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for there shall be then great tribulation, such as was not from the beginning of the world till now, no, nor may be.


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And if those days were not shortened, no flesh would have been saved; but because of the chosen, shall those days be shortened.


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for there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and they shall give great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, also the chosen.


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`If therefore they may say to you, Lo, in the wilderness he is, ye may not go forth; lo, in the inner chambers, ye may not believe;


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for as the lightning doth come forth from the east, and doth appear unto the west, so shall be also the presence of the Son of Man;


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`And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from the heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken;


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and then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in the heaven; and then shall all the tribes of the earth smite the breast, and they shall see the Son of Man coming upon the clouds of the heaven, with power and much glory;


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and he shall send his messengers with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his chosen from the four winds, from the ends of the heavens unto the ends thereof.


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`And from the fig-tree learn ye the simile: When already its branch may have become tender, and the leaves it may put forth, ye know that summer [is] nigh,


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`And concerning that day and the hour no one hath known -- not even the messengers of the heavens -- except my Father only;


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for as they were, in the days before the flood, eating, and drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage, till the day Noah entered into the ark,


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and they did not know till the flood came and took all away; so shall be also the presence of the Son of Man.


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and this know, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief doth come, he had watched, and not suffered his house to be broken through;


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because of this also ye, become ye ready, because in what hour ye do not think, the Son of Man doth come.


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`Who, then, is the servant, faithful and wise, whom his lord did set over his household, to give them the nourishment in season?


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the lord of that servant will arrive in a day when he doth not expect, and in an hour of which he doth not know,


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and will cut him off, and his portion with the hypocrites will appoint; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.


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`Then shall the reign of the heavens be likened to ten virgins, who, having taken their lamps, went forth to meet the bridegroom;


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and in the middle of the night a cry was made, Lo, the bridegroom doth come; go ye forth to meet him.


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and the prudent answered, saying -- Lest there may not be sufficient for us and you, go ye rather unto those selling, and buy for yourselves.


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`And while they are going away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those ready went in with him to the marriage-feasts, and the door was shut;


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and to one he gave five talents, and to another two, and to another one, to each according to his several ability, went abroad immediately.


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`And he who did receive the five talents, having gone, wrought with them, and made other five talents;


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and he who did receive the five talents having come, brought other five talents, saying, `Sir, five talents thou didst deliver to me; lo, other five talents did I gain besides them.


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`And his lord said to him, Well done, servant, good and faithful, over a few things thou wast faithful, over many things I will set thee; enter into the joy of thy lord.


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`And he who also did receive the two talents having come, said, Sir, two talents thou didst deliver to me; lo, other two talents I did gain besides them.


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


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`And he also who hath received the one talent having come, said, Sir, I knew thee, that thou art a hard man, reaping where thou didst not sow, and gathering from whence thou didst not scatter;


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`And his lord answering said to him, Evil servant, and slothful, thou hadst known that I reap where I did not sow, and I gather whence I did not scatter!


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it behoved thee then to put my money to the money-lenders, and having come I had received mine own with increase.


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for to every one having shall be given, and he shall have overabundance, and from him who is not having, even that which he hath shall be taken from him;


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and the unprofitable servant cast ye forth to the outer darkness; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.


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`And whenever the Son of Man may come in his glory, and all the holy messengers with him, then he shall sit upon a throne of his glory;


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


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`Then shall the king say to those on his right hand, Come ye, the blessed of my Father, inherit the reign that hath been prepared for you from the foundation of the world;


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for I did hunger, and ye gave me to eat; I did thirst, and ye gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and ye received me;


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naked, and ye put around me; I was infirm, and ye looked after me; in prison I was, and ye came unto me.


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


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`And the king answering, shall say to them, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did [it] to one of these my brethren -- the least -- to me ye did [it].


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Then shall he say also to those on the left hand, Go ye from me, the cursed, to the fire, the age-during, that hath been prepared for the Devil and his messengers;


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a stranger I was, and ye did not receive me; naked, and ye put not around me; infirm, and in prison, and ye did not look after me.


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`Then shall they answer, they also, saying, Lord, when did we see thee hungering, or thirsting, or a stranger, or naked, or infirm, or in prison, and we did not minister to thee?


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`Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did [it] not to one of these, the least, ye did [it] not to me.


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`Ye have known that after two days the passover cometh, and the Son of Man is delivered up to be crucified.`


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Then were gathered together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, to the court of the chief priest who was called Caiaphas;


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there came to him a woman having an alabaster box of ointment, very precious, and she poured on his head as he is reclining (at meat).


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And Jesus having known, said to them, `Why do ye give trouble to the woman? for a good work she wrought for me;


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Verily I say to you, Wherever this good news may be proclaimed in the whole world, what this [one] did shall also be spoken of -- for a memorial of her.`


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`What are ye willing to give me, and I will deliver him up to you?` and they weighed out to him thirty silverlings,


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And on the first [day] of the unleavened food came the disciples near to Jesus, saying to him, `Where wilt thou [that] we may prepare for thee to eat the passover?`


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and he said, `Go away to the city, unto such a one, and say to him, The Teacher saith, My time is nigh; near thee I keep the passover, with my disciples;`


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the Son of Man doth indeed go, as it hath been written concerning him, but wo to that man through whom the Son of Man is delivered up! good it were for him if that man had not been born.`


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And Judas -- he who delivered him up -- answering said, `Is it I, Rabbi?` He saith to him, `Thou hast said.`


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And while they were eating, Jesus having taken the bread, and having blessed, did brake, and was giving to the disciples, and said, `Take, eat, this is my body;`


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for this is my blood of the new covenant, that for many is being poured out -- to remission of sins;


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and I say to you, that I may not drink henceforth on this produce of the vine, till that day when I may drink it with you new in the reign of my Father.`


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then saith Jesus to them, `All ye shall be stumbled at me this night; for it hath been 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, this night, before cock-crowing, thrice thou wilt deny me.`


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Peter saith to him, `Even if it may be necessary for me to die with thee, I will not deny thee;` in like manner also said all the disciples.


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Then come with them doth Jesus to a place called Gethsemane, and he saith to the disciples, `Sit ye here, till having gone away, I shall pray yonder.`


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And having taken Peter, and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful, and to be very heavy;


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then saith he to them, `Exceedingly sorrowful is my soul -- unto death; abide ye here, and watch with me.`


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And having gone forward a little, he fell on his face, praying, and saying, `My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as Thou.`


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And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them sleeping, and he saith to Peter, `So! ye were not able one hour to watch with me!


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watch, and pray, that ye may not enter into temptation: the spirit indeed is forward, but the flesh weak.`


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Again, a second time, having gone away, he prayed, saying, `My Father, if this cup cannot pass away from me except I drink it, Thy will be done;`


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then cometh he unto his disciples, and saith to them, `Sleep on henceforth, and rest! lo, the hour hath come nigh, and the Son of Man is delivered up to the hands of sinners.


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And while he is yet speaking, lo, Judas, one of the twelve did come, and with him a great multitude, with swords and sticks, from the chief priests and elders of the people.


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And he who did deliver him up did give them a sign, saying, `Whomsoever I will kiss, it is he: lay hold on him;`


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and Jesus said to him, `Comrade, for what art thou present?` Then having come near, they laid hands on Jesus, and took hold on him.


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And lo, one of those with Jesus, having stretched forth the hand, drew his sword, and having struck the servant of the chief priest, he took off his ear.


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Then saith Jesus to him, `Turn back thy sword to its place; for all who did take the sword, by the sword shall perish;


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dost thou think that I am not able now to call upon my Father, and He will place beside me more than twelve legions of messengers?


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In that hour said Jesus to the multitudes, `As against a robber ye did come forth, with swords and sticks, to take me! daily with you I was sitting teaching in the temple, and ye did not lay hold on me;


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but all this hath come to pass, that the Writings of the prophets may be fulfilled;` then all the disciples, having left him, fled.


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And those laying hold on Jesus led [him] away unto Caiaphas the chief priest, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together,


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and Peter was following him afar off, unto the court of the chief priest, and having gone in within, he was sitting with the officers, to see the end.


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And the chief priests, and the elders, and all the council, were seeking false witness against Jesus, that they might put him to death,


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and they did not find; and many false witnesses having come near, they did not find; and at last two false witnesses having come near,


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said, `This one said, I am able to throw down the sanctuary of God, and after three days to build it.`


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And the chief priest having stood up, said to him, `Nothing thou dost answer! what do these witness against thee?


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and Jesus was silent. And the chief priest answering said to him, `I adjure thee, by the living God, that thou mayest say to us, if thou art the Christ -- the Son of God.`


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Jesus saith to him, `Thou hast said; nevertheless I say to you, hereafter ye shall see the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of the power, and coming upon the clouds, of the heaven.`


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Then the chief priest rent his garments, saying, -- `He hath spoken evil; what need have we yet of witnesses? lo, now ye heard his evil speaking;


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And Peter without was sitting in the court, and there came near to him a certain maid, saying, `And thou wast with Jesus of Galilee!`


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And he having gone forth to the porch, another female saw him, and saith to those there, `And this one was with Jesus of Nazareth;`


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And after a little those standing near having come, said to Peter, `Truly thou also art of them, for even thy speech doth make thee manifest.`


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Then began he to anathematise, and to swear -- `I have not known the man;` and immediately did a cock crow,


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and Peter remembered the saying of Jesus, he having said to him -- `Before cock-crowing, thrice thou wilt deny me;` and having gone without, he did weep bitterly.


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And morning having come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, so as to put him to death;


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Then Judas -- he who delivered him up -- having seen that he was condemned, having repented, brought back the thirty silverlings to the chief priests, and to the elders, saying,


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and having cast down the silverlings in the sanctuary, he departed, and having gone away, he did strangle himself.


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And the chief priests having taken the silverlings, said, `It is not lawful to put them to the treasury, seeing it is the price of blood;`


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and having taken counsel, they bought with them the field of the potter, for the burial of strangers;


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Then was fulfilled that spoken through Jeremiah the prophet, saying, `And I took the thirty silverlings, the price of him who hath been priced, whom they of the sons of Israel did price,


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And Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor did question him, saying, `Art thou the king of the Jews!` And Jesus said to him, `Thou sayest.`


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And at the feast the governor had been accustomed to release one to the multitude, a prisoner, whom they willed,


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they therefore having been gathered together, Pilate said to them, `Whom will ye I shall release to you? Barabbas or Jesus who is called Christ?`


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And as he is sitting on the tribunal, his wife sent unto him, saying, `Nothing -- to thee and to that righteous one, for many things did I suffer to-day in a dream because of him.`


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And the chief priests and the elders did persuade the multitudes that they might ask for themselves Barabbas, and might destroy Jesus;


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and the governor answering said to them, `Which of the two will ye [that] I shall release to you?` And they said, `Barabbas.`


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


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And the governor said, `Why, what evil did he?` and they were crying out the more, saying, `Let be crucified.`


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And Pilate having seen that it profiteth nothing, but rather a tumult is made, having taken water, he did wash the hands before the multitude, saying, `I am innocent from the blood of this righteous one; ye -- ye shall see;`


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Then did he release to them Barabbas, and having scourged Jesus, he delivered [him] up that he may be crucified;


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then the soldiers of the governor having taken Jesus to the Praetorium, did gather to him all the band;


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and having plaited him a crown out of thorns they put [it] on his head, and a reed in his right hand, and having kneeled before him, they were mocking him, saying, `Hail, the king of the Jews.`


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and when they had mocked him, they took off from him the cloak, and put on him his own garments, and led him away to crucify [him].


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And coming forth, they found a man, a Cyrenian, by name Simon: him they impressed that he might bear his cross;


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And having crucified him, they divided his garments, casting a lot, that it might be fulfilled that was spoken by the prophet, `They divided my garments to themselves, and over my vesture they cast a lot;`


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and saying, `Thou that art throwing down the sanctuary, and in three days building [it], save thyself; if Son thou art of God, come down from the cross.`


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`Others he saved; himself he is not able to save! If he be King of Israel, let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe him;


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he hath trusted on God, let Him now deliver him, if He wish him, because he said -- Son of God I am;`


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and about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a great voice, saying, `Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?` that is, `My God, my God, why didst Thou forsake me?`


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and immediately, one of them having run, and having taken a spunge, having filled [it] with vinegar, and having put [it] on a reed, was giving him to drink,


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and lo, the vail of the sanctuary was rent in two from top unto bottom, and the earth did quake, and the rocks were rent,


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and having come forth out of the tombs after his rising, they went into the holy city, and appeared to many.


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And the centurion, and those with him watching Jesus, having seen the earthquake, and the things that were done, were exceedingly afraid, saying, `Truly this was God`s Son.`


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And there were there many women beholding from afar, who did follow Jesus from Galilee, ministering to him,


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


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And evening having come, there came a rich man, from Arimathea, named Joseph, who also himself was discipled to Jesus,


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he having gone near to Pilate, asked for himself the body of Jesus; then Pilate commanded the body to be given back.


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and laid it in his new tomb, that he hewed in the rock, and having rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, he went away;


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And on the morrow that is after the preparation, were gathered together the chief priests, and the Pharisees, unto Pilate,


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saying, `Sir, we have remembered that that deceiver said while yet living, After three days I do rise;


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command, then, the sepulchre to be made secure till the third day, lest his disciples, having come by night, may steal him away, and may say to the people, He rose from the dead, and the last deceit shall be worse than the first.`


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and they, having gone, did make the sepulchre secure, having sealed the stone, together with the watch.


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And on the eve of the sabbaths, at the dawn, toward the first of the sabbaths, came Mary the Magdalene, and the other Mary, to see the sepulchre,


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and lo, there came a great earthquake, for a messenger of the Lord, having come down out of heaven, having come, did roll away the stone from the door, and was sitting upon it,


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And the messenger answering said to the women, `Fear not ye, for I have known that Jesus, who hath been crucified, ye seek;


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and having gone quickly, say ye to his disciples, that he rose from the dead; and lo, he doth go before you to Galilee, there ye shall see him; lo, I have told you.`


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And having gone forth quickly from the tomb, with fear and great joy, they ran to tell to his disciples;


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and as they were going to tell to his disciples, then lo, Jesus met them, saying, `Hail!` and they having come near, laid hold of his feet, and did bow to him.


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Then saith Jesus to them, `Fear ye not, go away, tell to my brethren that they may go away to Galilee, and there they shall see me.`


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And while they are going on, lo, certain of the watch having come to the city, told to the chief priests all the things that happened,


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and having been gathered together with the elders, counsel also having taken, they gave much money to the soldiers,


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And they, having received the money, did as they were taught, and this account was spread abroad among Jews till this day.


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And having come near, Jesus spake to them, saying, `Given to me was all authority in heaven and on earth;


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having gone, then, disciple all the nations, (baptizing 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, whatever I did command you,) and lo, I am with you all the days -- till the full end of the age.`


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As it hath been written in the prophets, `Lo, I send My messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee,` --


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`A voice of one calling in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, straight make ye his paths,` --


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John came baptizing in the wilderness, and proclaiming a baptism of reformation -- to remission of sins,


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and there were going forth to him all the region of Judea, and they of Jerusalem, and they were all baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.


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And John was clothed with camel`s hair, and a girdle of skin around his loins, and eating locusts and honey of the field,


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and he proclaimed, saying, `He doth come -- who is mightier than I -- after me, of whom I am not worthy -- having stooped down -- to loose the latchet of his sandals;


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And it came to pass in those days, Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized by John at the Jordan;


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and immediately coming up from the water, he saw the heavens dividing, and the Spirit as a dove coming down upon him;


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and he was there in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by the Adversary, and he was with the beasts, and the messengers were ministering to him.


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And after the delivering up of John, Jesus came to Galilee, proclaiming the good news of the reign of God,


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and saying -- `Fulfilled hath been the time, and the reign of God hath come nigh, reform ye, and believe in the good news.`


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And, walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon, and Andrew his brother, casting a drag into the sea, for they were fishers,


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And having gone on thence a little, he saw James of Zebedee, and John his brother, and they were in the boat refitting the nets,


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and immediately he called them, and, having left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired servants, they went away after him.


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And they go on to Capernaum, and immediately, on the sabbaths, having gone into the synagogue, he was teaching,


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and they were astonished at his teaching, for he was teaching them as having authority, and not as the scribes.


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saying, `Away! what -- to us and to thee, Jesus the Nazarene? thou didst come to destroy us; I have known thee who thou art -- the Holy One of God.`


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and they were all amazed, so as to reason among themselves, saying, `What is this? what new teaching [is] this? that with authority also the unclean spirits he commandeth, and they obey him!`


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And immediately, having come forth out of the synagogue, they went to the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John,


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and having come near, he raised her up, having laid hold of her hand, and the fever left her immediately, and she was ministering to them.


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And evening having come, when the sun did set, they brought unto him all who were ill, and who were demoniacs,


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and he healed many who were ill of manifold diseases, and many demons he cast forth, and was not suffering the demons to speak, because they knew him.


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And very early, it being yet night, having risen, he went forth, and went away to a desert place, and was there praying;


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and he saith to them, `We may go to the next towns, that there also I may preach, for for this I came forth.`


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and there doth come to him a leper, calling on him, and kneeling to him, and saying to him -- `If thou mayest will, thou art able to cleanse me.`


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And Jesus having been moved with compassion, having stretched forth the hand, touched him, and saith to him, `I will; be thou cleansed;`


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and saith to him, `See thou mayest say nothing to any one, but go away, thyself shew to the priest, and bring near for thy cleansing the things Moses directed, for a testimony to them.`


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And he, having gone forth, began to proclaim much, and to spread abroad the thing, so that no more he was able openly to enter into the city, but he was without in desert places, and they were coming unto him from every quarter.


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and immediately many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even at the door, and he was speaking to them the word.


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and not being able to come near to him because of the multitude, they uncovered the roof where he was, and, having broken [it] up, they let down the couch on which the paralytic was lying,


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and Jesus having seen their faith, saith to the paralytic, `Child, thy sins have been forgiven thee.`


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And immediately Jesus, having known in his spirit that they thus reason in themselves, said to them, `Why these things reason ye in your hearts?


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which is easier, to say to the paralytic, The sins have been forgiven to thee? or to say, Rise, and take up thy couch, and walk?


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`And, that ye may know that the Son of Man hath authority on the earth to forgive sins -- (he saith to the paralytic) --


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and he rose immediately, and having taken up the couch, he went forth before all, so that all were astonished, and do glorify God, saying -- `Never thus did we see.`


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And he went forth again by the sea, and all the multitude was coming unto him, and he was teaching them,


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and passing by, he saw Levi of Alpheus sitting at the tax-office, and saith to him, `Be following me,` and he, having risen, did follow him.


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And it came to pass, in his reclining (at meat) in his house, that many tax-gatherers and sinners were reclining (at meat) with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many, and they followed him.


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And the scribes and the Pharisees, having seen him eating with the tax-gatherers and sinners, said to his disciples, `Why -- that with the tax-gatherers and sinners he doth eat and drink?`


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And Jesus, having heard, saith to them, `They who are strong have no need of a physician, but they who are ill; I came not to call righteous men, but sinners to reformation.`


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And the disciples of John and those of the Pharisees were fasting, and they come and say to him, `Wherefore do the disciples of John and those of the Pharisees fast, and thy disciples do not fast?`


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And Jesus said to them, `Are the sons of the bride-chamber able, while the bridegroom is with them, to fast? so long time as they have the bridegroom with them they are not able to fast;


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but days shall come when the bridegroom may be taken from them, and then they shall fast -- in those days.


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`And no one a patch of undressed cloth doth sew on an old garment, and if not -- the new filling it up doth take from the old and the rent doth become worse;


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and no one doth put new wine into old skins, and if not -- the new wine doth burst the skins, and the wine is poured out, and the skins will be destroyed; but new wine into new skins is to be put.`


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And it came to pass -- he is going along on the sabbaths through the corn-fields -- and his disciples began to make a way, plucking the ears,


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And he said to them, `Did ye never read what David did, when he had need and was hungry, he and those with him?


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how he went into the house of God, (at `Abiathar the chief priest,`) and the loaves of the presentation did eat, which it is not lawful to eat, except to the priests, and he gave also to those who were with him?`


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And he saith to them, `Is it lawful on the sabbaths to do good, or to do evil? life to save, or to kill?` but they were silent.


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And having looked round upon them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their heart, he saith to the man, `Stretch forth thy hand;` and he stretched forth, and his hand was restored whole as the other;


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and the Pharisees having gone forth, immediately, with the Herodians, were taking counsel against him how they might destroy him.


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And Jesus withdrew with his disciples unto the sea, and a great multitude from Galilee followed him, and from Judea,


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and from Jerusalem, and from Idumea and beyond the Jordan; and they about Tyre and Sidon -- a great multitude -- having heard how great things he was doing, came unto him.


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And he said to his disciples that a little boat may wait on him, because of the multitude, that they may not press upon him,


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for he did heal many, so that they threw themselves on him, in order to touch him -- as many as had plagues;


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and the unclean spirits, when they were seeing him, were falling down before him, and were crying, saying -- `Thou art the Son of God;`


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and James of Zebedee, and John the brother of James, and he put on them names -- Boanerges, that is, `Sons of thunder;`


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and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James of Alpheus, and Thaddeus, and Simon the Cananite,


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and his friends having heard, went forth to lay hold on him, for they said that he was beside himself,


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and the scribes who [are] from Jerusalem having come down, said -- `He hath Beelzeboul,` and -- `By the ruler of the demons he doth cast out the demons.`


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And, having called them near, in similes he said to them, `How is the Adversary able to cast out the Adversary?


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and if the Adversary did rise against himself, and hath been divided, he cannot be made to stand, but hath an end.


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`No one is able the vessels of the strong man -- having entered into his house -- to spoil, if first he may not bind the strong man, and then his house he will spoil.


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`Verily I say to you, that all the sins shall be forgiven to the sons of men, and evil speakings with which they might speak evil,


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but whoever may speak evil in regard to the Holy Spirit hath not forgiveness -- to the age, but is in danger of age-during judgment;`


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and a multitude was sitting about him, and they said to him, `Lo, thy mother and thy brethren without do seek thee.`


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And having looked round in a circle to those sitting about him, he saith, `Lo, my mother and my brethren!


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And again he began to teach by the sea, and there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he, having gone into the boat, sat in the sea, and all the multitude was near the sea, on the land,


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and it came to pass, in the sowing, some fell by the way, and the fowls of the heaven did come and devour it;


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and other fell upon the rocky ground, where it had not much earth, and immediately it sprang forth, because of not having depth of earth,


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and other fell to the good ground, and was giving fruit, coming up and increasing, and it bare, one thirty-fold, and one sixty, and one an hundred.`


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and he said to them, `To you it hath been given to know the secret of the reign of God, but to those who are without, in similes are all the things done;


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that seeing they may see and not perceive, and hearing they may hear and not understand, lest they may turn, and the sins may be forgiven them.`


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and these are they by the way where the word is sown: and whenever they may hear, immediately cometh the Adversary, and he taketh away the word that hath been sown in their hearts.


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`And these are they, in like manner, who on the rocky ground are sown: who, whenever they may hear the word, immediately with joy do receive it,


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and have not root in themselves, but are temporary; afterward tribulation or persecution having come because of the word, immediately they are stumbled.


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and the anxieties of this age, and the deceitfulness of the riches, and the desires concerning the other things, entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.


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`And these are they who on the good ground have been sown: who do hear the word, and receive, and do bear fruit, one thirty-fold, and one sixty, and one an hundred.`


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And he said to them, `Doth the lamp come that under the measure it may be put, or under the couch -- not that it may be put on the lamp-stand?


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for there is not anything hid that may not be manifested, nor was anything kept hid but that it may come to light.


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And he said to them, `Take heed what ye hear; in what measure ye measure, it shall be measured to you; and to you who hear it shall be added;


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for whoever may have, there shall be given to him, and whoever hath not, also that which he hath shall be taken from him.`


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for of itself doth the earth bear fruit, first a blade, afterwards an ear, afterwards full corn in the ear;


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and whenever the fruit may yield itself, immediately he doth send forth the sickle, because the harvest hath come.`


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As a grain of mustard, which, whenever it may be sown on the earth, is less than any of the seeds that are on the earth;


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and whenever it may be sown, it cometh up, and doth become greater than any of the herbs, and doth make great branches, so that under its shade the fowls of the heaven are able to rest.`


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and without a simile he was not speaking to them, and by themselves, to his disciples he was expounding all.


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and having let away the multitude, they take him up as he was in the boat, and other little boats also were with him.


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And there cometh a great storm of wind, and the waves were beating on the boat, so that it is now being filled,


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and he himself was upon the stern, upon the pillow sleeping, and they wake him up, and say to him, `Teacher, art thou not caring that we perish?`


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And having waked up, he rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, `Peace, be stilled;` and the wind did lull, and there was a great calm:


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and they feared a great fear, and said one to another, `Who, then, is this, that even the wind and the sea do obey him?`


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and he having come forth out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,


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because that he many times with fetters and chains had been bound, and pulled in pieces by him had been the chains, and the fetters broken in pieces, and none was able to tame him,


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


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and having called with a loud voice, he said, `What -- to me and to thee, Jesus, Son of God the Most High? I adjure thee by God, mayest thou not afflict me!`


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and he was questioning him, `What [is] thy name?` and he answered, saying, `Legion [is] my name, because we are many;`


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and immediately Jesus gave them leave, and having come forth, the unclean spirits did enter into the swine, and the herd did rush down the steep place to the sea -- and they were about two thousand -- and they were choked in the sea.


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And those feeding the swine did flee, and told in the city, and in the fields, and they came forth to see what it is that hath been done;


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and they come unto Jesus, and see the demoniac, sitting, and clothed, and right-minded -- him having had the legion -- and they were afraid;


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and those having seen [it], declared to them how it had come to pass to the demoniac, and about the swine;


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and Jesus did not suffer him, but saith to him, `Go away to thy house, unto thine own [friends], and tell them how great things the Lord did to thee, and dealt kindly with thee;


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and he went away, and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how great things Jesus did to him, and all were wondering.


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And Jesus having passed over in the boat again to the other side, there was gathered a great multitude to him, and he was near the sea,


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and lo, there doth come one of the chiefs of the synagogue, by name Jairus, and having seen him, he doth fall at his feet,


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and he was calling upon him much, saying -- `My little daughter is at the last extremity -- that having come, thou mayest lay on her [thy] hands, so that she may be saved, and she shall live;`


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and he went away with him. And there was following him a great multitude, and they were thronging him,


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and many things having suffered under many physicians, and having spent all that she had, and having profited nothing, but rather having come to the worse,


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and immediately was the fountain of her blood dried up, and she knew in the body that she hath been healed of the plague.


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And immediately Jesus having known in himself that out of him power had gone forth, having turned about in the multitude, said, `Who did touch my garments?`


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and his disciples said to him, `Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and thou sayest, `Who did touch me!`


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and the woman, having been afraid, and trembling, knowing what was done on her, came, and fell down before him, and told him all the truth,


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and he said to her, `Daughter, thy faith hath saved thee; go away in peace, and be whole from thy plague.`


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As he is yet speaking, there come from the chief of the synagogue`s [house, certain], saying -- `Thy daughter did die, why still dost thou harass the Teacher?`


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And Jesus immediately, having heard the word that is spoken, saith to the chief of the synagogue, `Be not afraid, only believe.`


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And he did not suffer any one to follow with him, except Peter, and James, and John the brother of James;


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and he cometh to the house of the chief of the synagogue, and seeth a tumult, much weeping and wailing;


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and having gone in he saith to them, `Why do ye make a tumult, and weep? the child did not die, but doth sleep;


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and they were laughing at him. And he, having put all forth, doth take the father of the child, and the mother, and those with him, and goeth in where the child is lying,


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and, having taken the hand of the child, he saith to her, `Talitha cumi;` which is, being interpreted, `Damsel (I say to thee), arise.`


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And immediately the damsel arose, and was walking, for she was twelve years [old]; and they were amazed with a great amazement,


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and he charged them much, that no one may know this thing, and he said that there be given to her to eat.


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and sabbath having come, he began in the synagogue to teach, and many hearing were astonished, saying, `Whence hath this one these things? and what the wisdom that was given to him, that also such mighty works through his hands are done?


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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 being stumbled at him.


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And Jesus said to them -- `A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and among his kindred, and in his own house;`


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and he was not able there any mighty work to do, except on a few infirm people having put hands he did heal [them];


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and he wondered because of their unbelief. And he was going round the villages, in a circle, teaching,


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and he doth call near the twelve, and he began to send them forth two by two, and he was giving them power over the unclean spirits,


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and he commanded them that they may take nothing for the way, except a staff only -- no scrip, no bread, no brass in the girdle,


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and as many as may not receive you, nor hear you, going out thence, shake off the dust that is under your feet for a testimony to them; verily I say to you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom or Gomorrah in a day of judgment than for that city.`


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and many demons they were casting out, and they were anointing with oil many infirm, and they were healing [them].


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And the king Herod heard, (for his name became public,) and he said -- `John the Baptist out of the dead was raised, and because of this the mighty powers are working in him.`


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And Herod having heard, said -- `He whom I did behead -- John -- this is he; he was raised out of the dead.`


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For Herod himself, having sent forth, did lay hold on John, and bound him in the prison, because of Herodias the wife of Philip his brother, because he married her,


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for Herod was fearing John, knowing him a man righteous and holy, and was keeping watch over him, and having heard him, was doing many things, and hearing him gladly.


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And a seasonable day having come, when Herod on his birthday was making a supper to his great men, and to the chiefs of thousands, and to the first men of Galilee,


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and the daughter of that Herodias having come in, and having danced, and having pleased Herod and those reclining (at meat) with him, the king said to the damsel, `Ask of me whatever thou wilt, and I will give to thee,`


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and he sware to her -- `Whatever thou mayest ask me, I will give to thee -- unto the half of my kingdom.`


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And she, having gone forth, said to her mother, `What shall I ask for myself?` and she said, `The head of John the Baptist;`


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and having come in immediately with haste unto the king, she asked, saying, `I will that thou mayest give me presently, upon a plate, the head of John the Baptist.`


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And the king -- made very sorrowful -- because of the oaths and of those reclining (at meat) with him, would not put her away,


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and he having gone, beheaded him in the prison, and brought his head upon a plate, and did give it to the damsel, and the damsel did give it to her mother;


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And the apostles are gathered together unto Jesus, and they told him all, and how many things they did, and how many things they taught,


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and he said to them, `Come ye yourselves apart to a desert place, and rest a little,` for those coming and those going were many, and not even to eat had they opportunity,


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And the multitudes saw them going away, and many recognised him, and by land from all the cities they ran thither, and went before them, and came together to him,


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and having come forth, Jesus saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion on them, that they were as sheep not having a shepherd, and he began to teach many things.


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And now the hour being advanced, his disciples having come near to him, say, -- `The place is desolate, and the hour is now advanced,


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let them away, that, having gone away to the surrounding fields and villages, they may buy to themselves loaves, for what they may eat they have not.`


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And he answering said to them, `Give ye them to eat,` and they say to him, `Having gone away, may we buy two hundred denaries` worth of loaves, and give to them to eat?`


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And he saith to them, `How many loaves have ye? go and see;` and having known, they say, `Five, and two fishes.`


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And having taken the five loaves and the two fishes, having looked up to the heaven, he blessed, and brake the loaves, and was giving to his disciples, that they may set before them, and the two fishes divided he to all,


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And immediately he constrained his disciples to go into the boat, and to go before to the other side, unto Bethsaida, till he may let the multitude away,


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and he saw them harassed in the rowing, for the wind was against them, and about the fourth watch of the night he doth come to them walking on the sea, and wished to pass by them.


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for they all saw him, and were troubled, and immediately he spake with them, and saith to them, `Take courage, I am [he], be not afraid.`


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And he went up unto them to the boat, and the wind lulled, and greatly out of measure were they amazed in themselves, and were wondering,


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having run about through all that region round about, they began upon the couches to carry about those ill, where they were hearing that he is,


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and wherever he was going, to villages, or cities, or fields, in the market-places they were laying the infirm, and were calling upon him, that they may touch if it were but the fringe of his garment, and as many as were touching him were saved.


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And gathered together unto him are the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, having come from Jerusalem,


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and having seen certain of his disciples with defiled hands -- that is, unwashed -- eating bread, they found fault;


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for the Pharisees, and all the Jews, if they do not wash the hands to the wrist, do not eat, holding the tradition of the elders,


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and, [coming] from the market-place, if they do not baptize themselves, they do not eat; and many other things there are that they received to hold, baptisms of cups, and pots, and brazen vessels, and couches.


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Then question him do the Pharisees and the scribes, `Wherefore do thy disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but with unwashed hands do eat the bread?`


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


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for, having put away the command of God, ye hold the tradition of men, baptisms of pots and cups; and many other such like things ye do.`


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for Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother -- let him die the death;


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and ye say, If a man may say to father or to mother, Korban (that is, a gift), [is] whatever thou mayest be profited out of mine,


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setting aside the word of God for your tradition that ye delivered; and many such like things ye do.`


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there is nothing from without the man entering into him that is able to defile him, but the things coming out from him, those are the things defiling the man.


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And when he entered into a house from the multitude, his disciples were questioning him about the simile,


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and he saith to them, `So also ye are without understanding! Do ye not perceive that nothing from without entering into the man is able to defile him?


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because it doth not enter into his heart, but into the belly, and into the drain it doth go out, purifying all the meats.`


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for from within, out of the heart of men, the evil reasonings do come forth, adulteries, whoredoms, murders,


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thefts, covetous desires, wickedness, deceit, arrogance, an evil eye, evil speaking, pride, foolishness;


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And from thence having risen, he went away to the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and having entered into the house, he wished none to know, and he was not able to be hid,


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for a woman having heard about him, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having come, fell at his feet, --


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and the woman was a Greek, a Syro-Phenician by nation -- and was asking him, that the demon he may cast forth out of her daughter.


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And Jesus said to her, `Suffer first the children to be filled, for it is not good to take the children`s bread, and to cast [it] to the little dogs.`


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And she answered and saith to him, `Yes, sir; for the little dogs also under the table do eat of the children`s crumbs.`


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and having come away to her house, she found the demon gone forth, and the daughter laid upon the couch.


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And again, having gone forth from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, he came unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis,


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And having taken him away from the multitude by himself, he put his fingers to his ears, and having spit, he touched his tongue,


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and having looked to the heaven, he sighed, and saith to him, `Ephphatha,` that is, `Be thou opened;`


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and immediately were his ears opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he was speaking plain.


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And he charged them that they may tell no one, but the more he was charging them, the more abundantly they were proclaiming [it],


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and they were being beyond measure astonished, saying, `Well hath he done all things; both the deaf he doth make to hear, and the dumb to speak.`


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In those days the multitude being very great, and not having what they may eat, Jesus having called near his disciples, saith to them,


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`I have compassion upon the multitude, because now three days they do continue with me, and they have not what they may eat;


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and if I shall let them away fasting to their home, they will faint in the way, for certain of them are come from far.`


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And his disciples answered him, `Whence shall any one be able these here to feed with bread in a wilderness?`


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And he commanded the multitude to sit down upon the ground, and having taken the seven loaves, having given thanks, he brake, and was giving to his disciples that they may set before [them]; and they did set before the multitude.


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and they did eat and were filled, and they took up that which was over of broken pieces -- seven baskets;


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and immediately having entered into the boat with his disciples, he came to the parts of Dalmanutha,


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and the Pharisees came forth, and began to dispute with him, seeking from him a sign from the heaven, tempting him;


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and having sighed deeply in his spirit, he saith, `Why doth this generation seek after a sign? Verily I say to you, no sign shall be given to this generation.`


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and he was charging them, saying, `Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod,`


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And Jesus having known, saith to them, `Why do ye reason, because ye have no loaves? do ye not yet perceive, nor understand, yet have ye your heart hardened?


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When the five loaves I did brake to the five thousand, how many hand-baskets full of broken pieces took ye up?` they say to him, `Twelve.`


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`And when the seven to the four thousand, how many hand-baskets full of broken pieces took ye up?` and they said, `Seven.`


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And he cometh to Bethsaida, and they bring to him one blind, and call upon him that he may touch him,


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and having taken the hand of the blind man, he led him forth without the village, and having spit on his eyes, having put [his] hands on him, he was questioning him if he doth behold anything:


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Afterwards again he put [his] hands on his eyes, and made him look up, and he was restored, and discerned all things clearly,


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and he sent him away to his house, saying, `Neither to the village mayest thou go, nor tell [it] to any in the village.`


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And Jesus went forth, and his disciples, to the villages of Cesarea Philippi, and in the way he was questioning his disciples, saying to them, `Who do men say me to be?`


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And he saith to them, `And ye -- who do ye say me to be?` and Peter answering saith to him, `Thou art the Christ.`


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and began to teach them, that it behoveth the Son of Man to suffer many things, and to be rejected by the elders, and chief priests, and scribes, and to be killed, and after three days to rise again;


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and he, having turned, and having looked on his disciples, rebuked Peter, saying, `Get behind me, Adversary, because thou dost not mind the things of God, but the things of men.`


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And having called near the multitude, with his disciples, he said to them, `Whoever doth will to come after me -- let him disown himself, and take up his cross, and follow me;


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for whoever may will to save his life shall lose it; and whoever may lose his life for my sake and for the good news` sake, he shall save it;


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for whoever may be ashamed of me, and of my words, in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also shall be ashamed of him, when he may come in the glory of his Father, with the holy messengers.`


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And he said to them, `Verily I say to you, That there are certain of those standing here, who may not taste of death till they see the reign of God having come in power.`


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And after six days doth Jesus take Peter, and James, and John, and bringeth them up to a high mount by themselves, alone, and he was transfigured before them,


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and his garments became glittering, white exceedingly, as snow, so as a fuller upon the earth is not able to whiten [them].


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And Peter answering saith to Jesus, `Rabbi, it is good to us to be here; and we may make three booths, for thee one, and for Moses one, and for Elijah one:`


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And there came a cloud overshadowing them, and there came a voice out of the cloud, saying, `This is My Son -- the Beloved, hear ye him;`


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And as they are coming down from the mount, he charged them that they may declare to no one the things that they saw, except when the Son of Man may rise out of the dead;


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


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


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And having come unto the disciples, he saw a great multitude about them, and scribes questioning with them,


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and immediately, all the multitude having seen him, were amazed, and running near, were saluting him.


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and one out of the multitude answering said, `Teacher, I brought my son unto thee, having a dumb spirit;


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and wherever it doth seize him, it doth tear him, and he foameth, and gnasheth his teeth, and pineth away; and I spake to thy disciples that they may cast it out, and they were not able.`


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And he answering him, said, `O generation unbelieving, till when shall I be with you? till when shall I suffer you? bring him unto me;`


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and they brought him unto him, and he having seen him, immediately the spirit tare him, and he, having fallen upon the earth, was wallowing -- foaming.


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And he questioned his father, `How long time is it since this came to him?` and he said, `From childhood,


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and many times also it cast him into fire, and into water, that it might destroy him; but if thou art able to do anything, help us, having compassion on us.`


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And Jesus said to him, `If thou art able to believe! all things are possible to the one that is believing;`


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and immediately the father of the child, having cried out, with tears said, `I believe, sir; be helping mine unbelief.`


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Jesus having seen that a multitude doth run together, rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, `Spirit -- dumb and deaf -- I charge thee, come forth out of him, and no more thou mayest enter into him;`


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and having cried, and rent him much, it came forth, and he became as dead, so that many said that he was dead,


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And he having come into the house, his disciples were questioning him by himself -- `Why were we not able to cast it forth?`


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And having gone forth thence, they were passing through Galilee, and he did not wish that any may know,


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for he was teaching his disciples, and he said to them, `The Son of Man is being delivered to the hands of men, and they shall kill him, and having been killed the third day he shall rise,`


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And he came to Capernaum, and being in the house, he was questioning them, `What were ye reasoning in the way among yourselves?`


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and having sat down he called the twelve, and he saith to them, `If any doth will to be first, he shall be last of all, and minister of all.`


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And having taken a child, he set him in the midst of them, and having taken him in his arms, said to them,


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`Whoever may receive one of such children in my name, doth receive me, and whoever may receive me, doth not receive me, but Him who sent me.`


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And John did answer him, saying, `Teacher, we saw a certain one in thy name casting out demons, who doth not follow us, and we forbade him, because he doth not follow us.`


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And Jesus said, `Forbid him not, for there is no one who shall do a mighty work in my name, and shall be able readily to speak evil of me:


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for whoever may give you to drink a cup of water in my name, because ye are Christ`s, verily I say to you, he may not lose his reward;


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


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`And if thy hand may cause thee to stumble, cut it off; it is better for thee maimed to enter into the life, than having the two hands, to go away to the gehenna, to the fire -- the unquenchable --


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`And if thy foot may cause thee to stumble, cut it off; it is better for thee to enter into the life lame, than having the two feet to be cast to the gehenna, to the fire -- the unquenchable --


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And if thine eye may cause thee to stumble, cast it out; it is better for thee one-eyed to enter into the reign of God, than having two eyes, to be cast to the gehenna of the fire --


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The salt [is] good, but if the salt may become saltless, in what will ye season [it]? Have in yourselves salt, and have peace in one another.`


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


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And the Pharisees, having come near, questioned him, if it is lawful for a husband to put away a wife, tempting him,


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and he saith to them, `Whoever may put away his wife, and may marry another, doth commit adultery against her;


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And they were bringing to him children, that he might touch them, and the disciples were rebuking those bringing them,


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and Jesus having seen, was much displeased, and he said to them, `Suffer the children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the reign of God;


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verily I say to you, whoever may not receive the reign of God, as a child -- he may not enter into it;`


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And as he is going forth into the way, one having run and having kneeled to him, was questioning him, `Good teacher, what may I do, that life age-during I may inherit?`


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the commands thou hast known: Thou mayest not commit adultery, Thou mayest do no murder, Thou mayest not steal, Thou mayest not bear false witness, Thou mayest not defraud, Honour thy father and mother.`


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And Jesus having looked upon him, did love him, and said to him, `One thing thou dost lack; go away, whatever thou hast -- sell, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven, and come, be following me, having taken up the cross.`


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And Jesus having looked round, saith to his disciples, `How hardly shall they who have riches enter into the reign of God!`


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And the disciples were astonished at his words, and Jesus again answering saith to them, `Children, how hard is it to those trusting on the riches to enter into the reign of God!


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It is easier for a camel through the eye of the needle to enter, than for a rich man to enter into the reign of God.`


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And Jesus, having looked upon them, saith, `With men it is impossible, but not with God; for all things are possible with God.`


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And Jesus answering said, `Verily I say to you, there is no one who left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, for my sake, and for the good news`,


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who may not receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and fields, with persecutions, and in the age that is coming, life age-during;


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And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was going before them, and they were amazed, and following they were afraid. And having again taken the twelve, he began to tell them the things about to happen to him,


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-- `Lo, we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man shall be delivered to the chief priests, and to the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the nations,


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and they shall mock him, and scourge him, and spit on him, and kill him, and the third day he shall rise again.`


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And there come near to him James and John, the sons of Zebedee, saying, `Teacher, we wish that whatever we may ask for ourselves, thou mayest do for us;`


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and they said to him, `Grant to us that, one on thy right hand and one on thy left, we may sit in thy glory;`


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and Jesus said to them, `Ye have not known what ye ask; are ye able to drink of the cup that I drink of, and with the baptism that I am baptized with -- to be baptized?`


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And they said to him, `We are able;` and Jesus said to them, `Of the cup indeed that I drink of, ye shall drink, and with the baptism that I am baptized with, ye shall be baptized;


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but to sit on my right and on my left, is not mine to give, but -- to those for whom it hath been prepared.`


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but Jesus having called them near, saith to them, `Ye have known that they who are considered to rule the nations do exercise lordship over them, and their great ones do exercise authority upon them;


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but not so shall it be among you; but whoever may will to become great among you, he shall be your minister,


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for even the Son of Man came not to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.`


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And they come to Jericho, and as he is going forth from Jericho, with his disciples and a great multitude, a son of Timaeus -- Bartimaeus the blind -- was sitting beside the way begging,


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and having heard that it is Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry out, and to say, `The Son of David -- Jesus! deal kindly with me;`


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and many were rebuking him, that he might keep silent, but the more abundantly he cried out, `Son of David, deal kindly with me.`


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And Jesus having stood, he commanded him to be called, and they call the blind man, saying to him, `Take courage, rise, he doth call thee;`


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And answering, Jesus saith to him, `What wilt thou I may do to thee?` and the blind man said to him, `Rabboni, that I may see again;`


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and Jesus said to him, `Go, thy faith hath saved thee:` and immediately he saw again, and was following Jesus in the way.


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And when they come nigh to Jerusalem, to Bethphage, and Bethany, unto the mount of the Olives, he sendeth forth two of his disciples,


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and saith to them, `Go away to the village that is over-against you, and immediately, entering into it, ye shall find a colt tied, on which no one of men hath sat, having loosed it, bring [it]:


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and if any one may say to you, Why do ye this? say ye that the lord hath need of it, and immediately he will send it hither.`


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And they went away, and found the colt tied at the door without, by the two ways, and they loose it,


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and many did spread their garments in the way, and others were cutting down branches from the trees, and were strewing in the way.


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And those going before and those following were crying out, saying, `Hosanna! blessed [is] he who is coming in the name of the Lord;


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And Jesus entered into Jerusalem, and into the temple, and having looked round on all things, it being now evening, he went forth to Bethany with the twelve.


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and having seen a fig-tree afar off having leaves, he came, if perhaps he shall find anything in it, and having come to it, he found nothing except leaves, for it was not a time of figs,


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and Jesus answering said to it, `No more from thee -- to the age -- may any eat fruit;` and his disciples were hearing.


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And they come to Jerusalem, and Jesus having gone into the temple, began to cast forth those selling and buying in the temple, and the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those selling the doves, he overthrew,


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


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And the scribes and the chief priests heard, and they were seeking how they shall destroy him, for they were afraid of him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching;


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and Peter having remembered saith to him, `Rabbi, lo, the fig-tree that thou didst curse is dried up.`


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for verily I say to you, that whoever may say to this mount, Be taken up, and be cast into the sea, and may not doubt in his heart, but may believe that the things that he saith do come to pass, it shall be to him whatever he may say.


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Because of this I say to you, all whatever -- praying -- ye do ask, believe that ye receive, and it shall be to you.


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`And whenever ye may stand praying, forgive, if ye have anything against any one, that your Father also who is in the heavens may forgive you your trespasses;


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And they come again to Jerusalem, and in the temple, as he is walking, there come unto him the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders,


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and they say to him, `By what authority dost thou these things? and who gave thee this authority that these things thou mayest do?`


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And Jesus answering said to them, `I will question you -- I also -- one word; and answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things;


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And they were reasoning with themselves, saying, `If we may say, From heaven, he will say, Wherefore, then, did ye not believe him?


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But if we may say, From men,` -- they were fearing the people, for all were holding John that he was indeed a prophet;


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and answering they say to Jesus, `We have not known;` and Jesus answering saith to them, `Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.`


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And he began to speak to them in similes: `A man planted a vineyard, and put a hedge around, and digged an under-winevat, and built a tower, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad;


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and he sent unto the husbandmen at the due time a servant, that from the husbandmen he may receive from the fruit of the vineyard,


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`And again he sent unto them another servant, and at that one having cast stones, they wounded [him] in the head, and sent away -- dishonoured.


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`And again he sent another, and that one they killed; and many others, some beating, and some killing.


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`Having yet therefore one son -- his beloved -- he sent also him unto them last, saying -- They will reverence my son;


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and those husbandmen said among themselves -- This is the heir, come, we may kill him, and ours shall be the inheritance;


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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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And this Writing did ye not read: A stone that the builders rejected, it did become the head of a corner:


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And they were seeking to lay hold on him, and they feared the multitude, for they knew that against them he spake the simile, and having left him, they went away;


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and they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, that they may ensnare him in discourse,


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and they having come, say to him, `Teacher, we have known that thou art true, and thou art not caring for any one, for thou dost not look to the face of men, but in truth the way of God dost teach; is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar or not? may we give, or may we not give?`


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And he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, `Why me do ye tempt? bring me a denary, that I may see;`


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and they brought, and he saith to them, `Whose [is] this image, and the inscription?` and they said to him, `Caesar`s;`


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and Jesus answering said to them, `Give back the things of Caesar to Caesar, and the things of God to God;` and they did wonder at him.


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And the Sadducees come unto him, who say there is not a rising again, and they questioned him, saying,


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


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in the rising again, then, whenever they may rise, 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 ye not because of this go astray, not knowing the Writings, nor the power of God?


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for when they may rise out of the dead, they neither marry nor are they given in marriage, but are as messengers who are in the heavens.


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`And concerning the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the Book of Moses (at The Bush), how God spake to him, saying, I [am] the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob;


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And one of the scribes having come near, having heard them disputing, knowing that he answered them well, questioned him, `Which is the first command of all?`


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and Jesus answered him -- `The first of all the commands [is], Hear, O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is one;


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and thou shalt love the Lord thy God out of all thy heart, and out of thy soul, and out of all thine understanding, and out of all thy strength -- this [is] the first command;


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and the second [is] like [it], this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself; -- greater than these there is no other command.`


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And the scribe said to him, `Well, Teacher, in truth thou hast spoken that there is one God, and there is none other but He;


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and to love Him out of all the heart, and out of all the understanding, and out of all the soul, and out of all the strength, and to love one`s neighbor as one`s self, is more than all the whole burnt-offerings and the sacrifices.`


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And Jesus, having seen him that he answered with understanding, said to him, `Thou art not far from the reign of God;` and no one any more durst question him.


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And Jesus answering said, teaching in the temple, `How say the scribes that the Christ is son of David?


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for David himself said in the Holy Spirit, The Lord said to my lord, Sit thou on My right hand, till I place thine enemies -- thy footstool;


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therefore David himself saith of him Lord, and whence is he his son?` And the great multitude were hearing him gladly,


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and he was saying to them in his teaching, `Beware of the scribes, who will in long robes to walk, and love salutations in the market-places,


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who are devouring the widows` houses, and for a pretense are making long prayers; these shall receive more abundant judgment.`


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And Jesus having sat down over-against the treasury, was beholding how the multitude do put brass into the treasury, and many rich were putting in much,


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And having called near his disciples, he saith to them, `Verily I say to you, that this poor widow hath put in more than all those putting into the treasury;


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for all, out of their abundance, put in, but she, out of her want, all that she had put in -- all her living.`


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And as he is going forth out of the temple, one of his disciples saith to him, `Teacher, see! what stones! and what buildings!`


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and Jesus answering said to him, `Seest thou these great buildings? there may not be left a stone upon a stone, that may not be thrown down.`


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And as he is sitting at the mount of the Olives, over-against the temple, Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, were questioning him by himself,


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`Tell us when these things shall be? and what [is] the sign when all these may be about to be fulfilled?`


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and when ye may hear of wars and reports of wars, be not troubled, for these behove to be, but the end [is] not yet;


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for nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles; beginnings of sorrows [are] these.


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`And take ye heed to yourselves, for they shall deliver you up to sanhedrims, and to synagogues, ye shall be beaten, and before governors and kings ye shall be set for my sake, for a testimony to them;


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`And when they may lead you, delivering up, be not anxious beforehand what ye may speak, nor premeditate, but whatever may be given to you in that hour, that speak ye, for it is not ye who are speaking, but the Holy Spirit.


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and ye shall be hated by all because of my name, but he who hath endured to the end -- he shall be saved.


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`And when ye may see the abomination of the desolation, that was spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (whoever is reading let him understand), then those in Judea, let them flee to the mountains;


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and he upon the house-top, let him not come down to the house, nor come in to take anything out of his house;


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for those days shall be tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the creation that God created, till now, and may not be;


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and if the Lord did not shorten the days, no flesh had been saved; but because of the chosen, whom He did choose to Himself, He did shorten the days.


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for there shall rise false Christs and false prophets, and they shall give signs and wonders, to seduce, if possible, also the chosen;


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`But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,


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and the stars of the heaven shall be falling, and the powers that are in the heavens shall be shaken.


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and then he shall send his messengers, and gather together his chosen from the four winds, from the end of the earth unto the end of heaven.


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`And from the fig-tree learn ye the simile: when the branch may already become tender, and may put forth the leaves, ye know that nigh is the summer;


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`And concerning that day and the hour no one hath known -- not even the messengers who are in the heaven, not even the Son -- except the Father.


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as a man who is gone abroad, having left his house, and given to his servants the authority, and to each one his work, did command also the porter that he may watch;


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watch ye, therefore, for ye have not known when the lord of the house doth come, at even, or at midnight, or at cock-crowing, or at the morning;


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And the passover and the unleavened food were after two days, and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how, by guile, having taken hold of him, they might kill him;


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And he, being in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, at his reclining (at meat), there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment, of spikenard, very precious, and having broken the alabaster box, did pour on his head;


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and there were certain much displeased within themselves, and saying, `For what hath this waste of the ointment been made?


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for this could have been sold for more than three hundred denaries, and given to the poor;` and they were murmuring at her.


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for the poor always ye have with you, and whenever ye may will ye are able to do them good, but me ye have not always;


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Verily I say to you, wherever this good news may be proclaimed in the whole world, what also this woman did shall be spoken of -- for a memorial of her.`


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


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and having heard, they were glad, and promised to give him money, and he was seeking how, conveniently, he might deliver him up.


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And the first day of the unleavened food, when they were killing the passover, his disciples say to him, `Where wilt thou, [that,] having gone, we may prepare, that thou mayest eat the passover?`


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And he sendeth forth two of his disciples, and saith to them, `Go ye away to the city, and there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water, follow him;


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and wherever he may go in, say ye to the master of the house -- The Teacher saith, Where is the guest-chamber, where the passover, with my disciples, I may eat?


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


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and as they are reclining, and eating, Jesus said, `Verily I say to you -- one of you, who is eating with me -- shall deliver me up.`


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the Son of Man doth indeed go, as it hath been written concerning him, but wo to that man through whom the Son of Man is delivered up; good were it to him if that man had not been born.`


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And as they are eating, Jesus having taken bread, having blessed, brake, and gave to them, and said, `Take, eat; this is my body.`


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verily I say to you, that no more may I drink of the produce of the vine till that day when I may drink it new in the reign of God.`


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


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And Jesus said to him, `Verily I say to thee, that to-day, this night, before a cock shall crow twice, thrice thou shalt deny me.`


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And he spake the more vehemently, `If it may be necessary for me to die with thee -- I will in nowise deny thee;` and in like manner also said they all.


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And they come to a spot, the name of which [is] Gethsemane, and he saith to his disciples, `Sit ye here till I may pray;`


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And having gone forward a little, he fell upon the earth, and was praying, that, if it be possible the hour may pass from him,


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and he said, `Abba, Father; all things are possible to Thee; make this cup pass from me; but, not what I will, but what Thou.`


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And he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith to Peter, `Simon, thou dost sleep! thou wast not able to watch one hour!


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Watch ye and pray, that ye may not enter into temptation; the spirit indeed is forward, but the flesh weak.`


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and having returned, he found them again sleeping, for their eyes were heavy, and they had not known what they might answer him.


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And he cometh the third time, and saith to them, `Sleep on henceforth, and rest -- it is over; the hour did come; lo, the Son of Man is delivered up to the hands of the sinful;


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And immediately -- while he is yet speaking -- cometh near Judas, one of the twelve, and with him a great multitude, with swords and sticks, from the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders;


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and he who is delivering him up had given a token to them, saying, `Whomsoever I shall kiss, he it is, lay hold on him, and lead him away safely,`


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and a certain one of those standing by, having drawn the sword, struck the servant of the chief priest, and took off his ear.


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And Jesus answering said to them, `As against a robber ye came out, with swords and sticks, to take me!


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daily I was with you in the temple teaching, and ye did not lay hold on me -- but that the Writings may be fulfilled.`


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and a certain young man was following him, having put a linen cloth about [his] naked body, and the young men lay hold on him,


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And they led away Jesus unto the chief priest, and come together to him do all the chief priests, and the elders, and the scribes;


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and Peter afar off did follow him, to the inside of the hall of the chief priest, and he was sitting with the officers, and warming himself near the fire.


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And the chief priests and all the sanhedrim were seeking against Jesus testimony -- to put him to death, and they were not finding,


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`We heard him saying -- I will throw down this sanctuary made with hands, and by three days, another made without hands I will build;`


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And the chief priest, having risen up in the midst, questioned Jesus, saying, `Thou dost not answer anything! what do these testify against thee?`


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and he was keeping silent, and did not answer anything. Again the chief priest was questioning him, and saith to him, `Art thou 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 on the right hand of the power, and coming with the clouds, of the heaven.`


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Ye heard the evil speaking, what appeareth to you?` and they all condemned him to be worthy of death,


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and certain began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to buffet him, and to say to him, `Prophesy;` and the officers were striking him with their palms.


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and having seen Peter warming himself, having looked on him, she said, `And thou wast with Jesus of Nazareth!`


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and he denied, saying, `I have not known [him], neither do I understand what thou sayest;` and he went forth without to the porch, and a cock crew.


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and he was again denying. And after a little again, those standing near said to Peter, `Truly thou art of them, for thou also art a Galilean, and thy speech is alike;`


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and a second time a cock crew, and Peter remembered the saying that Jesus said to him -- `Before a cock crow twice, thou mayest deny me thrice;` and having thought thereon -- he was weeping.


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And immediately, in the morning, the chief priests having made a consultation, with the elders, and scribes, and the whole sanhedrim, having bound Jesus, did lead away, and delivered [him] to Pilate;


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and Pilate questioned him, `Art thou the king of the Jews?` and he answering said to him, `Thou dost say [it].`


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And Pilate again questioned him, saying, `Thou dost not answer anything! lo, how many things they do testify against thee!`


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and there was [one] named Barabbas, bound with those making insurrection with him, who had in the insurrection committed murder.


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And Pilate answering, again said to them, `What, then, will ye [that] I shall do to him whom ye call king of the Jews?`


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And Pilate said to them, `Why -- what evil did he?` and they cried out the more vehemently, `Crucify him;`


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and Pilate, wishing to content the multitude, released to them Barabbas, and delivered up Jesus -- having scourged [him] -- that he might be crucified.


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And they were smiting him on the head with a reed, and were spitting on him, and having bent the knee, were bowing to him,


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and when they [had] mocked him, they took the purple from off him, and clothed him in his own garments, and they led him forth, that they may crucify him.


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And they impress a certain one passing by -- Simon, a Cyrenian, coming from the field, the father of Alexander and Rufus -- that he may bear his cross,


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And having crucified him, they were dividing his garments, casting a lot upon them, what each may take;


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And those passing by were speaking evil of him, shaking their heads, and saying, `Ah, the thrower down of the sanctuary, and in three days the builder!


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And in like manner also the chief priests, mocking with one another, with the scribes, said, `Others he saved; himself he is not able to save.


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The Christ! the king of Israel -- let him come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe;` and those crucified with him were reproaching him.


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and at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a great voice, saying, `Eloi, Eloi, lamma sabachthani?` which is, being interpreted, `My God, my God, why didst Thou forsake me?`


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and one having run, and having filled a spunge with vinegar, having put [it] also on a reed, was giving him to drink, saying, `Let alone, let us see if Elijah doth come to take him down.`


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and the centurion who was standing over-against him, having seen that, having so cried out, he yielded the spirit, said, `Truly this man was Son of God.`


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And there were also women afar off beholding, among whom was also Mary the Magdalene, and Mary of James the less, and of Joses, and Salome,


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(who also, when he was in Galilee, were following him, and were ministering to him,) and many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem.


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Joseph of Arimathea, an honourable counsellor, who also himself was waiting for the reign of God, came, boldly entered in unto Pilate, and asked the body of Jesus.


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And Pilate wondered if he were already dead, and having called near the centurion, did question him if he were long dead,


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And he, having brought fine linen, and having taken him down, wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre that had been hewn out of a rock, and he rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre,


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And the sabbath having past, Mary the Magdalene, and Mary of James, and Salome, bought spices, that having come, they may anoint him,


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and early in the morning of the first of the sabbaths, they come unto the sepulchre, at the rising of the sun,


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and they said among themselves, `Who shall roll away for us the stone out of the door of the sepulchre?`


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and having entered into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right hand, arrayed in a long white robe, and they were amazed.


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And he saith to them, `Be not amazed, ye seek Jesus the Nazarene, the crucified: he did rise -- he is not here; lo, the place where they laid him!


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and go, say to his disciples, and Peter, that he doth go before you to Galilee; there ye shall see him, as he said to you.`


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And, having come forth quickly, they fled from the sepulchre, and trembling and amazement had seized them, and to no one said they anything, for they were afraid.


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And he, having risen in the morning of the first of the sabbaths, did appear first to Mary the Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven demons;


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And after these things, to two of them, as they are going into a field, walking, he was manifested in another form,


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Afterwards, as they are reclining (at meat), he was manifested to the eleven, and did reproach their unbelief and stiffness of heart, because they believed not those having seen him being raised;


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


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`And signs shall accompany those believing these things; in my name demons they shall cast out; with new tongues they shall speak;


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serpents they shall take up; and if any deadly thing they may drink, it shall not hurt them; on the ailing they shall lay hands, and they shall be well.`


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The Lord, then, indeed, after speaking to them, was received up to the heaven, and sat on the right hand of God;


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and they, having gone forth, did preach everywhere, the Lord working with [them], and confirming the word, through the signs following. Amen.


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Seeing that many did take in hand to set in order a narration of the matters that have been fully assured among us,


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as they did deliver to us, who from the beginning became eye-witnesses, and officers of the Word, --


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it seemed good also to me, having followed from the first after all things exactly, to write to thee in order, most noble Theophilus,


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There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest, by name Zacharias, of the course of Abijah, and his wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name Elisabeth;


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and they were both righteous before God, going on in all the commands and righteousnesses of the Lord blameless,


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according to the custom of the priesthood, his lot was to make perfume, having gone into the sanctuary of the Lord,


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And there appeared to him a messenger of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of the perfume,


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and the messenger said unto him, `Fear not, Zacharias, for thy supplication was heard, and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear a son to thee, and thou shalt call his name John,


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for he shall be great before the Lord, and wine and strong drink he may not drink, and of the Holy Spirit he shall be full, even from his mother`s womb;


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and he shall go before Him, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn hearts of fathers unto children, and disobedient ones to the wisdom of righteous ones, to make ready for the Lord, a people prepared.`


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And Zacharias said unto the messenger, `Whereby shall I know this? for I am aged, and my wife is advanced in her days?`


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And the messenger answering said to him, `I am Gabriel, who have been standing near before God, and I was sent to speak unto thee, and to proclaim these good news to thee,


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and lo, thou shalt be silent, and not able to speak, till the day that these things shall come to pass, because thou didst not believe my words, that shall be fulfilled in their season.`


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and having come out, he was not able to speak to them, and they perceived that a vision he had seen in the sanctuary, and he was beckoning to them, and did remain dumb.


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`Thus hath the Lord done to me, in days in which He looked upon [me], to take away my reproach among men.`


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And in the sixth month was the messenger Gabriel sent by God, to a city of Galilee, the name of which [is] Nazareth,


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to a virgin, betrothed to a man, whose name [is] Joseph, of the house of David, and the name of the virgin [is] Mary.


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And the messenger having come in unto her, said, `Hail, favoured one, the Lord [is] with thee; blessed [art] thou among women;`


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and she, having seen, was troubled at his word, and was reasoning of what kind this salutation may be.


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he shall be great, and Son of the Highest he shall be called, and the Lord God shall give him the throne of David his father,


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And the messenger answering said to her, `The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee, therefore also the holy-begotten thing shall be called Son of God;


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and lo, Elisabeth, thy kinswoman, she also hath conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month to her who was called barren;


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And Mary said, `Lo, the maid-servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to thy saying,` and the messenger went away from her.


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And it came to pass, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe did leap in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit,


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and spake out with a loud voice, and said, `Blessed [art] thou among women, and blessed [is] the fruit of thy womb;


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for, lo, when the voice of thy salutation came to my ears, leap in gladness did the babe in my womb;


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and happy [is] she who did believe, for there shall be a completion to the things spoken to her from the Lord.`


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Because He looked on the lowliness of His maid-servant, For, lo, henceforth call me happy shall all the generations,


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and the neighbours and her kindred heard that the Lord was making His kindness great with her, and they were rejoicing with her.


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And it came to pass, on the eighth day, they came to circumcise the child, and they were calling him by the name of his father, Zacharias,


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And fear came upon all those dwelling around them, and in all the hill-country of Judea were all these sayings spoken of,


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and all who heard did lay them up in their hearts, saying, `What then shall this child be?` and the hand of the Lord was with him.


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`Blessed [is] the Lord, the God of Israel, Because He did look upon, And wrought redemption for His people,


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And thou, child, Prophet of the Highest Shalt thou be called; For thou shalt go before the face of the Lord, To prepare His ways.


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And the child grew, and was strengthened in spirit, and he was in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel.


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And it came to pass in those days, there went forth a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world be enrolled --


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and Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, that is called Bethlehem, because of his being of the house and family of David,


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and she brought forth her son -- the first-born, and wrapped him up, and laid him down in the manger, because there was not for them a place in the guest-chamber.


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And there were shepherds in the same region, lodging in the field, and keeping the night-watches over their flock,


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and lo, a messenger of the Lord stood over them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they feared a great fear.


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And the messenger said to them, `Fear not, for lo, I bring you good news of great joy, that shall be to all the people --


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And suddenly there came with the messenger a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God, and saying,


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And it came to pass, when the messengers were gone away from them to the heavens, that the men, the shepherds, said unto one another, `We may go over indeed unto Bethlehem, and see this thing that hath come to pass, that the Lord did make known to us.`


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and the shepherds turned back, glorifying and praising God, for all those things they heard and saw, as it was spoken unto them.


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And when eight days were fulfilled to circumcise the child, then was his name called Jesus, having been so called by the messenger before his being conceived in the womb.


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And when the days of their purification were fulfilled, according to the law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem, to present to the Lord,


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


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and to give a sacrifice, according to that said in the Law of the Lord, `A pair of turtle-doves, or two young pigeons.`


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And lo, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name [is] Simeon, and this man is righteous and devout, looking for the comforting of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him,


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and it hath been divinely told him by the Holy Spirit -- not to see death before he may see the Christ of the Lord.


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And he came in the Spirit to the temple, and in the parents bringing in the child Jesus, for their doing according to the custom of the law regarding him,


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and Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, `Lo, this [one] is set for the falling and rising again of many in Israel, and for a sign spoken against --


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(and also thine own soul shall a sword pass through) -- that the reasonings of many hearts may be revealed.`


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And there was Anna, a prophetess, daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher, she was much advanced in days, having lived with an husband seven years from her virginity,


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and she [is] a widow of about eighty-four years, who did depart not from the temple, with fasts and supplications serving, night and day,


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and she, at that hour, having come in, was confessing, likewise, to the Lord, and was speaking concerning him, to all those looking for redemption in Jerusalem.


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And when they finished all things, according to the Law of the Lord, they turned back to Galilee, to their city Nazareth;


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and the child grew and was strengthened in spirit, being filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him.


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and when he became twelve years old, they having gone up to Jerusalem, according to the custom of the feast,


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and having finished the days, in their returning the child Jesus remained behind in Jerusalem, and Joseph and his mother did not know,


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and, having supposed him to be in the company, they went a day`s journey, and were seeking him among the kindred and among the 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, both hearing them and questioning them,


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And, having seen him, they were amazed, and his mother said unto him, `Child, why didst thou thus to us? lo, thy father and I, sorrowing, were seeking thee.`


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And he said unto them, `Why [is it] that ye were seeking me? did ye not know that in the things of my Father it behoveth me to be?`


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and he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and he was subject to them, and his mother was keeping all these sayings in her heart,


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


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Annas and Caiaphas being chief priests -- there came a word of God unto John the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness,


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and he came to all the region round the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of reformation -- to remission of sins,


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as it hath been written in the scroll of the words of Isaiah the prophet, saying, `A voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, straight make ye His paths;


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every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall become straightness, and the rough become smooth ways;


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Then said he to the multitudes coming forth to be baptised by him, `Brood of vipers! who did prompt you to flee from the coming wrath?


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make, therefore, fruits worthy of the reformation, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have a father -- Abraham; for I say to you, that God is able out of these stones to raise children to Abraham;


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and already also the axe unto the root of the trees is laid, every tree, therefore, not making good fruit is cut down, and to fire it is cast.`


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and he answering saith to them, `He having two coats -- let him impart to him having none, and he having victuals -- in like manner let him do.`


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And there came also tax-gatherers to be baptised, and they said unto him, `Teacher, what shall we do?`


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And questioning him also were those warring, saying, `And we, what shall we do?` and he said unto them, `Do violence to no one, nor accuse falsely, and be content with your wages.`


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And the people are looking forward, and all are reasoning in their hearts concerning John, whether or not he may be the Christ;


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John answered, saying to all, `I indeed with water do baptise you, but he cometh who is mightier than I, of whom I am not worthy to loose the latchet of his sandals -- he shall baptise you with the Holy Spirit and with fire;


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whose winnowing shovel [is] in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor, and will gather the wheat to his storehouse, and the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.`


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And, therefore, indeed with many other things, exhorting, he was proclaiming good news to the people,


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and Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him concerning Herodias the wife of Philip his brother, and concerning all the evils that Herod did,


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And it came to pass, in all the people being baptised, Jesus also being baptised, and praying, the heaven was opened,


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and the Holy Spirit came down in a bodily appearance, as if a dove, upon him, and a voice came out of heaven, saying, `Thou art My Son -- the Beloved, in thee I did delight.`


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


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the [son] of Eli, the [son] of Matthat, the [son] of Levi, the [son] of Melchi, the [son] of Janna, the [son] of Joseph,


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the [son] of Naggai, the [son] of Maath, the [son] of Mattathias, the [son] of Semei, the [son] of Joseph, the [son] of Juda,


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the [son] of Neri, the [son] of Melchi, the [son] of Addi, the [son] of Cosam, the [son] of Elmodam, the [son] of Er,


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the [son] of Levi, the [son] of Simeon, the [son] of Juda, the [son] of Joseph, the [son] of Jonan, the [son] of Eliakim,


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the [son] of David, the [son] of Jesse, the [son] of Obed, the [son] of Booz, the [son] of Salmon, the [son] of Nahshon,


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the [son] of Judah, the [son] of Jacob, the [son] of Isaac, the [son] of Abraham, the [son] of Terah, the [son] of Nahor,


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the [son] of Salah, the [son] of Cainan, the [son] of Arphaxad, the [son] of Shem, the [son] of Noah, the [son] of Lamech,


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And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, turned back from the Jordan, and was brought in the Spirit to the wilderness,


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forty days being tempted by the Devil, and he did not eat anything in those days, and they having been ended, he afterward hungered,


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And Jesus answered him, saying, `It hath been written, that, not on bread only shall man live, but on every saying of God.`


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And the Devil having brought him up to an high mountain, shewed to him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time,


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and the Devil said to him, `To thee I will give all this authority, and their glory, because to me it hath been delivered, and to whomsoever I will, I do give it;


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And Jesus answering him said, `Get thee behind me, Adversary, for it hath been written, Thou shalt bow before the Lord thy God, and Him only thou shalt serve.`


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And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, `If the Son thou art of God, cast thyself down hence,


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for it hath been written -- To His messengers He will give charge concerning thee, to guard over thee,


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and -- On hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou mayest dash against a stone thy foot.`


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And Jesus turned back in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and a fame went forth through all the region round about concerning him,


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And he came to Nazareth, where he hath been brought up, and he went in, according to his custom, on the sabbath-day, to the synagogue, and stood up to read;


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and there was given over to him a roll of Isaiah the prophet, and having unfolded the roll, he found the place where it hath been written:


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`The Spirit of the Lord [is] upon me, Because He did anoint me; To proclaim good news to the poor, Sent me to heal the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives deliverance, And to blind receiving of sight, To send away the bruised with deliverance,


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And having folded the roll, having given [it] back to the officer, he sat down, and the eyes of all in the synagogue were gazing on him.


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and all were bearing testimony to him, and were wondering at the gracious words that are coming forth out of his mouth, and they said, `Is not this the son of Joseph?`


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And he said unto them, `Certainly ye will say to me this simile, Physician, heal thyself; as great things as we heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country;`


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and of a truth I say to you, Many widows were in the days of Elijah, in Israel, when the heaven was shut for three years and six months, when great famine came on all the land,


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


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and having risen, they put him forth without the city, and brought him unto the brow of the hill on which their city had been built -- to cast him down headlong,


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


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saying, `Away, what -- to us and to thee, Jesus, O Nazarene? thou didst come to destroy us; I have known thee who thou art -- the Holy One of God.`


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And Jesus did rebuke him, saying, `Be silenced, and come forth out of him;` and the demon having cast him into the midst, came forth from him, having hurt him nought;


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and amazement came upon all, and they were speaking together, with one another, saying, `What [is] this word, that with authority and power he doth command the unclean spirits, and they come forth?`


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And having risen out of the synagogue, he entered into the house of Simon, and the mother-in-law of Simon was pressed with a great fever, and they did ask him about her,


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and having stood over her, he rebuked the fever, and it left her, and presently, having risen, she was ministering to them.


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And at the setting of the sun, all, as many as had any ailing with manifold sicknesses, brought them unto him, and he on each one of them [his] hands having put, did heal them.


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And demons also were coming forth from many, crying out and saying -- `Thou art the Christ, the Son of God;` and rebuking, he did not suffer them to speak, because they knew him to be the Christ.


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And day having come, having gone forth, he went on to a desert place, and the multitudes were seeking him, and they came unto him, and were staying him -- not to go on from them,


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and he said unto them -- `Also to the other cities it behoveth me to proclaim good news of the reign of God, because for this I have been sent;`


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And it came to pass, in the multitude pressing on him to hear the word of God, that he was standing beside the lake of Gennesaret,


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and he saw two boats standing beside the lake, and the fishers, having gone away from them, were washing the nets,


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and having entered into one of the boats, that was Simon`s, he asked him to put back a little from the land, and having sat down, was teaching the multitudes out of the boat.


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And when he left off speaking, he said unto Simon, `Put back to the deep, and let down your nets for a draught;`


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


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and they beckoned to the partners, who [are] in the other boat, having come, to help them; and they came, and filled both the boats, so that they were sinking.


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And Simon Peter having seen, fell down at the knees of Jesus, saying, `Depart from me, because I am a sinful man, O lord;`


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


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And it came to pass, in his being in one of the cities, that lo, a man full of leprosy, and having seen Jesus, having fallen on [his] face, he besought him, saying, `Sir, if thou mayest will, thou art able to cleanse me;`


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and having stretched forth [his] hand, he touched him, having said, `I will; be thou cleansed;` and immediately the leprosy went away from him.


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And he charged him to tell no one, `But, having gone away, shew thyself to the priest, and bring near for thy cleansing according as Moses directed, for a testimony to them;`


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but the more was the report going abroad concerning him, and great multitudes were coming together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities,


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And it came to pass, on one of the days, that he was teaching, and there were sitting by Pharisees and teachers of the Law, who were come out of every village of Galilee, and Judea, and Jerusalem, and the power of the Lord was -- to heal them.


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And lo, men bearing upon a couch a man, who hath been struck with palsy, and they were seeking to bring him in, and to place before him,


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and not having found by what way they may bring him in because of the multitude, having gone up on the house-top, through the tiles they let him down, with the little couch, into the midst before Jesus,


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And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, `Who is this that doth speak evil words? who is able to forgive sins, except God only?`


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`And that ye may know that the Son of Man hath authority upon the earth to forgive sins -- (he said to the one struck with palsy) -- I say to thee, Arise, and having taken up thy little couch, be going on to thy house.`


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And presently having risen before them, having taken up [that] on which he was lying, he went away to his house, glorifying God,


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and astonishment took all, and they were glorifying God, and were filled with fear, saying -- `We saw strange things to-day.`


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And after these things he went forth, and beheld a tax-gatherer, by name Levi, sitting at the tax-office, and said to him, `Be following me;`


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And Levi made a great entertainment to him in his house, and there was a great multitude of tax-gatherers and others who were with them reclining (at meat),


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and the scribes and the Pharisees among them were murmuring at his disciples, saying, `Wherefore with tax-gatherers and sinners do ye eat and drink?`


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And Jesus answering said unto them, `They who are well have no need of a physician, but they that are ill:


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


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And he said unto them, `Are ye able to make the sons of the bride-chamber -- in the bridegroom being with them -- to fast?


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but days will come, and, when the bridegroom may be taken away from them, then they shall fast in those days.`


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And he spake also a simile unto them -- `No one a patch of new clothing doth put on old clothing, and if otherwise, the new also doth make a rent, and with the old the patch doth not agree, that [is] from the new.


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`And no one doth put new wine into old skins, and if otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins, and itself will be poured out, and the skins will be destroyed;


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And it came to pass, on the second-first sabbath, as he is going through the corn fields, that his disciples were plucking the ears, and were eating, rubbing with the hands,


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and certain of the Pharisees said to them, `Why do ye that which is not lawful to do on the sabbaths?`


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And Jesus answering said unto them, `Did ye not read even this that David did, when he hungered, himself and those who are with him,


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how he went into the house of God, and the loaves of the presentation did take, and did eat, and gave also to those with him, which it is not lawful to eat, except only to the priests?`


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


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and the scribes and the Pharisees were watching him, if on the sabbath he will heal, that they might find an accusation against him.


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And he himself had known their reasonings, and said to the man having the withered hand, `Rise, and stand in the midst;` and he having risen, stood.


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Then said Jesus unto them, `I will question you something: Is it lawful on the sabbaths to do good, or to do evil? life to save or to kill?`


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And having looked round on them all, he said to the man, `Stretch forth thy hand;` and he did so, and his hand was restored whole as the other;


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And it came to pass in those days, he went forth to the mountain to pray, and was passing the night in the prayer of God,


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and when it became day, he called near his disciples, and having chosen from them twelve, whom also he named apostles,


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and having come down with them, he stood upon a level spot, and a crowd of his disciples, and a great multitude of the people from all Judea, and Jerusalem, and the maritime Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him, and to be healed of their sicknesses,


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and all the multitude were seeking to touch him, because power from him was going forth, and he was healing all.


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And he, having lifted up his eyes to his disciples, said: `Happy the poor -- because yours is the reign of God.


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`Happy those hungering now -- because ye shall be filled. `Happy those weeping now -- because ye shall laugh.


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`Happy are ye when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you, and shall reproach, and shall cast forth your name as evil, for the Son of Man`s sake --


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rejoice in that day, and leap, for lo, your reward [is] great in the heaven, for according to these things were their fathers doing to the prophets.


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`Wo to you who have been filled -- because ye shall hunger. `Wo to you who are laughing now -- because ye shall mourn and weep.


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`Wo to you when all men shall speak well of you -- for according to these things were their fathers doing to false prophets.


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and to him smiting thee upon the cheek, give also the other, and from him taking away from thee the mantle, also the coat thou mayest not keep back.


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`And to every one who is asking of thee, be giving; and from him who is taking away thy goods, be not asking again;


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and if ye lend [to those] of whom ye hope to receive back, what grace have ye? for also the sinful lend to sinners -- that they may receive again as much.


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`But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again, and your reward will be great, and ye shall be sons of the Highest, because He is kind unto the ungracious and evil;


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`And judge not, and ye may not be judged; condemn not, and ye may not be condemned; release, and ye shall be released.


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`Give, and it shall be given to you; good measure, pressed, and shaken, and running over, they shall give into your bosom; for with that measure with which ye measure, it shall be measured to you again.`


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`And why dost thou behold the mote that is in thy brother`s eye, and the beam that [is] in thine own eye dost not consider?


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or how art thou able to say to thy brother, Brother, suffer, I may take out the mote that [is] in thine eye -- thyself the beam in thine own eye not beholding? Hypocrite, take first the beam out of thine own eye, and then thou shalt see clearly to take out the mote that [is] in thy brother`s eye.


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for each tree from its own fruit is known, for not from thorns do they gather figs, nor from a bramble do they crop a grape.


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`The good man out of the good treasure of his heart doth bring forth that which [is] good; and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart doth bring forth that which [is] evil; for out of the abounding of the heart doth his mouth speak.


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Every one who is coming unto me, and is hearing my words, and is doing them, I will shew you to whom he is like;


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he is like to a man building a house, who did dig, and deepen, and laid a foundation upon the rock, and a flood having come, the stream broke forth on that house, and was not able to shake it, for it had been founded upon the rock.


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`And he who heard and did not, is like to a man having builded a house upon the earth, without a foundation, against which the stream brake forth, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house became great.`


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and having heard about Jesus, he sent unto him elders of the Jews, beseeching him, that having come he might thoroughly save his servant.


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And they, having come near unto Jesus, were calling upon him earnestly, saying -- `He is worthy to whom thou shalt do this,


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And Jesus was going on with them, and now when he is not far distant from the house the centurion sent unto him friends, saying to him, `Sir, be not troubled, for I am not worthy that under my roof thou mayest enter;


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wherefore not even myself thought I worthy to come unto thee, but say in a word, and my lad 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 [one], Go, and he goeth; and to another, Be coming, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doth [it].`


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And having heard these things Jesus wondered at him, and having turned to the multitude following him, he said, `I say to you, not even in Israel so much faith did I find;`


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And it came to pass, on the morrow, he was going on to a city called Nain, and there were going with him many of his disciples, and a great multitude,


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and as he came nigh to the gate of the city, then, lo, one dead was being carried forth, an only son of his mother, and she a widow, and a great multitude of the city was with her.


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And the Lord having seen her, was moved with compassion towards her, and said to her, `Be not weeping;`


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and having come near, he touched the bier, and those bearing [it] stood still, and he said, `Young man, to thee I say, Arise;`


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and fear took hold of all, and they were glorifying God, saying -- `A great prophet hath risen among us,` and -- `God did look upon His people.`


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and John having called near a certain two of his disciples, sent unto Jesus, saying, `Art thou he who is coming, or for another do we look?`


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And having come near to him, the men said, `John the Baptist sent us unto thee, saying, Art thou he who is coming, or for another do we look?`


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And in that hour he cured many from sicknesses, and plagues, and evil spirits, and to many blind he granted sight.


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And Jesus answering said to them, `Having gone on, report to John what ye saw and heard, that blind men do see again, lame do walk, lepers are cleansed, deaf do hear, dead are raised, poor have good news proclaimed;


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And the messengers of John having gone away, he began to say unto the multitudes concerning John: `What have ye gone forth to the wilderness to look on? a reed by the wind shaken?


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but what have ye gone forth to see? a man in soft garments clothed? lo, they in splendid apparellings, and living in luxury, are in the houses of kings!


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this is he concerning whom it hath been written, Lo, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee;


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for I say to you, a greater prophet, among those born of women, than John the Baptist there is not; but the least in the reign of God is greater than he.`


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And all the people having heard, and the tax-gatherers, declared God righteous, having been baptized with the baptism of John,


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but the Pharisees, and the lawyers, the counsel of God did put away for themselves, not having been baptized by him.


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And the Lord said, `To what, then, shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?


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they are like to children, to those sitting in a market-place, and calling one to another, and saying, We piped to you, and ye did not dance, we mourned to you, and ye did not weep!


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the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and ye say, Lo, a man, a glutton, and a wine drinker, a friend of tax-gatherers and sinners;


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And a certain one of the Pharisees was asking him that he might eat with him, and having gone into the house of the Pharisee he reclined (at meat),


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and lo, a woman in the city, who was a sinner, having known that he reclineth (at meat) in the house of the Pharisee, having provided an alabaster box of ointment,


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and having stood behind, beside his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with the tears, and with the hairs of her head she was wiping, and was kissing his feet, and was anointing with the ointment.


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And the Pharisee who did call him, having seen, spake within himself, saying, `This one, if he were a prophet, would have known who and of what kind [is] the woman who doth touch him, that she is a sinner.`


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And Jesus answering said unto him, `Simon, I have something to say to thee;` and he saith, `Teacher, say on.`


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`Two debtors were to a certain creditor; the one was owing five hundred denaries, and the other fifty;


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and they not having [wherewith] to give back, he forgave both; which then of them, say thou, will love him more?`


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And Simon answering said, `I suppose that to whom he forgave the more;` and he said to him, `Rightly thou didst judge.`


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And having turned unto the woman, he said to Simon, `Seest thou this woman? I entered into thy house; water for my feet thou didst not give, but this woman with tears did wet my feet, and with the hairs of her head did wipe;


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a kiss to me thou didst not give, but this woman, from what [time] I came in, did not cease kissing my feet;


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therefore I say to thee, her many sins have been forgiven, because she did love much; but to whom little is forgiven, little he doth love.`


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and those reclining with him (at meat) began to say within themselves, `Who is this, who also doth forgive sins?`


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And it came to pass thereafter, that he was going through every city and village, preaching and proclaiming good news of the reign of God, and the twelve [are] with him,


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and certain women, who were healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary who is called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone forth,


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and Joanna wife of Chuza, steward of Herod, and Susanna, and many others, who were ministering to him from their substance.


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And a great multitude having gathered, and those who from city and city were coming unto him, he spake by a simile:


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`The sower went forth to sow his seed, and in his sowing some indeed fell beside the way, and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the heaven did devour it.


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`And other fell upon the good ground, and having sprung up, it made fruit an hundred fold.` These things saying, he was calling, `He having ears to hear -- let him hear.`


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And he said, `To you it hath been given to know the secrets of the reign of God, and to the rest in similes; that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.


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and those beside the way are those hearing, then cometh the Devil, and taketh up the word from their heart, lest having believed, they may be saved.


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`And those upon the rock: They who, when they may hear, with joy do receive the word, and these have no root, who for a time believe, and in time of temptation fall away.


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`And that which fell to the thorns: These are they who have heard, and going forth, through anxieties, and riches, and pleasures of life, are choked, and bear not to completion.


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`And that in the good ground: These are they, who in an upright and good heart, having heard the word, do retain [it], and bear fruit in continuance.


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`And no one having lighted a lamp doth cover it with a vessel, or under a couch doth put [it]; but upon a lamp-stand he doth put [it], that those coming in may see the light,


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for nothing is secret, that shall not become manifest, nor hid, that shall not be known, and become manifest.


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`See, therefore, how ye hear, for whoever may have, there shall be given to him, and whoever may not have, also what he seemeth to have, shall be taken from him.`


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And there came unto him his mother and brethren, and they were not able to get to him because of the multitude,


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and he answering said unto them, `My mother and my brethren! they are those who the word of God are hearing, and doing.`


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And it came to pass, on one of the days, that he himself went into a boat with his disciples, and he said unto them, `We may go over to the other side of the lake;` and they set forth,


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and as they are sailing he fell deeply asleep, and there came down a storm of wind to the lake, and they were filling, and were in peril.


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And having come near, they awoke him, saying, `Master, master, we perish;` and he, having arisen, rebuked the wind and the raging of the water, and they ceased, and there came a calm,


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and he said to them, `Where is your faith?` and they being afraid did wonder, saying unto one another, `Who, then, is this, that even the winds he doth command, and the water, and they obey him?`


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and he having gone forth upon the land, there met him a certain man, out of the city, who had demons for a long time, and with a garment was not clothed, and in a house was not abiding, but in the tombs,


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and having seen Jesus, and having cried out, he fell before him, and with a loud voice, said, `What -- to me and to thee, Jesus, Son of God Most High? I beseech thee, mayest thou not afflict me!`


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For he commanded the unclean spirit to come forth from the man, for many times it had caught him, and he was being bound with chains and fetters -- guarded, and breaking asunder the bonds he was driven by the demons to the deserts.


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And Jesus questioned him, saying, `What is thy name?` and he said, `Legion,` (because many demons were entered into him,)


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and there was there a herd of many swine feeding in the mountain, and they were calling on him, that he might suffer them to enter into these, and he suffered them,


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and the demons having gone forth from the man, did enter into the swine, and the herd rushed down the steep to the lake, and were choked.


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And those feeding [them], having seen what was come to pass, fled, and having gone, told [it] to the city, and to the fields;


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and they came forth to see what was come to pass, and they came unto Jesus, and found the man sitting, out of whom the demons had gone forth, clothed, and right-minded, at the feet of Jesus, and they were afraid;


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And the whole multitude of the region of the Gadarenes round about asked him to go away from them, because with great fear they were pressed, and he having entered into the boat, did turn back.


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And the man from whom the demons had gone forth was beseeching of him to be with him, and Jesus sent him away, saying,


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`Turn back to thy house, and tell how great things God did to thee;` and he went away through all the city proclaiming how great things Jesus did to him.


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And it came to pass, in the turning back of Jesus, the multitude received him, for they were all looking for him,


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and lo, there came a man, whose name [is] Jairus, and he was a chief of the synagogue, and having fallen at the feet of Jesus, was calling on 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 in his going away, the multitudes were thronging him,


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and a woman, having an issue of blood for twelve years, who, having spent on physicians all her living, was not able to be healed by any,


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having come near behind, touched the fringe of his garment, and presently the issue of her blood stood.


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And Jesus said, `Who [is] it that touched me?` and all denying, Peter and those with him said, `Master, the multitudes press thee, and throng [thee], and thou dost say, Who [is] it that touched me!`


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And the woman, having seen that she was not hid, trembling, came, and having fallen before him, for what cause she touched him declared to him before all the people, and how she was healed presently;


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While he is yet speaking, there doth come a certain one from the chief of the synagogue`s [house], saying to him -- `Thy daughter hath died, harass not the Teacher;`


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and Jesus having heard, answered him, saying, `Be not afraid, only believe, and she shall be saved.`


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And having come to the house, he suffered no one to go in, except Peter, and James, and John, and the father of the child, and the mother;


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and they were all weeping, and beating themselves for her, and he said, `Weep not, she did not die, but doth sleep;


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and he having put all forth without, and having taken hold of her hand, called, saying, `Child, arise;`


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and her spirit came back, and she arose presently, and he directed that there be given to her to eat;


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And having called together his twelve disciples, he gave them power and authority over all the demons, and to cure sicknesses,


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And he said unto them, `Take nothing for the way, neither staff, nor scrip, nor bread, nor money; neither have two coats each;


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


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And going forth they were going through the several villages, proclaiming good news, and healing everywhere.


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And Herod the tetrarch heard of all the things being done by him, and was perplexed, because it was said by certain, that John hath been raised out of the dead;


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and by certain, that Elijah did appear, and by others, that a prophet, one of the ancients, was risen;


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and Herod said, `John I did behead, but who is this concerning whom I hear such things?` and he was seeking to see him.


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And the apostles having turned back, declared to him how great things they did, and having taken them, he withdrew by himself to a desert place of a city called Bethsaida,


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and the multitudes having known did follow him, and having received them, he was speaking to them concerning the reign of God, and those having need of service he cured.


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And the day began to decline, and the twelve having come near, said to him, `Let away the multitude, that having gone to the villages and the fields round about, they may lodge and may find provision, because here we are in a desert place.`


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And he said unto them, `Give ye them to eat;` and they said, `We have no more than five loaves, and two fishes: except, having gone, we may buy for all this people victuals;`


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for they were about five thousand men. And he said unto his disciples, `Cause them to recline in companies, in each fifty;`


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and having taken the five loaves, and the two fishes, having looked up to the heaven, he blessed them, and brake, and was giving to the disciples to set before the multitude;


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and they did eat, and were all filled, and there was taken up what was over to them of broken pieces, twelve baskets.


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And it came to pass, as he is praying alone, the disciples were with him, and he questioned them, saying, `Who do the multitudes say me to be?`


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And they answering said, `John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and others, that a prophet, one of the ancients, was risen;`


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and he said to them, `And ye -- who do ye say me to be?` and Peter answering said, `The Christ of God.`


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saying -- `It behoveth the Son of Man to suffer many things, and to be rejected by the elders, and chief priests, and scribes, and to be killed, and the third day to be raised.`


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And he said unto all, `If any one doth will to come after me, let him disown himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me;


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for whoever may will to save his life, shall lose it, and whoever may lose his life for my sake, he shall save it;


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for what is a man profited, having gained the whole world, and having lost or having forfeited himself?


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`For whoever may be ashamed of me, and of my words, of this one shall the Son of Man be ashamed, when he may come in his glory, and the Father`s, and the holy messengers`;


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and I say to you, truly, there are certain of those here standing, who shall not taste of death till they may see the reign of God.`


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And it came to pass, after these words, as it were eight days, that having taken Peter, and John, and James, he went up to the mountain to pray,


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and it came to pass, in his praying, the appearance of his face became altered, and his garment white -- sparkling.


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but Peter and those with him were heavy with sleep, and having waked, they saw his glory, and the two men standing with him.


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And it came to pass, in their parting from him, Peter said unto Jesus, `Master, it is good to us to be here; and we may make three booths, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah,` not knowing what he saith:


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and as he was speaking these things, there came a cloud, and overshadowed them, and they feared in their entering into the cloud,


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and when the voice was past, Jesus was found alone; and they were silent, and declared to no one in those days anything of what they have seen.


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And it came to pass on the next day, they having come down from the mount, there met him a great multitude,


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and lo, a man from the multitude cried out, saying, `Teacher, I beseech thee, look upon my son, because he is my only begotten;


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and lo, a spirit doth take him, and suddenly he doth cry out, and it teareth him, with foaming, and it hardly departeth from him, bruising him,


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And Jesus answering said, `O generation, unstedfast and perverse, till when shall I be with you, and suffer you? bring near hither thy son;`


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and as he is yet coming near, the demon rent him, and tore [him] sore, and Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the youth, and gave him back to his father.


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And they were all amazed at the greatness of God, and while all are wondering at all things that Jesus did, he said unto his disciples,


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`Lay ye to your ears these words, for the Son of Man is about to be delivered up to the hands of men.`


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And they were not knowing this saying, and it was veiled from them, that they might not perceive it, and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.


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and Jesus having seen the reasoning of their heart, having taken hold of a child, set him beside himself,


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and said to them, `Whoever may receive this child in my name, doth receive me, and whoever may receive me, doth receive Him who sent me, for he who is least among you all -- he shall be great.`


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And John answering said, `Master, we saw a certain one in thy name casting forth the demons, and we forbade him, because he doth not follow with us;`


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And it came to pass, in the completing of the days of his being taken up, that he fixed his face to go on to Jerusalem,


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and he sent messengers before his face, and having gone on, they went into a village of Samaritans, to make ready for him,


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And his disciples James and John having seen, said, `Sir, wilt thou [that] we may command fire to come down from the heaven, and to consume them, as also Elijah did?`


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for the Son of Man did not come to destroy men`s lives, but to save;` and they went on to another village.


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And it came to pass, as they are going on in the way, a certain one said unto him, `I will follow thee wherever thou mayest go, sir;`


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and Jesus said to him, `The foxes have holes, and the fowls of the heaven places of rest, but the Son of Man hath not where he may recline the head.`


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And he said unto another, `Be following me;` and he said, `Sir, permit me, having gone away, first to bury my father;`


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and Jesus said to him, `Suffer the dead to bury their own dead, and thou, having gone away, publish the reign of God.`


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And another also said, `I will follow thee, sir, but first permit me to take leave of those in my house;`


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and Jesus said unto him, `No one having put his hand on a plough, and looking back, is fit for the reign of God.`


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And after these things, the Lord did appoint also other seventy, and sent them by twos before his face, to every city and place whither he himself was about to come,


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then said he unto them, `The harvest indeed [is] abundant, but the workmen few; beseech ye then the Lord of the harvest, that He may put forth workmen to His harvest.


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and if indeed there may be there the son of peace, rest on it shall your peace; and if not so, upon you it shall turn back.


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`And in that house remain, eating and drinking the things they have, for worthy [is] the workman of his hire; go not from house to house,


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`And into whatever city ye do enter, and they may not receive you, having gone forth to its broad places, say,


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And the dust that hath cleaved to us, from your city, we do wipe off against you, but this know ye, that the reign of God hath come nigh to you;


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`Wo to thee, Chorazin; wo to thee, Bethsaida; for if in Tyre and Sidon had been done the mighty works that were done in you, long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes, they had reformed;


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`He who is hearing you, doth hear me; and he who is putting you away, doth put me away; and he who is putting me away, doth put away Him who sent me.`


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And the seventy turned back with joy, saying, `Sir, and the demons are being subjected to us in thy name;`


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lo, I give to you the authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and on all the power of the enemy, and nothing by any means shall hurt you;


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but, in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subjected to you, but rejoice rather that your names were written in the heavens.`


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In that hour was Jesus glad in the Spirit, and said, `I do confess to thee, Father, Lord of the heaven and of the earth, that Thou didst hide these things from wise men and understanding, and didst reveal them to babes; yes, Father, because so it became good pleasure before Thee.


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`All things were delivered up to me by my Father, and no one doth know who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whom the Son may wish to reveal [Him].`


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And having turned unto the disciples, he said, by themselves, `Happy the eyes that are perceiving what ye perceive;


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for I say to you, that many prophets and kings did wish to see what ye perceive, and did not see, and to hear what ye hear, and did not hear.`


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And lo, a certain lawyer stood up, trying him, and saying, `Teacher, what having done, life age-during shall I inherit?`


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And he answering said, `Thou shalt love the Lord thy God out of all thy heart, and out of all thy soul, and out of all thy strength, and out of all thy understanding, and thy neighbour as thyself.`


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and Jesus having taken up [the word], said, `A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among robbers, and having stripped him and inflicted blows, they went away, leaving [him] half dead.


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`And by a coincidence a certain priest was going down in that way, and having seen him, he passed over on the opposite side;


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and in like manner also, a Levite, having been about the place, having come and seen, passed over on the opposite side.


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`But a certain Samaritan, journeying, came along him, and having seen him, he was moved with compassion,


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and having come near, he bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine, and having lifted him up on his own beast, he brought him to an inn, and was careful of him;


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and on the morrow, going forth, taking out two denaries, he gave to the innkeeper, and said to him, Be careful of him, and whatever thou mayest spend more, I, in my coming again, will give back to thee.


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`Who, then, of these three, seemeth to thee to have become neighbour of him who fell among the robbers?`


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and he said, `He who did the kindness with him,` then Jesus said to him, `Be going on, and thou be doing in like manner.`


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And it came to pass, in their going on, that he entered into a certain village, and a certain woman, by name Martha, did receive him into her house,


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and she had also a sister, called Mary, who also, having seated herself beside the feet of Jesus, was hearing the word,


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and Martha was distracted about much serving, and having stood by him, she said, `Sir, dost thou not care that my sister left me alone to serve? say then to her, that she may partake along with me.`


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And Jesus answering said to her, `Martha, Martha, thou art anxious and disquieted about many things,


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but of one thing there is need, and Mary the good part did choose, that shall not be taken away from her.`


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And it came to pass, in his being in a certain place praying, as he ceased, a certain one of his disciples said unto him, `Sir, teach us to pray, as also John taught his disciples.`


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And he said to them, `When ye may pray, say ye: Our Father who art in the heavens; hallowed be Thy name: Thy reign come; Thy will come to pass, as in heaven also on earth;


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and forgive us our sins, for also we ourselves forgive every one indebted to us; and mayest Thou not bring us into temptation; but do Thou deliver us from the evil.`


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And he said unto them, `Who of you shall have a friend, and shall go on unto him at midnight, and may say to him, Friend, lend me three loaves,


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and he from within answering may say, Do not give me trouble, already the door hath been shut, and my children with me are in the bed, I am not able, having risen, to give to thee.


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`I say to you, even if he will not give to him, having risen, because of his being his friend, yet because of his importunity, having risen, he will give him as many as he doth need;


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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 who is asking doth receive; and he who is seeking doth find; and to him who is knocking it shall be opened.


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`And of which of you -- the father -- if the son shall ask a loaf, a stone will he present to him? and if a fish, will he instead of a fish, a serpent present to him?


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If, then, ye, being evil, have known good gifts to be giving to your children, how much more shall the Father who is from heaven give the Holy Spirit to those asking Him!`


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And he was casting forth a demon, and it was dumb, and it came to pass, the demon having gone forth, the dumb man spake, and the multitudes wondered,


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And he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, `Every kingdom having been divided against itself is desolated; and house against house doth fall;


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and if also the Adversary against himself was divided, how shall his kingdom be made to stand? for ye say, by Beelzeboul is my casting forth the demons.


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`But if I by Beelzeboul cast forth the demons -- your sons, by whom do they cast forth? because of this your judges they shall be;


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but if by the finger of God I cast forth the demons, then come unawares upon you did the reign of God.


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but when the stronger than he, having come upon [him], may overcome him, his whole-armour he doth take away in which he had trusted, and his spoils he distributeth;


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`When the unclean spirit may go forth from the man it walketh through waterless places seeking rest, and not finding, it saith, I will turn back to my house whence I came forth;


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then doth it go, and take to it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and having entered, they dwell there, and the last of that man becometh worst than the first.`


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And it came to pass, in his saying these things, a certain woman having lifted up the voice out of the multitude, said to him, `Happy the womb that carried thee, and the paps that thou didst suck!`


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And the multitudes crowding together upon him, he began to say, `This generation is evil, a sign it doth seek after, and a sign shall not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet,


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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, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and lo, greater than Solomon here!


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`Men of Nineveh shall stand up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it, because they reformed at the proclamation of Jonah; and lo, greater than Jonah here!


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`And no one having lighted a lamp, doth put [it] in a secret place, nor under the measure, but on the lamp-stand, that those coming in may behold the light.


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`The lamp of the body is the eye, when then thine eye may be simple, thy whole body also is lightened; and when it may be evil, thy body also is darkened;


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if then thy whole body is lightened, not having any part darkened, the whole shall be lightened, as when the lamp by the brightness may give thee light.`


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And in [his] speaking, a certain Pharisee was asking him that he might dine with him, and having gone in, he reclined (at meat),


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And the Lord said unto him, `Now do ye, the Pharisees, the outside of the cup and of the plate make clean, but your inward part is full of rapine and wickedness;


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`But wo to you, the Pharisees, because ye tithe the mint, and the rue, and every herb, and ye pass by the judgment, and the love of God; these things it behoveth to do, and those not to be neglecting.


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`Wo to you, the Pharisees, because ye love the first seats in the synagogues, and the salutations in the market-places.


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`Wo to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because ye are as the unseen tombs, and the men walking above have not known.`


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And one of the lawyers answering, saith to him, `Teacher, these things saying, us also thou dost insult;`


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and he said, `And to you, the lawyers, wo! because ye burden men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves with one of your fingers do not touch the burdens.


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Then do ye testify, and are well pleased with the works of your fathers, because they indeed killed them, and ye do build their tombs;


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because of this also the wisdom of God said: I will send to them prophets, and apostles, and some of them they shall kill and persecute,


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that the blood of all the prophets, that is being poured forth from the foundation of the world, may be required from this generation;


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from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, who perished between the altar and the house; yes, I say to you, It shall be required from this generation.


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`Wo to you, the lawyers, because ye took away the key of the knowledge; yourselves ye did not enter; and those coming in, ye did hinder.`


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And in his speaking these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began fearfully to urge and to press him to speak about many things,


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At which time the myriads of the multitude having been gathered together, so as to tread upon one another, he began to say unto his disciples, first, `Take heed to yourselves of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy;


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because whatever in the darkness ye said, in the light shall be heard: and what to the ear ye spake in the inner-chambers, shall be proclaimed upon the house-tops.


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`And I say to you, my friends, be not afraid of those killing the body, and after these things are not having anything over to do;


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but I will show to you, whom ye may fear; Fear him who, after the killing, is having authority to cast to the gehenna; yes, I say to you, Fear ye Him.


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but even the hairs of your head have been all numbered; therefore fear ye not, than many sparrows ye are of more value.


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`And I say to you, Every one -- whoever may confess with me before men, the Son of Man also shall confess with him before the messengers of God,


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and every one whoever shall say a word to the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven to him, but to him who to the Holy Spirit did speak evil, it shall not be forgiven.


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`And when they bring you before the synagogues, and the rulers, and the authorities, be not anxious how or what ye may reply, or what ye may say,


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And a certain one said to him, out of the multitude, `Teacher, say to my brother to divide with me the inheritance.`


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And he said unto them, `Observe, and beware of the covetousness, because not in the abundance of one`s goods is his life.`


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and he was reasoning within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have not where I shall gather together my fruits?


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and he said, This I will do, I will take down my storehouses, and greater ones I will build, and I will gather together there all my products and my good things,


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and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many good things laid up for many years, be resting, eat, drink, be merry.


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`And God said to him, Unthinking one! this night thy soul they shall require from thee, and what things thou didst prepare -- to whom shall they be?


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And he said unto his disciples, `Because of this, to you I say, Be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat; nor for the body, what ye may put on;


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`Consider the ravens, that they sow not, nor reap, to which there is no barn nor storehouse, and God doth nourish them; how much better are ye than the fowls?


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`Consider the lilies, how do they grow? they labour not, nor do they spin, and I say to you, not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed as one of these;


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and if the herbage in the field, that to-day is, and to-morrow into an oven is cast, God doth so clothe, how much more you -- ye of little faith?


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for all these things do the nations of the world seek after, and your Father hath known that ye have need of these things;


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sell your goods, and give alms, make to yourselves bags that become not old, a treasure unfailing in the heavens, where thief doth not come near, nor moth destroy;


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and ye like to men waiting for their lord, when he shall return out of the wedding feasts, that he having come and knocked, immediately they may open to him.


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`Happy those servants, whom the lord, having come, shall find watching; verily I say to you, that he will gird himself, and will cause them to recline (at meat), and having come near, will minister to them;


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and if he may come in the second watch, and in the third watch he may come, and may find [it] so, happy are those servants.


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`And this know, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief doth come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken through;


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And the Lord said, `Who, then, is the faithful and prudent steward whom the lord shall set over his household, to give in season the wheat measure?


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`And if that servant may say in his heart, My lord doth delay to come, and may begin to beat the men-servants and the maid-servants, to eat also, and to drink, and to be drunken;


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the lord of that servant will come in a day in which he doth not look for [him], and in an hour that he doth not know, and will cut him off, and his portion with the unfaithful he will appoint.


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`And that servant, who having known his lord`s will, and not having prepared, nor having gone according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes,


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and he who, not having known, and having done things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few; and to every one to whom much was given, much shall be required from him; and to whom they did commit much, more abundantly they will ask of him.


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for there shall be henceforth five in one house divided -- three against two, and two against three;


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a father shall be divided against a son, and a son against a father, a mother against a daughter, and a daughter against a 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 multitudes, `When ye may see the cloud rising from the west, immediately ye say, A shower doth come, and it is so;


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hypocrites! the face of the earth and of the heaven ye have known to make proof of, but this time -- how do ye not make proof of [it]?


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for, as thou art going away with thy opponent to the ruler, in the way give diligence to be released from him, lest he may drag thee unto the judge, and the judge may deliver thee to the officer, and the officer may cast thee into prison;


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And there were present certain at that time, telling him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate did mingle with their sacrifices;


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and Jesus answering said to them, `Think ye that these Galileans became sinners beyond all the Galileans, because they have suffered such things?


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`Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them; think ye that these became debtors beyond all men who are dwelling in Jerusalem?


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And he spake this simile: `A certain one had a fig-tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit in it, and he did not find;


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and he said unto the vine-dresser, Lo, three years I come seeking fruit in this fig-tree, and do not find, cut it off, why also the ground doth it render useless?


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`And he answering saith to him, Sir, suffer it also this year, till that I may dig about it, and cast in dung;


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and lo, there was a woman having a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and she was bowed together, and not able to bend back at all,


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and Jesus having seen her, did call [her] near, and said to her, `Woman, thou hast been loosed from thy infirmity;`


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And the chief of the synagogue answering -- much displeased that on the sabbath Jesus healed -- said to the multitude, `Six days there are in which it behoveth [us] to be working; in these, then, coming, be healed, and not on the sabbath-day.`


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Then the Lord answered him and said, `Hypocrite, doth not each of you on the sabbath loose his ox or ass from the stall, and having led away, doth water [it]?


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and this one, being a daughter of Abraham, whom the Adversary bound, lo, eighteen years, did it not behove to be loosed from this bond on the sabbath-day?`


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And he saying these things, all who were opposed to him were being ashamed, and all the multitude were rejoicing over all the glorious things that are being done by him.


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It is like to a grain of mustard, which a man having taken, did cast into his garden, and it increased, and came to a great tree, and the fowls of the heavens did rest in its branches.`


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It is like leaven, which a woman, having taken, did hide in three measures of meal, till that all was leavened.`


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`Be striving to go in through the straight gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to go in, and shall not be able;


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from the time the master of the house may have risen up, and may have shut the door, and ye may begin without to stand, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, lord, open to us, and he answering shall say to you, I have not known you whence ye are,


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then ye may begin to say, We did eat before thee, and did drink, and in our broad places thou didst teach;


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and he shall say, I say to you, I have not known you whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of the unrighteousness.


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`There shall be there the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth, when ye may see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the reign of God, and yourselves being cast out without;


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and they shall come from east and west, and from north and south, and shall recline in the reign of God,


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On that day there came near certain Pharisees, saying to him, `Go forth, and be going on hence, for Herod doth wish to kill thee;`


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and he said to them, `Having gone, say to this fox, Lo, I cast forth demons, and perfect cures to-day and to-morrow, and the third [day] I am being perfected;


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but it behoveth me to-day, and to-morrow, and the [day] following, to go on, because it is not possible for a prophet to perish out of Jerusalem.


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`Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that is killing the prophets, and stoning those sent unto her, how often did I will to gather together thy children, as a hen her brood under the wings, and ye did not will.


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`Lo, your house is being left to you desolate, and verily I say to you -- ye may not see me, till it may come, when ye may say, Blessed [is] he who is coming in the name of the Lord.`


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And it came to pass, on his going into the house of a certain one of the chiefs of the Pharisees, on a sabbath, to eat bread, that they were watching him,


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and Jesus answering spake to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, `Is it lawful on the sabbath-day to heal?`


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and answering them he said, `Of which of you shall an ass or ox fall into a pit, and he will not immediately draw it up on the sabbath-day?`


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And he spake a simile unto those called, marking how they were choosing out the first couches, saying unto them,


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`When thou mayest be called by any one to marriage-feasts, thou mayest not recline on the first couch, lest a more honourable than thou may have been called by him,


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and he who did call thee and him having come shall say to thee, Give to this one place, and then thou mayest begin with shame to occupy the last place.


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`But, when thou mayest be called, having gone on, recline in the last place, that when he who called thee may come, he may say to thee, Friend, come up higher; then thou shalt have glory before those reclining with thee;


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because every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.`


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And he said also to him who did call him, `When thou mayest make a dinner or a supper, be not calling thy friends, nor thy brethren, nor thy kindred, nor rich neighbours, lest they may also call thee again, and a recompense may come to thee;


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and happy thou shalt be, because they have not to recompense thee, for it shall be recompensed to thee in the rising again of the righteous.`


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And one of those reclining with him, having heard these things, said to him, `Happy [is] he who shall eat bread in the reign of God;`


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and he sent his servant at the hour of the supper to say to those having been called, Be coming, because now are all things ready.


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`And they began with one consent all to excuse themselves: The first said to him, A field I bought, and I have need to go forth and see it; I beg of thee, have me excused.


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`And another said, Five yoke of oxen I bought, and I go on to prove them; I beg of thee, have me excused:


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`And that servant having come, told to his lord these things, then the master of the house, having been angry, said to his servant, Go forth quickly to the broad places and lanes of the city, and the poor, and maimed, and lame, and blind, bring in hither.


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`And the lord said unto the servant, Go forth to the ways and hedges, and constrain to come in, that my house may be filled;


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`If any one doth come unto me, and doth not hate his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and yet even his own life, he is not able to be my disciple;


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`For who of you, willing to build a tower, doth not first, having sat down, count the expense, whether he have the things for completing?


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lest that he having laid a foundation, and not being able to finish, all who are beholding may begin to mock him,


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`Or what king going on to engage with another king in war, doth not, having sat down, first consult if he be able with ten thousand to meet him who with twenty thousand is coming against him?


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and if not so -- he being yet a long way off -- having sent an embassy, he doth ask the things for peace.


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`So, then, every one of you who doth not take leave of all that he himself hath, is not able to be my disciple.


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neither for land nor for manure is it fit -- they cast it without. He who is having ears to hear -- let him hear.`


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and the Pharisees and the scribes were murmuring, saying -- This one doth receive sinners, and doth eat with them.`


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`What man of you having a hundred sheep, and having lost one out of them, doth not leave behind the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go on after the lost one, till he may find it?


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and having come to the house, he doth call together the friends and the neighbours, saying to them, Rejoice with me, because I found my sheep -- the lost one.


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`I say to you, that so joy shall be in the heaven over one sinner reforming, rather than over ninety-nine righteous men, who have no need of reformation.


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`Or what woman having ten drachms, if she may lose one drachm, doth not light a lamp, and sweep the house, and seek carefully till that she may find?


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and having found, she doth call together the female friends and the neighbours, saying, Rejoice with me, for I found the drachm that I lost.


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and the younger of them said to the father, Father, give me the portion of the substance falling to [me], and he divided to them the living.


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`And not many days after, having gathered all together, the younger son went abroad to a far country, and there he scattered his substance, living riotously;


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and he having spent all, there came a mighty famine on that country, and himself began to be in want;


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and having gone on, he joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him to the fields to feed swine,


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and he was desirous to fill his belly from the husks that the swine were eating, and no one was giving to him.


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`And having come to himself, he said, How many hirelings of my father have a superabundance of bread, and I here with hunger am perishing!


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having risen, I will go on unto my father, and will say to him, Father, I did sin -- to the heaven, and before thee,


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`And having risen, he went unto his own father, and he being yet far distant, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and having ran he fell upon his neck and kissed him;


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and the son said to him, Father, I did sin -- to the heaven, and before thee, and no more am I worthy to be called thy son.


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`And the father said unto his servants, Bring forth the first robe, and clothe him, and give a ring for his hand, and sandals for the feet;


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because this my son was dead, and did live again, and he was lost, and was found; and they began to be merry.


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`And his elder son was in a field, and as, coming, he drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing,


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and he said to him -- Thy brother is arrived, and thy father did kill the fatted calf, because in health he did receive him back.


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`And he was angry, and would not go in, therefore his father, having come forth, was entreating him;


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and he answering said to the father, Lo, so many years I do serve thee, and never thy command did I transgress, and to me thou didst never give a kid, that with my friends I might make merry;


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but when thy son -- this one who did devour thy living with harlots -- came, thou didst kill to him the fatted calf.


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but to be merry, and to be glad, it was needful, because this thy brother was dead, and did live again, he was lost, and was found.`


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And he said also unto his disciples, `A certain man was rich, who had a steward, and he was accused to him as scattering his goods;


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and having called him, he said to him, What [is] this I hear about thee? render the account of thy stewardship, for thou mayest not any longer be steward.


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`And the steward said in himself, What shall I do, because my lord doth take away the stewardship from me? to dig I am not able, to beg I am ashamed: --


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I have known what I shall do, that, when I may be removed from the stewardship, they may receive me to their houses.


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`And having called near each one of his lord`s debtors, he said to the first, How much dost thou owe to my lord?


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and he said, A hundred baths of oil; and he said to him, Take thy bill, and having sat down write fifty.


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`Afterward to another he said, And thou, how much dost thou owe? and he said, A hundred cors of wheat; and he saith to him, Take thy bill, and write eighty.


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`And the lord commended the unrighteous steward that he did prudently, because the sons of this age are more prudent than the sons of the light, in respect to their generation.


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and I say to you, Make to yourselves friends out of the mammon of unrighteousness, that when ye may fail, they may receive you to the age-during tabernacles.


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`He who is faithful in the least, [is] also faithful in much; and he who in the least [is] unrighteous, is also unrighteous in much;


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`No domestic is able to serve two lords, for either the one he will hate, and the other he will love; or one he will hold to, and of the other he will be heedless; ye are not able to serve God and mammon.`


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And also the Pharisees, being lovers of money, were hearing all these things, and were deriding him,


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and he said to them, `Ye are those declaring yourselves righteous before men, but God doth know your hearts; because that which among men is high, [is] abomination before God;


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the law and the prophets [are] till John; since then the reign of God is proclaimed good news, and every one doth press into it;


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`Every one who is sending away his wife, and marrying another, doth commit adultery; and every one who is marrying her sent away from a husband doth commit adultery.


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`And -- a certain man was rich, and was clothed in purple and fine linen, making merry sumptuously every day,


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and desiring to be filled from the crumbs that are falling from the table of the rich man; yea, also the dogs, coming, were licking his sores.


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`And it came to pass, that the poor man died, and that he was carried away by the messengers to the bosom of Abraham -- and the rich man also died, and was buried;


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and in the hades having lifted up his eyes, being in torments, he doth see Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom,


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and having cried, he said, Father Abraham, deal kindly with me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and may cool my tongue, because I am distressed in this flame.


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`And Abraham said, Child, remember that thou did receive -- thou -- thy good things in thy life, and Lazarus in like manner the evil things, and now he is comforted, and thou art distressed;


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and besides all these things, between us and you a great chasm is fixed, so that they who are willing to go over from hence unto you are not able, nor do they from thence to us pass through.


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for I have five brothers, so that he may thoroughly testify to them, that they also may not come to this place of torment.


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And he said to him, If Moses and the prophets they do not hear, neither if one may rise out of the dead will they be persuaded.`


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And he said unto the disciples, `It is impossible for the stumbling blocks not to come, but wo [to him] through whom they come;


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it is more profitable to him if a weighty millstone is put round about his neck, and he hath been cast into the sea, than that he may cause one of these little ones to stumble.


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`Take heed to yourselves, and, if thy brother may sin in regard to thee, rebuke him, and if he may reform, forgive him,


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and if seven times in the day he may sin against thee, and seven times in the day may turn back to thee, saying, I reform; thou shalt forgive him.`


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and the Lord said, `If ye had faith as a grain of mustard, ye would have said to this sycamine, Be uprooted, and be planted in the sea, and it would have obeyed you.


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`But, who is he of you -- having a servant ploughing or feeding -- who, to him having come in out of the field, will say, Having come near, recline at meat?


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but will not [rather] say to him, Prepare what I may sup, and having girded thyself about, minister to me, till I eat and drink, and after these things thou shalt eat and drink?


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`So also ye, when ye may have done all the things directed you, say -- We are unprofitable servants, because that which we owed to do -- we have done.`


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And it came to pass, in his going on to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee,


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and having seen [them], he said to them, `Having gone on, shew yourselves to the priests;` and it came to pass, in their going, they were cleansed,


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And having been questioned by the Pharisees, when the reign of God doth come, he answered them, and said, `The reign of God doth not come with observation;


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And he said unto his disciples, `Days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and ye shall not behold [it];


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for as the lightning that is lightening out of the one [part] under heaven, to the other part under heaven doth shine, so shall be also the Son of Man in his day;


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they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were given in marriage, till the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the deluge came, and destroyed all;


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in like manner also, as it came to pass in the days of Lot; they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building;


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and on the day Lot went forth from Sodom, He rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed all.


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in that day, he who shall be on the house top, and his vessels in the house, let him not come down to take them away; and he in the field, in like manner, let him not turn backward;


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`I say to you, In that night, there shall be two men on one couch, the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left;


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two women shall be grinding at the same place together, the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left;


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And they answering say to him, `Where, sir?` and he said to them, `Where the body [is], there will the eagles be gathered together.`


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saying, `A certain judge was in a certain city -- God he is not fearing, and man he is not regarding --


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and he would not for a time, but after these things he said in himself, Even if God I do not fear, and man do not regard,


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yet because this widow doth give me trouble, I will do her justice, lest, perpetually coming, she may plague me.`


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and shall not God execute the justice to His choice ones, who are crying unto Him day and night -- bearing long in regard to them?


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I say to you, that He will execute the justice to them quickly; but the Son of Man having come, shall he find the faith upon the earth?`


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And he spake also unto certain who have been trusting in themselves that they were righteous, and have been despising the rest, this simile:


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the Pharisee having stood by himself, thus prayed: God, I thank Thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer;


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`And the tax-gatherer, having stood afar off, would not even the eyes lift up to the heaven, but was smiting on his breast, saying, God be propitious to me -- the sinner!


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I say to you, this one went down declared righteous, to his house, rather than that one: for every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.`


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And they were bringing near also the babes, that he may touch them, and the disciples having seen did rebuke them,


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and Jesus having called them near, said, `Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the reign of God;


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verily I say to you, Whoever may not receive the reign of God as a little child, may not enter into it.`


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And a certain ruler questioned him, saying, `Good teacher, what having done -- shall I inherit life age-during?`


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the commands thou hast known: Thou mayest not commit adultery, Thou mayest do no murder, Thou mayest not steal, Thou mayest not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.`


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and having heard these things, Jesus said to him, `Yet one thing to thee is lacking; all things -- as many as thou hast -- sell, and distribute to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven, and come, be following me;`


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And Jesus having seen him become very sorrowful, said, `How hardly shall those having riches enter into the reign of God!


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for it is easier for a camel through the eye of a needle to enter, than for a rich man into the reign of God to enter.`


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and he said to them, `Verily I say to you, that there is not one who left house, or parents, or brothers, or wife, or children, for the sake of the reign of God,


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And having taken the twelve aside, he said unto them, `Lo, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things shall be completed -- that have been written through the prophets -- to the Son of Man,


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And they none of these things understood, and this saying was hid from them, and they were not knowing the things said.


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And it came to pass, in his coming nigh to Jericho, a certain blind man was sitting beside the way begging,


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and those going before were rebuking him, that he might be silent, but he was much more crying out, `Son of David, deal kindly with me.`


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And Jesus having stood, commanded him to be brought unto him, and he having come nigh, he questioned him,


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and presently he did receive sight, and was following him, glorifying God; and all the people, having seen, did give praise to God.


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and he was seeking to see Jesus, who he is, and was not able for the multitude, because in stature he was small,


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and having run forward before, he went up on a sycamore, that he may see him, because through that [way] he was about to pass by.


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And as Jesus came up to the place, having looked up, he saw him, and said unto him, `Zaccheus, having hastened, come down, for to-day in thy house it behoveth me to remain;`


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And Zaccheus having stood, said unto the Lord, `Lo, the half of my goods, sir, I give to the poor, and if of any one anything I did take by false accusation, I give back fourfold.`


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And Jesus said unto him -- `To-day salvation did come to this house, inasmuch as he also is a son of Abraham;


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And while they are hearing these things, having added he spake a simile, because of his being nigh to Jerusalem, and of their thinking that the reign of God is about presently to be made manifest.


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He said therefore, `A certain man of birth went on to a far country, to take to himself a kingdom, and to return,


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and having called ten servants of his own, he gave to them ten pounds, and said unto them, Do business -- till I come;


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and his citizens were hating him, and did send an embassy after him, saying, We do not wish this one to reign over us.


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`And it came to pass, on his coming back, having taken the kingdom, that he commanded these servants to be called to him, to whom he gave the money, that he might know what any one had done in business.


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and he said to him, Well done, good servant, because in a very little thou didst become faithful, be having authority over ten cities.


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for I was afraid of thee, because thou art an austere man; thou takest up what thou didst not lay down, and reapest what thou didst not sow.


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`And he saith to him, Out of thy mouth I will judge thee, evil servant: thou knewest that I am an austere man, taking up what I did not lay down, and reaping what I did not sow!


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and wherefore didst thou not give my money to the bank, and I, having come, with interest might have received it?


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`And to those standing by he said, Take from him the pound, and give to him having the ten pounds --


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for I say to you, that to every one having shall be given, and from him not having, also what he hath shall be taken from him,


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And it came to pass, as he came nigh to Bethphage and Bethany, unto the mount called of the Olives, he sent two of his disciples,


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having said, Go away to the village over-against, in which, entering into, ye shall find a colt bound, on which no one of men did ever sit, having loosed it, bring [it];


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and if any one doth question you, Wherefore do ye loose [it]? thus ye shall say to him -- The Lord hath need of it.`


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and they brought it unto Jesus, and having cast their garments upon the colt, they did set Jesus upon it.


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and as he is coming nigh now, at the descent of the mount of the Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began rejoicing to praise God with a great voice for all the mighty works they had seen,


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saying, `blessed [is] he who is coming, a king in the name of the Lord; peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.`


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and he answering said to them, `I say to you, that, if these shall be silent, the stones will cry out!`


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saying -- `If thou didst know, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things for thy peace; but now they were hid from thine eyes.


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`Because days shall come upon thee, and thine enemies shall cast around thee a rampart, and compass thee round, and press thee on every side,


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and lay thee low, and thy children within thee, and they shall not leave in thee a stone upon a stone, because thou didst not know the time of thy inspection.`


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saying to them, `It hath been written, My house is a house of prayer -- but ye made it a den of robbers.`


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And he was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests and the scribes were seeking to destroy him -- also the chiefs of the people --


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And it came to pass, on one of those days, as he is teaching the people in the temple, and proclaiming good news, the chief priests and the scribes, with the elders, came upon [him],


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and spake unto him, saying, `Tell us by what authority thou dost these things? or who is he that gave to thee this authority?`


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And they reasoned with themselves, saying -- `If we may say, From heaven, he will say, Wherefore, then, did ye not believe him?


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and if we may say, From men, all the people will stone us, for they are having been persuaded John to be a prophet.`


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And he began to speak unto the people this simile: `A certain man planted a vineyard, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad for a long time,


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and at the season he sent unto the husbandmen a servant, that from the fruit of the vineyard they may give to him, but the husbandmen having beat him, did send [him] away empty.


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`And he added to send another servant, and they that one also having beaten and dishonoured, did send away empty;


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`And the owner of the vineyard said, What shall I do? I will send my son -- the beloved, perhaps having seen this one, they will do reverence;


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and having seen him, the husbandmen reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir; come, we may kill him, that the inheritance may become ours;


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and having cast him outside of the vineyard, they killed [him]; what, then, shall the owner of the vineyard do to them?


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He will come, and destroy these husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others.` And having heard, they said, `Let it not be!`


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and he, having looked upon them, said, `What, then, is this that hath been written: A stone that the builders rejected -- this became head of a corner?


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every one who hath fallen on that stone shall be broken, and on whom it may fall, it will crush him to pieces.`


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And the chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him in that hour, and they feared the people, for they knew that against them he spake this simile.


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And, having watched [him], they sent forth liers in wait, feigning themselves to be righteous, that they might take hold of his word, to deliver him up to the rule and to the authority of the governor,


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and they questioned him, saying, `Teacher, we have known that thou dost say and teach rightly, and dost not accept a person, but in truth the way of God dost teach;


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shew me a denary; of whom hath it an image and superscription?` and they answering said, `Of Caesar:`


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and he said to them, `Give back, therefore, the things of Caesar to Caesar, and the things of God to God;`


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and they were not able to take hold on his saying before the people, and having wondered at his answer, they were silent.


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And certain of the Sadducees, who are denying that there is a rising again, having come near, questioned him,


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saying, `Teacher, Moses wrote to us, If any one`s brother may die, having a wife, and he may die childless -- that his brother may take the wife, and may raise up seed to his brother.


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in the rising again, then, of which of them doth she become wife? -- for the seven had her as wife.`


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but those accounted worthy to obtain that age, and the rising again that is out of the dead, neither marry, nor are they given in marriage;


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for neither are they able to die any more -- for they are like messengers -- and they are sons of God, being sons of the rising again.


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`And that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the Bush, since he doth call the Lord, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob;


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`Take heed of the scribes, who are wishing to walk in long robes, and are loving salutations in the markets, and first seats in the synagogues, and first couches in the suppers,


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who devour the houses of the widows, and for a pretence make long prayers, these shall receive more abundant judgment.`


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for all these out of their superabundance did cast into the gifts to God, but this one out of her want, all the living that she had, did cast in.`


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And certain saying about the temple, that with goodly stones and devoted things it hath been adorned, he said,


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`These things that ye behold -- days will come, in which there shall not be left a stone upon a stone, that shall not be thrown down.`


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And they questioned him, saying, `Teacher, when, then, shall these things be? and what [is] the sign when these things may be about to happen?`


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And he said, `See -- ye may not be led astray, for many shall come in my name, saying -- I am [he], and the time hath come nigh; go not on then after them;


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and when ye may hear of wars and uprisings, be not terrified, for it behoveth these things to happen first, but the end [is] not immediately.`


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great shakings also in every place, and famines, and pestilences, there shall be; fearful things also, and great signs from heaven there shall be;


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and before all these, they shall lay on you their hands, and persecute, delivering up to synagogues and prisons, being brought before kings and governors for my name`s sake;


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for I will give to you a mouth and wisdom that all your opposers shall not be able to refute or resist.


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`And ye shall be delivered up also by parents, and brothers, and kindred, and friends, and they shall put of you to death;


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`And when ye may see Jerusalem surrounded by encampments, then know that come nigh did her desolation;


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then those in Judea, let them flee to the mountains; and those in her midst, let them depart out; and those in the countries, let them not come in to her;


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`And wo to those with child, and to those giving suck, in those days; for there shall be great distress on the land, and wrath on this people;


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and they shall fall by the mouth of the sword, and shall be led captive to all the nations, and Jerusalem shall be trodden down by nations, till the times of nations be fulfilled.


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`And there shall be signs in sun, and moon, and stars, and on the land [is] distress of nations with perplexity, sea and billow roaring;


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men fainting at heart from fear, and expectation of the things coming on the world, for the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.


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and these things beginning to happen bend yourselves back, and lift up your heads, because your redemption doth draw nigh.`


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`And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts may be weighed down with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and anxieties of life, and suddenly that day may come on you,


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watch ye, then, in every season, praying that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that are about to come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.`


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And he was during the days in the temple teaching, and during the nights, going forth, he was lodging at the mount called of Olives;


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and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how they may take him up, for they were afraid of the people.


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and he, having gone away, spake with the chief priests and the magistrates, how he might deliver him up to them,


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And he said to them, `Lo, in your entering into the city, there shall meet you a man, bearing a pitcher of water, follow him to the house where he doth go in,


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and ye shall say to the master of the house, The Teacher saith to thee, Where is the guest-chamber where the passover with my disciples I may eat?


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And having taken bread, having given thanks, he brake and gave to them, saying, `This is my body, that for you is being given, this do ye -- to remembrance of me.`


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In like manner, also, the cup after the supping, saying, `This cup [is] the new covenant in my blood, that for you is being poured forth.


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and indeed the Son of Man doth go according to what hath been determined; but wo to that man through whom he is being delivered up.`


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And they began to reason among themselves, who then of them it may be, who is about to do this thing.


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And he said to them, `The kings of the nations do exercise lordship over them, and those exercising authority upon them are called benefactors;


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but ye [are] not so, but he who is greater among you -- let him be as the younger; and he who is leading, as he who is ministering;


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for who is greater? he who is reclining (at meat), or he who is ministering? is it not he who is reclining (at meat)? and I -- I am in your midst as he who is ministering.


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that ye may eat and may drink at my table, in my kingdom, and may sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.`


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and I besought for thee, that thy faith may not fail; and thou, when thou didst turn, strengthen thy brethren.`


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and he said, `I say to thee, Peter, a cock shall not crow to-day, before thrice thou mayest disown knowing me.`


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And he said to them, `When I sent you without bag, and scrip, and sandals, did ye lack anything?` and they said, `Nothing.`


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Then said he to them, `But, now, he who is having a bag, let him take [it] up, and in like manner also a scrip; and he who is not having, let him sell his garment, and buy a sword,


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for I say to you, that yet this that hath been written it behoveth to be fulfilled in me: And with lawless ones he was reckoned, for also the things concerning me have an end.`


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And having gone forth, he went on, according to custom, to the mount of the Olives, and his disciples also followed him,


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And he was withdrawn from them, as it were a stone`s cast, and having fallen on the knees he was praying,


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saying, `Father, if Thou be counselling to make this cup pass from me --; but, not my will, but Thine be done.` --


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and having been in agony, he was more earnestly praying, and his sweat became, as it were, great drops of blood falling upon the ground.


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And having risen up from the prayer, having come unto the disciples, he found them sleeping from the sorrow,


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And while he is speaking, lo, a multitude, and he who is called Judas, one of the twelve, was coming before them, and he came nigh to Jesus to kiss him,


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And those about him, having seen what was about to be, said to him, `Sir, shall we smite with a sword?`


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And Jesus said to those having come upon him -- chief priests, and magistrates of the temple, and elders -- `As upon a robber have ye come forth, with swords and sticks?


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while daily I was with you in the temple, ye did stretch forth no hands against me; but this is your hour and the power of the darkness.`


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And having taken him, they led and brought him to the house of the chief priest. And Peter was following afar off,


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and they having kindled a fire in the midst of the court, and having sat down together, Peter was sitting in the midst of them,


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and a certain maid having seen him sitting at the light, and having earnestly looked at him, she said, `And this one was with him!`


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And after a little, another having seen him, said, `And thou art of them!` and Peter said, `Man, I am not.`


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And one hour, as it were, having intervened, a certain other was confidently affirming, saying, `Of a truth this one also was with him, for he is also a Galilean;`


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and Peter said, `Man, I have not known what thou sayest;` and presently, while he is speaking, a cock crew.


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And the Lord having turned did look on Peter, and Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he said to him -- `Before a cock shall crow, thou mayest disown me thrice;`


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and having blindfolded him, they were striking him on the face, and were questioning him, saying, `Prophesy who he is who smote thee?`


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And when it became day there was gathered together the eldership of the people, chief priests also, and scribes, and they led him up to their own sanhedrim,


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saying, `If thou be the Christ, tell us.` And he said to them, `If I may tell you, ye will not believe;


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And they all said, `Thou, then, art the Son of God?` and he said unto them, `Ye say [it], because I am;`


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and began to accuse him, saying, `This one we found perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying himself to be Christ a king.`


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And Pilate questioned him, saying, `Thou art the king of the Jews?` and he answering him, said, `Thou dost say [it].`


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and they were the more urgent, saying -- `He doth stir up the people, teaching throughout the whole of Judea -- having begun from Galilee -- unto this place.`


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and having known that he is from the jurisdiction of Herod, he sent him back unto Herod, he being also in Jerusalem in those days.


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And Herod having seen Jesus did rejoice exceedingly, for he was wishing for a long [time] to see him, because of hearing many things about him, and he was hoping some sign to see done by him,


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and Herod with his soldiers having set him at nought, and having mocked, having put around him gorgeous apparel, did send him back to Pilate,


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and both Pilate and Herod became friends on that day with one another, for they were before at enmity between themselves.


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said unto them, `Ye brought to me this man as perverting the people, and lo, I before you having examined, found in this man no fault in those things ye bring forward against him;


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no, nor yet Herod, for I sent you back unto him, and lo, nothing worthy of death is having been done by him;


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and they cried out -- the whole multitude -- saying, `Away with this one, and release to us Barabbas,`


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And he a third time said unto them, `Why, what evil did he? no cause of death did I find in him; having chastised him, then, I will release [him].`


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And they were pressing with loud voices asking him to be crucified, and their voices, and those of the chief priests, were prevailing,


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and he released him who because of sedition and murder hath been cast into the prison, whom they were asking, and Jesus he gave up to their will.


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And as they led him away, having taken hold on Simon, a certain Cyrenian, coming from the field, they put on him the cross, to bear [it] behind Jesus.


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And there was following him a great multitude of the people, and of women, who also were beating themselves and lamenting him,


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and Jesus having turned unto them, said, `Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but for yourselves weep ye, and for your children;


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for, lo, days do come, in which they shall say, Happy the barren, and wombs that did not bare, and paps that did not give suck;


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and when they came to the place that is called Skull, there they crucified him and the evil-doers, one on the right hand and one on the left.


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And Jesus said, `Father, forgive them, for they have not known what they do;` and parting his garments they cast a lot.


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And the people were standing, looking on, and the rulers also were sneering with them, saying, `Others he saved, let him save himself, if this be the Christ, the choice one of God.`


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And there was also a superscription written over him, in letters of Greek, and Roman, and Hebrew, `This is the King of the Jews.`


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And one of the evil-doers who were hanged, was speaking evil of him, saying, `If thou be the Christ, save thyself and us.`


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And the other answering, was rebuking him, saying, `Dost thou not even fear God, that thou art in the same judgment?


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and we indeed righteously, for things worthy of what we did we receive back, but this one did nothing out of place;`


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and having cried with a loud voice, Jesus said, `Father, to Thy hands I commit my spirit;` and these things having said, he breathed forth the spirit.


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And the centurion having seen what was done, did glorify God, saying, `Really this man was righteous;`


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and all the multitudes who were come together to this sight, beholding the things that came to pass, smiting their breasts did turn back;


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and all his acquaintances stood afar off, and women who did follow him from Galilee, beholding these things.


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-- he was not consenting to their counsel and deed -- from Arimathea, a city of the Jews, who also himself was expecting the reign of God,


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and having taken it down, he wrapped it in fine linen, and placed it in a tomb hewn out, where no one was yet laid.


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and the women also who have come with him out of Galilee having followed after, beheld the tomb, and how his body was placed,


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and having turned back, they made ready spices and ointments, and on the sabbath, indeed, they rested, according to the command.


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And on the first of the sabbaths, at early dawn, they came to the tomb, bearing the spices they made ready, and certain [others] with them,


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And it came to pass, while they are perplexed about this, that lo, two men stood by them in glittering apparel,


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and on their having become afraid, and having inclined the face to the earth, they said to them, `Why do ye seek the living with the dead?


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saying -- It behoveth the Son of Man to be delivered up to the hands of sinful men, and to be crucified, and the third day to rise again.`


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And it was the Magdalene Mary, and Joanna, and Mary of James, and the other women with them, who told unto the apostles these things,


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And Peter having risen, did run to the tomb, and having stooped down he seeth the linen clothes lying alone, and he went away to his own home, wondering at that which was come to pass.


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And, lo, two of them were going on during that day to a village, distant sixty furlongs from Jerusalem, the name of which [is] Emmaus,


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And it came to pass in their conversing and reasoning together, that Jesus himself, having come nigh, was going on with them,


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and he said unto them, `What [are] these words that ye exchange with one another, walking, and ye are sad?`


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And the one, whose name was Cleopas, answering, said unto him, `Art thou alone such a stranger in Jerusalem, that thou hast not known the things that came to pass in it in these days?`


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And he said to them, `What things?` And they said to him, `The things about Jesus of Nazareth, who became a man -- a prophet -- powerful in deed and word, before God and all the people,


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how also the chief priests and our rulers did deliver him up to a judgment of death, and crucified him;


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and we were hoping that he it is who is about to redeem Israel, and also with all these things, this third day is passing to-day, since these things happened.


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and not having found his body, they came, saying also to have seen an apparition of messengers, who say he is alive,


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and certain of those with us went away unto the tomb, and found as even the women said, and him they saw not.`


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And he said unto them, `O inconsiderate and slow in heart, to believe on all that the prophets spake!


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and having begun from Moses, and from all the prophets, he was expounding to them in all the Writings the things about himself.


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And they came nigh to the village whither they were going, and he made an appearance of going on further,


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and they constrained him, saying, `Remain with us, for it is toward evening,` and the day did decline, and he went in to remain with them.


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And it came to pass, in his reclining (at meat) with them, having taken the bread, he blessed, and having broken, he was giving to them,


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And they said one to another, `Was not our heart burning within us, as he was speaking to us in the way, and as he was opening up to us the Writings?`


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And they, having risen up the same hour, turned back to Jerusalem, and found gathered together the eleven, and those with them,


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and they were telling the things in the way, and how he was made known to them in the breaking of the bread,


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and as they are speaking these things, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith to them, `Peace -- to you;`


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see my hands and my feet, that I am he; handle me and see, because a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me having.`


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and while they are not believing from the joy, and wondering, he said to them, `Have ye anything here to eat?`


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and he said to them, `These [are] the words that I spake unto you, being yet with you, that it behoveth to be fulfilled all the things that are written in the Law of Moses, and the Prophets, and the Psalms, about me.`


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and he said to them -- `Thus it hath been written, and thus it was behoving the Christ to suffer, and to rise out of the dead the third day,


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and reformation and remission of sins to be proclaimed in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem:


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`And, lo, I do send the promise of my Father upon you, but ye -- abide ye in the city of Jerusalem till ye be clothed with power from on high.`


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this one came for testimony, that he might testify about the Light, that all might believe through him;


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but as many as did receive him to them he gave authority to become sons of God -- to those believing in his name,


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And the Word became flesh, and did tabernacle among us, and we beheld his glory, glory as of an only begotten of a father, full of grace and truth.


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John doth testify concerning him, and hath cried, saying, `This was he of whom I said, He who after me is coming, hath come before me, for he was before me;`


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God no one hath ever seen; the only begotten Son, who is on the bosom of the Father -- he did declare.


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And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent out of Jerusalem priests and Levites, that they might question him, `Who art thou?`


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And they questioned him, `What then? Elijah art thou?` and he saith, `I am not.` -- `The prophet art thou?` and he answered, `No.`


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They said then to him, `Who art thou, that we may give an answer to those sending us? what dost thou say concerning thyself?`


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He said, `I [am] a voice of one crying in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet.`


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and they questioned him and said to him, `Why, then, dost thou baptize, if thou art not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?`


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John answered them, saying, `I baptize with water, but in midst of you he hath stood whom ye have not known, this one it is who is coming after me, who hath been before me,


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on the morrow John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, `Lo, the Lamb of God, who is taking away the sin of the world;


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this is he concerning whom I said, After me doth come a man, who hath come before me, because he was before me:


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and I knew him not, but, that he might be manifested to Israel, because of this I came with the water baptizing.


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And John testified, saying -- `I have seen the Spirit coming down, as a dove, out of heaven, and it remained on him;


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and I did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water, He said to me, On whomsoever thou mayst see the Spirit coming down, and remaining on him, this is he who is baptizing with the Holy Spirit;


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And Jesus having turned, and having beheld them following, saith to them, `What seek ye?` and they said to them, `Rabbi, (which is, being interpreted, Teacher,) where remainest thou?`


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He saith to them, `Come and see;` they came, and saw where he doth remain, and with him they remained that day and the hour was about the tenth.


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this one doth first find his own brother Simon, and saith to him, `We have found the Messiah,` (which is, being interpreted, The Anointed,)


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and he brought him unto Jesus: and having looked upon him, Jesus saith, `Thou art Simon, the son of Jonas, thou shalt be called Cephas,` (which is interpreted, A rock.)


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On the morrow, he willed to go forth to Galilee, and he findeth Philip, and saith to him, `Be following me.`


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Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith to him, `Him of whom Moses wrote in the Law, and the prophets, we have found, Jesus the son of Joseph, who [is] from Nazareth;`


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and Nathanael said to him, `Out of Nazareth is any good thing able to be?` Philip said to him, `Come and see.`


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Jesus saw Nathanael coming unto him, and he saith concerning him, `Lo, truly an Israelite, in whom guile is not;`


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Nathanael saith to him, `Whence me dost thou know?` Jesus answered and said to him, `Before Philip`s calling thee -- thou being 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, thou dost believe; greater things than these thou shalt see;`


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and he saith to him, `Verily, verily, I say to you, henceforth ye shall see the heaven opened, and the messengers of God going up and coming down upon the Son of Man.`


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And there were there six water-jugs of stone, placed according to the purifying of the Jews, holding each two or three measures.


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And as the director of the apartment tasted the water become wine, and knew not whence it is, (but the ministrants knew, who have drawn the water,) the director of the feast doth call the bridegroom,


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and saith to him, `Every man, at first, the good wine doth set forth; and when they may have drunk freely, then the inferior; thou didst keep the good wine till now.`


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This beginning of the signs did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested his glory, and his disciples believed in him;


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after this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples; and there they remained not many days.


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and he found in the temple those selling oxen, and sheep, and doves, and the money-changers sitting,


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and having made a whip of small cords, he put all forth out of the temple, also the sheep, and the oxen; and of the money-changers he poured out the coins, and the tables he overthrew,


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and to those selling the doves he said, `Take these things hence; make not the house of my Father a house of merchandise.`


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the Jews then answered and said to him, `What sign dost thou shew to us -- that thou dost these things?`


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The Jews, therefore, said, `Forty and six years was this sanctuary building, and wilt thou in three days raise it up?`


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when, then, he was raised out of the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this to them, and they believed the Writing, and the word that Jesus said.


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And as he was in Jerusalem, in the passover, in the feast, many believed in his name, beholding his signs that he was doing;


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and because he had no need that any should testify concerning man, for he himself was knowing what was in man.


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this one came unto him by night, and said to him, `Rabbi, we have known that from God thou hast come -- a teacher, for no one these signs is able to do that thou dost, if God may not be with him.`


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Jesus answered and said to him, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;`


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Nicodemus saith unto him, `How is a man able to be born, being old? is he able into the womb of his mother a second time to enter, and to be born?`


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Jesus answered, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born of water, and the Spirit, he is not able to enter into the reign of God;


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that which hath been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which hath been born of the Spirit is spirit.


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the Spirit where he willeth doth blow, and his voice thou dost hear, but thou hast not known whence he cometh, and whither he goeth; thus is every one who hath been born of the Spirit.`


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Jesus answered and said to him, `Thou art the teacher of Israel -- and these things thou dost not know!


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`Verily, verily, I say to thee -- What we have known we speak, and what we have seen we testify, and our testimony ye do not receive;


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if the earthly things I said to you, and ye do not believe, how, if I shall say to you the heavenly things, will ye believe?


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and no one hath gone up to the heaven, except he who out of the heaven came down -- the Son of Man who is in the heaven.


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`And as Moses did lift up the serpent in the wilderness, so it behoveth the Son of Man to be lifted up,


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for God did so love the world, that His Son -- the only begotten -- He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.


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For God did not send His Son to the world that he may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through him;


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he who is believing in him is not judged, but he who is not believing hath been judged already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.


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`And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil;


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for every one who is doing wicked things hateth the light, and doth not come unto the light, that his works may not be detected;


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but he who is doing the truth doth come to the light, that his works may be manifested, that in God they are having been wrought.`


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After these things came Jesus and his disciples to the land of Judea, and there he did tarry with them, and was baptizing;


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and John was also baptizing in Aenon, nigh to Salem, because there were many waters there, and they were coming and were being baptized --


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and they came unto John, and said to him, `Rabbi, he who was with thee beyond the Jordan, to whom thou didst testify, lo, this one is baptizing, and all are coming unto him.`


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John answered and said, `A man is not able to receive anything, if it may not have been given him from the heaven;


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ye yourselves do testify to me that I said, I am not the Christ, but, that I am having been sent before him;


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he who is having the bride is bridegroom, and the friend of the bridegroom, who is standing and hearing him, with joy doth rejoice because of the voice of the bridegroom; this, then, my joy hath been fulfilled.


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he who from above is coming is above all; he who is from the earth, from the earth he is, and from the earth he speaketh; he who from the heaven is coming is above all.


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he who is believing in the Son, hath life age-during; and he who is not believing the Son, shall not see life, but the wrath of God doth remain upon him.`


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When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees heard that Jesus more disciples doth make and baptize than John,


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He cometh, therefore, to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the place that Jacob gave to Joseph his son;


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and there was there a well of Jacob. Jesus therefore having been weary from the journeying, was sitting thus on the well; it was as it were the sixth hour;


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the Samaritan woman therefore saith to him, `How dost thou, being a Jew, ask drink from me, being a Samaritan woman?` for Jews have no dealing with Samaritans.


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Jesus answered and said to her, `If thou hadst known the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked him, and he would have given thee living water.`


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The woman saith to him, `Sir, thou hast not even a vessel 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 did give us the well, and himself out of it did drink, and his sons, and his cattle?`


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but whoever may drink of the water that I will give him, may not thirst -- to the age; and the water that I will give him shall become in him a well of water, springing up to life age-during.`


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The woman saith unto him, `Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come hither to draw.`


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the woman answered and said, `I have not a husband.` Jesus saith to her, `Well didst thou say -- A husband I have not;


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for five husbands thou hast had, and, now, he whom thou hast is not thy husband; this hast thou said truly.`


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our fathers in this mountain did worship, and ye -- ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where it behoveth to worship.`


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Jesus saith to her, `Woman, believe me, that there doth come an hour, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall ye worship the Father;


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ye worship what ye have not known; we worship what we have known, because the salvation is of the Jews;


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but, there cometh an hour, and it now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father also doth seek such to worship him;


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The woman saith to him, `I have known that Messiah doth come, who is called Christ, when that one may come, he will tell us all things;`


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And upon this came his disciples, and were wondering that with a woman he was speaking, no one, however, said, `What seekest thou?` or `Why speakest thou with her?`


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Jesus saith to them, `My food is, that I may do the will of Him who sent me, and may finish His work;


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do not say that it is yet four months, and the harvest cometh; lo, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and see the fields, that they are white unto harvest already.


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`And he who is reaping doth receive a reward, and doth gather fruit to life age-during, that both he who is sowing and he who is reaping may rejoice together;


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I sent you to reap that on which ye have not laboured; others laboured, and ye into their labour have entered.


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And from that city many believed in him, of the Samaritans, because of the word of the woman testifying, -- `He told me all things -- as many as I did.`


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When, then, the Samaritans came unto him, they were asking him to remain with them, and he remained there two days;


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and said to the woman -- `No more because of thy speaking do we believe; for we ourselves have heard and known that this is truly the Saviour of the world -- the Christ.`


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when then, he came to Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all things that he did in Jerusalem in the feast -- for they also went to the feast.


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Jesus came, therefore, again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine, and there was a certain courtier, whose son was ailing in Capernaum,


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he, having heard that Jesus is come out of Judea to Galilee, went away unto him, and was asking him that he may come down and may heal his son, for he was about to die.


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Jesus saith to him, `Be going on; thy son doth live.` And the man believed the word that Jesus said to him, and was going on,


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he inquired then of them the hour in which he became better, and they said to him -- `Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him;`


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then the father knew that [it was] in that hour in which Jesus said to him -- `Thy son doth live,` and he himself believed, and his whole house;


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and there is in Jerusalem by the sheep-[gate] a pool that is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porches,


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in these were lying a great multitude of the ailing, blind, lame, withered, waiting for the moving of the water,


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for a messenger at a set time was going down in the pool, and was troubling the water, the first then having gone in after the troubling of the water, became whole of whatever sickness he was held.


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him Jesus having seen lying, and having known that he is already a long time, he saith to him, `Dost thou wish to become whole?`


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The ailing man answered him, `Sir, I have no man, that, when the water may be troubled, he may put me into the pool, and while I am coming, another doth go down before me.`


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and immediately the man became whole, and he took up his couch, and was walking, and it was a sabbath on that day,


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the Jews then said to him that hath been healed, `It is a sabbath; it is not lawful to thee to take up the couch.`


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they questioned him, then, `Who is the man who is saying to thee, Take up thy couch and be walking?`


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But he that was healed had not known who he is, for Jesus did move away, a multitude being in the place.


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After these things, Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said to him, `Lo, thou hast become whole; sin no more, lest something worse may happen to thee.`


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and because of this were the Jews persecuting Jesus, and seeking to kill him, because these things he was doing on a sabbath.


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because of this, then, were the Jews seeking the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the sabbath, but he also called God his own Father, making himself equal to God.


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Jesus therefore responded and said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, The Son is not able to do anything of himself, if he may not see the Father doing anything; for whatever things He may do, these also the Son in like manner doth;


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for the Father doth love the Son, and doth shew to him all things that He himself doth; and greater works than these He will shew him, that ye may wonder.


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`For, as the Father doth raise the dead, and doth make alive, so also the Son doth make alive whom he willeth;


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that all may honour the Son according as they honour the Father; he who is not honouring the Son, doth not honour the Father who sent him.


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`Verily, verily, I say to you -- He who is hearing my word, and is believing Him who sent me, hath life age-during, and to judgment he doth not come, but hath passed out of the death to the life.


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`Verily, verily, I say to you -- There cometh an hour, and it now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and those having heard shall live;


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`Wonder not at this, because there doth come an hour in which all those in the tombs shall hear his voice,


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and they shall come forth; those who did the good things to a rising again of life, and those who practised the evil things to a rising again of judgment.


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`I am not able of myself to do anything; according as I hear I judge, and my judgment is righteous, because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father who sent me.


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another there is who is testifying concerning me, and I have known that the testimony that he doth testify concerning me is true;


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`But I have the testimony greater than John`s, for the works that the Father gave me, that I might finish them, the works themselves that I do, they testify concerning me, that the Father hath sent me.


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`And the Father who sent me Himself hath testified concerning me; ye have neither heard His voice at any time, nor His appearance have ye seen;


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`Ye search the Writings, because ye think in them to have life age-during, and these are they that are testifying concerning me;


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`I have come in the name of my Father, and ye do not receive me; if another may come in his own name, him ye will receive;


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how are ye able -- ye -- to believe, glory from one another receiving, and the glory that [is] from God alone ye seek not?


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`Do not think that I will accuse you unto the Father; there is who is accusing you, Moses -- in whom ye have hoped;


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and there was following him a great multitude, because they were seeing his signs that he was doing on the ailing;


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Jesus then having lifted up [his] eyes and having seen that a great multitude doth come to him, saith unto Philip, `Whence shall we buy loaves, that these may eat?` --


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Philip answered him, `Two hundred denaries` worth of loaves are not sufficient to them, that each of them may receive some little;`


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`There is one little lad here who hath five barley loaves, and two fishes, but these -- what are they to so many?`


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And Jesus said, `Make the men to sit down;` and there was much grass in the place, the men then sat down, in number, as it were, five thousand,


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and Jesus took the loaves, and having given thanks he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to those reclining, in like manner, also of the little fishes as much as they wished.


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And when they were filled, he saith to his disciples, `Gather together the broken pieces that are over, that nothing may be lost;`


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they gathered together, therefore, and filled twelve hand-baskets with broken pieces, from the five barley loaves that were over to those having eaten.


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The men, then, having seen the sign that Jesus did, said -- `This is truly the Prophet, who is coming to the world;`


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Jesus, therefore, having known that they are about to come, and to take him by force that they may make him king, retired again to the mountain himself alone.


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and having entered into the boat, they were going over the sea to Capernaum, and darkness had already come, and Jesus had not come unto them,


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having pushed onwards, therefore, about twenty-five or thirty furlongs, they behold Jesus walking on the sea, and coming nigh to the boat, and they were afraid;


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they were willing then to receive him into the boat, and immediately the boat came unto the land to which they were going.


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On the morrow, the multitude that was standing on the other side of the sea, having seen that there was no other little boat there except one -- that into which his disciples entered -- and that Jesus went not in with his disciples into the little boat, but his disciples went away alone,


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(and other little boats came from Tiberias, nigh the place where they did eat the bread, the Lord having given thanks),


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when therefore the multitude saw that Jesus is not there, nor his disciples, they also themselves did enter into the boats, and came to Capernaum seeking Jesus;


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and having found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, `Rabbi, when hast thou come hither?`


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Jesus answered them and said, `Verily, verily, I say to you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw signs, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were satisfied;


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work not for the food that is perishing, but for the food that is remaining to life age-during, which the Son of Man will give to you, for him did the Father seal -- [even] God.`


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Jesus answered and said to them, `This is the work of God, that ye may believe in him whom He did send.`


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They said therefore to him, `What sign, then, dost thou, that we may see and may believe thee? what dost thou work?


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our fathers the manna did eat in the wilderness, according as it is having been written, Bread out of the heaven He gave them to eat.`


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Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread out of the heaven; but my Father doth give you the true bread out of the heaven;


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And Jesus said to them, `I am the bread of the life; he who is coming unto me may not hunger, and he who is believing in me may not thirst -- at any time;


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all that the Father doth give to me will come unto me; and him who is coming unto me, I may in no wise cast without,


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because I have come down out of the heaven, not that I may do my will, but the will of Him who sent me.


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`And this is the will of the Father who sent me, that all that He hath given to me I may not lose of it, but may raise it up in the last day;


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and this is the will of Him who sent me, that every one who is beholding the Son, and is believing in him, may have life age-during, and I will raise him up in the last day.`


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The Jews, therefore, were murmuring at him, because he said, `I am the bread that came down out of the 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 saith this one -- Out of the heaven I have come down?`


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no one is able to come unto me, if the Father who sent me may not draw him, and I will raise him up in the last day;


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it is having been written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God; every one therefore who heard from the Father, and learned, cometh to me;


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`I am the living bread that came down out of the heaven; if any one may eat of this bread he shall live -- to the age; and the bread also that I will give is my flesh, that I will give for the life of the world.`


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The Jews, therefore, were striving with one another, saying, `How is this one able to give us [his] flesh to eat?`


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Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, If ye may not eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and may not drink his blood, ye have no life in yourselves;


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he who is eating my flesh, and is drinking my blood, hath life age-during, and I will raise him up in the last day;


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`According as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, he also who is eating me, even that one shall live because of me;


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this is the bread that came down out of the heaven; not as your fathers did eat the manna, and died; he who is eating this bread shall live -- to the age.`


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And Jesus having known in himself that his disciples are murmuring about this, said to them, `Doth this stumble you?


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the spirit it is that is giving life; the flesh doth not profit anything; the sayings that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life;


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but there are certain of you who do not believe;` for Jesus had known from the beginning who they are who are not believing, and who is he who will deliver him up,


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and he said, `Because of this I have said to you -- No one is able to come unto me, if it may not have been given him from my Father.`


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Simon Peter, therefore, answered him, `Sir, unto whom shall we go? thou hast sayings of life age-during;


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And he spake of Judas, Simon`s [son], Iscariot, for he was about to deliver him up, being one of the twelve.


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And Jesus was walking after these things in Galilee, for he did not wish to walk in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him,


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his brethren, therefore, said unto him, `Remove hence, and go away to Judea, that thy disciples also may behold thy works that thou dost;


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for no one in secret doth anything, and himself seeketh to be in public; if thou dost these things -- manifest thyself to the world;`


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the world is not able to hate you, but me it doth hate, because I testify concerning it that its works are evil.


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Ye -- go ye up to this feast; I do not yet go up to this feast, because my time hath not yet been fulfilled;`


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And when his brethren went up, then also he himself went up to the feast, not manifestly, but as in secret;


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and there was much murmuring about him among the multitudes, some indeed said -- `He is good;` and others said, `No, but he leadeth astray the multitude;`


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if any one may will to do His will, he shall know concerning the teaching, whether it is of God, or -- I do speak from myself.


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`He who is speaking from himself his own glory doth seek, but he who is seeking the glory of him who sent him, this one is true, and unrighteousness is not in him;


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because of this, Moses hath given you the circumcision -- not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers -- and on a sabbath ye circumcise a man;


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if a man doth receive circumcision on a sabbath that the law of Moses may not be broken, are ye wroth with me that I made a man all whole on a sabbath?


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and, lo, he doth speak freely, and they say nothing to him; did the rulers at all know truly that this is truly the Christ?


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but this one -- we have known whence he is; and the Christ, when he doth come, no one doth know whence he is.`


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Jesus cried, therefore, in the temple, teaching and saying, `Ye have both known me, and ye have known whence I am; and I have not come of myself, but He who sent me is true, whom ye have not known;


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They were seeking, therefore, to seize him, and no one laid the hand on him, because his hour had not yet come,


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and many out of the multitude did believe in him, and said -- `The Christ -- when he may come -- will he do more signs than these that this one did?`


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The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers that they may take him;


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Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Yet a little time I am with you, and I go away unto Him who sent me;


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The Jews, therefore, said among themselves, `Whither is this one about to go that we shall not find him? -- to the dispersion of the Greeks is he about to go? and to teach the Greeks;


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what is this word that he said, Ye will seek me, and ye shall not find? and, Where I am, ye are not able to come?`


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And in the last, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, `If any one doth thirst, let him come unto me and drink;


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he who is believing in me, according as the Writing said, Rivers out of his belly shall flow of living water;`


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and this he said of the Spirit, which those believing in him were about to receive; for not yet was the Holy Spirit, because Jesus was not yet glorified.


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Did not the Writing say, that out of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem -- the village where David was -- the Christ doth come?`


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the officers came, therefore, unto the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, `Wherefore did ye not bring him?`


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They answered and said to him, `Art thou also out of Galilee? search and see, that a prophet out of Galilee hath not risen;`


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and the scribes and the Pharisees bring unto him a woman having been taken in adultery, and having set her in the midst,


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and this they said, trying him, that they might have to accuse him. And Jesus, having stooped down, with the finger he was writing on the ground,


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and when they continued asking him, having bent himself back, he said unto them, `The sinless of you -- let him first cast the stone at her;`


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and they having heard, and by the conscience being convicted, were going forth one by one, having begun from the elders -- unto the last; and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.


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And Jesus having bent himself back, and having seen no one but the woman, said to her, `Woman, where are those -- thine accusers? did no one pass sentence upon thee?`


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and she said, `No one, Sir;` and Jesus said to her, `Neither do I pass sentence on thee; be going on, and no more sin.`


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Again, therefore, Jesus spake to them, saying, `I am the light of the world; he who is following me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the light of the life.`


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Jesus answered and said to them, `And if I testify of myself -- my testimony is true, because I have known whence I came, and whither I go, and ye -- ye have not known whence I come, or whither I go.


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and even if I do judge my judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I and the Father who sent me;


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They said, therefore, to him, `Where is thy father?` Jesus answered, `Ye have neither known me nor my Father: if me ye had known, my Father also ye had known.`


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These sayings spake Jesus in the treasury, teaching in the temple, and no one seized him, because his hour had not yet come;


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therefore said Jesus again to them, `I go away, and ye will seek me, and in your sin ye shall die; whither I go away, ye are not able to come.`


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The Jews, therefore, said, `Will he kill himself, because he saith, Whither I go away, ye are not able to 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 if ye may not believe that I am [he], ye shall die in your sins.`


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They said, therefore, to him, `Thou -- who art thou?` and Jesus said to them, `Even what I did speak of to you at the beginning;


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many things I have to speak concerning you and to judge, but He who sent me is true, and I -- what things I heard from Him -- these I say to the world.`


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Jesus, therefore, said to them, `When ye may lift up the Son of Man then ye will know that I am [he]; and of myself I do nothing, but according as my Father did teach me, these things I speak;


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and He who sent me is with me; the Father did not leave me alone, because I, the things pleasing to Him, do always.`


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Jesus, therefore, said unto the Jews who believed in him, `If ye may remain in my word, truly my disciples ye are, and ye shall know the truth,


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They answered him, `Seed of Abraham we are; and to no one have we been servants at any time; how dost thou say -- Ye shall become free?`


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Jesus answered them, `Verily, verily, I say to you -- Every one who is committing sin, is a servant of the sin,


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`I have known that ye are seed of Abraham, but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you;


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I -- that which I have seen with my Father do speak, and ye, therefore, that which ye have seen with your father -- ye do.`


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They answered and said to him, `Our father is Abraham;` Jesus saith to them, `If children of Abraham ye were, the works of Abraham ye were doing;


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and now, ye seek to kill me -- a man who hath spoken to you the truth I heard from God; this Abraham did not;


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ye do the works of your father.` They said, therefore, to him, `We of whoredom have not been born; one Father we have -- God;`


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Jesus then said to them, `If God were your father, ye were loving me, for I came forth from God, and am come; for neither have I come of myself, but He sent me;


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`Ye are of a father -- the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar -- also his father.


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he who is of God, the sayings of God he doth hear; because of this ye do not hear, because of God ye are not.`


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The Jews, therefore, answered and said to him, `Do we not say well, that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a demon?`


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The Jews, therefore, said to him, `Now we have known that thou hast a demon; Abraham did die, and the prophets, and thou dost say, If any one may keep my word, he shall not taste of death -- to the age!


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Art thou greater than our father Abraham, who died? and the prophets died; whom dost thou make thyself?`


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Jesus answered, `If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing; it is my Father who is glorifying me, of whom ye say that He is your God;


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and ye have not known Him, and I have known Him, and if I say that I have not known Him, I shall be like you -- speaking falsely; but I have known Him, and His word I keep;


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they took up, therefore, stones that they may cast at him, but Jesus hid himself, and went forth out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.


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and his disciples asked him, saying, `Rabbi, who did sin, this one or his parents, that he should be born blind?`


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Jesus answered, `Neither did this one sin nor his parents, but that the works of God may be manifested in him;


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it behoveth me to be working the works of Him who sent me while it is day; night doth come, when no one is able to work: --


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These things saying, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and rubbed the clay on the eyes of the blind man, and said to him,


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`Go away, wash at the pool of Siloam,` which is, interpreted, Sent. He went away, therefore, and did wash, and came seeing;


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the neighbours, therefore, and those seeing him before, that he was blind, said, `Is not this he who is sitting and begging?`


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he answered and said, `A man called Jesus made clay, and rubbed my eyes, and said to me, Go away to the pool of Siloam, and wash; and having gone away and having washed, I received sight;`


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Again, therefore, the Pharisees also were asking him how he received sight, and he said to them, `Clay he did put upon my eyes, and I did wash -- and I see.`


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Of the Pharisees, therefore, certain said, `This man is not from God, because the sabbath he doth not keep;` others said, `How is a man -- a sinful one -- able to do such signs?` and there was a division among them.


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and he said -- `He is a prophet.` The Jews, therefore, did not believe concerning him that he was blind and did receive sight, till that they called the parents of him who received sight,


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and they asked them, saying, `Is your son, of whom ye say that he was born blind? how then now doth he see?`


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His parents answered them and said, `We have known that this is our son, and that he was born blind;


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and how he now seeth, we have not known; or who opened his eyes, we have not known; himself is of age, ask him; he himself shall speak concerning himself.`


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These things said his parents, because they were afraid of the Jews, for already had the Jews agreed together, that if any one may confess him -- Christ, he may be put out of the synagogue;


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They called, therefore, a second time the man who was blind, and they said to him, `Give glory to God, we have known that this man is a sinner;`


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he answered, therefore, and said, `If he be a sinner -- I have not known, one thing I have known, that, being blind, now I see.`


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He answered them, `I told you already, and ye did not hear; why again do ye wish to hear? do ye also wish to become his disciples?`


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The man answered and said to them, `Why, in this is a wonderful thing, that ye have not known whence he is, and he opened my eyes!


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and we have known that God doth not hear sinners, but, if any one may be a worshipper of God, and may do His will, him He doth hear;


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They answered and said to him, `In sins thou wast born altogether, and thou dost teach us!` and they cast him forth without.


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Jesus heard that they cast him forth without, and having found him, he said to him, `Dost thou believe in the Son of God?`


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And Jesus said, `For judgment I to this world did come, that those not seeing may see, and those seeing may become blind.`


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And those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and they said to him, `Are we also blind?`


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Jesus said to them, `If ye were blind, ye were not having had sin, but now ye say -- We see, therefore doth your sin remain.


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`Verily, verily, I say to you, He who is not entering through the door to the fold of the sheep, but is going up from another side, that one is a thief and a robber;


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to this one the doorkeeper doth open, and the sheep hear his voice, and his own sheep he doth call by name, and doth lead them forth;


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and when his own sheep he may put forth, before them he goeth on, and the sheep follow him, because they have known his voice;


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and a stranger they will not follow, but will flee from him, because they have not known the voice of strangers.`


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This similitude spake Jesus to them, and they knew not what the things were that he was speaking to them;


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I am the door, through me if any one may come in, he shall be saved, and he shall come in, and go out, and find pasture.


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`The thief doth not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have [it] abundantly.


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and the hireling, and not being a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, doth behold the wolf coming, and doth leave the sheep, and doth flee; and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep;


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and other sheep I have that are not of this fold, these also it behoveth me to bring, and my voice they will hear, and there shall become one flock -- one shepherd.


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no one doth take it from me, but I lay it down of myself; authority I have to lay it down, and authority I have again to take it; this command I received from my Father.`


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the Jews, therefore, came round about him, and said to him, `Till when our soul dost thou hold in suspense? if thou art the Christ, tell us freely.`


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Jesus answered them, `I told you, and ye do not believe; the works that I do in the name of my Father, these testify concerning me;


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and life age-during I give to them, and they shall not perish -- to the age, and no one shall pluck them out of my hand;


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my Father, who hath given to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to pluck out of the hand of my Father;


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Jesus answered them, `Many good works did I shew you from my Father; because of which work of them do ye stone me?`


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The Jews answered him, saying, `For a good work we do not stone thee, but for evil speaking, and because thou, being a man, dost make thyself God.`


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if them he did call gods unto whom the word of God came, (and the Writing is not able to be broken,)


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of him whom the Father did sanctify, and send to the world, do ye say -- Thou speakest evil, because I said, Son of God I am?


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and if I do, even if me ye may not believe, the works believe, that ye may know and may believe that in me [is] the Father, and I in Him.`


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and went away again to the other side of the Jordan, to the place where John was at first baptizing, and remained there,


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and many came unto him, and said -- `John, indeed, did no sign, and all things, as many as John said about this one were true;`


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And there was a certain one ailing, Lazarus, from Bethany, of the village of Mary and Martha her sister --


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and it was Mary who did anoint the Lord with ointment, and did wipe his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ailing --


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and Jesus having heard, said, `This ailment is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.`


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when, therefore, he heard that he is ailing, then indeed he remained in the place in which he was two days,


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the disciples say to him, `Rabbi, now were the Jews seeking to stone thee, and again thou dost go thither!`


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Jesus answered, `Are there not twelve hours in the day? if any one may walk in the day, he doth not stumble, because the light of this world he doth see;


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These things he said, and after this he saith to them, `Lazarus our friend hath fallen asleep, but I go on that I may awake him;`


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therefore said Thomas, who is called Didymus, to the fellow-disciples, `We may go -- we also, that we may die with him,`


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and many of the Jews had come unto Martha and Mary, that they might comfort them concerning their brother;


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Martha, therefore, when she heard that Jesus doth come, met him, and Mary kept sitting in the house.


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Jesus said to her, `I am the rising again, and the life; he who is believing in me, even if he may die, shall live;


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believest thou this?` she saith to him, `Yes, sir, I have believed that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming to the world.`


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And these things having said, she went away, and called Mary her sister privately, saying, `The Teacher is present, and doth call thee;`


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the Jews, therefore, who were with her in the house, and were comforting her, having seen Mary that she rose up quickly and went forth, followed her, saying -- `She doth go away to the tomb, that she may weep there.`


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Mary, therefore, when she came where Jesus was, having seen him, fell at his feet, saying to him, `Sir, 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, did groan in the spirit, and troubled himself, and he said,


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and certain of them said, `Was not this one, who did open the eyes of the blind man, able to cause that also this one might not have died?`


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Jesus, therefore, again groaning in himself, cometh to the tomb, and it was a cave, and a stone was lying upon it,


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Jesus saith, `Take ye away the stone;` the sister of him who hath died -- Martha -- saith to him, `Sir, already he stinketh, for he is four days dead;`


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Jesus saith to her, `Said I not to thee, that if thou mayest believe, thou shalt see the glory of God?`


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They took away, therefore, the stone where the dead was laid, and Jesus lifted his eyes upwards, and said, `Father, I thank Thee, that Thou didst hear me;


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and I knew that Thou always dost hear me, but, because of the multitude that is standing by, I said [it], that they may believe that Thou didst send me.`


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and he who died came forth, being bound feet and hands with grave-clothes, and his visage with a napkin was bound about; Jesus saith to them, `Loose him, and suffer to go.`


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the chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees, gathered together a sanhedrim, and said, `What may we do? because this man doth many signs?


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if we may let him alone thus, all will believe in him; and the Romans will come, and will take away both our place and nation.`


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and a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being chief priest of that year, said to them, `Ye have not known anything,


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nor reason that it is good for us that one man may die for the people, and not the whole nation perish.`


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And this he said not of himself, but being chief priest of that year, he did prophesy that Jesus was about to die for the nation,


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and not for the nation only, but that also the children of God, who have been scattered abroad, he may gather together into one.


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Jesus, therefore, was no more freely walking among the Jews, but went away thence to the region nigh the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and there he tarried with his disciples.


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And the passover of the Jews was nigh, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, that they might purify themselves;


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they were seeking, therefore, Jesus, and said one with another, standing in the temple, `What doth appear to you -- that he may not come to the feast?`


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and both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a command, that if any one may know where he is, he may shew [it], so that they may seize him.


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Jesus, therefore, six days before the passover, came to Bethany, where was Lazarus, who had died, whom he raised out of the dead;


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they made, therefore, to him a supper there, and Martha was ministering, and Lazarus was one of those reclining together (at meat) with him;


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Mary, therefore, having taken a pound of ointment of spikenard, of great price, anointed the feet of Jesus and did wipe with her hair his feet, and the house was filled from the fragrance of the ointment.


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and he said this, not because he was caring for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and what things were put in he was carrying.


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A great multitude, therefore, of the Jews knew that he is there, and they came, not because of Jesus only, but that Lazarus also they may see, whom he raised out of the dead;


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On the morrow, a great multitude that came to the feast, having heard that Jesus doth come to Jerusalem,


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took the branches of the palms, and went forth to meet him, and were crying, `Hosanna, blessed [is] he who is coming in the name of the Lord -- the king of Israel;`


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And these things his disciples did not know at the first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were having been written about him, and these things they did to him.


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The multitude, therefore, who are with him, were testifying that he called Lazarus out of the tomb, and did raise him out of the dead;


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the Pharisees, therefore, said among themselves, `Ye see that ye do not gain anything, lo, the world did go after him.`


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these then came near to Philip, who [is] from Bethsaida of Galilee, and were asking him, saying, `Sir, we wish to see Jesus;`


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verily, verily, I say to you, if the grain of the wheat, having fallen to the earth, may not die, itself remaineth alone; and if it may die, it doth bear much fruit;


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he who is loving his life shall lose it, and he who is hating his life in this world -- to life age-during shall keep it;


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if any one may minister to me, let him follow me, and where I am, there also my ministrant shall be; and if any one may minister to me -- honour him will the Father.


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`Now hath my soul been troubled, and what? shall I say -- Father, save me from this hour? -- but because of this I came to this hour;


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Father, glorify Thy name.` There came, therefore, a voice out of the heaven, `I both glorified, and again I will glorify [it];`


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the multitude, therefore, having stood and heard, were saying that there hath been thunder; others said, `A messenger hath spoken to him.`


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the multitude answered him, `We heard out of the law that the Christ doth remain -- to the age; and how dost thou say, That it behoveth the Son of Man to be lifted up? who is this -- the Son of Man?`


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Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Yet a little time is the light with you; walk while ye have the light, that darkness may not overtake you; and he who is walking in the darkness hath not known where he goeth;


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while ye have the light, believe in the light, that sons of light ye may become.` These things spake Jesus, and having gone away, he was hid from them,


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that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he said, `Lord, who gave credence to our report? and the arm of the Lord -- to whom was it revealed?`


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`He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart, that they might not see with the eyes, and understand with the heart, and turn back, and I might heal them;`


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Still, however, also out of the rulers did many believe in him, but because of the Pharisees they were not confessing, that they might not be put out of the synagogue,


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And Jesus cried and said, `He who is believing in me, doth not believe in me, but in Him who sent me;


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I a light to the world have come, that every one who is believing in me -- in the darkness may not remain;


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and if any one may hear my sayings, and not believe, I -- I do not judge him, for I came not that I might judge the world, but that I might save the world.


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`He who is rejecting me, and not receiving my sayings, hath one who is judging him, the word that I spake, that will judge him in the last day,


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because I spake not from myself, but the Father who sent me, He did give me a command, what I may say, and what I may speak,


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and I have known that His command is life age-during; what, therefore, I speak, according as the Father hath said to me, so I speak.`


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And before the feast of the passover, Jesus knowing that his hour hath come, that he may remove out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own who [are] in the world -- to the end he loved them.


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And supper being come, the devil already having put [it] into the heart of Judas of Simon, Iscariot, that he may deliver him up,


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Jesus knowing that all things the Father hath given to him -- into [his] hands, and that from God he came forth, and unto God he goeth,


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doth rise from the supper, and doth lay down his garments, and having taken a towel, he girded himself;


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afterward he putteth water into the basin, and began to wash the feet of his disciples, and to wipe with the towel with which he was being girded.


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He cometh, therefore, unto Simon Peter, and that one saith to him, `Sir, thou -- dost thou wash my feet?`


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Jesus answered and said to him, `That which I do thou hast not known now, but thou shalt know after these things;`


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Peter saith to him, `Thou mayest not wash my feet -- to the age.` Jesus answered him, `If I may not wash thee, thou hast no part with me;`


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Jesus saith to him, `He who hath been bathed hath no need save to wash his feet, but he is clean altogether; and ye are clean, but not all;`


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When, therefore, he washed their feet, and took his garments, having reclined (at meat) again, he said to them, `Do ye know what I have done to you?


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if then I did wash your feet -- the Lord and the Teacher -- ye also ought to wash one another`s feet.


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verily, verily, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his lord, nor an apostle greater than he who sent him;


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not concerning you all do I speak; I have known whom I chose for myself; but that the Writing may be fulfilled: He who is eating the bread with me, did lift up against me his heel.


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`From this time I tell you, before its coming to pass, that, when it may come to pass, ye may believe that I am [he];


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verily, verily, I say to you, he who is receiving whomsoever I may send, doth receive me; and he who is receiving me, doth receive Him who sent me.`


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These things having said, Jesus was troubled in the spirit, and did testify, and said, `Verily, verily, I say to you, that one of you will deliver me up;`


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And there was one of his disciples reclining (at meat) in the bosom of Jesus, whom Jesus was loving;


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Jesus answereth, `That one it is to whom I, having dipped the morsel, shall give it;` and having dipped the morsel, he giveth [it] to Judas of Simon, Iscariot.


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And after the morsel, then the Adversary entered into that one, Jesus, therefore, saith to him, `What thou dost -- do quickly;`


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for certain were thinking, since Judas had the bag, that Jesus saith to him, `Buy what we have need of for the feast;` or that he may give something to the poor;


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When, therefore, he went forth, Jesus saith, `Now was the Son of Man glorified, and God was glorified in him;


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if God was glorified in him, God also will glorify him in Himself; yea, immediately He will glorify him.


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`Little children, yet a little am I with you; ye will seek me, and, according as I said to the Jews -- Whither I go away, ye are not able to come, to you also I do say [it] now.


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`A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another;


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Simon Peter saith to him, `Sir, whither dost thou go away?` Jesus answered him, `Whither I go away, thou art not able now to follow me, but afterward thou shalt follow me.`


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Peter saith to him, `Sir, wherefore am I not able to follow thee now? my life for thee I will lay down;`


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Jesus answered him, `Thy life for me thou wilt lay down! verily, verily, I say to thee, a cock will not crow till thou mayest deny me thrice.`


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in the house of my Father are many mansions; and if not, I would have told you; I go on to prepare a place for you;


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and if I go on and prepare for you a place, again do I come, and will receive you unto myself, that where I am ye also may be;


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Thomas saith to him, `Sir, we have not known whither thou goest away, and how are we able to know the way?`


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Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;


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if ye had known me, my Father also ye would have known, and from this time ye have known Him, and have seen Him.`


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Jesus saith to him, `So long time am I with you, and thou hast not known me, Philip? he who hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how dost thou say, Shew to us the Father?


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Believest thou not that I [am] in the Father, and the Father is in me? the sayings that I speak to you, from myself I speak not, and the Father who is abiding in me, Himself doth the works;


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believe me, that I [am] in the Father, and the Father in me; and if not, because of the works themselves, believe me.


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`Verily, verily, I say to you, he who is believing in me, the works that I do -- that one also shall do, and greater than these he shall do, because I go on to my Father;


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and I will ask the Father, and another Comforter He will give to you, that he may remain with you -- to the age;


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the Spirit of truth, whom the world is not able to receive, because it doth not behold him, nor know him, and ye know him, because he doth remain with you, and shall be in you.


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yet a little, and the world doth no more behold me, and ye behold me, because I live, and ye shall live;


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he who is having my commands, and is keeping them, that one it is who is loving me, and he who is loving me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.`


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Judas saith to him, (not the Iscariot), `Sir, what hath come to pass, that to us thou are about to manifest thyself, and not to the world?`


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Jesus answered and said to him, `If any one may love me, my word he will keep, and my Father will love him, and unto him we will come, and abode with him we will make;


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he who is not loving me, my words doth not keep; and the word that ye hear is not mine, but the Father`s who sent me.


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and the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and remind you of all things that I said to you.


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`Peace I leave to you; my peace I give to you, not according as the world doth give do I give to you; let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid;


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ye heard that I said to you -- I go away, and I come unto you; if ye did love me, ye would have rejoiced that I said -- I go on to the Father, because my Father is greater than I.


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`And now I have said [it] to you before it come to pass, that when it may come to pass, ye may believe;


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I will no more talk much with you, for the ruler of this world doth come, and in me he hath nothing;


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but that the world may know that I love the Father, and according as the Father gave me command so I do; arise, we may go hence.


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every branch in me not bearing fruit, He doth take it away, and every one bearing fruit, He doth cleanse by pruning it, that it may bear more fruit;


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remain in me, and I in you, as the branch is not able to bear fruit of itself, if it may not remain in the vine, so neither ye, if ye may not remain in me.


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`I am the vine, ye the branches; he who is remaining in me, and I in him, this one doth bear much fruit, because apart from me ye are not able to do anything;


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if any one may not remain in me, he was cast forth without as the branch, and was withered, and they gather them, and cast to fire, and they are burned;


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if ye may remain in me, and my sayings in you may remain, whatever ye may wish ye shall ask, and it shall be done to you.


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if my commandments ye may keep, ye shall remain in my love, according as I the commands of my Father have kept, and do remain in His love;


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no more do I call you servants, because the servant hath not known what his lord doth, and you I have called friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I did make known to you.


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`Ye did not choose out me, but I chose out you, and did appoint you, that ye might go away, and might bear fruit, and your fruit might remain, that whatever ye may ask of the Father in my name, He may give you.


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if of the world ye were, the world its own would have been loving, and because of the world ye are not -- but I chose out of the world -- because of this the world hateth you.


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`Remember the word that I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord; if me they did persecute, you also they will persecute; if my word they did keep, yours also they will keep;


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but all these things will they do to you, because of my name, because they have not known Him who sent me;


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if I had not come and spoken to them, they were not having sin; but now pretext they have not for their sin.


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if I did not do among them the works that no other hath done, they were not having sin, and now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father;


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but -- that the word may be fulfilled that was written in their law -- They hated me without a cause.


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`And when the Comforter may come, whom I will send to you from the Father -- the Spirit of truth, who from the Father doth come forth, he will testify of me;


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out of the synagogues they will put you; but an hour doth come, that every one who hath killed you, may think to offer service unto God;


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`But these things I have spoken to you, that when the hour may come, ye may remember them, that I said [them] to you, and these things to you from the beginning I did not say, because I was with you;


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`But I tell you the truth; it is better for you that I go away, for if I may not go away, the Comforter will not come unto you, and if I go on, I will send Him unto you;


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and having come, He will convict the world concerning sin, and concerning righteousness, and concerning judgment;


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and when He may come -- the Spirit of truth -- He will guide you to all the truth, for He will not speak from Himself, but as many things as He will hear He will speak, and the coming things He will tell you;


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`All things, as many as the Father hath, are mine; because of this I said, That of mine He will take, and will tell 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, because I go away unto the Father.`


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Therefore said [some] of his disciples one to another, `What is this that he saith 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 unto the Father?`


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Jesus, therefore, knew that they were wishing to ask him, and he said to them, `Concerning this do ye seek one with another, because I said, A little while, and you 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, and the world will rejoice; and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow joy will become.


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`The woman, when she may bear, hath sorrow, because her hour did come, and when she may bear the child, no more doth she remember the anguish, because of the joy that a man was born to the world.


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`And ye, therefore, now, indeed, have sorrow; and again I will see you, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one doth take from you,


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and in that day ye will question me nothing; verily, verily, I say to you, as many things as ye may ask of the Father in my name, He will give you;


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`These things in similitudes I have spoken to you, but there cometh an hour when no more in similitudes will I speak to you, but freely of the Father, will tell you.


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`In that day, in my name ye will make request, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father for you,


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for the Father himself doth love you, because me ye have loved, and ye have believed that I from God came forth;


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I came forth from the Father, and have come to the world; again I leave the world, and go on unto the Father.`


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now we have known that thou hast known all things, and hast no need that any one do question thee; in this we believe that from God thou didst come forth.`


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and now it hath come, that ye may be scattered, each to his own things, and me ye may leave alone, and I am not alone, because the Father is with me;


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these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but take courage -- I have overcome the world.`


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These things spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to the heaven, and said -- `Father, the hour hath come, glorify Thy Son, that Thy Son also may glorify Thee,


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according as Thou didst give to him authority over all flesh, that -- all that Thou hast given to him -- he may give to them life age-during;


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and this is the life age-during, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and him whom Thou didst send -- Jesus Christ;


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`And now, glorify me, Thou Father, with Thyself, with the glory that I had before the world was, with Thee;


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I did manifest Thy name to the men whom Thou hast given to me out of the world; Thine they were, and to me Thou hast given them, and Thy word they have kept;


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because the sayings that Thou hast given to me, I have given to them, and they themselves received, and have known truly, that from Thee I came forth, and they did believe that Thou didst send me.


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`I ask in regard to them; not in regard to the world do I ask, but in regard to those whom Thou hast given to me, because Thine they are,


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and no more am I in the world, and these are in the world, and I come unto Thee. Holy Father, keep them in Thy name, whom Thou hast given to me, that they may be one as we;


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when I was with them in the world, I was keeping them in Thy name; those whom Thou hast given to me I did guard, and none of them was destroyed, except the son of the destruction, that the Writing may be fulfilled.


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`And now unto Thee I come, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves;


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I have given to them Thy word, and the world did hate them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world;


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I do not ask that Thou mayest take them out of the world, but that Thou mayest keep them out of the evil.


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`And not in regard to these alone do I ask, but also in regard to those who shall be believing, through their word, in me;


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that they all may be one, as Thou Father [art] in me, and I in Thee; that they also in us may be one, that the world may believe that Thou didst send me.


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`And I, the glory that thou hast given to me, have given to them, that they may be one as we are one;


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I in them, and Thou in me, that they may be perfected into one, and that the world may know that Thou didst send me, and didst love them as Thou didst love me.


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`Father, those whom Thou hast given to me, I will that where I am they also may be with me, that they may behold my glory that Thou didst give to me, because Thou didst love me before the foundation of the world.


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`Righteous Father, also the world did not know Thee, and I knew Thee, and these have known that Thou didst send me,


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and I made known to them Thy name, and will make known, that the love with which Thou lovedst me in them may be, and I in them.`


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These things having said, Jesus went forth with his disciples beyond the brook of Kedron, where was a garden, into which he entered, himself and his disciples,


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and Judas also, who delivered him up, had known the place, because many times did Jesus assemble there with his disciples.


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Judas, therefore, having taken the band and officers out of the chief priests and Pharisees, doth come thither with torches and lamps, and weapons;


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Jesus, therefore, knowing all things that are coming upon him, having gone forth, said to them, `Whom do ye seek?`


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they answered him, `Jesus the Nazarene;` Jesus saith to them, `I am [he];` -- and Judas who delivered him up was standing with them; --


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that the word might be fulfilled that he said -- `Those whom Thou hast given to me, I did not lose of them even one.`


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Simon Peter, therefore, having a sword, drew it, and struck the chief priest`s servant, and cut off his right ear -- and the name of the servant was Malchus --


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Jesus, therefore, said to Peter, `Put the sword into the sheath; the cup that the Father hath given to me, may I not drink it?`


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The band, therefore, and the captain, and the officers of the Jews, took hold on Jesus, and bound him,


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and they led him away to Annas first, for he was father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was chief priest of that year,


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and Caiaphas was he who gave counsel to the Jews, that it is good for one man to perish for the people.


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And following Jesus was Simon Peter, and the other disciple, and that disciple was known to the chief priest, and he entered with Jesus to the hall of the chief priest,


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and Peter was standing at the door without, therefore went forth the other disciple who was known to the chief priest, and he spake to the female keeping the door, and he brought in Peter.


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Then said the maid keeping the door to Peter, `Art thou also of the disciples of this man?` he saith, `I am not;`


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and the servants and the officers were standing, having made a fire of coals, because it was cold, and they were warming themselves, and Peter was standing with them, and warming himself.


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The chief priests, therefore, questioned Jesus concerning his disciples, and concerning his teaching;


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Jesus answered him, `I spake freely to the world, I did always teach in a synagogue, and in the temple, where the Jews do always come together; and in secret I spake nothing;


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why me dost thou question? question those having heard what I spake to them; lo, these have known what I said.`


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And he having said these things, one of the officers standing by did give Jesus a slap, saying, `Thus dost thou answer the chief priest?`


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Jesus answered him, `If I spake ill, testify concerning the ill; and if well, why me dost thou smite?`


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And Simon Peter was standing and warming himself, they said then to him, `Art thou also of his disciples?` he denied, and said, `I am not.`


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One of the servants of the chief priest, being kinsman of him whose ear Peter cut off, saith, `Did not I see thee in the garden with him?`


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They led, therefore, Jesus from Caiaphas to the praetorium, and it was early, and they themselves did not enter into the praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but that they might eat the passover;


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Pilate, therefore, said to them, `Take ye him -- ye -- and according to your law judge him;` the Jews, therefore, said to him, `It is not lawful to us to put any one to death;`


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that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled which he said, signifying by what death he was about to die.


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Pilate, therefore, entered into the praetorium again, and called Jesus, and said to him, `Thou art the King of the Jews?`


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Pilate answered, `Am I a Jew? thy nation, and the chief priests did deliver thee up to me; what didst thou?`


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Jesus answered, `My kingdom is not of this world; if my kingdom were of this world, my officers had struggled that I might not be delivered up to Jews; but now my kingdom is not from hence.`


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Pilate, therefore, said to him, `Art thou then a king?` Jesus answered, `Thou dost say [it]; because a king I am, I for this have been born, and for this I have come to the world, that I may testify to the truth; every one who is of the truth, doth hear my voice.`


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Pilate saith to him, `What is truth?` and this having said, again he went forth unto the Jews, and saith to them, `I do find no fault in him;


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and ye have a custom that I shall release to you one in the passover; will ye, therefore, [that] I shall release to you the king of the Jews?`


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therefore they all cried out again, saying, `Not this one -- but Barabbas;` and Barabbas was a robber.


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and the soldiers having plaited a crown of thorns, did place [it] on his head, and a purple garment they put around him,


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Pilate, therefore, again went forth without, and saith to them, `Lo, I do bring him to you without, that ye may know that in him I find no fault;`


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Jesus, therefore, came forth without, bearing the thorny crown and the purple garment; and he saith to them, `Lo, the man!`


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When, therefore, the chief priests and the officers did see him, they cried out, saying, `Crucify, crucify;` Pilate saith to them, `Take ye him -- ye, and crucify; for I find no fault in him;`


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the Jews answered him, `We have a law, and according to our law he ought to die, for he made himself Son of God.`


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and entered again to the praetorium, and saith to Jesus, `Whence art thou?` and Jesus gave him no answer.


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Pilate, therefore, saith to him, `To me dost thou not speak? hast thou not known that I have authority to crucify thee, and I have authority to release thee?`


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Jesus answered, `Thou wouldst have no authority against me, if it were not having been given thee from above; because of this, he who is delivering me up to thee hath greater sin.`


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From this [time] was Pilate seeking to release him, and the Jews were crying out, saying, `If this one thou mayest release, thou art not a friend of Caesar; every one making himself a king, doth speak against Caesar.`


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Pilate, therefore, having heard this word, brought Jesus without -- and he sat down upon the tribunal -- to a place called, `Pavement,` and in Hebrew, Gabbatha;


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and it was the preparation of the passover, and as it were the sixth hour, and he saith to the Jews, `Lo, your king!`


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and they cried out, `Take away, take away, crucify him;` Pilate saith to them, `Your king shall I crucify?` the chief priests answered, `We have no king except Caesar.`


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Then, therefore, he delivered him up to them, that he may be crucified, and they took Jesus and led [him] away,


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and bearing his cross, he went forth to the place called [Place] of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew Golgotha;


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where they crucified him, and with him two others, on this side, and on that side, and Jesus in the midst.


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And Pilate also wrote a title, and put [it] on the cross, and it was written, `Jesus the Nazarene, the king of the Jews;`


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this title, therefore, read many of the Jews, because the place was nigh to the city where Jesus was crucified, and it was having been written in Hebrew, in Greek, in Roman.


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The chief priests of the Jews said, therefore, to Pilate, `Write not -- The king of the Jews, but that one said, I am king of the Jews;`


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The soldiers, therefore, when they did crucify Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to each soldier a part, also the coat, and the coat was seamless, from the top woven throughout,


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they said, therefore, to one another, `We may not rend it, but cast a lot for it, whose it shall be;` that the Writing might be fulfilled, that is saying, `They divided my garments to themselves, and upon my raiment they did cast a lot;` the soldiers, therefore, indeed, did these things.


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And there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother`s sister, Mary of Cleopas, and Mary the Magdalene;


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Jesus, therefore, having seen [his] mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he was loving, he saith to his mother, `Woman, lo, thy son;`


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afterward he saith to the disciple, `Lo, 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 now have been finished, that the Writing may be fulfilled, saith, `I thirst;`


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a vessel, therefore, was placed full of vinegar, and they having filled a sponge with vinegar, and having put [it] around a hyssop stalk, did put [it] to his mouth;


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when, therefore, Jesus received the vinegar, he said, `It hath been finished;` and having bowed the head, gave up the spirit.


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The Jews, therefore, that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the sabbath, since it was the preparation, (for that sabbath day was a great one,) asked of Pilate that their legs may be broken, and they taken away.


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The soldiers, therefore, came, and of the first indeed they did break the legs, and of the other who was crucified with him,


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but one of the soldiers with a spear did pierce his side, and immediately there came forth blood and water;


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and he who hath seen hath testified, and his testimony is true, and that one hath known that true things he speaketh, that ye also may believe.


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For these things came to pass, that the Writing may be fulfilled, `A bone of him shall not be broken;`


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And after these things did Joseph of Arimathea -- being a disciple of Jesus, but concealed, through the fear of the Jews -- ask of Pilate, that he may take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave leave; he came, therefore, and took away the body of Jesus,


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and Nicodemus also came -- who came unto Jesus by night at the first -- bearing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, as it were, a hundred pounds.


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They took, therefore, the body of Jesus, and bound it with linen clothes with the spices, according as it was the custom of the Jews to prepare for burial;


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and there was in the place where he was crucified a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one was yet laid;


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there, therefore, because of the preparation of the Jews, because the tomb was nigh, they laid Jesus.


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And on the first of the sabbaths, Mary the Magdalene doth come early (there being yet darkness) to the tomb, and she seeth the stone having been taken away out of the tomb,


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she runneth, therefore, and cometh unto Simon Peter, and unto the other disciple whom Jesus was loving, and saith to them, `They took away the Lord out of the tomb, and we have not known where they laid him.`


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and the two were running together, and the other disciple did run forward more quickly than Peter, and came first to the tomb,


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Simon Peter, therefore, cometh, following him, and he entered into the tomb, and beholdeth the linen clothes lying,


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and the napkin that was upon his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but apart, having been folded up, in one place;


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then, therefore, entered also the other disciple who came first unto the tomb, and he saw, and did believe;


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and Mary was standing near the tomb, weeping without; as she was weeping, then, she stooped down to the tomb, and beholdeth two messengers in white, sitting,


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And they say to her, `Woman, why dost thou weep?` she saith to them, `Because they took away my Lord, and I have not known where they laid him;`


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and these things having said, she turned backward, and seeth Jesus standing, and she had not known that it is Jesus.


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Jesus saith to her, `Woman, why dost thou weep? whom dost thou seek;` she, supposing that he is the gardener, saith to him, `Sir, if thou didst carry him away, tell me where thou didst lay him, and I will take him away;`


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Jesus saith to her, `Be not touching me, for I have not yet ascended unto my Father; and be going on to my brethren, and say to them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father, and to my God, and to your God.`


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Mary the Magdalene cometh, telling to the disciples that she hath seen the Lord, and [that] these things he said to her.


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It being, therefore, evening, on that day, the first of the sabbaths, and the doors having been shut where the disciples were assembled, through fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and saith to them, `Peace to you;`


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and this having said, he shewed them his hands and side; the disciples, therefore, rejoiced, having seen the Lord.


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Jesus, therefore, said to them again, `Peace to you; according as the Father hath sent me, I also send you;`


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if of any ye may loose the sins, they are loosed to them; if of any ye may retain, they have been retained.`


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the other disciples, therefore, said to him, `We have seen the Lord;` and he said to them, `If I may not see in his hands the mark of the nails, and may put my finger to the mark of the nails, and may put my hand to his side, I will not believe.`


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And after eight days, again were his disciples within, and Thomas with them; Jesus cometh, the doors having been shut, and he stood in the midst, and said, `Peace to you!`


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then he saith to Thomas, `Bring thy finger hither, and see my hands, and bring thy hand, and put [it] to my side, and become not unbelieving, but believing.`


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Jesus saith to him, `Because thou hast seen me, Thomas, thou hast believed; happy those not having seen, and having believed.`


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Many indeed, therefore, other signs also did Jesus before his disciples, that are not written in this book;


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and these have been written that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye may have life in his name.`


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After these things did Jesus manifest himself again to the disciples on the sea of Tiberias, and he did manifest himself thus:


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There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas who is called Didymus, and Nathanael from Cana of Galilee, and the [sons] of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples.


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Simon Peter saith to them, `I go away to fish;` they say to him, `We go -- we also -- with thee;` they went forth and entered into the boat immediately, and on that night they caught nothing.


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And morning being now come, Jesus stood at the shore, yet indeed the disciples did not know that it is Jesus;


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they answered him, `No;` and he said to them, `Cast the net at the right side of the boat, and ye shall find;` they cast, therefore, and no longer were they able to draw it, from the multitude of the fishes.


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That disciple, therefore, whom Jesus was loving saith to Peter, `The Lord it is!` Simon Peter, therefore, having heard that it is the Lord, did gird on the outer coat, (for he was naked,) and did cast himself into the sea;


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and the other disciples came by the little boat, for they were not far from the land, but as it were about two hundred cubits off, dragging the net of the fishes;


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when, therefore, they came to the land, they behold a fire of coals lying, and a fish lying on it, and bread.


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Simon Peter went up, and drew the net up on the land, full of great fishes, an hundred fifty and three, and though they were so many, the net was not rent.


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Jesus saith to them, `Come ye, dine;` and none of the disciples was venturing to inquire of him, `Who art thou?` knowing that it is the Lord;


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When, therefore, they dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, `Simon, [son] of Jonas, dost thou love me more than these?` he saith to him, `Yes, Lord; thou hast known that I dearly love thee;` he saith to him, `Feed my lambs.`


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He saith to him again, a second time, `Simon, [son] of Jonas, dost thou love me?` he saith to him, `Yes, Lord; thou hast known that I dearly love thee;` he saith to him, `Tend my sheep.`


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He saith to him the third time, `Simon, [son] of Jonas, dost thou dearly love me?` Peter was grieved that he said to him the third time, `Dost thou dearly love me?` and he said to him, `Lord, thou hast known all things; thou dost know that I dearly love thee.` Jesus saith to him, `Feed my sheep;


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verily, verily, I say to thee, When thou wast younger, thou wast girding thyself and wast walking whither thou didst will, but when thou mayest be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another will gird thee, and shall carry [thee] whither thou dost not will;`


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and this he said, signifying by what death he shall glorify God; and having said this, he saith to him, `Be following me.`


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And Peter having turned about doth see the disciple whom Jesus was loving following, (who also reclined in the supper on his breast, and said, `Sir, who is he who is delivering thee up?`)


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Jesus saith to him, `If him I will to remain till I come, what -- to thee? be thou following me.` This word, therefore, went forth to the brethren that that disciple doth not die,


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yet Jesus did not say to him, that he doth not die, but, `If him I will to remain till I come, what -- to thee?`


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this is the disciple who is testifying concerning these things, and he wrote these things, and we have known that his testimony is true.


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And there are also many other things -- as many as Jesus did -- which, if they may be written one by one, not even the world itself I think to have place for the books written. Amen.


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The former account, indeed, I made concerning all things, O Theophilus, that Jesus began both to do and to teach,


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till the day in which, having given command, through the Holy Spirit, to the apostles whom he did choose out, he was taken up,


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to whom also he did present himself alive after his suffering, in many certain proofs, through forty days being seen by them, and speaking the things concerning the reign of God.


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And being assembled together with them, he commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, [saith he,] `Ye did hear of me;


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because John, indeed, baptized with water, and ye shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit -- after not many days.`


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They, therefore, indeed, having come together, were questioning him, saying, `Lord, dost thou at this time restore the reign to Israel?`


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and he said unto them, `It is not yours to know times or seasons that the Father did appoint in His own authority;


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but ye shall receive power at the coming of the Holy Spirit upon you, and ye shall be witnesses to me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and unto the end of the earth.`


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And these things having said -- they beholding -- he was taken up, and a cloud did receive him up from their sight;


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and as they were looking stedfastly to the heaven in his going on, then, lo, two men stood by them in white apparel,


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who also said, `Men, Galileans, why do ye stand gazing into the heaven? this Jesus who was received up from you into the heaven, shall so come in what manner ye saw him going on to the heaven.`


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Then did they return to Jerusalem from the mount that is called of Olives, that is near Jerusalem, a sabbath`s journey;


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and when they came in, they went up to the upper room, where were abiding both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James, of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zelotes, and Judas, of James;


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these all were continuing with one accord in prayer and supplication, with women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.


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And in these days, Peter having risen up in the midst of the disciples, said, (the multitude also of the names at the same place was, as it were, an hundred and twenty,)


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`Men, brethren, it behoved this Writing that it be fulfilled that beforehand the Holy Spirit spake through the mouth of David, concerning Judas, who became guide to those who took Jesus,


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this one, indeed, then, purchased a field out of the reward of unrighteousness, and falling headlong, burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed forth,


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and it became known to all those dwelling in Jerusalem, insomuch that that place is called, in their proper dialect, Aceldama, that is, field of blood,


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for it hath been written in the book of Psalms: Let his lodging-place become desolate, and let no one be dwelling in it, and his oversight let another take.


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`It behoveth, therefore, of the men who did go with us during all the time in which the Lord Jesus went in and went out among us,


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beginning from the baptism of John, unto the day in which he was received up from us, one of these to become with us a witness of his rising again.`


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and having prayed, they said, `Thou, Lord, who art knowing the heart of all, shew which one thou didst choose of these two


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to receive the share of this ministration and apostleship, from which Judas, by transgression, did fall, to go on to his proper place;`


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and they gave their lots, and the lot fell upon Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.


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and there came suddenly out of the heaven a sound as of a bearing violent breath, and it filled all the house where they were sitting,


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and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, according as the Spirit was giving them to declare.


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and the rumour of this having come, the multitude came together, and was confounded, because they were each one hearing them speaking in his proper dialect,


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and they were all amazed, and did wonder, saying one unto another, `Lo, are not all these who are speaking Galileans?


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Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and those dwelling in Mesopotamia, in Judea also, and Cappadocia, Pontus, and Asia,


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Phrygia also, and Pamphylia, Egypt, and the parts of Libya, that [are] along Cyrene, and the strangers of Rome, both Jews and proselytes,


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and Peter having stood up with the eleven, lifted up his voice and declared to them, `Men, Jews! and all those dwelling in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and harken to my sayings,


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And it shall be in the last days, saith God, 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 old men shall dream dreams;


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and also upon My men-servants, and upon My maid-servants, in those days, I will pour out of My Spirit, and they shall prophesy;


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and I will give wonders in the heaven above, and signs upon the earth beneath -- blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke,


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the sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the coming of the day of the Lord -- the great and illustrious;


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`Men, Israelites! hear these words, Jesus the Nazarene, a man approved of God among you by mighty works, and wonders, and signs, that God did through him in the midst of you, according as also ye yourselves have known;


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this one, by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, being given out, having taken by lawless hands, having crucified -- ye did slay;


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whom God did raise up, having loosed the pains of the death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it,


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for David saith in regard to him: I foresaw the Lord always before me -- because He is on my right hand -- that I may not be moved;


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because of this was my heart cheered, and my tongue was glad, and yet -- my flesh also shall rest on hope,


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`Men, brethren! it is permitted to speak with freedom unto you concerning the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is among us unto this day;


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a prophet, therefore, being, and knowing that with an oath God did swear to him, out of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, to raise up the Christ, to sit upon his throne,


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having foreseen, he did speak concerning the rising again of the Christ, that his soul was not left to hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.


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at the right hand then of God having been exalted -- also the promise of the Holy Spirit having received from the Father -- he was shedding forth this, which now ye see and hear;


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for David did not go up to the heavens, and he saith himself: The Lord saith to my lord, Sit thou at my right hand,


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assuredly, therefore, let all the house of Israel know, that both Lord and Christ did God make him -- this Jesus whom ye did crucify.`


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And having heard, they were pricked to the heart; they say also to Peter, and to the rest of the apostles, `What shall we do, men, brethren?`


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and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,


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for to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all those afar off, as many as the Lord our God shall call.`


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Also with many more other words he was testifying and exhorting, saying, `Be saved from this perverse generation;`


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then those, indeed, who did gladly receive his word were baptized, and there were added on that day, as it were, three thousand souls,


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and they were continuing stedfastly in the teaching of the apostles, and the fellowship, and the breaking of the bread, and the prayers.


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and the possessions and the goods they were selling, and were parting them to all, according as any one had need.


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Daily also continuing with one accord in the temple, breaking also at every house bread, they were partaking of food in gladness and simplicity of heart,


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praising God, and having favour with all the people, and the Lord was adding those being saved every day to the assembly.


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And Peter and John were going up at the same time to the temple, at the hour of the prayer, the ninth [hour],


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and a certain man, being lame from the womb of his mother, was being carried, whom they were laying every day at the gate of the temple, called Beautiful, to ask a kindness from those entering into the temple,


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and Peter said, `Silver and gold I have none, but what I have, that I give to thee; in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and be walking.`


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And having seized him by the right hand, he raised [him] up, and presently his feet and ankles were strengthened,


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and springing up, he stood, and was walking, and did enter with them into the temple, walking and springing, and praising God;


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they were knowing him also that this it was who for a kindness was sitting at the Beautiful gate of the temple, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what hath happened to him.


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And at the lame man who was healed holding Peter and John, all the people ran together unto them in the porch called Solomon`s -- greatly amazed,


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and Peter having seen, answered unto the people, `Men, Israelites! why wonder ye at this? or on us why look ye so earnestly, as if by our own power or piety we have made him to walk?


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`The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, did glorify His child Jesus, whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, he having given judgment to release [him],


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and ye the Holy and Righteous One did deny, and desired a man -- a murderer -- to be granted to you,


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and the Prince of the life ye did kill, whom God did raise out of the dead, of which we are witnesses;


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and on the faith of his name, this one whom ye see and have known, his name made strong, even the faith that [is] through him did give to him this perfect soundness before you all.


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and God, what things before He had declared through the mouth of all His prophets, that the Christ should suffer, He did thus fulfil;


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reform ye, therefore, and turn back, for your sins being blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,


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whom it behoveth heaven, indeed, to receive till times of a restitution of all things, of which God spake through the mouth of all His holy prophets from the age.


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`For Moses, indeed, unto the fathers said -- A prophet to you shall the Lord your God raise up out of your brethren, like to me; him shall ye hear in all things, as many as he may speak unto you;


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and it shall be, every soul that may not hear that prophet shall be utterly destroyed out of the people;


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and also all the prophets from Samuel and those following in order, as many as spake, did also foretell of these days.


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`Ye are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant that God made unto our fathers, saying unto Abraham: And in thy seed shall be blessed all the families of the earth;


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to you first, God, having raised up His child Jesus, did send him, blessing you, in the turning away of each one from your evil ways.`


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And as they are speaking unto the people, there came to them the priests, and the magistrate of the temple, and the Sadducees --


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being grieved because of their teaching the people, and preaching in Jesus the rising again out of the dead --


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and they laid hands upon them, and did put them in custody unto the morrow, for it was evening already;


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and many of those hearing the word did believe, and the number of the men became, as it were, five thousand.


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And it came to pass upon the morrow, there were gathered together of them the rulers, and elders, and scribes, to Jerusalem,


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and Annas the chief priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the chief priest,


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and having set them in the midst, they were inquiring, `In what power, or in what name did ye do this?`


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Then Peter, having been filled with the Holy Spirit, said unto them: `Rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,


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be it known to all of you, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye did crucify, whom God did raise out of the dead, in him hath this one stood by before you whole.


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and there is not salvation in any other, for there is no other name under the heaven that hath been given among men, in which it behoveth us to be saved.`


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And beholding the openness of Peter and John, and having perceived that they are men unlettered and plebeian, they were wondering -- they were taking knowledge also of them that with Jesus they had been --


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saying, `What shall we do to these men? because that, indeed, a notable sign hath been done through them, to all those dwelling in Jerusalem [is] manifest, and we are not able to deny [it];


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but that it may spread no further toward the people, let us strictly threaten them no more to speak in this name to any man.`


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and Peter and John answering unto them said, `Whether it is righteous before God to hearken to you rather than to God, judge ye;


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And they having further threatened [them], let them go, finding nothing how they may punish them, because of the people, because all were glorifying God for that which hath been done,


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And being let go, they went unto their own friends, and declared whatever the chief priests and the elders said unto them,


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and they having heard, with one accord did lift up the voice unto God, and said, `Lord, thou [art] God, who didst make the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all that [are] in them,


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who, through the mouth of David thy servant, did say, Why did nations rage, and peoples meditate vain things?


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the kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against His Christ;


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for gathered together of a truth against Thy holy child Jesus, whom Thou didst anoint, were both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with nations and peoples of Israel,


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`And now, Lord, look upon their threatenings, and grant to Thy servants with all freedom to speak Thy word,


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in the stretching forth of Thy hand, for healing, and signs, and wonders, to come to pass through the name of Thy holy child Jesus.`


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And they having prayed, the place was shaken in which they were gathered together, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and were speaking the word of God with freedom,


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and of the multitude of those who did believe the heart and the soul was one, and not one was saying that anything of the things he had was his own, but all things were to them in common.


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And with great power were the apostles giving the testimony to the rising again of the Lord Jesus, great grace also was on them all,


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for there was not any one among them who did lack, for as many as were possessors of fields, or houses, selling [them], were bringing the prices of the thing sold,


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and were laying them at the feet of the apostles, and distribution was being made to each according as any one had need.


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And Joses, who was surnamed by the apostles Barnabas -- which is, having been interpreted, Son of Comfort -- a Levite, of Cyprus by birth,


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and did keep back of the price -- his wife also knowing -- and having brought a certain part, at the feet of the apostles he laid [it].


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And Peter said, `Ananias, wherefore did the Adversary fill thy heart, for thee to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back of the price of the place?


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while it remained, did it not remain thine? and having been sold, in thy authority was it not? why [is] it that thou didst put in thy heart this thing? thou didst not lie to men, but to God;`


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and Ananias hearing these words, having fallen down, did expire, and great fear came upon all who heard these things,


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And it came to pass, about three hours after, that his wife, not knowing what hath happened, came in,


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and Peter answered her, `Tell me if for so much ye sold the place;` and she said, `Yes, for so much.`


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And Peter said unto her, `How was it agreed by you, to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? lo, the feet of those who did bury thy husband [are] at the door, and they shall carry thee forth;`


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and she fell down presently at his feet, and expired, and the young men having come in, found her dead, and having carried forth, they buried [her] by her husband;


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And through the hands of the apostles came many signs and wonders among the people, and they were with one accord all in the porch of Solomon;


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so as into the broad places to bring forth the ailing, and to lay [them] upon couches and mats, that at the coming of Peter, even [his] shadow might overshadow some one of them;


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and there were coming together also the people of the cities round about to Jerusalem, bearing ailing persons, and those harassed by unclean spirits -- who were all healed.


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And having risen, the chief priest, and all those with him -- being the sect of the Sadducees -- were filled with zeal,


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and a messenger of the Lord through the night opened the doors of the prison, having also brought them forth, he said,


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and having heard, they did enter at the dawn into the temple, and were teaching. And the chief priest having come, and those with him, they called together the sanhedrim and all the senate of the sons of Israel, and they sent to the prison to have them brought,


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saying -- `The prison indeed we found shut in all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors, and having opened -- within we found no one.`


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And as the priest, and the magistrate of the temple, and the chief priests, heard these words, they were doubting concerning them to what this would come;


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and coming near, a certain one told them, saying -- `Lo, the men whom ye did put in the prison are in the temple standing and teaching the people;`


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then the magistrate having gone away with officers, brought them without violence, for they were fearing the people, lest they should be stoned;


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saying, `Did not we strictly command you not to teach in this name? and lo, ye have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and ye intend to bring upon us the blood of this man.`


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this one God, a Prince and a Saviour, hath exalted with His right hand, to give reformation to Israel, and forgiveness of sins;


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and we are His witnesses of these sayings, and the Holy Spirit also, whom God gave to those obeying him.`


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but a certain one, having risen up in the sanhedrim -- a Pharisee, by name Gamaliel, a teacher of law honoured by all the people -- commanded to put the apostles forth a little,


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and said unto them, `Men, Israelites, take heed to yourselves about these men, what ye are about to do,


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for before these days rose up Theudas, saying, that himself was some one, to whom a number of men did join themselves, as it were four hundred, who was slain, and all, as many as were obeying him, were scattered, and came to nought.


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`After this one rose up, Judas the Galilean, in the days of the enrollment, and drew away much people after him, and that one perished, and all, as many as were obeying him, were scattered;


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and now I say to you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone, because if this counsel or this work may be of men, it will be overthrown,


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and if it be of God, ye are not able to overthrow it, lest perhaps also ye be found fighting against God.`


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And to him they agreed, and having called near the apostles, having beaten [them], they commanded [them] not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go;


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they, indeed, then, departed from the presence of the sanhedrim, rejoicing that for his name they were counted worthy to suffer dishonour,


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every day also in the temple, and in every house, they were not ceasing teaching and proclaiming good news -- Jesus the Christ.


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And in these days, the disciples multiplying, there came a murmuring of the Hellenists at the Hebrews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily ministration,


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and the twelve, having called near the multitude of the disciples, said, `It is not pleasing that we, having left the word of God, do minister at tables;


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look out, therefore, brethren, seven men of you who are well testified of, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may set over this necessity,


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And the thing was pleasing before all the multitude, and they did choose Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch,


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And the word of God did increase, and the number of the disciples did multiply in Jerusalem exceedingly; a great multitude also of the priests were obedient to the faith.


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and there arose certain of those of the synagogue, called of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia, and Asia, disputing with Stephen,


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then they suborned men, saying -- `We have heard him speaking evil sayings in regard to Moses and God.`


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They did stir up also the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and having come upon [him], they caught him, and brought [him] to the sanhedrim;


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they set up also false witnesses, saying, `This one doth not cease to speak evil sayings against this holy place and the law,


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for we have heard him saying, That this Jesus the Nazarean shall overthrow this place, and shall change the customs that Moses delivered to us;`


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and gazing at him, all those sitting in the sanhedrim saw his face as it were the face of a messenger.


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and he said, `Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken: The God of the glory did appear to our father Abraham, being in Mesopotamia, before his dwelling in Haran,


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and He said to him, Go forth out of thy land, and out of thy kindred, and come to a land that I shall shew thee.


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`Then having come forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, he dwelt in Haran, and from thence, after the death of his father, He did remove him to this land wherein ye now dwell,


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and He gave him no inheritance in it, not even a footstep, and did promise to give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him -- he having no child.


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`And God spake thus, That his seed shall be sojourning in a strange land, and they shall cause it to serve, and shall do it evil four hundred years,


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and the nation whom they shall serve I will judge, said God; and after these things they shall come forth and shall do Me service in this place.


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`And He gave to him a covenant of circumcision, and so he begat Isaac, and did circumcise him on the eighth day, and Isaac [begat] Jacob, and Jacob -- the twelve patriarchs;


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and did deliver him out of all his tribulations, and gave him favour and wisdom before Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he did set him -- governor over Egypt and all his house.


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`And there came a dearth upon all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great tribulation, and our fathers were not finding sustenance,


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and at the second time was Joseph made known to his brethren, and Joseph`s kindred became manifest to Pharaoh,


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and Joseph having sent, did call for his father Jacob, and all his kindred -- with seventy and five souls --


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and they were carried over into Sychem, and were laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in money from the sons of Emmor, of Sychem.


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`And according as the time of the promise was drawing nigh, which God did swear to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,


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this one, having dealt subtilely with our kindred, did evil to our fathers, causing to expose their babes, that they might not live;


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in which time Moses was born, and he was fair to God, and he was brought up three months in the house of his father;


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and he having been exposed, the daughter of Pharaoh took him up, and did rear him to herself for a son;


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`And when forty years were fulfilled to him, it came upon his heart to look after his brethren, the sons of Israel;


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and having seen a certain one suffering injustice, he did defend, and did justice to the oppressed, having smitten the Egyptian;


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and he was supposing his brethren to understand that God through his hand doth give salvation; and they did not understand.


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`On the succeeding day, also, he shewed himself to them as they are striving, and urged them to peace, saying, Men, brethren are ye, wherefore do ye injustice to one another?


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and he who is doing injustice to the neighbour, did thrust him away, saying, Who set thee a ruler and a judge over us?


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`And Moses fled at this word, and became a sojourner in the land of Midian, where he begat two sons,


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and forty years having been fulfilled, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sinai a messenger of the Lord, in a flame of fire of a bush,


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and Moses having seen did wonder at the sight; and he drawing near to behold, there came a voice of the Lord unto him,


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I [am] the God of thy fathers; the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. `And Moses having become terrified, durst not behold,


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and the Lord said to him, Loose the sandal of thy feet, for the place in which thou hast stood is holy ground;


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seeing I have seen the affliction of My people that [is] in Egypt, and their groaning I did hear, and came down to deliver them; and now come, I will send thee to Egypt.


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`This Moses, whom they did refuse, saying, Who did set thee a ruler and a judge? this one God a ruler and a redeemer did send, in the hand of a messenger who appeared to him in the bush;


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this one did bring them forth, having done 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 did say to the sons of Israel: A prophet to you shall the Lord your God raise up out of your brethren, like to me, him shall ye hear.


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`This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the messenger who is speaking to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers who did receive the living oracles to give to us;


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to whom our fathers did not wish to become obedient, but did thrust away, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,


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saying to Aaron, Make to us gods who shall go on before us, for this Moses, who brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, we have not known what hath happened to him.


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`And they made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and were rejoicing in the works of their hands,


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and God did turn, and did give them up to do service to the host of the heaven, according as it hath been written in the scroll of the prophets: Slain beasts and sacrifices did ye offer to Me forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?


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and ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan -- the figures that ye made to bow before them, and I will remove your dwelling beyond Babylon.


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`The tabernacle of the testimony was among our fathers in the wilderness, according as He did direct, who is speaking to Moses, to make it according to the figure that he had seen;


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which also our fathers having in succession received, did bring in with Joshua, into the possession of the nations whom God did drive out from the presence of our fathers, till the days of David,


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The heaven [is] My throne, and the earth My footstool; what house will ye build to Me? saith the Lord, or what [is] the place of My rest?


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`Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and in ears! ye do always the Holy Spirit resist; as your fathers -- also ye;


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which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed those who declared before about the coming of the Righteous One, of whom now ye betrayers and murderers have become,


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and being full of the Holy Spirit, having looked stedfastly to the heaven, he saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,


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and he said, `Lo, I see the heavens having been opened, and the Son of Man standing on the right hand of God.`


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And they, having cried out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and did rush with one accord upon him,


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and having cast him forth outside of the city, they were stoning [him] -- and the witnesses did put down their garments at the feet of a young man called Saul --


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and having bowed the knees, he cried with a loud voice, `Lord, mayest thou not lay to them this sin;` and this having said, he fell asleep.


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And Saul was assenting to his death, and there came in that day a great persecution upon the assembly in Jerusalem, all also were scattered abroad in the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles;


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and Saul was making havoc of the assembly, into every house entering, and haling men and women, was giving them up to prison;


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the multitudes also were giving heed to the things spoken by Philip, with one accord, in their hearing and seeing the signs that he was doing,


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for unclean spirits came forth from many who were possessed, crying with a loud voice, and many who have been paralytic and lame were healed,


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And a certain man, by name Simon, was before in the city using magic, and amazing the nation of Samaria, saying himself to be a certain great one,


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to whom they were all giving heed, from small unto great, saying, `This one is the great power of God;`


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and they were giving heed to him, because of his having for a long time amazed them with deeds of magic.


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And when they believed Philip, proclaiming good news, the things concerning the reign of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized both men and women;


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and Simon also himself did believe, and, having been baptized, he was continuing with Philip, beholding also signs and mighty acts being done, he was amazed.


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And the apostles in Jerusalem having heard that Samaria hath received the word of God, did send unto them Peter and John,


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for as yet he was fallen upon none of them, and only they have been baptized -- to the name of the Lord Jesus;


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And Simon, having beheld that through the laying on of the hands of the apostles, the Holy Spirit is given, brought before them money,


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saying, `Give also to me this authority, that on whomsoever I may lay the hands, he may receive the Holy Spirit.`


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And Peter said unto him, `Thy silver with thee -- may it be to destruction! because the gift of God thou didst think to possess through money;


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reform, therefore, from this thy wickedness, and beseech God, if then the purpose of thy heart may be forgiven thee,


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And Simon answering, said, `Beseech ye for me unto the Lord, that nothing may come upon me of the things ye have spoken.`


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They indeed, therefore, having testified fully, and spoken the word of the Lord, did turn back to Jerusalem; in many villages also of the Samaritans they did proclaim good news.


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And a messenger of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, `Arise, and go on toward the south, on the way that is going down from Jerusalem to Gaza,` -- this is desert.


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And having arisen, he went on, and lo, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch, a man of rank, of Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to worship to Jerusalem;


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and Philip having run near, heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, `Dost thou then know what thou dost read?`


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and he said, `Why, how am I able, if some one may not guide me?` he called Philip also, having come up, to sit with him.


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And the contents of the Writing that he was reading was this: `As a sheep unto slaughter he was led, and as a lamb before his shearer dumb, so he doth not open his mouth;


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in his humiliation his judgment was taken away, and his generation -- who shall declare? because taken from the earth is his life.`


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And the eunuch answering Philip said, `I pray thee, about whom doth the prophet say this? about himself, or about some other one?`


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and Philip having opened his mouth, and having begun from this Writing, proclaimed good news to him -- Jesus.


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And as they were going on the way, they came upon a certain water, and the eunuch said, `Lo, water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?`


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[And Philip said, `If thou dost believe out of all the heart, it is lawful;` and he answering said, `I believe Jesus Christ to be the Son of God;`]


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and he commanded the chariot to stand still, and they both went down to the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him;


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and when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, and the eunuch saw him no more, for he was going on his way rejoicing;


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and Philip was found at Azotus, and passing through, he was proclaiming good news to all the cities, till his coming to Cesarea.


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And Saul, yet breathing of threatening and slaughter to the disciples of the Lord, having gone to the chief priest,


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did ask from him letters to Damascus, unto the synagogues, that if he may find any being of the way, both men and women, he may bring them bound to Jerusalem.


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And in the going, he came nigh to Damascus, and suddenly there shone round about him a light from the heaven,


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and having fallen upon the earth, he heard a voice saying to him, `Saul, Saul, why me dost thou persecute?`


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And he said, `Who art thou, Lord?` and the Lord said, `I am Jesus whom thou dost persecute; hard for thee at the pricks to kick;`


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trembling also, and astonished, he said, `Lord, what dost thou wish me to do?` and the Lord [said] unto him, `Arise, and enter into the city, and it shall be told thee what it behoveth thee to do.`


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And the men who are journeying with him stood speechless, hearing indeed the voice but seeing no one,


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and Saul arose from the earth, and his eyes having been opened, he beheld no one, and leading him by the hand they brought him to Damascus,


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And there was a certain disciple in Damascus, by name Ananias, and the Lord said unto him in a vision, `Ananias;` and he said, `Behold me, Lord;`


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and the Lord [saith] unto him, `Having risen, go on unto the street that is called Straight, and seek in the house of Judas, [one] by name Saul of Tarsus, for, lo, he doth pray,


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and he saw in a vision a man, by name Ananias, coming in, and putting a hand on him, that he may see again.`


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And Ananias answered, `Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how many evils he did to Thy saints in Jerusalem,


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And the Lord said unto him, `Be going on, because a choice vessel to Me is this one, to bear My name before nations and kings -- the sons also of Israel;


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And Ananias went away, and did enter into the house, and having put upon him [his] hands, said, `Saul, brother, the Lord hath sent me -- Jesus who did appear to thee in the way in which thou wast coming -- that thou mayest see again, and mayest be filled with the Holy Spirit.`


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And immediately there fell from his eyes as it were scales, he saw again also presently, and having risen, was baptized,


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and having received nourishment, was strengthened, and Saul was with the disciples in Damascus certain days,


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And all those hearing were amazed, and said, `Is not this he who laid waist in Jerusalem those calling on this name, and hither to this intent had come, that he might bring them bound to the chief priests?`


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And Saul was still more strengthened, and he was confounding the Jews dwelling in Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.


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and their counsel against [him] was known to Saul; they were also watching the gates both day and night, that they may kill him,


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and the disciples having taken him, by night did let him down by the wall, letting down in a basket.


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And Saul, having come to Jerusalem, did try to join himself to the disciples, and they were all afraid of him, not believing that he is a disciple,


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and Barnabas having taken him, brought [him] unto the apostles, and did declare to them how in the way he saw the Lord, and that he spake to him, and how in Damascus he was speaking boldly in the name of Jesus.


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and speaking boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, he was both speaking and disputing with the Hellenists, and they were taking in hand to kill him,


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Then, indeed, the assemblies throughout all Judea, and Galilee, and Samaria, had peace, being built up, and, going on in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, they were multiplied.


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And it came to pass that Peter passing throughout all [quarters], came down also unto the saints who were dwelling at Lydda,


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and he found there a certain man, Aeneas by name -- for eight years laid upon a couch -- who was paralytic,


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and Peter said to him, `Aeneas, heal thee doth Jesus the Christ; arise and spread for thyself;` and immediately he rose,


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And in Joppa there was a certain female disciple, by name Tabitha, (which interpreted, is called Dorcas,) this woman was full of good works and kind acts that she was doing;


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and it came to pass in those days she, having ailed, died, and having bathed her, they laid her in an upper chamber,


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and Lydda being nigh to Joppa, the disciples having heard that Peter is in that [place], sent two men unto him, calling on him not to delay to come through unto them.


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And Peter having risen, went with them, whom having come, they brought into the upper chamber, and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing coats and garments, as many as Dorcas was making while she was with them.


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And Peter having put them all forth without, having bowed the knees, did pray, and having turned unto the body said, `Tabitha, arise;` and she opened her eyes, and having seen Peter, she sat up,


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and having given her [his] hand, he lifted her up, and having called the saints and the widows, he presented her alive,


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pious, and fearing God with all his house, doing also many kind acts to the people, and beseeching God always,


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he saw in a vision manifestly, as it were the ninth hour of the day, a messenger of God coming in unto him, and saying to him, `Cornelius;`


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and he having looked earnestly on him, and becoming afraid, said, `What is it, Lord?` And he said to him, `Thy prayers and thy kind acts came up for a memorial before God,


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this one doth lodge with a certain Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea; this one shall speak to thee what it behoveth thee to do.`


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And when the messenger who is speaking to Cornelius went away, having called two of his domestics, and a pious soldier of those waiting on him continually,


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And on the morrow, as these are proceeding on the way, and are drawing nigh to the city, Peter went up upon the house-top to pray, about the sixth hour,


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and he doth behold the heaven opened, and descending unto him a certain vessel, as a great sheet, bound at the four corners, and let down upon the earth,


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in which were all the four-footed beasts of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the creeping things, and the fowls of the heaven,


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and [there is] a voice again a second time unto him: `What God did cleanse, thou, declare not thou common;`


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And as Peter was perplexed in himself what the vision that he saw might be, then, lo, the men who have been sent from Cornelius, having made inquiry for the house of Simon, stood at the gate,


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and Peter having come down unto the men who have been sent from Cornelius unto him, said, `Lo, I am he whom ye seek, what [is] the cause for which ye are present?`


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And they said, `Cornelius, a centurion, a man righteous and fearing God, well testified to, also, by all the nation of the Jews, was divinely warned by a holy messenger to send for thee, to his house, and to hear sayings from thee.`


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and on the morrow they did enter into Cesarea; and Cornelius was waiting for them, having called together his kindred and near friends,


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and as it came that Peter entered in, Cornelius having met him, having fallen at [his] feet, did bow before [him];


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And he said unto them, `Ye know how it is unlawful for a man, a Jew, to keep company with, or to come unto, one of another race, but to me God did shew to call no man common or unclean;


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therefore also without gainsaying I came, having been sent for; I ask, therefore, for what matter ye did send for me?`


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And Cornelius said, `Four days ago till this hour, I was fasting, and [at] the ninth hour praying in my house, and, lo, a man stood before me in bright clothing,


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send, therefore, to Joppa, and call for Simon, who is surnamed Peter; this one doth lodge in the house of Simon a tanner, by the sea, who having come, shall speak to thee;


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at once, therefore, I sent to thee; thou also didst do well, having come; now, therefore, are we all before God present to hear all things that have been commanded thee by God.`


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And Peter having opened his mouth, said, `Of a truth, I perceive that God is no respecter of persons,


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the word that he sent to the sons of Israel, proclaiming good news -- peace through Jesus Christ (this one is Lord of all,)


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ye -- ye have known; -- the word that came throughout all Judea, having begun from Galilee, after the baptism that John preached;


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Jesus who [is] from Nazareth -- how God did anoint him with the Holy Spirit and power; who went through, doing good, and healing all those oppressed by the devil, because God was with him;


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and we -- we are witnesses of all things that he did, both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem, -- whom they did slay, having hanged upon a tree.


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not to all the people, but to witnesses, to those having been chosen before by God -- to us who did eat with [him], and did drink with him, after his rising out of the dead;


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and he commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify fully that it is he who hath been ordained by God judge of living and dead --


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to this one do all the prophets testify, that through his name every one that is believing in him doth receive remission of sins.`


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and those of the circumcision believing were astonished -- as many as came with Peter -- because also upon the nations the gift of the Holy Spirit hath been poured out,


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Then answered Peter, `The water is any one able to forbid, that these may not be baptized, who the Holy Spirit did receive -- even as also we?`


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he commanded them also to be baptized in the name of the Lord; then they besought him to remain certain days.


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And the apostles and the brethren who are in Judea heard that also the nations did receive the word of God,


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`I was in the city of Joppa praying, and I saw in a trance a vision, a certain vessel coming down, as a great sheet by four corners being let down out of the heaven, and it came unto me;


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at which having looked stedfastly, I was considering, and I saw the four-footed beasts of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the creeping things, and the fowls of heaven;


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and a voice did answer me a second time out of the heaven, What God did cleanse, thou -- declare not thou common.


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and, lo, immediately, three men stood at the house in which I was, having been sent from Cesarea unto me,


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and the Spirit said to me to go with them, nothing doubting, and these six brethren also went with me, and we did enter into the house of the man,


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he declared also to us how he saw the messenger in his house standing, and saying to him, Send men to Joppa, and call for Simon, who is surnamed Peter,


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`And in my beginning to speak, the Holy Spirit did fall upon them, even as also upon us in the beginning,


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and I remembered the saying of the Lord, how he said, John indeed did baptize with water, and ye shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit;


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if then the equal gift God did give to them as also to us, having believed upon the Lord Jesus Christ, I -- how was I able to withstand God?`


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And they, having heard these things, were silent, and were glorifying God, saying, `Then, indeed, also to the nations did God give the reformation to life.`


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Those, indeed, therefore, having been scattered abroad, from the tribulation that came after Stephen, went through unto Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to none except to Jews only;


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and there were certain of them men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who having entered into Antioch, were speaking unto the Hellenists, proclaiming good news -- the Lord Jesus,


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and the hand of the Lord was with them, a great number also, having believed, did turn unto the Lord.


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And the account was heard in the ears of the assembly that [is] in Jerusalem concerning them, and they sent forth Barnabas to go through unto Antioch,


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who, having come, and having seen the grace of God, was glad, and was exhorting all with purpose of heart to cleave to the Lord,


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because he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit, and of faith, and a great multitude was added to the Lord.


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and having found him, he brought him to Antioch, and it came to pass that they a whole year did assemble together in the assembly, and taught a great multitude, the disciples also were divinely called first in Antioch Christians.


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and one of them, by name Agabus, having stood up, did signify through the Spirit a great dearth is about to be throughout all the world -- which also came to pass in the time of Claudius Caesar --


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and the disciples, according as any one was prospering, determined each of them to send for ministration to the brethren dwelling in Judea,


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And about that time, Herod the king put forth his hands, to do evil to certain of those of the assembly,


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and having seen that it is pleasing to the Jews, he added to lay hold of Peter also -- and they were the days of the unleavened food --


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whom also having seized, he did put in prison, having delivered [him] to four quaternions of soldiers to guard him, intending after the passover to bring him forth to the people.


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Peter, therefore, indeed, was kept in the prison, and fervent prayer was being made by the assembly unto God for him,


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and when Herod was about to bring him forth, the same night was Peter sleeping between two soldiers, having been bound with two chains, guards also before the door were keeping the prison,


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and lo, a messenger of the Lord stood by, and a light shone in the buildings, and having smitten Peter on the side, he raised him up, saying, `Rise in haste,` and his chains fell from off [his] hands.


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The messenger also said to him, `Gird thyself, and bind on thy sandals;` and he did so; and he saith to him, `Put thy garment round and be following me;`


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and having gone forth, he was following him, and he knew not that it is true that which is done through the messenger, and was thinking he saw a vision,


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and having passed through a first ward, and a second, they came unto the iron gate that is leading to the city, which of its own accord did open to them, and having gone forth, they went on through one street, and immediately the messenger departed from him.


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And Peter having come to himself, said, `Now I have known of a truth that the Lord did sent forth His messenger, and did deliver me out of the hand of Herod, and all the expectation of the people of the Jews;`


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also, having considered, he came unto the house of Mary, the mother of John, who is surnamed Mark, where there were many thronged together and praying.


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and having known the voice of Peter, from the joy she did not open the porch, but having run in, told of the standing of Peter before the porch,


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and they said unto her, `Thou art mad;` and she was confidently affirming [it] to be so, and they said, `It is his messenger;`


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and having beckoned to them with the hand to be silent, he declared to them how the Lord brought him out of the prison, and he said, `Declare to James and to the brethren these things;` and having gone forth, he went on to another place.


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and Herod having sought for him, and not having found, having examined the guards, did command [them] to be led away to punishment, and having gone down from Judea to Cesarea, he was abiding [there].


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And Herod was highly displeased with the Tyrians and Sidonians, and with one accord they came unto him, and having made a friend of Blastus, who [is] over the bed-chambers of the king, they were asking peace, because of their country being nourished from the king`s;


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and on a set day, Herod having arrayed himself in kingly apparel, and having sat down upon the tribunal, was making an oration unto them,


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and presently there smote him a messenger of the Lord, because he did not give the glory to God, and having been eaten of worms, he expired.


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and Barnabas and Saul did turn back out of Jerusalem, having fulfilled the ministration, having taken also with [them] John, who was surnamed Mark.


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And there were certain in Antioch, in the assembly there, prophets and teachers; both Barnabas, and Simeon who is called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenian, Manaen also -- Herod the tetrarch`s foster-brother -- and Saul;


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and in their ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, `Separate ye to me both Barnabas and Saul to the work to which I have called them,`


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These, indeed, then, having been sent forth by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia, thence also they sailed to Cyprus,


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and having come unto Salamis, they declared the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews, and they had also John [as] a ministrant;


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and having gone through the island unto Paphos, they found a certain magian, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name [is] Bar-Jesus;


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who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man; this one having called for Barnabas and Saul, did desire to hear the word of God,


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and there withstood them Elymas the magian -- for so is his name interpreted -- seeking to pervert the proconsul from the faith.


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And Saul -- who also [is] Paul -- having been filled with the Holy Spirit, and having looked stedfastly on him,


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said, `O full of all guile, and all profligacy, son of a devil, enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease perverting the right ways of the Lord?


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and now, lo, a hand of the Lord [is] upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season;` and presently there fell upon him a mist and darkness, and he, going about, was seeking some to lead [him] by the hand;


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then the proconsul having seen what hath come to pass, did believe, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord.


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And those about Paul having set sail from Paphos, came to Perga of Pamphylia, and John having departed from them, did turn back to Jerusalem,


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and they having gone through from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia, and having gone into the synagogue on the sabbath-day, they sat down,


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and after the reading of the law and of the prophets, the chief men of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, `Men, brethren, if there be a word in you of exhortation unto the people -- say on.`


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And Paul having risen, and having beckoned with the hand, said, `Men, Israelites, and those fearing God, hearken:


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the God of this people Israel did choose our fathers, and the people He did exalt in their sojourning in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm did He bring them out of it;


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`And after these things, about four hundred and fifty years, He gave judges -- till Samuel the prophet;


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and thereafter they asked for a king, and God did give to them Saul, son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years;


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and having removed him, He did raise up to them David for king, to whom also having testified, he said, I found David, the [son] of Jesse, a man according to My heart, who shall do all My will.


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John having first preached, before his coming, a baptism of reformation to all the people of Israel;


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and as John was fulfilling the course, he said, Whom me do ye suppose to be? I am not [he], but, lo, he doth come after me, of whom I am not worthy to loose the sandal of [his] feet.


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`Men, brethren, sons of the race of Abraham, and those among you fearing God, to you was the word of this salvation sent,


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for those dwelling in Jerusalem, and their chiefs, this one not having known, also the voices of the prophets, which every sabbath are being read -- having judged [him] -- did fulfill,


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and when they did complete all the things written about him, having taken [him] down from the tree, they laid him in a tomb;


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and he was seen for many days of those who did come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people.


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God hath in full completed this to us their children, having raised up Jesus, as also in the second Psalm it hath been written, My Son thou art -- I to-day have begotten thee.


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`And that He did raise him up out of the dead, no more to return to corruption, he hath said thus -- I will give to you the faithful kindnesses of David;


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for David, indeed, his own generation having served by the will of God, did fall asleep, and was added unto his fathers, and saw corruption,


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`Let it therefore be known to you, men, brethren, that through this one to you is the forgiveness of sins declared,


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and from all things from which ye were not able in the law of Moses to be declared righteous, in this one every one who is believing is declared righteous;


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See, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish, because a work I -- I do work in your days, a work in which ye may not believe, though any one may declare [it] to you.`


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And having gone forth out of the synagogue of the Jews, the nations were calling upon [them] that on the next sabbath these sayings may be spoken to them,


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and the synagogue having been dismissed, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes did follow Paul and Barnabas, who, speaking to them, were persuading them to remain in the grace of God.


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and the Jews having seen the multitudes, were filled with zeal, and did contradict the things spoken by Paul -- contradicting and speaking evil.


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And speaking boldly, Paul and Barnabas said, `To you it was necessary that first the word of God be spoken, and seeing ye do thrust it away, and do not judge yourselves worthy of the life age-during, lo, we do turn to the nations;


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for so hath the Lord commanded us: I have set thee for a light of nations -- for thy being for salvation unto the end of the earth.`


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And the nations hearing were glad, and were glorifying the word of the Lord, and did believe -- as many as were appointed to life age-during;


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And the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the first men of the city, and did raise persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and did put them out from their borders;


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And it came to pass in Iconium, that they did enter together into the synagogue of the Jews, and spake, so that there believed both of Jews and Greeks a great multitude;


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long time, indeed, therefore, did they abide speaking boldly in the Lord, who is testifying to the word of His grace, and granting signs and wonders to come to pass through their hands.


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and when there was a purpose both of the nations and of the Jews with their rulers to use [them] despitefully, and to stone them,


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they having become aware, did flee to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra, and Derbe, and to the region round about,


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And a certain man in Lystra, impotent in the feet, was sitting, being lame from the womb of his mother -- who never had walked,


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this one was hearing Paul speaking, who, having stedfastly beheld him, and having seen that he hath faith to be saved,


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and the multitudes having seen what Paul did, did lift up their voice, in the speech of Lycaonia, saying, `The gods, having become like men, did come down unto us;`


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And the priest of the Zeus that is before their city, oxen and garlands unto the porches having brought, with the multitudes did wish to sacrifice,


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and having heard, the apostles Barnabas and Paul, having rent their garments, did spring into the multitude, crying


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and saying, `Men, why these things do ye? and we are men like-affected with you, proclaiming good news to you, from these vanities to turn unto the living God, who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all the things in them;


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though, indeed, without witness He did not leave himself, doing good -- from heaven giving rains to us, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness;`


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And there came thither, from Antioch and Iconium, Jews, and they having persuaded the multitudes, and having stoned Paul, drew him outside of the city, having supposed him to be dead;


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and the disciples having surrounded him, having risen he entered into the city, and on the morrow he went forth with Barnabas to Derbe.


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Having proclaimed good news also to that city, and having discipled many, they turned back to Lystra, and Iconium, and Antioch,


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confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting to remain in the faith, and that through many tribulations it behoveth us to enter into the reign of God,


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and having appointed to them by vote elders in every assembly, having prayed with fastings, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed.


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and thence did sail to Antioch, whence they had been given by the grace of God for the work that they fulfilled;


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and having come and gathered together the assembly, they declared as many things as God did with them, and that He did open to the nations a door of faith;


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And certain having come down from Judea, were teaching the brethren -- `If ye be not circumcised after the custom of Moses, ye are not able to be saved;`


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there having been, therefore, not a little dissension and disputation to Paul and Barnabas with them, they arranged for Paul and Barnabas, and certain others of them, to go up unto the apostles and elders to Jerusalem about this question,


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they indeed, then, having been sent forward by the assembly, were passing through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the nations, and they were causing great joy to all the brethren.


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And having come to Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly, and the apostles, and the elders, they declared also as many things as God did with them;


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and there rose up certain of those of the sect of the Pharisees who believed, saying -- `It behoveth to circumcise them, to command them also to keep the law of Moses.`


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and there having been much disputing, Peter having risen up said unto them, `Men, brethren, ye know that from former days, God among us did make choice, through my mouth, for the nations to hear the word of the good news, and to believe;


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and the heart-knowing God did bare them testimony, having given to them the Holy Spirit, even as also to us,


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now, therefore, why do ye tempt God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?


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And all the multitude did keep silence, and were hearkening to Barnabas and Paul, declaring as many signs and wonders as God did among the nations through them;


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Simeon did declare how at first God did look after to take out of the nations a people for His name,


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After these things I will turn back, and I will build again the tabernacle of David, that is fallen down, and its ruins I will build again, and will set it upright --


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that the residue of men may seek after the Lord, and all the nations, upon whom My name hath been called, saith the Lord, who is doing all these things.


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but to write to them to abstain from the pollutions of the idols, and the whoredom, and the strangled thing; and the blood;


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for Moses from former generations in every city hath those preaching him -- in the synagogues every sabbath being read.`


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Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole assembly, chosen men out of themselves to send to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas -- Judas surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, leading men among the brethren --


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having written through their hand thus: `The apostles, and the elders, and the brethren, to those in Antioch, and Syria, and Cilicia, brethren, who [are] of the nations, greeting;


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seeing we have heard that certain having gone forth from us did trouble you with words, subverting your souls, saying to be circumcised and to keep the law, to whom we did give no charge,


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it seemed good to us, having come together with one accord, chosen men to send unto you, with our beloved Barnabas and Paul --


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`For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, no more burden to lay upon you, except these necessary things:


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to abstain from things offered to idols, and blood, and a strangled thing, and whoredom; from which keeping yourselves, ye shall do well; be strong!`


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They then, indeed, having been let go, went to Antioch, and having brought the multitude together, did deliver the epistle,


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Judas also and Silas, being themselves also prophets, through much discourse did exhort the brethren, and confirm,


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And Paul and Barnabas continued in Antioch, teaching and proclaiming good news -- with many others also -- the word of the Lord;


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and after certain days, Paul said unto Barnabas, `Having turned back again, we may look after our brethren, in every city in which we have preached the word of the Lord -- how they are.`


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and Paul was not thinking it good to take him with them who withdrew from them from Pamphylia, and did not go with them to the work;


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there came, therefore, a sharp contention, so that they were parted from one another, and Barnabas having taken Mark, did sail to Cyprus,


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And he came to Derbe and Lystra, and lo, a certain disciple was there, by name Timotheus son of a certain woman, a believing Jewess, but of a father, a Greek,


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this one did Paul wish to go forth with him, and having taken [him], he circumcised him, because of the Jews who are in those places, for they all knew his father -- that he was a Greek.


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And as they were going on through the cities, they were delivering to them the decrees to keep, that have been judged by the apostles and the elders who [are] in Jerusalem,


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and having gone through Phrygia and the region of Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia,


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having gone toward Mysia, they were trying to go on toward Bithynia, and the Spirit did not suffer them,


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And a vision through the night appeared to Paul -- a certain man of Macedonia was standing, calling upon him, and saying, `Having passed through to Macedonia, help us;` --


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and when he saw the vision, immediately we endeavoured to go forth to Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord hath called us to preach good news to them,


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having set sail, therefore, from Troas, we came with a straight course to Samothracia, on the morrow also to Neapolis,


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thence also to Philippi, which is a principal city of the part of Macedonia -- a colony. And we were in this city abiding certain days,


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on the sabbath-day also we went forth outside of the city, by a river, where there used to be prayer, and having sat down, we were speaking to the women who came together,


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and a certain woman, by name Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, worshipping God, was hearing, whose heart the Lord did open to attend to the things spoken by Paul;


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and when she was baptized, and her household, she did call upon us, saying, `If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, having entered into my house, remain;` and she constrained us.


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And it came to pass in our going on to prayer, a certain maid, having a spirit of Python, did meet us, who brought much employment to her masters by soothsaying,


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she having followed Paul and us, was crying, saying, `These men are servants of the Most High God, who declare to us a way of salvation;`


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and this she was doing for many days, but Paul having been grieved, and having turned, said to the spirit, `I command thee, in the name of Jesus Christ, to come forth from her;` and it came forth the same hour.


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And her masters having seen that the hope of their employment was gone, having caught Paul and Silas, drew [them] to the market-place, unto the rulers,


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and having brought them to the magistrates, they said, `These men do exceedingly trouble our city, being Jews;


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And the multitude rose up together against them, and the magistrates having torn their garments from them, were commanding to beat [them] with rods,


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many blows also having laid upon them, they cast them to prison, having given charge to the jailor to keep them safely,


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who such a charge having received, did put them to the inner prison, and their feet made fast in the stocks.


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And at midnight Paul and Silas praying, were singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were hearing them,


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and suddenly a great earthquake came, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken, opened also presently were all the doors, and of all -- the bands were loosed;


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and the jailor having come out of sleep, and having seen the doors of the prison open, having drawn a sword, was about to kill himself, supposing the prisoners to be fled,


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and Paul cried out with a loud voice, saying, `Thou mayest not do thyself any harm, for we are all here.`


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and having taken them, in that hour of the night, he did bathe [them] from the blows, and was baptized, himself and all his presently,


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having brought them also into his house, he set food before [them], and was glad with all the household, he having believed in God.


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and the jailor told these words unto Paul -- `The magistrates have sent, that ye may be let go; now, therefore, having gone forth go on in peace;`


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and Paul said to them, `Having beaten us publicly uncondemned -- men, Romans being -- they did cast [us] to prison, and now privately do they cast us forth! why no! but having come themselves, let them bring us forth.`


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And the rod-bearers told to the magistrates these sayings, and they were afraid, having heard that they are Romans,


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and having come, they besought them, and having brought [them] forth, they were asking [them] to go forth from the city;


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and they, having gone forth out of the prison, entered into [the house of] Lydia, and having seen the brethren, they comforted them, and went forth.


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And having passed through Amphipolis, and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was the synagogue of the Jews,


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and according to the custom of Paul, he went in unto them, and for three sabbaths he was reasoning with them from the Writings,


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opening and alleging, `That the Christ it behoved to suffer, and to rise again out of the dead, and that this is the Christ -- Jesus whom I proclaim to you.`


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And certain of them did believe, and attached themselves to Paul and to Silas, also of the worshipping Greeks a great multitude, of the principal women also not a few.


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And the unbelieving Jews, having been moved with envy, and having taken to them of the loungers certain evil men, and having made a crowd, were setting the city in an uproar; having assailed also the house of Jason, they were seeking them to bring [them] to the populace,


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and not having found them, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the city rulers, calling aloud -- `These, having put the world in commotion, are also here present,


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whom Jason hath received; and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying another to be king -- Jesus.`


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And the brethren immediately, through the night, sent forth both Paul and Silas to Berea, who having come, went to the synagogue of the Jews;


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and these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, they received the word with all readiness of mind, every day examining the Writings whether those things were so;


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And when the Jews from Thessalonica knew that also in Berea was the word of God declared by Paul, they came thither also, agitating the multitudes;


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and then immediately the brethren sent forth Paul, to go on as it were to the sea, but both Silas and Timothy were remaining there.


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And those conducting Paul, brought him unto Athens, and having received a command unto Silas and Timotheus that with all speed they may come unto him, they departed;


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and Paul waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, beholding the city wholly given to idolatry,


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therefore, indeed, he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the worshipping persons, and in the market-place every day with those who met with him.


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And certain of the Epicurean and of the Stoic philosophers, were meeting together to see him, and some were saying, `What would this seed picker wish to say?` and others, `Of strange demons he doth seem to be an announcer;` because Jesus and the rising again he did proclaim to them as good news,


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having also taken him, unto the Areopagus they brought [him], saying, `Are we able to know what [is] this new teaching that is spoken by thee,


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for certain strange things thou dost bring to our ears? we wish, then, to know what these things would wish to be;`


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and all Athenians, and the strangers sojourning, for nothing else were at leisure but to say something, and to hear some newer thing.


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And Paul, having stood in the midst of the Areopagus, said, `Men, Athenians, in all things I perceive you as over-religious;


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for passing through and contemplating your objects of worship, I found also an erection on which had been inscribed: To God -- unknown; whom, therefore -- not knowing -- ye do worship, this One I announce to you.


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`God, who did make the world, and all things in it, this One, of heaven and of earth being Lord, in temples made with hands doth not dwell,


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neither by the hands of men is He served -- needing anything, He giving to all life, and breath, and all things;


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He made also of one blood every nation of men, to dwell upon all the face of the earth -- having ordained times before appointed, and the bounds of their dwellings --


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to seek the Lord, if perhaps they did feel after Him and find, -- though, indeed, He is not far from each one of us,


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for in Him we live, and move, and are; as also certain of your poets have said: For of Him also we are offspring.


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`Being, therefore, offspring of God, we ought not to think the Godhead to be like to gold, or silver, or stone, graving of art and device of man;


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the times, indeed, therefore, of the ignorance God having overlooked, doth now command all men everywhere to reform,


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because He did set a day in which He is about to judge the world in righteousness, by a man whom He did ordain, having given assurance to all, having raised him out of the dead.`


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And having heard of a rising again of the dead, some, indeed, were mocking, but others said, `We will hear thee again concerning this;`


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and certain men having cleaved to him, did believe, among whom [is] also Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman, by name Damaris, and others with them.


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and having found a certain Jew, by name Aquilas, of Pontus by birth, lately come from Italy, and Priscilla his wife -- because of Claudius having directed all the Jews to depart out of Rome -- he came to them,


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and because of being of the same craft, he did remain with them, and was working, for they were tent-makers as to craft;


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And when both Silas and Timotheus came down from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the Spirit, testifying fully to the Jews Jesus the Christ;


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and on their resisting and speaking evil, having shaken [his] garments, he said unto them, `Your blood [is] upon your head -- I am clean; henceforth to the nations I will go on.`


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And having departed thence, he went to the house of a certain one, by name Justus, a worshipper of God, whose house was adjoining the synagogue,


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and Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue did believe in the Lord with all his house, and many of the Corinthians hearing were believing, and they were being baptized.


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And the Lord said through a vision in the night to Paul, `Be not afraid, but be speaking and thou mayest be not silent;


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because I am with thee, and no one shall set on thee to do thee evil; because I have much people in this city;`


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And Gallio being proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a rush with one accord upon Paul, and brought him unto the tribunal,


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and Paul being about to open [his] mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, `If, indeed, then, it was anything unrighteous, or an act of wicked profligacy, O Jews, according to reason I had borne with you,


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but if it is a question concerning words and names, and of your law, look ye yourselves [to it], for a judge of these things I do not wish to be,`


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and all the Greeks having taken Sosthenes, the chief man of the synagogue, were beating [him] before the tribunal, and not even for these things was Gallio caring.


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And Paul having remained yet a good many days, having taken leave of the brethren, was sailing to Syria -- and with him [are] Priscilla and Aquilas -- having shorn [his] head in Cenchera, for he had a vow;


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and he came down to Ephesus, and did leave them there, and he himself having entered into the synagogue did reason with the Jews:


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but took leave of them, saying, `It behoveth me by all means the coming feast to keep at Jerusalem, and again I will return unto you -- God willing.` And he sailed from Ephesus,


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and having come down to Cesarea, having gone up, and having saluted the assembly, he went down to Antioch.


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And having made some stay he went forth, going through in order the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.


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this one was instructed in the way of the Lord, and being fervent in the Spirit, was speaking and teaching exactly the things about the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John;


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this one also began to speak boldly in the synagogue, and Aquilas and Priscilla having heard of him, took him to [them], and did more exactly expound to him the way of God,


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and he being minded to go through into Achaia, the brethren wrote to the disciples, having exhorted them to receive him, who having come, did help them much who have believed through the grace,


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for powerfully the Jews he was refuting publicly, shewing through the Writings Jesus to be the Christ.


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And it came to pass, in Apollos` being in Corinth, Paul having gone through the upper parts, came to Ephesus, and having found certain disciples,


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he said unto them, `The Holy Spirit did ye receive -- having believed?` and they said unto him, `But we did not even hear whether there is any Holy Spirit;`


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And Paul said, `John, indeed, did baptize with a baptism of reformation, saying to the people that in him who is coming after him they should believe -- that is, in the Christ -- Jesus;`


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and Paul having laid on them [his] hands, the Holy Spirit came upon them, they were speaking also with tongues, and prophesying,


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And having gone into the synagogue, he was speaking boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading the things concerning the reign of God,


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and when certain were hardened and were disbelieving, speaking evil of the way before the multitude, having departed from them, he did separate the disciples, every day reasoning in the school of a certain Tyrannus.


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And this happened for two years so that all those dwelling in Asia did hear the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks,


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so that even unto the ailing were brought from his body handkerchiefs or aprons, and the sicknesses departed from them; the evil spirits also went forth from them.


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And certain of the wandering exorcist Jews, took upon [them] to name over those having the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, `We adjure you by Jesus, whom Paul doth preach;`


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and the evil spirit, answering, said, `Jesus I know, and Paul I am acquainted with; and ye -- who are ye?`


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And the man, in whom was the evil spirit, leaping upon them, and having overcome them, prevailed against them, so that naked and wounded they did flee out of that house,


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and this became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who are dwelling at Ephesus, and fear fell upon them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was being magnified,


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and many of those who had practised the curious arts, having brought the books together, were burning [them] before all; and they reckoned together the prices of them, and found [it] five myriads of silverlings;


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And when these things were fulfilled, Paul purposed in the Spirit, having gone through Macedonia and Achaia, to go on to Jerusalem, saying -- `After my being there, it behoveth me also to see Rome;`


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and having sent to Macedonia two of those ministering to him -- Timotheus and Erastus -- he himself stayed a time in Asia.


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for a certain one, Demetrius by name, a worker in silver, making silver sanctuaries of Artemis, was bringing to the artificers gain not a little,


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whom, having brought in a crowd together, and those who did work about such things, he said, `Men, ye know that by this work we have our wealth;


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and ye see and hear, that not only at Ephesus, but almost in all Asia, this Paul, having persuaded, did turn away a great multitude, saying, that they are not gods who are made by hands;


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and not only is this department in danger for us of coming into disregard, but also, that of the great goddess Artemis the temple is to be reckoned for nothing, and also her greatness is about to be brought down, whom all Asia and the world doth worship.`


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And they having heard, and having become full of wrath, were crying out, saying, `Great [is] the Artemis of the Ephesians!`


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and the whole city was filled with confusion, they rushed also with one accord into the theatre, having caught Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians, Paul`s fellow-travellers.


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and certain also of the chief men of Asia, being his friends, having sent unto him, were entreating him not to venture himself into the theatre.


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and out of the multitude they put forward Alexander -- the Jews thrusting him forward -- and Alexander having beckoned with the hand, wished to make defence to the populace,


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and having known that he is a Jew, one voice came out of all, for about two hours, crying, `Great [is] the Artemis of the Ephesians!`


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And the public clerk having quieted the multitude, saith, `Men, Ephesians, why, who is the man that doth not know that the city of the Ephesians is a devotee of the great goddess Artemis, and of that which fell down from Zeus?


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these things, then, not being to be gainsaid, it is necessary for you to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly.


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if indeed, therefore, Demetrius and the artificers with him with any one have a matter, court [days] are held, and there are proconsuls; let them accuse one another.


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`And if ye seek after anything concerning other matters, in the legal assembly it shall be determined;


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for we are also in peril of being accused of insurrection in regard to this day, there being no occasion by which we shall be able to give an account of this concourse;`


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And after the ceasing of the tumult, Paul having called near the disciples, and having embraced [them], went forth to go on to Macedonia;


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having made also three months` [stay] -- a counsel of the Jews having been against him -- being about to set forth to Syria, there came [to him] a resolution of returning through Macedonia.


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and we sailed, after the days of the unleavened food, from Philippi, and came unto them to Troas in five days, where we abode seven days.


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And on the first of the week, the disciples having been gathered together to break bread, Paul was discoursing to them, about to depart on the morrow, he was also continuing the discourse till midnight,


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and there was sitting a certain youth, by name Eutychus, upon the window -- being borne down by a deep sleep, Paul discoursing long -- he having sunk down from the sleep, fell down from the third story, and was lifted up dead.


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And Paul, having gone down, fell upon him, and having embraced [him], said, `Make no tumult, for his life is in him;`


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and having come up, and having broken bread, and having tasted, for a long time also having talked -- till daylight, so he went forth,


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And we having gone before unto the ship, did sail to Assos, thence intending to take in Paul, for so he had arranged, intending himself to go on foot;


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and thence having sailed, on the morrow we came over-against Chios, and the next day we arrived at Samos, and having remained in Trogyllium, on the following day we came to Miletus,


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for Paul decided to sail past Ephesus, that there may not be to him a loss of time in Asia, for he hasted, if it were possible for him, on the day of the Pentecost to be at Jerusalem.


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and when they were come unto him, he said to them, `Ye -- ye know from the first day in which I came to Asia, how, with you at all times I was;


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serving the Lord with all humility, and many tears, and temptations, that befell me in the counsels of the Jews against [me];


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how nothing I did keep back of what things are profitable, not to declare to you, and to teach you publicly, and in every house,


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testifying fully both to Jews and Greeks, toward God reformation, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.


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`And now, lo, I -- bound in the Spirit -- go on to Jerusalem, the things that shall befall me in it not knowing,


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save that the Holy Spirit in every city doth testify fully, saying, that for me bonds and tribulations remain;


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but I make account of none of these, neither do I count my life precious to myself, so that I finish my course with joy, and the ministration that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify fully the good news of the grace of God.


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`And now, lo, I have known that no more shall ye see my face, -- ye all among whom I did go preaching the reign of God;


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`Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, to feed the assembly of God that He acquired through His own blood,


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for I have known this, that there shall enter in, after my departing, grievous wolves unto you, not sparing the flock,


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and of your own selves there shall arise men, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.


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`Therefore, watch, remembering that three years, night and day, I did not cease with tears warning each one;


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and now, I commend you, brethren, to God, and to the word of His grace, that is able to build up, and to give you an inheritance among all those sanctified.


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and ye yourselves know that to my necessities, and to those who were with me, minister did these hands;


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all things I did shew you, that, thus labouring, it behoveth [us] to partake with the ailing, to be mindful also of the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.`


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and there came a great weeping to all, and having fallen upon the neck of Paul, they were kissing him,


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sorrowing most of all for the word that he had said -- that they are about no more to see his face; and they were accompanying him to the ship.


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And it came to pass, at our sailing, having been parted from them, having run direct, we came to Coos, and the succeeding [day] to Rhodes, and thence to Patara,


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and having discovered Cyprus, and having left it on the left, we were sailing to Syria, and did land at Tyre, for there was the ship discharging the lading.


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And having found out the disciples, we tarried there seven days, and they said to Paul, through the Spirit, not to go up to Jerusalem;


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but when it came that we completed the days, having gone forth, we went on, all bringing us on the way, with women and children, unto the outside of the city, and having bowed the knees upon the shore, we prayed,


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And we, having finished the course, from Tyre came down to Ptolemais, and having saluted the brethren, we remained one day with them;


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and on the morrow Paul and his company having gone forth, we came to Cesarea, and having entered into the house of Philip the evangelist -- who is of the seven -- we remained with him,


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And we remaining many more days, there came down a certain one from Judea, a prophet, by name Agabus,


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and he having come unto us, and having taken up the girdle of Paul, having bound also his own hands and feet, said, `Thus saith the Holy Spirit, The man whose is this girdle -- so shall the Jews in Jerusalem bind, and they shall deliver [him] up to the hands of nations.`


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And when we heard these things, we called upon [him] -- both we, and those of that place -- not to go up to Jerusalem,


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and Paul answered, `What do ye -- weeping, and crushing mine heart? for I, not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem, am ready, for the name of the Lord Jesus;`


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and there went also of the disciples from Cesarea with us, bringing with them him with whom we may lodge, a certain Mnason of Cyprus, an aged disciple.


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and having saluted them, he was declaring, one by one, each of the things God did among the nations through his ministration,


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and they having heard, were glorifying the Lord. They said also to him, `Thou seest, brother, how many myriads there are of Jews who have believed, and all are zealous of the law,


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and they are instructed concerning thee, that apostacy from Moses thou dost teach to all Jews among the nations, saying -- Not to circumcise the children, nor after the customs to walk;


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what then is it? certainly the multitude it behoveth to come together, for they will hear that thou hast come.


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these having taken, be purified with them, and be at expence with them, that they may shave the head, and all may know that the things of which they have been instructed concerning thee are nothing, but thou dost walk -- thyself also -- the law keeping.


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`And concerning those of the nations who have believed, we have written, having given judgment, that they observe no such thing, except to keep themselves both from idol-sacrifices, and blood, and a strangled thing, and whoredom.`


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Then Paul, having taken the men, on the following day, with them having purified himself, was entering into the temple, announcing the fulfilment of the days of the purification, till the offering was offered for each one of them.


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And, as the seven days were about to be fully ended, the Jews from Asia having beheld him in the temple, were stirring up all the multitude, and they laid hands upon him,


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crying out, `Men, Israelites, help! this is the man who, against the people, and the law, and this place, all everywhere is teaching; and further, also, Greeks he brought into the temple, and hath defiled this holy place;`


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for they had seen before Trophimus, the Ephesian, in the city with him, whom they were supposing that Paul brought into the temple.


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All the city also was moved and there was a running together of the people, and having laid hold on Paul, they were drawing him out of the temple, and immediately were the doors shut,


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and they seeking to kill him, a rumour came to the chief captain of the band that all Jerusalem hath been thrown into confusion,


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who, at once, having taken soldiers and centurions, ran down upon them, and they having seen the chief captain and the soldiers, did leave off beating Paul.


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Then the chief captain, having come nigh, took him, and commanded [him] to be bound with two chains, and was inquiring who he may be, and what it is he hath been doing,


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and some were crying out one thing, and some another, among the multitude, and not being able to know the certainty because of the tumult, he commanded him to be carried to the castle,


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and when he came upon the steps, it happened he was borne by the soldiers, because of the violence of the multitude,


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And Paul being about to be led into the castle, saith to the chief captain, `Is it permitted to me to say anything unto thee?` and he said, `Greek dost thou know?


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art not thou, then, the Egyptian who before these days made an uprising, and did lead into the desert the four thousand men of the assassins?`


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And Paul said, `I, indeed, am a man, a Jew, of Tarsus of Cilicia, of no mean city a citizen; and I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people.`


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And he having given him leave, Paul having stood upon the stairs, did beckon with the hand to the people, and there having been a great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew dialect, saying:


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and they having heard that in the Hebrew dialect he was speaking to them, gave the more silence, and he saith, --


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`I, indeed, am a man, a Jew, having been born in Tarsus of Cilicia, and brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, having been taught according to the exactitude of a law of the fathers, being zealous of God, as all ye are to-day.


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as also the chief priest doth testify to me, and all the eldership; from whom also having received letters unto the brethren, to Damascus, I was going on, to bring also those there bound to Jerusalem that they might be punished,


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and it came to pass, in my going on and coming nigh to Damascus, about noon, suddenly out of the heaven there shone a great light round about me,


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I fell also to the ground, and I heard a voice saying to me, Saul, Saul, why me dost thou persecute?


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`And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? and he said unto me, I am Jesus the Nazarene whom thou dost persecute --


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and they who are with me the light did see, and became afraid, and the voice they heard not of him who is speaking to me --


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and I said, What shall I do, Lord? and the Lord said unto me, Having risen, go on to Damascus, and there it shall be told thee concerning all things that have been appointed for thee to do.


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`And when I did not see from the glory of that light, being led by the hand by those who are with me, I came to Damascus,


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and a certain one, Ananias, a pious man according to the law, being testified to by all the Jews dwelling [there],


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having come unto me and stood by [me], said to me, Saul, brother, look up; and I the same hour did look up to him;


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and he said, The God of our fathers did choose thee beforehand to know His will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice out of his mouth,


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and now, why tarriest thou? having risen, baptize thyself, and wash away thy sins, calling upon the name of the Lord.


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`And it came to pass when I returned to Jerusalem, and while I was praying in the temple, I came into a trance,


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and I saw him saying to me, Haste and go forth in haste out of Jerusalem, because they will not receive thy testimony concerning me;


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and I said, Lord, they -- they know that I was imprisoning and was scourging in every synagogue those believing on thee;


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and when the blood of thy witness Stephen was being poured forth, I also was standing by and assenting to his death, and keeping the garments of those putting him to death;


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And they were hearing him unto this word, and they lifted up their voice, saying, `Away from the earth with such an one; for it is not fit for him to live.`


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the chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, saying, `By scourges let him be examined;` that he might know for what cause they were crying so against him.


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And as he was stretching him with the thongs, Paul said unto the centurion who was standing by, `A man, a Roman, uncondemned -- is it lawful to you to scourge;`


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and the centurion having heard, having gone near to the chief captain, told, saying, `Take heed what thou art about to do, for this man is a Roman;`


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and the chief captain having come near, said to him, `Tell me, art thou a Roman?` and he said, `Yes;`


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and the chief captain answered, `I, with a great sum, did obtain this citizenship;` but Paul said, `But I have been even born [so].`


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Immediately, therefore, they departed from him who are about to examine him, and the chief captain also was afraid, having learned that he is a Roman, and because he had bound him,


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and on the morrow, intending to know the certainty wherefore he is accused by the Jews, he did loose him from the bonds, and commanded the chief priests and all their sanhedrim to come, and having brought down Paul, he set [him] before them.


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And Paul having earnestly beheld the sanhedrim, said, `Men, brethren, I in all good conscience have lived to God unto this day;`


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then Paul said unto him, `God is about to smite thee, thou whitewashed wall, and thou -- thou dost sit judging me according to the law, and, violating law, dost order me to be smitten!`


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and Paul said, `I did not know, brethren, that he is chief priest: for it hath been written, Of the ruler of thy people thou shalt not speak evil;`


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and Paul having known that the one part are Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, cried out in the sanhedrim, `Men, brethren, I am a Pharisee -- son of a Pharisee -- concerning hope and rising again of dead men I am judged.`


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And he having spoken this, there came a dissension of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees, and the crowd was divided,


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for Sadducees, indeed, say there is no rising again, nor messenger, nor spirit, but Pharisees confess both.


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And there came a great cry, and the scribes of the Pharisees` part having arisen, were striving, saying, `No evil do we find in this man; and if a spirit spake to him, or a messenger, we may not fight against God;`


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and a great dissension having come, the chief captain having been afraid lest Paul may be pulled to pieces by them, commanded the soldiery, having gone down, to take him by force out of the midst of them, and to bring [him] to the castle.


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And on the following night, the Lord having stood by him, said, `Take courage, Paul, for as thou didst fully testify the things concerning me at Jerusalem, so it behoveth thee also at Rome to testify.`


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And day having come, certain of the Jews having made a concourse, did anathematize themselves, saying neither to eat nor to drink till they may kill Paul;


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who having come near to the chief priests and to the elders said, `With an anathema we did anathematize ourselves -- to taste nothing till we have killed Paul;


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now, therefore, ye, signify ye to the chief captain, with the sanhedrim, that to-morrow he may bring him down unto you, as being about to know more exactly the things concerning him; and we, before his coming nigh, are ready to put him to death.`


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and Paul having called near one of the centurions, said, `This young man lead unto the chief captain, for he hath something to tell him.`


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He indeed, then, having taken him, brought him unto the chief captain, and saith, `The prisoner Paul, having called me near, asked [me] this young man to bring unto thee, having something to say to thee.`


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And the chief captain having taken him by the hand, and having withdrawn by themselves, inquired, `What is that which thou hast to tell me?`


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and he said -- `The Jews agreed to request thee, that to-morrow to the sanhedrim thou mayest bring down Paul, as being about to enquire something more exactly concerning him;


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thou, therefore, mayest thou not yield to them, for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, who did anathematize themselves -- not to eat nor to drink till they kill him, and now they are ready, waiting for the promise from thee.`


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The chief captain, then, indeed, let the young man go, having charged [him] to tell no one, `that these things thou didst shew unto me;`


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and having called near a certain two of the centurions, he said, `Make ready soldiers two hundred, that they may go on unto Caesarea, and horsemen seventy, and spearmen two hundred, from the third hour of the night;


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and, intending to know the cause for which they were accusing him, I brought him down to their sanhedrim,


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whom I found accused concerning questions of their law, and having no accusation worthy of death or bonds;


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and a plot having been intimated to me against this man -- about to be of the Jews -- at once I sent unto thee, having given command also to the accusers to say the things against him before thee; be strong.`


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Then, indeed, the soldiers according to that directed them, having taken up Paul, brought him through the night to Antipatris,


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those having entered into Caesarea, and delivered the letter to the governor, did present also Paul to him.


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And the governor having read [it], and inquired of what province he is, and understood that [he is] from Cilicia;


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`I will hear thee -- said he -- when thine accusers also may have come;` he also commanded him to be kept in the praetorium of Herod.


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And after five days came down the chief priest Ananias, with the elders, and a certain orator -- Tertullus, and they made manifest to the governor [the things] against Paul;


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and he having been called, Tertullus began to accuse [him], saying, `Much peace enjoying through thee, and worthy deeds being done to this nation through thy forethought,


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for having found this man a pestilence, and moving a dissension to all the Jews through the world -- a ringleader also of the sect of the Nazarenes --


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who also the temple did try to profane, whom also we took, and according to our law did wish to judge,


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having commanded his accusers to come to thee, from whom thou mayest be able, thyself having examined, to know concerning all these things of which we accuse him;`


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And Paul answered -- the governor having beckoned to him to speak -- `Knowing [that] for many years thou hast been a judge to this nation, the more cheerfully the things concerning myself I do answer;


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thou being able to know that it is not more than twelve days to me since I went up to worship in Jerusalem,


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and neither in the temple did they find me reasoning with any one, or making a dissension of the multitude, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city;


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`And I confess this to thee, that, according to the way that they call a sect, so serve I the God of the fathers, believing all things that in the law and the prophets have been written,


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having hope toward God, which they themselves also wait for, [that] there is about to be a rising again of the dead, both of righteous and unrighteous;


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in which certain Jews from Asia did find me purified in the temple, not with multitude, nor with tumult,


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except concerning this one voice, in which I cried, standing among them -- Concerning a rising again of the dead I am judged to-day by you.`


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And having heard these things, Felix delayed them -- having known more exactly of the things concerning the way -- saying, `When Lysias the chief captain may come down, I will know fully the things concerning you;`


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having given also a direction to the centurion to keep Paul, to let [him] also have liberty, and to forbid none of his own friends to minister or to come near to him.


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And after certain days, Felix having come with Drusilla his wife, being a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith toward Christ,


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and he reasoning concerning righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment that is about to be, Felix, having become afraid, answered, `For the present be going, and having got time, I will call for thee;`


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and at the same time also hoping that money shall be given to him by Paul, that he may release him, therefore, also sending for him the oftener, he was conversing with him;


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and two years having been fulfilled, Felix received a successor, Porcius Festus; Felix also willing to lay a favour on the Jews, left Paul bound.


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and the chief priest and the principal men of the Jews made manifest to him [the things] against Paul, and were calling on him,


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asking favour against him, that he may send for him to Jerusalem, making an ambush to put him to death in the way.


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`Therefore those able among you -- saith he -- having come down together, if there be anything in this man -- let them accuse him;`


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and having tarried among them more than ten days, having gone down to Caesarea, on the morrow having sat upon the tribunal, he commanded Paul to be brought;


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and he having come, there stood round about the Jews who have come down from Jerusalem -- many and weighty charges they are bringing against Paul, which they were not able to prove,


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he making defence -- `Neither in regard to the law of the Jews, nor in regard to the temple, nor in regard to Caesar -- did I commit any sin.`


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and Paul said, `At the tribunal of Caesar I am standing, where it behoveth me to be judged; to Jews I did no unrighteousness, as thou dost also very well know;


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for if indeed I am unrighteous, and anything worthy of death have done, I deprecate not to die; and if there is none of the things of which these accuse me, no one is able to make a favour of me to them; to Caesar I appeal!`


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then Festus, having communed with the council, answered, `To Caesar thou hast appealed; to Caesar thou shalt go.`


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And certain days having passed, Agrippa the king, and Bernice, came down to Caesarea saluting Festus,


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and as they were continuing there more days, Festus submitted to the king the things concerning Paul, saying, `There is a certain man, left by Felix, a prisoner,


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about whom, in my being at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews laid information, asking a decision against him,


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unto whom I answered, that it is not a custom of Romans to make a favour of any man to die, before that he who is accused may have the accusers face to face, and may receive place of defence in regard to the charge laid against [him].


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`They, therefore, having come together -- I, making no delay, on the succeeding [day] having sat upon the tribunal, did command the man to be brought,


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concerning whom the accusers, having stood up, were bringing against [him] no accusation of the things I was thinking of,


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but certain questions concerning their own religion they had against him, and concerning a certain Jesus who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive;


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and I, doubting in regard to the question concerning this, said, If he would wish to go on to Jerusalem, and there to be judged concerning these things --


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but Paul having appealed to be kept to the hearing of Sebastus, I did command him to be kept till I might send him unto Caesar.`


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And Agrippa said unto Festus, `I was wishing also myself to hear the man;` and he said, `To-morrow thou shalt hear him;`


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on the morrow, therefore -- on the coming of Agrippa and Bernice with much display, and they having entered into the audience chamber, with the chief captains also, and the principal men of the city, and Festus having ordered -- Paul was brought forth.


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And Festus said, `King Agrippa, and all men who are present with us, ye see this one, about whom all the multitude of the Jews did deal with me, both in Jerusalem and here, crying out, He ought not to live any longer;


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and I, having found him to have done nothing worthy of death, and he also himself having appealed to Sebastus, I decided to send him,


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concerning whom I have no certain thing to write to [my] lord, wherefore I brought him forth before you, and specially before thee, king Agrippa, that the examination having been made, I may have something to write;


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for it doth seem to me irrational, sending a prisoner, not also to signify the charges against him.`


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And Agrippa said unto Paul, `It is permitted to thee to speak for thyself;` then Paul having stretched forth the hand, was making a defence:


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`Concerning all things of which I am accused by Jews, king Agrippa, I have thought myself happy, being about to make a defence before thee to-day,


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especially knowing thee to be acquainted with all things -- both customs and questions -- among Jews; wherefore, I beseech thee, patiently to hear me.


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`The manner of my life then, indeed, from youth -- which from the beginning was among my nation, in Jerusalem -- know do all the Jews,


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knowing me before from the first, (if they may be willing to testify,) that after the most exact sect of our worship, I lived a Pharisee;


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to which our twelve tribes, intently night and day serving, do hope to come, concerning which hope I am accused, king Agrippa, by the Jews;


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`I, indeed, therefore, thought with myself, that against the name of Jesus of Nazareth it behoved [me] many things to do,


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which also I did in Jerusalem, and many of the saints I in prison did shut up, from the chief priests having received the authority; they also being put to death, I gave my vote against them,


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and in every synagogue, often punishing them, I was constraining [them] to speak evil, being also exceedingly mad against them, I was also persecuting [them] even unto strange cities.


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`In which things, also, going on to Damascus -- with authority and commission from the chief priests --


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at mid-day, I saw in the way, O king, out of heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me a light -- and those going on with me;


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and we all having fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew dialect, Saul, Saul, why me dost thou persecute? hard for thee against pricks to kick!


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but rise, and stand upon thy feet, for for this I appeared to thee, to appoint thee an officer and a witness both of the things thou didst see, and of the things [in which] I will appear to thee,


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to open their eyes, to turn [them] from darkness to light, and [from] the authority of the Adversary unto God, for their receiving forgiveness of sins, and a lot among those having been sanctified, by faith that [is] toward me.


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but to those in Damascus first, and to those in Jerusalem, to all the region also of Judea, and to the nations, I was preaching to reform, and to turn back unto God, doing works worthy of reformation;


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because of these things the Jews -- having caught me in the temple -- were endeavouring to kill [me].


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`Having obtained, therefore, help from God, till this day, I have stood witnessing both to small and to great, saying nothing besides the things that both the prophets and Moses spake of as about to come,


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that the Christ is to suffer, whether first by a rising from the dead, he is about to proclaim light to the people and to the nations.`


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And, he thus making a defence, Festus with a loud voice said, `Thou art mad, Paul; much learning doth turn thee mad;`


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and he saith, `I am not mad, most noble Festus, but of truth and soberness the sayings I speak forth;


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for the king doth know concerning these things, before whom also I speak boldly, for none of these things, I am persuaded, are hidden from him; for this thing hath not been done in a corner;


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and Paul said, `I would have wished to God, both in a little, and in much, not only thee, but also all those hearing me to-day, to become such as I also am -- except these bonds.`


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And, he having spoken these things, the king rose up, and the governor, Bernice also, and those sitting with them,


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and having withdrawn, they were speaking unto one another, saying -- `This man doth nothing worthy of death or of bonds;`


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And when our sailing to Italy was determined, they were delivering up both Paul and certain others, prisoners, to a centurion, by name Julius, of the band of Sebastus,


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and having embarked in a ship of Adramyttium, we, being about to sail by the coasts of Asia, did set sail, there being with us Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica,


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on the next [day] also we touched at Sidon, and Julius, courteously treating Paul, did permit [him], having gone on unto friends, to receive [their] care.


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and having sailed slowly many days, and with difficulty coming over-against Cnidus, the wind not suffering us, we sailed under Crete, over-against Salmone,


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and hardly passing it, we came to a certain place called `Fair Havens,` nigh to which was the city [of] Lasaea.


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And much time being spent, and the sailing being now dangerous -- because of the fast also being already past -- Paul was admonishing,


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saying to them, `Men, I perceive that with hurt, and much damage, not only of the lading and of the ship, but also of our lives -- the voyage is about to be;`


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but the centurion to the pilot and to the shipowner gave credence more than to the things spoken by Paul;


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and the haven being incommodious to winter in, the more part gave counsel to sail thence also, if by any means they might be able, having attained to Phenice, [there] to winter, [which is] a haven of Crete, looking to the south-west and north-west,


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and a south wind blowing softly, having thought they had obtained [their] purpose, having lifted anchor, they sailed close by Crete,


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and the ship being caught, and not being able to bear up against the wind, having given [her] up, we were borne on,


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and having run under a certain little isle, called Clauda, we were hardly able to become masters of the boat,


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which having taken up, they were using helps, undergirding the ship, and fearing lest they may fall on the quicksand, having let down the mast -- so were borne on.


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and neither sun nor stars appearing for more days, and not a little tempest lying upon us, thenceforth all hope was taken away of our being saved.


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And there having been long fasting, then Paul having stood in the midst of them, said, `It behoved [you], indeed, O men -- having hearkened to me -- not to set sail from Crete, and to save this hurt and damage;


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and now I exhort you to be of good cheer, for there shall be no loss of life among you -- but of the ship;


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saying, Be not afraid Paul; before Caesar it behoveth thee to stand; and, lo, God hath granted to thee all those sailing with thee;


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wherefore be of good cheer, men! for I believe God, that so it shall be, even as it hath been spoken to me,


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And when the fourteenth night came -- we being borne up and down in the Adria -- toward the middle of the night the sailors were supposing that some country drew nigh to them;


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and having sounded they found twenty fathoms, and having gone a little farther, and again having sounded, they found fifteen fathoms,


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and fearing lest on rough places we may fall, out of the stern having cast four anchors, they were wishing day to come.


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And the sailors seeking to flee out of the ship, and having let down the boat to the sea, in pretence as [if] out of the foreship they are about to cast anchors,


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Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, `If these do not remain in the ship -- ye are not able to be saved;`


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And till the day was about to be, Paul was calling upon all to partake of nourishment, saying, `Fourteen days to-day, waiting, ye continue fasting, having taken nothing,


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wherefore I call upon you to take nourishment, for this is for your safety, for of not one of you shall a hair from the head fall;`


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and having said these things, and having taken bread, he gave thanks to God before all, and having broken [it], he began to eat;


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and having eaten sufficient nourishment, they were lightening the ship, casting forth the wheat into the sea.


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And when the day came, they were not discerning the land, but a certain creek were perceiving having a beach, into which they took counsel, if possible, to thrust forward the ship,


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and the anchors having taken up, they were committing [it] to the sea, at the same time -- having loosed the bands of the rudders, and having hoisted up the mainsail to the wind -- they were making for the shore,


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and having fallen into a place of two seas, they ran the ship aground, and the fore-part, indeed, having stuck fast, did remain immoveable, but the hinder-part was broken by the violence of the waves.


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And the soldiers` counsel was that they should kill the prisoners, lest any one having swam out should escape,


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but the centurion, wishing to save Paul, hindered them from the counsel, and did command those able to swim, having cast themselves out first -- to get unto the land,


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and the rest, some indeed upon boards, and some upon certain things of the ship; and thus it came to pass that all came safe unto the land.


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and the foreigners were shewing us no ordinary kindness, for having kindled a fire, they received us all, because of the pressing rain, and because of the cold;


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but Paul having gathered together a quantity of sticks, and having laid [them] upon the fire, a viper -- out of the heat having come -- did fasten on his hand.


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And when the foreigners saw the beast hanging from his hand, they said unto one another, `Certainly this man is a murderer, whom, having been saved out of the sea, the justice did not suffer to live;`


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and they were expecting him to be about to be inflamed, or to fall down suddenly dead, and they, expecting [it] a long time, and seeing nothing uncommon happening to him, changing [their] minds, said he was a god.


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And in the neighbourhood of that place were lands of the principal man of the island, by name Publius, who, having received us, three days did courteously lodge [us];


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and it came to pass, the father of Publius with feverish heats and dysentery pressed, was laid, unto whom Paul having entered, and having prayed, having laid [his] hands on him, healed him;


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this, therefore, being done, the others also in the island having infirmities were coming and were healed;


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who also with many honours did honour us, and we setting sail -- they were lading [us] with the things that were necessary.


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And after three months, we set sail in a ship (that had wintered in the isle) of Alexandria, with the sign Dioscuri,


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thence having gone round, we came to Rhegium, and after one day, a south wind having sprung up, the second [day] we came to Puteoli;


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where, having found brethren, we were called upon to remain with them seven days, and thus to Rome we came;


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and thence, the brethren having heard the things concerning us, came forth to meet us, unto Appii Forum, and Three Taverns -- whom Paul having seen, having given thanks to God, took courage.


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And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered up the prisoners to the captain of the barrack, but Paul was suffered to remain by himself, with the soldier guarding him.


