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\v 1 After the plague, Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,
\v 2 “Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers’ houses, all who are able to go out to war in Israel.”
\v 3 Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,
\v 4 “Take a census, from twenty years old and upward, as Yahweh commanded Moses and the children of Israel.”
\p These are those that came out of the land of Egypt.
\v 5 Reuben, the firstborn of Israel; the sons of Reuben: of Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the family of the Palluites;
\v 6 of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.
\v 7 These are the families of the Reubenites; and those who were counted of them were forty-three thousand seven hundred thirty.
\v 8 The son of Pallu: Eliab.
\v 9 The sons of Eliab: Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. These are that Dathan and Abiram who were called by the congregation, who rebelled against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah when they rebelled against Yahweh;
\v 10 and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah when that company died; at the time the fire devoured two hundred fifty men, and they became a sign.
\v 11 Notwithstanding, the sons of Korah didn’t die.
\v 12 The sons of Simeon after their families: of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites; of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites; of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites;
\v 13 of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites; of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites.
\v 14 These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty-two thousand two hundred.
\v 15 The sons of Gad after their families: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites; of Haggi, the family of the Haggites; of Shuni, the family of the Shunites;
\v 16 of Ozni, the family of the Oznites; of Eri, the family of the Erites;
\v 17 of Arod, the family of the Arodites; of Areli, the family of the Arelites.
\v 18 These are the families of the sons of Gad according to those who were counted of them, forty thousand and five hundred.
\v 19 The sons of Judah: Er and Onan. Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
\v 20 The sons of Judah after their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; of Perez, the family of the Perezites; of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites.
\v 21 The sons of Perez were: of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.
\v 22 These are the families of Judah according to those who were counted of them, seventy-six thousand five hundred.
\v 23 The sons of Issachar after their families: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites; of Puvah, the family of the Punites;
\v 24 of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites; of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites.
\v 25 These are the families of Issachar according to those who were counted of them, sixty-four thousand three hundred.
\v 26 The sons of Zebulun after their families: of Sered, the family of the Seredites; of Elon, the family of the Elonites; of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.
\v 27 These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those who were counted of them, sixty thousand five hundred.
\v 28 The sons of Joseph after their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.
\v 29 The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites; and Machir became the father of Gilead; of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.
\v 30 These are the sons of Gilead: of Iezer, the family of the Iezerites; of Helek, the family of the Helekites;
\v 31 and Asriel, the family of the Asrielites; and Shechem, the family of the Shechemites;
\v 32 and Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites; and Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.
\v 33 Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
\v 34 These are the families of Manasseh. Those who were counted of them were fifty-two thousand seven hundred.
\v 35 These are the sons of Ephraim after their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthelahites; of Becher, the family of the Becherites; of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.
\v 36 These are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites.
\v 37 These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those who were counted of them, thirty-two thousand five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their families.
\v 38 The sons of Benjamin after their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites;
\v 39 of Shephupham, the family of the Shuphamites; of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.
\v 40 The sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: the family of the Ardites; and of Naaman, the family of the Naamites.
\v 41 These are the sons of Benjamin after their families; and those who were counted of them were forty-five thousand six hundred.
\v 42 These are the sons of Dan after their families: of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan after their families.
\v 43 All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those who were counted of them, were sixty-four thousand four hundred.
\v 44 The sons of Asher after their families: of Imnah, the family of the Imnites; of Ishvi, the family of the Ishvites; of Beriah, the family of the Berites.
\v 45 Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites; of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites.
\v 46 The name of the daughter of Asher was Serah.
\v 47 These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those who were counted of them, fifty-three thousand and four hundred.
\v 48 The sons of Naphtali after their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites; of Guni, the family of the Gunites;
\v 49 of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites; of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.
\v 50 These are the families of Naphtali according to their families; and those who were counted of them were forty-five thousand four hundred.
\v 51 These are those who were counted of the children of Israel, six hundred one thousand seven hundred thirty.
\p
\v 52 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 53 “To these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.
\v 54 To the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance. To everyone according to those who were counted of him shall his inheritance be given.
\v 55 Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot. According to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.
\v 56 According to the lot shall their inheritance be divided between the more and the fewer.”
\p
\v 57 These are those who were counted of the Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites; of Merari, the family of the Merarites.
\v 58 These are the families of Levi: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, and the family of the Korahites. Kohath became the father of Amram.
\v 59 The name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt. She bore to Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.
\v 60 To Aaron were born Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
\v 61 Nadab and Abihu died when they offered strange fire before Yahweh.
\v 62 Those who were counted of them were twenty-three thousand, every male from a month old and upward; for they were not counted among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.
\v 63 These are those who were counted by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who counted the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
\v 64 But among these there was not a man of them who were counted by Moses and Aaron the priest, who counted the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
\v 65 For Yahweh had said of them, “They shall surely die in the wilderness.” There was not a man left of them, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.


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\v 1 Then the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph came near. These are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
\v 2 They stood before Moses, before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, at the door of the Tent of Meeting, saying,
\v 3 “Our father died in the wilderness. He was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against Yahweh in the company of Korah, but he died in his own sin. He had no sons.
\v 4 Why should the name of our father be taken away from among his family, because he had no son? Give to us a possession among the brothers of our father.”
\p
\v 5 Moses brought their cause before Yahweh.
\v 6 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 7 “The daughters of Zelophehad speak right. You shall surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father’s brothers. You shall cause the inheritance of their father to pass to them.
\v 8 You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If a man dies, and has no son, then you shall cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter.
\v 9 If he has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers.
\v 10 If he has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his father’s brothers.
\v 11 If his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his kinsman who is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it. This shall be a statute and ordinance for the children of Israel, as Yahweh commanded Moses.’”
\p
\v 12 Yahweh said to Moses, “Go up into this mountain of Abarim, and see the land which I have given to the children of Israel.
\v 13 When you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother was gathered;
\v 14 because in the strife of the congregation, you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin, to honor me as holy at the waters before their eyes.” (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)
\p
\v 15 Moses spoke to Yahweh, saying,
\v 16 “Let Yahweh, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,
\v 17 who may go out before them, and who may come in before them, and who may lead them out, and who may bring them in, that the congregation of Yahweh may not be as sheep which have no shepherd.”
\p
\v 18 Yahweh said to Moses, “Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him.
\v 19 Set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and commission him in their sight.
\v 20 You shall give authority to him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may obey.
\v 21 He shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before Yahweh. At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation.”
\p
\v 22 Moses did as Yahweh commanded him. He took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest and before all the congregation.
\v 23 He laid his hands on him and commissioned him, as Yahweh spoke by Moses.


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\v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 2 “Command the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘See that you present my offering, my food for my offerings made by fire, as a pleasant aroma to me, in their due season.’
\v 3 You shall tell them, ‘This is the offering made by fire which you shall offer to Yahweh: male lambs a year old without defect, two day by day, for a continual burnt offering.
\v 4 You shall offer the one lamb in the morning, and you shall offer the other lamb at evening,
\v 5 with one tenth of an ephah\f + \fr 28:5 \ft 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel\f* of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with the fourth part of a hin\f + \fr 28:5 \ft A hin is about 6.5 liters or 1.7 gallons.\f* of beaten oil.
\v 6 It is a continual burnt offering which was ordained in Mount Sinai for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
\v 7 Its drink offering shall be the fourth part of a hin\f + \fr 28:7 \ft One hin is about 6.5 liters, so 1/4 hin is about 1.6 liters or 1.7 quarts.\f* for each lamb. You shall pour out a drink offering of strong drink to Yahweh in the holy place.
\v 8 The other lamb you shall offer at evening. As the meal offering of the morning, and as its drink offering, you shall offer it, an offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
\p
\v 9 “‘On the Sabbath day, you shall offer two male lambs a year old without defect, and two tenths of an ephah\f + \fr 28:9 \ft 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel\f* of fine flour for a meal offering mixed with oil, and its drink offering:
\v 10 this is the burnt offering of every Sabbath, in addition to the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.
\p
\v 11 “‘In the beginnings of your months, you shall offer a burnt offering to Yahweh: two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without defect,
\v 12 and three tenths of an ephah\f + \fr 28:12 \ft 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel\f* of fine flour for a meal offering mixed with oil, for each bull; and two tenth parts of fine flour for a meal offering mixed with oil, for the one ram;
\v 13 and one tenth part of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering to every lamb, as a burnt offering of a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
\v 14 Their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, the third part of a hin for the ram, and the fourth part of a hin for a lamb. This is the burnt offering of every month throughout the months of the year.
\v 15 Also, one male goat for a sin offering to Yahweh shall be offered in addition to the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.
\p
\v 16 “‘In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is Yahweh’s Passover.
\v 17 On the fifteenth day of this month shall be a feast. Unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days.
\v 18 In the first day shall be a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work,
\v 19 but you shall offer an offering made by fire, a burnt offering to Yahweh: two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old. They shall be without defect,
\v 20 with their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil. You shall offer three tenths for a bull, and two tenths for the ram.
\v 21 You shall offer one tenth for every lamb of the seven lambs;
\v 22 and one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you.
\v 23 You shall offer these in addition to the burnt offering of the morning, which is for a continual burnt offering.
\v 24 In this way you shall offer daily, for seven days, the food of the offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. It shall be offered in addition to the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.
\v 25 On the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work.
\p
\v 26 “‘Also in the day of the first fruits, when you offer a new meal offering to Yahweh in your feast of weeks, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work;
\v 27 but you shall offer a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs a year old;
\v 28 and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths for each bull, two tenths for the one ram,
\v 29 one tenth for every lamb of the seven lambs;
\v 30 and one male goat, to make atonement for you.
\v 31 Besides the continual burnt offering and its meal offering, you shall offer them and their drink offerings. See that they are without defect.


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\v 1 “‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no regular work. It is a day of blowing of trumpets to you.
\v 2 You shall offer a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without defect;
\v 3 and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three tenths for the bull, two tenths for the ram,
\v 4 and one tenth for every lamb of the seven lambs;
\v 5 and one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you;
\v 6 in addition to the burnt offering of the new moon with its meal offering, and the continual burnt offering with its meal offering, and their drink offerings, according to their ordinance, for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
\p
\v 7 “‘On the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall afflict your souls. You shall do no kind of work;
\v 8 but you shall offer a burnt offering to Yahweh for a pleasant aroma: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old, all without defect;
\v 9 and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three tenths for the bull, two tenths for the one ram,
\v 10 one tenth for every lamb of the seven lambs;
\v 11 one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the sin offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering, and its meal offering, and their drink offerings.
\p
\v 12 “‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work. You shall keep a feast to Yahweh seven days.
\v 13 You shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: thirteen young bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old, all without defect;
\v 14 and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three tenths for every bull of the thirteen bulls, two tenths for each ram of the two rams,
\v 15 and one tenth for every lamb of the fourteen lambs;
\v 16 and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, its meal offering, and its drink offering.
\p
\v 17 “‘On the second day you shall offer twelve young bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;
\v 18 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;
\v 19 and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, with its meal offering and their drink offerings.
\p
\v 20 “‘On the third day: eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;
\v 21 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;
\v 22 and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering.
\p
\v 23 “‘On the fourth day ten bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;
\v 24 their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;
\v 25 and one male goat for a sin offering; in addition to the continual burnt offering, its meal offering, and its drink offering.
\p
\v 26 “‘On the fifth day: nine bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;
\v 27 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance,
\v 28 and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering.
\p
\v 29 “‘On the sixth day: eight bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;
\v 30 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance,
\v 31 and one male goat for a sin offering; in addition to the continual burnt offering, its meal offering, and the drink offerings of it.
\p
\v 32 “‘On the seventh day: seven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;
\v 33 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance,
\v 34 and one male goat for a sin offering; in addition to the continual burnt offering, its meal offering, and its drink offering.
\p
\v 35 “‘On the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly. You shall do no regular work;
\v 36 but you shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without defect;
\v 37 their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the ordinance,
\v 38 and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, with its meal offering, and its drink offering.
\p
\v 39 “‘You shall offer these to Yahweh in your set feasts—in addition to your vows and your free will offerings—for your burnt offerings, your meal offerings, your drink offerings, and your peace offerings.’”
\p
\v 40 Moses told the children of Israel according to all that Yahweh commanded Moses.


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\v 1 Now this is the history of the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that Yahweh spoke with Moses in Mount Sinai.
\v 2 These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
\p
\v 3 These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests who were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest’s office.
\v 4 Nadab and Abihu died before Yahweh when they offered strange fire before Yahweh in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children. Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest’s office in the presence of Aaron their father.
\p
\v 5 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 6 “Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister to him.
\v 7 They shall keep his requirements, and the requirements of the whole congregation before the Tent of Meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle.
\v 8 They shall keep all the furnishings of the Tent of Meeting, and the obligations of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.
\v 9 You shall give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons. They are wholly given to him on the behalf of the children of Israel.
\v 10 You shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall keep their priesthood, but the stranger who comes near shall be put to death.”
\p
\v 11 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 12 “Behold,\f + \fr 3:12 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn who open the womb among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine,
\v 13 for all the firstborn are mine. On the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I made holy to me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and animal. They shall be mine. I am Yahweh.”
\p
\v 14 Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,
\v 15 “Count the children of Levi by their fathers’ houses, by their families. You shall count every male from a month old and upward.”
\p
\v 16 Moses counted them according to Yahweh’s word, as he was commanded.
\p
\v 17 These were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
\p
\v 18 These are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei.
\p
\v 19 The sons of Kohath by their families: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
\p
\v 20 The sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi.
\p These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers’ houses.
\p
\v 21 Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimeites. These are the families of the Gershonites.
\p
\v 22 Those who were counted of them, according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward, even those who were counted of them were seven thousand five hundred.
\p
\v 23 The families of the Gershonites shall encamp behind the tabernacle westward.
\p
\v 24 Eliasaph the son of Lael shall be the prince of the fathers’ house of the Gershonites.
\v 25 The duty of the sons of Gershon in the Tent of Meeting shall be the tabernacle, the tent, its covering, the screen for the door of the Tent of Meeting,
\v 26 the hangings of the court, the screen for the door of the court which is by the tabernacle and around the altar, and its cords for all of its service.
\p
\v 27 Of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, the family of the Izharites, the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites. These are the families of the Kohathites.
\v 28 According to the number of all the males from a month old and upward, there were eight thousand six hundred keeping the requirements of the sanctuary.
\p
\v 29 The families of the sons of Kohath shall encamp on the south side of the tabernacle.
\v 30 The prince of the fathers’ house of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.
\v 31 Their duty shall be the ark, the table, the lamp stand, the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary with which they minister, the screen, and all its service.
\v 32 Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be prince of the princes of the Levites, with the oversight of those who keep the requirements of the sanctuary.
\p
\v 33 Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites and the family of the Mushites. These are the families of Merari.
\v 34 Those who were counted of them, according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward, were six thousand two hundred.\f + \fr 3:34 \ft + 22,000 is the sum rounded to 2 significant digits. The sum of the Gershonites, Kohathites, and Merarites given above is 22,300, but the traditional Hebrew text has the number rounded to 2 significant digits, not 3 significant digits.\f*
\p
\v 35 The prince of the fathers’ house of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail. They shall encamp on the north side of the tabernacle.
\v 36 The appointed duty of the sons of Merari shall be the tabernacle’s boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, all its instruments, all its service,
\v 37 the pillars of the court around it, their sockets, their pins, and their cords.
\v 38 Those who encamp before the tabernacle eastward, in front of the Tent of Meeting toward the sunrise, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the requirements of the sanctuary for the duty of the children of Israel. The outsider who comes near shall be put to death.
\v 39 All who were counted of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron counted at the commandment of Yahweh, by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand.
\p
\v 40 Yahweh said to Moses, “Count all the firstborn males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.
\v 41 You shall take the Levites for me—I am Yahweh—instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the livestock of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the livestock of the children of Israel.”
\p
\v 42 Moses counted, as Yahweh commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel.
\v 43 All the firstborn males according to the number of names from a month old and upward, of those who were counted of them, were twenty-two thousand two hundred seventy-three.
\p
\v 44 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 45 “Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock; and the Levites shall be mine. I am Yahweh.
\v 46 For the redemption of the two hundred seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel who exceed the number of the Levites,
\v 47 you shall take five shekels apiece for each one; according to the shekel\f + \fr 3:47 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.\f* of the sanctuary you shall take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs\f + \fr 3:47 \ft A gerah is about 0.5 grams or about 7.7 grains.\f*);
\v 48 and you shall give the money, with which their remainder is redeemed, to Aaron and to his sons.”
\p
\v 49 Moses took the redemption money from those who exceeded the number of those who were redeemed by the Levites;
\v 50 from the firstborn of the children of Israel he took the money, one thousand three hundred sixty-five shekels,\f + \fr 3:50 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 1365 shekels is about 13.65 kilograms or about 30 pounds.\f* according to the shekel of the sanctuary;
\v 51 and Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and to his sons, according to Yahweh’s word, as Yahweh commanded Moses.


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\c 30
\p
\v 1 Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, saying, “This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded.
\v 2 When a man vows a vow to Yahweh, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.
\p
\v 3 “Also, when a woman vows a vow to Yahweh and binds herself by a pledge, being in her father’s house, in her youth,
\v 4 and her father hears her vow and her pledge with which she has bound her soul, and her father says nothing to her, then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge with which she has bound her soul shall stand.
\v 5 But if her father forbids her in the day that he hears, none of her vows or of her pledges with which she has bound her soul, shall stand. Yahweh will forgive her, because her father has forbidden her.
\p
\v 6 “If she has a husband, while her vows are on her, or the rash utterance of her lips with which she has bound her soul,
\v 7 and her husband hears it, and says nothing to her in the day that he hears it; then her vows shall stand, and her pledges with which she has bound her soul shall stand.
\v 8 But if her husband forbids her in the day that he hears it, then he makes void her vow which is on her and the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul. Yahweh will forgive her.
\p
\v 9 “But the vow of a widow, or of her who is divorced, everything with which she has bound her soul shall stand against her.
\p
\v 10 “If she vowed in her husband’s house or bound her soul by a bond with an oath,
\v 11 and her husband heard it, and held his peace at her and didn’t disallow her, then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge with which she bound her soul shall stand.
\v 12 But if her husband made them null and void in the day that he heard them, then whatever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand. Her husband has made them void. Yahweh will forgive her.
\v 13 Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.
\v 14 But if her husband says nothing to her from day to day, then he establishes all her vows or all her pledges which are on her. He has established them, because he said nothing to her in the day that he heard them.
\v 15 But if he makes them null and void after he has heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity.”
\p
\v 16 These are the statutes which Yahweh commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter, being in her youth, in her father’s house.


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\p
\v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 2 “Avenge the children of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people.”
\p
\v 3 Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for war, that they may go against Midian, to execute Yahweh’s vengeance on Midian.
\v 4 You shall send one thousand out of every tribe, throughout all the tribes of Israel, to the war.”
\v 5 So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand from every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
\v 6 Moses sent them, one thousand of every tribe, to the war with Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.
\v 7 They fought against Midian, as Yahweh commanded Moses. They killed every male.
\v 8 They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.
\v 9 The children of Israel took the women of Midian captive with their little ones; and all their livestock, all their flocks, and all their goods, they took as plunder.
\v 10 All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all their encampments, they burned with fire.
\v 11 They took all the captives, and all the plunder, both of man and of animal.
\v 12 They brought the captives with the prey and the plunder, to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan at Jericho.
\v 13 Moses and Eleazar the priest, with all the princes of the congregation, went out to meet them outside of the camp.
\v 14 Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who came from the service of the war.
\v 15 Moses said to them, “Have you saved all the women alive?
\v 16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh.
\v 17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.
\v 18 But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
\p
\v 19 “Encamp outside of the camp for seven days. Whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, you and your captives.
\v 20 You shall purify every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats’ hair, and all things made of wood.”
\p
\v 21 Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to the battle, “This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded Moses:
\v 22 however the gold, and the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
\v 23 everything that may withstand the fire, you shall make to go through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be purified with the water for impurity. All that doesn’t withstand the fire you shall make to go through the water.
\v 24 You shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean. Afterward you shall come into the camp.”
\p
\v 25 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 26 “Count the plunder that was taken, both of man and of animal, you, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers’ households of the congregation;
\v 27 and divide the plunder into two parts: between the men skilled in war, who went out to battle, and all the congregation.
\v 28 Levy a tribute to Yahweh of the men of war who went out to battle: one soul of five hundred; of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the flocks.
\v 29 Take it from their half, and give it to Eleazar the priest, for Yahweh’s wave offering.
\v 30 Of the children of Israel’s half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, of all the livestock, and give them to the Levites, who perform the duty of Yahweh’s tabernacle.”
\p
\v 31 Moses and Eleazar the priest did as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p
\v 32 Now the plunder, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,
\v 33 seventy-two thousand head of cattle,
\v 34 sixty-one thousand donkeys,
\v 35 and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of the women who had not known man by lying with him.
\v 36 The half, which was the portion of those who went out to war, was in number three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep;
\v 37 and Yahweh’s tribute of the sheep was six hundred seventy-five.
\v 38 The cattle were thirty-six thousand, of which Yahweh’s tribute was seventy-two.
\v 39 The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred, of which Yahweh’s tribute was sixty-one.
\v 40 The persons were sixteen thousand, of whom Yahweh’s tribute was thirty-two persons.
\v 41 Moses gave the tribute, which was Yahweh’s wave offering, to Eleazar the priest, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\v 42 Of the children of Israel’s half, which Moses divided off from the men who fought
\v 43 (now the congregation’s half was three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep,
\v 44 thirty-six thousand head of cattle,
\v 45 thirty thousand five hundred donkeys,
\v 46 and sixteen thousand persons),
\v 47 even of the children of Israel’s half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave them to the Levites, who performed the duty of Yahweh’s tabernacle, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p
\v 48 The officers who were over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moses.
\v 49 They said to Moses, “Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war who are under our command, and there lacks not one man of us.
\v 50 We have brought Yahweh’s offering, what every man found: gold ornaments, armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for our souls before Yahweh.”
\p
\v 51 Moses and Eleazar the priest took their gold, even all worked jewels.
\v 52 All the gold of the wave offering that they offered up to Yahweh, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred fifty shekels.\f + \fr 31:52 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 16,750 shekels is about 167.5 kilograms or about 368.5 pounds.\f*
\v 53 The men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.
\v 54 Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the Tent of Meeting for a memorial for the children of Israel before Yahweh.


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\p
\v 1 Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock. They saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead. Behold, the place was a place for livestock.
\v 2 Then the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the princes of the congregation, saying,
\v 3 “Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,
\v 4 the land which Yahweh struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock; and your servants have livestock.”
\v 5 They said, “If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession. Don’t bring us over the Jordan.”
\p
\v 6 Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, “Shall your brothers go to war while you sit here?
\v 7 Why do you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which Yahweh has given them?
\v 8 Your fathers did so when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.
\v 9 For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which Yahweh had given them.
\v 10 Yahweh’s anger burned in that day, and he swore, saying,
\v 11 ‘Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me,
\v 12 except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun, because they have followed Yahweh completely.’
\v 13 Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he made them wander back and forth in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation who had done evil in Yahweh’s sight was consumed.
\p
\v 14 “Behold, you have risen up in your fathers’ place, an increase of sinful men, to increase the fierce anger of Yahweh toward Israel.
\v 15 For if you turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and you will destroy all these people.”
\p
\v 16 They came near to him, and said, “We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones;
\v 17 but we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel, until we have brought them to their place. Our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.
\v 18 We will not return to our houses until the children of Israel have all received their inheritance.
\v 19 For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on this side of the Jordan eastward.”
\p
\v 20 Moses said to them: “If you will do this thing, if you will arm yourselves to go before Yahweh to the war,
\v 21 and every one of your armed men will pass over the Jordan before Yahweh until he has driven out his enemies from before him,
\v 22 and the land is subdued before Yahweh; then afterward you shall return, and be clear of obligation to Yahweh and to Israel. Then this land shall be your possession before Yahweh.
\p
\v 23 “But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against Yahweh; and be sure your sin will find you out.
\v 24 Build cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth.”
\p
\v 25 The children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, “Your servants will do as my lord commands.
\v 26 Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock shall be there in the cities of Gilead;
\v 27 but your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for war, before Yahweh to battle, as my lord says.”
\p
\v 28 So Moses commanded concerning them to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers’ households of the tribes of the children of Israel.
\v 29 Moses said to them, “If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every man who is armed to battle before Yahweh, and the land is subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession;
\v 30 but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.”
\p
\v 31 The children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, “As Yahweh has said to your servants, so will we do.
\v 32 We will pass over armed before Yahweh into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us beyond the Jordan.”
\p
\v 33 Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan; the land, according to its cities and borders, even the cities of the surrounding land.
\v 34 The children of Gad built Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,
\v 35 Atroth-shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah,
\v 36 Beth Nimrah, and Beth Haran: fortified cities and folds for sheep.
\v 37 The children of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,
\v 38 Nebo, and Baal Meon, (their names being changed), and Sibmah. They gave other names to the cities which they built.
\v 39 The children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were therein.
\v 40 Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh; and he lived therein.
\v 41 Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its villages, and called them Havvoth Jair.
\v 42 Nobah went and took Kenath and its villages, and called it Nobah, after his own name.


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\v 1 These are the journeys of the children of Israel, when they went out of the land of Egypt by their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron.
\v 2 Moses wrote the starting points of their journeys by the commandment of Yahweh. These are their journeys according to their starting points.
\v 3 They traveled from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the next day after the Passover, the children of Israel went out with a high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians,
\v 4 while the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom Yahweh had struck among them. Yahweh also executed judgments on their gods.
\v 5 The children of Israel traveled from Rameses, and encamped in Succoth.
\v 6 They traveled from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness.
\v 7 They traveled from Etham, and turned back to Pihahiroth, which is before Baal Zephon, and they encamped before Migdol.
\v 8 They traveled from before Hahiroth, and crossed through the middle of the sea into the wilderness. They went three days’ journey in the wilderness of Etham, and encamped in Marah.
\v 9 They traveled from Marah, and came to Elim. In Elim, there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there.
\v 10 They traveled from Elim, and encamped by the Red Sea.
\v 11 They traveled from the Red Sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.
\v 12 They traveled from the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah.
\v 13 They traveled from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.
\v 14 They traveled from Alush, and encamped in Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.
\v 15 They traveled from Rephidim, and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai.
\v 16 They traveled from the wilderness of Sinai, and encamped in Kibroth Hattaavah.
\v 17 They traveled from Kibroth Hattaavah, and encamped in Hazeroth.
\v 18 They traveled from Hazeroth, and encamped in Rithmah.
\v 19 They traveled from Rithmah, and encamped in Rimmon Perez.
\v 20 They traveled from Rimmon Perez, and encamped in Libnah.
\v 21 They traveled from Libnah, and encamped in Rissah.
\v 22 They traveled from Rissah, and encamped in Kehelathah.
\v 23 They traveled from Kehelathah, and encamped in Mount Shepher.
\v 24 They traveled from Mount Shepher, and encamped in Haradah.
\v 25 They traveled from Haradah, and encamped in Makheloth.
\v 26 They traveled from Makheloth, and encamped in Tahath.
\v 27 They traveled from Tahath, and encamped in Terah.
\v 28 They traveled from Terah, and encamped in Mithkah.
\v 29 They traveled from Mithkah, and encamped in Hashmonah.
\v 30 They traveled from Hashmonah, and encamped in Moseroth.
\v 31 They traveled from Moseroth, and encamped in Bene Jaakan.
\v 32 They traveled from Bene Jaakan, and encamped in Hor Haggidgad.
\v 33 They traveled from Hor Haggidgad, and encamped in Jotbathah.
\v 34 They traveled from Jotbathah, and encamped in Abronah.
\v 35 They traveled from Abronah, and encamped in Ezion Geber.
\v 36 They traveled from Ezion Geber, and encamped at Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.
\v 37 They traveled from Kadesh, and encamped in Mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom.
\v 38 Aaron the priest went up into Mount Hor at the commandment of Yahweh and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first day of the month.
\v 39 Aaron was one hundred twenty-three years old when he died in Mount Hor.
\v 40 The Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the South in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.
\v 41 They traveled from Mount Hor, and encamped in Zalmonah.
\v 42 They traveled from Zalmonah, and encamped in Punon.
\v 43 They traveled from Punon, and encamped in Oboth.
\v 44 They traveled from Oboth, and encamped in Iye Abarim, in the border of Moab.
\v 45 They traveled from Iyim, and encamped in Dibon Gad.
\v 46 They traveled from Dibon Gad, and encamped in Almon Diblathaim.
\v 47 They traveled from Almon Diblathaim, and encamped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.
\v 48 They traveled from the mountains of Abarim, and encamped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
\v 49 They encamped by the Jordan, from Beth Jeshimoth even to Abel Shittim in the plains of Moab.
\v 50 Yahweh spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,
\v 51 Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, “When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
\v 52 then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their stone idols, destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places.
\v 53 You shall take possession of the land, and dwell therein; for I have given the land to you to possess it.
\v 54 You shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance. Wherever the lot falls to any man, that shall be his. You shall inherit according to the tribes of your fathers.
\p
\v 55 “But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those you let remain of them will be like pricks in your eyes and thorns in your sides. They will harass you in the land in which you dwell.
\v 56 It shall happen that as I thought to do to them, so I will do to you.”


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\c 34
\p
\v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 2 “Command the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land of Canaan (this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan according to its borders),
\v 3 then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the side of Edom, and your south border shall be from the end of the Salt Sea eastward.
\v 4 Your border shall turn about southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass along to Zin; and it shall pass southward of Kadesh Barnea; and it shall go from there to Hazar Addar, and pass along to Azmon.
\v 5 The border shall turn about from Azmon to the brook of Egypt, and it shall end at the sea.
\p
\v 6 “‘For the western border, you shall have the great sea and its border. This shall be your west border.
\p
\v 7 “‘This shall be your north border: from the great sea you shall mark out for yourselves Mount Hor.
\v 8 From Mount Hor you shall mark out to the entrance of Hamath; and the border shall pass by Zedad.
\v 9 Then the border shall go to Ziphron, and it shall end at Hazar Enan. This shall be your north border.
\p
\v 10 “‘You shall mark out your east border from Hazar Enan to Shepham.
\v 11 The border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain. The border shall go down, and shall reach to the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward.
\v 12 The border shall go down to the Jordan, and end at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land according to its borders around it.’”
\p
\v 13 Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, “This is the land which you shall inherit by lot, which Yahweh has commanded to give to the nine tribes, and to the half-tribe;
\v 14 for the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their fathers’ houses, the tribe of the children of Gad according to their fathers’ houses, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance.
\v 15 The two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, toward the sunrise.”
\p
\v 16 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 17 “These are the names of the men who shall divide the land to you for inheritance: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun.
\v 18 You shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land for inheritance.
\v 19 These are the names of the men: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
\v 20 Of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud.
\v 21 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon.
\v 22 Of the tribe of the children of Dan a prince, Bukki the son of Jogli.
\v 23 Of the children of Joseph: of the tribe of the children of Manasseh a prince, Hanniel the son of Ephod.
\v 24 Of the tribe of the children of Ephraim a prince, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan.
\v 25 Of the tribe of the children of Zebulun a prince, Elizaphan the son of Parnach.
\v 26 Of the tribe of the children of Issachar a prince, Paltiel the son of Azzan.
\v 27 Of the tribe of the children of Asher a prince, Ahihud the son of Shelomi.
\v 28 Of the tribe of the children of Naphtali a prince, Pedahel the son of Ammihud.”
\v 29 These are they whom Yahweh commanded to divide the inheritance to the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.


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\p
\v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,
\v 2 “Command the children of Israel to give to the Levites cities to dwell in out of their inheritance. You shall give pasture lands for the cities around them to the Levites.
\v 3 They shall have the cities to dwell in. Their pasture lands shall be for their livestock, and for their possessions, and for all their animals.
\p
\v 4 “The pasture lands of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward one thousand cubits\f + \fr 35:4 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.\f* around it.
\v 5 You shall measure outside of the city for the east side two thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the middle. This shall be the pasture lands of their cities.
\p
\v 6 “The cities which you shall give to the Levites, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the man slayer to flee to. Besides them you shall give forty-two cities.
\v 7 All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities together with their pasture lands.
\v 8 Concerning the cities which you shall give of the possession of the children of Israel, from the many you shall take many, and from the few you shall take few. Everyone according to his inheritance which he inherits shall give some of his cities to the Levites.”
\v 9 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 10 “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
\v 11 then you shall appoint for yourselves cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the man slayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.
\v 12 The cities shall be for your refuge from the avenger, that the man slayer not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment.
\v 13 The cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.
\v 14 You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and you shall give three cities in the land of Canaan. They shall be cities of refuge.
\v 15 For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the foreigner living among them, shall these six cities be for refuge, that everyone who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.
\p
\v 16 “‘But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.
\v 17 If he struck him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.
\v 18 Or if he struck him with a weapon of wood in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.
\v 19 The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death. When he meets him, he shall put him to death.
\v 20 If he shoved him out of hatred, or hurled something at him while lying in wait, so that he died,
\v 21 or in hostility struck him with his hand, so that he died, he who struck him shall surely be put to death. He is a murderer. The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when he meets him.
\p
\v 22 “‘But if he shoved him suddenly without hostility, or hurled on him anything without lying in wait,
\v 23 or with any stone, by which a man may die, not seeing him, and cast it on him so that he died, and he was not his enemy and not seeking his harm,
\v 24 then the congregation shall judge between the striker and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.
\v 25 The congregation shall deliver the man slayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, where he had fled. He shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.
\p
\v 26 “‘But if the man slayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge where he flees,
\v 27 and the avenger of blood finds him outside of the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kills the man slayer, he shall not be guilty of blood,
\v 28 because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the death of the high priest, the man slayer shall return into the land of his possession.
\p
\v 29 “‘These things shall be for a statute and ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
\p
\v 30 “‘Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain based on the testimony of witnesses; but one witness shall not testify alone against any person so that he dies.
\p
\v 31 “‘Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death. He shall surely be put to death.
\p
\v 32 “‘You shall take no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land before the death of the priest.
\p
\v 33 “‘So you shall not pollute the land where you live; for blood pollutes the land. No atonement can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.
\v 34 You shall not defile the land which you inhabit, where I dwell; for I, Yahweh, dwell among the children of Israel.’”


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\p
\v 1 The heads of the fathers’ households of the family of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spoke before Moses and before the princes, the heads of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel.
\v 2 They said, “Yahweh commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the children of Israel. My lord was commanded by Yahweh to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.
\v 3 If they are married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of our fathers, and will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they shall belong. So it will be taken away from the lot of our inheritance.
\v 4 When the jubilee of the children of Israel comes, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they shall belong. So their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.”
\p
\v 5 Moses commanded the children of Israel according to Yahweh’s word, saying, “The tribe of the sons of Joseph speak what is right.
\v 6 This is the thing which Yahweh commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, ‘Let them be married to whom they think best, only they shall marry into the family of the tribe of their father.
\v 7 So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel move from tribe to tribe; for the children of Israel shall all keep the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.
\v 8 Every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may each possess the inheritance of his fathers.
\v 9 So shall no inheritance move from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall each keep his own inheritance.’”
\p
\v 10 The daughters of Zelophehad did as Yahweh commanded Moses:
\v 11 for Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to their father’s brothers’ sons.
\v 12 They were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph. Their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.
\p
\v 13 These are the commandments and the ordinances which Yahweh commanded by Moses to the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.


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\p
\v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
\v 2 “Take a census of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their families, by their fathers’ houses,
\v 3 from thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all who enter into the service to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.
\p
\v 4 “This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the Tent of Meeting, regarding the most holy things.
\v 5 When the camp moves forward, Aaron shall go in with his sons; and they shall take down the veil of the screen, cover the ark of the Testimony with it,
\v 6 put a covering of sealskin on it, spread a blue cloth over it, and put in its poles.
\p
\v 7 “On the table of show bread they shall spread a blue cloth, and put on it the dishes, the spoons, the bowls, and the cups with which to pour out; and the continual bread shall be on it.
\v 8 They shall spread on them a scarlet cloth, and cover it with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles.
\p
\v 9 “They shall take a blue cloth and cover the lamp stand of the light, its lamps, its snuffers, its snuff dishes, and all its oil vessels, with which they minister to it.
\v 10 They shall put it and all its vessels within a covering of sealskin, and shall put it on the frame.
\p
\v 11 “On the golden altar they shall spread a blue cloth, and cover it with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles.
\p
\v 12 “They shall take all the vessels of ministry with which they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a blue cloth, cover them with a covering of sealskin, and shall put them on the frame.
\p
\v 13 “They shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth on it.
\v 14 They shall put on it all its vessels with which they minister about it, the fire pans, the meat hooks, the shovels, and the basins—all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread on it a covering of sealskin, and put in its poles.
\p
\v 15 “When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furniture of the sanctuary, as the camp moves forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to carry it; but they shall not touch the sanctuary, lest they die. The sons of Kohath shall carry these things belonging to the Tent of Meeting.
\p
\v 16 “The duty of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be the oil for the light, the sweet incense, the continual meal offering, and the anointing oil, the requirements of all the tabernacle, and of all that is in it, the sanctuary, and its furnishings.”
\p
\v 17 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
\v 18 “Don’t cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites;
\v 19 but thus do to them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in and appoint everyone to his service and to his burden;
\v 20 but they shall not go in to see the sanctuary even for a moment, lest they die.”
\p
\v 21 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 22 “Take a census of the sons of Gershon also, by their fathers’ houses, by their families;
\v 23 you shall count them from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old: all who enter in to wait on the service, to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.
\p
\v 24 “This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and in bearing burdens:
\v 25 they shall carry the curtains of the tabernacle and the Tent of Meeting, its covering, the covering of sealskin that is on it, the screen for the door of the Tent of Meeting,
\v 26 the hangings of the court, the screen for the door of the gate of the court which is by the tabernacle and around the altar, their cords, and all the instruments of their service, and whatever shall be done with them. They shall serve in there.
\v 27 At the commandment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burden and in all their service; and you shall appoint their duty to them in all their responsibilities.
\v 28 This is the service of the families of the sons of the Gershonites in the Tent of Meeting. Their duty shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
\p
\v 29 “As for the sons of Merari, you shall count them by their families, by their fathers’ houses;
\v 30 you shall count them from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old—everyone who enters on the service, to do the work of the Tent of Meeting.
\v 31 This is the duty of their burden, according to all their service in the Tent of Meeting: the tabernacle’s boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets,
\v 32 the pillars of the court around it, their sockets, their pins, their cords, with all their instruments, and with all their service. You shall appoint the instruments of the duty of their burden to them by name.
\v 33 This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all their service in the Tent of Meeting, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.”
\p
\v 34 Moses and Aaron and the princes of the congregation counted the sons of the Kohathites by their families, and by their fathers’ houses,
\v 35 from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into the service for work in the Tent of Meeting.
\v 36 Those who were counted of them by their families were two thousand seven hundred fifty.
\v 37 These are those who were counted of the families of the Kohathites, all who served in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron counted according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.
\p
\v 38 Those who were counted of the sons of Gershon, by their families, and by their fathers’ houses,
\v 39 from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old—everyone who entered into the service for work in the Tent of Meeting,
\v 40 even those who were counted of them, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, were two thousand six hundred thirty.
\v 41 These are those who were counted of the families of the sons of Gershon, all who served in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron counted according to the commandment of Yahweh.
\p
\v 42 Those who were counted of the families of the sons of Merari, by their families, by their fathers’ houses,
\v 43 from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old—everyone who entered into the service for work in the Tent of Meeting,
\v 44 even those who were counted of them by their families, were three thousand two hundred.
\v 45 These are those who were counted of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron counted according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.
\p
\v 46 All those who were counted of the Levites whom Moses and Aaron and the princes of Israel counted, by their families and by their fathers’ houses,
\v 47 from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered in to do the work of service and the work of bearing burdens in the Tent of Meeting,
\v 48 even those who were counted of them, were eight thousand five hundred eighty.
\v 49 According to the commandment of Yahweh they were counted by Moses, everyone according to his service and according to his burden. Thus they were counted by him, as Yahweh commanded Moses.


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\p
\v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 2 “Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, everyone who has a discharge, and whoever is unclean by a corpse.
\v 3 You shall put both male and female outside of the camp so that they don’t defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell.”
\p
\v 4 The children of Israel did so, and put them outside of the camp; as Yahweh spoke to Moses, so the children of Israel did.
\p
\v 5 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 6 “Speak to the children of Israel: ‘When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit, so as to trespass against Yahweh, and that soul is guilty,
\v 7 then he shall confess his sin which he has done; and he shall make restitution for his guilt in full, add to it the fifth part of it, and give it to him in respect of whom he has been guilty.
\v 8 But if the man has no kinsman to whom restitution may be made for the guilt, the restitution for guilt which is made to Yahweh shall be the priest’s, in addition to the ram of the atonement, by which atonement shall be made for him.
\v 9 Every heave offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they present to the priest, shall be his.
\v 10 Every man’s holy things shall be his; whatever any man gives the priest, it shall be his.’”
\p
\v 11 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 12 “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: ‘If any man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him,
\v 13 and a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband and this is kept concealed, and she is defiled, there is no witness against her, and she isn’t taken in the act;
\v 14 and the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife and she is defiled; or if the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife and she isn’t defiled;
\v 15 then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring her offering for her: one tenth of an ephah\f + \fr 5:15 \ft 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel\f* of barley meal. He shall pour no oil on it, nor put frankincense on it, for it is a meal offering of jealousy, a meal offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to memory.
\v 16 The priest shall bring her near, and set her before Yahweh.
\v 17 The priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and the priest shall take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the water.
\v 18 The priest shall set the woman before Yahweh, and let the hair of the woman’s head go loose, and put the meal offering of memorial in her hands, which is the meal offering of jealousy. The priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that brings a curse.
\v 19 The priest shall cause her to take an oath and shall tell the woman, “If no man has lain with you, and if you haven’t gone aside to uncleanness, being under your husband’s authority, be free from this water of bitterness that brings a curse.
\v 20 But if you have gone astray, being under your husband’s authority, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband—”
\v 21 then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall tell the woman, “May Yahweh make you a curse and an oath among your people, when Yahweh allows your thigh to fall away, and your body to swell;
\v 22 and this water that brings a curse will go into your bowels, and make your body swell, and your thigh fall away.” The woman shall say, “Amen, Amen.”
\p
\v 23 “‘The priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall wipe them into the water of bitterness.
\v 24 He shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that causes the curse; and the water that causes the curse shall enter into her and become bitter.
\v 25 The priest shall take the meal offering of jealousy out of the woman’s hand, and shall wave the meal offering before Yahweh, and bring it to the altar.
\v 26 The priest shall take a handful of the meal offering, as its memorial portion, and burn it on the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water.
\v 27 When he has made her drink the water, then it shall happen, if she is defiled and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causes the curse will enter into her and become bitter, and her body will swell, and her thigh will fall away; and the woman will be a curse among her people.
\v 28 If the woman isn’t defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive offspring.\f + \fr 5:28 \ft or, seed\f*
\p
\v 29 “‘This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goes astray, and is defiled,
\v 30 or when the spirit of jealousy comes on a man, and he is jealous of his wife; then he shall set the woman before Yahweh, and the priest shall execute on her all this law.
\v 31 The man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity.’”


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\p
\v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: ‘When either man or woman shall make a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to Yahweh,
\v 3 he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of fermented drink, neither shall he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried.
\v 4 All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is made of the grapevine, from the seeds even to the skins.
\p
\v 5 “‘All the days of his vow of separation no razor shall come on his head, until the days are fulfilled in which he separates himself to Yahweh. He shall be holy. He shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow long.
\p
\v 6 “‘All the days that he separates himself to Yahweh he shall not go near a dead body.
\v 7 He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die, because his separation to God \f + \fr 6:7 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* is on his head.
\v 8 All the days of his separation he is holy to Yahweh.
\p
\v 9 “‘If any man dies very suddenly beside him, and he defiles the head of his separation, then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing. On the seventh day he shall shave it.
\v 10 On the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting.
\v 11 The priest shall offer one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make atonement for him, because he sinned by reason of the dead, and shall make his head holy that same day.
\v 12 He shall separate to Yahweh the days of his separation, and shall bring a male lamb a year old for a trespass offering; but the former days shall be void, because his separation was defiled.
\p
\v 13 “‘This is the law of the Nazirite: when the days of his separation are fulfilled, he shall be brought to the door of the Tent of Meeting,
\v 14 and he shall offer his offering to Yahweh: one male lamb a year old without defect for a burnt offering, one ewe lamb a year old without defect for a sin offering, one ram without defect for peace offerings,
\v 15 a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil with their meal offering and their drink offerings.
\v 16 The priest shall present them before Yahweh, and shall offer his sin offering and his burnt offering.
\v 17 He shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh, with the basket of unleavened bread. The priest shall offer also its meal offering and its drink offering.
\v 18 The Nazirite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the Tent of Meeting, take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it on the fire which is under the sacrifice of peace offerings.
\v 19 The priest shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram, one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them on the hands of the Nazirite after he has shaved the head of his separation;
\v 20 and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh. They are holy for the priest, together with the breast that is waved and the thigh that is offered. After that the Nazirite may drink wine.
\p
\v 21 “‘This is the law of the Nazirite who vows and of his offering to Yahweh for his separation, in addition to that which he is able to afford. According to his vow which he vows, so he must do after the law of his separation.’”
\p
\v 22 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 23 “Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, ‘This is how you shall bless the children of Israel.’ You shall tell them,
\q1
\v 24 ‘Yahweh bless you, and keep you.
\q2
\v 25 Yahweh make his face to shine on you,
\q2 and be gracious to you.
\q1
\v 26 Yahweh lift up his face toward you,
\q2 and give you peace.’
\p
\v 27 “So they shall put my name on the children of Israel; and I will bless them.”


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\v 1 On the day that Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle, and had anointed it and sanctified it with all its furniture, and the altar with all its vessels, and had anointed and sanctified them;
\v 2 the princes of Israel, the heads of their fathers’ houses, offered. These were the princes of the tribes. These are they who were over those who were counted;
\v 3 and they brought their offering before Yahweh, six covered wagons and twelve oxen; a wagon for every two of the princes, and for each one an ox. They presented them before the tabernacle.
\v 4 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 5 “Accept these from them, that they may be used in doing the service of the Tent of Meeting; and you shall give them to the Levites, to every man according to his service.”
\p
\v 6 Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them to the Levites.
\v 7 He gave two wagons and four oxen to the sons of Gershon, according to their service.
\v 8 He gave four wagons and eight oxen to the sons of Merari, according to their service, under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
\v 9 But to the sons of Kohath he gave none, because the service of the sanctuary belonged to them; they carried it on their shoulders.
\p
\v 10 The princes gave offerings for the dedication of the altar in the day that it was anointed. The princes gave their offerings before the altar.
\p
\v 11 Yahweh said to Moses, “They shall offer their offering, each prince on his day, for the dedication of the altar.”
\p
\v 12 He who offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah,
\v 13 and his offering was:
\p one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels,\f + \fr 7:13 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.\f*
\p one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
\p
\v 14 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
\p
\v 15 one young bull,
\p one ram,
\p one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
\p
\v 16 one male goat for a sin offering;
\p
\v 17 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
\p
\v 18 On the second day Nethanel the son of Zuar, prince of Issachar, gave his offering.
\v 19 He offered for his offering:
\p one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels,
\p one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
\p
\v 20 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
\p
\v 21 one young bull,
\p one ram,
\p one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
\p
\v 22 one male goat for a sin offering;
\p
\v 23 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nethanel the son of Zuar.
\p
\v 24 On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the children of Zebulun,
\v 25 gave his offering:
\p one silver platter, the weight of which was a hundred and thirty shekels,
\p one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
\p
\v 26 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
\p
\v 27 one young bull,
\p one ram,
\p one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
\p
\v 28 one male goat for a sin offering;
\p
\v 29 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Eliab the son of Helon.
\p
\v 30 On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, prince of the children of Reuben,
\v 31 gave his offering:
\p one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels,
\p one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
\p
\v 32 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
\p
\v 33 one young bull,
\p one ram,
\p one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
\p
\v 34 one male goat for a sin offering;
\p
\v 35 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur.
\p
\v 36 On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, prince of the children of Simeon,
\v 37 gave his offering:
\p one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels,
\p one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
\p
\v 38 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
\p
\v 39 one young bull,
\p one ram,
\p one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
\p
\v 40 one male goat for a sin offering;
\p
\v 41 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old: this was the offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
\p
\v 42 On the sixth day, Eliasaph the son of Deuel, prince of the children of Gad,
\v 43 gave his offering:
\p one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels,
\p one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
\p
\v 44 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
\p
\v 45 one young bull,
\p one ram,
\p one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
\p
\v 46 one male goat for a sin offering;
\p
\v 47 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
\p
\v 48 On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, prince of the children of Ephraim,
\v 49 gave his offering:
\p one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels,
\p one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
\p
\v 50 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
\p
\v 51 one young bull,
\p one ram,
\p one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
\p
\v 52 one male goat for a sin offering;
\p
\v 53 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud.
\p
\v 54 On the eighth day Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, prince of the children of Manasseh,
\v 55 gave his offering:
\p one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels,
\p one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
\p
\v 56 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
\p
\v 57 one young bull,
\p one ram,
\p one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
\p
\v 58 one male goat for a sin offering;
\p
\v 59 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
\p
\v 60 On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, prince of the children of Benjamin,
\v 61 gave his offering:
\p one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels,
\p one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
\p
\v 62 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
\p
\v 63 one young bull,
\p one ram,
\p one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
\p
\v 64 one male goat for a sin offering;
\p
\v 65 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni.
\p
\v 66 On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, prince of the children of Dan,
\v 67 gave his offering:
\p one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels,
\p one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
\p
\v 68 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
\p
\v 69 one young bull,
\p one ram,
\p one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
\p
\v 70 one male goat for a sin offering;
\p
\v 71 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
\p
\v 72 On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ochran, prince of the children of Asher,
\v 73 gave his offering:
\p one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels,
\p one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
\p
\v 74 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
\p
\v 75 one young bull,
\p one ram,
\p one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
\p
\v 76 one male goat for a sin offering;
\p
\v 77 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Pagiel the son of Ochran.
\p
\v 78 On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, prince of the children of Naphtali,
\v 79 gave his offering:
\p one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels,
\p one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
\p
\v 80 one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;
\p
\v 81 one young bull,
\p one ram,
\p one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
\p
\v 82 one male goat for a sin offering;
\p
\v 83 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Ahira the son of Enan.
\p
\v 84 This was the dedication offering of the altar, on the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve silver platters, twelve silver bowls, twelve golden ladles;
\v 85 each silver platter weighing one hundred thirty shekels, and each bowl seventy; all the silver of the vessels two thousand four hundred shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary;
\v 86 the twelve golden ladles, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; all the gold of the ladles weighed one hundred twenty shekels;
\v 87 all the cattle for the burnt offering twelve bulls, the rams twelve, the male lambs a year old twelve, and their meal offering; and twelve male goats for a sin offering;
\v 88 and all the cattle for the sacrifice of peace offerings: twenty-four bulls, sixty rams, sixty male goats, and sixty male lambs a year old. This was the dedication offering of the altar, after it was anointed.
\p
\v 89 When Moses went into the Tent of Meeting to speak with Yahweh, he heard his voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the Testimony, from between the two cherubim; and he spoke to him.


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\v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 2 “Speak to Aaron, and tell him, ‘When you light the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the lamp stand.’”
\p
\v 3 Aaron did so. He lit its lamps to light the area in front of the lamp stand, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\v 4 This was the workmanship of the lamp stand, beaten work of gold. From its base to its flowers, it was beaten work. He made the lamp stand according to the pattern which Yahweh had shown Moses.
\p
\v 5 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 6 “Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.
\v 7 You shall do this to them, to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of cleansing on them, let them shave their whole bodies with a razor, let them wash their clothes, and cleanse themselves.
\v 8 Then let them take a young bull and its meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil; and another young bull you shall take for a sin offering.
\v 9 You shall present the Levites before the Tent of Meeting. You shall assemble the whole congregation of the children of Israel.
\v 10 You shall present the Levites before Yahweh. The children of Israel shall lay their hands on the Levites,
\v 11 and Aaron shall offer the Levites before Yahweh for a wave offering on the behalf of the children of Israel, that it may be theirs to do the service of Yahweh.
\p
\v 12 “The Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, and you shall offer the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering to Yahweh, to make atonement for the Levites.
\v 13 You shall set the Levites before Aaron and before his sons, and offer them as a wave offering to Yahweh.
\v 14 Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the children of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine.
\p
\v 15 “After that, the Levites shall go in to do the service of the Tent of Meeting. You shall cleanse them, and offer them as a wave offering.
\v 16 For they are wholly given to me from among the children of Israel; instead of all who open the womb, even the firstborn of all the children of Israel, I have taken them to me.
\v 17 For all the firstborn among the children of Israel are mine, both man and animal. On the day that I struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified them for myself.
\v 18 I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel.
\v 19 I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the Tent of Meeting, and to make atonement for the children of Israel, so that there will be no plague among the children of Israel when the children of Israel come near to the sanctuary.”
\p
\v 20 Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel did so to the Levites. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so the children of Israel did to them.
\v 21 The Levites purified themselves from sin, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them for a wave offering before Yahweh and Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them.
\v 22 After that, the Levites went in to do their service in the Tent of Meeting before Aaron and before his sons: as Yahweh had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them.
\p
\v 23 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 24 “This is what is assigned to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall go in to wait on the service in the work of the Tent of Meeting;
\v 25 and from the age of fifty years they shall retire from doing the work, and shall serve no more,
\v 26 but shall assist their brothers in the Tent of Meeting, to perform the duty, and shall perform no service. This is how you shall have the Levites do their duties.”


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\v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
\v 2 “Let the children of Israel keep the Passover in its appointed season.
\v 3 On the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you shall keep it in its appointed season. You shall keep it according to all its statutes and according to all its ordinances.”
\p
\v 4 Moses told the children of Israel that they should keep the Passover.
\v 5 They kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, in the wilderness of Sinai. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did.
\v 6 There were certain men, who were unclean because of the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day, and they came before Moses and Aaron on that day.
\v 7 Those men said to him, “We are unclean because of the dead body of a man. Why are we kept back, that we may not offer the offering of Yahweh in its appointed season among the children of Israel?”
\p
\v 8 Moses answered them, “Wait, that I may hear what Yahweh will command concerning you.”
\p
\v 9 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 10 “Say to the children of Israel, ‘If any man of you or of your generations is unclean by reason of a dead body, or is on a journey far away, he shall still keep the Passover to Yahweh.
\v 11 In the second month, on the fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
\v 12 They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break a bone of it. According to all the statute of the Passover they shall keep it.
\v 13 But the man who is clean, and is not on a journey, and fails to keep the Passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people. Because he didn’t offer the offering of Yahweh in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.
\p
\v 14 “‘If a foreigner lives among you, and desires to keep the Passover to Yahweh, then he shall do so according to the statute of the Passover, and according to its ordinance. You shall have one statute, both for the foreigner, and for him who is born in the land.’”
\p
\v 15 On the day that the tabernacle was raised up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the Tent of the Testimony. At evening it was over the tabernacle, as it were the appearance of fire, until morning.
\v 16 So it was continually. The cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night.
\v 17 Whenever the cloud was taken up from over the Tent, then after that the children of Israel traveled; and in the place where the cloud remained, there the children of Israel encamped.
\v 18 At the commandment of Yahweh, the children of Israel traveled, and at the commandment of Yahweh they encamped. As long as the cloud remained on the tabernacle they remained encamped.
\v 19 When the cloud stayed on the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept Yahweh’s command, and didn’t travel.
\v 20 Sometimes the cloud was a few days on the tabernacle; then according to the commandment of Yahweh they remained encamped, and according to the commandment of Yahweh they traveled.
\v 21 Sometimes the cloud was from evening until morning; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning, they traveled; or by day and by night, when the cloud was taken up, they traveled.
\v 22 Whether it was two days, or a month, or a year that the cloud stayed on the tabernacle, remaining on it, the children of Israel remained encamped, and didn’t travel; but when it was taken up, they traveled.
\v 23 At the commandment of Yahweh they encamped, and at the commandment of Yahweh they traveled. They kept Yahweh’s command, at the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.


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\toc1 The Good News According to Matthew
\toc2 Matthew
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\mt2 The Good News According to
\mt1 Matthew


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\v 1 The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ,\f + \fr 1:1 \ft Messiah (Hebrew) and Christ (Greek) both mean “Anointed One”\f* the son of David, the son of Abraham.
\v 2 Abraham became the father of Isaac. Isaac became the father of Jacob. Jacob became the father of Judah and his brothers.
\v 3 Judah became the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar. Perez became the father of Hezron. Hezron became the father of Ram.
\v 4 Ram became the father of Amminadab. Amminadab became the father of Nahshon. Nahshon became the father of Salmon.
\v 5 Salmon became the father of Boaz by Rahab. Boaz became the father of Obed by Ruth. Obed became the father of Jesse.
\v 6 Jesse became the father of King David. David became the father of Solomon by her who had been Uriah’s wife.
\v 7 Solomon became the father of Rehoboam. Rehoboam became the father of Abijah. Abijah became the father of Asa.
\v 8 Asa became the father of Jehoshaphat. Jehoshaphat became the father of Joram. Joram became the father of Uzziah.
\v 9 Uzziah became the father of Jotham. Jotham became the father of Ahaz. Ahaz became the father of Hezekiah.
\v 10 Hezekiah became the father of Manasseh. Manasseh became the father of Amon. Amon became the father of Josiah.
\v 11 Josiah became the father of Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the exile to Babylon.
\v 12 After the exile to Babylon, Jechoniah became the father of Shealtiel. Shealtiel became the father of Zerubbabel.
\v 13 Zerubbabel became the father of Abiud. Abiud became the father of Eliakim. Eliakim became the father of Azor.
\v 14 Azor became the father of Zadok. Zadok became the father of Achim. Achim became the father of Eliud.
\v 15 Eliud became the father of Eleazar. Eleazar became the father of Matthan. Matthan became the father of Jacob.
\v 16 Jacob became the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, from whom was born Jesus,\f + \fr 1:16 \ft “Jesus” means “Salvation”.\f* who is called Christ.
\v 17 So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; from David to the exile to Babylon fourteen generations; and from the carrying away to Babylon to the Christ, fourteen generations.
\p
\v 18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this: After his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit.
\v 19 Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, intended to put her away secretly.
\v 20 But when he thought about these things, behold,\f + \fr 1:20 \ft “Behold”, from “ἰδοὺ”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, don’t be afraid to take to yourself Mary, your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.
\v 21 She shall give birth to a son. You shall name him Jesus,\f + \fr 1:21 \ft “Jesus” means “Salvation”.\f* for it is he who shall save his people from their sins.”
\p
\v 22 Now all this has happened that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying,
\q1
\v 23 “Behold, the virgin shall be with child,
\q2 and shall give birth to a son.
\q1 They shall call his name Immanuel;”
\q2 which is, being interpreted, “God with us.”\x + \xo 1:23 \xt Isaiah 7:14\x*
\p
\v 24 Joseph arose from his sleep, and did as the angel of the Lord commanded him, and took his wife to himself;
\v 25 and didn’t know her sexually until she had given birth to her firstborn son. He named him Jesus.


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\v 1 He called to himself his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every sickness.
\v 2 Now the names of the twelve apostles are these. The first, Simon, who is called Peter; Andrew, his brother; James the son of Zebedee; John, his brother;
\v 3 Philip; Bartholomew; Thomas; Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus; Lebbaeus, who was also called\f + \fr 10:3 \ft NU omits “Lebbaeus, who was also called”\f* Thaddaeus;
\v 4 Simon the Zealot; and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.
\p
\v 5 Jesus sent these twelve out, and commanded them, saying, \wj “Don’t go among the Gentiles, and don’t enter into any city of the Samaritans. \wj*
\v 6 \wj Rather, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. \wj*
\v 7 \wj As you go, preach, saying, ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!’ \wj*
\v 8 \wj Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers,\wj*\f + \fr 10:8 \ft TR adds “raise the dead,”\f* \wj and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give. \wj*
\v 9 \wj Don’t take any gold, silver, or brass in your money belts. \wj*
\v 10 \wj Take no bag for your journey, neither two coats, nor sandals, nor staff: for the laborer is worthy of his food. \wj*
\v 11 \wj Into whatever city or village you enter, find out who in it is worthy; and stay there until you go on. \wj*
\v 12 \wj As you enter into the household, greet it. \wj*
\v 13 \wj If the household is worthy, let your peace come on it, but if it isn’t worthy, let your peace return to you. \wj*
\v 14 \wj Whoever doesn’t receive you, nor hear your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake the dust off your feet. \wj*
\v 15 \wj Most certainly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.\wj*
\p
\v 16 \wj “Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. \wj*
\v 17 \wj But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you. \wj*
\v 18 \wj Yes, and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations. \wj*
\v 19 \wj But when they deliver you up, don’t be anxious how or what you will say, for it will be given you in that hour what you will say. \wj*
\v 20 \wj For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.\wj*
\p
\v 21 \wj “Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death. \wj*
\v 22 \wj You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved. \wj*
\v 23 \wj But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next, for most certainly I tell you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel until the Son of Man has come.\wj*
\p
\v 24 \wj “A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his lord. \wj*
\v 25 \wj It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul,\wj*\f + \fr 10:25 \ft Literally, Lord of the Flies, or the devil\f* \wj how much more those of his household! \wj*
\v 26 \wj Therefore don’t be afraid of them, for there is nothing covered that will not be revealed; and hidden that will not be known. \wj*
\v 27 \wj What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim on the housetops. \wj*
\v 28 \wj Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.\wj* \f + \fr 10:28 \ft or, Hell.\f*
\p
\v 29 \wj “Aren’t two sparrows sold for an assarion coin?\wj*\f + \fr 10:29 \ft An assarion is a small coin worth one tenth of a drachma or a sixteenth of a denarius. An assarion is approximately the wages of one half hour of agricultural labor.\f* \wj Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father’s will, \wj*
\v 30 \wj but the very hairs of your head are all numbered. \wj*
\v 31 \wj Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows. \wj*
\v 32 \wj Everyone therefore who confesses me before men, I will also confess him before my Father who is in heaven. \wj*
\v 33 \wj But whoever denies me before men, I will also deny him before my Father who is in heaven.\wj*
\p
\v 34 \wj “Don’t think that I came to send peace on the earth. I didn’t come to send peace, but a sword. \wj*
\v 35 \wj For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. \wj*
\v 36 \wj A man’s foes will be those of his own household.\wj*\x + \xo 10:36 \xt Micah 7:6\x*
\v 37 \wj He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me. \wj*
\v 38 \wj He who doesn’t take his cross and follow after me, isn’t worthy of me. \wj*
\v 39 \wj He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it. \wj*
\v 40 \wj He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me. \wj*
\v 41 \wj He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward. He who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man will receive a righteous man’s reward. \wj*
\v 42 \wj Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward.”\wj*


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\v 1 When Jesus had finished directing his twelve disciples, he departed from there to teach and preach in their cities.
\v 2 Now when John heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples
\v 3 and said to him, “Are you he who comes, or should we look for another?”
\p
\v 4 Jesus answered them, \wj “Go and tell John the things which you hear and see: \wj*
\v 5 \wj the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear,\wj*\x + \xo 11:5 \xt Isaiah 35:5\x* \wj the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.\wj*\x + \xo 11:5 \xt Isaiah 61:1-4\x*
\v 6 \wj Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me.”\wj*
\p
\v 7 As these went their way, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John, \wj “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind? \wj*
\v 8 \wj But what did you go out to see? A man in soft clothing? Behold, those who wear soft clothing are in kings’ houses. \wj*
\v 9 \wj But why did you go out? To see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and much more than a prophet. \wj*
\v 10 \wj For this is he, of whom it is written, ‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.’\wj*\x + \xo 11:10 \xt Malachi 3:1 \x*
\v 11 \wj Most certainly I tell you, among those who are born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptizer; yet he who is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he. \wj*
\v 12 \wj From the days of John the Baptizer until now, the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.\wj*\f + \fr 11:12 \ft or, plunder it. \f*
\v 13 \wj For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John. \wj*
\v 14 \wj If you are willing to receive it, this is Elijah, who is to come. \wj*
\v 15 \wj He who has ears to hear, let him hear.\wj*
\p
\v 16 \wj “But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces, who call to their companions \wj*
\v 17 \wj and say, ‘We played the flute for you, and you didn’t dance. We mourned for you, and you didn’t lament.’ \wj*
\v 18 \wj For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’ \wj*
\v 19 \wj The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”\wj*\f + \fr 11:19 \ft NU reads “actions” instead of “children”\f*
\p
\v 20 Then he began to denounce the cities in which most of his mighty works had been done, because they didn’t repent.
\v 21 \wj “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. \wj*
\v 22 \wj But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you. \wj*
\v 23 \wj You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, you will go down to Hades. \wj*\f + \fr 11:23 \ft or, Hell\f* \wj For if the mighty works had been done in Sodom which were done in you, it would have remained until today. \wj*
\v 24 \wj But I tell you that it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom, on the day of judgment, than for you.”\wj*
\p
\v 25 At that time, Jesus answered, \wj “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants. \wj*
\v 26 \wj Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight. \wj*
\v 27 \wj All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.\wj*
\p
\v 28 \wj “Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. \wj*
\v 29 \wj Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls. \wj*
\v 30 \wj For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”\wj*


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\v 1 At that time, Jesus went on the Sabbath day through the grain fields. His disciples were hungry and began to pluck heads of grain and to eat.
\v 2 But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said to him, “Behold, your disciples do what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.”
\p
\v 3 But he said to them, \wj “Haven’t you read what David did, when he was hungry, and those who were with him; \wj*
\v 4 \wj how he entered into God’s house, and ate the show bread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for those who were with him, but only for the priests?\wj*\x + \xo 12:4 \xt 1 Samuel 21:3-6\x*
\v 5 \wj Or have you not read in the law, that on the Sabbath day, the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are guiltless? \wj*
\v 6 \wj But I tell you that one greater than the temple is here. \wj*
\v 7 \wj But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’\wj*\x + \xo 12:7 \xt Hosea 6:6\x* \wj you wouldn’t have condemned the guiltless. \wj*
\v 8 \wj For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”\wj*
\p
\v 9 He departed from there, and went into their synagogue.
\v 10 And behold there was a man with a withered hand. They asked him, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath day?” that they might accuse him.
\p
\v 11 He said to them, \wj “What man is there among you, who has one sheep, and if this one falls into a pit on the Sabbath day, won’t he grab on to it, and lift it out? \wj*
\v 12 \wj Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath day.”\wj*
\v 13 Then he told the man, \wj “Stretch out your hand.”\wj* He stretched it out; and it was restored whole, just like the other.
\v 14 But the Pharisees went out, and conspired against him, how they might destroy him.
\v 15 Jesus, perceiving that, withdrew from there. Great multitudes followed him; and he healed them all,
\v 16 and commanded them that they should not make him known:
\v 17 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,
\q1
\v 18 “Behold, my servant whom I have chosen;
\q2 my beloved in whom my soul is well pleased:
\q1 I will put my Spirit on him.
\q2 He will proclaim justice to the nations.
\q1
\v 19 He will not strive, nor shout;
\q2 neither will anyone hear his voice in the streets.
\q1
\v 20 He won’t break a bruised reed.
\q2 He won’t quench a smoking flax,
\q1 until he leads justice to victory.
\q2
\v 21 In his name, the nations will hope.”\x + \xo 12:21 \xt Isaiah 42:1-4\x*
\p
\v 22 Then one possessed by a demon, blind and mute, was brought to him and he healed him, so that the blind and mute man both spoke and saw.
\v 23 All the multitudes were amazed, and said, “Can this be the son of David?”
\v 24 But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, “This man does not cast out demons, except by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”
\p
\v 25 Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said to them, \wj “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand. \wj*
\v 26 \wj If Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand? \wj*
\v 27 \wj If I by Beelzebul cast out demons, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges. \wj*
\v 28 \wj But if I by the Spirit of God cast out demons, then God’s Kingdom has come upon you. \wj*
\v 29 \wj Or how can one enter into the house of the strong man, and plunder his goods, unless he first bind the strong man? Then he will plunder his house.\wj*
\p
\v 30 \wj “He who is not with me is against me, and he who doesn’t gather with me, scatters. \wj*
\v 31 \wj Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men. \wj*
\v 32 \wj Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, neither in this age, nor in that which is to come.\wj*
\p
\v 33 \wj “Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit. \wj*
\v 34 \wj You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. \wj*
\v 35 \wj The good man out of his good treasure brings out good things, and the evil man out of his evil treasure\wj*\f + \fr 12:35 \ft TR adds “of the heart”\f* \wj brings out evil things. \wj*
\v 36 \wj I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. \wj*
\v 37 \wj For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”\wj*
\p
\v 38 Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.”
\p
\v 39 But he answered them, \wj “An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, but no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet. \wj*
\v 40 \wj For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. \wj*
\v 41 \wj The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, someone greater than Jonah is here. \wj*
\v 42 \wj The Queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, someone greater than Solomon is here. \wj*
\p
\v 43 \wj When an unclean spirit has gone out of a man, he passes through waterless places, seeking rest, and doesn’t find it. \wj*
\v 44 \wj Then he says, ‘I will return into my house from which I came out,’ and when he has come back, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order. \wj*
\v 45 \wj Then he goes, and takes with himself seven other spirits more evil than he is, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first. Even so will it be also to this evil generation.”\wj*
\p
\v 46 While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, seeking to speak to him.
\v 47 One said to him, “Behold, your mother and your brothers stand outside, seeking to speak to you.”
\p
\v 48 But he answered him who spoke to him, \wj “Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?”\wj*
\v 49 He stretched out his hand toward his disciples, and said, \wj “Behold, my mother and my brothers! \wj*
\v 50 \wj For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.”\wj*


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\v 1 On that day Jesus went out of the house, and sat by the seaside.
\v 2 Great multitudes gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat, and sat, and all the multitude stood on the beach.
\v 3 He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, \wj “Behold, a farmer went out to sow. \wj*
\v 4 \wj As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them. \wj*
\v 5 \wj Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn’t have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth. \wj*
\v 6 \wj When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away. \wj*
\v 7 \wj Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them. \wj*
\v 8 \wj Others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty. \wj*
\v 9 \wj He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”\wj*
\p
\v 10 The disciples came, and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?”
\p
\v 11 He answered them, \wj “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them. \wj*
\v 12 \wj For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance, but whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he has. \wj*
\v 13 \wj Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don’t see, and hearing, they don’t hear, neither do they understand. \wj*
\v 14 \wj In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, \wj*
\q1 \wj ‘By hearing you will hear,\wj*
\q2 \wj and will in no way understand;\wj*
\q1 \wj Seeing you will see,\wj*
\q2 \wj and will in no way perceive:\wj*
\q1
\v 15 \wj for this people’s heart has grown callous,\wj*
\q2 \wj their ears are dull of hearing,\wj*
\q2 \wj they have closed their eyes;\wj*
\q1 \wj or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes,\wj*
\q2 \wj hear with their ears,\wj*
\q2 \wj understand with their heart,\wj*
\q1 \wj and would turn again;\wj*
\q2 \wj and I would heal them.’\wj*\x + \xo 13:15 \xt Isaiah 6:9-10\x*
\p
\v 16 \wj “But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear. \wj*
\v 17 \wj For most certainly I tell you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things which you see, and didn’t see them; and to hear the things which you hear, and didn’t hear them.\wj*
\p
\v 18 \wj “Hear, then, the parable of the farmer. \wj*
\v 19 \wj When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside. \wj*
\v 20 \wj What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word, and immediately with joy receives it; \wj*
\v 21 \wj yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles. \wj*
\v 22 \wj What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful. \wj*
\v 23 \wj What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit, and produces, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.”\wj*
\p
\v 24 He set another parable before them, saying, \wj “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field, \wj*
\v 25 \wj but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds\wj*\f + \fr 13:25 \ft darnel is a weed grass (probably bearded darnel or lolium temulentum) that looks very much like wheat until it is mature, when the difference becomes very apparent.\f* \wj also among the wheat, and went away. \wj*
\v 26 \wj But when the blade sprang up and produced fruit, then the darnel weeds appeared also. \wj*
\v 27 \wj The servants of the householder came and said to him, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where did these darnel weeds come from?’\wj*
\p
\v 28 \wj “He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’\wj*
\p \wj “The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and gather them up?’ \wj*
\p
\v 29 \wj “But he said, ‘No, lest perhaps while you gather up the darnel weeds, you root up the wheat with them. \wj*
\v 30 \wj Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, “First, gather up the darnel weeds, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”\wj*
\p
\v 31 He set another parable before them, saying, \wj “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field; \wj*
\v 32 \wj which indeed is smaller than all seeds. But when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches.”\wj*
\p
\v 33 He spoke another parable to them. \wj “The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took, and hid in three measures\wj*\f + \fr 13:33 \ft literally, three sata. Three sata is about 39 liters or a bit more than a bushel\f* \wj of meal, until it was all leavened.”\wj*
\p
\v 34 Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn’t speak to them,
\v 35 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying,
\q1 “I will open my mouth in parables;
\q2 I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”\x + \xo 13:35 \xt Psalm 78:2\x*
\p
\v 36 Then Jesus sent the multitudes away, and went into the house. His disciples came to him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the darnel weeds of the field.”
\p
\v 37 He answered them, \wj “He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man, \wj*
\v 38 \wj the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the children of the Kingdom; and the darnel weeds are the children of the evil one. \wj*
\v 39 \wj The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels. \wj*
\v 40 \wj As therefore the darnel weeds are gathered up and burned with fire; so will it be at the end of this age. \wj*
\v 41 \wj The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather out of his Kingdom all things that cause stumbling, and those who do iniquity, \wj*
\v 42 \wj and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth. \wj*
\v 43 \wj Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.\wj*
\p
\v 44 \wj “Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.\wj*
\p
\v 45 \wj “Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a merchant seeking fine pearls, \wj*
\v 46 \wj who having found one pearl of great price, he went and sold all that he had, and bought it.\wj*
\p
\v 47 \wj “Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet, that was cast into the sea, and gathered some fish of every kind, \wj*
\v 48 \wj which, when it was filled, they drew up on the beach. They sat down, and gathered the good into containers, but the bad they threw away. \wj*
\v 49 \wj So will it be in the end of the world.\wj*\f + \fr 13:49 \ft or, end of the age.\f* \wj The angels will come and separate the wicked from among the righteous, \wj*
\v 50 \wj and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.”\wj*
\v 51 Jesus said to them, \wj “Have you understood all these things?” \wj*
\p They answered him, “Yes, Lord.”
\p
\v 52 He said to them, \wj “Therefore every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things.”\wj*
\p
\v 53 When Jesus had finished these parables, he departed from there.
\v 54 Coming into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, “Where did this man get this wisdom, and these mighty works?
\v 55 Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother called Mary, and his brothers, James, Joses, Simon, and Judas?\f + \fr 13:55 \ft or, Judah\f*
\v 56 Aren’t all of his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all of these things?”
\v 57 They were offended by him.
\p But Jesus said to them, \wj “A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and in his own house.”\wj*
\v 58 He didn’t do many mighty works there because of their unbelief.


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\v 1 At that time, Herod the tetrarch heard the report concerning Jesus,
\v 2 and said to his servants, “This is John the Baptizer. He is risen from the dead. That is why these powers work in him.”
\v 3 For Herod had arrested John, and bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife.
\v 4 For John said to him, “It is not lawful for you to have her.”
\v 5 When he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.
\v 6 But when Herod’s birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced among them and pleased Herod.
\v 7 Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatever she should ask.
\v 8 She, being prompted by her mother, said, “Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptizer.”
\p
\v 9 The king was grieved, but for the sake of his oaths, and of those who sat at the table with him, he commanded it to be given,
\v 10 and he sent and beheaded John in the prison.
\v 11 His head was brought on a platter, and given to the young lady; and she brought it to her mother.
\v 12 His disciples came, and took the body, and buried it. Then they went and told Jesus.
\v 13 Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat, to a deserted place apart. When the multitudes heard it, they followed him on foot from the cities.
\p
\v 14 Jesus went out, and he saw a great multitude. He had compassion on them, and healed their sick.
\v 15 When evening had come, his disciples came to him, saying, “This place is deserted, and the hour is already late. Send the multitudes away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves food.”
\p
\v 16 But Jesus said to them, \wj “They don’t need to go away. You give them something to eat.”\wj*
\p
\v 17 They told him, “We only have here five loaves and two fish.”
\p
\v 18 He said, \wj “Bring them here to me.”\wj*
\v 19 He commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass; and he took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, broke and gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples gave to the multitudes.
\v 20 They all ate, and were filled. They took up twelve baskets full of that which remained left over from the broken pieces.
\v 21 Those who ate were about five thousand men, in addition to women and children.
\p
\v 22 Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat, and to go ahead of him to the other side, while he sent the multitudes away.
\v 23 After he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into the mountain by himself to pray. When evening had come, he was there alone.
\v 24 But the boat was now in the middle of the sea, distressed by the waves, for the wind was contrary.
\v 25 In the fourth watch of the night,\f + \fr 14:25 \ft The night was equally divided into four watches, so the fourth watch is approximately 3:00 a.m. to sunrise. \f* Jesus came to them, walking on the sea.\x + \xo 14:25 \xt See Job 9:8\x*
\v 26 When the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, “It’s a ghost!” and they cried out for fear.
\v 27 But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, \wj “Cheer up! It is I! \wj*\f + \fr 14:27 \ft or, I AM!\f* \wj Don’t be afraid.”\wj*
\p
\v 28 Peter answered him and said, “Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the waters.”
\p
\v 29 He said, \wj “Come!”\wj*
\p Peter stepped down from the boat, and walked on the waters to come to Jesus.
\v 30 But when he saw that the wind was strong, he was afraid, and beginning to sink, he cried out, saying, “Lord, save me!”
\p
\v 31 Immediately Jesus stretched out his hand, took hold of him, and said to him, \wj “You of little faith, why did you doubt?”\wj*
\v 32 When they got up into the boat, the wind ceased.
\v 33 Those who were in the boat came and worshiped him, saying, “You are truly the Son of God!”
\p
\v 34 When they had crossed over, they came to the land of Gennesaret.
\v 35 When the people of that place recognized him, they sent into all that surrounding region, and brought to him all who were sick;
\v 36 and they begged him that they might just touch the fringe\f + \fr 14:36 \ft or, tassel\f* of his garment. As many as touched it were made whole.


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\v 1 Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, saying,
\v 2 “Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat bread.”
\p
\v 3 He answered them, \wj “Why do you also disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition? \wj*
\v 4 \wj For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’\wj*\x + \xo 15:4 \xt Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16\x* \wj and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’\wj*\x + \xo 15:4 \xt Exodus 21:17; Leviticus 20:9\x*
\v 5 \wj But you say, ‘Whoever may tell his father or his mother, “Whatever help you might otherwise have gotten from me is a gift devoted to God,” \wj*
\v 6 \wj he shall not honor his father or mother.’ You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition. \wj*
\v 7 \wj You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,\wj*
\q1
\v 8 \wj ‘These people draw near to me with their mouth,\wj*
\q2 \wj and honor me with their lips;\wj*
\q2 \wj but their heart is far from me.\wj*
\q1
\v 9 \wj And in vain do they worship me,\wj*
\q2 \wj teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’”\wj*\x + \xo 15:9 \xt Isaiah 29:13 \x*
\p
\v 10 He summoned the multitude, and said to them, \wj “Hear, and understand. \wj*
\v 11 \wj That which enters into the mouth doesn’t defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.”\wj*
\p
\v 12 Then the disciples came, and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?”
\p
\v 13 But he answered, \wj “Every plant which my heavenly Father didn’t plant will be uprooted. \wj*
\v 14 \wj Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”\wj*
\p
\v 15 Peter answered him, “Explain the parable to us.”
\p
\v 16 So Jesus said, \wj “Do you also still not understand? \wj*
\v 17 \wj Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly, and then out of the body? \wj*
\v 18 \wj But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man. \wj*
\v 19 \wj For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies. \wj*
\v 20 \wj These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn’t defile the man.”\wj*
\p
\v 21 Jesus went out from there, and withdrew into the region of Tyre and Sidon.
\v 22 Behold, a Canaanite woman came out from those borders, and cried, saying, “Have mercy on me, Lord, you son of David! My daughter is severely possessed by a demon!”
\p
\v 23 But he answered her not a word.
\p His disciples came and begged him, saying, “Send her away; for she cries after us.”
\p
\v 24 But he answered, \wj “I wasn’t sent to anyone but the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”\wj*
\p
\v 25 But she came and worshiped him, saying, “Lord, help me.”
\p
\v 26 But he answered, \wj “It is not appropriate to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”\wj*
\p
\v 27 But she said, “Yes, Lord, but even the dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.”
\p
\v 28 Then Jesus answered her, \wj “Woman, great is your faith! Be it done to you even as you desire.”\wj* And her daughter was healed from that hour.
\p
\v 29 Jesus departed from there, and came near to the sea of Galilee; and he went up into the mountain, and sat there.
\v 30 Great multitudes came to him, having with them the lame, blind, mute, maimed, and many others, and they put them down at his feet. He healed them,
\v 31 so that the multitude wondered when they saw the mute speaking, the injured healed, the lame walking, and the blind seeing—and they glorified the God of Israel.
\p
\v 32 Jesus summoned his disciples and said, \wj “I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days and have nothing to eat. I don’t want to send them away fasting, or they might faint on the way.” \wj*
\p
\v 33 The disciples said to him, “Where should we get so many loaves in a deserted place as to satisfy so great a multitude?”
\p
\v 34 Jesus said to them, \wj “How many loaves do you have?”\wj*
\p They said, “Seven, and a few small fish.”
\p
\v 35 He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground;
\v 36 and he took the seven loaves and the fish. He gave thanks and broke them, and gave to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes.
\v 37 They all ate, and were filled. They took up seven baskets full of the broken pieces that were left over.
\v 38 Those who ate were four thousand men, in addition to women and children.
\v 39 Then he sent away the multitudes, got into the boat, and came into the borders of Magdala.


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\v 1 The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven.
\v 2 But he answered them, \wj “When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’ \wj*
\v 3 \wj In the morning, ‘It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ Hypocrites! You know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but you can’t discern the signs of the times! \wj*
\v 4 \wj An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there will be no sign given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah.”\wj*
\p He left them, and departed.
\v 5 The disciples came to the other side and had forgotten to take bread.
\v 6 Jesus said to them, \wj “Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”\wj*
\p
\v 7 They reasoned among themselves, saying, “We brought no bread.”
\p
\v 8 Jesus, perceiving it, said, \wj “Why do you reason among yourselves, you of little faith, ‘because you have brought no bread?’ \wj*
\v 9 \wj Don’t you yet perceive, neither remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up? \wj*
\v 10 \wj Nor the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many baskets you took up? \wj*
\v 11 \wj How is it that you don’t perceive that I didn’t speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” \wj*
\p
\v 12 Then they understood that he didn’t tell them to beware of the yeast of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
\p
\v 13 Now when Jesus came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, \wj “Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?”\wj*
\p
\v 14 They said, “Some say John the Baptizer, some, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.”
\p
\v 15 He said to them, \wj “But who do you say that I am?”\wj*
\p
\v 16 Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
\p
\v 17 Jesus answered him, \wj “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. \wj*
\v 18 \wj I also tell you that you are Peter,\wj*\f + \fr 16:18 \ft Peter’s name, Petros in Greek, is the word for a specific rock or stone.\f* \wj and on this rock \wj*\f + \fr 16:18 \ft Greek, petra, a rock mass or bedrock.\f* \wj I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades\wj*\f + \fr 16:18 \ft or, Hell\f* \wj will not prevail against it. \wj*
\v 19 \wj I will give to you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven; and whatever you release on earth will have been released in heaven.”\wj*
\v 20 Then he commanded the disciples that they should tell no one that he was Jesus the Christ.
\v 21 From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.
\p
\v 22 Peter took him aside, and began to rebuke him, saying, “Far be it from you, Lord! This will never be done to you.”
\p
\v 23 But he turned, and said to Peter, \wj “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men.”\wj*
\v 24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, \wj “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. \wj*
\v 25 \wj For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it. \wj*
\v 26 \wj For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life? \wj*
\v 27 \wj For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds. \wj*
\v 28 \wj Most certainly I tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste of death, until they see the Son of Man coming in his Kingdom.” \wj*


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\v 1 After six days, Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John his brother, and brought them up into a high mountain by themselves.
\v 2 He was changed\f + \fr 17:2 \ft or, transfigured\f* before them. His face shone like the sun, and his garments became as white as the light.
\v 3 Behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them talking with him.
\p
\v 4 Peter answered, and said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you want, let’s make three tents here: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”
\p
\v 5 While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”
\p
\v 6 When the disciples heard it, they fell on their faces, and were very afraid.
\v 7 Jesus came and touched them and said, \wj “Get up, and don’t be afraid.” \wj*
\v 8 Lifting up their eyes, they saw no one, except Jesus alone.
\v 9 As they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, saying, \wj “Don’t tell anyone what you saw, until the Son of Man has risen from the dead.”\wj*
\p
\v 10 His disciples asked him, saying, “Then why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”
\p
\v 11 Jesus answered them, \wj “Elijah indeed comes first, and will restore all things, \wj*
\v 12 \wj but I tell you that Elijah has come already, and they didn’t recognize him, but did to him whatever they wanted to. Even so the Son of Man will also suffer by them.”\wj*
\v 13 Then the disciples understood that he spoke to them of John the Baptizer.
\p
\v 14 When they came to the multitude, a man came to him, kneeling down to him, and saying,
\v 15 “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is epileptic, and suffers grievously; for he often falls into the fire, and often into the water.
\v 16 So I brought him to your disciples, and they could not cure him.”
\p
\v 17 Jesus answered, \wj “Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me.”\wj*
\v 18 Jesus rebuked him, the demon went out of him, and the boy was cured from that hour.
\p
\v 19 Then the disciples came to Jesus privately, and said, “Why weren’t we able to cast it out?”
\p
\v 20 He said to them, \wj “Because of your unbelief. For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you. \wj*
\v 21 \wj But this kind doesn’t go out except by prayer and fasting.” \wj*\f + \fr 17:21 \ft NU omits verse 21.\f*
\p
\v 22 While they were staying in Galilee, Jesus said to them, \wj “The Son of Man is about to be delivered up into the hands of men, \wj*
\v 23 \wj and they will kill him, and the third day he will be raised up.” \wj*
\p They were exceedingly sorry.
\p
\v 24 When they had come to Capernaum, those who collected the didrachma coins\f + \fr 17:24 \ft A didrachma is a Greek silver coin worth 2 drachmas, about as much as 2 Roman denarii, or about 2 days’ wages. It was commonly used to pay the half-shekel temple tax, because 2 drachmas were worth one half shekel of silver. A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.\f* came to Peter, and said, “Doesn’t your teacher pay the didrachma?”
\v 25 He said, “Yes.”
\p When he came into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, \wj “What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth receive toll or tribute? From their children, or from strangers?”\wj*
\p
\v 26 Peter said to him, “From strangers.”
\p Jesus said to him, \wj “Therefore the children are exempt. \wj*
\v 27 \wj But, lest we cause them to stumble, go to the sea, cast a hook, and take up the first fish that comes up. When you have opened its mouth, you will find a stater coin.\wj*\f + \fr 17:27 \ft A stater is a silver coin equivalent to four Attic or two Alexandrian drachmas, or a Jewish shekel: just exactly enough to cover the half-shekel temple tax for two people. A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, usually in the form of a silver coin.\f* \wj Take that, and give it to them for me and you.”\wj*


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\v 1 In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?”
\p
\v 2 Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him in the middle of them,
\v 3 and said, \wj “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. \wj*
\v 4 \wj Whoever therefore humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven. \wj*
\v 5 \wj Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me, \wj*
\v 6 \wj but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if a huge millstone were hung around his neck, and that he were sunk in the depths of the sea. \wj*
\p
\v 7 \wj “Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes! \wj*
\v 8 \wj If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life maimed or crippled, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire. \wj*
\v 9 \wj If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna\wj*\f + \fr 18:9 \ft or, Hell\f* \wj of fire. \wj*
\v 10 \wj See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven. \wj*
\v 11 \wj For the Son of Man came to save that which was lost.\wj*\f + \fr 18:11 \ft NU omits verse 11.\f*
\p
\v 12 \wj “What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray? \wj*
\v 13 \wj If he finds it, most certainly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray. \wj*
\v 14 \wj Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.\wj*
\p
\v 15 \wj “If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother. \wj*
\v 16 \wj But if he doesn’t listen, take one or two more with you, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.\wj*\x + \xo 18:16 \xt Deuteronomy 19:15\x*
\v 17 \wj If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector. \wj*
\v 18 \wj Most certainly I tell you, whatever things you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever things you release on earth will have been released in heaven. \wj*
\v 19 \wj Again, assuredly I tell you, that if two of you will agree on earth concerning anything that they will ask, it will be done for them by my Father who is in heaven. \wj*
\v 20 \wj For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the middle of them.”\wj*
\p
\v 21 Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?”
\p
\v 22 Jesus said to him, \wj “I don’t tell you until seven times, but, until seventy times seven. \wj*
\v 23 \wj Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who wanted to reconcile accounts with his servants. \wj*
\v 24 \wj When he had begun to reconcile, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.\wj*\f + \fr 18:24 \ft Ten thousand talents (about 300 metric tons of silver) represents an extremely large sum of money, equivalent to about 60,000,000 denarii, where one denarius was typical of one day’s wages for agricultural labor.\f*
\v 25 \wj But because he couldn’t pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. \wj*
\v 26 \wj The servant therefore fell down and knelt before him, saying, ‘Lord, have patience with me, and I will repay you all!’ \wj*
\v 27 \wj The lord of that servant, being moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt.\wj*
\p
\v 28 \wj “But that servant went out, and found one of his fellow servants, who owed him one hundred denarii,\wj*\f + \fr 18:28 \ft 100 denarii was about one sixtieth of a talent, or about 500 grams (1.1 pounds) of silver.\f* \wj and he grabbed him, and took him by the throat, saying, ‘Pay me what you owe!’\wj*
\p
\v 29 \wj “So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him, saying, ‘Have patience with me, and I will repay you!’ \wj*
\v 30 \wj He would not, but went and cast him into prison, until he should pay back that which was due. \wj*
\v 31 \wj So when his fellow servants saw what was done, they were exceedingly sorry, and came and told their lord all that was done. \wj*
\v 32 \wj Then his lord called him in, and said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt, because you begged me. \wj*
\v 33 \wj Shouldn’t you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?’ \wj*
\v 34 \wj His lord was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors, until he should pay all that was due to him. \wj*
\v 35 \wj So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don’t each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds.”\wj*


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\v 1 When Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan.
\v 2 Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there.
\v 3 Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”
\p
\v 4 He answered, \wj “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,\wj*\x + \xo 19:4 \xt Genesis 1:27\x*
\v 5 \wj and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’\wj*\x + \xo 19:5 \xt Genesis 2:24\x*
\v 6 \wj So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”\wj*
\p
\v 7 They asked him, “Why then did Moses command us to give her a certificate of divorce, and divorce her?”
\p
\v 8 He said to them, \wj “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so. \wj*
\v 9 \wj I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”\wj*
\p
\v 10 His disciples said to him, “If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.”
\p
\v 11 But he said to them, \wj “Not all men can receive this saying, but those to whom it is given. \wj*
\v 12 \wj For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven’s sake. He who is able to receive it, let him receive it.”\wj*
\p
\v 13 Then little children were brought to him, that he should lay his hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them.
\v 14 But Jesus said, \wj “Allow the little children, and don’t forbid them to come to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these.”\wj*
\v 15 He laid his hands on them, and departed from there.
\p
\v 16 Behold, one came to him and said, “Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?”
\p
\v 17 He said to him, \wj “Why do you call me good?\wj*\f + \fr 19:17 \ft So MT and TR. NU reads “Why do you ask me about what is good?”\f* \wj No one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.” \wj*
\p
\v 18 He said to him, “Which ones?”
\p Jesus said, \wj “‘You shall not murder.’ ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ ‘You shall not steal.’ ‘You shall not offer false testimony.’ \wj*
\v 19 \wj ‘Honor your father and your mother.’\wj*\x + \xo 19:19 \xt Exodus 20:12-16; Deuteronomy 5:16-20\x* \wj And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”\wj*\x + \xo 19:19 \xt Leviticus 19:18\x*
\p
\v 20 The young man said to him, “All these things I have observed from my youth. What do I still lack?”
\p
\v 21 Jesus said to him, \wj “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”\wj*
\v 22 But when the young man heard the saying, he went away sad, for he was one who had great possessions.
\v 23 Jesus said to his disciples, \wj “Most certainly I say to you, a rich man will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven with difficulty. \wj*
\v 24 \wj Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into God’s Kingdom.”\wj*
\p
\v 25 When the disciples heard it, they were exceedingly astonished, saying, “Who then can be saved?”
\p
\v 26 Looking at them, Jesus said, \wj “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”\wj*
\p
\v 27 Then Peter answered, “Behold, we have left everything, and followed you. What then will we have?”
\p
\v 28 Jesus said to them, \wj “Most certainly I tell you that you who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on the throne of his glory, you also will sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. \wj*
\v 29 \wj Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life. \wj*
\v 30 \wj But many will be last who are first; and first who are last. \wj*


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\v 1 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, behold, wise men\f + \fr 2:1 \ft The word for “wise men” (magoi) can also mean teachers, scientists, physicians, astrologers, seers, interpreters of dreams, or sorcerers.\f* from the east came to Jerusalem, saying,
\v 2 “Where is he who is born King of the Jews? For we saw his star in the east, and have come to worship him.”
\v 3 When King Herod heard it, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.
\v 4 Gathering together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he asked them where the Christ would be born.
\v 5 They said to him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for this is written through the prophet,
\q1
\v 6 ‘You Bethlehem, land of Judah,
\q2 are in no way least among the princes of Judah:
\q1 for out of you shall come a governor,
\q2 who shall shepherd my people, Israel.’”\x + \xo 2:6 \xt Micah 5:2\x*
\p
\v 7 Then Herod secretly called the wise men, and learned from them exactly what time the star appeared.
\v 8 He sent them to Bethlehem, and said, “Go and search diligently for the young child. When you have found him, bring me word, so that I also may come and worship him.”
\p
\v 9 They, having heard the king, went their way; and behold, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, until it came and stood over where the young child was.
\v 10 When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceedingly great joy.
\v 11 They came into the house and saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Opening their treasures, they offered to him gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
\v 12 Being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they went back to their own country another way.
\p
\v 13 Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, “Arise and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.”
\p
\v 14 He arose and took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt,
\v 15 and was there until the death of Herod; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, “Out of Egypt I called my son.”\x + \xo 2:15 \xt Hosea 11:1\x*
\p
\v 16 Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.
\v 17 Then that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, saying,
\q1
\v 18 “A voice was heard in Ramah,
\q2 lamentation, weeping and great mourning,
\q1 Rachel weeping for her children;
\q2 she wouldn’t be comforted,
\q2 because they are no more.”\x + \xo 2:18 \xt Jeremiah 31:15\x*
\p
\v 19 But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying,
\v 20 “Arise and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel, for those who sought the young child’s life are dead.”
\p
\v 21 He arose and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel.
\v 22 But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in the place of his father, Herod, he was afraid to go there. Being warned in a dream, he withdrew into the region of Galilee,
\v 23 and came and lived in a city called Nazareth; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophets that he will be called a Nazarene.


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\v 1 \wj “For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. \wj*
\v 2 \wj When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius\wj*\f + \fr 20:2 \ft A denarius is a silver Roman coin worth 1/25th of a Roman aureus. This was a common wage for a day of farm labor.\f* \wj a day, he sent them into his vineyard. \wj*
\v 3 \wj He went out about the third hour,\wj*\f + \fr 20:3 \ft Time was measured from sunrise to sunset, so the third hour would be about 9:00 a.m.\f* \wj and saw others standing idle in the marketplace. \wj*
\v 4 \wj He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they went their way. \wj*
\v 5 \wj Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour,\wj*\f + \fr 20:5 \ft noon and 3:00 p.m.\f* \wj and did likewise. \wj*
\v 6 \wj About the eleventh hour\wj*\f + \fr 20:6 \ft 5:00 p.m.\f* \wj he went out, and found others standing idle. He said to them, ‘Why do you stand here all day idle?’ \wj*
\p
\v 7 \wj “They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’\wj*
\p \wj “He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and you will receive whatever is right.’ \wj*
\v 8 \wj When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first.’\wj*
\p
\v 9 \wj “When those who were hired at about the eleventh hour came, they each received a denarius. \wj*
\v 10 \wj When the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; and they likewise each received a denarius. \wj*
\v 11 \wj When they received it, they murmured against the master of the household, \wj*
\v 12 \wj saying, ‘These last have spent one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat!’ \wj*
\p
\v 13 \wj “But he answered one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Didn’t you agree with me for a denarius? \wj*
\v 14 \wj Take that which is yours, and go your way. It is my desire to give to this last just as much as to you. \wj*
\v 15 \wj Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’ \wj*
\v 16 \wj So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.”\wj*
\p
\v 17 As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside, and on the way he said to them,
\v 18 \wj “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death, \wj*
\v 19 \wj and will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock, to scourge, and to crucify; and the third day he will be raised up.”\wj*
\p
\v 20 Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, kneeling and asking a certain thing of him.
\v 21 He said to her, \wj “What do you want?”\wj*
\p She said to him, “Command that these, my two sons, may sit, one on your right hand, and one on your left hand, in your Kingdom.”
\p
\v 22 But Jesus answered, \wj “You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?”\wj*
\p They said to him, “We are able.”
\p
\v 23 He said to them, \wj “You will indeed drink my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with, but to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it is for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”\wj*
\p
\v 24 When the ten heard it, they were indignant with the two brothers.
\p
\v 25 But Jesus summoned them, and said, \wj “You know that the rulers of the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. \wj*
\v 26 \wj It shall not be so among you, but whoever desires to become great among you shall be\wj*\f + \fr 20:26 \ft TR reads “let him be” instead of “shall be” \f* \wj your servant. \wj*
\v 27 \wj Whoever desires to be first among you shall be your bondservant, \wj*
\v 28 \wj even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”\wj*
\p
\v 29 As they went out from Jericho, a great multitude followed him.
\v 30 Behold, two blind men sitting by the road, when they heard that Jesus was passing by, cried out, “Lord, have mercy on us, you son of David!”
\v 31 The multitude rebuked them, telling them that they should be quiet, but they cried out even more, “Lord, have mercy on us, you son of David!”
\p
\v 32 Jesus stood still, and called them, and asked, \wj “What do you want me to do for you?”\wj*
\p
\v 33 They told him, “Lord, that our eyes may be opened.”
\p
\v 34 Jesus, being moved with compassion, touched their eyes; and immediately their eyes received their sight, and they followed him.


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\v 1 When they came near to Jerusalem, and came to Bethsphage,\f + \fr 21:1 \ft TR & NU read “Bethphage” instead of “Bethsphage”\f* to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,
\v 2 saying to them, \wj “Go into the village that is opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Untie them, and bring them to me. \wj*
\v 3 \wj If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and immediately he will send them.”\wj*
\p
\v 4 All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying,
\q1
\v 5 “Tell the daughter of Zion,
\q2 behold, your King comes to you,
\q2 humble, and riding on a donkey,
\q2 on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”\x + \xo 21:5 \xt Zechariah 9:9\x*
\p
\v 6 The disciples went, and did just as Jesus commanded them,
\v 7 and brought the donkey and the colt, and laid their clothes on them; and he sat on them.
\v 8 A very great multitude spread their clothes on the road. Others cut branches from the trees, and spread them on the road.
\v 9 The multitudes who went in front of him, and those who followed, kept shouting, “Hosanna \f + \fr 21:9 \ft “Hosanna” means “save us” or “help us, we pray”.\f* to the son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!” \x + \xo 21:9 \xt Psalm 118:26\x*
\p
\v 10 When he had come into Jerusalem, all the city was stirred up, saying, “Who is this?”
\v 11 The multitudes said, “This is the prophet, Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee.”
\p
\v 12 Jesus entered into the temple of God, and drove out all of those who sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers’ tables and the seats of those who sold the doves.
\v 13 He said to them, \wj “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’\wj*\x + \xo 21:13 \xt Isaiah 56:7\x* \wj but you have made it a den of robbers!”\wj*\x + \xo 21:13 \xt Jeremiah 7:11\x*
\p
\v 14 The blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them.
\v 15 But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children who were crying in the temple and saying, “Hosanna to the son of David!” they were indignant,
\v 16 and said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?”
\p Jesus said to them, \wj “Yes. Did you never read, ‘Out of the mouth of babes and nursing babies you have perfected praise?’”\wj*\x + \xo 21:16 \xt Psalm 8:2\x*
\p
\v 17 He left them, and went out of the city to Bethany, and camped there.
\v 18 Now in the morning, as he returned to the city, he was hungry.
\v 19 Seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it, and found nothing on it but leaves. He said to it, \wj “Let there be no fruit from you forever!” \wj*
\p Immediately the fig tree withered away.
\v 20 When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, “How did the fig tree immediately wither away?”
\p
\v 21 Jesus answered them, \wj “Most certainly I tell you, if you have faith, and don’t doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you told this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ it would be done. \wj*
\v 22 \wj All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”\wj*
\p
\v 23 When he had come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, “By what authority do you do these things? Who gave you this authority?”
\p
\v 24 Jesus answered them, \wj “I also will ask you one question, which if you tell me, I likewise will tell you by what authority I do these things. \wj*
\v 25 \wj The baptism of John, where was it from? From heaven or from men?” \wj*
\p They reasoned with themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will ask us, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’
\v 26 But if we say, ‘From men,’ we fear the multitude, for all hold John as a prophet.”
\v 27 They answered Jesus, and said, “We don’t know.”
\p He also said to them, \wj “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things. \wj*
\v 28 \wj But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, ‘Son, go work today in my vineyard.’ \wj*
\v 29 \wj He answered, ‘I will not,’ but afterward he changed his mind, and went. \wj*
\v 30 \wj He came to the second, and said the same thing. He answered, ‘I’m going, sir,’ but he didn’t go. \wj*
\v 31 \wj Which of the two did the will of his father?”\wj*
\p They said to him, “The first.”
\p Jesus said to them, \wj “Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into God’s Kingdom before you. \wj*
\v 32 \wj For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn’t believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. When you saw it, you didn’t even repent afterward, that you might believe him. \wj*
\p
\v 33 \wj “Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a wine press in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country. \wj*
\v 34 \wj When the season for the fruit came near, he sent his servants to the farmers, to receive his fruit. \wj*
\v 35 \wj The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another. \wj*
\v 36 \wj Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they treated them the same way. \wj*
\v 37 \wj But afterward he sent to them his son, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ \wj*
\v 38 \wj But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and seize his inheritance.’ \wj*
\v 39 \wj So they took him, and threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. \wj*
\v 40 \wj When therefore the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers?”\wj*
\p
\v 41 They told him, “He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers, who will give him the fruit in its season.”
\p
\v 42 Jesus said to them, \wj “Did you never read in the Scriptures, \wj*
\q1 \wj ‘The stone which the builders rejected\wj*
\q2 \wj was made the head of the corner.\wj*
\q1 \wj This was from the Lord.\wj*
\q2 \wj It is marvelous in our eyes?’\wj*\x + \xo 21:42 \xt Psalm 118:22-23\x*
\p
\v 43 \wj “Therefore I tell you, God’s Kingdom will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation producing its fruit. \wj*
\v 44 \wj He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whomever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust.”\wj*
\p
\v 45 When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he spoke about them.
\v 46 When they sought to seize him, they feared the multitudes, because they considered him to be a prophet.


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\p
\v 1 Jesus answered and spoke to them again in parables, saying,
\v 2 \wj “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a wedding feast for his son, \wj*
\v 3 \wj and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come. \wj*
\v 4 \wj Again he sent out other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “Behold, I have prepared my dinner. My cattle and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the wedding feast!”’ \wj*
\v 5 \wj But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise, \wj*
\v 6 \wj and the rest grabbed his servants, and treated them shamefully, and killed them. \wj*
\v 7 \wj When the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.\wj*
\p
\v 8 \wj “Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding is ready, but those who were invited weren’t worthy. \wj*
\v 9 \wj Go therefore to the intersections of the highways, and as many as you may find, invite to the wedding feast.’ \wj*
\v 10 \wj Those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together as many as they found, both bad and good. The wedding was filled with guests. \wj*
\v 11 \wj But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who didn’t have on wedding clothing, \wj*
\v 12 \wj and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?’ He was speechless. \wj*
\v 13 \wj Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness. That is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.’ \wj*
\v 14 \wj For many are called, but few chosen.”\wj*
\p
\v 15 Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.
\v 16 They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and teach the way of God in truth, no matter whom you teach, for you aren’t partial to anyone.
\v 17 Tell us therefore, what do you think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”
\p
\v 18 But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, \wj “Why do you test me, you hypocrites? \wj*
\v 19 \wj Show me the tax money.”\wj*
\p They brought to him a denarius.
\p
\v 20 He asked them, \wj “Whose is this image and inscription?”\wj*
\p
\v 21 They said to him, “Caesar’s.”
\p Then he said to them, \wj “Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”\wj*
\p
\v 22 When they heard it, they marveled, and left him, and went away.
\p
\v 23 On that day Sadducees (those who say that there is no resurrection) came to him. They asked him,
\v 24 saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up offspring\f + \fr 22:24 \ft or, seed\f* for his brother.’
\v 25 Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no offspring left his wife to his brother.
\v 26 In the same way, the second also, and the third, to the seventh.
\v 27 After them all, the woman died.
\v 28 In the resurrection therefore, whose wife will she be of the seven? For they all had her.”
\p
\v 29 But Jesus answered them, \wj “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God. \wj*
\v 30 \wj For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like God’s angels in heaven. \wj*
\v 31 \wj But concerning the resurrection of the dead, haven’t you read that which was spoken to you by God, saying, \wj*
\v 32 \wj ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?’\wj*\x + \xo 22:32 \xt Exodus 3:6\x* \wj God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”\wj*
\p
\v 33 When the multitudes heard it, they were astonished at his teaching.
\v 34 But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, gathered themselves together.
\v 35 One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him.
\v 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?”
\p
\v 37 Jesus said to him, \wj “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’\wj*\x + \xo 22:37 \xt Deuteronomy 6:5 \x*
\v 38 \wj This is the first and great commandment. \wj*
\v 39 \wj A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’\wj*\x + \xo 22:39 \xt Leviticus 19:18\x*
\v 40 \wj The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.” \wj*
\p
\v 41 Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question,
\v 42 saying, \wj “What do you think of the Christ? Whose son is he?” \wj*
\p They said to him, “Of David.”
\p
\v 43 He said to them, \wj “How then does David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying,\wj*
\q1
\v 44 \wj ‘The Lord said to my Lord,\wj*
\q2 \wj sit on my right hand,\wj*
\q2 \wj until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet?’\wj*\x + \xo 22:44 \xt Psalm 110:1\x*
\p
\v 45 \wj “If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son?”\wj*
\p
\v 46 No one was able to answer him a word, neither did any man dare ask him any more questions from that day forward.


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\v 1 Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples,
\v 2 saying, \wj “The scribes and the Pharisees sat on Moses’ seat. \wj*
\v 3 \wj All things therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do, but don’t do their works; for they say, and don’t do. \wj*
\v 4 \wj For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them. \wj*
\v 5 \wj But they do all their works to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries \wj*\f + \fr 23:5 \ft phylacteries (tefillin in Hebrew) are small leather pouches that some Jewish men wear on their forehead and arm in prayer. They are used to carry a small scroll with some Scripture in it. See Deuteronomy 6:8.\f* \wj broad, enlarge the fringes\wj*\f + \fr 23:5 \ft or, tassels\f* \wj of their garments, \wj*
\v 6 \wj and love the place of honor at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues, \wj*
\v 7 \wj the salutations in the marketplaces, and to be called ‘Rabbi, Rabbi’ by men. \wj*
\v 8 \wj But don’t you be called ‘Rabbi,’ for one is your teacher, the Christ, and all of you are brothers. \wj*
\v 9 \wj Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven. \wj*
\v 10 \wj Neither be called masters, for one is your master, the Christ. \wj*
\v 11 \wj But he who is greatest among you will be your servant. \wj*
\v 12 \wj Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.\wj*
\p
\v 13 \wj “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.\wj*
\p
\v 14 \wj “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you don’t enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter.\wj*\f + \fr 23:14 \ft Some Greek texts reverse the order of verses 13 and 14, and some omit verse 13, numbering verse 14 as 13. NU omits verse 14.\f*
\v 15 \wj Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of Gehenna\wj*\f + \fr 23:15 \ft or, Hell\f* \wj as yourselves. \wj*
\p
\v 16 \wj “Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.’ \wj*
\v 17 \wj You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold? \wj*
\v 18 \wj ‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is obligated?’ \wj*
\v 19 \wj You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift? \wj*
\v 20 \wj He therefore who swears by the altar, swears by it, and by everything on it. \wj*
\v 21 \wj He who swears by the temple, swears by it, and by him who has been living\wj*\f + \fr 23:21 \ft NU reads “lives”\f* \wj in it. \wj*
\v 22 \wj He who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God, and by him who sits on it.\wj*
\p
\v 23 \wj “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin,\wj*\f + \fr 23:23 \ft cumin is an aromatic seed from Cuminum cyminum, resembling caraway in flavor and appearance. It is used as a spice.\f* \wj and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone. \wj*
\v 24 \wj You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel! \wj*
\p
\v 25 \wj “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and unrighteousness.\wj*\f + \fr 23:25 \ft TR reads “self-indulgence” instead of “unrighteousness”\f*
\v 26 \wj You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also.\wj*
\p
\v 27 \wj “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness. \wj*
\v 28 \wj Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.\wj*
\p
\v 29 \wj “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the tombs of the righteous, \wj*
\v 30 \wj and say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we wouldn’t have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.’ \wj*
\v 31 \wj Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets. \wj*
\v 32 \wj Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers. \wj*
\v 33 \wj You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?\wj*\f + \fr 23:33 \ft or, Hell\f*
\v 34 \wj Therefore behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city; \wj*
\v 35 \wj that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar. \wj*
\v 36 \wj Most certainly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.\wj*
\p
\v 37 \wj “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not! \wj*
\v 38 \wj Behold, your house is left to you desolate. \wj*
\v 39 \wj For I tell you, you will not see me from now on, until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’”\wj*\x + \xo 23:39 \xt Psalm 118:26 \x*


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\v 1 Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way. His disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple.
\v 2 But he answered them, \wj “You see all of these things, don’t you? Most certainly I tell you, there will not be left here one stone on another, that will not be thrown down.”\wj*
\p
\v 3 As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?”
\p
\v 4 Jesus answered them, \wj “Be careful that no one leads you astray. \wj*
\v 5 \wj For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will lead many astray. \wj*
\v 6 \wj You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you aren’t troubled, for all this must happen, but the end is not yet. \wj*
\v 7 \wj For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be famines, plagues, and earthquakes in various places. \wj*
\v 8 \wj But all these things are the beginning of birth pains. \wj*
\v 9 \wj Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name’s sake. \wj*
\v 10 \wj Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another. \wj*
\v 11 \wj Many false prophets will arise, and will lead many astray. \wj*
\v 12 \wj Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold. \wj*
\v 13 \wj But he who endures to the end will be saved. \wj*
\v 14 \wj This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.\wj*
\p
\v 15 \wj “When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation,\wj* \x + \xo 24:15 \xt Daniel 9:27; 11:31; 12:11\x* \wj which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand), \wj*
\v 16 \wj then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. \wj*
\v 17 \wj Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take out the things that are in his house. \wj*
\v 18 \wj Let him who is in the field not return back to get his clothes. \wj*
\v 19 \wj But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days! \wj*
\v 20 \wj Pray that your flight will not be in the winter, nor on a Sabbath, \wj*
\v 21 \wj for then there will be great suffering,\wj*\f + \fr 24:21 \ft or, oppression\f* \wj such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be. \wj*
\v 22 \wj Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened. \wj*
\p
\v 23 \wj “Then if any man tells you, ‘Behold, here is the Christ,’ or, ‘There,’ don’t believe it. \wj*
\v 24 \wj For there will arise false christs, and false prophets, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.\wj*
\p
\v 25 \wj “Behold, I have told you beforehand. \wj*
\v 26 \wj If therefore they tell you, ‘Behold, he is in the wilderness,’ don’t go out; or ‘Behold, he is in the inner rooms,’ don’t believe it. \wj*
\v 27 \wj For as the lightning flashes from the east, and is seen even to the west, so will the coming of the Son of Man be. \wj*
\v 28 \wj For wherever the carcass is, that is where the vultures\wj* \f + \fr 24:28 \ft or, eagles\f* \wj gather together. \wj*
\v 29 \wj But immediately after the suffering\wj*\f + \fr 24:29 \ft or, oppression\f* \wj of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;\wj*\x + \xo 24:29 \xt Isaiah 13:10; 34:4 \x*
\v 30 \wj and then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky. Then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory. \wj*
\v 31 \wj He will send out his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.\wj*
\p
\v 32 \wj “Now from the fig tree learn this parable. When its branch has now become tender, and produces its leaves, you know that the summer is near. \wj*
\v 33 \wj Even so you also, when you see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. \wj*
\v 34 \wj Most certainly I tell you, this generation\wj*\f + \fr 24:34 \ft The word for “generation” (genea) can also be translated as “race.”\f* \wj will not pass away, until all these things are accomplished. \wj*
\v 35 \wj Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. \wj*
\v 36 \wj But no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven,\wj*\f + \fr 24:36 \ft NU adds “nor the son”\f* \wj but my Father only.\wj*
\p
\v 37 \wj “As the days of Noah were, so will the coming of the Son of Man be. \wj*
\v 38 \wj For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ship, \wj*
\v 39 \wj and they didn’t know until the flood came, and took them all away, so will the coming of the Son of Man be. \wj*
\v 40 \wj Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken and one will be left. \wj*
\v 41 \wj Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and one will be left. \wj*
\v 42 \wj Watch therefore, for you don’t know in what hour your Lord comes. \wj*
\v 43 \wj But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into. \wj*
\v 44 \wj Therefore also be ready, for in an hour that you don’t expect, the Son of Man will come.\wj*
\p
\v 45 \wj “Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season? \wj*
\v 46 \wj Blessed is that servant whom his lord finds doing so when he comes. \wj*
\v 47 \wj Most certainly I tell you that he will set him over all that he has. \wj*
\v 48 \wj But if that evil servant should say in his heart, ‘My lord is delaying his coming,’ \wj*
\v 49 \wj and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with the drunkards, \wj*
\v 50 \wj the lord of that servant will come in a day when he doesn’t expect it, and in an hour when he doesn’t know it, \wj*
\v 51 \wj and will cut him in pieces, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. That is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be. \wj*


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\v 1 \wj “Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom. \wj*
\v 2 \wj Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. \wj*
\v 3 \wj Those who were foolish, when they took their lamps, took no oil with them, \wj*
\v 4 \wj but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. \wj*
\v 5 \wj Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept. \wj*
\v 6 \wj But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Behold! The bridegroom is coming! Come out to meet him!’ \wj*
\v 7 \wj Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.\wj*\f + \fr 25:7 \ft The end of the wick of an oil lamp needs to be cut off periodically to avoid having it become clogged with carbon deposits. The wick height is also adjusted so that the flame burns evenly and gives good light without producing a lot of smoke.\f*
\v 8 \wj The foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ \wj*
\v 9 \wj But the wise answered, saying, ‘What if there isn’t enough for us and you? You go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.’ \wj*
\v 10 \wj While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast, and the door was shut. \wj*
\v 11 \wj Afterward the other virgins also came, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us.’ \wj*
\v 12 \wj But he answered, ‘Most certainly I tell you, I don’t know you.’ \wj*
\v 13 \wj Watch therefore, for you don’t know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.\wj*
\p
\v 14 \wj “For it is like a man, going into another country, who called his own servants, and entrusted his goods to them. \wj*
\v 15 \wj To one he gave five talents,\wj*\f + \fr 25:15 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds (usually used to weigh silver unless otherwise specified)\f* \wj to another two, to another one; to each according to his own ability. Then he went on his journey. \wj*
\v 16 \wj Immediately he who received the five talents went and traded with them, and made another five talents. \wj*
\v 17 \wj In the same way, he also who got the two gained another two. \wj*
\v 18 \wj But he who received the one talent went away and dug in the earth, and hid his lord’s money.\wj*
\p
\v 19 \wj “Now after a long time the lord of those servants came, and reconciled accounts with them. \wj*
\v 20 \wj He who received the five talents came and brought another five talents, saying, ‘Lord, you delivered to me five talents. Behold, I have gained another five talents in addition to them.’\wj*
\p
\v 21 \wj “His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’\wj*
\p
\v 22 \wj “He also who got the two talents came and said, ‘Lord, you delivered to me two talents. Behold, I have gained another two talents in addition to them.’ \wj*
\p
\v 23 \wj “His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’\wj*
\p
\v 24 \wj “He also who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Lord, I knew you that you are a hard man, reaping where you didn’t sow, and gathering where you didn’t scatter. \wj*
\v 25 \wj I was afraid, and went away and hid your talent in the earth. Behold, you have what is yours.’\wj*
\p
\v 26 \wj “But his lord answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn’t sow, and gather where I didn’t scatter. \wj*
\v 27 \wj You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest. \wj*
\v 28 \wj Take away therefore the talent from him, and give it to him who has the ten talents. \wj*
\v 29 \wj For to everyone who has will be given, and he will have abundance, but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away. \wj*
\v 30 \wj Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’\wj*
\p
\v 31 \wj “But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. \wj*
\v 32 \wj Before him all the nations will be gathered, and he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. \wj*
\v 33 \wj He will set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. \wj*
\v 34 \wj Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; \wj*
\v 35 \wj for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in. \wj*
\v 36 \wj I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.’\wj*
\p
\v 37 \wj “Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, and feed you; or thirsty, and give you a drink? \wj*
\v 38 \wj When did we see you as a stranger, and take you in; or naked, and clothe you? \wj*
\v 39 \wj When did we see you sick, or in prison, and come to you?’\wj*
\p
\v 40 \wj “The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers,\wj*\f + \fr 25:40 \ft The word for “brothers” here may be also correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”\f* \wj you did it to me.’ \wj*
\v 41 \wj Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels; \wj*
\v 42 \wj for I was hungry, and you didn’t give me food to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink; \wj*
\v 43 \wj I was a stranger, and you didn’t take me in; naked, and you didn’t clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you didn’t visit me.’\wj*
\p
\v 44 \wj “Then they will also answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and didn’t help you?’\wj*
\p
\v 45 \wj “Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you didn’t do it to one of the least of these, you didn’t do it to me.’ \wj*
\v 46 \wj These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”\wj*


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\c 26
\p
\v 1 When Jesus had finished all these words, he said to his disciples,
\v 2 \wj “You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.”\wj*
\p
\v 3 Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.
\v 4 They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him.
\v 5 But they said, “Not during the feast, lest a riot occur among the people.”
\p
\v 6 Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
\v 7 a woman came to him having an alabaster jar of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he sat at the table.
\v 8 But when his disciples saw this, they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste?
\v 9 For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.”
\p
\v 10 However, knowing this, Jesus said to them, \wj “Why do you trouble the woman? She has done a good work for me. \wj*
\v 11 \wj For you always have the poor with you; but you don’t always have me. \wj*
\v 12 \wj For in pouring this ointment on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial. \wj*
\v 13 \wj Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of as a memorial of her.”\wj*
\p
\v 14 Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests,
\v 15 and said, “What are you willing to give me, that I should deliver him to you?” They weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver.
\v 16 From that time he sought opportunity to betray him.
\p
\v 17 Now on the first day of unleavened bread, the disciples came to Jesus, saying to him, “Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?”
\p
\v 18 He said, \wj “Go into the city to a certain person, and tell him, ‘The Teacher says, “My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.”’”\wj*
\p
\v 19 The disciples did as Jesus commanded them, and they prepared the Passover.
\v 20 Now when evening had come, he was reclining at the table with the twelve disciples.
\v 21 As they were eating, he said, \wj “Most certainly I tell you that one of you will betray me.”\wj*
\p
\v 22 They were exceedingly sorrowful, and each began to ask him, “It isn’t me, is it, Lord?”
\p
\v 23 He answered, \wj “He who dipped his hand with me in the dish will betray me. \wj*
\v 24 \wj The Son of Man goes, even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.”\wj*
\p
\v 25 Judas, who betrayed him, answered, “It isn’t me, is it, Rabbi?”
\p He said to him, \wj “You said it.”\wj*
\p
\v 26 As they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks for\f + \fr 26:26 \ft TR reads “blessed” instead of “gave thanks for”\f* it, and broke it. He gave to the disciples, and said, \wj “Take, eat; this is my body.”\wj*
\v 27 He took the cup, gave thanks, and gave to them, saying, \wj “All of you drink it, \wj*
\v 28 \wj for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins. \wj*
\v 29 \wj But I tell you that I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on, until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father’s Kingdom.” \wj*
\v 30 When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
\p
\v 31 Then Jesus said to them, \wj “All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’\wj*\x + \xo 26:31 \xt Zechariah 13:7\x*
\v 32 \wj But after I am raised up, I will go before you into Galilee.” \wj*
\p
\v 33 But Peter answered him, “Even if all will be made to stumble because of you, I will never be made to stumble.”
\p
\v 34 Jesus said to him, \wj “Most certainly I tell you that tonight, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.”\wj*
\p
\v 35 Peter said to him, “Even if I must die with you, I will not deny you.” All of the disciples also said likewise.
\p
\v 36 Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to his disciples, \wj “Sit here, while I go there and pray.”\wj*
\v 37 He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and severely troubled.
\v 38 Then he said to them, \wj “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch with me.”\wj*
\p
\v 39 He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, \wj “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire.”\wj*
\p
\v 40 He came to the disciples, and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, \wj “What, couldn’t you watch with me for one hour? \wj*
\v 41 \wj Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”\wj*
\p
\v 42 Again, a second time he went away, and prayed, saying, \wj “My Father, if this cup can’t pass away from me unless I drink it, your desire be done.” \wj*
\v 43 He came again and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy.
\v 44 He left them again, went away, and prayed a third time, saying the same words.
\v 45 Then he came to his disciples, and said to them, \wj “Sleep on now, and take your rest. Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. \wj*
\v 46 \wj Arise, let’s be going. Behold, he who betrays me is at hand.” \wj*
\p
\v 47 While he was still speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and elders of the people.
\v 48 Now he who betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, “Whoever I kiss, he is the one. Seize him.”
\v 49 Immediately he came to Jesus, and said, “Hail, Rabbi!” and kissed him.
\p
\v 50 Jesus said to him, \wj “Friend, why are you here?”\wj* Then they came and laid hands on Jesus, and took him.
\v 51 Behold, one of those who were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck the servant of the high priest, and struck off his ear.
\v 52 Then Jesus said to him, \wj “Put your sword back into its place, for all those who take the sword will die by the sword. \wj*
\v 53 \wj Or do you think that I couldn’t ask my Father, and he would even now send me more than twelve legions of angels? \wj*
\v 54 \wj How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so?” \wj*
\p
\v 55 In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes, \wj “Have you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs to seize me? I sat daily in the temple teaching, and you didn’t arrest me. \wj*
\v 56 \wj But all this has happened that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.”\wj*
\p Then all the disciples left him and fled.
\v 57 Those who had taken Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together.
\v 58 But Peter followed him from a distance, to the court of the high priest, and entered in and sat with the officers, to see the end.
\p
\v 59 Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;
\v 60 and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward,
\v 61 and said, “This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.’”
\p
\v 62 The high priest stood up, and said to him, “Have you no answer? What is this that these testify against you?”
\v 63 But Jesus held his peace. The high priest answered him, “I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.”
\p
\v 64 Jesus said to him, \wj “You have said it. Nevertheless, I tell you, after this you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of the sky.”\wj*
\p
\v 65 Then the high priest tore his clothing, saying, “He has spoken blasphemy! Why do we need any more witnesses? Behold, now you have heard his blasphemy.
\v 66 What do you think?”
\p They answered, “He is worthy of death!”
\v 67 Then they spat in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him,
\v 68 saying, “Prophesy to us, you Christ! Who hit you?”
\p
\v 69 Now Peter was sitting outside in the court, and a maid came to him, saying, “You were also with Jesus, the Galilean!”
\p
\v 70 But he denied it before them all, saying, “I don’t know what you are talking about.”
\p
\v 71 When he had gone out onto the porch, someone else saw him, and said to those who were there, “This man also was with Jesus of Nazareth.”
\p
\v 72 Again he denied it with an oath, “I don’t know the man.”
\p
\v 73 After a little while those who stood by came and said to Peter, “Surely you are also one of them, for your speech makes you known.”
\p
\v 74 Then he began to curse and to swear, “I don’t know the man!”
\p Immediately the rooster crowed.
\v 75 Peter remembered the word which Jesus had said to him, \wj “Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.”\wj* Then he went out and wept bitterly.


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\c 27
\p
\v 1 Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:
\v 2 and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.
\v 3 Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that Jesus was condemned, felt remorse, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
\v 4 saying, “I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood.”
\p But they said, “What is that to us? You see to it.”
\p
\v 5 He threw down the pieces of silver in the sanctuary, and departed. He went away and hanged himself.
\v 6 The chief priests took the pieces of silver, and said, “It’s not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is the price of blood.”
\v 7 They took counsel, and bought the potter’s field with them, to bury strangers in.
\v 8 Therefore that field was called “The Field of Blood” to this day.
\v 9 Then that which was spoken through Jeremiah\f + \fr 27:9 \ft some manuscripts omit “Jeremiah”\f* the prophet was fulfilled, saying,
\q1 “They took the thirty pieces of silver,
\q2 the price of him upon whom a price had been set,
\q2 whom some of the children of Israel priced,
\q1
\v 10 and they gave them for the potter’s field,
\q2 as the Lord commanded me.”\x + \xo 27:10 \xt Zechariah 11:12-13; Jeremiah 19:1-13; 32:6-9\x*
\p
\v 11 Now Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, “Are you the King of the Jews?”
\p Jesus said to him, \wj “So you say.”\wj*
\p
\v 12 When he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.
\v 13 Then Pilate said to him, “Don’t you hear how many things they testify against you?”
\p
\v 14 He gave him no answer, not even one word, so that the governor marveled greatly.
\p
\v 15 Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to release to the multitude one prisoner, whom they desired.
\v 16 They had then a notable prisoner, called Barabbas.
\v 17 When therefore they were gathered together, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release to you? Barabbas, or Jesus, who is called Christ?”
\v 18 For he knew that because of envy they had delivered him up.
\p
\v 19 While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered many things today in a dream because of him.”
\p
\v 20 Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitudes to ask for Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.
\v 21 But the governor answered them, “Which of the two do you want me to release to you?”
\p They said, “Barabbas!”
\p
\v 22 Pilate said to them, “What then shall I do to Jesus, who is called Christ?”
\p They all said to him, “Let him be crucified!”
\p
\v 23 But the governor said, “Why? What evil has he done?”
\p But they cried out exceedingly, saying, “Let him be crucified!”
\p
\v 24 So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it.”
\p
\v 25 All the people answered, “May his blood be on us, and on our children!”
\p
\v 26 Then he released to them Barabbas, but Jesus he flogged and delivered to be crucified.
\v 27 Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium, and gathered the whole garrison together against him.
\v 28 They stripped him, and put a scarlet robe on him.
\v 29 They braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
\v 30 They spat on him, and took the reed and struck him on the head.
\v 31 When they had mocked him, they took the robe off him, and put his clothes on him, and led him away to crucify him.
\p
\v 32 As they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name, and they compelled him to go with them, that he might carry his cross.
\v 33 When they came to a place called “Golgotha”, that is to say, “The place of a skull,”
\v 34 they gave him sour wine\f + \fr 27:34 \ft or, vinegar\f* to drink mixed with gall.\f + \fr 27:34 \ft Gall is a bitter-tasting, dark green oil from a wormwood plant that is alcoholic in its effect.\f* When he had tasted it, he would not drink.
\v 35 When they had crucified him, they divided his clothing among them, casting lots,\f + \fr 27:35 \ft TR adds “that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet: ‘They divided my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots;’” [see Psalm 22:18 and John 19:24]\f*
\v 36 and they sat and watched him there.
\v 37 They set up over his head the accusation against him written, “THIS IS JESUS, THE KING OF THE JEWS.”
\p
\v 38 Then there were two robbers crucified with him, one on his right hand and one on the left.
\v 39 Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads,
\v 40 and saying, “You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!”
\p
\v 41 Likewise the chief priests also mocking, with the scribes, the Pharisees,\f + \fr 27:41 \ft TR omits “the Pharisees”\f* and the elders, said,
\v 42 “He saved others, but he can’t save himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him.
\v 43 He trusts in God. Let God deliver him now, if he wants him; for he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’”
\v 44 The robbers also who were crucified with him cast on him the same reproach.
\p
\v 45 Now from the sixth hour\f + \fr 27:45 \ft noon\f* there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.\f + \fr 27:45 \ft 3:00 p.m.\f*
\v 46 About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, \wj “Eli, Eli, lima\wj*\f + \fr 27:46 \ft TR reads “lama” instead of “lima”\f* \wj sabachthani?” \wj* That is, \wj “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”\wj*\x + \xo 27:46 \xt Psalm 22:1\x*
\p
\v 47 Some of them who stood there, when they heard it, said, “This man is calling Elijah.”
\p
\v 48 Immediately one of them ran, and took a sponge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him a drink.
\v 49 The rest said, “Let him be. Let’s see whether Elijah comes to save him.”
\p
\v 50 Jesus cried again with a loud voice, and yielded up his spirit.
\v 51 Behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom. The earth quaked and the rocks were split.
\v 52 The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised;
\v 53 and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection, they entered into the holy city and appeared to many.
\v 54 Now the centurion, and those who were with him watching Jesus, when they saw the earthquake, and the things that were done, feared exceedingly, saying, “Truly this was the Son of God.”
\p
\v 55 Many women were there watching from afar, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, serving him.
\v 56 Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.
\v 57 When evening had come, a rich man from Arimathaea, named Joseph, who himself was also Jesus’ disciple came.
\v 58 This man went to Pilate, and asked for Jesus’ body. Then Pilate commanded the body to be given up.
\v 59 Joseph took the body, and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,
\v 60 and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut out in the rock, and he rolled a great stone against the door of the tomb, and departed.
\v 61 Mary Magdalene was there, and the other Mary, sitting opposite the tomb.
\v 62 Now on the next day, which was the day after the Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees were gathered together to Pilate,
\v 63 saying, “Sir, we remember what that deceiver said while he was still alive: ‘After three days I will rise again.’
\v 64 Command therefore that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest perhaps his disciples come at night and steal him away, and tell the people, ‘He is risen from the dead;’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.”
\p
\v 65 Pilate said to them, “You have a guard. Go, make it as secure as you can.”
\v 66 So they went with the guard and made the tomb secure, sealing the stone.


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\c 28
\p
\v 1 Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb.
\v 2 Behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from the sky, and came and rolled away the stone from the door, and sat on it.
\v 3 His appearance was like lightning, and his clothing white as snow.
\v 4 For fear of him, the guards shook, and became like dead men.
\v 5 The angel answered the women, “Don’t be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus, who has been crucified.
\v 6 He is not here, for he has risen, just like he said. Come, see the place where the Lord was lying.
\v 7 Go quickly and tell his disciples, ‘He has risen from the dead, and behold, he goes before you into Galilee; there you will see him.’ Behold, I have told you.”
\p
\v 8 They departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to bring his disciples word.
\v 9 As they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, \wj “Rejoice!”\wj*
\p They came and took hold of his feet, and worshiped him.
\p
\v 10 Then Jesus said to them, \wj “Don’t be afraid. Go tell my brothers \wj*\f + \fr 28:10 \ft The word for “brothers” here may be also correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”\f* \wj that they should go into Galilee, and there they will see me.”\wj*
\p
\v 11 Now while they were going, behold, some of the guards came into the city, and told the chief priests all the things that had happened.
\v 12 When they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave a large amount of silver to the soldiers,
\v 13 saying, “Say that his disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.
\v 14 If this comes to the governor’s ears, we will persuade him and make you free of worry.”
\v 15 So they took the money and did as they were told. This saying was spread abroad among the Jews, and continues until today.
\p
\v 16 But the eleven disciples went into Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had sent them.
\v 17 When they saw him, they bowed down to him, but some doubted.
\v 18 Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, \wj “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. \wj*
\v 19 \wj Go\wj*\f + \fr 28:19 \ft TR and NU add “therefore”\f* \wj and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, \wj*
\v 20 \wj teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”\wj* Amen.


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\c 3
\p
\v 1 In those days, John the Baptizer came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying,
\v 2 “Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”
\v 3 For this is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying,
\q1 “The voice of one crying in the wilderness,
\q2 make the way of the Lord ready!
\q2 Make his paths straight!”\x + \xo 3:3 \xt Isaiah 40:3\x*
\p
\v 4 Now John himself wore clothing made of camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.
\v 5 Then people from Jerusalem, all of Judea, and all the region around the Jordan went out to him.
\v 6 They were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.
\v 7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
\v 8 Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!
\v 9 Don’t think to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father,’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.
\p
\v 10 “Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.
\v 11 I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.\f + \fr 3:11 \ft TR and NU add “and with fire” \f*
\v 12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”
\p
\v 13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan\f + \fr 3:13 \ft i.e., the Jordan River\f* to John, to be baptized by him.
\v 14 But John would have hindered him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and you come to me?”
\p
\v 15 But Jesus, answering, said to him, \wj “Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness.”\wj* Then he allowed him.
\v 16 Jesus, when he was baptized, went up directly from the water: and behold, the heavens were opened to him. He saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming on him.
\v 17 Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”


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\p
\v 1 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
\v 2 When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward.
\v 3 The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”
\p
\v 4 But he answered, \wj “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of God’s mouth.’”\wj*\x + \xo 4:4 \xt Deuteronomy 8:3\x*
\p
\v 5 Then the devil took him into the holy city. He set him on the pinnacle of the temple,
\v 6 and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, ‘He will command his angels concerning you,’ and,
\q1 ‘On their hands they will bear you up,
\q2 so that you don’t dash your foot against a stone.’”\x + \xo 4:6 \xt Psalm 91:11-12 \x*
\p
\v 7 Jesus said to him, \wj “Again, it is written, ‘You shall not test the Lord, your God.’”\wj*\x + \xo 4:7 \xt Deuteronomy 6:16\x*
\p
\v 8 Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory.
\v 9 He said to him, “I will give you all of these things, if you will fall down and worship me.”
\p
\v 10 Then Jesus said to him, \wj “Get behind me,\wj*\f + \fr 4:10 \ft TR and NU read “Go away” instead of “Get behind me”\f* \wj Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’”\wj* \x + \xo 4:10 \xt Deuteronomy 6:13\x*
\p
\v 11 Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and served him.
\v 12 Now when Jesus heard that John was delivered up, he withdrew into Galilee.
\v 13 Leaving Nazareth, he came and lived in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali,
\v 14 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,
\q1
\v 15 “The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali,
\q2 toward the sea, beyond the Jordan,
\q2 Galilee of the Gentiles,
\q1
\v 16 the people who sat in darkness saw a great light,
\q2 to those who sat in the region and shadow of death,
\q2 to them light has dawned.”\x + \xo 4:16 \xt Isaiah 9:1-2\x*
\p
\v 17 From that time, Jesus began to preach, and to say, \wj “Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”\wj*
\p
\v 18 Walking by the sea of Galilee, he\f + \fr 4:18 \ft TR reads “Jesus” instead of “he” \f* saw two brothers: Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew, his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen.
\v 19 He said to them, \wj “Come after me, and I will make you fishers for men.”\wj*
\p
\v 20 They immediately left their nets and followed him.
\v 21 Going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets. He called them.
\v 22 They immediately left the boat and their father, and followed him.
\p
\v 23 Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.
\v 24 The report about him went out into all Syria. They brought to him all who were sick, afflicted with various diseases and torments, possessed with demons, epileptics, and paralytics; and he healed them.
\v 25 Great multitudes from Galilee, Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea and from beyond the Jordan followed him.


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\c 5
\p
\v 1 Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him.
\v 2 He opened his mouth and taught them, saying,
\q1
\v 3 \wj “Blessed are the poor in spirit,\wj*
\q2 \wj for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.\wj*\x + \xo 5:3 \xt Isaiah 57:15; 66:2\x*
\q1
\v 4 \wj Blessed are those who mourn,\wj*
\q2 \wj for they shall be comforted.\wj*\x + \xo 5:4 \xt Isaiah 61:2; 66:10,13\x*
\q1
\v 5 \wj Blessed are the gentle,\wj*
\q2 \wj for they shall inherit the earth.\wj*\f + \fr 5:5 \ft or, land.\f*\x + \xo 5:5 \xt Psalm 37:11\x*
\q1
\v 6 \wj Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, \wj*
\q2 \wj for they shall be filled.\wj*
\q1
\v 7 \wj Blessed are the merciful,\wj*
\q2 \wj for they shall obtain mercy.\wj*
\q1
\v 8 \wj Blessed are the pure in heart,\wj*
\q2 \wj for they shall see God.\wj*
\q1
\v 9 \wj Blessed are the peacemakers,\wj*
\q2 \wj for they shall be called children of God.\wj*
\q1
\v 10 \wj Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, \wj*
\q2 \wj for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.\wj*
\p
\v 11 \wj “Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake. \wj*
\v 12 \wj Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you. \wj*
\p
\v 13 \wj “You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men. \wj*
\v 14 \wj You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden. \wj*
\v 15 \wj Neither do you light a lamp, and put it under a measuring basket, but on a stand; and it shines to all who are in the house. \wj*
\v 16 \wj Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.\wj*
\p
\v 17 \wj “Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill. \wj*
\v 18 \wj For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter\wj*\f + \fr 5:18 \ft literally, iota\f* \wj or one tiny pen stroke\wj*\f + \fr 5:18 \ft or, serif\f* \wj shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished. \wj*
\v 19 \wj Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven. \wj*
\v 20 \wj For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.\wj*
\p
\v 21 \wj “You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, ‘You shall not murder;’\wj*\x + \xo 5:21 \xt Exodus 20:13\x* \wj and ‘Whoever murders will be in danger of the judgment.’ \wj*
\v 22 \wj But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause \wj* \f + \fr 5:22 \ft NU omits “without a cause”.\f* \wj will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ \wj*\f + \fr 5:22 \ft “Raca” is an Aramaic insult, related to the word for “empty” and conveying the idea of empty-headedness.\f* \wj will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.\wj* \f + \fr 5:22 \ft or, Hell\f*
\p
\v 23 \wj “If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you, \wj*
\v 24 \wj leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. \wj*
\v 25 \wj Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him on the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison. \wj*
\v 26 \wj Most certainly I tell you, you shall by no means get out of there, until you have paid the last penny.\wj*\f + \fr 5:26 \ft literally, kodrantes. A kodrantes was a small copper coin worth about 2 lepta (widow’s mites)—not enough to buy very much of anything.\f*
\p
\v 27 \wj “You have heard that it was said, \wj*\f + \fr 5:27 \ft TR adds “to the ancients”.\f* \wj ‘You shall not commit adultery;’\wj*\x + \xo 5:27 \xt Exodus 20:14\x*
\v 28 \wj but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart. \wj*
\v 29 \wj If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.\wj*\f + \fr 5:29 \ft or, Hell\f*
\v 30 \wj If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.\wj*\f + \fr 5:30 \ft or, Hell\f*
\p
\v 31 \wj “It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’\wj*\x + \xo 5:31 \xt Deuteronomy 24:1\x*
\v 32 \wj but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.\wj*
\p
\v 33 \wj “Again you have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, ‘You shall not make false vows, but shall perform to the Lord your vows,’\wj*\x + \xo 5:33 \xt Numbers 30:2; Deuteronomy 23:21; Ecclesiastes 5:4\x*
\v 34 \wj but I tell you, don’t swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God; \wj*
\v 35 \wj nor by the earth, for it is the footstool of his feet; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King. \wj*
\v 36 \wj Neither shall you swear by your head, for you can’t make one hair white or black. \wj*
\v 37 \wj But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes’ and your ‘No’ be ‘No.’ Whatever is more than these is of the evil one.\wj*
\p
\v 38 \wj “You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.’\wj*\x + \xo 5:38 \xt Exodus 21:24; Leviticus 24:20; Deuteronomy 19:21\x*
\v 39 \wj But I tell you, don’t resist him who is evil; but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also. \wj*
\v 40 \wj If anyone sues you to take away your coat, let him have your cloak also. \wj*
\v 41 \wj Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two. \wj*
\v 42 \wj Give to him who asks you, and don’t turn away him who desires to borrow from you.\wj*
\p
\v 43 \wj “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor \wj*\x + \xo 5:43 \xt Leviticus 19:18\x* \wj and hate your enemy.’\wj*\f + \fr 5:43 \ft not in the Bible, but see Qumran Manual of Discipline Ix, 21-26\f*
\v 44 \wj But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you, \wj*
\v 45 \wj that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust. \wj*
\v 46 \wj For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same? \wj*
\v 47 \wj If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don’t even the tax collectors\wj*\f + \fr 5:47 \ft NU reads “Gentiles” instead of “tax collectors”.\f* \wj do the same? \wj*
\v 48 \wj Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.\wj*


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\v 1 \wj “Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving\wj*\f + \fr 6:1 \ft NU reads “acts of righteousness” instead of “charitable giving”\f* \wj before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. \wj*
\v 2 \wj Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward. \wj*
\v 3 \wj But when you do merciful deeds, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand does, \wj*
\v 4 \wj so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.\wj*
\p
\v 5 \wj “When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward. \wj*
\v 6 \wj But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. \wj*
\v 7 \wj In praying, don’t use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking. \wj*
\v 8 \wj Therefore don’t be like them, for your Father knows what things you need, before you ask him. \wj*
\v 9 \wj Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. \wj*
\v 10 \wj Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. \wj*
\v 11 \wj Give us today our daily bread. \wj*
\v 12 \wj Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors. \wj*
\v 13 \wj Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’\wj*\f + \fr 6:13 \ft NU omits “For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.”\f*
\p
\v 14 \wj “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. \wj*
\v 15 \wj But if you don’t forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.\wj*
\p
\v 16 \wj “Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward. \wj*
\v 17 \wj But you, when you fast, anoint your head, and wash your face; \wj*
\v 18 \wj so that you are not seen by men to be fasting, but by your Father who is in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you. \wj*
\p
\v 19 \wj “Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal; \wj*
\v 20 \wj but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don’t break through and steal; \wj*
\v 21 \wj for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. \wj*
\p
\v 22 \wj “The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light. \wj*
\v 23 \wj But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness! \wj*
\p
\v 24 \wj “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon. \wj*
\v 25 \wj Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing? \wj*
\v 26 \wj See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?\wj*
\p
\v 27 \wj “Which of you, by being anxious, can add one moment\wj*\f + \fr 6:27 \ft literally, cubit\f* \wj to his lifespan? \wj*
\v 28 \wj Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin, \wj*
\v 29 \wj yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these. \wj*
\v 30 \wj But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, won’t he much more clothe you, you of little faith?\wj*
\p
\v 31 \wj “Therefore don’t be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’, ‘What will we drink?’ or, ‘With what will we be clothed?’ \wj*
\v 32 \wj For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. \wj*
\v 33 \wj But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well. \wj*
\v 34 \wj Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.\wj*


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\v 1 \wj “Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. \wj*
\v 2 \wj For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you. \wj*
\v 3 \wj Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but don’t consider the beam that is in your own eye? \wj*
\v 4 \wj Or how will you tell your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye;’ and behold, the beam is in your own eye? \wj*
\v 5 \wj You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother’s eye.\wj*
\p
\v 6 \wj “Don’t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.\wj*
\p
\v 7 \wj “Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you. \wj*
\v 8 \wj For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened. \wj*
\v 9 \wj Or who is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? \wj*
\v 10 \wj Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent? \wj*
\v 11 \wj If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him! \wj*
\v 12 \wj Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.\wj*
\p
\v 13 \wj “Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it. \wj*
\v 14 \wj How\wj*\f + \fr 7:14 \ft TR reads “Because” instead of “How”\f* \wj narrow is the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are those who find it.\wj*
\p
\v 15 \wj “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves. \wj*
\v 16 \wj By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles? \wj*
\v 17 \wj Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit. \wj*
\v 18 \wj A good tree can’t produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit. \wj*
\v 19 \wj Every tree that doesn’t grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire. \wj*
\v 20 \wj Therefore by their fruits you will know them. \wj*
\v 21 \wj Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. \wj*
\v 22 \wj Many will tell me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?’ \wj*
\v 23 \wj Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’\wj*
\p
\v 24 \wj “Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock. \wj*
\v 25 \wj The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn’t fall, for it was founded on the rock. \wj*
\v 26 \wj Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn’t do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand. \wj*
\v 27 \wj The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell—and great was its fall.”\wj*
\p
\v 28 When Jesus had finished saying these things, the multitudes were astonished at his teaching,
\v 29 for he taught them with authority, and not like the scribes.


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\v 1 When he came down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him.
\v 2 Behold, a leper came to him and worshiped him, saying, “Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean.”
\p
\v 3 Jesus stretched out his hand, and touched him, saying, \wj “I want to. Be made clean.”\wj* Immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
\v 4 Jesus said to him, \wj “See that you tell nobody, but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”\wj*
\p
\v 5 When he came into Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking him,
\v 6 and saying, “Lord, my servant lies in the house paralyzed, grievously tormented.”
\p
\v 7 Jesus said to him, \wj “I will come and heal him.”\wj*
\p
\v 8 The centurion answered, “Lord, I’m not worthy for you to come under my roof. Just say the word, and my servant will be healed.
\v 9 For I am also a man under authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and tell another, ‘Come,’ and he comes; and tell my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”
\p
\v 10 When Jesus heard it, he marveled, and said to those who followed, \wj “Most certainly I tell you, I haven’t found so great a faith, not even in Israel. \wj*
\v 11 \wj I tell you that many will come from the east and the west, and will sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven, \wj*
\v 12 \wj but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”\wj*
\v 13 Jesus said to the centurion, \wj “Go your way. Let it be done for you as you have believed.”\wj* His servant was healed in that hour.
\p
\v 14 When Jesus came into Peter’s house, he saw his wife’s mother lying sick with a fever.
\v 15 He touched her hand, and the fever left her. She got up and served him. \f + \fr 8:15 \ft TR reads “them” instead of “him”\f*
\v 16 When evening came, they brought to him many possessed with demons. He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick;
\v 17 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying, “He took our infirmities, and bore our diseases.”\x + \xo 8:17 \xt Isaiah 53:4 \x*
\v 18 Now when Jesus saw great multitudes around him, he gave the order to depart to the other side.
\p
\v 19 A scribe came, and said to him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”
\p
\v 20 Jesus said to him, \wj “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”\wj*
\p
\v 21 Another of his disciples said to him, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”
\p
\v 22 But Jesus said to him, \wj “Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.”\wj*
\p
\v 23 When he got into a boat, his disciples followed him.
\v 24 Behold, a violent storm came up on the sea, so much that the boat was covered with the waves, but he was asleep.
\v 25 They came to him, and woke him up, saying, “Save us, Lord! We are dying!”
\p
\v 26 He said to them, \wj “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” \wj* Then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.
\p
\v 27 The men marveled, saying, “What kind of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”
\p
\v 28 When he came to the other side, into the country of the Gergesenes, \f + \fr 8:28 \ft NU reads “Gadarenes”\f* two people possessed by demons met him there, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that nobody could pass that way.
\v 29 Behold, they cried out, saying, “What do we have to do with you, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?”
\v 30 Now there was a herd of many pigs feeding far away from them.
\v 31 The demons begged him, saying, “If you cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of pigs.”
\p
\v 32 He said to them, \wj “Go!”\wj*
\p They came out, and went into the herd of pigs: and behold, the whole herd of pigs rushed down the cliff into the sea, and died in the water.
\v 33 Those who fed them fled, and went away into the city, and told everything, including what happened to those who were possessed with demons.
\v 34 Behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus. When they saw him, they begged that he would depart from their borders.


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\v 1 He entered into a boat, and crossed over, and came into his own city.
\v 2 Behold, they brought to him a man who was paralyzed, lying on a bed. Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, \wj “Son, cheer up! Your sins are forgiven you.”\wj*
\p
\v 3 Behold, some of the scribes said to themselves, “This man blasphemes.”
\p
\v 4 Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, \wj “Why do you think evil in your hearts? \wj*
\v 5 \wj For which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven;’ or to say, ‘Get up, and walk?’ \wj*
\v 6 \wj But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins-”\wj* (then he said to the paralytic), \wj “Get up, and take up your mat, and go to your house.”\wj*
\p
\v 7 He arose and departed to his house.
\v 8 But when the multitudes saw it, they marveled and glorified God, who had given such authority to men.
\p
\v 9 As Jesus passed by from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax collection office. He said to him, \wj “Follow me.”\wj* He got up and followed him.
\v 10 As he sat in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples.
\v 11 When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
\p
\v 12 When Jesus heard it, he said to them, \wj “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do. \wj*
\v 13 \wj But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’\wj*\x + \xo 9:13 \xt Hosea 6:6\x* \wj for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”\wj*\f + \fr 9:13 \ft NU omits “to repentance”.\f*
\p
\v 14 Then John’s disciples came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don’t fast?”
\p
\v 15 Jesus said to them, \wj “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast. \wj*
\v 16 \wj No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch would tear away from the garment, and a worse hole is made. \wj*
\v 17 \wj Neither do people put new wine into old wine skins, or else the skins would burst, and the wine be spilled, and the skins ruined. No, they put new wine into fresh wine skins, and both are preserved.”\wj*
\p
\v 18 While he told these things to them, behold, a ruler came and worshiped him, saying, “My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand on her, and she will live.”
\p
\v 19 Jesus got up and followed him, as did his disciples.
\v 20 Behold, a woman who had a discharge of blood for twelve years came behind him, and touched the fringe\f + \fr 9:20 \ft or, tassel\f* of his garment;
\v 21 for she said within herself, “If I just touch his garment, I will be made well.”
\p
\v 22 But Jesus, turning around and seeing her, said, \wj “Daughter, cheer up! Your faith has made you well.”\wj* And the woman was made well from that hour.
\p
\v 23 When Jesus came into the ruler’s house, and saw the flute players, and the crowd in noisy disorder,
\v 24 he said to them, \wj “Make room, because the girl isn’t dead, but sleeping.”\wj*
\p They were ridiculing him.
\v 25 But when the crowd was put out, he entered in, took her by the hand, and the girl arose.
\v 26 The report of this went out into all that land.
\p
\v 27 As Jesus passed by from there, two blind men followed him, calling out and saying, “Have mercy on us, son of David!”
\p
\v 28 When he had come into the house, the blind men came to him. Jesus said to them, \wj “Do you believe that I am able to do this?”\wj*
\p They told him, “Yes, Lord.”
\p
\v 29 Then he touched their eyes, saying, \wj “According to your faith be it done to you.”\wj*
\v 30 Their eyes were opened. Jesus strictly commanded them, saying, \wj “See that no one knows about this.”\wj*
\v 31 But they went out and spread abroad his fame in all that land.
\p
\v 32 As they went out, behold, a mute man who was demon possessed was brought to him.
\v 33 When the demon was cast out, the mute man spoke. The multitudes marveled, saying, “Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel!”
\p
\v 34 But the Pharisees said, “By the prince of the demons, he casts out demons.”
\p
\v 35 Jesus went about all the cities and the villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.
\v 36 But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed\f + \fr 9:36 \ft TR reads “weary” instead of “harassed” \f* and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd.
\v 37 Then he said to his disciples, \wj “The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the laborers are few. \wj*
\v 38 \wj Pray therefore that the Lord of the harvest will send out laborers into his harvest.”\wj*


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\v 1 The beginning of the Good News of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
\v 2 As it is written in the prophets,
\q1 “Behold,\f + \fr 1:2 \ft “Behold”, from “ἰδοὺ”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* I send my messenger before your face,
\q2 who will prepare your way before you:\x + \xo 1:2 \xt Malachi 3:1\x*
\q1
\v 3 the voice of one crying in the wilderness,
\q2 ‘Make ready the way of the Lord!
\q2 Make his paths straight!’”\x + \xo 1:3 \xt Isaiah 40:3\x*
\p
\v 4 John came baptizing\f + \fr 1:4 \ft or, immersing\f* in the wilderness and preaching the baptism of repentance for forgiveness of sins.
\v 5 All the country of Judea and all those of Jerusalem went out to him. They were baptized by him in the Jordan river, confessing their sins.
\v 6 John was clothed with camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist. He ate locusts and wild honey.
\v 7 He preached, saying, “After me comes he who is mightier than I, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and loosen.
\v 8 I baptized you in\f + \fr 1:8 \ft The Greek word (en) translated here as “in” could also be translated as “with” in some contexts.\f* water, but he will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.”
\p
\v 9 In those days, Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan.
\v 10 Immediately coming up from the water, he saw the heavens parting, and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.
\v 11 A voice came out of the sky, “You are my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”
\p
\v 12 Immediately the Spirit drove him out into the wilderness.
\v 13 He was there in the wilderness forty days tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals; and the angels were serving him.
\p
\v 14 Now after John was taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the Good News of God’s Kingdom,
\v 15 and saying, \wj “The time is fulfilled, and God’s Kingdom is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News.”\wj*
\p
\v 16 Passing along by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew, the brother of Simon, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.
\v 17 Jesus said to them, \wj “Come after me, and I will make you into fishers for men.”\wj*
\p
\v 18 Immediately they left their nets, and followed him.
\v 19 Going on a little further from there, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John, his brother, who were also in the boat mending the nets.
\v 20 Immediately he called them, and they left their father, Zebedee, in the boat with the hired servants, and went after him.
\v 21 They went into Capernaum, and immediately on the Sabbath day he entered into the synagogue and taught.
\v 22 They were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as having authority, and not as the scribes.
\v 23 Immediately there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit, and he cried out,
\v 24 saying, “Ha! What do we have to do with you, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of God!”
\p
\v 25 Jesus rebuked him, saying, \wj “Be quiet, and come out of him!” \wj*
\p
\v 26 The unclean spirit, convulsing him and crying with a loud voice, came out of him.
\v 27 They were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, “What is this? A new teaching? For with authority he commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him!”
\v 28 The report of him went out immediately everywhere into all the region of Galilee and its surrounding area.
\p
\v 29 Immediately, when they had come out of the synagogue, they came into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.
\v 30 Now Simon’s wife’s mother lay sick with a fever, and immediately they told him about her.
\v 31 He came and took her by the hand, and raised her up. The fever left her immediately,\f + \fr 1:31 \ft NU omits “immediately”.\f* and she served them.
\v 32 At evening, when the sun had set, they brought to him all who were sick, and those who were possessed by demons.
\v 33 All the city was gathered together at the door.
\v 34 He healed many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons. He didn’t allow the demons to speak, because they knew him.
\p
\v 35 Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.
\v 36 Simon and those who were with him searched for him.
\v 37 They found him and told him, “Everyone is looking for you.”
\p
\v 38 He said to them, \wj “Let’s go elsewhere into the next towns, that I may preach there also, because I came out for this reason.”\wj*
\v 39 He went into their synagogues throughout all Galilee, preaching and casting out demons.
\p
\v 40 A leper came to him, begging him, kneeling down to him, and saying to him, “If you want to, you can make me clean.”
\p
\v 41 Being moved with compassion, he stretched out his hand, and touched him, and said to him, \wj “I want to. Be made clean.”\wj*
\v 42 When he had said this, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was made clean.
\v 43 He strictly warned him, and immediately sent him out,
\v 44 and said to him, \wj “See you say nothing to anybody, but go show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing the things which Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.”\wj*
\p
\v 45 But he went out, and began to proclaim it much, and to spread about the matter, so that Jesus could no more openly enter into a city, but was outside in desert places. People came to him from everywhere.


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\v 1 He arose from there and came into the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan. Multitudes came together to him again. As he usually did, he was again teaching them.
\v 2 Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”
\p
\v 3 He answered, \wj “What did Moses command you?”\wj*
\p
\v 4 They said, “Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her.”
\p
\v 5 But Jesus said to them, \wj “For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment. \wj*
\v 6 \wj But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.\wj*\x + \xo 10:6 \xt Genesis 1:27\x*
\v 7 \wj For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife, \wj*
\v 8 \wj and the two will become one flesh,\wj*\x + \xo 10:8 \xt Genesis 2:24\x* \wj so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. \wj*
\v 9 \wj What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.” \wj*
\p
\v 10 In the house, his disciples asked him again about the same matter.
\v 11 He said to them, \wj “Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her. \wj*
\v 12 \wj If a woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery.”\wj*
\p
\v 13 They were bringing to him little children, that he should touch them, but the disciples rebuked those who were bringing them.
\v 14 But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, \wj “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these. \wj*
\v 15 \wj Most certainly I tell you, whoever will not receive God’s Kingdom like a little child, he will in no way enter into it.”\wj*
\v 16 He took them in his arms, and blessed them, laying his hands on them.
\p
\v 17 As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, knelt before him, and asked him, “Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?”
\p
\v 18 Jesus said to him, \wj “Why do you call me good? No one is good except one—God. \wj*
\v 19 \wj You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not give false testimony,’ ‘Do not defraud,’ ‘Honor your father and mother.’”\wj*\x + \xo 10:19 \xt Exodus 20:12-16; Deuteronomy 5:16-20 \x*
\p
\v 20 He said to him, “Teacher, I have observed all these things from my youth.”
\p
\v 21 Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, \wj “One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross.”\wj*
\p
\v 22 But his face fell at that saying, and he went away sorrowful, for he was one who had great possessions.
\v 23 Jesus looked around, and said to his disciples, \wj “How difficult it is for those who have riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!”\wj*
\p
\v 24 The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus answered again, \wj “Children, how hard it is for those who trust in riches to enter into God’s Kingdom! \wj*
\v 25 \wj It is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye than for a rich man to enter into God’s Kingdom.”\wj*
\p
\v 26 They were exceedingly astonished, saying to him, “Then who can be saved?”
\p
\v 27 Jesus, looking at them, said, \wj “With men it is impossible, but not with God, for all things are possible with God.”\wj*
\p
\v 28 Peter began to tell him, “Behold, we have left all, and have followed you.”
\p
\v 29 Jesus said, \wj “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News, \wj*
\v 30 \wj but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time: houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life. \wj*
\v 31 \wj But many who are first will be last; and the last first.”\wj*
\p
\v 32 They were on the way, going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus was going in front of them, and they were amazed; and those who followed were afraid. He again took the twelve, and began to tell them the things that were going to happen to him.
\v 33 \wj “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes. They will condemn him to death, and will deliver him to the Gentiles. \wj*
\v 34 \wj They will mock him, spit on him, scourge him, and kill him. On the third day he will rise again.”\wj*
\p
\v 35 James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came near to him, saying, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we will ask.”
\p
\v 36 He said to them, \wj “What do you want me to do for you?”\wj*
\p
\v 37 They said to him, “Grant to us that we may sit, one at your right hand, and one at your left hand, in your glory.”
\p
\v 38 But Jesus said to them, \wj “You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?”\wj*
\p
\v 39 They said to him, “We are able.”
\p Jesus said to them, \wj “You shall indeed drink the cup that I drink, and you shall be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with; \wj*
\v 40 \wj but to sit at my right hand and at my left hand is not mine to give, but for whom it has been prepared.”\wj*
\p
\v 41 When the ten heard it, they began to be indignant toward James and John.
\p
\v 42 Jesus summoned them, and said to them, \wj “You know that they who are recognized as rulers over the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. \wj*
\v 43 \wj But it shall not be so among you, but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant. \wj*
\v 44 \wj Whoever of you wants to become first among you, shall be bondservant of all. \wj*
\v 45 \wj For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”\wj*
\p
\v 46 They came to Jericho. As he went out from Jericho, with his disciples and a great multitude, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road.
\v 47 When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry out, and say, “Jesus, you son of David, have mercy on me!”
\v 48 Many rebuked him, that he should be quiet, but he cried out much more, “You son of David, have mercy on me!”
\p
\v 49 Jesus stood still, and said, \wj “Call him.”\wj*
\p They called the blind man, saying to him, “Cheer up! Get up. He is calling you!”
\p
\v 50 He, casting away his cloak, sprang up, and came to Jesus.
\p
\v 51 Jesus asked him, \wj “What do you want me to do for you?”\wj*
\p The blind man said to him, “Rabboni,\f + \fr 10:51 \ft Rabboni is a transliteration of the Hebrew word for “great teacher.”\f* that I may see again.”
\p
\v 52 Jesus said to him, \wj “Go your way. Your faith has made you well.” \wj* Immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus on the way.


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\v 1 When they came near to Jerusalem, to Bethsphage\f + \fr 11:1 \ft TR & NU read “Bethphage” instead of “Bethsphage”\f* and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples,
\v 2 and said to them, \wj “Go your way into the village that is opposite you. Immediately as you enter into it, you will find a young donkey tied, on which no one has sat. Untie him, and bring him. \wj*
\v 3 \wj If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord needs him;’ and immediately he will send him back here.”\wj*
\p
\v 4 They went away, and found a young donkey tied at the door outside in the open street, and they untied him.
\v 5 Some of those who stood there asked them, “What are you doing, untying the young donkey?”
\v 6 They said to them just as Jesus had said, and they let them go.
\p
\v 7 They brought the young donkey to Jesus, and threw their garments on it, and Jesus sat on it.
\v 8 Many spread their garments on the way, and others were cutting down branches from the trees, and spreading them on the road.
\v 9 Those who went in front, and those who followed, cried out, “Hosanna! \f + \fr 11:9 \ft “Hosanna” means “save us” or “help us, we pray”.\f* Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!\x + \xo 11:9 \xt Psalm 118:25-26\x*
\v 10 Blessed is the kingdom of our father David that is coming in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”
\p
\v 11 Jesus entered into the temple in Jerusalem. When he had looked around at everything, it being now evening, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.
\p
\v 12 The next day, when they had come out from Bethany, he was hungry.
\v 13 Seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came to see if perhaps he might find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.
\v 14 Jesus told it, \wj “May no one ever eat fruit from you again!” \wj* and his disciples heard it.
\p
\v 15 They came to Jerusalem, and Jesus entered into the temple, and began to throw out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers’ tables, and the seats of those who sold the doves.
\v 16 He would not allow anyone to carry a container through the temple.
\v 17 He taught, saying to them, \wj “Isn’t it written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations?’\wj*\x + \xo 11:17 \xt Isaiah 56:7\x* \wj But you have made it a den of robbers!”\wj*\x + \xo 11:17 \xt Jeremiah 7:11\x*
\p
\v 18 The chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching.
\p
\v 19 When evening came, he went out of the city.
\v 20 As they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered away from the roots.
\v 21 Peter, remembering, said to him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree which you cursed has withered away.”
\p
\v 22 Jesus answered them, \wj “Have faith in God. \wj*
\v 23 \wj For most certainly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and doesn’t doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is happening; he shall have whatever he says. \wj*
\v 24 \wj Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them. \wj*
\v 25 \wj Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions. \wj*
\v 26 \wj But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your transgressions.”\wj*\f + \fr 11:26 \ft NU omits verse 26.\f*
\p
\v 27 They came again to Jerusalem, and as he was walking in the temple, the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders came to him,
\v 28 and they began saying to him, “By what authority do you do these things? Or who gave you this authority to do these things?”
\p
\v 29 Jesus said to them, \wj “I will ask you one question. Answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things. \wj*
\v 30 \wj The baptism of John—was it from heaven, or from men? Answer me.” \wj*
\p
\v 31 They reasoned with themselves, saying, “If we should say, ‘From heaven;’ he will say, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’
\v 32 If we should say, ‘From men’”—they feared the people, for all held John to really be a prophet.
\v 33 They answered Jesus, “We don’t know.”
\p Jesus said to them, \wj “Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.”\wj*


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\v 1 He began to speak to them in parables. \wj “A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the wine press, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country. \wj*
\v 2 \wj When it was time, he sent a servant to the farmer to get from the farmer his share of the fruit of the vineyard. \wj*
\v 3 \wj They took him, beat him, and sent him away empty. \wj*
\v 4 \wj Again, he sent another servant to them; and they threw stones at him, wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully treated. \wj*
\v 5 \wj Again he sent another; and they killed him; and many others, beating some, and killing some. \wj*
\v 6 \wj Therefore still having one, his beloved son, he sent him last to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ \wj*
\v 7 \wj But those farmers said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’ \wj*
\v 8 \wj They took him, killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard. \wj*
\v 9 \wj What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the farmers, and will give the vineyard to others. \wj*
\v 10 \wj Haven’t you even read this Scripture:\wj*
\q1 \wj ‘The stone which the builders rejected\wj*
\q2 \wj was made the head of the corner.\wj*
\q1
\v 11 \wj This was from the Lord.\wj*
\q2 \wj It is marvelous in our eyes’?”\wj*\x + \xo 12:11 \xt Psalm 118:22-23\x*
\p
\v 12 They tried to seize him, but they feared the multitude; for they perceived that he spoke the parable against them. They left him, and went away.
\v 13 They sent some of the Pharisees and the Herodians to him, that they might trap him with words.
\v 14 When they had come, they asked him, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and don’t defer to anyone; for you aren’t partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?
\v 15 Shall we give, or shall we not give?”
\p But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, \wj “Why do you test me? Bring me a denarius, that I may see it.”\wj*
\p
\v 16 They brought it.
\p He said to them, \wj “Whose is this image and inscription?”\wj*
\p They said to him, “Caesar’s.”
\p
\v 17 Jesus answered them, \wj “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”\wj*
\p They marveled greatly at him.
\p
\v 18 Some Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection, came to him. They asked him, saying,
\v 19 “Teacher, Moses wrote to us, ‘If a man’s brother dies, and leaves a wife behind him, and leaves no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up offspring for his brother.’
\v 20 There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying left no offspring.
\v 21 The second took her, and died, leaving no children behind him. The third likewise;
\v 22 and the seven took her and left no children. Last of all the woman also died.
\v 23 In the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be of them? For the seven had her as a wife.”
\p
\v 24 Jesus answered them, \wj “Isn’t this because you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God? \wj*
\v 25 \wj For when they will rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. \wj*
\v 26 \wj But about the dead, that they are raised; haven’t you read in the book of Moses, about the Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?\wj*\x + \xo 12:26 \xt Exodus 3:6\x*
\v 27 \wj He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are therefore badly mistaken.”\wj*
\p
\v 28 One of the scribes came, and heard them questioning together, and knowing that he had answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the greatest of all?”
\p
\v 29 Jesus answered, \wj “The greatest is, ‘Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one: \wj*
\v 30 \wj you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’\wj*\x + \xo 12:30 \xt Deuteronomy 6:4-5\x* \wj This is the first commandment. \wj*
\v 31 \wj The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’\wj*\x + \xo 12:31 \xt Leviticus 19:18\x* \wj There is no other commandment greater than these.”\wj*
\p
\v 32 The scribe said to him, “Truly, teacher, you have said well that he is one, and there is none other but he,
\v 33 and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
\p
\v 34 When Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, \wj “You are not far from God’s Kingdom.”\wj*
\p No one dared ask him any question after that.
\v 35 Jesus responded, as he taught in the temple, \wj “How is it that the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David? \wj*
\v 36 \wj For David himself said in the Holy Spirit,\wj*
\q1 \wj ‘The Lord said to my Lord,\wj*
\q2 \wj “Sit at my right hand,\wj*
\q2 \wj until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet.”’\wj*\x + \xo 12:36 \xt Psalm 110:1\x*
\p
\v 37 \wj Therefore David himself calls him Lord, so how can he be his son?” \wj*
\p The common people heard him gladly.
\v 38 In his teaching he said to them, \wj “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and to get greetings in the marketplaces, \wj*
\v 39 \wj and the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts: \wj*
\v 40 \wj those who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.”\wj*
\p
\v 41 Jesus sat down opposite the treasury, and saw how the multitude cast money into the treasury. Many who were rich cast in much.
\v 42 A poor widow came, and she cast in two small brass coins,\f + \fr 12:42 \ft literally, lepta (or widow’s mites). Lepta are very small brass coins worth half a quadrans each, which is a quarter of the copper assarion. Lepta are worth less than 1% of an agricultural worker’s daily wages.\f* which equal a quadrans coin.\f + \fr 12:42 \ft A quadrans is a coin worth about 1/64 of a denarius. A denarius is about one day’s wages for an agricultural laborer.\f*
\v 43 He called his disciples to himself, and said to them, \wj “Most certainly I tell you, this poor widow gave more than all those who are giving into the treasury, \wj*
\v 44 \wj for they all gave out of their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, gave all that she had to live on.”\wj*


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\v 1 As he went out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Teacher, see what kind of stones and what kind of buildings!”
\p
\v 2 Jesus said to him, \wj “Do you see these great buildings? There will not be left here one stone on another, which will not be thrown down.”\wj*
\p
\v 3 As he sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked him privately,
\v 4 “Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign that these things are all about to be fulfilled?”
\p
\v 5 Jesus, answering, began to tell them, \wj “Be careful that no one leads you astray. \wj*
\v 6 \wj For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he!’\wj*\f + \fr 13:6 \ft or, “I AM!”\f* \wj and will lead many astray.\wj*
\p
\v 7 \wj “When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, don’t be troubled. For those must happen, but the end is not yet. \wj*
\v 8 \wj For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places. There will be famines and troubles. These things are the beginning of birth pains. \wj*
\v 9 \wj But watch yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils. You will be beaten in synagogues. You will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them. \wj*
\v 10 \wj The Good News must first be preached to all the nations. \wj*
\v 11 \wj When they lead you away and deliver you up, don’t be anxious beforehand, or premeditate what you will say, but say whatever will be given you in that hour. For it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.\wj*
\p
\v 12 \wj “Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death. \wj*
\v 13 \wj You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved. \wj*
\v 14 \wj But when you see the abomination of desolation,\wj*\x + \xo 13:14 \xt Daniel 9:17; 11:31; 12:11\x* \wj spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not”\wj* (let the reader understand), \wj “then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, \wj*
\v 15 \wj and let him who is on the housetop not go down, nor enter in, to take anything out of his house. \wj*
\v 16 \wj Let him who is in the field not return back to take his cloak. \wj*
\v 17 \wj But woe to those who are with child and to those who nurse babies in those days! \wj*
\v 18 \wj Pray that your flight won’t be in the winter. \wj*
\v 19 \wj For in those days there will be oppression, such as there has not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will be. \wj*
\v 20 \wj Unless the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh would have been saved; but for the sake of the chosen ones, whom he picked out, he shortened the days. \wj*
\v 21 \wj Then if anyone tells you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or, ‘Look, there!’ don’t believe it. \wj*
\v 22 \wj For there will arise false christs and false prophets, and will show signs and wonders, that they may lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones. \wj*
\v 23 \wj But you watch.\wj*
\p \wj “Behold, I have told you all things beforehand. \wj*
\v 24 \wj But in those days, after that oppression, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, \wj*
\v 25 \wj the stars will be falling from the sky, and the powers that are in the heavens will be shaken.\wj*\x + \xo 13:25 \xt Isaiah 13:10; 34:4\x*
\v 26 \wj Then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory. \wj*
\v 27 \wj Then he will send out his angels, and will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the sky.\wj*
\p
\v 28 \wj “Now from the fig tree, learn this parable. When the branch has now become tender, and produces its leaves, you know that the summer is near; \wj*
\v 29 \wj even so you also, when you see these things coming to pass, know that it is near, at the doors. \wj*
\v 30 \wj Most certainly I say to you, this generation\wj*\f + \fr 13:30 \ft The word translated “generation” (genea) could also be translated “race”, “family”, or “people”.\f* \wj will not pass away until all these things happen. \wj*
\v 31 \wj Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. \wj*
\v 32 \wj But of that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. \wj*
\v 33 \wj Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don’t know when the time is. \wj*
\p
\v 34 \wj “It is like a man, traveling to another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch. \wj*
\v 35 \wj Watch therefore, for you don’t know when the lord of the house is coming, whether at evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning; \wj*
\v 36 \wj lest coming suddenly he might find you sleeping. \wj*
\v 37 \wj What I tell you, I tell all: Watch.”\wj*


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\v 1 It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might seize him by deception, and kill him.
\v 2 For they said, “Not during the feast, because there might be a riot among the people.”
\p
\v 3 While he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard—very costly. She broke the jar, and poured it over his head.
\v 4 But there were some who were indignant among themselves, saying, “Why has this ointment been wasted?
\v 5 For this might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, \f + \fr 14:5 \ft 300 denarii was about a year’s wages for an agricultural laborer. \f* and given to the poor.” So they grumbled against her.
\p
\v 6 But Jesus said, \wj “Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for me. \wj*
\v 7 \wj For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want to, you can do them good; but you will not always have me. \wj*
\v 8 \wj She has done what she could. She has anointed my body beforehand for the burying. \wj*
\v 9 \wj Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News may be preached throughout the whole world, that which this woman has done will also be spoken of for a memorial of her.”\wj*
\p
\v 10 Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests, that he might deliver him to them.
\v 11 They, when they heard it, were glad, and promised to give him money. He sought how he might conveniently deliver him.
\v 12 On the first day of unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the Passover, his disciples asked him, “Where do you want us to go and prepare that you may eat the Passover?”
\p
\v 13 He sent two of his disciples, and said to them, \wj “Go into the city, and there you will meet a man carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him, \wj*
\v 14 \wj and wherever he enters in, tell the master of the house, ‘The Teacher says, “Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?”’ \wj*
\v 15 \wj He will himself show you a large upper room furnished and ready. Get ready for us there.”\wj*
\p
\v 16 His disciples went out, and came into the city, and found things as he had said to them, and they prepared the Passover.
\p
\v 17 When it was evening he came with the twelve.
\v 18 As they sat and were eating, Jesus said, \wj “Most certainly I tell you, one of you will betray me—he who eats with me.”\wj*
\p
\v 19 They began to be sorrowful, and to ask him one by one, “Surely not I?” And another said, “Surely not I?”
\p
\v 20 He answered them, \wj “It is one of the twelve, he who dips with me in the dish. \wj*
\v 21 \wj For the Son of Man goes, even as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.”\wj*
\p
\v 22 As they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had blessed, he broke it, and gave to them, and said, \wj “Take, eat. This is my body.”\wj*
\p
\v 23 He took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave to them. They all drank of it.
\v 24 He said to them, \wj “This is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many. \wj*
\v 25 \wj Most certainly I tell you, I will no more drink of the fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it anew in God’s Kingdom.”\wj*
\v 26 When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
\p
\v 27 Jesus said to them, \wj “All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’\wj*\x + \xo 14:27 \xt Zechariah 13:7\x*
\v 28 \wj However, after I am raised up, I will go before you into Galilee.” \wj*
\p
\v 29 But Peter said to him, “Although all will be offended, yet I will not.”
\p
\v 30 Jesus said to him, \wj “Most certainly I tell you, that you today, even this night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.” \wj*
\p
\v 31 But he spoke all the more, “If I must die with you, I will not deny you.” They all said the same thing.
\p
\v 32 They came to a place which was named Gethsemane. He said to his disciples, \wj “Sit here, while I pray.”\wj*
\v 33 He took with him Peter, James, and John, and began to be greatly troubled and distressed.
\v 34 He said to them, \wj “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch.”\wj*
\p
\v 35 He went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass away from him.
\v 36 He said, \wj “Abba,\wj*\f + \fr 14:36 \ft Abba is a Greek spelling for the Aramaic word for “Father” or “Daddy” used in a familiar, respectful, and loving way. \f* \wj Father, all things are possible to you. Please remove this cup from me. However, not what I desire, but what you desire.” \wj*
\p
\v 37 He came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, \wj “Simon, are you sleeping? Couldn’t you watch one hour? \wj*
\v 38 \wj Watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”\wj*
\p
\v 39 Again he went away, and prayed, saying the same words.
\v 40 Again he returned, and found them sleeping, for their eyes were very heavy, and they didn’t know what to answer him.
\v 41 He came the third time, and said to them, \wj “Sleep on now, and take your rest. It is enough. The hour has come. Behold, the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. \wj*
\v 42 \wj Arise! Let’s get going. Behold: he who betrays me is at hand.” \wj*
\p
\v 43 Immediately, while he was still speaking, Judas, one of the twelve, came—and with him a multitude with swords and clubs, from the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders.
\v 44 Now he who betrayed him had given them a sign, saying, “Whomever I will kiss, that is he. Seize him, and lead him away safely.”
\v 45 When he had come, immediately he came to him, and said, “Rabbi! Rabbi!” and kissed him.
\v 46 They laid their hands on him, and seized him.
\v 47 But a certain one of those who stood by drew his sword, and struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.
\p
\v 48 Jesus answered them, \wj “Have you come out, as against a robber, with swords and clubs to seize me? \wj*
\v 49 \wj I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and you didn’t arrest me. But this is so that the Scriptures might be fulfilled.”\wj*
\p
\v 50 They all left him, and fled.
\v 51 A certain young man followed him, having a linen cloth thrown around himself over his naked body. The young men grabbed him,
\v 52 but he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked.
\v 53 They led Jesus away to the high priest. All the chief priests, the elders, and the scribes came together with him.
\p
\v 54 Peter had followed him from a distance, until he came into the court of the high priest. He was sitting with the officers, and warming himself in the light of the fire.
\v 55 Now the chief priests and the whole council sought witnesses against Jesus to put him to death, and found none.
\v 56 For many gave false testimony against him, and their testimony didn’t agree with each other.
\v 57 Some stood up, and gave false testimony against him, saying,
\v 58 “We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.’”
\v 59 Even so, their testimony didn’t agree.
\p
\v 60 The high priest stood up in the middle, and asked Jesus, “Have you no answer? What is it which these testify against you?”
\v 61 But he stayed quiet, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, “Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?”
\p
\v 62 Jesus said, \wj “I am. You will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of the sky.”\wj*
\p
\v 63 The high priest tore his clothes, and said, “What further need have we of witnesses?
\v 64 You have heard the blasphemy! What do you think?” They all condemned him to be worthy of death.
\v 65 Some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to beat him with fists, and to tell him, “Prophesy!” The officers struck him with the palms of their hands.
\p
\v 66 As Peter was in the courtyard below, one of the maids of the high priest came,
\v 67 and seeing Peter warming himself, she looked at him, and said, “You were also with the Nazarene, Jesus!”
\p
\v 68 But he denied it, saying, “I neither know, nor understand what you are saying.” He went out on the porch, and the rooster crowed.
\p
\v 69 The maid saw him, and began again to tell those who stood by, “This is one of them.”
\v 70 But he again denied it. After a little while again those who stood by said to Peter, “You truly are one of them, for you are a Galilean, and your speech shows it.”
\v 71 But he began to curse, and to swear, “I don’t know this man of whom you speak!”
\v 72 The rooster crowed the second time. Peter remembered the word, how that Jesus said to him, \wj “Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.”\wj* When he thought about that, he wept.


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\v 1 Immediately in the morning the chief priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, bound Jesus, carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.
\v 2 Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”
\p He answered, \wj “So you say.”\wj*
\p
\v 3 The chief priests accused him of many things.
\v 4 Pilate again asked him, “Have you no answer? See how many things they testify against you!”
\p
\v 5 But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate marveled.
\p
\v 6 Now at the feast he used to release to them one prisoner, whom they asked of him.
\v 7 There was one called Barabbas, bound with his fellow insurgents, men who in the insurrection had committed murder.
\v 8 The multitude, crying aloud, began to ask him to do as he always did for them.
\v 9 Pilate answered them, saying, “Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”
\v 10 For he perceived that for envy the chief priests had delivered him up.
\v 11 But the chief priests stirred up the multitude, that he should release Barabbas to them instead.
\v 12 Pilate again asked them, “What then should I do to him whom you call the King of the Jews?”
\p
\v 13 They cried out again, “Crucify him!”
\p
\v 14 Pilate said to them, “Why, what evil has he done?”
\p But they cried out exceedingly, “Crucify him!”
\p
\v 15 Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas to them, and handed over Jesus, when he had flogged him, to be crucified.
\v 16 The soldiers led him away within the court, which is the Praetorium; and they called together the whole cohort.
\v 17 They clothed him with purple, and weaving a crown of thorns, they put it on him.
\v 18 They began to salute him, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
\v 19 They struck his head with a reed, and spat on him, and bowing their knees, did homage to him.
\v 20 When they had mocked him, they took the purple off him, and put his own garments on him. They led him out to crucify him.
\v 21 They compelled one passing by, coming from the country, Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to go with them, that he might bear his cross.
\v 22 They brought him to the place called Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, “The place of a skull.”
\v 23 They offered him wine mixed with myrrh to drink, but he didn’t take it.
\p
\v 24 Crucifying him, they parted his garments among them, casting lots on them, what each should take.
\v 25 It was the third hour, \f + \fr 15:25 \ft 9:00 a.m.\f* and they crucified him.
\v 26 The superscription of his accusation was written over him, “THE KING OF THE JEWS.”
\v 27 With him they crucified two robbers; one on his right hand, and one on his left.
\v 28 The Scripture was fulfilled, which says, “He was counted with transgressors.” \f + \fr 15:28 \ft NU omits verse 28.\f*
\p
\v 29 Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying, “Ha! You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days,
\v 30 save yourself, and come down from the cross!”
\p
\v 31 Likewise, also the chief priests mocking among themselves with the scribes said, “He saved others. He can’t save himself.
\v 32 Let the Christ, the King of Israel, now come down from the cross, that we may see and believe him.” \f + \fr 15:32 \ft TR omits “him”\f* Those who were crucified with him also insulted him.
\p
\v 33 When the sixth hour \f + \fr 15:33 \ft or, noon\f* had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. \f + \fr 15:33 \ft 3:00 p.m.\f*
\v 34 At the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, \wj “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?”\wj* which is, being interpreted, \wj “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”\wj* \x + \xo 15:34 \xt Psalm 22:1\x*
\p
\v 35 Some of those who stood by, when they heard it, said, “Behold, he is calling Elijah.”
\p
\v 36 One ran, and filling a sponge full of vinegar, put it on a reed, and gave it to him to drink, saying, “Let him be. Let’s see whether Elijah comes to take him down.”
\p
\v 37 Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and gave up the spirit.
\v 38 The veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom.
\v 39 When the centurion, who stood by opposite him, saw that he cried out like this and breathed his last, he said, “Truly this man was the Son of God!”
\p
\v 40 There were also women watching from afar, among whom were both Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;
\v 41 who, when he was in Galilee, followed him and served him; and many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem.
\p
\v 42 When evening had now come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Sabbath,
\v 43 Joseph of Arimathaea, a prominent council member who also himself was looking for God’s Kingdom, came. He boldly went in to Pilate, and asked for Jesus’ body.
\v 44 Pilate marveled if he were already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead long.
\v 45 When he found out from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph.
\v 46 He bought a linen cloth, and taking him down, wound him in the linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb which had been cut out of a rock. He rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.
\v 47 Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of Joses, saw where he was laid.


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\v 1 When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him.
\v 2 Very early on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb when the sun had risen.
\v 3 They were saying among themselves, “Who will roll away the stone from the door of the tomb for us?”
\v 4 for it was very big. Looking up, they saw that the stone was rolled back.
\p
\v 5 Entering into the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe, and they were amazed.
\v 6 He said to them, “Don’t be amazed. You seek Jesus, the Nazarene, who has been crucified. He has risen. He is not here. Behold, the place where they laid him!
\v 7 But go, tell his disciples and Peter, ‘He goes before you into Galilee. There you will see him, as he said to you.’”
\p
\v 8 They went out,\f + \fr 16:8 \ft TR adds “quickly”\f* and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had come on them. They said nothing to anyone; for they were afraid.\f + \fr 16:8 \ft One isolated manuscript omits verses 9-20 but adds this “short ending of Mark” to the end of verse 8: \fqa They told all that had been commanded them briefly to those around Peter. After that, Jesus himself sent them out, from east to west, with the sacred and imperishable proclamation of eternal salvation.\f*
\v 9 \f + \fr 16:9 \ft NU includes the text of verses 9-20, but mentions in a footnote that a few manuscripts omitted it. The translators of the World English Bible regard Mark 16:9-20 as reliable based on an overwhelming majority of textual evidence, including not only the authoritative Greek Majority Text New Testament, but also the TR and many of the manuscripts cited in the NU text.\f*Now when he had risen early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.
\v 10 She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept.
\v 11 When they heard that he was alive, and had been seen by her, they disbelieved.
\v 12 After these things he was revealed in another form to two of them, as they walked, on their way into the country.
\v 13 They went away and told it to the rest. They didn’t believe them, either.
\p
\v 14 Afterward he was revealed to the eleven themselves as they sat at the table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they didn’t believe those who had seen him after he had risen.
\v 15 He said to them, \wj “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation. \wj*
\v 16 \wj He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned. \wj*
\v 17 \wj These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new languages; \wj*
\v 18 \wj they will take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it will in no way hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”\wj*
\p
\v 19 So then the Lord,\f + \fr 16:19 \ft NU adds “Jesus”\f* after he had spoken to them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.
\v 20 They went out, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by the signs that followed. Amen.


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\v 1 When he entered again into Capernaum after some days, it was heard that he was in the house.
\v 2 Immediately many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even around the door; and he spoke the word to them.
\v 3 Four people came, carrying a paralytic to him.
\v 4 When they could not come near to him for the crowd, they removed the roof where he was. When they had broken it up, they let down the mat that the paralytic was lying on.
\v 5 Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, \wj “Son, your sins are forgiven you.”\wj*
\p
\v 6 But there were some of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts,
\v 7 “Why does this man speak blasphemies like that? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
\p
\v 8 Immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, said to them, \wj “Why do you reason these things in your hearts? \wj*
\v 9 \wj Which is easier, to tell the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven;’ or to say, ‘Arise, and take up your bed, and walk?’ \wj*
\v 10 \wj But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”\wj*—he said to the paralytic—
\v 11 \wj “I tell you, arise, take up your mat, and go to your house.” \wj*
\p
\v 12 He arose, and immediately took up the mat, and went out in front of them all; so that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, “We never saw anything like this!”
\p
\v 13 He went out again by the seaside. All the multitude came to him, and he taught them.
\v 14 As he passed by, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the tax office, and he said to him, \wj “Follow me.”\wj* And he arose and followed him.
\p
\v 15 He was reclining at the table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners sat down with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many, and they followed him.
\v 16 The scribes and the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?”
\p
\v 17 When Jesus heard it, he said to them, \wj “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”\wj*
\p
\v 18 John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came and asked him, “Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don’t fast?”
\p
\v 19 Jesus said to them, \wj “Can the groomsmen fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they can’t fast. \wj*
\v 20 \wj But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day. \wj*
\v 21 \wj No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, or else the patch shrinks and the new tears away from the old, and a worse hole is made. \wj*
\v 22 \wj No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and the wine pours out, and the skins will be destroyed; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins.”\wj*
\p
\v 23 He was going on the Sabbath day through the grain fields, and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of grain.
\v 24 The Pharisees said to him, “Behold, why do they do that which is not lawful on the Sabbath day?”
\p
\v 25 He said to them, \wj “Did you never read what David did, when he had need, and was hungry—he, and those who were with him? \wj*
\v 26 \wj How he entered into God’s house at the time of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the show bread, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests, and gave also to those who were with him?”\wj*
\v 27 He said to them, \wj “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. \wj*
\v 28 \wj Therefore the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”\wj*


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\v 1 He entered again into the synagogue, and there was a man there who had his hand withered.
\v 2 They watched him, whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse him.
\v 3 He said to the man who had his hand withered, \wj “Stand up.”\wj*
\v 4 He said to them, \wj “Is it lawful on the Sabbath day to do good, or to do harm? To save a life, or to kill?”\wj* But they were silent.
\v 5 When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, \wj “Stretch out your hand.” \wj* He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other.
\v 6 The Pharisees went out, and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.
\p
\v 7 Jesus withdrew to the sea with his disciples, and a great multitude followed him from Galilee, from Judea,
\v 8 from Jerusalem, from Idumaea, beyond the Jordan, and those from around Tyre and Sidon. A great multitude, hearing what great things he did, came to him.
\v 9 He spoke to his disciples that a little boat should stay near him because of the crowd, so that they wouldn’t press on him.
\v 10 For he had healed many, so that as many as had diseases pressed on him that they might touch him.
\v 11 The unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, “You are the Son of God!”
\v 12 He sternly warned them that they should not make him known.
\p
\v 13 He went up into the mountain, and called to himself those whom he wanted, and they went to him.
\v 14 He appointed twelve, that they might be with him, and that he might send them out to preach,
\v 15 and to have authority to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons:
\v 16 Simon (to whom he gave the name Peter);
\v 17 James the son of Zebedee; and John, the brother of James, (whom he called Boanerges, which means, Sons of Thunder);
\v 18 Andrew; Philip; Bartholomew; Matthew; Thomas; James, the son of Alphaeus; Thaddaeus; Simon the Zealot;
\v 19 and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.
\p Then he came into a house.
\v 20 The multitude came together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.
\v 21 When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him; for they said, “He is insane.”
\v 22 The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, “He has Beelzebul,” and, “By the prince of the demons he casts out the demons.”
\p
\v 23 He summoned them, and said to them in parables, \wj “How can Satan cast out Satan? \wj*
\v 24 \wj If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. \wj*
\v 25 \wj If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand. \wj*
\v 26 \wj If Satan has risen up against himself, and is divided, he can’t stand, but has an end. \wj*
\v 27 \wj But no one can enter into the house of the strong man to plunder unless he first binds the strong man; then he will plunder his house. \wj*
\v 28 \wj Most certainly I tell you, all sins of the descendants of man will be forgiven, including their blasphemies with which they may blaspheme; \wj*
\v 29 \wj but whoever may blaspheme against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is subject to eternal condemnation.”\wj*\f + \fr 3:29 \ft NU reads, guilty of an eternal sin.\f*
\v 30 —because they said, “He has an unclean spirit.”
\p
\v 31 His mother and his brothers came, and standing outside, they sent to him, calling him.
\v 32 A multitude was sitting around him, and they told him, “Behold, your mother, your brothers, and your sisters\f + \fr 3:32 \ft TR omits “your sisters”\f* are outside looking for you.”
\p
\v 33 He answered them, \wj “Who are my mother and my brothers?”\wj*
\v 34 Looking around at those who sat around him, he said, \wj “Behold, my mother and my brothers! \wj*
\v 35 \wj For whoever does the will of God is my brother, my sister, and mother.”\wj*


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\v 1 Again he began to teach by the seaside. A great multitude was gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the sea, and sat down. All the multitude were on the land by the sea.
\v 2 He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching,
\v 3 \wj “Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow, \wj*
\v 4 \wj and as he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds\wj*\f + \fr 4:4 \ft TR adds “of the air”\f* \wj came and devoured it. \wj*
\v 5 \wj Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil. \wj*
\v 6 \wj When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away. \wj*
\v 7 \wj Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit. \wj*
\v 8 \wj Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some produced thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much.”\wj*
\v 9 He said, \wj “Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.”\wj*
\p
\v 10 When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.
\v 11 He said to them, \wj “To you is given the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables, \wj*
\v 12 \wj that ‘seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.’”\wj*\x + \xo 4:12 \xt Isaiah 6:9-10\x*
\p
\v 13 He said to them, \wj “Don’t you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables? \wj*
\v 14 \wj The farmer sows the word. \wj*
\v 15 \wj The ones by the road are the ones where the word is sown; and when they have heard, immediately Satan comes, and takes away the word which has been sown in them. \wj*
\v 16 \wj These in the same way are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy. \wj*
\v 17 \wj They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble. \wj*
\v 18 \wj Others are those who are sown among the thorns. These are those who have heard the word, \wj*
\v 19 \wj and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. \wj*
\v 20 \wj Those which were sown on the good ground are those who hear the word, and accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times.”\wj*
\p
\v 21 He said to them, \wj “Is the lamp brought to be put under a basket \wj*\f + \fr 4:21 \ft literally, a modion, a dry measuring basket containing about a peck (about 9 liters)\f* \wj or under a bed? Isn’t it put on a stand? \wj*
\v 22 \wj For there is nothing hidden, except that it should be made known; neither was anything made secret, but that it should come to light. \wj*
\v 23 \wj If any man has ears to hear, let him hear.”\wj*
\p
\v 24 He said to them, \wj “Take heed what you hear. With whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you, and more will be given to you who hear. \wj*
\v 25 \wj For whoever has, to him more will be given, and he who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him.”\wj*
\p
\v 26 He said, \wj “God’s Kingdom is as if a man should cast seed on the earth, \wj*
\v 27 \wj and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, though he doesn’t know how. \wj*
\v 28 \wj For the earth bears fruit: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. \wj*
\v 29 \wj But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”\wj*
\p
\v 30 He said, \wj “How will we liken God’s Kingdom? Or with what parable will we illustrate it? \wj*
\v 31 \wj It’s like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are on the earth, \wj*
\v 32 \wj yet when it is sown, grows up, and becomes greater than all the herbs, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of the sky can lodge under its shadow.”\wj*
\p
\v 33 With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it.
\v 34 Without a parable he didn’t speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.
\p
\v 35 On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, \wj “Let’s go over to the other side.”\wj*
\v 36 Leaving the multitude, they took him with them, even as he was, in the boat. Other small boats were also with him.
\v 37 A big wind storm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so much that the boat was already filled.
\v 38 He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, and they woke him up, and told him, “Teacher, don’t you care that we are dying?”
\p
\v 39 He awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, \wj “Peace! Be still!”\wj* The wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
\v 40 He said to them, \wj “Why are you so afraid? How is it that you have no faith?”\wj*
\p
\v 41 They were greatly afraid, and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”


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\v 1 They came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes.
\v 2 When he had come out of the boat, immediately a man with an unclean spirit met him out of the tombs.
\v 3 He lived in the tombs. Nobody could bind him any more, not even with chains,
\v 4 because he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him, and the fetters broken in pieces. Nobody had the strength to tame him.
\v 5 Always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out, and cutting himself with stones.
\v 6 When he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and bowed down to him,
\v 7 and crying out with a loud voice, he said, “What have I to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, don’t torment me.”
\v 8 For he said to him, \wj “Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!” \wj*
\p
\v 9 He asked him, \wj “What is your name?”\wj*
\p He said to him, “My name is Legion, for we are many.”
\v 10 He begged him much that he would not send them away out of the country.
\v 11 Now on the mountainside there was a great herd of pigs feeding.
\v 12 All the demons begged him, saying, “Send us into the pigs, that we may enter into them.”
\p
\v 13 At once Jesus gave them permission. The unclean spirits came out and entered into the pigs. The herd of about two thousand rushed down the steep bank into the sea, and they were drowned in the sea.
\v 14 Those who fed them fled, and told it in the city and in the country.
\p The people came to see what it was that had happened.
\v 15 They came to Jesus, and saw him who had been possessed by demons sitting, clothed, and in his right mind, even him who had the legion; and they were afraid.
\v 16 Those who saw it declared to them what happened to him who was possessed by demons, and about the pigs.
\v 17 They began to beg him to depart from their region.
\p
\v 18 As he was entering into the boat, he who had been possessed by demons begged him that he might be with him.
\v 19 He didn’t allow him, but said to him, \wj “Go to your house, to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how he had mercy on you.”\wj*
\p
\v 20 He went his way, and began to proclaim in Decapolis how Jesus had done great things for him, and everyone marveled.
\p
\v 21 When Jesus had crossed back over in the boat to the other side, a great multitude was gathered to him; and he was by the sea.
\v 22 Behold, one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, came; and seeing him, he fell at his feet,
\v 23 and begged him much, saying, “My little daughter is at the point of death. Please come and lay your hands on her, that she may be made healthy, and live.”
\p
\v 24 He went with him, and a great multitude followed him, and they pressed upon him on all sides.
\v 25 A certain woman, who had a discharge of blood for twelve years,
\v 26 and had suffered many things by many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better, but rather grew worse,
\v 27 having heard the things concerning Jesus, came up behind him in the crowd, and touched his clothes.
\v 28 For she said, “If I just touch his clothes, I will be made well.”
\v 29 Immediately the flow of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction.
\p
\v 30 Immediately Jesus, perceiving in himself that the power had gone out from him, turned around in the crowd, and asked, \wj “Who touched my clothes?”\wj*
\p
\v 31 His disciples said to him, “You see the multitude pressing against you, and you say, ‘Who touched me?’”
\p
\v 32 He looked around to see her who had done this thing.
\v 33 But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what had been done to her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth.
\p
\v 34 He said to her, \wj “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be cured of your disease.”\wj*
\p
\v 35 While he was still speaking, people came from the synagogue ruler’s house saying, “Your daughter is dead. Why bother the Teacher any more?”
\p
\v 36 But Jesus, when he heard the message spoken, immediately said to the ruler of the synagogue, \wj “Don’t be afraid, only believe.”\wj*
\v 37 He allowed no one to follow him, except Peter, James, and John the brother of James.
\v 38 He came to the synagogue ruler’s house, and he saw an uproar, weeping, and great wailing.
\v 39 When he had entered in, he said to them, \wj “Why do you make an uproar and weep? The child is not dead, but is asleep.”\wj*
\p
\v 40 They ridiculed him. But he, having put them all out, took the father of the child, her mother, and those who were with him, and went in where the child was lying.
\v 41 Taking the child by the hand, he said to her, \wj “Talitha cumi!” \wj* which means, being interpreted, \wj “Girl, I tell you, get up!” \wj*
\v 42 Immediately the girl rose up and walked, for she was twelve years old. They were amazed with great amazement.
\v 43 He strictly ordered them that no one should know this, and commanded that something should be given to her to eat.


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\v 1 He went out from there. He came into his own country, and his disciples followed him.
\v 2 When the Sabbath had come, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many hearing him were astonished, saying, “Where did this man get these things?” and, “What is the wisdom that is given to this man, that such mighty works come about by his hands?
\v 3 Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judah, and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” They were offended at him.
\p
\v 4 Jesus said to them, \wj “A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and among his own relatives, and in his own house.”\wj*
\v 5 He could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people, and healed them.
\v 6 He marveled because of their unbelief.
\p He went around the villages teaching.
\v 7 He called to himself the twelve, and began to send them out two by two; and he gave them authority over the unclean spirits.
\v 8 He commanded them that they should take nothing for their journey, except a staff only: no bread, no wallet, no money in their purse,
\v 9 but to wear sandals, and not put on two tunics.
\v 10 He said to them, \wj “Wherever you enter into a house, stay there until you depart from there. \wj*
\v 11 \wj Whoever will not receive you nor hear you, as you depart from there, shake off the dust that is under your feet for a testimony against them. Assuredly, I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!”\wj*
\p
\v 12 They went out and preached that people should repent.
\v 13 They cast out many demons, and anointed many with oil who were sick, and healed them.
\v 14 King Herod heard this, for his name had become known, and he said, “John the Baptizer has risen from the dead, and therefore these powers are at work in him.”
\v 15 But others said, “He is Elijah.” Others said, “He is a prophet, or like one of the prophets.”
\v 16 But Herod, when he heard this, said, “This is John, whom I beheaded. He has risen from the dead.”
\v 17 For Herod himself had sent out and arrested John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, for he had married her.
\v 18 For John said to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.”
\v 19 Herodias set herself against him, and desired to kill him, but she couldn’t,
\v 20 for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and kept him safe. When he heard him, he did many things, and he heard him gladly.
\p
\v 21 Then a convenient day came, that Herod on his birthday made a supper for his nobles, the high officers, and the chief men of Galilee.
\v 22 When the daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced, she pleased Herod and those sitting with him. The king said to the young lady, “Ask me whatever you want, and I will give it to you.”
\v 23 He swore to her, “Whatever you shall ask of me, I will give you, up to half of my kingdom.”
\p
\v 24 She went out, and said to her mother, “What shall I ask?”
\p She said, “The head of John the Baptizer.”
\p
\v 25 She came in immediately with haste to the king, and asked, “I want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptizer on a platter.”
\p
\v 26 The king was exceedingly sorry, but for the sake of his oaths, and of his dinner guests, he didn’t wish to refuse her.
\v 27 Immediately the king sent out a soldier of his guard, and commanded to bring John’s head, and he went and beheaded him in the prison,
\v 28 and brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the young lady; and the young lady gave it to her mother.
\p
\v 29 When his disciples heard this, they came and took up his corpse, and laid it in a tomb.
\p
\v 30 The apostles gathered themselves together to Jesus, and they told him all things, whatever they had done, and whatever they had taught.
\v 31 He said to them, \wj “You come apart into a deserted place, and rest awhile.”\wj* For there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.
\v 32 They went away in the boat to a deserted place by themselves.
\v 33 They\f + \fr 6:33 \ft TR reads “The multitudes” instead of “They”\f* saw them going, and many recognized him and ran there on foot from all the cities. They arrived before them and came together to him.
\v 34 Jesus came out, saw a great multitude, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things.
\v 35 When it was late in the day, his disciples came to him, and said, “This place is deserted, and it is late in the day.
\v 36 Send them away, that they may go into the surrounding country and villages, and buy themselves bread, for they have nothing to eat.”
\p
\v 37 But he answered them, \wj “You give them something to eat.”\wj*
\p They asked him, “Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii\f + \fr 6:37 \ft 200 denarii was about 7 or 8 months wages for an agricultural laborer.\f* worth of bread, and give them something to eat?”
\p
\v 38 He said to them, \wj “How many loaves do you have? Go see.”\wj*
\p When they knew, they said, “Five, and two fish.”
\p
\v 39 He commanded them that everyone should sit down in groups on the green grass.
\v 40 They sat down in ranks, by hundreds and by fifties.
\v 41 He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed and broke the loaves, and he gave to his disciples to set before them, and he divided the two fish among them all.
\v 42 They all ate, and were filled.
\v 43 They took up twelve baskets full of broken pieces and also of the fish.
\v 44 Those who ate the loaves were\f + \fr 6:44 \ft TR adds “about”\f* five thousand men.
\p
\v 45 Immediately he made his disciples get into the boat, and to go ahead to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he himself sent the multitude away.
\v 46 After he had taken leave of them, he went up the mountain to pray.
\p
\v 47 When evening had come, the boat was in the middle of the sea, and he was alone on the land.
\v 48 Seeing them distressed in rowing, for the wind was contrary to them, about the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea, \x + \xo 6:48 \xt See Job 9:8\x* and he would have passed by them,
\v 49 but they, when they saw him walking on the sea, supposed that it was a ghost, and cried out;
\v 50 for they all saw him, and were troubled. But he immediately spoke with them, and said to them, \wj “Cheer up! It is I!\wj*\f + \fr 6:50 \ft or, “I AM!”\f* \wj Don’t be afraid.”\wj*
\v 51 He got into the boat with them; and the wind ceased, and they were very amazed among themselves, and marveled;
\v 52 for they hadn’t understood about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.
\p
\v 53 When they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret, and moored to the shore.
\v 54 When they had come out of the boat, immediately the people recognized him,
\v 55 and ran around that whole region, and began to bring those who were sick, on their mats, to where they heard he was.
\v 56 Wherever he entered, into villages, or into cities, or into the country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces, and begged him that they might just touch the fringe\f + \fr 6:56 \ft or, tassel\f* of his garment; and as many as touched him were made well.


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\v 1 Then the Pharisees and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem.
\v 2 Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is unwashed, hands, they found fault.
\v 3 (For the Pharisees and all the Jews don’t eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders.
\v 4 They don’t eat when they come from the marketplace unless they bathe themselves, and there are many other things, which they have received to hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, bronze vessels, and couches.)
\v 5 The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why don’t your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?”
\p
\v 6 He answered them, \wj “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written,\wj*
\q1 \wj ‘This people honors me with their lips,\wj*
\q2 \wj but their heart is far from me.\wj*
\q1
\v 7 \wj But they worship me in vain,\wj*
\q2 \wj teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’\wj*\x + \xo 7:7 \xt Isaiah 29:13 \x*
\p
\v 8 \wj “For you set aside the commandment of God, and hold tightly to the tradition of men—the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do many other such things.”\wj*
\v 9 He said to them, \wj “Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition. \wj*
\v 10 \wj For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother;’\wj*\x + \xo 7:10 \xt Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16\x* \wj and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’\wj*\x + \xo 7:10 \xt Exodus 21:17; Leviticus 20:9\x*
\v 11 \wj But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban,”’”\wj*\f + \fr 7:11 \ft Corban is a Hebrew word for an offering devoted to God.\f* that is to say, given to God,
\v 12 \wj “then you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother, \wj*
\v 13 \wj making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this.”\wj*
\p
\v 14 He called all the multitude to himself, and said to them, \wj “Hear me, all of you, and understand. \wj*
\v 15 \wj There is nothing from outside of the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man. \wj*
\v 16 \wj If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!”\wj*\f + \fr 7:16 \ft NU omits verse 16.\f*
\p
\v 17 When he had entered into a house away from the multitude, his disciples asked him about the parable.
\v 18 He said to them, \wj “Are you also without understanding? Don’t you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can’t defile him, \wj*
\v 19 \wj because it doesn’t go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, making all foods clean?”\wj*\f + \fr 7:19 \ft NU ends Jesus’ direct quote and question after “latrine”, ending the verse with “Thus he declared all foods clean. \f*
\v 20 He said, \wj “That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man. \wj*
\v 21 \wj For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts, \wj*
\v 22 \wj covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness. \wj*
\v 23 \wj All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.” \wj*
\p
\v 24 From there he arose, and went away into the borders of Tyre and Sidon. He entered into a house, and didn’t want anyone to know it, but he couldn’t escape notice.
\v 25 For a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having heard of him, came and fell down at his feet.
\v 26 Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. She begged him that he would cast the demon out of her daughter.
\v 27 But Jesus said to her, \wj “Let the children be filled first, for it is not appropriate to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.” \wj*
\p
\v 28 But she answered him, “Yes, Lord. Yet even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”
\p
\v 29 He said to her, \wj “For this saying, go your way. The demon has gone out of your daughter.”\wj*
\p
\v 30 She went away to her house, and found the child having been laid on the bed, with the demon gone out.
\p
\v 31 Again he departed from the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and came to the sea of Galilee, through the middle of the region of Decapolis.
\v 32 They brought to him one who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech. They begged him to lay his hand on him.
\v 33 He took him aside from the multitude, privately, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue.
\v 34 Looking up to heaven, he sighed, and said to him, \wj “Ephphatha!” \wj* that is, \wj “Be opened!”\wj*
\v 35 Immediately his ears were opened, and the impediment of his tongue was released, and he spoke clearly.
\v 36 He commanded them that they should tell no one, but the more he commanded them, so much the more widely they proclaimed it.
\v 37 They were astonished beyond measure, saying, “He has done all things well. He makes even the deaf hear, and the mute speak!”


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\v 1 In those days, when there was a very great multitude, and they had nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples to himself, and said to them,
\v 2 \wj “I have compassion on the multitude, because they have stayed with me now three days, and have nothing to eat. \wj*
\v 3 \wj If I send them away fasting to their home, they will faint on the way, for some of them have come a long way.”\wj*
\p
\v 4 His disciples answered him, “From where could one satisfy these people with bread here in a deserted place?”
\p
\v 5 He asked them, \wj “How many loaves do you have?”\wj*
\p They said, “Seven.”
\p
\v 6 He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground, and he took the seven loaves. Having given thanks, he broke them, and gave them to his disciples to serve, and they served the multitude.
\v 7 They had a few small fish. Having blessed them, he said to serve these also.
\v 8 They ate, and were filled. They took up seven baskets of broken pieces that were left over.
\v 9 Those who had eaten were about four thousand. Then he sent them away.
\p
\v 10 Immediately he entered into the boat with his disciples, and came into the region of Dalmanutha.
\v 11 The Pharisees came out and began to question him, seeking from him a sign from heaven, and testing him.
\v 12 He sighed deeply in his spirit, and said, \wj “Why does this generation\wj*\f + \fr 8:12 \ft The word translated “generation” here (genea) could also be translated “people”, “race”, or “family”.\f* \wj seek a sign? Most certainly I tell you, no sign will be given to this generation.”\wj*
\p
\v 13 He left them, and again entering into the boat, departed to the other side.
\v 14 They forgot to take bread; and they didn’t have more than one loaf in the boat with them.
\v 15 He warned them, saying, \wj “Take heed: beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod.”\wj*
\p
\v 16 They reasoned with one another, saying, “It’s because we have no bread.”
\p
\v 17 Jesus, perceiving it, said to them, \wj “Why do you reason that it’s because you have no bread? Don’t you perceive yet, neither understand? Is your heart still hardened? \wj*
\v 18 \wj Having eyes, don’t you see? Having ears, don’t you hear? Don’t you remember? \wj*
\v 19 \wj When I broke the five loaves among the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?”\wj*
\p They told him, “Twelve.”
\p
\v 20 \wj “When the seven loaves fed the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?”\wj*
\p They told him, “Seven.”
\p
\v 21 He asked them, \wj “Don’t you understand yet?”\wj*
\p
\v 22 He came to Bethsaida. They brought a blind man to him, and begged him to touch him.
\v 23 He took hold of the blind man by the hand, and brought him out of the village. When he had spat on his eyes, and laid his hands on him, he asked him if he saw anything.
\p
\v 24 He looked up, and said, “I see men; for I see them like trees walking.”
\p
\v 25 Then again he laid his hands on his eyes. He looked intently, and was restored, and saw everyone clearly.
\v 26 He sent him away to his house, saying, \wj “Don’t enter into the village, nor tell anyone in the village.”\wj*
\p
\v 27 Jesus went out, with his disciples, into the villages of Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked his disciples, \wj “Who do men say that I am?” \wj*
\p
\v 28 They told him, “John the Baptizer, and others say Elijah, but others: one of the prophets.”
\p
\v 29 He said to them, \wj “But who do you say that I am?”\wj*
\p Peter answered, “You are the Christ.”
\p
\v 30 He commanded them that they should tell no one about him.
\v 31 He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
\v 32 He spoke to them openly. Peter took him, and began to rebuke him.
\v 33 But he, turning around, and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter, and said, \wj “Get behind me, Satan! For you have in mind not the things of God, but the things of men.”\wj*
\p
\v 34 He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, \wj “Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. \wj*
\v 35 \wj For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it. \wj*
\v 36 \wj For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? \wj*
\v 37 \wj For what will a man give in exchange for his life? \wj*
\v 38 \wj For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will be ashamed of him, when he comes in his Father’s glory, with the holy angels.”\wj*


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\v 1 He said to them, \wj “Most certainly I tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste death until they see God’s Kingdom come with power.”\wj*
\p
\v 2 After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John, and brought them up onto a high mountain privately by themselves, and he was changed into another form in front of them.
\v 3 His clothing became glistening, exceedingly white, like snow, such as no launderer on earth can whiten them.
\v 4 Elijah and Moses appeared to them, and they were talking with Jesus.
\p
\v 5 Peter answered Jesus, “Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. Let’s make three tents: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”
\v 6 For he didn’t know what to say, for they were very afraid.
\p
\v 7 A cloud came, overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud, “This is my beloved Son. Listen to him.”
\p
\v 8 Suddenly looking around, they saw no one with them any more, except Jesus only.
\p
\v 9 As they were coming down from the mountain, he commanded them that they should tell no one what things they had seen, until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead.
\v 10 They kept this saying to themselves, questioning what the “rising from the dead” meant.
\p
\v 11 They asked him, saying, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”
\p
\v 12 He said to them, \wj “Elijah indeed comes first, and restores all things. How is it written about the Son of Man, that he should suffer many things and be despised? \wj*
\v 13 \wj But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they have also done to him whatever they wanted to, even as it is written about him.”\wj*
\p
\v 14 Coming to the disciples, he saw a great multitude around them, and scribes questioning them.
\v 15 Immediately all the multitude, when they saw him, were greatly amazed, and running to him, greeted him.
\v 16 He asked the scribes, \wj “What are you asking them?”\wj*
\p
\v 17 One of the multitude answered, “Teacher, I brought to you my son, who has a mute spirit;
\v 18 and wherever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, and grinds his teeth, and wastes away. I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they weren’t able.”
\p
\v 19 He answered him, \wj “Unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to me.”\wj*
\p
\v 20 They brought him to him, and when he saw him, immediately the spirit convulsed him, and he fell on the ground, wallowing and foaming at the mouth.
\p
\v 21 He asked his father, \wj “How long has it been since this has come to him?”\wj*
\p He said, “From childhood.
\v 22 Often it has cast him both into the fire and into the water to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us, and help us.”
\p
\v 23 Jesus said to him, \wj “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”\wj*
\p
\v 24 Immediately the father of the child cried out with tears, “I believe. Help my unbelief!”
\p
\v 25 When Jesus saw that a multitude came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to him, \wj “You mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him, and never enter him again!”\wj*
\p
\v 26 After crying out and convulsing him greatly, it came out of him. The boy became like one dead, so much that most of them said, “He is dead.”
\v 27 But Jesus took him by the hand, and raised him up; and he arose.
\p
\v 28 When he had come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why couldn’t we cast it out?”
\v 29 He said to them, \wj “This kind can come out by nothing, except by prayer and fasting.”\wj*
\p
\v 30 They went out from there, and passed through Galilee. He didn’t want anyone to know it.
\v 31 For he was teaching his disciples, and said to them, \wj “The Son of Man is being handed over to the hands of men, and they will kill him; and when he is killed, on the third day he will rise again.”\wj*
\p
\v 32 But they didn’t understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.
\p
\v 33 He came to Capernaum, and when he was in the house he asked them, \wj “What were you arguing among yourselves on the way?”\wj*
\p
\v 34 But they were silent, for they had disputed with one another on the way about who was the greatest.
\p
\v 35 He sat down, and called the twelve; and he said to them, \wj “If any man wants to be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all.”\wj*
\v 36 He took a little child, and set him in the middle of them. Taking him in his arms, he said to them,
\v 37 \wj “Whoever receives one such little child in my name, receives me, and whoever receives me, doesn’t receive me, but him who sent me.”\wj*
\p
\v 38 John said to him, “Teacher, we saw someone who doesn’t follow us casting out demons in your name; and we forbade him, because he doesn’t follow us.”
\p
\v 39 But Jesus said, \wj “Don’t forbid him, for there is no one who will do a mighty work in my name, and be able quickly to speak evil of me. \wj*
\v 40 \wj For whoever is not against us is on our side. \wj*
\v 41 \wj For whoever will give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because you are Christ’s, most certainly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward. \wj*
\v 42 \wj Whoever will cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if he were thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around his neck. \wj*
\v 43 \wj If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into Gehenna, \wj*\f + \fr 9:43 \ft or, Hell\f* \wj into the unquenchable fire, \wj*
\v 44 \wj ‘where their worm doesn’t die, and the fire is not quenched.’ \wj*\x + \xo 9:44 \xt Isaiah 66:24\x*\f + \fr 9:44 \ft NU omits verse 44.\f*
\v 45 \wj If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life lame, rather than having your two feet to be cast into Gehenna, \wj*\f + \fr 9:45 \ft or, Hell\f* \wj into the fire that will never be quenched—\wj*
\v 46 \wj ‘where their worm doesn’t die, and the fire is not quenched.’ \wj*\f + \fr 9:46 \ft NU omits verse 46.\f*
\v 47 \wj If your eye causes you to stumble, cast it out. It is better for you to enter into God’s Kingdom with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna\wj*\f + \fr 9:47 \ft or, Hell\f* \wj of fire, \wj*
\v 48 \wj ‘where their worm doesn’t die, and the fire is not quenched.’ \wj*\x + \xo 9:48 \xt Isaiah 66:24\x*
\v 49 \wj For everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt. \wj*
\v 50 \wj Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.” \wj*


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\v 1 Since many have undertaken to set in order a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us,
\v 2 even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us,
\v 3 it seemed good to me also, having traced the course of all things accurately from the first, to write to you in order, most excellent Theophilus;
\v 4 that you might know the certainty concerning the things in which you were instructed.
\p
\v 5 There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the priestly division of Abijah. He had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.
\v 6 They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.
\v 7 But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.
\p
\v 8 Now while he executed the priest’s office before God in the order of his division
\v 9 according to the custom of the priest’s office, his lot was to enter into the temple of the Lord and burn incense.
\v 10 The whole multitude of the people were praying outside at the hour of incense.
\p
\v 11 An angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing on the right side of the altar of incense.
\v 12 Zacharias was troubled when he saw him, and fear fell upon him.
\v 13 But the angel said to him, “Don’t be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard. Your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.
\v 14 You will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth.
\v 15 For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.
\v 16 He will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God.
\v 17 He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’\x + \xo 1:17 \xt Malachi 4:6\x* and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Lord.”
\p
\v 18 Zacharias said to the angel, “How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years.”
\p
\v 19 The angel answered him, “I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God. I was sent to speak to you and to bring you this good news.
\v 20 Behold,\f + \fr 1:20 \ft “Behold”, from “ἰδοὺ”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* you will be silent and not able to speak until the day that these things will happen, because you didn’t believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their proper time.”
\p
\v 21 The people were waiting for Zacharias, and they marveled that he delayed in the temple.
\v 22 When he came out, he could not speak to them. They perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple. He continued making signs to them, and remained mute.
\v 23 When the days of his service were fulfilled, he departed to his house.
\v 24 After these days Elizabeth his wife conceived, and she hid herself five months, saying,
\v 25 “Thus has the Lord done to me in the days in which he looked at me, to take away my reproach among men.”
\p
\v 26 Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth,
\v 27 to a virgin pledged to be married to a man whose name was Joseph, of David’s house. The virgin’s name was Mary.
\v 28 Having come in, the angel said to her, “Rejoice, you highly favored one! The Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women!”
\p
\v 29 But when she saw him, she was greatly troubled at the saying, and considered what kind of salutation this might be.
\v 30 The angel said to her, “Don’t be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.
\v 31 Behold, you will conceive in your womb and give birth to a son, and shall name him ‘Jesus.’
\v 32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David,
\v 33 and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever. There will be no end to his Kingdom.”
\p
\v 34 Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, seeing I am a virgin?”
\p
\v 35 The angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God.
\v 36 Behold, Elizabeth your relative also has conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.
\v 37 For nothing spoken by God is impossible.”\f + \fr 1:37 \ft or, “For everything spoken by God is possible.”\f*
\p
\v 38 Mary said, “Behold, the servant of the Lord; let it be done to me according to your word.”
\p The angel departed from her.
\p
\v 39 Mary arose in those days and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Judah,
\v 40 and entered into the house of Zacharias and greeted Elizabeth.
\v 41 When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.
\v 42 She called out with a loud voice and said, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!
\v 43 Why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
\v 44 For behold, when the voice of your greeting came into my ears, the baby leaped in my womb for joy!
\v 45 Blessed is she who believed, for there will be a fulfillment of the things which have been spoken to her from the Lord!”
\p
\v 46 Mary said,
\q1 “My soul magnifies the Lord.
\q2
\v 47 My spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior,
\q2
\v 48 for he has looked at the humble state of his servant.
\q1 For behold, from now on, all generations will call me blessed.
\q2
\v 49 For he who is mighty has done great things for me.
\q2 Holy is his name.
\q2
\v 50 His mercy is for generations of generations on those who fear him.
\q1
\v 51 He has shown strength with his arm.
\q2 He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
\q1
\v 52 He has put down princes from their thrones,
\q2 and has exalted the lowly.
\q1
\v 53 He has filled the hungry with good things.
\q2 He has sent the rich away empty.
\q1
\v 54 He has given help to Israel, his servant, that he might remember mercy,
\q2
\v 55 as he spoke to our fathers,
\q2 to Abraham and his offspring\f + \fr 1:55 \ft or, seed\f* forever.”
\p
\v 56 Mary stayed with her about three months, and then returned to her house.
\p
\v 57 Now the time that Elizabeth should give birth was fulfilled, and she gave birth to a son.
\v 58 Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy toward her, and they rejoiced with her.
\v 59 On the eighth day, they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him Zacharias, after the name of his father.
\v 60 His mother answered, “Not so; but he will be called John.”
\p
\v 61 They said to her, “There is no one among your relatives who is called by this name.”
\v 62 They made signs to his father, what he would have him called.
\p
\v 63 He asked for a writing tablet, and wrote, “His name is John.”
\p They all marveled.
\v 64 His mouth was opened immediately and his tongue freed, and he spoke, blessing God.
\v 65 Fear came on all who lived around them, and all these sayings were talked about throughout all the hill country of Judea.
\v 66 All who heard them laid them up in their heart, saying, “What then will this child be?” The hand of the Lord was with him.
\p
\v 67 His father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Spirit, and prophesied, saying,
\q1
\v 68 “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,
\q2 for he has visited and redeemed his people;
\q1
\v 69 and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David
\q2
\v 70 (as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets who have been from of old),
\q2
\v 71 salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us;
\q1
\v 72 to show mercy toward our fathers,
\q2 to remember his holy covenant,
\q1
\v 73 the oath which he swore to Abraham our father,
\q2
\v 74 to grant to us that we, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies,
\q2 should serve him without fear,
\q2
\v 75 in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life.
\q1
\v 76 And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High;
\q2 for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways,
\q2
\v 77 to give knowledge of salvation to his people by the remission of their sins,
\q1
\v 78 because of the tender mercy of our God,
\q2 by which the dawn from on high will visit us,
\q2
\v 79 to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death;
\q2 to guide our feet into the way of peace.”
\p
\v 80 The child was growing and becoming strong in spirit, and was in the desert until the day of his public appearance to Israel.


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\v 1 Now after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy others, and sent them two by two ahead of him\f + \fr 10:1 \ft literally, “before his face”\f* into every city and place where he was about to come.
\v 2 Then he said to them, \wj “The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the laborers are few. Pray therefore to the Lord of the harvest, that he may send out laborers into his harvest. \wj*
\v 3 \wj Go your ways. Behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves. \wj*
\v 4 \wj Carry no purse, nor wallet, nor sandals. Greet no one on the way. \wj*
\v 5 \wj Into whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace be to this house.’ \wj*
\v 6 \wj If a son of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; but if not, it will return to you. \wj*
\v 7 \wj Remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Don’t go from house to house. \wj*
\v 8 \wj Into whatever city you enter, and they receive you, eat the things that are set before you. \wj*
\v 9 \wj Heal the sick who are there, and tell them, ‘God’s Kingdom has come near to you.’ \wj*
\v 10 \wj But into whatever city you enter, and they don’t receive you, go out into its streets and say, \wj*
\v 11 \wj ‘Even the dust from your city that clings to us, we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that God’s Kingdom has come near to you.’ \wj*
\v 12 \wj I tell you, it will be more tolerable in that day for Sodom than for that city.\wj*
\p
\v 13 \wj “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. \wj*
\v 14 \wj But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you. \wj*
\v 15 \wj You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to Hades. \wj*\f + \fr 10:15 \ft Hades is the lower realm of the dead, or Hell.\f*
\v 16 \wj Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”\wj*
\p
\v 17 The seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!”
\p
\v 18 He said to them, \wj “I saw Satan having fallen like lightning from heaven. \wj*
\v 19 \wj Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will in any way hurt you. \wj*
\v 20 \wj Nevertheless, don’t rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”\wj*
\p
\v 21 In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, \wj “I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.”\wj*
\p
\v 22 Turning to the disciples, he said, \wj “All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son desires to reveal him.”\wj*
\p
\v 23 Turning to the disciples, he said privately, \wj “Blessed are the eyes which see the things that you see, \wj*
\v 24 \wj for I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see the things which you see, and didn’t see them, and to hear the things which you hear, and didn’t hear them.”\wj*
\p
\v 25 Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”
\p
\v 26 He said to him, \wj “What is written in the law? How do you read it?” \wj*
\p
\v 27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind;\x + \xo 10:27 \xt Deuteronomy 6:5\x* and your neighbor as yourself.”\x + \xo 10:27 \xt Leviticus 19:18\x*
\p
\v 28 He said to him, \wj “You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live.”\wj*
\p
\v 29 But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”
\p
\v 30 Jesus answered, \wj “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead. \wj*
\v 31 \wj By chance a certain priest was going down that way. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side. \wj*
\v 32 \wj In the same way a Levite also, when he came to the place, and saw him, passed by on the other side. \wj*
\v 33 \wj But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled, came where he was. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion, \wj*
\v 34 \wj came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. He set him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him. \wj*
\v 35 \wj On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii, gave them to the host, and said to him, ‘Take care of him. Whatever you spend beyond that, I will repay you when I return.’ \wj*
\v 36 \wj Now which of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbor to him who fell among the robbers?”\wj*
\p
\v 37 He said, “He who showed mercy on him.”
\p Then Jesus said to him, \wj “Go and do likewise.”\wj*
\p
\v 38 As they went on their way, he entered into a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house.
\v 39 She had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus’ feet, and heard his word.
\v 40 But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she came up to him, and said, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister left me to serve alone? Ask her therefore to help me.”
\p
\v 41 Jesus answered her, \wj “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, \wj*
\v 42 \wj but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”\wj*


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\v 1 When he finished praying in a certain place, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples.”
\p
\v 2 He said to them, \wj “When you pray, say,\wj*
\q1 \wj ‘Our Father in heaven,\wj*
\q2 \wj may your name be kept holy.\wj*
\q1 \wj May your Kingdom come.\wj*
\q2 \wj May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.\wj*
\q1
\v 3 \wj Give us day by day our daily bread.\wj*
\q1
\v 4 \wj Forgive us our sins,\wj*
\q2 \wj for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. \wj*
\q1 \wj Bring us not into temptation,\wj*
\q2 \wj but deliver us from the evil one.’”\wj*
\p
\v 5 He said to them, \wj “Which of you, if you go to a friend at midnight, and tell him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread, \wj*
\v 6 \wj for a friend of mine has come to me from a journey, and I have nothing to set before him,’ \wj*
\v 7 \wj and he from within will answer and say, ‘Don’t bother me. The door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I can’t get up and give it to you’? \wj*
\v 8 \wj I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence, he will get up and give him as many as he needs.\wj*
\p
\v 9 \wj “I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you. \wj*
\v 10 \wj For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.\wj*
\p
\v 11 \wj “Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won’t give him a snake instead of a fish, will he? \wj*
\v 12 \wj Or if he asks for an egg, he won’t give him a scorpion, will he? \wj*
\v 13 \wj If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”\wj*
\p
\v 14 He was casting out a demon, and it was mute. When the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke; and the multitudes marveled.
\v 15 But some of them said, “He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”
\v 16 Others, testing him, sought from him a sign from heaven.
\v 17 But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, \wj “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation. A house divided against itself falls. \wj*
\v 18 \wj If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that I cast out demons by Beelzebul. \wj*
\v 19 \wj But if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges. \wj*
\v 20 \wj But if I by God’s finger cast out demons, then God’s Kingdom has come to you.\wj*
\p
\v 21 \wj “When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe. \wj*
\v 22 \wj But when someone stronger attacks him and overcomes him, he takes from him his whole armor in which he trusted, and divides his plunder. \wj*
\p
\v 23 \wj “He that is not with me is against me. He who doesn’t gather with me scatters. \wj*
\v 24 \wj The unclean spirit, when he has gone out of the man, passes through dry places, seeking rest, and finding none, he says, ‘I will turn back to my house from which I came out.’ \wj*
\v 25 \wj When he returns, he finds it swept and put in order. \wj*
\v 26 \wj Then he goes, and takes seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first.”\wj*
\p
\v 27 It came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out of the multitude lifted up her voice, and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts which nursed you!”
\p
\v 28 But he said, \wj “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”\wj*
\p
\v 29 When the multitudes were gathering together to him, he began to say, \wj “This is an evil generation. It seeks after a sign. No sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah, the prophet. \wj*
\v 30 \wj For even as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so the Son of Man will also be to this generation. \wj*
\v 31 \wj The Queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and will condemn them: for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, one greater than Solomon is here. \wj*
\v 32 \wj The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, one greater than Jonah is here.\wj*
\p
\v 33 \wj “No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on a stand, that those who come in may see the light. \wj*
\v 34 \wj The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole body is also full of light; but when it is evil, your body also is full of darkness. \wj*
\v 35 \wj Therefore see whether the light that is in you isn’t darkness. \wj*
\v 36 \wj If therefore your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly full of light, as when the lamp with its bright shining gives you light.”\wj*
\p
\v 37 Now as he spoke, a certain Pharisee asked him to dine with him. He went in, and sat at the table.
\v 38 When the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first washed himself before dinner.
\v 39 The Lord said to him, \wj “Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness. \wj*
\v 40 \wj You foolish ones, didn’t he who made the outside make the inside also? \wj*
\v 41 \wj But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you. \wj*
\v 42 \wj But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and God’s love. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone. \wj*
\v 43 \wj Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seats in the synagogues, and the greetings in the marketplaces. \wj*
\v 44 \wj Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like hidden graves, and the men who walk over them don’t know it.”\wj*
\p
\v 45 One of the lawyers answered him, “Teacher, in saying this you insult us also.”
\p
\v 46 He said, \wj “Woe to you lawyers also! For you load men with burdens that are difficult to carry, and you yourselves won’t even lift one finger to help carry those burdens. \wj*
\v 47 \wj Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. \wj*
\v 48 \wj So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers. For they killed them, and you build their tombs. \wj*
\v 49 \wj Therefore also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute, \wj*
\v 50 \wj that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation; \wj*
\v 51 \wj from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.’ Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation. \wj*
\v 52 \wj Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn’t enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered.” \wj*
\p
\v 53 As he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him;
\v 54 lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him.


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\v 1 Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, \wj “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. \wj*
\v 2 \wj But there is nothing covered up that will not be revealed, nor hidden that will not be known. \wj*
\v 3 \wj Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light. What you have spoken in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.\wj*
\p
\v 4 \wj “I tell you, my friends, don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. \wj*
\v 5 \wj But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna.\wj*\f + \fr 12:5 \ft or, Hell\f* \wj Yes, I tell you, fear him.\wj*
\p
\v 6 \wj “Aren’t five sparrows sold for two assaria coins\wj*\f + \fr 12:6 \ft An assarion was a small copper coin worth about an hour’s wages for an agricultural laborer.\f*\wj ? Not one of them is forgotten by God. \wj*
\v 7 \wj But the very hairs of your head are all counted. Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.\wj*
\p
\v 8 \wj “I tell you, everyone who confesses me before men, the Son of Man will also confess before the angels of God; \wj*
\v 9 \wj but he who denies me in the presence of men will be denied in the presence of God’s angels. \wj*
\v 10 \wj Everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but those who blaspheme against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven. \wj*
\v 11 \wj When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, don’t be anxious how or what you will answer, or what you will say; \wj*
\v 12 \wj for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that same hour what you must say.”\wj*
\p
\v 13 One of the multitude said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”
\p
\v 14 But he said to him, \wj “Man, who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you?”\wj*
\v 15 He said to them, \wj “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”\wj*
\p
\v 16 He spoke a parable to them, saying, \wj “The ground of a certain rich man produced abundantly. \wj*
\v 17 \wj He reasoned within himself, saying, ‘What will I do, because I don’t have room to store my crops?’ \wj*
\v 18 \wj He said, ‘This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. \wj*
\v 19 \wj I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.”’\wj*
\p
\v 20 \wj “But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’ \wj*
\v 21 \wj So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”\wj*
\p
\v 22 He said to his disciples, \wj “Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear. \wj*
\v 23 \wj Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing. \wj*
\v 24 \wj Consider the ravens: they don’t sow, they don’t reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds! \wj*
\v 25 \wj Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit\wj*\f + \fr 12:25 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.\f* \wj to his height? \wj*
\v 26 \wj If then you aren’t able to do even the least things, why are you anxious about the rest? \wj*
\v 27 \wj Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. \wj*
\v 28 \wj But if this is how God clothes the grass in the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith? \wj*
\v 29 \wj Don’t seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious. \wj*
\v 30 \wj For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things. \wj*
\v 31 \wj But seek God’s Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you. \wj*
\v 32 \wj Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom. \wj*
\v 33 \wj Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys. \wj*
\v 34 \wj For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. \wj*
\p
\v 35 \wj “Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning. \wj*
\v 36 \wj Be like men watching for their lord, when he returns from the wedding feast; that when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open to him. \wj*
\v 37 \wj Blessed are those servants, whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most certainly I tell you that he will dress himself, make them recline, and will come and serve them. \wj*
\v 38 \wj They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch, and finds them so. \wj*
\v 39 \wj But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not allowed his house to be broken into. \wj*
\v 40 \wj Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don’t expect him.”\wj*
\p
\v 41 Peter said to him, “Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everybody?”
\p
\v 42 The Lord said, \wj “Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times? \wj*
\v 43 \wj Blessed is that servant whom his lord will find doing so when he comes. \wj*
\v 44 \wj Truly I tell you, that he will set him over all that he has. \wj*
\v 45 \wj But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My lord delays his coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken, \wj*
\v 46 \wj then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn’t expecting him, and in an hour that he doesn’t know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful. \wj*
\v 47 \wj That servant, who knew his lord’s will, and didn’t prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes, \wj*
\v 48 \wj but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked. \wj*
\p
\v 49 \wj “I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled. \wj*
\v 50 \wj But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished! \wj*
\v 51 \wj Do you think that I have come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, no, but rather division. \wj*
\v 52 \wj For from now on, there will be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three. \wj*
\v 53 \wj They will be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.” \wj*\x + \xo 12:53 \xt Micah 7:6\x*
\p
\v 54 He said to the multitudes also, \wj “When you see a cloud rising from the west, immediately you say, ‘A shower is coming,’ and so it happens. \wj*
\v 55 \wj When a south wind blows, you say, ‘There will be a scorching heat,’ and it happens. \wj*
\v 56 \wj You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how is it that you don’t interpret this time? \wj*
\v 57 \wj Why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right? \wj*
\v 58 \wj For when you are going with your adversary before the magistrate, try diligently on the way to be released from him, lest perhaps he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison. \wj*
\v 59 \wj I tell you, you will by no means get out of there, until you have paid the very last penny.\wj*\f + \fr 12:59 \ft literally, lepton. A lepton is a very small brass Jewish coin worth half a Roman quadrans each, which is worth a quarter of the copper assarion. Lepta are worth less than 1% of an agricultural worker’s daily wages.\f*\wj ”\wj*


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\v 1 Now there were some present at the same time who told him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.
\v 2 Jesus answered them, \wj “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered such things? \wj*
\v 3 \wj I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way. \wj*
\v 4 \wj Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them; do you think that they were worse offenders than all the men who dwell in Jerusalem? \wj*
\v 5 \wj I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.”\wj*
\p
\v 6 He spoke this parable. \wj “A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it, and found none. \wj*
\v 7 \wj He said to the vine dresser, ‘Behold, these three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none. Cut it down. Why does it waste the soil?’ \wj*
\v 8 \wj He answered, ‘Lord, leave it alone this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it. \wj*
\v 9 \wj If it bears fruit, fine; but if not, after that, you can cut it down.’”\wj*
\p
\v 10 He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath day.
\v 11 Behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years. She was bent over, and could in no way straighten herself up.
\v 12 When Jesus saw her, he called her, and said to her, \wj “Woman, you are freed from your infirmity.”\wj*
\v 13 He laid his hands on her, and immediately she stood up straight and glorified God.
\p
\v 14 The ruler of the synagogue, being indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the multitude, “There are six days in which men ought to work. Therefore come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day!”
\p
\v 15 Therefore the Lord answered him, \wj “You hypocrites! Doesn’t each one of you free his ox or his donkey from the stall on the Sabbath, and lead him away to water? \wj*
\v 16 \wj Ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham whom Satan had bound eighteen long years, be freed from this bondage on the Sabbath day?” \wj*
\p
\v 17 As he said these things, all his adversaries were disappointed and all the multitude rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.
\p
\v 18 He said, \wj “What is God’s Kingdom like? To what shall I compare it? \wj*
\v 19 \wj It is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and put in his own garden. It grew and became a large tree, and the birds of the sky live in its branches.”\wj*
\p
\v 20 Again he said, \wj “To what shall I compare God’s Kingdom? \wj*
\v 21 \wj It is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in three measures \wj*\f + \fr 13:21 \ft literally, three sata. 3 sata is about 39 liters or a bit more than a bushel.\f* \wj of flour, until it was all leavened.”\wj*
\p
\v 22 He went on his way through cities and villages, teaching, and traveling on to Jerusalem.
\v 23 One said to him, “Lord, are they few who are saved?”
\p He said to them,
\v 24 \wj “Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in and will not be able. \wj*
\v 25 \wj When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ then he will answer and tell you, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’ \wj*
\v 26 \wj Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’ \wj*
\v 27 \wj He will say, ‘I tell you, I don’t know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.’ \wj*
\v 28 \wj There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in God’s Kingdom, and yourselves being thrown outside. \wj*
\v 29 \wj They will come from the east, west, north, and south, and will sit down in God’s Kingdom. \wj*
\v 30 \wj Behold, there are some who are last who will be first, and there are some who are first who will be last.”\wj*
\p
\v 31 On that same day, some Pharisees came, saying to him, “Get out of here, and go away, for Herod wants to kill you.”
\p
\v 32 He said to them, \wj “Go and tell that fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I complete my mission. \wj*
\v 33 \wj Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the next day, for it can’t be that a prophet would perish outside of Jerusalem.’\wj*
\p
\v 34 \wj “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and you refused! \wj*
\v 35 \wj Behold, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you will not see me until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’” \wj*\x + \xo 13:35 \xt Psalm 118:26\x*


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\v 1 When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him.
\v 2 Behold, a certain man who had dropsy was in front of him.
\v 3 Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, \wj “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”\wj*
\p
\v 4 But they were silent.
\p He took him, and healed him, and let him go.
\v 5 He answered them, \wj “Which of you, if your son\wj*\f + \fr 14:5 \ft TR reads “donkey” instead of “son”\f* \wj or an ox fell into a well, wouldn’t immediately pull him out on a Sabbath day?”\wj*
\p
\v 6 They couldn’t answer him regarding these things.
\p
\v 7 He spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the best seats, and said to them,
\v 8 \wj “When you are invited by anyone to a wedding feast, don’t sit in the best seat, since perhaps someone more honorable than you might be invited by him, \wj*
\v 9 \wj and he who invited both of you would come and tell you, ‘Make room for this person.’ Then you would begin, with shame, to take the lowest place. \wj*
\v 10 \wj But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes, he may tell you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at the table with you. \wj*
\v 11 \wj For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”\wj*
\p
\v 12 He also said to the one who had invited him, \wj “When you make a dinner or a supper, don’t call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back. \wj*
\v 13 \wj But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind; \wj*
\v 14 \wj and you will be blessed, because they don’t have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous.” \wj*
\p
\v 15 When one of those who sat at the table with him heard these things, he said to him, “Blessed is he who will feast in God’s Kingdom!”
\p
\v 16 But he said to him, \wj “A certain man made a great supper, and he invited many people. \wj*
\v 17 \wj He sent out his servant at supper time to tell those who were invited, ‘Come, for everything is ready now.’ \wj*
\v 18 \wj They all as one began to make excuses.\wj*
\p \wj “The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please have me excused.’\wj*
\p
\v 19 \wj “Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I must go try them out. Please have me excused.’\wj*
\p
\v 20 \wj “Another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I can’t come.’ \wj*
\p
\v 21 \wj “That servant came, and told his lord these things. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor, maimed, blind, and lame.’\wj*
\p
\v 22 \wj “The servant said, ‘Lord, it is done as you commanded, and there is still room.’\wj*
\p
\v 23 \wj “The lord said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. \wj*
\v 24 \wj For I tell you that none of those men who were invited will taste of my supper.’”\wj*
\p
\v 25 Now great multitudes were going with him. He turned and said to them,
\v 26 \wj “If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard\wj*\f + \fr 14:26 \ft or, hate \f* \wj his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple. \wj*
\v 27 \wj Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross, and come after me, can’t be my disciple. \wj*
\v 28 \wj For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it? \wj*
\v 29 \wj Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him, \wj*
\v 30 \wj saying, ‘This man began to build, and wasn’t able to finish.’ \wj*
\v 31 \wj Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? \wj*
\v 32 \wj Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy, and asks for conditions of peace. \wj*
\v 33 \wj So therefore whoever of you who doesn’t renounce all that he has, he can’t be my disciple. \wj*
\v 34 \wj Salt is good, but if the salt becomes flat and tasteless, with what do you season it? \wj*
\v 35 \wj It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile. It is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”\wj*


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\v 1 Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.
\v 2 The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.”
\p
\v 3 He told them this parable.
\v 4 \wj “Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it? \wj*
\v 5 \wj When he has found it, he carries it on his shoulders, rejoicing. \wj*
\v 6 \wj When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’ \wj*
\v 7 \wj I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance. \wj*
\v 8 \wj Or what woman, if she had ten drachma\wj*\f + \fr 15:8 \ft A drachma coin was worth about 2 days wages for an agricultural laborer.\f* \wj coins, if she lost one drachma coin, wouldn’t light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it? \wj*
\v 9 \wj When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost.’ \wj*
\v 10 \wj Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”\wj*
\p
\v 11 He said, \wj “A certain man had two sons. \wj*
\v 12 \wj The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of your property.’ He divided his livelihood between them. \wj*
\v 13 \wj Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living. \wj*
\v 14 \wj When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need. \wj*
\v 15 \wj He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs. \wj*
\v 16 \wj He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any. \wj*
\v 17 \wj But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger! \wj*
\v 18 \wj I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight. \wj*
\v 19 \wj I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants.”’\wj*
\p
\v 20 \wj “He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. \wj*
\v 21 \wj The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’\wj*
\p
\v 22 \wj “But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring out the best robe, and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand, and sandals on his feet. \wj*
\v 23 \wj Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let’s eat, and celebrate; \wj*
\v 24 \wj for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ Then they began to celebrate.\wj*
\p
\v 25 \wj “Now his elder son was in the field. As he came near to the house, he heard music and dancing. \wj*
\v 26 \wj He called one of the servants to him, and asked what was going on. \wj*
\v 27 \wj He said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and healthy.’ \wj*
\v 28 \wj But he was angry, and would not go in. Therefore his father came out, and begged him. \wj*
\v 29 \wj But he answered his father, ‘Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends. \wj*
\v 30 \wj But when this your son came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.’\wj*
\p
\v 31 \wj “He said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours. \wj*
\v 32 \wj But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’”\wj*


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\v 1 He also said to his disciples, \wj “There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions. \wj*
\v 2 \wj He called him, and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’ \wj*
\p
\v 3 \wj “The manager said within himself, ‘What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don’t have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg. \wj*
\v 4 \wj I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from management, they may receive me into their houses.’ \wj*
\v 5 \wj Calling each one of his lord’s debtors to him, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe to my lord?’ \wj*
\v 6 \wj He said, ‘A hundred batos\wj*\f + \fr 16:6 \ft 100 batos is about 395 liters or 104 U. S. gallons.\f* \wj of oil.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’ \wj*
\v 7 \wj Then he said to another, ‘How much do you owe?’ He said, ‘A hundred cors\wj*\f + \fr 16:7 \ft 100 cors = about 2,110 liters or 600 bushels.\f* \wj of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’\wj*
\p
\v 8 \wj “His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light. \wj*
\v 9 \wj I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents. \wj*
\v 10 \wj He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much. \wj*
\v 11 \wj If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? \wj*
\v 12 \wj If you have not been faithful in that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own? \wj*
\v 13 \wj No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren’t able to serve God and Mammon.”\wj*\f + \fr 16:13 \ft “Mammon” refers to riches or a false god of wealth.\f*
\p
\v 14 The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.
\v 15 He said to them, \wj “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God. \wj*
\v 16 \wj The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the Good News of God’s Kingdom is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it. \wj*
\v 17 \wj But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the law to fall. \wj*
\v 18 \wj Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery. \wj*
\p
\v 19 \wj “Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day. \wj*
\v 20 \wj A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was taken to his gate, full of sores, \wj*
\v 21 \wj and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores. \wj*
\v 22 \wj The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried. \wj*
\v 23 \wj In Hades,\wj*\f + \fr 16:23 \ft or, Hell\f* \wj he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom. \wj*
\v 24 \wj He cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.’\wj*
\p
\v 25 \wj “But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted, and you are in anguish. \wj*
\v 26 \wj Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you are not able, and that no one may cross over from there to us.’\wj*
\p
\v 27 \wj “He said, ‘I ask you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house; \wj*
\v 28 \wj for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, so they won’t also come into this place of torment.’\wj*
\p
\v 29 \wj “But Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.’\wj*
\p
\v 30 \wj “He said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’\wj*
\p
\v 31 \wj “He said to him, ‘If they don’t listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.’”\wj*


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\v 1 He said to the disciples, \wj “It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come! \wj*
\v 2 \wj It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble. \wj*
\v 3 \wj Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him. \wj*
\v 4 \wj If he sins against you seven times in the day, and seven times returns, saying, ‘I repent,’ you shall forgive him.”\wj*
\p
\v 5 The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”
\p
\v 6 The Lord said, \wj “If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you would tell this sycamore tree, ‘Be uprooted, and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you. \wj*
\v 7 \wj But who is there among you, having a servant plowing or keeping sheep, that will say when he comes in from the field, ‘Come immediately and sit down at the table,’ \wj*
\v 8 \wj and will not rather tell him, ‘Prepare my supper, clothe yourself properly, and serve me, while I eat and drink. Afterward you shall eat and drink’? \wj*
\v 9 \wj Does he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded? I think not. \wj*
\v 10 \wj Even so you also, when you have done all the things that are commanded you, say, ‘We are unworthy servants. We have done our duty.’” \wj*
\p
\v 11 As he was on his way to Jerusalem, he was passing along the borders of Samaria and Galilee.
\v 12 As he entered into a certain village, ten men who were lepers met him, who stood at a distance.
\v 13 They lifted up their voices, saying, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!”
\p
\v 14 When he saw them, he said to them, \wj “Go and show yourselves to the priests.”\wj* As they went, they were cleansed.
\v 15 One of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice.
\v 16 He fell on his face at Jesus’ feet, giving him thanks; and he was a Samaritan.
\v 17 Jesus answered, \wj “Weren’t the ten cleansed? But where are the nine? \wj*
\v 18 \wj Were there none found who returned to give glory to God, except this foreigner?”\wj*
\v 19 Then he said to him, \wj “Get up, and go your way. Your faith has healed you.”\wj*
\p
\v 20 Being asked by the Pharisees when God’s Kingdom would come, he answered them, \wj “God’s Kingdom doesn’t come with observation; \wj*
\v 21 \wj neither will they say, ‘Look, here!’ or, ‘Look, there!’ for behold, God’s Kingdom is within you.”\wj*
\p
\v 22 He said to the disciples, \wj “The days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it. \wj*
\v 23 \wj They will tell you, ‘Look, here!’ or ‘Look, there!’ Don’t go away or follow after them, \wj*
\v 24 \wj for as the lightning, when it flashes out of one part under the sky, shines to another part under the sky; so will the Son of Man be in his day. \wj*
\v 25 \wj But first, he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation. \wj*
\v 26 \wj As it was in the days of Noah, even so will it be also in the days of the Son of Man. \wj*
\v 27 \wj They ate, they drank, they married, and they were given in marriage until the day that Noah entered into the ship, and the flood came and destroyed them all. \wj*
\v 28 \wj Likewise, even as it was in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; \wj*
\v 29 \wj but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky and destroyed them all. \wj*
\v 30 \wj It will be the same way in the day that the Son of Man is revealed. \wj*
\v 31 \wj In that day, he who will be on the housetop and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away. Let him who is in the field likewise not turn back. \wj*
\v 32 \wj Remember Lot’s wife! \wj*
\v 33 \wj Whoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses his life preserves it. \wj*
\v 34 \wj I tell you, in that night there will be two people in one bed. One will be taken and the other will be left. \wj*
\v 35 \wj There will be two grinding grain together. One will be taken and the other will be left.”\wj*
\v 36 \f + \fr 17:36 \ft Some Greek manuscripts add: “Two will be in the field: the one taken, and the other left.”\f*
\p
\v 37 They, answering, asked him, “Where, Lord?”
\p He said to them, \wj “Where the body is, there the vultures will also be gathered together.”\wj*


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\v 1 He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,
\v 2 saying, \wj “There was a judge in a certain city who didn’t fear God, and didn’t respect man. \wj*
\v 3 \wj A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, ‘Defend me from my adversary!’ \wj*
\v 4 \wj He wouldn’t for a while, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God, nor respect man, \wj*
\v 5 \wj yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.’”\wj*
\p
\v 6 The Lord said, \wj “Listen to what the unrighteous judge says. \wj*
\v 7 \wj Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them? \wj*
\v 8 \wj I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”\wj*
\p
\v 9 He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.
\v 10 \wj “Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector. \wj*
\v 11 \wj The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. \wj*
\v 12 \wj I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.’ \wj*
\v 13 \wj But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ \wj*
\v 14 \wj I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”\wj*
\p
\v 15 They were also bringing their babies to him, that he might touch them. But when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them.
\v 16 Jesus summoned them, saying, \wj “Allow the little children to come to me, and don’t hinder them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these. \wj*
\v 17 \wj Most certainly, I tell you, whoever doesn’t receive God’s Kingdom like a little child, he will in no way enter into it.”\wj*
\p
\v 18 A certain ruler asked him, saying, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”
\p
\v 19 Jesus asked him, \wj “Why do you call me good? No one is good, except one: God. \wj*
\v 20 \wj You know the commandments: ‘Don’t commit adultery,’ ‘Don’t murder,’ ‘Don’t steal,’ ‘Don’t give false testimony,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother.’”\wj*\x + \xo 18:20 \xt Exodus 20:12-16; Deuteronomy 5:16-20\x*
\p
\v 21 He said, “I have observed all these things from my youth up.”
\p
\v 22 When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, \wj “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. Then you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.”\wj*
\p
\v 23 But when he heard these things, he became very sad, for he was very rich.
\p
\v 24 Jesus, seeing that he became very sad, said, \wj “How hard it is for those who have riches to enter into God’s Kingdom! \wj*
\v 25 \wj For it is easier for a camel to enter in through a needle’s eye than for a rich man to enter into God’s Kingdom.”\wj*
\p
\v 26 Those who heard it said, “Then who can be saved?”
\p
\v 27 But he said, \wj “The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.”\wj*
\p
\v 28 Peter said, “Look, we have left everything and followed you.”
\p
\v 29 He said to them, \wj “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for God’s Kingdom’s sake, \wj*
\v 30 \wj who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life.”\wj*
\p
\v 31 He took the twelve aside, and said to them, \wj “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written through the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be completed. \wj*
\v 32 \wj For he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, will be mocked, treated shamefully, and spit on. \wj*
\v 33 \wj They will scourge and kill him. On the third day, he will rise again.”\wj*
\p
\v 34 They understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they didn’t understand the things that were said.
\v 35 As he came near Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the road, begging.
\v 36 Hearing a multitude going by, he asked what this meant.
\v 37 They told him that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by.
\v 38 He cried out, “Jesus, you son of David, have mercy on me!”
\v 39 Those who led the way rebuked him, that he should be quiet; but he cried out all the more, “You son of David, have mercy on me!”
\p
\v 40 Standing still, Jesus commanded him to be brought to him. When he had come near, he asked him,
\v 41 \wj “What do you want me to do?”\wj*
\p He said, “Lord, that I may see again.”
\p
\v 42 Jesus said to him, \wj “Receive your sight. Your faith has healed you.” \wj*
\p
\v 43 Immediately he received his sight and followed him, glorifying God. All the people, when they saw it, praised God.


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\v 1 He entered and was passing through Jericho.
\v 2 There was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector, and he was rich.
\v 3 He was trying to see who Jesus was, and couldn’t because of the crowd, because he was short.
\v 4 He ran on ahead, and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was going to pass that way.
\v 5 When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and saw him, and said to him, \wj “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house.” \wj*
\v 6 He hurried, came down, and received him joyfully.
\v 7 When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, “He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner.”
\p
\v 8 Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much.”
\p
\v 9 Jesus said to him, \wj “Today, salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham. \wj*
\v 10 \wj For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.” \wj*
\p
\v 11 As they heard these things, he went on and told a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that God’s Kingdom would be revealed immediately.
\v 12 He said therefore, \wj “A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and to return. \wj*
\v 13 \wj He called ten servants of his and gave them ten mina coins, \wj*\f + \fr 19:13 \ft 10 minas was more than 3 years’ wages for an agricultural laborer. \f* \wj and told them, ‘Conduct business until I come.’ \wj*
\v 14 \wj But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, ‘We don’t want this man to reign over us.’\wj*
\p
\v 15 \wj “When he had come back again, having received the kingdom, he commanded these servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by conducting business. \wj*
\v 16 \wj The first came before him, saying, ‘Lord, your mina has made ten more minas.’\wj*
\p
\v 17 \wj “He said to him, ‘Well done, you good servant! Because you were found faithful with very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.’ \wj*
\p
\v 18 \wj “The second came, saying, ‘Your mina, Lord, has made five minas.’ \wj*
\p
\v 19 \wj “So he said to him, ‘And you are to be over five cities.’ \wj*
\v 20 \wj Another came, saying, ‘Lord, behold, your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief, \wj*
\v 21 \wj for I feared you, because you are an exacting man. You take up that which you didn’t lay down, and reap that which you didn’t sow.’\wj*
\p
\v 22 \wj “He said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn’t lay down, and reaping that which I didn’t sow. \wj*
\v 23 \wj Then why didn’t you deposit my money in the bank, and at my coming, I might have earned interest on it?’ \wj*
\v 24 \wj He said to those who stood by, ‘Take the mina away from him and give it to him who has the ten minas.’\wj*
\p
\v 25 \wj “They said to him, ‘Lord, he has ten minas!’ \wj*
\v 26 \wj ‘For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him. \wj*
\v 27 \wj But bring those enemies of mine who didn’t want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.’”\wj*
\v 28 Having said these things, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.
\p
\v 29 When he came near to Bethsphage\f + \fr 19:29 \ft TR, NU read “Bethpage” instead of “Bethsphage”\f* and Bethany, at the mountain that is called Olivet, he sent two of his disciples,
\v 30 saying, \wj “Go your way into the village on the other side, in which, as you enter, you will find a colt tied, which no man had ever sat upon. Untie it and bring it. \wj*
\v 31 \wj If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ say to him: ‘The Lord needs it.’”\wj*
\p
\v 32 Those who were sent went away, and found things just as he had told them.
\v 33 As they were untying the colt, its owners said to them, “Why are you untying the colt?”
\v 34 They said, “The Lord needs it.”
\v 35 Then they brought it to Jesus. They threw their cloaks on the colt, and sat Jesus on them.
\v 36 As he went, they spread their cloaks on the road.
\v 37 As he was now getting near, at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works which they had seen,
\v 38 saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! \x + \xo 19:38 \xt Psalm 118:26\x* Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest!”
\p
\v 39 Some of the Pharisees from the multitude said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples!”
\p
\v 40 He answered them, \wj “I tell you that if these were silent, the stones would cry out.”\wj*
\p
\v 41 When he came near, he saw the city and wept over it,
\v 42 saying, \wj “If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes. \wj*
\v 43 \wj For the days will come on you, when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side, \wj*
\v 44 \wj and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn’t know the time of your visitation.”\wj*
\p
\v 45 He entered into the temple, and began to drive out those who bought and sold in it,
\v 46 saying to them, \wj “It is written, ‘My house is a house of prayer,’ \wj*\x + \xo 19:46 \xt Isaiah 56:7\x* \wj but you have made it a ‘den of robbers’!” \wj*\x + \xo 19:46 \xt Jeremiah 7:11\x*
\p
\v 47 He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests, the scribes, and the leading men among the people sought to destroy him.
\v 48 They couldn’t find what they might do, for all the people hung on to every word that he said.


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\v 1 Now in those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled.
\v 2 This was the first enrollment made when Quirinius was governor of Syria.
\v 3 All went to enroll themselves, everyone to his own city.
\v 4 Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to David’s city, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David;
\v 5 to enroll himself with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him as wife, being pregnant.
\p
\v 6 While they were there, the day had come for her to give birth.
\v 7 She gave birth to her firstborn son. She wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a feeding trough, because there was no room for them in the inn.
\v 8 There were shepherds in the same country staying in the field, and keeping watch by night over their flock.
\v 9 Behold, an angel of the Lord stood by them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.
\v 10 The angel said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be to all the people.
\v 11 For there is born to you today, in David’s city, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
\v 12 This is the sign to you: you will find a baby wrapped in strips of cloth, lying in a feeding trough.”
\v 13 Suddenly, there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly army praising God, and saying,
\q1
\v 14 “Glory to God in the highest,
\q2 on earth peace, good will toward men.”
\p
\v 15 When the angels went away from them into the sky, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem, now, and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.”
\v 16 They came with haste, and found both Mary and Joseph, and the baby was lying in the feeding trough.
\v 17 When they saw it, they publicized widely the saying which was spoken to them about this child.
\v 18 All who heard it wondered at the things which were spoken to them by the shepherds.
\v 19 But Mary kept all these sayings, pondering them in her heart.
\v 20 The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, just as it was told them.
\p
\v 21 When eight days were fulfilled for the circumcision of the child, his name was called Jesus, which was given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
\p
\v 22 When the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were fulfilled, they brought him up to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord
\v 23 (as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every male who opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord”),\x + \xo 2:23 \xt Exodus 13:2,12\x*
\v 24 and to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, “A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.”\x + \xo 2:24 \xt Leviticus 12:8\x*
\p
\v 25 Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.
\v 26 It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.\f + \fr 2:26 \ft “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew) both mean “Anointed One”\f*
\v 27 He came in the Spirit into the temple. When the parents brought in the child, Jesus, that they might do concerning him according to the custom of the law,
\v 28 then he received him into his arms, and blessed God, and said,
\q1
\v 29 “Now you are releasing your servant, Master,
\q2 according to your word, in peace;
\q1
\v 30 for my eyes have seen your salvation,
\q2
\v 31 which you have prepared before the face of all peoples;
\q1
\v 32 a light for revelation to the nations,
\q2 and the glory of your people Israel.”
\p
\v 33 Joseph and his mother were marveling at the things which were spoken concerning him,
\v 34 and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, “Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.
\v 35 Yes, a sword will pierce through your own soul, that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.”
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\v 36 There was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity,
\v 37 and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn’t depart from the temple, worshiping with fastings and petitions night and day.
\v 38 Coming up at that very hour, she gave thanks to the Lord, and spoke of him to all those who were looking for redemption in Jerusalem.
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\v 39 When they had accomplished all things that were according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city, Nazareth.
\v 40 The child was growing, and was becoming strong in spirit, being filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him.
\v 41 His parents went every year to Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover.
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\v 42 When he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem according to the custom of the feast,
\v 43 and when they had fulfilled the days, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. Joseph and his mother didn’t know it,
\v 44 but supposing him to be in the company, they went a day’s journey, and they looked for him among their relatives and acquaintances.
\v 45 When they didn’t find him, they returned to Jerusalem, looking for him.
\v 46 After three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the middle of the teachers, both listening to them, and asking them questions.
\v 47 All who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers.
\v 48 When they saw him, they were astonished, and his mother said to him, “Son, why have you treated us this way? Behold, your father and I were anxiously looking for you.”
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\v 49 He said to them, \wj “Why were you looking for me? Didn’t you know that I must be in my Father’s house?”\wj*
\v 50 They didn’t understand the saying which he spoke to them.
\v 51 And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
\v 52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.


