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\v 1 On one of those days, as he was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the Good News, the \f + \fr 20:1 \ft TR adds “chief”\f*priests and scribes came to him with the elders.
\v 2 They asked him, “Tell us: by what authority do you do these things? Or who is giving you this authority?”
\p
\v 3 He answered them, \wj “I also will ask you one question. Tell me: \wj*
\v 4 \wj the baptism of John, was it from heaven, or from men?”\wj*
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\v 5 They reasoned with themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why didn’t you believe him?’
\v 6 But if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet.”
\v 7 They answered that they didn’t know where it was from.
\p
\v 8 Jesus said to them, \wj “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”\wj*
\p
\v 9 He began to tell the people this parable. \wj “A \wj*\f + \fr 20:9 \ft NU (in brackets) and TR add “certain”\f* \wj man planted a vineyard, and rented it out to some farmers, and went into another country for a long time. \wj*
\v 10 \wj At the proper season, he sent a servant to the farmers to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him, and sent him away empty. \wj*
\v 11 \wj He sent yet another servant, and they also beat him, and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty. \wj*
\v 12 \wj He sent yet a third, and they also wounded him, and threw him out. \wj*
\v 13 \wj The lord of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be that seeing him, they will respect him.’\wj*
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\v 14 \wj “But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.’ \wj*
\v 15 \wj They threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them? \wj*
\v 16 \wj He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.”\wj*
\p When they heard that, they said, “May that never be!”
\p
\v 17 But he looked at them and said, \wj “Then what is this that is written,\wj*
\q1 \wj ‘The stone which the builders rejected\wj*
\q2 \wj was made the chief cornerstone?’\wj*\x + \xo 20:17 \xt Psalm 118:22 \x*
\q1
\v 18 \wj Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, \wj*
\q2 \wj but it will crush whomever it falls on to dust.”\wj*
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\v 19 The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him that very hour, but they feared the people—for they knew he had spoken this parable against them.
\v 20 They watched him and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.
\v 21 They asked him, “Teacher, we know that you say and teach what is right, and aren’t partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God.
\v 22 Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”
\p
\v 23 But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them, \wj “Why do you test me? \wj*
\v 24 \wj Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?” \wj*
\p They answered, “Caesar’s.”
\p
\v 25 He said to them, \wj “Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”\wj*
\p
\v 26 They weren’t able to trap him in his words before the people. They marveled at his answer and were silent.
\v 27 Some of the Sadducees came to him, those who deny that there is a resurrection.
\v 28 They asked him, “Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man’s brother dies having a wife, and he is childless, his brother should take the wife and raise up children for his brother.
\v 29 There were therefore seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died childless.
\v 30 The second took her as wife, and he died childless.
\v 31 The third took her, and likewise the seven all left no children, and died.
\v 32 Afterward the woman also died.
\v 33 Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them will she be? For the seven had her as a wife.”
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\v 34 Jesus said to them, \wj “The children of this age marry, and are given in marriage. \wj*
\v 35 \wj But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. \wj*
\v 36 \wj For they can’t die any more, for they are like the angels, and are children of God, being children of the resurrection. \wj*
\v 37 \wj But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush, when he called the Lord ‘The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ \wj*\x + \xo 20:37 \xt Exodus 3:6\x*
\v 38 \wj Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all are alive to him.”\wj*
\p
\v 39 Some of the scribes answered, “Teacher, you speak well.”
\v 40 They didn’t dare to ask him any more questions.
\p
\v 41 He said to them, \wj “Why do they say that the Christ is David’s son? \wj*
\v 42 \wj David himself says in the book of Psalms,\wj*
\q1 \wj ‘The Lord said to my Lord,\wj*
\q2 \wj “Sit at my right hand,\wj*
\q2
\v 43 \wj until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet.”’\wj* \x + \xo 20:43 \xt Psalm 110:1\x*
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\v 44 \wj “David therefore calls him Lord, so how is he his son?”\wj*
\p
\v 45 In the hearing of all the people, he said to his disciples,
\v 46 \wj “Beware of those scribes who like to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts; \wj*
\v 47 \wj who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: these will receive greater condemnation.”\wj*


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\v 1 He looked up and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury.
\v 2 He saw a certain poor widow casting in two small brass coins.\f + \fr 21:2 \ft literally, “two lepta.” 2 lepta was about 1% of a day’s wages for an agricultural laborer.\f*
\v 3 He said, \wj “Truly I tell you, this poor widow put in more than all of them, \wj*
\v 4 \wj for all these put in gifts for God from their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, put in all that she had to live on.”\wj*
\p
\v 5 As some were talking about the temple and how it was decorated with beautiful stones and gifts, he said,
\v 6 \wj “As for these things which you see, the days will come, in which there will not be left here one stone on another that will not be thrown down.”\wj*
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\v 7 They asked him, “Teacher, so when will these things be? What is the sign that these things are about to happen?”
\p
\v 8 He said, \wj “Watch out that you don’t get led astray, for many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he\wj*\f + \fr 21:8 \ft or, I AM\f*\wj ,’ and, ‘The time is at hand.’ Therefore don’t follow them. \wj*
\v 9 \wj When you hear of wars and disturbances, don’t be terrified, for these things must happen first, but the end won’t come immediately.”\wj*
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\v 10 Then he said to them, \wj “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. \wj*
\v 11 \wj There will be great earthquakes, famines, and plagues in various places. There will be terrors and great signs from heaven. \wj*
\v 12 \wj But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name’s sake. \wj*
\v 13 \wj It will turn out as a testimony for you. \wj*
\v 14 \wj Settle it therefore in your hearts not to meditate beforehand how to answer, \wj*
\v 15 \wj for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict. \wj*
\v 16 \wj You will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will cause some of you to be put to death. \wj*
\v 17 \wj You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake. \wj*
\v 18 \wj And not a hair of your head will perish.\wj*
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\v 19 \wj “By your endurance you will win your lives.\wj*
\p
\v 20 \wj “But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is at hand. \wj*
\v 21 \wj Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let those who are in the middle of her depart. Let those who are in the country not enter therein. \wj*
\v 22 \wj For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. \wj*
\v 23 \wj Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants in those days! For there will be great distress in the land, and wrath to this people. \wj*
\v 24 \wj They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. \wj*
\v 25 \wj There will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars; and on the earth anxiety of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the waves; \wj*
\v 26 \wj men fainting for fear, and for expectation of the things which are coming on the world: for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. \wj*
\v 27 \wj Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. \wj*
\v 28 \wj But when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is near.”\wj*
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\v 29 He told them a parable. \wj “See the fig tree and all the trees. \wj*
\v 30 \wj When they are already budding, you see it and know by your own selves that the summer is already near. \wj*
\v 31 \wj Even so you also, when you see these things happening, know that God’s Kingdom is near. \wj*
\v 32 \wj Most certainly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all things are accomplished. \wj*
\v 33 \wj Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will by no means pass away.\wj*
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\v 34 \wj “So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly. \wj*
\v 35 \wj For it will come like a snare on all those who dwell on the surface of all the earth. \wj*
\v 36 \wj Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”\wj*
\p
\v 37 Every day Jesus was teaching in the temple, and every night he would go out and spend the night on the mountain that is called Olivet.
\v 38 All the people came early in the morning to him in the temple to hear him.


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\v 1 Now the feast of unleavened bread, which is called the Passover, was approaching.
\v 2 The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put him to death, for they feared the people.
\v 3 Satan entered into Judas, who was also called Iscariot, who was counted with the twelve.
\v 4 He went away, and talked with the chief priests and captains about how he might deliver him to them.
\v 5 They were glad, and agreed to give him money.
\v 6 He consented, and sought an opportunity to deliver him to them in the absence of the multitude.
\v 7 The day of unleavened bread came, on which the Passover must be sacrificed.
\v 8 Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, \wj “Go and prepare the Passover for us, that we may eat.”\wj*
\p
\v 9 They said to him, “Where do you want us to prepare?”
\p
\v 10 He said to them, \wj “Behold, when you have entered into the city, a man carrying a pitcher of water will meet you. Follow him into the house which he enters. \wj*
\v 11 \wj Tell the master of the house, ‘The Teacher says to you, “Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?”’ \wj*
\v 12 \wj He will show you a large, furnished upper room. Make preparations there.”\wj*
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\v 13 They went, found things as Jesus had told them, and they prepared the Passover.
\v 14 When the hour had come, he sat down with the twelve apostles.
\v 15 He said to them, \wj “I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer, \wj*
\v 16 \wj for I tell you, I will no longer by any means eat of it until it is fulfilled in God’s Kingdom.”\wj*
\v 17 He received a cup, and when he had given thanks, he said, \wj “Take this, and share it among yourselves, \wj*
\v 18 \wj for I tell you, I will not drink at all again from the fruit of the vine, until God’s Kingdom comes.”\wj*
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\v 19 He took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke, and gave it to them, saying, \wj “This is my body which is given for you. Do this in memory of me.”\wj*
\v 20 Likewise, he took the cup after supper, saying, \wj “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you. \wj*
\v 21 \wj But behold, the hand of him who betrays me is with me on the table. \wj*
\v 22 \wj The Son of Man indeed goes, as it has been determined, but woe to that man through whom he is betrayed!”\wj*
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\v 23 They began to question among themselves, which of them it was who would do this thing.
\v 24 A dispute also arose among them, which of them was considered to be greatest.
\v 25 He said to them, \wj “The kings of the nations lord it over them, and those who have authority over them are called ‘benefactors.’ \wj*
\v 26 \wj But not so with you. But one who is the greater among you, let him become as the younger, and one who is governing, as one who serves. \wj*
\v 27 \wj For who is greater, one who sits at the table, or one who serves? Isn’t it he who sits at the table? But I am among you as one who serves. \wj*
\v 28 \wj But you are those who have continued with me in my trials. \wj*
\v 29 \wj I confer on you a kingdom, even as my Father conferred on me, \wj*
\v 30 \wj that you may eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom. You will sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.”\wj*
\p
\v 31 The Lord said, \wj “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have all of you, that he might sift you as wheat, \wj*
\v 32 \wj but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn’t fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers.”\wj*\f + \fr 22:32 \ft The word for “brothers” here may be also correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”\f*
\p
\v 33 He said to him, “Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death!”
\p
\v 34 He said, \wj “I tell you, Peter, the rooster will by no means crow today until you deny that you know me three times.”\wj*
\p
\v 35 He said to them, \wj “When I sent you out without purse, wallet, and sandals, did you lack anything?”\wj*
\p They said, “Nothing.”
\p
\v 36 Then he said to them, \wj “But now, whoever has a purse, let him take it, and likewise a wallet. Whoever has none, let him sell his cloak, and buy a sword. \wj*
\v 37 \wj For I tell you that this which is written must still be fulfilled in me: ‘He was counted with transgressors.’\wj*\x + \xo 22:37 \xt Isaiah 53:12\x* \wj For that which concerns me has an end.”\wj*
\p
\v 38 They said, “Lord, behold, here are two swords.”
\p He said to them, \wj “That is enough.”\wj*
\p
\v 39 He came out and went, as his custom was, to the Mount of Olives. His disciples also followed him.
\v 40 When he was at the place, he said to them, \wj “Pray that you don’t enter into temptation.”\wj*
\p
\v 41 He was withdrawn from them about a stone’s throw, and he knelt down and prayed,
\v 42 saying, \wj “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”\wj*
\p
\v 43 An angel from heaven appeared to him, strengthening him.
\v 44 Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.
\p
\v 45 When he rose up from his prayer, he came to the disciples, and found them sleeping because of grief,
\v 46 and said to them, \wj “Why do you sleep? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation.”\wj*
\p
\v 47 While he was still speaking, behold, a multitude, and he who was called Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. He came near to Jesus to kiss him.
\v 48 But Jesus said to him, \wj “Judas, do you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?”\wj*
\p
\v 49 When those who were around him saw what was about to happen, they said to him, “Lord, shall we strike with the sword?”
\v 50 A certain one of them struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear.
\p
\v 51 But Jesus answered, \wj “Let me at least do this”\wj*—and he touched his ear, and healed him.
\v 52 Jesus said to the chief priests, captains of the temple, and elders, who had come against him, \wj “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs? \wj*
\v 53 \wj When I was with you in the temple daily, you didn’t stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness.” \wj*
\p
\v 54 They seized him, and led him away, and brought him into the high priest’s house. But Peter followed from a distance.
\v 55 When they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard, and had sat down together, Peter sat among them.
\v 56 A certain servant girl saw him as he sat in the light, and looking intently at him, said, “This man also was with him.”
\p
\v 57 He denied Jesus, saying, “Woman, I don’t know him.”
\p
\v 58 After a little while someone else saw him, and said, “You also are one of them!”
\p But Peter answered, “Man, I am not!”
\p
\v 59 After about one hour passed, another confidently affirmed, saying, “Truly this man also was with him, for he is a Galilean!”
\p
\v 60 But Peter said, “Man, I don’t know what you are talking about!” Immediately, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.
\v 61 The Lord turned and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered the Lord’s word, how he said to him, \wj “Before the rooster crows you will deny me three times.”\wj*
\v 62 He went out, and wept bitterly.
\p
\v 63 The men who held Jesus mocked him and beat him.
\v 64 Having blindfolded him, they struck him on the face and asked him, “Prophesy! Who is the one who struck you?”
\v 65 They spoke many other things against him, insulting him.
\p
\v 66 As soon as it was day, the assembly of the elders of the people were gathered together, both chief priests and scribes, and they led him away into their council, saying,
\v 67 “If you are the Christ, tell us.”
\p But he said to them, \wj “If I tell you, you won’t believe, \wj*
\v 68 \wj and if I ask, you will in no way answer me or let me go. \wj*
\v 69 \wj From now on, the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God.”\wj*
\p
\v 70 They all said, “Are you then the Son of God?”
\p He said to them, \wj “You say it, because I am.”\wj*
\p
\v 71 They said, “Why do we need any more witness? For we ourselves have heard from his own mouth!”


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\v 1 The whole company of them rose up and brought him before Pilate.
\v 2 They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.”
\p
\v 3 Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”
\p He answered him, \wj “So you say.”\wj*
\p
\v 4 Pilate said to the chief priests and the multitudes, “I find no basis for a charge against this man.”
\p
\v 5 But they insisted, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place.”
\v 6 But when Pilate heard Galilee mentioned, he asked if the man was a Galilean.
\v 7 When he found out that he was in Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem during those days.
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\v 8 Now when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceedingly glad, for he had wanted to see him for a long time, because he had heard many things about him. He hoped to see some miracle done by him.
\v 9 He questioned him with many words, but he gave no answers.
\v 10 The chief priests and the scribes stood, vehemently accusing him.
\v 11 Herod with his soldiers humiliated him and mocked him. Dressing him in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate.
\v 12 Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day, for before that they were enemies with each other.
\p
\v 13 Pilate called together the chief priests, the rulers, and the people,
\v 14 and said to them, “You brought this man to me as one that perverts the people, and behold, having examined him before you, I found no basis for a charge against this man concerning those things of which you accuse him.
\v 15 Neither has Herod, for I sent you to him, and see, nothing worthy of death has been done by him.
\v 16 I will therefore chastise him and release him.”
\p
\v 17 Now he had to release one prisoner to them at the feast.\f + \fr 23:17 \ft NU omits verse 17.\f*
\v 18 But they all cried out together, saying, “Away with this man! Release to us Barabbas!”—
\v 19 one who was thrown into prison for a certain revolt in the city, and for murder.
\p
\v 20 Then Pilate spoke to them again, wanting to release Jesus,
\v 21 but they shouted, saying, “Crucify! Crucify him!”
\p
\v 22 He said to them the third time, “Why? What evil has this man done? I have found no capital crime in him. I will therefore chastise him and release him.”
\v 23 But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he might be crucified. Their voices and the voices of the chief priests prevailed.
\v 24 Pilate decreed that what they asked for should be done.
\v 25 He released him who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Jesus up to their will.
\p
\v 26 When they led him away, they grabbed one Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it after Jesus.
\v 27 A great multitude of the people followed him, including women who also mourned and lamented him.
\v 28 But Jesus, turning to them, said, \wj “Daughters of Jerusalem, don’t weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. \wj*
\v 29 \wj For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’ \wj*
\v 30 \wj Then they will begin to tell the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’ and tell the hills, ‘Cover us.’\wj*\x + \xo 23:30 \xt Hosea 10:8\x*
\v 31 \wj For if they do these things in the green tree, what will be done in the dry?”\wj*
\p
\v 32 There were also others, two criminals, led with him to be put to death.
\v 33 When they came to the place that is called “The Skull”, they crucified him there with the criminals, one on the right and the other on the left.
\p
\v 34 Jesus said, \wj “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.”\wj*
\p Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.
\v 35 The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!”
\p
\v 36 The soldiers also mocked him, coming to him and offering him vinegar,
\v 37 and saying, “If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!”
\p
\v 38 An inscription was also written over him in letters of Greek, Latin, and Hebrew: “THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.”
\p
\v 39 One of the criminals who was hanged insulted him, saying, “If you are the Christ, save yourself and us!”
\p
\v 40 But the other answered, and rebuking him said, “Don’t you even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation?
\v 41 And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong.”
\v 42 He said to Jesus, “Lord, remember me when you come into your Kingdom.”
\p
\v 43 Jesus said to him, \wj “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”\wj*
\p
\v 44 It was now about the sixth hour,\f + \fr 23:44 \ft Time was counted from sunrise, so the sixth hour was about noon.\f* and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour.\f + \fr 23:44 \ft 3:00 p.m.\f*
\v 45 The sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in two.
\v 46 Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, \wj “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!”\wj* Having said this, he breathed his last.
\p
\v 47 When the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, “Certainly this was a righteous man.”
\v 48 All the multitudes that came together to see this, when they saw the things that were done, returned home beating their breasts.
\v 49 All his acquaintances and the women who followed with him from Galilee stood at a distance, watching these things.
\p
\v 50 Behold, a man named Joseph, who was a member of the council, a good and righteous man
\v 51 (he had not consented to their counsel and deed), from Arimathaea, a city of the Jews, who was also waiting for God’s Kingdom:
\v 52 this man went to Pilate, and asked for Jesus’ body.
\v 53 He took it down, and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb that was cut in stone, where no one had ever been laid.
\v 54 It was the day of the Preparation, and the Sabbath was drawing near.
\v 55 The women, who had come with him out of Galilee, followed after, and saw the tomb, and how his body was laid.
\v 56 They returned and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.


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\v 1 But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they and some others came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared.
\v 2 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb.
\v 3 They entered in, and didn’t find the Lord Jesus’ body.
\v 4 While they were greatly perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling clothing.
\v 5 Becoming terrified, they bowed their faces down to the earth.
\p They said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead?
\v 6 He isn’t here, but is risen. Remember what he told you when he was still in Galilee,
\v 7 saying that the Son of Man must be delivered up into the hands of sinful men and be crucified, and the third day rise again?”
\p
\v 8 They remembered his words,
\v 9 returned from the tomb, and told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest.
\v 10 Now they were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James. The other women with them told these things to the apostles.
\v 11 These words seemed to them to be nonsense, and they didn’t believe them.
\v 12 But Peter got up and ran to the tomb. Stooping and looking in, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he departed to his home, wondering what had happened.
\p
\v 13 Behold, two of them were going that very day to a village named Emmaus, which was sixty stadia\f + \fr 24:13 \ft 60 stadia = about 11 kilometers or about 7 miles. \f* from Jerusalem.
\v 14 They talked with each other about all of these things which had happened.
\v 15 While they talked and questioned together, Jesus himself came near, and went with them.
\v 16 But their eyes were kept from recognizing him.
\v 17 He said to them, \wj “What are you talking about as you walk, and are sad?”\wj*
\p
\v 18 One of them, named Cleopas, answered him, “Are you the only stranger in Jerusalem who doesn’t know the things which have happened there in these days?”
\p
\v 19 He said to them, \wj “What things?”\wj*
\p They said to him, “The things concerning Jesus, the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people;
\v 20 and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him.
\v 21 But we were hoping that it was he who would redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things happened.
\v 22 Also, certain women of our company amazed us, having arrived early at the tomb;
\v 23 and when they didn’t find his body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive.
\v 24 Some of us went to the tomb, and found it just like the women had said, but they didn’t see him.”
\p
\v 25 He said to them, \wj “Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! \wj*
\v 26 \wj Didn’t the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?”\wj*
\v 27 Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.
\v 28 They came near to the village where they were going, and he acted like he would go further.
\p
\v 29 They urged him, saying, “Stay with us, for it is almost evening, and the day is almost over.”
\p He went in to stay with them.
\v 30 When he had sat down at the table with them, he took the bread and gave thanks. Breaking it, he gave it to them.
\v 31 Their eyes were opened and they recognized him, then he vanished out of their sight.
\v 32 They said to one another, “Weren’t our hearts burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?”
\v 33 They rose up that very hour, returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and those who were with them,
\v 34 saying, “The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!”
\v 35 They related the things that happened along the way, and how he was recognized by them in the breaking of the bread.
\p
\v 36 As they said these things, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, \wj “Peace be to you.”\wj*
\p
\v 37 But they were terrified and filled with fear, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.
\p
\v 38 He said to them, \wj “Why are you troubled? Why do doubts arise in your hearts? \wj*
\v 39 \wj See my hands and my feet, that it is truly me. Touch me and see, for a spirit doesn’t have flesh and bones, as you see that I have.”\wj*
\v 40 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.
\v 41 While they still didn’t believe for joy, and wondered, he said to them, \wj “Do you have anything here to eat?”\wj*
\p
\v 42 They gave him a piece of a broiled fish and some honeycomb.
\v 43 He took them, and ate in front of them.
\v 44 He said to them, \wj “This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled.”\wj*
\p
\v 45 Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.
\v 46 He said to them, \wj “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, \wj*
\v 47 \wj and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem. \wj*
\v 48 \wj You are witnesses of these things. \wj*
\v 49 \wj Behold, I send out the promise of my Father on you. But wait in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high.” \wj*
\p
\v 50 He led them out as far as Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them.
\v 51 While he blessed them, he withdrew from them, and was carried up into heaven.
\v 52 They worshiped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy,
\v 53 and were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.


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\v 1 Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,
\v 2 in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness.
\v 3 He came into all the region around the Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for remission of sins.
\v 4 As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet,
\q1 “The voice of one crying in the wilderness,
\q2 ‘Make ready the way of the Lord.
\q1 Make his paths straight.
\q2
\v 5 Every valley will be filled.
\q1 Every mountain and hill will be brought low.
\q2 The crooked will become straight,
\q2 and the rough ways smooth.
\q1
\v 6 All flesh will see God’s salvation.’”\x + \xo 3:6 \xt Isaiah 40:3-5\x*
\p
\v 7 He said therefore to the multitudes who went out to be baptized by him, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
\v 8 Therefore produce fruits worthy of repentance, and don’t begin to say among yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father;’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones!
\v 9 Even now the ax also lies at the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.”
\p
\v 10 The multitudes asked him, “What then must we do?”
\p
\v 11 He answered them, “He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise.”
\p
\v 12 Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, “Teacher, what must we do?”
\p
\v 13 He said to them, “Collect no more than that which is appointed to you.”
\p
\v 14 Soldiers also asked him, saying, “What about us? What must we do?”
\p He said to them, “Extort from no one by violence, neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages.”
\p
\v 15 As the people were in expectation, and all men reasoned in their hearts concerning John, whether perhaps he was the Christ,
\v 16 John answered them all, “I indeed baptize you with water, but he comes who is mightier than I, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to loosen. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire,
\v 17 whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor, and will gather the wheat into his barn; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
\p
\v 18 Then with many other exhortations he preached good news to the people,
\v 19 but Herod the tetrarch,\f + \fr 3:19 \ft a tetrarch is one of four governors of a province\f* being reproved by him for Herodias, his brother’s \f + \fr 3:19 \ft TR reads “brother Philip’s” instead of “brother’s”\f* wife, and for all the evil things which Herod had done,
\v 20 added this also to them all, that he shut up John in prison.
\v 21 Now when all the people were baptized, Jesus also had been baptized, and was praying. The sky was opened,
\v 22 and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form like a dove on him; and a voice came out of the sky, saying “You are my beloved Son. In you I am well pleased.”
\p
\v 23 Jesus himself, when he began to teach, was about thirty years old, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli,
\v 24 the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son of Jannai, the son of Joseph,
\v 25 the son of Mattathias, the son of Amos, the son of Nahum, the son of Esli, the son of Naggai,
\v 26 the son of Maath, the son of Mattathias, the son of Semein, the son of Joseph, the son of Judah,
\v 27 the son of Joanan, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, the son of Neri,
\v 28 the son of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the son of Elmodam, the son of Er,
\v 29 the son of Jose, the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi,
\v 30 the son of Simeon, the son of Judah, the son of Joseph, the son of Jonan, the son of Eliakim,
\v 31 the son of Melea, the son of Menan, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan, the son of David,
\v 32 the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Salmon, the son of Nahshon,
\v 33 the son of Amminadab, the son of Aram,\f + \fr 3:33 \ft NU reads “Admin, the son of Arni” instead of “Aram”\f* the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah,
\v 34 the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,
\v 35 the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah,
\v 36 the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,
\v 37 the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan,
\v 38 the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.


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\v 1 Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness
\v 2 for forty days, being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in those days. Afterward, when they were completed, he was hungry.
\v 3 The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.”
\p
\v 4 Jesus answered him, saying, \wj “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.’”\wj*\x + \xo 4:4 \xt Deuteronomy 8:3\x*
\p
\v 5 The devil, leading him up on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
\v 6 The devil said to him, “I will give you all this authority, and their glory, for it has been delivered to me; and I give it to whomever I want.
\v 7 If you therefore will worship before me, it will all be yours.”
\p
\v 8 Jesus answered him, \wj “Get behind me Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’”\wj*\x + \xo 4:8 \xt Deuteronomy 6:13\x*
\p
\v 9 He led him to Jerusalem, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, cast yourself down from here,
\v 10 for it is written,
\q1 ‘He will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you;’
\p
\v 11 and,
\q1 ‘On their hands they will bear you up,
\q2 lest perhaps you dash your foot against a stone.’”\x + \xo 4:11 \xt Psalm 91:11-12 \x*
\p
\v 12 Jesus answering, said to him, \wj “It has been said, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’”\wj*\x + \xo 4:12 \xt Deuteronomy 6:16\x*
\p
\v 13 When the devil had completed every temptation, he departed from him until another time.
\p
\v 14 Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee, and news about him spread through all the surrounding area.
\v 15 He taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all.
\p
\v 16 He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.
\v 17 The book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. He opened the book, and found the place where it was written,
\q1
\v 18 \wj “The Spirit of the Lord is on me,\wj*
\q2 \wj because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor.\wj*
\q1 \wj He has sent me to heal the broken hearted,\wj*\f + \fr 4:18 \ft NU omits “to heal the broken hearted”\f*
\q2 \wj to proclaim release to the captives,\wj*
\q2 \wj recovering of sight to the blind,\wj*
\q2 \wj to deliver those who are crushed,\wj*
\q2
\v 19 \wj and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”\wj*\x + \xo 4:19 \xt Isaiah 61:1-2\x*
\p
\v 20 He closed the book, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on him.
\v 21 He began to tell them, \wj “Today, this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”\wj*
\p
\v 22 All testified about him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth, and they said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”
\p
\v 23 He said to them, \wj “Doubtless you will tell me this parable, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done at Capernaum, do also here in your hometown.’”\wj*
\v 24 He said, \wj “Most certainly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown. \wj*
\v 25 \wj But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land. \wj*
\v 26 \wj Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. \wj*
\v 27 \wj There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian.”\wj*
\p
\v 28 They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they heard these things.
\v 29 They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff.
\v 30 But he, passing through the middle of them, went his way.
\p
\v 31 He came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. He was teaching them on the Sabbath day,
\v 32 and they were astonished at his teaching, for his word was with authority.
\v 33 In the synagogue there was a man who had a spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice,
\v 34 saying, “Ah! what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are: the Holy One of God!”
\p
\v 35 Jesus rebuked him, saying, \wj “Be silent, and come out of him!” \wj* When the demon had thrown him down in the middle of them, he came out of him, having done him no harm.
\p
\v 36 Amazement came on all, and they spoke together, one with another, saying, “What is this word? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!”
\v 37 News about him went out into every place of the surrounding region.
\p
\v 38 He rose up from the synagogue, and entered into Simon’s house. Simon’s mother-in-law was afflicted with a great fever, and they begged him for her.
\v 39 He stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her. Immediately she rose up and served them.
\v 40 When the sun was setting, all those who had any sick with various diseases brought them to him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.
\v 41 Demons also came out of many, crying out, and saying, “You are the Christ, the Son of God!” Rebuking them, he didn’t allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.
\p
\v 42 When it was day, he departed and went into an uninhabited place, and the multitudes looked for him, and came to him, and held on to him, so that he wouldn’t go away from them.
\v 43 But he said to them, \wj “I must preach the good news of God’s Kingdom to the other cities also. For this reason I have been sent.”\wj*
\v 44 He was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.


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\v 1 Now while the multitude pressed on him and heard the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret.
\v 2 He saw two boats standing by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them, and were washing their nets.
\v 3 He entered into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little from the land. He sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat.
\v 4 When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, \wj “Put out into the deep, and let down your nets for a catch.”\wj*
\p
\v 5 Simon answered him, “Master, we worked all night, and took nothing; but at your word I will let down the net.”
\v 6 When they had done this, they caught a great multitude of fish, and their net was breaking.
\v 7 They beckoned to their partners in the other boat, that they should come and help them. They came, and filled both boats, so that they began to sink.
\v 8 But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord.”
\v 9 For he was amazed, and all who were with him, at the catch of fish which they had caught;
\v 10 and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon.
\p Jesus said to Simon, \wj “Don’t be afraid. From now on you will be catching people alive.”\wj*
\p
\v 11 When they had brought their boats to land, they left everything, and followed him.
\v 12 While he was in one of the cities, behold, there was a man full of leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he fell on his face, and begged him, saying, “Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean.”
\p
\v 13 He stretched out his hand, and touched him, saying, \wj “I want to. Be made clean.”\wj*
\p Immediately the leprosy left him.
\v 14 He commanded him to tell no one, \wj “But go your way, and show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing according to what Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.”\wj*
\v 15 But the report concerning him spread much more, and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities.
\v 16 But he withdrew himself into the desert, and prayed.
\p
\v 17 On one of those days, he was teaching; and there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, who had come out of every village of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was with him to heal them.
\v 18 Behold, men brought a paralyzed man on a cot, and they sought to bring him in to lay before Jesus.
\v 19 Not finding a way to bring him in because of the multitude, they went up to the housetop, and let him down through the tiles with his cot into the middle before Jesus.
\v 20 Seeing their faith, he said to him, \wj “Man, your sins are forgiven you.”\wj*
\p
\v 21 The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, “Who is this that speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?”
\p
\v 22 But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, answered them, \wj “Why are you reasoning so in your hearts? \wj*
\v 23 \wj Which is easier to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you;’ or to say, ‘Arise and walk?’ \wj*
\v 24 \wj But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”\wj* (he said to the paralyzed man), \wj “I tell you, arise, take up your cot, and go to your house.”\wj*
\p
\v 25 Immediately he rose up before them, and took up that which he was laying on, and departed to his house, glorifying God.
\v 26 Amazement took hold on all, and they glorified God. They were filled with fear, saying, “We have seen strange things today.”
\p
\v 27 After these things he went out, and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office, and said to him, \wj “Follow me!”\wj*
\p
\v 28 He left everything, and rose up and followed him.
\v 29 Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them.
\v 30 Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?”
\v 31 Jesus answered them, \wj “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do. \wj*
\v 32 \wj I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” \wj*
\p
\v 33 They said to him, “Why do John’s disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?”
\p
\v 34 He said to them, \wj “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them? \wj*
\v 35 \wj But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast in those days.”\wj*
\v 36 He also told a parable to them. \wj “No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old garment, or else he will tear the new, and also the piece from the new will not match the old. \wj*
\v 37 \wj No one puts new wine into old wine skins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed. \wj*
\v 38 \wj But new wine must be put into fresh wine skins, and both are preserved. \wj*
\v 39 \wj No man having drunk old wine immediately desires new, for he says, ‘The old is better.’”\wj*


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\v 1 Now on the second Sabbath after the first, he was going through the grain fields. His disciples plucked the heads of grain and ate, rubbing them in their hands.
\v 2 But some of the Pharisees said to them, “Why do you do that which is not lawful to do on the Sabbath day?”
\p
\v 3 Jesus, answering them, said, \wj “Haven’t you read what David did when he was hungry, he, and those who were with him; \wj*
\v 4 \wj how he entered into God’s house, and took and ate the show bread, and gave also to those who were with him, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests alone?”\wj*
\v 5 He said to them, \wj “The Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”\wj*
\p
\v 6 It also happened on another Sabbath that he entered into the synagogue and taught. There was a man there, and his right hand was withered.
\v 7 The scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, that they might find an accusation against him.
\v 8 But he knew their thoughts; and he said to the man who had the withered hand, \wj “Rise up, and stand in the middle.”\wj* He arose and stood.
\v 9 Then Jesus said to them, \wj “I will ask you something: Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good, or to do harm? To save a life, or to kill?”\wj*
\v 10 He looked around at them all, and said to the man, \wj “Stretch out your hand.”\wj* He did, and his hand was restored as sound as the other.
\v 11 But they were filled with rage, and talked with one another about what they might do to Jesus.
\p
\v 12 In these days, he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.
\v 13 When it was day, he called his disciples, and from them he chose twelve, whom he also named apostles:
\v 14 Simon, whom he also named Peter; Andrew, his brother; James; John; Philip; Bartholomew;
\v 15 Matthew; Thomas; James, the son of Alphaeus; Simon, who was called the Zealot;
\v 16 Judas the son of James; and Judas Iscariot, who also became a traitor.
\v 17 He came down with them, and stood on a level place, with a crowd of his disciples, and a great number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases;
\v 18 as well as those who were troubled by unclean spirits, and they were being healed.
\v 19 All the multitude sought to touch him, for power came out of him and healed them all.
\p
\v 20 He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said,
\q1 \wj “Blessed are you who are poor,\wj*
\q2 \wj God’s Kingdom is yours.\wj*
\q1
\v 21 \wj Blessed are you who hunger now,\wj*
\q2 \wj for you will be filled.\wj*
\q1 \wj Blessed are you who weep now,\wj*
\q2 \wj for you will laugh.\wj*
\q1
\v 22 \wj Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake. \wj*
\q2
\v 23 \wj Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets.\wj*
\b
\q1
\v 24 \wj “But woe to you who are rich!\wj*
\q2 \wj For you have received your consolation.\wj*
\q1
\v 25 \wj Woe to you, you who are full now,\wj*
\q2 \wj for you will be hungry.\wj*
\q1 \wj Woe to you who laugh now,\wj*
\q2 \wj for you will mourn and weep.\wj*
\q1
\v 26 \wj Woe,\wj*\f + \fr 6:26 \ft TR adds “to you”\f* \wj when\wj*\f + \fr 6:26 \ft TR adds “all” \f* \wj men speak well of you,\wj*
\q2 \wj for their fathers did the same thing to the false prophets.\wj*
\p
\v 27 \wj “But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, \wj*
\v 28 \wj bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you. \wj*
\v 29 \wj To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer also the other; and from him who takes away your cloak, don’t withhold your coat also. \wj*
\v 30 \wj Give to everyone who asks you, and don’t ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again.\wj*
\p
\v 31 \wj “As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them. \wj*
\v 32 \wj If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. \wj*
\v 33 \wj If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. \wj*
\v 34 \wj If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive back as much. \wj*
\v 35 \wj But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.\wj*
\q1
\v 36 \wj “Therefore be merciful,\wj*
\q2 \wj even as your Father is also merciful.\wj*
\q1
\v 37 \wj Don’t judge,\wj*
\q2 \wj and you won’t be judged.\wj*
\q1 \wj Don’t condemn,\wj*
\q2 \wj and you won’t be condemned.\wj*
\q1 \wj Set free,\wj*
\q2 \wj and you will be set free.\wj*
\p
\v 38 \wj “Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you.\wj*\f + \fr 6:38 \ft literally, into your bosom.\f* \wj For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”\wj*
\p
\v 39 He spoke a parable to them. \wj “Can the blind guide the blind? Won’t they both fall into a pit? \wj*
\v 40 \wj A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher. \wj*
\v 41 \wj Why do you see the speck of chaff that is in your brother’s eye, but don’t consider the beam that is in your own eye? \wj*
\v 42 \wj Or how can you tell your brother, ‘Brother, let me remove the speck of chaff that is in your eye,’ when you yourself don’t see the beam that is in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck of chaff that is in your brother’s eye. \wj*
\v 43 \wj For there is no good tree that produces rotten fruit; nor again a rotten tree that produces good fruit. \wj*
\v 44 \wj For each tree is known by its own fruit. For people don’t gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush. \wj*
\v 45 \wj The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.\wj*
\p
\v 46 \wj “Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say? \wj*
\v 47 \wj Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, I will show you who he is like. \wj*
\v 48 \wj He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid a foundation on the rock. When a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it, because it was founded on the rock. \wj*
\v 49 \wj But he who hears, and doesn’t do, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.”\wj*


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\v 1 After he had finished speaking in the hearing of the people, he entered into Capernaum.
\v 2 A certain centurion’s servant, who was dear to him, was sick and at the point of death.
\v 3 When he heard about Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking him to come and save his servant.
\v 4 When they came to Jesus, they begged him earnestly, saying, “He is worthy for you to do this for him,
\v 5 for he loves our nation, and he built our synagogue for us.”
\v 6 Jesus went with them. When he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying to him, “Lord, don’t trouble yourself, for I am not worthy for you to come under my roof.
\v 7 Therefore I didn’t even think myself worthy to come to you; but say the word, and my servant will be healed.
\v 8 For I also am a man placed under authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell this one, ‘Go!’ and he goes; and to another, ‘Come!’ and he comes; and to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”
\p
\v 9 When Jesus heard these things, he marveled at him, and turned and said to the multitude who followed him, \wj “I tell you, I have not found such great faith, no, not in Israel.”\wj*
\v 10 Those who were sent, returning to the house, found that the servant who had been sick was well.
\p
\v 11 Soon afterwards, he went to a city called Nain. Many of his disciples, along with a great multitude, went with him.
\v 12 Now when he came near to the gate of the city, behold, one who was dead was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. Many people of the city were with her.
\v 13 When the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said to her, \wj “Don’t cry.”\wj*
\v 14 He came near and touched the coffin, and the bearers stood still. He said, \wj “Young man, I tell you, arise!”\wj*
\v 15 He who was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he gave him to his mother.
\p
\v 16 Fear took hold of all, and they glorified God, saying, “A great prophet has arisen among us!” and, “God has visited his people!”
\v 17 This report went out concerning him in the whole of Judea, and in all the surrounding region.
\p
\v 18 The disciples of John told him about all these things.
\v 19 John, calling to himself two of his disciples, sent them to Jesus, saying, “Are you the one who is coming, or should we look for another?”
\v 20 When the men had come to him, they said, “John the Baptizer has sent us to you, saying, ‘Are you he who comes, or should we look for another?’”
\p
\v 21 In that hour he cured many of diseases and plagues and evil spirits; and to many who were blind he gave sight.
\v 22 Jesus answered them, \wj “Go and tell John the things which you have seen and heard: that the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them. \wj*
\v 23 \wj Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me.”\wj*
\p
\v 24 When John’s messengers had departed, he began to tell the multitudes about John, \wj “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind? \wj*
\v 25 \wj But what did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft clothing? Behold, those who are gorgeously dressed, and live delicately, are in kings’ courts. \wj*
\v 26 \wj But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and much more than a prophet. \wj*
\v 27 \wj This is he of whom it is written,\wj*
\q1 \wj ‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face,\wj*
\q2 \wj who will prepare your way before you.’\wj*\x + \xo 7:27 \xt Malachi 3:1\x*
\p
\v 28 \wj “For I tell you, among those who are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptizer, yet he who is least in God’s Kingdom is greater than he.”\wj*
\p
\v 29 When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they declared God to be just, having been baptized with John’s baptism.
\v 30 But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being baptized by him themselves.
\p
\v 31 \f + \fr 7:31 \ft TR adds “But the Lord said,”\f* \wj “To what then should I compare the people of this generation? What are they like? \wj*
\v 32 \wj They are like children who sit in the marketplace, and call to one another, saying, ‘We piped to you, and you didn’t dance. We mourned, and you didn’t weep.’ \wj*
\v 33 \wj For John the Baptizer came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’ \wj*
\v 34 \wj The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard; a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ \wj*
\v 35 \wj Wisdom is justified by all her children.”\wj*
\p
\v 36 One of the Pharisees invited him to eat with him. He entered into the Pharisee’s house, and sat at the table.
\v 37 Behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that he was reclining in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster jar of ointment.
\v 38 Standing behind at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and she wiped them with the hair of her head, kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
\v 39 Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, “This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, that she is a sinner.”
\p
\v 40 Jesus answered him, \wj “Simon, I have something to tell you.” \wj*
\p He said, “Teacher, say on.”
\p
\v 41 \wj “A certain lender had two debtors. The one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. \wj*
\v 42 \wj When they couldn’t pay, he forgave them both. Which of them therefore will love him most?”\wj*
\p
\v 43 Simon answered, “He, I suppose, to whom he forgave the most.”
\p He said to him, \wj “You have judged correctly.”\wj*
\v 44 Turning to the woman, he said to Simon, \wj “Do you see this woman? I entered into your house, and you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head. \wj*
\v 45 \wj You gave me no kiss, but she, since the time I came in, has not ceased to kiss my feet. \wj*
\v 46 \wj You didn’t anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment. \wj*
\v 47 \wj Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But one to whom little is forgiven, loves little.” \wj*
\v 48 He said to her, \wj “Your sins are forgiven.”\wj*
\p
\v 49 Those who sat at the table with him began to say to themselves, “Who is this who even forgives sins?”
\p
\v 50 He said to the woman, \wj “Your faith has saved you. Go in peace.” \wj*


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\v 1 Soon afterwards, he went about through cities and villages, preaching and bringing the good news of God’s Kingdom. With him were the twelve,
\v 2 and certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary who was called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out;
\v 3 and Joanna, the wife of Chuzas, Herod’s steward; Susanna; and many others; who served them\f + \fr 8:3 \ft TR reads “him” instead of “them”\f* from their possessions.
\v 4 When a great multitude came together, and people from every city were coming to him, he spoke by a parable.
\v 5 \wj “The farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the road, and it was trampled under foot, and the birds of the sky devoured it. \wj*
\v 6 \wj Other seed fell on the rock, and as soon as it grew, it withered away, because it had no moisture. \wj*
\v 7 \wj Other fell amid the thorns, and the thorns grew with it, and choked it. \wj*
\v 8 \wj Other fell into the good ground, and grew, and produced one hundred times as much fruit.”\wj* As he said these things, he called out, \wj “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”\wj*
\p
\v 9 Then his disciples asked him, “What does this parable mean?”
\p
\v 10 He said, \wj “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest in parables; that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’\wj*\x + \xo 8:10 \xt Isaiah 6:9\x*
\v 11 \wj Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. \wj*
\v 12 \wj Those along the road are those who hear, then the devil comes, and takes away the word from their heart, that they may not believe and be saved. \wj*
\v 13 \wj Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation. \wj*
\v 14 \wj That which fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity. \wj*
\v 15 \wj Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance.\wj*
\p
\v 16 \wj “No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a container, or puts it under a bed; but puts it on a stand, that those who enter in may see the light. \wj*
\v 17 \wj For nothing is hidden that will not be revealed; nor anything secret that will not be known and come to light. \wj*
\v 18 \wj Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he thinks he has.”\wj*
\p
\v 19 His mother and brothers came to him, and they could not come near him for the crowd.
\v 20 Some people told him, “Your mother and your brothers stand outside, desiring to see you.”
\p
\v 21 But he answered them, \wj “My mother and my brothers are these who hear the word of God, and do it.”\wj*
\p
\v 22 Now on one of those days, he entered into a boat, himself and his disciples, and he said to them, \wj “Let’s go over to the other side of the lake.”\wj* So they launched out.
\v 23 But as they sailed, he fell asleep. A wind storm came down on the lake, and they were taking on dangerous amounts of water.
\v 24 They came to him, and awoke him, saying, “Master, master, we are dying!” He awoke, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water, and they ceased, and it was calm.\x + \xo 8:24 \xt See Psalm 107:29\x*
\v 25 He said to them, \wj “Where is your faith?”\wj* Being afraid they marveled, saying to one another, “Who is this then, that he commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him?”
\v 26 They arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which is opposite Galilee.
\p
\v 27 When Jesus stepped ashore, a certain man out of the city who had demons for a long time met him. He wore no clothes, and didn’t live in a house, but in the tombs.
\v 28 When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, “What do I have to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I beg you, don’t torment me!”
\v 29 For Jesus was commanding the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For the unclean spirit had often seized the man. He was kept under guard, and bound with chains and fetters. Breaking the bonds apart, he was driven by the demon into the desert.
\p
\v 30 Jesus asked him, \wj “What is your name?”\wj*
\p He said, “Legion,” for many demons had entered into him.
\v 31 They begged him that he would not command them to go into the abyss.
\v 32 Now there was there a herd of many pigs feeding on the mountain, and they begged him that he would allow them to enter into those. Then he allowed them.
\v 33 The demons came out of the man, and entered into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake, and were drowned.
\v 34 When those who fed them saw what had happened, they fled and told it in the city and in the country.
\p
\v 35 People went out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus and found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus’ feet, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.
\v 36 Those who saw it told them how he who had been possessed by demons was healed.
\v 37 All the people of the surrounding country of the Gadarenes asked him to depart from them, for they were very much afraid. Then he entered into the boat and returned.
\v 38 But the man from whom the demons had gone out begged him that he might go with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying,
\v 39 \wj “Return to your house, and declare what great things God has done for you.”\wj* He went his way, proclaiming throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done for him.
\p
\v 40 When Jesus returned, the multitude welcomed him, for they were all waiting for him.
\v 41 Behold, a man named Jairus came. He was a ruler of the synagogue. He fell down at Jesus’ feet, and begged him to come into his house,
\v 42 for he had an only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was dying. But as he went, the multitudes pressed against him.
\v 43 A woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her living on physicians and could not be healed by any
\v 44 came behind him, and touched the fringe\f + \fr 8:44 \ft or, tassel\f* of his cloak. Immediately the flow of her blood stopped.
\v 45 Jesus said, \wj “Who touched me?”\wj*
\p When all denied it, Peter and those with him said, “Master, the multitudes press and jostle you, and you say, \wj ‘Who touched me?’\wj*”
\p
\v 46 But Jesus said, \wj “Someone did touch me, for I perceived that power has gone out of me.”\wj*
\v 47 When the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling, and falling down before him declared to him in the presence of all the people the reason why she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately.
\v 48 He said to her, \wj “Daughter, cheer up. Your faith has made you well. Go in peace.”\wj*
\p
\v 49 While he still spoke, one from the ruler of the synagogue’s house came, saying to him, “Your daughter is dead. Don’t trouble the Teacher.”
\p
\v 50 But Jesus hearing it, answered him, \wj “Don’t be afraid. Only believe, and she will be healed.”\wj*
\p
\v 51 When he came to the house, he didn’t allow anyone to enter in, except Peter, John, James, the father of the child, and her mother.
\v 52 All were weeping and mourning her, but he said, \wj “Don’t weep. She isn’t dead, but sleeping.”\wj*
\p
\v 53 They were ridiculing him, knowing that she was dead.
\v 54 But he put them all outside, and taking her by the hand, he called, saying, \wj “Child, arise!”\wj*
\v 55 Her spirit returned, and she rose up immediately. He commanded that something be given to her to eat.
\v 56 Her parents were amazed, but he commanded them to tell no one what had been done.


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\v 1 He called the twelve\f + \fr 9:1 \ft TR reads “his twelve disciples” instead of “the twelve”\f* together, and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases.
\v 2 He sent them out to preach God’s Kingdom and to heal the sick.
\v 3 He said to them, \wj “Take nothing for your journey—no staffs, nor wallet, nor bread, nor money. Don’t have two coats each. \wj*
\v 4 \wj Into whatever house you enter, stay there, and depart from there. \wj*
\v 5 \wj As many as don’t receive you, when you depart from that city, shake off even the dust from your feet for a testimony against them.”\wj*
\p
\v 6 They departed and went throughout the villages, preaching the Good News and healing everywhere.
\v 7 Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him; and he was very perplexed, because it was said by some that John had risen from the dead,
\v 8 and by some that Elijah had appeared, and by others that one of the old prophets had risen again.
\v 9 Herod said, “I beheaded John, but who is this about whom I hear such things?” He sought to see him.
\v 10 The apostles, when they had returned, told him what things they had done.
\p He took them and withdrew apart to a desert region of\f + \fr 9:10 \ft NU omits “a desert region of”.\f* a city called Bethsaida.
\v 11 But the multitudes, perceiving it, followed him. He welcomed them, spoke to them of God’s Kingdom, and he cured those who needed healing.
\v 12 The day began to wear away; and the twelve came and said to him, “Send the multitude away, that they may go into the surrounding villages and farms, and lodge, and get food, for we are here in a deserted place.”
\p
\v 13 But he said to them, \wj “You give them something to eat.”\wj*
\p They said, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we should go and buy food for all these people.”
\v 14 For they were about five thousand men.
\p He said to his disciples, \wj “Make them sit down in groups of about fifty each.”\wj*
\v 15 They did so, and made them all sit down.
\v 16 He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to the sky, he blessed them, broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the multitude.
\v 17 They ate and were all filled. They gathered up twelve baskets of broken pieces that were left over.
\p
\v 18 As he was praying alone, the disciples were with him, and he asked them, \wj “Who do the multitudes say that I am?”\wj*
\p
\v 19 They answered, “‘John the Baptizer,’ but others say, ‘Elijah,’ and others, that one of the old prophets has risen again.”
\p
\v 20 He said to them, \wj “But who do you say that I am?”\wj*
\p Peter answered, “The Christ of God.”
\p
\v 21 But he warned them, and commanded them to tell this to no one,
\v 22 saying, \wj “The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.”\wj*
\p
\v 23 He said to all, \wj “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross,\wj*\f + \fr 9:23 \ft TR, NU add “daily”\f* \wj and follow me. \wj*
\v 24 \wj For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake, will save it. \wj*
\v 25 \wj For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self? \wj*
\v 26 \wj For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels. \wj*
\v 27 \wj But I tell you the truth: There are some of those who stand here who will in no way taste of death until they see God’s Kingdom.” \wj*
\p
\v 28 About eight days after these sayings, he took with him Peter, John, and James, and went up onto the mountain to pray.
\v 29 As he was praying, the appearance of his face was altered, and his clothing became white and dazzling.
\v 30 Behold, two men were talking with him, who were Moses and Elijah,
\v 31 who appeared in glory, and spoke of his departure,\f + \fr 9:31 \ft literally, “exodus”\f* which he was about to accomplish at Jerusalem.
\p
\v 32 Now Peter and those who were with him were heavy with sleep, but when they were fully awake, they saw his glory, and the two men who stood with him.
\v 33 As they were parting from him, Peter said to Jesus, “Master, it is good for us to be here. Let’s make three tents: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah,” not knowing what he said.
\p
\v 34 While he said these things, a cloud came and overshadowed them, and they were afraid as they entered into the cloud.
\v 35 A voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son. Listen to him!”
\v 36 When the voice came, Jesus was found alone. They were silent, and told no one in those days any of the things which they had seen.
\p
\v 37 On the next day, when they had come down from the mountain, a great multitude met him.
\v 38 Behold, a man from the crowd called out, saying, “Teacher, I beg you to look at my son, for he is my only child.
\v 39 Behold, a spirit takes him, he suddenly cries out, and it convulses him so that he foams, and it hardly departs from him, bruising him severely.
\v 40 I begged your disciples to cast it out, and they couldn’t.”
\p
\v 41 Jesus answered, \wj “Faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here.”\wj*
\p
\v 42 While he was still coming, the demon threw him down and convulsed him violently. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the boy, and gave him back to his father.
\v 43 They were all astonished at the majesty of God.
\p But while all were marveling at all the things which Jesus did, he said to his disciples,
\v 44 \wj “Let these words sink into your ears, for the Son of Man will be delivered up into the hands of men.”\wj*
\v 45 But they didn’t understand this saying. It was concealed from them, that they should not perceive it, and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.
\p
\v 46 An argument arose among them about which of them was the greatest.
\v 47 Jesus, perceiving the reasoning of their hearts, took a little child, and set him by his side,
\v 48 and said to them, \wj “Whoever receives this little child in my name receives me. Whoever receives me receives him who sent me. For whoever is least among you all, this one will be great.”\wj*
\p
\v 49 John answered, “Master, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we forbade him, because he doesn’t follow with us.”
\p
\v 50 Jesus said to him, \wj “Don’t forbid him, for he who is not against us is for us.”\wj*
\p
\v 51 It came to pass, when the days were near that he should be taken up, he intently set his face to go to Jerusalem
\v 52 and sent messengers before his face. They went and entered into a village of the Samaritans, so as to prepare for him.
\v 53 They didn’t receive him, because he was traveling with his face set toward Jerusalem.
\v 54 When his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, “Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from the sky, and destroy them, just as Elijah did?”
\p
\v 55 But he turned and rebuked them, \wj “You don’t know of what kind of spirit you are. \wj*
\v 56 \wj For the Son of Man didn’t come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.”\wj*
\p They went to another village.
\v 57 As they went on the way, a certain man said to him, “I want to follow you wherever you go, Lord.”
\p
\v 58 Jesus said to him, \wj “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”\wj*
\p
\v 59 He said to another, \wj “Follow me!”\wj*
\p But he said, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”
\p
\v 60 But Jesus said to him, \wj “Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce God’s Kingdom.”\wj*
\p
\v 61 Another also said, “I want to follow you, Lord, but first allow me to say good-bye to those who are at my house.”
\p
\v 62 But Jesus said to him, \wj “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for God’s Kingdom.”\wj*


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\v 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
\v 2 The same was in the beginning with God.
\v 3 All things were made through him. Without him, nothing was made that has been made.
\v 4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
\v 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome \f + \fr 1:5 \ft The word translated “overcome” (κατέλαβεν) can also be translated “comprehended.” It refers to getting a grip on an enemy to defeat him. \f* it.
\v 6 There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John.
\v 7 The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him.
\v 8 He was not the light, but was sent that he might testify about the light.
\v 9 The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.
\p
\v 10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn’t recognize him.
\v 11 He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him.
\v 12 But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:
\v 13 who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
\v 14 The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
\v 15 John testified about him. He cried out, saying, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.’”
\v 16 From his fullness we all received grace upon grace.
\v 17 For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.
\v 18 No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son,\f + \fr 1:18 \ft NU reads “God”\f* who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him.
\p
\v 19 This is John’s testimony, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”
\p
\v 20 He declared, and didn’t deny, but he declared, “I am not the Christ.”
\p
\v 21 They asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?”
\p He said, “I am not.”
\p “Are you the prophet?”
\p He answered, “No.”
\p
\v 22 They said therefore to him, “Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”
\p
\v 23 He said, “I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’\x + \xo 1:23 \xt Isaiah 40:3\x* as Isaiah the prophet said.”
\p
\v 24 The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees.
\v 25 They asked him, “Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?”
\p
\v 26 John answered them, “I baptize in water, but among you stands one whom you don’t know.
\v 27 He is the one who comes after me, who is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I’m not worthy to loosen.”
\v 28 These things were done in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
\p
\v 29 The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold,\f + \fr 1:29 \ft “Behold”, from “ἰδοὺ”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
\v 30 This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who is preferred before me, for he was before me.’
\v 31 I didn’t know him, but for this reason I came baptizing in water: that he would be revealed to Israel.”
\v 32 John testified, saying, “I have seen the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven, and it remained on him.
\v 33 I didn’t recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water said to me, ‘On whomever you will see the Spirit descending and remaining on him is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.’
\v 34 I have seen, and have testified that this is the Son of God.”
\p
\v 35 Again, the next day, John was standing with two of his disciples,
\v 36 and he looked at Jesus as he walked, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!”
\v 37 The two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.
\v 38 Jesus turned and saw them following, and said to them, \wj “What are you looking for?”\wj*
\p They said to him, “Rabbi” (which is to say, being interpreted, Teacher), “where are you staying?”
\p
\v 39 He said to them, \wj “Come, and see.”\wj*
\p They came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about the tenth hour.\f + \fr 1:39 \ft 4:00 p.m.\f*
\v 40 One of the two who heard John and followed him was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother.
\v 41 He first found his own brother, Simon, and said to him, “We have found the Messiah!” (which is, being interpreted, Christ\f + \fr 1:41 \ft “Messiah” (Hebrew) and “Christ” (Greek) both mean “Anointed One”.\f*).
\v 42 He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him, and said, \wj “You are Simon the son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas”\wj* (which is by interpretation, Peter).\f + \fr 1:42 \ft “Cephas” (Aramaic) and “Peter” (Greek) both mean “Rock”.\f*
\v 43 On the next day, he was determined to go out into Galilee, and he found Philip. Jesus said to him, \wj “Follow me.”\wj*
\v 44 Now Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter.
\v 45 Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”
\p
\v 46 Nathanael said to him, “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?”
\p Philip said to him, “Come and see.”
\p
\v 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, \wj “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”\wj*
\p
\v 48 Nathanael said to him, “How do you know me?”
\p Jesus answered him, \wj “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”\wj*
\p
\v 49 Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are King of Israel!”
\p
\v 50 Jesus answered him, \wj “Because I told you, ‘I saw you underneath the fig tree,’ do you believe? You will see greater things than these!”\wj*
\v 51 He said to him, \wj “Most certainly, I tell you all, hereafter you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”\wj*


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\v 1 \wj “Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, is a thief and a robber. \wj*
\v 2 \wj But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. \wj*
\v 3 \wj The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out. \wj*
\v 4 \wj Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. \wj*
\v 5 \wj They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don’t know the voice of strangers.”\wj*
\v 6 Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn’t understand what he was telling them.
\p
\v 7 Jesus therefore said to them again, \wj “Most certainly, I tell you, I am the sheep’s door. \wj*
\v 8 \wj All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them. \wj*
\v 9 \wj I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture. \wj*
\v 10 \wj The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly. \wj*
\v 11 \wj I am the good shepherd.\wj*\x + \xo 10:11 \xt Isaiah 40:11; Ezekiel 34:11-12,15,22\x* \wj The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. \wj*
\v 12 \wj He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn’t own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them. \wj*
\v 13 \wj The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn’t care for the sheep. \wj*
\v 14 \wj I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own; \wj*
\v 15 \wj even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep. \wj*
\v 16 \wj I have other sheep, which are not of this fold.\wj*\x + \xo 10:16 \xt Isaiah 56:8 \x* \wj I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd. \wj*
\v 17 \wj Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, \wj*\x + \xo 10:17 \xt Isaiah 53:7-8\x* \wj that I may take it again. \wj*
\v 18 \wj No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father.”\wj*
\p
\v 19 Therefore a division arose again among the Jews because of these words.
\v 20 Many of them said, “He has a demon, and is insane! Why do you listen to him?”
\v 21 Others said, “These are not the sayings of one possessed by a demon. It isn’t possible for a demon to open the eyes of the blind, is it?”\x + \xo 10:21 \xt Exodus 4:11\x*
\p
\v 22 It was the Feast of the Dedication\f + \fr 10:22 \ft The “Feast of the Dedication” is the Greek name for “Hanukkah”, a celebration of the rededication of the Temple.\f* at Jerusalem.
\v 23 It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon’s porch.
\v 24 The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, “How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”
\p
\v 25 Jesus answered them, \wj “I told you, and you don’t believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name, these testify about me. \wj*
\v 26 \wj But you don’t believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you. \wj*
\v 27 \wj My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. \wj*
\v 28 \wj I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. \wj*
\v 29 \wj My Father who has given them to me is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father’s hand. \wj*
\v 30 \wj I and the Father are one.”\wj*
\p
\v 31 Therefore Jews took up stones again to stone him.
\v 32 Jesus answered them, \wj “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?”\wj*
\p
\v 33 The Jews answered him, “We don’t stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God.”
\p
\v 34 Jesus answered them, \wj “Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods?’\wj*\x + \xo 10:34 \xt Psalm 82:6\x*
\v 35 \wj If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken), \wj*
\v 36 \wj do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God?’ \wj*
\v 37 \wj If I don’t do the works of my Father, don’t believe me. \wj*
\v 38 \wj But if I do them, though you don’t believe me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.” \wj*
\p
\v 39 They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand.
\v 40 He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was baptizing at first, and he stayed there.
\v 41 Many came to him. They said, “John indeed did no sign, but everything that John said about this man is true.”
\v 42 Many believed in him there.


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\v 1 Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha.
\v 2 It was that Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother, Lazarus, was sick.
\v 3 The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, “Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick.”
\v 4 But when Jesus heard it, he said, \wj “This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God’s Son may be glorified by it.”\wj*
\v 5 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
\v 6 When therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days in the place where he was.
\v 7 Then after this he said to the disciples, \wj “Let’s go into Judea again.”\wj*
\p
\v 8 The disciples asked him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you. Are you going there again?”
\p
\v 9 Jesus answered, \wj “Aren’t there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world. \wj*
\v 10 \wj But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn’t in him.”\wj*
\v 11 He said these things, and after that, he said to them, \wj “Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep.”\wj*
\p
\v 12 The disciples therefore said, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”
\p
\v 13 Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he spoke of taking rest in sleep.
\v 14 So Jesus said to them plainly then, \wj “Lazarus is dead. \wj*
\v 15 \wj I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless, let’s go to him.”\wj*
\p
\v 16 Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus,\f + \fr 11:16 \ft “Didymus” means “Twin”.\f* said to his fellow disciples, “Let’s go also, that we may die with him.”
\p
\v 17 So when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb four days already.
\v 18 Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia\f + \fr 11:18 \ft 15 stadia is about 2.8 kilometers or 1.7 miles\f* away.
\v 19 Many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother.
\v 20 Then when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary stayed in the house.
\v 21 Therefore Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.
\v 22 Even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you.”
\v 23 Jesus said to her, \wj “Your brother will rise again.”\wj*
\p
\v 24 Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”
\p
\v 25 Jesus said to her, \wj “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies. \wj*
\v 26 \wj Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”\wj*
\p
\v 27 She said to him, “Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, God’s Son, he who comes into the world.”
\p
\v 28 When she had said this, she went away and called Mary, her sister, secretly, saying, “The Teacher is here and is calling you.”
\p
\v 29 When she heard this, she arose quickly and went to him.
\v 30 Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha met him.
\v 31 Then the Jews who were with her in the house and were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, “She is going to the tomb to weep there.”
\v 32 Therefore when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying to him, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.”
\p
\v 33 When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,
\v 34 and said, \wj “Where have you laid him?”\wj*
\p They told him, “Lord, come and see.”
\p
\v 35 Jesus wept.
\p
\v 36 The Jews therefore said, “See how much affection he had for him!”
\v 37 Some of them said, “Couldn’t this man, who opened the eyes of him who was blind, have also kept this man from dying?”
\p
\v 38 Jesus therefore, again groaning in himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it.
\v 39 Jesus said, \wj “Take away the stone.”\wj*
\p Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to him, “Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days.”
\p
\v 40 Jesus said to her, \wj “Didn’t I tell you that if you believed, you would see God’s glory?”\wj*
\p
\v 41 So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying.\f + \fr 11:41 \ft NU omits “from the place where the dead man was lying.”\f* Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, \wj “Father, I thank you that you listened to me. \wj*
\v 42 \wj I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude standing around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me.” \wj*
\v 43 When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, \wj “Lazarus, come out!”\wj*
\p
\v 44 He who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth.
\p Jesus said to them, \wj “Free him, and let him go.”\wj*
\p
\v 45 Therefore many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did believed in him.
\v 46 But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them the things which Jesus had done.
\v 47 The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs.
\v 48 If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”
\p
\v 49 But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all,
\v 50 nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.”
\v 51 Now he didn’t say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,
\v 52 and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.
\v 53 So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death.
\v 54 Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim. He stayed there with his disciples.
\p
\v 55 Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand. Many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.
\v 56 Then they sought for Jesus and spoke with one another as they stood in the temple, “What do you think—that he isn’t coming to the feast at all?”
\v 57 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize him.


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\v 1 Then six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
\v 2 So they made him a supper there. Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with him.
\v 3 Therefore Mary took a pound\f + \fr 12:3 \ft a Roman pound of 12 ounces, or about 340 grams\f* of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed Jesus’s feet and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.
\v 4 Then Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, one of his disciples, who would betray him, said,
\v 5 “Why wasn’t this ointment sold for three hundred denarii,\f + \fr 12:5 \ft 300 denarii was about a year’s wages for an agricultural laborer.\f* and given to the poor?”
\v 6 Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it.
\v 7 But Jesus said, \wj “Leave her alone. She has kept this for the day of my burial. \wj*
\v 8 \wj For you always have the poor with you, but you don’t always have me.”\wj*
\p
\v 9 A large crowd therefore of the Jews learned that he was there, and they came, not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.
\v 10 But the chief priests conspired to put Lazarus to death also,
\v 11 because on account of him many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus.
\p
\v 12 On the next day a great multitude had come to the feast. When they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
\v 13 they took the branches of the palm trees and went out to meet him, and cried out, “Hosanna!\f + \fr 12:13 \ft “Hosanna” means “save us” or “help us, we pray”.\f* Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord,\x + \xo 12:13 \xt Psalm 118:25-26 \x* the King of Israel!”
\p
\v 14 Jesus, having found a young donkey, sat on it. As it is written,
\v 15 “Don’t be afraid, daughter of Zion. Behold, your King comes, sitting on a donkey’s colt.”\x + \xo 12:15 \xt Zechariah 9:9\x*
\v 16 His disciples didn’t understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him, and that they had done these things to him.
\v 17 The multitude therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead was testifying about it.
\v 18 For this cause also the multitude went and met him, because they heard that he had done this sign.
\v 19 The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, “See how you accomplish nothing. Behold, the world has gone after him.”
\p
\v 20 Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up to worship at the feast.
\v 21 These, therefore, came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, “Sir, we want to see Jesus.”
\v 22 Philip came and told Andrew, and in turn, Andrew came with Philip, and they told Jesus.
\v 23 Jesus answered them, \wj “The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. \wj*
\v 24 \wj Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit. \wj*
\v 25 \wj He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life. \wj*
\v 26 \wj If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.\wj*
\p
\v 27 \wj “Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this time?’ But I came to this time for this cause. \wj*
\v 28 \wj Father, glorify your name!”\wj*
\p Then a voice came out of the sky, saying, “I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.”
\p
\v 29 Therefore the multitude who stood by and heard it said that it had thundered. Others said, “An angel has spoken to him.”
\p
\v 30 Jesus answered, \wj “This voice hasn’t come for my sake, but for your sakes. \wj*
\v 31 \wj Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out. \wj*
\v 32 \wj And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”\wj*
\v 33 But he said this, signifying by what kind of death he should die.
\v 34 The multitude answered him, “We have heard out of the law that the Christ remains forever.\x + \xo 12:34 \xt Isaiah 9:7; Daniel 2:44; See Isaiah 53:8\x* How do you say, \wj ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up?’\wj* Who is this Son of Man?”
\p
\v 35 Jesus therefore said to them, \wj “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going. \wj*
\v 36 \wj While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light.”\wj* Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.
\v 37 But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they didn’t believe in him,
\v 38 that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke,
\q1 “Lord, who has believed our report?
\q2 To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”\x + \xo 12:38 \xt Isaiah 53:1\x*
\p
\v 39 For this cause they couldn’t believe, for Isaiah said again,
\q1
\v 40 “He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart,
\q2 lest they should see with their eyes,
\q2 and perceive with their heart,
\q2 and would turn,
\q2 and I would heal them.”\x + \xo 12:40 \xt Isaiah 6:10\x*
\p
\v 41 Isaiah said these things when he saw his glory, and spoke of him. \x + \xo 12:41 \xt Isaiah 6:1\x*
\v 42 Nevertheless even many of the rulers believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn’t confess it, so that they wouldn’t be put out of the synagogue,
\v 43 for they loved men’s praise more than God’s praise.
\p
\v 44 Jesus cried out and said, \wj “Whoever believes in me, believes not in me, but in him who sent me. \wj*
\v 45 \wj He who sees me sees him who sent me. \wj*
\v 46 \wj I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness. \wj*
\v 47 \wj If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn’t believe, I don’t judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. \wj*
\v 48 \wj He who rejects me, and doesn’t receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke will judge him in the last day. \wj*
\v 49 \wj For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. \wj*
\v 50 \wj I know that his commandment is eternal life. The things therefore which I speak, even as the Father has said to me, so I speak.”\wj*


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\v 1 Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
\v 2 During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him,
\v 3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came from God, and was going to God,
\v 4 arose from supper, and laid aside his outer garments. He took a towel and wrapped a towel around his waist.
\v 5 Then he poured water into the basin, and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him.
\v 6 Then he came to Simon Peter. He said to him, “Lord, do you wash my feet?”
\p
\v 7 Jesus answered him, \wj “You don’t know what I am doing now, but you will understand later.”\wj*
\p
\v 8 Peter said to him, “You will never wash my feet!”
\p Jesus answered him, \wj “If I don’t wash you, you have no part with me.” \wj*
\p
\v 9 Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!”
\p
\v 10 Jesus said to him, \wj “Someone who has bathed only needs to have his feet washed, but is completely clean. You are clean, but not all of you.” \wj*
\v 11 For he knew him who would betray him, therefore he said, \wj “You are not all clean.”\wj*
\v 12 So when he had washed their feet, put his outer garment back on, and sat down again, he said to them, \wj “Do you know what I have done to you? \wj*
\v 13 \wj You call me, ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord.’ You say so correctly, for so I am. \wj*
\v 14 \wj If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. \wj*
\v 15 \wj For I have given you an example, that you should also do as I have done to you. \wj*
\v 16 \wj Most certainly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his lord, neither is one who is sent greater than he who sent him. \wj*
\v 17 \wj If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them. \wj*
\v 18 \wj I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’\wj*\x + \xo 13:18 \xt Psalm 41:9\x*
\v 19 \wj From now on, I tell you before it happens, that when it happens, you may believe that I am he. \wj*
\v 20 \wj Most certainly I tell you, he who receives whomever I send, receives me; and he who receives me, receives him who sent me.”\wj*
\p
\v 21 When Jesus had said this, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, \wj “Most certainly I tell you that one of you will betray me.”\wj*
\p
\v 22 The disciples looked at one another, perplexed about whom he spoke.
\v 23 One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was at the table, leaning against Jesus’ breast.
\v 24 Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, and said to him, “Tell us who it is of whom he speaks.”
\p
\v 25 He, leaning back, as he was, on Jesus’ breast, asked him, “Lord, who is it?”
\p
\v 26 Jesus therefore answered, \wj “It is he to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it.”\wj* So when he had dipped the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.
\v 27 After the piece of bread, then Satan entered into him.
\p Then Jesus said to him, \wj “What you do, do quickly.”\wj*
\p
\v 28 Now nobody at the table knew why he said this to him.
\v 29 For some thought, because Judas had the money box, that Jesus said to him, “Buy what things we need for the feast,” or that he should give something to the poor.
\v 30 Therefore having received that morsel, he went out immediately. It was night.
\p
\v 31 When he had gone out, Jesus said, \wj “Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him. \wj*
\v 32 \wj If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him immediately. \wj*
\v 33 \wj Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come,’ so now I tell you. \wj*
\v 34 \wj A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another. \wj*
\v 35 \wj By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”\wj*
\p
\v 36 Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, where are you going?”
\p Jesus answered, \wj “Where I am going, you can’t follow now, but you will follow afterwards.”\wj*
\p
\v 37 Peter said to him, “Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.”
\p
\v 38 Jesus answered him, \wj “Will you lay down your life for me? Most certainly I tell you, the rooster won’t crow until you have denied me three times.\wj*


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\v 1 \wj “Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. \wj*
\v 2 \wj In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you. \wj*
\v 3 \wj If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also. \wj*
\v 4 \wj You know where I go, and you know the way.”\wj*
\p
\v 5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going. How can we know the way?”
\p
\v 6 Jesus said to him, \wj “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me. \wj*
\v 7 \wj If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him, and have seen him.”\wj*
\p
\v 8 Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.”
\p
\v 9 Jesus said to him, \wj “Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the Father?’ \wj*
\v 10 \wj Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works. \wj*
\v 11 \wj Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works’ sake. \wj*
\v 12 \wj Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father. \wj*
\v 13 \wj Whatever you will ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. \wj*
\v 14 \wj If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it. \wj*
\v 15 \wj If you love me, keep my commandments. \wj*
\v 16 \wj I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, \wj*\f + \fr 14:16 \ft Greek παρακλητον: Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, and Comforter.\f* \wj that he may be with you forever:\wj*
\v 17 \wj the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him and doesn’t know him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you. \wj*
\v 18 \wj I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you. \wj*
\v 19 \wj Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also. \wj*
\v 20 \wj In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. \wj*
\v 21 \wj One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”\wj*
\p
\v 22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?”
\p
\v 23 Jesus answered him, \wj “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him. \wj*
\v 24 \wj He who doesn’t love me doesn’t keep my words. The word which you hear isn’t mine, but the Father’s who sent me. \wj*
\v 25 \wj I have said these things to you while still living with you. \wj*
\v 26 \wj But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you. \wj*
\v 27 \wj Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful. \wj*
\v 28 \wj You heard how I told you, ‘I go away, and I come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said ‘I am going to my Father;’ for the Father is greater than I. \wj*
\v 29 \wj Now I have told you before it happens so that when it happens, you may believe. \wj*
\v 30 \wj I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me. \wj*
\v 31 \wj But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let’s go from here.\wj*


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\v 1 \wj “I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. \wj*
\v 2 \wj Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. \wj*
\v 3 \wj You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. \wj*
\v 4 \wj Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me. \wj*
\v 5 \wj I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. \wj*
\v 6 \wj If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned. \wj*
\v 7 \wj If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.\wj*
\p
\v 8 \wj “In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples. \wj*
\v 9 \wj Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love. \wj*
\v 10 \wj If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love. \wj*
\v 11 \wj I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.\wj*
\p
\v 12 \wj “This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. \wj*
\v 13 \wj Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. \wj*
\v 14 \wj You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you. \wj*
\v 15 \wj No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you. \wj*
\v 16 \wj You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.\wj*
\p
\v 17 \wj “I command these things to you, that you may love one another. \wj*
\v 18 \wj If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. \wj*
\v 19 \wj If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. \wj*
\v 20 \wj Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’\wj*\x + \xo 15:20 \xt John 13:16\x* \wj If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. \wj*
\v 21 \wj But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me. \wj*
\v 22 \wj If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. \wj*
\v 23 \wj He who hates me, hates my Father also. \wj*
\v 24 \wj If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my Father. \wj*
\v 25 \wj But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’\wj*\x + \xo 15:25 \xt Psalm 35:19; 69:4\x*
\p
\v 26 \wj “When the Counselor\wj*\f + \fr 15:26 \ft Greek Parakletos: Counselor, Helper, Advocate, Intercessor, and Comforter.\f* \wj has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me. \wj*
\v 27 \wj You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.\wj*


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\v 1 \wj “I have said these things to you so that you wouldn’t be caused to stumble. \wj*
\v 2 \wj They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God. \wj*
\v 3 \wj They will do these things\wj*\f + \fr 16:3 \ft TR adds “to you”\f* \wj because they have not known the Father, nor me. \wj*
\v 4 \wj But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you. \wj*
\v 5 \wj But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ \wj*
\v 6 \wj But because I have told you these things, sorrow has filled your heart. \wj*
\v 7 \wj Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I don’t go away, the Counselor won’t come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. \wj*
\v 8 \wj When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment; \wj*
\v 9 \wj about sin, because they don’t believe in me; \wj*
\v 10 \wj about righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you won’t see me any more; \wj*
\v 11 \wj about judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged. \wj*
\p
\v 12 \wj “I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now. \wj*
\v 13 \wj However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming. \wj*
\v 14 \wj He will glorify me, for he will take from what is mine, and will declare it to you. \wj*
\v 15 \wj All things that the Father has are mine; therefore I said that he takes\wj*\f + \fr 16:15 \ft TR reads “will take” instead of “takes”\f* \wj of mine and will declare it to you. \wj*
\v 16 \wj A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me.”\wj*
\p
\v 17 Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, “What is this that he says to us, \wj ‘A little while, and you won’t see me, and again a little while, and you will see me;’\wj* and, \wj ‘Because I go to the Father’\wj*?”
\v 18 They said therefore, “What is this that he says, \wj ‘A little while’\wj*? We don’t know what he is saying.”
\p
\v 19 Therefore Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and he said to them, \wj “Do you inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said, ‘A little while, and you won’t see me, and again a little while, and you will see me?’ \wj*
\v 20 \wj Most certainly I tell you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy. \wj*
\v 21 \wj A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn’t remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world. \wj*
\v 22 \wj Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.\wj*
\p
\v 23 \wj “In that day you will ask me no questions. Most certainly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you. \wj*
\v 24 \wj Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full. \wj*
\v 25 \wj I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father. \wj*
\v 26 \wj In that day you will ask in my name; and I don’t say to you that I will pray to the Father for you, \wj*
\v 27 \wj for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God. \wj*
\v 28 \wj I came from the Father, and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.”\wj*
\p
\v 29 His disciples said to him, “Behold, now you are speaking plainly, and using no figures of speech.
\v 30 Now we know that you know all things, and don’t need for anyone to question you. By this we believe that you came from God.”
\p
\v 31 Jesus answered them, \wj “Do you now believe? \wj*
\v 32 \wj Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. \wj*
\v 33 \wj I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.” \wj*


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\v 1 Jesus said these things, then lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, \wj “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you; \wj*
\v 2 \wj even as you gave him authority over all flesh, so he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him. \wj*
\v 3 \wj This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ. \wj*
\v 4 \wj I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do. \wj*
\v 5 \wj Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed. \wj*
\v 6 \wj I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word. \wj*
\v 7 \wj Now they have known that all things whatever you have given me are from you, \wj*
\v 8 \wj for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me. \wj*
\v 9 \wj I pray for them. I don’t pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. \wj*
\v 10 \wj All things that are mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. \wj*
\v 11 \wj I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are. \wj*
\v 12 \wj While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. I have kept those whom you have given me. None of them is lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. \wj*
\v 13 \wj But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves. \wj*
\v 14 \wj I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. \wj*
\v 15 \wj I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one. \wj*
\v 16 \wj They are not of the world even as I am not of the world. \wj*
\v 17 \wj Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.\wj*\x + \xo 17:17 \xt Psalm 119:142\x*
\v 18 \wj As you sent me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world. \wj*
\v 19 \wj For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth. \wj*
\v 20 \wj Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who will believe in me through their word, \wj*
\v 21 \wj that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me. \wj*
\v 22 \wj The glory which you have given me, I have given to them; that they may be one, even as we are one; \wj*
\v 23 \wj I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me and loved them, even as you loved me. \wj*
\v 24 \wj Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world. \wj*
\v 25 \wj Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me. \wj*
\v 26 \wj I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”\wj*


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\v 1 When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples over the brook Kidron, where there was a garden, into which he and his disciples entered.
\v 2 Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, for Jesus often met there with his disciples.
\v 3 Judas then, having taken a detachment of soldiers and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.
\v 4 Jesus therefore, knowing all the things that were happening to him, went out, and said to them, \wj “Who are you looking for?”\wj*
\p
\v 5 They answered him, “Jesus of Nazareth.”
\p Jesus said to them, \wj “I am he.”\wj*
\p Judas also, who betrayed him, was standing with them.
\v 6 When therefore he said to them, \wj “I am he,”\wj* they went backward, and fell to the ground.
\p
\v 7 Again therefore he asked them, \wj “Who are you looking for?”\wj*
\p They said, “Jesus of Nazareth.”
\p
\v 8 Jesus answered, \wj “I told you that I am he. If therefore you seek me, let these go their way,”\wj*
\v 9 that the word might be fulfilled which he spoke, \wj “Of those whom you have given me, I have lost none.”\wj*\x + \xo 18:9 \xt John 6:39\x*
\p
\v 10 Simon Peter therefore, having a sword, drew it, struck the high priest’s servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant’s name was Malchus.
\v 11 Jesus therefore said to Peter, \wj “Put the sword into its sheath. The cup which the Father has given me, shall I not surely drink it?”\wj*
\p
\v 12 So the detachment, the commanding officer, and the officers of the Jews seized Jesus and bound him,
\v 13 and led him to Annas first, for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.
\v 14 Now it was Caiaphas who advised the Jews that it was expedient that one man should perish for the people.
\v 15 Simon Peter followed Jesus, as did another disciple. Now that disciple was known to the high priest, and entered in with Jesus into the court of the high priest;
\v 16 but Peter was standing at the door outside. So the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to her who kept the door, and brought in Peter.
\v 17 Then the maid who kept the door said to Peter, “Are you also one of this man’s disciples?”
\p He said, “I am not.”
\p
\v 18 Now the servants and the officers were standing there, having made a fire of coals, for it was cold. They were warming themselves. Peter was with them, standing and warming himself.
\v 19 The high priest therefore asked Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching.
\v 20 Jesus answered him, \wj “I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where the Jews always meet. I said nothing in secret. \wj*
\v 21 \wj Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to them. Behold, they know the things which I said.”\wj*
\p
\v 22 When he had said this, one of the officers standing by slapped Jesus with his hand, saying, “Do you answer the high priest like that?”
\p
\v 23 Jesus answered him, \wj “If I have spoken evil, testify of the evil; but if well, why do you beat me?”\wj*
\p
\v 24 Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas, the high priest.
\v 25 Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said therefore to him, “You aren’t also one of his disciples, are you?”
\p He denied it and said, “I am not.”
\p
\v 26 One of the servants of the high priest, being a relative of him whose ear Peter had cut off, said, “Didn’t I see you in the garden with him?”
\p
\v 27 Peter therefore denied it again, and immediately the rooster crowed.
\p
\v 28 They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn’t enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.
\v 29 Pilate therefore went out to them, and said, “What accusation do you bring against this man?”
\p
\v 30 They answered him, “If this man weren’t an evildoer, we wouldn’t have delivered him up to you.”
\p
\v 31 Pilate therefore said to them, “Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law.”
\p Therefore the Jews said to him, “It is illegal for us to put anyone to death,”
\v 32 that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke, signifying by what kind of death he should die.
\p
\v 33 Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, called Jesus, and said to him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”
\p
\v 34 Jesus answered him, \wj “Do you say this by yourself, or did others tell you about me?”\wj*
\p
\v 35 Pilate answered, “I’m not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests delivered you to me. What have you done?”
\p
\v 36 Jesus answered, \wj “My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn’t be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here.”\wj*
\p
\v 37 Pilate therefore said to him, “Are you a king then?”
\p Jesus answered, \wj “You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”\wj*
\p
\v 38 Pilate said to him, “What is truth?”
\p When he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, “I find no basis for a charge against him.
\v 39 But you have a custom, that I should release someone to you at the Passover. Therefore, do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”
\p
\v 40 Then they all shouted again, saying, “Not this man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a robber.


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\v 1 So Pilate then took Jesus, and flogged him.
\v 2 The soldiers twisted thorns into a crown, and put it on his head, and dressed him in a purple garment.
\v 3 They kept saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and they kept slapping him.
\p
\v 4 Then Pilate went out again, and said to them, “Behold, I bring him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis for a charge against him.”
\p
\v 5 Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. Pilate said to them, “Behold, the man!”
\p
\v 6 When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, “Crucify! Crucify!”
\p Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves, and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him.”
\p
\v 7 The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.”
\p
\v 8 When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was more afraid.
\v 9 He entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer.
\v 10 Pilate therefore said to him, “Aren’t you speaking to me? Don’t you know that I have power to release you and have power to crucify you?”
\p
\v 11 Jesus answered, \wj “You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin.”\wj*
\p
\v 12 At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying, “If you release this man, you aren’t Caesar’s friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!”
\p
\v 13 When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called “The Pavement”, but in Hebrew, “Gabbatha.”
\v 14 Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about the sixth hour.\f + \fr 19:14 \ft “the sixth hour” would have been 6:00 a.m. according to the Roman timekeeping system, or noon for the Jewish timekeeping system in use, then. \f* He said to the Jews, “Behold, your King!”
\p
\v 15 They cried out, “Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!”
\p Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?”
\p The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar!”
\p
\v 16 So then he delivered him to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus and led him away.
\v 17 He went out, bearing his cross, to the place called “The Place of a Skull”, which is called in Hebrew, “Golgotha”,
\v 18 where they crucified him, and with him two others, on either side one, and Jesus in the middle.
\v 19 Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. There was written, “JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.”
\v 20 Therefore many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek.
\v 21 The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, “Don’t write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but, ‘he said, “I am King of the Jews.”’”
\p
\v 22 Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”
\p
\v 23 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the coat. Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.
\v 24 Then they said to one another, “Let’s not tear it, but cast lots for it to decide whose it will be,” that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which says,
\q1 “They parted my garments among them.
\q2 For my cloak they cast lots.”\x + \xo 19:24 \xt Psalm 22:18\x*
\p Therefore the soldiers did these things.
\v 25 But standing by Jesus’ cross were his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
\v 26 Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, \wj “Woman, behold, your son!” \wj*
\v 27 Then he said to the disciple, \wj “Behold, your mother!”\wj* From that hour, the disciple took her to his own home.
\p
\v 28 After this, Jesus, seeing\f + \fr 19:28 \ft NU, TR read “knowing” instead of “seeing” \f* that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, \wj “I am thirsty.”\wj*
\v 29 Now a vessel full of vinegar was set there; so they put a sponge full of the vinegar on hyssop, and held it at his mouth.
\v 30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, \wj “It is finished.”\wj* He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.
\p
\v 31 Therefore the Jews, because it was the Preparation Day, so that the bodies wouldn’t remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
\v 32 Therefore the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who was crucified with him;
\v 33 but when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was already dead, they didn’t break his legs.
\v 34 However one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.
\v 35 He who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, that you may believe.
\v 36 For these things happened that the Scripture might be fulfilled, “A bone of him will not be broken.”\x + \xo 19:36 \xt Exodus 12:46; Numbers 9:12; Psalm 34:20 \x*
\v 37 Again another Scripture says, “They will look on him whom they pierced.”\x + \xo 19:37 \xt Zechariah 12:10\x*
\p
\v 38 After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he might take away Jesus’ body. Pilate gave him permission. He came therefore and took away his body.
\v 39 Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred Roman pounds.\f + \fr 19:39 \ft 100 Roman pounds of 12 ounces each, or about 72 pounds, or 33 Kilograms.\f*
\v 40 So they took Jesus’ body, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury.
\v 41 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden. In the garden was a new tomb in which no man had ever yet been laid.
\v 42 Then because of the Jews’ Preparation Day (for the tomb was near at hand) they laid Jesus there.


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\v 1 The third day, there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there.
\v 2 Jesus also was invited, with his disciples, to the wedding.
\v 3 When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no wine.”
\p
\v 4 Jesus said to her, \wj “Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come.”\wj*
\p
\v 5 His mother said to the servants, “Whatever he says to you, do it.”
\v 6 Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews’ way of purifying, containing two or three metretes\f + \fr 2:6 \ft 2 to 3 metretes is about 20 to 30 U. S. Gallons, or 75 to 115 liters.\f* apiece.
\v 7 Jesus said to them, \wj “Fill the water pots with water.”\wj* So they filled them up to the brim.
\v 8 He said to them, \wj “Now draw some out, and take it to the ruler of the feast.”\wj* So they took it.
\v 9 When the ruler of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and didn’t know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the ruler of the feast called the bridegroom
\v 10 and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when the guests have drunk freely, then that which is worse. You have kept the good wine until now!”
\v 11 This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.
\p
\v 12 After this, he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; and they stayed there a few days.
\v 13 The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
\v 14 He found in the temple those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, and the changers of money sitting.
\v 15 He made a whip of cords, and threw all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the changers’ money and overthrew their tables.
\v 16 To those who sold the doves, he said, \wj “Take these things out of here! Don’t make my Father’s house a marketplace!”\wj*
\v 17 His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will eat me up.”\x + \xo 2:17 \xt Psalm 69:9\x*
\p
\v 18 The Jews therefore answered him, “What sign do you show us, seeing that you do these things?”
\p
\v 19 Jesus answered them, \wj “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”\wj*
\p
\v 20 The Jews therefore said, “It took forty-six years to build this temple! Will you raise it up in three days?”
\v 21 But he spoke of the temple of his body.
\v 22 When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.
\p
\v 23 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did.
\v 24 But Jesus didn’t entrust himself to them, because he knew everyone,
\v 25 and because he didn’t need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.


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\v 1 Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw the stone taken away from the tomb.
\v 2 Therefore she ran and came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have laid him!”
\p
\v 3 Therefore Peter and the other disciple went out, and they went toward the tomb.
\v 4 They both ran together. The other disciple outran Peter, and came to the tomb first.
\v 5 Stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths lying, yet he didn’t enter in.
\v 6 Then Simon Peter came, following him, and entered into the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying,
\v 7 and the cloth that had been on his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but rolled up in a place by itself.
\v 8 So then the other disciple who came first to the tomb also entered in, and he saw and believed.
\v 9 For as yet they didn’t know the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.
\v 10 So the disciples went away again to their own homes.
\p
\v 11 But Mary was standing outside at the tomb weeping. So as she wept, she stooped and looked into the tomb,
\v 12 and she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.
\v 13 They asked her, “Woman, why are you weeping?”
\p She said to them, “Because they have taken away my Lord, and I don’t know where they have laid him.”
\v 14 When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, and didn’t know that it was Jesus.
\p
\v 15 Jesus said to her, \wj “Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?”\wj*
\p She, supposing him to be the gardener, said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.”
\p
\v 16 Jesus said to her, \wj “Mary.”\wj*
\p She turned and said to him, “Rabboni!”\f + \fr 20:16 \ft Rabboni is a transliteration of the Hebrew word for “great teacher.”\f* which is to say, “Teacher!”\f + \fr 20:16 \ft or, Master\f*
\p
\v 17 Jesus said to her, \wj “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”\wj*
\p
\v 18 Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had said these things to her.
\v 19 When therefore it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the middle, and said to them, \wj “Peace be to you.”\wj*
\p
\v 20 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples therefore were glad when they saw the Lord.
\v 21 Jesus therefore said to them again, \wj “Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.”\wj*
\v 22 When he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, \wj “Receive the Holy Spirit! \wj*
\v 23 \wj If you forgive anyone’s sins, they have been forgiven them. If you retain anyone’s sins, they have been retained.”\wj*
\p
\v 24 But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, wasn’t with them when Jesus came.
\v 25 The other disciples therefore said to him, “We have seen the Lord!”
\p But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”
\p
\v 26 After eight days again his disciples were inside and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, the doors being locked, and stood in the middle, and said, \wj “Peace be to you.”\wj*
\v 27 Then he said to Thomas, \wj “Reach here your finger, and see my hands. Reach here your hand, and put it into my side. Don’t be unbelieving, but believing.”\wj*
\p
\v 28 Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”
\p
\v 29 Jesus said to him, \wj “Because you have seen me,\wj*\f + \fr 20:29 \ft TR adds “Thomas,”\f* \wj you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed.”\wj*
\p
\v 30 Therefore Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book;
\v 31 but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.


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\v 1 After these things, Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias. He revealed himself this way.
\v 2 Simon Peter, Thomas called Didymus, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples were together.
\v 3 Simon Peter said to them, “I’m going fishing.”
\p They told him, “We are also coming with you.” They immediately went out, and entered into the boat. That night, they caught nothing.
\v 4 But when day had already come, Jesus stood on the beach, yet the disciples didn’t know that it was Jesus.
\v 5 Jesus therefore said to them, \wj “Children, have you anything to eat?” \wj*
\p They answered him, “No.”
\p
\v 6 He said to them, \wj “Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some.”\wj*
\p They cast it therefore, and now they weren’t able to draw it in for the multitude of fish.
\v 7 That disciple therefore whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It’s the Lord!”
\p So when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he wrapped his coat around himself (for he was naked), and threw himself into the sea.
\v 8 But the other disciples came in the little boat (for they were not far from the land, but about two hundred cubits\f + \fr 21:8 \ft 200 cubits is about 100 yards or about 91 meters\f* away), dragging the net full of fish.
\v 9 So when they got out on the land, they saw a fire of coals there, with fish and bread laid on it.
\v 10 Jesus said to them, \wj “Bring some of the fish which you have just caught.”\wj*
\p
\v 11 Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land, full of one hundred fifty-three great fish. Even though there were so many, the net wasn’t torn.
\p
\v 12 Jesus said to them, \wj “Come and eat breakfast!”\wj*
\p None of the disciples dared inquire of him, “Who are you?” knowing that it was the Lord.
\p
\v 13 Then Jesus came and took the bread, gave it to them, and the fish likewise.
\v 14 This is now the third time that Jesus was revealed to his disciples after he had risen from the dead.
\v 15 So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, \wj “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?”\wj*
\p He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.”
\p He said to him, \wj “Feed my lambs.”\wj*
\v 16 He said to him again a second time, \wj “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me?”\wj*
\p He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.”
\p He said to him, \wj “Tend my sheep.”\wj*
\v 17 He said to him the third time, \wj “Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?”\wj*
\p Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, \wj “Do you have affection for me?”\wj* He said to him, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you.”
\p Jesus said to him, \wj “Feed my sheep. \wj*
\v 18 \wj Most certainly I tell you, when you were young, you dressed yourself and walked where you wanted to. But when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you and carry you where you don’t want to go.”\wj*
\p
\v 19 Now he said this, signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. When he had said this, he said to him, \wj “Follow me.”\wj*
\p
\v 20 Then Peter, turning around, saw a disciple following. This was the disciple whom Jesus loved, the one who had also leaned on Jesus’ breast at the supper and asked, “Lord, who is going to betray you?”
\v 21 Peter seeing him, said to Jesus, “Lord, what about this man?”
\p
\v 22 Jesus said to him, \wj “If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you? You follow me.”\wj*
\v 23 This saying therefore went out among the brothers,\f + \fr 21:23 \ft The word for “brothers” here may be also correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”\f* that this disciple wouldn’t die. Yet Jesus didn’t say to him that he wouldn’t die, but, \wj “If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you?”\wj*
\v 24 This is the disciple who testifies about these things, and wrote these things. We know that his witness is true.
\v 25 There are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they would all be written, I suppose that even the world itself wouldn’t have room for the books that would be written.


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\v 1 Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
\v 2 The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”
\p
\v 3 Jesus answered him, \wj “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, \wj*\f + \fr 3:3 \ft The word translated “anew” here and in John 3:7 (ἄνωθεν) also means “again” and “from above”.\f* \wj he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”\wj*
\p
\v 4 Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?”
\p
\v 5 Jesus answered, \wj “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can’t enter into God’s Kingdom.\wj*
\v 6 \wj That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit. \wj*
\v 7 \wj Don’t marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born anew.’ \wj*
\v 8 \wj The wind\wj*\f + \fr 3:8 \ft The same Greek word (πνεῦμα) means wind, breath, and spirit.\f* \wj blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don’t know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”\wj*
\p
\v 9 Nicodemus answered him, “How can these things be?”
\p
\v 10 Jesus answered him, \wj “Are you the teacher of Israel, and don’t understand these things? \wj*
\v 11 \wj Most certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you don’t receive our witness. \wj*
\v 12 \wj If I told you earthly things and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? \wj*
\v 13 \wj No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven. \wj*
\v 14 \wj As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, \wj*
\v 15 \wj that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. \wj*
\v 16 \wj For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. \wj*
\v 17 \wj For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him. \wj*
\v 18 \wj He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God. \wj*
\v 19 \wj This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil. \wj*
\v 20 \wj For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed. \wj*
\v 21 \wj But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”\wj*
\p
\v 22 After these things, Jesus came with his disciples into the land of Judea. He stayed there with them and baptized.
\v 23 John also was baptizing in Enon near Salim, because there was much water there. They came, and were baptized;
\v 24 for John was not yet thrown into prison.
\v 25 Therefore a dispute arose on the part of John’s disciples with some Jews about purification.
\v 26 They came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, he baptizes, and everyone is coming to him.”
\p
\v 27 John answered, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven.
\v 28 You yourselves testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but, ‘I have been sent before him.’
\v 29 He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. This, my joy, therefore is made full.
\v 30 He must increase, but I must decrease.
\v 31 He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.
\v 32 What he has seen and heard, of that he testifies; and no one receives his witness.
\v 33 He who has received his witness has set his seal to this, that God is true.
\v 34 For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.
\v 35 The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.
\v 36 One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys \f + \fr 3:36 \ft The same word can be translated “disobeys” or “disbelieves” in this context.\f* the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”


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\v 1 Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John
\v 2 (although Jesus himself didn’t baptize, but his disciples),
\v 3 he left Judea and departed into Galilee.
\v 4 He needed to pass through Samaria.
\v 5 So he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph.
\v 6 Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.\f + \fr 4:6 \ft noon\f*
\v 7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, \wj “Give me a drink.”\wj*
\v 8 For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
\p
\v 9 The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
\p
\v 10 Jesus answered her, \wj “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”\wj*
\p
\v 11 The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. So where do you get that living water?
\v 12 Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his children and his livestock?”
\p
\v 13 Jesus answered her, \wj “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, \wj*
\v 14 \wj but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”\wj*
\p
\v 15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I don’t get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw.”
\p
\v 16 Jesus said to her, \wj “Go, call your husband, and come here.” \wj*
\p
\v 17 The woman answered, “I have no husband.”
\p Jesus said to her, \wj “You said well, ‘I have no husband,’ \wj*
\v 18 \wj for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly.”\wj*
\p
\v 19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.
\v 20 Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”
\p
\v 21 Jesus said to her, \wj “Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father. \wj*
\v 22 \wj You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews. \wj*
\v 23 \wj But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshipers. \wj*
\v 24 \wj God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”\wj*
\p
\v 25 The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah comes, he who is called Christ. When he has come, he will declare to us all things.”
\p
\v 26 Jesus said to her, \wj “I am he, the one who speaks to you.”\wj*
\v 27 At this, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, “What are you looking for?” or, “Why do you speak with her?”
\v 28 So the woman left her water pot, went away into the city, and said to the people,
\v 29 “Come, see a man who told me everything that I did. Can this be the Christ?”
\p
\v 30 They went out of the city, and were coming to him.
\v 31 In the meanwhile, the disciples urged him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”
\p
\v 32 But he said to them, \wj “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”\wj*
\p
\v 33 The disciples therefore said to one another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?”
\p
\v 34 Jesus said to them, \wj “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work. \wj*
\v 35 \wj Don’t you say, ‘There are yet four months until the harvest?’ Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already. \wj*
\v 36 \wj He who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. \wj*
\v 37 \wj For in this the saying is true, ‘One sows, and another reaps.’ \wj*
\v 38 \wj I sent you to reap that for which you haven’t labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”\wj*
\p
\v 39 From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, “He told me everything that I did.”
\v 40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed there two days.
\v 41 Many more believed because of his word.
\v 42 They said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.”
\p
\v 43 After the two days he went out from there and went into Galilee.
\v 44 For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.
\v 45 So when he came into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast, for they also went to the feast.
\v 46 Jesus came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water into wine. There was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum.
\v 47 When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and begged him that he would come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.
\v 48 Jesus therefore said to him, \wj “Unless you see signs and wonders, you will in no way believe.”\wj*
\p
\v 49 The nobleman said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”
\v 50 Jesus said to him, \wj “Go your way. Your son lives.”\wj* The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way.
\v 51 As he was now going down, his servants met him and reported, saying “Your child lives!”
\v 52 So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. They said therefore to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour,\f + \fr 4:52 \ft 1:00 p.m.\f* the fever left him.”
\v 53 So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, \wj “Your son lives.”\wj* He believed, as did his whole house.
\v 54 This is again the second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judea into Galilee.


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\v 1 After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
\v 2 Now in Jerusalem by the sheep gate, there is a pool, which is called in Hebrew, “Bethesda”, having five porches.
\v 3 In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water;
\v 4 for an angel went down at certain times into the pool and stirred up the water. Whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was healed of whatever disease he had.\f + \fr 5:4 \ft NU omits from “waiting” in verse 3 to the end of verse 4.\f*
\v 5 A certain man was there who had been sick for thirty-eight years.
\v 6 When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been sick for a long time, he asked him, \wj “Do you want to be made well?”\wj*
\p
\v 7 The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I’m coming, another steps down before me.”
\p
\v 8 Jesus said to him, \wj “Arise, take up your mat, and walk.”\wj*
\p
\v 9 Immediately, the man was made well, and took up his mat and walked.
\p Now it was the Sabbath on that day.
\v 10 So the Jews said to him who was cured, “It is the Sabbath. It is not lawful for you to carry the mat.”
\p
\v 11 He answered them, “He who made me well said to me, \wj ‘Take up your mat and walk.’\wj*”
\p
\v 12 Then they asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, \wj ‘Take up your mat and walk’\wj*?”
\p
\v 13 But he who was healed didn’t know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, a crowd being in the place.
\p
\v 14 Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, \wj “Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you.” \wj*
\p
\v 15 The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
\v 16 For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath.
\v 17 But Jesus answered them, \wj “My Father is still working, so I am working, too.”\wj*
\v 18 For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
\v 19 Jesus therefore answered them, \wj “Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise. \wj*
\v 20 \wj For the Father has affection for the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does. He will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel. \wj*
\v 21 \wj For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires. \wj*
\v 22 \wj For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son, \wj*
\v 23 \wj that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn’t honor the Son doesn’t honor the Father who sent him.\wj*
\p
\v 24 \wj “Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life. \wj*
\v 25 \wj Most certainly I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God’s voice; and those who hear will live. \wj*
\v 26 \wj For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself. \wj*
\v 27 \wj He also gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is a son of man. \wj*
\v 28 \wj Don’t marvel at this, for the hour comes in which all who are in the tombs will hear his voice, \wj*
\v 29 \wj and will come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment. \wj*
\v 30 \wj I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.\wj*
\p
\v 31 \wj “If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid. \wj*
\v 32 \wj It is another who testifies about me. I know that the testimony which he testifies about me is true. \wj*
\v 33 \wj You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth. \wj*
\v 34 \wj But the testimony which I receive is not from man. However, I say these things that you may be saved. \wj*
\v 35 \wj He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light. \wj*
\v 36 \wj But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John, for the works which the Father gave me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me. \wj*
\v 37 \wj The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form. \wj*
\v 38 \wj You don’t have his word living in you, because you don’t believe him whom he sent.\wj*
\p
\v 39 \wj “You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me. \wj*
\v 40 \wj Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life. \wj*
\v 41 \wj I don’t receive glory from men. \wj*
\v 42 \wj But I know you, that you don’t have God’s love in yourselves. \wj*
\v 43 \wj I have come in my Father’s name, and you don’t receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him. \wj*
\v 44 \wj How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?\wj*
\p
\v 45 \wj “Don’t think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope. \wj*
\v 46 \wj For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me. \wj*
\v 47 \wj But if you don’t believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”\wj*


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\v 1 After these things, Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is also called the Sea of Tiberias.
\v 2 A great multitude followed him, because they saw his signs which he did on those who were sick.
\v 3 Jesus went up into the mountain, and he sat there with his disciples.
\v 4 Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand.
\v 5 Jesus therefore lifting up his eyes, and seeing that a great multitude was coming to him, said to Philip, \wj “Where are we to buy bread, that these may eat?”\wj*
\v 6 He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he would do.
\p
\v 7 Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii\f + \fr 6:7 \ft A denarius was a silver coin worth about a day’s wages for an agricultural laborer, so 200 denarii would be between 6 and 7 month’s pay.\f* worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may receive a little.”
\p
\v 8 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him,
\v 9 “There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these among so many?”
\p
\v 10 Jesus said, \wj “Have the people sit down.”\wj* Now there was much grass in that place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.
\v 11 Jesus took the loaves; and having given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to those who were sitting down; likewise also of the fish as much as they desired.
\v 12 When they were filled, he said to his disciples, \wj “Gather up the broken pieces which are left over, that nothing be lost.”\wj*
\v 13 So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves, which were left over by those who had eaten.
\v 14 When therefore the people saw the sign which Jesus did, they said, “This is truly the prophet who comes into the world.”
\v 15 Jesus therefore, perceiving that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, withdrew again to the mountain by himself.
\p
\v 16 When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea.
\v 17 They entered into the boat, and were going over the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not come to them.
\v 18 The sea was tossed by a great wind blowing.
\v 19 When therefore they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty stadia, \f + \fr 6:19 \ft 25 to 30 stadia is about 5 to 6 kilometers or about 3 to 4 miles\f* they saw Jesus walking on the sea,\x + \xo 6:19 \xt See Job 9:8\x* and drawing near to the boat; and they were afraid.
\v 20 But he said to them, \wj “It is I.\wj*\f + \fr 6:20 \ft or, I AM\f* \wj Don’t be afraid.”\wj*
\v 21 They were willing therefore to receive him into the boat. Immediately the boat was at the land where they were going.
\p
\v 22 On the next day, the multitude that stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other boat there, except the one in which his disciples had embarked, and that Jesus hadn’t entered with his disciples into the boat, but his disciples had gone away alone.
\v 23 However boats from Tiberias came near to the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks.
\v 24 When the multitude therefore saw that Jesus wasn’t there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats, and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.
\v 25 When they found him on the other side of the sea, they asked him, “Rabbi, when did you come here?”
\p
\v 26 Jesus answered them, \wj “Most certainly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled. \wj*
\v 27 \wj Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”\wj*
\p
\v 28 They said therefore to him, “What must we do, that we may work the works of God?”
\p
\v 29 Jesus answered them, \wj “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”\wj*
\p
\v 30 They said therefore to him, “What then do you do for a sign, that we may see and believe you? What work do you do?
\v 31 Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is written, ‘He gave them bread out of heaven\f + \fr 6:31 \ft Greek and Hebrew use the same word for “heaven”, “the heavens”, “the sky”, and “the air”.\f* to eat.’”\x + \xo 6:31 \xt Exodus 16:4; Nehemiah 9:15; Psalm 78:24-25\x*
\p
\v 32 Jesus therefore said to them, \wj “Most certainly, I tell you, it wasn’t Moses who gave you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven. \wj*
\v 33 \wj For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world.”\wj*
\p
\v 34 They said therefore to him, “Lord, always give us this bread.”
\p
\v 35 Jesus said to them, \wj “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will not be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. \wj*
\v 36 \wj But I told you that you have seen me, and yet you don’t believe. \wj*
\v 37 \wj All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out. \wj*
\v 38 \wj For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me. \wj*
\v 39 \wj This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day. \wj*
\v 40 \wj This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”\wj*
\p
\v 41 The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, \wj “I am the bread which came down out of heaven.”\wj*
\v 42 They said, “Isn’t this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then does he say, \wj ‘I have come down out of heaven?’” \wj*
\p
\v 43 Therefore Jesus answered them, \wj “Don’t murmur among yourselves. \wj*
\v 44 \wj No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day. \wj*
\v 45 \wj It is written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ \wj* \x + \xo 6:45 \xt Isaiah 54:13\x* \wj Therefore everyone who hears from the Father and has learned, comes to me. \wj*
\v 46 \wj Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God. He has seen the Father. \wj*
\v 47 \wj Most certainly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life. \wj*
\v 48 \wj I am the bread of life. \wj*
\v 49 \wj Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and they died. \wj*
\v 50 \wj This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die. \wj*
\v 51 \wj I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”\wj*
\p
\v 52 The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
\p
\v 53 Jesus therefore said to them, \wj “Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don’t have life in yourselves. \wj*
\v 54 \wj He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. \wj*
\v 55 \wj For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. \wj*
\v 56 \wj He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him. \wj*
\v 57 \wj As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me. \wj*
\v 58 \wj This is the bread which came down out of heaven—not as our fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever.”\wj*
\v 59 He said these things in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.
\p
\v 60 Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?”
\p
\v 61 But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them, \wj “Does this cause you to stumble? \wj*
\v 62 \wj Then what if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? \wj*
\v 63 \wj It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life. \wj*
\v 64 \wj But there are some of you who don’t believe.”\wj* For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who didn’t believe, and who it was who would betray him.
\v 65 He said, \wj “For this cause I have said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father.”\wj*
\p
\v 66 At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
\v 67 Jesus said therefore to the twelve, \wj “You don’t also want to go away, do you?”\wj*
\p
\v 68 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
\v 69 We have come to believe and know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
\p
\v 70 Jesus answered them, \wj “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”\wj*
\v 71 Now he spoke of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, for it was he who would betray him, being one of the twelve.


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\v 1 After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.
\v 2 Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand.
\v 3 His brothers therefore said to him, “Depart from here and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do.
\v 4 For no one does anything in secret while he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world.”
\v 5 For even his brothers didn’t believe in him.
\p
\v 6 Jesus therefore said to them, \wj “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready. \wj*
\v 7 \wj The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil. \wj*
\v 8 \wj You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled.”\wj*
\p
\v 9 Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee.
\v 10 But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.
\v 11 The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, “Where is he?”
\v 12 There was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. Some said, “He is a good man.” Others said, “Not so, but he leads the multitude astray.”
\v 13 Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews.
\v 14 But when it was now the middle of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught.
\v 15 The Jews therefore marveled, saying, “How does this man know letters, having never been educated?”
\p
\v 16 Jesus therefore answered them, \wj “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me. \wj*
\v 17 \wj If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself. \wj*
\v 18 \wj He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him. \wj*
\v 19 \wj Didn’t Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?”\wj*
\p
\v 20 The multitude answered, “You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?”
\p
\v 21 Jesus answered them, \wj “I did one work and you all marvel because of it. \wj*
\v 22 \wj Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy. \wj*
\v 23 \wj If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me, because I made a man completely healthy on the Sabbath? \wj*
\v 24 \wj Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.” \wj*
\p
\v 25 Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, “Isn’t this he whom they seek to kill?
\v 26 Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ?
\v 27 However we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from.”
\p
\v 28 Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, \wj “You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don’t know. \wj*
\v 29 \wj I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.”\wj*
\p
\v 30 They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.
\v 31 But of the multitude, many believed in him. They said, “When the Christ comes, he won’t do more signs than those which this man has done, will he?”
\v 32 The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.
\p
\v 33 Then Jesus said, \wj “I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me. \wj*
\v 34 \wj You will seek me, and won’t find me. You can’t come where I am.”\wj*
\p
\v 35 The Jews therefore said among themselves, “Where will this man go that we won’t find him? Will he go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?
\v 36 What is this word that he said, \wj ‘You will seek me, and won’t find me;’\wj* and \wj ‘Where I am, you can’t come’\wj*?”
\p
\v 37 Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, \wj “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink! \wj*
\v 38 \wj He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”\wj*
\v 39 But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn’t yet glorified.
\p
\v 40 Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, “This is truly the prophet.”
\v 41 Others said, “This is the Christ.” But some said, “What, does the Christ come out of Galilee?
\v 42 Hasn’t the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the offspring\f + \fr 7:42 \ft or, seed\f* of David, \x + \xo 7:42 \xt 2 Samuel 7:12\x* and from Bethlehem,\x + \xo 7:42 \xt Micah 5:2\x* the village where David was?”
\v 43 So a division arose in the multitude because of him.
\v 44 Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him.
\v 45 The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, “Why didn’t you bring him?”
\p
\v 46 The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this man!”
\p
\v 47 The Pharisees therefore answered them, “You aren’t also led astray, are you?
\v 48 Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?
\v 49 But this multitude that doesn’t know the law is cursed.”
\p
\v 50 Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them,
\v 51 “Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?”
\p
\v 52 They answered him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.”\x + \xo 7:52 \xt See Isaiah 9:1; Matthew 4:13-16\x*
\p
\v 53 Everyone went to his own house,


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\v 1 but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
\v 2 Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down and taught them.
\v 3 The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the middle,
\v 4 they told him, “Teacher, we found this woman in adultery, in the very act.
\v 5 Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such women.\x + \xo 8:5 \xt Leviticus 20:10; Deuteronomy 22:22\x* What then do you say about her?”
\v 6 They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of.
\p But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger.
\v 7 But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, \wj “He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her.” \wj*
\v 8 Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger.
\p
\v 9 They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.
\v 10 Jesus, standing up, saw her and said, \wj “Woman, where are your accusers? Did no one condemn you?”\wj*
\p
\v 11 She said, “No one, Lord.”
\p Jesus said, \wj “Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more.”\wj*\f + \fr 8:11 \ft NU includes John 7:53–John 8:11, but puts brackets around it to indicate that the textual critics had less confidence that this was original.\f*
\p
\v 12 Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, \wj “I am the light of the world.\wj*\x + \xo 8:12 \xt Isaiah 60:1\x* \wj He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”\wj*
\p
\v 13 The Pharisees therefore said to him, “You testify about yourself. Your testimony is not valid.”
\p
\v 14 Jesus answered them, \wj “Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you don’t know where I came from, or where I am going. \wj*
\v 15 \wj You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one. \wj*
\v 16 \wj Even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent me. \wj*
\v 17 \wj It’s also written in your law that the testimony of two people is valid.\wj*\x + \xo 8:17 \xt Deuteronomy 17:6; 19:15\x*
\v 18 \wj I am one who testifies about myself, and the Father who sent me testifies about me.”\wj*
\p
\v 19 They said therefore to him, “Where is your Father?”
\p Jesus answered, \wj “You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”\wj*
\v 20 Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.
\v 21 Jesus said therefore again to them, \wj “I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can’t come.” \wj*
\p
\v 22 The Jews therefore said, “Will he kill himself, because he says, \wj ‘Where I am going, you can’t come’\wj*?”
\p
\v 23 He said to them, \wj “You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world. \wj*
\v 24 \wj I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am\wj*\f + \fr 8:24 \ft or, I AM\f* \wj he, you will die in your sins.” \wj*
\p
\v 25 They said therefore to him, “Who are you?”
\p Jesus said to them, \wj “Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning. \wj*
\v 26 \wj I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world.”\wj*
\p
\v 27 They didn’t understand that he spoke to them about the Father.
\v 28 Jesus therefore said to them, \wj “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things. \wj*
\v 29 \wj He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn’t left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”\wj*
\p
\v 30 As he spoke these things, many believed in him.
\v 31 Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, \wj “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples. \wj*
\v 32 \wj You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” \wj*\x + \xo 8:32 \xt Psalm 119:45\x*
\p
\v 33 They answered him, “We are Abraham’s offspring, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say, \wj ‘You will be made free’\wj*?”
\p
\v 34 Jesus answered them, \wj “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin. \wj*
\v 35 \wj A bondservant doesn’t live in the house forever. A son remains forever. \wj*
\v 36 \wj If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed. \wj*
\v 37 \wj I know that you are Abraham’s offspring, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you. \wj*
\v 38 \wj I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father.”\wj*
\p
\v 39 They answered him, “Our father is Abraham.”
\p Jesus said to them, \wj “If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham. \wj*
\v 40 \wj But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham didn’t do this. \wj*
\v 41 \wj You do the works of your father.”\wj*
\p They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God.”
\p
\v 42 Therefore Jesus said to them, \wj “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me. \wj*
\v 43 \wj Why don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my word. \wj*
\v 44 \wj You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies. \wj*
\v 45 \wj But because I tell the truth, you don’t believe me. \wj*
\v 46 \wj Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? \wj*
\v 47 \wj He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don’t hear, because you are not of God.”\wj*
\p
\v 48 Then the Jews answered him, “Don’t we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?”
\p
\v 49 Jesus answered, \wj “I don’t have a demon, but I honor my Father and you dishonor me. \wj*
\v 50 \wj But I don’t seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges. \wj*
\v 51 \wj Most certainly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death.”\wj*
\p
\v 52 Then the Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, as did the prophets; and you say, \wj ‘If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of death.’\wj*
\v 53 Are you greater than our father, Abraham, who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?”
\p
\v 54 Jesus answered, \wj “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God. \wj*
\v 55 \wj You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, ‘I don’t know him,’ I would be like you, a liar. But I know him and keep his word. \wj*
\v 56 \wj Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it, and was glad.”\wj*
\p
\v 57 The Jews therefore said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old! Have you seen Abraham?”
\p
\v 58 Jesus said to them, \wj “Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM.\wj*\x + \xo 8:58 \xt Exodus 3:14\x*\wj ”\wj*
\p
\v 59 Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the middle of them, and so passed by.


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\v 1 As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.
\v 2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
\p
\v 3 Jesus answered, \wj “This man didn’t sin, nor did his parents; but, that the works of God might be revealed in him. \wj*
\v 4 \wj I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work. \wj*
\v 5 \wj While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”\wj*
\v 6 When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man’s eyes with the mud,
\v 7 and said to him, \wj “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam”\wj* (which means “Sent”). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing.
\v 8 The neighbors therefore, and those who saw that he was blind before, said, “Isn’t this he who sat and begged?”
\v 9 Others were saying, “It is he.” Still others were saying, “He looks like him.”
\p He said, “I am he.”
\v 10 They therefore were asking him, “How were your eyes opened?”
\p
\v 11 He answered, “A man called Jesus made mud, anointed my eyes, and said to me, \wj ‘Go to the pool of Siloam and wash.’\wj* So I went away and washed, and I received sight.”
\p
\v 12 Then they asked him, “Where is he?”
\p He said, “I don’t know.”
\p
\v 13 They brought him who had been blind to the Pharisees.
\v 14 It was a Sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.
\v 15 Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight. He said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and I see.”
\p
\v 16 Some therefore of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, because he doesn’t keep the Sabbath.” Others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” There was division among them.
\v 17 Therefore they asked the blind man again, “What do you say about him, because he opened your eyes?”
\p He said, “He is a prophet.”
\p
\v 18 The Jews therefore didn’t believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight,
\v 19 and asked them, “Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”
\p
\v 20 His parents answered them, “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind;
\v 21 but how he now sees, we don’t know; or who opened his eyes, we don’t know. He is of age. Ask him. He will speak for himself.”
\v 22 His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.
\v 23 Therefore his parents said, “He is of age. Ask him.”
\p
\v 24 So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”
\p
\v 25 He therefore answered, “I don’t know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know: that though I was blind, now I see.”
\p
\v 26 They said to him again, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”
\p
\v 27 He answered them, “I told you already, and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don’t also want to become his disciples, do you?”
\p
\v 28 They insulted him and said, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.
\v 29 We know that God has spoken to Moses. But as for this man, we don’t know where he comes from.”
\p
\v 30 The man answered them, “How amazing! You don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes.
\v 31 We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.\x + \xo 9:31 \xt Psalm 66:18; Proverbs 15:29; 28:9\x*
\v 32 Since the world began it has never been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of someone born blind.
\v 33 If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”
\p
\v 34 They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” Then they threw him out.
\p
\v 35 Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, \wj “Do you believe in the Son of God?”\wj*
\p
\v 36 He answered, “Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?”
\p
\v 37 Jesus said to him, \wj “You have both seen him, and it is he who speaks with you.”\wj*
\p
\v 38 He said, “Lord, I believe!” and he worshiped him.
\p
\v 39 Jesus said, \wj “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.”\wj*
\p
\v 40 Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?”
\p
\v 41 Jesus said to them, \wj “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.\wj*


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\v 1 The first book I wrote, Theophilus, concerned all that Jesus began both to do and to teach,
\v 2 until the day in which he was received up, after he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.
\v 3 To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days, and speaking about God’s Kingdom.
\v 4 Being assembled together with them, he commanded them, \wj “Don’t depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which you heard from me. \wj*
\v 5 \wj For John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”\wj*
\p
\v 6 Therefore when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, are you now restoring the kingdom to Israel?”
\p
\v 7 He said to them, \wj “It isn’t for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority. \wj*
\v 8 \wj But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”\wj*
\p
\v 9 When he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight.
\v 10 While they were looking steadfastly into the sky as he went, behold,\f + \fr 1:10 \ft “Behold”, from “ἰδοὺ”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* two men stood by them in white clothing,
\v 11 who also said, “You men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who was received up from you into the sky, will come back in the same way as you saw him going into the sky.”
\p
\v 12 Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day’s journey away.
\v 13 When they had come in, they went up into the upper room where they were staying; that is Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.
\v 14 All these with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer and supplication, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.
\p
\v 15 In these days, Peter stood up in the middle of the disciples (and the number of names was about one hundred twenty), and said,
\v 16 “Brothers, it was necessary that this Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus.
\v 17 For he was counted with us, and received his portion in this ministry.
\v 18 Now this man obtained a field with the reward for his wickedness, and falling headlong, his body burst open, and all his intestines gushed out.
\v 19 It became known to everyone who lived in Jerusalem that in their language that field was called ‘Akeldama,’ that is, ‘The field of blood.’
\v 20 For it is written in the book of Psalms,
\q1 ‘Let his habitation be made desolate.
\q2 Let no one dwell in it;’\x + \xo 1:20 \xt Psalm 69:25\x*
\p and,
\q1 ‘Let another take his office.’\x + \xo 1:20 \xt Psalm 109:8\x*
\p
\v 21 “Of the men therefore who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,
\v 22 beginning from the baptism of John, to the day that he was received up from us, of these one must become a witness with us of his resurrection.”
\p
\v 23 They put forward two, Joseph called Barsabbas, who was also called Justus, and Matthias.
\v 24 They prayed and said, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two you have chosen
\v 25 to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.”
\v 26 They drew lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias, and he was counted with the eleven apostles.


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\v 1 Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment,
\v 2 a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.
\v 3 At about the ninth hour of the day,\f + \fr 10:3 \ft 3:00 p.m.\f* he clearly saw in a vision an angel of God coming to him, and saying to him, “Cornelius!”
\p
\v 4 He, fastening his eyes on him, and being frightened, said, “What is it, Lord?”
\p He said to him, “Your prayers and your gifts to the needy have gone up for a memorial before God.
\v 5 Now send men to Joppa, and get Simon, who is also called Peter.
\v 6 He is staying with a tanner named Simon, whose house is by the seaside. \f + \fr 10:6 \ft TR adds “This one will tell you what it is necessary for you to do.”\f*
\p
\v 7 When the angel who spoke to him had departed, Cornelius called two of his household servants and a devout soldier of those who waited on him continually.
\v 8 Having explained everything to them, he sent them to Joppa.
\v 9 Now on the next day as they were on their journey, and got close to the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray at about noon.
\v 10 He became hungry and desired to eat, but while they were preparing, he fell into a trance.
\v 11 He saw heaven opened and a certain container descending to him, like a great sheet let down by four corners on the earth,
\v 12 in which were all kinds of four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, reptiles, and birds of the sky.
\v 13 A voice came to him, \wj “Rise, Peter, kill and eat!”\wj*
\p
\v 14 But Peter said, “Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.”
\p
\v 15 A voice came to him again the second time, \wj “What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean.”\wj*
\v 16 This was done three times, and immediately the vessel was received up into heaven.
\v 17 Now while Peter was very perplexed in himself what the vision which he had seen might mean, behold, the men who were sent by Cornelius, having made inquiry for Simon’s house, stood before the gate,
\v 18 and called and asked whether Simon, who was also called Peter, was lodging there.
\v 19 While Peter was pondering the vision, the Spirit said to him, “Behold, three \f + \fr 10:19 \ft Reading from TR and NU. MT omits “three”\f* men seek you.
\v 20 But arise, get down, and go with them, doubting nothing; for I have sent them.”
\p
\v 21 Peter went down to the men, and said, “Behold, I am he whom you seek. Why have you come?”
\p
\v 22 They said, “Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man and one who fears God, and well spoken of by all the nation of the Jews, was directed by a holy angel to invite you to his house, and to listen to what you say.”
\v 23 So he called them in and provided a place to stay. On the next day Peter arose and went out with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa accompanied him.
\v 24 On the next day they entered into Caesarea. Cornelius was waiting for them, having called together his relatives and his near friends.
\v 25 When Peter entered, Cornelius met him, fell down at his feet, and worshiped him.
\v 26 But Peter raised him up, saying, “Stand up! I myself am also a man.”
\v 27 As he talked with him, he went in and found many gathered together.
\v 28 He said to them, “You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn’t call any man unholy or unclean.
\v 29 Therefore I also came without complaint when I was sent for. I ask therefore, why did you send for me?”
\p
\v 30 Cornelius said, “Four days ago, I was fasting until this hour, and at the ninth hour,\f + \fr 10:30 \ft 3:00 p.m.\f* I prayed in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,
\v 31 and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your gifts to the needy are remembered in the sight of God.
\v 32 Send therefore to Joppa, and summon Simon, who is also called Peter. He is staying in the house of a tanner named Simon, by the seaside. When he comes, he will speak to you.’
\v 33 Therefore I sent to you at once, and it was good of you to come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God to hear all things that have been commanded you by God.”
\p
\v 34 Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism;
\v 35 but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.
\v 36 The word which he sent to the children of Israel, preaching good news of peace by Jesus Christ—he is Lord of all—
\v 37 you yourselves know what happened, which was proclaimed throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached;
\v 38 even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
\v 39 We are witnesses of everything he did both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they also\f + \fr 10:39 \ft TR omits “also”\f* killed, hanging him on a tree.
\v 40 God raised him up the third day, and gave him to be revealed,
\v 41 not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen before by God, to us, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.
\v 42 He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that this is he who is appointed by God as the Judge of the living and the dead.
\v 43 All the prophets testify about him, that through his name everyone who believes in him will receive remission of sins.”
\p
\v 44 While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all those who heard the word.
\v 45 They of the circumcision who believed were amazed, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was also poured out on the Gentiles.
\v 46 For they heard them speaking in other languages and magnifying God.
\p Then Peter answered,
\v 47 “Can anyone forbid these people from being baptized with water? They have received the Holy Spirit just like us.”
\v 48 He commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay some days.


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\v 1 Now the apostles and the brothers\f + \fr 11:1 \ft The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”\f* who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.
\v 2 When Peter had come up to Jerusalem, those who were of the circumcision contended with him,
\v 3 saying, “You went in to uncircumcised men, and ate with them!”
\p
\v 4 But Peter began, and explained to them in order, saying,
\v 5 “I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision: a certain container descending, like it was a great sheet let down from heaven by four corners. It came as far as me.
\v 6 When I had looked intently at it, I considered, and saw the four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky.
\v 7 I also heard a voice saying to me, \wj ‘Rise, Peter, kill and eat!’ \wj*
\v 8 But I said, ‘Not so, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.’
\v 9 But a voice answered me the second time out of heaven, \wj ‘What God has cleansed, don’t you call unclean.’\wj*
\v 10 This was done three times, and all were drawn up again into heaven.
\v 11 Behold, immediately three men stood before the house where I was, having been sent from Caesarea to me.
\v 12 The Spirit told me to go with them, without discriminating. These six brothers also accompanied me, and we entered into the man’s house.
\v 13 He told us how he had seen the angel standing in his house, and saying to him, ‘Send to Joppa, and get Simon, who is called Peter,
\v 14 who will speak to you words by which you will be saved, you and all your house.’
\v 15 As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, even as on us at the beginning.
\v 16 I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, \wj ‘John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit.’\wj*
\v 17 If then God gave to them the same gift as us, when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God?”
\p
\v 18 When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”
\p
\v 19 They therefore who were scattered abroad by the oppression that arose about Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except to Jews only.
\v 20 But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they had come to Antioch, spoke to the Hellenists,\f + \fr 11:20 \ft A Hellenist is someone who keeps Greek customs and culture.\f* preaching the Lord Jesus.
\v 21 The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord.
\v 22 The report concerning them came to the ears of the assembly which was in Jerusalem. They sent out Barnabas to go as far as Antioch,
\v 23 who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.
\v 24 For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, and many people were added to the Lord.
\p
\v 25 Barnabas went out to Tarsus to look for Saul.
\v 26 When he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they were gathered together with the assembly, and taught many people. The disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.
\p
\v 27 Now in these days, prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.
\v 28 One of them named Agabus stood up, and indicated by the Spirit that there should be a great famine all over the world, which also happened in the days of Claudius.
\v 29 As any of the disciples had plenty, each determined to send relief to the brothers who lived in Judea;
\v 30 which they also did, sending it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.


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\v 1 Now about that time, King Herod stretched out his hands to oppress some of the assembly.
\v 2 He killed James, the brother of John, with the sword.
\v 3 When he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. This was during the days of unleavened bread.
\v 4 When he had arrested him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four squads of four soldiers each to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover.
\v 5 Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.
\v 6 The same night when Herod was about to bring him out, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. Guards in front of the door kept the prison.
\p
\v 7 And behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side, and woke him up, saying, “Stand up quickly!” His chains fell off his hands.
\v 8 The angel said to him, “Get dressed and put on your sandals.” He did so. He said to him, “Put on your cloak and follow me.”
\v 9 And he went out and followed him. He didn’t know that what was being done by the angel was real, but thought he saw a vision.
\v 10 When they were past the first and the second guard, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened to them by itself. They went out, and went down one street, and immediately the angel departed from him.
\p
\v 11 When Peter had come to himself, he said, “Now I truly know that the Lord has sent out his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from everything the Jewish people were expecting.”
\v 12 Thinking about that, he came to the house of Mary, the mother of John who was called Mark, where many were gathered together and were praying.
\v 13 When Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer.
\v 14 When she recognized Peter’s voice, she didn’t open the gate for joy, but ran in, and reported that Peter was standing in front of the gate.
\p
\v 15 They said to her, “You are crazy!” But she insisted that it was so. They said, “It is his angel.”
\v 16 But Peter continued knocking. When they had opened, they saw him, and were amazed.
\v 17 But he, beckoning to them with his hand to be silent, declared to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. He said, “Tell these things to James and to the brothers.” Then he departed and went to another place.
\p
\v 18 Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers about what had become of Peter.
\v 19 When Herod had sought for him, and didn’t find him, he examined the guards, then commanded that they should be put to death. He went down from Judea to Caesarea, and stayed there.
\v 20 Now Herod was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon. They came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus, the king’s personal aide, their friend, they asked for peace, because their country depended on the king’s country for food.
\v 21 On an appointed day, Herod dressed himself in royal clothing, sat on the throne, and gave a speech to them.
\v 22 The people shouted, “The voice of a god, and not of a man!”
\v 23 Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn’t give God the glory. Then he was eaten by worms and died.
\p
\v 24 But the word of God grew and multiplied.
\v 25 Barnabas and Saul returned to\f + \fr 12:25 \ft TR reads “from” instead of “to”\f* Jerusalem when they had fulfilled their service, also taking with them John who was called Mark.


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\v 1 Now in the assembly that was at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
\v 2 As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them.”
\p
\v 3 Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.
\v 4 So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia. From there they sailed to Cyprus.
\v 5 When they were at Salamis, they proclaimed God’s word in the Jewish synagogues. They also had John as their attendant.
\v 6 When they had gone through the island to Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar Jesus,
\v 7 who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of understanding. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul, and sought to hear the word of God.
\v 8 But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith.
\v 9 But Saul, who is also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, fastened his eyes on him,
\v 10 and said, “You son of the devil, full of all deceit and all cunning, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
\v 11 Now, behold, the hand of the Lord is on you, and you will be blind, not seeing the sun for a season!”
\p Immediately a mist and darkness fell on him. He went around seeking someone to lead him by the hand.
\v 12 Then the proconsul, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord.
\p
\v 13 Now Paul and his company set sail from Paphos, and came to Perga in Pamphylia. John departed from them and returned to Jerusalem.
\v 14 But they, passing on from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia. They went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and sat down.
\v 15 After the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, “Brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, speak.”
\p
\v 16 Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, “Men of Israel, and you who fear God, listen.
\v 17 The God of this people\f + \fr 13:17 \ft TR, NU add “Israel”\f* chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they stayed as aliens in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm, he led them out of it.
\v 18 For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.
\v 19 When he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land for an inheritance for about four hundred fifty years.
\v 20 After these things, he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.
\v 21 Afterward they asked for a king, and God gave to them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.
\v 22 When he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he also testified, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’
\v 23 From this man’s offspring, God has brought salvation\f + \fr 13:23 \ft TR, NU read “a Savior, Jesus” instead of “salvation”\f* to Israel according to his promise,
\v 24 before his coming, when John had first preached the baptism of repentance to Israel.\f + \fr 13:24 \ft TR, NU read “to all the people of Israel” instead of “to Israel”\f*
\v 25 As John was fulfilling his course, he said, ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. But behold, one comes after me, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.’
\v 26 Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.
\v 27 For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they didn’t know him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.
\v 28 Though they found no cause for death, they still asked Pilate to have him killed.
\v 29 When they had fulfilled all things that were written about him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a tomb.
\v 30 But God raised him from the dead,
\v 31 and he was seen for many days by those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses to the people.
\v 32 We bring you good news of the promise made to the fathers,
\v 33 that God has fulfilled this to us, their children, in that he raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second psalm,
\q1 ‘You are my Son.
\q2 Today I have become your father.’\x + \xo 13:33 \xt Psalm 2:7\x*
\p
\v 34 “Concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he has spoken thus: ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.’\x + \xo 13:34 \xt Isaiah 55:3\x*
\v 35 Therefore he says also in another psalm, ‘You will not allow your Holy One to see decay.’\x + \xo 13:35 \xt Psalm 16:10\x*
\v 36 For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.
\v 37 But he whom God raised up saw no decay.
\v 38 Be it known to you therefore, brothers,\f + \fr 13:38 \ft The word for “brothers” here and where the context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”\f* that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins,
\v 39 and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
\v 40 Beware therefore, lest that come on you which is spoken in the prophets:
\q1
\v 41 ‘Behold, you scoffers, and wonder, and perish;
\q2 for I work a work in your days,
\q2 a work which you will in no way believe, if one declares it to you.’” \x + \xo 13:41 \xt Habakkuk 1:5\x*
\p
\v 42 So when the Jews went out of the synagogue, the Gentiles begged that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath.
\v 43 Now when the synagogue broke up, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas; who, speaking to them, urged them to continue in the grace of God.
\v 44 The next Sabbath, almost the whole city was gathered together to hear the word of God.
\v 45 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.
\p
\v 46 Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, “It was necessary that God’s word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from yourselves, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.
\v 47 For so has the Lord commanded us, saying,
\q1 ‘I have set you as a light for the Gentiles,
\q2 that you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.’” \x + \xo 13:47 \xt Isaiah 49:6\x*
\p
\v 48 As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.
\v 49 The Lord’s word was spread abroad throughout all the region.
\v 50 But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their borders.
\v 51 But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came to Iconium.
\v 52 The disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.


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\v 1 In Iconium, they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a great multitude both of Jews and of Greeks believed.
\v 2 But the disbelieving\f + \fr 14:2 \ft or, disobedient\f* Jews stirred up and embittered the souls of the Gentiles against the brothers.
\v 3 Therefore they stayed there a long time, speaking boldly in the Lord, who testified to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.
\v 4 But the multitude of the city was divided. Part sided with the Jews, and part with the apostles.
\v 5 When some of both the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them,
\v 6 they became aware of it and fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra, Derbe, and the surrounding region.
\v 7 There they preached the Good News.
\p
\v 8 At Lystra a certain man sat, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked.
\v 9 He was listening to Paul speaking, who, fastening eyes on him, and seeing that he had faith to be made whole,
\v 10 said with a loud voice, “Stand upright on your feet!” He leaped up and walked.
\v 11 When the multitude saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voice, saying in the language of Lycaonia, “The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men!”
\v 12 They called Barnabas “Jupiter”, and Paul “Mercury”, because he was the chief speaker.
\v 13 The priest of Jupiter, whose temple was in front of their city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, and would have made a sacrifice along with the multitudes.
\v 14 But when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of it, they tore their clothes, and sprang into the multitude, crying out,
\v 15 “Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;
\v 16 who in the generations gone by allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.
\v 17 Yet he didn’t leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you\f + \fr 14:17 \ft TR reads “us” instead of “you”\f* rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.”
\p
\v 18 Even saying these things, they hardly stopped the multitudes from making a sacrifice to them.
\v 19 But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.
\p
\v 20 But as the disciples stood around him, he rose up, and entered into the city. On the next day he went out with Barnabas to Derbe.
\v 21 When they had preached the Good News to that city, and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,
\v 22 strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.
\v 23 When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.
\p
\v 24 They passed through Pisidia, and came to Pamphylia.
\v 25 When they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia.
\v 26 From there they sailed to Antioch, from where they had been committed to the grace of God for the work which they had fulfilled.
\v 27 When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.
\v 28 They stayed there with the disciples for a long time.


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\v 1 Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers,\f + \fr 15:1 \ft The word for “brothers” here and where the context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”\f* “Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can’t be saved.”
\v 2 Therefore when Paul and Barnabas had no small discord and discussion with them, they appointed Paul and Barnabas, and some others of them, to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.
\v 3 They, being sent on their way by the assembly, passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles. They caused great joy to all the brothers.
\v 4 When they had come to Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly and the apostles and the elders, and they reported everything that God had done with them.
\p
\v 5 But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.”
\p
\v 6 The apostles and the elders were gathered together to see about this matter.
\v 7 When there had been much discussion, Peter rose up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that a good while ago God made a choice among you that by my mouth the nations should hear the word of the Good News and believe.
\v 8 God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.
\v 9 He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.
\v 10 Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
\v 11 But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, \f + \fr 15:11 \ft TR adds “Christ”\f* just as they are.”
\p
\v 12 All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the nations through them.
\v 13 After they were silent, James answered, “Brothers, listen to me.
\v 14 Simeon has reported how God first visited the nations to take out of them a people for his name.
\v 15 This agrees with the words of the prophets. As it is written,
\q1
\v 16 ‘After these things I will return.
\q1 I will again build the tabernacle of David, which has fallen.
\q1 I will again build its ruins.
\q1 I will set it up
\v 17 that the rest of men may seek after the Lord;
\q1 all the Gentiles who are called by my name,
\q1 says the Lord, who does all these things.’\x + \xo 15:17 \xt Amos 9:11-12\x*
\p
\v 18 “All of God’s works are known to him from eternity.
\v 19 Therefore my judgment is that we don’t trouble those from among the Gentiles who turn to God,
\v 20 but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.
\v 21 For Moses from generations of old has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”
\p
\v 22 Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole assembly, to choose men out of their company, and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brothers. \f + \fr 15:22 \ft The word for “brothers” here and where the context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”\f*
\v 23 They wrote these things by their hand:
\p “The apostles, the elders, and the brothers, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: greetings.
\v 24 Because we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, ‘You must be circumcised and keep the law,’ to whom we gave no commandment;
\v 25 it seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose out men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
\v 26 men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
\v 27 We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who themselves will also tell you the same things by word of mouth.
\v 28 For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay no greater burden on you than these necessary things:
\v 29 that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”
\p
\v 30 So, when they were sent off, they came to Antioch. Having gathered the multitude together, they delivered the letter.
\v 31 When they had read it, they rejoiced over the encouragement.
\v 32 Judas and Silas, also being prophets themselves, encouraged the brothers with many words and strengthened them.
\v 33 After they had spent some time there, they were sent back with greetings from the brothers to the apostles.
\v 34 \f + \fr 15:34 \ft Some manuscripts add: \fqa But it seemed good to Silas to stay there. \f*
\v 35 But Paul and Barnabas stayed in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.
\p
\v 36 After some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let’s return now and visit our brothers in every city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing.”
\v 37 Barnabas planned to take John, who was called Mark, with them also.
\v 38 But Paul didn’t think that it was a good idea to take with them someone who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia, and didn’t go with them to do the work.
\v 39 Then the contention grew so sharp that they separated from each other. Barnabas took Mark with him and sailed away to Cyprus,
\v 40 but Paul chose Silas and went out, being commended by the brothers to the grace of God.
\v 41 He went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the assemblies.


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\v 1 He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his father was a Greek.
\v 2 The brothers who were at Lystra and Iconium gave a good testimony about him.
\v 3 Paul wanted to have him go out with him, and he took and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those parts; for they all knew that his father was a Greek.
\v 4 As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered the decrees to them to keep which had been ordained by the apostles and elders who were at Jerusalem.
\v 5 So the assemblies were strengthened in the faith, and increased in number daily.
\p
\v 6 When they had gone through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.
\v 7 When they had come opposite Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit didn’t allow them.
\v 8 Passing by Mysia, they came down to Troas.
\v 9 A vision appeared to Paul in the night. There was a man of Macedonia standing, begging him, and saying, “Come over into Macedonia and help us.”
\v 10 When he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go out to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the Good News to them.
\v 11 Setting sail therefore from Troas, we made a straight course to Samothrace, and the day following to Neapolis;
\v 12 and from there to Philippi, which is a city of Macedonia, the foremost of the district, a Roman colony. We were staying some days in this city.
\p
\v 13 On the Sabbath day we went outside of the city by a riverside, where we supposed there was a place of prayer, and we sat down and spoke to the women who had come together.
\v 14 A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us. The Lord opened her heart to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul.
\v 15 When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay.” So she persuaded us.
\p
\v 16 As we were going to prayer, a certain girl having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by fortune telling.
\v 17 Following Paul and us, she cried out, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us a way of salvation!”
\v 18 She was doing this for many days.
\p But Paul, becoming greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!” It came out that very hour.
\v 19 But when her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas, and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers.
\v 20 When they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, “These men, being Jews, are agitating our city
\v 21 and advocate customs which it is not lawful for us to accept or to observe, being Romans.”
\p
\v 22 The multitude rose up together against them and the magistrates tore their clothes from them, then commanded them to be beaten with rods.
\v 23 When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely,
\v 24 who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.
\p
\v 25 But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.
\v 26 Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s bonds were loosened.
\v 27 The jailer, being roused out of sleep and seeing the prison doors open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.
\v 28 But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, “Don’t harm yourself, for we are all here!”
\p
\v 29 He called for lights, sprang in, fell down trembling before Paul and Silas,
\v 30 brought them out, and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”
\p
\v 31 They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
\v 32 They spoke the word of the Lord to him, and to all who were in his house.
\p
\v 33 He took them the same hour of the night and washed their stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all his household.
\v 34 He brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his household, having believed in God.
\p
\v 35 But when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, saying, “Let those men go.”
\p
\v 36 The jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, “The magistrates have sent to let you go; now therefore come out and go in peace.”
\p
\v 37 But Paul said to them, “They have beaten us publicly without a trial, men who are Romans, and have cast us into prison! Do they now release us secretly? No, most certainly, but let them come themselves and bring us out!”
\p
\v 38 The sergeants reported these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans,
\v 39 and they came and begged them. When they had brought them out, they asked them to depart from the city.
\v 40 They went out of the prison, and entered into Lydia’s house. When they had seen the brothers, they encouraged them, then departed.


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\v 1 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.
\v 2 Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
\v 3 explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.”
\p
\v 4 Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women.
\v 5 But the unpersuaded Jews took along\f + \fr 17:5 \ft TR reads “And the Jews who were unpersuaded, becoming envious and taking along” instead of “But the unpersuaded Jews took along”\f* some wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.
\v 6 When they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers \f + \fr 17:6 \ft The word for “brothers” here and where the context allows may be also correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”\f* before the rulers of the city, crying, “These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,
\v 7 whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!”
\v 8 The multitude and the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things.
\v 9 When they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.
\v 10 The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.
\p
\v 11 Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.
\v 12 Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men.
\v 13 But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Beroea also, they came there likewise, agitating the multitudes.
\v 14 Then the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to the sea, and Silas and Timothy still stayed there.
\v 15 But those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens. Receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him very quickly, they departed.
\p
\v 16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.
\v 17 So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him.
\v 18 Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also\f + \fr 17:18 \ft TR omits “also” \f* were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?”
\p Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.
\p
\v 19 They took hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is, which you are speaking about?
\v 20 For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean.”
\v 21 Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.
\p
\v 22 Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, “You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.
\v 23 For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription: ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ What therefore you worship in ignorance, I announce to you.
\v 24 The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands.
\v 25 He isn’t served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.
\v 26 He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,
\v 27 that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.
\v 28 ‘For in him we live, move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’
\v 29 Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man.
\v 30 The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,
\v 31 because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”
\p
\v 32 Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”
\p
\v 33 Thus Paul went out from among them.
\v 34 But certain men joined with him and believed, among whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.


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\v 1 After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth.
\v 2 He found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, who had recently come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome. He came to them,
\v 3 and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers.
\v 4 He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath and persuaded Jews and Greeks.
\v 5 But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.
\v 6 When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!”
\p
\v 7 He departed there, and went into the house of a certain man named Justus, one who worshiped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.
\v 8 Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized.
\v 9 The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, \wj “Don’t be afraid, but speak and don’t be silent; \wj*
\v 10 \wj for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many people in this city.”\wj*
\p
\v 11 He lived there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.
\v 12 But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat,
\v 13 saying, “This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law.”
\p
\v 14 But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If indeed it were a matter of wrong or of wicked crime, you Jews, it would be reasonable that I should bear with you;
\v 15 but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves. For I don’t want to be a judge of these matters.”
\v 16 So he drove them from the judgment seat.
\p
\v 17 Then all the Greeks seized Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. Gallio didn’t care about any of these things.
\p
\v 18 Paul, having stayed after this many more days, took his leave of the brothers, \f + \fr 18:18 \ft The word for “brothers” here and where the context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”\f* and sailed from there for Syria, together with Priscilla and Aquila. He shaved his head in Cenchreae, for he had a vow.
\v 19 He came to Ephesus, and he left them there; but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.
\v 20 When they asked him to stay with them a longer time, he declined;
\v 21 but taking his leave of them, he said, “I must by all means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem, but I will return again to you if God wills.” Then he set sail from Ephesus.
\p
\v 22 When he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the assembly, and went down to Antioch.
\v 23 Having spent some time there, he departed, and went through the region of Galatia, and Phrygia, in order, establishing all the disciples.
\v 24 Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus. He was mighty in the Scriptures.
\v 25 This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John.
\v 26 He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside, and explained to him the way of God more accurately.
\p
\v 27 When he had determined to pass over into Achaia, the brothers encouraged him, and wrote to the disciples to receive him. When he had come, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace;
\v 28 for he powerfully refuted the Jews, publicly showing by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.


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\v 1 While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having passed through the upper country, came to Ephesus and found certain disciples.
\v 2 He said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?”
\p They said to him, “No, we haven’t even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”
\p
\v 3 He said, “Into what then were you baptized?”
\p They said, “Into John’s baptism.”
\p
\v 4 Paul said, “John indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in the one who would come after him, that is, in Jesus.”
\p
\v 5 When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
\v 6 When Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them and they spoke with other languages and prophesied.
\v 7 They were about twelve men in all.
\v 8 He entered into the synagogue and spoke boldly for a period of three months, reasoning and persuading about the things concerning God’s Kingdom.
\p
\v 9 But when some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.
\v 10 This continued for two years, so that all those who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.
\p
\v 11 God worked special miracles by the hands of Paul,
\v 12 so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were carried away from his body to the sick, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out.
\v 13 But some of the itinerant Jews, exorcists, took on themselves to invoke over those who had the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, “We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches.”
\v 14 There were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did this.
\p
\v 15 The evil spirit answered, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are you?”
\v 16 The man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
\v 17 This became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who lived at Ephesus. Fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.
\v 18 Many also of those who had believed came, confessing, and declaring their deeds.
\v 19 Many of those who practiced magical arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. They counted their price, and found it to be fifty thousand pieces of silver.\f + \fr 19:19 \ft The 50,000 pieces of silver here probably referred to 50,000 drachmas. If so, the value of the burned books was equivalent to about 160 man-years of wages for agricultural laborers\f*
\v 20 So the word of the Lord was growing and becoming mighty.
\p
\v 21 Now after these things had ended, Paul determined in the Spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.”
\p
\v 22 Having sent into Macedonia two of those who served him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while.
\v 23 About that time there arose no small disturbance concerning the Way.
\v 24 For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to the craftsmen,
\v 25 whom he gathered together, with the workmen of like occupation, and said, “Sirs, you know that by this business we have our wealth.
\v 26 You see and hear that not at Ephesus alone, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are no gods that are made with hands.
\v 27 Not only is there danger that this our trade come into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be counted as nothing and her majesty destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worships.”
\p
\v 28 When they heard this they were filled with anger, and cried out, saying, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”
\v 29 The whole city was filled with confusion, and they rushed with one accord into the theater, having seized Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul’s companions in travel.
\v 30 When Paul wanted to enter in to the people, the disciples didn’t allow him.
\v 31 Certain also of the Asiarchs, being his friends, sent to him and begged him not to venture into the theater.
\v 32 Some therefore cried one thing, and some another, for the assembly was in confusion. Most of them didn’t know why they had come together.
\v 33 They brought Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. Alexander beckoned with his hand, and would have made a defense to the people.
\v 34 But when they perceived that he was a Jew, all with one voice for a time of about two hours cried out, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”
\p
\v 35 When the town clerk had quieted the multitude, he said, “You men of Ephesus, what man is there who doesn’t know that the city of the Ephesians is temple keeper of the great goddess Artemis, and of the image which fell down from Zeus?
\v 36 Seeing then that these things can’t be denied, you ought to be quiet and to do nothing rash.
\v 37 For you have brought these men here, who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of your goddess.
\v 38 If therefore Demetrius and the craftsmen who are with him have a matter against anyone, the courts are open, and there are proconsuls. Let them press charges against one another.
\v 39 But if you seek anything about other matters, it will be settled in the regular assembly.
\v 40 For indeed we are in danger of being accused concerning today’s riot, there being no cause. Concerning it, we wouldn’t be able to give an account of this commotion.”
\v 41 When he had thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly.


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\v 1 Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place.
\v 2 Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
\v 3 Tongues like fire appeared and were distributed to them, and one sat on each of them.
\v 4 They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.
\v 5 Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under the sky.
\v 6 When this sound was heard, the multitude came together and were bewildered, because everyone heard them speaking in his own language.
\v 7 They were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, “Behold, aren’t all these who speak Galileans?
\v 8 How do we hear, everyone in our own native language?
\v 9 Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and people from Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia,
\v 10 Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, the parts of Libya around Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,
\v 11 Cretans and Arabians: we hear them speaking in our languages the mighty works of God!”
\v 12 They were all amazed, and were perplexed, saying to one another, “What does this mean?”
\v 13 Others, mocking, said, “They are filled with new wine.”
\p
\v 14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and spoke out to them, “You men of Judea, and all you who dwell at Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to my words.
\v 15 For these aren’t drunken, as you suppose, seeing it is only the third hour of the day.\f + \fr 2:15 \ft about 9:00 a.m.\f*
\v 16 But this is what has been spoken through the prophet Joel:
\q1
\v 17 ‘It will be in the last days, says God,
\q2 that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh.
\q1 Your sons and your daughters will prophesy.
\q2 Your young men will see visions.
\q2 Your old men will dream dreams.
\q1
\v 18 Yes, and on my servants and on my handmaidens in those days,
\q2 I will pour out my Spirit, and they will prophesy.
\q1
\v 19 I will show wonders in the sky above,
\q2 and signs on the earth beneath:
\q2 blood, and fire, and billows of smoke.
\q1
\v 20 The sun will be turned into darkness,
\q2 and the moon into blood,
\q2 before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.
\q1
\v 21 It will be that whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.’\x + \xo 2:21 \xt Joel 2:28-32\x*
\p
\v 22 “Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him among you, even as you yourselves know,
\v 23 him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;
\v 24 whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.
\v 25 For David says concerning him,
\q1 ‘I saw the Lord always before my face,
\q2 for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved.
\q1
\v 26 Therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced.
\q2 Moreover my flesh also will dwell in hope;
\q1
\v 27 because you will not leave my soul in Hades,\f + \fr 2:27 \ft or, Hell\f*
\q2 neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.
\q1
\v 28 You made known to me the ways of life.
\q2 You will make me full of gladness with your presence.’\x + \xo 2:28 \xt Psalm 16:8-11 \x*
\p
\v 29 “Brothers, I may tell you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.
\v 30 Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, he would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne,
\v 31 he foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that his soul wasn’t left in Hades,\f + \fr 2:31 \ft or, Hell\f* and his flesh didn’t see decay.
\v 32 This Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses.
\v 33 Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this, which you now see and hear.
\v 34 For David didn’t ascend into the heavens, but he says himself,
\q1 ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit by my right hand
\q2
\v 35 until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.”’\x + \xo 2:35 \xt Psalm 110:1 \x*
\p
\v 36 “Let all the house of Israel therefore know certainly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”
\p
\v 37 Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”
\p
\v 38 Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
\v 39 For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”
\v 40 With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”
\p
\v 41 Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.
\v 42 They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.
\v 43 Fear came on every soul, and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles.
\v 44 All who believed were together, and had all things in common.
\v 45 They sold their possessions and goods, and distributed them to all, according as anyone had need.
\v 46 Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart,
\v 47 praising God, and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.


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\v 1 After the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, took leave of them, and departed to go into Macedonia.
\v 2 When he had gone through those parts, and had encouraged them with many words, he came into Greece.
\v 3 When he had spent three months there, and a plot was made against him by Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he determined to return through Macedonia.
\v 4 These accompanied him as far as Asia: Sopater of Beroea; Aristarchus and Secundus of the Thessalonians; Gaius of Derbe; Timothy; and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia.
\v 5 But these had gone ahead, and were waiting for us at Troas.
\v 6 We sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and came to them at Troas in five days, where we stayed seven days.
\p
\v 7 On the first day of the week, when the disciples were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and continued his speech until midnight.
\v 8 There were many lights in the upper room where we\f + \fr 20:8 \ft TR reads “they” instead of “we”\f* were gathered together.
\v 9 A certain young man named Eutychus sat in the window, weighed down with deep sleep. As Paul spoke still longer, being weighed down by his sleep, he fell down from the third floor and was taken up dead.
\v 10 Paul went down and fell upon him, and embracing him said, “Don’t be troubled, for his life is in him.”
\p
\v 11 When he had gone up, and had broken bread and eaten, and had talked with them a long while, even until break of day, he departed.
\v 12 They brought the boy in alive, and were greatly comforted.
\p
\v 13 But we, going ahead to the ship, set sail for Assos, intending to take Paul aboard there; for he had so arranged, intending himself to go by land.
\v 14 When he met us at Assos, we took him aboard, and came to Mitylene.
\v 15 Sailing from there, we came the following day opposite Chios. The next day we touched at Samos and stayed at Trogyllium, and the day after we came to Miletus.
\v 16 For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, that he might not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hastening, if it were possible for him, to be in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost.
\p
\v 17 From Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to himself the elders of the assembly.
\v 18 When they had come to him, he said to them, “You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you all the time,
\v 19 serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;
\v 20 how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,
\v 21 testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.\f + \fr 20:21 \ft TR adds “Christ”\f*
\v 22 Now, behold, I go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there;
\v 23 except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.
\v 24 But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.
\p
\v 25 “Now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I went about preaching God’s Kingdom, will see my face no more.
\v 26 Therefore I testify to you today that I am clean from the blood of all men,
\v 27 for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.
\v 28 Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and \f + \fr 20:28 \ft TR, NU omit “the Lord and”\f* God which he purchased with his own blood.
\v 29 For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
\v 30 Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
\v 31 Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.
\v 32 Now, brothers,\f + \fr 20:32 \ft The word for “brothers” here and where the context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” \f* I entrust you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.
\v 33 I coveted no one’s silver, gold, or clothing.
\v 34 You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, and those who were with me.
\v 35 In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, \wj ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’\wj*”
\p
\v 36 When he had spoken these things, he knelt down and prayed with them all.
\v 37 They all wept freely, and fell on Paul’s neck and kissed him,
\v 38 sorrowing most of all because of the word which he had spoken, that they should see his face no more. Then they accompanied him to the ship.


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\v 1 When we had departed from them and had set sail, we came with a straight course to Cos, and the next day to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.
\v 2 Having found a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, we went aboard, and set sail.
\v 3 When we had come in sight of Cyprus, leaving it on the left hand, we sailed to Syria and landed at Tyre, for the ship was there to unload her cargo.
\v 4 Having found disciples, we stayed there seven days. These said to Paul through the Spirit that he should not go up to Jerusalem.
\v 5 When those days were over, we departed and went on our journey. They all, with wives and children, brought us on our way until we were out of the city. Kneeling down on the beach, we prayed.
\v 6 After saying goodbye to each other, we went on board the ship, and they returned home again.
\p
\v 7 When we had finished the voyage from Tyre, we arrived at Ptolemais. We greeted the brothers and stayed with them one day.
\v 8 On the next day, we who were Paul’s companions departed, and came to Caesarea.
\p We entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him.
\v 9 Now this man had four virgin daughters who prophesied.
\v 10 As we stayed there some days, a certain prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.
\v 11 Coming to us and taking Paul’s belt, he bound his own feet and hands, and said, “The Holy Spirit says: ‘So the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt, and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’”
\p
\v 12 When we heard these things, both we and the people of that place begged him not to go up to Jerusalem.
\v 13 Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”
\p
\v 14 When he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, “The Lord’s will be done.”
\p
\v 15 After these days we took up our baggage and went up to Jerusalem.
\v 16 Some of the disciples from Caesarea also went with us, bringing one Mnason of Cyprus, an early disciple, with whom we would stay.
\p
\v 17 When we had come to Jerusalem, the brothers received us gladly.
\v 18 The day following, Paul went in with us to James; and all the elders were present.
\v 19 When he had greeted them, he reported one by one the things which God had worked among the Gentiles through his ministry.
\v 20 They, when they heard it, glorified God. They said to him, “You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law.
\v 21 They have been informed about you, that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children and not to walk after the customs.
\v 22 What then? The assembly must certainly meet, for they will hear that you have come.
\v 23 Therefore do what we tell you. We have four men who have taken a vow.
\v 24 Take them and purify yourself with them, and pay their expenses for them, that they may shave their heads. Then all will know that there is no truth in the things that they have been informed about you, but that you yourself also walk keeping the law.
\v 25 But concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written our decision that they should observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from food offered to idols, from blood, from strangled things, and from sexual immorality.”
\p
\v 26 Then Paul took the men, and the next day purified himself and went with them into the temple, declaring the fulfillment of the days of purification, until the offering was offered for every one of them.
\v 27 When the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the multitude and laid hands on him,
\v 28 crying out, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place. Moreover, he also brought Greeks into the temple, and has defiled this holy place!”
\v 29 For they had seen Trophimus, the Ephesian, with him in the city, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.
\p
\v 30 All the city was moved and the people ran together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple. Immediately the doors were shut.
\v 31 As they were trying to kill him, news came up to the commanding officer of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.
\v 32 Immediately he took soldiers and centurions and ran down to them. They, when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, stopped beating Paul.
\v 33 Then the commanding officer came near, arrested him, commanded him to be bound with two chains, and inquired who he was and what he had done.
\v 34 Some shouted one thing, and some another, among the crowd. When he couldn’t find out the truth because of the noise, he commanded him to be brought into the barracks.
\p
\v 35 When he came to the stairs, he was carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the crowd;
\v 36 for the multitude of the people followed after, crying out, “Away with him!”
\v 37 As Paul was about to be brought into the barracks, he asked the commanding officer, “May I speak to you?”
\p He said, “Do you know Greek?
\v 38 Aren’t you then the Egyptian, who before these days stirred up to sedition and led out into the wilderness the four thousand men of the Assassins?”
\p
\v 39 But Paul said, “I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city. I beg you, allow me to speak to the people.”
\p
\v 40 When he had given him permission, Paul, standing on the stairs, beckoned with his hand to the people. When there was a great silence, he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, saying,


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\v 1 “Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense which I now make to you.”
\p
\v 2 When they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, they were even more quiet. He said,
\v 3 “I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict tradition of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are today.
\v 4 I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
\v 5 As also the high priest and all the council of the elders testify, from whom also I received letters to the brothers, and traveled to Damascus to bring them also who were there to Jerusalem in bonds to be punished.
\v 6 As I made my journey, and came close to Damascus, about noon, suddenly a great light shone around me from the sky.
\v 7 I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me, \wj ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’\wj*
\v 8 I answered, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ He said to me, \wj ‘I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you persecute.’\wj*
\p
\v 9 “Those who were with me indeed saw the light and were afraid, but they didn’t understand the voice of him who spoke to me.
\v 10 I said, ‘What shall I do, Lord?’ The Lord said to me, \wj ‘Arise, and go into Damascus. There you will be told about all things which are appointed for you to do.’\wj*
\v 11 When I couldn’t see for the glory of that light, being led by the hand of those who were with me, I came into Damascus.
\v 12 One Ananias, a devout man according to the law, well reported of by all the Jews who lived in Damascus,
\v 13 came to me, and standing by me said to me, ‘Brother Saul, receive your sight!’ In that very hour I looked up at him.
\v 14 He said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.
\v 15 For you will be a witness for him to all men of what you have seen and heard.
\v 16 Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’
\p
\v 17 “When I had returned to Jerusalem, and while I prayed in the temple, I fell into a trance,
\v 18 and saw him saying to me, \wj ‘Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not receive testimony concerning me from you.’\wj*
\v 19 I said, ‘Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.
\v 20 When the blood of Stephen, your witness, was shed, I also was standing by, consenting to his death, and guarding the cloaks of those who killed him.’
\p
\v 21 “He said to me, \wj ‘Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.’\wj*”
\p
\v 22 They listened to him until he said that; then they lifted up their voice and said, “Rid the earth of this fellow, for he isn’t fit to live!”
\p
\v 23 As they cried out, threw off their cloaks, and threw dust into the air,
\v 24 the commanding officer commanded him to be brought into the barracks, ordering him to be examined by scourging, that he might know for what crime they shouted against him like that.
\v 25 When they had tied him up with thongs, Paul asked the centurion who stood by, “Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman, and not found guilty?”
\p
\v 26 When the centurion heard it, he went to the commanding officer and told him, “Watch what you are about to do, for this man is a Roman!”
\p
\v 27 The commanding officer came and asked him, “Tell me, are you a Roman?”
\p He said, “Yes.”
\p
\v 28 The commanding officer answered, “I bought my citizenship for a great price.”
\p Paul said, “But I was born a Roman.”
\p
\v 29 Immediately those who were about to examine him departed from him, and the commanding officer also was afraid when he realized that he was a Roman, because he had bound him.
\v 30 But on the next day, desiring to know the truth about why he was accused by the Jews, he freed him from the bonds, and commanded the chief priests and all the council to come together, and brought Paul down and set him before them.


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\v 1 Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, “Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until today.”
\p
\v 2 The high priest, Ananias, commanded those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth.
\p
\v 3 Then Paul said to him, “God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! Do you sit to judge me according to the law, and command me to be struck contrary to the law?”
\p
\v 4 Those who stood by said, “Do you malign God’s high priest?”
\p
\v 5 Paul said, “I didn’t know, brothers, that he was high priest. For it is written, ‘You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.’”\x + \xo 23:5 \xt Exodus 22:28\x*
\v 6 But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!”
\p
\v 7 When he had said this, an argument arose between the Pharisees and Sadducees, and the crowd was divided.
\v 8 For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess all of these.
\v 9 A great clamor arose, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees’ part stood up, and contended, saying, “We find no evil in this man. But if a spirit or angel has spoken to him, let’s not fight against God!”
\p
\v 10 When a great argument arose, the commanding officer, fearing that Paul would be torn in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them, and bring him into the barracks.
\p
\v 11 The following night, the Lord stood by him and said, \wj “Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome.”\wj*
\p
\v 12 When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.
\v 13 There were more than forty people who had made this conspiracy.
\v 14 They came to the chief priests and the elders, and said, “We have bound ourselves under a great curse to taste nothing until we have killed Paul.
\v 15 Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near.”
\p
\v 16 But Paul’s sister’s son heard they were lying in wait, and he came and entered into the barracks and told Paul.
\v 17 Paul summoned one of the centurions, and said, “Bring this young man to the commanding officer, for he has something to tell him.”
\p
\v 18 So he took him, and brought him to the commanding officer, and said, “Paul, the prisoner, summoned me and asked me to bring this young man to you. He has something to tell you.”
\p
\v 19 The commanding officer took him by the hand, and going aside, asked him privately, “What is it that you have to tell me?”
\p
\v 20 He said, “The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though intending to inquire somewhat more accurately concerning him.
\v 21 Therefore don’t yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse to neither eat nor drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you.”
\p
\v 22 So the commanding officer let the young man go, charging him, “Tell no one that you have revealed these things to me.”
\v 23 He called to himself two of the centurions, and said, “Prepare two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea, with seventy horsemen, and two hundred men armed with spears, at the third hour of the night.”\f + \fr 23:23 \ft about 9:00 p.m.\f*
\v 24 He asked them to provide animals, that they might set Paul on one, and bring him safely to Felix the governor.
\v 25 He wrote a letter like this:
\p
\v 26 “Claudius Lysias to the most excellent governor Felix: Greetings.
\p
\v 27 “This man was seized by the Jews, and was about to be killed by them, when I came with the soldiers and rescued him, having learned that he was a Roman.
\v 28 Desiring to know the cause why they accused him, I brought him down to their council.
\v 29 I found him to be accused about questions of their law, but not to be charged with anything worthy of death or of imprisonment.
\v 30 When I was told that the Jews lay in wait for the man, I sent him to you immediately, charging his accusers also to bring their accusations against him before you. Farewell.”
\p
\v 31 So the soldiers, carrying out their orders, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris.
\v 32 But on the next day they left the horsemen to go with him, and returned to the barracks.
\v 33 When they came to Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, they also presented Paul to him.
\v 34 When the governor had read it, he asked what province he was from. When he understood that he was from Cilicia, he said,
\v 35 “I will hear you fully when your accusers also arrive.” He commanded that he be kept in Herod’s palace.


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\v 1 After five days, the high priest, Ananias, came down with certain elders and an orator, one Tertullus. They informed the governor against Paul.
\v 2 When he was called, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, “Seeing that by you we enjoy much peace, and that prosperity is coming to this nation by your foresight,
\v 3 we accept it in all ways and in all places, most excellent Felix, with all thankfulness.
\v 4 But that I don’t delay you, I entreat you to bear with us and hear a few words.
\v 5 For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.
\v 6 He even tried to profane the temple, and we arrested him.\f + \fr 24:6 \ft TR adds “We wanted to judge him according to our law,”\f*
\v 7 \f + \fr 24:7 \ft TR adds “but the commanding officer, Lysias, came by and with great violence took him out of our hands,”\f*
\v 8 \f + \fr 24:8 \ft TR adds “commanding his accusers to come to you.”\f*By examining him yourself you may ascertain all these things of which we accuse him.”
\p
\v 9 The Jews also joined in the attack, affirming that these things were so.
\v 10 When the governor had beckoned to him to speak, Paul answered, “Because I know that you have been a judge of this nation for many years, I cheerfully make my defense,
\v 11 seeing that you can verify that it is not more than twelve days since I went up to worship at Jerusalem.
\v 12 In the temple they didn’t find me disputing with anyone or stirring up a crowd, either in the synagogues, or in the city.
\v 13 Nor can they prove to you the things of which they now accuse me.
\v 14 But this I confess to you, that after the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;
\v 15 having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
\v 16 In this I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.
\v 17 Now after some years, I came to bring gifts for the needy to my nation, and offerings;
\v 18 amid which certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, not with a mob, nor with turmoil.
\v 19 They ought to have been here before you, and to make accusation, if they had anything against me.
\v 20 Or else let these men themselves say what injustice they found in me when I stood before the council,
\v 21 unless it is for this one thing that I cried standing among them, ‘Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am being judged before you today!’”
\p
\v 22 But Felix, having more exact knowledge concerning the Way, deferred them, saying, “When Lysias, the commanding officer, comes down, I will decide your case.”
\v 23 He ordered the centurion that Paul should be kept in custody, and should have some privileges, and not to forbid any of his friends to serve him or to visit him.
\v 24 But after some days, Felix came with Drusilla, his wife, who was a Jewess, and sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ Jesus.
\v 25 As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”
\v 26 Meanwhile, he also hoped that money would be given to him by Paul, that he might release him. Therefore also he sent for him more often and talked with him.
\v 27 But when two years were fulfilled, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus, and desiring to gain favor with the Jews, Felix left Paul in bonds.


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\v 1 Festus therefore, having come into the province, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.
\v 2 Then the high priest and the principal men of the Jews informed him against Paul, and they begged him,
\v 3 asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.
\v 4 However Festus answered that Paul should be kept in custody at Caesarea, and that he himself was about to depart shortly.
\v 5 “Let them therefore”, he said, “that are in power among you go down with me, and if there is anything wrong in the man, let them accuse him.”
\p
\v 6 When he had stayed among them more than ten days, he went down to Caesarea, and on the next day he sat on the judgment seat, and commanded Paul to be brought.
\v 7 When he had come, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing against him many and grievous charges which they could not prove,
\v 8 while he said in his defense, “Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I sinned at all.”
\p
\v 9 But Festus, desiring to gain favor with the Jews, answered Paul and said, “Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem, and be judged by me there concerning these things?”
\p
\v 10 But Paul said, “I am standing before Caesar’s judgment seat, where I ought to be tried. I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you also know very well.
\v 11 For if I have done wrong and have committed anything worthy of death, I don’t refuse to die; but if none of those things is true that they accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!”
\p
\v 12 Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, “You have appealed to Caesar. To Caesar you shall go.”
\p
\v 13 Now when some days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived at Caesarea, and greeted Festus.
\v 14 As he stayed there many days, Festus laid Paul’s case before the king, saying, “There is a certain man left a prisoner by Felix;
\v 15 about whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, asking for a sentence against him.
\v 16 I answered them that it is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man to destruction before the accused has met the accusers face to face and has had opportunity to make his defense concerning the matter laid against him.
\v 17 When therefore they had come together here, I didn’t delay, but on the next day sat on the judgment seat and commanded the man to be brought.
\v 18 When the accusers stood up, they brought no charges against him of such things as I supposed;
\v 19 but had certain questions against him about their own religion, and about one Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.
\v 20 Being perplexed how to inquire concerning these things, I asked whether he was willing to go to Jerusalem and there be judged concerning these matters.
\v 21 But when Paul had appealed to be kept for the decision of the emperor, I commanded him to be kept until I could send him to Caesar.”
\p
\v 22 Agrippa said to Festus, “I also would like to hear the man myself.”
\p “Tomorrow,” he said, “you shall hear him.”
\p
\v 23 So on the next day, when Agrippa and Bernice had come with great pomp, and they had entered into the place of hearing with the commanding officers and the principal men of the city, at the command of Festus, Paul was brought in.
\v 24 Festus said, “King Agrippa, and all men who are here present with us, you see this man about whom all the multitude of the Jews petitioned me, both at Jerusalem and here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.
\v 25 But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and as he himself appealed to the emperor I determined to send him,
\v 26 of whom I have no certain thing to write to my lord. Therefore I have brought him out before you, and especially before you, King Agrippa, that, after examination, I may have something to write.
\v 27 For it seems to me unreasonable, in sending a prisoner, not to also specify the charges against him.”


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\v 1 Agrippa said to Paul, “You may speak for yourself.”
\p Then Paul stretched out his hand, and made his defense.
\v 2 “I think myself happy, King Agrippa, that I am to make my defense before you today concerning all the things that I am accused by the Jews,
\v 3 especially because you are expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews. Therefore I beg you to hear me patiently.
\p
\v 4 “Indeed, all the Jews know my way of life from my youth up, which was from the beginning among my own nation and at Jerusalem;
\v 5 having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
\v 6 Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,
\v 7 which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and day, hope to attain. Concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa!
\v 8 Why is it judged incredible with you, if God does raise the dead?
\p
\v 9 “I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
\v 10 I also did this in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.
\v 11 Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.
\p
\v 12 “Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests,
\v 13 at noon, O king, I saw on the way a light from the sky, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who traveled with me.
\v 14 When we had all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, \wj ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’\wj*
\p
\v 15 “I said, ‘Who are you, Lord?’
\p “He said, \wj ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. \wj*
\v 16 \wj But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a servant and a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which I will reveal to you; \wj*
\v 17 \wj delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you, \wj*
\v 18 \wj to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’\wj*
\p
\v 19 “Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,
\v 20 but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.
\v 21 For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple and tried to kill me.
\v 22 Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would happen,
\v 23 how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles.”
\p
\v 24 As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!”
\p
\v 25 But he said, “I am not crazy, most excellent Festus, but boldly declare words of truth and reasonableness.
\v 26 For the king knows of these things, to whom also I speak freely. For I am persuaded that none of these things is hidden from him, for this has not been done in a corner.
\v 27 King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you believe.”
\p
\v 28 Agrippa said to Paul, “With a little persuasion are you trying to make me a Christian?”
\p
\v 29 Paul said, “I pray to God, that whether with little or with much, not only you, but also all that hear me today, might become such as I am, except for these bonds.”
\p
\v 30 The king rose up with the governor, and Bernice, and those who sat with them.
\v 31 When they had withdrawn, they spoke to one another, saying, “This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds.”
\v 32 Agrippa said to Festus, “This man might have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar.”


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\v 1 When it was determined that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan band.
\v 2 Embarking in a ship of Adramyttium, which was about to sail to places on the coast of Asia, we put to sea, Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us.
\v 3 The next day, we touched at Sidon. Julius treated Paul kindly, and gave him permission to go to his friends and refresh himself.
\v 4 Putting to sea from there, we sailed under the lee of Cyprus, because the winds were contrary.
\v 5 When we had sailed across the sea which is off Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, a city of Lycia.
\v 6 There the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing for Italy, and he put us on board.
\v 7 When we had sailed slowly many days, and had come with difficulty opposite Cnidus, the wind not allowing us further, we sailed under the lee of Crete, opposite Salmone.
\v 8 With difficulty sailing along it we came to a certain place called Fair Havens, near the city of Lasea.
\p
\v 9 When much time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous, because the Fast had now already gone by, Paul admonished them
\v 10 and said to them, “Sirs, I perceive that the voyage will be with injury and much loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives.”
\v 11 But the centurion gave more heed to the master and to the owner of the ship than to those things which were spoken by Paul.
\v 12 Because the haven was not suitable to winter in, the majority advised going to sea from there, if by any means they could reach Phoenix, and winter there, which is a port of Crete, looking southwest and northwest.
\p
\v 13 When the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, they weighed anchor and sailed along Crete, close to shore.
\v 14 But before long, a stormy wind beat down from shore, which is called Euroclydon. \f + \fr 27:14 \ft Or, “a northeaster”.\f*
\v 15 When the ship was caught and couldn’t face the wind, we gave way to it and were driven along.
\v 16 Running under the lee of a small island called Clauda, we were able, with difficulty, to secure the boat.
\v 17 After they had hoisted it up, they used cables to help reinforce the ship. Fearing that they would run aground on the Syrtis sand bars, they lowered the sea anchor, and so were driven along.
\v 18 As we labored exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw things overboard.
\v 19 On the third day, they threw out the ship’s tackle with their own hands.
\v 20 When neither sun nor stars shone on us for many days, and no small storm pressed on us, all hope that we would be saved was now taken away.
\p
\v 21 When they had been long without food, Paul stood up in the middle of them, and said, “Sirs, you should have listened to me, and not have set sail from Crete and have gotten this injury and loss.
\v 22 Now I exhort you to cheer up, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.
\v 23 For there stood by me this night an angel, belonging to the God whose I am and whom I serve,
\v 24 saying, ‘Don’t be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar. Behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.’
\v 25 Therefore, sirs, cheer up! For I believe God, that it will be just as it has been spoken to me.
\v 26 But we must run aground on a certain island.”
\p
\v 27 But when the fourteenth night had come, as we were driven back and forth in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors surmised that they were drawing near to some land.
\v 28 They took soundings, and found twenty fathoms.\f + \fr 27:28 \ft 20 fathoms = 120 feet = 36.6 meters\f* After a little while, they took soundings again, and found fifteen fathoms.\f + \fr 27:28 \ft 15 fathoms = 90 feet = 27.4 meters\f*
\v 29 Fearing that we would run aground on rocky ground, they let go four anchors from the stern, and wished for daylight.
\v 30 As the sailors were trying to flee out of the ship, and had lowered the boat into the sea, pretending that they would lay out anchors from the bow,
\v 31 Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, “Unless these stay in the ship, you can’t be saved.”
\v 32 Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat, and let it fall off.
\p
\v 33 While the day was coming on, Paul begged them all to take some food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day that you wait and continue fasting, having taken nothing.
\v 34 Therefore I beg you to take some food; for this is for your safety; for not a hair will perish from any of your heads.”
\v 35 When he had said this, and had taken bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all, then he broke it and began to eat.
\v 36 Then they all cheered up, and they also took food.
\v 37 In all, we were two hundred seventy-six souls on the ship.
\v 38 When they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.
\v 39 When it was day, they didn’t recognize the land, but they noticed a certain bay with a beach, and they decided to try to drive the ship onto it.
\v 40 Casting off the anchors, they left them in the sea, at the same time untying the rudder ropes. Hoisting up the foresail to the wind, they made for the beach.
\v 41 But coming to a place where two seas met, they ran the vessel aground. The bow struck and remained immovable, but the stern began to break up by the violence of the waves.
\p
\v 42 The soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim out and escape.
\v 43 But the centurion, desiring to save Paul, stopped them from their purpose, and commanded that those who could swim should throw themselves overboard first to go toward the land;
\v 44 and the rest should follow, some on planks, and some on other things from the ship. So they all escaped safely to the land.


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\v 1 When we had escaped, then they\f + \fr 28:1 \ft NU reads “we”\f* learned that the island was called Malta.
\v 2 The natives showed us uncommon kindness; for they kindled a fire and received us all, because of the present rain and because of the cold.
\v 3 But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat, and fastened on his hand.
\v 4 When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped from the sea, yet Justice has not allowed to live.”
\v 5 However he shook off the creature into the fire, and wasn’t harmed.
\v 6 But they expected that he would have swollen or fallen down dead suddenly, but when they watched for a long time and saw nothing bad happen to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.
\p
\v 7 Now in the neighborhood of that place were lands belonging to the chief man of the island, named Publius, who received us, and courteously entertained us for three days.
\v 8 The father of Publius lay sick of fever and dysentery. Paul entered in to him, prayed, and laying his hands on him, healed him.
\v 9 Then when this was done, the rest also who had diseases in the island came and were cured.
\v 10 They also honored us with many honors, and when we sailed, they put on board the things that we needed.
\p
\v 11 After three months, we set sail in a ship of Alexandria which had wintered in the island, whose sign was “The Twin Brothers.”
\v 12 Touching at Syracuse, we stayed there three days.
\v 13 From there we circled around and arrived at Rhegium. After one day, a south wind sprang up, and on the second day we came to Puteoli,
\v 14 where we found brothers,\f + \fr 28:14 \ft The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”\f* and were entreated to stay with them for seven days. So we came to Rome.
\v 15 From there the brothers, when they heard of us, came to meet us as far as The Market of Appius and The Three Taverns. When Paul saw them, he thanked God and took courage.
\v 16 When we entered into Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard, but Paul was allowed to stay by himself with the soldier who guarded him.
\p
\v 17 After three days Paul called together those who were the leaders of the Jews. When they had come together, he said to them, “I, brothers, though I had done nothing against the people or the customs of our fathers, still was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,
\v 18 who, when they had examined me, desired to set me free, because there was no cause of death in me.
\v 19 But when the Jews spoke against it, I was constrained to appeal to Caesar, not that I had anything about which to accuse my nation.
\v 20 For this cause therefore I asked to see you and to speak with you. For because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.”
\p
\v 21 They said to him, “We neither received letters from Judea concerning you, nor did any of the brothers come here and report or speak any evil of you.
\v 22 But we desire to hear from you what you think. For, as concerning this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against.”
\p
\v 23 When they had appointed him a day, many people came to him at his lodging. He explained to them, testifying about God’s Kingdom, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning until evening.
\v 24 Some believed the things which were spoken, and some disbelieved.
\v 25 When they didn’t agree among themselves, they departed after Paul had spoken one word, “The Holy Spirit spoke rightly through Isaiah the prophet to our fathers,
\v 26 saying,
\q1 ‘Go to this people and say,
\q1 in hearing, you will hear,
\q2 but will in no way understand.
\q1 In seeing, you will see,
\q2 but will in no way perceive.
\q1
\v 27 For this people’s heart has grown callous.
\q2 Their ears are dull of hearing.
\q2 Their eyes they have closed.
\q1 Lest they should see with their eyes,
\q2 hear with their ears,
\q2 understand with their heart,
\q2 and would turn again,
\q2 then I would heal them.’\x + \xo 28:27 \xt Isaiah 6:9-10\x*
\p
\v 28 “Be it known therefore to you, that the salvation of God is sent to the nations, and they will listen.”
\p
\v 29 When he had said these words, the Jews departed, having a great dispute among themselves.\f + \fr 28:29 \ft NU omits verse 29.\f*
\p
\v 30 Paul stayed two whole years in his own rented house and received all who were coming to him,
\v 31 preaching God’s Kingdom, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, without hindrance.


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\v 1 Peter and John were going up into the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.\f + \fr 3:1 \ft 3:00 p.m.\f*
\v 2 A certain man who was lame from his mother’s womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the temple.
\v 3 Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked to receive gifts for the needy.
\v 4 Peter, fastening his eyes on him, with John, said, “Look at us.”
\v 5 He listened to them, expecting to receive something from them.
\v 6 But Peter said, “I have no silver or gold, but what I have, that I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!”
\v 7 He took him by the right hand and raised him up. Immediately his feet and his ankle bones received strength.
\v 8 Leaping up, he stood and began to walk. He entered with them into the temple, walking, leaping, and praising God.
\v 9 All the people saw him walking and praising God.
\v 10 They recognized him, that it was he who used to sit begging for gifts for the needy at the Beautiful Gate of the temple. They were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.
\v 11 As the lame man who was healed held on to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the porch that is called Solomon’s, greatly wondering.
\p
\v 12 When Peter saw it, he responded to the people, “You men of Israel, why do you marvel at this man? Why do you fasten your eyes on us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him walk?
\v 13 The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to release him.
\v 14 But you denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,
\v 15 and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.
\v 16 By faith in his name, his name has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which is through him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
\p
\v 17 “Now, brothers,\f + \fr 3:17 \ft The word for “brothers” here may be also correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”\f* I know that you did this in ignorance, as did also your rulers.
\v 18 But the things which God announced by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.
\p
\v 19 “Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,
\v 20 and that he may send Christ Jesus, who was ordained for you before,
\v 21 whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God spoke long ago by the mouth of his holy prophets.
\v 22 For Moses indeed said to the fathers, ‘The Lord God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him in all things whatever he says to you.
\v 23 It will be that every soul that will not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.’\x + \xo 3:23 \xt Deuteronomy 18:15,18-19 \x*
\v 24 Yes, and all the prophets from Samuel and those who followed after, as many as have spoken, they also told of these days.
\v 25 You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘All the families of the earth will be blessed through your offspring.’\f + \fr 3:25 \ft or, seed\f*\x + \xo 3:25 \xt Genesis 22:18; 26:4\x*
\v 26 God, having raised up his servant Jesus, sent him to you first to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your wickedness.”


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\v 1 As they spoke to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came to them,
\v 2 being upset because they taught the people and proclaimed in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
\v 3 They laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day, for it was now evening.
\v 4 But many of those who heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.
\p
\v 5 In the morning, their rulers, elders, and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem.
\v 6 Annas the high priest was there, with Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and as many as were relatives of the high priest.
\v 7 When they had stood Peter and John in the middle of them, they inquired, “By what power, or in what name, have you done this?”
\p
\v 8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “You rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,
\v 9 if we are examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed,
\v 10 may it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, this man stands here before you whole in him.
\v 11 He is ‘the stone which was regarded as worthless by you, the builders, which has become the head of the corner.’\x + \xo 4:11 \xt Psalm 118:22\x*
\v 12 There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”
\p
\v 13 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and had perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled. They recognized that they had been with Jesus.
\v 14 Seeing the man who was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.
\v 15 But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves,
\v 16 saying, “What shall we do to these men? Because indeed a notable miracle has been done through them, as can be plainly seen by all who dwell in Jerusalem, and we can’t deny it.
\v 17 But so that this spreads no further among the people, let’s threaten them, that from now on they don’t speak to anyone in this name.”
\v 18 They called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.
\p
\v 19 But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves,
\v 20 for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard.”
\p
\v 21 When they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way to punish them, because of the people; for everyone glorified God for that which was done.
\v 22 For the man on whom this miracle of healing was performed was more than forty years old.
\p
\v 23 Being let go, they came to their own company and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.
\v 24 When they heard it, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, “O Lord, you are God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;
\v 25 who by the mouth of your servant, David, said,
\q1 ‘Why do the nations rage,
\q2 and the peoples plot a vain thing?
\q1
\v 26 The kings of the earth take a stand,
\q2 and the rulers take council together,
\q2 against the Lord, and against his Christ.’\f + \fr 4:26 \ft Christ (Greek) and Messiah (Hebrew) both mean Anointed One.\f*\x + \xo 4:26 \xt Psalm 2:1-2\x*
\p
\v 27 “For truly,\f + \fr 4:27 \ft nu adds “in this city,”\f* both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed,
\v 28 to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.
\v 29 Now, Lord, look at their threats, and grant to your servants to speak your word with all boldness,
\v 30 while you stretch out your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy Servant Jesus.”
\p
\v 31 When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were gathered together. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.
\v 32 The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.
\v 33 With great power, the apostles gave their testimony of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. Great grace was on them all.
\v 34 For neither was there among them any who lacked, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of the things that were sold,
\v 35 and laid them at the apostles’ feet, and distribution was made to each, according as anyone had need.
\v 36 Joses, who by the apostles was also called Barnabas (which is, being interpreted, Son of Encouragement), a Levite, a man of Cyprus by race,
\v 37 having a field, sold it and brought the money and laid it at the apostles’ feet.


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\v 1 But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira, his wife, sold a possession,
\v 2 and kept back part of the price, his wife also being aware of it, then brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles’ feet.
\v 3 But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back part of the price of the land?
\v 4 While you kept it, didn’t it remain your own? After it was sold, wasn’t it in your power? How is it that you have conceived this thing in your heart? You haven’t lied to men, but to God.”
\p
\v 5 Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and died. Great fear came on all who heard these things.
\v 6 The young men arose and wrapped him up, and they carried him out and buried him.
\v 7 About three hours later, his wife, not knowing what had happened, came in.
\v 8 Peter answered her, “Tell me whether you sold the land for so much.”
\p She said, “Yes, for so much.”
\p
\v 9 But Peter asked her, “How is it that you have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.”
\p
\v 10 She fell down immediately at his feet and died. The young men came in and found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her by her husband.
\v 11 Great fear came on the whole assembly, and on all who heard these things.
\v 12 By the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were done among the people. They were all with one accord in Solomon’s porch.
\v 13 None of the rest dared to join them, however the people honored them.
\v 14 More believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women.
\v 15 They even carried out the sick into the streets, and laid them on cots and mattresses, so that as Peter came by, at the least his shadow might overshadow some of them.
\v 16 The multitude also came together from the cities around Jerusalem, bringing sick people and those who were tormented by unclean spirits: and they were all healed.
\p
\v 17 But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy
\v 18 and laid hands on the apostles, then put them in public custody.
\v 19 But an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors by night, and brought them out and said,
\v 20 “Go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.”
\p
\v 21 When they heard this, they entered into the temple about daybreak and taught. But the high priest came, and those who were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.
\v 22 But the officers who came didn’t find them in the prison. They returned and reported,
\v 23 “We found the prison shut and locked, and the guards standing before the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside!”
\p
\v 24 Now when the high priest, the captain of the temple, and the chief priests heard these words, they were very perplexed about them and what might become of this.
\v 25 One came and told them, “Behold, the men whom you put in prison are in the temple, standing and teaching the people.”
\v 26 Then the captain went with the officers, and brought them without violence, for they were afraid that the people might stone them.
\p
\v 27 When they had brought them, they set them before the council. The high priest questioned them,
\v 28 saying, “Didn’t we strictly command you not to teach in this name? Behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man’s blood on us.”
\p
\v 29 But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
\v 30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed, hanging him on a tree.
\v 31 God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.
\v 32 We are his witnesses of these things; and so also is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”
\p
\v 33 But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and were determined to kill them.
\v 34 But one stood up in the council, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, honored by all the people, and commanded to put the apostles out for a little while.
\v 35 He said to them, “You men of Israel, be careful concerning these men, what you are about to do.
\v 36 For before these days Theudas rose up, making himself out to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves. He was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were dispersed, and came to nothing.
\v 37 After this man, Judas of Galilee rose up in the days of the enrollment, and drew away some people after him. He also perished, and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered abroad.
\v 38 Now I tell you, withdraw from these men, and leave them alone. For if this counsel or this work is of men, it will be overthrown.
\v 39 But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God!”
\p
\v 40 They agreed with him. Summoning the apostles, they beat them and commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
\v 41 They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for Jesus’ name.
\p
\v 42 Every day, in the temple and at home, they never stopped teaching and preaching Jesus, the Christ.


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\v 1 Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists\f + \fr 6:1 \ft The Hellenists used Greek language and culture, even though they were also of Hebrew descent.\f* against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service.
\v 2 The twelve summoned the multitude of the disciples and said, “It is not appropriate for us to forsake the word of God and serve tables.
\v 3 Therefore select from among you, brothers, seven men of good report, full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.
\v 4 But we will continue steadfastly in prayer and in the ministry of the word.”
\p
\v 5 These words pleased the whole multitude. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch;
\v 6 whom they set before the apostles. When they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.
\v 7 The word of God increased and the number of the disciples greatly multiplied in Jerusalem. A great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.
\p
\v 8 Stephen, full of faith and power, performed great wonders and signs among the people.
\v 9 But some of those who were of the synagogue called “The Libertines”, and of the Cyrenians, of the Alexandrians, and of those of Cilicia and Asia arose, disputing with Stephen.
\v 10 They weren’t able to withstand the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spoke.
\v 11 Then they secretly induced men to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.”
\v 12 They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes, and came against him and seized him, then brought him in to the council,
\v 13 and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.
\v 14 For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place, and will change the customs which Moses delivered to us.”
\v 15 All who sat in the council, fastening their eyes on him, saw his face like it was the face of an angel.


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\v 1 The high priest said, “Are these things so?”
\p
\v 2 He said, “Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,
\v 3 and said to him, ‘Get out of your land and away from your relatives, and come into a land which I will show you.’\x + \xo 7:3 \xt Genesis 12:1\x*
\v 4 Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans and lived in Haran. From there, when his father was dead, God moved him into this land, where you are now living.
\v 5 He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his offspring after him, when he still had no child.
\v 6 God spoke in this way: that his offspring would live as aliens in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.
\v 7 ‘I will judge the nation to which they will be in bondage,’ said God, ‘and after that they will come out, and serve me in this place.’\x + \xo 7:7 \xt Genesis 15:13-14\x*
\v 8 He gave him the covenant of circumcision. So Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day. Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.
\p
\v 9 “The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with him,
\v 10 and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house.
\v 11 Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.
\v 12 But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers the first time.
\v 13 On the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph’s race was revealed to Pharaoh.
\v 14 Joseph sent and summoned Jacob, his father, and all his relatives, seventy-five souls.
\v 15 Jacob went down into Egypt and he died, himself and our fathers,
\v 16 and they were brought back to Shechem, and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in silver from the children of Hamor of Shechem.
\p
\v 17 “But as the time of the promise came close which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,
\v 18 until there arose a different king, who didn’t know Joseph.
\v 19 The same took advantage of our race, and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to throw out their babies, so that they wouldn’t stay alive.
\v 20 At that time Moses was born, and was exceedingly handsome. He was nourished three months in his father’s house.
\v 21 When he was thrown out, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up and reared him as her own son.
\v 22 Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He was mighty in his words and works.
\v 23 But when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers,\f + \fr 7:23 \ft The word for “brothers” here and where the context allows may be also correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”\f* the children of Israel.
\v 24 Seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him who was oppressed, striking the Egyptian.
\v 25 He supposed that his brothers understood that God, by his hand, was giving them deliverance; but they didn’t understand.
\p
\v 26 “The day following, he appeared to them as they fought, and urged them to be at peace again, saying, ‘Sirs, you are brothers. Why do you wrong one another?’
\v 27 But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?
\v 28 Do you want to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’\x + \xo 7:28 \xt Exodus 2:14\x*
\v 29 Moses fled at this saying, and became a stranger in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.
\p
\v 30 “When forty years were fulfilled, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.
\v 31 When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight. As he came close to see, a voice of the Lord came to him,
\v 32 ‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’\x + \xo 7:32 \xt Exodus 3:6\x* Moses trembled, and dared not look.
\v 33 The Lord said to him, ‘Take off your sandals, for the place where you stand is holy ground.
\v 34 I have surely seen the affliction of my people that is in Egypt, and have heard their groaning. I have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you into Egypt.’\x + \xo 7:34 \xt Exodus 3:5,7-8,10\x*
\p
\v 35 “This Moses, whom they refused, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’—God has sent him as both a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
\v 36 This man led them out, having worked wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.
\v 37 This is that Moses, who said to the children of Israel, ‘The Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me.’\f + \fr 7:37 \ft TR adds “You shall listen to him.”\f*\x + \xo 7:37 \xt Deuteronomy 18:15\x*
\v 38 This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living revelations to give to us,
\v 39 to whom our fathers wouldn’t be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,
\v 40 saying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods that will go before us, for as for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.’\x + \xo 7:40 \xt Exodus 32:1\x*
\v 41 They made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.
\v 42 But God turned, and gave them up to serve the army of the sky,\f + \fr 7:42 \ft This idiom could also be translated “host of heaven”, or “angelic beings”, or “heavenly bodies.”\f* as it is written in the book of the prophets,
\q1 ‘Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices
\q2 forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
\q1
\v 43 You took up the tabernacle of Moloch,
\q2 the star of your god Rephan,
\q1 the figures which you made to worship.
\q2 I will carry you away\x + \xo 7:43 \xt Amos 5:25-27\x* beyond Babylon.’
\p
\v 44 “Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, even as he who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern that he had seen;
\v 45 which also our fathers, in their turn, brought in with Joshua when they entered into the possession of the nations, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers, to the days of David,
\v 46 who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.
\v 47 But Solomon built him a house.
\v 48 However, the Most High doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says,
\q1
\v 49 ‘heaven is my throne,
\q2 and the earth a footstool for my feet.
\q1 What kind of house will you build me?’ says the Lord.
\q2 ‘Or what is the place of my rest?
\q1
\v 50 Didn’t my hand make all these things?’\x + \xo 7:50 \xt Isaiah 66:1-2\x*
\p
\v 51 “You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.
\v 52 Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.
\v 53 You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn’t keep it!”
\p
\v 54 Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.
\v 55 But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up steadfastly into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,
\v 56 and said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”
\p
\v 57 But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears, then rushed at him with one accord.
\v 58 They threw him out of the city and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
\v 59 They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”
\v 60 He kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, “Lord, don’t hold this sin against them!” When he had said this, he fell asleep.


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\v 1 Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles.
\v 2 Devout men buried Stephen and lamented greatly over him.
\v 3 But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house and dragged both men and women off to prison.
\v 4 Therefore those who were scattered abroad went around preaching the word.
\v 5 Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and proclaimed to them the Christ.
\v 6 The multitudes listened with one accord to the things that were spoken by Philip when they heard and saw the signs which he did.
\v 7 For unclean spirits came out of many of those who had them. They came out, crying with a loud voice. Many who had been paralyzed and lame were healed.
\v 8 There was great joy in that city.
\p
\v 9 But there was a certain man, Simon by name, who used to practice sorcery in the city and amazed the people of Samaria, making himself out to be some great one,
\v 10 to whom they all listened, from the least to the greatest, saying, “This man is that great power of God.”
\v 11 They listened to him, because for a long time he had amazed them with his sorceries.
\v 12 But when they believed Philip preaching good news concerning God’s Kingdom and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.
\v 13 Simon himself also believed. Being baptized, he continued with Philip. Seeing signs and great miracles occurring, he was amazed.
\p
\v 14 Now when the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them,
\v 15 who, when they had come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Spirit;
\v 16 for as yet he had fallen on none of them. They had only been baptized in the name of Christ Jesus.
\v 17 Then they laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.
\v 18 Now when Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money,
\v 19 saying, “Give me also this power, that whomever I lay my hands on may receive the Holy Spirit.”
\v 20 But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!
\v 21 You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart isn’t right before God.
\v 22 Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.
\v 23 For I see that you are in the poison of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity.”
\p
\v 24 Simon answered, “Pray for me to the Lord, that none of the things which you have spoken happen to me.”
\p
\v 25 They therefore, when they had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the Good News to many villages of the Samaritans.
\v 26 But an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, “Arise, and go toward the south to the way that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza. This is a desert.”
\p
\v 27 He arose and went; and behold, there was a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to Jerusalem to worship.
\v 28 He was returning and sitting in his chariot, and was reading the prophet Isaiah.
\p
\v 29 The Spirit said to Philip, “Go near, and join yourself to this chariot.”
\p
\v 30 Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?”
\p
\v 31 He said, “How can I, unless someone explains it to me?” He begged Philip to come up and sit with him.
\v 32 Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this,
\q1 “He was led as a sheep to the slaughter.
\q2 As a lamb before his shearer is silent,
\q2 so he doesn’t open his mouth.
\q1
\v 33 In his humiliation, his judgment was taken away.
\q2 Who will declare His generation?
\q2 For his life is taken from the earth.”\x + \xo 8:33 \xt Isaiah 53:7,8\x*
\p
\v 34 The eunuch answered Philip, “Who is the prophet talking about? About himself, or about someone else?”
\p
\v 35 Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached to him about Jesus.
\v 36 As they went on the way, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “Behold, here is water. What is keeping me from being baptized?”
\p
\v 37 \f + \fr 8:37 \ft TR adds \fqa Philip said, “If you believe with all your heart, you may.” He answered, “I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.”\f*
\v 38 He commanded the chariot to stand still, and they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.
\p
\v 39 When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, and the eunuch didn’t see him any more, for he went on his way rejoicing.
\v 40 But Philip was found at Azotus. Passing through, he preached the Good News to all the cities, until he came to Caesarea.


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\v 1 But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest
\v 2 and asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
\v 3 As he traveled, he got close to Damascus, and suddenly a light from the sky shone around him.
\v 4 He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, \wj “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”\wj*
\p
\v 5 He said, “Who are you, Lord?”
\p The Lord said, \wj “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.\wj*\f + \fr 9:5 \ft TR adds “It’s hard for you to kick against the cattle prods.”\f*
\v 6 \wj But\wj*\f + \fr 9:6 \ft TR omits “But” \f* \wj rise up and enter into the city, then you will be told what you must do.”\wj*
\p
\v 7 The men who traveled with him stood speechless, hearing the sound, but seeing no one.
\v 8 Saul arose from the ground, and when his eyes were opened, he saw no one. They led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus.
\v 9 He was without sight for three days, and neither ate nor drank.
\p
\v 10 Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus named Ananias. The Lord said to him in a vision, \wj “Ananias!”\wj*
\p He said, “Behold, it’s me, Lord.”
\p
\v 11 The Lord said to him, \wj “Arise, and go to the street which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judah\wj*\f + \fr 9:11 \ft or, Judas\f* \wj for one named Saul, a man of Tarsus. For behold, he is praying, \wj*
\v 12 \wj and in a vision he has seen a man named Ananias coming in and laying his hands on him, that he might receive his sight.”\wj*
\p
\v 13 But Ananias answered, “Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he did to your saints at Jerusalem.
\v 14 Here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on your name.”
\p
\v 15 But the Lord said to him, \wj “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel. \wj*
\v 16 \wj For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”\wj*
\p
\v 17 Ananias departed and entered into the house. Laying his hands on him, he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord, who appeared to you on the road by which you came, has sent me that you may receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”
\v 18 Immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he received his sight. He arose and was baptized.
\v 19 He took food and was strengthened. Saul stayed several days with the disciples who were at Damascus.
\v 20 Immediately in the synagogues he proclaimed the Christ, that he is the Son of God.
\v 21 All who heard him were amazed, and said, “Isn’t this he who in Jerusalem made havoc of those who called on this name? And he had come here intending to bring them bound before the chief priests!”
\p
\v 22 But Saul increased more in strength, and confounded the Jews who lived at Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.
\v 23 When many days were fulfilled, the Jews conspired together to kill him,
\v 24 but their plot became known to Saul. They watched the gates both day and night that they might kill him,
\v 25 but his disciples took him by night and let him down through the wall, lowering him in a basket.
\v 26 When Saul had come to Jerusalem, he tried to join himself to the disciples; but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple.
\v 27 But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles, and declared to them how he had seen the Lord on the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in the name of Jesus.
\v 28 He was with them entering into\f + \fr 9:28 \ft TR and NU add “and going out” \f* Jerusalem,
\v 29 preaching boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus.\f + \fr 9:29 \ft TR and NU omit “Jesus” and reverse the order of verses 28 & 29.\f* He spoke and disputed against the Hellenists,\f + \fr 9:29 \ft The Hellenists were Hebrews who used Greek language and culture.\f* but they were seeking to kill him.
\v 30 When the brothers\f + \fr 9:30 \ft The word for “brothers” here and where the context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” \f* knew it, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him off to Tarsus.
\v 31 So the assemblies throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace, and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.
\p
\v 32 As Peter went throughout all those parts, he came down also to the saints who lived at Lydda.
\v 33 There he found a certain man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden for eight years, because he was paralyzed.
\v 34 Peter said to him, “Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you. Get up and make your bed!” Immediately he arose.
\v 35 All who lived at Lydda and in Sharon saw him, and they turned to the Lord.
\p
\v 36 Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which when translated, means Dorcas.\f + \fr 9:36 \ft “Dorcas” is Greek for “Gazelle.”\f* This woman was full of good works and acts of mercy which she did.
\v 37 In those days, she became sick, and died. When they had washed her, they laid her in an upper room.
\v 38 As Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was there, sent two men\f + \fr 9:38 \ft Reading from NU, TR; MT omits “two men”\f* to him, imploring him not to delay in coming to them.
\v 39 Peter got up and went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper room. All the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.
\v 40 Peter sent them all out, and knelt down and prayed. Turning to the body, he said, “Tabitha, get up!” She opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up.
\v 41 He gave her his hand, and raised her up. Calling the saints and widows, he presented her alive.
\v 42 This became known throughout all Joppa, and many believed in the Lord.
\v 43 He stayed many days in Joppa with a tanner named Simon.


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\toc1 Paul’s Letter to the Romans
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\v 1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,
\v 2 which he promised before through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,
\v 3 concerning his Son, who was born of the offspring\f + \fr 1:3 \ft or, seed\f* of David according to the flesh,
\v 4 who was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,
\v 5 through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations for his name’s sake;
\v 6 among whom you are also called to belong to Jesus Christ;
\v 7 to all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
\p
\v 8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.
\v 9 For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,
\v 10 requesting, if by any means now at last I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.
\v 11 For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end that you may be established;
\v 12 that is, that I with you may be encouraged in you, each of us by the other’s faith, both yours and mine.
\p
\v 13 Now I don’t desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.
\v 14 I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the foolish.
\v 15 So as much as is in me, I am eager to preach the Good News to you also who are in Rome.
\v 16 For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.
\v 17 For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”\x + \xo 1:17 \xt Habakkuk 2:4\x*
\v 18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
\v 19 because that which is known of God is revealed in them, for God revealed it to them.
\v 20 For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity, that they may be without excuse.
\v 21 Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.
\p
\v 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
\v 23 and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, four-footed animals, and creeping things.
\v 24 Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves;
\v 25 who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
\p
\v 26 For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.
\v 27 Likewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men doing what is inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error.
\v 28 Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
\v 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,
\v 30 backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
\v 31 without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;
\v 32 who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.


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\v 1 Brothers, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved.
\v 2 For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
\v 3 For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
\v 4 For Christ is the fulfillment\f + \fr 10:4 \ft or, completion, or end\f* of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
\v 5 For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, “The one who does them will live by them.”\x + \xo 10:5 \xt Leviticus 18:5\x*
\v 6 But the righteousness which is of faith says this, “Don’t say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’\x + \xo 10:6 \xt Deuteronomy 30:12\x* (that is, to bring Christ down);
\v 7 or, ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’\x + \xo 10:7 \xt Deuteronomy 30:13\x* (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.)”
\v 8 But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth, and in your heart;”\x + \xo 10:8 \xt Deuteronomy 30:14\x* that is, the word of faith which we preach:
\v 9 that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
\v 10 For with the heart, one believes resulting in righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made resulting in salvation.
\v 11 For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed.”\x + \xo 10:11 \xt Isaiah 28:16\x*
\p
\v 12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him.
\v 13 For, “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.”\x + \xo 10:13 \xt Joel 2:32\x*
\v 14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher?
\v 15 And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written:
\q1 “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace,
\q2 who bring glad tidings of good things!”\x + \xo 10:15 \xt Isaiah 52:7\x*
\p
\v 16 But they didn’t all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?”\x + \xo 10:16 \xt Isaiah 53:1\x*
\v 17 So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
\v 18 But I say, didn’t they hear? Yes, most certainly,
\q1 “Their sound went out into all the earth,
\q2 their words to the ends of the world.”\x + \xo 10:18 \xt Psalm 19:4\x*
\p
\v 19 But I ask, didn’t Israel know? First Moses says,
\q1 “I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation.
\q2 I will make you angry with a nation void of understanding.”\x + \xo 10:19 \xt Deuteronomy 32:21\x*
\p
\v 20 Isaiah is very bold and says,
\q1 “I was found by those who didn’t seek me.
\q2 I was revealed to those who didn’t ask for me.”\x + \xo 10:20 \xt Isaiah 65:1\x*
\p
\v 21 But about Israel he says, “All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”\x + \xo 10:21 \xt Isaiah 65:2\x*


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\v 1 I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
\v 2 God didn’t reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:
\v 3 “Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have broken down your altars. I am left alone, and they seek my life.”\x + \xo 11:3 \xt 1 Kings 19:10,14\x*
\v 4 But how does God answer him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”\x + \xo 11:4 \xt 1 Kings 19:18\x*
\v 5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
\v 6 And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.
\p
\v 7 What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn’t obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.
\v 8 According as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day.” \x + \xo 11:8 \xt Deuteronomy 29:4; Isaiah 29:10\x*
\v 9 David says,
\q1 “Let their table be made a snare, a trap,
\q2 a stumbling block, and a retribution to them.
\q1
\v 10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see.
\q2 Always keep their backs bent.”\x + \xo 11:10 \xt Psalm 69:22,23\x*
\p
\v 11 I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be! But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.
\v 12 Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?
\v 13 For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;
\v 14 if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.
\v 15 For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead?
\v 16 If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.
\v 17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree,
\v 18 don’t boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you.
\v 19 You will say then, “Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.”
\v 20 True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don’t be conceited, but fear;
\v 21 for if God didn’t spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.
\v 22 See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.
\v 23 They also, if they don’t continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.
\v 24 For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
\p
\v 25 For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers,\f + \fr 11:25 \ft The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”\f* of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,
\v 26 and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written,
\q1 “There will come out of Zion the Deliverer,
\q2 and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.
\q1
\v 27 This is my covenant with them,
\q2 when I will take away their sins.”\x + \xo 11:27 \xt Isaiah 59:20-21; 27:9; Jeremiah 31:33-34\x*
\p
\v 28 Concerning the Good News, they are enemies for your sake. But concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sake.
\v 29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
\v 30 For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,
\v 31 even so these also have now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you they may also obtain mercy.
\v 32 For God has bound all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all.
\p
\v 33 Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!
\q1
\v 34 “For who has known the mind of the Lord?
\q2 Or who has been his counselor?”\x + \xo 11:34 \xt Isaiah 40:13\x*
\q1
\v 35 “Or who has first given to him,
\q2 and it will be repaid to him again?”\x + \xo 11:35 \xt Job 41:11\x*
\p
\v 36 For of him, and through him, and to him are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.


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\v 1 Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.
\v 2 Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
\p
\v 3 For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.
\v 4 For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don’t have the same function,
\v 5 so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another,
\v 6 having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us: if prophecy, let’s prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;
\v 7 or service, let’s give ourselves to service; or he who teaches, to his teaching;
\v 8 or he who exhorts, to his exhorting; he who gives, let him do it with generosity; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
\p
\v 9 Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.
\v 10 In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;
\v 11 not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
\v 12 rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;
\v 13 contributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality.
\v 14 Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don’t curse.
\v 15 Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.
\v 16 Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.
\v 17 Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men.
\v 18 If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.
\v 19 Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.” \x + \xo 12:19 \xt Deuteronomy 32:35\x*
\v 20 Therefore
\q1 “If your enemy is hungry, feed him.
\q2 If he is thirsty, give him a drink;
\q2 for in doing so, you will heap coals of fire on his head.”\x + \xo 12:20 \xt Proverbs 25:21-22\x*
\p
\v 21 Don’t be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.


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\v 1 Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.
\v 2 Therefore he who resists the authority withstands the ordinance of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment.
\v 3 For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Do you desire to have no fear of the authority? Do that which is good, and you will have praise from the authority,
\v 4 for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.
\v 5 Therefore you need to be in subjection, not only because of the wrath, but also for conscience’ sake.
\v 6 For this reason you also pay taxes, for they are servants of God’s service, continually doing this very thing.
\v 7 Therefore give everyone what you owe: if you owe taxes, pay taxes; if customs, then customs; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.
\p
\v 8 Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
\v 9 For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,”\f + \fr 13:9 \ft TR adds “You shall not give false testimony,”\f* “You shall not covet,” \x + \xo 13:9 \xt Exodus 20:13-15,17; Deuteronomy 5:17-19,21\x* and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”\x + \xo 13:9 \xt Leviticus 19:18\x*
\v 10 Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.
\p
\v 11 Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.
\v 12 The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let’s therefore throw off the deeds of darkness, and let’s put on the armor of light.
\v 13 Let’s walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.
\v 14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.


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\v 1 Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.
\v 2 One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.
\v 3 Don’t let him who eats despise him who doesn’t eat. Don’t let him who doesn’t eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.
\v 4 Who are you who judge another’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.
\p
\v 5 One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.
\v 6 He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn’t eat, to the Lord he doesn’t eat, and gives God thanks.
\v 7 For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.
\v 8 For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s.
\v 9 For to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.
\p
\v 10 But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
\v 11 For it is written,
\q1 “‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘to me every knee will bow.
\q2 Every tongue will confess to God.’”\x + \xo 14:11 \xt Isaiah 45:23\x*
\p
\v 12 So then each one of us will give account of himself to God.
\p
\v 13 Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.
\v 14 I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
\v 15 Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.
\v 16 Then don’t let your good be slandered,
\v 17 for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
\v 18 For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.
\v 19 So then, let’s follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.
\v 20 Don’t overthrow God’s work for food’s sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.
\v 21 It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.
\p
\v 22 Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who doesn’t judge himself in that which he approves.
\v 23 But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn’t of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.
\p
\v 24 Now to him who is able to establish you according to my Good News and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret through long ages,
\v 25 but now is revealed, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, is made known for obedience of faith to all the nations;
\v 26 to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever! Amen.\f + \fr 14:26 \ft TR places verses 24-26 after Romans 16:24 as verses 25-27. \f*


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\v 1 Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
\v 2 Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.
\v 3 For even Christ didn’t please himself. But, as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”\x + \xo 15:3 \xt Psalm 69:9\x*
\v 4 For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
\v 5 Now the God of perseverance and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind with one another according to Christ Jesus,
\v 6 that with one accord you may with one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
\p
\v 7 Therefore accept one another, even as Christ also accepted you,\f + \fr 15:7 \ft TR reads “us” instead of “you”\f* to the glory of God.
\v 8 Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers,
\v 9 and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written,
\q1 “Therefore I will give praise to you among the Gentiles
\q2 and sing to your name.”\x + \xo 15:9 \xt 2 Samuel 22:50; Psalm 18:49\x*
\p
\v 10 Again he says,
\q1 “Rejoice, you Gentiles, with his people.”\x + \xo 15:10 \xt Deuteronomy 32:43\x*
\p
\v 11 Again,
\q1 “Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles!
\q2 Let all the peoples praise him.”\x + \xo 15:11 \xt Psalm 117:1\x*
\p
\v 12 Again, Isaiah says,
\q1 “There will be the root of Jesse,
\q2 he who arises to rule over the Gentiles;
\q2 in him the Gentiles will hope.”\x + \xo 15:12 \xt Isaiah 11:10\x*
\p
\v 13 Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.
\p
\v 14 I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers,\f + \fr 15:14 \ft The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”\f* that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.
\v 15 But I write the more boldly to you in part, as reminding you, because of the grace that was given to me by God,
\v 16 that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
\v 17 I have therefore my boasting in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God.
\v 18 For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,
\v 19 in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God’s Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Christ;
\v 20 yes, making it my aim to preach the Good News, not where Christ was already named, that I might not build on another’s foundation.
\v 21 But, as it is written,
\q1 “They will see, to whom no news of him came.
\q2 They who haven’t heard will understand.”\x + \xo 15:21 \xt Isaiah 52:15\x*
\p
\v 22 Therefore also I was hindered these many times from coming to you,
\v 23 but now, no longer having any place in these regions, and having these many years a longing to come to you,
\v 24 whenever I travel to Spain, I will come to you. For I hope to see you on my journey, and to be helped on my way there by you, if first I may enjoy your company for a while.
\v 25 But now, I say, I am going to Jerusalem, serving the saints.
\v 26 For it has been the good pleasure of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints who are at Jerusalem.
\v 27 Yes, it has been their good pleasure, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it to them also to serve them in fleshly things.
\v 28 When therefore I have accomplished this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by way of you to Spain.
\v 29 I know that when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of the Good News of Christ.
\p
\v 30 Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,
\v 31 that I may be delivered from those who are disobedient in Judea, and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,
\v 32 that I may come to you in joy through the will of God, and together with you, find rest.
\v 33 Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.


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\v 1 I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is a servant\f + \fr 16:1 \ft or, deacon \f* of the assembly that is at Cenchreae,
\v 2 that you receive her in the Lord, in a way worthy of the saints, and that you assist her in whatever matter she may need from you, for she herself also has been a helper of many, and of my own self.
\p
\v 3 Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,
\v 4 who risked their own necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the Gentiles.
\v 5 Greet the assembly that is in their house. Greet Epaenetus, my beloved, who is the first fruits of Achaia to Christ.
\v 6 Greet Mary, who labored much for us.
\v 7 Greet Andronicus and Junia, my relatives and my fellow prisoners, who are notable among the apostles, who were also in Christ before me.
\v 8 Greet Amplias, my beloved in the Lord.
\v 9 Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ, and Stachys, my beloved.
\v 10 Greet Apelles, the approved in Christ. Greet those who are of the household of Aristobulus.
\v 11 Greet Herodion, my kinsman. Greet them of the household of Narcissus, who are in the Lord.
\v 12 Greet Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labor in the Lord. Greet Persis, the beloved, who labored much in the Lord.
\v 13 Greet Rufus, the chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.
\v 14 Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brothers \f + \fr 16:14 \ft The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”\f* who are with them.
\v 15 Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them.
\v 16 Greet one another with a holy kiss. The assemblies of Christ greet you.
\p
\v 17 Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.
\v 18 For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.
\v 19 For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.
\v 20 And the God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet.
\p The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
\p
\v 21 Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you, as do Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my relatives.
\v 22 I, Tertius, who write the letter, greet you in the Lord.
\v 23 Gaius, my host and host of the whole assembly, greets you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, greets you, as does Quartus, the brother.
\v 24 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all! Amen.
\v 25 \f + \fr 16:25 \ft TR places Romans 14:24-26 at the end of Romans instead of at the end of chapter 14, and numbers these verses 16:25-27.\f*


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\v 1 Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.
\v 2 We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.
\v 3 Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?
\v 4 Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
\v 5 But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;
\v 6 who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:”\x + \xo 2:6 \xt Psalm 62:12; Proverbs 24:12\x*
\v 7 to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;
\v 8 but to those who are self-seeking, and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath, indignation,
\v 9 oppression, and anguish on every soul of man who does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
\p
\v 10 But glory, honor, and peace go to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
\v 11 For there is no partiality with God.
\v 12 For as many as have sinned without the law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
\v 13 For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified
\v 14 (for when Gentiles who don’t have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,
\v 15 in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)
\v 16 in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.
\p
\v 17 Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, rest on the law, glory in God,
\v 18 know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,
\v 19 and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
\v 20 a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.
\v 21 You therefore who teach another, don’t you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn’t steal, do you steal?
\v 22 You who say a man shouldn’t commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
\v 23 You who glory in the law, do you dishonor God by disobeying the law?
\v 24 For “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” \x + \xo 2:24 \xt Isaiah 52:5; Ezekiel 36:22\x* just as it is written.
\v 25 For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
\v 26 If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won’t his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?
\v 27 Won’t the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?
\v 28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;
\v 29 but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.


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\v 1 Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision?
\v 2 Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the revelations of God.
\v 3 For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?
\v 4 May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written,
\q1 “that you might be justified in your words,
\q2 and might prevail when you come into judgment.”\x + \xo 3:4 \xt Psalm 51:4\x*
\p
\v 5 But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.
\v 6 May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?
\v 7 For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?
\v 8 Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), “Let’s do evil, that good may come?” Those who say so are justly condemned.
\p
\v 9 What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.
\v 10 As it is written,
\q1 “There is no one righteous;
\q2 no, not one.
\q1
\v 11 There is no one who understands.
\q2 There is no one who seeks after God.
\q1
\v 12 They have all turned away.
\q2 They have together become unprofitable.
\q1 There is no one who does good,
\q2 no, not so much as one.”\x + \xo 3:12 \xt Psalm 14:1-3; 53:1-3; Ecclesiastes 7:20\x*
\q1
\v 13 “Their throat is an open tomb.
\q2 With their tongues they have used deceit.”\x + \xo 3:13 \xt Psalm 5:9\x*
\q1 “The poison of vipers is under their lips.”\x + \xo 3:13 \xt Psalm 140:3\x*
\q2
\v 14 “Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”\x + \xo 3:14 \xt Psalm 10:7\x*
\q1
\v 15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood.
\q2
\v 16 Destruction and misery are in their ways.
\q2
\v 17 The way of peace, they haven’t known.”\x + \xo 3:17 \xt Isaiah 59:7-8\x*
\q1
\v 18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”\x + \xo 3:18 \xt Psalm 36:1\x*
\p
\v 19 Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.
\v 20 Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
\p
\v 21 But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets;
\v 22 even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,
\v 23 for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;
\v 24 being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;
\v 25 whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice,\f + \fr 3:25 \ft or, a propitiation\f* through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;
\v 26 to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.
\p
\v 27 Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.
\v 28 We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.
\v 29 Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn’t he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,
\v 30 since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.
\p
\v 31 Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.


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\v 1 What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?
\v 2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.
\v 3 For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”\x + \xo 4:3 \xt Genesis 15:6\x*
\v 4 Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed.
\v 5 But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.
\v 6 Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works,
\q1
\v 7 “Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven,
\q2 whose sins are covered.
\q1
\v 8 Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin.” \x + \xo 4:8 \xt Psalm 32:1-2\x*
\p
\v 9 Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.
\v 10 How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
\v 11 He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they might be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them.
\v 12 He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.
\v 13 For the promise to Abraham and to his offspring that he should be heir of the world wasn’t through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
\v 14 For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.
\v 15 For the law produces wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.
\v 16 For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the offspring, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
\v 17 As it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations.”\x + \xo 4:17 \xt Genesis 17:5\x* This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.
\v 18 Besides hope, Abraham in hope believed, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, “So will your offspring be.”\x + \xo 4:18 \xt Genesis 15:5\x*
\v 19 Without being weakened in faith, he didn’t consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.
\v 20 Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn’t waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God,
\v 21 and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform.
\v 22 Therefore it also was “credited to him for righteousness.”\x + \xo 4:22 \xt Genesis 15:6\x*
\v 23 Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone,
\v 24 but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead,
\v 25 who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.


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\v 1 Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;
\v 2 through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
\v 3 Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;
\v 4 and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope:
\v 5 and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
\v 6 For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
\v 7 For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a righteous person someone would even dare to die.
\v 8 But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
\p
\v 9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God’s wrath through him.
\v 10 For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.
\p
\v 11 Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
\v 12 Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; so death passed to all men, because all sinned.
\v 13 For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.
\v 14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren’t like Adam’s disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.
\v 15 But the free gift isn’t like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.
\v 16 The gift is not as through one who sinned; for the judgment came by one to condemnation, but the free gift came of many trespasses to justification.
\v 17 For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.
\v 18 So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life.
\v 19 For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.
\v 20 The law came in that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;
\v 21 that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.


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\v 1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
\v 2 May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?
\v 3 Or don’t you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
\v 4 We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
\v 5 For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection;
\v 6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.
\v 7 For he who has died has been freed from sin.
\v 8 But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him;
\v 9 knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over him!
\v 10 For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.
\v 11 Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
\p
\v 12 Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
\v 13 Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
\v 14 For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.
\p
\v 15 What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!
\v 16 Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
\v 17 But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.
\v 18 Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.
\p
\v 19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.
\v 20 For when you were servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.
\v 21 What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
\v 22 But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life.
\v 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.


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\v 1 Or don’t you know, brothers\f + \fr 7:1 \ft The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”\f* (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?
\v 2 For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.
\v 3 So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.
\v 4 Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.
\v 5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law worked in our members to bring out fruit to death.
\v 6 But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.
\p
\v 7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting, unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”\x + \xo 7:7 \xt Exodus 20:17; Deuteronomy 5:21\x*
\v 8 But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
\v 9 I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
\v 10 The commandment which was for life, this I found to be for death;
\v 11 for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.
\v 12 Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
\p
\v 13 Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, was producing death in me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceedingly sinful.
\v 14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
\v 15 For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.
\v 16 But if what I don’t desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.
\v 17 So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
\v 18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.
\v 19 For the good which I desire, I don’t do; but the evil which I don’t desire, that I practice.
\v 20 But if what I don’t desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
\v 21 I find then the law that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.
\v 22 For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,
\v 23 but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.
\v 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?
\v 25 I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, sin’s law.


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\v 1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.\f + \fr 8:1 \ft NU omits “who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit”\f*
\v 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
\v 3 For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;
\v 4 that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
\v 5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
\v 6 For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;
\v 7 because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.
\v 8 Those who are in the flesh can’t please God.
\v 9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.
\v 10 If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
\v 11 But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
\p
\v 12 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
\v 13 For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
\v 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.
\v 15 For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba!\f + \fr 8:15 \ft Abba is an Aramaic word for “Father” or “Daddy”, which can be used affectionately and respectfully in prayer to our Father in heaven.\f* Father!”
\p
\v 16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;
\v 17 and if children, then heirs: heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.
\p
\v 18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.
\v 19 For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.
\v 20 For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope
\v 21 that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.
\v 22 For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.
\v 23 Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.
\v 24 For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?
\v 25 But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.
\p
\v 26 In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.
\v 27 He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit’s mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God.
\p
\v 28 We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.
\v 29 For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.\f + \fr 8:29 \ft The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”\f*
\v 30 Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.
\p
\v 31 What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
\v 32 He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?
\v 33 Who could bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who justifies.
\v 34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
\p
\v 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
\v 36 Even as it is written,
\q1 “For your sake we are killed all day long.
\q2 We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”\x + \xo 8:36 \xt Psalm 44:22\x*
\m
\v 37 No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
\v 38 For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
\v 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from God’s love which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.


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\v 1 I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit
\v 2 that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.
\v 3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers’ sake, my relatives according to the flesh
\v 4 who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;
\v 5 of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.
\p
\v 6 But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel that are of Israel.
\v 7 Neither, because they are Abraham’s offspring, are they all children. But, “your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac.”\x + \xo 9:7 \xt Genesis 21:12\x*
\v 8 That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as heirs.
\v 9 For this is a word of promise, “At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.”\x + \xo 9:9 \xt Genesis 18:10,14\x*
\v 10 Not only so, but Rebekah also conceived by one, by our father Isaac.
\v 11 For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,\f + \fr 9:11 \ft NU puts the phrase “not of works, but of him who calls” at the beginning of verse 12 instead of the end of verse 11.\f*
\v 12 it was said to her, “The elder will serve the younger.”\x + \xo 9:12 \xt Genesis 25:23\x*
\v 13 Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”\x + \xo 9:13 \xt Malachi 1:2-3\x*
\p
\v 14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!
\v 15 For he said to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”\x + \xo 9:15 \xt Exodus 33:19\x*
\v 16 So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.
\v 17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”\x + \xo 9:17 \xt Exodus 9:16\x*
\v 18 So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.
\p
\v 19 You will say then to me, “Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?”
\v 20 But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”\x + \xo 9:20 \xt Isaiah 29:16; 45:9\x*
\v 21 Or hasn’t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?
\v 22 What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,
\v 23 and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,
\v 24 us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?
\v 25 As he says also in Hosea,
\q1 “I will call them ‘my people,’ which were not my people;
\q2 and her ‘beloved,’ who was not beloved.”\x + \xo 9:25 \xt Hosea 2:23\x*
\q1
\v 26 “It will be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’
\q2 there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”\x + \xo 9:26 \xt Hosea 1:10 \x*
\p
\v 27 Isaiah cries concerning Israel,
\q1 “If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea,
\q2 it is the remnant who will be saved;
\q1
\v 28 for He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness,
\q2 because the LORD will make a short work upon the earth.”\x + \xo 9:28 \xt Isaiah 10:22-23\x*
\p
\v 29 As Isaiah has said before,
\q1 “Unless the Lord of Armies\f + \fr 9:29 \ft Greek: Sabaoth (for Hebrew: Tze’va’ot) \f* had left us a seed,
\q2 we would have become like Sodom,
\q2 and would have been made like Gomorrah.”\x + \xo 9:29 \xt Isaiah 1:9\x*
\p
\v 30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn’t follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;
\v 31 but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the law of righteousness.
\v 32 Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;
\v 33 even as it is written,
\q1 “Behold,\f + \fr 9:33 \ft “Behold”, from “ἰδοὺ”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense;
\q2 and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”\x + \xo 9:33 \xt Isaiah 8:14; 28:16\x*


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\v 1 Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,
\v 2 to the assembly of God which is at Corinth—those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:
\v 3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
\p
\v 4 I always thank my God concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus;
\v 5 that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge;
\v 6 even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:
\v 7 so that you come behind in no gift; waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;
\v 8 who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
\v 9 God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.
\p
\v 10 Now I beg you, brothers,\f + \fr 1:10 \ft The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”\f* through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
\v 11 For it has been reported to me concerning you, my brothers, by those who are from Chloe’s household, that there are contentions among you.
\v 12 Now I mean this, that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” “I follow Apollos,” “I follow Cephas,” and, “I follow Christ.”
\v 13 Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized into the name of Paul?
\v 14 I thank God that I baptized none of you, except Crispus and Gaius,
\v 15 so that no one should say that I had baptized you into my own name.
\v 16 (I also baptized the household of Stephanas; besides them, I don’t know whether I baptized any other.)
\v 17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Good News—not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn’t be made void.
\v 18 For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
\v 19 For it is written,
\q1 “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise.
\q2 I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing.”\x + \xo 1:19 \xt Isaiah 29:14\x*
\p
\v 20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn’t God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
\v 21 For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn’t know God, it was God’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.
\v 22 For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom,
\v 23 but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,
\v 24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God;
\v 25 because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
\p
\v 26 For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;
\v 27 but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world that he might put to shame the things that are strong.
\v 28 God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that don’t exist, that he might bring to nothing the things that exist,
\v 29 that no flesh should boast before God.
\v 30 Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:
\v 31 that, as it is written, “He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.”\x + \xo 1:31 \xt Jeremiah 9:24\x*


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\v 1 Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
\v 2 and were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
\v 3 and all ate the same spiritual food;
\v 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.
\v 5 However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
\v 6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
\v 7 Don’t be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.”\x + \xo 10:7 \xt Exodus 32:6\x*
\v 8 Let’s not commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.
\v 9 Let’s not test Christ,\f + \fr 10:9 \ft NU reads “the Lord” instead of “Christ”.\f* as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.
\v 10 Don’t grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer.
\v 11 Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.
\v 12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall.
\p
\v 13 No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
\p
\v 14 Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
\v 15 I speak as to wise men. Judge what I say.
\v 16 The cup of blessing which we bless, isn’t it a sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, isn’t it a sharing of the body of Christ?
\v 17 Because there is one loaf of bread, we, who are many, are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf of bread.
\v 18 Consider Israel according to the flesh. Don’t those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar?
\p
\v 19 What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?
\v 20 But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God, and I don’t desire that you would have fellowship with demons.
\v 21 You can’t both drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You can’t both partake of the table of the Lord and of the table of demons.
\v 22 Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
\p
\v 23 “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are profitable. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things build up.
\v 24 Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor’s good.
\v 25 Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience,
\v 26 for “the earth is the Lord’s, and its fullness.”\x + \xo 10:26 \xt Psalm 24:1 \x*
\v 27 But if one of those who don’t believe invites you to a meal, and you are inclined to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for the sake of conscience.
\v 28 But if anyone says to you, “This was offered to idols,” don’t eat it for the sake of the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience. For “the earth is the Lord’s, with all its fullness.”
\v 29 Conscience, I say, not your own, but the other’s conscience. For why is my liberty judged by another conscience?
\v 30 If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced for something I give thanks for?
\v 31 Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
\v 32 Give no occasion for stumbling, whether to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;
\v 33 even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.


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\v 1 Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.
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\v 2 Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.
\v 3 But I would have you know that the head\f + \fr 11:3 \ft or, origin\f* of every man is Christ, and the head\f + \fr 11:3 \ft or, origin\f* of the woman is man, and the head\f + \fr 11:3 \ft or, origin\f* of Christ is God.
\v 4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head.
\v 5 But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved.
\v 6 For if a woman is not covered, let her hair also be cut off. But if it is shameful for a woman to have her hair cut off or be shaved, let her be covered.
\v 7 For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.
\v 8 For man is not from woman, but woman from man;
\v 9 for man wasn’t created for the woman, but woman for the man.
\v 10 For this cause the woman ought to have authority over her own head, because of the angels.
\p
\v 11 Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.
\v 12 For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from God.
\v 13 Judge for yourselves. Is it appropriate that a woman pray to God unveiled?
\v 14 Doesn’t even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?
\v 15 But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given to her for a covering.
\v 16 But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God’s assemblies.
\p
\v 17 But in giving you this command, I don’t praise you, that you come together not for the better but for the worse.
\v 18 For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.
\v 19 For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.
\v 20 When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not the Lord’s supper that you eat.
\v 21 For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken.
\v 22 What, don’t you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God’s assembly and put them to shame who don’t have enough? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don’t praise you.
\p
\v 23 For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread.
\v 24 When he had given thanks, he broke it and said, \wj “Take, eat. This is my body, which is broken for you. Do this in memory of me.”\wj*
\v 25 In the same way he also took the cup, after supper, saying, \wj “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink, in memory of me.”\wj*
\v 26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.
\v 27 Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks the Lord’s cup in a way unworthy of the Lord will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.
\v 28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.
\v 29 For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy way eats and drinks judgment to himself if he doesn’t discern the Lord’s body.
\v 30 For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.
\v 31 For if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn’t be judged.
\v 32 But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
\v 33 Therefore, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.
\v 34 But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest your coming together be for judgment. The rest I will set in order whenever I come.


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\v 1 Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don’t want you to be ignorant.
\v 2 You know that when you were heathen,\f + \fr 12:2 \ft or Gentiles\f* you were led away to those mute idols, however you might be led.
\v 3 Therefore I make known to you that no man speaking by God’s Spirit says, “Jesus is accursed.” No one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” but by the Holy Spirit.
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\v 4 Now there are various kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit.
\v 5 There are various kinds of service, and the same Lord.
\v 6 There are various kinds of workings, but the same God, who works all things in all.
\v 7 But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the profit of all.
\v 8 For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom, and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;
\v 9 to another faith, by the same Spirit; and to another gifts of healings, by the same Spirit;
\v 10 and to another workings of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to another discerning of spirits; to another different kinds of languages; and to another the interpretation of languages.
\v 11 But the one and the same Spirit produces all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires.
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\v 12 For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.
\v 13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.
\v 14 For the body is not one member, but many.
\v 15 If the foot would say, “Because I’m not the hand, I’m not part of the body,” it is not therefore not part of the body.
\v 16 If the ear would say, “Because I’m not the eye, I’m not part of the body,” it’s not therefore not part of the body.
\v 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the smelling be?
\v 18 But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body, just as he desired.
\v 19 If they were all one member, where would the body be?
\v 20 But now they are many members, but one body.
\v 21 The eye can’t tell the hand, “I have no need for you,” or again the head to the feet, “I have no need for you.”
\v 22 No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary.
\v 23 Those parts of the body which we think to be less honorable, on those we bestow more abundant honor; and our unpresentable parts have more abundant propriety;
\v 24 whereas our presentable parts have no such need. But God composed the body together, giving more abundant honor to the inferior part,
\v 25 that there should be no division in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another.
\v 26 When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. When one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.
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\v 27 Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.
\v 28 God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.
\v 29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all miracle workers?
\v 30 Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with various languages? Do all interpret?
\v 31 But earnestly desire the best gifts. Moreover, I show a most excellent way to you.


