SQLite format 3@ z,z- }D~~+}i%!indexverses_indexversesCREATE UNIQUE INDEX verses_index on "verses" (book_number, chapter, verse) tablebooks_allbooks_allCREATE TABLE "books_all" ("book_number" NUMERIC, "short_name" TEXT, "long_name" TEXT, "book_color" TEXT, "is_present" NUMERIC)wItableversesversesCREATE TABLE "verses" ("book_number" NUMERIC, "chapter" NUMERIC, "verse" NUMERIC, "text" TEXT){UtablebooksbooksCREATE TABLE "books" ("book_color" TEXT, "book_number" NUMERIC, "short_name" TEXT, "long_name" TEXT)=_tableinfoinfoCREATE TABLE info (name TEXT, value TEXT) 9jS91language_iso639-2bger'right_to_leftfalse)strong_numbersfalse/russian_numberingfalse languageen)chapter_stringChapter8#adescriptionThe Concordant Literal New Testament, 1966 }oN-~~~~~s~V~9~!~}}}}}}k}R};}!#ff7c80RevRevelation#00ff00JudJude#00ff003Jn3 John#00ff002Jn2 John#00ff001Jn1 John#00ff002Pet2 Peter#00ff001Pet1 Peter#00ff00JamJames#ffff00HebHebrews#ffff00PhlmPhilemon#ffff00vTitTitus#ffff00l2Tim2 Timothy#ffff00b1Tim1 Timothy!+#ffff00X2Ths2 Thessalonians! +#ffff00N1Ths1 Thessalonians !#ffff00DColColossians ##ffff00:PhilPhilippians #ffff000EphEphesians #ffff00&GalGalatians'#ffff002Cor2 Corinthians'#ffff001Cor1 Corinthians#ffff00RomRomans#00ffffActsActs#ff6600JohnJohn#ff6600LukLuke#ff6600MarMark#ff6600MatMatthew!:(|vpjd^XRLF@:'&J%s$#*"7!7 B<W`ly:Xq -DDGDTv  - @ F H\n Bxy_E-~~~~~}~e~I~.~}}}}}}f}F}*}||||||y|`|D|&| {{{{{{o{V{<{zzzzzz\z8zyyyyyyvyZy@y&y xxB! 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Be cleansed!" And immediately, cleansed is his leprosy.|KqAnd lo! a leper, coming to Him, worshiped Him, saying, "Lord, if Thou shouldst be willing, Thou canst cleanse me!"KJ Now, at His descending from the mountain, vast throngs follow Him.UI#for He was teaching them as One having authority, and not as their scribes.kHOAnd it came, when Jesus finishes these sayings, that the throngs were astonished at His teaching,G)And the rain descended, and the rivers came, and the winds blow and they dash against that house, and it falls: and the fall of it was great."F"And everyone who is hearing these sayings of Mine and not doing them shall be likened to a stupid man who builds his house on sand."E=And the rain descended, and the rivers came, and the winds blow and they lunge at that house, and it does not fall, for it had been founded on the rock.D#"Everyone, then, who is hearing these sayings of Mine and is doing them shall be likened to a prudent man who builds his house on the rock.nCUAnd then shall I be avowing to them that 'I never knew you! Depart from Me, workers of lawlessness!'6BeMany will be declaring to Me in that day, 'Lord! Lord! Was it not in Your name that we prophesy, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name do many powerful deeds?'%AC"Not everyone saying to Me 'Lord! Lord!' will be entering into the kingdom of the heavens, but he who is doing the will of My Father Who is in the heavens.O@Consequently, from their fruits you shall surely be recognizing them.S?Every tree not producing ideal fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire.a>;A good tree can not bear noxious fruit, neither is a rotten tree producing ideal fruit.h=IThus every good tree ideal fruit is producing, yet the rotten tree noxious fruit is producing.<{"From their fruits you shall be recognizing them. Not from thorns are they culling grapes, nor from star thistles figs.;{"Take heed of those false prophets who are coming to you in the apparel of sheep, yet inside they are rapacious wolves.{:oYet what a cramped gate and narrowed way is the one leading away into life, and few are those who are finding it.(9I "Enter through the cramped gate, for broad is the gate and spacious is the way which is leading away into destruction, and many are those entering through it.81 All, then, whatever you should be wanting that men should be doing to you, thus you, also, be doing to them, for this is the law and the prophets.J7  "If you, then, being wicked, have perceived how to be giving good gifts to your children, how much rather shall your Father Who is in the heavens be giving good things to those requesting Him?Q6 Or he will be requesting a fish also-no serpent will he be handing him!v5e "Or what man is there among you, from whom his son will be requesting bread-no stone will he be handing him!4For everyone who is requesting is obtaining, and who is seeking is finding, and to him who is knocking it shall be opened.k3O"Request and it shall be given you. Seek and you shall find. Knock and it shall be opened to you.a2;"You may not be giving that which is holy to curs, nor yet should you be casting your pearls in front of hogs, lest at some time they shall be trampling them with their feet and, turning, they should be tearing you.1Hypocrite! Extract first the beam out of your eye, and then you will be keen-sighted to be extracting the mote out of your brother's eye. 0Or how will you be declaring to your brother, 'Brother, let me extract the mote out of your eye,' and lo! the beam is in your eye?~/u"Now why are you observing the mote that is in your brother's eye, yet the beam in your eye you are not considering? .for with what judgment you are judging, shall you be judged, and with what measure you are measuring, shall it be measured to you..- Y"Do not judge, lest you may be judged,,"You should not, then, be worrying about the morrow, for the morrow will be worrying of itself. Sufficient for the day is its own evil.`+9!Yet seek first the kingdom and its righteousness, and these all shall be added to you.r*] For for all these the nations are seeking. For aware is your heavenly Father that you need all of these.)"You, then, should not be worrying, saying, 'What may we be eating?' or 'What may we be drinking?' or 'With what may we be clothed?'('Now if the grass of the field, which is today, and tomorrow is cast into the stove, God thus is garbing; not much rather you, scant of faith?d'AYet I am saying to you that not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed as one of these.&+And why are you worrying about apparel? Study the anemones of the field, how they are growing. Not toiling are they, nor yet are they spinning.Q%"Now who of you by worrying is able to add on to his stature one cubit?a$;"Look at the flying creatures of heaven, that they are not sowing, neither are they reaping, nor are they gathering into barns, and your heavenly Father is nourishing them. Are not you of more consequence than they?t#a"Therefore I am saying to you, Do not worry about you soul, what you may be eating, or what you may be drinking, nor yet about your body, what you should be putting on. Is not the soul more than nourishment, and the body than apparel?K""Now no one can be slaving for two lords, for either he will be hating the one and loving the other, or will be upholding one and despising the other. You can not be slaving for God and mammon.!!Yet if your eye should be wicked, your whole body will be dark. If, then, the light that is in you is darkness, how dense is the darkness!s _"The lamp of the body is your eye. If, then, your eye should be single, your whole body will be luminous.Gfor wherever your treasure is, there will your heart be also.)KYet hoard for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor corrosion are causing them to disappear, and where thieves are not tunneling nor stealing; 9"Do not hoard for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and corrosion are causing them to disappear, and where thieves are tunneling and stealing. 9so that you may not appear to men to be fasting, but to your Father Who is in hiding, and your Father, Who is observing in hiding, will be paying you.KNow you, when fasting, rub your head with oil and wash your face,iK"Now whenever you may be fasting, become not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance, for they disguise their faces so that they may appear to men to be fasting. Verily, I am saying to you: They are collecting their wages.ucYet if you should not be forgiving men their offenses, neither will your Father be forgiving your offenses.nU"For if you should be forgiving men their offenses, your heavenly Father also will be forgiving you.\1 And mayest Thou not be bringing us into trial, but rescue us from the wicked one.'K And remit to us our debts, as we also remit those of our debtors.1] Our bread, our dole, be giving us today.J  Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, on earth also.`9 "Thus, then, you be praying: 'Our Father Who art in the heavens, hallowed be Thy name.r]Do not, then, be like them, for aware is God, your Father, of what you have need before you request Him.)KNow, in praying, you should not use useless repetitions even as those of the nations. For they are supposing that they will be hearkened to in their loquacity.J "Now you, whenever you may be praying, enter into your storeroom, and, locking your door, pray to your Father Who is in hiding, and your Father, Who is observing in hiding, will be paying you. "And whenever you may be praying, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they are fond of standing in the synagogues and at the corners of the squares to be praying, so that they may appear to men. Verily, I am saying to you, They are collecting their wages!nUso that your alms may be in hiding, and your Father, Who is observing in hiding, will be paying you.T !Yet you, doing alms, let not your left hand know what your right is doing, "Whenever, then, you may be doing alms, you should not be trumpeting in front of you, even as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they should be glorified by men. Verily, I am saying to you, They are collecting their wages!7  i"Yet take heed not to be doing your righteousness in front of men, in order to be gazed at by them, otherwise surely you have no wages with your Father Who is in the heavens.I  0You, then, shall be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect. /And if ever you should greet your brothers only, what are you doing that is excessive? Are not those of the nations also doing the same? .For if ever you should love those who are loving you, what wages have you? Are not the tribute collectors also doing the same?3_-so that you may become sons of your Father Who is in the heavens, for He causes His sun to rise on the wicked and the good, and makes it rain on the just and the unjust.`9,Yet I am saying to you, Love your enemies, and pray for those who are persecuting you,r]+"You hear that it was declared, 'You shall be loving your associate' and you shall be hating your enemy.eC*To him who requests you, give; and from him who wants to borrow from you, you may not turn.A})And anyone who conscripts you one mile, go with him two.W'(And he who wants to sue you and obtain your tunic, leave him your cloak also. 'Yet I am saying to you not to withstand a wicked person, but anyone who slaps you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.Y+&"You hear that it was declared, 'An eye for an eye,' and 'A tooth for a tooth.'iK%Yet let your word be 'Yes, Yes,' 'No, No.' Now what is in excess of these is of the wicked one.h~I$nor by your head should you be swearing, for you are not able to make one hair white or black.w}g#nor by the earth, for it is a footstool for His feet; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King;i|K"Yet I am saying to you absolutely not to swear, neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God, {!"Again, you hear that it was declared to the ancients, You shall not be perjuring, yet you shall be paying to the Lord your oaths.Yz+ Yet I am saying to you that everyone dismissing his wife (outside of a case of prostitution) is making her commit adultery, and whosoever should be marrying her who has been dismissed is committing adultery.gyG"Now it was declared, Whoever should be dismissing his wife, let him be giving her a divorce.GxAnd if your right hand is snaring you, strike it off and cast it from you, for it is expedient for you that one of your members should perish and not your whole body pass away into Gehenna.EwNow, if your right eye is snaring you, wrench it out and cast it from you, for it is expedient for you that one of your members should perish and not your whole body be cast into Gehenna.v}Yet I am saying to you that every man looking at a woman to lust for her already commits adultery with her in his heart.Qu"You hear that it was declared, 'You shall not be committing adultery.'ztmVerily I am saying to you, By no means may you be coming out thence till you should be paying the last quadrans.Vs%"You be humoring your plaintiff quickly while you are with him on the way, lest at some time the plaintiff may be giving you up to the judge, and the judge to the deputy, and you should be cast into jail.,rQleave your approach present there, in front of the altar, and go away. First be placated toward your brother, and then, coming, be offering your approach present.q1"If, then, you should be offering your approach present on the altar, and there you should be reminded that your brother has anything against you, pYet I am saying to you that everyone who is angry with his brother shall be liable to the judging. Yet whoever may be saying to his brother, 'Raka!' shall be liable to the Sanhedrin. Yet whoever may be saying, 'Stupid!' shall be liable to the Gehenna of fire.o"You hear that it was declared to the ancients, 'You shall not murder.' Yet whoever should be murdering shall be liable to the judging.LnFor I am saying to you that, if ever your righteousness should not be superabounding more than that of the scribes and Pharisees, by no means may you be entering into the kingdom of the heavens.m'"Whosoever, then, should be annulling one of the least of these precepts, and should be teaching men thus, the least in the kingdom of the heavens shall he be called. Yet whoever should be doing and teaching them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of the heavens.4laFor verily, I am saying to you, Till heaven and earth should be passing by, one iota or one serif may by no means be passing by from the law till all should be occurring.xki"You should not infer that I came to demolish the law or the prophets. I came not to demolish, but to fulfill.j!Thus let shine your light in front of men, so that they may perceive your ideal acts and should glorify your Father Who is in the heavens.iNeither are they burning a lamp and placing it under a peck measure, but on a lampstand, and it is shining to all those in the house.Yh+"You are the light of the world. A city located upon a mountain can not be hid.Ag{ "You are the salt of the earth. Now, if the salt should be made insipid, with what will it be salted? For nothing does it still avail except to be cast outside, to be trampled by men.ufc Rejoice and exult, for your wages are vast in the heavens. For thus they persecute the prophets before you.e' "Happy are you whenever they should be reproaching and persecuting you and, falsifying, saying every wicked thing against you, on my account.ldQ "Happy are those persecuted on account of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of the heavens.Kc "Happy are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.?by"Happy are the clean in heart, for they shall see God.@a{"Happy are the merciful, for they shall be shown mercy.j`M"Happy are those who are hungering and thirsting for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.T_!"Happy are the meek, for they shall be enjoying the allotment of the land.E^"Happy are those who mourn now, for they shall be consoled.T]!"Happy, in spirit, are the poor, for theirs is the kingdom of the heavens.7\iAnd opening His mouth, He taught them, saying,y[ mNow, perceiving the throngs, He ascended into the mountain. And, at His being seated, His disciples came to Him.ZAnd there follow Him vast throngs from Galilee and the Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judea and the other side of the Jordan.gYGAnd forth came the tidings of Him into the whole of Syria. And they bring to Him all who have an illness, those with various diseases and pressing torments, also demoniacs and epileptics and paralytics, and He cures them.@XyAnd Jesus led them about in the whole of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and heralding the evangel of the kingdom, and curing every disease and every debility among the people.NWNow, immediately leaving the ship and their father, they follow Him.OYet John prohibited Him, saying, "I have need to be baptized by Thee, and Thou art coming to me!"^=5 Then Jesus is coming along from Galilee to the Jordan to John to be baptized by him.K< Whose winnowing shovel is in His hand, and He will be scouring His threshing floor, and will be gathering His grain into His barn, yet the chaff will He be burning up with unextinguished fire."P; For I, indeed, am baptizing you in water for repentance, yet He Who is coming after me is stronger than I, Whose sandals I am not competent to bear. He will be baptizing you in holy spirit and fire,:- "Yet already the ax is lying at the root of the trees. Every tree, then, which is not producing ideal fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire.C9 And you should not be presuming to be saying among yourselves, 'For a father we have Abraham,' for I am saying to you that able is God, out of these stones to rouse children to Abraham.38aProduce, then, fruit worthy of repentance.<7qNow, perceiving many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, "Progeny of vipers! Who intimates to you to be fleeing from the impending indignation?S6and they were baptized in the Jordan river by him, confessing their sins.c5?Then went out to him Jerusalem and entire Judea, and the entire country about the Jordan, 4Now he, John, had his apparel of camel's hair and a leather girdle about his loins. Now his nourishment was locusts and wild honey.P3For this is he of whom it is declared through Isaiah the prophet, saying, "The voice of one imploring: 'In the wilderness make ready the road of the Lord! Straight...be making the highways'" of Him!B2saying: "Repent! for near is the kingdom of the heavens!"c1 ANow in those days, coming along is John the baptist, heralding in the wilderness of Judea,$0AAnd coming, he dwells in a city termed Nazareth, so that that may be fulfilled which is declared through the prophets that: A Nazarene shall He be called.B/}Yet, hearing that Archelaus is reigning in Judea in the stead of his father Herod, he was afraid to pass forth there. Now, being apprised in a trance, he retires into parts of Galilee.m.SNow he, being roused, took along the little Boy and His mother and entered into the land of Israel.(-Isaying, "Being roused, take along the little Boy and His mother and go into the land of Israel, for they are dead who are seeking the soul of the little Boy."o,WNow at the decease of Herod, lo! a messenger of the Lord is appearing in a trance to Joseph in Egypt,+'A sound in Rama is heard, Lamentation, and much anguish; Rachel lamenting over her children, And she would not be consoled, for they are not.Y*+Then was fulfilled that which is declared through Jeremiah the prophet, saying,)Then Herod, perceiving that he was scoffed at by the magi, was very furious, and, dispatching, he massacred all the boys in Bethlehem and in all its boundaries, from two years and below, according to the time which he ascertains exactly from the magi.)(KAnd He was there till the decease of Herod, that that may be fulfilled which is declared by the Lord through the prophet, saying, "Out of Egypt I call My Son."i'KNow he, being roused, took along the little Boy and His mother by night and retires into Egypt.3&_ Now, at their retiring into their country, lo! a messenger of the Lord is appearing in a trance to Joseph, saying, "Being roused, take along the little Boy and His mother and flee into Egypt, and be there till I should speak to you, for Herod is about to be seeking the little Boy to destroy Him."v%e And, being apprised in a trance not to go back to Herod, through another way they retire into their country.Z$- And, coming into the house, they perceived the little Boy with Mary, His mother, and, falling, they worship Him. And opening their treasures, they bring Him approach presents, gold and frankincense and myrrh.O# Now, perceiving the star, they rejoiced with great joy, tremendously.("I Now those who hear the king went, and lo! the star which they perceived in the East preceded them till, coming, it was standing over where the little Boy was.U!#And, sending them into Bethlehem, he said, "Having gone, inquire accurately concerning the little Boy. Now if ever you may be finding Him, report to me, so that I also, coming, should be worshiping Him."o WThen Herod, covertly calling the magi, ascertains exactly from them the time of the star's appearing.7g'And you, Bethlehem, land of Judah, Are you in any respect least among the mentors of Judah? For out of you shall come forth the Ruler Who shall shepherd My people Israel.'"b=Now they say to him, "In Bethlehem of Judea, for thus it is written through the prophet:|qAnd, gathering all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he ascertained from them where the Christ is born.SNow, hearing of it, King Herod was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him.  saying, "Where is He Who is brought forth King of the Jews? For we perceived His star in the East, and we came to worship Him."  Now, at Jesus' being born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, lo! magi from the East came along into Jerusalem,W )and he knew her not till she brought forth a Son, and he calls His name Jesus.s aNow, being roused from sleep, Joseph does as the messenger of the Lord bids him. And he accepted his wife,' I"Lo! The virgin shall be pregnant And shall be bringing forth a Son, And they shall be calling His name 'Emmanuel,'" which is, being construed, "God with us." }Now the whole of this has occurred that that may be fulfilled which is declared by the Lord through the prophet, saying:  Now she shall be bringing forth a Son, and you shall be calling His name Jesus, for He shall be saving His people from their sins."v gNow at his brooding over these things, lo! a messenger of the Lord appeared to him in a trance, saying, "Joseph, son of David, you may not be afraid to accept Miriam, your wife, for that which is being generated in her is of holy spirit.x kNow Joseph, her husband, being just and not willing to hold her up to infamy, intended covertly to dismiss her. 5Now Jesus Christ's birth was thus: At the espousal of His mother, Mary, to Joseph, ere their coming together, she was found pregnant by holy spirit.^ 7Then all the generations from Abraham till David are fourteen generations, and from David till the Babylonian exile are fourteen generations, and from the Babylonian exile till the Christ are fourteen generations.e Enow Jacob begets Joseph, the husband of Mary of whom was born Jesus, Who is termed "Christ."X +now Eliud begets Eleazar; now Eleazar begets Matthan; now Matthan begets Jacob;O now Azor begets Zadok; now Zadok begets Achim; now Achim begets Eliud;Z  / now Zerubbabel begets Abihud; now Abihud begets Eliakim; now Eliakim begets Azor;c  A Now after the Babylonian exile Jeconiah begets Shalthiel; now Shalthiel begets Zerubbabel;M   now Josiah begets Jeconiah and his brothers at the Babylonian exile.X  + now Hezekiah begets Manasseh; now Manasseh begets Amos; now Amos begets Josiah;T  # now Uzziah begets Jotham; now Jotham begets Ahaz; now Ahaz begets Hezekiah;] 5now Asaph begets Joshaphat; now Joshaphat begets Jehoram; now Jehoram begets Uzziah;X +now Solomon begets Rehoboam; now Rehoboam begets Abiah; now Abiah begets Asaph;X +now Jesse begets David the king. Now David begets Solomon of the wife of Uriah;^ 7now Salmon begets Boaz of Rahab; now Boaz begets Obed of Ruth; now Obed begets Jesse;\ 3now Aram begets Amminadab; now Amminadab begets Nahshon; now Nahshon begets Salmon;g INow Judah begets Pharez and Zarah of Thamar. Now Pharez begets Hesron; now Hesron begets Aram;_ 9Abraham begets Isaac; now Isaac begets Jacob; now Jacob begets Judah and his brothers.X -The scroll of the lineage of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham. "*~_~$}}|L{{Vzz;yFxwvvvuutt?sssrVqqqGppupo[nnlmmJll=kk?jjjii(hh_ggf~eezdd>cc?baa``;_^^|^?]]b\\L[[ZZZYXXWwWVVPUULTT SRR$QQOPPP-OOpNN1MiLLKJJ{IIIHHGG`FFWEE}EDDCC'BBAALA@@?>>>*==F<<;;:C99M8]77665554h32210//s...--K,,X++Y***+))((G'&%r%$X$!#["" 3Do you understand all these things?" They are saying to Him, "Yes."r=] 2And they shall be casting them into a furnace of fire. There shall be lamentation and gnashing of teeth.</ 1Thus shall it be in the conclusion of the eon. The messengers will be coming out and they will be severing the wicked from the midst of the just.; 0and, when it was filled full, hauling it up on the beach and being seated, they cull the ideal into crocks, yet the rotten they cast out.t:a /"Again, like is the kingdom of the heavens to a dragnet cast into the sea, which gathers of every species,s9_ .Now, finding one very precious pearl, he comes away, having disposed of all whatever he had, and buys it.`89 -"Again, like is the kingdom of the heavens to a man, a merchant, seeking ideal pearls.N7 ,"Like is the kingdom of the heavens to a treasure hidden in the field, finding which, a man hides it, and, in his joy, is going away, and is selling all, whatever he has, and is buying that field.{6o +Then shall the just be shining out as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who has ears to hear, let him hear!r5] *and they shall be casting them into a furnace of fire. There shall be lamentation and gnashing of teeth.4- )The Son of Mankind shall be dispatching His messengers, and they shall be culling out of His kingdom all the snares and those doing lawlessness,|3q (Even as the darnel, then, are being culled and burned up with fire, thus shall it be in the conclusion of the eon.2 'Now the enemy who sows them is the Adversary. Now the harvest is the conclusion of the eon. Now the reapers are messengers. 1 &Now the field is the world. Now the ideal seed, these are the sons of the kingdom. Now the darnel are the sons of the wicked one.Z0- %Now He, answering, said, "He Who is sowing the ideal seed is the Son of Mankind. /9 $Then, leaving the throngs, He entered into the house. And His disciples come to Him, saying, "Elucidate to us the parable of the darnel of the field."3._ #so that fulfilled may be that which is declared through the prophet saying, I shall be opening My mouth in parables, I shall be emitting what is hid from the disruption.v-e "All these things Jesus speaks in parables to the throngs, and apart from a parable He spoke nothing to them,6,e !Another parable He speaks to them, saying, "Like is the kingdom of the heavens to leaven which a woman, getting, hides in three seahs of meal, till the whole was leavened."\+1 which, indeed, is smaller than all the seeds, yet, whenever it may be grown, is greater than the greens, and is becoming a tree, so that the flying creatures of heaven are coming and roosting among its boughs."*1 Another parable He places before them, saying, "Like is the kingdom of the heavens to a kernel of mustard which a man, getting, sows in his field;j)M Leave both to grow up together until the harvest, and in the season of the harvest I shall be declaring to the reapers, 'Cull first the darnel, and bind them into bundles to burn them up. Yet the grain gather into my barn.'"(# Yet he is averring, 'By no means, lest at some time, while culling the darnel, you should be rooting up the grain at the same time with it.&'E Now he averred to them, 'A man, an enemy, does this.' Now the slaves are saying to him, 'Do you, then, want us to come away that we should be culling them?'&# "Now, approaching, the slaves of the householder said to him, 'Lord, do you not sow ideal seed in your field? Whence, then, has it darnel?'[%/ Now, when the blade germinates and produces fruit, then appeared also the darnel.o$W Yet, while the men are drowsing, his enemy came and sows darnel over amidst the grain, and came away. # Another parable He places before them, saying "Likened was the kingdom of the heavens to a man sowing ideal seed in his own field.b"= Now he who is being sown on the ideal earth, this is he who is hearing the word and understanding, who by all means is bearing fruit, and is producing; these indeed, a hundred, yet these sixty, yet these thirtyfold."A!{ Now he who is being sown in the thorns, this is he who is hearing the word, and the worry of this eon and the seduction of riches are stifling the word, and it is becoming unfruitful. # yet has no root in himself, but is temporary. Now at the coming of affliction or persecution because of the word, straightway he is snared.} Yet he who is being sown on the rocky places, this is he who is hearing the word and straightway with joy is getting it,B} At everyone hearing the word of the kingdom and not understanding, coming is the wicked one and snatching what has been sown in his heart. This is he who is being sown beside the road.4c "You, then, hear the parable of the sowing.3_ For verily I am saying to you that many prophets and just men yearn to perceive what you are observing, and perceive not, and to hear what you are hearing, and hear not.`9 "Yet happy are your eyes, for they are observing, and your ears, for they are hearing.C For stoutened is the heart of this people, And with their ears heavily they hear, And with their eyes they squint, Lest at some time they may be perceiving with their eyes, And with their ears should be hearing, And with their heart may be understanding, And should be turning about, And I shall be healing them.']3 And filled up in them is the prophecy of Isaiah, that is saying, '"In hearing, you will be hearing, and may by no means be understanding, And observing, you will be observing, and may by no means be perceiving.")K Therefore in parables am I speaking to them, seeing that, observing, they are not observing, and hearing, they are not hearing, neither are they understanding."= For anyone who has, to him shall be given, and he shall have a superfluity. Yet anyone who has not, that also which he has shall be taken away from him.7 Now, answering, He said to them that "To you has it been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of the heavens, yet to those it has not been given.hI And, approaching, the disciples say to Him, "Wherefore art Thou speaking in parables to them?"-U Who has ears to hear, let him hear!"ve Yet other falls on ideal earth and gave fruit, some, indeed, a hundred, yet some sixty, yet some thirtyfold.K Yet other falls on thorns, and the thorns come up and smother it.dA Yet at the rising of the sun, it is scorched, and, because it has no root, it is withered. Yet other falls on rocky places, where it had not much earth, and immediately it shoots up, because it has no depth of earth.q[ And, in his sowing, some, indeed, falls beside the road, and the flying creatures came and devoured it.fE And He speaks many things to them in parables, saying, "Lo! out came the sower to be sowing.  And gathered to Him were vast throngs, so that He steps into a ship to be sitting, and the entire throng stood on the beach.H   In that day Jesus, coming out of the house, sat beside the sea. } 2For anyone whoever should be doing the will of My Father Who is in the heavens, he is My brother and sister and mother!"b = 1And stretching out His hand over His disciples, He said, "Lo! My mother and My brothers!k O 0Yet He, answering, said to the one saying it to Him, "Who is My mother, and who are My brothers?"y /Now someone of His disciples said, "Lo! Thy mother and Thy brothers stand outside. They are seeking to speak to Thee."r] .At His still speaking to the throngs, lo! His mother and brothers stood outside seeking to speak to Him.{o -Then it is going and taking along with itself seven other spirits, more wicked than itself, and entering, it is dwelling there. And the last state of that man is becoming worse than the first. Thus will it be to this wicked generation also.") ,Then it is saying, 'Into my home will I be turning back, whence I came out.' And coming, it is finding it unoccupied, and swept and decorated.# +"Now, whenever the unclean spirit may be coming out from a man, it is passing through waterless places seeking rest, and is not finding it.Y+ *"The queen of the south will be roused in the judging with this generation and will be condemning it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and lo! more than Solomon is here!4a )"Men, Ninevites, will be rising in the judging with this generation and will be condemning it, for they repent at the heralding of Jonah, and lo! more than Jonah is here!3_ (For even as Jonah was in the bowel of the sea monster three days and three nights, thus will the Son of Mankind be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.3_ 'Yet He, answering, said to them, "A generation, wicked and an adulteress, for a sign is seeking, and a sign will not be given to it except the sign of Jonah the prophet.pY &Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered Him saying, "Teacher, we want to see a sign from you."^~5 %For by your words shall you be justified, and by your words shall you be convicted."&}E $Now I am saying to you that, for every idle declaration which men shall be speaking, they shall be rendering an account concerning it in the day of judging.|# #The good man out of his good treasure is extracting good things; and the wicked man out of his wicked treasure is extracting wicked things.{ ""Progeny of vipers! How can you be speaking what is good, being wicked? For out of the superabundance of the heart the mouth is speaking. z !"Either make the tree ideal and its fruit ideal, or make the tree rotten and its fruit rotten, for by its fruit the tree is known.lyQ And whosoever may be saying a word against the Son of Mankind, it will be pardoned him, yet whoever may be saying aught against the holy spirit, it shall not be pardoned him, neither in this eon nor in that which is impending.x "Therefore I am saying to you, Every sin and blasphemy shall be pardoned men, yet the blasphemy of the spirit shall not be pardoned.aw; He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who is not gathering with Me is scattering.@vy Or how can anyone be entering into the house of the strong one, and plunder his gear, if ever he should not first be binding the strong one? And then he will be plundering his house.{uo "Now if, by the spirit of God, I am casting out demons, consequently the kingdom of God outstrips in time to you.t "And if I, by Beezeboul, am casting out demons, by whom are your sons casting them out? Therefore they shall be your judges.vse And if the Satan is casting out the Satan, he is parted against himself. How, then, shall his kingdom stand?:rm Now, having perceived their sentiments, He said to them, "Every kingdom parted against itself is being desolated, and every city or house parted against itself shall not stand.q Now the Pharisees, hearing it, said, "This man is not casting out the demons except by Beezeboul, the chief of the demons."Xp) And amazed are all the throngs, and they said, "Is not this the Son of David?"ow Then was brought to Him a demoniac, blind and mute, and He cures him, so that the mute man is speaking and observing.5ne And on His name the nations will be relying./mW A reed that is bruised He will not be fracturing. And flax that is smouldering He will not be extinguishing...Till He should ever be casting out judging for victory.flE He will not be brawling, nor clamoring, Nor will anyone be hearing His voice in the squares. k9 Lo, My Boy Whom I prefer! My Beloved, in Whom My soul delights! I shall be placing My spirit on Him, And He shall be reporting judging to the nations.Zj- that fulfilled may be that which is declared through Isaiah the prophet, saying,Hi  And He warns them that they should not be making Him manifest,\h1 Now Jesus, knowing it, retires thence. And many follow Him, and He cures them all.pgY Now, coming out, the Pharisees held a consultation against Him, so that they should be destroying Him.f{ Then He is saying to the man, "Stretch out your hand." And he stretches it out and it was restored, sound as the other.ey Of how much more consequence, then, is a man than a sheep! So that it is allowed to be doing ideally on the sabbaths."=ds Now He said to them, "What man of you will there be, who will have one sheep, and if ever this should be falling into a pit on the sabbaths, will not take hold of it and raise it?c/ And lo! a man having a withered hand. And they inquire of Him, saying, "Is it allowed on the sabbaths to cure?" that they should be accusing Him.>bw And, proceeding thence, He came into their synagogue.8ak for the Son of Mankind is Lord of the sabbath."w`g Now if you had known what this is: Mercy am I wanting, and not sacrifice-you would not convict the faultless,K_ Now I am saying to you that a Greater than the sanctuary is here.^  "Or did you not read in the law that on the sabbaths the priests in the sanctuary are profaning the sabbath and are faultless?]3 how he entered into the house of God and they ate the show bread, which he was not allowed to eat, neither those with him, except the priests only?e\C Yet He said to them, "Did you not read what David does when he hungers, and those with him:[ Now the Pharisees, perceiving it, say to Him, "Lo! your disciples are doing what is not allowed to be done on a sabbath."Z / At that season Jesus went through the sowings on the sabbaths. Now His disciples hunger, and they begin to be plucking the ears and to be eating.5Ye for My yoke is kindly and My load is light."X  Lift My yoke upon you and be learning from Me, for meek am I and humble in heart, and you shall be finding rest in your souls,UW# Hither to Me, all who are toiling and laden, and I will be giving you rest.VV% "All was given up to Me by My Father. And no one is recognizing the Son except the Father; neither is anyone recognizing the Father except the Son and he to whom the Son should be intending to unveil Him.MU Yea, Father, seeing that thus it became a delight in front of Thee.IT  At that season, answering, Jesus said, "I am acclaiming Thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for Thou hidest these things from the wise and intelligent and Thou dost reveal them to minors.S{ Moreover, I am saying to you that for the land of Sodom shall it be more tolerable in the day of judging than for you."LR "And you, Capernaum! Not to heaven shall you be exalted! To the unseen shall you subside, for, if the powerful deeds which are occurring in you had occurred in Sodom, it might remain unto today.yQk Moreover, I am saying to you, For Tyre and Sidon shall it be more tolerable in the day of judging than for you.DP "Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the powerful deeds which are occurring in you occurred in Tyre and Sidon, long ago they would repent, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.uOc Then He begins to reproach the cities in which most of His powerful deeds occurred, for they do not repent.CN The Son of Mankind came eating and drinking, and they are saying, 'Lo! a man gluttonous and a tippler, a tribute collectors' and sinners' friend!' And justified was Wisdom by her acts."[M/ For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they are saying, 'A demon has he!'\L1 are saying, 'We flute to you and you do not dance! We wail and you do not grieve!'K Now to what shall I be likening this generation? Like is it to little boys and girls sitting in the markets, who, shouting to the others,,JS Who has ears to hear, let him hear!YI+ And, if you are willing to receive him, he is Elijah who is about to be coming.=Hu For all the prophets and the law prophesy till John.G Now, from the days of John the baptist hitherto, the kingdom of the heavens is being violently forced and the violent are snatching it.DF "Verily, I am saying to you, Not among those born of women has there been roused a greater than John the baptist. Yet he who is smaller, in the kingdom of the heavens is greater than he.E3 This is he concerning whom it is written, 'Lo! I am dispatching My messenger before Thy face, who shall be constructing Thy road in front of Thee.'|Dq But for what do you come out? A prophet to perceive? Yes, I am saying to you, and exceedingly more than a prophet. C  But what do you come out to perceive? A man garbed in soft garment? Lo! those wearing soft garments are in the houses of kings./BW Now, at their going, Jesus begins to be saying to the throngs concerning John, "What do you come out into the wilderness to gaze at? A reed being shaken by the wind?9Am And happy is he who should not be snared in Me."D@ The blind are receiving sight, and the lame are walking; lepers are being cleansed, and the deaf are hearing, and the dead are being roused, and to the poor the evangel is being brought.d?A And answering, Jesus said to them, "Go, report to John what you are hearing and observing:Z>- said to Him, "Art Thou the coming One, or may we be hoping for a different One?"`=9 Now John, hearing in the prison of the works of Christ, sending through his disciples,< % And it came, when Jesus finishes prescribing to His twelve disciples, that He proceeded thence to be teaching and heralding in their cities.<;q *And whoever should be giving one of these little ones only a cool cup to drink, in the name of a disciple, verily, I am saying to you, by no means should he be losing his wages."J:  )He who is receiving a prophet in the name of a prophet shall be obtaining a prophet's wages. And he who is receiving a just man in the name of a just man shall be obtaining a just man's wages.s9_ ("He who is receiving you is receiving Me, and he who is receiving Me is receiving Him Who commissions Me.z8m 'He who is finding his soul will be destroying it, and he who destroys his soul on My account will be finding it.X7) &And he who is not taking his cross and following after Me is not worthy of Me.6 %"He who is fond of father or mother above Me is not worthy of Me. And he who is fond of son or daughter above Me is not worthy of Me.=5u $And the enemies of a man are those of his household. 4  #For I came to pit a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.3 ""You should not be inferring that I came to be casting peace on the earth. I did not come to be casting peace, but a sword. 2  !Yet, who should ever be disowning Me in front of men, I also will be disowning him in front of My Father Who is in the heavens. 1 "Everyone, then, who shall be avowing Me in front of men, him will I also be avowing in front of My Father Who is in the heavens.K0 Then do not fear! Of more consequence than many sparrows are you.:/o Now of your head even the hairs are all numbered.y.k Are not two sparrows selling for a penny? And not one of them will be falling on the earth without your Father.9-k "And do not fear those who are killing the body, yet are not able to kill the soul. Yet be fearing Him, rather, Who is able to destroy the soul as well as the body in Gehenna.,} What I am saying to you in the darkness, say in the light. And what you are hearing in the ear, herald on the housetops.+ Do not, then, be afraid of them, for nothing is covered, which shall not be revealed, and hidden which shall not be known.A*{ Sufficient is it for the disciple that he may be becoming as his teacher, and the slave as his lord. If they surname the householder Beezeboul, how much rather those of his household.O) "A disciple is not above his teacher, neither a slave above his lord.h(I Now, whenever they may be persecuting you in this city, flee into a different one, for, verily, I am saying to you, Under no circumstances should you be finishing the cities of Israel till the Son of Mankind may be coming.v'e And you shall be hated by all because of My name. Yet he who endures to the consummation, he shall be saved.#&? "Now brother shall be giving up brother to death, and father, child, and children shall be rising up against parents, and shall be putting them to death.U%# for not you are speaking, but the spirit of your Father is speaking in you.<$q "Now, whenever they may be giving you up, you should not be worrying about how or what you should be speaking, for it shall be given you in that hour what you should be speaking,y#k Now before governors and kings also shall you be led on My account, for a testimony to them and to the nations."{ Now take heed of men, for they will be giving you up to Sanhedrins, and in their synagogues will they be scourging you.|!q "Lo! I am dispatching you as sheep in the midst of wolves. Become, then, prudent as serpents and artless as doves. ) Verily, I am saying to you, More tolerable will it be for the land of Sodom and the land of Gomorrah in the day of judging than for that city.'G And whosoever should not be receiving you, nor yet be hearing your words, coming outside of that house or city or village, shake off the dust from your feet.% and if, indeed, the house should be worthy, let your peace come on it. Yet if it should not be worthy, let your peace be turned back on you.2_ Now, on entering into a house, salute it, "Now, into whichever city or village you may be entering, inquire who in it is worthy, and there remain till you should be coming out.kO Nor yet two tunics, nor yet sandals, nor yet a club; for worthy is the worker of his nourishment.yk You should not be acquiring gold, nor yet silver, nor yet copper in your girdles, no beggar's bag for the road, The infirm be curing, the dead be rousing, lepers be cleansing, demons be casting out. Gratuitously you got; gratuitously be giving.N Now going, herald, saying that 'Near is the kingdom of the heavens!'G Yet be going rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel./W These twelve Jesus commissions, charging them, saying, "Into a road of the nations you may not pass forth, and into a city of the Samaritans you may not be entering.H  Simon the Cananite, and Judas Iscariot, who also gives Him up.kO Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew, the tribute collector, James of Alpheus and Thaddeus,/ Now the names of the twelve apostles are these: First, Simon, termed Peter, and Andrew, his brother, and James of Zebedee, and John, his brother;1 ] And, calling His twelve disciples to Him, He gives them authority over unclean spirits, so as to be casting them out, and to be curing every disease and every debility.jM &Beseech, then, the Lord of the harvest, so that He should be ejecting workers into His harvest."eC %Then He is saying to His disciples, "The harvest, indeed, is vast, yet the workers are few. $Now, perceiving the throngs, He has compassion on them, for they were bothered and tossed as if sheep having no shepherd.7g #And Jesus led them about all the cities and the villages, teaching in their synagogues and heralding the evangel of the kingdom, and curing every disease and every debility.\ 1 "Yet the Pharisees said, "By the chief of the demons is he casting out the demons." } !And the demon being cast out, the mute man speaks. And the throngs marvel, saying, "Never did it appear thus in Israel!"I   Now at their coming out, lo! they bring to Him a mute demoniac.K  Yet they, coming out, blaze Him abroad in the whole of that land.` 9 And opened were their eyes. And Jesus mutters to them, saying, "See! Let no one know!"[/ Then He touches their eyes, saying, "According to your faith let it be with you."7g Now on His coming into the house, the blind men come to Him. And Jesus is saying to them, "You are believing that I am able to do this?" They are saying to Him, "Yes, Lord."w And as Jesus is passing by thence, two blind men follow Him, clamoring and saying, "Be merciful to us, Son of David!"D And the fame of this came out into the whole of that land.b= Now when the throng was ejected, entering, He holds her hand, and the maiden was roused.^5 said, "Retire, for the maiden did not die, but is drowsing." And they ridiculed Him.ta And Jesus, coming into the house of the chief, and perceiving the flutists and the throng making a tumult, Now Jesus, being turned and perceiving her, said, "Courage, daughter! Your faith has saved you." And saved was the woman from that hour.c? for she said in herself, "If ever I should only be touching His cloak, I shall be saved."s_ And lo! a woman with a hemorrhage twelve years, approaching from behind, touches the tassel of His cloak,?~y And, being roused, Jesus and His disciples follow him.F} As He is speaking of these things to them, lo! one approaching Him, a chief, worshiped Him, saying, "My daughter just now deceases, but come and place Thy hand on her, and she shall live."v|e Neither are they draining fresh wine into old wine skins; otherwise, surely the wine skins are bursting, and the wine is spilling, and the wine skins perish. But they are draining fresh wine into new wine skins, and both are preserved."3{_ "Now no one is patching a patch of unshrunk shred on an old cloak, for the patch which fills it up is lifting some from the cloak itself, and the rent is becoming worse.qz[ And Jesus said to them, "The sons of the bridal chamber can not be mourning, in as much as the bridegroom is with them. Yet coming will be the days whenever the bridegroom may be taken away from them, and then they will be fasting.y% Then coming to Him are the disciples of John, saying, "Wherefore are we and the Pharisees fasting much, yet your disciples are not fasting?"~xu Now go, learn what this is: Mercy am I wanting, and not sacrifice. For I did not come to call the just but sinners."ewC Now hearing, He said, "No need have the strong of a physician, but those having an illness. v  And, perceiving it, the Pharisees said to His disciples, "Wherefore is your teacher eating with tribute collectors and sinners?"1u[ And it came, at His lying back at table in the house, and lo! many tribute collectors and sinners, coming, lay back at the table together with Jesus and His disciples.(tI And Jesus, passing by thence, perceived a man termed Matthew sitting at the tribute office, and He is saying to him, "Follow Me!" And, rising, he follows Him.tsa Now, on perceiving it, the throngs were afraid, and they glorify God, Who is giving such authority to men.8rk And, being roused, he came away into his house.Gq Now, that you may be perceiving that the Son of Mankind has authority on earth to pardon sins"-then He is saying to the paralytic, "Being roused, pick up your couch and go into your house."hpI For what is easier, to be saying, 'Pardoned are your sins,' or to be saying, 'Rouse and walk'?hoI And Jesus, perceiving their sentiments, said, "Why are you brooding wickedness in your hearts? f~~*}}R||R|{{zz[zyixxXwwOwvvAuuWtthsssIrr"qqpp&oo*nnhmm;llkjjGii9hhWgggffhfPeeWddd(cc:bbaa``e__]]\\"[qZZI_HHGGfGFEDCCBBAb@@;?>=<<;;m::99g98S77s66M55o44J4 3322 100//#.-,,,<+**p*)O((X''3&&F%F$]$#{#""&!!A $a@yLYP7iCLGA $ z v tHaNow, coming to the second, he said similarly. Now he, answering, said, "I go, lord! and he went not forth.fGEYet he, answering, said, 'I do not want to.' Yet subsequently, regretting it, he went forth. F "Now what are you supposing? A man had two children. And, coming to the first, he said, 'Child, go today, work in my vineyard.'E1And, answering Jesus, they said, "We are not aware." He also averred to them, "Neither am I telling you by what authority I am doing these things.qD[Yet if we should be saying, 'Of men,' we are fearing the throng, for all are having John as a prophet."ZC-The baptism of John-whence was it? Of heaven or of men?" Now they reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we should be saying, 'Of heaven,' He will be declaring to us, 'Wherefore, then, do you not believe him?'AAnd, perceiving it, the disciples marvel, saying, "How instantly withered is the fig tree.t=aAnd, perceiving one fig tree on the roadside, He came to it and found nothing on it except leaves only. And He is saying to it, "No longer, by any means, may fruit be coming of you for the eon." And withered instantly is the fig tree.J< Now in the morning, leading them back into the city, He hungers.Z;-And, leaving them, He came out of the city into Bethany and is camped out there.B:}and say to Him, "Are you hearing what these are saying?" Yet Jesus is saying to them, "Yes. Did you never read that 'Out of the mouth of minors and sucklings Thou dost attune praise'?"19[Now the chief priests and the scribes, perceiving the marvels which He does, and the boys crying in the sanctuary and saying, "Hosanna to the Son of David!" resent it,Q8And the blind and lame came to Him in the sanctuary, and He cures them. 7  And He is saying to them, "It is written, 'My house a house of prayer shall be called,' yet you are making it a burglars' cave."<6q And Jesus entered into the sanctuary and cast out all those selling and buying in the sanctuary, and the tables of the brokers He overturns, and the seats of those selling doves.V5% Yet the throngs said, "this is the prophet Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee."_47 And at His entering into Jerusalem, the entire city is aquake, saying, "Who is this?"53c Now the throngs preceding and following Him cried, saying, "Hosanna to the Son of David! 'Blessed be He Who is coming in the name of the Lord!' Hosanna among the highest!"2Now most of the throngs strew their own garments in the road, yet others chopped boughs from the trees and strewed them in the road.[1/led the ass and the colt, and place garments on them, and He is seated upon them.S0Now the disciples, going and doing according as Jesus arranges with them, /Say to the daughter of Zion, Lo! your King is coming to you, Meek, and mounted on an ass, And on a colt, the foal of a yokebeast.v.eNow the whole of this has occurred that that may be fulfilled which is declared through the prophet, saying, -9And if anyone should be saying anything to you, you shall be declaring that 'The Lord has need of them.' Now straightway he will be dispatching them."!,;saying to them, "Go into the village facing you, and immediately you will be finding an ass, bound, and a colt with her. Loosing them, lead them to Me.+ And when they draw near to Jerusalem and came into Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, then Jesus dispatches two disciples,n*U"Now, having compassion, Jesus touches their eyes, and immediately they receive sight and follow Him.F)!They are saying to Him, "Lord, that our eyes may be opened!"j(M And, standing, Jesus summons them and said, "What are you wanting that I shall be doing to you?" 'Yet the throng rebukes them, that they should be silent. Yet they cry the louder, saying, "Lord, be merciful to us! Son of David!"&And lo! two blind men, sitting beside the road, hearing that Jesus is passing by, cry, saying, "Lord, be merciful to us! Son of David!"H% And at their going out from Jericho a vast throng follows Him.s$_even as the Son of Mankind came, not to be served, but to serve, and to give His soul a ransom for many."U##and whoever may be wanting to be foremost among you, let him be your slave,z"mNot thus is it to be among you. But whosoever may be wanting to become great among you, let him be your servant,!)Now Jesus, calling them to Him, said, "You are aware that the chiefs of the nations are lording it over them, and the great are coercing them.D And, hearing of it, the ten resent as to the two brothers.>uHe is saying to them, "My cup, indeed, you shall be drinking. Yet to be seated at My right and at My left is not Mine to give, but is for whom it has been made ready by My Father."=sNow answering, Jesus said, "You are not aware what you are requesting. Are you able to be drinking the cup which I am about to be drinking?" They are saying to Him, "We are able."2]Now He said to her, "What are you wanting?" She is saying to Him, "Say that these, my two sons, should be seated, one at Thy right and one at Thy left, in Thy kingdom."ykThen the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to Him with her sons, worshiping and requesting something from Him.And they will be giving Him up to the nations, to scoff at and scourge and crucify. And the third day He will be roused.""="Lo! we are going up into Jerusalem, and the Son of Mankind will be given up to the chief priests and scribes, and they will be condemning Him to death.Now Jesus, being about to go up into Jerusalem, took aside the twelve disciples privately. And on the road He said to them:;qThus shall the last be first, and the first last."xiIs it not allowed me to do what I want with that which is mine? Or is your eye wicked, seeing that I am good?'`9Pick up what is yours and go away. Now I want to give to this last one even as to you.yk Yet he, answering one of them, said, 'Comrade, I am not injuring you! Did you not agree with me for a denarius?y saying, 'These last do one hour, and you make them equal to us who bear the burden of the day and the scorching heat.'@{ Now, getting it, they murmured against the householder,kO And, coming, the first infer that they will be getting more. And they also got a denarius apiece.R "And, coming, those hired about the eleventh hour got a denarius apiece.'G"Now, evening coming on, the lord of the vineyard is saying to his manager, 'Call the workers and pay them the wages, beginning from the last, to the first.'oWThey are saying to him that 'No one hires us.' He is saying to them, 'You also go into the vineyard.' "Now, about the eleventh, coming out, he found others standing. And he is saying to them, 'Why stand you here the whole day idle?'R Now, again coming out about the sixth and ninth hour, he does similarly. And to those he said, 'You also go into my vineyard, and whatsoever may be just I shall be giving you.' Now they came away.b ="And, coming out about the third hour, he perceived others standing in the market, idle.d ANow, agreeing with the workers for a denarius a day, he dispatches them into his vineyard.  /"For like is the kingdom of the heavens to a man, a householder, who came out at the same time with the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.A}Yet many of the first shall be last, and the last first.eCAnd everyone who leaves houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, on account of My name, a hundred-fold shall be getting, and shall be enjoying the allotment of life eonian.|qYet Jesus said to them, "Verily, I am saying to you, that you who follow Me, in the renascence whenever the Son of Mankind should be seated on the throne of His glory, you also shall sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.wgThen, answering, Peter said to Him, "Lo! we leave all and follow Thee. What, consequently, will it be to us?"pYNow, looking at them, Jesus said to them, "With men this is impossible, yet with God all is possible."q[Now, hearing it, the disciples were tremendously astonished, saying, "Who, consequently, can be saved?"-SYet again, I am saying to you that it is easier for a camel to be entering through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to be entering into the kingdom of God."Now Jesus said to His disciples, "Verily, I am saying to you that the rich squeamishly will be entering into the kingdom of the heavens.^5Now, hearing this word, the youth came away sorrowing, for he had many acquisitions.?wJesus averred to him, "If you are wanting to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and be giving to the poor, and you will be having treasure in the heavens. And hither! Follow Me."[~/The youth is saying to Him, "These all I maintain. In what am I still deficient?"a};'Be honoring father and mother,' and 'You shall be loving your associate as yourself.'"I| He is saying to Him, "Which?" Now Jesus said, "These: 'You shall not be murdering.' 'You shall not be committing adultery.' 'You shall not be stealing.' 'You shall not be testifying falsely.'{'Yet He said to him, "Why are you asking Me concerning good? One is good. Yet if you are wanting to be entering into life, keep the precepts."tzaAnd lo! one coming to Him said, "Teacher, what good shall I be doing that I should be having life eonian?"8ykAnd, placing His hands on them, He went thence.xYet Jesus said to them, "Let the little children be coming to Me, and do not forbid them, for of such is the kingdom of the heavens."w Then little children were brought to Him, that He may be placing His hands on them and should be praying. Yet the disciples rebuke them.v  For there are eunuchs who were born thus out of their mother's womb, and there are eunuchs who are emasculated by men, and there are eunuchs who emasculate themselves because of the kingdom of the heavens. The one able to contain it, let him contain it."huI Yet He said to them, "Not all are containing this saying, but those to whom it has been given.vte The disciples are saying to Him, "If the cause of a man with a woman is thus, it is not expedient to marry."cs? "Now I am saying to you that whoever should be dismissing his wife (not for prostitution) and should be marrying another, is committing adultery, and he who marries her who has been dismissed, is committing adultery."&rEJesus is saying to them, that "Moses, in view of your hardheartedness, permits you to dismiss your wives. Yet from the beginning it has not come to be thus.pqYThey are saying to Him, "Why, then, does Moses direct to give a scroll of divorce and to dismiss her?"tpaSo that no longer are they two, but one flesh. What God, then, yokes together, let not man be separating."oand He said, 'On this account a man shall be leaving father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh'?rn]Now He, answering, said, "Did you not read that the Maker from the beginning makes them male and female,ymkAnd the Pharisees came to Him, trying Him, and saying, "Is it allowed one to dismiss his wife for every cause?">lwAnd vast throngs follow Him, and He cures them there.k 1And it occurred, when Jesus finishes these sayings, He withdraws from Galilee and came into the boundaries of Judea, the other side of the Jordan.j}#"Thus shall My heavenly Father also be doing to you, if each one should not be pardoning his brother, from your hearts."liQ"And, being indignant, his lord gives him up to the tormentors till he may pay all he is owing him.lhQ!Was it not binding on you also to be merciful to your fellow slave, as I also am merciful to you?'g "Then his lord, calling him to him, is saying to him, 'Wicked slave! That entire debt I remit to you, since you entreat me.f+"Then his fellow slaves, perceiving what is occurring, were tremendously sorry, and coming, they elucidate to their lord all that is occurring.geGYet he would not, but, coming away, he casts him into jail, till he may pay what he is owing.sd_Falling down, then, his fellow slave entreated him, saying, 'Be patient with me, and I will pay you all!'1c["Yet, coming out, that slave found one of his fellow slaves, who owed him a hundred denarii, and, holding him, he choked him, saying, 'Pay, if you are owing anything!"\b1Now, having compassion, the lord of that slave dismisses him, and remits his loan.ra]Falling down, then, that slave worshiped him, saying, Lord, be patient with me, and I will pay you all!'%`CNow, at his not having wherewith to pay, the lord orders him to be disposed of, and his wife and children and all, whatever he has, and payment to be made.g_GNow, at his beginning to settle, one debtor was brought to him who owed ten thousand talents.{^o"Therefore likened was the kingdom of the heavens to a man, a king, who wants to settle accounts with his slaves.q][Jesus is saying to him, "I am not saying to you 'Till seven times,' but 'Till seventy times and seven,'\3Then, approaching, Peter said to Him, "Lord, how many times shall my brother be sinning against me and I shall be pardoning him? Till seven times?"\[1For where two or three are, gathered in My name, there am I in the midst of them."eZC"Again, verily, I am saying to you that, if ever two of you should be agreeing on the earth concerning any matter, whatsoever it is they should be requesting shall be coming to them from My Father Who is in the heavens.^Y5"Verily, I am saying to you, Whatsoever you should be binding on the earth shall be those things having been bound in the heavens, and whatsoever you should be loosing on the earth shall be those loose in heaven.RXNow, if ever he should be disobeying them, tell it to the ecclesia. Now, if ever he should be disobeying the ecclesia also, let him be to you even as the man of the nations, and the tribute collector.5WcYet if ever he should not be hearing, take still one or two others along with you, that at the mouth of two witnesses, or of three, every declaration may be made to stand.V3"Now, if ever your brother should be sinning, go and expose him between you and him alone. If ever he should be hearing you, you gain your brother.U}Thus it is not the will in front of your Father Who is in the heavens that one of these little ones should be perishing.T1 And if he should come to find it, verily, I am saying to you that he is rejoicing over it, rather than over the ninety-nine that have not strayed.oSW "What are you supposing? If it should be occurring to any man, with a hundred sheep, that even one of them should be led astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine sheep on the mountains, and go and seek the one which is straying?R' (no verse 11)LQ "See that you should not be despising one of these little ones, for I am saying to you that their messengers in the heavens are continually observing the face of My Father Who is in the heavens.?Pw "And if your eye is snaring you, wrench it out and cast it from you. Is it ideal for you to be entering into life one-eyed, or, having two eyes, to be cast into the Gehenna of fire?\O1Now, if your hand or your foot is snaring you, strike it off and cast it from you. Is it ideal for you to be entering into life maimed or lame, or, having two hands or two feet, to be cast into the fire eonian?N+"Woe to the world because of snares! For it is a necessity for snares to be coming. Moreover, woe to that man through whom the snare is coming!dMAYet whoever should be snaring one of these little ones who is believing in Me, it is expedient for him that a millstone requiring an ass to turn it may be hanged about his neck, and he should be sunk in the open ocean.]L3And whosoever should be receiving one such little child in My name is receiving Me.uKcWho, then, will be humbling himself as this little child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of the heavens./JWand said, "Verily, I am saying to you, If you should not be turning and becoming as little children, you may by no means be entering into the kingdom of the heavens.JI And, calling a little child to Him, He stands it in their midst,~H wNow in that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, "Who, consequently, is greatest in the kingdom of the heavens?"[G/Yet, lest we should be snaring them, go, cast a fish hook into the sea, and pick up the first fish coming up, and opening its mouth, you will be finding a stater. Getting that, give it to them for Me and you."FNow he averred, "From the aliens." Now at his saying "From the aliens," Jesus averred to him, "Consequently the sons, surely, are free.fEEHe is saying, "Yes." And, coming into the house, Jesus forestalls him, saying, "What are you supposing, Simon? The kings of the earth, from whom are they getting tribute or poll tax? From their sons, or from the aliens?" D9Now at their coming into Capernaum, those getting the double drachma came to Peter and say, "Is not your teacher settling the double drachma tribute?"oCWand they will be killing Him, and the third day He will be roused." And they were tremendously sorry.BNow at their conspiring in Galilee, Jesus said to them, "The Son of Mankind is about to be given up into the hands of men,A'(no verse 21)@#Now He is saying to them, "Because of your scant faith. For verily I am saying to you, If you should have faith as a kernel of mustard, you shall be declaring to this mountain, 'Proceed hence-there!' and it will be proceeding. And nothing will be impossible for you."d?AThen the disciples, coming to Jesus privately, said, "Wherefore could we not cast it out?"f>EAnd Jesus rebukes it, and the demon came out from him, and the boy was cured from that hour.0=YNow then answering, Jesus said to them, "O generation unbelieving and perverse! Till when shall I be with you? Till when shall I bear with you? Bring him here to Me."I< And I bring him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him.";)"Lord, be merciful to my son, for he is epileptic, and is having an evil time! For often he is falling into the fire and often into the water.l:QAnd, at their coming to the throng, a man came to Him, falling on his knees before Him and saying,Z9- Then the disciples understand that He spoke to them concerning John the baptist.A8{ Yet I am saying to you that Elijah came already, and they did not recognize him, but they do to him whatever they will. Thus the Son of Mankind also is about to be suffering by them."c7? Now He, answering, said to them that "Elijah is indeed coming, and will be restoring all.y6k And His disciples inquire of Him, saying, 'Why, then, are the scribes saying that Elijah must be coming first?"65e And, at their descending out of the mountain, Jesus directs them, saying, "Now you may tell no one of the vision till the Son of Mankind may be roused from among the dead."V4%Now, lifting up their eyes, they perceived no one except Jesus Himself only.S3And Jesus approached and, touching them, said, "Be roused, and fear not!"Z2-And, hearing it, the disciples fall on their faces and were tremendously afraid.21]While he is still speaking, lo! a luminous cloud overshadows them, and lo! a voice out of the cloud, saying, "This is My Son, the Beloved, in Whom I delight. Hear Him!"I0 Now, answering, Peter said to Jesus, "Lord, it is ideal for us to be here! If Thou art willing, I shall be making three tabernacles here, for Thee one, and for Moses one, and for Elijah one."J/ And lo! Moses and Elijah were seen by them, conferring with Him.{.oand was transformed in front of them. And His face shines as the sun, yet His garments became white as the light.- And after six days Jesus is taking aside Peter and James and John, his brother, and is bringing them up into a high mountain, privately,K,Verily I am saying to you that there are some of those standing here who under no circumstances should be tasting death till they should be perceiving the Son of Mankind coming in His kingdom."$+AFor the Son of Mankind is about to be coming in the glory of His Father, with His messengers, and then He will be paying each in accord with his practice.,*QFor what will a man be benefited, if he should ever be gaining the whole world, yet be forfeiting his soul? Or what will a man be giving in exchange for his soul?)1For whosoever may be wanting to save his soul shall be destroying it. Yet whoever should be destroying his soul on My account shall be finding it.(Then Jesus said to His disciples: "If anyone is wanting to come after Me, let him renounce himself and pick up his cross and follow Me.-'SNow, being turned, He said to Peter, "Go away behind Me, satan! A snare are you to Me, for you are not disposed to that which is of God, but that which is of men." &And, taking Him to him, Peter begins to rebuke Him, saying, "Propitious be it to Thee, Lord! By no means shall this be for Thee!"]%3Thenceforth begins Jesus to show His disciples that He must be coming away into Jerusalem and to be suffering much from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and to be killed, and the third day to be roused.a$;Then He cautions the disciples that they may be saying to no one that He is the Christ.#%I will be giving you the keys of the kingdom of the heavens, and whatsoever you should be binding on the earth shall be those things having been bound in the heavens, and whatsoever you should be loosing on the earth, shall be those having been loosed in the heavens.","QNow I, also, am saying to you that you are Peter, and on this rock will I be building My ecclesia, and the gates of the unseen shall not be prevailing against it.!!;Now, answering, Jesus said to him, "Happy are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood does not reveal it to you, but My Father Who is in the heavens.\ 1Now answering, Simon Peter said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God."H He is saying to them, "Now you, who are you saying that I am?"ykNow they say, "These, indeed, John the baptist; yet others Elijah; yet others Jeremiah or one of the prophets." Now Jesus, coming into parts of Caesarea Philippi, asked His disciples, saying, "Who are men saying the Son of Mankind is?"  Then they understand that he did not say to take heed of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees. How is it you are not apprehending that I spoke not to you concerning bread? Now take heed of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees."]3 Neither the seven cakes of bread of the four thousand and how many hampers you got?   Not as yet are you apprehending, neither remembering the five cakes of bread of the five thousand and how many panniers you got?wgNow, knowing it, Jesus said, "Why are you reasoning among yourselves, scant of faith, that you have no bread?LNow they reasoned among themselves, saying that "We got no bread."c?Now Jesus said to them, "See and take heed of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees!"KAnd the disciples, coming to the other side, forgot to get bread.'G"A generation, wicked and an adulteress, for a sign is seeking, and a sign will not be given to it except the sign of Jonah." And leaving them, He came away.%(no verse 3))MNow He, answering, said to them, }And, approaching, the Pharisees and the Sadducees, trying Him, inquire to have Him exhibit a sign out of heaven to them.hI'And, dismissing the throngs, He stepped into the ship and came into the boundaries of Magadan.^5&Now those eating were about four thousand men, apart from women and little children.oW%And they all ate and are satisfied. And of the superfluous fragments they pick up seven hampers full. 7$He took the seven cakes of bread and the fishes, and, giving thanks, He breaks them and gave them to the disciples, yet the disciples to the throngs.< s#And, charging the throng to lean back on the earth,z m"And Jesus is saying to them, "How many cakes of bread have you?" Now they said, "Seven, and a few small fishes." !And the disciples are saying to Him, "From whence, in a wilderness, is so much bread for us, so as to satisfy so much of a throng?" 7 Now Jesus, calling His disciples to Him, said, "I have compassion on the throng, for already three days they are remaining with Me, and they have nothing that they may be eating, and I am not willing to dismiss them fasting, lest at some time they may be fainting on the road.""=so that the throng marvels, observing the mute speaking, the maimed sound, the lame walking and the blind observing. And they glorify the God of Israel.-SAnd there came to Him vast throngs, having with them the lame, the blind, the mute, the maimed, and many others. And they toss them at His feet, and he cures them,wgAnd, proceeding thence, Jesus came beside the sea of Galilee. And, ascending into the mountain, He sat there.(IThen, answering, Jesus said to her, "O woman, great is your faith! Let it come to be with you as you are wanting." And healed was her daughter from that hour.~uYet she said, "Yes, Lord! For the puppies also are eating of the scraps that are falling from their masters' table."|qYet He, answering , said, "It is not ideal to be taking the children's bread and to be casting it to the puppies."@{Yet she, coming, worships Him, saying, "Lord, help me!"mSNow He, answering, said, "I was not commissioned except for the lost sheep of the house of Israel." Yet He answered her not a word. And, approaching, His disciples asked Him, saying, "Dismiss her, for she is crying behind us."!;And lo! a Canaanitish woman, coming out from those boundaries, cried, saying, "Be merciful to me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is evilly demonized."M~And, coming out thence, Jesus retires into parts of Tyre and Sidon.z}mThese are those which are contaminating a man. Now to be eating with unwashed hands is not contaminating a man."|For out of the heart are coming wicked reasonings, murders, adulteries, prostitutions, thefts, false testimonies, calumnies.y{kNow those things going out of the mouth, out of the heart are coming, and those things are contaminating a man.'zGNot as yet are you apprehending that everything that is going into the mouth is becoming the contents of the bowels, and is being evacuated into the latrine?@y{Yet He said, "Are you also unintelligent at this point?KxNow, answering, Peter said to Him, "Decipher for us the parable." w Leave them! Blind guides are they of the blind! Now if the blind should be guiding the blind, both shall be falling into a pit."mvS Now He, answering, said, "Every plant which is not planted by My heavenly Father shall be uprooted.|uq Then, approaching, the disciples said to Him, "Are you aware that the Pharisees, at hearing the word, are snared?"t Not that which is entering into the mouth is contaminating a man, but that which is going out of the mouth, this is contaminating a man."Ps And, calling the throng to Him, He said to them, "Hear and understand!Zr- Yet in vain are they revering Me, Teaching for teachings the directions of men."dqAThis people with their lips is honoring Me, Yet their heart is away at a distance from Me.GpHypocrites! Ideally Isaiah prophesies concerning you, saying,uocby no means shall he be honoring his father.' And you invalidate the word of God because of your tradition. nYet you are saying that 'Whoever may be saying to father or mother, "An approach present is whatsoever you may be benefited by me," mFor God said, 'Honor father and mother,' and, 'He who is saying aught that is evil of father or mother, let him decease in death.'~luNow He, answering, said to them, "Wherefore are you also transgressing the precept of God because of your tradition?k/"Wherefore are your disciples transgressing the tradition of the elders? For they are not washing their hands whenever they may be eating bread."Pj Then, coming to Jesus from Jerusalem are Pharisees and scribes, saying, i$And they entreated Him that they should only be touching the tassel of His cloak. And whoever touch it were brought safely through.h#And, recognizing Him, the men of that place dispatch into that whole country about, and they bring to Him all those who have an illness.9gm"And, ferrying, they came to land, to Gennesaret.Qf!Now those in the ship worship Him, saying, "Truly, God's Son art Thou!"=eu And at their going up into the ship, the wind flags.dNow immediately Jesus, stretching out His hand, got hold of him and is saying to him, "Scant of faith, why do you hesitate?"sc_Yet, observing the strong wind, he was afraid. And, beginning to sink, he cries, saying, "Lord, save me!"jbMNow He said, "Come!" And, descending from the ship, Peter walks on the waters, to come to Jesus.haIYet, answering Him, Peter said, "Lord, if it is Thou, order me to come to Thee on the waters."U`#Now straightway Jesus speaks to them, saying, "Courage! It is I. Fear not!" _ Now the disciples, perceiving Him walking on the sea, were disturbed, saying that "It is a phantom!" And from fear they cry out.S^Now in the fourth watch of the night He came to them, walking on the sea.]%Now the ship was already many stadia away from the land, in the midst of the sea, being tormented by the billows, for the wind was contrary. ~.}a||{|{zzz?y{xxwsvvvGuubttssYrrtqqGpp0oonnmmjmllPkk;jjij4ii8hhBggtg ffeee`eddTcc~c:bbb5a``i___C^^x^6]\\[[,ZZ4YYXXXWW=VV UTSSnSRRiQPPSORONvMM#LQKKJJNJI{IHH\HGhFFkF EE^DDVCCKBBpAA3@@?">T==@<<[;;r::G999X88;77Y666955'44c433322j1100M//...6--^,++Q*))|((4''*&&%h%$K##n""l"!c `u3?U9P~$L 3XR  j R / n qkuF8Now the whole of this has occurred that the scriptures of the prophets may be fulfilled." Then all His disciples, leaving Him, fled.IE 7In that hour Jesus said to the throngs, "As for a robber, you come out with swords and cudgels to apprehend Me! Daily was I seated with you, teaching in the sanctuary, and you do not hold Me.VD%6How, then, may the scriptures be fulfilled, seeing that thus it must occur?"C+5Or are you supposing that I am not able to entreat My Father, and at present He will station by My side more than twelve legions of messengers?B4Then Jesus is saying to him, "Turn away your sword into its place, for all those taking the sword, by the sword shall perish.A3And lo! one of those with Jesus, stretching out his hand, pulls his sword, and smiting the slave of the chief priest, amputates his ear.@w2Yet Jesus said to him, "Comrade, for what are you present?" Then, approaching, they laid hands on Jesus and hold Him.`?91And immediately, coming to Jesus, he said, "Rejoice, Rabbi!" And he kisses Him fondly.v>e0Now he who is giving Him up gives them a sign, saying, "Whomsoever I should be kissing, He it is. Hold Him."-=S/And at His still speaking, lo! Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a vast throng with swords and cudgels, from the chief priests and elders of the people.G<."Rouse! We may be going. Lo! he who is giving Me up is near!"T;!-Again, then, He is coming to the disciples and is saying to them, "Are you drowsing furthermore and resting? For lo! near is the hour, and the Son of Mankind is being given up into the hands of sinners-\:1,And, leaving them, again coming away, He prays a third time, saying the same word.O9+And, coming again, He found them drowsing, for their eyes were heavy.8-*Again, coming away a second time, He prays, saying, "My Father, if this can not pass by from Me if I should not drink it, let Thy will be done!"v7e)Watch and pray, lest you may be entering into trial. The spirit, indeed, is eager; yet the flesh is infirm."&6E(And He is coming to the disciples and is finding them drowsing. And He is saying to Peter, "Is it thus: you are not strong enough to watch one hour with Me?35_'And coming forward a little, He falls on His face, praying and saying, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass by from Me. However, not as I will, but as Thou!"i4K&Then He is saying to them, Sorrow-stricken is My soul to death. Remain here and watch with Me."f3E%And taking along Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, He begins to be sorrowful and depressed.+2O$Then Jesus is coming with them into the freehold termed Gethsemane, and He is saying to His disciples, "Be seated, till I come away and should be praying there."&1E#Peter is saying to Him, "And if ever I must die together with Thee, I will under no circumstances be renouncing Thee!" Likewise said all the disciples also.0"Jesus averred to him, "Verily, I am saying to you that in this night, ere a cock crows, thrice will you be renouncing Me."j/M!Yet, answering, Peter said to Him, "And if all shall be snared in Thee, I will never be snared!"F. Now after My rousing I shall be preceding you into Galilee.";-oThen Jesus is saying to them, "All of you shall be snared in Me in this night, for it is written, I shall be smiting the shepherd, And scattered shall be the sheep of the flock.D,And, singing a hymn, they came out to the mount of Olives.W+'Now I am saying to you that under no circumstances may I be drinking henceforth of this, the product of the grapevine, till that day whenever I may be drinking it new with you in the kingdom of My Father."a*;for this is My blood of the new covenant, that is shed for many for the pardon of sins.^)5And taking the cup and giving thanks, He gives it to them, saying, "Drink of it all,(Now at their eating, Jesus, taking the bread, and blessing, breaks it, and, giving to the disciples, said, "Take, eat. This is My body."x'iNow, answering, Judas, who is giving Him up, said, "It is not I, Rabbi!" Jesus is saying to him, "You say it."V&%The Son of Mankind is indeed going away, according as it is written concerning Him, yet woe to that man through whom the Son of Mankind is being given up! Ideal were it for Him if that man were not born!"f%ENow He, answering, said, "He who dips his hand with Me in the dish, he will be giving Me up.g$GAnd, sorrowing tremendously each one of them begins to be saying to Him, "It is not I, Lord!"k#OAnd at their eating, He said, "Verily, I am saying to you that one of you shall be giving Me up."W"'Now, evening coming on, He was lying back at table with the twelve disciples.]!3And the disciples do as Jesus arranges with them, and they make ready the passover.3 _Now He said, "Go into the city to so and so, and say to him, 'The Teacher is saying, "My appointed time is near. With you am I holding the passover with My disciples."'"7gNow, on the first day of unleavened bread, the disciples came to Jesus, saying to Him, "Where art Thou wanting we should be making ready for Thee to be eating the passover?"PAnd thenceforth he sought an opportunity that he may be giving Him up.8kNow they weigh for him thirty pieces of silver.-SThen one of the twelve who is termed Judas Iscariot, having gone to the chief priests, said, "What are you willing to give me, and I will be giving Him up to you?"&E Verily, I am saying to you, Wheresoever this evangel may be heralded in the whole world, that also which she does shall be spoken of for a memorial of her."I  For she, spraying this attar on My body, does it for My burial.L For you always have the poor with you, yet Me you have not always.~u Now, knowing it, Jesus said to them, "Why are you affording the woman weariness? For she works an ideal work for Me.H  For this could be disposed of for much and given to the poor."T!Now perceiving it, His disciples resent it, saying, "Why this destruction? a woman came to Him having an alabaster vase of attar, very precious, and she pours it down on His head at His lying back at table.QNow at Jesus' coming to be in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,`9Yet they said, "Not in the festival, lest a tumult may be occurring among the people."dAand they plan that they should be laying hold of Jesus by guile and should be killing Him.  Then the chief priests and the elders of the people were gathered in the courtyard of the chief priest, who is termed Caiaphas,w"You are aware that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Mankind is being given up to be crucified."Z /And it occurred, when Jesus finishes all these sayings, He said to His disciples,`9.And these shall be coming away into chastening eonian, yet the just into life eonian."" =-"Then shall He be answering them, saying, 'Verily, I am saying to you, In as much as you do it not to one of these, the least, neither do you it to Me.'8 i,"Then shall they also be answering, saying, 'Lord, when did we perceive you hungering or thirsting, or a stranger, or naked, or infirm, or in jail, and we did not serve you?' +a stranger was I and you did not take Me in; naked and you did not clothe Me; infirm and in jail and you did not visit Me.'\ 1*For I hunger and you do not give Me to eat; I thirst and you do not give Me drink; 9)"Then shall He be declaring to those also at His left, 'Go from Me, you cursed, into the fire eonian, made ready for the Adversary and his messengers.1[("And, answering, the King shall be declaring to them, 'Verily, I am saying to you, In as much as you do it to one of these, the least of My brethren, you do it to Me.'Q'Now when did we perceive Thee infirm, or in jail, and we came to Thee?'b=&Now when did we perceive Thee a stranger and took Thee in, or naked and we clothed Thee?+%"Then the just will be answering Him, saying, 'Lord, when did we perceive Thee hungering and nourish Thee, or thirsting and we give Thee drink?dA$naked and you clothed Me; infirm am I and you visit Me; in jail was I and you come to Me.'s_#For I hunger and you give Me to eat' I thirst and you give Me drink; a stranger was I and you took Me in;9k""Then shall the King be declaring to those at His right, 'Hither, blessed of My Father! Enjoy the allotment of the kingdom made ready for you from the disruption of the world.]3!And He shall be standing the sheep, indeed, at His right, yet the kids at the left.'G and in front of Him shall be gathered all the nations. And He shall be severing them from one another even as a shepherd is severing the sheep from the kids.!;"Now, whenever the Son of Mankind may be coming in His glory, and all the holy messengers with Him, then shall He be seated on the throne of His glory,o~Wand the useless slave cast out into outer darkness. there shall be lamentation and gnashing of teeth.%}CFor to everyone who has shall be given, and he shall have a superfluity, yet from the one who has not, that also which he has shall be taken away from him;^|5Take the talent away from him then, and give it to the one who has the ten talents.'{)It was binding on you, then, to be depositing my silver with the bankers, and on coming, I should recover what is mine together with interest.(zI"Now, answering, his lord said to him, 'Wicked and slothful slave! You were aware that I am reaping where I do not sow, and gathering whence I do not scatter.gyGAnd, being afraid, coming away, I hide your talent in the earth. Lo! you have what is yours!'@xy"Now, approaching, the one also having gotten the one talent, said, 'Lord, I knew you, that you are a hard man, reaping where you do not sow, and gathering whence you do not scatter.#w?His lord averred to him, 'Well done! good and faithful slave. Over a few were you faithful; over many will I place you. Enter into the joy of your lord!'v-"Now, approaching, the one also getting the two talents said, 'Lord, two talents you give over to me, Lo! another two talents I gain with them.''uGNow his lord averred to him, 'Well done! good and faithful slave. Over a few were you faithful; over many will I place you. Enter into the joy of your lord!'@tyAnd, approaching, the one getting the five talents brings to him another five talents, saying, 'Lord, five talents you give over to me, Lo! another five talents do I gain with them.'dsA"Now, after much time, the lord of those slaves is coming and settling accounts with them.nrUYet the one getting the one talent, coming away, excavates in the earth and hides his lord's silver.KqSimilarly, also, the one with the two; he also gains another two.mpS"Now, being gone, the one getting the five talents trades with them and gains another five talents.o)And to one, indeed, he gives five talents, yet to one, two, yet to one, one; to each according to his own ability. And he travels immediately.lnQFor it is even as a man traveling. He calls his own slaves and gives over to them his possessions.Km "Watch, then, for you are not aware of the day, neither the hour.^l5 Yet he, answering, said, 'Verily, I am saying to you, I am not acquainted with you!'ekC "Now subsequently the rest of the virgins also are coming, saying 'Lord! Lord! Open to us!'j7 Now, at their coming away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who are ready entered with him into the wedding festivities, and the door is locked.-iS Yet the prudent answered, saying, 'No, lest at some time there should not be sufficient for us and you. Go rather to those who are selling and buy for yourselves.'ch?Now the stupid said to the prudent, 'Give us of your oil, for our torches are going out.'KgThen roused were all those virgins, and they adorn their torches.ffE"Now in the middle of the night a clamor occurs: 'Lo! the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!'KeNow, at the delaying of the bridegroom, they all nod and drowsed.Bdyet the prudent got oil in the crocks with their torches.FcFor the stupid, getting their torches, got no oil with them,7biNow five of them were stupid and five prudent.a "Then likened shall be the kingdom of the heavens to ten virgins, who getting their torches, came out to meet the bridegroom.`3and shall be cutting him asunder, and will be appointing his part with the hypocrites. There shall be lamentation and gnashing of teeth.y_k2the lord of that slave will be arriving on a day for which he is not hoping, and in an hour which he knows not,f^E1and should begin to beat his fellow slaves, yet may be eating and drinking with the drunken,W]'0"Now if that evil slave should be saying in his heart, 'Delaying is my lord,'Z\-/Verily, I am saying to you that over all his possessions will he be placing him.P[.Happy is that slave whom his lord, coming, will be finding doing thus. Z-"Who, consequently, is the faithful and prudent slave whom the lord places over his household to give them nourishment in season?tYa,Therefore you also become ready, for in an hour which you are not supposing, the Son of Mankind is coming."X=+"Now that be knowing, for if the householder were aware in what watch the thief is coming, he would watch, and would not let his house be tunneled into.SW*Be watching, then, for you are not aware on what day your Lord is coming.IV )two grinding at the millstone; one is taken along and one left.JU (Then two shall be in the field; one is taken along and one left:zTm'and did not know till the deluge came and takes them all away, thus shall be the presence of the Son of Mankind.*SM&For as they were in those days before the deluge, masticating and drinking and marrying and taking in marriage until the day on which Noah entered into the ark,ZR-%"For even as the days of Noah, thus shall be the presence of the Son of Mankind.Q $Now, concerning that day and hour no one is aware, neither the messengers of the heavens, nor the Son; except the Father only.[P/#Heaven and earth shall be passing by, yet My words may by no means be passing by.O""Verily, I am saying to you that by no means may this generation be passing by till all these things should be occurring.mNS!Thus you, also, whenever you may be perceiving all these things, know that He is near-at the doors. M9 "Now from the fig tree learn a parable: Whenever its bough may already be becoming tender, and the leaves sprouting out, you know that summer is near.JL "And He shall be dispatching His messengers with a loud sounding trumpet, and they shall be assembling His chosen from the four winds, from the extremities of the heavens to their extremities.[K/And then shall appear the sign of the Son of Mankind in heaven, and then all the tribes of the land shall grieve, and they shall see the Son of Mankind coming on the clouds of heaven with power and much glory.^J5"Now immediately after the affliction of those days the sun shall be darkened and the moon shall not be giving her beams, and the stars shall be falling from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.MIWheresoever the corpse may be, there will the vultures be gathered.H%For even as the lightning is coming out from the east and is appearing as far as the west, thus shall be the presence of the Son of Mankind.G7"If, then, they should say to you, 'Lo! in the wilderness is he!' you may not be coming out' 'Lo! in the storerooms!' you should not be believing it.2F_Lo! I have declared it to you beforehand."E=For roused shall be false christs and false prophets, and they shall be giving great signs and miracles, so as to deceive, if possible, even the chosen.wDg"Then, if anyone should be saying to you, 'Lo! here is the Christ! or 'Here!' you should not be believing it. CAnd, except those days were discounted, no flesh at all would be saved. Yet, because of the chosen, those days shall be discounted."B=for then shall be great affliction, such as has not occurred from the beginning of the world till now; neither under any circumstances may be occurring._A7Now be praying that your flight may not be occurring in winter, nor yet on a sabbath,N@"Now woe to those who are pregnant and those suckling in those days!X?)And let him who is in the field not turn back behind him to pick up his cloak.^>5Let him who is on the housetop not descend to take away the things out of his house.9=mthen let those in Judea flee into the mountains.=<s"Whenever, then, you may be perceiving the abomination of desolation, which is declared through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let him who is reading apprehend!););KAnd heralded shall be this evangel of the kingdom in the whole inhabited earth for a testimony to all the nations, and then the consummation shall be arriving.D: Yet he who endures to the consummation, he shall be saved._97 And, because of the multiplication of lawlessness, the love of many shall be cooling.O8 And many false prophets shall be roused, and shall be deceiving many.h7I And then many shall be snared, and they shall be giving one another up and hating one another.6- "Then shall they be giving you up to affliction, and they shall be killing you, and you shall be hated by all of the nations because of My name.25_Yet all these are the beginning of pangs. 4 For roused shall be a nation against a nation, and a kingdom against a kingdom, and there shall be famines and quakes in places.+3OYet you shall be about to be hearing battles, and tidings of battles. See that you are not alarmed, for it must be occurring; but not as yet is the consummation.f2EFor many shall be coming in My name, saying, 'I am the Christ!' and shall be deceiving many.Z1-And, answering, Jesus said to them, "Beware that no one should be deceiving you.N0Now at His sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things be? And what is the sign of Thy presence and of the conclusion of the eon?"D/Yet He, answering, said to them, "Are you not observing all these? Verily, I am saying to you, Under no circumstances may a stone here be left on a stone, which shall not be demolished.". And, coming out, Jesus went from the sanctuary. And His disciples approached to exhibit to Him the buildings of the sanctuary.%-C'For I am saying to you: You may by no means be perceiving Me henceforth, till you should be saying, 'Blessed is He Who is coming in the name of the Lord!'"0,[&Lo! left is your house to you desolate.}+s%"Jerusalem! Jerusalem! who art killing the prophets and pelting with stones those who have been dispatched to her! How many times do I want to assemble your children in the manner a hen is assembling her brood under her wings-and you will not![*/$Verily, I am saying to you: All these things will be arriving on this generation.M)#so that on you should be coming all the just blood shed on the earth, from the blood of just Abel until the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murder between the temple and the altar.c(?"Therefore, lo! I am dispatching to you prophets and wise men and scribes. Of them, some you will be killing and crucifying, and of them, some you will be scourging in your synagogues and persecuting from city to city,['/!"Serpents! Progeny of vipers! How may you be fleeing from the judging of Gehenna?7&i And you! Fill full the measure of your father!j%MSo that you are testifying to yourselves that you are the sons of those who murder the prophets. $and you are saying, 'If we were in the days of our fathers, we would not be participants with them in the blood of the prophets.'#"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are building the sepulchers of the prophets and adorning the tombs of the just," Thus you, also, outside, indeed, are appearing to men to be just, yet inside you are distended with hypocrisy and lawlessness.g!G"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are resembling the whitewashed sepulchers which outside, indeed, are appearing beautiful, yet inside they are crammed with the bones of the dead and all uncleanness.{ oBlind Pharisee! Cleanse first the inside of the cup and the plate, that their outside also may be becoming clean!2]"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are cleansing the outside of the cup and the plate, yet inside they are brimming with rapacity and incontinence.EBlind guides! straining out a gnat, yet swallowing a camel!"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are taking tithes from the mint and the dill and the cumin, and leave the weightier matters of the law, judging and mercy and faith. Now these it was binding for you to do, and not leave those.iKAnd he who swears by heaven is swearing by the throne of God and by Him Who is sitting upon it.]3And he who swears by the temple is swearing by it and by Him Who is dwelling in it.Z-He, then, who swears by the altar is swearing by it and by all which is upon it.|qStupid and blind! for which is greater, the approach present, or the altar that is hallowing the approach present?And, 'Whoever should be swearing by the altar, it is nothing; yet whoever should be swearing by the approach present upon it is owing.'`9Stupid and blind! for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that hallows the gold?2]"Woe to you, blind guides! who are saying, 'Whoever should be swearing by the temple, it is nothing; yet whoever should be swearing by the gold of the temple is owing.'iK"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are going about the sea and the dry land to make one proselyte, and whenever he may be becoming one, you are making him more than double a son of Gehenna than you are.'(no verse 14)H  "Now woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are locking the kingdom of the heavens in front of men. For you are not entering, neither are you letting those entering to enter.w Yet anyone who shall be exalting himself shall be humbled, and anyone who shall be humbling himself shall be exalted.?y "Now the greatest one among you shall be your servant.V% Nor yet may you be called preceptors, for One is your Preceptor, the Christ.oW And 'father' you should not be calling one of you on the earth, for One is your Father, the heavenly.`9"Now you may not be called 'Rabbi,' for One is your Teacher, yet you all are brethren.N and the salutations in the markets, and to be called by men 'Rabbi.'o WNow they are fond of the first reclining place at the dinners, and the front seats in the synagogues, Now all their works are they doing to be gazed at by men, for they are broadening their amulets and magnifying the tassels. 9"Now they are binding loads, heavy and hard to bear, and are placing them on men's shoulders, yet they are not willing to stir them with their finger. /All, then, whatever they should be saying to you, do and keep it. Yet according to their acts do not be doing, for they are saying and not doing.Ksaying, "On Moses' seat are seated the scribes and the Pharisees.> yThen Jesus speaks to the throngs and to His disciples,s_.And no one was able to answer Him a word, neither dares anyone, from that day, inquire of Him any longer.A}-If, then, David is calling Him Lord, how is He his Son?"ve,'Said the Lord to my Lord, 'Sit at My right, Till I should be placing Thine enemies underneath "Thy feet!"'?Z-+He is saying to them, "How, then, is David, in spirit, calling Him Lord, saying,ta*saying, "What are you supposing concerning the Christ? Whose Son is He?" They are saying to Him,"David's."D)Now, the Pharisees being gathered, Jesus inquires of them,K(On these two precepts is hanging the whole law and the prophets."V%'Yet the second is like it: 'You shall be loving your associate as yourself.'0~[&This is the great and foremost precept.}-%Now He averred to him, "You shall be loving the Lord your God with your whole heart, and with your whole soul, and with you whole comprehension.9|m$"Teacher, what is the great precept in the law?"D{#And one of them, learned in the law, trying Him, inquires,dzA"Now the Pharisees, hearing that He muzzles the Sadducees, were gathered at the same place.Gy!And, hearing it, the throngs were astonished at His teaching.xy I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? He is not the God of the dead but of the living."uwcNow concerning the resurrection of the dead, did you not read that which is declared to you by God, saying,{voFor in the resurrection neither are they marrying nor taking in marriage, but are as messengers of God in heaven. u Now, answering, Jesus said to them, "You are deceived, not being acquainted with the scriptures, nor yet with the power of God.ltQIn the resurrection, then, of which of the seven will she be the wife? For they all have had her."2s_Now, subsequently to all, the woman died.Ar}Likewise the second also, and the third, till the seven. q Now there were with us seven brothers, and the first, marrying, deceases. And having no seed, he leaves his wife to his brother.p-saying, "Teacher, Moses said, If anyone should die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife and shall raise up seed to his brother.toaIn that day there came to Him Sadducees, who are saying there is no resurrection. And they inquire of Him,In And, hearing it, they marvel, and, leaving Him, they come away.zmmThey are saying, "Caesar's." Then He is saying to them, "Be paying, then, Caesar's to Caesar, and God's to God."NlAnd He is saying to them, "Whose is this image and the inscription?"QkExhibit to Me the poll tax currency." Now they bring to Him a denarius.Xj)Now Jesus, knowing their wickedness, said, "Why are you trying Me, hypocrites?ci?Tell us, then, what you are supposing. Is it allowed to give poll tax to Caesar, or not?"hyAnd they are dispatching to Him their disciples, with the Herodians, saying, "Teacher, we are aware that you are true, and are teaching the way of God in truth, and you are not caring concerning anyone, for you are not looking at the face of men.mgSThen, being gone, the Pharisees held a consultation, so that they should be trapping Him by a word.:foFor many are the called, yet few are the chosen."e7 Then the king said to the servants, 'Binding his feet and hands, cast him out into outer darkness.' There shall be lamentation and gnashing of teeth.qd[ And he is saying to him, 'Comrade, how did you enter here having no wedding apparel?' Yet he was still.c{ "Now the king, entering to gaze at those lying back at table, perceived there a man who has not put on wedding apparel.$bA And, coming out into the roads, those slaves gathered all whom they found, both wicked and good, and filled is the wedding with those lying back at table.qa[ Go, then, to the exits of the roads and whosoever you may be finding, call to the wedding festivities.'n`U"Then he is saying to his slaves, 'The wedding, indeed, is ready, yet those invited were not worthy.s__Now the king is angered, and, sending his troops, destroys those murderers and sets their city in flames.I^ Yet the rest, taking hold of his slaves, outrage and kill them.e]CYet they, not caring, came away, one, indeed, to his own field, yet one to his merchandise.[\/Again he dispatches other slaves, saying, 'Say to those invited, "Lo! my luncheon have I made ready, my bulls and grain-fed animals have been sacrificed, and all is ready: Hither for the wedding festivities!"'q[[And he dispatches his slaves to call those invited to the wedding festivities, and they would not come.nZU"Likened was the kingdom of the heavens to a man, a king, who makes wedding festivities for his son.HY And, answering, Jesus speaks to them again in parables, saying,fXE.And, seeking to hold Him, they were afraid of the throngs, since they had Him for a prophet.uWc-And the chief priests and the Pharisees, hearing His parables, know that He is saying this concerning them.V,And he who is falling on this stone shall be shattered, yet on whomever it should be falling, it will be scattering him like chaff."U+Therefore am I saying to you that the kingdom of God shall be taken away from you and shall be given to a nation producing its fruits.^T5*Jesus is saying to them, "Did you never read in the scriptures, 'The stone which is rejected by the builders, This came to be for the head of the corner. From the Lord came this, and it is marvelous in our eyes'?@Sy)They are saying to Him, "Evil men! Evilly will he be destroying them, and the vineyard will he be leasing to other farmers, who will be rendering the fruits to him in their seasons."jRM(Whenever, then, the lord of the vineyard may be coming, what will he be doing to those farmers?"HQ 'And taking him they cast him out of the vineyard and kill him.7Pg&Yet the farmers, perceiving the son, said among themselves, 'This is the enjoyer of the allotment. Hither! We should be killing him and have the enjoyment of his allotment.'dOA%"Yet subsequently he dispatches to them his son, saying, 'They will be respecting my son.'_N7$Again he dispatches other slaves, more than the first. And they do to them similarly.gMG#And the farmers, taking his slaves, indeed, lash one, yet kill one, yet pelt one with stones.yLk"Now when the season of the fruits draws near, he dispatches his slaves to the farmers to be getting his fruits.IK !"Another parable hear: A man who was a householder plants a vineyard and places a stone dike about it, and excavates a trough in it, and builds a tower, and leased it to farmers, and travels.dJA For John came to you on the road of righteousness, and you do not believe him. Yet the tribute collectors and the prostitutes believe him. Now you, perceiving it, did not even regret subsequently, so as to believe him.fIEWhich of the two does the will of the father?" They are saying, "The first." Jesus is saying to them, "Verily, I am saying to you that the tribute collectors and the prostitutes are preceding you into the kingdom of God. \~~8}}8|| {CzzQzyy>xxBwwEvuudut]sssrrjrqQpp6oonnn}n9mmLlkkjjj^ilihh"gg ff=ee^ddddccqbbxaaoa ``__^g^]]:\\[[%ZZ:YY\XX}XWVVCUTTTUSSZRR?QQPOOO!NN,MMqLL\LKpJJmIIHHH\GGLFFFEE,D}DCCTBB\AAm@@@$?S>>o==~<<<;w;E::[99Q88q847z66-55J4433K22 1{1"0b//u.-,, +C**)(("'&&g& %%G$$^#""!!R x yhDAt@MdW&Qsjy  ~ i a pRb\ @%And there is occurring a great whirlwind, and the billows dashed into the ship, so that the ship was already filling to the brim.t?a$And, leaving the throng, they are taking Him along, as He was, in the ship. And other ships were with Him.w>g#And He is saying to them on that day, as evening is coming on, "We may be passing through to the other side."s=_"Yet apart from a parable He did not speak to them. Yet privately, to His own disciples, He explained all.l<Q!And in many such parables He spoke to them the word, according as they were able to be hearing it.E; and whenever it may be sown, is coming up and becoming greater than all the greens and is making great boughs, so that, under its shade, the flying creatures of heaven are able to roost.":As a kernel of mustard, which, whenever it may be sown on the earth, is smaller than all the seeds of those on the earth,n9UAnd He said, "How should we be likening the kingdom of God? Or by what parable may we be placing it?z8mNow whenever the fruit may be giving way, straightway he is dispatching the sickle, for present is the harvest."~7uSpontaneously the earth is bearing fruit, first the blade, thereafter the ear, thereafter the full grain in the ear.6yand he may be drowsing and rousing night and day, and the seed may be germinating and lengthening, as he is not aware.i5KAnd He said, "Thus is the kingdom of God: As if ever a man should be casting seed on the earth,w4gFor he who has, it shall be given to him; and he who has not, even what he has shall be taken away from him."3-And He said to them, "Beware what you are hearing! With what measure you are measuring, it will be measured to you, and it will be added to you.32aIf anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!"17For there is not anything hidden, except that it should be manifested, neither did it become concealed, but that it may be coming into manifestation.'0GAnd He said to them that "The lamp is not coming that it may be placed under a peck measure or under a couch. Is it not that it may be placed on a lampstand?3/_"And those are those being sown on ideal earth who are hearing the word, and are assenting to it, and are bearing fruit, one thirty and one sixty and one a hundredfold."".=and the worries of this eon, and the seduction of riches and the desires about the rest, going in, are stifling the word, and it is becoming unfruitful.^-5"And others are those being sown into the thorns. These are those who hear the word,0,YAnd they have no root in themselves, but are temporary. Thereafter, at the coming of affliction or persecution because of the word, straightway they are being snared.++"And these, likewise, are those being sown on rocky places, who, whenever they should be hearing the word, straightway with joy are getting it.A*{Now these are those beside the road, where the word is being sown. And whenever they should be hearing, straightway comes Satan and is taking away the word that has been sown in them.&)GThe sower the word is sowing.m(S And He is saying to them, "Have you not perceived this parable? And how will you know all parables?m'S that, observing, they may be observing and may not be perceiving, and hearing, they may be hearing and not be understanding, lest at some time they should be turning about, and they may be pardoned the penalties of their sins." & And He said to them, "To you the secret of the kingdom of God has been given, yet to those outside, all is occurring in parables,w%g And when He came to be in seclusion, those about Him, together with the twelve, asked Him about the parables.;$q And He said, "Who has ears to hear, let him hear!"#1And other falls into ideal earth, and it gave fruit, coming up and growing up, and brought forth, one thirty and one sixty and one a hundredfold."c"?And other falls into thorns, and up came the thorns and stifle it, and it gives no fruit.`!9And when the sun rises it is scorched, and, because of having no root, it is withered.  And other falls on a rocky place where it had not much earth, and straightway it shoots up because of having no depth of earth.|qAnd it occurred in the sowing, some, indeed, falls beside the road, and the flying creatures came and devoured it..W"Hear! Lo! Out came the sower to sow.W'And He taught them many things in parables, and said to them in His teaching,^ 7And again He begins to teach beside the sea. And gathering to Him is a throng most numerous, so that, to be sitting, He steps into the ship, in the sea. And the entire throng was facing toward the sea on the land.eC#For whoever should be doing the will of God, this one is My brother and sister and mother."fE"And looking about on those sitting around Him, He is saying, "Lo! My mother and My brothers!O!And answering them, He is saying, "Who is My mother and My brothers?" And there sat about Him a throng. And they are saying to Him, "Lo! Thy mother and Thy brothers and Thy sisters are outside seeking Thee."oWAnd coming are His mother and His brothers, and, standing outside, they dispatch to Him, calling Him.3afor they said, "An unclean spirit has he.")yet whoever should be blaspheming against the holy spirit is having no pardon for the eon, but is liable to the eonian penalty for the sin" --+O"Verily, I am saying to you that all shall be pardoned the sons of mankind, the penalties of the sins and the blasphemies, whatsoever they should be blaspheming,<qBut no one is able to enter into the house of the strong one to plunder his gear, if ever he should not first be binding the strong one. And then he will be plundering his house.q[And if Satan rose against himself and is parted, he is not able to stand, but is having a consummation.dAAnd if ever a house should be parted against itself, that house will not be able to stand.c?And if ever a kingdom should be parted against itself, that kingdom is not able to stand.eCAnd, calling them to Him, in parables He said to them, "How can Satan be casting out Satan?'And the scribes who descend from Jerusalem said that "Beelzeboul has he," and that "By the chief of the demons is he casting out the demons."f EAnd hearing it, those with Him came out to hold it, for they said that it was beside itself._ 7and the throng is coming together again, so that they are not even able to eat bread.V %and Judas Iscariot, who also gives Him up. And they are coming into a house, wand Andrew and Philip and Bartholomew and Matthew and Thomas and James of Alpheus and Thaddeus and Simon the Cananite and on James of Zebedee and John, the brother of James, on them also He places the name "Boanerges," which is, "Sons of Thunder";KAnd He makes the twelve, and He places on Simon the name "Peter,"I and to have authority to cure diseases, and to cast out demons.And He makes twelve, whom He also names apostles, that they may be with Him, and that He may be commissioning them to herald,oW And He is ascending into the mountain and is calling to Him whom He would, and they came away to Him.eC "You are the Son of God!" And much He warned them, lest they should be making Him manifest.eC And the unclean spirits, whenever they beheld Him, prostrated to Him and cried, saying thatoW for He cures many, so that they are falling on Him, that whoever had scourges should be touching Him.w And He spoke to His disciples that a boat may be waiting on Him because of the throng, lest they may be crowding Him,7gAnd from Judea, and from Jerusalem, and from Idumea and the other side of the Jordan, and those about Tyre and Sidon, a vast multitude, hearing how much He did, came to Him.kOAnd Jesus, with His disciples, retires to the sea. And a vast multitude from Galilee follows Him.~And, coming out, the Pharisees straightway held a consultation with the Herodians against Him, so that they should be destroying Him.J} And looking about on them with indignation, commiserating the callousness of their hearts, He is saying to the man, "Stretch out your hand." And he stretches it out, and his hand was restored.|And He is saying to them, "Is it allowed on the sabbaths to do good or to do evil, a soul to save or to kill?" Yet they were silent.T{!And He is saying to the man having the withered hand, "Rise in the midst."uzcAnd they scrutinized Him to see if on the sabbaths He will be curing him, that they should be accusing Him.^y 7And He entered again into the synagogue. And a man was there, having a withered hand.Dxso that the Son of Mankind is Lord, also, of the sabbath."lwQAnd He said to them, "The sabbath came because of mankind, and not mankind because of the sabbath,MvHow he entered into the house of God under Abiathar the chief priest, and ate the show bread, which is not allowed to be eaten except by the priests, and he gives also to those who are with him?"xuiAnd He said to them, "Did you never read what David does, when he had need and hungers, he and those with him?jtMAnd the Pharisees said to Him, "Lo! What they are doing on the sabbaths is what is not allowed."sAnd He came, on the sabbaths, to be going by through the sowings. And His disciples begin making a path, plucking the ears.frEAnd no one is draining fresh wine into old wine skins. Yet, if so, will not the fresh wine be bursting the wine skins? And the wine is spilling, and the wine skins will perish. But fresh wine is put into new wine skins."7qg"No one is sewing a patch of unshrunk shred on an old cloak. Yet, if so, is not that which fills up taking away from it, the new from the old, and a worse rent is occurring?p}Yet coming will be days, whenever the bridegroom may be taken away from them, and then they will be fasting in that day.Bo}And Jesus said to them, "The sons of the bridal chamber can not be fasting while the bridegroom is with them! Whatever time they have the bridegroom with them, they can not be fasting.`n9And the disciples of John and the Pharisees were fasting, and they are coming and saying to Him, "Wherefore are the disciples of John and the disciples of the Pharisees fasting, yet your disciples are not fasting?",mQAnd, hearing it, Jesus is saying to them that "No need have the strong of a physician, but those having an illness. I did not come to call the just, but sinners."wlgAnd the scribes of the Pharisees, perceiving Him also that He ate with the tribute collectors and the sinners, said to His disciples, "Wherefore is it that your teacher is eating and drinking with the tribute collectors and the sinners?"Yk+And, rising, he follows Him. And, at His coming to lie down in his house, many tribute collectors also, and sinners lay back at table with Jesus and His disciples, for there were many, and they followed Him.jyAnd, passing along, He perceived Levi of Alpheus, sitting at the tribute office. And He is saying to him, "Follow Me!"fiE And He came out again beside the sea. And the entire throng came to Him, and He taught them.`uAnd, not being able to carry him to Him because of the throng, they unroof the roof where He was, and, scooping it out, they are lowering the pallet whereon the paralytic was laid.P_And they are coming, bringing to Him a paralytic being lifted by four. ^And immediately many were gathered, so that by no means was there still room, not even at the door. And He spoke to them the word.a] =And, entering again into Capernaum during these days, it is heard that He is in a house.e\ E-Now he, coming out, begins heralding it much, and to blaze abroad the word, so that, by no means can He longer be manifestly entering into a city, but was outside in desolate places. And they came to him from everywhere.6[ g,and is saying to him, "See! you may be saying nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest, and bring for your cleansing what Moses bids, for a testimony to them.":Z q+And muttering to him, straightway He cast him out,[Y 1*And at His saying this, straightway the leprosy came from him, and he is cleansed.X y)Now Jesus, having compassion, stretching out His hand, touches him, and is saying to him, "I am willing. Be cleansed!"W 7(And coming to Him is a leper, entreating Him, and falling on his knees and saying to Him, "Lord, if Thou shouldst be willing, Thou canst cleanse me!"eV E'And He came into their synagogues in the whole of Galilee, heralding and casting out demons.U #&And He is saying to them, "We may be going elsewhere, into the next towns, that there also I should be heralding; for for this I came out."OT %And they found Him, and are saying to Him that "All are seeking Thee."/S [$And Simon and those with him trail Him. R  #And in the morning, rising very early, still in the night, He came out and came away into a desolate place, and there He prayed.9Q m"And He cures many who have an illness, those with various diseases; and many demons He cast out. And He did not let the demons speak, for they were aware that He is the Christ.5P g!And the whole city was assembled at the door.O } Now evening coming on, when the sun sets, they brought to Him all those who have an illness and those who are demoniacs.xN kAnd approaching, He rouses her, holding her hand. And the fever leaves her immediately, and she waited on them.sM aNow the mother-in-law of Simon was laid down with a fever. And straightway they are telling Him about her.xL kAnd straightway, coming out of the synagogue, they came into the home of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.fK GAnd straightway, the tidings of Him came out everywhere into the whole country about Galilee.MJ And all were awed, so as to be discussing with themselves, saying, "What is this? Some new teaching is this, for with authority the unclean spirits also is He enjoining, and they are obeying Him!"^I 7And, convulsing him, the unclean spirit, shouting with a loud voice, came out of him.MH And Jesus rebukes him, saying, "Be still, and be coming out of him!"G #"Ha! what is it to us and to you, Jesus the Nazarean! Did you come to destroy us? We are aware of you, who you are -- the holy One of God!"mF UAnd straightway there was a man in their synagogue with an unclean spirit, and he cries out, saying,|E sAnd they were astonished at His teaching, for He was teaching them as One having authority, and not as the scribes.nD WAnd they are entering Capernaum. And immediately, on the sabbaths, entering the synagogue, He taught.C And straightway He calls them. And, leaving their father Zebedee in the ship with the hirelings, they came away after Him.B And advancing slightly, He perceived James of Zebedee and John, his brother, who also are in the ship, adjusting the nets.=A wAnd immediately, leaving their nets, they follow Him._@ 9And Jesus said to them, "Hither! After Me, and I will make you become fishers of men!"+? QAnd passing by, beside the sea of Galilee, He perceived Simon, and Andrew, the brother of Simon, purse netting with a purse net in the sea, for they were fishers.p> [saying that "Fulfilled is the era, and near is the kingdom of God! Repent, and believe in the evangel!"p= [Now, after the giving up of John, Jesus came into Galilee, heralding the evangel of the kingdom of God,<   And He was in the wilderness forty days, undergoing trial by Satan, and was with the wild beasts. And messengers waited on Him.H;   And straightway the spirit is ejecting Him into the wilderness.`: ; And a voice came out of the heavens, "Thou art My Son, the Beloved; in Thee I delight."9  And straightway, stepping up out of the water, He perceived the heavens rent, and the spirit, as a dove, descending and remaining on Him.w8 i And it occurred in those days that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and is baptized in the Jordan by John.X7 +I, indeed, baptize you in water, yet He shall be baptizing you in holy spirit." 6 And he heralds, saying, "Coming, after me, is One stronger than I, the thong of Whose sandals I am not competent to stoop and loose.5 yAnd John was dressed in camel's hair, and had a leather girdle about his loins, and was eating locusts and wild honey.4 9And out to him went the entire province of Judea, and all the Jerusalemites, and they were baptized by him in the Jordan river, confessing their sins.w3 iJohn the baptist came to be in the wilderness and is heralding a baptism of repentance for the pardon of sins.2 "The voice of one imploring: 'In the wilderness make ready the road of the Lord! Straight...be making the highways'" of Him!%1 Eaccording as it is written in Isaiah the prophet, (Lo! I am dispatching My messenger before Thy face, who shall be constructing Thy road in front of Thee.):@0 The beginning of the evangel of Jesus Christ, Son of God, /teaching them to be keeping all, whatever I direct you. And lo! I am with you all the days till the conclusion of the eon! Amen!".}Going, then, disciple all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit,s-_And, approaching, Jesus speaks to them saying, "Given to Me was all authority in heaven and on the earth.B,And, perceiving Him, they worship Him, yet they hesitate.g+GNow the eleven disciples went into Galilee, into the mountain where Jesus arranges with them.*Now they, getting the silver pieces, do according as they were taught. And this word is blazed abroad by the Jews unto today.|)qAnd if ever this should be heard by the governor, we will persuade him, and we will make you to be without worry."[(/ saying, "Say that 'His disciples, coming by night, steal him as we are reposing.'' And being gathered with the elders, besides holding a consultation, they give a considerable sum of silver to the soldiers,~&u Now at their going, lo! some of the detail, coming into the city, report to the chief priests all that is occurring.%# Then Jesus is saying to them, "Fear not! Go, report to My brethren that they may be coming away into Galilee, and there they shall see Me."$- Now, as they went to report to His disciples, lo! Jesus also meets them saying, "Rejoice!" Now they, approaching, hold His feet and worship Him.m#SAnd coming away swiftly from the tomb with fear and great joy, they ran to report to His disciples.'"GAnd, swiftly going, say to His disciples that He was roused from the dead, and lo! He is preceding you into Galilee. There you will see Him. Lo! I told you!"q![He is not here, for He was roused, according as He said. Hither! Perceive the place where the Lord lay. Now, answering, the messenger said to the women, "Fear you not! For I am aware that you are seeking Jesus, the Crucified.I Now from fear of him the keepers quaked and became as the dead.X)Now he was, to the perception, as lightning, and his apparel white as if snow.$AAnd lo! a great quake occurred, for a messenger of the Lord, descending out of heaven and approaching, rolls away the stone from the door and sat upon it. 1Now it is the evening of the sabbaths. At the lighting up into one of the sabbaths came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to behold the sepulcher.Y+BNow they, being gone, secure the sepulcher, sealing the stone, with the detail.`9AYet Pilate averred to them, "You have a detail. Go, make it secure, as you are aware."zm@Then order the sepulcher to be secured till the third day, lest at some time his disciples, coming, should be stealing him and may be saying to the people, 'He was roused from the dead,' and the last deception will be worse than the first."zm?saying, "Lord, we are reminded that that deceiver said while still living, 'After three days shall I be roused.'yk>Now, on the morrow which is after the preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees were gathered to Pilate,`9=Now Miriam Magdalene was there, and the other Mary, sitting in front of the sepulcher. And, rising, the chief priest said to Him, "Are you answering nothing? What are these testifying against you?"nKU=said, "He averred, 'I am able to demolish the temple of God and, during three days, to rebuild it.'" J>d==<w5c vs K  & Q *fp%VEE- What God, then, yokes together, let not man be separating."W,' and the two will be one flesh. So that no longer are they two, but one flesh.e+C On this account a man will be leaving his father and mother and will be joined to his wife,L* Yet from the beginning of creation God makes them male and female.m)S And answering, Jesus said to them, "In view of your hardheartedness he writes for you this precept.\(1 Yet they say, "Moses permits us to write a scroll of divorce, and to dismiss her."H'  Yet He, answering, said to them, "What does Moses direct you?"s&_ And approaching, the Pharisees, trying Him, inquired of Him if it is allowed a husband to dismiss a wife.O%  And rising from thence, He is coming into the boundaries of Judea and the other side of the Jordan. And again throngs are going together to Him, and again, as He had been accustomed, He taught them.)$K 2Ideal is the salt, yet if the salt should be becoming savorless, with what will you be seasoning it? Have salt in yourselves and be at peace with one another."^#5 1For everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be salted with salt.J"  0where their worm is not deceasing and the fire is not going out.E! /And if your eye should be snaring you, cast it out. It is ideal for you to be entering into the kingdom of God one-eyed, rather than, having two eyes, to be cast into the Gehenna of fire,J   .where their worm is not deceasing and the fire is not going out.V% -And if your foot should be snaring you, strike it off. For it is ideal for you to be entering into life maimed or lame, rather than, having two feet, to be cast into Gehenna, into the unextinguished fire,J  ,where their worm is not deceasing and the fire is not going out.Q +And if your hand should ever be snaring you, strike it off. It is ideal for you to be entering into life maimed, rather than, having two hands, to come away into Gehenna, into the unextinguished fire[/ *"And whosoever should be snaring one of these little ones who are believing in Me, ideal is it for him rather if a millstone requiring an ass to turn it were lying about his neck and he were cast into the sea.9k )For whosoever should be giving you a cup of water to drink in the Name, seeing that you are Christ's, verily I am saying to you that by no means should he be losing his wages.-U (For who is not against us is for us.!; 'Yet Jesus said, "Be not forbidding him, for there is no one who will be doing a powerful deed in My name, and will be able swiftly to speak evil of Me.0Y &John averred to Him, saying, "Teacher, we perceived someone casting out demons in Thy name, who is not following us, and we forbade him, for he followed not with us."3_ %"Whoever should be receiving one of such little children in My name, is receiving Me, and whosoever may be receiving Me is not receiving Me, but Him Who commissions Me."nU $And, taking a little child, He stands it in their midst, and, clasping it in His arms, said to them,+ #And, being seated, He summons the twelve and is saying to them, "If anyone is wanting to be first, he will be last of all, and servant of all."c? "Yet they were silent, for they argued with one another on the road as to who is greatest. !And they came into Capernaum, and, coming to be in the house, He inquired of them, "What did you reason with yourselves on the road?"W' Yet they were ignorant of the declaration, and they feared to inquire of Him.N For He taught His disciples and said to them that "The Son of Mankind is being given up into the hands of men, and they will be killing Him. And, being killed, after three days He will be rising."kO And coming out thence, they went along through Galilee, and He did not want that anyone may know.W' And He said to them, "This species can come out by nothing except by prayer."wg And at His entering the house, His disciples inquired of Him privately, "Wherefore could we not cast it out?"> w Now Jesus, holding his hand, rouses him, and he rose. } And crying and convulsing him much, it came out. And he became as if dead, so that the majority are saying that he died.m S Now Jesus, perceiving that the throng is racing on together, rebukes the unclean spirit, saying to it, "Dumb and deaf-mute spirit, I am enjoining you to come out of him, and by no means may you be entering into him any longer."q [ Straightway, crying, the father of the little boy said, with tears, "I am believing! Help my unbelief!"p Y Now Jesus said to him, "Why the if? You are able to believe. All is possible to him who is believing."+O And often it casts him into the fire also, and into waters, that it should be destroying him. But if Thou art in any way able, help us, having compassion on us!"{o And He inquires of his father, "How much time is it since this has come to him?" Now he said, "From a little boy.- And they bring him to Him. And perceiving Him, the spirit straightway violently convulses him, and, falling on the earth, he wallowed, frothing.1 Now He, answering, is saying to them, "O unbelieving generation! Till when shall I be with you? Till when shall I bear with you? Bring him to Me."iK And wheresoever it may be getting him down, it is tearing him, and he is frothing and grating his teeth, and is withering away. And I say to Thy disciples that they should be casting it out, and they are not strong enough."iK And one out of the throng answered Him, "Teacher, I bring my son to Thee, having a dumb spirit.T! And He inquires of the scribes, "What are you discussing with yourselves?"pY And straightway the entire throng, perceiving Him, were overawed, and, racing toward Him, saluted Him.q[ And coming to the disciples, they perceived a vast throng about them, and scribes discussing with them. But I am saying to you that even Elijah has come, and they do to him whatever they would, according as it is written of him."0~Y Now He averred to them, "Elijah, indeed, coming first, is restoring all. And how is it written of the Son of Mankind that much may He be suffering and may be scorned?w}g And they inquired of Him, saying that "The Pharisees and the scribes are saying that Elijah must come first."d|A And they hold the word, discussing with themselves what is the rising from among the dead.G{ And at their descending from the mountain, He cautions them that they should be relating to no one what they perceived, except whenever the Son of Mankind may be rising from among the dead.kzO And suddenly, looking about, they no longer perceived anyone, except Jesus only, with themselves.y  And there came a cloud overshadowing them. And a voice came out of the cloud, saying, "This is My Son, the Beloved. Hear Him!"Mx For he was not aware what he may answer, for they became terrified.:wm And answering, Peter is saying to Jesus, "Rabbi, it is ideal for us to be here! And we should be making three tabernacles: for Thee one, and for Moses one, and for Elijah one."av; And Elijah, together with Moses, was seen by them, and they were conferring with Jesus.uuc And His garments became glistening, very white, as snow, such as no fuller on earth is able thus to whiten.:tm And after six days, Jesus is taking aside Peter and James and John and is bringing them up into a very high mountain, privately, alone. And He was transformed in front of them.`s ; And He said to them, "Verily, I am saying to you that there are some of those standing here who under no circumstances should be tasting death till they should be perceiving the kingdom of God having come in power."grG&For whosoever may be ashamed of Me and My words in this generation, an adulteress and sinner, the Son of Mankind also will be ashamed of him whenever He may be coming in the glory of His Father, with the holy messengers.":qo%For what may a man give in exchange for his soul?Wp'$For what is it benefiting a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?.oU#For whosoever may be wanting to save his soul will be destroying it, yet whoever shall be destroying his soul on account of Me and of the evangel will be saving it.=ns"And, calling the throng to Him, together with His disciples, He said to them, "If anyone is wanting to come after Me, let him renounce himself and pick up his cross and follow Me.Dm!Now Jesus, being turned about and perceiving His disciples, rebukes Peter and is saying, "Go behind Me, satan! for you are not disposed to that which is of God but that which is of men."bl= And with boldness spoke He the word. And, taking Him to him, Peter begins to rebuke Him.Bk}And He begins to teach them that the Son of Mankind must be suffering much and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes, and be killed and after three days rise.GjAnd He warns them, that they may be telling no one about Him.i+And He inquired of them, "Now you, who are you saying that I am?" And answering, Peter is saying to Him, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of God."vheNow they say to Him, "'John the baptist,' and others 'Elijah,' yet others that He is 'one of the prophets.'"3g_And Jesus and His disciples came out into the villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the way He inquired of His disciples, saying to them, "Who are men saying that I am?"f'And He dispatches him into his home, saying, "Neither the village may you be entering, nor yet may you be speaking to anyone in the village."e}Thereafter again He places hands on his eyes, and he is keen-sighted, and was restored, and he looked at all distinctly.[d/And looking up, he said, "I am observing men; as trees am I seeing them walking."EcAnd getting hold of the hand of the blind man, He brings him forth out of the village, and, spitting into his eyes, placing hands on him, He inquired of him, "Are you observing anything?"bAnd they are coming into Bethsaida, and are bringing to Him a blind man and entreating Him that He should be touching him.LaAnd He said to them, "How is it you are not as yet understanding?"(`I"And when I break the seven cakes of bread for the four thousand, how many hampers filled with fragments do you pick up?" And they are saying to Him, "Seven."_1When I break the five cakes of bread for the five thousand, how many panniers full of fragments do you pick up?" They are saying to Him, "Twelve."q^[Having eyes, are you not observing? And, having ears, are you not hearing? And are you not remembering?9]kAnd, knowing it, Jesus is saying to them, "Why are you reasoning that you have no bread? Not as yet are you apprehending, neither understanding? Still calloused is your heart?O\And they reasoned with one another, saying that "Bread we have none!"n[UAnd He cautioned them, saying, "See! Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod."oZWAnd they forgot to get bread, and, except for one cake of bread, they had none with them in the ship.WY' And leaving them, again stepping into a ship, He came away to the other side.1X[ And sighing in His spirit, He is saying, "Why is this generation seeking for a sign? Verily I am saying to you, If there shall be given to this generation a sign -- !"W{ And out came the Pharisees, and they begin discussing with Him, seeking to see from Him a sign from heaven, trying Him.kVO And straightway He, stepping into the ship with His disciples, came into the parts of Dalmanutha.KU Now those eating were about four thousand. And He dismisses them.gTGAnd they all ate and are satisfied. And they pick up of the surplus fragments, seven hampers.gSGAnd they had a few small fishes. And, blessing them, He said to place these also before them.nRUAnd He is charging the throng to be leaning back on the earth. And taking the seven cakes of bread, giving thanks, He breaks and gave to His disciples, that they may place them before them. And they place them before the throng.]Q3And He inquired of them, "How many cakes of bread have you?" Now they say, "Seven."pPYAnd His disciples answered Him that "Whence can anyone satisfy these with bread here in a wilderness?"O%And, should I ever be dismissing them, fasting, to their homes, they will be fainting on the road, and some of them have arrived from afar."N"I have compassion on the throng, for already for three days they are remaining with Me, and they have nothing that they may be eating.M +In those days, there being again a vast throng, and not having anything they may be eating, calling His disciples to Him, He is saying to them, L9%And they were superexceedingly astonished, saying, "Ideally has He done all! The deaf He is making to be hearing, as well as the dumb to be speaking." K$And He cautions them that they may be telling no one, yet, as much as He cautioned them, they rather heralded it more exceedingly.Jy#And immediately, opened up was his hearing, and straightway was loosed the bond of his tongue, and he spoke correctly.nIU"And, looking up into heaven, He groans, and is saying to him, "Ephphatha," which is, "Be opened up."H!And, getting him away from the throng privately, He thrusts His fingers into his ears, and, spitting, touches his tongue.wGg And they are bringing to Him a deaf stammerer, and they are entreating Him that He may place His hand on him.FAnd, again, coming out of the boundaries of Tyre, He came through Sidon to the sea of Galilee, amidst the boundaries of the Decapolis.wEgAnd coming away into her own house, she found the little girl prostrate on the couch, and the demon come out.dDAAnd He said to her, "Because of this saying, go. The demon has come out of your daughter."C+Yet she answered and is saying to Him, "Yes, Lord. For the puppies also, underneath the table, are eating the scraps from the little children."B!Yet Jesus said to her, "Let first the children be satisfied, for it is not ideal to take the children's bread and cast it to the puppies." ANow the woman was a Greek, a native of Syro-Phoenicia, and she asked Him that He should be casting the demon out of her daughter.@but straightway, a woman, hearing about Him, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, entering, prostrates at His feet.?7Now, rising thence, He came away into the frontiers of Tyre and Sidon. And entering into a house, He wants no one to know, and He can not elude them,]>3All these wicked inside things are going out; and those are contaminating the man."e=Cadulteries, greed, wickedness, guile, wantonness, a wicked eye, calumny, pride, imprudence.r<]For from inside, out of the heart of men, are going out evil reasonings, prostitutions, thefts, murders,\;1Yet He said that "That which is going out of a man, that is contaminating the man.}:sfor it is not going into his heart, but into the bowels, and is going out into the latrine -- cleansing all foods?"99kAnd He is saying to them, "Are you, also, thus unintelligent? Not yet are you apprehending that everything from the outside, that is going into a man, can not contaminate him,s8_And when He entered into the house from the throng, His disciples inquired of Him concerning the parable.37aIf anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!"65Nothing is there outside of a man, going into him, which can contaminate him, but those things going out of a man are what is contaminating the man.^55And calling the throng to Him again, He said to them, "Hear Me, all, and understand.w4g invalidating the word of God by your tradition which you give over. And many such like things you are doing."Q3 no longer are you letting him do anything for his father or his mother,#2? Yet you are saying, 'If a man should be saying to father or mother, "A corban (which is an approach present) is whatsoever you may be benefitted by me,"'1% For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, He who is saying aught that is evil of father or mother, let him decease in death.z0m And He said to them, "Ideally are you repudiating the precept of God, that you should be keeping your tradition.//For, leaving the precept of God, you are holding the tradition of men of the baptism of ewers and cups. And many such like things you are doing."Y.+Yet in vain are they revering Me, teaching for teachings the directions of men.V-%Yet He, answering, said to them that "Ideally prophesies Isaiah concerning you hypocrites, as it is written, that This people with their lips is honoring Me, Yet their heart is away at a distance from Me.B,}the Pharisees also, and the scribes are inquiring of Him, "Wherefore are not your disciples walking according to the tradition of the elders, but with unwashed hands are eating bread?"U+#and from the market, except they should be sprinkled, they are not eating; and many other things are there which they accepted to hold, the baptizing of cups and ewers and copper vessels and of couches),*7(for the Pharisees and all the Jews, if ever they should not be washing the hands with the fist, are not eating, holding the tradition of the elders;o)WAnd perceiving some of His disciples, that with contaminated (that is, unwashed) hands they eat bread^( 7And gathering to Him are the Pharisees and some of the scribes coming from Jerusalem.}'s8And wheresoever He went into villages or into cities or into fields, in the markets they place the infirm. And they entreated Him that they should be touching Him even if it should be the tassel of His cloak. And whosoever touch it were saved.&57the men of that place ran about that whole country and begin to be carrying about those having an illness on pallets to where they heard that He is.L%6And, at their coming out of the ship, straightway recognizing Him,H$ 5And, ferrying to land, they came to Gennesaret and are moored.T#!4For they do not understand as to the bread, but their heart was calloused."3And He stepped up to them, into the ship, and the wind flags. And they are amazed to the very excess, among themselves, and marveled.!2for they all perceive Him and were disturbed. Yet straightway He speaks with them and is saying to them, "Courage! It is I! Do not fear."m S1Yet those who are perceiving Him walking on the sea suppose that He is a phantom, and they cry out,F0And perceiving them tormented in rowing, for the wind was contrary to them, about the fourth watch of the night He is coming toward them, walking on the sea. And He wanted to pass them by.eC/And evening coming on, the ship was in the middle of the sea, and He was alone on the land.L.And, taking leave of them, He came away into the mountain to pray.--And straightway He compels His disciples to step into the ship and precede Him to the other side to Bethsaida, till He is dismissing the throng.E,And those eating the cakes of bread were five thousand men.P+And they pick up twelve pannierfuls of fragments, and from the fishes.,S*And they all ate and are satisfied.oW)And taking the five cakes of bread and the two fishes, looking up into heaven, He blesses and breaks up the cakes of bread, and gave to His disciples, that they may be placing them before them. And the two fishes He parts to all.G(And they lean back, plot by plot, by hundreds and by fifties._7'And He enjoins them to make them all recline, company by company, on the green grass.&Now He is saying to them, "How many cakes of bread have you? Go and see." And knowing, they are saying to Him, "Five, and two fishes."4a%Yet He, answering, said to them, "You give them to eat." And they are saying to Him, "Coming away, should we buy two hundred denarii worth of bread and give them to eat?"7$Dismiss them that, coming away into the fields and villages around, they should buy themselves bread. For they have nothing that they may be eating."&E#And already the hour coming to be much advanced, His disciples, coming to Him, said that "This place is a wilderness, and already the hour is much advanced.(I"And, coming out, Jesus perceived a vast throng, and He has compassion on them, for they were as sheep not having a shepherd, and He begins to teach them much.,Q!And many perceived them going away and recognize them. And, afoot from all the cities, they ran together there, and they came before them and ran together to Him.S And they came away in the ship into a place in the wilderness, privately.Y+And He is saying to them, "Hither! You yourselves come privately into a place in the wilderness and rest briefly." For those coming and those going away were many, and they had not yet an opportunity to eat.y kAnd gathering are the apostles to Jesus, and they report to Him all, whatever they do, and whatever they teach.f EAnd hearing of it, his disciples came and take away his corpse, and they place it in a tomb.o Wand carries his head on a platter, and gives it to the maiden, and the maiden gives it to her mother.  And straightway the king, dispatching, enjoins a lifeguardsman to bring his head. And, coming away, he beheads him in the jail, And the king, becoming sorrow-stricken, because of the oaths and those lying back at table with him, does not want to repudiate her.,QAnd entering straightway with diligence to the king, she requests, saying, "I want that you forthwith may be giving me on a platter the head of John the baptist."wAnd, coming out, she said to her mother, "What should I be requesting?" Now she said, "The head of John the baptist."ykAnd he swears to her that "Whatsoever you should be requesting me, I will give you, to the half of my kingdom."fEand at her, Herodias' daughter's, entering and dancing, she pleases Herod and those lying back at table with him. Now the king said to the maiden, "Request of me whatsoever you may be wanting, and I will give it to you." 9And, an opportune day coming when Herod at his birthday celebrations makes a dinner for his magnates and captains and for the foremost men of Galilee,%Cfor Herod feared John, being aware that he is a just and holy man, and he preserved him. And hearing him, he was much perplexed, and heard him with relish.LNow Herodias hemmed him in, and wanted to kill him, and could not,_7For John said to Herod that "It is not allowed you to have the wife of your brother."/For he, Herod, dispatches and holds John and binds him in jail, because of Herodias, the wife of Philip, his brother, seeing that he marries her.gGYet, hearing of it, Herod said that "John, whom I behead, he was roused from among the dead."n~UYet others said that "He is Elijah." Yet others said that "A prophet is he, as one of the prophets."C}And Herod, the king, hears, for His name became manifest. And he said that "John the baptist has been roused from among the dead, and therefore the powerful deeds are operating in him."e|C And many demons they cast out, and they rubbed many of the ailing with oil, and cured them.E{ And, coming out, they herald that they should be repenting.1z[ And whatever place should not be receiving you, nor yet they should be hearing you, going out thence, shake off the soil which is underneath your feet, for a testimony to them. Verily, I am saying to you, More tolerable will it be for Sodom or Gomorrah in the day of judging than for that city."yy And He said to them, "Wheresoever you may be entering into a house, there remain till you should be coming out thence.Ax} but having soles bound on, and not to put on two tunics.w/And He charges them that they should be picking up nothing for the road except a staff only; no bread, no beggar's bag, no coppers in the girdle; v And He is calling to Him the twelve, and He begins to dispatch them two by two and gave them authority over the unclean spirits.guGAnd He marvels because of their unbelief. And Jesus went about the villages around, teaching.st_And He could not do any powerful deed there except, placing hands on a few who are ailing, He cures them.sAnd Jesus said to them that "A prophet is not dishonored, except in his own country and among his relatives and in his home."/rWIs not this the artisan, the son of Mary and the brother of James and Joseph and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?" And they were snared in Him.qAnd at the coming of a sabbath He begins to teach in the synagogue. And the majority, hearing, were astonished, saying, "Whence has this man all these things? And what wisdom is being given this man! And such powerful deeds are occurring by means of his hands!hp KAnd He came out thence and is coming into His own country, and His disciples are following Him.voe+And He cautions them much that no one may be knowing of this. And He told them to give her something to eat.#n?*And straightway the maiden rose and walked about, for she was about twelve years old. And they were beside themselves, straightway, with great amazement.m3)And, holding the hand of the little girl, He is saying to her, "Talitha, coumi!" (which is, being construed, "Maiden, I am saying to you, rouse!").Al{(And they ridiculed Him. Yet He, ejecting them all, is taking along the father of the little girl and the mother and those with Him, and He is going in where the little girl was lying.k 'And entering, He is saying to them, "Why are you making a tumult and lamenting? The little girl did not die, but is drowsing."j!&And they are coming into the house of the chief of the synagogue, and He is beholding a tumult, and they are lamenting much and screaming.tia%And He does not let anyone follow together with Him except Peter and James and John, the brother of James.h$Yet Jesus immediately, disregarding the word spoken, is saying to the chief of the synagogue, "Do not fear! Only believe!"!g;#While He is still speaking, they are coming from the chief of the synagogue, saying that "Your daughter died. Why are you still bothering the Teacher?"pfY"Now He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has saved you. Go in peace, and be sound from your scourge."e)!Now the woman, being afraid and trembling, being aware of what has occurred to her, came and prostrates to Him, and told Him the entire truth.2d_ And He looked about to see who does this.~cuAnd His disciples said to Him, "Thou art observing the throng crowding Thee, and art Thou saying, 'Who touches Me?'"b'And straightway Jesus, recognizing in Himself the power coming out of Him, being turned about in the throng, said, "Who touches My garments?"}asAnd straightway dried is the spring of her blood, and she knew in her body that she has been healed of the scourge.t`aFor she said that "If ever I should be touching Him, even if it should be His garments, I shall be saved."S_hearing about Jesus, coming in the throng from behind, touches His cloak.^and suffering much under many physicians, and spending her all and being nothing benefitted, but rather coming to be worse,6]gAnd a woman having a hemorrhage twelve years,Z\-And He came away with him, and a vast throng followed Him, and they crowded Him.G[And he is entreating Him much, saying that "My little daughter is having her last gasp!" that, "Coming, Thou mayest be placing Thy hands on her, that she may be saved and should be living!"ZwAnd lo! coming is one of the chiefs of the synagogue, Jairus by name, and, perceiving Him, he is falling at His feet.Y}And at Jesus' ferrying again in the ship to the other side a vast throng was gathered to Him, and He was beside the sea.pXYAnd he came away, and begins to herald in the Decapolis whatever Jesus does for him. And all marveled.=WsAnd He does not let him, but He is saying to him, "Go into your home, to those who are yours, and report to them whatever the Lord has done for you and how He is merciful to you."`V9And at His stepping into the ship, the demoniac entreated Him that he may be with Him.QUAnd they begin to be entreating Him to come away from their boundaries.qT[And those who perceived it relate to them how it came to be with the demoniac, and concerning the hogs. SAnd they are coming to Jesus and beholding the demoniac who had the legion, sitting and garmented and sane, and they were afraid. RAnd those grazing them fled, and they report it in the city and in the fields. And they came to see what it is that has occurred.aQ; And Jesus immediately permits them. And, coming out, the unclean spirits entered into the hogs, and the herd rushes down the precipice into the sea. Now they were about two thousand, and they were choked in the sea.mPS And all the demons entreat Him, saying, "Send us into the hogs, that we may be entering into them."LO Now there, toward the mountain, was a great herd of hogs, grazing.\N1 And it entreated Him much that He should not be dispatching it out of the country.tMa And He inquired of it, "What is your name?" And it is saying to Him, "Legion is my name, for many are we."HL For He said to it, "Come out, unclean spirit, out of the man!"2K]and, crying with a loud voice, he is saying, "What is it to me and to Thee, Jesus, Son of God Most High! I am adjuring Thee by God: Not me shouldst Thou be tormenting!"AJ}And perceiving Jesus from afar, he ran and worships Him,~IuAnd continually, night and day, among the tombs and in the mountains was he, crying and gashing himself with stones.8Hibecause of his having often been bound with fetters and chains, and the chains were pulled to pieces by him and the fetters crushed. And no one was strong enough to tame him.nGUwho had a dwelling among the tombs. And not even with chains was anyone able any longer to bind him,xFiAnd at His coming out of the ship, straightway there meets Him a man out of the tombs, with an unclean spirit,XE +And they came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gergesenes.D))And they were afraid with a great fear, and said to one another, "Who, consequently, is This, that even the wind and the sea are obeying Him?"SC(And He said to them, "Why are you so timid? How is it you have no faith?" B'And, being roused, He rebukes the wind and said to the sea, "Be silent! Be still!" And the wind flags, and there came a great calm.A&And He was in the stern, drowsing on the cushion. And they are rousing Him and saying to Him, "Teacher! Carest Thou not that we perish?" (~~6}||{{9z=yxxwwvv8uuFtassJrWqxpp$oo\nmmCll!kkLjjiihh@ggf|ee ddTcc]bbJaa+`` _^^2]\\\%[[`ZPYYXWWVVVGUU5TSS$RRTQQKPPIOO NN7MLKKsKJIIaI HHGFFEDDCC4BA@@q??N>>h==D<Now Jesus said, "I am; and you shall be seeing the Son of Mankind sitting at the right hand of power and coming with the clouds of heaven.",Q=Yet Jesus was silent and does not answer anything. Again the chief priest inquired of Him and is saying to Him, "Are you the Christ, the Son of God, the Blessed?")[wAnd, evening coming on, He is coming with the twelve.ZAnd His disciples came out and came into the city, and they found it according as He said to them. And they make ready the passover.pYYAnd he will be showing you a large upper room, ready with places spread, and there make ready for us."3X_And wheresoever he may be entering, say to the householder that 'The Teacher is saying, "Where is My caravansary, where I may be eating the passover with My disciples?"'!W; And He is dispatching two of His disciples and is saying to them, "Go into the city, and a man will be meeting you, bearing a jar of water. Follow him.aV; And on the first day of unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the passover, His disciples are saying to Him, "Where dost Thou want us to come away that we should be making ready, that Thou mayest eat the passover?"Uy Now those who hear him rejoice, and promise to give him silver. And he sought how he may be opportunely giving Him up.uTc And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, came away to the chief priests that he may be giving Him up to them.)SK Now verily I am saying to you, Wheresoever this evangel may be heralded in the whole world, that also which she does shall be spoken of for a memorial of her."eRCWhat she had she makes use of. She gets beforehand to anoint My body with attar for burial. QFor you always have the poor with you, and whenever you may be wanting, you can always do well to them, yet Me you have not always.sP_Yet Jesus said, "Leave her! Why are you affording her weariness? For it is an ideal work she works in Me. OFor this attar could have been disposed of for over three hundred denarii, and given to the poor." And they muttered against her.vNeNow some were resenting this to themselves and saying, "For what has this destruction of the attar occurred?bM=And at His being in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, at His lying down, a woman came, having an alabaster vase of veritable nard attar, costly. And crushing the alabaster vase, she pours it down on His head.gLGFor they said, "Not in the festival, lest at some time there will be a tumult of the people."4K cNow it was the Passover and the unleavened bread after two days. And the chief priests and the scribes sought how, laying hold of Him by guile, they should be killing Him.DJ %Now what I am saying to you, I am saying to all: 'Watch!'"DI $that, coming suddenly, he may not be finding you drowsing.H #Watch, then, for you are not aware when the lord of the house is coming, at evening, or midnight, or cockcrowing, or morning,%GC ""It is as a man, a traveler, leaving his home and giving his slaves authority, and to each his work, and he directs the doorkeeper that he may be watching.NF !Beware! Be vigilant and pray, for you are not aware when the era is.E{ "Now concerning that day or hour no one is aware -- neither the messengers in heaven, nor the Son -- except the Father.]D3 Heaven and earth shall be passing by, yet My words shall by no means be passing by.C Verily, I am saying to you that by no means may this generation be passing by until the time when all these things may be occurring.vBe Thus you, also, whenever you may be perceiving these things occurring, know that He is near -- at the doors.%AC "Now from the fig tree be learning a parable: Whenever its bough may already be becoming tender and the leaves sprouting out, you know that summer is near.$@A And then shall He be dispatching His messengers and assembling His chosen from the four winds, from the extremity of the earth to the extremity of heaven.f?E And then shall they be seeing the Son of Mankind coming in clouds with much power and glory.> and the moon shall not be giving her beams, and the stars shall be falling out of heaven, and the powers in the heavens shall be shaken.N= But in those days, after that affliction, the sun shall be darkened,H<  Now you, beware! Lo! I have declared it all to you beforehand.;+ For roused shall be false christs and false prophets, and they shall be giving signs and miracles to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen.u:c "And then, if anyone should be saying to you, 'Lo! Here is the Christ!' and 'Lo! There!', be not believing.9# And, except the Lord discounts the days, no flesh at all would be saved. But because of the chosen, whom He chooses, He discounts the days.38_ for in those days will be affliction such as has not occurred from the beginning of the creation which God creates till now, and under no circumstances may be occurring.I7  Now be praying that your flight may not be occurring in winter,N6 "Now woe to those who are pregnant and those suckling in those days!]53 And let him who is in the field not turn back to that behind, to pick up his cloak. 4 Now let him who is on the housetop not be descending into the house, neither let him enter, to pick up anything out of his house.T3! "Now whenever you may be perceiving the abomination of desolation, declared by Daniel the prophet, standing where it must not (let the reader apprehend), then let those in Judea flee into the mountains.v2e And you shall be hated by all because of My name. Yet he who endures to the consummation, he shall be saved. 19 And brother will be giving up brother to death, and father, child. And children shall be rising up against parents and shall be putting them to death.0 "And whenever they may be leading you off, to give you over, do not worry beforehand what you should be speaking, neither be meditating, but whatsoever may be given to you in that hour, this be speaking, for it is not you who are speaking, but the holy spirit.D/ And to all the nations first must be heralded the evangel.. The beginning of pangs are these. Yet you be looking to yourselves, for they shall be giving you up to the sanhedrins, and in synagogues shall you be lashed, and before governors and even kings shall you stand on My account, for a testimony to them.#-? For roused shall be nation against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there shall be quakes in places. And there shall be famines and disturbances.(,I Now whenever you should be hearing battles and tidings of battles, see that you are not alarmed, for it must be occurring, but not as yet is the consummation.]+3 For many shall be coming in My name, saying that I am! and shall be deceiving many.c*? Now Jesus, answering, begins to say to them, "Beware that no one should be deceiving you!})s "Tell us, when will these things be? And what is the sign whenever all these things may be about to be concluding?" (  And at His sitting on the mount of Olives, facing the sanctuary, Peter and James and John and Andrew inquired of Him privately,;'o And answering, Jesus said to him, "Are you observing these great buildings? Under no circumstances may a stone be left here on a stone, which may not by all means be demolished.& - And at His going out of the sanctuary, one of His disciples is saying to Him, "Teacher! Lo! what manner of stones and what manner of buildings!"% ,For all cast out of their superfluity, yet she, out of her want, cast in all, as much as she had -- her whole livelihood."($I +And, calling His disciples to Him, He said to them, "Verily, I am saying to you that this poor widow casts in more than all who are casting into the treasury.V#% *And one woman, a poor widow, coming, cast in two mites, which is a quadrans." )And Jesus, being seated facing the treasury, beheld how the throng is casting the coppers into the treasury. And many rich cast in much. !  (who are devouring the homes of widows, and for a pretense are prolix in praying. These will be getting more excessive judgment."W ' 'and front seats in the synagogues, and first reclining places at the dinners,  &And to them, in His teaching, He said, "Beware of the scribes, who want to walk in robes, and want salutations in the markets,ve %Then he, David, is terming Him 'Lord.' And whence is He his Son?" And the vast throng hears Him with relish.&E $For he, David, said, in the holy spirit, 'Said the Lord to my Lord, "Sit at My right, Till I should be placing Thine enemies for a footstool for Thy feet."'~u #And answering, Jesus said, teaching in the sanctuary, "How are the scribes saying that the Christ is a Son of David?,Q "And Jesus, perceiving him, that he answered apprehendingly, said to him, "Not far are you from the kingdom of God." And no one dared to inquire of Him any longer.   !And to be loving Him out of your whole heart, and out of the whole understanding, and out of the whole soul, and out of the whole strength, and to be loving the associate as yourself, is excessively more than all the ascent approaches and the sacrifices."{ And the scribe said to Him, "In truth, Teacher, Thou sayest ideally that He is One, and there is no other more than He. And the second is like it: 'You shall be loving your associate as yourself.' Now greater than these is no other precept."G And, You shall be loving the Lord God out of your whole heart, and out of your whole soul, and out of your whole comprehension, and out of your whole strength. This is the foremost precept.nU Jesus answered him that "The foremost precept of all is: Hear, Israel! the Lord our God is one Lord.0Y And, approaching, one of the scribes, hearing them discussing, having perceived that He answered them ideally, inquires of Him, "What is the foremost precept of all?"Z- He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You, then, are much deceived."]3 Now concerning the dead, that they are being roused; did you not read in the scroll of Moses, at the thorn bush, how God spoke to him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?5 For whenever they may be rising from among the dead, they are neither marrying nor taking out in marriage, but are as the messengers in the heavens. Jesus averred to them, "Are you not therefore deceived, not being acquainted with the scriptures, nor yet the power of God?  In the resurrection, then, whenever they may be rising, of which of them will she be the wife? For the seven have had her as wife."b= And the seven also got her similarly and leave no seed. Last of all the woman also died.T! And the second got her and died, leaving no seed, and the third similarly.Y + Seven brothers were there, and the first got a wife and, dying, leaves no seed.Q  "Teacher, Moses writes to us that, if anyone's brother should be dying, and leaving a wife, and leaving no child, that his brother may be taking his wife and should be raising up seed to his brother.n U And Sadducees are coming to Him, who say there is no resurrection. And they inquired of Him, saying,m S Now Jesus said to them, "Caesar's pay to Caesar, and God's to God." And they were astounded at Him.~ u Now they bring it. And He is saying to them, "Whose is this image and inscription?" Now they say to Him, "Caesar's."7g May we be giving, or may we not be giving?" Now He, having perceived their hypocrisy, said to them, "Why are you trying Me? Bring Me a denarius that I may be perceiving it."  And, coming, they are saying to Him, "Teacher, we are aware that you are true, and you are not caring about anyone, for you are not looking at the face of men, but, of a truth, the way of God are you teaching. Is it allowed to give poll tax to Caesar, or not?ta And they are dispatching to Him some of the Pharisees and Herodians, that they should catch Him by a word.3 And they sought to hold Him, and they were afraid of the throng, for they know that He spoke the parable to them. And, leaving Him, they came away.E From the Lord came this, and it is marvelous in our eyes.'"  Did you not yet read this scripture? -- 'The stone which is rejected by the builders, This came to be for the head of the corner.% "What, then, will the lord of the vineyard be doing? He will be coming and destroying the farmers and will be giving the vineyard to others.N And, taking him, they kill him and cast him outside of the vineyard.-S Yet those farmers say to themselves that 'This is the enjoyer of the allotment. Hither! We should be killing him, and the enjoyment of the allotment will be ours!' "Still one had he, a son, his beloved. He dispatches him also, last, to them, saying that 'They will be respecting my son.'}~s And again another he dispatches, and that one they kill, and many others, lashing these, indeed, yet killing those. } And again he dispatches to them another slave, and that one, pelting with stones, they hit his head and dispatch him in dishonor.>|w And taking him, they lash him and dispatch him empty. { And he dispatches to the farmers, at the season, a slave, that from the farmers he may be getting from the fruits of the vineyard.Hz  And He begins to speak to them in parables: "A vineyard a man is planting, and he places about it a stone dike, and excavates a vat, and builds a tower, and leased it to farmers, and travels.1y[ !And answering Jesus, they are saying, "We are not aware." And answering, Jesus is saying to them, "Neither am I telling you by what authority I am doing these things."qx[ But may we be saying, 'Of men'?" They feared the people, for all had it that John really was a prophet.w- And they reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we should be saying, 'Of heaven,' he will be declaring, 'Wherefore then, do you not believe him?'Wv' The baptism of John -- whence was it? Was it of heaven or of men? Answer Me!"1u[ Now Jesus, answering, said to them, "I also will be inquiring of you one word, and answer Me, and I will be declaring to you by what authority I am doing these things.t! and they said to Him, "By what authority are you doing these things, or who gives you this authority, that you may be doing these things?"s1 And they are coming again into Jerusalem. And at His walking in the sanctuary, the chief priests and the scribes and the elders are coming to Him,sr_ Now if you are not forgiving, neither will your Father Who is in the heavens be forgiving your offenses."8qi And whenever you may be standing praying, be forgiving, if you have anything against anyone, that your Father also, Who is in the heavens, may be forgiving you your offenses. p "Therefore I am saying to you, All, whatever you are praying and requesting, be believing that you obtained, and it will be yours. o verily, I am saying to you that whosoever may be saying to this mountain, 'Be picked up and cast into the sea,' and may not be doubting in his heart, but should be believing that what he is speaking is occurring, it shall be his, whatsoever he may be saying.Ln And answering, Jesus is saying to them, "If you have faith of God,sm_ And, recollecting, Peter is saying to Him, "Rabbi! Lo! the fig tree which Thou didst curse has withered!"[l/ And going by in the morning, they perceived the fig tree withered from the roots.Nk And whenever it came to be evening, they went out, outside the city.3j_ And the chief priests and the scribes hear, and they sought how they should be destroying Him, for they feared Him, for the entire throng was astonished at His teaching.#i? And He taught and said to them, "Is it not written that 'My house a house of prayer shall be called, for all nations'? Yet you make it a burglars' cave."_h7 And He did not give leave that anyone may be carrying a vessel through the sanctuary.jgM And they are coming into Jerusalem. And Jesus, entering into the sanctuary, begins to cast out those selling and those buying in the sanctuary, and the tables of the brokers and the seats of those selling doves He overturns.f And answering, He said to it, "By no means may anyone still be eating fruit of you for the eon." And His disciples heard.Qe And perceiving one fig tree from afar having leaves, He came, if, consequently, He will be finding anything on it. And coming to it, He found nothing except leaves, for it was not the season of figs.Jd  And on the morrow, at their coming out from Bethany, He hungers.$cA And Jesus entered into Jerusalem and into the sanctuary. And looking all about, it being already the evening hour, He came out to Bethany with the twelve.tba And blessed be the coming kingdom of our father David in the name of the Lord! Hosanna among the highest!"aw And those preceding and those following cried, saying, "Hosanna! Blessed be He Who is coming in the name of the Lord! ` And many strew their own garments in the road, yet others, soft foliage, chopping it out of the fields, and strewed it on the road.y_k And they are bringing the colt to Jesus, and they are casting their own garments on it, and He is seated on it.x^i "What are you doing, loosing the colt?" Now they told them according as Jesus said, and they let them take it.7]i And some of those standing there said to them,z\m And they came away and found the colt bound to the door outside on the encircling road, and they are loosing it.$[A And if anyone should be saying to you, 'What is this you are doing?' say that 'The Lord has need of it, and straightway He is dispatching it here again.'"EZ and He is saying to them, "Go into the village facing you, and straightway, going into it, you will be finding a colt, bound, on which not as yet any man is seated. Loose it and bring it.Y - And when they are drawing near to Jerusalem and to Bethphage and to Bethany, toward the mount of Olives, He is dispatching two of His disciples,iXK 4"Go. Your faith has saved you." And straightway he receives sight and followed Him on the road.7Wg 3And answering him, Jesus said, "What do you want I shall be doing to you?" Now the blind man said to Him, "Rabboni, that I should be receiving sight!" Now Jesus said to him,[V/ 2He is summoning you." Now he, casting off his cloak, springing up, came to Jesus.wUg 1And standing, Jesus said, "Summon him." And they are summoning the blind man, saying to him, "Courage! Rouse!xTi 0And many rebuked him, that he should be silent. Yet he, much rather, cried, "Son of David, be merciful to me!"xSi /And hearing that it is Jesus the Nazarene, he begins to cry and say, "Son of David! Jesus! Be merciful to me!"CR .And they are coming into Jericho. And at His going out from Jericho, and His disciples and a considerable throng, the son of Timeus, Bar-Timeus, blind and a beggar, sat beside the road.tQa -For even the Son of Mankind came, not to be served, but to serve, and to give His soul a ransom for many."ZP- ,And whosoever may be wanting to be foremost among you, will be the slave of all.uOc +Yet not thus is it among you. But whosoever may be wanting to become great among you, will be your servant.EN *And, calling them to Him, Jesus is saying to them, "You are aware that those of the nations who are presuming to be chiefs are lording it over them, and their great men are coercing them.VM% )And, hearing of it, the ten begin to be resentful concerning James and John.Lw (Yet to be seated at My right or at My left is not Mine to give, but is for whom it has been made ready by My Father."KK 'Yet they say to Him, "We are able." Yet Jesus said to them, "The cup indeed which I am drinking shall you be drinking, and with the baptism with which I am being baptized shall you be baptized.DJ &Yet Jesus said to them, "Not aware are you what you are requesting. Are you able to drink the cup which I am drinking, or to be baptized with the baptism with which I am being baptized?"{Io %Now they said to Him, "Grant to us that we should be seated, one at Thy right and one at Thy left, in Thy glory."GH $Yet He said to them, "What are you wanting Me to do for you?"DG #And going to Him are James and John, the two sons of Zebedee, saying to Him, "Teacher, we are wanting that, whatsoever we should be requesting of Thee, Thou shouldst be doing it for us."F  "and will be scoffing at Him, and spitting on Him, and scourging Him, and killing Him, and after three days He will be rising."[E/ !"Lo! we are going up into Jerusalem, and the Son of Mankind will be given up to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will be condemning Him to death, and will be giving Him up to the men of the nations,oDW Now they were on the road, going up into Jerusalem, and Jesus was preceding them. And they were awe-struck, yet those following feared. And, again taking the twelve aside, He begins to tell them what is about to be befalling Him,BC Yet many of the first shall be last, and the last first."NB who should not be getting back a hundredfold now, in this era, houses and brothers and sisters and mother and father and children and fields, with persecutions, and in the coming eon, life eonian.aA; Jesus averred to him, "Verily, I am saying to you that there is no one who leaves a house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, on My account and on account of the evangel,o@W Peter begins to say to Him, "Lo! we leave all and follow Thee! What, consequently, will it be to us?"}?s Now, looking at them, Jesus is saying, "With men it is impossible, but not with God, for all is possible with God."V>% Now they were exceedingly astonished, saying to Him, "And who can be saved?"= Easier is it for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to be entering into the kingdom of God."V<% Now the disciples were awe-struck at His words. Yet Jesus, again answering, is saying to them, "Children, how squeamish it is for those who have confidence in money to be entering into the kingdom of God!; And, looking about, Jesus is saying to His disciples, "How squeamishly shall those who have money be entering into the kingdom of God!"j:M Yet he, being somber at the word, came away sorrowing, for he was one who has many acquisitions.s9_ Now Jesus, looking at him, loves him, and said to him, "Still one thing you are wanting. Go. Whatever you have, sell, and be giving to the poor, and you will be having treasure in heaven. And hither! Follow Me, picking up the cross."O8 Now he averred to Him, "Teacher, all these I maintain from my youth."x7i With the precepts you are acquainted: You should not be murdering. You should not be committing adultery. You should not be stealing. You should not be testifying falsely. You should not be cheating. 'Be honoring your father and mother.'"^65 Now Jesus said to him, "Why are you terming Me good? No one is good except One, God.n5U And at His going out into the road, lo! one certain rich man, running toward Him and falling on his knees before Him, inquired of Him, "Good Teacher! What shall I be doing that I should be enjoying the allotment of life eonian?"[4/ And, clasping them in His arms, He, in benediction, is placing His hands on them.35 Verily, I am saying to you, Whosoever should not be receiving the kingdom of God as a little child, may under no circumstances be entering into it."&2E Yet, perceiving it, Jesus resents it, and said to them, "Let the little children be coming to Me, and do not forbid them, for of such is the kingdom of God.r1] And they brought to Him little children, that He should be touching them; yet the disciples rebuke them.k0O And if she, dismissing her husband, should ever be marrying another, she is committing adultery."/ And He is saying to them, "Whosoever should be dismissing his wife and should be marrying another is committing adultery against her.Q. And, in the house, again His disciples inquired of Him concerning this. 4~~x}}}M||k{{{1zz[yyXxx^xwwvRuuuttttsis1rqqppuooo8nnmml`kkjj^iiDhhegg&feeoe dd>~>D==<<(''w&&&%%$$$##2""S!!L 85^zGU7Y(A`YY R lT 8 z $ i d ZdyQq[Now He said, "Verily, I am saying to you that no one who is a prophet is acceptable in his own country.>uAnd He said to them, "Undoubtedly you will be declaring to Me this parable: 'Physician, cure yourself!' 'Whatever we hear occurring in Capernaum do here also in your own country.'"!And all testified of Him and marveled at the gracious words which are issuing out of His mouth. And they said, "Is not this Joseph's son?"c?Now He begins to be saying to them that "Today this scripture is fulfilled in your ears."And furling the scroll, giving it back to the deputy, He is seated. And the eyes of all in the synagogue were looking intently at Him.5eTo herald an acceptable year of the Lord...""The spirit of the Lord is on Me, On account of which He anoints Me to bring the evangel to the poor. He has commissioned Me to heal the crushed heart, To herald to captives a pardon, And to the blind the receiving of sight; To dispatch the oppressed with a pardon.{And handed to Him was a scroll of the prophet Isaiah, and, opening the scroll, He found the place where it was written, 9And He came to Nazareth, where He was reared, and, according to His custom on the day of the sabbaths, He entered into the synagogue and rose to read.DAnd He taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all. And Jesus returns, in the power of the spirit, into Galilee. And the fame concerning Him came out down the whole of the country about._ 7 And, concluding every trial, the Adversary withdrew from Him until an appointed time.~ u And answering, Jesus said to him that "It has been declared, 'You shall not be putting on trial the Lord your God.'"  and that 'On their hands shall they be lifting Thee, Lest at some time Thou shouldst be dashing Thy foot against a stone.'"e C for it is written that 'His messengers shall be directed concerning Thee, To protect Thee.'+ Now he led Him into Jerusalem and stands Him on the wing of the sanctuary, and he said to Him, "If you are God's son, cast yourself down hence,7gAnd answering, Jesus said to Him, "Go away behind Me, Satan! It is written, The Lord your God shall you be worshiping, and to Him only shall you be offering divine service."SIf you, then, should ever be worshiping before me, it will all be yours.":mAnd the Adversary said to Him, "To you shall I be giving all this authority and the glory of them, for it has been given up to me, and to whomsoever I may will, I am giving it. And, leading Him up into a high mountain, the Adversary shows Him all the kingdoms of the inhabited earth in a second of time. And Jesus answered him, saying, "It is written that, 'Not on bread alone shall man be living, but on every declaration...of God.'"s_Now the Adversary said to Him, "If you are God's son, speak to this stone that it may be becoming bread."5forty days, undergoing trial by the Adversary. And He did not eat of anything in those days, and subsequently, at their being concluded, He hungers.m UNow Jesus, full of holy spirit, returns from the Jordan, and was led in the spirit in the wilderness,S&of Enosh, of Seth, of Adam, of God.D~%of Methuselah, of Enoch, of Jared, of Maleleel, of Cainan,=}u$of Cainan, of Arphaxad, of Shem, of Noah, of Lamech,8|k#of Serug, of Reu, of Peleg, of Eber, of Shelah,;{q"of Jacob, of Isaac, of Abraham, of Tera, of Nahor,Kz!of Amminadab, of Admein, of Arni, of Hezron, of Pharez, of Judah,:yo of Jesse, of Obed, of Boaz, of Salmon, of Nahson,?xyof Melea, of Menna, of Mattathah, of Nathan, of David,>wwof Simeon, of Judah, of Joseph, of Jonam, of Eliakim,=vuof Jesus, of Eliezer, of Jorim, of Matthat, of Levi,9umof Melchi, of Addi, of Cosam, of Elmadam, of Er,Dtof Joanna, of Rhesa, of Zerubbabel, of Shalthiel, of Neri,@s{of Maath, of Mattithiah, of Shemei, of Josech, of Joda,>rwof Mattathias, of Amos, of Nahum, of Esli, of Naggai,)qMof Melchi, of Jannai, of Joseph,p And He, Jesus, when beginning, was about thirty years old, being a son (as to the law) of Joseph, of Eli, of Matthat, of Levi,,oQand the holy spirit descends on Him, to bodily perception as if a dove, and a voice came out of heaven, saying, "Thou art My Son, the Beloved; in Thee I delight."vneNow it occurred, as all the people are baptized, at Jesus also being baptized and praying, heaven is opened,>mwadds this also to them all: he locks up John in jail."l=Now Herod the tetrarch, being exposed by him concerning Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, and concerning all the wicked things which Herod does,jkMIndeed, then, entreating about many different things also, he brought the evangel to the people.@jyWhose winnowing shovel is in His hand, and He will be scouring His threshing floor and be gathering the grain into His barn, yet the chaff shall He burn up with unextinguished fire."Zi-John answers, saying to all, "I, indeed, in water am baptizing you. Yet coming is One stronger than I, the thong of Whose sandals I am not competent to loose. He will be baptizing you in holy spirit and fire,~huNow at the people hoping, and all reasoning in their hearts concerning John, lest at some time he may be the Christ,Jg Now soldiers also inquired of him, saying, "What should we also be doing?" And he said to them, "You should be intimidating no one, neither be blackmailing, and be sufficed with your rations."Uf# Now he said to them, "Impose nothing more than has been prescribed to you."tea Now tribute collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, "Teacher, what should we be doing?"d) Now answering, he said to them, "He who has two tunics, let him be sharing with him who has none, and let him who has food be doing likewise."Sc And the throngs inquired of him, saying "What, then, should we be doing?"b7 Now already the ax also is lying at the root of the trees. Every tree, then, which is not producing ideal fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire."iaKProduce, then, fruits worthy of repentance. And you should not begin to be saying among yourselves, 'For a father we have Abraham,' for I am saying to you that God is able, out of these stones, to rouse children to Abraham.`7He said, then, to the throngs going out to be baptized by him, "Progeny of vipers! Who intimates to you to be fleeing from the impending indignation?8_kAnd all flesh shall see the salvation of God.'"%^C"'Every ravine shall be filled And every mountain and hill shall be made low, And the crooked shall be straight, And the rough places into smooth roads,...S]as it is written in the scroll of the sayings of Isaiah the prophet, saying, "The voice of one imploring: 'In the wilderness make ready the road of the Lord! Straight...be making the highways'" of Him!y\kAnd he came into the entire country about the Jordan, heralding a baptism of repentance for the pardon of sins,[under Hannas and Caiaphas, the chief priests, came a declaration of God to John, the son of Zechariah, in the wilderness.Z Now in the fifteenth year of the government of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, yet Philip, his brother, being tetrarch of the province of Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias being tetrarch of Abilene,TY!4And Jesus progressed in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.,XQ3And He descended with them and came into Nazareth, and was subject to them. And His mother carefully kept all these declarations, parleying them in her own heart.MW2And they do not understand the declaration which He speaks to them. V1And He said to them, "Why is it that you sought Me? Had you not perceived that I must be among the things which are My Father's?"U/0And perceiving Him, they were astonished. And His mother said to Him, "Child, why do you thus to us? Lo! your father and I painfully sought you."PT/Now amazed are all those hearing Him at His understanding and answers.S3.And it occurred, after three days they found Him in the sanctuary, seated in the midst of the teachers, hearing them, as well as inquiring of them.HR -And, not finding Him, they return into Jerusalem, hunting Him. Q,Now, inferring that He is in the caravan, they came a day's way, and they hunted Him among the relatives and those known to them.yPk+and finishing the days, at their return the Boy Jesus remains behind in Jerusalem, and His parents know it not,|Oq*And when He came to be twelve years old, at their going up into Jerusalem according to the custom of the festival,\N1)And His parents went year by year into Jerusalem, to the festival of the Passover.{Mo(Now the little Boy grows up and was staunch in spirit, being filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was on Him.Ly'And, as they accomplish all according to the law of the Lord, they return into Galilee, into their own city, Nazareth.K%&And in the same hour, standing by, she made a response to God, and spoke concerning Him to all who are anticipating redemption in Jerusalem.%JC%and she is a widow till she is eighty-four years) who does not withdraw from the sanctuary, with fasts and petitions offering divine service night and day.6Ie$And there was Hannah, a prophetess, a daughter of Penuel, out of the tribe of Asher (she is advanced in her many days, living with a husband seven years from her virginity,yHk#Yet through your own soul also shall be passing a blade, So that reasonings of many hearts should be revealed."G-"And Simeon blesses them and said to Miriam, His mother, "Lo! He is lying for the fall and rising of many in Israel, And for a sign contradicted.ZF-!And His father and mother were marveling at that which is spoken concerning Him.UE# A Light for the revelation of nations, And the Glory of Thy people Israel."ID Which Thou dost make ready suiting the face of all the peoples,-CUFor my eyes perceived Thy Salvation,^B5"Now art Thou dismissing Thy slave, O Owner, According to Thy declaration, in peace,WA'he also receives Him, clasping Him in his arms. And he blesses God, and said,4@aAnd he came, in the spirit, into the sanctuary, and as the parents are bringing in the little Boy Jesus, for them to do according to the custom of the law concerning Him,?And he was apprised by the holy spirit that he would not be acquainted with death ere he should be acquainted with the Lord's Christ.)>KAnd lo! there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name is Simeon. And this man is just and pious, anticipating the consolation of Israel, and holy spirit was on him.=and to give a sacrifice according to that which is declared in the law of the Lord, a pair of turtle doves or two squabs of the doves.<(according as it is written in the law of the Lord, that every male opening up the matrix shall be called holy to the Lord),;+And when the days of their cleansing are fulfilled according to the law of Moses, they brought Him up into Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord,:QAnd when the eight days to His circumcising are fulfilled, His name also was called Jesus, which He was called by the messenger before His conception in the womb.9And the shepherds return, glorifying and praising God for all that which they hear and perceived, according as it was spoken to them.S8Now Miriam preserved all these declarations, parleying them in her heart.a7;And all who hear marvel concerning that which is being spoken to them by the shepherds.{6oNow, perceiving it, they make known concerning the declaration that is spoken to them concerning this little Boy.j5MAnd they came hurrying, and they found both Miriam and Joseph, and the Babe lying in the manger.4+And it occurred, as the messengers came away from them into heaven, that the shepherds spoke to one another, saying, "By all means we may be passing through to Bethlehem, and we may be perceiving this declaration which has come to pass, which the Lord makes known to us."S3"Glory to God among the Highest! And on earth peace, Among men, delight!"u2c And suddenly with the messenger there came to be a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and saying,x1i in the city of David. And this is the sign to you: you will be finding a Babe, swaddled and lying in a manger.P0 for today was brought forth to you a Saviour, Who is Christ, the Lord, / And the messenger said to them, "Fear not, for lo! I am bringing you an evangel of great joy which will be for the entire people,.  And lo! a messenger of the Lord stood by them, and the glory of God shines about them, and they were afraid with a great fear.w-gAnd shepherds were in the same district in the field fold, and maintaining watches at night over their flock.,5And she brought forth her Son, the firstborn, and swaddles Him, and cradles Him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the caravansary.h+INow it came to pass in their being there, the days are fulfilled for her to be bringing forth.Q*to register together with Miriam, his espoused wife, who is parturient.B)}Now Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, into the city of David which is called Bethlehem, because of his being of the house and kindred of David,:(oAnd all went to register, each into his own city.M'This first registration occurred when Quirinius is governing Syria.}& uNow it occurred in those days, that a decree came out from Caesar Augustus that the entire inhabited earth register.% PNow the little boy grows up and was staunch in spirit and was in the wilderness till the day of his indication to Israel.}$ uOTo make Its advent to those sitting in darkness and the shadow of death, To direct our feet into the path of peace."g# INBecause of the merciful compassions of our God, In which the Dayspring from on high visits us,V" 'MTo give the knowledge of salvation to His people In the pardon of their sins,! 9LNow you, also, little boy, a prophet of the Most High shall be called, For you shall be going before in the sight of the Lord To make ready His roads,A  KIn benignity and righteousness in His sight all our days.v gJTo grant to us, being rescued out of the hand of our enemies, To be fearlessly offering divine service to Him7 kIThe oath which He swears to Abraham our father,O HTo do mercy with our fathers, And to be reminded of His holy covenant,X +GSalvation from our enemies, And out of the hand of all those who are hating us,] 5FAccording as He speaks through the mouth of His holy prophets, who are from the eon;N EAnd rouses a horn of salvation for us In the house of David, His boy,g ID"Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, For He visits, and makes a redemption for His people,V 'CAnd Zechariah, his father, is filled with holy spirit and prophesies, saying, 'BAnd all who hear pondered in their hearts, saying, "What, consequently, will this little boy be?" For the hand also of the Lord was with him.   AAnd fear came on all who home about them, and in the whole mountainous region of Judea all these declarations were spoken about.Y -@Now, opened was his mouth instantly, and his tongue, and he spoke, blessing God.] 5?And requesting a tablet, he writes, saying, "John is his name." And they all marvel.S !>Now they nodded to his father, what he should be wanting him to be called.f G=And they said to her that "Not one is there of your relationship who is called by this name."K u,Now Pilate marvels if He is dead already, and, calling the centurion to him, he inquires of him if He died long ago.8=i+Joseph from Arimathea, a respectable counselor, who himself also was anticipating the kingdom of God, coming with daring, entered in to Pilate and requests the body of Jesus.f<E*And, already coming to be evening, since it was the preparation which is before the sabbath,};s)who, when He was in Galilee, followed Him and dispensed to Him, and many others who ascend with Him into Jerusalem.:3(Now there were women also, beholding from afar, among whom was Mary Magdalene also, and Mary, the mother of James the Little and Joses, and Salome,9'Now the centurion, who stands by opposite Him, perceiving that, crying thus, He expires, said, "Truly, this Man was the Son of God!"P8&And the curtain of the temple is rent in two from above to the bottom.67g%Now Jesus, letting out a loud sound, expires.-6S$Now someone, running and soaking a sponge with vinegar, sticking it on a reed, gave Him a drink, saying, "Let be! We may see if Elijah is coming to take Him down."X5)#And some of those standing by, hearing it, said, "Lo! He is summoning Elijah!"14["And at the ninth hour Jesus implores with a loud voice, saying, "Eloi! Eloi! Lema sabachthani?" which is, being construed, "My God! My God! Why didst Thou forsake Me?"e3C!And at the coming of the sixth hour, darkness came over the whole land till the ninth hour.32_ Let the Christ, the king of Israel, descend now from the cross, that we may be perceiving and should be believing!" And those crucified together with Him reproached Him. 1 Likewise, the chief priests also, with the scribes, scoffing with one another, said, "Others he saves! Himself he can not save!50esave yourself by descending from the cross!"/!And those going by blasphemed Him, wagging their heads and saying, "Aha! You who are demolishing the temple and building it in three days,.no versem-SAnd together with Him they are crucifying two robbers, one at the right and one at the left of Him.Y,+And there was an inscription with His charge inscribed, "The King of the Jews."9+mNow it was the third hour, and they crucify Him.}*sAnd, crucifying Him, they are dividing His garments, casting a lot for them, -- who should be taking anything away.M)And they gave Him wine with myrrh to drink, yet He did not take it.b(=And they are bringing Him to Golgotha Place, which is, being construed, "Skull's Place."/'WAnd they are conscripting a certain Simon, a Cyrenian, passing along, coming from a field, the father of Alexander and Rufus, that he should be picking up His cross.$&AAnd when they scoff at Him, they strip Him of the purple and put on Him His own garments, and they are leading Him out that they should be crucifying Him._%7And they beat His head with a reed and spat on Him and, kneeling, they worshiped Him.L$And they begin to salute Him and say, "Rejoice! king of the Jews!"l#QAnd they are dressing Him in purple, and, braiding a thorny wreath, they are placing it about Him."Yet the soldiers led Him away within the courtyard, which is the pretorium. And they are calling together the whole squadron.!!Now Pilate, intending to do enough for the throng, releases to them Bar-Abbas, and gives up Jesus, whipping Him, that He may be crucified.h IYet Pilate said to them, "What evil does he?" Yet they cry exceedingly, saying, "Crucify him!"3a Yet they again cry, saying, "Crucify him!"1 Now Pilate, again answering, said to them, "What, then, are you wanting that I shall be doing with him whom you are terming the king of the Jews?"hI Now the chief priests excite the throng, that he should rather be releasing Bar-Abbas to them.T! For he recognized that because of envy the chief priests had given Him up.uc Now Pilate answered them, saying, "Are you wanting that I should be releasing to you the king of the Jews?"`9And the throng, exclaiming, begins to be requesting according as he ever did for them.|qNow there was one termed Bar-Abbas, bound with the insurrectionists, who had done some murder in the insurrection.Y+Now at the festival he released to them one prisoner, even whom they requested.MYet Jesus no longer answered anything, so that Pilate is marveling.|qNow Pilate again inquires of Him, saying, "You are not answering anything? Lo! of how much they are accusing you!":oAnd the chief priests accused Him of many things.|qAnd Pilate inquires of Him, "You are the king of the Jews?" Now He, answering him, is saying, "You are saying it."H And straightway, in the morning, the chief priests with the elders and the scribes and the whole Sanhedrin hold a consultation. Binding Jesus, they carry Him away and give Him over to Pilate. 0~~P}}A} ||J{{@zyyxxWwvvuuKttEssr}rq}ppoonn.mvllkkjHiiMhhlggfeeedrccbbva``A__x^^M]\\[[aZZ,YYXXWWIVVUU]TTgSRRRQ{QPOOvONNM5LFKK8JEIIiHGG\FEEaDCCBB&A@@??R>t==f<;;; ::99e88766C544h3322100e//..I-o,,++*))(((7''|'-&o%%\$$H##{""!!k %/x{0  &urJz M " b <}"(( v Yet Herod said, "John I behead. Now who is this about whom I am hearing such things?" And he sought to become acquainted with Him.euC yet by some that "Elijah appeared," yet by others that "Some prophet of the ancients rose.")tK Now Herod the tetrarch hears all that is occurring by Him, and was bewildered because of what is being said by some that "John was roused from among the dead,"jsM Now coming out, they passed through by the villages, bringing the evangel and curing everywhere.r! And whoever should not be receiving you, coming out from that city, twitch off even the dust from your feet for a testimony against them."eqC And into whatever house you may be entering, there be remaining, and thence be coming away.p And He said to them, "Nothing pick up for the road, neither staff, nor beggar's bag, nor bread, nor silver, nor have two tunics apiece.bo= And He commissions them to be heralding the kingdom of God and to be healing the infirm.n  Now calling together the twelve apostles, He gives them power and authority over all the demons and to be curing diseases.\m18And her parents were amazed, yet He charges them to tell no one what has occurred.rl]7And back turns her spirit, and she rose instantly. And He prescribes that she be given something to eat.^k56Yet He, casting all outside and holding her hand, shouts, saying, "Girl, be roused!";jq5And they ridiculed Him, being aware that she died.i{4Now they all lamented, and they grieved for her. Now He said, "Be not lamenting, for she did not die, but is drowsing."h'3Now coming into the house, He lets no one enter together with Him, except Peter and James and John and the father of the girl and the mother.hgI2Yet Jesus, hearing it, answered him, saying, "Fear not' only believe, and she shall be saved."7fg1While He is still speaking, someone from the chief of the synagogue's house is coming, saying to him that "Your daughter is dead. By no means bother the teacher any longer."Ye+0Now He said to her, "Courage, daughter! Your faith has saved you! Go in peace!"Md/Now the woman, perceiving that she did not elude Him, came trembling, and prostrating to Him, reports in the sight of the entire people for what cause she touches Him and so was healed instantly.Vc%.Yet Jesus said, "Someone touches Me, for I knew power has come out from Me."@by-And Jesus said, "Who touches Me?" Now, at all denying it, Peter and those with Him, said, "Doctor, the throngs are pressing Thee and jostling, and art Thou saying, 'Who touches Me?'"sa_,Approaching from behind, she touches the tassel of His cloak. And instantly, stanched was her hemorrhage. `9+And a woman, having a hemorrhage for twelve years, whose whole livelihood is being consumed by physicians, is not strong enough to be cured by anyone._*for he had an only-begotten daughter of about twelve years, and she died. Now at His going away, the throngs stifled Him.;^o)And lo! a man came whose name was Jairus, and he possessed the chieftainship of the synagogue. And, falling at the feet of Jesus, he entreated Him to be entering into his house,k]O(Now it occurred at Jesus' return, that the throng welcomes Him, for they were all hoping for Him.\'"Return to your home and relate how much God does for you." And he came away, down the whole city, heralding how much Jesus does for him.[5&Now He, stepping into the ship, returns. Now the man from whom the demons had come out besought Him to be with Him, yet Jesus dismisses him, saying,Z%And the entire multitude of the country about the Gergesenes asks Him to be coming away from them, for they were pressed by a great fear.WY'$Yet those also who are perceiving how the demoniac was saved, report to them.JX #Now they came out to perceive what has occurred, and they came to Jesus and found the man from whom the demons came out, garmented and sane, sitting at the feet of Jesus, and they were afraid.kWO"Now the graziers, perceiving what has occurred, fled and report it in the city and in the fields.V!Now the demons, coming out from the man, entered into the hogs, and the herd rushes down the precipice into the lake and was smothered.-US Now a considerable herd of hogs was there, grazing on the mountain, and they entreat Him that He should permit them to be entering into those. And He permits them.kTOAnd they entreated Him that He should not enjoin them to be coming away into the submerged chaos.zSmNow Jesus inquires of him, saying, "What is your name?" Now he said, "Legion," for many demons entered into him.wRgFor He charged the unclean spirit to be coming out from the man; for many times it had gripped him, and he was bound, being guarded with chains and fetters, and, bursting through the bonds, he was driven by the demon into the wilderness.OQNow, perceiving Jesus and crying out, he prostrates to Him and said in a loud voice, "What is it to me and to Thee, Jesus, Son of God Most High! I beseech Thee, Thou shouldst not be tormenting me."EPNow at His coming out on the land, there meets Him a certain man out of the city, who had demons, and for a considerable time puts on no cloak, and remained in no house, but in the tombs.^O5And they sail down into the country of the Gergesenes, which is across from Galilee.YN+Now He said to them, "Where is your faith?" Yet, being afraid, they marvel, saying to one another, "Who, consequently, is this, that He is enjoining the winds as well as the water, and they are obeying Him!"?MwNow approaching, they rouse Him, saying, "Doctor! Doctor! We are perishing!" Now He, being roused, rebukes the wind and the surging of the water, and they cease, and it became calm.LNow, at their sailing, He falls asleep. And a whirl of wind descended to the lake, and they were foundered and in danger.FKNow it occurred on one of the days that He, as well as His disciples, stepped into a ship, and He said to them, "We may be passing through to the other side of the lake." And they set out.~JuNow He, answering, said to them, "My mother and My brethren are these who are hearing the word of God and doing it."rI]Now it was reported to Him, saying that "Thy mother and Thy brothers stand outside wanting to see Thee."HNow there came along to Him His mother and His brothers, and they were not able to fall in with Him because of the throng.3G_Beware, then, how you are hearing! For whoever may have, to him shall be given, and whoever may not have, from him shall be taken away also what he is supposed to have."FFor nothing is hidden which shall not become apparent, neither concealed which should not by all means be known and come to be apparent.:Em"Now no one, lighting a lamp, is covering it with a vessel or is placing it underneath a couch, but is placing it on a lampstand that those going in may be observing the light.D5Now that in the ideal earth, these are they who, in a heart ideal and good, hearing the word, are retaining it and are bearing fruit with endurance. Now His disciples inquired of Him, saying, "What may this parable be?"#=?And other falls into the good earth, and sprouting, produces fruit a hundredfold." These things saying, He shouted, "Who has ears to hear, let him hear!"a<;And other falls in the midst of thorns, and, sprouting together, the thorns smother it.f;EAnd other falls down on the rock, and, sprouting, is withered because of having no moisture.%:C"Out came the sower to sow his seed, and in his sowing, some indeed falls beside the road and was trampled, and the flying creatures of heaven devoured it.h9INow a vast throng being together, and city by city going on to Him, He said through a parable,8and Joanna, wife of Chuza, Herod's manager, and Susanna and the many others who dispensed to Him out of their possessions.7and some women who were cured of wicked spirits and infirmities: Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had come out,:6 oAnd it occurred consecutively, He also traverses city by city and village by village, heralding and bringing the evangel of the kingdom of God, and together with Him the twelve,L52Now He said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you. Go in peace."4w1And those lying back at table with Him begin to be saying among themselves, "Who is this who is pardoning sins also?"63g0Now He said to her, "Pardoned are your sins."27/on behalf of which, I am saying to you, pardoned are her many sins, for she loves much. Now to whom there is scant pardoning, there is scant loving."K1.with oil My head you do not rub, yet she with attar rubs My feet;r0]-a kiss to Me you do not give, yet she, from the time I entered, did not intermit fondly kissing My feet;`/9,And, being turned to the woman, He averred to Simon, "Are you observing this woman? I entered into your house; water for My feet you do not give, yet she rains tears on My feet and with her hair she wipes them off;.#+Now answering, Simon said, "I take it that it is he with whom he deals the more graciously." Now He said to him, "Correctly do you decide."x-i*Now, they having nothing to pay, he deals graciously with both. Which of them, then, will be loving him more?"z,m)"Two debtors paying usury were owing a certain creditor. The one owed five hundred denarii, yet the other fifty.{+o(And answering, Jesus said to him, "Simon, I have something to say to you." Now he is averring, "Teacher, say it!"[*/'Now, perceiving it, the Pharisee who invites Him said in himself, saying, "This one, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman it is who is touching him, seeing that she is a sinner."V)%&and standing behind, beside the feet of Jesus, lamenting, she begins to rain tears on His feet, and with the hair of her head she wiped them off and fondly kissed His feet, and rubbed them with the attar.((I%And lo! a woman who was in the city was a sinner. And, recognizing that He is lying down at table in the Pharisee's house, fetching an alabaster vase of attar '$Now a certain one of the Pharisees asked Him, that He may be eating with him. And entering into the Pharisee's house, He reclined.7&i#And justified was Wisdom by all her children.""%="Come has the Son of Mankind, eating and drinking, and you are saying, "'Lo! a man gluttonous and a tippler, a friend of tribute collectors and sinners!'v$e!For come has John the baptist, neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you are saying, 'A demon has he!'<#q Like are they to little boys and girls sitting in the market and shouting to one another and saying, 'We flute to you and you do not dance! We wail to you and you do not lament!'c"?To whom, then, shall I be likening the men of this generation, and to whom are they like?!yYet the Pharisees and those learned in the law repudiate the counsel of God for themselves, not being baptized by him.} s"And hearing, the entire people, even the tribute collectors, justify God, being baptized with the baptism of John.;o"For verily I am saying to you, A greater prophet, among those born of women, than John the baptist, there is not one. Yet the smaller, in the kingdom of God is greater than he.3This is he concerning whom it is written, 'Lo! I am dispatching My messenger before Thy face, who shall be constructing Thy road in front of Thee.'zmBut what have you come out to perceive? A prophet? Yes, I am saying to you, and exceedingly more than a prophet.)But what do you come out to perceive? A man garbed in soft garments? Lo! those in glorious vesture and inhering in luxury are among the royal.>uNow, at John's messengers coming away, He begins to be saying to the throngs concerning John, "What do you come out into the wilderness to gaze at? A reed being shaken by the wind?<sAnd happy is he whosoever may not be snared in Me."#And answering, Jesus said to them, "Go, report to John what you perceived and hear: that the blind are receiving sight, the lame are walking, lepers are being cleansed, and the deaf are hearing, the dead are being roused, and to the poor the evangel is being brought.wIn that hour He cures many of diseases and scourges and wicked spirits, and to many blind He graciously grants sight."=Now coming along to Him, the men say, "John the baptist dispatches us to Thee, saying, 'Art Thou the coming One, or may we be hoping for another One.?'"5And, calling a certain two of his disciples to him, John sends to Jesus, saying, "Art Thou the coming One, or may we be hoping for a different One?"GAnd his disciples report to John concerning all these things.hIAnd this saying concerning Him came out in the whole of Judea and in the entire country about. Now fear got all, and they glorified God, saying that "A great prophet was roused among us!" and that "God visits His people!"dAAnd the dead youth sits up and begins to be speaking. And He gives him back to his mother.yAnd approaching, He touches the bier. Now those bearing it stand. And he said, "Youth, to you am I saying, Be roused!"^5 And perceiving her, the Lord has compassion on her and said to her, "Do not lament!"C Now as He nears the gate of the city, lo! there was fetched out, being dead, an only-begotten son of his mother. And she was a widow. And a considerable throng of the city was with her.)K And it occurred in the next journey, that He went into a city called Nain. And together with Him went a considerable number of His disciples and a vast throng.Q  And, returning into the house, those sent found the infirm slave sound.6 e Now, hearing these things, Jesus marvels at him, and, being turned to the throng following Him, said, "I am saying to you that not even in Israel did I find so much faith."Z -For I also am a man set under authority, having soldiers under me, and I am saying to this one 'Go,' and he is going, and to another, 'Come,' and he is coming, and to my slave, 'Do this,' and he is doing it."x iWherefore, neither do I count myself worthy to be coming to Thee. But say the word, and my boy will be healed._ 7Now Jesus went with them. Now, as He is already not far away from the house, the centurion sends friends to Him, saying to Him, "Lord, do not bother, for not enough am I that Thou mayest be entering under my roof.Bfor he loves our nation, and he builds us the synagogue." Now, coming along to Jesus, they entreat Him diligently, saying to Him that "Worthy is he to whom Thou shouldst be tendering this,3Now, hearing concerning Jesus, he dispatches to Him elders of the Jews, asking Him so that He, coming, should be bringing his slave safely through.q[Now a certain centurion's slave, who was held in honor by him, having an illness, was about to decease.s aSince, in fact, He completes all His declarations in the hearing of the people, He entered into Capernaum.\11"Now he who hears, and does not, is like a man building a house on the earth without a foundation, to which the river bursts through, and straightway it collapses; and the crash of that house came to be great."yk0Like is he to a man building a house, who digs and deepens, and places the foundation on a rock. Now, at an inundation occurring, the river bursts through to that house, and it is not strong enough to shake it, because it is ideally built.q[/Everyone coming to Me and hearing My words and doing them-I shall be intimating to you whom he is like.X)."Now why are you calling Me 'Lord,''Lord,' and are not doing what I am saying? -"The good man out of the good treasure of his heart is bringing forth that which is good, and the wicked man out of the wicked treasure of his heart is bringing forth that which is wicked, for out of the superabundance of the heart his mouth is speaking.~,For each tree is known by its own fruit. For not from thorns are they culling figs, neither from a thorn bush are they picking grapes.q}[+For an ideal tree is not producing rotten fruit; again, neither is a rotten tree producing ideal fruit.|)*Or how can you be saying to your brother, 'Brother, let me extract the mote in your eye,' observing not, yourself, the beam in your eye? Hypocrite! Extract first the beam out of your eye, and then you will be keen-sighted to be extracting the mote in your brother's eye.z{m)"Now why are you observing the mote in your brother's eye, yet the beam in your own eye you are not considering?cz?(A disciple is not above his teacher, yet everyone who is adjusted will be as his teacher.sy_'Now He told them a parable also: "The blind can not guide the blind. Will not both be falling into a pit?oxW&be giving, and it shall be given to you: a measure ideal, squeezed down and shaken together and running over, shall they be giving into your bosom. For the same measure with which you are measuring will be measured to you again." And not finding by which means they may be carrying him in because of the throng, going up on the housetop, they let him down, with the cot, through the tiles into the midst in front of Jesus.=And lo! men carrying on a couch a man who was paralyzed, and they sought to be carrying him in and to place him before Him.|<qAnd it occurred on one of the days, that He was teaching, and the Pharisees and the teachers of the law were sitting, who were come out of every village of Galilee and of Judea and Jerusalem. And there was power of the Lord for their healing.=;uNow He was retreating in the wilderness and praying.:Yet rather the account concerning Him passed through, and vast throngs came together to hear and to be cured by Him of their infirmities.49aAnd He charges him to be speaking to no one. "But come away, show yourself to the priest, and bring for your cleansing, according as Moses bids, for a testimony to them." 8 And, stretching out His hand, He touches him, saying, "I am willing! Be cleansed!" And immediately the leprosy came away from him.U7# And it occurred, as He is in one of the cities, lo! a man full of leprosy. Now, perceiving Jesus, falling on his face, he besought Him, saying, "Lord, if Thou shouldst be willing, Thou canst cleanse me!"M6 And bringing the ships onto the land, leaving all, they follow Him.*5M Now likewise are James also and John, sons of Zebedee, who were Simon's mates. And Jesus said to Simon, "Fear not! From now on men you shall be catching alive!"\41 For awe engulfs him and all those with him at the catch of fishes which they took.3Now perceiving it, Simon Peter prostrates before Jesus' knees, saying, "Come away from me, for a man, a sinner am I, Lord!"2+and they beckon to their partners in the other ship to come to their aid. And they came, and they fill both the ships so that they are swamped.`19And, this doing, they impound a vast multitude of fishes. Yet their nets tore through,01And answering, Simon said to Him, "Doctor, the whole night through, toiling, we did not get one. Yet, at Thy declaration, I shall lower the nets."q/[Now as He ceases speaking, He said to Simon, "Back up into the depth, and lower your nets for a catch."0.YNow, stepping into one of the ships, which was Simon's, He asks him to be backing up slightly from the land. Now, being seated, He taught the throngs out of the ship.{-oand he perceived two ships standing beside the lake. Now the fishers, stepping off from them, rinse off the nets., Now it occurred, as the throng is importuning Him and hearing the word of God, He also was standing beside lake Gennesaret,9+m,And he was heralding in the synagogues of Judea. * +Now He said to them that "To other cities also I must bring the evangel of the kingdom of God, for for this was I commissioned."6)e*Now at the coming of day, coming out, He went into a desolate place. And the throngs sought for Him, and they came to Him and detained Him, so as not to be going from them.J( )Now demons also came out from many, clamoring and saying that "You are the Christ, the Son of God!" And, rebuking them, He did not let them speak, for they had perceived that He is the Christ.6'e(Now at the setting of the sun, all, whoever had those who are infirm with various diseases, led them also to Him. Now He, placing His hands on each one of them, cures them.~&u'And standing by over her, He rebukes the fever, and the fever leaves her. Now instantly, rising, she waited on them.(%I&Now, rising from the synagogue, Jesus entered into the house of Simon. Now the mother-in-law of Simon was pressed by a high fever, and they ask Him about her.S$%And a hubbub went out concerning Him to every place in the country about.;#o$And awe came on all, and they conferred with one another, saying, "What word is this? for with authority and power is He enjoining the unclean spirits, and they are coming out!"#"?#And Jesus rebukes it, saying, "Be still, and come out from him!" And, pitching him into their midst, the demon came out from him, in nothing harming him.!"saying, "Ha! what is it to us and to you, Jesus the Nazarean? Did you come to destroy us? I am aware who you are-the holy One of God!"s _!And in the synagogue was a man having the spirit of an unclean demon, and it cries out with a loud voice,T! And they were astonished at His teaching, for His word was with authority.gGAnd He came down into Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and He was teaching them on the sabbaths.3aYet He, passing through their midst, went./Wand rising, they cast Him outside of the city. And they led Him to the brow of the mountain on which their city had been built, so as to push Him over the precipice.Y+And filled with fury are all who are in the synagogue, at hearing these things,zmAnd many lepers were in Israel under Elisha the prophet, and none of them is cleansed except Naaman the Syrian."`9and to none of them was Elijah sent, except into Sarepta of Sidonia, to a widow woman.LNow of a truth I am saying to you, that many widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah, when heaven is locked for three years and six months, as a great famine came to be over the entire land, PT~}||N|{azz>yy>=<<;::9918H766655J44T33V32#110q//L..-,,C++>*`))Q(''w&&@%%&$_##}#%""?!!! XKyO'~Znz. $  / wVp;PgTG Now answering, the chief of the synagogue, resenting that Jesus cures on the sabbath, said to the throng that "Six days are there on which one must be working; on them, then, coming, be cured, and not on the sabbath day."hSI And He places His hands on her, and instantly she was made erect again, and she glorified God.pRY Now perceiving her, Jesus shouts and said to her, "Woman, you have been released from your infirmity!" Q And lo! there was a woman having a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and she was bending together and utterly unable to unbend.GP Now He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbaths.{Oo And if, indeed, it ever should be producing fruit in the impending year-otherwise you shall surely hew it down.'"N Yet he, answering, is saying to him, 'Lord, leave it this year also, till I shall be digging and casting manure about it.EM Now he said to the vineyardist, 'Lo! For three years I am coming seeking fruit on this fig tree, and I am not finding any. Hew it down, then. Why is it making the land unproductive also?'L Now He told this parable: "A certain man had a fig tree, planted in his vineyard, and he came, seeking fruit on it and did not find any.tKa No, I am saying to you. But if ever you should not be repenting, all of you similarly shall be perishing."&JE Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam falls and kills them, are you supposing that they came to be debtors beyond all the men dwelling in Jerusalem?jIM No, I am saying to you. But if you should not be repenting, you all shall likewise be perishing..HU And, answering, Jesus said to them, "Are you supposing that these Galileans came to be sinners beyond all the Galileans, seeing that they have suffered such things?G % Now there were some present, on the same occasion, reporting to Him concerning the Galileans whose blood Pilate mixes with their sacrifices.}Fs ;I am saying to you, Under no circumstances may you be coming out thence till you may be paying even the last mite."E :For as you are going away with your plaintiff to a magistrate, take action on the way to be cleared from him, lest at some time he may be dragging you to the judge, and the judge will be giving you over to the sheriff, and the sheriff will be casting you into jail.ID  9Now why, even of yourselves, are you not deciding what is just? C 8Hypocrites! The aspect of the sky and the earth you are aware how to be testing, yet this era you are not aware how to be testing!Bw 7And whenever it is blowing from the south, you are saying that 'There will be a scorching heat,' and it is occurring.=As 6Now He said to the throngs, also, "Whenever you should be perceiving a cloud rising in the west, immediately you are saying that 'A rainstorm is coming,' and it is occurring thus.G@ 5father against son and son against father, and mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."{?o 4For from now on there will be five in one home divided, three against two, and two against three will be divided,v>e 3Are you supposing that I came along to give peace to the earth? No, I am saying to you, but rather division,n=U 2Yet a baptism have I to be baptized with, and how I am being pressed till it should be accomplished!_<7 1"Fire came I to be casting on the earth, and what will I, if it were already kindled?p;Y 0Now he who does not know, yet does what deserves blows, shall have few lashes. Now to everyone to whom much was given, from him much will be sought, and to whom they committed much, more excessively will they be requesting of him.:# /"Now that slave who knows the will of his lord and does not make ready, nor yet does aught with a view to his will, shall have many lashes.S9 .the lord of that slave will be arriving on a day for which he is not hoping and at an hour which he does not know, and shall be cutting him asunder and shall be appointing his part with the unfaithful.H8  -"Now if that slave should be saying in his heart, 'My lord is delaying his coming,' and should be beginning both to beat the boys and the maids and to be eating and drinking and to be drunk,Y7+ ,Truly, I am saying to you that over all his possessions will he be placing him.Q6 +Happy is that slave, whom his lord, coming, will be finding doing thus.A5{ *And the Lord said, "Who, consequently, is the faithful and prudent administrator, whom the lord will be placing over his attendance, to be giving them the measure of grain in season.?\41 )Now Peter said to Him, "Lord, to us art Thou saying this parable, or also to all?"r3] (You also become ready, then, for, in an hour which you are not supposing, the Son of Mankind is coming."25 'Now this you know, that if the householder were aware at what hour the thief is coming, he would watch and would not let his house be tunneled into.1 &"And if He should be coming in the second watch, and if in the third watch, and should be finding them thus, happy are those slaves.V0% %Happy are those slaves, whom the Lord, coming, will be finding watching. Verily, I am saying to you that He will be girding Himself about and causing them to recline, and, coming by, will be serving them.?/w $and you be like men anticipating their own lord, when he should break loose from the wedding festivities, that at his coming and knocking, they should immediately be opening to him.>.w #"Let your loins be girded about and lamps be burning,G- "For wherever your treasure is, there will your heart be also.F, !Sell your possessions and give alms. Make yourselves purses which do not age, a treasure which does not default, in the heavens where a thief is not nearing, neither moth is causing decay.]+3 "Do not fear, little flocklet, for it delights your Father to give you the kingdom.\*1 However, be seeking the kingdom of God, and all these things will be added to you.p)Y For, for all these the nations of the world are seeking. Now your Father is aware that you need these.q([ "And do not you be seeking what you may be eating and what you may be drinking, and be not in suspense.'# Now if God is thus garbing the grass in the field, which is today and tomorrow is cast into the stove, how much rather you, scant of faith?C& "Consider the anemones, how they are growing. They are not toiling, neither are they spinning; yet I am saying to you that not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed as one of these.]%3 If, then, you are not even able for the least, why are you worrying about the rest?P$ Now who of you by worrying is able to add on to his stature one cubit?[#/ Consider the ravens, that they are not sowing, neither are they reaping, for which there is no storeroom nor yet barn, and God is nurturing them. Of how much more consequence are you than the flying creatures!J"  for the soul is more than nourishment and the body than apparel.3!_ Now He said to His disciples, "Therefore I am saying to you, Do not worry about the soul, what you may be eating, nor yet about your body, what you should be putting on,J   Thus is he who is hoarding for himself and is not rich for God." "Yet God said to him, 'Imprudent one! In this night your soul are they demanding from you. Now, what you make ready, whose will it be?' And I will be declaring to my soul, "Soul, many good things have you laid up for many years. Rest, eat, drink, make merry."' 9 And he said, 'This will I be doing: I will pull down my barns, and greater ones will I build, and I will gather there all my grain and my good things.wg And he reasoned in himself, saying, 'What shall I be doing, seeing that I have no where to gather my fruits?'b= Now He told them a parable, saying, "The country place of a certain rich man bears well.~u Now He said to them, "See and guard against all greed, for one's life is not in the superfluity of his possessions."U# Now He said to him, "Man! who constitutes Me a judge or a parter over you?"w Now someone out of the throng said to Him, "Teacher, tell my brother to part the enjoyment of the allotment with me."]3 for the holy spirit will be teaching you in the same hour what you must be saying."C "Now whenever they may be bringing you before the synagogues and the chiefs and the authorities, you should not be worrying about how or what your defense should be or what you may say,4a And everyone who shall be declaring a word against the Son of Mankind, it shall be pardoned him, yet the one who blasphemes against the holy spirit shall not be pardoned._7 Now he who is disowning Me before men will be renounced before the messengers of God.,Q "Now I am saying to you that everyone whoever shall be avowing Me in front of men, him shall the Son of Mankind also be avowing in front of the messengers of God. But even the hairs of your head have all been numbered. Then do not fear! You are of more consequence than many sparrows.hI "Are not five sparrows selling for two pence?-and not one of them is forgotten in God's sight.D Now I shall be intimating to you of Whom you may be afraid: Be afraid of Him Who, after killing, has authority to be casting into Gehenna. Yea, I am saying to you, of this One be afraid!#? "Now I am saying to you, My friends, be not afraid of those who are killing the body and after this do not have anything more excessive that they can do.#? because whatever you say in the darkness shall be heard in the light, and what you speak in the ear in the storerooms shall be heralded on the housetops.e C Now nothing is covered up which shall not be revealed, and hidden which shall not be known,Z  / At which, a throng of ten thousand being assembled so as to be trampling one another, He begins to be saying to His disciples first, "Take heed to yourselves of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.k O 6ambushing Him,seeking to pounce upon something out of His mouth, that they shall be accusing Him.  5And at His coming out thence, the scribes and the Pharisees begin to hem Him in dreadfully and to be quizzing Him concerning more things, 3 4Woe to you who are learned in the law! for you take away the key of knowledge-you yourselves do not enter, and those who are entering you prevent."+O 3from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the house. Yea, I am saying to you, It will be exacted from this generation!y 2that the blood of all the prophets which is shed from the disruption of the world may be exacted from this generation,- 1Therefore, also, God's Wisdom said, 'I shall be dispatching to them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will be killing and banishing,' 0Consequently you are witnesses and are endorsing the acts of your fathers, for they, indeed, kill them, yet you are building their tombs.a; /Woe to you! for you are building the tombs of the prophets, yet your fathers kill them.=s .Yet He said, "To you who are learned in the law, also, woe! for you are loading men with loads hard to bear, and you yourselves are not grazing the loads with one of your fingers. -Now, answering, a certain one of those learned in the law is saying to Him, "Teacher, saying these things, us also are you outraging."% ,Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are as the obscure tombs, and the men who are walking upon them are not aware of it."y +Woe to you, Pharisees! seeing that you are loving the front seat in the synagogues and the salutations in the markets.[/ *"But woe to you, Pharisees! for you are taking tithes from mint and rue and all greens, and you are passing by judging and the love of God. Now these it was binding for you to do and not to be devoid of those.Q~ )However, what is within be giving as alms, and lo! all is clean to you.Q} (Imprudent ones! Does not He Who makes the outside also make the inside?&|E 'Yet the Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees are cleansing the outside of the cup and the platter, yet your inside is brimming with rapacity and wickedness.a{; &Now the Pharisee, perceiving it, marvels that He is not first baptized before luncheon.z %Now, in His speaking, a certain Pharisee is asking Him so that He should be lunching with him. Now entering, He leans back at table.%yC $If, then, your whole body is luminous, not having any part dark, luminous will be the whole, as whenever a lamp, in its flashing, may be illuminating you."@x{ #Be noting, then, that the light in you is not darkness.-wS "The lamp of the body is your eye. Whenever, then, you eye may be single, your whole body, also, is luminous, yet if ever it may be wicked, your body, also is dark.!v; !"Now no one, lighting a lamp, is placing it in hiding, nor yet under a peck measure but on a lampstand, that those going in may be observing the light.8ui Men, Ninevites, will be rising in the judging with this generation and they will be condemning it, for they repent at the heralding of Jonah, and lo! more than Jonah is here!etC The queen of the south will be roused in the judging with the men of this generation and will be condemning them, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and lo! more than Solomon is here!|sq For, according as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, thus the Son of Mankind, also, will be to this generation.Kr Now, the throngs being convened, He begins to be saying, "This generation is a wicked generation. A sign it is seeking, and a sign shall not be given to it except the sign of Jonah the prophet.iqK Yet He said, "Indeed then, happy are those who are hearing the word of God and maintaining it!"Ip  Now it occurred as He is saying these things, a certain woman out of the throng, lifting up her voice, said to Him, "Happy the womb which bears Thee, and the breasts which Thou didst suckle!"Jo  Then it is going and taking along with itself seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and entering, it is dwelling there. And the last state of that man is becoming worse than the first."Gn And coming, it is finding it unoccupied, swept and decorated.Wm' "Whenever the unclean spirit may be coming out from a man, it is passing through waterless places, seeking rest, and not finding it. Then it is saying, 'I will be returning into my home whence I came out.'al; He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who is not gathering with Me is scattering.)kK Yet if ever a stronger than he, coming on, should be conquering him, he is taking away his panoply, in which he had confidence, and is distributing his spoils.kjO "Whenever the strong one, armed, may be guarding his own courtyard, his possessions are in peace.zim Now if I, by the finger of God, am casting out demons, consequently the kingdom of God outstrips in time to you.h Now If I, by Beelzeboul, am casting out demons, by whom are your sons casting them out? Therefore they shall be your judges.g1 Now if Satan, also, is divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand-seeing that you are saying, I am casting out the demons by Beelzeboul?f+ Yet He, aware of their cogitations, said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is being desolated, and house against house is falling.Ge Yet others, trying Him, sought a sign out of heaven from Him.'dG Yet some of them said, "By Beelzeboul, the chief of the demons, is he casting out the demons." Yet He, answering, said, "How can Satan be casting out Satan?"#c? And he was casting out a demon, and it was a mute one. Now it occurred, at the coming out of the demon, that the mute man speaks. And the throngs marvel.Ib  If you, then, being inherently wicked, are aware how to give good gifts to your children, how much rather will the Father Who is out of heaven, be giving holy spirit to those requesting Him!"Va% Or he will also be requesting an egg. He will not be handing him a scorpion!0`Y "Now of some father of you a son will be requesting bread. No stone will he be handing him! Or a fish, also. Not, instead of a fish, a serpent will he be handing him!_y For everyone who is requesting is obtaining and who is seeking is finding, and to the one knocking it shall be opened. ^  "And I to you am saying, Request, and it shall be given to you. Seek, and you shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you.>]u I am saying to you, even if he will not rise to give to him because of his being his friend, surely because of his pestering, being roused, he will be giving him whatever he needs.6\e and he, inside, answering, may be saying, Do not afford me weariness; already the door is locked, and my little children with me are in bed; I can not rise to give to you'?[ since, in fact, a friend of mine came along out of the road to me, and I have nothing that I should be placing before him';+ZO And He said to them, "Who of you will be having a friend and will be going to him at midnight and may be saying to him, 'Friend, let me use three cakes of bread,-YS And pardon us our sins, for we ourselves also are pardoning everyone who is owing us. And mayest Thou not bring us into trial, but rescue us from the wicked one.'")XM Give us our daily dole of bread.CW Now He said to them, "Whenever you may be praying, be saying, 'Our Father, Who art in the heavens, hallowed be Thy name! Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, on earth also,CV  And it occurred at His being in a certain place praying, as He ceases, a certain one of His disciples said to Him, "Lord, teach us to pray, according as John also teaches his disciples."sU_ *Yet of few is there need, or of one. For Mary chooses the good part which shall not be wrested from her."tTa )Now, answering, the Lord said to her, "Martha, Martha, you are worrying and in a tumult about many things.CS (Now Martha was distracted about much serving. Now, standing by, she said, "Lord, art Thou not caring that my sister left me to serve alone? Then speak to her that she may be aiding me."hRI 'Now to her was also a sister called Mary, who, seated also at the Lord's feet, heard His word.Qy &Now at their going, He entered into a certain village. Now a certain woman, named Martha, entertains Him in her house.uPc %Now he said, "The one doing the merciful thing with him." Now Jesus said to him, "Go, and you do likewise."yOk $"Which, then, of these three are you supposing has become an associate of the one falling in with the robbers?"\N1 #And, on the morrow, coming away, extracting two denarii, he gives them to the khan keeper and said to him, 'Care for him, and anything whatever you should be expending, at my coming back, I will be paying you.'M3 "and coming to him, he bandages his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Now, mounting him on his own beast, he led him to a khan and had him cared for.iLK !"Now a certain Samaritan, being on his way, came by him, and perceiving him, he has compassion,kKO Now likewise, a Levite also, coming to the place and perceiving him, passed by on the other side. J  Now it happens by a coincidence, that a certain priest descended by that road, and, perceiving him, passed by on the other side.FI Now taking him up, Jesus said, "A certain man descended from Jerusalem to Jericho. And he falls among robbers, who, stripping him as well as pounding him, came away, leaving him half dead.WH' Yet he, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus, "And who is my associate?"cG? Now He said to him, "Correctly have you answered. This be doing and you shall be living."`F9 Now he, answering, said, "You shall be loving the Lord your God out of your whole heart, and with your whole soul, and with your whole strength, and with your whole comprehension, and 'your associate as yourself.'"PE Now He said to him, "What is written in the law? How are you reading?"D And lo! a certain lawyer rose, putting Him on trial, and saying, "Teacher, by doing what should I enjoy the allotment of life eonian?"9Ck For I am saying to you that many prophets and kings want to perceive what you are observing, and they perceive not, and to hear of Me what you are hearing, and they hear not."~Bu And being turned to the disciples, He said privately, "Happy are the eyes that are observing what you are observing!lAQ And being turned to the disciples, He said, "All was given up to Me by My Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and whomsoever the Son may be intending to unveil Him."!@; In this hour He exults in the holy spirit and said, "I am acclaiming Thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for Thou dost conceal these things from the wise and intelligent and Thou dost reveal them to minors. Yea, Father, seeing that thus it became a delight in front of Thee."? However, in this be not rejoicing, that the spirits are subject to you, yet be rejoicing that your names are engraven in the heavens."6>e Lo! I have given you authority to be treading upon serpents and scorpions and over the entire power of the enemy, and nothing shall be injuring you under any circumstances.T=! Yet He said to them, "I beheld Satan, as lightning, falling out of heaven.m<S Now the seventy-two return with joy, saying, "Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Thy name!"%;C "He who is hearing you is hearing Me. And he who is repudiating you is repudiating Me. Yet he who is repudiating Me is repudiating Him Who commissions Me."b:= And you, Capernaum! Not to heaven shall you be exalted! To the unseen shall you subside!\91 Moreover for Tyre and Sidon will it be more tolerable in the judging than for you.D8 "Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! for if the powerful deeds which are occurring in you occurred in Tyre and Sidon, long ago they would repent, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.i7K Now I am saying to you that it will be more tolerable for Sodom in that day than for that city.+6O 'Even the dust on our feet, which is clinging to us out of your city, are we wiping off before you. Moreover, know this, that near to you is the kingdom of God!"{5o "Now into whatever city you may be entering, and they may not be receiving you, coming out into its squares, say,Z4- and cure the infirm in it, and say to them, 'Near to you is the kingdom of God.'t3a "And into whatever city you may be entering, and they may be receiving you, eat what is placed before you,2' Now in the same house, remain, eating and drinking what they have, for worthy is the worker of his wages. Do not proceed from house to house.~1u And if a son of peace should be there, your peace will be resting on it; otherwise, surely it will come back on you.]03 "Now into whatever house you may be entering, first say, 'Peace to this household!'g/G Bear no purse nor beggar's bag nor yet sandals, and you should be greeting no one by the way.H.  "Go! Lo! I am dispatching you as lambs in the midst of wolves.6-e Now He said to them, "The harvest, indeed, is vast, yet the workers are few. Beseech, then, the Lord of the harvest, so that He should be ejecting workers into His harvest.:, o Now after these things the Lord indicates seventy-two others also, and He dispatches them two by two before His face into every city and place where He was about to be entering.}+s >Yet Jesus said to him, "No one, putting forth his hand on a plow and looking behind, is fit in the kingdom of God."*} =Now a different one also said, "I shall be following Thee, Lord! Yet first permit me to take leave of those in my home."u)c >>=o<22!11000/...#-\-<,,#++***())<((\''&&%Q$$5#k""R!!- qI {V3TGj9}T ZOS % X 2edWt)HD )And as He draws near, perceiving the city, He laments over it,|Cq(And answering, He said to them, "I am saying to you that if ever these will be silent, the stones will be crying."aB;'And some of the Pharisees from the throng say to Him, "Teacher, rebuke your disciples!"uAc&saying, "Blessed be the King coming in the name of the Lord! In heaven peace, and glory among the highest!"_@7%Now at His already drawing near to the descent of the mount of Olives, the entire multitude of the disciples begins rejoicing, praising God with a loud voice concerning all the powerful deeds which they perceived,O?$Now, at His going, they strewed their garments under Him in the road.]>3#And they led it to Jesus, and tossing their garments on the colt, they mount Jesus.5=e"Now they say that "The Lord has need of it."b<=!Now, at their loosing the colt, its masters say to them, "Why are you loosing the colt?"a;; Now, coming away, those who have been dispatched found it according as He said to them.:"And if anyone should be asking you, 'Wherefore are you loosing it?' thus shall you be declaring to him, that 'The Lord has need of it.'"29]saying, "Go away into the village facing you, in which, entering, you will be finding a colt bound, on which no man ever is seated, and loosing it, be leading it to Me.}8sAnd it occurred, as He nears Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount called Olivet, He dispatches two of His disciples,N7And, saying these things, He went in front, going up into Jerusalem.6'However, these, my enemies, who are not willing for me to reign over them-lead them here and slay them in front of me.'"5-"For I am saying to you that to everyone who has, shall be given, yet from him who has not, that also which he has shall be taken away from him.74iAnd they say to him, 'Lord, he has ten minas!'s3_And to those standing by he said, 'Take away the mina from him and give it to him who has the ten minas.'w2gAnd wherefore do you not give my silver to the bank, and I, coming, would utilize it together with interest?'<1qNow he is saying to him, 'Out of your mouth will I judge you, wicked slave! You were aware that I am a harsh man, picking up what I do not lay down and reaping what I do not sow. 0 For I feared you, seeing that you are a harsh man. You are picking up what you do not lay down and reaping what you do not sow.'j/M"And a different one came, saying, 'Lord, lo! your mina which I had, reserved in a handkerchief.G.Now he said to this one also, 'And you, be over five cities.'K-And the second came, saying, 'Your mina, lord, makes five minas.',And he said to him, 'Well done, surely, good slave! Seeing that you became faithful in the least, be having authority over ten cities.'N+Now along came the first, saying, 'Lord, your mina earns ten minas.'?*w"And, obtaining the kingdom, it occurred at his coming back, that he said also to summon to him these slaves to whom he had given the silver, that he may know what business they do.){Now his citizens hated him, and they dispatch an embassy after him, saying, 'We do not want this man to reign over us!'|(q Now, calling ten of his slaves, he gives to them ten minas and said to them, 'Go into business while I am coming.'z'm He said, then, "A certain man, a noble, went into a far country, to obtain for himself a kingdom, and to return.@&y Now at their hearing these things, adding, He spoke a parable because of His being near Jerusalem, and they are supposing that instantly the kingdom of God is about to be looming up.D% For the Son of Mankind came to seek and to save the lost."r$] Now Jesus said to him that "Today salvation came to this home, forasmuch as he also is a son of Abraham.>#uNow standing, Zaccheus said to the Lord, "Lo! the half of my possessions, Lord, I am giving to the poor! And if from anyone I get anything by blackmail, I am giving back fourfold."u"cAnd perceiving it, all grumbled, saying that with a man who is a sinner He entered to put up for the night.H! And hurrying, he descended, and entertains Him with rejoicing. -And as He came to the place, looking up, Jesus perceived him and said to him, "Zaccheus! Hurry! Descend, for today I must remain in your house."!And running before in front, he climbed up on a fig mulberry that he may see Him, seeing that He was about to be passing through that way.veAnd he sought to see Jesus, who He is, and was not able because of the throng, for he was little in stature.wgAnd lo! a man whose name is called Zaccheus was there, and he was a chief tribute collector, and he was rich.0 ]And entering, He passed through Jericho.+And instantly he receives sight and followed Him, glorifying God. And the entire people, perceiving it, give praise to God.K*And Jesus said to him, "Receive sight! Your faith has saved you."pY)"What are you wanting I shall be doing to you?" Now he said, "Lord, that I should be receiving sight!"mS(Now standing still, Jesus orders him to be led to Him. Now at his drawing near, He inquires of him,  'And those preceding rebuked him, that he should be silent. Yet he much the more cried, "Jesus, Son of David, be merciful to me!"L&And he implores, saying, "Jesus, Son of David, be merciful to me!"I %Now they report to him that Jesus, the Nazarene, is passing by.O$Now, hearing a throng going through, he ascertained what this may be.lQ#Now it occurred at His nearing Jericho, that a certain blind man, a mendicant sat beside the road.|q"And they understand none of these things, and this declaration was hid from them, and they knew not what was said.]3!and, scourging Him, they will be killing Him. And the third day He will be rising."c? For He will be given up to the nations and will be scoffed at and outraged and spat upon,9kNow, taking aside the twelve, He said to them, "Lo! we are going up into Jerusalem, and all will be accomplished as to the Son of Mankind that is written through the prophets.mSwho may not by all means be getting back manyfold in this era, and in the coming eon, life eonian."1 [Now He said to them, "Verily, I am saying to you that there is no one who leaves house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children on account of the kingdom of God,@ {Now Peter said, "Lo! we, leaving our own, follow Thee."J  Yet He said, "What is impossible with men is possible with God."; qNow those hearing it said, "And who can be saved?" For it is easier for a camel to be entering through the eye of a bodkin than for a rich man to be entering into the kingdom of God."Now Jesus, perceiving him becoming sorrow-stricken, said, "How squeamishly shall those having money be entering into the kingdom of God!a;Yet he, hearing all these things, became sorrow-stricken, for he was tremendously rich.RNow hearing this, Jesus said to him, "Still one thing you are lacking. All, whatever you have, sell, and distribute to the poor, and you will be having treasure in the heavens. And hither! Follow Me.";qYet he said, "These all I maintain from my youth."_7With the precepts you are acquainted: You should not be committing adultery. You should not be murdering. You should not be stealing. You should not be testifying falsely. Be honoring your father and your mother."^5Now Jesus said to him, "Why are you terming Me good? No one is good except One, God.{And a certain chief inquires of Him, saying, "Good Teacher, by doing what should I enjoy the allotment of life eonian?"1Verily, I am saying to you, Whoever should not be receiving the kingdom of God as a little child, may under no circumstances be entering into it."Yet Jesus calls them to Him, saying, "Let the little children be coming to Me, and do not forbid them, for of such is the kingdom of God.wNow they brought the babes also to Him, that He may be touching them. Now, perceiving it, the disciples rebuked them.F~I am saying to you, this man descended to his home justified, rather than that one, for everyone who is exalting himself shall be humbled, yet he who is humbling himself shall be exalted."5}c Now the tribute collector, standing afar off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his chest, saying, 'God, make a propitiatory shelter for me, the sinner!'`|9 I am fasting twice of a sabbath. I am taking tithes from all whatever I am acquiring.':{m The Pharisee, standing, prayed this to himself: 'God, I am thanking you that I am not even as the rest of men, rapacious, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tribute collector.mzS "Two men went up into the sanctuary to pray, the one a Pharisee, and the other a tribute collector.y Now He said, also, to some who have confidence in themselves that they are just, and are scorning the rest, this parable:9xkI am saying to you that He will be doing the avenging of them swiftly. Moreover, consequently, at the coming of the Son of Mankind, will He be finding the faith on the earth?"w#Yet should not God by all means be doing the avenging of His chosen ones, who are imploring Him day and night? And He is patient with them.BvNow the Lord said, "Hear what the unjust judge is saying.u'surely, because of the weariness this widow is affording me, I shall be avenging her, lest she, coming, may belabor me into a consummation.'"}tsAnd for a time he would not. Yet, after this, he said in himself, 'Even if I am not fearing God nor respecting man,isKNow there was a widow in that city, and she came to him, saying, 'Avenge me from my plaintiff.'grGsaying, "A certain judge was in a certain city, who did not fear God and did not respect man.dq CNow He told them a parable also, so that they must always be praying and not be despondent,p'%And answering, they are saying to Him, "Where, Lord?" Yet He said to them, "Wherever the body is, there the vultures also will be assembled."o'$(no verse 36)sn_#There will be two grinding at the same place; the one shall be taken along, yet the other shall be left."m""I am saying to you, in this night there will be two on one couch; the one shall be taken along and the other shall be left. l!Whosoever should be seeking to procure his soul will be destroying it, yet whoever should be destroying it will cause it to live.k5 Remember Lot's wife.Cj"In that day, he who shall be on the housetop and his gear in his house, let him not be descending to pick it up. And let the one in the field likewise not turn back to that behind him.]i3In accord with these will it be on the day in which the Son of Mankind is unveiled.thaYet on the day in which Lot came out from Sodom, fire and sulphur rains from heaven and destroys them all. g "Likewise, according as it occurred in the days of Lot, they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built.%fCThey ate, they drank, they married, they took out in marriage, until the day on which Noah entered into the ark, and the deluge came and destroys them all.tea"And according as it occurred in the days of Noah, thus will it be in the days of the Son of Mankind also.Xd)Yet first He must be suffering many things and be rejected by this generation.c'For even as the lightning, flashing out from here under heaven to there under heaven, is shining, thus will be the Son of Mankind in His day.byAnd they shall be declaring to you, 'Lo! there!' or 'Lo! here!' You may not come away, nor yet should you be pursuing.#a?Yet He said to His disciples, "Coming will be days when you will be yearning to perceive one of the days of the Son of Mankind, and you shall not see it.s`_Neither shall they be declaring 'Lo! here!' or 'Lo! there!' for lo! the kingdom of God is inside of you."&_ENow, being inquired of by the Pharisees as to when the kingdom of God is coming, He answered them and said, "The kingdom of God is not coming with scrutiny.B^And He said to him, "Rise, go. Your faith has saved you."P]Were none found returning to give glory to God except this foreigner?"X\)Now, answering, Jesus said, "Are not the ten cleansed? Yet where are the nine?U[#And he falls on his face at His feet, thanking Him. And he was a Samaritan.dZANow one of them, perceiving that he was healed, returns, glorifying God with a loud voice.Y%And, perceiving it, He said to them, "Go, exhibit yourselves to the priests." And at their going away, it came to be that they are cleansed.QX And they lift their voices, saying, "Jesus, Doctor, be merciful to us!"bW= And, at His entering into a certain village, ten men, lepers, meet Him, who stand ahead.pVY And it occurred at His going into Jerusalem, He also passed through the middle of Samaria and Galilee.+UO Thus, you also, whenever you should be doing all these things that are prescribed you, be saying that 'Useless slaves are we. What we ought to do we have done.'"[T/ "Has that slave no thanks, seeing that he does what is prescribed? I presume not!TS!But will he not be declaring to him, 'Make something ready for me. I should be dining. And, being girded, serve me till I should be eating and drinking, and after this you shall be eating and drinking.')RK"Now who of you, having a slave plowing or tending sheep, who, on entering from the field, will be declaring to him, 'Come by immediately, lean back at table'?*QMYet the Lord said, "If you have faith as a mustard kernel, you would say to this black mulberry, 'Be uprooted and be planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.=PuAnd the apostles say to the Lord, "Add to us faith."@OyAnd if he should ever be sinning against you seven times a day, and if he should ever be turning about seven times a day to you, saying 'I am repenting,' you shall be forgiving him."NTake heed to yourselves. Yet if your brother should be sinning, rebuke him, and if he should ever indeed repent, forgive him.0MYAn advantage were it to him if a millstone were lying about his neck and he were pitched into the sea, rather than that he should be snaring one of these little ones.L Now He said to His disciples, "Incredible is it for snares not to be coming. Moreover, woe to him through whom they are coming! K9Yet he said to him, 'If Moses and the prophets they are not hearing, neither will they be persuaded if someone should be rising from among the dead.'"zJmYet he said, 'No, father Abraham, but if someone should be going to them from the dead, they will be repenting.'_I7Yet Abraham is saying to him, 'They have Moses and the prophets. Let them hear them!'Hfor I have five brothers, so that he may be certifying to them, lest they also may be coming into this place of torment.'mGS"Yet he said, 'I am asking you then, father, that you should be sending him into my father's house,;FoAnd in all this, between us and you a great chasm has been established, so that those wanting to cross hence to you may not be able, nor yet those thence may be ferrying to us.'6Ee"Now Abraham said, 'Child, be reminded that you got your good things in your life, and Lazarus likewise evil things. Yet now here he is being consoled, yet you are in pain.EDAnd he shouting, said, 'Father Abraham, be merciful to me, and send Lazarus that he should be dipping the tip of his finger in water and cooling my tongue, for I am pained in this flame.'C{And in the unseen, lifting up his eyes, existing in torments, he is seeing Abraham from afar, and Lazarus in his bosom.BNow the poor man came to die and he is carried away by the messengers into Abraham's bosom. Now the rich man also died, and was entombed.Aand yearning to be satisfied from the scraps which are falling from the rich man's table. But the curs also, coming, licked his ulcers.i@KNow there was a certain poor man named Lazarus, who had been cast at his portal, having ulcers,j?M"Now a certain man was rich and he dressed in purple and cambric, daily making merry splendidly.->S"Everyone dismissing his wife and marrying another is committing adultery. And everyone marrying her who has been dismissed from a husband, is committing adultery.a=;Yet it is easier for heaven and earth to pass by than for one serif of the law to fall.@<y"The law and the prophets are unto John; thenceforth, the evangel of the kingdom of God is being brought, and everyone is violently forcing into it, and the violent are snatching it.=;sAnd He said to them, "You are those who are justifying yourselves in the sight of men, yet God knows your hearts, for what is high among men is an abomination in the sight of God.i:KNow the Pharisees also, inherently fond of money, heard all these things, and they scouted Him.F9 No domestic can be slaving for two lords, for either he will be hating one and loving the other, or he will be upholding one and despising the other. You can not slave for God and mammon."}8s And, if you did not come to be faithful in that which is an outsider's, who will be giving you that which is yours?q7[ If, then, you did not come to be faithful in the unjust mammon, who will be entrusting to you the true?}6s He who is faithful in the least is faithful in much also, and he who is unjust in the least is unjust in much also.;5o "And am I saying to you, Make for yourselves friends with the mammon of injustice, that, whenever it may be defaulting, they should be receiving you into the eonian tabernacles?-4S"And the lord applauds the unjust administrator, for he does prudently, for the sons of this eon are more prudent, above the sons of light in their own generation.33_Thereupon to another he said, 'Now you, how much are you owing?' Now he said, 'A hundred cors of grain.' And he is saying to him, 'Receive your bills, and write eighty.' 2 Now he said to him, 'A hundred baths of oil.' Now he said to him, 'Receive your bills, and, being seated, quickly write fifty.'1"And calling to him each one of the debtors paying usury to his lord, he said to the first, 'How much are you owing my lord?'-0STo be a mendicant I am ashamed. I knew what I shall be doing that whenever I may be deposed from the administration, they should be receiving me into their homes.'(/INow the administrator said in himself, 'What shall I be doing, seeing that my lord will be wresting the administration from me? To dig I am not strong enough.*.MAnd summoning him, he said to him, 'What is this I am hearing concerning you? Render an account of your administration, for you can no longer be administrator.'/- YNow He said to His disciples also, "A certain man, who was rich, had an administrator, and this man was accused to him by an adversary as dissipating his possessions.},s Yet we must be merry and rejoice, seeing that this your brother was dead and revives, and was lost and was found.'"U+#"Now he said to him, 'Child, you are always with me, and all mine is yours.* Yet when this son of yours came, who is devouring your livelihood with prostitutes, you sacrifice for him the grain-fed calf!'@)yNow he, answering, said to his father, 'Lo! so many years am I slaving for you, and I never passed by your precept, and you never give me a kid that I may make merry with my friends.](3Now he is indignant and would not enter. Yet his father, coming out, entreated him.'Now he said to him that 'Your brother is arriving, and your father sacrifices the grain-fed calf, seeing that he got him back sound.']&3And, calling one of the boys to him, he inquired to ascertain whatever this may be.u%c"Now his elder son was in the field, and, coming, as he nears the house, he hears music and choral dancing.i$Kfor this my son was dead and revives; he was lost and was found.' And they begin to make merry.U##And bring the grain-fed calf, sacrifice it, and, eating, we may make merry,"5Yet the father said to his slaves, 'Quick! Bring forth the first robe, and put it on him, and give him a ring for his hand and sandals for his feet.&!ENow the son said to him, 'Father, I sinned against heaven and in your sight. No longer am I worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired men.'2 ]And rising, he came to his father. "Now, at his being still far away, his father perceived him and has compassion, and running, falls on his neck and fondly kisses him.Z-No longer am I worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired men."'pYRising, I will go to my father and declare to him, "Father, I sinned against heaven and in your sight."Now, coming to himself, he averred, 'How many of my father's hired men are being cloyed with bread, yet I am perishing here of famine!oWAnd he yearned to be satisfied with the little carob pods which the hogs ate, and no one gave to him.{oAnd, going, he was joined to one of the citizens of that country, and he sends him into his fields to graze hogs.gG"Now, he spending all, a severe famine occurred in that country, and he begins to be in want.1 And, after not many days, gathering all together, the younger son travels into a far country and there dissipates his estate, living profligately.+ And the younger of them said to the father, 'Father, give me the part of the estate accruing to me.' Now he apportioned to them the livelihood.2_ Now He said, "A certain man had two sons.w Thus, I am saying to you, there is coming to be joy in the sight of the messengers of God over one sinner repenting."- And, finding it, she is calling together the friends and the neighbors, saying 'Rejoice together with me that I found the drachma which I lose!'7g"Or what woman having ten drachmas, if she should ever be losing one drachma, is not lighting a lamp and sweeping the house and seeking carefully till she may be finding it?)KI am saying to you that thus there will be joy in heaven over one sinner repenting, more than over the ninety-nine just persons who have no need of repentance.+OAnd, coming into the house, he is calling together the friends and the neighbors, saying to them, 'Rejoice together with me that I found my sheep that was lost!'GAnd finding it, he is placing it on his shoulders, rejoicing.8i"What man of you, having a hundred sheep, and losing one of them, is not leaving the ninety-nine in the wilderness and is going after the lost one, till he may be finding it?/YNow He told them this parable, saying,yAnd both the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying that "This man sinners is receiving, and is eating with them!"[  1Now all the tribute collectors and sinners were coming near Him to be hearing Him.z m#Neither is it fit for the land nor for manure. Outside are they casting it. Who has ears to hear, let him hear!"m S""Ideal, then, is salt. Yet if even the salt should be made insipid, with what shall it be seasoned?p Y!Thus, then, everyone of you who is not taking leave of all of his possessions, can not be My disciple.x i Otherwise, surely, at his being still at a distance, he, dispatching an embassy, is asking the terms of peace.H "Or what king, going to engage another king in battle, will not, being seated, first plan to see if he is able to meet, with ten thousand, him who is coming against him with twenty thousand?W'saying that 'This man begins building and is not strong enough to finish up!'lest at some time, he laying a foundation and not being strong enough to finish up, all those beholding should begin to scoff at him,"For which of you, wanting to build a tower, is not first seated to calculate the expense, to see if he has the wherewithal?-^5And anyone who is not bearing his cross and coming after Me, can not be My disciple.8i"If anyone is coming to Me and is not hating his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and still more his soul besides, he can not be My disciple.V%Now vast throngs went together with Him. And, being turned, He said to them,kOFor I am saying to you that not one of those men who are invited shall be tasting of my dinner.'" And the lord said to the slave, 'Come out into the roads and stone dikes, and compel them to enter, that my house may be crammed.`9"And the slave said to him, 'Lord, what you enjoin is done, and still there is place.'}~s"And, coming along, the slave reports these things to his lord. Then being indignant, the householder said to his slave, 'Come out quickly into the squares and streets of the city, and lead in here the poor, and cripples, and blind, and lame.'S}And a different one said, 'I marry a wife, and therefore I can not come.'|wAnd a different one said, 'I buy five yoke of oxen, and I am going to test them. I am asking you to have me excused.'A{{And they all begin, from one motive, to make excuse. The first said to him, 'I buy a field, and I have felt the necessity of coming out to see it. I am asking you to have me excused.'sz_And he dispatches his slave at the dinner hour to say to those invited, 'Come, for already, it is ready!'SyNow He said to him, "A certain man made a great dinner, and invites many.x3Now hearing these things, someone of those lying back at table with Him, said to Him, "Happy is he who will be eating bread in the kingdom of God!"wyand happy will you be, for they have nothing to repay you, for it will be repaid you in the resurrection of the just."jvM But, whenever you may be making a reception, invite the poor, the cripples, the lame, the blind,0uY Now He said to him also who has invited Him, "Whenever you may be making a luncheon or a dinner, do not be summoning your friends, nor yet your brothers, nor yet your relatives, nor yet rich neighbors, lest at some time they also should be inviting you in return, and repayment may come to you.at; For everyone exalting himself shall be humbled, and humbling himself shall be exalted." s But, whenever you may be invited, going, lean back in the last place, that whenever he who has invited you may be coming, he will be declaring to you, 'Friend, step further up.' Then glory will be yours in the sight of all those lying back at table with you.0rY and when he who invites you and him comes, he will be declaring to you, 'Give this one place.' And then, with shame, you should be beginning to retain the last place.Cq"Whenever you may be invited by anyone to wedding festivities, you may not recline in the first reclining place, lest at some time one held in honor more than you may be invited by him,ypkNow He told a parable to those invited, attending to how they chose the first reclining places, saying to them,MoAnd they are not strong enough to answer Him again to these things.n/And answering, He said to them, Whose son or ox of yours will be falling into a well and he will not immediately pull him up on the sabbath day?"SmNow they are quiet. And, getting hold of him, He heals and dismisses him. lAnd answering, Jesus spoke to those learned in the law and to the Pharisees, saying, "Is it allowed to cure on the sabbath or not?"=kuAnd lo! a certain man in front of Him was dropsical.j 3And it occurred at His coming into the house of a certain one of the chiefs of the Pharisees on a sabbath to eat bread, they were scrutinizing Him.[i/ #Lo! left to you is your house. Yet I am saying to you that by no means may you be perceiving Me till the time will be arriving when you should be saying, 'Blessed is He Who is coming in the name of the Lord!'"mhS ""Jerusalem! Jerusalem! killing the prophets and pelting with stones those who have been dispatched to her! How many times do I want to assemble your children in the manner a hen does her brood under her wings, and you will not! g !Moreover, I must be going today and tomorrow and the coming one, for it is not credible that a prophet perish outside of Jerusalem.,fQ And He said to them, "Go and say to this jackal, 'Lo! I am casting out demons and performing healings today and tomorrow, and the third day I am being perfected.'zem In the same hour some Pharisees approached, saying to Him, "Come out and go hence, for Herod wants to kill you."Xd) And lo! they are last who will be first, and they are first who will be last."c} And they will be arriving from east and west and from north and south and will be made to recline in the kingdom of God.=bs "There there will be lamentation and gnashing of teeth, whenever you should be seeing Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, yet you cast outside.a! He also will be declaring: 'I am saying to you, I am not acquainted with you! Whence are you? Withdraw from me, all workers of injustice!'n`U Then should you be beginning to say, 'We ate and drank in your sight, and in our squares you teach!'_+ From which time the householder should be roused and latch the door, and you should be beginning to stand outside and to be knocking at the door, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us!' and answering, he will be declaring to you, 'I am not acquainted with you! Whence are you?'^% "Be struggling to be entering through the cramped door, for I am saying to you, many will be seeking to enter and will not be strong enough.T]! Now someone said to Him, "Lord, are few being saved?" Now He said to them,_\7 And He went through by cities and villages, teaching and going, making for Jerusalem.s[_ Like is it to leaven, which, getting, a woman hides in three seahs of meal, till the whole was leavened."MZ And again He said, "To what shall I be likening the kingdom of God?8Yi Like is it to a mustard kernel, which, getting, a man casts into his garden. And it grows and became a great tree, and the flying creatures of heaven roost among its boughs."aX; He said, then, "To what is the kingdom of God like? And to what shall I be likening it?$WA And at His saying these things, all those opposing Him were mortified, and the entire throng rejoiced at all the glorious things coming to be done by Him.V# Now this woman-being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan binds, lo! eighteen years-must she not be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?"5Uc Yet the Lord answered him and said, "Hypocrites! Each of you, on the sabbath, is he not loosing his ox or ass from the manger, and, leading it away, is giving it to drink? Bz~~"}}<||C{zzz[yy)xxww:vvWuttgssrqpp8ooonn#mllzl5kkkjjihhxh!gggfff8evddd,cc"bb ai``_^^]]]\~\A[[[AZZDYXXWuW VV8UUATTiSS8RQQQJPPtPOO`ONN"MzLLSKKKJJ"IzHHIGGTFFcEEFDD]CC_CB|BAz@@6?y?>>4==Z=<<";; ::R9988977=66h55A44 333221100C//..[--R-,x++?**]))g((/'''9&&&H%%$$E##7"!!!& &?;1\,<hWr'+kI >  7 /F;M5v(BAG}(And saying this, He exhibits to them His hands and feet.F5'Perceive My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself. Handle Me and perceive, for a spirit has not flesh and bones according as you behold Me having."mES&And He said to them, "Why are you disturbed? And wherefore are reasonings coming up in your hearts?aD;%Yet, being dismayed and becoming affrighted, they supposed they are beholding a spirit.wCg$Now at their speaking these things, Jesus Himself stood in their midst and is saying to them, "Peace to you!"mBS#And they unfolded the events on the road, and how He is known to them in the breaking of the bread.LA"who said that "Really roused was the Lord, and was seen by Simon!"{@o!And rising in the same hour, they return to Jerusalem and found the eleven convened together and those with them,?% And they say to one another, "Was not our heart burning in us as He spoke to us on the road and as He opened up to us to us the scriptures?"b>=Now their eyes were opened up, and they recognize Him. And He became unapparent to them.=And it occurred, at His reclining at table with them, taking the bread, He blesses it, and, breaking, He handed it to them.</And they urge Him, saying, "Remain with us, for it is toward dusk and the day has already declined." And He entered to remain together with them.i;KAnd they draw near to the village where they went, and He does as though He were going further. : And, beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, He interprets to them, in all the scriptures, that which concerns Himself.Y9+Must not the Christ be suffering these things, and be entering into His glory?"m8SAnd He said to them, "O foolish and tardy of heart to be believing on all which the prophets speak!7!And some of those with us came away to the tomb, and they found it thus, according as the women also said, yet Him they did not perceive."6and not finding His body, they came saying that they have seen an apparition of messengers also, who say that He is living.M5But some also of our women amaze us. Coming to be at the tomb early84iYet we expected that He is the One about to be redeeming Israel. But surely, together with all these things also, it is leading in this third day since these things occurred.o3Wso that both our chief priests and chiefs give Him up to the judgment of death, and they crucify Him.G2And He said to them, "Which?" Now they say to Him, "Those concerning Jesus the Nazarean, a Man Who came to be a Prophet, powerful in work and in word, in front of God and the entire people,%1CNow, answering, the one named Cleopas said to Him, "You are sojourning alone in Jerusalem and did not know what things are occurring in her in these days?"0Now He said to them, "What words are these which you are bandying one with another while walking?" And they stood with a sad countenance.=/uYet their eyes were held so as not to recognize Him.{.oAnd it occurred, in their conversation and discussion, Jesus Himself also, drawing near, went together with them.a-;And they conversed with one another concerning all of these things which have befallen.,y And lo! two of them in the same day were going into a village which is named Emmaus, sixty stadia away from Jerusalem. +9 Yet Peter, rising, ran to the tomb, and peering in, is observing the swathings only. And he came away marveling to himself at that which has occurred.a*; And these declarations appear in their sight as if nonsense, and they disbelieved them.) Now there were the Magdalene Mary and Joanna and Mary of James and the rest together with them, who told these things to the apostles.g(G And, returning from the tomb, they report all these things to the eleven and to all the rest.3'aAnd they are reminded of His declarations.&saying that 'The Son of Mankind must be given up into the hands of men, sinners, and be crucified, and the third day rise.'"c%?He is not here, but was roused. Be reminded how He speaks to you, being still in Galilee,$Now at their becoming affrighted and inclining their faces to the earth, they say to them, "Why are you seeking the living with the dead?r#]And it occurred, at their being perplexed concerning this, lo! two men stand by them in flashing attire.H" Now, entering also, they found not the body of the Lord Jesus.And coming outside, Peter laments bitterly.9]k=And being turned, the Lord looks at Peter, and Peter is reminded of the declaration of the Lord, as He said to him, "Ere a cock crows today, you will be renouncing Me thrice."x\ithat you may be eating and drinking at My table in My kingdom. And you will be seated on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel."f=EAnd I am covenanting a covenant with you, according as My Father covenanted a kingdom to Me,E<"Now you are those who have continued with Me in My trials.;3For who is greater, the one lying back at table or the one serving? Is it not the one lying back? Yet I am in your midst as the One Who is serving.:}Yet you are not thus, but let the greatest among you become as the youngest, and he who is leading as he who is serving.9Now He said to them, "The kings of the nations are lording it over them, and those exercising authority over them are called benefactors.m8SNow there came to be a rivalry also among themselves as to which of them is seeming to be greatest.~7uAnd they, consequently, begin to discuss among themselves which of them it may be who is about to commit this thing.6-seeing that the Son of Mankind is indeed going, according as it has been specified. However, woe to that man through whom He is being given up!"T5!Moreover, lo! the hand of him who is giving Me up is with Me on the table,4Similarly, the cup also, after the dinner, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is shed for your sakes.$3AAnd, taking bread, giving thanks, He breaks it and gives to them, saying, "Take. This is My body, given for your sakes. This do for a recollection of Me."$2AFor I am saying to you that under no circumstances may I be drinking, from now on, of the product of the grapevine till the kingdom of God may be coming."d1AAnd, receiving the cup, giving thanks, He said, "Take this and divide it among yourselves.0For I am saying to you that under no circumstances may I be eating of it till it may be fulfilled in the kingdom of God."n/UAnd He said to them, "With yearning I yearn to be eating this passover with you before My suffering.[./And when the hour came, He leans back at table, and the twelve apostles with Him.q-[ Now, coming away, they found it according as He had declared to them. And they make ready the passover.d,A And that man will be showing you a large upper room with places spread. There make ready."<+q And you will be declaring to the householder of the house, saying, 'The Teacher is saying to you, "Where is My caravansary where I may be eating the passover with My disciples?"'$*A Now He said to them, "Lo! at your entering into the city a man will meet with you, bearing a jar of water. Follow him into the house which he is entering.i)K Yet they say to Him, "Where dost Thou want that we should be making ready to eat the passover?"s(_And He dispatches Peter and John, saying, "Go and make ready for us the passover, that we may be eating."Y'+Now came the day of unleavened bread, in which the passover must be sacrificed.]&3And he acquiesces, and sought an opportunity to give Him up to them minus a throng.?%yAnd they rejoiced, and they agreed to give him silver.o$WAnd, coming away, he confers with the chief priests and officers how he may be giving Him up to them.[#/Yet Satan entered into Judas, called Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve.u"cAnd the chief priests and the scribes sought how they may be assassinating Him, for they feared the people.M! Now near drew the festival of unleavened bread, termed the Passover.P &And the entire people came early to Him in the sanctuary, to hear Him.%Now during the days, He was in the sanctuary, teaching. Yet during the nights, coming out, He camped out in the mount called Olivet.5c$Now be vigilant, on every occasion beseeching that you may be prevailing to escape all these things which are about to occur, and to stand in front of the Son of Mankind."a;#as a trap, for it will intrude on all those sitting on the surface of the entire earth.I ""Now take heed to yourselves, lest at some time your hearts should be burdened with crapulence and drunkenness and the worries of life's affairs, and that day may be standing by you unawares,]3!Heaven and earth shall be passing by, yet My words shall by no means be passing by.uc Verily, I am saying to you that by no means may this generation be passing by till all should be occurring.ucThus you also, whenever you may be perceiving these things occurring, know that near is the kingdom of God.|qWhenever they should be already budding, you, observing for yourselves, know it is because summer is already near.OAnd He told them a parable: "Perceive the fig tree and all the trees.~uNow at the beginning of these occurrences, unbend and lift up your heads, because your deliverance is drawing near."gGAnd then they shall be seeing the Son of Mankind coming in a cloud with power and much glory.5at the chilling of men from fear and apprehensiveness of that which is coming on the inhabited earth, for the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.4aAnd there shall be signs in the sun and the moon and the constellations, and on the earth pressure of nations in perplexity, at the resounding of the sea and the shaking,N"And they shall be falling by the edge of the sword and shall be led into captivity into all nations. And Jerusalem shall be trodden by the nations, until the eras of the nations may be fulfilled.7Yet woe to those who are pregnant, and to those suckling in those days; for there will be great necessity in the land and indignation on this people.J for days of vengeance are these, to fulfill all that is written.,QThen let those in Judea flee into the mountains, and let those in her midst be coming out into the country, and let not those in the country be entering into her,yk"Now whenever you may be perceiving Jerusalem surrounded by encampments, then know that her desolation is near.= uBy your endurance shall you be acquiring your souls.A }And a hair of your head should by no means be perishing.: oAnd you shall be hated by all because of My name. Yet you shall be given up by parents also, and brothers and relatives and friends, and they shall be putting some of you to death. {for I will be giving you a mouth and wisdom, which all those opposing you shall not be able to withstand or contradict.I Ponder, then, in your hearts not to be premeditating a defense,<s Yet it shall be eventuating to you for a testimony.Y+ Yet before all these things they shall be laying their hands on you and they shall be persecuting you, giving you up into the synagogues and jails, being led off to kings and governors on account of My name./ Besides, there shall be great quakes and, in places, famines and pestilences. There shall be fearful sights besides great signs also from heaven.dA Then He said to them, "Roused shall be nation against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.*M Now whenever you should be hearing battles and turbulences you may not be dismayed, for these things must occur first, but not immediately is the consummation."6eNow He said, "Beware that you may not be deceived, for many shall be coming in My name, saying that I am!' and 'The season is near!' You may not, then, be going after them. 9Now they inquire of Him, saying, "Teacher, when, then, will these things be, and what is the sign whenever these things may be about to be occurring?"!"These which you are beholding-there will be coming days in which not a stone will be left here on a stone, which will not be demolished."zmAnd at some saying concerning the sanctuary, that it is adorned with ideal stones and votive offerings, He said,%~CFor all these cast out of their superfluity into the approach presents of God, yet this woman, out of her want, casts in all the livelihood which she had."^}5And He said, "Truly, I am saying to you that this poor widow casts in more than all.S|Yet He perceived a certain widow also, a drudge, casting there two mites.b{ ?Now, looking up, He perceived the rich casting their approach presents into the treasury. z/who are devouring the homes of widows and, for a pretense, are prolix in praying. These will be getting more excessive judgment.">yu."Take heed of the scribes, who are wanting to walk in robes, and are fond of salutations in the markets and front seats in the synagogues and first reclining places at the dinners,Lx-Now in the hearing of the entire people, He said to His disciples,Bw,David, then, is calling Him Lord. And how is He his Son?"Pv+Till I should be placing Thine enemies for a footstool for Thy feet."'luQ*For he, David, is saying in the scroll of the Psalms, 'Said the Lord to my Lord, "Sit at My right,St)Now He said to them, "How are some saying that the Christ is David's Son?:so(For they no longer dared inquire of Him anything.Tr!'Now answering, some of the scribes say to Him, "Teacher, ideally say you."Zq-&Now God is He, not of the dead, but of the living, for all, to Him, are living."(pI%"Now that the dead are rousing, even Moses divulges at the thorn bush, as he is terming the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. o $For neither can they still be dying, for they are equal to messengers, and are the sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.n#Yet those deemed worthy to happen upon that eon and the resurrection from among the dead are neither marrying nor taking out in marriage.pmY"And, answering, Jesus said to them, "The sons of this eon are marrying and are taking out in marriage.lw!The woman, in the resurrection, then, of which of them is she becoming the wife? For the seven have had her as wife."6kg Now subsequently to all, the woman also died._j7And the third got her. Now similarly, the seven also left no children, and they died.BiAnd the second got the wife, and this one died childless.Yh+Seven brothers there were, then, and the first, getting a wife, died childless.cg?saying, "Teacher, Moses writes to us, if anyone's brother should be dying, and having a wife, this one should be dying childless, that his brother may be getting the wife, and should be raising up seed to his brother.cf?Now approaching, some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, inquire of Him, eAnd they are not strong enough to get hold of a declaration of His in front of the people. And, marveling at His answer, they hush.Zd-Now He said to them, "Now then, be paying Caesar's to Caesar, and God's to God." cShow Me a denarius." Now they show Him one, and He said, "Whose image and inscription has it?" Now answering, they say, "Caesar's."Ub#Now, considering their craftiness, He said to them, "Why are you trying Me?;aqIs it allowed us to give a tax to Caesar, or not?"B`}And they inquire of Him, saying, "Teacher, we are aware that you are saying and teaching correctly, and are not taking the surface view, but of a truth the way of God you are teaching.S_And scrutinizing Him, they dispatch eavesdroppers, feigning themselves to be just, that they may get hold of a word of His, so as to give Him up to the sovereignty and the jurisdiction of the governor.5^cAnd the scribes and the chief priests seek to lay hands on Him in this hour, and they were afraid of the people, for they know that He told this parable in regard to them. ] Everyone falling on that stone shall be shattered, yet on whomever it should be falling, it will be scattering him like chaff.")\KYet He, looking at them, said, "What, then, is this that is written, 'The stone which is rejected by the builders, This came to be for the head of the corner'?[/He will be coming and destroying these farmers and will be giving the vineyard to others." Now those hearing say, "May it not be coming to that!"~ZuAnd, casting him outside of the vineyard, they kill him. What, then, will the lord of the vineyard be doing to them?LYNow on perceiving him, the farmers reasoned with one another, saying, 'This is the enjoyer of the allotment. Hither! We should be killing him, that the enjoyer of the allotment may become ours.'X/ "Now the lord of the vineyard said, 'What shall I be doing? I shall be sending my son, the beloved. Him they will be respecting equally with me.'`W9 And, in addition, he sent a third. Yet wounding this one also, those men cast him out.}Vs And, in addition, he sent a different slave. Yet that one also, lashing and dishonoring, those men send away empty.'UG And in season he dispatches to the farmers a slave, that they shall give him of the fruit of the vineyard. Yet the farmers, lashing him, send him away empty.T3 Now He begins to be telling to the people this parable, "A certain man plants a vineyard and leased it to farmers, and travels a considerable time.gSGAnd Jesus said to them, "Neither am I telling you by what authority I am doing these things."6RgAnd they answered, "We are not aware whence."QYet, if we should be saying, 'Of men,' the people all will be stoning us, for they are persuaded that John is a prophet."'PGNow they reckon together among themselves, saying that "If we should be saying, 'Of heaven,' he will be declaring, 'Wherefore, then, do you not believe him?'9OmThe baptism of John-was it of heaven or of men?"`N9Now answering, He said to them, "I also shall be asking you one word, and you tell Me:MAnd they say, speaking to Him, "Tell us, by what authority are you doing these things, or who is giving you this authority?";L qAnd it occurred on one of those days, at His teaching the people in the sanctuary and bringing the evangel, the chief priests and the scribes, together with the elders, stand by.aK;0And they found not what they should be doing, for all the people, hearing, hung on Him.J/And He was teaching daily in the sanctuary, yet the chief priests and the scribes and the foremost of the people sought to destroy Him.wIg.saying to them, "It is written, My house shall also be a house of prayer,' yet you make it a burglars' cave."iHK-And, entering into the sanctuary, He begins to cast out those who are selling and buying in it,&GE,and will be leveling you and your children in you, and they will not be leaving a stone on a stone in you, because you knew not the era of your visitation."*FM+for the days will be arriving on you, and your enemies will be casting up a rampart about you, and will be surrounding you, and will be pressing you everywhere,E}*saying that, "If you knew, even you, and surely in this day, what is for your peace-! Yet now it was hid from your eyes, DQ"~U~}}||%{{>zzz?zyyWxxx-wwowvv9uutatssJrr[qq1ppUooMnnLmm0ll3kLjjjijiHhh7gff|f4eedccdbaaza1``V__c^^]\\g[[[ZaYYcXX~WWWVV6UUgTSSIRR0QQPPIONN}N MLLfKKJJIHHH`GG0FEEDDDCCCBB_B AAA(@@&??>C==<;;2::9998l77(665544P433r3211)00@//(..--t,,)+k*** )((]'''&%%k$$##'""6!!d <sJ)_b_2%a[uF N gx)B/ DAD{Do not work for the food which is perishing, but for the food which is remaining for life eonian, which the Son of Mankind will be giving to you, for this One God, the Father, seals."/CWJesus answered them and said, "Verily, verily, I am saying to you, You are seeking Me, not that you perceived signs, but that you ate of the bread and are satisfied.pBYAnd, finding Him on the other side of the sea, they said to Him, "Rabbi, when camest Thou to be here?"A1When, then, the throng perceived that Jesus is not there, neither His disciples, they stepped into the boats and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.p@YBut boats out of Tiberias came near the place where they ate the bread for which the Lord gave thanks.c??On the morrow the throng, standing on the other side of the sea, perceived that no other boat was there except one, and that Jesus did not enter the ship together with His disciples, but His disciples came away alone.{>oThey wanted, then, to take Him into the ship. And immediately the ship came to be at the land to which they went.:=oYet He is saying to them, "It is I. Do not fear!"#<?Having, then, rowed about twenty-five or thirty stadia, they are beholding Jesus walking on the sea and coming to be near the ship, and they were afraid.E;Besides, the sea was roused by the blowing of a great wind.!:;And, stepping into the ship, they came to the other side of the sea to Capernaum. And darkness had already come, and Jesus had not as yet come to them.G9Now as it became evening, His disciples descended to the sea.!8;Jesus, then, knowing that they are about to come and snatch Him, that they should be making Him king, retires again into the mountain by Himself alone.7}The men, then, perceiving the sign which Jesus does, said that "This truly is the Prophet Who is coming into the world!"6/ They gathered them, then, and cram twelve panniers with fragments of the five cakes of barley bread which are superfluous for those who were fed.}5s Now as they are filled, He is saying to His disciples, "Gather the superfluous fragments, lest some should perish."4+ Jesus, then, took the bread, and, giving thanks, He distributes it to those lying back. Likewise also of the food fish, as much as they wanted.!3; Yet Jesus said, "Make the people lean back." Now there was much grass in the place. The people, then, lean back, the men in number about five thousand.w2g "There is a lad here who has five cakes of barley bread and two food fishes. But what are these for so many?"U1#One of His disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, is saying to Him,|0qThen Philip answered Him, "Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that each may get a bit.V/%Now this He said to try him, for He was aware what He was about to be doing.4.aJesus, then, lifting up His eyes and gazing -- for a vast throng is coming toward Him -- is saying to Philip, "Whence should we be buying bread that these may be eating?"=-uNow near was the Passover, the festival of the Jews.S,Now Jesus came up into the mountain, and there He sat with His disciples.e+CNow there followed Him a vast throng, for they beheld the signs which He did on the infirm.`* ;After these things Jesus came away to the other side of the sea of Galilee of Tiberias.a);/Now if you are not believing his writings, how shall you be believing My declarations?"W('.For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he writes concerning Me.' -"Be not supposing that I shall be accusing you to the Father. He who is accusing you to the Father is Moses, on whom you rely.u&c,How can you believe, getting glory from one another, and are not seeking the glory which is from God alone? % +I have come in the name of My Father, and you are not getting Me. If another should be coming in his own name, him you will get.J$ *But I know you, that you have not the love of God in yourselves.*#O)"Glory from men I am not getting.G"(and not willing are you to come to Me that you may have life. !'"Search the scriptures, for in them you are supposing you have life eonian, and those are they which are testifying concerning Me,z m&And His word you do not have remaining in you, for that One Whom He commissions, this One you are not believing.%And the Father Who sends Me, He has testified concerning Me. Neither have you ever heard His voice nor a perception of Him have you seen.lQ$"Now I have a testimony greater than John's. For the works which the Father has given Me that I should be perfecting them, the works themselves which I am doing are testifying concerning Me that the Father has commissioned Me.[/#He was a lamp, burning and appearing, yet you want to exult an hour in its light.jM"Yet I am not getting the testimony from man, but I am saying these things that you may be saved.I !You have dispatched to John, and he has testified to the truth.  There is another who is testifying concerning Me, and I am aware that the testimony which he is testifying concerning Me is true.Q"If I should be testifying concerning Myself, is My testimony not true?+O"I can not do anything of Myself. According as I am hearing am I judging; and My judging is just, for I am not seeking My will, but the will of Him Who sends Me.  and those who do good shall go out into a resurrection of life, yet those who commit bad things, into a resurrection of judging.lQMarvel not at this, for coming is the hour in which all who are in the tombs shall hear His voice,X)"And He gives Him authority to do judging, seeing that He is a son of mankind.lQFor even as the Father has life in Himself, thus to the Son also He gives to have life in Himself.0YVerily, verily, I am saying to you that coming is an hour, and now is, when the dead shall be hearing the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear shall be living.F"Verily, verily, I am saying to you that he who is hearing My word and believing Him Who sends Me, has life eonian and is not coming into judging, but has proceeded out of death into life.7that all may be honoring the Son, according as they are honoring the Father. He who is not honoring the Son is not honoring the Father Who sends Him.Y+For neither is the Father judging anyone, but has given all judging to the Son,pYFor even as the Father is rousing the dead and vivifying, thus the Son also is vivifying whom He will.&EFor the Father is fond of the Son and is showing Him all that He is doing. "And greater works than these shall He be showing Him, that you may be marveling. yJesus, then, answers and said to them, "Verily, verily, I am saying to you, The Son can not be doing anything of Himself if it is not what He should be observing the Father doing, for whatever He may be doing, this the Son also is doing likewise.( ITherefore, then, the Jews sought the more to kill Him, for He not only annulled the sabbath, but said His own Father also is God, making Himself equal to God.T !Yet Jesus answers them, "My Father is working hitherto, and I am working."o WAnd therefore the Jews persecuted Jesus and sought to kill Him, for He did these things on a sabbath.f EAnd the man, then, came away and informs the Jews that Jesus is the One Who makes him sound.;oAfter these things Jesus is finding him in the sanctuary, and said to him, "Lo! you have become sound. By no means longer be sinning, lest something worse may be coming to you."nU Now he who is healed had not perceived Who He is, for Jesus evades him, a throng being in the place.^5 They ask him then, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Pick up your pallet and walk'?"mS Yet he answered them, "He Who makes me sound, that One said to me, 'Pick up your pallet and walk.'"~u The Jews, then, said to him who has been cured, "It is a sabbath, and it is not allowed you to pick up your pallet!" And immediately the man became sound, and he was roused and picks up his pallet and walked. Now it was a sabbath on that day.KJesus is saying to him, "Rouse and pick up your pallet and walk!"QThe infirm man answered Him, "Lord, I have no man that, whenever the water may be disturbed, should be casting me into the pool. Now in the time in which I am coming another is descending before me."Jesus, perceiving this one lying down, and knowing that he has already spent much time, is saying to him, "Do you want to become sound?"V%Now a certain man was there having been in his infirmity thirty-eight years.W~'(For a messenger of the Lord at a certain season bathed in the pool and disturbed the water. He, then, who first steps in after the disturbing of the water, became sound of whatsoever disease he was held.)z}mIn these were laid down a multitude of the infirm, blind, lame, withered, waiting for the stirring of the water.~|uNow there is, in Jerusalem, at the sheep gate, a pool, which is termed, in Hebrew, "Bethesda," having five porticos._{ 9After these things there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up into Jerusalem.[z/6Now this, again, is the second sign Jesus does, coming out of Judea into Galilee.y!5The father knew, then, that it was in that hour in which Jesus said to him, "Your son is living." And he believes, he and his whole house.!x;4He, then, ascertained from them the hour in which he was better. And they said, then, to him that "Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever leaves him."owW3Now as he is already descending, his slaves meet him, and they report, saying that his boy is living.|vq2Jesus is saying to him, "Go. Your son is living." And the man believes the word which Jesus said to him, and went.Pu1The courtier is saying to Him, "Lord, descend ere my little boy dies!" t 0Jesus, then, said to him, "If you should not be perceiving signs and miracles, you should under no circumstances be believing.":sm/This man, hearing that Jesus is arriving in Galilee from Judea, came away to Him and asked Him that He may be descending and should be healing his son, for he was about to die.r-.Jesus came again, then, into Cana of Galilee, where He makes the water wine. And there was a certain courtier whose son was infirm in Capernaum.)qK-When, then, He came into Galilee, the Galileans receive Him, having seen all whatever He does in Jerusalem in the festival, for they also came to the festival.Up#,for Jesus Himself testifies that a prophet has no honor in his own country.Oo+Now after the two days He came out thence and came away into Galilee,Pn*Besides, to the woman they said that "No longer because of your speaking are we believing, for we ourselves have heard Him, and we are aware that this truly is the Saviour of the world, the Christ."3ma)And many more believe because of His word.{lo(As, then, the Samaritans came together to Him, they asked Him to remain with them. And He remains there two days.k%'Now out of that city many of the Samaritans believe in Him because of the word of the woman, testifying that "He told me all whatever I do."j{&I commission you to reap that for which you have not toiled. Others have toiled, and you have entered into their toil."ai;%For in this case is the saying true, that 'One is the sower and another is the reaper.'h%$And he who is reaping is getting wages and is gathering fruit for life eonian, that both the sower and the reaper likewise may be rejoicing.Ig #"Are you not saying that, 'Still four months is it, and the harvest is coming'? Lo! I am saying to you, Lift up your eyes and gaze on the countrysides, for they are white for harvest already.f"Jesus is saying to them, "My food is that I should be doing the will of Him Who sends Me, and should be perfecting His work.Ue#!The disciples, then, said to one another, "No one brings Him aught to eat."Od Yet He said to them, "I have food to eat of which you are not aware."LcNow in the meantime the disciples asked Him, saying, "Rabbi, eat.":boThey, then, came out of the city and came to Him.Ya+'Hither! Perceive a Man Who told me all whatever I do. Is not this the Christ?"g`GThe woman, then, leaves her water pot, and came away into the city, and is saying to the men,5_cAnd, at this, His disciples came, and they marveled that He spoke with a woman. Howbeit, no one said to Him, "What art Thou seeking?" or "What art Thou speaking with her?"D^Jesus is saying to her, "I am He, Who am speaking to you.")]KThe woman is saying to Him, "We are aware that Messiah is coming, Who is termed 'Christ,' Whenever He should be coming, He will be informing us of all things."b\=God is spirit, and those who are worshiping Him must be worshiping in spirit and truth."3[_But coming is the hour, and now is, when the true worshipers will be worshiping the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father also is seeking such to be worshiping Him. Z You are worshiping that of which you are not aware; we are worshiping that of which we are aware, for salvation is of the Jews. Y9Jesus is saying to her, "Believe Me, woman, that, coming is an hour when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem shall you be worshiping the Father.sX_Our fathers worship in this mountain, and you say that in Jerusalem is the place where one must worship."NWThe woman is saying to Him, "Lord, I behold that thou art a prophet.=VsJesus is saying to her, "Ideally said you that 'A husband I have not,' for five husbands have you had, and now he whom you have is not your husband. This you have declared truly."AU}The woman answered and said to Him, "No husband have I."STJesus is saying to her, "Go, summon your husband and come to this place."SThe woman is saying to Him, "Lord, give me this water, that I may not be thirsting, nor yet coming to this place to draw."tRayet whoever may be drinking of the water which I shall be giving him, shall under no circumstances be thirsting for the eon, but the water which I shall be giving him will become in him a spring of water, welling up into life eonian."jQM Jesus answered and said to her, "Everyone who is drinking of this water will be thirsting again,P+ Not greater are you than our father Jacob, who gives us the well, and he himself drank out of it, and his sons, and what was nourished by him?"O The woman is saying to Him, "Lord, you have not even a bucket, and the well is deep. Whence, then, have you living water?GN Jesus answered and said to her, "If you were aware of the gratuity of God, and Who it is Who is saying to you, 'Give Me a drink,' you would request Him, and He would give you living water."2M] The Samaritan woman, then, is saying to Him, "How are you, being a Jew, requesting a drink from me, being a Samaritan woman?" (For Jews are not beholden to Samaritans.)_L7for His disciples had come away into the city that they should be buying nourishment.hKIA certain woman of Samaria is coming to draw water. Jesus is saying to her, "Give Me a drink,"JNow there was a spring of Jacob's there. Jesus, then, weary with the journey, was seated thus at the spring. It was about the sixth hour.vIeHe is coming, then, to a city of Samaria, termed Sychar, nigh the freehold which Jacob gives his son Joseph.*HONow He must pass through Samaria.:GoHe leaves Judea and came away again into Galilee.QF(though, to be sure, Jesus Himself did not baptize, but His disciples),tE cAs, then, the Lord knew that the Pharisees hear that Jesus is making and baptizing more disciples than John)DK$He who is believing in the Son has life eonian, yet he who is stubborn as to the Son shall not be seeing life, but the indignation of God is remaining on him."HC #"The Father is loving the Son and has given all into His hand.rB]"For He Whom God commissions is speaking God's declarations, for God is not giving the spirit by measure.IA !He who is getting His testimony sets his seal that God is true.a@; What He has seen and hears, this He is testifying, and no one is getting His testimony.$?A"He Who from above is coming is over all. He who is of the earth is of the earth and of the earth is speaking; He Who is coming out of heaven is over all.;>qHe must be growing, yet mine it is to be inferior.S=He Who has the bride is the Bridegroom. Yet the friend of the Bridegroom, who stands and is hearing Him, is rejoicing with joy because of the Bridegroom's voice. This, my joy, then, has been fulfilled.}<sYou yourselves are testifying to me that I said, 'Not I am the Christ,' but that 'Dispatched am I in front of Him.'j;MJohn answered and said, "A man can not get anything if it should not be given him out of heaven.?:wAnd they came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, He Who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, to Whom you have testified, lo! this One is baptizing and all are coming to Him."g9GThere occurred, then, a questioning of the disciples of John with a Jew concerning cleansing.08[for not as yet was John cast into jail.7yNow John also was baptizing in Enon near Salim, for there was much water there, and they came along and were baptized,~6uAfter these things came Jesus and His disciples into the land of Judea. And there He tarried with them and baptized.5Now he who is doing the truth is coming to the light that his acts may be made manifest, for they have been wrought in God.4For everyone who is committing bad things is hating the light and is not coming to the light, lest his acts may be exposed.3'Now this is the judging: that the light has come into the world, and men love the darkness rather than the light, for their acts were wicked.32_He who is believing in Him is not being judged; yet he who is not believing has been judged already, for he has not believed in the name of the only-begotten Son of God. 1For God does not dispatch His Son into the world that He should be judging the world, but that the world may be saved through Him.-0SFor thus God loves the world, so that He gives His only-begotten Son, that everyone who is believing in Him should not be perishing, but may be having life eonian.`/9that everyone believing on Him should not be perishing, but may be having life eonian.p.YAnd, according as Moses exalts the serpent in the wilderness, thus must the Son of Mankind be exalted,x-i And no one has ascended into heaven except He Who descends out of heaven, the Son of Mankind Who is in heaven., If I told you of the terrestrial and you are not believing, how shall you be believing if I should be telling you of the celestial?";+o Verily, verily, I am saying to you that of that which we have perceived are we speaking, and to that which we have seen are we testifying, and our testimony you are not getting.i*K Jesus answered and said to him, "You are a teacher of Israel, and these things you do not know?H)  Nicodemus answered and said to Him, "How can these things be?"S(The blast is blowing where it wills, and the sound of it you are hearing, but you are not aware whence it is coming and where it is going. Thus is everyone who is begotten by the water and the spirit."V'%You should not be marveling that I said to you, 'You must be begotten anew.'k&OThat which is begotten by the flesh is flesh, and that which is begotten by the spirit is spirit.'%GJesus answered, "Verily, verily, I am saying to you, If anyone should not be begotten of water and of spirit, he can not be entering into the kingdom of God.&$ENicodemus is saying to him, "How can a man, being a veteran, be begotten? He can not be entering into the womb of his mother a second time and be begotten!"#5Jesus answered and said to him, "Verily, verily, I am saying to you, If anyone should not be begotten anew, he can not perceive the kingdom of God."N"This one came to Him by night and said to Him, "Rabbi, we are aware that Thou art a Teacher come from God, for no one can be doing these signs which Thou art doing, if God should not be with Him."W! )Now there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a chief of the Jews.r ]for He had no need that anyone should be testifying concerning mankind, for He knew what was in mankind.\1Yet Jesus Himself did not entrust Himself to them, because of His knowing all men,{Now as He was in Jerusalem at the Passover in the festival, many believe in His name, beholding His signs which He did.$AWhen, then, He was roused from among the dead, His disciples are reminded that He said this, and they believe the scripture and the word which Jesus said.:oYet He said it concerning the temple of His body.|qThe Jews, then, said, "In forty and six years was this temple built, and you will be raising it up in three days!"dAJesus answered and said to them, "Raze this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."{oThe Jews, then, answered and said to Him, "What sign are you showing us, seeing that you are doing these things?"jMNow His disciples are reminded that it is written: "The zeal of Thy house will be devouring Me." And to those selling doves He said, "Take these away hence, and do not be making My Father's house a house for a merchant's store."/WAnd, making a whip out of ropes, He casts all out of the sanctuary, both the sheep and the oxen, and He pours out the change of the brokers and overturns the tables.oWAnd He found in the sanctuary those selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers sitting.R And near was the Passover of the Jews, and Jesus went up into Jerusalem.  After this He descended into Capernaum, He and His mother and His brothers and disciples, and there they remain not many days.w This beginning of the signs Jesus does in Cana of Galilee, and manifests His glory, and His disciples believe in Him.2] and is saying to him, "Every man is placing the ideal wine first, and whenever they should be made drunk, then the inferior. Yet you have kept the ideal wine hitherto."^5 Now as the chief of the dining room tastes the water become wine, and was not aware whence it is -- yet the servants who have drawn the water were aware -- the chief of the dining room is summoning the bridegroomlQAnd He is saying to them, "Draw now and bring to the chief of the dining room." Now they bring it.pYAnd Jesus is saying to them, "Brim fill the water pots with water." And up to the brim they fill them. Now there were six stone water pots lying there, in accord with the cleansing of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.` 9His mother is saying to the servants, "Anything which He should be saying to you, do."l QAnd Jesus is saying to her, "What is it to Me and to thee, woman! Not as yet is My hour arriving."i KAnd, at their being in want of wine, the mother of Jesus is saying to Him, "They have no wine."F Now Jesus also was called to the wedding, and His disciples.g IAnd on the third day a wedding occurred in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.A }3And He is saying to him, "Verily, verily, I am saying to you, henceforth you shall be seeing heaven opened up and the messengers of God ascending and descending on the Son of Mankind."7 i2Jesus answered and said to him, "Seeing that I said to you that 'I perceived you underneath the fig tree,' are you believing? Greater things than these should you be seeing!"p [1Nathanael answered and is saying to Him, "Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God! Thou art the King of Israel!", S0Nathanael is saying to Him, "Whence do you know me?" Jesus answered and said to him, "Before Philip summons you, when you are under the fig tree, I perceived you."  /Jesus perceived Nathanael coming toward Him, and is saying concerning him, "Lo! truly an Israelite in whom there is no guile!"t c.And Nathanael said to him, "Can anything good be out of Nazareth?" Philip is saying to him, "Come and see!"' I-Philip is finding Nathanael and is saying to him, "Him of Whom Moses writes in the law and the prophets, have we found Jesus, a son of Joseph, from Nazareth."E ,Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.} u+On the morrow He wants to come away into Galilee, and He is finding Philip. And Jesus is saying to him, "Follow Me."~ 9*And he led him to Jesus. Looking at him, Jesus said, "You are Simon, the son of John. You shall be called Cephas" (which is being translated "Peter").} #)This one first is finding his own brother, Simon, and is saying to him, "We have found the Messiah!" (which is, being construed, "Christ").f| G(Now Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who hear from John and follow Him.${ C'He is saying to them, "Come and see." They came, then, and perceived where He is remaining, and they remain with Him that day. It was about the tenth hour.Rz &Now Jesus, being turned and gazing at them following, is saying to them, "What are you seeking?" Yet they said to Him, "Rabbi" (which, being construed, is termed "Teacher"), "where art Thou remaining?"Hy  %And the two disciples hear him speaking, and they follow Jesus.Lx $And, looking at Jesus walking, he is saying, "Lo! the Lamb of God!"Aw #On the morrow John again stood, and two of his disciples.Mv "And I have seen and have testified that This One is the Son of God."cu A!And I was not aware of Him, but He Who sends me to be baptizing in water, That One said to me, 'On Whomever you may be perceiving the spirit descending and remaining on Him, This is He Who is baptizing in holy spirit.'t  And John testifies, saying that "I have gazed upon the spirit, descending as a dove out of heaven, and it remains on Him.ts cAnd I was not aware of Him. But that He may be manifested to Israel, therefore came I, baptizing in water."r This is He concerning Whom I said, 'After me is coming a Man Who has come to be in front of me,' for He was First, before me.q On the morrow he is observing Jesus coming toward him, and is saying, "Lo! the Lamb of God Which is taking away the sin of the world!ip MThese things occurred in Bethany, the other side of the Jordan river, where John was, baptizing.o He it is Who, coming after me, has come to be in front of me, of Whom I am not worthy that I should be loosing the thong of His sandal."{n qJohn answered them, saying, "I am baptizing in water. Now in the midst of you One stood of Whom you are not aware.m And they ask him and said to him, "Why, then, are you baptizing, if you are not the Christ, neither Elijah, nor the Prophet?"Al And those who have been dispatched were of the Pharisees.k #He averred, "I am 'the voice of one imploring, "In the wilderness straighten the road of the Lord!"' according as said Isaiah the prophet."@j {"Are you the Prophet?" And he answered, "No." They said, then, to him, "Who are you? -- that we may be giving an answer to those who send us. What are you saying concerning yourself?"ci AAnd they ask him again, "What are you then? Are you Elijah?" And he is saying, "I am not."Jh And he avows and denies not and avows that "I am not the Christ."g 7And this is the testimony of John when the Jews of Jerusalem dispatch to him priests and Levites that they should be inquiring of him, "Who are you?"lf SGod no one has ever seen. The only-begotten God, Who is in the bosom of the Father, He unfolds Him.Xe +For the law through Moses was given; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.Jd for of that which fills Him we all obtained, and grace for grace.8c kJohn is testifying concerning Him and has cried, saying, "This was He of Whom I said, 'He Who is coming after me, has come to be in front of me,' for He was first, before me,"b 9And the Word became flesh and tabernacles among us, and we gaze at His glory, a glory as of an only-begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.va g who were begotten, not of bloods, neither of the will of the flesh, neither of the will of a man, but of God.` { Yet whoever obtained Him, to them He gives the right to become children of God, to those who are believing in His name,H_   To His own He came, and those who are His own accepted Him not.d^ C In the world He was, and the world came into being through Him, and the world knew Him not.[] 1 It was the true light -- which is enlightening every man -- coming into the world.]\ 5Not he was the light, but he came that he should be testifying concerning the light.[ This one came for a testimony, that he should be testifying concerning the light, that all should be believing through it.HZ  There came to be a man, commissioned by God. His name was John.UY %And the light is appearing in the darkness, and the darkness grasped it not.:X qIn it was life, and the life was the light of men.xW kAll came into being through it, and apart from it not even one thing came into being which has come into being.-V WThis was in the beginning toward God.YU /In the beginning was the word, and the word was toward God, and God was the word.VT%5And they were continually in the sanctuary, praising and blessing God. Amen!GS4And they, worshiping Him, return to Jerusalem with great joy.R{3And it occurred as He is blessing them, He put an interval between Himself and them, and He was carried up into heaven._Q72Now He led them out as far as to Bethany, and, lifting up His hands, He blesses them. P91And lo! I am delegating the promise of My Father on you. Now you be seated in the city of Jerusalem till you should be putting on power from on high."4Oc0Now you shall be witnesses of these things.N}/and there is to be heralded in His name repentance for the pardon of sins, to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.M.and said to them that "Thus it is written, and thus must the Christ be suffering and rise from among the dead the third day,BL-Then He opens up their mind to understand the scriptures,IK ,Now He said to them, "These are My words, which I speak to you, still being with you, for all must be fulfilled that is written in the law of Moses and the prophets and psalms concerning Me.",JS+and, taking it, He ate before them.2I_*Now they hand Him part of a broiled fish,wHg)Now, at their still disbelieving from joy, and marveling, He said to them, "Have you any food in this place?" C~~}||{{ozz`yy xwwwv_uuucutssIrrqq]pp ooannvmm'll1kkmk%jj9ii~hhJhggffIeedd|dccNbb aaF``N__T^^S]\\\![ZZmYYGXXWVVV"UUMTTtT3SSS_SRRQQQ%PP0OO NN`MMcLL KJJ_IIIH2GFFwEEDDDCBBtB6AAZ@@E???>==u<<+;::N99]88x8 7665s4433I22@11E00//T..T. -G,,,T+**,))(''&&2%%=$$4##1""H!!! H]E>V{k.iGCqA6FE1 g x Y / ;9".C_D7 Jesus, then, on coming into Bethany, found he has been in the tomb four days already.C Thomas, then, who is termed "Didymus," said to his fellow disciples, "We also may be going, that we may be dying with Him."B And I am rejoicing because of you, that you should be believing, seeing that I was not there. But we may be going to him."FA Jesus, then, said to them with boldness then, "Lazarus died.@ Now Jesus had made a declaration concerning his death, yet they suppose that He is saying it concerning the repose of sleep.X?) The disciples, then, said to Him, "Lord, if he has repose, he shall be saved.")>K He said these things, and after this He is saying to them, "Lazarus, our friend, has found repose, but I am going that I should be awakening him out of sleep."f=E Yet if anyone should be walking in the night, he is stumbling, for the light is not in him."+<O Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone should be walking in the day, he is not stumbling, for he is observing the light of this world.v;e The disciples are saying to Him, "Rabbi, the Jews now sought to stone Thee, and art Thou going there again?"c:? Thereupon, after this, He is saying to His disciples, "We may be going into Judea again."p9Y As, then, He hears that he is infirm, then, indeed, He remains in the place in which He was, two days.;8q Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.7% Yet Jesus, hearing it, said, "This infirmity is not to death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God should be glorified through it."e6C The sisters, then, dispatch to Him, saying, "Lord, lo, he of whom Thou art fond is infirm!"~5u Now it was Mary who rubs the Lord with attar and wipes off His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was infirm.p4 [ Now there was a certain infirm man, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister Martha.'3I *And many believe in Him there.2 )And many came to Him, and they said that "John, indeed, does not one sign, yet all, whatever John said concerning this One was true."1  (And He came away again to the other side of the Jordan into the place where John was formerly baptizing, and He remains there.Q0 'They sought, then, to arrest Him again, and He came out of their hands.8/i &Yet if I am doing them, and if ever you are not believing Me, be believing the works, that you may be knowing and believing that in Me is the Father, and I am in the Father."@.{ %If I am not doing My Father's works, do not believe Me.-) $are you saying to Him Whom the Father hallows and dispatches into the world that 'You are blaspheming,' seeing that I said, 'Son of God am I'?k,O #If He said those were gods, to whom the word of God came (and the scripture can not be annulled),Y++ "Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your law, that 'I say you are gods'?* !The Jews answered Him, "For an ideal act we are not stoning you, but for blasphemy, and that you, being a man, are making yourself God."{)o Jesus answered them, "Many ideal acts I show you from My Father. Because of what act of them are you stoning Me?"L( Again, then, the Jews bear stones that they should be stoning Him.''I I and the Father, We are one."& My Father, Who has given them to Me, is greater than all, and no one is able to be snatching them out of My Father's hand.%! And I am giving them life eonian, and they should by no means be perishing for the eon, and no one shall be snatching them out of My hand.U$# "My sheep are hearing My voice, and I know them, and they are following Me.e#C But you are not believing, seeing that you are not of My sheep, according as I said to you."7 Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you are not believing. The works which I am doing in the name of My Father, these are testifying concerning Me.! The Jews, then, surround Him, and they said to Him, "Till when are you lifting our soul? If you are the Christ, tell us with boldness."F  And Jesus walked in the sanctuary in the portico of Solomon.O Now there came to be the Dedications in Jerusalem, and it was winter.uc Yet others said, "These declarations are not those of a demoniac. No demon can open the eyes of the blind!"W' Now many of them said, "A demon has he, and is mad. Why are you hearing him?"D A schism came again among the Jews because of these words.9k No one is taking it away from Me, but I am laying it down of Myself. I have the right to lay it down, and I have the right to get it again. This precept I got from My Father."r] "Therefore the Father is loving Me, seeing that I am laying down My soul that I may be getting it again.)K "And other sheep have I which are not of this fold. Those also I must be leading, and they will be hearing My voice, and there will be one flock, one Shepherd.zm according as the Father knows Me, and I know the Father. And My soul am I laying down for the sake of the sheep.E "I am the Shepherd ideal, and I know Mine and Mine know Me,eC Yet the hireling is fleeing for he is a hireling and he is not caring concerning the sheep.Q Yet the hireling, not also being shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, is beholding the wolf coming, and is leaving the sheep and fleeing. And the wolf is snatching them and is scattering the sheep.hI I am the Shepherd ideal. The ideal shepherd is laying down his soul for the sake of the sheep.'G The thief is not coming except that he should be stealing and sacrificing and destroying. I came that they may have life eonian, and have it superabundantly.% I am the Door. Through Me if anyone should be entering, he shall be saved, and shall be entering and coming out and will be finding pasture.]3 All whoever came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep do not hear them.oW Jesus, then, said to them again, "Verily, verily, I am saying to you that I am the Door of the sheep.fE Jesus told them this proverb, yet they know not what things they were that He spoke to them.)K Now an outsider will they under no circumstances be following, but they will be fleeing from him, for they are not acquainted with the voice of the outsiders." 9 And whenever he should be ejecting all his own, he is going in front of them, and the sheep are following him, for they are acquainted with his voice.  To him the doorkeeper is opening, and the sheep are hearing his voice, and he is summoning his own sheep by name and is leading them out.O  Now he who is entering through the door is the shepherd of the sheep.1  ] "Verily, verily, I am saying to you, he who is not entering through the door into the fold of the sheep, but is climbing up elsewhere, that one is a thief and a robber. - )Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have had no sin. Yet now you are saying that 'We are observing.' Your sin, then, is remaining.wg (And those of the Pharisees who are with Him hear these things, and they said to Him, "Not we also are blind?"5 'And Jesus said, "For judgment came I into this world, that those who are not observing may be observing, and those observing may be becoming blind."F &Now he averred, "I am believing, Lord!" And he worships Him.a; %Now Jesus said to him, "You have also seen Him, and He Who is speaking with you is He."Y+ $He answered and said, "And Who is He, Lord, that I should be believing in Him?"wg #Jesus hears that they cast him out, and, finding him, said to him, "Are you believing in the Son of Mankind?"wg "They answered and say to him, "You were wholly born in sins, and you are teaching us!" And they cast him out.I  !Except this Man were from God, He could not be doing anything."[/ From out of the eon it is not heard that anyone opens the eyes of one born blind. We are aware that God is not hearing sinners, but if anyone should be a reverer of God and doing His will, him He is hearing. ~ The man answered and said to them, "For in this is the marvelous thing, that you are not aware whence He is, and He opens my eyes!p}Y We are aware that it was to Moses that God has spoken. Yet this man -- we are not aware whence he is."g|G Now they revile him and said, "You are a disciple of that man, yet we are disciples of Moses.{/ He answered them, "I told you already, and you do not hear. Why again are you wanting to hear? Not you also are wanting to become His disciples?"_z7 They said, then, to him, again, "What does he do to you? How does he open your eyes?"y He, then, answered, "If He is a sinner, I am not aware of it. One thing I am aware of, that, being blind, at present I am observing."x' A second time, then, they summon the man who was blind, and they say to him, "Give the glory to God. We are aware that this man is a sinner."Nw Therefore his parents say that "He has come of age. Inquire of him."Iv  These things his parents said, seeing that they feared the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone should ever be avowing Him to be Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.!u; Yet how he is now observing, we are not aware, or who opens his eyes, we are not aware. Ask him; he has come of age. He will speak concerning himself."mtS His parents, then, answered and say, "We are aware that this is our son and that he was born blind.s And they ask them, saying, "Is this your son, of whom you are saying that he was born blind? How, then, is he observing at present?"r% The Jews, then, do not believe concerning him, that he was blind and receives sight, till they summon the parents of him who receives sight.+qO They are saying, then, again to him who once was blind, "What are you saying concerning him, seeing that he opens your eyes?" Now he said that "A prophet is He."Tp! Some of the Pharisees, then, said, "This man is not from God, for he is not keeping the sabbath." Yet others said, "How can a man who is a sinner be doing such signs?" And there was a schism among them.o3 Again, then, the Pharisees also asked him how he receives sight. Now he said to them, "He places mud upon my eyes, and I wash, and I am observing."Rn Now it was on a sabbath day that Jesus makes the mud and opens his eyes.Em They are leading him, who once was blind, to the Pharisees.Sl And they say to him, "Where is that man?" He is saying, "I am not aware."@ky He answered and said, "The Man Who is termed 'Jesus' makes mud and anoints my eyes and said to me, 'Go to the pool Siloam and wash.' Coming away, then, and washing, I receive sight."Fj They said, then, to him, "How, then, were your eyes opened?"kiO Others said that "This is he." Yet others said, "No, but he is like him." Yet he said, "I am he."h The neighbors, then, and those beholding him formerly, (for he was a beggar) said, "Is not this the one who is sitting and begging?"g1 and said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which is being translated "Commissioned"). He came away, then, and washes, and came, observing. f Saying these things, He spits on the ground and makes mud out of the spittle, and anoints the blind man on his eyes with the mud,Ge Whenever I may be in the world, I am the Light of the world."udc I must be working the works of Him Who sends Me while it is day. Coming is the night, when no one can work.~cu Jesus answered, "Neither this man sinned, nor his parents, but it is that the works of God may be manifested in him.wbg And His disciples ask Him, saying, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents that he should be born blind?"Aa  And, passing along, He perceived a man, blind from birth.A`{;They pick up stones, then, that they should be casting them at Him. Yet Jesus was hid and came out of the sanctuary. And passing through the midst of them, He went and thus passed by.f_E:Jesus said to them, "Verily, verily, I am saying to you, Ere Abraham came into being, I am."j^M9The Jews, then, said to Him, "You have not as yet lived fifty years, and you have seen Abraham!"~]u8Abraham, your father, exults that he may become acquainted with My day, and he was acquainted with it and rejoiced."O\7And you know Him not, yet I am acquainted with Him, and if I should be saying that I am not acquainted with Him, I shall be like you, a liar. But I am acquainted with Him and I am keeping His word.([I6Jesus answered, "If I should ever be glorifying Myself, My glory is nothing. It is My Father Who is glorifying Me, of Whom you are saying that He is your God.{Zo5Not you are greater than our father Abraham who died! And the prophets died. Whom are you making yourself to be?"bY=4The Jews said to Him, "Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets, and you are saying, 'If ever anyone should be keeping my word, he should under no circumstances be tasting death for the eon.'X+3Verily, Verily, I am saying to you, If ever anyone should be keeping My word, he should under no circumstances be beholding death for the eon."UW#2Now I am not seeking My glory. He is the One Who is seeking it and judging.mVS1Jesus answered and said, "I have no demon, but I am honoring My Father, and you are dishonoring Me.rU]0The Jews answered and say to Him, "Are we not saying ideally that you are a Samaritan and have a demon?"yTk/He who is of God is hearing God's declarations. Therefore you are not hearing, seeing that you are not of God."rS].Who of you is exposing Me concerning sin? If I am telling the truth, wherefore are you not believing Me?QR-Yet I -- seeing that I am speaking the truth, you are not believing Me..QU,You are of your father, the Adversary, and the desires of your father you are wanting to do. He was a man-killer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, for truth is not in him. Whenever he may be speaking a lie, he is speaking of his own, for he is a liar, and the father of it.TP!+Wherefore do you not know My speech? Seeing that you can not hear My word.>Ou*Jesus, then, said to them, "If God were your Father, you would have loved Me. For out of God I came forth and am arriving. For neither have I come of Myself, but He commissions Me.N)Yet you are doing the works of your father." They say to Him, "We were not born of prostitution! One Father have we, God!"M(Yet now you are seeking to kill Me, a Man Who has spoken to you the truth which I hear from God. This Abraham does not do.L1'They answered and say to Him, "Our father is Abraham." Jesus answered them, "If you are children of Abraham, did you ever do the works of Abraham?sK_&What I have seen with My Father am I speaking. You also, then, what you hear from your father are doing."qJ[%I am aware that you are Abraham's seed. But you are seeking to kill Me, for My word has no room in you.TI!$If ever, then, the Son should be making you free, you will be really free.dHA#Now the slave is not remaining in the house for the eon. The son is remaining for the eon.uGc"Jesus answered them, "Verily, verily, I am saying to you that everyone who is doing sin, is a slave of sin.F+!They answered Him, "The seed of Abraham are we, and we have never been slaves of anyone. How are you saying that 'You shall be becoming free'?"NE and you will know the truth, and the truth will be making you free."DJesus, then, said to the Jews who have believed Him, "If ever you should be remaining in My word, you are truly My disciples,;CqAt His speaking these things, many believe in Him.uBcAnd He Who sends Me is with Me. He does not leave Me alone, for what is pleasing to Him am I doing always."iAKJesus, then, said to them again that "Whenever you should be exalting the Son of Mankind, then you will know that I am, and from Myself I am doing nothing, but, according as My Father teaches Me, these things I am speaking.?@yThey know not that He said this to them of the Father.!?;Much have I to be speaking and judging concerning you, but He Who sends Me is true, and what I hear from Him, these things I am speaking to the world.">yThey said, then, to Him, "Who are you?" Jesus, then, said to them, "For the beginning, what I am speaking also to you.=3I said, then, to you, that you shall be dying in your sins. For if ever you should not be believing Me that I am, you shall be dying in your sins."<He said, then, to them, "You are of that which is below; I am of that which is above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.;yThe Jews, then, said, "He will not kill himself, seeing that he is saying, 'Where I am going, you can not be coming'?"#:?He said, then, again to them, "I am going away, and you will be seeking Me, and in your sin shall you be dying. Where I am going, you can not be coming." 9These declarations He speaks in the treasury, teaching in the sanctuary, and no one arrests Him, for not as yet had come His hour.[8/They said, then, to Him, "Where is your father?" Jesus answered and said, "Neither with Me are you acquainted, nor with My Father. If you were acquainted with Me, you should be acquainted with My Father also."n7UI am the One testifying concerning Myself, and the Father Who sends Me is testifying concerning Me."^65Yet in this law, also, of yours it is written that the testimony of two men is true.y5kAnd yet if ever I should be judging, My judging is true, for not alone am I, but I and the Father Who sends Me.J4 You are judging according to the flesh; I am not judging anyone.g3GJesus answered and said to them, "And if I should be testifying concerning Myself, true is My testimony, for I am aware whence I came and whither I am going, yet you are not aware whence I am coming or whither I am going.q2[ The Pharisees, then, said to Him, "You are testifying concerning yourself. Your testimony is not true!"F1 Again, then, Jesus speaks to them, saying, "I am the Light of the world. He who is following Me should under no circumstances be walking in darkness, but will be having the light of life." 0  Now she said, "No one, Lord!" Now Jesus said, "Neither am I condemning you. Go! From now on by no means any longer be sinning."]^/5 Now, unbending, Jesus said to her, "Woman, where are they? Does no one condemn you?".) Now those hearing it came out one by one, beginning with the elders, to the last. And Jesus was left alone, the woman also being in the midst.9-mAnd, again stooping down, He wrote in the earth.,yNow as they persisted asking Him, He unbends and said to them, "Let the sinless one of you first cast a stone at her.""+=Now this they said to try Him, that they may have something to accuse Him of. Now Jesus, stooping down, wrote down something with a finger in the earth.g*GNow in the law, Moses directs us that such are to be stoned. You, then, what are you saying?"k)Othey are saying to Him, "Teacher, this woman has been overtaken and detected committing adultery.(Now the scribes and the Pharisees are leading a woman who has been overtaken in adultery, and, standing her in the midst,'{Now early He again came along into the sanctuary, and the entire people came to Him. And, being seated, He taught them..& YYet Jesus went to the mount of Olives.)%M5[And they went each to his home.$4They answered and say to him, "Not you also are out of Galilee? Search and see that out of Galilee no prophet is roused."w#g3"No law of ours is judging a man, if ever it should not first be hearing from him and know what he is doing."T"!2Nicodemus is saying to them (who formerly came to Him, being one of them),=!u1But this throng that knows not the law is accursed."E 0Not any of the chiefs believes in him, or of the Pharisees.I /The Pharisees, then, answered them, "Not you also are deceived?>w.Now the deputies answered, "Never speaks a man thus!"-The deputies, then, came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, "Wherefore did you not lead him here?"N,Yet some of them wanted to arrest Him, but no one lays hands on Him.H +There came, then, to be a schism in the throng because of Him.*Did not the scripture say that out of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was, comes the Christ?"iK)Others said, "This is the Christ!" Yet they said, "For not out of Galilee is the Christ coming!a;(Some of the throng, then, hearing these sayings, said that "This truly is the prophet!")K'Now this He said concerning the spirit which those believing in Him were about to get. For not as yet was holy spirit given, for Jesus is not as yet glorified.zm&He who is believing in Me, according as the scripture said, out of his bowel shall gush rivers of living water."%%Now on the last, the great day of the festival, Jesus stood and cries, saying, "If anyone should be thirsting, let him come to Me and drink. $What is this word which he said, 'You will be seeking me, and you shall not be finding me, and where I am, you can not be coming'?"/W#The Jews, then, said to themselves, "Where is he about to go, that we shall not find him? He is not about to go to the dispersion of the Greeks and teach the Greeks?pY"You will be seeking Me, and you shall not be finding Me. And where I am, there you can not be coming."iK!Jesus, then, said, "Still a little time am I with you, and I am going away to Him Who sends Me.*M Now the Pharisees hear this murmuring of the throng concerning Him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees dispatch deputies that they should be arresting Him.%Now many of the throng believe in Him, and said, "The Christ, whenever He may come, He no more signs will be doing than what this Man does!"lQThey sought, then, to arrest Him, and no one laid a hand on Him, for not as yet had come His hour.W 'Yet I am acquainted with Him, for I am from Him, and He has commissioned Me."d AJesus, then, cries in the sanctuary, teaching and saying, "You are acquainted with Me also, and you are aware whence I am, and I have not come from Myself, but He Who sends Me is true, with Whom you are not acquainted.~ uBut this man, we are aware whence he is, yet the Christ, whenever He may be coming, no one knows Him, whence He is." /And lo! He is speaking with boldness! And are they saying nothing to Him, lest at some time the chiefs truly get to know that this is the Christ?_ 7Some of the Jerusalemites, then, said, "Is not this He Whom they are seeking to kill?J Be not judging by the countenance, but be judging just judging.")KIf a man is getting circumcision on a sabbath lest the law of Moses may be annulled, am I raising your bile, seeing that I make a whole man sound on a sabbath?-Therefore Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but that it is of the fathers) and on a sabbath you are circumcising a man.W'Jesus answered and said to them, "One act I do, and all of you are marveling.NThe throng answered, "A demon have you! Who is seeking to kill you?"pYHas not Moses given you the law? And not one of you is doing the law! Why are you seeking to kill Me?"(IHe who is speaking from himself is seeking his own glory, yet He Who is seeking the glory of Him Who sends Him, this One is true, and injustice is not in Him.!If anyone should be wanting to be doing His will, he will know concerning the teaching, whether it is of God or I am speaking from Myself.^5Jesus, then, answered them and said, "My teaching is not Mine, but His Who sends Me.jMThe Jews, then, marveled, saying, "How is this one acquainted with letters, not having learned?"]~3Now at length, midway of the festival, Jesus went up into the sanctuary and taught.X}) Howbeit no one spoke with boldness concerning Him because of fear of the Jews.&|E And there was much murmuring concerning Him among the throngs. These, indeed, said that "He is good," yet others said, "No. But he is deceiving the throng."M{ The Jews, then, sought Him in the festival and said, "Where is he?"uzc Yet as His brothers went up to the festival, then He also went up, not apparently, but as though in hiding.Ay} Now, saying these things to them, He remains in Galilee.~xuYou go up to this festival. I am not going up to this festival, for the season for Me has not as yet been fulfilled.{woThe world can not be hating you, yet Me it is hating, for I am testifying concerning it that its acts are wicked.vJesus, then, is saying to them, "The season for Me is not as yet present; yet the season for you is always present, ready.3uaFor not even His brothers believed in Him.tFor no one is doing anything in hiding when he is seeking publicity. If you are doing these things, manifest yourself to the world."s5His brothers, then, said to Him, "Proceed hence and go away into Judea, that your disciples also should be beholding your works which you are doing.8rkNow near was the Jews' festival of Tabernacles.}q uAnd after these things Jesus walked in Galilee, for He would not walk in Judea, for the Jews sought Him to kill Him.ypkGNow He said it of Judas, son of Simon Iscariot, for this man was about to give Him up, being one of the twelve.moSFJesus answered and said to them, "Do not I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is an adversary?"EnEAnd we believe and know that Thou art the Holy One of God."mmSDSimon Peter answered Him, "Lord, to whom shall we come away? Declarations of life eonian hast Thou!QlCJesus, then, said to the twelve, "Not you also are wanting to go away!"ikKBAt this, then, many of His disciples came away, dropping behind, and walked no longer with Him.jAAnd He said, "Therefore have I declared to you that no one can be coming to Me if it should not be given him of the Father.",iQ@But there are some of you who are not believing." For Jesus had perceived from the beginning who those are who are not believing, and who it is that gives Him up.h/?The Spirit is that which is vivifying. The flesh is not benefiting anything. The declarations which I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.cg?>If, then, you should be beholding the Son of Mankind ascending where He was formerly -- ?f{=Now Jesus, being aware in Himself that His disciples are murmuring concerning this, said to them, "This is snaring you?`e9==t<if( Z$X P S q & ^v<9"-"I have given them Thy word. And the world hates them, for they are not of the world, according as I am not of the world. , Yet now to Thee am I coming, and these things am I speaking in the world that they may be having My joy filled full in themselves.R+ When I was with them in the world, I kept those whom Thou hast given Me in Thy name, and I guard them, and not one of them perished, except the son of destruction, that the scripture may be fulfilled.R* And no longer am I in the world, and they are in the world, and I to Thee am coming. Holy Father, keep them in Thy name, in which Thou hast given them to Me, that they may be one, according as We are.T)! And Mine all are Thine, and Thine Mine. And I have been glorified in them.( "Concerning them I am asking. Not concerning the world am I asking, but concerning those whom Thou hast given Me, for they are Thine.8'ifor the declarations which Thou hast given Me, I have given them, and they took them, and know truly that I came out from Thee, and they believe that thou dost commission Me.L&Now they know that all, whatever Thou hast given Me, is from Thee,%)I manifest Thy name to the men whom Thou givest Me out of the world. Thine they were, and to Me Thou givest them, and Thy word they have kept.s$_"And now glorify Thou Me, Father, with Thyself, with the glory which I had before the world is with Thee.o#W"I glorify Thee on the earth, finishing the work which Thou hast given Me, that I should be doing it.|"qNow it is eonian life that they may know Thee, the only true God, and Him Whom Thou dost commission, Jesus Christ. !9according as Thou givest Him authority over all flesh, that everything which Thou hast given to Him, He should be giving it to them, even life eonian.!  =These things speaks Jesus, and lifting His eyes to heaven, He said, "Father, come has the hour. Glorify Thy Son, that Thy Son should be glorifying Thee,%!These things have I spoken to you that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have affliction. But courage! I have conquered the world."-S Lo! the hour is coming and has come, that you should be scattered, each to his own, and you may be leaving Me alone. And I am not alone, for the Father is with Me.<sJesus answered them, "At present you are believing.7Now we are aware that Thou art aware of all and hast no need that anyone may be asking Thee. By this we are believing that Thou camest out from God."zmHis disciples are saying to Him, "Lo! now with boldness art Thou speaking, and not one proverb art Thou telling.}sI came out from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I am leaving the world and am going to the Father."|qfor the Father Himself is fond of you, seeing that you are fond of Me, and have believed that I came out from God.In that day you will be requesting in My name, and I am not saying to you that I shall be asking the Father concerning you,H "These things have I spoken to you in proverbs. Coming is the hour when no longer shall I be speaking to you in proverbs, but with boldness shall I be reporting to you concerning the Father.s_Hitherto you do not request anything in My name. Request and you shall obtain, that your joy may be full.<qAnd in that day you will not be asking Me anything. "Verily, verily, I am saying to you that whatever you should be requesting the Father, He will be giving it to you in My name..UYou then, also, now, indeed, will be having sorrow, yet I shall be seeing you again, and your heart shall be rejoicing, and your joy no one is taking away from you.A woman, whenever she may be bringing forth, is having sorrow, seeing that her hour came; yet whenever she should be bearing the little child, no longer is she remembering the affliction, because of the joy that a human being was born into the world.3_Verily, verily, I am saying to you that you shall be lamenting and wailing, yet the world will be rejoicing; yet you shall be sorrowed, but your sorrow shall become joy.gGJesus, then, knew that they wanted to ask Him, and He said to them, "Concerning this are you seeking with one another that I said, 'A little, and you are not beholding Me, and again, a little, and you shall be seeing Me'?oWThey said, then, "What is this 'little' which He is saying? Not aware are we of what He is speaking."hISome, then, of His disciples said to one another, "What is this that He is saying to us, 'A little, and you are not beholding Me, and again, a little, and you shall be seeing Me?' and that 'I am going away to the Father'?"jM"A little, and no longer are you beholding Me; and again, a little, and you shall be seeing Me." wAll, whatever the Father has, is Mine. Therefore I said to you that of Mine is it getting, and will be informing you.` 9That will be glorifying Me, seeing that of Mine will it be getting, and informing you. w Yet whenever that may be coming -- the spirit of truth --it will be guiding you into all the truth, for it will not be speaking from itself, but whatsoever it should be hearing will it be speaking, and of what is coming will it be informing you.W ' "Still much have I to say to you, but you are not able to bear it at present.V % yet concerning judging, seeing that the Chief of this world has been judged.uc yet concerning righteousness, seeing that I am going away to My Father, and no longer are you beholding Me;K concerning sin, indeed, seeing that they are not believing in Me;+ONow if I should be gone, I will send him to you. And, coming, that will be exposing the world concerning sin and concerning righteousness and concerning judging:)K"But I am telling you the truth. It is expedient for you that I may be coming away, for if I should not be coming away, the consoler will not be coming to you.[/But, seeing that I have spoken these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.q[Yet now I am going away to Him Who sends Me, and not one of you is asking Me, 'Whither art Thou going?'b=But these things have I spoken to you that, whenever their hour may be coming, you may be remembering them, seeing that I told you. "Now these things I did not tell you from the beginning, seeing that I was with you._7And these things will they be doing to you, for they know not the Father nor even Me.*Mfor they will be putting you out of the synagogues; but coming is the hour that everyone who is killing you should suppose he is offering divine service to God.G "These things have I spoken to you that you may not be snared,X~)Now you also are testifying, seeing that, from the beginning, you are with Me.@}y"Now, whenever the consoler which I shall be sending you from the Father may be coming, the spirit of truth which is going out from the Father, that will be testifying concerning Me.h|Ibut it is that the word written in their law may be fulfilled, that they hate Me gratuitously.{5If I do not the works among them which no other one does, they had no sin. Yet now they have seen also, and they have hated Me as well as My Father,6zgHe who is hating Me is hating My Father also.pyY"If I came not and speak to them, they had no sin. Yet now they have no pretense concerning their sin.xBut all these things will they be doing to you because of My name, seeing that they are not acquainted with Him Who sends Me.Iw "Remember the word which I said to you, 'A slave is not greater than his lord.' If Me they persecute, you they will be persecuting also. If My word they keep, yours also will they be keeping.8viIf you were of the world, the world would be fond of its own. Now, seeing that you are not of the world, but I choose you out of the world, therefore the world is hating you.QuIf the world is hating you, know that it has hated Me first before you.Rt"In these things I am directing you, that you may be loving one another.sNot you choose Me, but I choose you, and I appoint you, that you may be going away and be bringing forth much fruit, and your fruit may be remaining, that anything whichsoever you should be requesting the Father in My name, He will be giving it to you.9rk"No longer am I terming you slaves, for the slave is not aware what his lord is doing. Yet I have declared you friends, for all that I hear from My Father I make known to you.QqYou are My friends, if you should be doing whatever I am directing you.epC Greater love than this has no one, that anyone may be laying down his soul for his friends.Wo' "This is My precept, that you be loving one another, according as I love you.pnY These things have I spoken to you, that My joy should be remaining in you, and your joy may be filled.'mG If ever you should be keeping My precepts, you will be remaining in My love, according as I have kept the precepts of My Father and am remaining in His love.Rl "According as the Father loves Me, I, also, love you. Remain in My love.wkgIn this is My Father glorified, that you may be bringing forth much fruit, and you shall become My disciples.)jKIf ever you should be remaining in Me and My declarations should be remaining in you, whatever you should be wanting, request, and it will be occurring to you.Bi}"If anyone should not be remaining in Me, he was cast out as a branch, and it withered. And they are gathering them, and into the fire are they casting them, and they are being burned.*hM"I am the Grapevine. You are the branches. He who is remaining in Me, and I in him, this one is bringing forth much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.Vg%Remain in Me. I also am in you. According as the branch can not be bringing forth fruit from itself, if it should not be remaining in the grapevine, thus neither you, if you should not be remaining in Me.Pf"Already you are clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.-eSEvery branch in Me bringing forth no fruit, He is taking it away, and every one bringing forth fruit, He is cleansing it, that it may be bringing forth more fruit.>d y"I am the true Grapevine, and My Father is the Farmer.c+But that the world may know that I am loving the Father, and according as the Father directs Me, thus I am doing, rouse! We may be going hence!|bq"No longer shall I be speaking much with you, for the Chief of the world is coming, and in Me it has not anything.}asAnd now I have declared it to you ere it is occurring, that, whenever it may be occurring, you should be believing.6`eYou hear that I said to you, 'I am going, and I am coming to you.' If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.?_w"Peace I am leaving with you. My peace I am giving to you. Not according as the world is giving to you, am I giving to you. Let not your heart be disturbed, neither let it be timid.%^CNow the consoler, the holy spirit, which the Father will be sending in My name, that will be teaching you all, and reminding you of all that I said to you.@]{"These things have I spoken to you, remaining with you. \ He who is not loving Me, is not keeping My words. And the word which you are hearing is not Mine, but the Father's Who sends Me.C[Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone should be loving Me, he will be keeping My word, and My Father will be loving him, and We shall be coming to him and making an abode with him.Z'Judas (not Iscariot) is saying to Him, "Lord, and what has occurred that Thou art about to be disclosing Thyself to us and not to the world?"FYHe who has My precepts and is keeping them, he it is who is loving Me. Now he who is loving Me will be loved by My Father, and I shall be loving him and shall be disclosing Myself to him."YX+In that day you shall know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. WStill a little and the world is beholding Me no longer, yet you are beholding Me. Seeing that I am living, you also will be living.m If God is glorified in Him, God also shall be glorifying Him in Himself and shall straightway be glorifying Him.v=e When, then, he came out, Jesus is saying, "Now is the Son of Mankind glorified, and God is glorified in Him.T<! Getting the morsel, then, that man came out straightway. Now it was night.3;_ For some supposed, since Judas had the coffer, that Jesus is saying to him, "Buy what we have need of for the festival," or, that he may be giving something to the poor.[:/ Now no one of those lying back at table knew to what purpose He said this to him.9  And after the morsel, then, Satan entered into that man. Jesus, then, is saying to him, "What you are doing, do more quickly."M8 Jesus, then, is answering and saying, "He it is to whom I, dipping in the morsel, shall be handing it." Dipping in the morsel, then, He is taking it and giving it to Judas, son of Simon Iscariot.g7G That one, then, leaning back thus on the chest of Jesus, is saying to Him, "Lord, who is it?"@6y Simon Peter, then, is nodding to this one to ascertain whoever he may be, concerning whom He said it, and is saying to him, "Tell us whoever it is concerning whom He is saying this."[5/ Now one of His disciples, whom Jesus loved, was lying back in the bosom of Jesus.e4C The disciples, then, looked at one another, being perplexed concerning whom He is speaking. 39 These things saying, Jesus was disturbed in spirit, and testifies and said, "Verily, verily, I am saying to you that one of you will be giving Me up."25 "Verily, verily, I am saying to you, whoever is taking anyone I shall be sending, is taking Me; yet he who is taking Me is taking Him Who sends Me."1  Henceforth I am speaking to you before it is occurring, that you should be believing, whenever it may be occurring, that I am.=0s Not concerning all of you am I speaking, for I am aware whom I choose, but that the scripture may be fulfilled, 'He who is masticating bread with Me lifts up his heel against Me.'V/% If you are aware of these things, happy are you if you should be doing them! .  "Verily, verily, I am saying to you, A slave is not greater than his lord, neither is an apostle greater than He Who sends him.a-; For an example have I given you, that, according as I do to you, you also may be doing.q,[ If, then, I, the Lord and the Teacher, wash your feet, you also ought to be washing one another's feet.]+3 You are shouting to Me 'Teacher!' and 'Lord!' and you are saying ideally, for I am.* When, then, He washes their feet, and took His garments and leans back again, He said to them, "Do you know what I have done to you?c)? For He was aware who is giving Him up. Therefore He said that "Not all of you are clean."( Jesus is saying to him, "He who is bathed has no need, except to wash his feet, but is wholly clean. And you are clean, but not all."b'= Simon Peter is saying to Him, "Lord, not my feet only, but the hands also and the head!"C& Peter is saying to Him, "Under no circumstances shouldst Thou be washing my feet for the eon!" Jesus answered him, "If ever I should not be washing you, you are having no part with Me."%w Jesus answered and said to him, "What I am doing you are not aware at present, yet you will know after these things."h$I He is coming, then, to Simon Peter. And he is saying to Him, "Lord, Thou art washing my feet!"##? Thereafter He is draining water into the basin, and begins washing the feet of the disciples and wiping them off with the cloth with which He was girded.h"I is rising from dinner and is laying down His garments, and, getting a cloth, He girds Himself.!} Jesus, being aware that the Father has given all into His hands, and that He came out from God and is going away to God, % And at the coming of dinner, the Adversary already having cast into the heart of Judas, son of Simon Iscariot, that he may be giving Him up,Z / Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus, being aware that His hour came that He may be proceeding out of this world to the Father, loving His own who are in the world, He loves them to the consummation.) 2And I am aware that His precept is life eonian. What, then, I am speaking, according as the Father has declared it to Me, thus am I speaking."1 1seeing that I speak not from Myself, but the Father Who sends Me, He has given Me the precept, what I may be saying and what I should be speaking.$A 0He who is repudiating Me and not getting My declarations, has that which is judging him; the word which I speak, that will be judging him in the last day,L /"And if ever anyone should be hearing My declarations and not be maintaining them, I am not judging him, for I came not that I should be judging the world, but that I should be saving the world.wg .I have come into the world a Light, that everyone who is believing in Me should not be remaining in darkness.B -And he who is beholding Me is beholding Him Who sends Me.oW ,Now Jesus cries and said, "He who is believing in Me is not believing in Me, but in Him Who sends Me.K +for they love the glory of men rather than even the glory of God."= *Howbeit, likewise, of the chiefs also many believe in Him, but because of the Pharisees they did not avow it, lest they may be put out of the synagogue,b= )These things Isaiah said, seeing that he perceived His glory, and speaks concerning Him.T! (that He has blinded their eyes and callouses their heart, lest they may be perceiving with their eyes, and should be apprehending with their heart, and may be turning about, and I shall be healing them.I  'Therefore they could not believe, seeing that Isaiah said again)K &that the word of Isaiah the prophet, which he said, may be being fulfilled, "Lord, who believes our tidings? And the arm of the Lord, to whom was it revealed?"^5 %Yet, after His having done so many signs in front of them, they believed not in Him,'G $As you have the light, be believing in the light, that you may be becoming sons of light." These things Jesus speaks, and, coming away, He was hid from them.gG #Jesus, then, said to them, "Still a little time the light is among you. Be walking while you have the light, lest the darkness may be overtaking you. And he who is walking in the darkness is not aware whither he is going.H  "The throng, then, answered Him, "We hear out of the law that the Christ is remaining for the eon, and how are you saying that the Son of Mankind must be exalted? Who is this Son of Mankind?"N  !Now this He said, signifying by what death He was about to be dying.Z - And I, if I should be exalted out of the earth, shall be drawing all to Myself."Z - Now is the judging of this world. Now shall the Chief of this world be cast out.^ 5 Jesus answered and said, "Not because of Me has come this voice, but because of you.  The throng, then, which stands and hears it, said, "A thunderclap has come!" Others said, "A messenger has spoken to Him!"#? But therefore came I into this hour. Father, glorify Thy name!" A voice, then, came out of heaven, "I glorify it also, and shall be glorifying it again!"a; Now is My soul disturbed. And what may I be saying? 'Father, save Me out of this hour'?9k "If anyone should be serving Me, let him be following Me, and where I am, there My servant also shall be. And if anyone should be serving Me, the Father shall be honoring him.   He who is fond of his soul is destroying it, and he who is hating his soul in this world, shall be guarding it for life eonian.D "Verily, verily, I am saying to you, If a kernel of grain, falling into the earth, should not be dying, it is remaining alone, yet if it should be dying, it is bringing forth much fruit.nU Yet Jesus is answering them, saying, "Come has the hour that the Son of Mankind should be glorified.hI Philip is coming and telling Andrew, and again Andrew and Philip are coming and telling Jesus.! These, then, came to Philip who is from Bethsaida of Galilee, and they asked him, saying, "Lord, we want to become acquainted with Jesus."nU Now there were some Greeks from among those going up that they should be worshiping in the festival.   The Pharisees, then, say to themselves, "You are beholding that you are benefiting nothing. Lo! the world came away after him!"_~7 Therefore, also, the vast throng meets Him, for they hear that He has done this sign. }  The throng, then, which is with Him when He summons Lazarus out of the tomb, and rouses him from among the dead, was testifying.>|u Now these things are not known to His disciples at first, but when Jesus is glorified, then they are reminded that these things were written of Him and these things they do to Him.[{/ Do not fear, daughter of Zion! Lo! your King is coming, sitting on an ass's colt.Wz' Now Jesus, finding a little ass, is seated on it, according as it is written,,yQ got fronds of palms and came out to meet Him. And they clamored, saying, "Hosanna! Blessed is He Who is coming in the name of the Lord!" and "The King of Israel!"vxe On the morrow the vast throng, who are coming for the festival, hearing that Jesus is coming into Jerusalem,Jw  for many of the Jews went because of him, and believed in Jesus.Sv Yet the chief priests also plan that they should be killing Lazarus also,Nu The vast throng, then, of the Jews, knew that He is there. And they came, not because of Jesus only, but that they might become acquainted with Lazarus also, whom Jesus rouses from among the dead.Mt For the poor you have always with you, yet Me you have not always."as; Jesus, then, said, "Let her be, that she should be keeping it for the day of My burial.r Now this he said, not that he cared concerning the poor, but that he was a thief, having the coffer also, and bore what is cast into it.eqC "Wherefore was not this attar disposed of for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?"dpA Now Judas of Simon Iscariot, one of His disciples (who is about to give Him up) is saying,Co Mary, then, taking a pound troy of veritable nard attar, very precious, rubs the feet of Jesus and wipes off His feet with her hair. Now the house was filled with the odor of the attar.ny They make, then, for Him a dinner there, and Martha served. Now Lazarus was one of those lying back at table with Him. m  Jesus, then, six days before the Passover, came to Bethany, where Lazarus was who had died, whom Jesus rouses from among the dead./lW 9Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given directions that if anyone should know where He is, he should be divulging it, so that they should be arresting Him.)kK 8They, then, sought Jesus, and said, standing with one another in the sanctuary, "What do you suppose? That He may under no circumstances come to the festival?"#j? 7Now near was the Passover of the Jews, and many went up into Jerusalem out of the country, before the Passover, that they should be purifying themselves.Ei 6Jesus, then, no longer walked with boldness among the Jews, but came away thence into the country near the wilderness, into a city termed Ephraim, and there He remains with His disciples.Fh 5From that day, then, they consult that they should kill Him.pgY 4and not for the nation only, but that He may be gathering the scattered children of God also into one."f= 3Now this he said, not from himself, but, being the chief priest of that year, he prophesies that Jesus was about to be dying for the sake of the nation, e9 2neither are you reckoning that it is expedient for us that one man should be dying for the sake of the people and not the whole nation should perish."d{ 1Now a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being the chief priest of that year, said to them, "You are not aware of anything,c 0If we should be leaving him thus, all will be believing in him, and the Romans will come and take away our place as well as our nation."b /The chief priests and the Pharisees, then, gathered a Sanhedrin and said, "What are we doing, seeing that this man is doing many signs?Ya+ .Yet some of them came away to the Pharisees, and told them how much Jesus does._`7 -Many of the Jews, then, who come to Mary and gaze at what Jesus does, believe in Him.D_ ,And out came he who had died, bound feet and hands with winding sheets, and his countenance had been bound about with a handkerchief. Jesus is saying to them, "Loose him and let him go!"Y^+ +And, saying these things, He clamors with a loud voice, "Lazarus! Hither! Out!"+]O *Now I was aware that Thou art hearing Me always, but because of the throng standing about I said it, that they should be believing that thou dost commission Me."|\q )They, then, take away the stone. Yet Jesus lifts up His eyes and said, "Father, I thank Thee that Thou hearest Me.[ (Jesus is saying to her, "Did I not say to you that, if ever you should be believing, you should be seeing the glory of God?"!Z; 'Jesus is saying, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the deceased, is saying to Him, "Lord, he is already smelling, for it is the fourth day."xYi &Jesus, then, again muttering in Himself, is coming to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone was laid on it. X  %Yet some of them said, "Could not this One Who opens the eyes of the blind man, also make it that this man should not be dying?"TT5SSRQQPP?OO1NMMMLL0KKJ IITHHrGGG#FFzEEJDCCBrA@@p???>=<<);;R::-998777B6y55441322210H/.-,,V+**K))(''?&&3%$$u##*"!!/ cV7mcjl { %-iFhYn l e E 57'+4 a.Besides persevering day by day with one accord in the sanctuary, besides breaking bread home by home, they partook of nourishment with exultation and simplicity of heart, -And they disposed of the acquisitions and the properties, and divided them to all, forasmuch as some would have had need.] 3,Now all those who believe also were in the same place and had all things in common.+Now on every soul came fear, yet many miracles and signs occurred through the apostles in Jerusalem. Besides, great fear was on all.*Now they were persevering in the teaching of the apostles, and in fellowship, and in the breaking of bread, and in prayers.~u)Those indeed, then, who welcome his word, are baptized, and there were added in that day about three thousand souls.}(Besides, with more and different words, he conjures and entreated them, saying, "Be saved from this crooked generation!"'For to you is the promise and to your children, and to all those afar, whosoever the Lord our God should be calling to Him."A{&Now Peter is averring to them, "Repent and be baptized each of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the pardon of your sins, and you shall be obtaining the gratuity of the holy spirit.*M%Now, hearing this, their heart was pricked with compunction. Besides, they said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "What should we be doing, men, brethren?"$"Let all the house of Israel know certainly, then, that God makes Him Lord as well as Christ -- this Jesus Whom you crucify!"P#Till I should be placing Thine enemies for a footstool for Thy feet."'s_""For David did not ascend into the heavens, yet he is saying, 'Said the Lord to my Lord, "Sit at My right1~[!Being, then, to the right hand of God exalted, besides obtaining the promise of the holy spirit from the Father, He pours out this which you are observing and hearing.=}u This Jesus God raises, of Whom we all are witnesses.+|Operceiving this before, he speaks concerning the resurrection of the Christ, that He was neither forsaken in the unseen, nor was His flesh acquainted with decay.{7Being, then, inherently, a prophet, and having perceived that God swears to him with an oath, out of the fruit of his loin to seat One on his throne,/zW"Men! Brethren! Allow me to say to you with boldness concerning the patriarch David, that he deceases also and was entombed, and his tomb is among us until this day.jyMThou makest known to me the paths of life. Thou wilt be filling me with gladness with Thy face.'xFor Thou wilt not be forsaking my soul in the unseen, Nor wilt Thou be giving Thy Benign One to be acquainted with decay.}wsTherefore gladdened was my heart, And exultant my tongue. Now, still my flesh also shall be tenting in expectation, v "For David is saying to Him, I saw the Lord before me continually, Seeing that He is at my right hand, that I may not be shaken.qu[Whom God raises, loosing the pangs of death, forasmuch as it was not possible for Him to be held by it.tThis One, given up in the specific counsel and foreknowledge of God, you, gibbeting by the hand of the lawless, assassinate,nsUMen! Israelites! Hear these words: Jesus, the Nazarene, a Man demonstrated to be from God for you by powerful deeds and miracles and signs, which God does through Him in the midst of you, according as you yourselves are aware --lrQAnd it shall be that everyone, whosoever should be invoking the name of the Lord, shall be saved.' qThe sun shall be converted into darkness And the moon into blood Ere the coming of the day of the Lord, The great and advent day.}ps'And I will give miracles in heaven above, And signs on the earth below, Blood and fire and vapor pillars of smoke,oAnd surely on My men slaves and on My women slaves in those days shall I be pouring out from My spirit,' and they shall be prophesying.vne'And it shall be in the last days,' (God is saying) 'I shall be pouring out from My spirit on all flesh, And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, And your youths visions shall be seeing, And your elders dreams shall be dreaming,LmBut this is that which has been declared through the prophet Joel:Wl'for these are not drunk, as you take it, for it is the third hour of the day.EkNow Peter, standing with the eleven, lifts up his voice and declaims to them: "Men! Jews! and all who are dwelling at Jerusalem! Let this be known to you, and give ear to my declarations,Lj Yet other, taunting, said that "With sweet wine are they bloated!"ri] Now, amazed are they all, and they were bewildered, saying one to another, "What is this wanting to be?"sh_ Cretans and Arabs -- we are hearing them speaking in these languages of ours of the great things of God!"gw Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, and the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and the repatriated Romans, both Jews and proselytes, f Parthians and Medes and Elamites and those dwelling in Mesopotamia, Judea, as well as Cappadocia, Pontus, and the province of Asia,SeAnd how are we hearing, each in our own vernacular in which we were born?ldQNow they are all amazed, and marveled, saying, "Lo! are not all these who are speaking, Galileans? cNow when this sound occurs, the multitude came together and was confused, for each one hears them speaking in his own vernacular._b7Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem, Jews, pious men from every nation under heaven.aAnd they are all filled with holy spirit, and they begin to speak in different languages, according as the spirit gave them to declaim.f`EAnd seen by them were dividing tongues as if of fire, and one is seated on each one of them._!And suddenly there came out of heaven a blare, even as of a violent, carrying blast, and it fills the whole house where they were sitting.^^ 7And at the fulfillment of the day of Pentecost they were all alike in the same place.s] aAnd they give lots for them, and the lot falls on Matthias, and he is enumerated with the eleven apostles.\ out of these two to take the place of this dispensation and apostleship, from which Judas transgressed, to be gone into his own place."c[ AAnd praying, they say, "Thou, Lord, Knower of all hearts, indicate one whom Thou choosest,aZ =And they nominate two, Joseph, called Bar-Sabbas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias.(Y Kbeginning from the baptism of John until the day on which He was taken up from us -- of these one is to become a witness of His resurrection together with us."pX [Then, of the men coming together with us in all the time in which the Lord Jesus came in and out to us,+W Q"For it is written in the scroll of the Psalms, Let his domicile become desolate, And let no one be dwelling in it, and 'Let his supervision be taken by another.'*V OAnd it became known to all who are dwelling in Jerusalem, so that that freehold is called, in their own vernacular, "Acheldamach," that is, "Freehold of blood."),U S(This man, indeed, then, acquires a freehold with the wages of injustice, and coming to fall prone, ruptures in the middle, and all his intestines were poured out.dT Cseeing that he was numbered among us, and chanced upon the allotment of this dispensation."DS said, "Men! Brethren! Fulfilled must be the scripture in which the holy spirit said before through the mouth of David, concerning Judas, who becomes the guide of those apprehending Jesus,R -And in these days Peter, rising in the midst of the brethren, (besides there was a throng in the same place of about a hundred and twenty names) Q  These all were persevering with one accord in prayer, together with the women and Miriam, the mother of Jesus, and His brothers.tP c And when they entered it, they went up into the upper chamber where they were residing -- both Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James of Alpheus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas of James.sO a Then they return into Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem a sabbath's journey.PN  who say also, "Men! Galileans! Why do you stand, looking into heaven? This Jesus Who is being taken up from you into heaven shall come thus, in the manner in which you gaze at Him going into heaven."tM c And as they were looking intently into heaven at His going, lo ! two men stand beside them in white attire,tL c And saying these things, while they are looking, He was lifted up, and a cloud took Him up from their eyes.KK But you shall be obtaining power at the coming of the holy spirit on you, and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem and in entire Judea and Samaria, and as far as the limits of the earth."uJ eYet He said to them, "Not yours is it to know times or eras which the Father placed in His own jurisdiction.I  Those, indeed, then, who are coming together, asked Him, saying, "Lord, art Thou at this time restoring the kingdom to Israel?"}H useeing that John, indeed, baptizes in water, yet you shall be baptized in holy spirit after not many of these days."%G EAnd, being foregathered, He charges them not to be departing from Jerusalem, but to be remaining about for the promise of the Father, "which you hear of Me,;F qto whom also He presents Himself alive after His suffering, with many tokens, during forty days, being visualized to them and telling them that which concerns the kingdom of God.lE Suntil the day on which He was taken up; through holy spirit directing the apostles whom He chooses,sD cThe first account, indeed, I make, O Theophilus, concerning all which Jesus begins both to do and to teach,;CoNow there are many other things also, which Jesus does, which, if they should be written, one by one, I am surmising not even the world itself would contain the written scrolls.B)This is the disciple who is testifying also concerning these things, and who writes these things. And we are aware that his testimony is true._A7This word, then, came out to the brethren, that that disciple is not dying. Now Jesus did not say to him that he is not dying, but, "If I should be wanting him to be remaining till I am coming, what is it to you?"@ Jesus is saying to him, "If I should be wanting him to be remaining till I am coming, what is it to you? You be following Me!"]?3Peter, then, perceiving this one, is saying to Jesus, "Lord, yet what of this man?"G>Now Peter, being turned about, is observing the disciple whom Jesus loved, following, who leans back also on His chest at the dinner and said to Him, "Lord who is it who is giving Thee up?"=}Now this He said, signifying by what death he will be glorifying God. And saying this, He is saying to him, "Follow Me!"<Verily, verily, I am saying to you, When you were younger you girded yourself and walked where you would; yet whenever you may be growing decrepit, you will stretch out your hands, and another shall be girding you and carrying you where you would not."3;_He is saying to him the third time, "Simon of John, are you fond of Me?" Peter was sorry that He said to him the third time "Are you fond of Me?" and he is saying to Him, "Lord, Thou art aware of all things! Thou knowest that I am fond of Thee." And Jesus is saying to him, "Graze My little sheep!I: He is saying to him again a second time, "Simon of John, are you loving Me?" He is saying to Him, "Yes, Lord, Thou art aware that I am fond of Thee!" He is saying to him, "Shepherd My sheep!"h9IWhen, then, they lunch, Jesus is saying to Simon Peter, "Simon of John, are you loving Me more than these?" He is saying to Him, "Yes, Lord, Thou art aware that I am fond of Thee!" He is saying to him, "Graze My lambkins!"{8oNow this is already the third time Jesus was manifested to the disciples, after being roused from among the dead.k7O Jesus, then, is coming and taking the bread and is giving it to them, and the food fish likewise.6+ Jesus is saying to them, "Hither! Lunch!" Now no one of the disciples dared to inquire of Him, "Who art Thou?" being aware that it is the Lord.#5? Simon Peter, then, went up and draws the net to the land, distended with a hundred and fifty-three large fishes. And, being so many, the net is not rent.N4 Jesus is saying to them, "Bring of the food fish which you now net."3y As, then, they stepped off to the land, they are observing a charcoal fire laid, and food fish lying on it, and bread.23Yet the other disciples came in the other boat (for they were not far from the land, but about two hundred cubits off), dragging the net of fishes.N1That disciple, then, whom Jesus loved, is saying to Peter, "It is the Lord!" Simon Peter, then, hearing that it is the Lord, girds on his overcoat (for he was naked) and cast himself into the sea.E0Now He said to them, "Cast the net on the right parts of the ship and you will be finding." They cast, then, and they no longer were strong enough to draw it, for the multitude of fishes.i/KJesus, then, is saying to them, "Little children, have you no viands?" They answered Him, "No!".Now as it already is becoming morning, Jesus stood on the beach. Howbeit, the disciples had not perceived that it is Jesus.U-#Simon Peter is saying to them, "I am going fishing!" They are saying to him, "We also are coming with you!" They, then, came out and stepped into the ship straightway, and in that night they net nothing.,3There were alike Simon Peter and Thomas, termed Didymus, and Nathanael from Cana of Galilee, and those of Zebedee, and two others of His disciples.y+ mAfter these things Jesus manifests Himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias. Now He manifests thus:!*;Yet these are written that you should be believing that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that, believing, you may have life eonian in His name.})sIndeed then, many other signs also Jesus does, in the sight of His disciples, which are not written in this scroll. (Now Jesus is saying to him, "Seeing that you have seen Me, you have believed. Happy are those who are not perceiving and believe."D'And Thomas answered and said to Him, "My Lord and my God!":&mThereafter He is saying to Thomas, "Bring your finger here and perceive My hands, and bring your hand and thrust it into My side, and do not become unbelieving, but believing."8%iAnd after eight days His disciples were again within, and Thomas was with them. The doors having been locked, Jesus is coming and stood in the midst and said, "Peace to you!"$The other disciples, then, said to him, "We have seen the Lord!" Yet he said to them, "Should I not perceive in His hands the print of the nails, and thrust my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into His side, I will by no means be believing."[#/Now Thomas, one of the twelve, termed Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came."If you should be forgiving anyone's sins, they have been forgiven them. If anyone's you should be holding, they are held."N!And saying this, He exhales and is saying to them, "Get holy spirit!~ uJesus, then, said to them again, "Peace to you! According as the Father has commissioned Me, I also am sending you."|qAnd saying this, He shows them His hands also, and His side. The disciples, then, rejoiced at perceiving the Lord.zmIt being, then, the evening of that day, one of the sabbaths, and the doors having been locked where the disciples were gathered together, because of fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst and is saying to them, "Peace to you!"{Miriam Magdalene is coming, reporting to the disciples that "I have seen the Lord!" -- and these things He said to her. "Rabboni!" which is the term for "Teacher." Jesus is saying to her, "Do not touch Me, for not as yet have I ascended to My Father. Now go to My brethren, and say to them that I said, 'Lo! I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and My God and your God.'"^5Jesus is saying to her, "Miriam!" Now, being turned, she is saying to Him in Hebrew,eCJesus is saying to her, "Woman, why are you lamenting? Whom are you seeking?" She, supposing that He is the gardener, is saying to Him, "Lord, if you bear Him off, tell me where you place Him, and I will take Him away."zmSaying these things, she turned behind, and is beholding Jesus standing, and she was not aware that it is Jesus.'G And they are saying to her, "Woman, why are you lamenting?" And she is saying to them that "They take away my Lord, and I am not aware where they place Him!"{ and is beholding two messengers in white seated, one at the head and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus was laid.hI Now Mary stood outside at the tomb, lamenting. As, then, she lamented, she peers into the tomb;q The disciples, then, came away again to their own.`9 for not as yet were they aware of the scripture that He must rise from among the dead.q[The other disciple also, then, who came first to the tomb, then entered, and he perceived and believes,ucand the handkerchief which was on His head, not lying with the swathings, but folded up in one place apart.{Simon Peter also, then, is coming, following him, and he entered into the tomb and he is beholding the swathings lying,Z-And, peering in, he is observing the swathings lying. Howbeit, he did not enter.taNow the two raced alike, and the other disciple runs more swiftly before Peter and came first to the tomb.RPeter, then, and the other disciple came out, and they came to the tomb.] 3She is racing, then, and is coming to Simon Peter and to the other disciple of whom Jesus was fond, and she is saying to them, "They take away the Lord out of the tomb and we are not aware where they place Him!"9  mNow, on one of the sabbaths, Miriam Magdalene is coming to the tomb in the morning, there being still darkness, and is observing the stone taken away from the door of the tomb.o W*There, then, because of the preparation of the Jews, seeing that the tomb was near, they place Jesus. )Now there was in the place where He was crucified, a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one has been placed as yet.  (They got the body of Jesus, then, and they bind it in swathings with the spices, according as the custom of the Jews is to bury.  'Now Nicodemus also came (who came to Him at night at first), bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds troy.wg&Now after these things Joseph from Arimathea (being a disciple of Jesus, yet hidden because of fear of the Jews) asks Pilate that he should be taking away the body of Jesus. And Pilate permits him. He came, then, and takes away His body.X)%And again, a different scripture is saying, they shall see Him whom they stab.mS$For these things occurred that the scripture may be fulfilled, "A bone of it shall not be crushed."-#And he who has seen has testified, and true is his testimony. And he is aware that he is telling the truth, that you, also, should be believing.oW"But one of the soldiers pierces His side with a lance head, and straightway out came blood and water.hI!Yet, coming on to Jesus, as they perceived He had already died, they do not fracture His legs.} The soldiers, then, came and fractured indeed the legs of the first and of the other who is crucified together with Him.r]The Jews, then, since it was the preparation, lest the bodies should be remaining on the cross on the sabbath (for it was the great day, that sabbath), ask Pilate that they might be fracturing their legs, and they may be taken away.|qWhen, then, Jesus took the vinegar, He said, "It is accomplished!" And reclining His head, He gives up the spirit.~Now a vessel lay there distended with vinegar. Sticking a sponge, then, distended with vinegar, on hyssop, they carry it to His mouth.}After this, Jesus, being aware that all is already accomplished, that the scripture may be perfected, is saying, "I thirst!"z|mThereafter He is saying to the disciple, "Lo! your mother!" And from that hour the disciple took her to his own.{ Jesus, then, perceiving His mother and the disciple whom He loved standing by, is saying to His mother, "Woman, lo! your son!"zyNow there stood beside the cross of Jesus His mother and the sister of His mother, Mary of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene..yUThey said, then, to one another, "We should not be rending it, but we may take chances on it, whose it shall be," that the scripture may be fulfilled which is saying, "They divide My garments among themselves, And on My vesture they cast the lot." The soldiers, indeed, then, do these things.Ix The soldiers, then, when they crucify Jesus, took His garments and make four parts -- to each soldier a part; and the tunic. Now the tunic was seamless, woven from above throughout the whole.@w{Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written!"v/The chief priests of the Jews, then, said to Pilate, "Do not be writing 'The King of the Jews' but that 'that one said "King of the Jews am I."'"u1This title, then, many of the Jews read, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Hebrew, Latin and Greek.tNow Pilate writes a title also, and places it on the cross. Now it was written, "Jesus the Nazarene, the King of the Jews."fsEwhere they crucify Him, and with Him two others, hence and hence, yet in the midst is Jesus.1r[They took Jesus along, then, and led Him away. And, bearing the cross Himself, He came out to what is termed a "Skull's Place," which is termed, in Hebrew, "Golgotha,"GqThen he gives Him up to them, then, that He may be crucified..pUYet they clamor then, "Away! Away! Crucify him!" Pilate is saying to them, "Shall I crucify your king?" The chief priests answered, "No king have we except Caesar!"o}Now it was the preparation of the Passover; the hour was about the third. And he is saying to the Jews, "Lo! your king!"n! Pilate, then, hearing these words, led Jesus outside, and is seated on a dais in a place termed the "Pavement," yet in Hebrew, "Gabbatha."Xm) At this, Pilate sought to release Him, yet the Jews clamored, saying, "If ever this man you should be releasing, you are not a friend of Caesar! Everyone who is making himself king is contradicting Caesar!"2l] Jesus answered him, "No authority have you against Me in anything, except it were given to you from above. Therefore he who is giving Me up to you has the greater sin."!k; Pilate, then, is saying to Him, "To me you are not speaking! Are you not aware that I have authority to release you and have authority to crucify you?"{jo And he entered into the pretorium again, and is saying to Jesus, "Whence are you?" Yet Jesus gives him no answer.GiWhen, then, Pilate hears this saying, he was the more afraid.|hqThe Jews answered him, "We have a law, and according to our law he ought to die, for he makes himself son of God."Tg!When, then, the chief priests and the deputies perceived Him, they clamor, saying, "Crucify! Crucify him!" And Pilate is saying to them, "You take him and crucify him, for I am finding no fault in him."}fsJesus, then, came outside, wearing the thorny wreath and the purple cloak. And he is saying to them, "Lo! the man!" e9And Pilate came outside again, and is saying to them, "Lo! I am leading him outside to you, that you may know that not one fault am I finding in him."Yd+And they came to Him and said, "Rejoice! King of the Jews!" and give Him slaps.|cqAnd the soldiers, braiding a wreath out of thorns, place it on His head, and with a purple cloak they clothed Him.7b kThen Pilate took Jesus, then, and scourges Him.jaM(They, then, all clamor again, saying, "Not this one, but Bar-Abbas!" Now Bar-Abbas was a robber.'`G'Now it is your usage that I should be releasing one to you in the Passover. Are you intending, then, that I should be releasing to you the king of the Jews?"_7&Pilate is saying to Him, "What is truth!" And, this saying, again he came out to the Jews, and is saying to them, "I not one fault am finding in him.!^;%Pilate, then, said to Him, "Is it not then so? A king are you!" Jesus answered, "You are saying that I am a king. For this also have I been born, and for this have I come into the world, that I should be testifying to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth is hearing My voice."O]$Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My deputies, also, would have contended, lest I should be given up to the Jews. Yet now is My kingdom not hence."q\[#Pilate answered, "No Jew am I! Your nation and the chief priests give you up to me. What is it you do?"h[I"Jesus answered him, "From yourself are you saying this, or did others tell you concerning Me?"|Zq!Again, then, Pilate entered into the pretorium and summons Jesus, and said to Him, "You are the king of the Jews?"sY_ that the word of Jesus may be fulfilled which He said, signifying by what death He was about to be dying."X=Pilate, then, said to them, "You take him and, according to your law, judge him." The Jews, then, said to him, "To us it is not allowed to kill anyone,"kWOThey answered and said to him, "If this man were doing no evil, we would not give him up to you."rV]Pilate, then, came outside to them and is averring, "What accusation are you bringing against this man?"AU{They are, then, leading Jesus from Caiaphas into the pretorium. Now it was morning, and they did not enter into the pretorium lest they may be defiled, but may be eating the passover.BTAgain, then, Peter disowns. And immediately a cock crows.%SCOne of the slaves of the chief priest, being a relative of the one whose ear Peter strikes off, is saying, "Did not I perceive you in the garden with him?"R3Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said, then, to him, "Are not you, also, of his disciples?" He disowns, and said, "I am not."KQHannas, then, dispatches Him bound to Caiaphas, the chief priest.wPgJesus answered him, "If evilly I speak, testify concerning the evil, yet if ideally, why are you lashing Me?"ONow at His saying these things, one of the deputies standing by gives Jesus a slap, saying, "Are you answering the chief priest thus?"xNiWhy are you asking Me? Inquire of those who have heard what I speak to them. Lo! these are aware what I said."FMAnd Jesus answered him, "I with boldness have spoken to the world. I always teach in a synagogue and in the sanctuary where all the Jews are coming together, and in hiding I speak nothing.bL=The chief priest, then, asks Jesus concerning His disciples and concerning His teaching.They answered Him, "Jesus, the Nazarene." Jesus is saying to them, "I am He." Now Judas, also, who is giving Him up, stood with them.r=]Jesus, then, being aware of all that is coming on Him, coming out, said to them, "Whom are you seeking?"<Judas, then, getting a squad and deputies of the chief priests and Pharisees, is coming there with lanterns and torches and weapons.;Now Judas also, who is giving Him up, was acquainted with the place, for often was Jesus gathered there with His disciples.4: cThese things saying, Jesus came out with His disciples to the other side of the Kedron winter brook, where there was a garden, into which He entered, He and His disciples.9And I make known to them Thy name, and I shall make it known, that the love with which Thou lovest Me may be in them, and I in them."t8aJust Father, the world, also, knew Thee not, yet I knew Thee. And these know that Thou dost commission Me.X7)"Father, those whom Thou hast given Me, I will that, where I am, they also may be with Me, that they may be beholding My glory which Thou has given Me, for Thou lovest Me before the disruption of the world.26]I in them and Thou in Me, that they may be perfected in one, and that the world may know that Thou dost commission Me and dost love them according as Thou dost love Me.r5]"And I have given them the glory which Thou has given Me, that they may be one, according as We are One,64ethat they may all be one, according as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be in Us, that the world should be believing that Thou dost commission Me.z3mYet not concerning these only am I asking, but also concerning those who are believing in Me through their word,a2;And for their sakes I am hallowing Myself, that they also may be hallowed by the truth.b1="According as Thou dost dispatch Me into the world, I also dispatch them into the world.50eHallow them by Thy truth. Thy word is truth.H/ Of the world they are not, according as I am not of the world..I am not asking that Thou shouldst be taking them away out of the world, but that Thou shouldst be keeping them from the wicked one. R|!~=}}t},||{{Pzzy2xVwwnvvuuttsCrrCqqppoo(nn:mmZllkjjBiiqhhgffeeedvcc>bb+aa`h__!^Z]]I\\|[[>r==*<=:And, casting him out, outside of the city, they pelted him with stones. And the witnesses put off their garments at the feet of a young man called Saul.a=;9Now, crying with a loud voice, they pressed their ears and rush on him with one accord.y<k8and said, "Lo! I am beholding the heavens opened up, and the Son of Mankind standing at the right hand of God."*;M7Now possessing the fullness of faith and holy spirit, looking intently into heaven, he perceived the glory of God, and Jesus, standing at the right hand of God,h:I6Now, hearing these things, they were harrowed in their hearts, and gnashed their teeth at him.N95who got the law for a mandate of messengers and do not maintain it!"B8}4Which of the prophets do not your fathers persecute? And they kill those who announce before concerning the coming of the Just One, of Whom now you became the traitors and murderers --7 3Stiff-necked and uncircumcised in your hearts and ears, you are ever clashing with the holy spirit! As your fathers, you also!76i2Is it not My hand that does all these things?'/5W1'"Heaven is My throne, yet the earth is a footstool for My feet. What kind of house shall be built for Me?" the Lord is saying, or what is the place of My stopping?"i4K0But the Most High is not dwelling in what is made by hands, according as the prophet is saying,)3M/"Yet Solomon builds Him a house.i2K.who found favor before God. And he requests that he may find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.-1S-which also our fathers who succeed him, with Joshua, led into the tenure of the nations, whom God thrusts out from the face of our fathers, till the days of David,80i,"The tabernacle of the testimony was with our fathers in the wilderness, according as He prescribes, Who speaks to Moses, to make it according to the model which he had seen,5/c+And you took up the tabernacle of Moloch and the constellation of your god Raiphan, the models which you make, to worship them. 'And I shall be exiling you beyond Babylon.y.k*Now God turns and gives them up to be offering divine service to the host of heaven, according as it is written in the scroll of the prophets: Do you not offer Me slain victims and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, house of Israel?-)"And they make a calf in those days, and they led up the sacrifice to the idol, and made merry with the works of their hands.$,A(saying to Aaron, 'Make us gods who will go before us -- for this Moses, the man who led us out of the land of Egypt, we are not aware what became of him.'+y'to whom our fathers are not willing to become obedient, but they thrust him away, and turned to Egypt in their hearts,A*{&This is he who came to be in the ecclesia in the wilderness with the messenger, who speaks to him in mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who receives the living oracles to give to you,)%This is the Moses who says to the sons of Israel: A Prophet will God be raising up to you from among your brethren, as me.($This man led them out, doing miracles and signs in the land of Egypt and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years.y'k#"This Moses, whom they disown, saying, 'Who constitutes you a chief and a justice over us?' this one has God commissioned to be a chief as well as a redeemer, a justice, with the hand of the messenger who was seen by him in the thorn bush.X&)"'In perceiving I perceived the ill treatment of My people who are in Egypt,' and their groaning I hear, 'and I descended to extricate them.' And now, come hither that I should be dispatching you into Egypt.w%g!"Now the Lord said to him, 'Loose the sandals from your feet, for the place on which you stand is holy land.' $ I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. Now Moses, coming to be in a tremor, dared not consider it.~#uNow Moses, perceiving it, marvels at the vision. Yet, at his approaching to consider it, the voice of the Lord came:""And, at the completion of forty years, a messenger was seen by him in the wilderness of mount Sinai, in the flame of a thorn bush fire.n!UNow Moses fled at this word, and became a sojourner in the land of Midian, where he begets two sons.^ 5You do not want to despatch me in the manner you despatched the Egyptian yesterday?'|qYet he who is injuring his associate, thrusts him away, saying 'Who constitutes you a chief and a justice over us?B}Besides, on the ensuing day he was seen by them as they are fighting, and he interceded with them for peace, saying, Men! Brethren are you! Why is it that you are injuring one another? Now he inferred that his brethren understood that God, through his hand, is giving salvation to them; yet they do not understand.}And perceiving someone being injured, he succors him, and does the avenging of him who is harried, smiting the Egyptian.ta"Now as his forty-year time was completed, it came on his heart to visit his brethren, the sons of Israel.lQAnd Moses was trained in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, yet was powerful in his words and works.jMNow, at his being exposed, Pharaoh's daughter lifts him up and rears him for herself, for a son.|qIn which era Moses was born (and was handsome even to God), who was reared three months in the home of his father.This one, dealing astutely with our race, illtreats the fathers, causing their babes to be exposed that they should not live.Z-until a different king rose over Egypt, who had not been acquainted with Joseph.~u"Now, as the time of the promise which God avows to Abraham drew near, the people grow and were multiplied in Egypt,)and they were transferred to Shechem and placed in the tomb which Abraham purchases for a price, in silver, from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.NAnd Jacob descended into Egypt, and he deceases, he and our fathers,{o"Now Joseph, dispatching them, calls for Jacob, his father, and the entire relationship among seventy-five souls.wg And in the second time Joseph is made re-known to his brethren, and Joseph's race became apparent to Pharaoh.b= Now Jacob, hearing that there are stores of grain in Egypt, delegates our fathers first.y "Now a famine came on the whole of Egypt and Canaan, and the affliction was great, and our fathers found no provender.=s and extricates him out of all his afflictions, and gives him favor and wisdom in front of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and constitutes him governor over Egypt and over his whole house.e C "And the patriarchs, being jealous of Joseph, gave him up into Egypt. And God was with him,, Q"And He gives him the covenant of circumcision. And thus he begets Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day, and Isaac Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs.9 kAnd the nation for whichsoever they should be slaving shall I judge, said God. And after these things they shall be coming out and offering divine service to Me in this place. Yet God speaks thus, that his seed shall be a sojourner in an alien land, and they shall enslave it and illtreat it four hundred years.H  And He does not give him any allotment to enjoy in it, nor even a platform for a foot. "And He promises to give it to him for a tenure and to his seed after him, there being no child of his.4aThen, coming out of the land of the Chaldeans, he dwells in Charan, and thence, after the death of his father, He exiles him into this land in which you are now dwelling. and said to him, 'Come out of your land and from your relationship and come hither into the land which I would be showing to you.'/Now he averred, "Men, brethren, and fathers, hear! The God of glory was seen by our father Abraham, being in Mesopotamia, ere he dwelt in Charan,8 mNow the chief priest said, "Are these thing so?"}And looking intently at him, all those seated in the Sanhedrin perceived his face as if it were the face of a messenger."=for we have heard him saying that this Jesus the Nazarene will be demolishing this place and will be changing the customs which Moses gives over to us."5 Besides, they put false witnesses on the stand, who say, "This man does not cease speaking, making declarations against this holy place and the law,  They stir up the people as well as the elders and the scribes, and standing by, they grip him, and led him into the Sanhedrin.ta Then they suborned men, saying that, "We have heard him speaking declarations, blaspheming Moses and God."eC And they were not strong enough to withstand the wisdom and the spirit with which he spoke.@~y Now there rise certain of those of the synagogue termed Freedmen, and of the Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and the province of Asia, discussing with Stephen.^}5Now Stephen, full of grace and power, did great miracles and signs among the people."|=And the word of God grows, and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem multiplied tremendously. Besides, a vast throng of the priests obeyed the faith.\{1whom they stand before the apostles. And, praying, they place their hands on them.bz=And, pleased by the word spoken before the entire multitude, they choose Stephen, a man full of faith and holy spirit, and Philip and Prochoros and Nicanor and Timon and Parmenas and Nicholas, a proselyte of Antioch,RyYet we shall be persevering in prayer and the dispensation of the word." x Now, brethren, pick out seven attested men from among you, full of the spirit and of wisdom, whom we will place over this need.w1Now the twelve, calling the multitude of the disciples to them, say, "It is not pleasing for us, leaving the word of God, to be serving at tables.7v iNow in these days, the disciples multiplying, there came to be a murmuring of the Hellenists against the Hebrews, that their widows were overlooked in the daily dispensation.u*Besides, every day, in the sanctuary and home by home, they ceased not teaching and bringing the evangel of Christ Jesus.t!)They, indeed, then, went from the face of the Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they were deemed worthy to be dishonored for the sake of the Name.)sK(Now they are persuaded by him, and, calling the apostles to them, and lashing them, they charge them not to be speaking in the name of Jesus, and release them.r'yet if it is of God, you will not be able to demolish them -- lest at some time you may be found fighters against God also."q)&And now I am saying to you, Withdraw from these men and let them be, for if this counsel or this work should be of men, it will be demolished;>pu%After this, one rose, Judas, the Galilean, in the days of the registration, and draws away people after him, and he perished, and all, whoever were persuaded by him, are scattered.goG$For before these days rose Theudas, saying that he is somebody himself, to whom men numbering about four hundred inclined, who was assassinated, and all, whoever were persuaded by him, were disbanded, and came to nothing.n#Besides he said to them, "Men! Israelites! Take heed to yourselves, as to these men, what you are about to be committing.)mK"Yet, rising, a certain Pharisee in the Sanhedrin, named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, honored by the entire people, orders them to put the men outside a bit.Rl!Now those who hear were harrowed, and they intended to assassinate them.wkg We are witnesses to these declarations, as well as the holy spirit which God gives to those yielding to Him."zjmThis Inaugurator and Saviour, God exalts to His right hand, to give repentance to Israel and the pardon of sins.`i9Now the God of our fathers rouses Jesus, on Whom you lay hands, hanging Him on a pole._h7Yet answering, Peter and the apostles say, "One must yield to God rather than to men.Egsaying, "Do we not charge you with a charge not to be teaching in this Name? And lo! you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and are intending to bring on us the blood of this man."efCNow, leading them, they stand them in the Sanhedrin. And the chief priest inquires of them,e5Then the officer, together with the deputies, coming forth, led them, but not with violence, for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned.d/Now someone, coming along, reports to them that "Lo! the men whom you placed in the jail are in the sanctuary, standing and teaching the people."!c;Now as they hear these words, both the officer of the sanctuary and the chief priests were bewildered concerning them, as to whatever may come of this.b/saying that, "The prison we found locked with all security and the guards standing at the doors. Yet, when opening them, we found no one within."gaGYet the deputies, coming along, did not find them in the jail. Now turning back, they report,`#Now, hearing this, they entered into the sanctuary in the early morning and taught. Now the chief priest and those with him, coming along, call together the Sanhedrin and the entire senate of the sons of Israel, and they dispatch to the prison to have them led forth.f_E"Go, and, standing in the sanctuary, speak to the people all the declarations of this life."y^kYet a messenger of the Lord, during the night, opens the doors of the jail. Besides, leading them out, he said,J] and laid hands on the apostles and place them in public custody.\{Now when the chief priest and all those with him rise (being the sect of the Sadducees), they are filled with jealousy, [9Now a multitude also from the cities about Jerusalem came together, bringing the infirm and those molested by unclean spirits, all of whom were cured.EZso that they are carrying out the infirm into the squares also, and placing them on cots and pallets, that, at Peter's coming, if ever even his shadow should be overshadowing any of them.fYEyet, rather, there were added of those believing the Lord, multitudes of both men and women,RX Now of the rest, no one dared to join them, but the people magnify them,!W; Now through the hands of the apostles many signs and miracles occurred among the people. And they were all, with one accord, in the portico of Solomon.[V/ And great fear came on the whole ecclesia and on all those who hear these things.'UG Now, instantly, she falls at his feet and gives up the soul. Now entering, the youths found her dead, and carrying her out, they entomb her with her husband.=Ts Now Peter said to her, Why is it that you agreed to try the spirit of the Lord? Lo! the feet of those who entomb your husband are at the door, and they shall be carrying you out."sS_Now Peter answered her, "Tell me if you took so much pay for the freehold?" Now she said, "Yes, so much."RyNow it occurred, after an interval of about three hours, that his wife, not being aware of what has occurred, entered.ZQ-Now rising, the younger men enshroud him, and carrying him out, they entomb him.PNow Ananias, hearing these words, falling down, gives up the soul. And great fear came on all those hearing these things.BO}Did it not, while remaining, remain yours? And, being disposed of, it belonged to you by right. Why is it that you placed this matter in your heart? You do not lie to men, but to God."N5Now Peter said, "Ananias, wherefore does Satan fill your heart for you to falsify to the holy spirit and to embezzle from the price of the freehold?M-and embezzles from the price (his wife also having been conscious of it) and, bringing a certain part, he places it at the feet of the apostles.`L ;Now a certain man named Ananias, together with Sapphira, his wife, sells an acquisitiongKG%selling a field belonging to him, brings the money and places it at the feet of the apostles.J$Now Joseph, who by the apostles is surnamed "Barnabas" (which is, being construed, "Son of Consolation"), a Levite, a native Cyprian,{Io#and placed it at the feet of the apostles. Now it was distributed to each, forasmuch as some would have had need.CH"for neither was there any indigent among them, for whoever belonged to the acquirers of freeholds or of houses, selling these, they brought the price of that which is being disposed of,G!And with great power the apostles rendered testimony to the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Lord. Besides, great grace was on them all,,FQ Now the multitude of those who believe were of one heart and soul, and not even one said that any of his possessions are his own, but it was all theirs in common.0EYAnd at their beseeching, shaken was the place in which they were gathered, and they are all filled with the holy spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.Dyby the stretching out of Thy hand for healing and signs and miracles to occur through the name of Thy holy Boy Jesus."C"And now, Lord, take notice of their threatenings, and be Thou endowing Thy slaves with all boldness to be speaking Thy word,QBto do whatever Thy hand and Thy counsel designates beforehand to occur.;AoFor of a truth, in this city were gathered against Thy holy Boy Jesus, Whom Thou dost anoint, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, together with the nations and the peoples of Israel, @ Standing by are the kings of the land, And the chancellors gathered in the same place, Against the Lord and against His Christ.'&?EWho through holy spirit, by the mouth of our father, Thy boy David, art saying, 'Why are the nations perturbed? And why do the peoples mumble empty phrases?">=Now those who hear, with one accord lift up their voice to God and say, " O Owner, Thou Who makest heaven and earth and the sea and all that is in them,w=gNow, being released, they came to their own and report whatever the chief priests and the elders say to them.^<5for the man was of more than forty years, on whom this sign of healing had occurred.5;cYet those who are menacing them release them, finding nothing how they should be chastening them, because of the people; for all glorified God for that which has occurred,G:for we can not but be speaking of what we perceive and hear."9Yet Peter and John, answering, said to them, "If it is just in the sight of God to be hearing you rather than God, you judge;~8uAnd calling them, they give them a sweeping charge, not to utter aught, nor yet to be teaching in the name of Jesus.(7IBut, lest it may be disseminated more among the people, we should be threatening them that by no means should they still be speaking in this Name to any man.";6osaying, "What should we be doing to these men? For, indeed, that a known sign has occurred through them is apparent to all who are dwelling at Jerusalem, and we can not deny it.`59Now, ordering them to come forth out of the Sanhedrin, they parleyed with one another,k4OBesides, observing the man who has been cured standing with them, they had nothing to contradict.83i Now on beholding the boldness of Peter and John, and grasping that they are unlettered and plain men, they marveled. Besides, they recognized them, that they were with Jesus.2! And there is no salvation in any other one, for neither is there any other name, given under heaven among men, in which we must be saved."l1Q This is the Stone that is being scorned by you builders, which is becoming the head of the corner.b0= let it be known to you all and to the entire people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ, the Nazarene, Whom you crucify, Whom God rouses from among the dead, in this name, this man stands by before you sound.l/Q If we today are being examined as to the benefaction to the infirm man, by what he has been saved,d.AThen Peter, being filled with holy spirit, said to them, "Chiefs of the people and elders!v-eAnd, standing them in the midst, they inquired to ascertain, "By what power or in what name do you do this?"y,kand Hannas, the chief priest, and Caiaphas and John and Alexander, and whoever were of the chief priestly race.o+WNow it occurred on the morrow that their chiefs and the elders and the scribes gathered in Jerusalem,i*KNow many of those who hear the word, believe, and the number of men became about five thousand.o)WAnd they laid hands on them, and they were placed in custody for the morrow, for it was already dusk.~(ubeing exasperated because of their teaching the people and announcing in Jesus the resurrection from among the dead.{' qNow at their speaking to the people, the priests and the officer of the sanctuary and the Sadducees stand by them,}&sTo you first, God, raising His Boy, commissions Him to bless you by turning away each of you from your wickedness.":%mYou are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God covenanted with your fathers, saying to Abraham: And in your seed all the kindreds of the earth shall be blessed.m$SNow all the prophets also, from Samuel, and consecutively, whoever speak, also announce these days. #Yet it shall be that every soul whatsoever which should not hear that Prophet shall be utterly exterminated from among the people.K""Moses, indeed, said that: A Prophet will the Lord your God, be raising up to you from among your brethren, as me. Him you shall hear, according to all, whatsoever He should be speaking to you.!3Whom heaven must indeed receive until the times of restoration of all which God speaks through the mouth of His holy prophets who are from the eon.Q and He should dispatch the One fixed upon before for you, Christ Jesus,Repent, then, and turn about for the erasure of your sins, so that seasons of refreshing should be coming from the face of the Lord,{Yet what God announces before through the mouth of all the prophets -- the suffering of His Christ -- He thus fulfills.c?"And now, brethren, I am aware that in ignorance you commit it, even as your chiefs also.fEAnd in the faith of His name, His name gives stability to this man whom you are beholding, with whom, also, you are acquainted, and the faith which is through Him, gives him this unimpaired soundness in front of you all.oWYet the Inaugurator of Life you kill, Whom God rouses from among the dead, of which we are witnesses.s_Now you disown the holy and just One, and request a man, a murderer, to be surrendered to you as a favor.X) The God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorifies His Boy Jesus, Whom you, indeed, give up and disown before the face of Pilate, when he decides to release Him.M Now, perceiving it, Peter answers the people: "Men! Israelites! Why are you marveling at this? Or why at us are you looking so intently, as if by our own power or devoutness we had made him walk?   Now at his holding himself to Peter and John, the entire people ran together to them at the portico called Solomon's, overawed.<q Now they recognized him, that this was the one sitting for alms at the Beautiful Gate of the sanctuary. And they are filled with awe and amazement at that which has befallen him.G And the entire people perceived him walking and praising God.~uand, leaping up, he stood and walked and entered with them into the sanctuary, walking and leaping and praising God.r]And seizing his right hand, he raises him up. Now instantly his insteps and ankles were given stability,)Yet Peter said, "Silver and gold I do not possess; yet what I have, this I am giving to you. In the name of Jesus Christ, the Nazarene, walk!"ENow he attended to them, hoping to get something from them.T!Now Peter, looking at him intently together with John, said, "Look at us!"oWwho, perceiving Peter and John being about to be passing in into the sanctuary, asked to obtain alms.`9And a certain man, being inherently lame from his mother's womb, was borne, whom they placed day by day at the door of the sanctuary which is termed "Beautiful," to request alms from those going into the sanctuary,X  +Now Peter and John went up into the sanctuary at the hour of prayer, the ninth. y/praising God and having favor for the whole people. Now the Lord added those being saved day by day in the same place. d~~<}}[||Z{IzzZyyxxwwvuujtthss&rr)qqponn6mm ll*kjjyjii>hh-gg/ff}f eddecccb ad``o`%_^^f]]=\[[[2ZZYQXXbWWVVUbUT|TSSBRRQQPPQOOONjMMWLLQKK&JRIIEHH%GG{FFOEEDDT=<<;;i; :(98777?66i544D33^2281100/ ..-~,,@++>**p))0((E'&&C%%^%+$$C#""K!!j _5  iv3!b]2a`A=4# C e   Q17,qTX!And with this agree the words of the prophets, according as it is written,gWGSimeon unfolds how God first visits the nations, to obtain out of them a people for His name.NV Now after they hush, James answered saying, "Men! Brethren! Hear me!U- Now the entire multitude hushes, and they heard Barnabas and Paul unfolding whatever signs and miracles God does among the nations through them.jTM But through the grace of the Lord Jesus we are believing, to be saved in a manner even as they."S' Why, then, are you now trying God, by placing a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we are strong enough to bear?\R1 and in nothing discriminates between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.kQOAnd God, the Knower of hearts, testifies to them, giving the holy spirit according as to us also,P Now, there coming to be much questioning, rising, Peter said to them, "Men! Brethren! You are versed in the fact that from the days at the beginning God chooses among you, that through my mouth the nations are to hear the word of the evangel and believe.QONow the apostles and the elders were gathered to see about this matter."N=Yet some from the sect of the Pharisees who have believed rise up, saying that they must be circumcised, besides charging them to keep the law of Moses.(MINow coming along into Jerusalem, they were received by the ecclesia and the apostles and the elders. Besides, they inform them of whatever God does with them.HL They indeed, then, being sent forward by the ecclesia, passed through Phoenicia as well as Samaria, detailing the turning about of the nations. And they caused great joy to all the brethren.sK_Now as Paul and Barnabas come to have no slight commotion and questioning with them, they prescribe that Paul and Barnabas and some others from among them are to go up to the apostles and elders in Jerusalem concerning this question.J +And some, coming down from Judea, taught the brethren that, "If you should not be circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can not be saved.";IqNow they tarried no brief time with the disciples.H/Now coming along and gathering the ecclesia, they informed them of whatever God does with them, and that He opens to the nations a door of faith.Gyand thence they sail away to Antioch, whence they were given over to the grace of God for the work which they fulfill.QFAnd, speaking the word of the Lord in Perga, they descended to Attalia,BEAnd passing through into Pisidia, they came to Pamphylia.D#Now, selecting elders for them according to the ecclesia, praying with fastings, they committed them to the Lord in Whom they had believed.:Cmestablishing the souls of the disciples, besides entreating them to remain in the faith and saying that, "Through many afflictions must we be entering into the kingdom of God."BEvangelizing that city besides, and making a considerable number of disciples, they return into Lystra and into Iconium and into Antioch,AYet, when the disciples surround him, rising, he entered into the city. And on the morrow he came out with Barnabas to Derbe.$@AYet Jews from Antioch and Iconium come on, and, persuading the throngs, and stoning Paul, they dragged him outside of the city, inferring that he is dead.f?EAnd, saying these things, they hardly stop the throngs, so as not to be sacrificing to them.4>aalthough He leaves Himself not without the testimony of good acts, giving showers from heaven and fruitbearing seasons, filling our hearts with nourishment and gladness."N=Who, in bygone generations, leaves all the nations to go their ways,<yand saying, "Men! Why are you doing these things? We also are men, of like emotions as you, bringing the evangel to you to turn you back from these vain things to the living God, Who makes heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them,z;mNow, on hearing this, the apostles Barnabas and Paul, tearing their garments, spring out into the throng, crying:5 Besides, the priest of the Zeus which is before the city, bringing bulls and garlands to the portals, wanted to sacrifice together with the throngs.k9O Besides, they called Barnabas Zeus, yet Paul, Hermes, since, in fact, he was the leading speaker.8 Besides, the throngs, perceiving what Paul does, lift up their voice in Lycaonian saying, "The gods, made like men, descended to us!"X7) said with a loud voice, "Rise upright on your feet!" And he leaps, and walked.s6_ This one hears Paul speaking, who, looking intently at him, and perceiving that he has faith to be saved,u5cAnd a certain man in Lystra, impotent in the feet, sat there, lame from his mother's womb, who never walks.24_And there they were bringing the evangel.{3obeing conscious of it, they fled for refuge into the cities of Lycaonia: Lystra and Derbe, and the country about.2Now as there came to be an onset both of the nations and the Jews, together with their chiefs, to outrage and pelt them with stones,p1YNow the multitude of the city is rent; these, indeed, were with the Jews, yet those with the apostles.;0oThey, indeed, then, tarry a considerable time, speaking boldly in the Lord, Who is testifying to the word of His grace, granting signs and miracles to occur through their hands.c/?Yet the stubborn Jews rouse up and provoke the souls of the nations against the brethren.(. KNow in Iconium the same thing occurred at their entering into the synagogue of the Jews and speaking, so that a vast multitude of both Jews and Greeks believe.@-{ 4And the disciples were filled with joy and holy spirit.R, 3Now they, shaking the dust off their feet against them, came to Iconium.?+w 2Yet the Jews spur on the reverent, respectable women, and the foremost ones of the city, and rouse up persecution for Paul and Barnabas, and they ejected them from their boundaries.I*  1Now the word of the Lord was carried through the whole country. ) 0Now on hearing this, the nations rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord, and they believe, whoever were set for life eonian. (9 /For thus the Lord has directed us: I have appointed Thee for a light of the nations; for Thee to be for salvation as far as the limits of the earth.'"z'm .Being bold, both Paul and Barnabas, say, "To you first was it necessary that the word of God be spoken. Yet, since, in fact, you are thrusting it away, and are judging yourselves not worthy of eonian life, lo! we are turning to the nations.& -Yet the Jews, perceiving the throngs, are filled with jealousy, and they contradicted the things spoken by Paul, blaspheming.e%C ,Now on the coming sabbath almost the entire city was gathered to hear the word of the Lord.9$k +Now the synagogue having broken up, many of the Jews and the reverent proselytes follow Paul and Barnabas, who, speaking to them, persuaded them to remain in the grace of God.w#g *Now, at their being out, they entreated that these declarations be spoken to them on the intervening sabbath.@"y )Perceive, you despisers, and marvel, and disappear! for a work am I working in your days -- a work which you should by no means be believing if anyone should be detailing it to you."c!? ("Beware then, that that which has been declared in the prophets may not be coming on you:  'and from all from which you could not be justified in the law of Moses, in this One everyone who is believing is being justified.yk &"Let it then be known to you, men, brethren that through this One is being announced to you the pardon of sins,>w %yet He Whom God rouses was not acquainted with decay.1 $For David, indeed, subserving his own generation by God's counsel, was put to repose, and was added to his fathers, and was acquainted with decay; #Wherefore, in a different place also, He is saying, 'Thou wilt not be giving Thy Benign One to be acquainted with decay.'?w "Now, seeing that He raises Him from among the dead, by no means longer about to return to decay, He has thus declared that, I shall be giving you the faithful benignities of David.'*M !that God has fully fulfilled this for our children in raising Jesus, as it is written in the second psalm also, 'My Son art Thou; I, today, have begotten Thee.']3 "And we are bringing to you the evangel which comes to be a promise to the fathers, Who was seen on more days by those who ascend with Him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now His witnesses to the people.0[ Yet God rouses Him from among the dead: "Now as they accomplish all that which is written concerning Him, taking Him down from the pole, they place Him in a tomb.Z- And, finding not one cause of death, they request Pilate to have Him despatched.1[ For those dwelling in Jerusalem and their chiefs, being ignorant of Him and of the voices of the prophets which are read on every sabbath, fulfill them in judging Him. "Men! Brethren! Sons of the race of Abraham, and those among you who are fearing God! To us was the word of this salvation dispatched.5c Now as John completed his career, he said, 'What you are suspecting me to be, I am not. But lo! coming after me is One, the sandal of Whose feet I am not worthy to loose.' "The previous heralding of John, before His personal entrance, was the baptism of repentance to the entire people of Israel.^5 From this one's seed, God, according to the promise, led to Israel a Saviour, Jesus.8i And, deposing him, He rouses David for their king, to whom He said also, in testifying, 'I found David, of Jesse, a man according to My heart, who will be doing all My will.'y And thence they request a king, and God gives them Saul, son of Kish, a man out of the tribe of Benjamin, forty years.g G (about four hundred and fifty years). And after this He gives judges till Samuel the prophet.a ; And, pulling down seven nations in the land of Canaan, He distributes their land by lotY + And for about forty years' time He carries them, as a nurse, in the wilderness." = The God of this people Israel chooses our fathers, and exalts the people in the sojourn in the land of Egypt, and with a high arm He led them out of it.s _ Now Paul, rising and gesturing with his hand, said "Men, Israelites, and those who are fearing God, hear!D Now, after the reading of the law and the prophets, the chiefs of the synagogue dispatch to them, saying, "Men, brethren, if there is in you any word of entreaty for the people, say it."1 Now they, passing through from Perga, came along into Antioch, Pisidia, and, entering into the synagogue the day of the sabbaths, they are seated.  Now setting out from Paphos, those about Paul came to Perga of Pamphylia. Yet John, departing from them, returns to Jerusalem.s_ Then the proconsul, perceiving what has occurred, believes, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord.q[ And now, lo! the hand of the Lord is on you, and you shall be blind, not observing the sun until the appointed time." Now instantly there falls on him a fog and darkness, and, going about, he sought someone to lead him by the hand.%C said, "O, full of all guile and all knavery, son of the Adversary, enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease perverting the straight ways of the Lord?]3 Now Saul, who is also Paul, being filled with holy spirit, looking intently at him, Now Elymas, the "Magician" (for thus is his name construed), withstood them, seeking to pervert the proconsul from the faith.  who was with the proconsul Sergius Paul, an intelligent man. He, calling to him Barnabas and Saul, seeks to hear the word of God.# Now, passing through the whole island up to Paphos, they found a certain man, a magician, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar-Jesus, ~  And, coming to be in Salamis, they announced the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. Now they had John also as a deputy.}  They, indeed, then, being sent out by the holy spirit, came down into Seleucia. Besides, from thence they sail away to Cyprus.W|' Then, fasting and praying and placing their hands on them, they dismiss them.+{O Now, at their ministering to the Lord and fasting, the holy spirit said, "Sever, by all means, to Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them."fz G Now there were in Antioch, to accord with the ecclesia which is there, prophets and teachers, both Barnabas and Simeon, called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenian, besides Manaen, the tetrarch Herod's foster brother, and Saul.y  Now Barnabas and Saul return out of Jerusalem, completing the dispensing, taking along with them John, who is surnamed "Mark."6xg Yet the word of God grows and was multiplied.w+ Now instantly a messenger of the Lord smites him, because he gives not the glory to God, and, becoming the food of worms, he gives up his soul.Fv Now the populace retorted, "A god's voice, and not a man's!"huI Now on a set day, Herod, dressed in royal attire, being seated on the dais, harangued to them.vte Now he was in a fighting fury, with the Tyrians and Sidonians. Yet, with one accord, they were present with him, and, persuading Blastus, the king's chamberlain, they requested peace, because their country was nourished from the king's.1s[ Now Herod, seeking for him and not finding him, examining the guards, orders them to be led away to death. And, coming down from Judea into Caesarea, he tarried there.r} Now, at the coming of day, there was no slight disturbance among the soldiers as to what, consequently, became of Peter._q7 Yet gesturing with a hand to them to hush, he relates to them how the Lord led him out of the jail. Besides, he said, "Report these things to James and the brethren." And, coming out, he went to a different place.[p/ Yet Peter persisted in knocking. Now, opening, they perceive him and were amazed.ow Yet they say to her, "You are mad!" Yet she stoutly insisted on having it thus. Yet they said, "It is his messenger."n And, recognizing the voice of Peter, for joy she does not open the portal. Yet, running in, she reports Peter standing before the portal.`m9 Now at his knocking at the door of the portal, a maid approached to obey, named Rhoda.+lO Besides, being conscious, he came to the house of Mary, the mother of John who is surnamed Mark, where a considerable number were, convened together and praying.Y ,While Peter is still speaking these declarations, the holy spirit falls on all those hearing the word. =  +To this One are all the prophets testifying: Everyone who is believing in Him is to obtain the pardon of sins through His name."<% *And He charges us to herald to the people and to certify that this One is He Who is specified by God to be Judge of the living and the dead.*;M )not to the entire people, but to witnesses who have been selected before by God, to us who ate and drank together with Him after His rising from among the dead.O: (This One God rouses the third day, and gives Him to become disclosed,9+ '"And we are witnesses of all that He does, both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem; Whom they assassinate also, hanging Him on a pole.H8  &Jesus from Nazareth, as God anoints Him with holy spirit and power, Who passed through as a benefactor and healer of all those who are tyrannized over by the Adversary, for God was with Him. 7 %you are aware, the declaration coming to be down the whole of Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism which John heralds:6} $Of the word He dispatches to the sons of Israel, bringing the evangel of peace through Jesus Christ (He is Lord of all),`59 #but in every nation he who is fearing Him and acting righteously is acceptable to Him.`49 "Now Peter, opening his mouth, said, "Of a truth I am grasping that God is not partial,13[ !Forthwith, then I send to you. Besides you do ideally in coming along. Now, then, we are all present in God's sight to hear all that you have been bidden by the Lord." 2 Send, then, into Joppa, and call for Simon, who is surnamed Peter. He is lodging in the house of Simon, a tanner, beside the sea.'|1q and is averring, 'Cornelius, your prayer is hearkened to, and your alms are brought to remembrance in God's sight.&0E And Cornelius averred, "Four days ago unto this hour was I fasting, and at the ninth, praying in my house, and lo! a man stood before me in splendid attire,/ Wherefore, without gainsaying, also, being sent after, I came. I am inquiring to ascertain, then, on what account you send after me."S. Besides, he averred to them, "You are versed in the fact how illicit it is for a man who is a Jew to join or come to another tribe, and God shows me not to say that any man is contaminating or unclean.R- And, conversing with him, he entered, and is finding many come together.G, Yet Peter raises him, saying, "Rise! I myself also am a man."a+; Now as Peter came to enter, Cornelius, meeting with him, falling at his feet, worships. * Now on the morrow he entered into Caesarea. Now Cornelius was hoping for them, calling together his relatives and intimate friends.")= Calling them in, then, he lodges them. Now on the morrow, on rising, he came away together with them, and some of the brethren from Joppa came with him.r(] Now they say, "Cornelius, a centurion, a man just and God-fearing, besides being attested by the whole nation of the Jews, is apprized by a holy messenger to send after you to come into his house, and to hear declarations from you."'} Now Peter, descending to the men, said, "Lo! I am he whom you are seeking. What is the cause for which you are present?"a&; But, rising, descend and go with them, nothing doubting, for I have commissioned them."x%i Now, as Peter is engrossed, concerned with the vision, the spirit said to him, "Lo! three men are seeking you!g$G And, shouting, they inquired to ascertain if Simon, surnamed Peter, is lodging in this place.^#5 Now, as Peter was bewildered in himself as to what the vision which he perceived should be, lo! the men who have been dispatched by Cornelius, asking the way through to the house of Simon, stand by at the portal.Y"+ Now this occurred thrice, and straightway the utensil was taken up into heaven.m!S And again, a second time, a voice came to him, "What God cleanses, do not you count contaminating!"h I Yet Peter said, "Far be it from me, Lord, for I never ate anything contaminating and unclean!"D And a voice came to him, "Rise, Peter! Sacrifice and eat!"lQ in which belonged all the quadrupeds and reptiles of the earth and the flying creatures of heaven.  and he is beholding heaven open and a certain utensil descending, as a large sheet, with four edges, being let down on the earth,ta Now he became ravenous and wanted to taste food. Now, while they are preparing it, an ecstasy came on him,% Now, on the morrow, as they are journeying and drawing near the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray about the sixth hour of the day.D and unfolding it all to them, he dispatches them to Joppa. Now as the messenger who is speaking to him came away, summoning two of the domestics and a devout soldier of those who waited on him,]3 This man is lodging with a certain Simon, a tanner, whose house is beside the sea."[/ And now send men to Joppa, and send after a certain Simon, who is surnamed Peter.6e Now he, looking intently at him, and becoming affrighted, said, "What is it, lord?" Now he said to him, "Your prayers and your alms ascended for a memorial in front of God.# perceived in a vision manifestly, as if about the ninth hour of the day, a messenger of God entering to him and saying to him, "Cornelius!"uc devout and fearing God with his entire house, doing many alms to the people and beseeching God continually,d C Now a certain man in Caesarea, named Cornelius, a centurion of a squadron called "Italian,"7g *Now it became known down the whole of Joppa, and many believe on the Lord. Now it came that he remains a considerable number of days in Joppa with a certain Simon, a tanner.oW )Now giving her a hand, he raises her. Now summoning the saints and the widows, he presents her alive.3_ (Now Peter, ejecting them all outside and kneeling, prays. And turning about to the body, he said, "Tabitha, rise!" Now she opens her eyes, and perceiving Peter, sits up.nU 'Now Peter, rising, came together with them, whom, coming along, they led up into the upper chamber. And beside him stand all the widows, lamenting and exhibiting tunics and garments, whatever Dorcas made while she was with them..U &Now, Lydda being near Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter is in it, dispatch two men to him, entreating, "You should not be slothful in passing through to us!"{ o %Now it occurred in those days that, being infirm, she dies. Now, bathing her, they place her in an upper chamber.3 _ $Now in Joppa there was a certain disciple named Tabitha, which, being interpreted, is termed Dorcas ["Gazelle"]. This woman was full of good acts and alms which she did.` 9 #And aware of him are all those dwelling at Lydda and Saron, who turn back to the Lord.   "And Peter said to him, "Eneas, Jesus Christ is healing you! Rise and spread your pallet by yourself!" And immediately he rose.n U !Now he found there a certain man named Eneas, eight years lying down on a pallet, who was paralyzed.s_ Now it occurred that Peter, passing through all, comes down to the saints who are dwelling at Lydda also.H  Indeed, then, the ecclesia down the whole of Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace, being edified, and, going on in the fear of the Lord and the consolation of the holy spirit, multiplied.hI Now realizing this, the brethren led him down into Caesarea, and they send him away to Tarsus. Speaking boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, he both spoke and discussed with the Hellenists. Yet they took in hand to assassinate him.>w And he was with them, going in and out, in Jerusalem.dA Yet Barnabas, getting hold of him, led him to the apostles and relates to them how he became acquainted with the Lord on the road, and that He speaks to him, and how, in Damascus, he speaks boldly in the name of Jesus. Now, on coming along to Jerusalem, he tried to join the disciples; and all feared him, not believing that he is a disciple.kO Yet the disciples, getting him at night, let him down through the wall, lowering him in a hamper. Yet known to Saul is their plot. Now they scrutinized the gates also, both by day and by night, so that they may be assassinating him.c? Now as a considerable number of days were fulfilled, the Jews consult to assassinate him. ~  Yet Saul was the more invigorated, and threw the Jews dwelling in Damascus into confusion, deducing that this One is the Christ.f}E Now amazed are all who are hearing, and they said, "Is not this the one who, in Jerusalem, ravages those who are invoking this Name? And for this had he come here, that he may be leading them bound to the chief priests."[|/ And immediately, in the synagogues, he heralded Jesus, that He is the Son of God.q{[ and obtaining nourishment, is strengthened. Now he came to be with the disciples in Damascus some days.xzi And immediately fall from his eyes as if scales, and he receives sight. Besides, rising, also, he is baptized, y Now Ananias came away and entered the house, and placing his hands on him, he said, "Saul! Brother! The Lord has commissioned me (Jesus, Who was seen by you on the road by which you came), so that you should be receiving sight and be filled with holy spirit."]x3 for I shall be intimating to him how much he must be suffering for My name's sake."w3 Yet the Lord said to him "Go, for he is a choice instrument of Mine, to bear My name before both the nations and kings, besides the sons of Israel,bv= And here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who are invoking Thy name."yuk Yet Ananias answered, "Lord, I hear from many about this man, how much evil he does to Thy saints in Jerusalem.t And he perceived in a vision a man named Ananias entering and placing his hands on him so that he should be receiving sight."s+ Now the Lord to him, "Rise! Go to the street called 'Straight,' and seek in the house of Judas for a Tarsian named Saul, for lo! he is praying.r) Now there was a certain disciple in Damascus named Ananias, and the Lord said to him in a vision, "Ananias!" Now he said, "Lo! it is I, Lord!" G~~Z}}Z|{{zzyyQxxwwavvxv_uu#ttss$rr*qq"pqpoqonnm~mlkkj\ii*hOgg,ffGee`dd=cbbb(aac``K__O^n]]] \\[`ZYY XoXWW3VVUsTT*SSQQdPPIONN2MLLCKKJII6IHmH#GMFFqEE+DCC]BBtAA@@^@,?>>H===<<;V:99I88/77 66K6544+33+2[2100/..--F,,f+*))"(r('s&& %p$$#""y!!v u)o@!1@x&3M3 e ) < TE:And, greeting them, he unfolded, one by one, each of the things which God does among the nations through his dispensation.s9_Now by the ensuing day, Paul had been in, together with us, to James. Besides, all the elders came along.[8/Now at our coming to be in Jerusalem, the brethren welcome us with gratification.&7ENow disciples from Caesarea, also, came together with us, leading us to Mnason, a certain Cyprian, a disciple from the beginning, with whom we should lodge.Q6Now after these days, taking up our baggage, we went up into Jerusalem.a5;Now, as he was not persuaded, we are quiet, saying, "Let the will of the Lord be done!"Q4 Then Paul answered and said, "What are you doing, lamenting and unnerving my heart? For I hold myself in readiness, not only to be bound, but to die also in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus."n3U Now as we hear these things, both we and those in the place entreated him not to go up to Jerusalem.2# And coming to us and picking up Paul's girdle, binding his own feet and hands, he said, "Now this the holy spirit is saying, 'The man whose girdle this is, shall the Jews in Jerusalem be binding thus, and they shall be giving him over into the hands of the nations.'"`19 Now at our staying on more days, a certain prophet came down from Judea, named Agabus.J0  Now there were four daughters of this man, virgins, prophesying./7Now, on the morrow, coming away, we came to Caesarea, and, entering into the house of Philip the evangelist, who is of the seven, we remain with him..Now we, terminating the voyage, from Tyre descended to Ptolemais, and, greeting the brethren, we remain one day with them.a-;we pull away from one another, and stepped into the ship. Yet they return to their own.B,}Now, when the days came to fit us out, coming away, we went, all sending us forward, together with the wives and children, till outside of the city. And kneeling on the beach, praying,+Now, finding the disciples, we stay there seven days, who said to Paul, through the spirit, not to be stepping on board to Jerusalem.*!Now, Cyprus looming up, and leaving it on the left, we sailed to Syria, and came down to Tyre, for there the ship was unloading the cargo.R)And finding a ship ferrying to Phoenicia, stepping on board, we set out.( %Now as we came to set out, being pulled away from them, running straight, we came to Coos, yet the next day to Rhodes, and thence to Patara.'7&being pained especially at the word which he had declared, that no longer are they about to behold his face. Yet they sent him forward into the ship.s&_%Now there came to be considerable lamentation by all, and falling on Paul's neck, they kissed him fondly,U%#$And, saying these things, at his kneeling together with them all, he prays.?$w#All I intimate to you, that, thus toiling, you must be supporting the infirm. Besides, remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, 'Happy is it to give rather than to get.'"T#!"You know that these hands subserve my needs, and of those who are with me.5"e!"I covet no one's silver or gold or vesture.*!M And now I am committing you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to edify and give the enjoyment of an allotment among all who have been hallowed.x iWherefore watch, remembering that for three years, night and day, I cease not admonishing each one with tears.ucAnd from among yourselves will arise men, speaking perverse things to pull away disciples after themselves.wNow I am aware that, after I am out of reach, burdensome wolves will be entering among you, not sparing the flocklet.L"Take heed to yourselves and to the entire flocklet, among which the holy spirit appointed you supervisors, to be shepherding the ecclesia of God, which He procures through the blood of His Own.a;for under no circumstances do I shrink from informing you of the entire counsel of God.a;Wherefore I am attesting to you in this very day that I am clear from the blood of all,"And now, lo! I am aware that you all, among whom I passed through heralding the kingdom, shall be seeing my face no longer._7But of nothing have I a word, nor yet am I making my soul precious to myself, till I should be perfecting my career and the dispensation which I got from the Lord Jesus, to certify the evangel of the grace of God.ymore than that the holy spirit, city by city, certifies to me, saying that bonds and afflictions are remaining for me.oW"And now, lo! I, bound in spirit, am going to Jerusalem, not being aware what I will meet with in it,mScertifying to both Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.how under no circumstances did I shrink from informing you of anything which was expedient, and teaching you in public and at your homes,taslaving for the Lord with all humility and tears, and the trials which befell me by the plots of the Jews;@yNow as they came along to him, he said to them, "You are versed in the facts, from the first day on which I stepped into the province of Asia, how I came to be with you all the time,X)Now from Miletus, sending to Ephesus, he calls for the elders of the ecclesia.Lfor Paul had decided to sail by Ephesus, so that he may not be coming to linger in the province of Asia, for he hurried, if it may be possible for him to be in Jerusalem by the day of Pentecost.And sailing from thence, the ensuing day we arrive abreast of Chios, yet on another we put in at Samos, yet the next we came to Miletus,QNow as he came up with us in Assos, taking him up, we came to Mitylene."= Now we, coming before to the ship, set out for Assos, thence being about to take up Paul, for thus it has been prescribed, he being about to go on foot.G  Now they led the boy alive, and were not measurably consoled. { Now, going up and breaking bread and tasting, besides conversing a considerable time until daybreak, thus he came away.q [ Now Paul, descending, falls on him, and, embracing him, said, "Make no tumult, for his soul is in him."Y + Now a certain young man named Eutychus, being seated on the window, sinking into a deep sleep while Paul is arguing still more, being sunk from sleep, falls down from the third story, and was picked up dead.f ENow there were a considerable number of torches in the upper chamber where we were gathered.6eNow on one of the sabbaths, at our having gathered to break bread, Paul argued with them, being about to be off on the morrow. Besides, he prolonged the word unto midnight.Yet we sail off from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and came to them in Troas in five days, where we tarry seven days.<sNow these, coming before, remained for us in Troas.yNow it was arranged for him to be met, as far away as the province of Asia, by Sopater Pyrrhus, a Berean. Yet of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus, and Gaius the Derbian, and Timothy, yet of the province of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus.FBesides, spending three months, at there coming to be a plot against him by the Jews, being about to set out for Syria, he came to be of the opinion that he would return through Macedonia.eCNow, passing through those parts and entreating them with many a word, he came into Greece. Now after the tumult ceased, Paul, sending after the disciples and consoling and saluting them, came away to go into Macedonia.=u)And, saying these things, he dismisses the ecclesia.?w(For we are also in danger of being indicted concerning today's commotion, there inhering not one cause concerning which we shall be able to render any account concerning this riot."r]'Now if you are seeking for anything concerning other things, in the legal ecclesia will it be explained.:~m&Indeed, then, if Demetrius and the artificers with him have a charge against anyone, court sessions are being held, and there are proconsuls; let them be indicting one another.m}S%For you led these men, who are neither despoilers of the sanctuary, nor blasphemers of our goddess.m|S$These things, then, not being gainsaid, you must possess composure and no one commit anything rash.`{9#Now, composing the throng, the scribe is averring, "Men! Ephesians!" What man is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is sexton of the temple of the great Artemis and of that which fell from Zeus?,zQ"Yet, on recognizing that he is a Jew, one voice came from all for about two hours, crying, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians! Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!")yK!Now they unite on Alexander, one of the throng, the Jews pushing him forward. Now Alexander, gesturing with his hand, wanted to make a defense to the populace."x= Others, indeed, then, cried some other thing, for the ecclesia was in confusion, and the majority were not aware on what account they had come together.w+Yet some of the chiefs of the province of Asia also, being his friends, sending to him, entreated him not to venture into the theater himself.)_v7(Now, at Paul's intending to enter in to the populace, the disciples did not let him.,uQAnd filled is the city with confusion. Besides, they rush with one accord into the theater, gripping Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians, fellow travelers of Paul.otWNow, hearing this and becoming full of fury, they cried, saying, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"+sONow, not only is this endangering our party, by it coming to be confuted, but the sanctuary of the great goddess Artemis also is being thereby reckoned nothing. Besides, her magnificence is about to be pulled down also, whom the whole province of Asia and the inhabited earth is revering."rand you are beholding and hearing that, not only of Ephesus, but of almost the entire province of Asia, this Paul by his persuading causes a considerable throng to stand aloof, saying that they are not gods which are coming into being by means of hands.q!whom convening together, as also the workers about such things, he said, "Men! You are versed in the fact that by this vocation we thrive, p for a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, making silver temples of Artemis, afforded no slight income to the artificers,OoNow at that season no slight disturbance occurred concerning the way; n Now dispatching to Macedonia two of those serving him, Timothy and Erastus, he attended, for the time, to the province of Asia.Am{Now as these things were fulfilled, Paul pondered in spirit, passing through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying that, "After my coming to be there I must see Rome also."Al}Thus mightily the word of the Lord grows and was strong.Zk-Now a considerable number of those practicing the meddling arts, carrying together the scrolls, burned them up in sight of all. And they compute their value and found it to be fifty thousand pieces of silver.aj;Besides, many who have believed came, confessing and informing them of their practices.$iANow this became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who are dwelling in Ephesus. And fear falls on them all, and magnified was the name of the Lord Jesus.;hoAnd leaping on them, the man in whom the wicked spirit was, getting the mastery of both, is too strong for them, so that, naked and wounded, they are escaping out of that house.{goYet answering, the wicked spirit said to them, "Jesus, indeed, I know, and in Paul am I versed, yet who are you?"Uf#Now there were some seven sons of Sceva, a Jew, a chief priest, doing this.Le Now some of the wandering Jews also, exorcists, take in hand to name the name of the Lord Jesus over those having wicked spirits, saying, "I am adjuring you by the Jesus Whom Paul is heralding!"d7 so the handkerchiefs or aprons from his cuticle are carried away to the infirm also, to clear the diseases from them. Besides, wicked spirits go out.Zc- Besides, powerful deeds, not the casual kind, God did through the hands of Paul,b Now this occurred for two years, so that all those dwelling in the province of Asia hear the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.Da Now, as some were hardened and stubborn, saying evil things of the way before the multitude, withdrawing from them, he severs the disciples, arguing day by day in the school of Tyrannus. `Now, entering the synagogue, he spoke boldly for three months, arguing and persuading as to that which concerns the kingdom of God.2__Now there were, in all, about twelve men.^{And at the placing of Paul's hands on them, the holy spirit came on them. Besides, they spoke languages and prophesied.M]Now, hearing this, they are baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)\KYet Paul said, "John baptizes with the baptism of repentance, telling the people that in the One coming after him they should be believing, that is, in Jesus."_[7Yet he said, "Into what, then, are you baptized?" Yet they say "Into John's baptism."Zsaid to them, "Did you obtain holy spirit on believing?" Yet they to him, "Nay, neither hear we if there is holy spirit."Y Now it occurred while Apollos is in Corinth, Paul, passing through the upper parts, comes down to Ephesus and, finding some disciples,Xfor he strenuously and thoroughly confuted the Jews in public, exhibiting through the scriptures that Jesus is the Christ.LWNow, at his intending to pass through into Achaia, the brethren, promoting it, write to the disciples to welcome him, who, coming along, parleyed much with those who have believed through grace,1V[Besides, he begins to speak boldly in the synagogue. Now, hearing him, Priscilla and Aquila took him to themselves and expounded the way of God to him more accurately.(UIHe was instructed in the way of the Lord, and fervent in spirit. He spoke and taught accurately what concerns Jesus, being versed only in the baptism of John.TNow a certain Jew named Apollos, a native Alexandrian, a scholarly man, arrives at Ephesus, being able in the scriptures.SAnd, spending some time, he came away, passing consecutively through the Galatian province and Phrygia, establishing all the disciples.fREAnd, coming down into Caesarea, going up and greeting the ecclesia, he descended to Antioch.oQWbut, taking leave and saying, "I shall come back again to you, God willing," he set out from Ephesus.LPYet at their asking him to stay on more time, he does not consent,rO]Now they arrive at Ephesus and he left them there. Yet he, entering the synagogue, argues with the Jews.ONNow Paul, remaining still a considerable number of days with the brethren, taking leave, sailed off to Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn his head in Cenchrea, for he had a vow.M)Yet they all, getting hold of Sosthenes, the chief of the synagogue, beat him in front of the dais. And Gallio cared for none of these things./LYAnd he drives them away from the dais.KYet if they are questions concerning a word, and names, and a law of yours, you see to it! A judge of these I am not intending to be!"-JSNow Paul being about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, "If, indeed, it were some injury or wicked knavery, O Jews, I might, on that account tolerate you.TI! saying that, "Aside from the law, is this man inducing men to revere God."wHg Now, Gallio being proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord assaulted Paul, and they led him to the dais,XG) Now he is seated one year and six months, teaching the word of God among them. F  because I am with you, and no one shall place hands on you to illtreat you, because there are many people of Mine in this city."~Eu Now the Lord said to Paul, in the night, through a vision, "Fear not! but be speaking; and you should not be silent,*DMNow Crispus, the chief of the synagogue, believes the Lord, together with his whole household. And many of the Corinthians, hearing, believed and were baptized.C/And, proceeding thence, he entered the house of a certain one named Titus Justus, who is revering God, whose house was adjacent to the synagogue.-BSNow at their resisting and blaspheming, shaking out his garments, he said to them, "Your blood be on your head! Clear am I! From now on I shall go to the nations."ANow, as both Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the word, certifying to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ.]@3Now he argued in the synagogue on every sabbath and persuaded both Jews and Greeks.y?kand, because of his being of a like trade, he remained with them and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade.R>And, finding a certain Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, having recently come from Italy, and Priscilla, his wife (because Claudius prescribed that all the Jews depart from Rome), he came to them,G= After these things, departing from Athens, he came to Corinth.<'"Yet some men, being joined to him, believe, among whom were Dionysius, the Areopagite, also, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.+;Q!Thus Paul came out of their midst.: Now, on hearing of the resurrection of the dead, these, indeed, jeered, yet those say, "We will hear you concerning this again also."J9 forasmuch as He assigns a day in which He is about to be judging the inhabited earth in righteousness by the Man Whom He specifies, tendering faith to all, raising Him from among the dead -- "y8k"Indeed, then, condoning the times of ignorance, God is now charging mankind that all everywhere are to repent,'7GThe race, then, is inherently of God; we ought not to be inferring that the Divine is like gold, or silver, or stone, a sculpture of art and human sentiment.6{for in Him we are living and moving and are, as some poets of yours also have declared, 'For of that race also are we.'~5uthey may surely grope for Him and may be finding Him, though to be sure, not far from each one of us is He inherent,e4CBesides, He makes out of one every nation of mankind, to be dwelling on all the surface of the earth, specifying the setting of the seasons and the bounds of their dwelling, for them to be seeking God, if, consequently,3{neither is He attended by human hands, as if requiring anything, since He Himself gives to all life and breath and all.2The God Who makes the world and all that is in it, He, the Lord inherent of heaven and earth, is not dwelling in temples made by hands,h1IFor, passing through and contemplating the objects of your veneration, I found a pedestal also, on which had been inscribed, 'To an Unknowable God.' To Whom then, you are ignorantly devout, This One am I announcing to you.0Now Paul, standing in the center of the Areopagus averred, "Men! Athenians! On all sides am I beholding how unusually religious you are./-Now all the Athenians, and the repatriated guests, had opportunity for nothing different than to be saying something or hearing something newer.z.mFor strange is what you are bringing to our hearing. We are resolved, then, to know what this is wanting to be."-Besides, getting hold of him, they led him to the Areopagus, saying, "Can we know what this new teaching is, which is spoken of by you?,Now some of the Epicurean as well as Stoic philosophers parleyed with him, and some said, "Whatever may this rook be wanting to say?" Yet others, "He seems to be an announcer of strange demons," seeing that he brought them the evangel of Jesus and the resurrection.+Indeed, then, he argued in the synagogue with the Jews and with the reverent, and in the market on every day with those happening along.*yNow, while Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was incited in him at beholding the city being idol-ridden.0)YNow those who are conducting Paul led him as far as Athens, and, obtaining a direction to Silas and Timothy that they may be coming most quickly to him, they are off.(Now immediately, then, Paul was sent away by the brethren to go as far as the sea. Besides, both Silas and Timothy remain behind there.&'E Now as the Jews from Thessalonica know that in Berea also the word of God was announced by Paul, they came there also, agitating and disturbing the throngs.d&A Many of them, indeed, then, believe, and of the respectable Greek women and men not a few.+%O Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, who receive the word with all eagerness, examining the scriptures day by day, to see if these have it thus.$ Now the brethren immediately send out both Paul and Silas by night into Berea, who are away, coming along into the synagogue of the Jews.H#  And obtaining bail from Jason and the rest, they release them.W"'Now they disturb the throng and the city magistrates on hearing these things.!'whom Jason has entertained. And all these are committing things contravening the decrees of Caesar, saying there is a different king, Jesus."I  Now, not finding them, they dragged Jason and some brethren to the city magistrates, imploring that "Those who raise the inhabited earth to insurrection, these are present in this place also,`9Now the Jews, being jealous and taking to themselves some wicked men of the loafers and making up a mob, made a tumult in the city, and, standing by the house of Jason, they sought to lead them before the populace.!;And some of them are persuaded, and were allotted to Paul and Silas, both a vast multitude of the reverent Greeks, and of the foremost women not a few.2]opening up and placing before them that the Christ must suffer and rise from among the dead, and that "This One is the Christ -- the Jesus Whom I am announcing to you."wgNow, as was Paul's custom, he entered to them, and on three sabbaths he argues with them from the scriptures,v gNow, traversing Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.zm(Now, coming out from the jail, they came in to Lydia, and, seeing the brethren, they console them and came away.gG'And, coming, they entreat them, and, leading them out, asked them to come away from the city.{o&Now the constables report these declarations to the officers. Now they were afraid, hearing that they are Romans.]3%Yet Paul averred to them, "Lashing us in public, uncondemned, men belonging to the Romans, they cast us into jail, and now they are ejecting us surreptitiously! No! But let them come themselves and lead us out!"%$Now the warden reports these words to Paul, that "The officers have dispatched that you may be released. Then, coming out now, go in peace."_7#Now, day coming on, the officers dispatch the constables, saying "Release those men.""Besides, leading them up into his house, he sets a table before them, and exults with all his household, having believed God.  !And, taking them aside, in that hour of the night he bathes off their blows, and is baptized, he and all his family, instantly.[/ And they speak to him the word of the Lord, together with all those in his house.dANow they say, "Believe on the Lord Jesus, and you shall be saved, you and your household."`9and, preceding them out, averred, "Masters, what must I be doing that I may be saved?"mSNow, requesting lights, he springs in, and, coming to be in a tremor, prostrates to Paul and Silas,yYet Paul shouts with a loud voice, saying, "You should commit nothing evil to yourself, for we are all in this place.": mNow the warden, coming out of his sleep, and perceiving the doors of the jail open, pulling his sword, was about to despatch himself, inferring that the prisoners have escaped., QNow suddenly a great quake occurred, so that the foundations of the prison are shaken. Now instantly all the doors were opened, and the bonds of all were slacked.p YNow at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and sang hymns to God. Now the prisoners listened to them.n Uwho, getting such a charge, casts them into the interior jail, and secures their feet in the stocks.s _Besides, placing on them many blows, they cast them into jail, charging the warden to keep them securely,{oAnd the throng assailed them, and the officers, tearing off their garments, ordered them to be flogged with rods.dAalso announcing customs which it is not allowed us to assent to, nor to do, being Romans."veand, leading them to the officers, say, "These men are confounding our city. Belonging to the Jews, they are&ENow her masters, perceiving that the expectation of their income was come out, getting hold of Paul and Silas, draw them into the market to the magistrates,W'Now this she did on many days. Now Paul, being exasperated and turning about, said to the spirit, "I am charging you, in the name of Jesus Christ, to be coming out from her!" And it came out the same hour.She, following after Paul and us, cried, saying, "These men are slaves of God most high, who are announcing to you a way of salvation!"+Now it occurred, at our going to prayer, a certain maid, having a python spirit, meets us, who afforded a vast income to her masters, divining.4aNow as she is baptized, she and her household, she entreats, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, enter into my house and remain." And she urges us.)KAnd a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple of the city of Thyatira, revering God, heard, whose heart the Lord opens up to heed what is spoken by Paul.lQ Now we were in this city, tarrying some days. Besides, on the day of the sabbaths we came outside of the gate beside a river, where we inferred there is prayer, and, being seated, we spoke to the women who are coming together.a~; and thence to Philippi, which is the foremost city of that part of Macedonia, a colony.f}E Now, setting out from Troas, we run straight to Samothrace, yet the ensuing day to Neapolis,|# Now as he perceived the vision, we immediately seek to come out to Macedonia, deducing that God has called us to bring the evangel to them.){K And during the night a vision was seen by Paul. A certain man, a Macedonian, was standing and entreating him, and saying, "Cross over into Macedonia! Help us!":zoYet they, passing by Mysia, descended into Troas.mySYet, coming about Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, and the spirit of Jesus does not let them.xNow they passed through Phrygia and the Galatian province, being forbidden by the holy spirit to speak the word in the province of Asia.gwGThe ecclesias, indeed, then, were stable in the faith and superabounded in number day by day.-vSNow, as they went through the cities, they give over to them the decrees to maintain, which have been decided upon by the apostles and elders who are in Jerusalem.Au{This one Paul wants to come out with him, and, taking him, circumcised him because of the Jews who are in those places, for they all were aware that his father belonged to the Greeks.@t{who was attested by the brethren in Lystra and Iconium.%s ENow he arrives also at Derbe and at Lystra. And lo! a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a believing Jewish woman, yet of a Greek father,Nr)Now he passed through Syria and Cilicia, establishing the ecclesias.mqS(Now Paul, singling out Silas, came away, being given over to the grace of the Lord by the brethren.pw'Now they become so incensed as to recoil from one another. Besides, Barnabas, taking Mark along, sails off to Cyprus.o&Yet Paul counted the man who withdraws from them from Pamphylia and comes not with them to the work -- this man not worthy to take along.sn_%to see how they are faring." Now Barnabas intended to take along with them John also, who is called Mark./mW$Now, after some days, Paul said to Barnabas, "By all means, turning back, we should be visiting the brethren at every city in which we announce the word of the Lord,l#Yet Paul and Barnabas tarried in Antioch, teaching and bringing the evangel of the word of the Lord, with many others also.k'"(no verse 34)wjg!Now, after spending some time, they were dismissed with peace from the brethren to those who commission them.liQ Both Judas and Silas, they also being prophets, by many a word entreat and establish the brethren.;hqNow, reading it, they rejoiced at the consolation.wggThey indeed, then, being dismissed, came down to Antioch, and gathering the multitude, hand them the epistle.2f]to be abstaining from idol sacrifices, and blood, and what is strangled and prostitution; from which, carefully keeping yourselves, you will be well engaged. Farewell!"ewFor it seems good to the holy spirit and to us in nothing to be placing one more burden on you save these essentials:_d7We have, then, commissioned Judas and Silas, and they are reporting the same by word.Lcmen who give up their souls for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.bit seems good to us, in coming to be of one accord, choosing men, to send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul, a"Since, in fact, we hear that some coming out from us disturb you with words, dismantling your souls, whom we gave no assignment,.`Uwriting through their hand as follows: "The apostles and the elders and the brethren, to the brethren at Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, out of the nations: Rejoice!{_oThen it seems good to the apostles and the elders, together with the whole ecclesia, choosing men from among them, to send to Antioch, together with Paul and Barnabas, Judas, called Bar-Sabbas, and Silas, leading men from among the brethren. ^For Moses, from ancient generations, city by city, has those who are heralding him, being read on every sabbath in the synagogues."]!but to write an epistle to them to be abstaining from ceremonial pollution with idols, and prostitution, and what is strangled, and blood.e\C"Wherefore I decide not to be harassing those from the nations who are turning back to God,4[cKnown from the eon to the Lord is His work.2Z]So that those left of mankind should be seeking out the Lord, And all the nations, on them over whom My name is invoked, Is saying the Lord, Who is doing these things.'5YcAfter these things I will turn back, 'And I will rebuild the tabernacle of David which has fallen... And its overturned structure will I rebuild, And I will re-erect it... W&~T}}|Z{~zyxxHwwvvDuttbtskrrqPq pooAnLmmJllDkjjjiYihhgff;ee;dd)cbbbaL`S__Z^^O]\\6[ZYY>'=\<<%;;D::'988(766K5J44j33I2p11Q00/{.. -,++6*))f(('&&&%z$$F#""j!!? ^ /?`iq.|f@K[oQ B O U @  b>EF(WM(And, taking the anchors from about it, they left them in the sea, at the same time slacking the lashing of the rudders and hoisting the foresail to the breeze, they kept her course for the beach.1 ['Now when the day came, they did not recognize the land, yet considered a certain gulf, having a beach into which they planned, if they may be able, to thrust the ship.f E&Now, being sated with nourishment, they buoyed the ship, casting out the grain into the sea.I  %Now we were, in all, two hundred seventy six souls in the ship.@ {$Now, becoming cheerful, they also all took nourishment.m S#Now, saying this, and taking bread, he thanks God in sight of all, and, breaking it, begins to eat.)K"Wherefore I am entreating you to partake of nourishment, for this belongs to this salvation of yours, for not a hair from the head of one of you shall perish."?w!Now, until the day was about to come, Paul entreated all to partake of nourishment, saying, "Today is the fourteenth day; apprehensive, you are constantly abstinent, taking nothing.Y+ Then the soldiers strike off the ropes of the skiff, and they let her fall off.{Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, "If ever these should not be remaining in the ship, you can not be saved."$ANow at the mariners seeking to flee out of the ship, and lowering the skiff into the sea under pretense of being about to stretch anchors out of the prow,-Besides, fearing lest somewhere we should be falling on rough places, pitching four anchors out of the stern, they wished for the coming of day.}And sounding, they found twenty fathoms. Now after a bit of an interval, and sounding again, they found fifteen fathoms."=Now as the fourteenth night came, at our cruising about in the Adria, in the middle of the night the mariners suspected some country to be nearing them.5eYet we must be falling on a certain island."}Wherefore, be cheerful, men, for I am believing God that thus it will be even in the manner which has been spoken to me. ~saying,'Fear not, Paul! Before Caesar you must stand. And lo! graciously has God granted you all those who are sailing with you.'y}kFor there stood beside me this night a messenger of God, Whose I am, to Whom I am offering divine service also,{|oAnd now I am exhorting you to be cheerful, for not one soul from among you will be cast away, more than the ship.o{WBesides, there being much inherent abstinence, then Paul, standing in the midst of them, said, "It was binding on you, indeed, O men, yielding to me, not to have set out from Crete, to gain, besides this damage, also the forfeit.9zkNow neither sun nor constellations making their advent for more days, and besides, no slight tempest lying on us, all further expectation of our being saved was taken from us.Oyand on the third with their own hands they toss over the ship's gear.]x3Yet at our being tremendously tossed by the tempest, the next day, they jettisoned,:wmhoisting which, they used stays, undergirding the ship. Besides, fearing lest they should be falling into the Syrtis quicksand, lowering the gear, thus they were carried along.mvSNow, running under a certain islet called Cauda, we are hardly strong enough to hold off the skiff,yukNow the ship being gripped by it, and not being able to luff to the wind, giving her up, we were carried along.ktONow not much after, a wind, a hurricane, called a "northeaster," casts itself against the island.sw Now, the south wind blowing gently, supposing their purpose to hold, weighing anchor, they skirted close along Crete.qr[ Now, the harbor possessing no fitness for wintering, the majority gave counsel to set out thence, if somehow they may be able to arrive at Phoenix to winter, a harbor of Crete, looking toward the southwest and toward the northwest.q Yet the centurion was persuaded by the navigator and the charterer of the ship, rather than by what is being said by Paul.p- saying, "Men! I behold that sailing is about to be with damage and much forfeit, not only of the lading and of the ship, but of our souls also."o% Now, considerable time elapsing, and sailing being already hazardous, because of the Fast also having already passed by, Paul exhorted them,ynkBesides, hardly skirting it, we came to a certain place called Ideal Harbors, near which was the city of Lasea..mUNow, for a considerable number of days, sailing tardily and hardly coming off Cnidus, the wind not leaving us toward it, we sail under the lee of Crete, off Salome.llQAnd there the centurion, finding an Alexandrian ship sailing to Italy, has us step on board of it.gkGBesides, sailing through the ocean off Cilicia and Pamphylia, we come down to Myra, of Lycia.gjGAnd setting out thence, we sail under the lee of Cyprus, because of the winds being contrary. iNow, on another day, we were led down to Sidon. Besides, Julius, using Paul humanely, permits him to go to friends for casual care.4haNow, stepping on board a ship of Adramyttium, about to be sailing for places in the province of Asia, we set out, with us being Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica.+g QNow, as it was decided that we are to sail away to Italy, they gave over both Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Imperial squadron.nfU Now Agrippa averred to Festus, "This man could have been released if he had not appealed to Caesar."e}And retiring, they spoke with one another, saying that, "Nothing deserving of death or of bonds this man is committing."ddABoth the king and the governor rose, besides Bernice and those sitting together with them.9yet they had certain questions concerning their own religion against him, and concerning a certain Jesus, who has died, whom Paul alleged to be alive.z=mconcerning whom the accusers, when they stand up, brought not one charge of the wicked things which I suspected,<5"At their coming together in this place, then, making not one postponement, the next day, being seated on the dais, I order the man to be led forth,U;#to whom I answered that it is not the custom for Romans to surrender as a favor any man ere the accused may have the accusers face to face, besides getting a defensive position concerning the indictment.:concerning whom, at my coming to Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews inform, requesting his conviction,9!Now as they tarried more days there, Festus submitted Paul's affairs to the king, saying, "There is a certain man, left prisoner by Felix,f8E Now, some days elapsing, Agrippa, the king, and Bernice arrive at Caesarea, greeting Festus.t7a Then Festus, conferring with the council, answered, "To Caesar have you appealed. To Caesar shall you go!"}6s If, indeed, then, I am injuring, and I have committed anything deserving of death, I am not refusing to die. Yet if there is nothing in that of which these are accusing me, no one can surrender me to them as a favor. To Caesar am I appealing!"$5A Yet Paul said, "At the dais of Caesar am I standing, where I must be judged. The Jews in nothing have I injured, as you also are most ideally recognizing.14[ Now Festus, wanting to curry favor with the Jews, answering Paul, said, "Are you willing to go up into Jerusalem to be judged there before me concerning these things?"}3sPaul defending that "Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the sanctuary, nor against Caesar did I sin."=2sNow at his coming along, the Jews who have descended from Jerusalem stand about him, bringing many and heavy charges against him, which they were not strong enough to demonstrate,$1ANow, tarrying among them not more than eight or ten days, descending to Caesarea, on the morrow, being seated on the dais, he orders Paul to be led forth.0"Those, then, among you," he is averring, "who are able, step down with me. If there is anything amiss in the man, let them accuse him."/wFestus, indeed, then, answered that Paul is to be kept in Caesarea, yet he himself was about to be going out quickly..'requesting a favor against him, so that he should send after him to bring him into Jerusalem, making an ambush to assassinate him by the way.r-]Besides, the chief priests and the foremost of the Jews inform him against Paul, and they entreated him,i, MFestus, then, stepping into the prefecture, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.+%Now, two years being fulfilled, Felix got a successor, Porcius Festus. Besides, wanting to curry favor with the Jews, Felix left Paul bound.*+at the same time expecting also that money will be given him by Paul. Wherefore, sending after him more frequently also, he conversed with him.G)Now as he is arguing concerning righteousness, and self-control, and the impending judgment, Felix, becoming affrighted, answered, "Now go. Yet, given occasion, I shall be calling for you,"!(;Now after some days, Felix, coming along with Drusilla, his wife (being a Jewess), sends after Paul and hears him concerning the faith in Christ Jesus. '9He prescribes to the centurion that he is to be kept, besides, he is to be having his ease, and to prevent no one of his own to be subservient to him.:&mNow Felix made them postpone, being acquainted more exactly with that which concerns the way, saying, "Whenever captain Lysias may come down, I shall investigate your affairs.""%=or concerning this one voice with which I cry out, standing among them, that, 'Concerning the resurrection of the dead am I being judged today by you.'"[$/Or let these themselves say what injury they found when I stood in the Sanhedrin,%#CNow there were some Jews from the province of Asia, on whom it was binding to be present before you and to accuse me, if they may have anything against me.a";in which they found me, purified, in the sanctuary, not with a throng, nor with tumult.t!a"Now after the lapse of more years, I came along doing alms for my nation, and bringing approach presents, y"In this, I am exerting myself also, to have a conscience which is no stumbling block toward God and men, continually.-Shaving an expectation in God, which these themselves also are anticipating, that there shall be a resurrection which is impending for both the just and the unjust.dA"Yet I am avowing this to you, that, according to the way which they are terming a sect, thus am I offering divine service to the hereditary God, believing all that is written, according to the law and in the prophets,b= nor can they present evidence to you for that concerning which they are now accusing me.% And they neither found me in the sanctuary arguing with anyone, or making a concourse of the throng, nor in the synagogues, nor at the city,wg at your being able to recognize that it is not more than twelve days since I went up to worship in Jerusalem.L Besides, Paul, the governor nodding to him to speak, answered, "Being versed in the fact that for many years you are a judge in this nation, cheerfully am I defending that which concerns myself,L Now the Jews also agreed, alleging these things to have been thus. from whom you yourself will, by examining him, be able to recognize all of these things concerning which we are accusing him."%(no verse 7)Lwho tries to profane the sanctuary also, of whom we lay hold also,/WFor, finding this man a pestilence and stirrer of insurrections among all the Jews who are on the inhabited earth, besides a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes,q[Now, lest I may be hindering you still more, I am entreating you to hear us concisely in your leniency.jMboth in every way and everywhere, we are welcoming it, most mighty Felix, with all thankfulness.3_Now at his being called, Tertullus begins to accuse him, saying, "Happening upon much peace through you, and reforms in this nation coming to be through your providence, 5Now after five days, Ananias, the chief priest, descended with some elders and an orator, a certain Tertullus, who inform the governor against Paul.'#"I shall give you a hearing," he averred, "whenever your accusers also may be coming along," ordering him to be guarded in Herod's pretorium.lQ"Now, reading it, and inquiring of what prefecture he is, and ascertaining that he is from Cilicia,iK!who, entering into Caesarea and giving up the letter to the governor, present Paul also to him.e C Now on the morrow, they return into the citadel, leaving the cavalry to come away with him, The soldiers, indeed, then, according to that which has been prescribed to them, taking up Paul, led him through the night to Antipatris.8 iNow at its being divulged to me that there will be a plot against the man, forthwith I send him to you, charging the accusers also to speak against him before you. Farewell." Him I found being indicted concerning questions of their law, yet having nothing deserving death or bonds in the indictment. wBesides, intending to get to know the charge because of which they indicted him, I led him down into their Sanhedrin.$AThis man, being apprehended by the Jews, and being about to be assassinated by them, standing by with the troop, I extricate, learning that he is a Roman.G"Claudius Lysias, to the most mighty governor Felix. Rejoice!.WHe writes a letter having this model:zmBesides, present beasts that, mounting Paul, they should be bringing him safely through to Felix, the governor."a;And calling a certain two of the centurions to him, he said, "Make ready two hundred soldiers, so that they may go as far as Caesarea, and seventy cavalry, and two hundred slingers, from the third hour of the night.}Indeed, then, the captain dismisses the youth, charging him, "To no one speak out that you disclose these things to me." You, then, should not be persuaded by them, for there are ambushing for him more than forty of their men, who anathematize themselves neither to eat nor drink till they may be assassinating him. And now they are ready, anticipating the promise from you."5cNow he said that "The Jews agreed to ask you, so that you may lead Paul down tomorrow into the Sanhedrin, as being about to ascertain somewhat more exactly concerning him.Now the captain, taking hold of his hand, and retiring privately, inquired to ascertain, "What is it that you have to report to me?"EHe, indeed, then, taking him along, led him to the captain, and is averring, "The prisoner, Paul, calling me to him, asks me to lead this youth to you, who has something to speak to you."~!Now Paul, calling one of the centurions to him, averred, "Lead this young man away to the captain, for he has something to report to him."~}uNow the son of Paul's sister, hearing of the ambush, coming along and entering into the citadel, reports it to Paul.s|_Now then, you inform the captain together with the Sanhedrin, so that he may be leading him down to you, as being about to investigate more exactly that which concerns him; yet we, before he draws near, are ready to assassinate him."{%who, coming to the chief priests and the elders, say, "With an anathema we anathematize ourselves to taste nothing till we should kill Paul.Iu"Now they retorted in the throng, some this, others some other thing. Now, at his not being able to know for certain because of the tumult, he orders him to be led into the citadel.H3!Then the captain, drawing near, got hold of him, and orders him to be bound with two chains. And he ascertained who he may be and what he has done.G' who, taking along soldiers and centurions, forthwith ran down to them. Now they, perceiving the captain and the soldiers, cease beating Paul.F!And while they are seeking to kill him, the allegation came up to the captain of the squadron that the whole of Jerusalem is in confusion,MEBesides, stirred was the whole city, and there came to be a running together of the people. And getting hold of Paul, they drew him outside of the sanctuary, and immediately the doors are locked.DFor, before this, Trophimus the Ephesian was seen in the city with him, whom they inferred that Paul led into the sanctuary.uCccrying, "Men! Israelites! Help! This is the man who is teaching all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this holy place. Besides, still more, he led Greeks also into the sanctuary, and has contaminated this holy place.";BoNow as the seven days were about to be concluding, Jews from the province of Asia, gazing at him in the sanctuary, threw the entire throng into confusion, and laid hands on him,pAYThen Paul, taking the men along on the next day, being purified together with them, had been in the sanctuary, publishing the full completion of the days of purification, till the approach present for each one of them was offered.X@)Now concerning those of the nations who have believed, we write an epistle, deciding they are to guard themselves from idol sacrifice, besides from blood also, and what is strangled, and from prostitution.""?=Taking these along, be purified together with them, and bear their expenses, that they should be shaving their heads, and all will know that what they have been instructed concerning you is nothing, but you also are observing the elements and you yourself are maintaining the law.`>9This, then, which we are saying to you, do. With us are four men having a vow on them.n=UWhat is it, then? Undoubtedly a multitude must come together, for they will hear that you have come.N<Now they were instructed concerning you that you teach all the Jews among the nations apostasy from Moses, telling them not to be circumcising their children, nor yet to be walking in the customs.V;%Now those who hear glorified God. Besides, they said to him, "You are beholding, brother, how many tens of thousands there are among the Jews who have believed, and all are inherently zealous for the law? >~~}{} |q{zzyyxdwwxvvv2uutsps rvqq+pxoo1nomlekkk\jjj.ii]hhhgmffGeeddd4cc9bba``7__K^^]v\z[[ZZZYXXWW:VVEUUQTTkT;SSORQQuQPP4OO3NN9MM LpKKSJJ`IIHHGGGFFEEoDDD=DCCChBBAA@@t?>>>5==K<GOr are you ignorant that whoever are baptized into Christ Jesus, are baptized into His death?`=9May it not be coming to that! We, who died to sin, how shall we still be living in it?h< KWhat, then, shall we declare? That we may be persisting in sin that grace should be increasing?;'that, even as Sin reigns in death, thus Grace also should be reigning through righteousness, for life eonian, through Jesus Christ, our Lord.y:kYet law came in by the way, that the offense should be increasing. Yet where sin increases, grace superexceeds,39_For even as, through the disobedience of the one man, the many were constituted sinners, thus also, through the obedience of the One, the many shall be constituted just.+8OConsequently, then, as it was through one offense for all mankind for condemnation, thus also it is through one just award for all mankind for life's justifying.^75For if, by the offense of the one, death reigns through the one, much rather, those obtaining the superabundance of grace and the gratuity of righteousness shall be reigning in life through the One, Jesus Christ.46aAnd not as through one act of sinning is the gratuity. For, indeed, the judgment is out of one into condemnation, yet the grace is out of many offenses into a just award.a5;But not as the offense, thus also the grace. For if, by the offense of the one, the many died, much rather the grace of God and the gratuity in grace, which is of the One Man, Jesus Christ, to the many superabounds./4Wnevertheless death reigns from Adam unto Moses, over those also who do not sin in the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of Him Who is about to be.k3O for until law sin was in the world, yet sin is not being taken into account when there is no law;&2E Therefore, even as through one man sin entered into the world, and through sin death, and thus death passed through into all mankind, on which all sinned -- 1  Yet not only so, but we are glorying also in God, through our Lord, Jesus Christ, through Whom we now obtained the conciliation.0) For if, being enemies, we were conciliated to God through the death of His Son, much rather, being conciliated, we shall be saved in His life.o/W Much rather, then, being now justified in His blood, we shall be saved from indignation, through Him.{.oyet God is commending this love of His to us, seeing that, while we are still sinners, Christ died for our sakes.-For hardly for the sake of a just man will anyone be dying: for, for the sake of a good man, perhaps someone may even be daring to die,t,aFor Christ, while we are still infirm, still in accord with the era, for the sake of the irreverent, died.+5Now expectation is not mortifying, seeing that the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the holy spirit which is being given to us.>*wyet endurance testedness, yet testedness expectation.)wYet not only so, but we may be glorying also in afflictions, having perceived that affliction is producing endurance,('through Whom we have the access also, by faith, into this grace in which we stand, and we may be glorying in expectation of the glory of God.l' SBeing, then, justified by faith, we may be having peace toward God, through our Lord, Jesus Christ,]&3Who was given up because of our offenses, and was roused because of our justifying. %but because of us also, to whom it is about to be reckoned, who are believing on Him Who rouses Jesus our Lord from among the dead.Q$Now it was not written because of him only, that it is reckoned to him,B#Wherefore, also, it is reckoned to him for righteousness.V"%being fully assured also, that, what He has promised, He is able to do also.s!_yet the promise of God was not doubted in unbelief, but he was invigorated by faith, giving glory to God,. UAnd, not being infirm in faith, he considers his body, already deadened (being inherently somewhere about a hundred years) and the deadening of the matrix of Sarah,5cwho, being beyond expectation, believes in expectation, for him to become the father of many nations, according to that which has been declared, "Thus shall be your seed."Faccording as it is written that, A father of many nations have I appointed you -- facing which, he believes it of the God Who is vivifying the dead and calling what is not as if it were --W'Therefore it is of faith that it may accord with grace, for the promise to be confirmed to the entire seed, not to those of the law only, but to those also of the faith of Abraham, who is father of us all,dAfor the law is producing indignation. Now where no law is, neither is there transgression.ykFor if those of law are enjoyers of the allotment, faith has been made void and the promise has been nullified, 9 For not through law is the promise to Abraham, or to his Seed, for him to be enjoyer of the allotment of the world, but through faith's righteousness.N and the father of the Circumcision, not to those of the Circumcision only, but to those also who are observing the elements of the faith in the footprints of our father Abraham, in uncircumcision.s_ And he obtained the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which was in uncircumcision, for him to be the father of all those who are believing through uncircumcision, for righteousness to be reckoned to them,{o How then, is it reckoned? Being in circumcision or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. 9 This happiness, then, is it for the Circumcision, or for the Uncircumcision also? For we are saying, "To Abraham faith is reckoned for righteousness."MHappy the man to whom the Lord by no means should be reckoning sin!X)Happy they whose lawlessnesses were pardoned and whose sins were covered over!{oEven as David also is telling of the happiness of the man to whom God is reckoning righteousness apart from acts: Yet to him who is not working, yet is believing on Him Who is justifying the irreverent, his faith is reckoned for righteousness.PNow to the worker, the wage is not reckoned as a favor, but as a debt.taFor what is the scripture saying? Now "Abraham believes God, and it is reckoned to him for righteousness."a;For if Abraham was justified by acts, he has something to boast in, but not toward God.b ?What, then, shall we declare that Abraham, our forefather, according to flesh, has found?o WAre we, then, nullifying law through faith? May it not be coming to that! Nay, we are sustaining law. )Yes, of the nations also, if so be that God is One, Who will be justifying the Circumcision out of faith and the Uncircumcision through faith.K Or is He the god of the Jews only? Is He not of the nations also?} sOf works? No! But through faith's law. For we are reckoning a man to be justified by faith apart from works of law.E Where, then, is boasting? It is debarred! Through what law?toward the display of His righteousness in the current era, for Him to be just and a Justifier of the one who is of the faith of Jesus.^5(Whom God purposed for a Propitiatory shelter, through faith in His blood, for a display of His righteousness because of the passing over of the penalties of sins which occurred before in the forbearance of God),eCBeing justified gratuitously in His grace, through the deliverance which is in Christ Jesus<sfor all sinned and are wanting of the glory of God.yet a righteousness of God through Jesus Christ's faith, for all, and on all who are believing, for there is no distinction,s_Yet now, apart from law, a righteousness of God is manifest (being attested by the law and the prophets),wbecause, by works of law, no flesh at all shall be justified in His sight, for through law is the recognition of sin.GNow we are aware that, whatever the law is saying, it is speaking to those under the law, that every mouth may be barred, and the entire world may become subject to the just verdict of God,8kThere is no fear of God in front of their eyes.0[And the way of peace they do not know."5~e"Bruises and wretchedness are in their ways,,}SSharp are their feet to shed blood.@|{Whose mouth with imprecation and bitterness is crammed.y{k "A sepulcher opened is their throat. With their tongues they defraud." "The venom of asps is under their lips."pzY "All avoid Him: at the same time they were useless. Not one is doing kindness: there is not even one!">yw Not one is understanding. Not one is seeking out God.Mx according as it is written, that "Not one is just" -- not even one.|wq What, then? Are we privileged? Undoubtedly not, for we previously charge both Jews and Greeks to be all under sin,Dvand why not say, according as we are calumniated and according as some are averring that we are saying, that "We should be doing evil that good may be coming"? -- whose judgment is fair.vueYet if the truth of God superabounds in my lie, for His glory, why am I also still being judged as a sinner,PtMay it not be coming to that! Else how shall God be judging the world?*sMNow if our injustice is commending God's righteousness, what shall we declare? Not that God Who is bringing on indignation is unjust! (As a man am I saying it.)RrMay it not be coming to that! Now let God be true, yet every man a liar, even as it is written: "That so Thou shouldst be justified in Thy sayings, And shalt be conquering when Thou art being judged."_q7For what if some disbelieve? Will not their unbelief nullify the faithfulness of God?dpAMuch in every manner. For first, indeed, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.Xo +What, then, is the prerogative of the Jew, or what the benefit of circumcision?n!but that which is hidden is the Jew, and circumcision is of the heart, in spirit, not in letter, whose applause is not of men, but of God.mmSFor not that which is apparent is the Jew, nor yet that which is apparent in flesh is circumcision;)lKAnd the Uncircumcision who, by nature, are discharging the law's demands, shall be judging you, who through letter and circumcision, are a transgressor of law.k+If the Uncircumcision, then, should be maintaining the just requirements of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned for circumcision?6jeFor circumcision, indeed, is benefiting if you should be putting law into practice, yet if you should be a transgressor of law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.oiWFor because of you the name of God is being blasphemed among the nations, according as it is written.bh=who are boasting in a law, through the transgression of the law you are dishonoring God!gwho are saying not to be committing adultery, you are committing adultery! who are abominating idols, you are despoiling the sanctuary!fYou, then, who are teaching another, you are not teaching yourself! who are heralding not to be stealing, you are stealing!ueca discipliner of the imprudent, a teacher of minors, having the form of knowledge and the truth in the law.ldQBesides, you have confidence in yourself to be a guide of the blind, a light of those in darkness,mcSand know the will, and are testing what things are of consequence, being instructed out of the law._b7Lo! you are being denominated a Jew, and are resting on law, and are boasting in God,{aoin the day when God will be judging the hidden things of humanity, according to my evangel, through Jesus Christ.6`ewho are displaying the action of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying together and their reckonings between one another, accusing or defending them,_5For whenever they of the nations that have no law, by nature may be doing that which the law demands, these, having no law, are a law to themselves,b^= For not the listeners to law are just with God, but the doers of law shall be justified.] for whoever sinned without the law, without law also shall perish, and whoever sinned in law, through law will be judged.-\U For there is no partiality with God,i[K yet glory and honor and peace to every worker of good, both to the Jew first, and to the Greek.wZg affliction and distress, on every human soul which is effecting evil, both of the Jew first and of the Greek,zYmyet to those of faction and stubborn, indeed, as to the truth, yet persuaded to injustice, indignation and fury,tXato those, indeed, who by endurance in good acts are seeking glory and honor and incorruption, life eonian;=WuWho will be paying each one in accord with his acts:1V[Yet, in accord with your hardness and unrepentant heart you are hoarding for yourself indignation in the day of indignation and revelation of the just judgment of God,U3Or are you despising the riches of His kindness and forbearance and patience, being ignorant that the kindness of God is leading you to repentance?$TAYet are you reckoning on this, O man, who art judging those committing such things, and art doing the same, that you will be escaping the judgment of God?wSgNow we are aware that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who are committing such things.BR Wherefore, defenseless are you, O man! everyone who is judging, for in what you are judging another, you are condemning yourself, for you who are judging are committing the same things.CQ  those who, recognizing the just statute of God, that those committing such things are deserving of death, not only are doing them, but are endorsing, also, those who are committing them.VP 'unintelligent, perfidious, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:tO cvilifiers, detesters of God, outragers, proud, ostentatious, inventors of evil things, stubborn to parents,N yfilled with all injustice, wickedness, evil, greed, distended with envy, murder, strife, guile, depravity, whisperers,M /And according as they do not test God, to have Him in recognition, God gives them over to a disqualified mind, to do that which is not befitting,xL kLikewise also the males, besides, leaving the natural use of the female, were inflamed in their craving for one another, males with males effecting indecency, and getting back in themselves the retribution of their deception which must be.K #Therefore God gives them over to dishonorable passions. For their females, besides, alter the natural use into that which is beside nature./J Ythose who alter the truth of God into the lie, and are venerated, and offer divine service to the creature rather than the Creator, Who is blessed for the eons! Amen!I Wherefore God gives them over, in the lusts of their hearts, to the uncleanness of dishonoring their bodies among themselves,(H Kand they change the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of an image of a corruptible human being and flying creatures and quadrupeds and reptiles.=G wAlleging themselves to be wise, they are made stupid,F 9because, knowing God, not as God do they glorify or thank Him, but vain were they made in their reasonings, and darkened is their unintelligent heart.CE For His invisible attributes are descried from the creation of the world, being apprehended by His achievements, besides His imperceptible power and divinity, for them to be defenseless,aD =because that which is known of God is apparent among them, for God manifests it to them.C For God's indignation is being revealed from heaven on all the irreverence and injustice of men who are retaining the truth in injustice,B /For in it God's righteousness is being revealed, out of faith for faith, according as it is written: "Now the just one by faith shall be living."A 5For not ashamed am I of the evangel, for it is God's power for salvation to everyone who is believing -- to the Jew first, and to the Greek as well.W@ )Thus this eagerness of mine to bring the evangel to you also, who are in Rome.P? To both Greeks and barbarians, to both wise and foolish, a debtor am I.Y> - Now I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, that often I purposed to come to you (and was prevented hitherto) that I should be having some fruit among you also, according as among the rest of the nations.h= K yet this is to be consoled together among you through one another's faith, both yours and mine.u< e For I am longing to see you, that I may be sharing some spiritual grace with you, for you to be established:n; W beseeching, if somehow, sometime, at length I shall be prospered, in the will of God, to come to you.1: ] For God is my Witness, to Whom I am offering divine service in my spirit in the evangel of His Son, how unintermittingly I am making mention of you always in my prayers9 First, indeed, I am thanking my God through Jesus Christ concerning all of you, that your faith is being announced in the whole world.8  to all who are in Rome, beloved by God, called saints: Grace to you and peace from God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.<7 uamong whom are you also, the called of Jesus Christ:6 Jesus Christ, our Lord, through Whom we obtained grace and apostleship for faith-obedience among all the nations, for His name's sake,x5 kWho is designated Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection of the dead),S4 !concerning His Son (Who comes of the seed of David according to the flesh,P3 (which He promises before through His prophets in the holy scriptures),W2 +Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus, a called apostle, severed for the evangel of God~1uheralding the kingdom of God, and teaching that which concerns the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, unforbidden.k0ONow he remains two whole years in his own hired house, and he welcomed all those going in to him,/9(verse 29 not genuine)v.eLet it be known to you, then, that to the nations was dispatched this salvation of God, and they will hear."C-For stoutened is the heart of this people, And with their ears heavily they hear, And with their eyes they squint, Lest at some time they may be perceiving with their eyes, And with their ears should be hearing, And with their heart may be understanding, And should be turning about, And I shall be healing them.'?,wsaying, 'Go to this people and say, "In hearing, you will be hearing, and may by no means be understanding, And observing, you will be observing, and may by no means be perceiving,">+uNow there being disagreements one with another, they were dismissed, Paul making one declaration, that, "Ideally the holy spirit speaks through Isaiah the prophet, to your fathers,T*!And these, indeed, were persuaded by what is said, yet others disbelieved.l)QNow setting a day for him, more came to him in the lodging, to whom he expounded, certifying to the kingdom of God, besides persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and the prophets, from morning till dusk./(WNow we count it worthwhile to hear from you what your disposition is. For, indeed, concerning this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is being contradicted."0'YNow they say to him, "Neither do we receive letters concerning you from Judea, nor do any of the brethren coming along report or speak anything wicked concerning you.&For this cause, then, I call for you, to see and speak to you. For on account of the expectation of Israel this chain is lying about me."%Now at the contradicting of the Jews, I am compelled to appeal to Caesar -- not as though having anything of which to accuse my nation.b$=who, examining me, intended to release me, because not one cause of death existed in me.2#]Now it occurred three days after, that he calls together those who are foremost of the Jews. Now, at their coming together, he said to them "I, men, brethren, doing nothing contrary to the people or to the hereditary customs, was given up a prisoner out of Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,v"eNow when we entered Rome, Paul was permitted to remain by himself together with the soldier who guarded him. !9And thence the brethren, hearing about us, come to meet us as far as Appii Forum and Three Taverns, perceiving whom, Paul, thanking God, took courage.l Qwhere, finding brethren, we were entreated to stay with them seven days. And thus to Rome we come. whence, tacking about, we arrive at Rhegium, and the south wind coming on after one day, we came the second day to Puteoli,6g And, landing at Syracuse, we stay three days,y Now, after three months, we set out in an Alexandrian ship with the ensign Dioscuri, which has wintered in the island.s_ who honor us with many honors also, and, at our setting out, they placed on board what was for our needs.s_ Now at this occurring, the rest also of those in the island having infirmities approached and were cured,.UNow it occurred that the father of Publius was lying down, pressed with fever and dysentery. Paul, entering to him and praying, placing his hands on him, heals him.(INow in the regions about that place the freeholds belonged to the foremost man of the island, named Publius, who, receiving us, lodges us three days, amiably.X)Yet they were apprehensive that he is about to become inflamed or suddenly fall down dead. Yet, after much apprehension, and beholding nothing coming to be amiss with him, retracting, they said he is a god.Z-He, indeed, then, twitching the wild beast into the fire, suffered nothing evil.RNow, as the barbarians perceived the wild beast hanging from his hand, they said to one another, "Undoubtedly this man is a murderer, whom, being safely through out of the sea, Justice lets not live."1Now at Paul's twisting together a certain quantity of kindling and placing it on the fire, a viper, coming out of the warmth, fastens on his hand.+OBesides, the barbarians tender us not the casual philanthropy, for, kindling a fire, they took us all in, because of the imminent shower and because of the cold.X +And, being safely through, then we recognized that the island is called Melita.,and the rest, these, indeed, on planks, yet those on something from the ship, and thus all came safely through to the land.<q+Yet the centurion, intending to bring Paul safely through, prevents them from their intention. Besides, he orders those who are able to swim, diving, to be off to the land first,wg*Now came the soldiers' counsel that they should kill the prisoners, lest anyone, swimming out, may flee away.>u)Now, falling into a place with a channel, they run the craft aground, and the prow, indeed, remains sticking unshakable, yet the stern was broken up by the violence of the billows. Zt~+}}Q||J{{(zz&yHxx!wvvuuut_ss|rr`qqq&ppoo+nn mm llgkkejj iiEhhgaffueeKdd_ccbb2aa+``__?^^]|\\D[[XZZ4YYXXWCVV2UTTaSS`RRQ}Q POOdNNbMMlLLEKKK,JWIHHGZFFzF8EEaEDuD)CCxBBA%@@U??g>>>==x=-<<;;};:w99{88D766D55M433c221{100N/..[--,,]++]**t))(b(.'']&&S%%$$ ##-"~!!! gYRi:v)cv^X\< s h Q >16*CZel E Now I am entreating you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all may be saying the same thing, and there may be no schisms among you, but you may be attuned to the same mind and to the same opinion.nk W Faithful is God, through Whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.sj aWho will be confirming you also until the consummation, unimpeachable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.ei Eso that you are not deficient in any grace, awaiting the unveiling of our Lord Jesus Christ,Fh according as the testimony of Christ was confirmed among you,Xg +for in everything are you enriched in him, in all expression and all knowledge,sf aI am thanking my God always concerning you over the grace of God which is being given you in Christ Jesus,Pe Grace to you and peace from God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.Id  to the ecclesia of God which is in Corinth, hallowed in Christ Jesus, called saints, together with all in every place who are invoking the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, both theirs and ours:bc APaul, a called apostle of Christ Jesus, through the will of God, and Sosthenes, a brother,cb?to the only, and wise God, through Christ Jesus, be glory for the eons of the eons. Amen!#a?yet manifested now and through prophetic scriptures, according to the injunction of the eonian God being made known to all nations for faith-obedience --0`YNow to Him Who is able to establish you in accord with my evangel, and the heralding of Christ Jesus in accord with the revelation of a secret hushed in times eonian, _ ^%Greeting you is Gaius, my host, and of the whole ecclesia. Greeting you is Erastus, the administrator of the city, and Quartus, the brother.M]I, Tertius, the writer of the epistle, am greeting you in the Lord.f\EGreeting you is Timothy, my fellow worker, and Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my relatives.w[gNow the God of peace will be crushing Satan under your feet swiftly. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you!Z+For your obedience reached out to all. Over you, then, am I rejoicing. Now I am wanting you to be wise, indeed, for good, yet artless for evil. Y9for such for our Lord Christ are not slaving, but for their own bowels, and through compliments and adulation are deluding the hearts of the innocent.X1Now I am entreating you, brethren, to be noting those who are making dissensions and snares beside the teaching which you learned, and avoid them,[W/Greet one another with a holy kiss. Greeting you are all the ecclesias of Christ.fVEGreet Philologos and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas and all the saints with them.ZU-Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brethren with them.BT Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.zSm Greet Tryphena and Tryphosa, who are toiling in the Lord. Greet Persis, the beloved, who toils much in the Lord.TR! Greet Herodion, my relative. Greet those of Narcissus who are in the Lord.PQ Greet Apelles, attested in Christ. Greet those who are of Aristobulus.NP Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ, and Stachys, my beloved.1O]Greet Ampliatos, my beloved in the Lord.N'Greet Andronicus and Junias, my relatives and my fellow captives who are notable among the apostles, who also came to be in Christ before me.,MSGreet Mary, who toils much for you.Lyand the ecclesia at their house. Greet Epanetus, my beloved, who is the firstfruit of the province of Asia for Christ. K(who, for the sake of my soul, jeopardize their own necks, whom not only I am thanking, but all the ecclesias of the nations also)DJGreet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ JesusHI that you should be receiving her in the Lord worthily of the saints, and may stand by her in whatever matter she may be needing you, for she became a patroness of many, as well as of myself.iH MNow I am commending to you Phoebe, our sister, being a servant also of the ecclesia in Cenchrea,7Gi!Now the God of peace be with all of you! Amen!rF] that I may be coming to you with joy through the will of God, and I should be resting together with you. Ethat I should be rescued from the stubborn in Judea, and my dispensation for Jerusalem may be becoming well received by the saints,&DENow I am entreating you, brethren, through our Lord Jesus Christ, and through the love of the spirit, to struggle together with me in prayers to God for me,kCONow I am aware that, in coming to you, I shall be coming with the blessing of Christ which fills.uBcWhen, then, performing this, and sealing to them this fruit, I shall be coming away through you into Spain..AUFor they are delighted, and they are their debtors, for if the nations participate in their spiritual things, they ought to minister to them in fleshly things also.y@kFor it delights Macedonia and Achaia to make some contribution for the poor of the saints who are in Jerusalem.D?yet now I am going to Jerusalem, dispensing to the saints.B>}as ever I may be going into Spain (for I am expecting, while going through, to gaze upon you, and by you to be sent forward there, if I should ever first be filled, in part, by you) --w=gYet now, having by no means still place in these regions, yet having for many years a longing to come to you,=<uWherefore I was much hindered also in coming to you.;but, according as it is written, "They who were not informed concerning Him shall see, And they who have not heard shall understand.":Yet thus I am ambitious to be bringing the evangel where Christ is not named lest I may be building on another's foundation,*9Min the power of signs and miracles, in the power of God's spirit, so that, from Jerusalem and around unto Illyricum, I have completed the evangel of the Christ.8 For I am not daring to speak any of what Christ does not effect through me for the obedience of the nations, in word and work,M7I have, then, a boast in Christ Jesus, in that which is toward God.[6/for me to be the minister of Christ Jesus for the nations, acting as a priest of the evangel of God, that the approach present of the nations may be becoming well received, having been hallowed by holy spirit.z5mYet more daringly do I write to you, in part, as prompting you, because of the grace being given to me from God,=4sNow I myself also am persuaded concerning you, my brethren, that you yourselves also are bulging with goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to be admonishing one another.'3G Now may the God of expectation be filling you with all joy and peace in believing, for you to be super-abounding in expectation, in the power of holy spirit.2' And again Isaiah is saying, there will be "the root of Jesse, And He Who is rising to be Chief of the nations: On Him will the nations rely."i1K And again he is saying, "Praise the Lord, all the nations," And "let all the peoples laud Him."J0  And again he is saying, "Be merry, ye nations, with His people!"=/s Yet the nations are to glorify God for His mercy, according as it is written, "Therefore I shall be acclaiming Thee among the nations," "And to Thy name shall I be playing music.".)For I am saying that Christ has become the Servant of the Circumcision, for the sake of the truth of God, to confirm the patriarchal promises.{-oWherefore be taking one another to yourselves according as Christ also took you to Himself, for the glory of God.s,_that, with one accord, with one mouth, you may be glorifying the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.+Now may the God of endurance and consolation grant you to be mutually disposed to one another, according to Christ Jesus,+*OFor whatever was written before, was written for this teaching of ours, that through the endurance and the consolation of the scriptures we may have expectation.)For Christ also pleases not Himself, but according as it is written, "The reproaches of those reproaching Thee fall on Me."T(!Let each of us please his associate, for his good, toward his edification.q' ]Now we, the able, ought to be bearing the infirmities of the impotent, and not to be pleasing ourselves.&-Now he who is doubting if he should be eating is condemned, seeing that it is not out of faith. Now everything which is not out of faith is sin. %The faith which you have, have for yourself in God's sight. Happy is he who is not judging himself in that which he is attesting.!$;It is ideal not to be eating meat, nor yet to be drinking wine, nor yet to do aught by which your brother is stumbling, or is being snared or weakened. # Not on account of food demolish the work of God. All, indeed, is clean, but it is evil to the man who with stumbling is eating.z"mConsequently, then, we are pursuing that which makes for peace and that which is for edification of one another.`!9For he who in this is slaving for Christ, is well pleasing to God and attested by men.k Ofor the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in holy spirit.1]Let not, then, your good be calumniated,-SFor if, because of food, your brother is sorrowing, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not, by your food, destroy that one for whose sake Christ died.CI have perceived and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is contaminating of itself, except that the one reckoning anything to be contaminating, to that one it is contaminating.% By no means, then, should we still be judging one another, but rather decide this, not to place a stumbling block for a brother, or a snare.[/ Consequently, then, each of us shall be giving account concerning himself to God. for it is written: Living am I, the Lord is saying, For to Me shall bow every knee, And every tongue shall be acclaiming God! Now why are you judging your brother? Or why are you also scorning your brother? For all of us shall be presented at the dais of God,jM For for this Christ died and lives, that He should be Lord of the dead as well as of the living.KFor both, if we should be living, to the Lord are we living, and if we should be dying, to the Lord are we dying. Then, both if we should be living and if we should be dying, we are the Lord's.RFor not one of us is living to himself, and not one is dying to himself.V%He who is disposed to the day, is disposed to it to the Lord; and he who is eating, is eating to the Lord, for he is thanking God. And he who is not eating, to the Lord is not eating, and is thanking God.)One indeed, is deciding for one day rather than another day, yet one is deciding for every day. Let each one be fully assured in his own mind.,QWho are you who are judging Another's domestic? To his own Master he is standing or falling. Now he will be made to stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.#?Let not him who is eating be scorning him who is not eating. Yet let not him who is not eating be judging him who is eating, for God took him to Himself.[/One, indeed, is believing to eat all things, yet the infirm one is eating greens.g INow the infirm in the faith be taking to yourselves, but not for discrimination of reasonings.b= but put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and be making no provision for the lusts of the flesh./ As in the day, respectably, should we be walking, not in revelries and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy, 1 The night progresses, yet the day is near. We, then, should be putting off the acts of darkness, yet should be putting on the implements of light.% C This, also, do, being aware of the era, that it is already the hour for us to be roused out of sleep, for now is our salvation nearer than when we believe.Z - Love is not working evil to an associate. The complement, then, of law, is love. ! For this: "You shall not commit adultery," "you shall not murder," "you shall not steal," "you shall not testify falsely," "you shall not covet," and if there is any other precept, it is summed up in this saying, in this: "You shall love your associate as yourself."r ] To no one owe anything, except to be loving one another, for he who is loving another has fulfilled law.yk Render to all their dues, to whom tax, tax, to whom tribute, tribute, to whom fear, fear, to whom honor, honor.xi For therefore you are settling taxes also, for they are God's ministers, perpetuated for this self-same thing.s_ Wherefore it is necessary to be subject, not only because of indignation, but also because of conscience.U# For it is God's servant for your good. Now if you should be doing evil, fear, for not feignedly is it wearing the sword. For it is God's servant, an avenger for indignation to him who is committing evil.-S for magistrates are not a fear to the good act, but to the evil. Now you do not want to be fearing the authority. Do good, and you will be having applause from it.% so that he who is resisting an authority has withstood God's mandate. Now those who have withstood, will be getting judgment for themselves, - Let every soul be subject to the superior authorities, for there is no authority except under God. Now those which are, have been set under God,>w Be not conquered by evil; but conquer evil with good.7g But "If your enemy should be hungering, give him the morsel; if he should be thirsting, give him to drink, for in doing this you will be heaping embers of fire on his head."#? you are not avenging yourselves, beloved, but be giving place to His indignation, for it is written, Mine is vengeance! I will repay! the Lord is saying.\~1 if possible that which comes out from yourselves. Being at peace with all mankind,Y}+ To no one render evil for evil, making ideal provision in the sight of all men,.|U being mutually disposed to one another, not being disposed to that which is high, but being led away to the humble. Do not come to pass for prudent with yourselves.U{# so as to be rejoicing with those rejoicing, lamenting with those lamenting.Gz Bless those who are persecuting you: bless, and do not curse,Hy  contributing to the needs of the saints, pursuing hospitality.Ox rejoicing in expectation, enduring affliction, persevering in prayer,Mw in diligence not slothful, fervent in spirit, slaving for the Lord,qv[ Let us have fond affection for one another with brotherly fondness, in honor deeming one another first,Ru Let love be unfeigned. Abhorring that which is wicked, clinging to good,ty or the entreater, in entreaty; the sharer, with generosity; the presider, with diligence; the merciful one, with glee.Js  or dispensing, in the dispensation; or the teacher, in teaching;r3 Now, having graces excelling, in accord with the grace which is given to us, whether prophecy, exercise it in accord with the analogy of the faith;aq; thus we, who are many, are one body in Christ, yet individually members of one another.ipK For even as, in one body, we have many members, yet all the members have not the same function,ioK For I am saying, through the grace which is given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to be overweening, beyond what your disposition must be, but to be of a sane disposition, as God parts to each the measure of faith.6ne and not to be configured to this eon, but to be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for you to be testing what is the will of God, good and well pleasing and perfect.(m K I am entreating you, then, brethren, by the pities of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice, living, holy, well pleasing to God, your logical divine service,llQ $seeing that out of Him and through Him and for Him is all: to Him be the glory for the eons! Amen!?ky #or, who gives to Him first, and it will be repaid Him?Ij  "For, who knew the mind of the Lord? or, who became His adviser? i  !O, the depth of the riches and the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How inscrutable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways![h/ For God locks up all together in stubbornness, that He should be merciful to all.igK thus these also are now stubborn to this mercy of yours, that now they also may be shown mercy.hfI For even as you once were stubborn toward God, yet now were shown mercy at their stubbornness,?ey For unregretted are the graces and the calling of God.d{ As to the evangel, indeed, they are enemies because of you, yet, as to choice, they are beloved because of the fathers.Xc) And this is my covenant with them Whenever I should be eliminating their sins.$bA And thus all Israel shall be saved, according as it is written, Arriving out of Zion shall be the Rescuer. He will be turning away irreverence from Jacob.iaK For I am not willing for you to be ignorant of this secret, brethren, lest you may be passing for prudent among yourselves, that callousness, in part, on Israel has come, until the complement of the nations may be entering.^`5 For if you were hewn out of an olive wild by nature, and, beside nature, are grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much rather shall these, who are in accord with nature, be grafted into their own olive tree!_} Now they also, if they should not be persisting in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.Q^ Perceive, then, the kindness and severity of God! On those, indeed, who are falling, severity, yet on you, God's kindness, if you should be persisting in the kindness: else you also will be hewn out.S] For if God spares not the natural boughs, neither will He be sparing you!e\C Ideally! By unbelief are they broken out, yet you stand in faith. Be not haughty, but fear.X[) You will be declaring, then, "Boughs are broken out that I may be grafted in."sZ_ be not vaunting over the boughs. Yet if you are vaunting, you are not bearing the root, but the root you.-YS Now if some of the boughs are broken out, yet you, being a wild olive, are grafted among them, and became a joint participant of the root and fatness of the olive,lXQ Now if the firstfruit is holy, the kneading is also; and if the root is holy, the boughs are also.W For if their casting away is the conciliation of the world, what will the taking back be if not life from among the dead?kVO if somehow I should be provoking those of my flesh to jealousy and should be saving some of them.U Now to you am I saying, to the nations, in as much as, indeed, then, I am the apostle of the nations, I am glorifying my dispensation,T Now if their offense is the world's riches and their discomfiture the nations' riches, how much rather that which fills them!7Sg I am saying, then, Do they not trip that they should be falling? May it not be coming to that! But in their offense is salvation to the nations, to provoke them to jealousy.`R9 Darkened be their eyes, not to be observing, And their backs bow together continually.mQS And David is saying, Let their table become a trap and a mesh, And a snare and a repayment to them: P even as it is written, God gives them a spirit of stupor, eyes not to be observing, and ears not to be hearing, till this very day.O  What then? What Israel is seeking for, this she did not encounter, yet the chosen encountered it. Now the rest were calloused,BN} Now if it is in grace, it is no longer out of works, else the grace is coming to be no longer grace. Now, if it is out of works, it is no longer grace, else the work is no longer work.oMW Thus, then, in the current era also, there has come to be a remnant according to the choice of grace. L But what is that which apprises saying to him? I left for Myself seven thousand men who do not bow the knee to the image of Baal.wKg Lord, Thy prophets they kill, Thine altars they dig down, and I was left alone, and they are seeking my soul.,JQ God does not thrust away His people whom He foreknew. Or have you not perceived in Elijah what the scripture is saying, as he is pleading with God against Israel?#I A I am saying, then, Does not God thrust away His people? May it not be coming to that! For I also am an Israelite, out of Abraham's seed, Benjamin's tribe.qH[ Now to Israel He is saying, The whole day I spread out My hands to a stubborn and contradicting people!G+ Yet Isaiah is very daring and is saying, I was found by those who are not seeking Me; I became disclosed to those who are not inquiring for Me.@Fy But, I am saying, Did not Israel know at all? First Moses is saying, I shall be provoking you to jealousy over those not a nation; Over an unintelligent nation shall I be vexing you./EW But, I am saying, Do they not hear at all? To be sure! "Into the entire earth came out their utterance, And into the ends of the inhabited earth their declarations."aD; Consequently, faith is out of tidings, yet the tidings through a declaration of Christ._C7 But not all obey the evangel, for Isaiah is saying, "Lord, who believes our tidings?"0BY Yet how should they be heralding if ever they should not be commissioned? According as it is written: How beautiful are the feet of those bringing an evangel of good!EA How, then, should they be invoking One in Whom they do not believe? Yet how should they be believing One of Whom they do not hear? Yet how should they be hearing apart from one heralding?X@) For everyone, whoever should be invoking the name of the Lord, shall be saved.? For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same One is Lord of all, being rich for all who are invoking Him._>7 For the scripture is saying: Everyone who is believing on Him shall not be disgraced.m=S For with the heart it is believed for righteousness, yet with the mouth it is avowed for salvation.D< that, if ever you should be avowing with your mouth the declaration that Jesus is Lord, and should be believing in your heart that God rouses Him from among the dead, you shall be saved.;+ But what is it saying? Near you is the declaration, in your mouth and in your heart -- that is, the declaration of faith which we are heraldingv:e or Who will be descending into the submerged chaos? -- that is, to be leading Christ up from among the dead.)9K Yet the righteousness of faith is saying thus: You may not be saying in your heart, Who will be ascending into heaven? -- that is, to be leading Christ down --x8i For Moses is writing of the righteousness which is of law, that a man who does the same shall be living in it._77 For Christ is the consummation of law for righteousness to everyone who is believing.!6; For they, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, were not subjected to the righteousness of God.g5G For I am testifying to them that they have a zeal of God, but not in accord with recognition.j4 O Indeed, brethren, the delight of my heart and my petition to God for their sake is for salvation.3% !according as it is written: Lo! I am laying in Zion a Stumbling Stone and a Snare Rock, And the one believing on Him shall not be disgraced.v2e Wherefore? Seeing that it is not out of faith, but as out of law works, they stumble on the stumbling stone,e1C Yet Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, into a law of righteousness does not outstrip.#0? What, then, shall we be declaring? That the nations who are not pursuing righteousness overtook righteousness, yet a righteousness which is out of faith.!/; And according as Isaiah declared before, "Except the Lord of hosts conserved us a seed, As Sodom would we become, And to Gomorrah would we be likened."X.) for "a conclusive and concise accounting the Lord will be doing on the earth." - Now Isaiah is crying over Israel, If the number of the sons of Israel should be as the sand of the sea, the residue shall be saved,,) "And it shall be, in the place where it was declared to them, 'Not My people are you,'" There "they shall be called 'sons of the living God.'" +  As He is saying in Hosea also: I shall be calling those who are not My people "My people," And she who is not beloved "Beloved,"X*) us, whom He calls also, not only out of the Jews, but out of the nations also. ) it is that He should also be making known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He makes ready before for glory --1([ Now if God, wanting to display His indignation and to make His powerful doings known, carries, with much patience, the vessels of indignation, adapted for destruction,' Or has not the potter the right over the clay, out of the same kneading to make one vessel, indeed, for honor, yet one for dishonor?&+ O man! who are you, to be sure, who are answering again to God? That which is molded will not protest to the molder, "Why do you make me thus?"t%a You will be protesting to me, then, "Why, then, is He still blaming? for who has withstood His intention?"a$; Consequently, then, to whom He will, He is merciful, yet whom He will, He is hardening.L# For the scripture is saying to Pharaoh that "For this selfsame thing I rouse you up, so that I should be displaying in you My power, and so that My name should be published in the entire earth."r"] Consequently, then, it is not of him who is willing, nor of him who is racing, but of God, the Merciful. ! For to Moses He is saying, "I shall be merciful to whomever I may be merciful, and I shall be pitying whomever I may be pitying."p Y What, then, shall we be declaring? Not that there is injustice with God? May it not be coming to that!F According as it is written, "Jacob I love, yet Esau I hate."V% it was declared to her that "The greater shall be slaving for the inferior,"7g For, not as yet being born, nor putting into practice anything good or bad, that the purpose of God may be remaining as a choice, not out of acts, but of Him Who is calling,Y+ Yet, not only so, but Rebecca also is having her bed of one, Isaac, our father.q[ For the word of the promise is this: At "this season" I shall come "and there will be for Sarah a son." That is, that the children of the flesh, not these are the children of God, but the children of the promise is He reckoning for the seed.a; neither that Abraham's seed are all children, but "In Isaac shall your seed be called."s_ Now it is not such as that the word of God has lapsed, for not all those out of Israel, these are Israel;   whose are the fathers, and out of whom is the Christ according to the flesh, Who is over all, God be blessed for the eons. Amen! who are Israelites, whose is the sonship and the glory and the covenants and the legislation and the divine service and the promises;q[ for I myself wished to be anathema from Christ -- for my brethren, my relatives according to the flesh,L That my sorrow is great, and unintermittent pain is in my heart --t c The truth am I telling in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience testifying together with me in holy spirit,'nor height, nor depth, nor any other creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus, our Lord.&For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor messengers, nor sovereignties, nor the present, nor what is impending, nor powers,Q%Nay! in all these we are more than conquering through Him Who loves us. $According as it is written that "On Thy account we are being put to death the whole day, We are reckoned as sheep for slaughter.""=#What shall be separating us from the love of God in Christ Jesus? Affliction, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? -"Who is the Condemner? Christ Jesus, the One dying, yet rather being roused, Who is also at God's right hand, Who is pleading also for our sakes?F !Who will be indicting God's chosen ones? God, the Justifier? ' Surely, He Who spares not His own Son, but gives Him up for us all, how shall He not, together with Him, also, be graciously granting us all?[ /What then, shall we declare to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? 3Now whom He designates beforehand, these He calls also, and whom He calls, these He justifies also; now whom He justifies, these He glorifies also.'that, whom He foreknew, He designates beforehand, also, to be conformed to the image of His Son, for Him to be Firstborn among many brethren. Now we are aware that God is working all together for the good of those who are loving God, who are called according to the purposeNow He Who is searching the hearts is aware what is the disposition of the spirit, for in accord with God is it pleading for the saints.Z-Now, similarly, the spirit also is aiding our infirmity, for what we should be praying for, to accord with what must be, we are not aware, but the spirit itself is pleading for us with inarticulate groanings.`9Now, if we are expecting what we are not observing, we are awaiting it with endurance./For to expectation were we saved. Now expectation, being observed, is not expectation, for what anyone is observing, why is he expecting it also?9kYet not only so, but we ourselves also, who have the firstfruit of the spirit, we ourselves also, are groaning in ourselves, awaiting the sonship, the deliverance of our body.b=For we are aware that the entire creation is groaning and travailing together until now.  that the creation itself, also, shall be freed from the slavery of corruption into the glorious freedom of the children of God.wgFor to vanity was the creation subjected, not voluntarily, but because of Him Who subjects it, in expectation[~/For the premonition of the creation is awaiting the unveiling of the sons of God.y}kFor I am reckoning that the sufferings of the current era do not deserve the glory about to be revealed for us.c|?Yet if children, enjoyers also of an allotment, enjoyers, indeed, of an allotment from God, yet joint enjoyers of Christ's allotment, if so be that we are suffering together, that we should be glorified together also._{7The spirit itself is testifying together with our spirit that we are children of God.z For you did not get slavery's spirit to fear again, but you got the spirit of sonship, in which we are crying, "Abba, Father!" |~~~0}}y||J{{1z}z(yyPxxYwwvvIuucuttss0rrqGppomnmmm*llAkk7jjtiimih[ggffueeedvcccWbbb$aa5`_^^]x\\@[[KZZ\YYXX^WW~WV`UUXTTLSS2RR?QPPBOOuNNxMMjM#LPL KCJJ IHHmGG0FF==K<<;;::B99]98X77Z66 55(44%32D1}00/j..^---,++)**-)n)('''&&&%%$$#\""!b j;$O\\nTCU lPI a ] -;H,ak|`w Now in giving this charge I am not applauding, for you are coming together, not for the better, but for discomfiture.j_M Now if anyone is presuming to be rivalrous, we have no such usage, neither the ecclesias of God.{^o yet if a woman should have tresses, it is her glory, seeing that tresses have been given her instead of clothing?u]c Is not even nature itself teaching you that if a man, indeed, should have tresses, it is a dishonor to him,X\) Judge in yourselves: Is it becoming in a woman to be praying to God uncovered?m[S For even as the woman is out of the man, thus the man also is through the woman, yet all is of God.ZZ- However, neither is woman apart from man, nor man apart from woman, in the Lord.^Y5 Therefore the woman ought to have authority over her head because of the messengers.[X/ For, also, man is not created because of the woman, but woman because of the man.;Wq For man is not out of woman, but woman out of man.V For a man, indeed, ought not to be covering his head, being inherently the image and glory of God. Yet the woman is the glory of the man. U For if a woman is not covering, let her be shorn also. Now if it is a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covering. T  Yet every woman praying or prophesying with uncovered head, is disgracing her head, for it is one and the same as being shaven.\S1 Every man praying or prophesying having aught on his head, is disgracing his Head.R Now I want you to be aware that the Head of every man is Christ, yet the head of the woman is the man, yet the Head of Christ is God.Q Now I am applauding you that you remember all of mine, and are retaining the traditions according as I give them over to you.AP  Become imitators of me, according as I also am of Christ. O  !according as I also am pleasing all in all things, not seeking my own expedience, but that of the many, that they may be saved.cN? And become not a stumbling block to Jews as well as to Greeks and to the ecclesia of God,kMO Then, whether you are eating or drinking, or anything you are doing, do all for the glory of God.oLW If I, with gratitude, am partaking, why am I being calumniated for that for which I am giving thanks?K Yet conscience, I am saying, not that of yourself, but that of another. For why is my freedom being decided by another's conscience?J Yet if anyone should be saying to you, "This is a sacred sacrifice," do not eat, because of that one who divulges it, and conscience.$IA If anyone of the unbelievers is inviting you, and you want to go, be eating everything that is placed before you, examining nothing because of conscience.?Hy For "the Lord's is the earth and that which fills it."hGI Everything that is sold at the meat market be eating, examining nothing because of conscience.LF Let no one be seeking the welfare of himself, but that of another.bE= All is allowed me, but not all is expedient. All is allowed me, but not all is edifying.PD Or are we provoking the Lord to jealousy? Not stronger than He are we!C You can not drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You can not be partaking of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.'BG But that that which the nations are sacrificing, they are sacrificing to demons and not to God. Now I do not want you to become participants with the demons.eAC What, then, am I averring? That an idol sacrifice is anything? Or that an idol is anything?q@[ Observe Israel according to the flesh. Are not those eating the sacrifices participants with the altar?c?? For we, who are many, are one bread, one body, for we all are partaking of the one bread.4>a The cup of blessing which we are blessing, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we are breaking, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?H=  As to the prudent am I saying it. Judge ye what I am averring.3<a Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.h;I No trial has taken you except what is human. Now, faithful is God, Who will not be leaving you to be tried above what you are able, but, together with the trial, will be making the sequel also, to enable you to undergo it.[:/ So that, let him who is supposing he stands beware that he should not be falling. 9  Now all this befalls them typically. Yet it was written for our admonition, to whom the consummations of the eons have attained.]83 Nor yet be murmuring even as some of them murmur, and perished by the exterminator.|7q Nor yet may we be putting the Lord on trial, according as some of them put Him on trial, and perished by serpents.6 Nor yet may we be committing prostitution, according as some of them commit prostitution, and fall in one day twenty-three thousand.95k according as they also lust. Nor yet be becoming idolaters, according as some of them, even as it is written, "Seated are the people to eat and drink, and they rise to sport."Z4- Now these things became types of us, for us not to be lusters after evil things,i3K But not in the majority of them does God delight, for they were strewn along in the wilderness.2w and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank of the spiritual Rock which followed. Now the Rock was Christ.-1U and all ate the same spiritual food,F0 and all are baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea,/  For I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, that our fathers all were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, . but I am belaboring my body and leading it into slavery, lest somehow, when heralding to others, I myself may become disqualified.`-9 Now then, thus am I racing, not as dubious, thus am I boxing, not as punching the air,!,; Now every contender is controlling himself in all things; they, indeed, then, that they may be obtaining a corruptible wreath, yet we an incorruptible.+7 Are you not aware that those racing in a stadium are, indeed, all racing, yet one is obtaining the prize? Thus be racing that you may be grasping it.f*E Now all am I doing because of the evangel, that I may be becoming a joint participant of it.) I became as weak to the weak, that I should be gaining the weak. To all have I become all, that I should undoubtedly be saving some.( to those without law as without law (not being without God's law, but legally Christ's), that I should be gaining those without law.3'_ And I became to the Jews as a Jew, that I should be gaining Jews; to those under law as under law (not being myself under law), that I should be gaining those under law;]&3 For, being free of all, I enslave myself to all, that I should be gaining the more."%= What, then, is my wage? That, in bringing the evangel, I should be placing the evangel without expense, so as not to use up my authority in the evangel.$ For if I am engaging in this voluntarily, I have wages, yet if involuntarily, I have been entrusted with an administration./#W For if I should be bringing the evangel, it is not for me to boast in, for necessity is lying upon me, for it were woe to me if I should not be bringing the evangel!L" Yet I do not use any of these things. Now I do not write these things that it may be becoming thus with me, for it is my ideal rather to be dying, than that anyone shall be making my boast void.r!] Thus the Lord also prescribes that those who are announcing the evangel are to be living of the evangel./ W Are you not aware that the workers at the sacred things are eating of the things of the sanctuary? Those settling beside the altar have their portion with the altar.I  If others are partaking of this right from you, are not rather we? Nevertheless we do not use this right, but we are forgoing all, lest we may be giving any hindrance to the evangel of Christwg If, in expectation, we sow the spiritual in you, is it a great thing if we shall reap of your fleshly things?=s Or is He undoubtedly saying it because of us? Because of us, for it was written that the plower ought to be plowing in expectation, and the thresher to partake of his expectation.zm For in the law of Moses it is written: "You shall not muzzle the threshing ox." Not for oxen is the care of God!fE Not according to man am I speaking these things. Or is the law not also saying these things?:m Who is warring at any time supplying his own rations? Who is planting a vineyard and not eating of its fruit? Or who is tending a flock and not eating of the milk of the flock?@{ Or have only I and Barnabas no right not to be working? Have we no right at all to be leading about a sister as a wife, even as the rest of the apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?2_ Have we no right at all to eat and drink?2_ My defense to those examining me is this:y If to others I am not an apostle, nevertheless I surely am to you! For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.m U Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord? Wherefore, if food is snaring my brother, I may under no circumstances be eating meat for the eon, lest I should be snaring my brother.r] Now in thus sinning against brethren, and beating their weak conscience, you are sinning against Christ.hI For the weak one is perishing also by your knowledge; the brother because of whom Christ died.;o For if anyone should be seeing you, who has knowledge, lying down in an idol's shrine, will not the conscience of him who is weak be inured to the eating of the idol sacrifices?_7 Now beware lest somehow this right of yours may become a stumbling block to the weak.%Now food will not give us a standing with God, neither, if we should not be eating are we in want, nor if we should be eating are we cloyed.2 ]But not in all is there this knowledge. Now some, used hitherto to the idol, are eating of it as an idol sacrifice, and their conscience, being weak, is being polluted.$ Anevertheless for us there is one God, the Father, out of Whom all is, and we for Him, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through Whom all is, and we through Him. For even if so be that there are those being termed gods, whether in heaven or on earth, even as there are many gods and many lords, 1Then, concerning the feeding on the idol sacrifices: We are aware that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except One.? yNow if anyone is loving God, this one is known by Him.`9If anyone is presuming to know anything, he knew not as yet according as he must know.} uNow concerning the idol sacrifices: We are aware that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, yet love builds up. (Yet happier is she if ever she should be remaining thus, according to my opinion. Now I presume that I also have God's spirit..U'A wife is bound by law for whatever time her husband is living. Yet if the husband should be reposing, she is free to be married to whom she will, only in the Lord.#&So that he also who is taking his virgin in marriage, ideally will be doing, yet he who is not taking out in marriage will be doing better.D%Yet he who stands settled in his heart, having no necessity, yet has authority as to his own will, and has decided this in his own heart (to be keeping his virgin) ideally will be doing.C$Now if anyone is inferring it to be indecent for his virgin, if she should be over her meridian, and thus it ought to occur, what he will, let him do. He is not sinning. Let them marry.<q#Now this I am saying for your own expedience, not that I should be casting a noose over you, but for that which is respectable and assiduous -- to be undistractedly for the Lord.3"and is parted. The unmarried woman as well as the virgin: the unmarried one is solicitous about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy in body as well as in spirit, yet she who marries is solicitous about the things of the world, how she should be pleasing her husband.mS!Yet he who marries is solicitous about the things of the world, how he should be pleasing his wife,~ Now I want you to be without worry. The unmarried one is solicitous about the things of the Lord, how he should be pleasing the Lord.e}Cand those using this world as not using it up. For the fashion of this world is passing by.x|iand those lamenting as not lamenting, and those rejoicing as not rejoicing, and those buying as not retaining,{Now this I am averring, brethren, the era is limited; that, furthermore, those also having wives may be as not having them,Bz}Yet if you ever should be marrying, also, you did not sin. And if the virgin should be marrying, she did not sin. Yet affliction in the flesh will such be having. Yet I am sparing you.ry]You are bound to a wife? Do not seek to be loosed. You have been loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife.xI am inferring, then, this ideal to be inherent, because of the present necessity, for it is ideal for humanity to be thus.)wKNow concerning the celibates or virgins, I have no injunction of the Lord. Yet an opinion am I giving, as one who has enjoyed mercy by the Lord to be faithful.Uv#Each one, in what he was called, brethren, in this let him remain with God.GuWith a price are you bought. Do not become the slaves of men.t'For, in the Lord, he who is being called a slave, is the Lord's freedman. Likewise, he who is being called, being free, is a slave of Christ.zsmWere you called a slave? Let it not be causing you care. But if you are able to become free also, use it rather.Wr'Each one in the calling in which he was called, in this let him be remaining.iqKCircumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the precepts of God.pWas anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not be de-circumcised. Is anyone called in uncircumcision? Let him not circumcise.oexcept as the Lord parts it to each? Each as God has called him, thus let him be walking. And thus am I prescribing in all the ecclesias.n)For of what are you aware, O wife -- will you be saving your husband -- or of what are you aware, O husband -- will you be saving your wife --m%Yet if the unbeliever is separating, let him separate. A brother or a sister is not enslaved in such a case. Now God has called us in peace.9lkFor the unbelieving husband is hallowed by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is hallowed by the brother, else, consequently, your children are unclean. Yet now they are holy.~ku And a wife who has an unbelieving husband, and he approves of making a home with her, let her not leave her husband.!j; Now to the rest am I speaking, not the Lord. If any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she approves of making a home with him, let him not leave her.i Yet if she should be separated also, let her remain unmarried or be conciliated to her husband. And a husband is not to leave his wife.phY Now to the married I am charging, not I, but the Lord: A wife is not to be separated from her husband.sg_ Yet if they are not controlling themselves, let them marry, for it is better to marry than to be on fire.fyNow I am saying to the unmarried and the widows, that it is ideal for them if ever they should be remaining even as I.e{For I want all men to be as I myself also, but each has his own gracious gift from God, one indeed, thus, yet one thus.EdNow this I am saying as a concession, not as an injunction.`c9Do not deprive one another, except sometime it should be by agreement for a period, that you should have leisure for prayer, and you may be the same again, lest Satan may be trying you because of your incontinence.#b?The wife has not the jurisdiction of her own body, but the husband, yet likewise the husband also has not the jurisdiction of his own body, but the wife.`a9Let the husband render to the wife her due, yet likewise the wife also to the husband.r`]Yet, because of prostitutions, let each man have a wife for himself and each woman have her own husband.`_ ;Now, concerning what you write to me: It is ideal for a man not to be touching a woman.Q^For you are bought with a price. By all means glorify God in your body.]Or are you not aware that your body is a temple of the holy spirit in you, which you have from God, and you are not your own?<\qFlee from prostitution. The penalty of every sin, whatsoever a man should be doing, is outside of the body, yet he who is committing prostitution is sinning against his own body.1[]Now he who joins the Lord is one spirit.zZmOr are you not aware that he who joins a prostitute is one body? For, He is averring, the two will be one flesh.Wu Foods for the bowels and the bowels for foods, yet God will be discarding these as well as those. Now the body is not for prostitution, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.Vy All is allowed me, but not all is expedient. All is allowed me, but I will not be put under its authority by anything.-US And some of you were these, but you are bathed off, but you are hallowed, but you were justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and by the spirit of our God.T nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards; no revilers, no extortioners shall be enjoying the allotment of God's kingdom.ES Or are you not aware that the unjust shall not be enjoying the allotment of God's kingdom? Be not deceived. Neither paramours, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor sodomites,AR}But you are injuring and cheating, and this to brethren!OQAlready, indeed, then, it is absolutely a discomfiture for you that you are having lawsuits among yourselves. Wherefore are you not rather being injured? Wherefore are you not rather being cheated?DPbut brother is suing brother, and this before unbelievers!OTo abash you am I saying this. Thus is there not among you one wise man who will be able to adjudicate amidst his brethren,N{If indeed, then, you should have tribunals for life's affairs, the contemptible in the ecclesia, these you are seating?_M7Are you not aware that we shall be judging messengers, not to mention life's affairs?L'Or are you not aware that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world is being judged by you, are you unworthy of the least tribunals?oK YDare any of you, having business with another, be judged before the unjust, and not before the saints?XJ) Now those outside, God is judging. Expel the wicked one from among yourselves.]I3 For what is it to me to be judging those outside? You are not judging those within!iHK Yet now I write to you not to be commingling with anyone named a brother, if he should be a paramour, or greedy, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. With such a one you are not even to be eating.,GQ And undoubtedly it is not as to the paramours of this world, or the greedy and extortionate, or idolaters, else, consequently, you ought to come out of the world.MF I write to you in the epistle not to be commingling with paramours.E7so that we may be keeping the festival, not with old leaven, nor yet with the leaven of evil and wickedness, but with unleavened sincerity and truth.)DKClean out, then, the old leaven, that you may be a fresh kneading, according as you are unleavened. For our Passover also, Christ, was sacrificed for our sakesjCMNot ideal is your boast. Are you not aware that a little leaven is leavening the whole kneading?Bto give up such a one to Satan for the extermination of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.~Auin the name of our Lord Jesus Christ (you being gathered, and my spirit, together with the power of our Lord Jesus),@For I, indeed, being absent in body, yet present in spirit, have already, as if present, thus judged the one effecting this,{?oAnd you are puffed up, and mourn not rather, that the one who commits this act may be taken away from your midst.0> [Absolutely, it is heard that there is prostitution among you, and such prostitution (which is not even named among the nations), so that someone has his father's wife.g=GWhat are you wanting? With a rod may I be coming to you, or in love and a spirit of meekness?=<uFor not in word is the kingdom of God, but in power.;1Yet I shall be coming to you swiftly, if ever the Lord should be willing, and I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.E:Now some were puffed up as though I were not coming to you.U9#Therefore I send to you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will be reminding you of my ways which are in Christ Jesus, according as I am teaching everywhere in every ecclesia.;8qI am entreating you, then, become imitators of me.7/For if you should be having ten thousand escorts in Christ, nevertheless not many fathers, for in Christ Jesus, through the evangel, I beget you.l6QNot to be abashing you am I writing these things, but as my children beloved am I admonishing you.}5s being calumniated, we are entreating. As the offscourings of the world we became, the scum of all things, hitherto.S4 Being reviled, we are blessing; being persecuted, we are bearing with it;3/ Until the present hour we are hungering also and thirsting, and are naked and are buffeted and unsettled and toiling, working with our own hands.2 We are stupid because of Christ, yet you are prudent in Christ. We are weak, yet you are strong. You are glorious, yet we are dishonored.13 For I suppose that God demonstrates with us, the last apostles, as death-doomed, for we became a theater to the world and to messengers and to men.#0?Already are you sated, already are you rich, apart from us you reign. And would that you surely reign, that we also should be reigning together with you!'/GFor who is making you to discriminate? Now what have you which you did not obtain? Now if you obtained it also, why are you boasting as though not obtaining?o.WNow these things, brethren, I transfer in a figure to myself and Apollos because of you, that in us you may be learning not to be disposed above what is written, that you may not be puffed up, one over the one, against the other.t-aSo that, be not judging anything before the season, till the Lord should be coming, Who will also illuminate the hidden things of darkness and manifest the counsels of the hearts. And then applause will be coming to each one from God.},sFor of nothing am I conscious as to myself, but not by this am I justified. Now He Who is examining me is the Lord.+}Now to me it is the least trifle that I may be being examined by you or by man's day. But neither am I examining myself.f*EHere, furthermore, it is being sought in administrators that any such may be found faithful.k) QThus let a man be reckoning with us -- as deputies of Christ, and administrators of God's secrets.3(ayet you are Christ's, yet Christ is God's. 'whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or the present, or that which is impending -- all is yours,B&So that, let no one be boasting in men, for all is yours,S%And again, The Lord knows the reasonings of the wise, that they are vain.$yfor the wisdom of this world is stupidity with God. For it is written, "He is clutching the wise in their craftiness."#'Let no one be deluding himself. If anyone among you is presuming to be wise in this eon, let him become stupid, that he may be becoming wise,~"uIf anyone is corrupting the temple of God, God will be corrupting him, for the temple of God is holy, which you are.i!KAre you not aware that you are a temple of God and the spirit of God is making its home in you?t aIf anyone's work shall be burned up, he will forfeit it, yet he shall be saved, yet thus, as through fire.V%If anyone's work will be remaining which he builds on it, he will get wages.8i each one's work will become apparent, for the day will make it evident, for it is being revealed by fire. And the fire, it will be testing each one's work -- what kind it is.lQ Now if anyone is building on this foundation gold and silver, precious stones, wood, grass, straw,_7 For other foundation can no one lay beside that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.<q According to the grace of God which is being granted to me, as a wise foreman I lay a foundation, yet another is building on it. Yet let each one beware how he is building on it.O For God's fellow workers are we. God's farm, God's building, are you.Now he who is planting and he who is irrigating are for one thing. Yet each will be getting his own wages according to his own toil.r]So that, neither is he who is planting anything, nor he who is irrigating, but God Who makes it grow up.>wI plant, Apollos irrigates, but God makes it grow up.wWhat, then, is Apollos? Now what is Paul? Servants are they, through whom you believe, and as the Lord gives to each.{oFor whenever anyone may be saying, "I, indeed, am of Paul," yet another, "I, of Apollos," will he not be fleshly? for you are still fleshly. For where there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly and walking according to man?xiMilk I give you to drink, not solid food, for not as yet were you able. Nay, still, not even now are you able,k QAnd I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshy, as to minors in Christ.kOFor who knew the mind of the Lord? Who will be deducing from Him? Yet we have the mind of Christ.`9Now he who is spiritual is, indeed, examining all, yet he is being examined by no one.FNow the soulish man is not receiving those things which are of the spirit of God, for they are stupidity to him, and he is not able to know them, seeing that they are spiritually examined.$A which we are speaking also, not with words taught by human wisdom, but with those taught by the spirit, matching spiritual blessings with spiritual words.$ A Now we obtained, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God, that we may be perceiving that which is being graciously given to us by God,: m For is any of humanity acquainted with that which is human except the spirit of humanity which is in it? Thus also, that which is of God no one knows, except the spirit of God.q [ Yet to us God reveals them through His spirit, for the spirit is searching all, even the depths of God.P  But, according as it is written, That which the eye did not perceive, and the ear did not hear, and to which the heart of man did not ascend -- whatever God makes ready for those who are loving Him.w gwhich not one of the chief men of this eon knows, for if they know, they would not crucify the Lord of glory.'but we are speaking God's wisdom in a secret, wisdom which has been concealed, which God designates before -- before the eons, for our glory,Yet wisdom are we speaking among the mature, yet a wisdom not of this eon, neither of the chief men of this eon, who are being discarded,Rthat your faith may not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.  and my word and my heralding were not with the persuasive words of human wisdom, but with demonstration of spirit and of power,T!And I came to be with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling,`9for I decide not to perceive anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. {And I, coming to you, brethren, came not with superiority of word or of wisdom, announcing to you the testimony of God,_ 9that, according as it is written, He who is boasting, in the Lord let him be boasting. Yet you, of Him, are in Christ Jesus, Who became to us wisdom from God, besides righteousness and holiness and deliverance,C so that no flesh at all should be boasting in God's sight.~ and the ignoble and the contemptible things of the world God chooses, and that which is not, that He should be discarding that which is,)} Mbut the stupidity of the world God chooses, that He may be disgracing the wise, and the weakness of the world God chooses, that He may be disgracing the strong,| For you are observing your calling, brethren, that there are not many wise according to the flesh; not many powerful, not many noble,b{ ?for the stupidity of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.kz Qyet to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of God,gy Iyet we are heralding Christ crucified, to Jews, indeed, a snare, yet to the nations stupidity,Rx since, in fact, Jews signs are requesting, and Greeks wisdom are seeking,0w [For since, in fact, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom knew not God, God delights, through the stupidity of the heralding, to save those who are believing,v  Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the discusser of this eon? Does not God make stupid the wisdom of this world? u For it is written, I shall be destroying the wisdom of the wise, and the understanding of the intelligent shall I be repudiating. t For the word of the cross is stupidity, indeed, to those who are perishing, yet to us who are being saved it is the power of God.s 5For Christ does not commission me to be baptizing, but to be bringing the evangel, not in wisdom of word, lest the cross of Christ may be made void.kr QYet I baptize the household of Stephanas also. Furthermore, I am not aware if I baptize any other.Fq lest anyone may be saying that you are baptized into my name.Rp I am thanking God that I baptize not one of you except Crispus and Gaius,lo S Christ is parted! Not Paul was crucified for your sakes! Or into the name of Paul are you baptized? n  Now I am saying this, that each of you is saying, "I, indeed, am of Paul," yet "I of Apollos," yet "I of Cephas," yet "I of Christ."xm k For it was made evident to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of Chloe, that there are strifes among you. m~~~}|| {dzz;yyFxxx,wwvv@uu?ttt)ssrTqqAppioo_nnnPnmm!lfkkdjjiiZhhggfffeeLddbdcbb aa0``7_^]]\[[ZZ\YYXWWW_VVDUTTSvRRQQPPWOOOCNNMM"LLzLCKK!JJ/IIRIHH*GTGF`FEDDuDCCXBBzBA@@@_??>a>0==<