But when they bring you before the synagogues and rulers and the authorities, be not careful how or what ye shall answer, or what ye shall say;


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And a person said to him out of the crowd, Teacher, speak to my brother to divide the inheritance with me.


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And he said to them, Take heed and keep yourselves from all covetousness, for <n>[it is]</n> not because a man is in abundance <n>[that]</n> his life is in his possessions.


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And he reasoned within himself saying, What shall I do? for I have not <n>[a place]</n> where I shall lay up my fruits.


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And he said, This will I do I will take away my granaries and build greater, and there I will lay up all my produce and my good things;


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and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much good things laid by for many years; repose thyself, eat, drink, be merry.


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But God said to him, Fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee; and whose shall be what thou hast prepared?


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And he said to his disciples, For this cause I say unto you, Be not careful for life, what ye shall eat, nor for the body, what ye shall put on.


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Consider the ravens, that they sow not nor reap; which have neither storehouse nor granary; and God feeds them. How much better are *ye* than the birds?


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Consider the lilies how they grow they neither toil nor spin; but I say unto you, Not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed as one of these.


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But if God thus clothe the grass, which to-day is in the field and to-morrow is cast into <n>[the]</n> oven, how much rather you, O ye of little faith?


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for all these things do the nations of the world seek after, and your Father knows that ye have need of these things;


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Sell what ye possess and give alms; make to yourselves purses which do not grow old, a treasure which does not fail in the heavens, where thief does not draw near nor moth destroy.


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and *ye* like men who wait their own lord whenever he may leave the wedding, that when he comes and knocks, they may open to him immediately.


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Blessed are those bondmen whom the lord <n>[on]</n> coming shall find watching; verily I say unto you, that he will gird himself and make them recline at table, and coming up will serve them.


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And if he come in the second watch, and come in the third watch, and find <n>[them]</n> thus, blessed are those <n>[bondmen]</n>.


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But this know, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be dug through.


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And ye therefore, be *ye* ready, for in the hour in which ye do not think <n>[it]</n>, the Son of man comes.


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And the Lord said, Who then is the faithful and prudent steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give the measure of corn in season?


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But if that bondman should say in his heart, My lord delays to come, and begin to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and to drink and to be drunken,


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the lord of that bondman shall come in a day when he does not expect it, and in an hour he knows not of, and shall cut him in two and appoint his portion with the unbelievers.


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But that bondman who knew his own lord's will, and had not prepared <n>[himself]</n> nor done his will, shall be beaten with many <n>[stripes]</n>;


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but he who knew <n>[it]</n> not, and did things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few. And to every one to whom much has been given, much shall be required from him; and to whom <n>[men]</n> have committed much, they will ask from him the more.


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for from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided; three shall be divided against two, and two against three


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father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against mother; a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.


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And he said also to the crowds, When ye see a cloud rising out of the west, straightway ye say, A shower is coming; and so it happens.


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For as thou goest with thine adverse party before a magistrate, strive in the way to be reconciled with him, lest he drag thee away to the judge, and the judge shall deliver thee to the officer, and the officer cast thee into prison.


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Now at the same time there were present some who told him of the Galileans whose blood Pilate mingled with <n>[that of]</n> their sacrifices.


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And he answering said to them, Think ye that these Galileans were sinners beyond all the Galileans because they suffered such things?


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Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them, think ye that *they* were debtors beyond all the men who dwell in Jerusalem?


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And he spoke this parable A certain <n>[man]</n> had a fig-tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit upon it and did not find <n>[any]</n>.


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And he said to the vinedresser, Behold, <n>[these]</n> three years I come seeking fruit on this fig-tree and find none cut it down; why does it also render the ground useless?


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But he answering says to him, Sir, let it alone for this year also, until I shall dig about it and put dung,


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And lo, <n>[there was]</n> a woman having a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and she was bent together and wholly unable to lift her head up.


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And Jesus, seeing her, called to <n>[her]</n>, and said to her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity.


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But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus healed on the sabbath, answering said to the crowd, There are six days in which <n>[people]</n> ought to work; in these therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.


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The Lord therefore answered him and said, Hypocrites! does not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the manger and leading <n>[it]</n> away, water <n>[it]</n>?


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And this <n>[woman]</n>, who is a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound, lo, <n>[these]</n> eighteen years, ought she not to be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?


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And as he said these things, all who were opposed to him were ashamed; and all the crowd rejoiced at all the glorious things which were being done by him.


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It is like a grain of mustard <n>[seed]</n> which a man took and cast into his garden; and it grew and became a great tree, and the birds of heaven lodged in its branches.


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It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal until the whole was leavened.


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Strive with earnestness to enter in through the narrow door, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.


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From the time that the master of the house shall have risen up and shall have shut the door, and ye shall begin to stand without and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, open to us; and he answering shall say to you, I know you not whence ye are


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then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten in thy presence and drunk, and thou hast taught in our streets;


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and he shall say, I tell you, I do not know you whence ye are; depart from me, all <n>[ye]</n> workers of iniquity.


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There shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but yourselves cast out.


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And they shall come from east and west, and from north and south, and shall lie down at table in the kingdom of God.


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The same hour certain Pharisees came up, saying to him, Get out, and go hence, for Herod is desirous to kill thee.


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And he said to them, Go, tell that fox, Behold, I cast out demons and accomplish cures to-day and to-morrow, and the third <n>[day]</n> I am perfected;


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but I must needs walk to-day and to-morrow and the <n>[day]</n> following, for it must not be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem.


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Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the <n>[city]</n> that kills the prophets and stones those that are sent unto her, how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen her brood under her wings, and ye would not.


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Behold, your house is left unto you; and I say unto you, that ye shall not see me until it come that ye say, Blessed <n>[is]</n> he that comes in the name of <n>[the]</n> Lord.


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And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the rulers, <n>[who was]</n> of the Pharisees, to eat bread on <n>[the]</n> sabbath, that *they* were watching him.


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And Jesus answering spoke unto the doctors of the law and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath?


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And answering he said to them, Of which of you shall an ass or ox fall into a well, that he does not straightway pull him up on the sabbath day?


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When thou art invited by any one to a wedding, do not lay thyself down in the first place at table, lest perhaps a more honourable than thou be invited by him,


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and he who invited thee and him come and say to thee, Give place to this <n>[man]</n>, and then thou begin with shame to take the last place.


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But when thou hast been invited, go and put thyself down in the last place, that when he who has invited thee comes, he may say to thee, Friend, go up higher then shalt thou have honour before all that are lying at table with thee;


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And he said also to him that had invited him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, nor thy kinsfolk, nor rich neighbours, lest it may be they also should invite thee in return, and a recompense be made thee.


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and thou shalt be blessed; for they have not <n>[the means]</n> to recompense thee; for it shall be recompensed thee in the resurrection of the just.


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And one of those that were lying at table with <n>[them]</n>, hearing these things, said to him, Blessed <n>[is]</n> he who shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.


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And he sent his bondman at the hour of supper to say to those who were invited, Come, for already all things are ready.


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And all began, without exception, to excuse themselves. The first said to him, I have bought land, and I must go out and see it; I pray thee hold me for excused.


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And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them; I pray thee hold me for excused.


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And the bondman came up and brought back word of these things to his lord. Then the master of the house, in anger, said to his bondman, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring here the poor and crippled and lame and blind.


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And the lord said to the bondman, Go out into the ways and fences and compel to come in, that my house may be filled;


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If any man come to me, and shall not hate his own father and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yea, and his own life too, he cannot be my disciple;


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For which of you, desirous of building a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, if he have what <n>[is needed]</n> to complete it;


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in order that, having laid the foundation of it, and not being able to finish it, all who see it do not begin to mock at him,


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Or what king, going on his way to engage in war with another king, does not, sitting down first, take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him coming against him with twenty thousand?


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Salt <n>[then]</n> <n>[is]</n> good, but if the salt also has become savourless, wherewith shall it be seasoned?


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It is proper neither for land nor for dung; it is cast out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.


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and the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, This <n>[man]</n> receives sinners and eats with them.


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What man of you having a hundred sheep, and having lost one of them, does not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness and go after that which is lost, until he find it?


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and being come to the house, calls together the friends and the neighbours, saying to them, Rejoice with me, for I have found my lost sheep.


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I say unto you, that thus there shall be joy in heaven for one repenting sinner, <n>[more]</n> than for ninety and nine righteous who have no need of repentance.


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Or, what woman having ten drachmas, if she lose one drachma, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek carefully till she find it?


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and having found it she calls together the friends and neighbours, saying, Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost.


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and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give to me the share of the property that falls <n>[to me]</n>. And he divided to them what he was possessed of.


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And after not many days the younger son gathering all together went away into a country a long way off, and there dissipated his property, living in debauchery.


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But when he had spent all there arose a violent famine throughout that country, and he began to be in want.


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And he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.


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And coming to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have abundance of bread, and *I* perish here by famine.


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I will rise up and go to my father, and I will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee;


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And he rose up and went to his own father. But while he was yet a long way off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell upon his neck, and covered him with kisses.


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And the son said to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee; I am no longer worthy to be called thy son.


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But the father said to his bondmen, Bring out the best robe and clothe him in <n>[it]</n>, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet;


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for this my son was dead and has come to life, was lost and has been found. And they began to make merry.


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And his elder son was in the field; and as, coming <n>[up]</n>, he drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing.


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And he said to him, Thy brother is come, and thy father has killed the fatted calf because he has received him safe and well.


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But he answering said to his father, Behold, so many years I serve thee, and never have I transgressed a commandment of thine; and to me hast thou never given a kid that I might make merry with my friends


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but when this thy son, who has devoured thy substance with harlots, is come, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.


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But it was right to make merry and rejoice, because this thy brother was dead and has come to life again, and was lost and has been found.


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And he said also to <n>[his]</n> disciples, There was a certain rich man who had a steward, and *he* was accused to him as wasting his goods.


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And having called him, he said to him, What <n>[is]</n> this that I hear of thee? give the reckoning of thy stewardship, for thou canst be no longer steward.


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And the steward said within himself, What shall I do; for my lord is taking the stewardship from me? I am not able to dig; I am ashamed to beg.


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I know what I will do, that when I shall have been removed from the stewardship I may be received into their houses.


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And having called to <n>[him]</n> each one of the debtors of his own lord, he said to the first, How much owest thou to my lord?


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And he said, A hundred baths of oil. And he said to him, Take thy writing and sit down quickly and write fifty.


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Then he said to another, And thou, how much dost thou owe? And he said, A hundred cors of wheat. And he says to him, Take thy writing and write eighty.


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And the lord praised the unrighteous steward because he had done prudently. For the sons of this world are, for their own generation, more prudent than the sons of light.


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And *I* say to you, Make to yourselves friends with the mammon of unrighteousness, that when it fails ye may be received into the eternal tabernacles.


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He that is faithful in the least is faithful also in much; and he that is unrighteous in the least is unrighteous also in much.


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If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who shall entrust to you the true?


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No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and will love the other, or he will cleave to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.


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And he said to them, *Ye* are they who justify themselves before men, but God knows your hearts; for what amongst men is highly thought of is an abomination before God.


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The law and the prophets <n>[were]</n> until John from that time the glad tidings of the kingdom of God are announced, and every one forces his way into it.


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But it is easier that the heaven and the earth should pass away than that one tittle of the law should fail.


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Every one who puts away his wife and marries another commits adultery; and every one that marries one put away from a husband commits adultery.


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Now there was a rich man and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, making good cheer in splendour every day.


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And <n>[there was]</n> a poor man, by name Lazarus, <n>[who]</n> was laid at his gateway full of sores,


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and desiring to be filled with the crumbs which fell from the table of the rich man; but the dogs also coming licked his sores.


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And it came to pass that the poor man died, and that he was carried away by the angels into the bosom of Abraham. And the rich man also died and was buried.


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And in hades lifting up his eyes, being in torments, he sees Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.


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And he crying out said, Father Abraham, have compassion on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am suffering in this flame.


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But Abraham said, Child, recollect that *thou* hast fully received thy good things in thy lifetime, and likewise Lazarus evil things. But now he is comforted here, and *thou* art in suffering.


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And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm is fixed, so that those who desire to pass hence to you cannot, nor do they who <n>[desire to cross]</n> from there pass over unto us.


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for I have five brothers, so that he may earnestly testify to them, that they also may not come to this place of torment.


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And he said to him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, not even if one rise from among <n>[the]</n> dead will they be persuaded.


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And he said to his disciples, It cannot be but that offences come, but woe <n>[to him]</n> by whom they come!


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It would be <n>[more]</n> profitable for him if a millstone were hanged about his neck and he cast into the sea, than that he should be a snare to one of these little ones.


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Take heed to yourselves if thy brother should sin, rebuke him; and if he should repent, forgive him.


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And if he should sin against thee seven times in the day, and seven times should return to thee, saying, I repent, thou shalt forgive him.


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But the Lord said, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard <n>[seed]</n>, ye had said to this sycamine tree, Be thou rooted up, and be thou planted in the sea, and it would have obeyed you.


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But which of you <n>[is there]</n> who, having a bondman ploughing or shepherding, when he comes in out of the field, will say, Come and lie down immediately to table?


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But will he not say to him, Prepare what I shall sup on, and gird thyself and serve me that I may eat and drink; and after that *thou* shalt eat and drink?


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Thus *ye* also, when ye shall have done all things that have been ordered you, say, We are unprofitable bondmen; we have done what it was our duty to do.


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And it came to pass as he was going up to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.


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And seeing <n>[them]</n> he said to them, Go, shew yourselves to the priests. And it came to pass as they were going they were cleansed.


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And having been asked by the Pharisees, When is the kingdom of God coming? he answered them and said, The kingdom of God does not come with observation;


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And he said to the disciples, Days are coming, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and shall not see <n>[it]</n>.


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For as the lightning shines which lightens from <n>[one end]</n> under heaven to <n>[the other end]</n> under heaven, thus shall the Son of man be in his day.


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they ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed all <n>[of them]</n>;


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and in like manner as took place in the days of Lot they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;


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but on the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulphur from heaven, and destroyed all <n>[of them]</n>


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In that day, he who shall be on the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not go down to take it away; and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.


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I say to you, In that night there shall be two <n>[men]</n> upon one bed; one shall be seized and the other shall be let go.


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Two <n>[women]</n> shall be grinding together; the one shall be seized and the other shall be let go.


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And answering they say to him, Where, Lord? And he said to them, Where the body <n>[is]</n>, there the eagles will be gathered together.


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at any rate because this widow annoys me I will avenge her, that she may not by perpetually coming completely harass me.


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I say unto you that he will avenge them speedily. But when the Son of man comes, shall he indeed find faith on the earth?


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And he spoke also to some, who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and made nothing of all the rest <n>[of men]</n>, this parable


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The Pharisee, standing, prayed thus to himself God, I thank thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer.


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And the tax-gatherer, standing afar off, would not lift up even his eyes to heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, O God, have compassion on me, the sinner.


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I say unto you, This <n>[man]</n> went down to his house justified rather than that <n>[other]</n>. For every one who exalts himself shall be humbled, and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.


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And they brought to him also infants that he might touch them, but the disciples when they saw <n>[it]</n> rebuked them.


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But Jesus calling them to <n>[him]</n> said, Suffer little children to come to me, and do not forbid them, for of such is the kingdom of God.


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Verily I say to you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein.


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Thou knowest the commandments Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.


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And when Jesus had heard this, he said to him, One thing is lacking to thee yet Sell all that thou hast and distribute to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in the heavens, and come, follow me.


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But when Jesus saw that he became very sorrowful, he said, How difficultly shall those who have riches enter into the kingdom of God;


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for it is easier for a camel to enter through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.


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And he said to them, Verily I say to you, There is no one who has left home, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake,


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And he took the twelve to <n>[him]</n> and said to them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written of the Son of man by the prophets shall be accomplished;


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And when they have scourged <n>[him]</n> they will kill him; and on the third day he will rise again.


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And they understood nothing of these things. And this word was hidden from them, and they did not know what was said.


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And it came to pass when he came into the neighbourhood of Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the wayside begging.


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And those <n>[who were]</n> going before rebuked him that he might be silent; but *he* cried out so much the more, Son of David, have mercy on me.


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And Jesus stood still, and commanded him to be led to him. And when he drew nigh he asked him <n>[saying]</n>,


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And immediately he saw, and followed him, glorifying God. And all the people when they saw <n>[it]</n> gave praise to God.


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And behold, <n>[there was]</n> a man by name called Zacchaeus, and he was chief tax-gatherer, and he was rich.


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And he sought to see Jesus who he was and he could not for the crowd, because he was little in stature.


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And running on before, he got up into a sycamore that he might see him, for he was going to pass that <n>[way]</n>.


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And when he came up to the place, Jesus looked up and saw him, and said to him, Zacchaeus, make haste and come down, for to-day I must remain in thy house.


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But Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor, and if I have taken anything from any man by false accusation, I return <n>[him]</n> fourfold.


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And Jesus said to him, To-day salvation is come to this house, inasmuch as he also is a son of Abraham;


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But as they were listening to these things, he added and spake a parable, because he was near to Jerusalem and they thought that the kingdom of God was about to be immediately manifested.


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He said therefore, A certain high-born man went to a distant country to receive for himself a kingdom and return.


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And having called his own ten bondmen, he gave to them ten minas, and said to them, Trade while I am coming.


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But his citizens hated him, and sent an embassy after him, saying, We will not that this <n>[man]</n> should reign over us.


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And it came to pass on his arrival back again, having received the kingdom, that he desired these bondmen to whom he gave the money to be called to him, in order that he might know what every one had gained by trading.


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And he said to him, Well <n>[done]</n>, thou good bondman; because thou hast been faithful in that which is least, be thou in authority over ten cities.


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And another came, saying, <n>[My]</n> Lord, lo, <n>[there is]</n> thy mina, which I have kept laid up in a towel.


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For I feared thee because thou art a harsh man thou takest up what thou hast not laid down, and thou reapest what thou hast not sowed.


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He says to him, Out of thy mouth will I judge thee, wicked bondman thou knewest that *I* am a harsh man, taking up what I have not laid down and reaping what I have not sowed.


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And why didst thou not give my money to <n>[the]</n> bank; and *I* should have received it, at my coming, with interest?


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And he said to those that stood by, Take from him the mina and give <n>[it]</n> to him who has the ten minas.


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For I say unto you, that to every one that has shall be given; but from him that has not, that even which he has shall be taken from him.


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Moreover those mine enemies, who would not <n>[have]</n> me to reign over them, bring them here and slay <n>[them]</n> before me.


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And it came to pass as he drew near to Bethphage and Bethany at the mountain called <n>[the mount]</n> of Olives, he sent two of his disciples,


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saying, Go into the village over against <n>[you]</n>, in which ye will find, on entering it, a colt tied up, on which no <n>[child]</n> of man ever sat at any time loose it and lead it <n>[here]</n>.


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And if any one ask you, Why do ye loose <n>[it]</n>? thus shall ye say to him, Because the Lord has need of it.


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And they led it to Jesus; and having cast their own garments on the colt, they put Jesus on <n>[it]</n>.


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And as he drew near, already at the descent of the mount of Olives, all the multitude of the disciples began, rejoicing, to praise God with a loud voice for all the works of power which they had seen,


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saying, Blessed the King that comes in the name of <n>[the]</n> Lord peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.


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saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, even at least in this thy day, the things that are for thy peace but now they are hid from thine eyes;


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for days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall make a palisaded mound about thee, and shall close thee around, and keep thee in on every side,


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and shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children in thee; and shall not leave in thee a stone upon a stone because thou knewest not the season of thy visitation.


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saying to them, It is written, My house is a house of prayer, but *ye* have made it a den of robbers.


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And he was teaching day by day in the temple and the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him,


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And it came to pass on one of the days, as he was teaching the people in the temple, and announcing the glad tidings, the chief priests and the scribes with the elders came up,


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and spoke to him saying, Tell us by what authority thou doest these things, or who is it who has given thee this authority?


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And they reasoned among themselves, saying, If we should say, Of heaven, he will say, Why have ye not believed him?


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but if we should say, Of men, the whole people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet.


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And he began to speak to the people this parable A man planted a vineyard and let it out to husbandmen, and left the country for a long time.


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And in the season he sent to the husbandmen a bondman, that they might give to him of the fruit of the vineyard; but the husbandmen, having beaten him, sent <n>[him]</n> away empty.


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And again he sent another bondman; but they, having beaten him also, and cast insult upon him, sent <n>[him]</n> away empty.


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And the lord of the vineyard said, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son perhaps when they see him they will respect <n>[him]</n>.


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But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir; <n>[come,]</n> let us kill him, that the inheritance may become ours.


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And having cast him forth out of the vineyard, they killed <n>[him]</n>. What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do to them?


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He will come and destroy those husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it they said, May it never be!


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But he looking at them said, What then is this that is written, The stone which they that builded rejected, this has become the corner-stone?


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Every one falling on this stone shall be broken, but on whomsoever it shall fall, it shall grind him to powder.


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And the chief priests and the scribes sought the same hour to lay hands on him, and they feared the people; for they knew that he had spoken this parable of them.


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And having watched <n>[him]</n>, they sent out suborned persons, pretending to be just men, that they might take hold of him in <n>[his]</n> language, so that they might deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.


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And they asked him saying, Teacher, we know that thou sayest and teachest rightly, and acceptest no <n>[man's]</n> person, but teachest with truth the way of God


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demanded of him saying, Teacher, Moses wrote to us, If any one's brother, who has a wife, die, and he die childless, his brother shall take the wife and raise up seed to his brother.


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but they who are counted worthy to have part in that world, and the resurrection from among <n>[the]</n> dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage;


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for neither can they die any more, for they are equal to angels, and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.


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But that the dead rise, even Moses shewed in <n>[the section of]</n> the bush, when he called <n>[the]</n> Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob;


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Beware of the scribes, who like to walk about in long robes, and who love salutations in the market-places, and first seats in the synagogues, and first places at suppers;


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for all these out of their abundance have cast into the gifts <n>[of God]</n>; but she out of her need has cast in all the living which she had.


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<n>[As to]</n> these things which ye are beholding, days are coming in which there shall not be left stone upon stone which shall not be thrown down.


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And they asked him saying, Teacher, when then shall these things be; and what <n>[is]</n> the sign when these things are going to take place?


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And he said, See that ye be not led astray, for many shall come in my name, saying, *I* am <n>[he]</n>, and the time is drawn nigh go ye not <n>[therefore]</n> after them.


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And when ye shall hear of wars and tumults, be not terrified, for these things must first take place, but the end is not immediately.


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there shall be both great earthquakes in different places, and famines and pestilences; and there shall be fearful sights and great signs from heaven.


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But before all these things they shall lay their hands upon you and persecute you, delivering <n>[you]</n> up to synagogues and prisons, bringing <n>[you]</n> before kings and governors on account of my name;


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for *I* will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your opposers shall not be able to reply to or resist.


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But ye will be delivered up even by parents and brethren and relations and friends, and they shall put to death <n>[some]</n> from among you,


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Then let those who are in Judaea flee to the mountains, and those who are in the midst of it depart out, and those who are in the country not enter into it;


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But woe to them that are with child and to them who give suck in those days, for there shall be great distress upon the land and wrath upon this people.


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men ready to die through fear and expectation of what is coming on the habitable earth, for the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.


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But when these things begin to come to pass, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws nigh.


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when they already sprout, ye know of your own selves, <n>[on]</n> looking <n>[at them]</n>, that already the summer is near.


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But take heed to yourselves lest possibly your hearts be laden with surfeiting and drinking and cares of life, and that day come upon you suddenly unawares;


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Watch therefore, praying at every season, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things which are about to come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.


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And by day he was teaching in the temple, and by night, going out, he remained abroad on the mountain called <n>[the mount]</n> of Olives;


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And he went away and spoke with the chief priests and captains as to how he should deliver him up to them.


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And he came to an agreement to do it, and sought an opportunity to deliver him up to them away from the crowd.


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And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare the passover for us, that we may eat <n>[it]</n>.


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And he said to them, Behold, as ye enter into the city a man will meet you, carrying an earthen pitcher of water; follow him into the house where he goes in;


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and ye shall say to the master of the house, The Teacher says to thee, Where is the guest-chamber where I may eat the passover with my disciples?


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For I say unto you, that I will not eat any more at all of it until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God.


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And having received a cup, when he had given thanks he said, Take this and divide it among yourselves.


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For I say unto you, that I will not drink at all of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God come.


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And having taken a loaf, when he had given thanks, he broke <n>[it]</n>, and gave <n>[it]</n> to them, saying, This is my body which is given for you this do in remembrance of me.


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In like manner also the cup, after having supped, saying, This cup <n>[is]</n> the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.


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and the Son of man indeed goes as it is determined, but woe unto that man by whom he is delivered up.


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And *they* began to question together among themselves who then it could be of them who was about to do this.


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And he said to them, The kings of the nations rule over them, and they that exercise authority over them are called benefactors.


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But *ye* <n>[shall]</n> not <n>[be]</n> thus; but let the greater among you be as the younger, and the leader as he that serves.


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For which <n>[is]</n> greater, he that is at table or he that serves? <n>[Is]</n> not he that is at table? But *I* am in the midst of you as the one that serves.


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that ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.


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And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has demanded to have you, to sift <n>[you]</n> as wheat;


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but *I* have besought for thee that thy faith fail not; and *thou*, when once thou hast been restored, confirm thy brethren.


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And he said, I tell thee, Peter, <n>[the]</n> cock shall not crow to-day before that thou shalt thrice deny that thou knowest me.


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And he said to them, When I sent you without purse and scrip and sandals, did ye lack anything? And they said, Nothing.


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He said therefore to them, But now he that has a purse let him take <n>[it]</n>, in like manner also a scrip, and he that has none let him sell his garment and buy a sword;


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for I say unto you, that this that is written must yet be accomplished in me, And he was reckoned with <n>[the]</n> lawless for also the things concerning me have an end.


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And going forth he went according to his custom to the mount of Olives, and the disciples also followed him.


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And being in conflict he prayed more intently. And his sweat became as great drops of blood, falling down upon the earth.


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As he was yet speaking, behold, a crowd, and he that was called Judas, one of the twelve, went on before them, and drew near to Jesus to kiss him.


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And they who were around him, seeing what was going to follow, said <n>[to him]</n>, Lord, shall we smite with <n>[the]</n> sword?


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And Jesus said to the chief priests and captains of the temple and elders, who were come against him, Have ye come out as against a robber with swords and sticks?


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When I was day by day with you in the temple ye did not stretch out your hands against me; but this is your hour and the power of darkness.


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And having laid hold on him, they led him <n>[away]</n>, and they led <n>[him]</n> into the house of the high priest. And Peter followed afar off.


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And a certain maid, having seen him sitting by the light, and having fixed her eyes upon him, said, And this <n>[man]</n> was with him.


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And after a short time another seeing him said, And *thou* art of them. But Peter said, Man, I am not.


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And after the lapse of about one hour another stoutly maintained it, saying, In truth this <n>[man]</n> also was with him, for also he is a Galilaean.


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And Peter said, Man, I know not what thou sayest. And immediately, while he was yet speaking, <n>[the]</n> cock crew.


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And the Lord, turning round, looked at Peter; and Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he said to him, Before <n>[the]</n> cock crow thou shalt deny me thrice.


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And when it was day, the elderhood of the people, both <n>[the]</n> chief priests and scribes, were gathered together, and led him into their council, saying,


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And they began to accuse him, saying, We have found this <n>[man]</n> perverting our nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ, a king.


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And Pilate demanded of him saying, Art *thou* the king of the Jews? And he answering him said, Thou sayest.


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But they insisted, saying, He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judaea, beginning from Galilee even on to here.


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and having learned that he was of Herod's jurisdiction, remitted him to Herod, who himself also was at Jerusalem in those days.


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And when Herod saw Jesus he greatly rejoiced, for he had been a long while desirous of seeing him, because of hearing many things concerning him, and he hoped to see some sign done by him;


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And Herod with his troops having set him at nought and mocked him, having put a splendid robe upon him, sent him back to Pilate.


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And Pilate and Herod became friends with one another the same day, for they had been at enmity before between themselves.


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said to them, Ye have brought to me this man as turning away the people <n>[to rebellion]</n>, and behold, I, having examined him before you, have found nothing criminal in this man as to the things of which ye accuse him;


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who was one who, for a certain tumult which had taken place in the city, and <n>[for]</n> murder, had been cast into prison.


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And he said the third time to them, What evil then has this <n>[man]</n> done? I have found no cause of death in him I will chastise him therefore and release him.


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But they were urgent with loud voices, begging that he might be crucified. And their voices <n>[and those of the chief priests]</n> prevailed.


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And he released him who, for tumult and murder, had been cast into prison, whom they begged for, and Jesus he delivered up to their will.


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And as they led him away, they laid hold on a certain Simon, a Cyrenian, coming from the field, and put the cross upon him to bear it behind Jesus.


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And Jesus turning round to them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep over me, but weep over yourselves and over your children;


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for behold, days are coming in which they will say, Blessed <n>[are]</n> the barren, and wombs that have not borne, and breasts that have not given suck.


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And when they came to the place which is called Skull, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, the other on the left.


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And Jesus said, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. And, parting out his garments, they cast lots.


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And the people stood beholding, and the rulers also <n>[with them]</n> sneered, saying, He has saved others; let him save himself if this is the Christ, the chosen one of God.


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And there was also an inscription <n>[written]</n> over him in Greek, and Roman, and Hebrew letters This is the King of the Jews.


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Now one of the malefactors who had been hanged spoke insultingly to him, saying, Art not thou the Christ? save thyself and us.


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But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost *thou* too not fear God, thou that art under the same judgment?


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and *we* indeed justly, for we receive the just recompense of what we have done; but this <n>[man]</n> has done nothing amiss.


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And it was about <n>[the]</n> sixth hour, and there came darkness over the whole land until <n>[the]</n> ninth hour.


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And Jesus, having cried with a loud voice, said, Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit. And having said this, he expired.


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And all the crowds who had come together to that sight, having seen the things that took place, returned, beating <n>[their]</n> breasts.


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And all those who knew him stood afar off, the women also who had followed him from Galilee, beholding these things.


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(this <n>[man]</n> had not assented to their counsel and deed), of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews, who also waited, <n>[himself also,]</n> for the kingdom of God


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and having taken it down, wrapped it in fine linen and placed him in a tomb hewn in the rock, where no one had ever been laid.


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And women, who had come along with him out of Galilee, having followed, saw the sepulchre and how his body was placed.


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And having returned they prepared aromatic spices and ointments, and remained quiet on the sabbath, according to the commandment.


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But on the morrow of the sabbath, very early indeed in the morning, they came to the tomb, bringing the aromatic spices which they had prepared.


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And it came to pass as they were in perplexity about it, that behold, two men suddenly stood by them in shining raiment.


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And as they were filled with fear and bowed their faces to the ground, they said to them, Why seek ye the living one among the dead?


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saying, The Son of man must be delivered up into the hands of sinners, and be crucified, and rise the third day.


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Now it was Mary of Magdala, and Johanna, and Mary the <n>[mother]</n> of James, and the others with them, who told these things to the apostles.


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But Peter, rising up, ran to the sepulchre, and stooping down he sees the linen clothes lying there alone, and went away home, wondering at what had happened.


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And behold, two of them were going on the same day to a village distant sixty stadia from Jerusalem, called Emmaus;


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And it came to pass as they conversed and reasoned, that Jesus himself drawing nigh, went with them;


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And one <n>[of them]</n>, named Cleopas, answering said to him, Thou sojournest alone in Jerusalem, and dost not know what has taken place in it in these days?


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And he said to them, What things? And they said to him, The things concerning Jesus the Nazaraean, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people;


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and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to <n>[the]</n> judgment of death and crucified him.


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But *we* had hoped that *he* was <n>[the one]</n> who is about to redeem Israel. But then, besides all these things, it is now, to-day, the third day since these things took place.


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and, not having found his body, came, saying that they also had seen a vision of angels, who say that he is living.


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And some of those with us went to the sepulchre, and found it so, as the women also had said, but him they saw not.


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And *he* said to them, O senseless and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!


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And having begun from Moses and from all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.


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And they drew near to the village where they were going, and *he* made as though he would go farther.


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And they constrained him, saying, Stay with us, for it is toward evening and the day is declining. And he entered in to stay with them.


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And it came to pass as he was at table with them, having taken the bread, he blessed, and having broken it, gave it to them.


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And they said to one another, Was not our heart burning in us as he spoke to us on the way, <n>[and]</n> as he opened the scriptures to us?


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And rising up the same hour, they returned to Jerusalem. And they found the eleven, and those with them, gathered together,


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And they related what <n>[had happened]</n> on the way, and how he was made known to them in the breaking of bread.


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And as they were saying these things, he himself stood in their midst, and says to them, Peace <n>[be]</n> unto you.


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behold my hands and my feet, that it is *I* myself. Handle me and see, for a spirit has not flesh and bones as ye see me having.


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But while they yet did not believe for joy, and were wondering, he said to them, Have ye anything here to eat?


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And he said to them, These <n>[are]</n> the words which I spoke to you while I was yet with you, that all that is written concerning me in the law of Moses and prophets and psalms must be fulfilled.


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and said to them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved the Christ to suffer, and to rise from among the dead the third day;


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and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations beginning at Jerusalem.


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And behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you; but do ye remain in the city till ye be clothed with power from on high.


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And it came to pass as he was blessing them, he was separated from them and was carried up into heaven.


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All things received being through him, and without him not one <n>[thing]</n> received being which has received being.


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He came for witness, that he might witness concerning the light, that all might believe through him.


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but as many as received him, to them gave he <n>[the]</n> right to be children of God, to those that believe on his name;


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And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we have contemplated his glory, a glory as of an only-begotten with a father), full of grace and truth;


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(John bears witness of him, and he has cried, saying, This was he of whom I said, He that comes after me is preferred before me, for he was before me;)


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No one has seen God at any time; the only-begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, *he* hath declared <n>[him]</n>.


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And this is the witness of John, when the Jews sent from Jerusalem priests and Levites that they might ask him, Thou, who art thou?


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And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he says, I am not. Art thou the prophet? And he answered, No.


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They said therefore to him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to those who sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?


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He said, I <n>[am]</n> <n>[the]</n> voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the path of <n>[the]</n> Lord, as said Esaias the prophet.


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And they asked him and said to him, Why baptisest thou then, if thou art not the Christ, nor Elias, nor the prophet?


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On the morrow he sees Jesus coming to him, and says, Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.


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He it is of whom I said, A man comes after me who takes a place before me, because he *was* before me;


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and I knew him not; but that he might be manifested to Israel, therefore have I come baptising with water.


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And John bore witness, saying, I beheld the Spirit descending as a dove from heaven, and it abode upon him.


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And I knew him not; but he who sent me to baptise with water, *he* said to me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending and abiding on him, he it is who baptises with <n>[the]</n> Holy Spirit.


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But Jesus having turned, and seeing them following, says to them, What seek ye? And *they* said to him, Rabbi (which, being interpreted, signifies Teacher), where abidest thou?


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He says to them, Come and see. They went therefore, and saw where he abode; and they abode with him that day. It was about the tenth hour.


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Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who heard <n>[this]</n> from John and followed him.


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He first finds his own brother Simon, and says to him, We have found the Messias (which being interpreted is Christ).


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And he led him to Jesus. Jesus looking at him said, Thou art Simon, the son of Jonas; thou shalt be called Cephas (which interpreted is stone).


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Philip finds Nathanael, and says to him, We have found him of whom Moses wrote in the law, and the prophets, Jesus, the son of Joseph, who is from Nazareth.


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And Nathanael said to him, Can anything good come out of Nazareth? Philip says to him, Come and see.


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Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and says of him, Behold <n>[one]</n> truly an Israelite, in whom there is no guile.


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Nathanael says to him, Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said to him, Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig-tree, I saw thee.


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Jesus answered and said to him, Because I said to thee, I saw thee under the fig-tree, believest thou? Thou shalt see greater things than these.


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And he says to him, Verily, verily, I say to you, Henceforth ye shall see the heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of man.


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Now there were standing there six stone water-vessels, according to the purification of the Jews, holding two or three measures each.


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And he says to them, Draw out now, and carry <n>[it]</n> to the feast-master. And they carried <n>[it]</n>.


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But when the feast-master had tasted the water which had been made wine (and knew not whence it was, but the servants knew who drew the water), the feast-master calls the bridegroom,


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and says to him, Every man sets on first the good wine, and when <n>[men]</n> have well drunk, then the inferior; thou hast kept the good wine till now.


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This beginning of signs did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested his glory; and his disciples believed on him.


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After this he descended to Capernaum, he and his mother and his brethren and his disciples; and there they abode not many days.


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and, having made a scourge of cords, he cast <n>[them]</n> all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the change of the money-changers, and overturned the tables,


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and said to the sellers of doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house a house of merchandise.


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The Jews therefore answered and said to him, What sign shewest thou to us, that thou doest these things?


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The Jews therefore said, Forty and six years was this temple building, and thou wilt raise it up in three days?


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When therefore he was raised from among <n>[the]</n> dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and believed the scripture and the word which Jesus had spoken.


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And when he was in Jerusalem, at the passover, at the feast, many believed on his name, beholding his signs which he wrought.


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he came to him by night, and said to him, Rabbi, we know that thou art come a teacher from God, for none can do these signs that thou doest unless God be with him.


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Jesus answered and said to him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except any one be born anew he cannot see the kingdom of God.


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Nicodemus says to him, How can a man be born being old? can he enter a second time into the womb of his mother and be born?


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Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except any one be born of water and of Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.


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The wind blows where it will, and thou hearest its voice, but knowest not whence it comes and where it goes thus is every one that is born of the Spirit.


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Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that which we know, and we bear witness of that which we have seen, and ye receive not our witness.


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If I have said the earthly things to you, and ye believe not, how, if I say the heavenly things to you, will ye believe?


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And no one has gone up into heaven, save he who came down out of heaven, the Son of man who is in heaven.


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For God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whosoever believes on him may not perish, but have life eternal.


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For God has not sent his Son into the world that he may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through him.


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He that believes on him is not judged but he that believes not has been already judged, because he has not believed on the name of the only-begotten Son of God.


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And this is the judgment, that light is come into the world, and men have loved darkness rather than light; for their works were evil.


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For every one that does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light that his works may not be shewn as they are;


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but he that practises the truth comes to the light, that his works may be manifested that they have been wrought in God.


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After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judaea; and there he abode with them and baptised.


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And John also was baptising in Aenon, near Salim, because there was a great deal of water there; and they came to <n>[him]</n> and were baptised


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And they came to John and said to him, Rabbi, he who was with thee beyond the Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold, he baptises, and all come to him.


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He that has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices in heart because of the voice of the bridegroom this my joy then is fulfilled.


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He who comes from above is above all. He who has his origin in the earth is of the earth, and speaks <n>[as]</n> of the earth. He who comes out of heaven is above all,


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He that believes on the Son has life eternal, and he that is not subject to the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides upon him.


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When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus makes and baptises more disciples than John


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He comes therefore to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near to the land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph.


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Now a fountain of Jacob's was there; Jesus therefore, being wearied with the way he had come, sat just as he was at the fountain. It was about the sixth hour.


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The Samaritan woman therefore says to him, How dost thou, being a Jew, ask to drink of me who am a Samaritan woman? for Jews have no intercourse with Samaritans.


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Jesus answered and said to her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that says to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.


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The woman says to him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep whence then hast thou the living water?


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Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, and his sons, and his cattle?


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but whosoever drinks of the water which I shall give him shall never thirst for ever, but the water which I shall give him shall become in him a fountain of water, springing up into eternal life.


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The woman answered and said, I have not a husband. Jesus says to her, Thou hast well said, I have not a husband;


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


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Our fathers worshipped in this mountain, and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where one must worship.


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Jesus says to her, Woman, believe me, <n>[the]</n> hour is coming when ye shall neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem worship the Father.


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But <n>[the]</n> hour is coming and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth; for also the Father seeks such as his worshippers.


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The woman says to him, I know that Messias is coming, who is called Christ; when *he* comes he will tell us all things.


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And upon this came his disciples, and wondered that he spoke with a woman; yet no one said, What seekest thou? or, Why speakest thou with her?


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Jesus says to them, My food is that I should do the will of him that has sent me, and that I should finish his work.


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Do not ye say, that there are yet four months and the harvest comes? Behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes and behold the fields, for they are already white to harvest.


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He that reaps receives wages and gathers fruit unto life eternal, that both he that sows and he that reaps may rejoice together.


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I have sent you to reap that on which ye have not laboured; others have laboured, and ye have entered into their labours.


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But many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him because of the word of the woman who bore witness, He told me all things that I had ever done.


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When therefore the Samaritans came to him they asked him to abide with them, and he abode there two days.


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and they said to the woman, <n>[It is]</n> no longer on account of thy saying that we believe, for we have heard him ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Saviour of the world.


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When therefore he came into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem during the feast, for they also went to the feast.


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He came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain courtier in Capernaum whose son was sick.


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He, having heard that Jesus had come out of Judaea into Galilee, went to him and asked <n>[him]</n> that he would come down and heal his son, for he was about to die.


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Jesus says to him, Go, thy son lives. And the man believed the word which Jesus said to him, and went his way.


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But already, as he was going down, his servants met him and brought <n>[him]</n> word saying, Thy child lives.


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He inquired therefore from them the hour at which he got better. And they said to him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.


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The father therefore knew that <n>[it was]</n> in that hour in which Jesus said to him, Thy son lives; and he believed, himself and his whole house.


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Now there is in Jerusalem, at the sheepgate, a pool, which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches.


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But there was a certain man there who had been suffering under his infirmity thirty and eight years.


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Jesus seeing this <n>[man]</n> lying <n>[there]</n>, and knowing that he was <n>[in that state]</n> now a great length of time, says to him, Wouldest thou become well?


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The infirm <n>[man]</n> answered him, Sir, I have not a man, in order, when the water has been troubled, to cast me into the pool; but while I am coming another descends before me.


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The Jews therefore said to the healed <n>[man]</n>, It is sabbath, it is not permitted thee to take up thy couch.


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But he that had been healed knew not who it was, for Jesus had slidden away, there being a crowd in the place.


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After these things Jesus finds him in the temple, and said to him, Behold, thou art become well sin no more, that something worse do not happen to thee.


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And for this the Jews persecuted Jesus <n>[and sought to kill him]</n>, because he had done these things on sabbath.


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For this therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he had not only violated the sabbath, but also said that God was his own Father, making himself equal with God.


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Jesus therefore answered and said to them, Verily, verily, I say to you, The Son can do nothing of himself save whatever he sees the Father doing for whatever things *he* does, these things also the Son does in like manner.


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For the Father loves the Son and shews him all things which he himself does; and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may wonder.


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For even as the Father raises the dead and quickens <n>[them]</n>, thus the Son also quickens whom he will


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that all may honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He who honours not the Son, honours not the Father who has sent him.


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Verily, verily, I say unto you, that he that hears my word, and believes him that has sent me, has life eternal, and does not come into judgment, but is passed out of death into life.


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Verily, verily, I say unto you, that an hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that have heard shall live.


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For even as the Father has life in himself, so he has given to the Son also to have life in himself,


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and shall go forth; those that have practised good, to resurrection of life, and those that have done evil, to resurrection of judgment.


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I cannot do anything of myself; as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous, because I do not seek my will, but the will of him that has sent me.


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It is another who bears witness concerning me, and I know that the witness which he bears concerning me is true.


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But I have the witness <n>[that is]</n> greater than <n>[that]</n> of John; for the works which the Father has given me that I should complete them, the works themselves which I do, bear witness concerning me that the Father has sent me.


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And the Father who has sent me himself has borne witness concerning me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor have seen his shape,


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Ye search the scriptures, for ye think that in them ye have life eternal, and they it is which bear witness concerning me;


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I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not; if another come in his own name, him ye will receive.


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How can ye believe, who receive glory one of another, and seek not the glory which <n>[comes]</n> from God alone?


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Think not that I will accuse you to the Father there is <n>[one]</n> who accuses you, Moses, on whom ye trust;


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Jesus then, lifting up his eyes and seeing that a great crowd is coming to him, says to Philip, Whence shall we buy loaves that these may eat?


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Philip answered him, Loaves for two hundred denarii are not sufficient for them, that each may have some little <n>[portion]</n>.


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There is a little boy here who has five barley loaves and two small fishes; but this, what is it for so many?


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<n>[And]</n> Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place the men therefore sat down, in number about five thousand.


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And Jesus took the loaves, and having given thanks, distributed <n>[them]</n> to those that were set down; and in like manner of the small fishes as much as they would.


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And when they had been filled, he says to his disciples, Gather together the fragments which are over and above, that nothing may be lost.


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They gathered <n>[them]</n> therefore together, and filled twelve hand-baskets full of fragments of the five barley loaves, which were over and above to those that had eaten.


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The men therefore, having seen the sign which Jesus had done, said, This is truly the prophet which is coming into the world.


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Jesus therefore knowing that they were going to come and seize him, that they might make <n>[him]</n> king, departed again to the mountain himself alone.


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and having gone on board ship, they went over the sea to Capernaum. And it had already become dark, and Jesus had not come to them,


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Having rowed then about twenty-five or thirty stadia, they see Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the ship; and they were frightened.


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They were willing therefore to receive him into the ship; and immediately the ship was at the land to which they went.


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On the morrow the crowd which stood on the other side of the sea, having seen that there was no other little ship there except that into which his disciples had got, and that Jesus had not gone with his disciples into the ship, but <n>[that]</n> his disciples had gone away alone;


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(but other little ships out of Tiberias came near to the place where they ate bread after the Lord had given thanks;)


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when therefore the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, *they* got into the ships, and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.


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And having found him the other side of the sea, they said to him, Rabbi, when art thou arrived here?


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Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say to you, Ye seek me not because ye have seen signs, but because ye have eaten of the loaves and been filled.


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Work not <n>[for]</n> the food which perishes, but <n>[for]</n> the food which abides unto life eternal, which the Son of man shall give to you; for him has the Father sealed, <n>[even]</n> God.


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Jesus answered and said to them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom *he* has sent.


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They said therefore to him, What sign then doest thou that we may see and believe thee? what dost thou work?


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Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is written, He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.


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Jesus therefore said to them, Verily, verily, I say to you, <n>[It is]</n> not Moses that has given you the bread out of heaven; but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven.


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<n>[And]</n> Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life he that comes to me shall never hunger, and he that believes on me shall never thirst at any time.


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For I am come down from heaven, not that I should do *my* will, but the will of him that has sent me.


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And this is the will of him that has sent me, that of all that he has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up in the last day.


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For this is the will of my Father, that every one who sees the Son, and believes on him, should have life eternal; and I will raise him up at the last day.


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The Jews therefore murmured about him, because he said, I am the bread which has come down out of heaven.


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And they said, Is not this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we have known? how then does *he* say, I am come down out of heaven?


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No one can come to me except the Father who has sent me draw him, and I will raise him up in the last day.


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It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every one that has heard from the Father <n>[himself]</n>, and has learned <n>[of him]</n>, comes to me;


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I am the living bread which has come down out of heaven if any one shall have eaten of this bread he shall live for ever; but the bread withal which I shall give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.


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Jesus therefore said to them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Unless ye shall have eaten the flesh of the Son of man, and drunk his blood, ye have no life in yourselves.


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As the living Father has sent me and I live on account of the Father, *he* also who eats me shall live also on account of me.


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This is the bread which has come down out of heaven. Not as the fathers ate and died he that eats this bread shall live for ever.


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But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples murmur concerning this, said to them, Does this offend you?


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It is the Spirit which quickens, the flesh profits nothing the words which I have spoken unto you are spirit and are life.


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But there are some of you who do not believe. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who would deliver him up.


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And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no one can come to me unless it be given to him from the Father.


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Now he spoke of Judas <n>[the son]</n> of Simon, Iscariote, for he <n>[it was who]</n> should deliver him up, being one of the twelve.


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And after these things Jesus walked in Galilee, for he would not walk in Judaea, because the Jews sought to kill him.


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His brethren therefore said to him, Remove hence and go into Judaea, that thy disciples also may see thy works which thou doest;


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for no one does anything in secret and himself seeks to be <n>[known]</n> in public. If thou doest these things, manifest thyself to the world


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The world cannot hate you, but me it hates, because I bear witness concerning it that its works are evil.


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But when his brethren had gone up, then he himself also went up to the feast, not openly, but as in secret.


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And there was much murmuring concerning him among the crowds. Some said, He is <n>[a]</n> good <n>[man]</n>; others said, No; but he deceives the crowd.


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Jesus therefore answered them and said, My doctrine is not mine, but <n>[that]</n> of him that has sent me.


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If any one desire to practise his will, he shall know concerning the doctrine, whether it is of God, or <n>[that]</n> I speak from myself.


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He that speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but he that seeks the glory of him that has sent him, he is true, and unrighteousness is not in him.


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Therefore Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and ye circumcise a man on sabbath.


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If a man receives circumcision on sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be violated, are ye angry with me because I have made a man entirely sound on sabbath?


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and behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Have the rulers then indeed recognised that this is the Christ?


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But <n>[as to]</n> this <n>[man]</n> we know whence he is. Now <n>[as to]</n> the Christ, when he comes, no one knows whence he is.


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Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, Ye both know me and ye know whence I am; and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye do not know.


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They sought therefore to take him; and no one laid his hand upon him, because his hour had not yet come.


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But many of the crowd believed on him, and said, Will the Christ, when he comes, do more signs than those which this <n>[man]</n> has done?


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The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things concerning him, and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers that they might take him.


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The Jews therefore said to one another, Where is he about to go that we shall not find him? Is he about to go to the dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?


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What word is this which he said, Ye shall seek me and shall not find <n>[me]</n>; and where I am ye cannot come?


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In the last, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried saying, If any one thirst, let him come to me and drink.


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He that believes on me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.


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But this he said concerning the Spirit, which they that believed on him were about to receive; for <n>[the]</n> Spirit was not yet, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.


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Has not the scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of David, and from the village of Bethlehem, where David was?


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The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, Why have ye not brought him?


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They answered and said to him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search and look, that no prophet arises out of Galilee.


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And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him; and he sat down and taught them.


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And the scribes and the Pharisees bring <n>[to him]</n> a woman taken in adultery, and having set her in the midst,


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But this they said proving him, that they might have <n>[something]</n> to accuse him <n>[of]</n>. But Jesus, having stooped down, wrote with his finger on the ground.


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But when they continued asking him, he lifted himself up and said to them, Let him that is without sin among you first cast the stone at her.


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But they, having heard <n>[that]</n>, went out one by one beginning from the elder ones until the last; and Jesus was left alone and the woman standing there.


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And Jesus, lifting himself up and seeing no one but the woman, said to her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? Has no one condemned thee?


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Again therefore Jesus spoke to them, saying, I am the light of the world; he that follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.


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The Pharisees therefore said to him, Thou bearest witness concerning thyself; thy witness is not true.


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Jesus answered and said to them, Even if I bear witness concerning myself, my witness is true, because I know whence I came and whither I go but ye know not whence I come and whither I go.


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And if also I judge, my judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I and the Father who has sent me.


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I am <n>[one]</n> who bear witness concerning myself, and the Father who has sent me bears witness concerning me.


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They said to him therefore, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye know neither me nor my Father. If ye had known me, ye would have known also my Father.


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These words spoke he in the treasury, teaching in the temple; and no one took him, for his hour was not yet come.


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He said therefore again to them, I go away, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sin; where I go ye cannot come.


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And he said to them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above. Ye are of this world; I am not of this world.


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I said therefore to you, that ye shall die in your sins; for unless ye shall believe that I am <n>[he]</n>, ye shall die in your sins.


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They said therefore to him, Who art thou? <n>[And]</n> Jesus said to them, Altogether that which I also say to you.


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I have many things to say and to judge concerning you, but he that has sent me is true, and I, what I have heard from him, these things I say to the world.


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Jesus therefore said to them, When ye shall have lifted up the Son of man, then ye shall know that I am <n>[he]</n>, and <n>[that]</n> I do nothing of myself, but as the Father has taught me I speak these things.


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And he that has sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, because I do always the things that are pleasing to him.


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Jesus therefore said to the Jews who believed him, If ye abide in my word, ye are truly my disciples;


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They answered him, We are Abraham's seed, and have never been under bondage to any one; how sayest thou, Ye shall become free?


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Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say to you, Every one that practises sin is the bondman of sin.


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They answered and said to him, Abraham is our father. Jesus says to them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham;


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but now ye seek to kill me, a man who has spoken the truth to you, which I have heard from God this did not Abraham.


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Ye do the works of your father. They said <n>[therefore]</n> to him, We are not born of fornication; we have one father, God.


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Jesus said to them, If God were your father ye would have loved me, for I came forth from God and am come <n>[from him]</n>; for neither am I come of myself, but *he* has sent me.


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Ye are of the devil, as <n>[your]</n> father, and ye desire to do the lusts of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks falsehood, he speaks of what is his own; for he is a liar and its father


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He that is of God hears the words of God therefore ye hear <n>[them]</n> not, because ye are not of God.


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The Jews therefore said to him, Now we know that thou hast a demon. Abraham has died, and the prophets, and thou sayest, If any one keep my word, he shall never taste death.


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Art thou greater than our father Abraham, who has died? and the prophets have died whom makest thou thyself?


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Jesus answered, If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing it is my Father who glorifies me, <n>[of]</n> whom ye say, He is our God.


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And ye know him not; but I know him; and if I said, I know him not, I should be like you, a liar. But I know him, and I keep his word.


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They took up therefore stones that they might cast <n>[them]</n> at him; but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple, <n>[going through the midst of them, and thus passed on.]</n>


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And his disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned, this <n>[man]</n> or his parents, that he should be born blind?


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Jesus answered, Neither has this <n>[man]</n> sinned nor his parents, but that the works of God should be manifested in him.


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I must work the works of him that has sent me while it is day. <n>[The]</n> night is coming, when no one can work.


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Having said these things, he spat on the ground and made mud of the spittle, and put the mud, as ointment, on his eyes.


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And he said to him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, which is interpreted, Sent. He went therefore and washed, and came seeing.


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The neighbours therefore, and those who used to see him before, that he was a beggar, said, Is not this he that was sitting and begging?


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He answered <n>[and said]</n>, A man called Jesus made mud and anointed mine eyes, and said to me, Go to Siloam and wash and having gone and washed, I saw.


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The Pharisees therefore also again asked him how he received his sight. And he said to them, He put mud upon mine eyes, and I washed, and I see.


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Some of the Pharisees therefore said, This man is not of God, for he does not keep the sabbath. Others said, How can a sinful man perform such signs? And there was a division among them.


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They say therefore again to the blind <n>[man]</n>, What dost thou say of him, that he has opened thine eyes? And he said, He is a prophet.


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The Jews therefore did not believe concerning him that he was blind and had received sight, until they had called the parents of him that had received sight.


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And they asked them saying, This is your son, of whom ye say that he was born blind how then does he now see?


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His parents answered <n>[them]</n> and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind;


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but how he now sees we do not know, or who has opened his eyes we do not know. *He* is of age ask *him*; *he* will speak concerning himself.


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His parents said these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if any one confessed him <n>[to be the]</n> Christ, he should be excommunicated from the synagogue.


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They called therefore a second time the man who had been blind, and said to him, Give glory to God we know that this man is sinful.


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He answered therefore, If he is sinful I know not. One thing I know, that, being blind <n>[before]</n>, now I see.


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He answered them, I told you already and ye did not hear why do ye desire to hear again? do ye also wish to become his disciples?


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The man answered and said to them, Now in this is a wonderful thing, that *ye* do not know whence he is, and he has opened mine eyes.


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<n>[But]</n> we know that God does not hear sinners; but if any one be God-fearing and do his will, him he hears.


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They answered and said to him, Thou hast been wholly born in sins, and thou teachest us? And they cast him out.


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Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him, he said to him, Thou, dost thou believe on the Son of God?


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And Jesus said, For judgment am I come into this world, that they which see not may see, and they which see may become blind.


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And <n>[some]</n> of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and they said to him, Are we blind also?


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Jesus said to them, If ye were blind ye would not have sin; but now ye say, We see, your sin remains.


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Verily, verily, I say to you, He that enters not in by the door to the fold of the sheep, but mounts up elsewhere, *he* is a thief and a robber;


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To him the porter opens; and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.


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When he has put forth all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice.


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But they will not follow a stranger, but will flee from him, because they know not the voice of strangers.


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This allegory spoke Jesus to them, but they did not know what it was <n>[of]</n> which he spoke to them.


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I am the door if any one enter in by me, he shall be saved, and shall go in and shall go out and shall find pasture.


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The thief comes not but that he may steal, and kill, and destroy I am come that they might have life, and might have <n>[it]</n> abundantly.


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but he who serves for wages, and who is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf seizes them and scatters the sheep.


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Now he who serves for wages flees because he serves for wages, and is not himself concerned about the sheep.


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And I have other sheep which are not of this fold those also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one flock, one shepherd.


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No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have authority to lay it down and I have authority to take it again. I have received this commandment of my Father.


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Others said, These sayings are not <n>[those]</n> of one that is possessed by a demon. Can a demon open blind people's eyes?


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The Jews therefore surrounded him, and said to him, Until when dost thou hold our soul in suspense? If thou art the Christ, say <n>[so]</n> to us openly.


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Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye do not believe. The works which I do in my Father's name, these bear witness concerning me


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and I give them life eternal; and they shall never perish, and no one shall seize them out of my hand.


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My Father who has given <n>[them]</n> to me is greater than all, and no one can seize out of the hand of my Father.


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Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewn you of my Father; for which work of them do ye stone me?


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The Jews answered him, For a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy, and because thou, being a man, makest thyself God.


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do ye say of him whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest, because I said, I am Son of God?


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but if I do, even if ye believe not me, believe the works, that ye may know <n>[and believe]</n> that the Father is in me and I in him.


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and departed again beyond the Jordan to the place where John was baptising at the first and he abode there.


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And many came to him, and said, John did no sign; but all things which John said of this <n>[man]</n> were true.


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Now there was a certain <n>[man]</n> sick, Lazarus of Bethany, of the village of Mary and Martha her sister.


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It was <n>[the]</n> Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.


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But when Jesus heard <n>[it]</n>, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified by it.


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The disciples say to him, Rabbi, <n>[even but]</n> now the Jews sought to stone thee, and goest thou thither again?


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Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any one walk in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world;


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These things said he; and after this he says to them, Lazarus, our friend, is fallen asleep, but I go that I may awake him out of sleep.


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And I rejoice on your account that I was not there, in order that ye may believe. But let us go to him.


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Thomas therefore, called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, Let *us* also go, that we may die with him.


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and many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, that they might console them concerning their brother.


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Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life he that believes on me, though he have died, shall live;


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She says to him, Yea, Lord; I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, who should come into the world.


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And having said this, she went away and called her sister Mary secretly, saying, The teacher is come and calls thee.


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The Jews therefore who were with her in the house and consoling her, seeing Mary that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, She goes to the tomb, that she may weep there.


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Mary therefore, when she came where Jesus was, seeing him, fell at his feet, saying to him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.


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Jesus therefore, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, was deeply moved in spirit, and was troubled,


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And some of them said, Could not this <n>[man]</n>, who has opened the eyes of the blind <n>[man]</n>, have caused that this <n>[man]</n> also should not have died?


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Jesus therefore, again deeply moved in himself, comes to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.


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Jesus says, Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of the dead, says to him, Lord, he stinks already, for he is four days <n>[there]</n>.


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Jesus says to her, Did I not say to thee, that if thou shouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?


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They took therefore the stone away. And Jesus lifted up his eyes on high and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me;


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but I knew that thou always hearest me; but on account of the crowd who stand around I have said <n>[it]</n>, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.


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And the dead came forth, bound feet and hands with graveclothes, and his face was bound round with a handkerchief. Jesus says to them, Loose him and let him go.


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The chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, What do we? for this man does many signs.


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If we let him thus alone, all will believe on him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.


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nor consider that it is profitable for you that one man die for the people, and not that the whole nation perish.


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and not for the nation only, but that he should also gather together into one the children of God who were scattered abroad.


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Jesus therefore walked no longer openly among the Jews, but went away thence into the country near the desert, to a city called Ephraim, and there he sojourned with the disciples.


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But the passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, that they might purify themselves.


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They sought therefore Jesus, and said among themselves, standing in the temple, What do ye think? that he will not come to the feast?


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Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given commandment that if any one knew where he was, he should make it known, that they might take him.


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Jesus therefore, six days before the passover, came to Bethany, where was the dead <n>[man]</n> Lazarus, whom Jesus raised from among <n>[the]</n> dead.


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There therefore they made him a supper, and Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those at table with him.


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Mary therefore, having taken a pound of ointment of pure nard of great price, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair, and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.


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One of his disciples therefore, Judas <n>[son]</n> of Simon, Iscariote, who was about to deliver him up, says,


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But he said this, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and had the bag, and carried what was put into <n>[it]</n>.


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A great crowd therefore of the Jews knew that he was there; and they came, not because of Jesus only, but also that they might see Lazarus whom he raised from among <n>[the]</n> dead.


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took branches of palms and went out to meet him, and cried, Hosanna, blessed <n>[is]</n> he that comes in the name of <n>[the]</n> Lord, the King of Israel.


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<n>[Now]</n> his disciples knew not these things at the first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things to him.


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The crowd therefore that was with him bore witness because he had called Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from among <n>[the]</n> dead.


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The Pharisees therefore said to one another, Ye see that ye profit nothing behold, the world is gone after him.


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these therefore came to Philip, who was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and they asked him saying, Sir, we desire to see Jesus.


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Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except the grain of wheat falling into the ground die, it abides alone; but if it die, it bears much fruit.


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He that loves his life shall lose it, and he that hates his life in this world shall keep it to life eternal.


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If any one serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there also shall be *my* servant. <n>[And]</n> if any one serve me, him shall the Father honour.


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Now is my soul troubled, and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. But on account of this have I come to this hour.


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Father, glorify thy name. There came therefore a voice out of heaven, I both have glorified and will glorify <n>[it]</n> again.


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The crowd therefore, which stood <n>[there]</n> and heard <n>[it]</n>, said that it had thundered. Others said, An angel has spoken to him.


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The crowd answered him, We have heard out of the law that the Christ abides for ever; and how sayest thou that the Son of man must be lifted up? Who *is* this, the Son of man?


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Jesus therefore said to them, Yet a little while is the light amongst you. Walk while ye have the light, that darkness may not overtake you. And he who walks in the darkness does not know where he goes.


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While ye have the light, believe in the light, that ye may become sons of light. Jesus said these things, and going away hid himself from them.


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that the word of the prophet Esaias which he said might be fulfilled, Lord, who has believed our report? and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?


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He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, that they may not see with their eyes, and understand with their heart and be converted, and I should heal them.


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Although indeed from among the rulers also many believed on him, but on account of the Pharisees did not confess <n>[him]</n>, that they might not be put out of the synagogue


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I am come into the world <n>[as]</n> light, that every one that believes on me may not abide in darkness;


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and if any one hear my words and do not keep <n>[them]</n>, I judge him not, for I am not come that I might judge the world, but that I might save the world.


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He that rejects me and does not receive my words, has him who judges him the word which I have spoken, that shall judge him in the last day.


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For I have not spoken from myself, but the Father who sent me has himself given me commandment what I should say and what I should speak;


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and I know that his commandment is life eternal. What therefore I speak, as the Father has said to me, so I speak.


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Now before the feast of the passover, Jesus, knowing that his hour had come that he should depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, loved them to the end.


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And during supper, the devil having already put it into the heart of Judas <n>[son]</n> of Simon, Iscariote, that he should deliver him up,


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<n>[Jesus,]</n> knowing that the Father had given him all things into his hands, and that he came out from God and was going to God,


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then he pours water into the washhand basin, and began to wash the feet of the disciples, and to wipe them with the linen towel with which he was girded.


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Peter says to him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, Unless I wash thee, thou hast not part with me.


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Jesus says to him, He that is washed all over needs not to wash save his feet, but is wholly clean; and ye are clean, but not all.


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When therefore he had washed their feet, and taken his garments, having sat down again, he said to them, Do ye know what I have done to you?


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If I therefore, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one another's feet;


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Verily, verily, I say to you, The bondman is not greater than his lord, nor the sent greater than he who has sent him.


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I speak not of you all. I know those whom I have chosen; but that the scripture might be fulfilled, He that eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.


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I tell you <n>[it]</n> now before it happens, that when it happens, ye may believe that I am <n>[he]</n>.


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Verily, verily, I say to you, He who receives whomsoever I shall send receives me; and he that receives me receives him who has sent me.


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Having said these things, Jesus was troubled in spirit, and testified and said, Verily, verily, I say to you, that one of you shall deliver me up.


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Jesus answers, He it is to whom I, after I have dipped the morsel, give it. And having dipped the morsel, he gives it to Judas <n>[son]</n> of Simon, Iscariote.


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And, after the morsel, then entered Satan into him. Jesus therefore says to him, What thou doest, do quickly.


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for some supposed, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus was saying to him, Buy the things of which we have need for the feast; or that he should give something to the poor.


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When therefore he was gone out Jesus says, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him.


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If God be glorified in him, God also shall glorify him in himself, and shall glorify him immediately.


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Children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me; and, as I said to the Jews, Where I go ye cannot come, I say to you also now.


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A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.


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Simon Peter says to him, Lord, where goest thou? Jesus answered him, Where I go thou canst not follow me now, but thou shalt follow me after.


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Jesus answers, Thou wilt lay down thy life for me! Verily, verily, I say to thee, The cock shall not crow till thou hast denied me thrice.


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In my Father's house there are many abodes; were it not so, I had told you for I go to prepare you a place;


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and if I go and shall prepare you a place, I am coming again and shall receive you to myself, that where I am ye also may be.


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Jesus says to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father unless by me.


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If ye had known me, ye would have known also my Father, and henceforth ye know him and have seen him.


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Jesus says to him, Am I so long a time with you, and thou hast not known me, Philip? He that has seen me has seen the Father; and how sayest thou, Shew us the Father?


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Believest thou not that I <n>[am]</n> in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words which I speak to you I do not speak from myself; but the Father who abides in me, he does the works.


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Believe *me* that I <n>[am]</n> in the Father and the Father in me; but if not, believe me for the works' sake themselves.


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Verily, verily, I say to you, He that believes on me, the works which I do shall he do also, and he shall do greater than these, because I go to the Father.


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And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, this will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.


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And I will beg the Father, and he will give you another Comforter, that he may be with you for ever,


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the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see him nor know him; but ye know him, for he abides with you, and shall be in you.


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He that has my commandments and keeps them, he it is that loves me; but he that loves me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will manifest myself to him.


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Judas, not the Iscariote, says to him, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself to us and not to the world?


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Jesus answered and said to him, If any one love me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our abode with him.


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He that loves me not does not keep my words; and the word which ye hear is not mine, but <n>[that]</n> of the Father who has sent me.


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but the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, *he* shall teach you all things, and will bring to your remembrance all the things which I have said to you.


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I leave peace with you; I give *my* peace to you not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it fear.


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Ye have heard that I have said unto you, I go away and I am coming to you. If ye loved me ye would rejoice that I go to the Father, for <n>[my]</n> Father is greater than I.


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And now I have told you before it comes to pass, that when it shall have come to pass ye may believe.


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but that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father has commanded me, thus I do. Rise up, let us go hence.


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<n>[As to]</n> every branch in me not bearing fruit, he takes it away; and <n>[as to]</n> every one bearing fruit, he purges it that it may bring forth more fruit.


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Abide in me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abide in the vine, thus neither <n>[can]</n> ye unless ye abide in me.


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I am the vine, ye <n>[are]</n> the branches. He that abides in me and I in him, *he* bears much fruit; for without me ye can do nothing.


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Unless any one abide in me he is cast out as the branch, and is dried up; and they gather them and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.


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If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will and it shall come to pass to you.


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If ye shall keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love, as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.


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I call you no longer bondmen, for the bondman does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things which I have heard of my Father I have made known to you.


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Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and have set you that ye should go and <n>[that]</n> ye should bear fruit, and <n>[that]</n> your fruit should abide, that whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name he may give you.


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If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, on account of this the world hates you.


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Remember the word which I said unto you, The bondman is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my word, they will keep also yours.


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But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they have not known him that sent me.


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If I had not come and spoken to them, they had not had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.


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If I had not done among them the works which no other one has done, they had not had sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.


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But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes forth from with the Father, *he* shall bear witness concerning me;


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They shall put you out of the synagogues; but the hour is coming that every one who kills you will think to render service to God;


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But I have spoken these things to you, that when their hour shall have come, ye may remember them, that I have said <n>[them]</n> unto you. But I did not say these things unto you from <n>[the]</n> beginning, because I was with you.


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But I say the truth to you, It is profitable for you that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Comforter will not come to you; but if I go I will send him to you.


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And having come, he will bring demonstration to the world, of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment


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But when *he* is come, the Spirit of truth, he shall guide you into all the truth for he shall not speak from himself; but whatsoever he shall hear he shall speak; and he will announce to you what is coming.


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All things that the Father has are mine; on account of this I have said that he receives of mine and shall announce <n>[it]</n> to you.


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A little while and ye do not behold me; and again a little while and ye shall see me, <n>[because I go away to the Father]</n>.


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<n>[Some]</n> of his disciples therefore said to one another, What is this he says to us, A little while and ye do not behold me; and again a little while and ye shall see me, and, Because I go away to the Father?


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They said therefore, What is this which he says <n>[of]</n> the little while? We do not know <n>[of]</n> what he speaks.


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Jesus knew therefore that they desired to demand of him, and said to them, Do ye inquire of this among yourselves that I said, A little while and ye do not behold me; and again a little while and ye shall see me?


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Verily, verily, I say to you, that ye shall weep and lament, ye, but the world shall rejoice; and ye will be grieved, but your grief shall be turned to joy.


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A woman, when she gives birth to a child, has grief because her hour has come; but when the child is born, she no longer remembers the trouble, on account of the joy that a man has been born into the world.


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And ye now therefore have grief; but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one takes from you.


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And in that day ye shall demand nothing of me verily, verily, I say to you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give you.


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These things I have spoken to you in allegories; the hour is coming that I will no longer speak to you in allegories, but will declare to you openly concerning the Father.


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for the Father himself has affection for you, because ye have had affection for me, and have believed that I came out from God.


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I came out from the Father and have come into the world; again, I leave the world and go to the Father.


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Now we know that thou knowest all things, and hast not need that any one should demand of thee. By this we believe that thou art come from God.


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Behold, <n>[the]</n> hour is coming, and has come, that ye shall be scattered, each to his own, and shall leave me alone; and <n>[yet]</n> I am not alone, for the Father is with me.


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These things have I spoken to you that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye have tribulation; but be of good courage I have overcome the world.


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These things Jesus spoke, and lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son may glorify thee;


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as thou hast given him authority over all flesh, that <n>[as to]</n> all that thou hast given to him, he should give them life eternal.


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And this is the eternal life, that they should know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.


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I have glorified *thee* on the earth, I have completed the work which thou gavest me that I should do it;


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and now glorify *me*, *thou* Father, along with thyself, with the glory which I had along with thee before the world was.


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I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou gavest me out of the world. They were thine, and thou gavest them me, and they have kept thy word.


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for the words which thou hast given me I have given them, and they have received <n>[them]</n>, and have known truly that I came out from thee, and have believed that thou sentest me.


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I demand concerning them; I do not demand concerning the world, but concerning those whom thou hast given me, for they are thine,


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And I am no longer in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name which thou hast given me, that they may be one as we.


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When I was with them I kept them in thy name; those thou hast given me I have guarded, and not one of them has perished, but the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled.


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And now I come to thee. And these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in them.


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I have given them thy word, and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world.


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I do not demand that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them out of evil.


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that they may be all one, as thou, Father, <n>[art]</n> in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us, that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.


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I in them and thou in me, that they may be perfected into one <n>[and]</n> that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and <n>[that]</n> thou hast loved them as thou hast loved me.


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Father, <n>[as to]</n> those whom thou hast given me, I desire that where I am they also may be with me, that they may behold my glory which thou hast given me, for thou lovedst me before <n>[the]</n> foundation of <n>[the]</n> world.


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Righteous Father, -- and the world has not known thee, but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.


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And I have made known to them thy name, and will make <n>[it]</n> known; that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them and I in them.


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Jesus, having said these things, went out with his disciples beyond the torrent Cedron, where was a garden, into which he entered, he and his disciples.


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And Judas also, who delivered him up, knew the place, because Jesus was often there, in company with his disciples.


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Judas therefore, having got the band, and officers of the chief priests and Pharisees, comes there with lanterns and torches and weapons.


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Jesus therefore, knowing all things that were coming upon him, went forth and said to them, Whom seek ye?


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They answered him, Jesus the Nazaraean. Jesus says to them, I am <n>[he]</n>. And Judas also, who delivered him up, stood with them.


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that the word might be fulfilled which he spoke, <n>[As to]</n> those whom thou hast given me, I have not lost one of them.


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Simon Peter therefore, having a sword, drew it, and smote the bondman of the high priest and cut off his right ear; and the bondman's name was Malchus.


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Jesus therefore said to Peter, Put the sword into the sheath; the cup which the Father has given me, shall I not drink it?


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and they led him away to Annas first; for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.


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But it was Caiaphas who counselled the Jews that it was better that one man should perish for the people.


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Now Simon Peter followed Jesus, and the other disciple. But that disciple was known to the high priest, and went in with Jesus into the palace of the high priest;


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but Peter stood at the door without. The other disciple therefore, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to the porteress and brought in Peter.


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The maid therefore, who was porteress, says to Peter, Art thou also of the disciples of this man? He says, I am not.


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But the bondmen and officers, having made a fire of coals (for it was cold), stood and warmed themselves; and Peter was standing with them and warming himself.


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Jesus answered him, I spoke openly to the world; I taught always in <n>[the]</n> synagogue and in the temple, where all the Jews come together, and in secret I have spoken nothing.


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Why demandest thou of me? Demand of those who have heard, what I have spoken to them; behold, they know what I have said.


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But as he said these things, one of the officers who stood by gave a blow on the face to Jesus, saying, Answerest thou the high priest thus?


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Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil; but if well, why smitest thou me?


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But Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said therefore to him, Art thou also of his disciples? He denied, and said, I am not.


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One of the bondmen of the high priest, who was kinsman of him whose ear Peter cut off, says, Did not I see thee in the garden with him?


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They lead therefore Jesus from Caiaphas to the praetorium; and it was early morn. And *they* entered not into the praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but eat the passover.


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They answered and said to him, If this <n>[man]</n> were not an evildoer, we should not have delivered him up to thee.


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Pilate therefore said to them, Take him, ye, and judge him according to your law. The Jews therefore said to him, It is not permitted to us to put any one to death;


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Pilate therefore entered again into the praetorium and called Jesus, and said to him, Thou art the king of the Jews?


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Jesus answered <n>[him]</n>, Dost thou say this of thyself, or have others said it to thee concerning me?


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Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? Thy nation and the chief priests have delivered thee up to me what hast thou done?


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


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Pilate therefore said to him, Thou art then a king? Jesus answered, Thou sayest <n>[it]</n>, that I am a king. I have been born for this, and for this I have come into the world, that I might bear witness to the truth. Every one that is of the truth hears my voice.


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Pilate says to him, What is truth? And having said this he went out again to the Jews, and says to them, I find no fault whatever in him.


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But ye have a custom that I release <n>[some]</n> one to you at the passover; will ye therefore that I release unto you the king of the Jews?


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They cried therefore again all, saying, Not this <n>[man]</n>, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.


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And Pilate went out again and says to them, Lo, I bring him out to you, that ye may know that I find in him no fault whatever.


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(Jesus therefore went forth without, wearing the crown of thorn, and the purple robe.) And he says to them, Behold the man!


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When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him they cried out saying, Crucify, crucify <n>[him]</n>. Pilate says to them, Take him ye and crucify <n>[him]</n>, for I find no fault in him.


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The Jews answered him, We have a law, and according to <n>[our]</n> law he ought to die, because he made himself Son of God.


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and went into the praetorium again and says to Jesus, Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer.


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Pilate therefore says to him, Speakest thou not to *me*? Dost thou not know that I have authority to release thee and have authority to crucify thee?


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Jesus answered, Thou hadst no authority whatever against me if it were not given to thee from above. On this account he that has delivered me up to thee has <n>[the]</n> greater sin.


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From this time Pilate sought to release him; but the Jews cried out saying, If thou releasest this <n>[man]</n>, thou art not a friend to Caesar. Every one making himself a king speaks against Caesar.


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Pilate therefore, having heard these words, led Jesus out and sat down upon <n>[the]</n> judgment-seat, at a place called Pavement, but in Hebrew Gabbatha;


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(now it was <n>[the]</n> preparation of the passover; it was about the sixth hour;) and he says to the Jews, Behold your king!


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But they cried out, Take <n>[him]</n> away, take <n>[him]</n> away, crucify him. Pilate says to them, Shall I crucify your king? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.


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Then therefore he delivered him up to them, that he might be crucified; and they took Jesus and led him away.


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And he went out, bearing his cross, to the place called <n>[place]</n> of a skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha;


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where they crucified him, and with him two others, <n>[one]</n> on this side, and <n>[one]</n> on that, and Jesus in the middle.


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And Pilate wrote a title also and put it on the cross. But there was written Jesus the Nazaraean, the King of the Jews.


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This title therefore many of the Jews read, for the place of the city where Jesus was crucified was near; and it was written in Hebrew, Greek, Latin.


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The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, Do not write, The king of the Jews, but that *he* said, I am king of the Jews.


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The soldiers therefore, when they had crucified Jesus, took his clothes, and made four parts, to each soldier a part, and the body-coat; but the body-coat was seamless, woven through the whole from the top.


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They said therefore to one another, Let us not rend it, but let us cast lots for it, whose it shall be; that the scripture might be fulfilled which says, They parted my garments among themselves, and on my vesture they cast lots. The soldiers therefore did these things.


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And by the cross of Jesus stood his mother, and the sister of his mother, Mary the <n>[wife]</n> of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala.


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Jesus therefore, seeing his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, says to his mother, Woman, behold thy son.


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Then he says unto the disciple, Behold thy mother. And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.


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After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were now finished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, says, I thirst.


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There was a vessel therefore there full of vinegar, and having filled a sponge with vinegar, and putting hyssop round it, they put it up to his mouth.


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When therefore Jesus had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished; and having bowed his head, he delivered up his spirit.


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The Jews therefore, that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the sabbath, for it was <n>[the]</n> preparation, (for the day of that sabbath was a great <n>[day]</n>,) demanded of Pilate that their legs might be broken and they taken away.


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The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first and of the other that had been crucified with him;


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but one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately there came out blood and water.


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And he who saw it bears witness, and his witness is true, and he knows that he says true that ye also may believe.


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For these things took place that the scripture might be fulfilled, Not a bone of him shall be broken.


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And after these things Joseph of Arimathaea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly through fear of the Jews, demanded of Pilate that he might take the body of Jesus and Pilate allowed it. He came therefore and took away the body of Jesus.


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And Nicodemus also, who at first came to Jesus by night, came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds <n>[weight]</n>.


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They took therefore the body of Jesus and bound it up in linen with the spices, as it is the custom with the Jews to prepare for burial.


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But there was in the place where he had been crucified a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had ever been laid.


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There therefore, on account of the preparation of the Jews, because the tomb was near, they laid Jesus.


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And on the first <n>[day]</n> of the week Mary of Magdala comes in early morn to the tomb, while it was still dark, and sees the stone taken away from the tomb.


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She runs therefore and comes to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, to whom Jesus was attached, and says to them, They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we know not where they have laid him.


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And the two ran together, and the other disciple ran forward faster than Peter, and came first to the tomb,


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Simon Peter therefore comes, following him, and entered into the tomb, and sees the linen cloths lying,


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and the handkerchief which was upon his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but folded up in a distinct place by itself.


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Then entered in therefore the other disciple also who came first to the tomb, and he saw and believed;


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and beholds two angels sitting in white <n>[garments]</n>, one at the head and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.


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And they say to her, Woman, why dost thou weep? She says to them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him.


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Having said these things she turned backward and beholds Jesus standing <n>[there]</n>, and knew not that it was Jesus.


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Jesus says to her, Woman, why dost thou weep? Whom seekest thou? She, supposing that it was the gardener, says to him, Sir, if thou hast borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away.


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Jesus says to her, Touch me not, for I have not yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brethren and say to them, I ascend to my Father and your Father, and <n>[to]</n> my God and your God.


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Mary of Magdala comes bringing word to the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and <n>[that]</n> he had said these things to her.


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When therefore it was evening on that day, which was the first <n>[day]</n> of the week, and the doors shut where the disciples were, through fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and says to them, Peace <n>[be]</n> to you.


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And having said this, he shewed to them his hands and his side. The disciples rejoiced therefore, having seen the Lord.


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<n>[Jesus]</n> said therefore again to them, Peace <n>[be]</n> to you as the Father sent me forth, I also send you.


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And having said this, he breathed into <n>[them]</n>, and says to them, Receive <n>[the]</n> Holy Spirit


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whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted to them; whose soever <n>[sins]</n> ye retain, they are retained.


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The other disciples therefore said to him, We have seen the Lord. But he said to them, Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and put my finger into the mark of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.


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And eight days after, his disciples were again within, and Thomas with them. Jesus comes, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst and said, Peace <n>[be]</n> to you.


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Then he says to Thomas, Bring thy finger here and see my hands; and bring thy hand and put it into my side; and be not unbelieving, but believing.


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Jesus says to him, Because thou hast seen me thou hast believed blessed they who have not seen and have believed.


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but these are written that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye might have life in his name.


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After these things Jesus manifested himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias. And he manifested <n>[himself]</n> thus.


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There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and Nathanael who was of Cana of Galilee, and the <n>[sons]</n> of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples.


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Simon Peter says to them, I go to fish. They say to him, We also come with thee. They went forth, and went on board, and that night took nothing.


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And early morn already breaking, Jesus stood on the shore; the disciples however did not know that it was Jesus.


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And he said to them, Cast the net at the right side of the ship and ye will find. They cast therefore, and they could no longer draw it, from the multitude of fishes.


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That disciple therefore whom Jesus loved says to Peter, It is the Lord. Simon Peter therefore, having heard that it was the Lord, girded his overcoat <n>[on him]</n> (for he was naked), and cast himself into the sea;


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and the other disciples came in the small boat, for they were not far from the land, but somewhere about two hundred cubits, dragging the net of fishes.


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When therefore they went out on the land, they see a fire of coals there, and fish laid on it, and bread.


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Simon Peter went up and drew the net to the land full of great fishes, a hundred and fifty-three; and though there were so many, the net was not rent.


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Jesus says to them, Come <n>[and]</n> dine. But none of the disciples dared inquire of him, Who art thou? knowing that it was the Lord.


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This is already the third time that Jesus had been manifested to the disciples, being risen from among <n>[the]</n> dead.


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When therefore they had dined, Jesus says to Simon Peter, Simon, <n>[son]</n> of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He says to him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I am attached to thee. He says to him, Feed my lambs.


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He says to him again a second time, Simon, <n>[son]</n> of Jonas, lovest thou me? He says to him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I am attached to thee. He says to him, Shepherd my sheep.


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He says to him the third time, Simon, <n>[son]</n> of Jonas, art thou attached to me? Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, Art thou attached to me? and said to him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I am attached to thee. Jesus says to him, Feed my sheep.


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Verily, verily, I say to thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst where thou desiredst; but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and bring thee where thou dost not desire.


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But he said this signifying by what death he should glorify God. And having said this, he says to him, Follow me.


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Peter, turning round, sees the disciple whom Jesus loved following, who also leaned at supper on his breast, and said, Lord, who is it that delivers thee up?


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Jesus says to him, If I will that he abide until I come, what <n>[is that]</n> to thee? Follow thou me.


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This word therefore went out among the brethren, That disciple does not die. And Jesus did not say to him, He does not die; but, If I will that he abide until I come, what <n>[is that]</n> to thee?


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This is the disciple who bears witness concerning these things, and who has written these things; and we know that his witness is true.


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And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which if they were written one by one, I suppose that not even the world itself would contain the books written.


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I composed the first discourse, O Theophilus, concerning all things which Jesus began both to do and to teach,


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until that day in which, having by the Holy Spirit charged the apostles whom he had chosen, he was taken up;


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to whom also he presented himself living, after he had suffered, with many proofs; being seen by them during forty days, and speaking of the things which concern the kingdom of God;


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and, being assembled with <n>[them]</n>, commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to await the promise of the Father, which <n>[said he]</n> ye have heard of me.


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For John indeed baptised with water, but *ye* shall be baptised with the Holy Spirit after now not many days.


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They therefore, being come together, asked him saying, Lord, is it at this time that thou restorest the kingdom to Israel?


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And he said to them, It is not yours to know times or seasons, which the Father has placed in his own authority;


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but ye will receive power, the Holy Spirit having come upon you, and ye shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.


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And having said these things he was taken up, they beholding <n>[him]</n>, and a cloud received him out of their sight.


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And as they were gazing into heaven, as he was going, behold, also two men stood by them in white clothing,


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who also said, Men of Galilee, why do ye stand looking into heaven? This Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven, shall thus come in the manner in which ye have beheld him going into heaven.


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Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called <n>[the mount]</n> of Olives, which is near Jerusalem, a sabbath-day's journey off.


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And when they were come into <n>[the city]</n>, they went up to the upper chamber, where were staying both Peter, and John, and James, and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James <n>[son]</n> of Alphaeus, and Simon the zealot, and Jude <n>[the brother]</n> of James.


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These gave themselves all with one accord to continual prayer, with <n>[several]</n> women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.


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And in those days Peter, standing up in the midst of the brethren, said, (the crowd of names <n>[who were]</n> together <n>[was]</n> about a hundred and twenty,)


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Brethren, it was necessary that the scripture should have been fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before, by the mouth of David, concerning Judas, who became guide to those who took Jesus;


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(This <n>[man]</n> then indeed got a field with <n>[the]</n> reward of iniquity, and, having fallen down headlong, burst in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.


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And it was known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that that field was called in their own dialect Aceldama; that is, field of blood.)


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For it is written in <n>[the]</n> book of Psalms, Let his homestead become desolate, and let there be no dweller in it; and, Let another take his overseership.


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It is necessary therefore, that of the men who have assembled with us all <n>[the]</n> time in which the Lord Jesus came in and went out among us,


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beginning from the baptism of John until the day in which he was taken up from us, one of these should be a witness with us of his resurrection.


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And they appointed two, Joseph, who was called Barsabas, who had been surnamed Justus, and Matthias.


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And they prayed, and said, Thou Lord, knower of the hearts of all, shew which one of these two thou hast chosen,


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to receive the lot of this service and apostleship, from which Judas transgressing fell to go to his own place.


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And they gave lots on them, and the lot fell on Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.


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And there came suddenly a sound out of heaven as of a violent impetuous blowing, and filled all the house where they were sitting.


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And they were all filled with <n>[the]</n> Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave to them to speak forth.


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But the rumour of this having spread, the multitude came together and were confounded, because each one heard them speaking in his own dialect.


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Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and those who inhabit Mesopotamia, and Judaea, and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,


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both Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt, and the parts of Libya which adjoin Cyrene, and the Romans sojourning <n>[here]</n>, both Jews and proselytes,


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But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice and spoke forth to them, Men of Judaea, and all ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and give heed to my words


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And it shall be in the last days, saith God, <n>[that]</n> I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your elders shall dream with dreams;


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yea, even upon my bondmen and upon my bondwomen in those days will I pour out of my Spirit, and they shall prophesy.


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And I will give wonders in the heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke


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the sun shall be changed to darkness and the moon to blood, before the great and gloriously appearing day of <n>[the]</n> Lord come.


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Men of Israel, hear these words Jesus the Nazaraean, a man borne witness to by God to you by works of power and wonders and signs, which God wrought by him in your midst, as yourselves know


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-- him, given up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye, by <n>[the]</n> hand of lawless <n>[men]</n>, have crucified and slain.


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Whom God has raised up, having loosed the pains of death, inasmuch as it was not possible that he should be held by its power;


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for David says as to him, I foresaw the Lord continually before me, because he is at my right hand that I may not be moved.


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Thou hast made known to me <n>[the]</n> paths of life, thou wilt fill me with joy with thy countenance.


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Brethren, let it be allowed to speak with freedom to you concerning the patriarch David, that he has both died and been buried, and his monument is amongst us unto this day.


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Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn to him with an oath, of the fruit of his loins to set upon his throne;


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he, seeing <n>[it]</n> before, spoke concerning the resurrection of the Christ, that neither has he been left in hades nor his flesh seen corruption.


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Having therefore been exalted by the right hand of God, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this which *ye* behold and hear.


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For David has not ascended into the heavens, but he says himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit at my right hand


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Let the whole house of Israel therefore know assuredly that God has made him, this Jesus whom *ye* have crucified, both Lord and Christ.


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And having heard <n>[it]</n> they were pricked in heart, and said to Peter and the other apostles, What shall we do, brethren?


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And Peter said to them, Repent, and be baptised, each one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for remission of sins, and ye will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.


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For to you is the promise and to your children, and to all who <n>[are]</n> afar off, as many as <n>[the]</n> Lord our God may call.


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And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, Be saved from this perverse generation.


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Those then who had accepted his word were baptised; and there were added in that day about three thousand souls.


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And they persevered in the teaching and fellowship of the apostles, in breaking of bread and prayers.


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and sold their possessions and substance, and distributed them to all, according as any one might have need.


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And every day, being constantly in the temple with one accord, and breaking bread in <n>[the]</n> house, they received their food with gladness and simplicity of heart,


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praising God, and having favour with all the people; and the Lord added <n>[to the assembly]</n> daily those that were to be saved.


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And Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, <n>[which is]</n> the ninth <n>[hour]</n>;


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and a certain man who was lame from his mother's womb was being carried, whom they placed every day at the gate of the temple called Beautiful, to ask alms of those who were going into the temple;


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But Peter said, Silver and gold I have not; but what I have, this give I to thee In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazaraean rise up and walk.


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And having taken hold of him <n>[by]</n> the right hand he raised him up, and immediately his feet and ankle bones were made strong.


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And leaping up he stood and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.


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and they recognised him, that it was *he* who sat for alms at the Beautiful gate of the temple; and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.


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And as he held Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the portico which is called Solomon's, greatly wondering.


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And Peter, seeing it, answered the people, Men of Israel, why are ye astonished at this? or why do ye gaze on us as if we had by our own power or piety made him to walk?


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The God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus, whom *ye* delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when *he* had judged that he should be let go.


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But *ye* denied the holy and righteous one, and asked that a man <n>[that was]</n> a murderer should be granted to you;


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but the originator of life ye slew, whom God raised from among <n>[the]</n> dead, whereof *we* are witnesses.


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And, by faith in his name, his name has made this <n>[man]</n> strong whom ye behold and know; and the faith which is by him has given him this complete soundness in the presence of you all.


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but God has thus fulfilled what he had announced beforehand by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer.


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Repent therefore and be converted, for the blotting out of your sins, so that times of refreshing may come from <n>[the]</n> presence of the Lord,


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whom heaven indeed must receive till <n>[the]</n> times of <n>[the]</n> restoring of all things, of which God has spoken by the mouth of his holy prophets since time began.


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Moses indeed said, A prophet shall <n>[the]</n> Lord your God raise up to you out of your brethren like me him shall ye hear in everything whatsoever he shall say to you.


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And it shall be that whatsoever soul shall not hear that prophet shall be destroyed from among the people.


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And indeed all the prophets from Samuel and those in succession after <n>[him]</n>, as many as have spoken, have announced also these days.


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*Ye* are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God appointed to our fathers, saying to Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.


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To you first God, having raised up his servant, has sent him, blessing you in turning each one <n>[of you]</n> from your wickedness.


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And as they were speaking to the people, the priests and captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them,


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being distressed on account of their teaching the people and preaching by Jesus the resurrection from among <n>[the]</n> dead;


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But many of those who had heard the word believed; and the number of the men had become <n>[about]</n> five thousand.


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And it came to pass on the morrow that their rulers and elders and scribes were gathered together at Jerusalem,


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and Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of <n>[the]</n> high priestly family;


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and having placed them in the midst they inquired, In what power or in what name have *ye* done this?


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Then Peter, filled with <n>[the]</n> Holy Spirit, said to them, Rulers of the people and elders <n>[of Israel]</n>,


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if *we* this day are called upon to answer as to the good deed <n>[done]</n> to the infirm man, how *he* has been healed,


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be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazaraean, whom *ye* have crucified, whom God has raised from among <n>[the]</n> dead, by *him* this <n>[man]</n> stands here before you sound <n>[in body]</n>.


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*He* is the stone which has been set at nought by you the builders, which is become the corner stone.


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And salvation is in none other, for neither is there another name under heaven which is given among men by which we must be saved.


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But seeing the boldness of Peter and John, and perceiving that they were unlettered and uninstructed men, they wondered; and they recognised them that they were with Jesus.


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saying, What shall we do to these men? for that indeed an evident sign has come to pass through their means is manifest to all that inhabit Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it.


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But that it be not further spread among the people, let us threaten them severely no longer to speak to any man in this name.


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And having called them, they charged <n>[them]</n> not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.


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But Peter and John answering said to them, If it be righteous before God to listen to you rather than to God, judge ye;


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But they, having further threatened them, let them go, finding no way how they might punish them, on account of the people, because all glorified God for what had taken place;


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And having been let go, they came to their own <n>[company]</n>, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said to them.


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And they, having heard <n>[it]</n>, lifted up <n>[their]</n> voice with one accord to God, and said, Lord, *thou* art the God who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them;


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who hast said by the mouth of thy servant David, Why have <n>[the]</n> nations raged haughtily and <n>[the]</n> peoples meditated vain things?


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The kings of the earth were there, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against his Christ.


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For in truth against thy holy servant Jesus, whom thou hadst anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with <n>[the]</n> nations, and peoples of Israel, have been gathered together in this city


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And now, Lord, look upon their threatenings, and give to thy bondmen with all boldness to speak thy word,


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in that thou stretchest out thy hand to heal, and that signs and wonders take place through the name of thy holy servant Jesus.


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And when they had prayed, the place in which they were assembled shook, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and spoke the word of God with boldness.


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And the heart and soul of the multitude of those that had believed were one, and not one said that anything of what he possessed was his own, but all things were common to them;


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and with great power did the apostles give witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all.


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For neither was there any one in want among them; for as many as were owners of lands or houses, selling them, brought the price of what was sold


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and laid it at the feet of the apostles; and distribution was made to each according as any one might have need.


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And Joseph, who had been surnamed Barnabas by the apostles (which is, being interpreted, Son of consolation), a Levite, Cyprian by birth,


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being possessed of land, having sold <n>[it]</n>, brought the money and laid it at the feet of the apostles.


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and put aside for himself part of the price, <n>[his]</n> wife also being privy to it; and having brought a certain part, laid it at the feet of the apostles.


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But Peter said, Ananias, why has Satan filled thy heart that thou shouldest lie to the Holy Spirit, and put aside for thyself a part of the price of the estate?


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While it remained did it not remain to *thee*? and sold, was <n>[it not]</n> in thine own power? Why is it that thou hast purposed this thing in thine heart? Thou hast not lied to men, but to God.


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And Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and expired. And great fear came upon all who heard <n>[it]</n>.


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And it came to pass about three hours afterwards, that his wife, not knowing what had happened, came in.


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And Peter said to her, Why <n>[is it]</n> that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of <n>[the]</n> Lord? Lo, the feet of those that have buried thy husband <n>[are]</n> at the door, and they shall carry thee out.


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And she fell down immediately at his feet and expired. And when the young men came in they found her dead; and, having carried her out, they buried her by her husband.


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And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders done among the people; (and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch,


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so that they brought out the sick into the streets and put <n>[them]</n> on beds and couches, that at least the shadow of Peter, when he came, might overshadow some one of them.


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And the multitude also of the cities round about came together to Jerusalem, bringing sick persons and persons beset by unclean spirits, who were all healed.


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And the high priest rising up, and all they that were with him, which is the sect of the Sadducees, were filled with wrath,


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But an angel of <n>[the]</n> Lord during the night opened the doors of the prison, and leading them out, said,


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And when they heard it, they entered very early into the temple and taught. And when the high priest was come, and they that were with him, they called together the council and all the elderhood of the sons of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.


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saying, We found the prison shut with all security, and the keepers standing at the doors; but when we had opened <n>[them]</n>, within we found no one.


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And when they heard these words, both the priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests were in perplexity as to them, what this would come to.


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And some one coming reported to them, Lo, the men whom ye put in the prison are in the temple, standing and teaching the people.


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Then the captain, having gone with the officers, brought them, not with violence, for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned.


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saying, We strictly enjoined you not to teach in this name and lo, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and purpose to bring upon us the blood of this man.


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Him has God exalted by his right hand as leader and saviour, to give repentance to Israel and remission of sins.


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And *we* are <n>[his]</n> witnesses of these things, and the Holy Spirit also, which God has given to those that obey him.


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But they, when they heard <n>[these things]</n>, were cut to the heart, and took counsel to kill them.


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But a certain <n>[man]</n>, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, held in honour of all the people, rose up in the council, and commanded to put the men out for a short while,


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and said to them, Men of Israel, take heed to yourselves as regards these men what ye are going to do;


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for before these days Theudas rose up, alleging himself to be somebody, to whom a number of men, about four hundred, were joined; who was slain, and all, as many as obeyed him, were dispersed and came to nothing.


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After him rose Judas the Galilean in the days of the census, and drew away <n>[a number of]</n> people after him; and *he* perished, and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered abroad.


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And now I say to you, Withdraw from these men and let them alone, for if this counsel or this work have its origin from men, it will be destroyed;


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but if it be from God, ye will not be able to put them down, lest ye be found also fighters against God.


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And they listened to his advice; and having called the apostles, they beat them, and enjoined them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and dismissed them.


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They therefore went their way from <n>[the]</n> presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to be dishonoured for the name.


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And every day, in the temple and in the houses, they ceased not teaching and announcing the glad tidings that Jesus <n>[was]</n> the Christ.


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But in those days, the disciples multiplying in number, there arose a murmuring of the Hellenists against the Hebrews because their widows were overlooked in the daily ministration.


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And the twelve, having called the multitude of the disciples to <n>[them]</n>, said, It is not right that we, leaving the word of God, should serve tables.


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Look out therefore, brethren, from among yourselves seven men, well reported of, full of <n>[the]</n> <n>[Holy]</n> Spirit and wisdom, whom we will establish over this business


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And the saying pleased the whole multitude and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and <n>[the]</n> Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas, a proselyte of Antioch,


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And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem was very greatly multiplied, and a great crowd of the priests obeyed the faith.


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And there arose up certain of those of the synagogue called of freedmen, and of Cyrenians, and of Alexandrians, and of those of Cilicia and Asia, disputing with Stephen.


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And they roused the people, and the elders, and the scribes. And coming upon <n>[him]</n> they seized him and brought <n>[him]</n> to the council.


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And they set false witnesses, saying, This man does not cease speaking words against the holy place and the law;


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for we have heard him saying, This Jesus the Nazaraean shall destroy this place, and change the customs which Moses taught us.


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And all who sat in the council, looking fixedly on him, saw his face as <n>[the]</n> face of an angel.


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And he said, Brethren and fathers, hearken. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,


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and said to him, Go out of thy land and out of thy kindred, and come into the land which I will shew thee.


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Then going out of the land of the Chaldeans he dwelt in Charran, and thence, after his father died, he removed him into this land in which *ye* now dwell.


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And he did not give him an inheritance in it, not even what his foot could stand on; and promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when he had no child.


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And God spoke thus His seed shall be a sojourner in a strange land, and they shall enslave them and evil entreat <n>[them]</n> four hundred years;


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and the nation to which they shall be in bondage will *I* judge, said God; and after these things they shall come forth and serve me in this place.


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And he gave to him <n>[the]</n> covenant of circumcision; and thus he begat Isaac and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs.


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and delivered him out of all his tribulations, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he appointed him chief over Egypt and all his house.


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But a famine came upon all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great distress, and our fathers found no food.


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and the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren, and the family of Joseph became known to Pharaoh.


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And Joseph sent and called down to him his father Jacob and all <n>[his]</n> kindred, seventy-five souls.


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and were carried over to Sychem and placed in the sepulchre which Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the <n>[father]</n> of Sychem.


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But as the time of promise drew near which God had promised to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,


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*He* dealt subtilly with our race, and evil entreated the fathers, casting out their infants that they might not live.


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In which time Moses was born, and was exceedingly lovely, who was nourished three months in the house of his father.


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And when he was cast out, the daughter of Pharaoh took him up, and brought him up for herself <n>[to be]</n> for a son.


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And Moses was instructed in all <n>[the]</n> wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds.


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And when a period of forty years was fulfilled to him, it came into his heart to look upon his brethren, the sons of Israel;


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and seeing a certain one wronged, he defended <n>[him]</n>, and avenged him that was being oppressed, smiting the Egyptian.


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For he thought that his brethren would understand that God by his hand was giving them deliverance. But they understood not.


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And on the morrow he shewed himself to them as they were contending, and compelled them to peace, saying, *Ye* are brethren, why do ye wrong one another?


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But he that was wronging his neighbour thrust him away, saying, Who established thee ruler and judge over us?


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And Moses fled at this saying, and became a sojourner in the land of Madiam, where he begat two sons.


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And when forty years were fulfilled, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sinai, in a flame of fire of a bush.


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And Moses seeing it wondered at the vision; and as he went up to consider it, there was a voice of <n>[the]</n> Lord,


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*I* am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob. And Moses trembled, and durst not consider <n>[it]</n>.


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And the Lord said to him, Loose the sandal of thy feet, for the place on which thou standest is holy ground.


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I have surely seen the ill treatment of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groan, and have come down to take them out of it; and now, come, I will send thee to Egypt.


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This Moses, whom they refused, saying, Who made thee ruler and judge? him did God send <n>[to be]</n> a ruler and deliverer with the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.


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*He* led them out, having wrought wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.


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This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel, A prophet shall God raise up to you out of your brethren like me <n>[him shall ye hear]</n>.


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This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers; who received living oracles to give to us;


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to whom our fathers would not be subject, but thrust <n>[him]</n> from them, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt,


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saying to Aaron, Make us gods who shall go before us; for this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what has happened to him.


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And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.


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But God turned and delivered them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in <n>[the]</n> book of the prophets, Have ye offered me victims and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?


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Yea, ye took up the tent of Moloch, and the star of <n>[your]</n> god Remphan, the forms which ye made to do homage to them; and I will transport you beyond Babylon.


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Our fathers had the tent of the testimony in the wilderness, as he that spoke to Moses commanded to make it according to the model which he had seen;


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which also our fathers, receiving from their predecessors, brought in with Joshua when they entered into possession of <n>[the lands of]</n> the nations, whom God drove out from <n>[the]</n> face of our fathers, until the days of David;


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The heaven <n>[is]</n> my throne and the earth the footstool of my feet what house will ye build me? saith <n>[the]</n> Lord, or where <n>[is the]</n> place of my rest?


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O stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, *ye* do always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers, *ye* also.


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Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain those who announced beforehand concerning the coming of the Just One, of whom *ye* have now become deliverers up and murderers!


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who have received the law as ordained by <n>[the]</n> ministry of angels, and have not kept <n>[it]</n>.


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But being full of <n>[the]</n> Holy Spirit, having fixed his eyes on heaven, he saw <n>[the]</n> glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God,


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and having cast <n>[him]</n> out of the city, they stoned <n>[him]</n>. And the witnesses laid aside their clothes at the feet of a young man called Saul.


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


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And Saul was consenting to his being killed. And on that day there arose a great persecution against the assembly which was in Jerusalem, and all were scattered into the countries of Judaea and Samaria except the apostles.


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But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into the houses one after another, and dragging off both men and women delivered them up to prison.


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Those then that had been scattered went through <n>[the countries]</n> announcing the glad tidings of the word.


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and the crowds with one accord gave heed to the things spoken by Philip, when they heard <n>[him]</n> and saw the signs which he wrought.


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For from many who had unclean spirits they went out, crying with a loud voice; and many that were paralysed and lame were healed.


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But a certain man, by name Simon, had been before in the city, using magic arts, and astonishing the nation of Samaria, saying that himself was some great one.


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To whom they had all given heed, from small to great, saying, This is the power of God which is called great.


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But when they believed Philip announcing the glad tidings concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptised, both men and women.


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And Simon also himself believed; and, having been baptised, continued constantly with Philip; and, beholding the signs and great works of power which took place, was astonished.


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And the apostles who were in Jerusalem, having heard that Samaria had received the word of God, sent to them Peter and John;


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But Simon, having seen that by the laying on of the hands of the apostles the <n>[Holy]</n> Spirit was given, offered them money,


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saying, Give to me also this power, in order that on whomsoever I may lay hands he may receive <n>[the]</n> Holy Spirit.


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And Peter said to him, Thy money go with thee to destruction, because thou hast thought that the gift of God can be obtained by money.


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Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and supplicate the Lord, if indeed the thought of thy heart may be forgiven thee;


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And Simon answering said, Supplicate *ye* for me to the Lord, so that nothing may come upon me of the things of which ye have spoken.


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They therefore, having testified and spoken the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and announced the glad tidings to many villages of the Samaritans.


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But <n>[the]</n> angel of <n>[the]</n> Lord spoke to Philip, saying, Rise up and go southward on the way which goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza the same is desert.


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And he rose up and went. And lo, an Ethiopian, a eunuch, a man in power under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to worship at Jerusalem,


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And Philip, running up, heard him reading the prophet Esaias, and said, Dost thou then know what thou art reading of?


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And he said, How should I then be able unless some one guide me? And he begged Philip to come up and sit with him.


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And the passage of the scripture which he read was this He was led as a sheep to slaughter, and as a lamb is dumb in presence of him that shears him, thus he opens not his mouth.


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In his humiliation his judgment has been taken away, and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth.


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And the eunuch answering Philip said, I pray thee, concerning whom does the prophet say this? of himself or of some other?


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And Philip, opening his mouth and beginning from that scripture, announced the glad tidings of Jesus to him.


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And as they went along the way, they came upon a certain water, and the eunuch says, Behold water; what hinders my being baptised?


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And he commanded the chariot to stop. And they went down both to the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptised him.


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But when they came up out of the water <n>[the]</n> Spirit of <n>[the]</n> Lord caught away Philip, and the eunuch saw him no longer, for he went on his way rejoicing.


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And Philip was found at Azotus, and passing through he announced the glad tidings to all the cities till he came to Caesarea.


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But Saul, still breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, came to the high priest


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and asked of him letters to Damascus, to the synagogues, so that if he found any who were of the way, both men and women, he might bring <n>[them]</n> bound to Jerusalem.


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But as he was journeying, it came to pass that he drew near to Damascus; and suddenly there shone round about him a light out of heaven,


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And Saul rose up from the earth, and his eyes being opened he saw no one. But leading <n>[him]</n> by the hand they brought him into Damascus.


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And there was a certain disciple in Damascus by name Ananias. And the Lord said to him in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, <n>[here am]</n> I, Lord.


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And the Lord <n>[said]</n> to him, Rise up and go into the street which is called Straight, and seek in the house of Judas one by name Saul, <n>[he is]</n> of Tarsus for, behold, he is praying,


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and has seen <n>[in a vision]</n> a man by name Ananias coming in and putting his hand on him, so that he should see.


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And Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard from many concerning this man how much evil he has done to thy saints at Jerusalem;


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And the Lord said to him, Go, for this <n>[man]</n> is an elect vessel to me, to bear my name before both nations and kings and <n>[the]</n> sons of Israel


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And Ananias went and entered into the house; and laying his hands upon him he said, Saul, brother, the Lord has sent me, Jesus that appeared to thee in the way in which thou camest, that thou mightest see, and be filled with <n>[the]</n> Holy Spirit.


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and, having received food, got strength. And he was with the disciples who <n>[were]</n> in Damascus certain days.


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And all who heard were astonished and said, Is not this *he* who destroyed in Jerusalem those who called on this name, and here was come for this purpose, that he might bring them bound to the chief priests?


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But Saul increased the more in power, and confounded the Jews who dwelt in Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.


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But their plot became known to Saul. And they watched also the gates both day and night, that they might kill him;


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And having arrived at Jerusalem he essayed to join himself to the disciples, and all were afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple.


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But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles, and related to them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how in Damascus he had spoken boldly in the name of Jesus.


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and speaking boldly in the name of the Lord. And he spoke and discussed with the Hellenists; but they sought to kill him.


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The assemblies then throughout the whole of Judaea and Galilee and Samaria had peace, being edified and walking in the fear of the Lord, and were increased through the comfort of the Holy Spirit.


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Now it came to pass that Peter, passing through all <n>[quarters]</n>, descended also to the saints who inhabited Lydda.


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And he found there a certain man, Aeneas by name, who had been lying for eight years upon a couch, who was paralysed.


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And Peter said to him, Aeneas, Jesus, the Christ, heals thee rise up, and make thy couch for thyself. And straightway he rose up.


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And in Joppa there was a certain female disciple, by name Tabitha, which being interpreted means Dorcas. She was full of good works and alms-deeds which she did.


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And it came to pass in those days that she grew sick and died; and, having washed her, they put her in <n>[the]</n> upper room.


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But Lydda being near to Joppa, the disciples having heard that Peter was there, sent two men to him, beseeching him, Thou must not delay coming to us.


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And Peter rising up went with them, whom, when arrived, they brought up into the upper chamber; and all the widows stood by him weeping and shewing him the body-coats and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.


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But Peter, putting them all out, and kneeling down, prayed. And, turning to the body, he said, Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes, and, seeing Peter, sat up.


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And having given her <n>[his]</n> hand, he raised her up, and having called the saints and the widows, presented her living.


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pious, and fearing God with all his house, <n>[both]</n> giving much alms to the people, and supplicating God continually,


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-- saw plainly in a vision, about the ninth hour of the day, an angel of God coming unto him, and saying to him, Cornelius.


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But he, having fixed his eyes upon him, and become full of fear, said, What is it, Lord? And he said to him, Thy prayers and thine alms have gone up for a memorial before God.


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And when the angel who was speaking to him had departed, having called two of his household and a pious soldier of those who were constantly with him,


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And on the morrow, as these were journeying and drawing near to the city, Peter went up on the house to pray, about the sixth hour.


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and he beholds the heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending, as a great sheet, <n>[bound]</n> by <n>[the]</n> four corners <n>[and]</n> let down to the earth;


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And <n>[there was]</n> a voice again the second time to him, What God has cleansed, do not *thou* make common.


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And as Peter doubted in himself what the vision which he had seen might mean, behold also the men who were sent by Cornelius, having sought out the house of Simon, stood at the gate,


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and having called <n>[some one]</n>, they inquired if Simon who was surnamed Peter was lodged there.


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But as Peter continued pondering over the vision, the Spirit said to him, Behold, three men seek thee;


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And Peter going down to the men said, Behold, *I* am he whom ye seek what is the cause for which ye come?


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And they said, Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man, and fearing God, and borne witness to by the whole nation of the Jews, has been divinely instructed by a holy angel to send for thee to his house, and hear words from thee.


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Having therefore invited them in, he lodged them. And on the morrow, rising up he went away with them, and certain of the brethren from Joppa went with him.


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And on the morrow they came to Caesarea. But Cornelius was looking for them, having called together his kinsmen and <n>[his]</n> intimate friends.


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And he said to them, *Ye* know how it is unlawful for a Jew to be joined or come to one of a strange race, and to *me* God has shewn to call no man common or unclean.


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Wherefore also, having been sent for, I came without saying anything against it. I inquire therefore for what reason ye have sent for me.


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And Cornelius said, Four days ago I had been <n>[fasting]</n> unto this hour, and the ninth <n>[I was]</n> praying in my house, and lo, a man stood before me in bright clothing,


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Send therefore to Joppa and fetch Simon, who is surnamed Peter; he lodges in the house of Simon, a tanner, by the sea <n>[who when he is come will speak to thee]</n>.


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Immediately therefore I sent to thee, and *thou* hast well done in coming. Now therefore *we* are all present before God to hear all things that are commanded thee of God.


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The word which he sent to the sons of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ, (*he* is Lord of all things,)


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*ye* know; the testimony which has spread through the whole of Judaea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism which John preached --


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Jesus who <n>[was]</n> of Nazareth how God anointed him with <n>[the]</n> Holy Spirit and with power; who went through <n>[all quarters]</n> doing good, and healing all that were under the power of the devil, because God was with him.


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*We* also <n>[are]</n> witnesses of all things which he did both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem; whom they also slew, having hanged him on a cross.


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not of all the people, but of witnesses who were chosen before of God, *us* who have eaten and drunk with him after he arose from among <n>[the]</n> dead.


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And he commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that *he* it is who was determinately appointed of God <n>[to be]</n> judge of living and dead.


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To him all the prophets bear witness that every one that believes on him will receive through his name remission of sins.


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While Peter was yet speaking these words the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who were hearing the word.


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And the faithful of the circumcision were astonished, as many as came with Peter, that upon the nations also the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out


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Can any one forbid water that these should not be baptised, who have received the Holy Spirit as we also <n>[did]</n>?


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And he commanded them to be baptised in the name of the Lord. Then they begged him to stay some days.


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And the apostles and the brethren who were in Judaea heard that the nations also had received the word of God;


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I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in an ecstasy I saw a vision, a certain vessel descending like a great sheet, let down by four corners out of heaven, and it came even to me


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on which having fixed mine eyes, I considered, and saw the quadrupeds of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the creeping things, and the fowls of the heaven.


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And a voice answered the second time out of heaven, What God has cleansed, do not *thou* make common.


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And the Spirit said to me to go with them, nothing doubting. And there went with me these six brethren also, and we entered into the house of the man,


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and he related to us how he had seen the angel in his house, standing and saying <n>[to him]</n>, Send <n>[men]</n> to Joppa and fetch Simon, who is surnamed Peter,


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And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, John baptised with water, but *ye* shall be baptised with <n>[the]</n> Holy Spirit.


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If then God has given them the same gift as also to us when we had believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who indeed was *I* to be able to forbid God?


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And when they heard these things they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then indeed God has to the nations also granted repentance to life.


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They then who had been scattered abroad through the tribulation that took place on the occasion of Stephen, passed through <n>[the country]</n> to Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to no one but to Jews alone.


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But there were certain of them, Cyprians and Cyrenians, who entering into Antioch spoke to the Greeks also, announcing the glad tidings of the Lord Jesus.


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And the report concerning them reached the ears of the assembly which was in Jerusalem, and they sent out Barnabas to go through as far as Antioch


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who, having arrived and seeing the grace of God, rejoiced, and exhorted all with purpose of heart to abide with the Lord;


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for he was a good man and full of <n>[the]</n> Holy Spirit and of faith; and a large crowd <n>[of people]</n> were added to the Lord.


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And having found <n>[him]</n>, he brought him to Antioch. And so it was with them that for a whole year they were gathered together in the assembly and taught a large crowd and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.


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and one from among them, by name Agabus, rose up and signified by the Spirit that there was going to be a great famine over all the inhabited earth, which also came to pass under Claudius.


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And they determined, according as any one of the disciples was well off, each of them to send to the brethren who dwelt in Judaea, to minister <n>[to them]</n>;


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And seeing that it was pleasing to the Jews, he went on to take Peter also (and they were the days of unleavened bread)


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whom having seized he put in prison, having delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep, purposing after the passover to bring him out to the people.


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Peter therefore was kept in the prison; but unceasing prayer was made by the assembly to God concerning him.


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And when Herod was going to bring him forth, that night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and guards before the door kept the prison.


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And lo, an angel of <n>[the]</n> Lord came there, and a light shone in the prison and having smitten the side of Peter, he roused him up, saying, Rise up quickly. And his chains fell off his hands.


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And the angel said to him, Gird thyself, and bind on thy sandals. And he did so. And he says to him, Cast thine upper garment about thee and follow me.


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And going forth he followed <n>[him]</n> and did not know that what was happening by means of the angel was real, but supposed he saw a vision.


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And having passed through a first and second guard, they came to the iron gate which leads into the city, which opened to them of itself; and going forth they went down one street, and immediately the angel left him.


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And Peter, being come to himself, said, Now I know certainly that <n>[the]</n> Lord has sent forth his angel and has taken me out of the hand of Herod and all the expectation of the people of the Jews.


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And having become clearly conscious <n>[in himself]</n>, he came to the house of Mary, the mother of John who was surnamed Mark, where were many gathered together and praying.


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and having recognised the voice of Peter, through joy did not open the entry, but running in, reported that Peter was standing before the entry.


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And they said to her, Thou art mad. But she maintained that it was so. And they said, It is his angel.


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And having made a sign to them with his hand to be silent, he related <n>[to them]</n> how the Lord had brought him out of prison; and he said, Report these things to James and to the brethren. And he went out and went to another place.


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And when it was day there was no small disturbance among the soldiers, what then was become of Peter.


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And Herod having sought him and not found him, having examined the guards, commanded <n>[them]</n> to be executed. And he went down from Judaea to Caesarea and stayed <n>[there]</n>.


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And he was in bitter hostility with <n>[the]</n> Tyrians and Sidonians; but they came to him with one accord, and, having gained Blastus the king's chamberlain, sought peace, because their country was nourished by the king's.


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And on a set day, clothed in royal apparel and sitting on the elevated seat <n>[of honour]</n>, Herod made a public oration to them.


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And immediately an angel of <n>[the]</n> Lord smote him, because he did not give the glory to God, and he expired, eaten of worms.


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And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, having fulfilled the service <n>[entrusted to them]</n>, taking also with them John, surnamed Mark.


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Now there were in Antioch, in the assembly which was <n>[there]</n>, prophets and teachers Barnabas, and Simeon who was called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenian, and Manaen, foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.


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And as they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, Separate me now Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.


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Then, having fasted and prayed, and having laid <n>[their]</n> hands on them, they let <n>[them]</n> go.


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They therefore, having been sent forth by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia, and thence sailed away to Cyprus.


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And being in Salamis, they announced the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. And they had John also as <n>[their]</n> attendant.


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And having passed through the whole island as far as Paphos, they found a certain man a magician, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar-jesus,


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who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. *He*, having called Barnabas and Saul to <n>[him]</n>, desired to hear the word of God.


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But Elymas the magician (for so his name is by interpretation) opposed them, seeking to turn away the proconsul from the faith.


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But Saul, who also <n>[is]</n> Paul, filled with <n>[the]</n> Holy Spirit, fixing his eyes upon him,


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said, O full of all deceit and all craft son of <n>[the]</n> devil, enemy of all righteousness; wilt thou not cease perverting the right paths of <n>[the]</n> Lord?


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And now behold, <n>[the]</n> Lord's hand <n>[is]</n> upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell upon him a mist and darkness; and going about he sought persons who should lead him by the hand.


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And having sailed from Paphos, Paul and his company came to Perga of Pamphylia; and John separated from them and returned to Jerusalem.


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But they, passing through from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia; and entering into the synagogue on the sabbath day they sat down.


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And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, Brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation to the people, speak.


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And Paul, rising up and making a sign with the hand, said, Israelites, and ye that fear God, hearken.


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The God of this people Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people in their sojourn in <n>[the]</n> land of Egypt, and with a high arm brought them out of it,


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And having destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land as an inheritance.


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And after these things he gave <n>[them]</n> judges till Samuel the prophet, <n>[to the end of]</n> about four hundred and fifty years.


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And then they asked for a king, and God gave to them Saul, son of Kis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, during forty years.


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And having removed him he raised up to them David for king, of whom also bearing witness he said, I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who shall do all my will.


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John having proclaimed before the face of his entry <n>[among the people]</n> <n>[the]</n> baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.


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And as John was fulfilling his course he said, Whom do ye suppose that I am? *I* am not <n>[he]</n>. But behold, there comes one after me, the sandal of whose feet I am not worthy to loose.


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Brethren, sons of Abraham's race, and those who among you fear God, to you has the word of this salvation been sent


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for those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, not having known him, have fulfilled also the voices of the prophets which are read on every sabbath, <n>[by]</n> judging <n>[him]</n>.


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And when they had fulfilled all things written concerning him, they took him down from the cross and put him in a sepulchre;


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who appeared for many days to those who had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses to the people.


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that God has fulfilled this to us their children, having raised up Jesus; as it is also written in the second psalm, *Thou* art my Son this day have *I* begotten thee.


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But that he raised him from among <n>[the]</n> dead, no more to return to corruption, he spoke thus I will give to you the faithful mercies of David.


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For David indeed, having in his own generation ministered to the will of God, fell asleep, and was added to his fathers and saw corruption.


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Be it known unto you, therefore, brethren, that through this man remission of sins is preached to you,


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and from all things from which ye could not be justified in the law of Moses, in him every one that believes is justified.


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Behold, ye despisers, and wonder and perish; for *I* work a work in your days, a work which ye will in no wise believe if one declare it to you.


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And the congregation of the synagogue having broken up, many of the Jews and of the worshipping proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.


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But the Jews, seeing the crowds, were filled with envy, and contradicted the things said by Paul, <n>[contradicting and]</n> speaking injuriously.


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And Paul and Barnabas spoke boldly and said, It was necessary that the word of God should be first spoken to you; but, since ye thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, lo, we turn to the nations;


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for thus has the Lord enjoined us I have set thee for a light of the nations, that thou shouldest be for salvation to the end of the earth.


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And <n>[those of]</n> the nations, hearing it, rejoiced, and glorified the word of the Lord, and believed, as many as were ordained to eternal life.


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But the Jews excited the women of the upper classes who were worshippers, and the first people of the city, and raised a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and cast them out of their coasts.


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And it came to pass in Iconium that they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spake that a great multitude of both Jews and Greeks believed.


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But the Jews who did not believe stirred up the minds of <n>[those of]</n> the nations and made <n>[them]</n> evil-affected against the brethren.


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They stayed therefore a good while, speaking boldly, <n>[confiding]</n> in the Lord, who gave witness to the word of his grace, giving signs and wonders to be done by their hands.


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they, being aware of it, fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra and Derbe, and the surrounding country,


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And a certain man in Lystra, impotent in his feet, sat, <n>[being]</n> lame from his mother's womb, who had never walked.


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This <n>[man]</n> heard Paul speaking, who, fixing his eyes on him, and seeing that he had faith to be healed,


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But the crowds, who saw what Paul had done, lifted up their voices in Lycaonian, saying, The gods, having made themselves like men, are come down to us.


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And the priest of Jupiter who was before the city, having brought bulls and garlands to the gates, would have done sacrifice along with the crowds.


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But the apostles Barnabas and Paul, having heard <n>[it]</n>, rent their garments, and rushed out to the crowd, crying


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and saying, Men, why do ye these things? *We* also are men of like passions with you, preaching to you to turn from these vanities to the living God, who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all things in them;


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though indeed he did not leave himself without witness, doing good, and giving to you from heaven rain and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.


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But there came Jews from Antioch and Iconium, and having persuaded the crowds and stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing him to have died.


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But while the disciples encircled him, he rose up and entered into the city. And on the morrow he went away with Barnabas to Derbe.


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And having announced the glad tidings to that city, and having made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, and Iconium, and Antioch,


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establishing the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to abide in the faith, and that through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God.


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And having chosen them elders in each assembly, having prayed with fastings, they committed them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.


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and thence they sailed away to Antioch, whence they had been committed to the grace of God for the work which they had fulfilled.


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And having arrived, and having brought together the assembly, they related to them all that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.


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And certain persons, having come down from Judaea, taught the brethren, If ye shall not have been circumcised according to the custom of Moses, ye cannot be saved.


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A commotion therefore having taken place, and no small discussion on the part of Paul and Barnabas against them, they arranged that Paul and Barnabas, and certain others from amongst them, should go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.


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They therefore, having been set on their way by the assembly, passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, relating the conversion of <n>[those of]</n> the nations. And they caused great joy to all the brethren.


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And being arrived at Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly, and the apostles, and the elders, and related all that God had wrought with them.


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And some of those who were of the sect of the Pharisees, who believed, rose up from among <n>[them]</n>, saying that they ought to circumcise them and enjoin them to keep the law of Moses.


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And much discussion having taken place, Peter, standing up, said to them, Brethren, *ye* know that from the earliest days God amongst you chose that the nations by my mouth should hear the word of the glad tidings and believe.


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Now therefore why tempt ye God, by putting a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?


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But we believe that we shall be saved by the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same manner as they also.


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And all the multitude kept silence and listened to Barnabas and Paul relating all the signs and wonders which God had wrought among the nations by them.


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After these things I will return, and will rebuild the tabernacle of David which is fallen, and will rebuild its ruins, and will set it up,


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so that the residue of men may seek out the Lord, and all the nations on whom my name is invoked, saith <n>[the]</n> Lord, who does these things


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but to write to them to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.


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For Moses, from generations of old, has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath.


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Then it seemed good to the apostles and to the elders, with the whole assembly, to send chosen men from among them with Paul and Barnabas to Antioch, Judas called Barsabas and Silas, leading men among the brethren,


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having by their hand written <n>[thus]</n> The apostles, and the elders, and the brethren, to the brethren who are from among <n>[the]</n> nations at Antioch, and <n>[in]</n> Syria and Cilicia, greeting


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Inasmuch as we have heard that some who went out from amongst us have troubled you by words, upsetting your souls, <n>[saying that ye must be circumcised and keep the law]</n>; to whom we gave no commandment;


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it seemed good to us, having arrived at a common judgment, to send chosen men to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,


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We have therefore sent Judas and Silas, who themselves also will tell you by word <n>[of mouth]</n> the same things.


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


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to abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from fornication; keeping yourselves from which ye will do well. Farewell.


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They therefore, being let go, came to Antioch, and having gathered the multitude delivered to <n>[them]</n> the epistle.


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And Judas and Silas, being themselves also prophets, exhorted the brethren with much discourse, and strengthened them.


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And having passed some time <n>[there]</n>, they were let go in peace from the brethren to those who sent them.


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And Paul and Barnabas stayed in Antioch, teaching and announcing the glad tidings, with many others also, of the word of the Lord.


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But after certain days Paul said to Barnabas, Let us return now and visit the brethren in every city where we have announced the word of the Lord, <n>[and see]</n> how they are getting on.


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but Paul thought it not well to take with them him who had abandoned them, <n>[going back]</n> from Pamphylia, and had not gone with them to the work.


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There arose therefore very warm feeling, so that they separated from one another; and Barnabas taking Mark sailed away to Cyprus;


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And he came to Derbe and Lystra and behold, a certain disciple was there, by name Timotheus, son of a Jewish believing woman, but <n>[the]</n> father a Greek,


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Him would Paul have go forth with him, and took <n>[him and]</n> circumcised him on account of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew his father that he was a Greek.


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And as they passed through the cities they instructed them to observe the decrees determined on by the apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem.


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having come down to Mysia, they attempted to go to Bithynia, and the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them;


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And a vision appeared to Paul in the night There was a certain Macedonian man, standing and beseeching him, and saying, Pass over into Macedonia and help us.


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And when he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go forth to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to announce to them the glad tidings.


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Having sailed therefore away from Troas, we went in a straight course to Samothracia, and on the morrow to Neapolis,


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and thence to Philippi, which is <n>[the]</n> first city of that part of Macedonia, a colony. And we were staying in that city certain days.


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And on the sabbath day we went outside the gate by the river, where it was the custom for prayer to be, and we sat down and spoke to the women who had assembled.


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And a certain woman, by name Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, who worshipped God, heard; whose heart the Lord opened to attend to the things spoken by Paul.


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And when she had been baptised and her house, she besought <n>[us]</n>, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and abide <n>[there]</n>. And she constrained us.


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And it came to pass as we were going to prayer that a certain female slave, having a spirit of Python, met us, who brought much profit to her masters by prophesying.


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She, having followed Paul and us, cried saying, These men are bondmen of the Most High God, who announce to you <n>[the]</n> way of salvation.


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And this she did many days. And Paul, being distressed, turned, and said to the spirit, I enjoin thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And it came out the same hour.


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And her masters, seeing that the hope of their gains was gone, having seized Paul and Silas, dragged <n>[them]</n> into the market before the magistrates;


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And the crowd rose up too against them; and the praetors, having torn off their clothes, commanded to scourge <n>[them]</n>.


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And having laid many stripes upon them they cast <n>[them]</n> into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely;


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who, having received such a charge, cast them into the inner prison, and secured their feet to the stocks.


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And at midnight Paul and Silas, in praying, were praising God with singing, and the prisoners listened to them.


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And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison shook, and all the doors were immediately opened, and the bonds of all loosed.


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And the jailor being awakened out of his sleep, and seeing the doors of the prison opened, having drawn a sword was going to kill himself, thinking the prisoners had fled.


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And he took them the same hour of the night and washed <n>[them]</n> from their stripes; and was baptised, he and all his straightway.


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And having brought them into his house he laid the table <n>[for them]</n>, and rejoiced with all his house, having believed in God.


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And the jailor reported these words to Paul The praetors have sent that ye may be let go. Now therefore go out and depart in peace.


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But Paul said to them, Having beaten us publicly uncondemned, us who are Romans, they have cast us into prison, and now they thrust us out secretly? no, indeed, but let them come themselves and bring us out.


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And the lictors reported these words to the praetors. And they were afraid when they heard they were Romans.


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And having gone out of the prison, they came to Lydia; and having seen the brethren, they exhorted them and went away.


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And having journeyed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was the synagogue of the Jews.


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And according to Paul's custom he went in among them, and on three sabbaths reasoned with them from the scriptures,


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opening and laying down that the Christ must have suffered and risen up from among the dead, and that this is the Christ, Jesus whom *I* announce to you.


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And some of them believed, and joined themselves to Paul and Silas, and of the Greeks who worshipped, a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.


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But the Jews having been stirred up to jealousy, and taken to <n>[themselves]</n> certain wicked men of the lowest rabble, and having got a crowd together, set the city in confusion; and having beset the house of Jason sought to bring them out to the people;


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and not having found them, dragged Jason and certain brethren before the politarchs, crying out, These <n>[men]</n> that have set the world in tumult, are come here also,


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whom Jason has received; and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying, that there is another king, Jesus.


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But the brethren immediately sent away, in the night, Paul and Silas to Berea; who, being arrived, went away into the synagogue of the Jews.


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And these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, receiving the word with all readiness of mind, daily searching the scriptures if these things were so.


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Therefore many from among them believed, and of Grecian women of the upper classes and men not a few.


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But when the Jews from Thessalonica knew that the word of God was announced in Berea also by Paul, they came there also, stirring up the crowds.


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And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go as to the sea; but Silas and Timotheus abode there.


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But they that conducted Paul brought him as far as Athens; and, having received a commandment to Silas and Timotheus, that they should come to him as quickly as possible, they departed.


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But in Athens, while Paul was waiting for them, his spirit was painfully excited in him seeing the city given up to idolatry.


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He reasoned therefore in the synagogue with the Jews, and those who worshipped, and in the market-place every day with those he met with.


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But some also of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers attacked him. And some said, What would this chatterer say? and some, He seems to be an announcer of foreign demons, because he announced the glad tidings of Jesus and the resurrection <n>[to them]</n>.


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And having taken hold on him they brought <n>[him]</n> to Areopagus, saying, Might we know what this new doctrine which is spoken by thee <n>[is]</n>?


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For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears. We wish therefore to know what these things may mean.


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Now all <n>[the]</n> Athenians and the strangers sojourning there spent their time in nothing else than to tell and to hear the news.


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And Paul standing in the midst of Areopagus said, Athenians, in every way I see you given up to demon worship;


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for, passing through and beholding your shrines, I found also an altar on which was inscribed, To the unknown God. Whom therefore ye reverence, not knowing <n>[him]</n>, him I announce to you.


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The God who has made the world and all things which are in it, *he*, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands,


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nor is served by men's hands as needing something, himself giving to all life and breath and all things;


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and has made of one blood every nation of men to dwell upon the whole face of the earth, having determined ordained times and the boundaries of their dwelling,


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that they may seek God; if indeed they might feel after him and find him, although he is not far from each one of us


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for in him we live and move and exist; as also some of the poets amongst you have said, For we are also his offspring.


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Being therefore <n>[the]</n> offspring of God, we ought not to think that which is divine to be like gold or silver or stone, <n>[the]</n> graven form of man's art and imagination.


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God therefore, having overlooked the times of ignorance, now enjoins men that they shall all everywhere repent,


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because he has set a day in which he is going to judge the habitable earth in righteousness by <n>[the]</n> man whom he has appointed, giving the proof <n>[of it]</n> to all <n>[in]</n> having raised him from among <n>[the]</n> dead.


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And when they heard <n>[of the]</n> resurrection of the dead, some mocked, and some said, We will hear thee again also concerning this.


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But some men joining themselves to him believed; among whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman by name Damaris, and others with them.


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and finding a certain Jew by name Aquila, of Pontus by race, just come from Italy, and Priscilla his wife, (because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome,) came to them,


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and because they were of the same trade abode with them, and wrought. For they were tent-makers by trade.


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And when both Silas and Timotheus came down from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in respect of the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.


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But as they opposed and spoke injuriously, he shook his clothes, and said to them, Your blood be upon your own head *I* <n>[am]</n> pure; from henceforth I will go to the nations.


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And departing thence he came to the house of a certain <n>[man]</n>, by name Justus, who worshipped God, whose house adjoined the synagogue.


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But Crispus the ruler of the synagogue believed in the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing, believed, and were baptised.


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because *I* am with thee, and no one shall set upon thee to injure thee; because I have much people in this city.


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But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one consent rose against Paul and led him to the judgment-seat,


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But as Paul was going to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, If indeed it was some wrong or wicked criminality, O Jews, of reason I should have borne with you;


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but if it be questions about words, and names, and the law that ye have, see to it yourselves; <n>[for]</n> *I* do not intend to be judge of these things.


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And having all laid hold on Sosthenes the ruler of the synagogue, they beat him before the judgment-seat. And Gallio troubled himself about none of these things.


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And Paul, having yet stayed <n>[there]</n> many days, took leave of the brethren and sailed thence to Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila, having shorn his head in Cenchrea, for he had a vow;


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and he arrived at Ephesus, and left them there. But entering himself into the synagogue he reasoned with the Jews.


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And when they asked him that he would remain for a longer time <n>[with them]</n> he did not accede,


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but bade them farewell, saying, <n>[I must by all means keep the coming feast at Jerusalem]</n>; I will return to you again, if God will and he sailed away from Ephesus.


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And having stayed <n>[there]</n> some time, he went forth, passing in order through the country of Galatia and Phrygia, establishing all the disciples.


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But a certain Jew, Apollos by name, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, who was mighty in the scriptures, arrived at Ephesus.


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He was instructed in the way of the Lord, and being fervent in his spirit, he spoke and taught exactly the things concerning Jesus, knowing only the baptism of John.


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And *he* began to speak boldly in the synagogue. And Aquila and Priscilla, having heard him, took him to <n>[them]</n> and unfolded to him the way of God more exactly.


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And when he purposed to go into Achaia, the brethren wrote to the disciples engaging them to receive him, who, being come, contributed much to those who believed through grace.


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For he with great force convinced the Jews publicly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.


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And it came to pass, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having passed through the upper districts, came to Ephesus, and finding certain disciples,


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he said to them, Did ye receive <n>[the]</n> Holy Spirit when ye had believed? And they <n>[said]</n> to him, We did not even hear if <n>[the]</n> Holy Spirit was <n>[come]</n>.


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And Paul said, John indeed baptised <n>[with]</n> the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe on him that was coming after him, that is, on Jesus.


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And Paul having laid <n>[his]</n> hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them, and they spoke with tongues and prophesied.


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And entering into the synagogue, he spoke boldly during three months, reasoning and persuading <n>[the things]</n> concerning the kingdom of God.


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But when some were hardened and disbelieved, speaking evil of the way before the multitude, he left them and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.


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And this took place for two years, so that all that inhabited Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.


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so that even napkins or aprons were brought from his body <n>[and put]</n> upon the sick, and the diseases left them, and the wicked spirits went out.


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And certain of the Jewish exorcists also, who went about, took in hand to call upon those who had wicked spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, I adjure you by Jesus, whom Paul preaches.


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But the wicked spirit answering said to them, Jesus I know, and Paul I am acquainted with; but *ye*, who are ye?


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And the man in whom the wicked spirit was leaped upon them, and having mastered both, prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.


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And this became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who inhabited Ephesus, and fear fell upon all of them, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.


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And many of those that practised curious arts brought their books <n>[of charms]</n> and burnt them before all. And they reckoned up the prices of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.


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And when these things were fulfilled, Paul purposed in his spirit to go to Jerusalem, passing through Macedonia and Achaia, saying, After I have been there I must see Rome also.


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And having sent into Macedonia two of those ministering to him, Timotheus and Erastus, he remained himself awhile in Asia.


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whom having brought together, and those who wrought in such things, he said, Men, ye know that our well-living arises from this work,


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and ye see and hear that this Paul has persuaded and turned away a great crowd, not only of Ephesus, but almost of all Asia, saying that they are no gods which are made with hands.


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Now not only there is danger for us that our business come into discredit, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis be counted for nothing, and that her greatness should be destroyed whom the whole of Asia and the world reveres.


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And having heard <n>[this]</n>, and being filled with rage, they cried out, saying, Great <n>[is]</n> Artemis of the Ephesians.


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And the <n>[whole]</n> city was filled with confusion, and they rushed with one accord to the theatre, having seized and carried off with <n>[them]</n> Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians, fellow-travellers of Paul.


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and some of the Asiarchs also, who were his friends, sent to him and urged him not to throw himself into the theatre.


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Different persons therefore cried out some different thing; for the assembly was tumultuous, and the most did not know for what cause they had come together.


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But from among the crowd they put forward Alexander, the Jews pushing him forward. And Alexander, beckoning with his hand, would have made a defence to the people.


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But, recognising that he was a Jew, there was one cry from all, shouting for about two hours, Great <n>[is]</n> Artemis of the Ephesians.


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And the townclerk, having quieted the crowd, said, Ephesians, what man is there then who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is temple-keeper of Artemis the great, and of the <n>[image]</n> which fell down from heaven?


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For ye have brought these men, <n>[who are]</n> neither temple-plunderers, nor speak injuriously of your goddess.


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If therefore Demetrius and the artisans who <n>[are]</n> with him have a matter against any one, the courts are being held, and there are proconsuls let them accuse one another.


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For also we are in danger to be put in accusation for sedition for this <n>[affair]</n> of to-day, no cause existing in reference to which we shall be able to give a reason for this concourse.


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But after the tumult had ceased, Paul having called the disciples to <n>[him]</n> and embraced <n>[them]</n>, went away to go to Macedonia.


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And having passed through those parts, and having exhorted them with much discourse, he came to Greece.


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And having spent three months <n>[there]</n>, a treacherous plot against him having been set on foot by the Jews, as he was going to sail to Syria, <n>[the]</n> resolution was adopted of returning through Macedonia.


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And there accompanied him as far as Asia, Sopater <n>[son]</n> of Pyrrhus, a Berean; and of Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus, and Gaius and Timotheus of Derbe, and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus.


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but we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and we came to them to Troas in five days, where we spent seven days.


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And the first day of the week, we being assembled to break bread, Paul discoursed to them, about to depart on the morrow. And he prolonged the discourse till midnight.


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And a certain youth, by name Eutychus, sitting at the window-opening, overpowered by deep sleep, while Paul discoursed very much at length, having been overpowered by the sleep, fell from the third story down to the bottom, and was taken up dead.


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But Paul descending fell upon him, and enfolding <n>[him]</n> <n>[in his arms]</n>, said, Be not troubled, for his life is in him.


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and having sailed thence, on the morrow arrived opposite Chios, and the next day put in at Samos; and having stayed at Trogyllium, the next day we came to Miletus


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for Paul thought it desirable to sail by Ephesus, so that he might not be made to spend time in Asia; for he hastened, if it was possible for him, to be the day of Pentecost at Jerusalem.


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And when they were come to him, he said to them, *Ye* know how I was with you all the time from the first day that I arrived in Asia,


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serving the Lord with all lowliness, and tears, and temptations, which happened to me through the plots of the Jews;


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how I held back nothing of what is profitable, so as not to announce <n>[it]</n> to you, and to teach you publicly and in every house,


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And now, behold, bound in my spirit *I* go to Jerusalem, not knowing what things shall happen to me in it;


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only that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city, saying that bonds and tribulations await me.


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But I make no account of <n>[my]</n> life <n>[as]</n> dear to myself, so that I finish my course, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the glad tidings of the grace of God.


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And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone about preaching the kingdom <n>[of God]</n>, shall see my face no more.


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Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, wherein the Holy Spirit has set you as overseers, to shepherd the assembly of God, which he has purchased with the blood of his own.


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and from among your own selves shall rise up men speaking perverted things to draw away the disciples after them.


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Wherefore watch, remembering that for three years, night and day, I ceased not admonishing each one <n>[of you]</n> with tears.


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And now I commit you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build <n>[you]</n> up and give <n>[to you]</n> an inheritance among all the sanctified.


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I have shewed you all things, that thus labouring <n>[we]</n> ought to come in aid of the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.


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specially pained by the word which he had said, that they would no more see his face. And they went down with him to the ship.


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and having sighted Cyprus, and left it on the left hand, we sailed to Syria, and made the land at Tyre, for there the ship was to discharge her cargo.


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And having found out the disciples, we remained there seven days; who said to Paul by the Spirit not to go up to Jerusalem.


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But when we had completed the days, we set out and took our journey, all of them accompanying us, with wives and children, till <n>[we were]</n> out of the city. And kneeling down upon the shore we prayed.


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And leaving on the morrow, we came to Caesarea; and entering into the house of Philip the evangelist, who was of the seven, we abode with him.


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and coming to us and taking the girdle of Paul, and having bound his own hands and feet, said, Thus saith the Holy Spirit, The man whose this girdle is shall the Jews thus bind in Jerusalem, and deliver him up into the hands of <n>[the]</n> Gentiles.


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But Paul answered, What do ye, weeping and breaking my heart? for *I* am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.


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And <n>[some]</n> of the disciples from Caesarea went with us, bringing <n>[with them]</n> a certain Mnason, a Cyprian, an old disciple, with whom we were to lodge.


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And having saluted them, he related one by one the things which God had wrought among the nations by his ministry.


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And they having heard <n>[it]</n> glorified God, and said to him, Thou seest, brother, how many myriads there are of the Jews who have believed, and all are zealous of the law.


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And they have been informed concerning thee, that thou teachest all the Jews among the nations apostasy from Moses, saying that they should not circumcise their children, nor walk in the customs.


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take these and be purified with them, and pay their expenses, that they may have their heads shaved; and all will know that <n>[of those things]</n> of which they have been informed about thee nothing is <n>[true]</n>; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, keeping the law.


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But concerning <n>[those of]</n> the nations who have believed, we have written, deciding that they should <n>[observe no such thing, only to]</n> keep themselves both from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication.


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Then Paul, taking the men, on the next day, having been purified, entered with them into the temple, signifying the time the days of the purification would be fulfilled, until the offering was offered for every one of them.


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And when the seven days were nearly completed, the Jews from Asia, having seen him in the temple, set all the crowd in a tumult, and laid hands upon him,


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crying, Israelites, help! this is the man who teaches all everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place, and has brought Greeks too into the temple, and profaned this holy place.


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For they had before seen Trophimus the Ephesian with him in the city, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.


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And the whole city was moved, and there was a concourse of the people; and having laid hold on Paul they drew him out of the temple, and immediately the doors were shut.


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And as they were seeking to kill him, a representation came to the chiliarch of the band that the whole of Jerusalem was in a tumult;


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who, taking with him immediately soldiers and centurions, ran down upon them. But they, seeing the chiliarch and the soldiers, ceased beating Paul.


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Then the chiliarch came up and laid hold upon him, and commanded <n>[him]</n> to be bound with two chains, and inquired who he might be, and what he had done.


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And different persons cried some different thing in the crowd. But he, not being able to know the certainty on account of the uproar, commanded him to be brought into the fortress.


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But when he got upon the stairs it was so that he was borne by the soldiers on account of the violence of the crowd.


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But as he was about to be led into the fortress, Paul says to the chiliarch, Is it allowed me to say something to thee? And he said, Dost thou know Greek?


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Thou art not then that Egyptian who before these days raised a sedition and led out into the wilderness the four thousand men of the assassins?


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But Paul said, *I* am a Jew of Tarsus, citizen of no insignificant city of Cilicia, and I beseech of thee, allow me to speak to the people.


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And when he had allowed him, Paul, standing on the stairs, beckoned with his hand to the people; and a great silence having been made, he addressed them in the Hebrew tongue, saying,


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*I* am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, educated according to <n>[the]</n> exactness of the law of <n>[our]</n> fathers, being zealous for God, as *ye* are all this day;


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as also the high priest bears me witness, and all the elderhood from whom also, having received letters to the brethren, I went to Damascus to bring those also who were there, bound, to Jerusalem, to be punished.


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And it came to pass, as I was journeying and drawing near to Damascus, that, about mid-day, there suddenly shone out of heaven a great light round about me.


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And *I* answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said to me, *I* am Jesus the Nazaraean, whom *thou* persecutest.


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But they that were with me beheld the light, <n>[and were filled with fear]</n>, but heard not the voice of him that was speaking to me.


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And I said, What shall I do, Lord? And the Lord said to me, Rise up, and go to Damascus, and there it shall be told thee of all things which it is appointed thee to do.


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And as I could not see, through the glory of that light, being led by the hand of those who were with me, I came to Damascus.


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And a certain Ananias, a pious man according to the law, borne witness to by all the Jews who dwelt <n>[there]</n>,


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coming to me and standing by me, said to me, Brother Saul, receive thy sight. And *I*, in the same hour, received my sight and saw him.


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And he said, The God of our fathers has chosen thee beforehand to know his will, and to see the just one, and to hear a voice out of his mouth;


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And now why lingerest thou? Arise and get baptised, and have thy sins washed away, calling on his name.


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And it came to pass when I had returned to Jerusalem, and as I was praying in the temple, that I became in ecstasy,


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and saw him saying to me, Make haste and go quickly out of Jerusalem, for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me.


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And *I* said, Lord, they themselves know that *I* was imprisoning and beating in every synagogue those that believe on thee;


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and when the blood of thy witness Stephen was shed, I also myself was standing by and consenting, and kept the clothes of them who killed him.


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And they heard him until this word, and lifted up their voice, saying, Away with such a one as that from the earth, for it was not fit he should live.


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the chiliarch commanded him to be brought into the fortress, saying that he should be examined by scourging, that he might ascertain for what cause they cried thus against him.


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But as they stretched him forward with the thongs, Paul said to the centurion who stood <n>[by]</n>, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man <n>[who is]</n> a Roman and uncondemned?


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And the centurion, having heard it, went and reported it to the chiliarch, saying, What art thou going to do? for this man is a Roman.


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And the chiliarch answered, *I*, for a great sum, bought this citizenship. And Paul said, But *I* was also <n>[free]</n> born.


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Immediately therefore those who were going to examine him left him, and the chiliarch also was afraid when he ascertained that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.


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And on the morrow, desirous to know the certainty <n>[of the matter]</n> why he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him, and commanded the chief priests and all the council to meet, and having brought Paul down set him before them.


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And Paul, fixing his eyes on the council, said, Brethren, I have walked in all good conscience with God unto this day.


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Then Paul said to him, God will smite thee, whited wall. And *thou*, dost thou sit judging me according to the law, and breaking the law commandest me to be smitten?


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And Paul said, I was not conscious, brethren, that he was high priest; for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evilly of the ruler of thy people.


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But Paul, knowing that the one part <n>[of them]</n> were of the Sadducees and the other of the Pharisees, cried out in the council, Brethren, *I* am a Pharisee, son of Pharisees *I* am judged concerning the hope and resurrection of <n>[the]</n> dead.


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And when he had spoken this, there was a tumult of the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the multitude was divided.


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For Sadducees say there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit; but Pharisees confess both of them.


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And there was a great clamour, and the scribes of the Pharisees' part rising up contended, saying, We find nothing evil in this man; and if a spirit has spoken to him, or an angel ...


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And a great tumult having arisen, the chiliarch, fearing lest Paul should have been torn in pieces by them, commanded the troop to come down and take him by force from the midst of them, and to bring <n>[him]</n> into the fortress.


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But the following night the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good courage; for as thou hast testified the things concerning me at Jerusalem, so thou must bear witness at Rome also.


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And when it was day, the Jews, having banded together, put themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they should kill Paul.


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and they went to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have cursed ourselves with a curse to taste nothing until we kill Paul.


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Now therefore do ye with the council make a representation to the chiliarch so that he may bring him down to you, as about to determine more precisely what concerns him, and we, before he draws near, are ready to kill him.


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But Paul's sister's son, having heard of the lying in wait, came and entered into the fortress and reported <n>[it]</n> to Paul.


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And Paul, having called one of the centurions, said, Take this youth to the chiliarch, for he has something to report to him.


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He therefore, having taken him with <n>[him]</n>, led him to the chiliarch, and says, The prisoner Paul called me to <n>[him]</n> and asked me to lead this youth to thee, who has something to say to thee.


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And the chiliarch having taken him by the hand, and having gone apart in private, inquired, What is it that thou hast to report to me?


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And he said, The Jews have agreed together to make a request to thee, that thou mayest bring Paul down to-morrow into the council, as about to inquire something more precise concerning him.


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Do not thou then be persuaded by them, for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, who have put themselves under a curse neither to eat nor drink till they kill him; and now they are ready waiting the promise from thee.


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The chiliarch then dismissed the youth, commanding <n>[him]</n>, Utter to no one that thou hast represented these things to me.


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And having called to <n>[him]</n> certain two of the centurions, he said, Prepare two hundred soldiers that they may go as far as Caesarea, and seventy horsemen, and two hundred light-armed footmen, for the third hour of the night.


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And <n>[he ordered them]</n> to provide beasts, that they might set Paul on them and carry <n>[him]</n> safe through to Felix the governor,


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This man, having been taken by the Jews, and being about to be killed by them, I came up with the military and took out <n>[of their hands]</n>, having learned that he was a Roman.


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whom I found to be accused of questions of their law, but to have no charge laid against him <n>[making him]</n> worthy of death or of bonds.


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But having received information of a plot about to be put in execution against the man <n>[by the Jews]</n>, I have immediately sent him to thee, commanding also his accusers to say before thee the things that are against him. <n>[Farewell.]</n>


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The soldiers therefore, according to what was ordered them, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris,


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And these, having entered into Caesarea, and given up the letter to the governor, presented Paul also to him.


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And having read <n>[it]</n>, and asked of what eparchy he was, and learned that <n>[he was]</n> of Cilicia,


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he said, I will hear thee fully when thine accusers also are arrived. And he commanded him to be kept in Herod's praetorium.


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And after five days came down the high priest Ananias, with the elders, and a certain orator called Tertullus, and laid their informations against Paul before the governor.


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And he having been called, Tertullus began to accuse, saying, Seeing we enjoy great peace through thee, and that excellent measures are executed for this nation by thy forethought,


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For finding this man a pest, and moving sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a leader of the sect of the Nazaraeans;


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who also attempted to profane the temple; whom we also had seized, <n>[and would have judged according to our law;


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having commanded his accusers to come to thee;]</n> of whom thou canst thyself, in examining <n>[him]</n>, know the certainty of all these things of which we accuse him.


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And the Jews also joined in pressing the matter against <n>[Paul]</n>, saying that these things were so.


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But Paul, the governor having beckoned to him to speak, answered, Knowing that for many years thou hast been judge to this nation, I answer readily as to the things which concern myself.


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As thou mayest know that there are not more than twelve days since I went up to worship at Jerusalem,


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and neither in the temple did they find me discoursing to any one, or making any tumultuous gathering together of the crowd, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city;


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But this I avow to thee, that in the way which they call sect, so I serve my fathers' God, believing all things which are written throughout the law, and in the prophets;


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having hope towards God, which they themselves also receive, that there is to be a resurrection both of just and unjust.


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For this cause I also exercise <n>[myself]</n> to have in everything a conscience without offence towards God and men.


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Whereupon they found me purified in the temple, with neither crowd nor tumult. But it was certain Jews from Asia,


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<n>[other]</n> than concerning this one voice which I cried standing amongst them I am judged this day by you touching <n>[the]</n> resurrection of <n>[the]</n> dead.


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And Felix, knowing accurately the things concerning the way, adjourned them, saying, When Lysias the chiliarch is come down I will determine your affair;


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ordering the centurion to keep him, and that he should have freedom, and to hinder none of his friends to minister to him.


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And after certain days, Felix having arrived with Drusilla his wife, who was a Jewess, he sent for Paul and heard him concerning the faith in Christ.


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And as he reasoned concerning righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment about to come, Felix, being filled with fear, answered, Go for the present, and when I get an opportunity I will send for thee;


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hoping at the same time that money would be given him by Paul wherefore also he sent for him the oftener and communed with him.


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But when two years were completed, Felix was relieved by Porcius Festus as his successor; and Felix, desirous to oblige the Jews, to acquire their favour, left Paul bound.


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And the chief priests and the chief of the Jews laid informations before him against Paul, and besought him,


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asking as a grace against him that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying people in wait to kill him on the way.


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Festus therefore answered that Paul should be kept at Caesarea, and that he himself was about to set out shortly.


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Let therefore the persons of authority among you, says he, going down too, if there be anything in this man, accuse him.


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And having remained among them not more than eight or ten days, he went down to Caesarea; and on the next day, having sat down on the judgment-seat, commanded Paul to be brought.


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And when he was come, the Jews who were come down from Jerusalem stood round, bringing many and grievous charges which they were not able to prove


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Paul answering for himself, Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I offended <n>[in]</n> anything.


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But Festus, desirous of obliging the Jews, to acquire their favour, answering Paul, said, Art thou willing to go up to Jerusalem, there to be judged before me concerning these things?


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But Paul said, I am standing before the judgment-seat of Caesar, where I ought to be judged. To the Jews have I done no wrong, as *thou* also very well knowest.


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If then I have done any wrong and committed anything worthy of death, I do not deprecate dying; but if there is nothing of those things of which they accuse me, no man can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar.


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Then Festus, having conferred with the council, answered, Thou hast appealed to Caesar. To Caesar shalt thou go.


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And when certain days had elapsed, Agrippa the king and Bernice arrived at Caesarea to salute Festus.


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And when they had spent many days there, Festus laid before the king the matters relating to Paul, saying, There is a certain man left prisoner by Felix,


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concerning whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews laid informations, requiring judgment against him


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to whom I answered, It is not <n>[the]</n> custom of the Romans to give up any man before that the accused have the accusers face to face, and he have got opportunity of defence touching the charge.


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When therefore they had come together here, without putting it off, I sat the next day on the judgment-seat and commanded the man to be brought


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but had against him certain questions of their own system of worship, and concerning a certain Jesus who is dead, whom Paul affirmed to be living.


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And as I myself was at a loss as to an inquiry into these things, I said, Was he willing to go to Jerusalem and there to be judged concerning these things?


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But Paul having appealed to be kept for the cognisance of Augustus, I commanded him to be kept till I shall send him to Caesar.


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And Agrippa <n>[said]</n> to Festus, I myself also would desire to hear the man. To-morrow, said he, thou shalt hear him.


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On the morrow therefore, Agrippa being come, and Bernice, with great pomp, and having entered into the hall of audience, with the chiliarchs and the men of distinction of the city, and Festus having given command, Paul was brought.


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And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men who are here present with us, ye see this person, concerning whom all the multitude of the Jews applied to me both in Jerusalem and here, crying out against <n>[him]</n> that he ought not to live any longer.


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But I, having found that he had done nothing worthy of death, and this <n>[man]</n> himself having appealed to Augustus, I have decided to send him;


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concerning whom I have nothing certain to write to my lord. Wherefore I have brought him before you, and specially before thee, king Agrippa, so that an examination having been gone into I may have something to write


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I count myself happy, king Agrippa, in having to answer to-day before thee concerning all of which I am accused by the Jews,


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especially because thou art acquainted with all the customs and questions which are among the Jews; wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.


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My manner of life then from my youth, which from its commencement was passed among my nation in Jerusalem, know all the Jews,


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who knew me before from the outset <n>[of my life]</n>, if they would bear witness, that according to the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.


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to which our whole twelve tribes serving incessantly day and night hope to arrive; about which hope, O king, I am accused of <n>[the]</n> Jews.


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Which also I did in Jerusalem, and myself shut up in prisons many of the saints, having received the authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death I gave my vote.


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And often punishing them in all the synagogues, I compelled them to blaspheme. And, being exceedingly furious against them, I persecuted them even to cities out <n>[of our own land]</n>.


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And when, <n>[engaged]</n> in this, I was journeying to Damascus, with authority and power from the chief priests,


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at mid-day, on the way, I saw, O king, a light above the brightness of the sun, shining from heaven round about me and those who were journeying with me.


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And, when we were all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? <n>[it is]</n> hard for thee to kick against goads.


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but rise up and stand on thy feet; for, for this purpose have I appeared to thee, to appoint thee to be a servant and a witness both of what thou hast seen, and of what I shall appear to thee in,


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to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith in me.


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but have, first to those both in Damascus and Jerusalem, and to all the region of Judaea, and to the nations, announced that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.


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On account of these things the Jews, having seized me in the temple, attempted to lay hands on and destroy me.


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Having therefore met with <n>[the]</n> help which is from God, I have stood firm unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying nothing else than those things which both the prophets and Moses have said should happen,


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<n>[namely,]</n> whether Christ should suffer; whether he first, through resurrection of <n>[the]</n> dead, should announce light both to the people and to the nations.


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And as he answered for his defence with these things, Festus says with a loud voice, Thou art mad, Paul; much learning turns thee to madness.


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for the king is informed about these things, to whom also I speak with all freedom. For I am persuaded that of these things nothing is hidden from him; for this was not done in a corner.


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And Paul <n>[said]</n>, I would to God, both in little and in much, that not only thou, but all who have heard me this day, should become such as *I* also am, except these bonds.


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and having gone apart, they spoke to one another saying, This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds.


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But when it had been determined that we should sail to Italy, they delivered up Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion, by name Julius, of Augustus' company.


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And going on board a ship of Adramyttium about to navigate by the places along Asia, we set sail, Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us.


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And the next day we arrived at Sidon. And Julius treated Paul kindly and suffered him to go to his friends and refresh himself.


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and there the centurion having found a ship of Alexandria sailing to Italy, he made us go on board her.


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And sailing slowly for many days, and having with difficulty got abreast of Cnidus, the wind not suffering us, we sailed under the lee of Crete abreast of Salmone;


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and coasting it with difficulty we came to a certain place called Fair Havens, near to which was <n>[the]</n> city of Lasaea.


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And much time having now been spent, and navigation being already dangerous, because the fast also was already past, Paul counselled them,


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saying, Men, I perceive that the navigation will be with disaster and much loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives.


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And the harbour being ill adapted to winter in, the most counselled to set sail thence, if perhaps they might reach Phoenice to winter in, a port of Crete looking north-east and south-east.


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And <n>[the]</n> south wind blowing gently, supposing that they had gained their object, having weighed anchor they sailed close in shore along Crete.


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And the ship being caught and driven, and not able to bring her head to the wind, letting her go we were driven <n>[before it]</n>.


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But running under the lee of a certain island called Clauda, we were with difficulty able to make ourselves masters of the boat;


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which having hoisted up, they used helps, frapping the ship; and fearing lest they should run into Syrtis and run aground, and having lowered the gear they were so driven.


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And neither sun nor stars appearing for many days, and no small storm lying on us, in the end all hope of our being saved was taken away.


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And when they had been a long while without taking food, Paul then standing up in the midst of them said, Ye ought, O men, to have hearkened to me, and not have made sail from Crete and have gained this disaster and loss.


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saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must stand before Caesar; and behold, God has granted to thee all those that sail with thee.


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And when the fourteenth night was come, we being driven about in Adria, towards the middle of the night the sailors supposed that some land neared them,


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and having sounded found twenty fathoms, and having gone a little farther and having again sounded they found fifteen fathoms;


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and fearing lest we should be cast on rocky places, casting four anchors out of the stern, they wished that day were come.


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But the sailors wishing to flee out of the ship, and having let down the boat into the sea under pretext of being about to carry out anchors from the prow,


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And while it was drawing on to daylight, Paul exhorted them all to partake of food, saying, Ye have passed the fourteenth day watching in expectation without taking food.


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Wherefore I exhort you to partake of food, for this has to do with your safety; for not a hair from the head of any one of you shall perish.


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And, having said these things and taken a loaf, he gave thanks to God before all, and having broken it began to eat.


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And having satisfied themselves with food, they lightened the ship, casting out the wheat into the sea.


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And when it was day they did not recognise the land; but they perceived a certain bay having a strand, on which they were minded, if they should be able, to run the ship ashore;


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and, having cast off the anchors, they left <n>[them]</n> in the sea, at the same time loosening the lashings of the rudders, and hoisting the foresail to the wind, they made for the strand.


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And falling into a place where two seas met they ran the ship aground, and the prow having stuck itself fast remained unmoved, but the stern was broken by the force of the waves.


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And <n>[the]</n> counsel of the soldiers was that they should kill the prisoners, lest any one should swim off and escape.


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But the centurion, desirous of saving Paul, hindered them of their purpose, and commanded those who were able to swim, casting themselves first <n>[into the sea]</n>, to get out on land;


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and the rest, some on boards, some on some of the things <n>[that came]</n> from the ship; and thus it came to pass that all got safe to land.


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But the barbarians shewed us no common kindness; for, having kindled a fire, they took us all in because of the rain that was falling and because of the cold.


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And Paul having gathered a <n>[certain]</n> quantity of sticks together in a bundle and laid <n>[it]</n> on the fire, a viper coming out from the heat seized his hand.


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And when the barbarians saw the beast hanging from his hand, they said to one another, This man is certainly a murderer, whom, <n>[though]</n> saved out of the sea, Nemesis has not allowed to live.


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But *they* expected that he would have swollen or fallen down suddenly dead. But when they had expected a long time and saw nothing unusual happen to him, changing their opinion, they said he was a god.


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And it happened that the father of Publius lay ill of fever and dysentery; to whom Paul entered in, and having prayed and laid his hands on him cured him.


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who also honoured us with many honours, and on our leaving they made presents to us of what should minister to our wants.


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And after three months we sailed in a ship which had wintered in the island, an Alexandrian, with <n>[the]</n> Dioscuri for its ensign.


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Whence, going in a circuitous course, we arrived at Rhegium; and after one day, the wind having changed to south, on the second day we came to Puteoli,


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where, having found brethren, we were begged to stay with them seven days. And thus we went to Rome.


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And thence the brethren, having heard about us, came to meet us as far as Appii Forum and Tres Tabernae, whom when Paul saw, he thanked God and took courage.


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And when we came to Rome, <n>[the centurion delivered up the prisoners to the praetorian prefect, but]</n> Paul was allowed to remain by himself with the soldier who kept him.


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And it came to pass after three days, that he called together those who were the chief of the Jews; and when they had come together he said to them, Brethren, *I* having done nothing against the people or the customs of our forefathers, have been delivered a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,


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For this cause therefore I have called you to <n>[me]</n> to see and to speak to you; for on account of the hope of Israel I have this chain about me.


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And they said to him, For our part, we have neither received letters from Judaea concerning thee, nor has any one of the brethren who has arrived reported or said anything evil concerning thee.


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But we beg to hear of thee what thou thinkest, for as concerning this sect it is known to us that it is everywhere spoken against.


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And having appointed him a day many came to him to the lodging, to whom he expounded, testifying of the kingdom of God, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and the prophets, from early morning to evening.


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And being disagreed among themselves they left; Paul having spoken one word, Well spoke the Holy Spirit through Esaias the prophet to our fathers,


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saying, Go to this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear and not understand, and seeing ye shall see and not perceive.


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For the heart of this people has become fat, and they hear heavily with their ears, and they have closed their eyes; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.


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Be it known to you therefore, that this salvation of God has been sent to the nations; *they* also will hear <n>[it]</n>.


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preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ, with all freedom unhinderedly.


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marked out Son of God in power, according to <n>[the]</n> Spirit of holiness, by resurrection of <n>[the]</n> dead) Jesus Christ our Lord;


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by whom we have received grace and apostleship in behalf of his name, for obedience of faith among all the nations,


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to all that are in Rome, beloved of God, called saints Grace to you and peace from God our Father and <n>[our]</n> Lord Jesus Christ.


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First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is proclaimed in the whole world.


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For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the glad tidings of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you,


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always beseeching at my prayers, if any way now at least I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.


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that is, to have mutual comfort among you, each by the faith <n>[which is]</n> in the other, both yours and mine.


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But I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that I often proposed to come to you, (and have been hindered until the present time,) that I might have some fruit among you too, even as among the other nations also.


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so, as far as depends on me, am I ready to announce the glad tidings to you also who <n>[are]</n> in Rome.


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For I am not ashamed of the glad tidings; for it is God's power to salvation, to every one that believes, both to Jew first and to Greek


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for righteousness of God is revealed therein, on the principle of faith, to faith according as it is written, But the just shall live by faith.


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For there is revealed wrath of God from heaven upon all impiety, and unrighteousness of men holding the truth in unrighteousness.


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-- for from <n>[the]</n> world's creation the invisible things of him are perceived, being apprehended by the mind through the things that are made, both his eternal power and divinity, -- so as to render them inexcusable.


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Because, knowing God, they glorified <n>[him]</n> not as God, neither were thankful; but fell into folly in their thoughts, and their heart without understanding was darkened


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and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into <n>[the]</n> likeness of an image of corruptible man and of birds and quadrupeds and reptiles.


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Wherefore God gave them up <n>[also]</n> in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies between themselves


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who changed the truth of God into falsehood, and honoured and served the creature more than him who had created <n>[it]</n>, who is blessed for ever. Amen.


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For this reason God gave them up to vile lusts; for both their females changed the natural use into that contrary to nature;


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and in like manner the males also, leaving the natural use of the female, were inflamed in their lust towards one another; males with males working shame, and receiving in themselves the recompense of their error which was fit.


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And according as they did not think good to have God in <n>[their]</n> knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind to practise unseemly things;


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being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers,


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back-biters, hateful to God, insolent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,


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who knowing the righteous judgment of God, that they who do such things are worthy of death, not only practise them, but have fellow delight in those who do <n>[them]</n>.


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Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, every one who judgest, for in that in which thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.


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And thinkest thou this, O man, who judgest those that do such things, and practisest them <n>[thyself]</n>, that *thou* shalt escape the judgment of God?


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or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads thee to repentance?


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but, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, treasurest up to thyself wrath, in <n>[the]</n> day of wrath and revelation of <n>[the]</n> righteous judgment of God,


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to them who, in patient continuance of good works, seek for glory and honour and incorruptibility, life eternal.


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But to those that are contentious, and are disobedient to the truth, but obey unrighteousness, <n>[there shall be]</n> wrath and indignation,


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For as many as have sinned without law shall perish also without law; and as many as have sinned under law shall be judged by law,


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(for not the hearers of the law <n>[are]</n> just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.


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For when <n>[those of the]</n> nations, which have no law, practise by nature the things of the law, these, having no law, are a law to themselves;


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who shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts accusing or else excusing themselves between themselves;)


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in <n>[the]</n> day when God shall judge the secrets of men, according to my glad tidings, by Jesus Christ.


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and knowest the will, and discerningly approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;


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and hast confidence that thou thyself art a leader of the blind, a light of those who <n>[are]</n> in darkness,


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an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of knowledge and of truth in the law


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thou then that teachest another, dost thou not teach thyself? thou that preachest not to steal, dost thou steal?


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thou that sayest <n>[man should]</n> not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?


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For circumcision indeed profits if thou keep <n>[the]</n> law; but if thou be a law-transgressor, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision.


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If therefore the uncircumcision keep the requirements of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned for circumcision,


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and uncircumcision by nature, fulfilling the law, judge thee, who, with letter and circumcision, <n>[art]</n> a law-transgressor?


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For he is not a Jew who <n>[is]</n> one outwardly, neither that circumcision which is outward in flesh;


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but he <n>[is]</n> a Jew <n>[who is so]</n> inwardly; and circumcision, of the heart, in spirit, not in letter; whose praise <n>[is]</n> not of men, but of God.


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Far be the thought but let God be true, and every man false; according as it is written, So that thou shouldest be justified in thy words, and shouldest overcome when thou art in judgment.


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But if our unrighteousness commend God's righteousness, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak according to man.


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For if the truth of God, in my lie, has more abounded to his glory, why yet am *I* also judged as a sinner?


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and not, according as we are injuriously charged, and according as some affirm that we say, Let us practise evil things, that good ones may come? whose judgment is just.


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What then? are we better? No, in no wise for we have before charged both Jews and Greeks with being all under sin


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All have gone out of the way, they have together become unprofitable; there is not one that practises goodness, there is not so much as one


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their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; asps' poison <n>[is]</n> under their lips


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Now we know that whatever the things the law says, it speaks to those under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world be under judgment to God.


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Wherefore by works of law no flesh shall be justified before him; for by law <n>[is]</n> knowledge of sin.


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But now without law righteousness of God is manifested, borne witness to by the law and the prophets;


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righteousness of God by faith of Jesus Christ towards all, and upon all those who believe for there is no difference;


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whom God has set forth a mercy-seat, through faith in his blood, for <n>[the]</n> shewing forth of his righteousness, in respect of the passing by the sins that had taken place before, through the forbearance of God;


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for <n>[the]</n> shewing forth of his righteousness in the present time, so that he should be just, and justify him that is of <n>[the]</n> faith of Jesus.


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Where then <n>[is]</n> boasting? It has been excluded. By what law? of works? Nay, but by law of faith;


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since indeed <n>[it is]</n> one God who shall justify <n>[the]</n> circumcision on the principle of faith, and uncircumcision by faith.


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For if Abraham has been justified on the principle of works, he has whereof to boast but not before God;


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for what does the scripture say? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.


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but to him who does not work, but believes on him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is reckoned as righteousness.


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Even as David also declares the blessedness of the man to whom God reckons righteousness without works


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<n>[Does]</n> this blessedness then <n>[rest]</n> on the circumcision, or also on the uncircumcision? For we say that faith has been reckoned to Abraham as righteousness.


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How then has it been reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.


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And he received <n>[the]</n> sign of circumcision <n>[as]</n> seal of the righteousness of faith which <n>[he had]</n> being in uncircumcision, that he might be <n>[the]</n> father of all them that believe being in uncircumcision, that righteousness might be reckoned to them also;


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and father of circumcision, not only to those who are of <n>[the]</n> circumcision, but to those also who walk in the steps of the faith, during uncircumcision, of our father Abraham.


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For <n>[it was]</n> not by law that the promise was to Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be heir of <n>[the]</n> world, but by righteousness of faith.


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For if they which <n>[are]</n> of law be heirs, faith is made vain, and the promise made of no effect.


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Therefore <n>[it is]</n> on the principle of faith, that <n>[it might be]</n> according to grace, in order to the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that only which <n>[is]</n> of the law, but to that also which <n>[is]</n> of Abraham's faith, who is father of us all,


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(according as it is written, I have made thee father of many nations,) before the God whom he believed, who quickens the dead, and calls the things which be not as being;


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who against hope believed in hope to his becoming father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be


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and not being weak in faith, he considered not his own body already become dead, being about a hundred years old, and the deadening of Sarah's womb,


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and hesitated not at the promise of God through unbelief; but found strength in faith, giving glory to God;


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but on ours also, to whom, believing on him who has raised from among <n>[the]</n> dead Jesus our Lord,


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who has been delivered for our offences and has been raised for our justification, it will be reckoned.


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Therefore having been justified on the principle of faith, we have peace towards God through our Lord Jesus Christ;


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by whom we have also access by faith into this favour in which we stand, and we boast in hope of the glory of God.


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And not only <n>[that]</n>, but we also boast in tribulations, knowing that tribulation works endurance;


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and hope does not make ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by <n>[the]</n> Holy Spirit which has been given to us


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for we being still without strength, in <n>[the]</n> due time Christ has died for <n>[the]</n> ungodly.


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For scarcely for <n>[the]</n> just <n>[man]</n> will one die, for perhaps for <n>[the]</n> good <n>[man]</n> some one might also dare to die;


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Much rather therefore, having been now justified in <n>[the power of]</n> his blood, we shall be saved by him from wrath.


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For if, being enemies, we have been reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much rather, having been reconciled, we shall be saved in <n>[the power of]</n> his life.


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And not only <n>[that]</n>, but <n>[we are]</n> making our boast in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom now we have received the reconciliation.


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For this <n>[cause]</n>, even as by one man sin entered into the world, and by sin death; and thus death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned


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but death reigned from Adam until Moses, even upon those who had not sinned in the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is <n>[the]</n> figure of him to come.


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But <n>[shall]</n> not the act of favour <n>[be]</n> as the offence? For if by the offence of one the many have died, much rather has the grace of God, and the free gift in grace, which <n>[is]</n> by the one man Jesus Christ, abounded unto the many.


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And <n>[shall]</n> not as by one that has sinned <n>[be]</n> the gift? For the judgment <n>[was]</n> of one to condemnation, but the act of favour, of many offences unto justification.


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For if by the offence of the one death reigned by the one, much rather shall those who receive the abundance of grace, and of the free gift of righteousness, reign in life by the one Jesus Christ)


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so then as <n>[it was]</n> by one offence towards all men to condemnation, so by one righteousness towards all men for justification of life.


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For as indeed by the disobedience of the one man the many have been constituted sinners, so also by the obedience of the one the many will be constituted righteous.


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But law came in, in order that the offence might abound; but where sin abounded grace has overabounded,


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in order that, even as sin has reigned in <n>[the power of]</n> death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.


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Are you ignorant that we, as many as have been baptised unto Christ Jesus, have been baptised unto his death?


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We have been buried therefore with him by baptism unto death, in order that, even as Christ has been raised up from among <n>[the]</n> dead by the glory of the Father, so *we* also should walk in newness of life.


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For if we are become identified with <n>[him]</n> in the likeness of his death, so also we shall be of <n>[his]</n> resurrection;


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knowing this, that our old man has been crucified with <n>[him]</n>, that the body of sin might be annulled, that we should no longer serve sin.


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knowing that Christ having been raised up from among <n>[the]</n> dead dies no more death has dominion over him no more.


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Neither yield your members instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but yield yourselves to God as alive from among <n>[the]</n> dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God.


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Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves bondmen for obedience, ye are bondmen to him whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?


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But thanks <n>[be]</n> to God, that ye were bondmen of sin, but have obeyed from the heart the form of teaching into which ye were instructed.


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I speak humanly on account of the weakness of your flesh. For even as ye have yielded your members in bondage to uncleanness and to lawlessness unto lawlessness, so now yield your members in bondage to righteousness unto holiness.


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What fruit therefore had ye *then* in the things of which ye are *now* ashamed? for the end of *them* <n>[is]</n> death.


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But *now*, having got your freedom from sin, and having become bondmen to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end eternal life.


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For the wages of sin <n>[is]</n> death; but the act of favour of God, eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.


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Are ye ignorant, brethren, (for I speak to those knowing law,) that law rules over a man as long as he lives?


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For the married woman is bound by law to her husband so long as he is alive; but if the husband should die, she is clear from the law of the husband


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so then, the husband being alive, she shall be called an adulteress if she be to another man; but if the husband should die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, though she be to another man.


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So that, my brethren, *ye* also have been made dead to the law by the body of the Christ, to be to another, who has been raised up from among <n>[the]</n> dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.


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For when we were in the flesh the passions of sins, which <n>[were]</n> by the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit to death;


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but now we are clear from the law, having died in that in which we were held, so that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter.


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What shall we say then? <n>[is]</n> the law sin? Far be the thought. But I had not known sin, unless by law for I had not had conscience also of lust unless the law had said, Thou shalt not lust;


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but sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, wrought in me every lust; for without law sin <n>[was]</n> dead.


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And the commandment, which <n>[was]</n> for life, was found, <n>[as]</n> to me, itself <n>[to be]</n> unto death


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Did then that which is good become death to me? Far be the thought. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death to me by that which is good; in order that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.


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For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, good does not dwell for to will is there with me, but to do right <n>[I find]</n> not.


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But if what *I* do not will, this I practise, <n>[it is]</n> no longer *I* <n>[that]</n> do it, but the sin that dwells in me.


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but I see another law in my members, warring in opposition to the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which exists in my members.


