The Actions and Analogies of Jesus the Anointed Oneaccording to Lukas |
Preface
Whereas many have undertaken to prepare a narrative about those things that have been fully established among us, just as those people who became from the beginning eyewitnesses and assistants of the message delivered them to us, it seemed good also to me (who have accurately traced out all of it from the top) to write those things to you in order, Excellent Theophilus, so that you would know the certainty of the sayings about which you have been instructed.
PART ONE
I
1:5 It happened in the days of Herod, King of Judea, that there was a high priest named Zachariah, from the course of Abijah. And his wife was from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth. Now they were both just in the presence of God, walking as blameless people in all the precepts and ritual acts of the Lord. And there was no child for them, because Elisabeth was barren, and both of them were advanced in their days.
Now it happened during the time when he was performing the sacred rites, during the time when his course was arranging the duties before God (according to the custom of the priesthood), it fell to him to enter into the Lord's temple to burn incense. And all the multitude of the people were praying outside at the hour of incense burning.
Now a messenger of Yahweh appeared to him, standing at the right side of the incense brazier. And when Zachariah noticed him, he was troubled, and fear fell upon him. But the messenger said to him,
"Don't be afraid, Zachariah, because your supplication has been heard, and your wife Elisabeth will give birth to your son, and you will call his name John ((Yohanan, "Yahweh has granted")). And he will be a joy to you and a gladdening, and many will rejoice at his birth.
"For he will be great in the Lord's presence, "and he will by no means drink wine and strong drink," and he will be filled with holy breath while still new from his mother's womb. And he will turn many of Israel's sons to Yahweh their God.
"And he will come first in his presence, with Elijah's spirit and power, to turn the hearts of the fathers to children and to turn the unpersuaded with the intellect of the just, to make ready for Yahweh a prepared people."
18 And Zachariah said to the messenger, "By what will I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is advanced in her days." And the messenger answered, saying to him, "I am Gabriel, the one who has attended in God's presence and who was sent forth to speak to you and to announce these things to you as a good message. And look, you will be mute and unable to speak until the day these things happen, because you have not trusted my sayings, which will be fulfilled in their season."
And the people were waiting for Zachariah, and they wondered why he was spending so much time in the temple. Now when he came out, he was unable to speak to them, and they knew that he had seen a vision in the temple. And he was signaling to them, and he continued to be mute. And it happened that he returned into his house, as the days of his religious service were fulfilled.
Now after these days, Elisabeth his wife conceived, and she hid herself for five months, saying that "Yahweh has done this for me, in the days when he looked on me to remove my reproach among people."
II
26 Now in the sixth month, the messenger Gabriel was sent forth from God into a city of Galilaiah whose name was Nazareth, to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Yosef from the house of David. And the name of the virgin was Miriam. And coming to her, he said, "Hello, favored one. The Lord is with you." But she was disturbed by the message and was reasoning what this greeting might be. And the messenger said to her, "Don't be afraid, Miriam, for you have found favor with God. And look, you will conceive in your belly, and will give birth to a son. And you will call his name Jesus ((Yeshua)). He will be great and will be called a son of the Highest One, and Yahweh God will give him the throne of his ancestor David. And he will reign over the house of Jacob for the ages, and his kingdom will be unending."
Now Miriam said to the messenger, "How will this be, since I have not slept with a man?" And the messenger answered, saying to her, "Holy breath will come upon you, and power of the Highest One will overshadow you. And so, the one who is born, a holy child, will be called God's son.
"And look at your relative Elisabeth. She has also conceived a son in her old age. And this is the sixth month for her, who is called barren. Because no declaration from God will be impossible."
Now Miriam said, "Look at Yahweh's slave. Let it happen to me according to your
declaration." And the messenger went away from her.
39 Now Miriam got up in those days and went into the mountains with haste, into a city of Judah. And she entered into Zachariah's house and greeted Elisabeth. And it happened that as Elisabeth heard Miriam's greeting, the baby leaped in her womb and holy breath came upon Elisabeth, and she sounded out with a loud cry, saying, "You are praised among women! And the fruit of your womb is praised! And from where is this happening to me, that my Lord's mother should come to me? For, look! As the sound of your greeting happened in my years, the baby in my womb leaped in gladness! And blessed is the one who trusted that there will be a completion of the things that were spoken to her by Yahweh!"
And Miriam said, "My soul extols the Lord, and my spirit has exulted at God my savior! Because he looked upon the humility of his slave. For look, from now, all generations will call me blessed because the powerful one did great things for me.
"And holy is his name! And his mercy is for generations and generations of those who fear him! He has made strength with his arm. He has scattered those who are highminded in the attitudes of their hearts. He has cast down the powers from thrones and has lifted up the humble. He fills the hungry people with good things and he sends away the wealthy people empty. Remembering mercy, he grants things to Israel his child, just as he said to our ancestors, 'To Abraham and his seed for the age.'"
Now Miriam remained with her for three months, and then she returned into her house.
57 Now Elisabeth's time of childbearing was fulfilled, and she gave birth to a son. And those who lived nearby and her relatives heard that Yahweh had magnified his mercy towards her, and they rejoiced with her.
And it happened that during the eighth day they came to have the boy circumcised, and they were calling him after the name of his father, Zachariah. And his mother answered him, saying, "No. On the contrary, he will be called John." And they said to her, "There is no one among your relatives who is called by this name." Now they motioned to his father as to what he would want him to be called. And he asked for a tablet and wrote, saying, "His name is John." And they all wondered. Now his mouth was opened immediately, and his tongue was freed, and he spoke, praising God.
And fear happened upon all those who lived near them, and these declarations were discussed in the whole mountainous region of Judea. And all those who heard put these things in their hearts, saying, "Whatever will this boy be?" For also, Yahweh's hand was with him.
And Zachariah his father was filled with holy breath, and he prophesied, saying, "Praiseworthy is Yahweh, the God of Israel, because he has visited and has made redemption for his people. And he has raised up a horn of salvation for us, in his servant-boy David's house (just as he said through the mouth of the holy ones from the age of his prophets): a salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all those who hate us, to do mercy with our ancestors and to remember his holy covenant--an oath that he swore to Abraham our ancestor--to give us to fearlessly do religious service for him in godliness and right in his presence for all of our days, rescuing us out of the hand of our enemies.
"Now also child, you will be called a prophet of the Highest One. For you will go ahead in Yahweh's presence to prepare his ways, to give knowledge of salvation to his people with forgiveness of their sins, on account of our God's deep feelings of mercy, by which he has visited us, a dawn from on high, to shine on those who are sitting in darkness and in death's shadow, to direct our feet into a way of peace."
Now the child grew and became strong of spirit, and he was in the deserts until the day of his presentation to Israel.
III
2:1 Now it happened in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus to inscribe all the empire. This inscription was the first one that happened while Kurenius was governor of Syria. And all people went to be inscribed, each one into his own city. Now also, on account of his being of the house and family of David, Joseph went up from Galilaiah from the city of Nazareth into Judea into the city of David called Beth-Lehem, to be inscribed with Miriam his fiancee, who was pregnant.
Now it happened while they were there that her days of bearing the child were fulfilled, and she gave birth to her firstborn son, and she wrapped him in strips of cloth and laid him in the stall, since there was no place for them in the guest room.
And there were shepherds in this countryside who stayed in the fields and who were keeping night watches over their flock. And a messenger of Yahweh stood near them, and Yahweh's glory shone around them, and they feared with great fear. And the messenger said to them, "Don't be afraid. For, look, I am announcing to you a good message of great generosity, which will be for all the people. Because today a savior is born to you, who is an Anointed Lord, in David's city. And this will be a sign for you; you will find a baby wrapped in strips of cloth and lying in a stall."
And suddenly it happened that a multitude of the heavenly host was with the messenger, praising God, and saying, "Glory to God in the highest places, and on earth peace among people of good will."
And it happened as the messengers were going into heaven, the people--the shepherds also said to one another, "We should surely go as far as Beth-Lehem and see this declaration which has been done, which the Lord has made known to us." And they hurried and went, and they found both Miriam and Yosef, and the baby lying in the stall. Now after noticing these things, they made known concerning the declaration that had been told to them concerning this child. And all those who heard wondered about the things that were spoken to them by the shepherds. But Miriam preserved all of these declarations, tossing them together in her heart. And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God about all that they had heard and seen, just as it had been told to them.
IV
21 And when eight days were fulfilled, it was the time to circumcise him. And his name was called Jesus--the name that he was called by the messenger before his conception in the womb. And when the days of their cleansing were fulfilled according to Moses' Torah, they brought him into Jerusalem to present him to the Lord (just as it has been written in Yahweh's Torah that "Each male who opens a mother will be called holy to the Lord.") and to give a sacrifice according to what was said in Yahweh's Torah, "A pair of turtle- doves or two young pigeons."
And look, there was a person in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon, and this person was just and devout who was expecting the advice of Israel. And breath was holy upon him. And he had been warned by the holy Spirit that he would not see death until he indeed saw Yahweh's Anointed One. And with the breath he came into the temple court. And when the parents led the child Jesus in, for them to do according to what was customary in the Torah about him, Simeon also took him into his arms and praised God, saying, "Now O Sovereign, release your slave in peace, according to your declaration: because my eyes have noticed your salvation, which you have prepared according to the presence of all the people as a light for the revelation of nations and a glory of your people Israel."
And his father and mother were wondering about what was being said about him. And Simeon praised them and said to Miriam his mother, "Look, this one is being placed for a fall and resurrection of many in Israel and for a sign of contradiction. Now also, a sword will cut through the soul of you yourself, so that the reasonings of many hearts would be revealed."
V
36 And there was a prophet Anna, daughter of Fanuel, from the tribe of Asher. She had advanced in many days: having lived with her husband for seven years from her virginity, she was also a widow until age eighty-four. She did not withdraw from the temple courts, night and day performing religious service with fasts and supplications. And at that hour, she was standing by, acknowledging God, and she spoke about him to all those who were expecting Jerusalem's redemption.
And as they finished all the things according to Yahweh's Torah, they returned into Galilaiah into their city, Nazareth. Now the child grew and was strengthened, being filled with wisdom. And God's favor was upon him.
VI
41 And his parents went every year into Jerusalem to the feast of the Passover. And when it happened that he was twelve years old, they went up according to the custom of the feast, and after completing the days, during their return Jesus the boy remained in Jerusalem, and his parents did not know it. Now thinking him to be in the traveling company, they went a day's way and sought him among the relatives and acquaintances. And when they didn't find him, they returned to Jerusalem, seeking him out.
And it happened that after three days they found him in the temple court, sitting in the midst of the teachers both hearing them and questioning them. Now all those who heard him were astonished at his intelligence and answers. And when they noticed him, they were amazed. And his mother said to him, "Child, why have you done to us in this way? Look, your father and I were seeking you in sorrow." And he said to them, "Why were you seeking me? Didn't you know that it is necessary for me to be in my Father's place?" And they did not understand the declaration that he had said to them.
And he went down with them and came into Nazareth, and he was submitting to them. And his mother kept all the declarations in her heart. And Jesus increased in wisdom and maturity and favor with God and people.
VII
3:1 Now in the fifteenth year of the government of Tiberius Caesar, while Pontius Pilatus was governing Judea and Herod was Tetrarch of Galilaiah (now Filippos his brother was Tetrarch of Ituria and of the Trachonite country, and Lusanias was Tetrarch of Abilene), under the high priesthood of Anna and Kaiaphas, a declaration of Yahweh happened upon John the son of Zachariah in the desert. And he went into all the countryside around the Jordan, heralding a baptism of mental change into forgiveness of sins, as it was written in a scroll of the words of the prophet Isaiah:
"A voice crying out in the desert, 'Make ready Yahweh's way. Make straight his highways. Every valley will be filled up, and every mountain and every hill will be lowered. And the crooked places will be made into straight ones, and the rough places will be made into smooth ways. And all flesh will see God's salvation."
Therefore he said to the crowds who were coming out to be baptized by him, "You brood of vipers! Who has pointed out to you to flee from the coming wrath? Therefore, make fruit worthy of the mental change and do not begin to say among yourselves, 'We have Abraham as a father.' For I am telling you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham out of these stones!
"But already the axe is at the root of the trees. Therefore, every tree that does not make nice fruit is chopped down and is cast into fire."
And the crowds asked him, saying, "Then what should we do?" Now he answered, saying to them, "The one who has two tunics should impart to the one who has none, and the one who has edibles should do likewise."
Now tribute takers came to him also to be baptized, and they said to him, "Teacher, what should we do?" Now he said to them, "Collect nothing more than what was arranged for you." And soldiers also asked him, saying, "What also should we do?" And he said to them, "Oppress no one. Neither should you extort. And be content with your wages."
Now all of the people were expecting and reasoning in their hearts about John--whether he was the Anointed One. John answered to everyone, saying, "I indeed am baptizing you with water, but someone stronger than I is coming, of whom I am not enough to loosen the strap of his sandals. He will baptize you with holy breath and fire.
"His winnowing fork is in his hand to fully cleanse his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his granary. But he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire." Therefore indeed, advising them also of many other things, he announced a good message to the people.
But Herod the Tetrarch--who had been reproved by John concerning Herodias his brother's wife, and about all the evil things that Herod had done--added this one to all of them: he also had John shut up in jail.
Now it happened that during the baptism of all the people, when Jesus had also been baptized and was praying, heaven was opened and the holy Spirit descended on him in a bodily form like a dove, and a voice from heaven happened: "You are my son, the beloved, in whom I delight."
VIII
23 And when he, Jesus, was beginning, he was about thirty years old, being (as it was thought) son of Yosef, the son of Eli, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son of Yannai, the daughter of Yosef, the son of Mattathiah, the son of Amos, the son of Nahum, the son of Esli, the son of Noggai, the son of Ma-ath, the son of Mattathiah, the son of Shemei, the son of Yosech, the son of Yodah, the son of Yohanah, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zorobabel, the son of Sheathiel, the son of Neiri, the daughter of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of Kosam, the son of Elmodam, the son of Eir, the son of Yeshua, the son of Eliezer, the son of Yorim, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Simeon, the son of Judah, the son of Yosef, the son of Yonan, the son of Eliakim, the son of Melea, the son of Menna, the son of Mattathah, the son of Nathan, the son of David, the son of Yeshai, the son of Yobed, the son of Boaz, the son of Shelah, the son of Nahshon, the son of Aminadab, the son of Admin, the son of Arni, the son of Hesrom, the son of Fares, the son of Judah, the son of Jacob, the son of Isaak, the son of Abraham, the son of Therah, the son of Nachor, the son of Seruch, the son of Ragau, the son of Falek, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah, the son of Ka-inan, the son of Arfaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech, the son of Mathuselah, the son of Henoch, the son of Yared, the son of Mahalele-el, the son of Ka-inan, the son of Enosh, the son of Sheth, the son of Adam, the son of God.
IX
4:1 Now Jesus, full of holy breath, returned from the Jordan and was led in the breath into the desert, where he was tested for forty days by the Accuser. And he did not eat anything during those days, and he was hungry when they were completed. Now the Accuser said to him, "If you are God's son, talk to this stone, so that it would become bread."
And Jesus answered to him, "It has been written that "Humanity will not live on bread alone.""
And after leading him up, he showed him all the kingdoms of the empire in a mark of time. And the Accuser said to him, "I will give you all this authority and their glory, because it has been delivered over to me, and I give it to whomever I want. Therefore, if you bow down in my presence, it will all be yours." And Jesus answered, saying to him, "It has been written, "You will bow down to Yahweh your God, and you will do religious service to him alone.""
Now he led him into Jerusalem and placed him on the wing of the temple, and he said to him, "If you are God's son, cast yourself down from here. For it has been written that "He will give a precept to his messengers concerning you, to protect you," and that, "They will raise you up on hands, lest you should strike your foot against a stone." And Jesus answered, saying to him that, "It is said, "You will not test out Yahweh your God.""
And when he completed every testing, the Accuser departed from him for a season.
X
14 And Jesus returned into Galilaiah in the power of the breath. And a voice went out about him into the whole surrounding countryside. And he taught in their gatherings, being glorified by all people.
And he came into Nazareth, where he had been raised, and according to his custom he entered into the gathering on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read. And a scroll of Isaiah the prophet was handed to him, and after unrolling the scroll, he found the place where it was written, "Yahweh's breath is upon me. On account of this he has anointed me to announce a good message to the poor. He has sent me forth to herald a release to captives and a restoration of sight to blind people, to send forth in freedom those who had been crushed, to herald Yahweh's acceptable year."
And he rolled up the scroll and gave it back to the assistant, and he sat down. And the eyes of all people in the gathering were staring at him. now he began to say to them that, "Today this writing which is in your ears is fulfilled."
And all were testifying to him and were wondering at those sayings of favor which were going out from his mouth. And they said, "Isn't this Yosef's son?" And he said to them, "You will surely say this analogy to me, 'Healer, cure yourself.' Do also here in your own country the things that we heard have been done in Kafar-Nahum." But he said, "Indeed I am telling you that no prophet is acceptable in his country. Now in truth I am telling you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up for three years and six months, as a great famine happened over all the land. And Elijah was sent to none of them except to a widowed woman, Sarepta of Sidon. And there were many lepers in Israel with Elisha the prophet, and none of them was cleansed except Naiman the Syrian."
And when they heard these things, all those in the gathering were filled with emotion. And they rose up and threw him out of the city, and they led him all the way to the mountain face on which their city was constructed, so as to hurtle him down. But he went through their midst and went away.
XI
31 And he came down into the city of Kafar-Nahum of Galilaiah, and he taught them during the Sabbath days. And they were astonished at his teaching because his message was with authority. And there was a person in the gathering who had a spirit of an unclean spirit being, and he cried out with a loud voice, "Ah, what is there between us and you, Jesus the Nazarene? Do you come to destroy us? We know who you are: God's holy one." And Jesus censured him, saying, "Muzzle yourself and come out from him." And after tossing him out into the middle, the spirit being came out from him without hurting him. And wonderment happened to all, and they were speaking together with one another, saying, "What a message this is, that with authority and with power he directs the unclean spirits, and they come out!" And a report about him went out into every place in the surrounding country.
Now after rising up from the gathering, he went into Simon's house. Now Simon's mother-in-law was held by a great fever, and they asked him about her. And standing above her, he censured the fever, and it left her. Now she rose up immediately and served them.
Now while the sun was setting, all of those who had people who were afflicted with various diseases brought them to him. Now he placed his hands on them one at a time, and he cured them. Now also, spirit beings came out from many people, calling out and saying that, "You are God's son." And censuring them, he did not allow them to say that they knew him to be the Anointed One.
Now when day happened, he came out and went into a desert place. And the crowds
hunted him, and came up to him, and urged him not to go away from them. But he said to them
that, "It is necessary for me to also announce the good message of God's kingdom to other cities,
because I was sent forth for this."
XII
44 And he was at the gatherings of Galilaiah, heralding. Now, while the crowd impressed on him to hear God's message and while he was standing by the lake Gennesaret, it happened that he also noticed two ships stationed by the lakeshore. Now the fishers had left them and were washing the nets. Now after entering into one of the ships (which was Simon's), he asked him to head off from the land a short way. And, after sitting down, he taught the crowds outside of the ship.
5:4 Now when he stopped speaking, he said to Simon, "Head off into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch." And Simon answered, saying, "Master, we have labored through the whole night and have received nothing. But at your declaration, I will let down the nets."
And after doing this, they enveloped a great multitude of fishes, but their nets were
ripping. And they signified to the partakers in the other ship to come and help them. And they
came, and they filled both ships, so as to sink them. Now when Simon Peter noticed, he fell
down at Jesus' knees, saying, "Go away from me, because I am a sinful man, Lord!" For
amazement had contained him (and all those who were with him) at the catch of fish that they
had received. Now Jacob and Johannes, sons of Zebediah who were partners of Simon, did
similarly also. And Jesus said to Simon, "Do not be afraid. From now on, you will be capturing
human beings."
And after leading the ships to the land, they put away all things and followed him.
XIII
12 And it happened during the time of his being in one of the cities that, look! A man full of leprosy! Now after noticing Jesus, he fell on his face and begged him, saying, "O Lord, if you want it, you are able to cleanse me!" And stretching out his hand, he touched him, saying, "I want it. Be cleansed." And immediately the leprosy left him. And he charged him to tell nobody, but "Leave and show yourself to the priests, and make an offering for a witness to them regarding your cleansing, just as Moses arranged."
But rather the message about him got around, and great crowds came together to hear and to be cured from their weaknesses. But he was withdrawing in the deserts and was praying.
And it happened during one of the days that he was teaching, and Perushim and law-teachers were sitting to hear. They had come out of all the villages of Galilaiah and Judea, even Jerusalem. And Yahweh's power was on him to heal.
And, look! Men were carrying on a mat a man who was paralyzed, and they sought to bring him in and to place him in Jesus' presence. And when they did not find out how they might bring him in through the crowd, after going up on the roof, they let him down through the tiles with the mat into the midst of the crowd in Jesus' presence.
And noticing their trust, he said, "Person, your sins are forgiven of you." And the scribes and the Perushim began to reason, saying, "Who is this one who is speaking evil things? Who is able to forgive sins, except God alone?" But, recognizing their reasonings, Jesus answered, saying to them, "Why are you reasoning in your hearts? What is easier: to say, 'Your sins are forgiven of you,' or to say, 'Rise and walk'? But so that you would know that the Son of Man has authority on the earth to forgive sins...." He said to the paralyzed person, "I'm telling you, rise, and take up your mat, and go into your house."
And instantly, he got up in their presence and took up what he had been lying on, and he
went into his house, glorifying God. And everyone took amazement, and they glorified God, and
they were filled with fear, saying that "Today we have noticed things we didn't expect."
XIV
27 And after these things, we went out and observed a tribute taker named Levi seated at the tax office, and he said to him, "Follow me." And he abandoned all things and rose up and followed him. And Levi made a great feast for Jesus in his house, and there was a large crowd of tribute takers and others who were reclining with him.
And the Perushim and their scribes grumbled to his students, saying, "Why are you eating and drinking with tribute takers and sinners?" And Jesus answered, saying to them, "The healthy have no need of a healer; rather, those who have a malady. I have not come to call just people but sinners into mental change."
Now they said to him, "John's students often fast and make supplications, and the students of the Perushim do likewise. But yours are eating and drinking." Now Jesus said to them, "You are not able to make the sons of the wedding hall fast while the groom is with them. But days will come when the groom will be taken from them. Then, during those days they will fast."
Now he also told this analogy to them: "No one puts a patch from a new cloak onto an old cloak. But if they do, it rips the new, and that patch from the new does not agree with the old. And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. But if they do, the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled out, and the wineskins will be destroyed. On the contrary, one must put new wine into new wineskins. And no one who has drunk the old wants the new, for he says, 'The old is better.'"
XV
6:1 Now during a Sabbath it happened that he went through the wheat fields. And his students also picked off the heads of wheat and rubbed them in their hands and ate. Now some of the Perushim said, "Why are you doing what is not legal on the Sabbath?" And Jesus answered, saying to them, "Haven't you even read what David did when he and those who were with him were hungry? How he entered into God's house, and he took the loaves of design, and he ate, and he gave to those who were with him. It was illegal to eat this, except for the priests alone." And he said to them, "The Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath."
Now during another Sabbath, it happened that he entered into the gathering to teach. And there was a person there whose right hand was withered. Now the scribes and the Perushim were scrutinizing him to see if he would cure during the Sabbath, so that they would find a way to accuse him. But he knew their reasonings. Now he said to the man who had the withered hand, "Rise up and stand in the middle." And after rising up, he stood.
Now Jesus said to them, "I ask you if it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath, or to do bad? To save a life, or to destroy?" And looking around at all of them, he said to him, "Stretch out your hand." Now he did it and his hand was restored. But they were filled with mindlessness, and they spoke to one another about whatever they might do to Jesus.
12 Now it happened during those days that he went out into the mountain to pray, and he passed the night in God's place of prayer. And when it became day, he called his students to him. And he chose out twelve from them--whom he also named envoys:
Simon, who is also named Peter; and Andreas his brother; and Jacob; and Johannes; and Filippos; and Bar-Talmai; and Matthaiah; and Thomas; and Jacob the son of Alfeus; and Simon the one called Jealous; and Judah the son of Jacob; and Judah Iscarioth, the one who became a traitor.
And after coming down with them, he stood on a flat place. And a large crowd of his students and a great multitude of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the coastal region of Ture and Sidon, these ones came to hear him and to be healed from their diseases. And those who were being disturbed by unclean spirits were also cured. And all the crowd was seeking to touch him, because a power went out from him and healed all people.
And after lifting his eyes upon his students, he said:
"Rejoice on that day, and leap for joy, for look! Your reward is great in heaven. For their ancestors did the same things to the prophets.
"But I am telling you who hear:
"Love your enemies; Do well to those who hate you; praise those who curse you; pray about those who slander you. To the one who strikes you on the cheek, offer also the other one. And to the one who holds your cloak, do not withhold your tunic. Give to all who ask of you, and do not ask it back from the one who holds your things. And just as you want that people do to you, you do likewise to them.
"And if you love those who love you, what generosity is it of yours? For also the sinners love those who love them! For also, if you do good to those who do good to you, what generosity is it of yours? The sinners also do the same thing. And if you lend out to those from whom you hope to take, what generosity is it of yours? Even sinners lend to sinners so that they would receive an equal amount.
"However, love your enemies, and do good, and lend, despairing nothing, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Highest One, because he is gentle to the unthankful and evil.
"Become compassionate, just as your father is also compassionate. And do not judge, and you will by no means be judged. And do not condemn, and you will by no means be condemned. Let go, and you will be let go. Give, and it will be given to you: a nice measure (pressed down, shaken together, and overflowing) will be given into your lap. For it will be measured back to you with the measure you employ."
39 Now also, he told an analogy to them:
"Is a blind person able to lead a blind person? Won't both fall into a pit? A student is not over his teacher. But each one who is fully put together will be like his teacher.
"But why are you looking at the splinter in your brother's eye but not perceiving the beam that is in your eye? How are you able to say to your brother, 'Brother, let me. I am taking out the splinter that is in your eye,' while you do not see the beam that is in your eye. Hypocrite! First take out the beam that is in your eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the splinter that is in your brother's eye.
"For there is no nice tree that produces corrupt fruit. Neither is there again a corrupt tree that produces nice fruit. For each tree is known by its own fruit. For they do not gather figs from stickers, nor do they pick grapes from a briar. The good person brings forth goodness out of the good treasure of the heart, and the evil one brings forth evil out of evil. For his mouth is speaking out of the abundance of the heart.
"Now why do you say to me, 'Lord, Lord,' and you do not do what I say? Everyone who comes to me and hears my sayings and who does them, I will show you whom he is like: He is like a person who is constructing a house who has dug deeply, and who has laid a foundation on the rock. Now when a flood happened, the stream splashed against that house and was not strong enough to shake it, on account of its being constructed well.
"But the one who hears and who does not do likewise is like a person who has constructed a house on the ground, without a foundation. The stream splashed against it, and it caved in immediately, and it happened that the ruin of that house was great!"
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7:1 When he had fulfilled all of his declarations in the ears of the people, he entered into Kafar-Nahum. Now a certain Centurion's slave, who was valuable to him, was sick and was about to die. But when he heard about Jesus, he sent forth old people of the Jews to him, asking that he would come and save his slave. Now when they happened by Jesus, they begged him earnestly, saying that, "The one for whom you would be furthering this is worthy. For he loves our nation, and he constructed our synagogue."
Now Jesus went with them. But already, since he was not a big distance from the house, the centurion sent friends, saying to him, "Sir, do not be troubled. For I am not strong enough that you should enter under my roof. So, neither did I consider myself worthy enough to come to you. But say the word, and my servant boy will be healed. For I too am a person who is placed under authority, having soldiers under myself. And I say to this one, 'Go,' and he goes, and to another, 'Come,' and he comes, and to my slave, 'Do this,' and he does it."
Now when Jesus heard the things, he admired him. And, turning, he said to the crowd that was following him, "I am telling you: Not in Israel have I found such great trust." And the ones who had been sent returned into the house and found the slave to be well.
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11 And it happened during the next day that he went into a city called Nain, and his students and a great crowd went together with him. Now as he neared the city door, and look, a dead body was being carried out, his mother's unique son, and she was a widow. And a considerable crowd of the city was with her.
And when the Lord noticed her, he had compassion on her, and he said to her, "Don't cry." And he came to her and touched the funeral casket. Now the bearers stood still, and he said, "Young man, I am telling you, arise." And the dead man sat up and began to speak. And Jesus gave him to his mother.
Now fear took all people, and they glorified God, saying that, "A great prophet has arisen among us," and that, "God has visited his people."
And this message went out among the whole of Judea and all the surrounding country about him. And John's students related to him about these things. And calling a certain two of his students to him, John sent them to the Lord, saying, "Are you the one who is coming, or should we expect another?" Now when the men happened by him, they said, "John the Baptizer sent us out to you, saying, 'Are you the one who is coming, or should we expect another?'"
In that hour, he cured many from diseases, and plagues, and evil spirits, and he freely gave many blind people the ability to see. And he answered, saying to them, "God and relate to John what you have noticed and heard:
""Blind ones are receiving sight," lame ones are walking around, lepers are being cleansed and "deaf ones are hearing, dead people are being raised up," the poor are being told a good message. And whoever does not stumble over me is blessed."
Now when John's messengers went away, Jesus began to tell the crowds about John: "What did you come out into the desert to observe? A reed being shaken by the wind? But did you come out to notice? A person dressed in soft clothing? Look, the ones in luxurious clothing and who exist in luxury are in the palaces.
"But what did you come out to see? A prophet? Yes, I am telling you, and a more abundant one than a prophet. He is the one about whom it was written, "Look, I am sending forth my messenger before your face, the one who will pave your way in your presence." I am telling you, no one among those born of women is greater than John. But the one who is smallest in God's kingdom is greater than he is.
"And when all the people heard, even the tribute takers declared God just, having been baptized with John's baptism. But the Perushim and the lawyers set aside God's plan for them, not having been baptized by him.
"Therefore, to what will I liken the people of this generation, and what are they like? They are like those servant boys who sit in the marketplace and who sound off to one another and say, 'We played the pipes for you, and you did not dance. We lamented, and you did not cry.'
"For John the Baptizer came without eating bread and without drinking wine, and you say he has a spirit being. The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and you say, 'Look at the gluttonous person and the drunk, a friend to tribute takers and sinners,' and 'wisdom is justified by all her children.'"
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36 Now a certain one of the Perushim asked Jesus that he might eat with him. And he entered into the Perush's house and reclined. And look, a woman who was a sinner in the city, knowing that he was reclining in the Perush's house, brought an alabaster box of balsam. And, standing behind him, crying at his feet, she began to wet his feet with tears, and she wiped them with the hair of her head, and she lovingly kissed his feet, and she was anointing them with the balsam. Now when the Perush who had called him noticed, he spoke to himself, saying, "If this one were a prophet, he would recognize who and what sort of woman it is who is touching him, because she is a sinner."
And Jesus answered, saying to him, "Simon, I have something to tell you." Now he said, "Teacher, say it."
"There were two debtors to a certain creditor. One owed five hundred denarii, but the other owed fifty. Since they did not have enough to give back, he forgave both. Which of them, then, will love him more?" Simon answered, saying, "I assume that it was the one whom he forgave more."
Now he said to him, "You have judged rightly." And he turned to the woman and said to Simon, "Look at this woman. When I entered into your house, you did not give me water for my feet. But she wet my feet with her tears and dried them with her hair. You didn't give me a kiss, but since she entered, she has not stopped lovingly kissing my feet. You didn't anoint my head with oil, but she anointed my feet with balsam.
"For this sake I am telling you: her many sins have been forgiven because she loved much. But the one who is being forgiven little loves little." Now he said to her, "Your sins are forgiven." And those who were reclining with Simon began to say among themselves, "Who is this who is even forgiving sins?" But he said to the woman, "Your trust has saved you. Go into peace."
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8:1 And during the succeeding days, it happened that he traveled by city and village heralding and announcing the good message of God's kingdom, and the twelve were with him. And certain women who had been cured from evil spirits and weaknesses were there: that Miriam who is called Magdalene (from whom seven spirit beings came out); and Joanna, Chuza's wife, Herod's steward; and Susanna; and many others, who served them from their possessions.
Now since a great crowd was being with him, and since they were coming to him by city, he spoke by analogy:
"The sower went out to sow his seed. And in sowing it, some indeed fell by the road, and it was stepped on, and the birds of the sky devoured it. And another part fell on rock, and on account of its not having moisture it withered after springing up. And another part fell in the middle of stickers: and since the stickers sprung up together with it, they choked it. And another part fell into the good land, and after springing up, it produced fruit a hundredfold." After saying this, he said, "The one who has ears to hear, let him hear."
9 Now his students questioned him: "What might this analogy be?" Now he said, "It has been given to you to know the secrets of God's kingdom, but to the rest it is told in analogies, so that: 'seeing, they would not see; and hearing, they would not understand.' Now the analogy is this:
"The seed is God's message. Now those which are by the road are those who hear. Then the Accuser comes and removes the message from their hearts, so that they would not trust and be saved.
"Now those which are on the rock are those who receive the message with joy when they hear. And these do not have any root. They will trust for a season and will fall away in a season of trial.
"Now that which has fallen into the stickers are those who have heard and who go on and are choked by anxieties and riches and pleasures of life, and they do not come to complete fruition.
"But that which is in the nice land are those who hold on to the message in a nice and good heart after hearing, and they bear fruit in endurance.
"Now no one who has lit a lamp covers it with a bowl or puts it underneath a couch. But he puts it on a lamp stand, so that those who go in may see the light. For there is nothing hidden that will not become apparent nor anything concealed which will not be made known and come into obviousness.
"Therefore, look at how you hear. For it will be given to the one who has, and the one who doesn't have: even what he is thought to have will be removed from him."
Now his mother and brothers happened by him, and they were unable to share space with him, on account of the crowd. But it was announced to him, "Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, wanting to see you." But he answered, saying to them, "These are my mother and my brothers: those who hear God's message and do it."
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22 Now during one of those days, it happened that he and his students went into a boat. And he said to them, "Let us go over to the other side of the lake." And they set sail. Now he went to sleep as they were sailing, and a bust of wind came down to the lake, and the boat was filling up with water, and they were in danger.
Now they went to him and woke him, saying, "Master, master! We're being destroyed!" But he got up and censured the wind and the wave of the water, and they stopped, and a calm happened. Now he said to them, "Where is your trust?" But since they were afraid, they wondered, saying to one another, "So who is he, that he directs even the winds and the waters, and they listen to him?!"
And they sailed into the country of the Gerasenes, which is opposite Galilaiah. Now going out on the land to him, a certain man from the city met him. He had spirit beings and for a considerable time he had not been wearing a cloak. Nor had he been staying in a house, but in the tombs. Now when he noticed Jesus, he cried out and prostrated to him, and said with a loud voice, "What is there between me and you, Jesus, son of the Highest God? I beg you, do not torture me!" For Jesus had charged the unclean spirit to come out from the person. For it had gripped him many times, and he was bound with chains and shackles and was guarded. And when he broke the bonds, he was driven by the spirit being into the deserts.
Now Jesus questioned him, "What is your name?" Now he said, "Legion," because many spirit beings had entered into him. And he advised him, so that he would not direct them to come out into the deep. Now there was a considerable herd of pigs that fed on the mountain. And they advised him, so that he would permit them to enter into them. And he allowed them to do so.
Now the spirit beings came out from the person and entered into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the cliff into the lake, and they drowned. Now when the swine herders noticed what happened, they fled, and they related it in the city and in the villages. Now they went out to see what happened, and they came to Jesus and found the person from whom the spirit beings had come out seated at Jesus' feet, clothed and of sound mind. And they were afraid.
Now those who had noticed it related how the person affected by the spirit beings was saved. And all the multitude of the surrounding countryside of the Gerasenes asked him to depart from them, because they were held by a great fear. Now after going into the ship, he returned. Now the man from whom the spirit beings had come out begged him to be with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying, "Return into your house and declare how much God has done for you." And he went away heralding to the whole city how much Jesus had done for him.
Now during Jesus' returning, the crowd received him, for they were all expecting him. And look! A man whose name was Yairos--who existed as a ruler of the synagogue--fell at Jesus' feet and advised him to enter into his house, because his unique daughter was about twelve years old, and she was dying.
Now while he was led up, the crowds were pressing him. And a woman who had been in a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent her life-savings with healers, and who was not strong enough to be cured by anyone came up to him from behind and touched the tuft of his cloak, and her flow of blood stood still immediately.
And Jesus said, "Who is the one who touched me?" But Peter, denying all things, said, "Master, the crowds are holding you and crowding you." But Jesus said, "Someone touched me, for I know that power went out from me." Now woman, seeing that she was not going unnoticed, came trembling. And she fell down toward him and she related in the presence of all the people through what reason she had touched him and how she had been cured immediately. Now he said to her, "Daughter, your trust has saved you. Go into peace."
While he was speaking, someone from the synagogue-ruler's house came, saying, "Your daughter is dead. Do not bother the teacher any longer." But when Jesus heard, he answered him, "Don't be afraid. Only trust, and she will be saved."
Now when he came into the house, he did not allow anyone to enter with him, except Peter and Johannes and Jacob and the father and mother of the child. Now all were crying and lamenting her, but he said, "Don't cry. For she is not dead but asleep." But they laughed at him, knowing that she was dead.
But he grasped her hand and intoned loudly, saying, "Child, arise," and her breath returned, and she stood up immediately. And he arranged for them to give her something to eat. And her parents were astonished, but he charged them to tell no one what had happened.
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9:1 Now after calling together the Twelve, he gave them power and authority over all the spirit beings, and to cure diseases. And he sent them out to herald God's kingdom and to heal the sick. And he said to them,
"Take along nothing for the way: neither a rod, nor a pack, nor bread, nor silver, nor should you have two coats. And into whatever house you enter, stay there and go out from there. And whoever should not receive you, when you are going out from that city, also shake off the dust from your feet as a testimony about them."
Now after going out, they traveled through the villages, announcing the good message and curing everywhere. Now Herod the Tetrarch heard all of what happened, and he was confused on account of the fact that it was said by some people that, "John has been raised from among the dead," but by others that, "Elijah has appeared," but by others that, "a prophet, one of the ancients, has stood up." And Herod said, "I beheaded John. Now who is this about whom I hear such things?" And he sought to see him.
And after returning, the envoys declared to him what they had done. And he took them aside and withdrew with his own people into a city that is called Beth-Saida. Now the crowds, knowing it, followed him. And, after receiving them, he spoke to them about God's kingdom, and he healed those who had need of being cured.
Now the daylight began to diminish. Now the Twelve came and said to him, "Make the crowd go away, so that they might go into the surrounding villages and farms, and might lodge and find provisions, because we are in a desert place here." But he said to them, "You give them food to eat." But they said, "Not more than five loaves and two fish belong to us, unless we go and purchase food for all this group of people." (For there were about five thousand men.)
Now he said to his students, "Have them recline in groups of about fifty each." And they did so, and they had them all recline. Now he took the five loaves and the two fish, looked up into the sky, blessed them, and he broke them and gave them to the students to place around the crowd. And they ate, and all were well fed. And what fragments of them abounded were taken up, twelve baskets full.
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18 And during a time when he was praying alone, it happened that the students were with him, and he asked them, saying, "Who do the crowds say me to be?" Now they answered, saying, "John the Baptizer. But others say Elijah, but others say that a prophet, one of the ancients, has stood up."
Now he said to them, "But who do you say me to be?" Now Peter answered, saying, "God's Anointed One." But he censured them and charged them to tell this to no one, saying, "It is necessary for the Son of Man to suffer many things and to be rejected by the older people and high priests and scribes, and to be killed, and to be raised up on the third day."
Now he said to all, "If someone wants to come after me, he should deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will destroy it, but whoever would destroy his life for my sake, this person will save it. For what is a person to profited who has gained the whole creation but has destroyed or forfeited himself?
"For whoever is ashamed of me and of my sayings, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his glory and the Father's and the holy messengers'. Now I am telling you truly: there are some of those who are standing here who will not taste death until they should see God's kingdom."
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28 Now about eight days after these sayings, it happened that he took aside Peter and Johannes and Jacob and went up into the mountain to pray. And during his praying, it happened that the form of his face was different, and his clothing was glowing white. And look: two men--who were Moses and Elijah--were speaking with him. They appeared in glory and spoke of his departure, which he was about to fulfill in Jerusalem.
Now Peter and those who were with him were burdened with sleep. But when they woke up, they noticed his glory, and that of the two men who were standing with him. And during their departure from him, it happened that Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is a nice thing for us to be here," and, "let us make three tents, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah," not knowing what he said. Now while he was speaking these things a cloud happened that overshadowed them. Now they became afraid while entering into the cloud.
And a voice happened from the cloud, saying, "This is my son, the one who is chosen. Hear him."
And when the voice had happened, Jesus was found alone. And they were silent, and no one related anything of what they had observed during those days.
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37 Now on the next day it happened that when they had come down from the mountain, a great crowd met him. And look, a man from the crowd called out, saying, "Teacher, I beg you: look upon my son, because he is my unique one.
And look, a spirit takes him, and he calls out suddenly. And it causes him to have spasms with a foaming mouth, and after bruising him, it comes out from him with difficulty. And I begged your students, so that they would cast it out, and they were unable."
But Jesus answered, saying, "Oh distrusting and misdirected generation! How long will I be directed toward you and put up with you? Lead your son here." Now while he was coming toward him, the spirit being threw him down and caused him spasms. But Jesus censured the unclean spirit and healed the child, and he delivered him to his father. Now all were astonished at God's majesty. But while all were wondering about what Jesus did, he said to his students, "You place these sayings into your ears. For the Son of Man is about to be delivered up into sinners' hands." But they did not know the meaning of this declaration, and it was covered up from them, so that they would not perceive it. And they were afraid to ask him about this declaration.
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46 Now a dispute entered among them: which one of them would be the greatest? But, noticing the dispute in their hearts, Jesus took a child, placed it near himself, and said to them, "Whoever would receive this child on my name is receiving me. And whoever receives me is receiving the one who sent me forth. For the one who exists as smallest among all of you, he will be great."
Now Johannes answered, saying, "Master, we noticed someone casting out spirit beings in your name, and we are forbidding him, because he is not following with us." But Jesus said to him, "Don't forbid. For the one who is not against you is on your behalf."
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51 Now after the fulfillment of the days of his withdrawal, he set his mind on going into Jerusalem, and he sent out messengers ahead of his presence. And after going, they entered into a village of the Samaritans, so as to prepare for him. And they did not receive him, because his presence was going into Jerusalem. Now the students Jacob and Johannes noticed and said, "Lord, do you want for us to tell "fire to come down from the sky and consume them?"" But he turned to them and censured them, and they went into a different village.
And while they were going on the way, someone said to him, "I will follow you wherever you may go." And Jesus said to him, "The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to bow his head."
Now he said to another, "Follow me." But he said, "Lord, allow me to first go and bury my father." But he said to him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go tell the message of God's kingdom."
Now another one also said, "I will follow you, Lord. But first allow me to arrange properly those things in my house." But Jesus said to him, "No one who has laid his hands on a plough and who looks at the things that are behind him is useful for God's kingdom."
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10:1 After these things, the Lord presented seventy-two others and sent them out two by two ahead of his presence into each city and place where he was about to come. Now he said to them, "Indeed, the harvest is great, but the workers are few. Therefore, beg the Lord of the Harvest, so that he would toss out workers into his harvest.
"Go on. Look, I am sending you out like lambs in the midst of wolves. Do not take along a pouch, nor bag, nor sandals, and greet no one on the way. Now into whatever house you may enter, first say, 'Peace to this house.' And if a son of peace should be there, your peace will rest on him. But if not, it will return to you.
"Now remain in this house, eating and drinking the meals with them. For the worker is worthy of his wage. Do not pass from house to house. And eat the things that are placed before you in whatever city you may enter (and they receive you), and cure those in it who are weak, and say to them, 'God's kingdom has drawn near to you.'
"But in whatever city you enter and they do not receive you, come out into its open places and say, 'Even the dust from your city that is sticking to us, we will wipe from our feet for you. However, know this: that God's kingdom has drawn near.' I am telling you that in that day Sodom will be more tolerated than that city.
"Woe to you, Chorazin; woe to you, Beth-Saida, because if the powers that are being done among you had been worked out in Ture and Sidon, they would have sat down and changed their minds long ago, in sackcloth and ashes! However, it will be more tolerable for Ture and Sidon than for you in the judgment. And you, Kafar-Nahum, will you be elevated up to Heaven? You will be bringing yourselves down to Hades!
"The one who hears you is hearing me, and the one who rejects you is rejecting me. Now the one who rejects me is rejecting the one who sent me out."
17 Now the Seventy-two returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even the spirit beings submit to us in your name." Now he said to them, "I watched the Enemy after he fell out of the sky like lightning. Look, I have given you the authority to step on serpents and scorpions, and the authority over all the power of the enemy, and nothing will do injustice to you by any means. However, do not rejoice in this (that the spirits submit to you). But rejoice that your names have been inscribed in the heavens."
In that hour, he exulted in the spirit and said, "I fully acknowledge you, Father, Lord of Heaven and of the earth, because after hiding the things from wise and intelligent people, you also revealed them to babies. Yes Father, because in this way it happened to be a delight in your sight.
"All things are given to me by my Father, and no one knows who the son is except the Father. And no one knows who the Father is except the son, and the one to whom the son might wish to reveal him."
23 And turning to his students by himself, he said, "Blessed are those eyes that see what you are seeing. For I am telling you that many prophets and kings wanted to see what you are seeing, and they did not see, and to hear what you are hearing, and they did not hear."
25 And look, a certain lawyer stood up to test him, saying, "Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" But he said to him, "What was written in the Torah? How do you read it?" Now he answered, saying, ""You will love Yahweh your God out of the whole of your heart, and with the whole of your soul, and with the whole of your strength, and with the whole of your mind," and, "You will love your neighbor as yourself.""
"Now he said to him, "You have answered rightly. Do this and you will live." But, wanting to justify himself, he said to Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?"
Replying, Jesus said, "A certain person was going down from Jerusalem into Jericho, and he fell among robbers. After they both stripped him and inflicted him with punches, they departed, leaving him half-dead.
"Now by chance a certain priest was doing down by that road, and noticing him, he passed him by. Now similarly, a Levite also who happened near the place, upon coming and noticing, he passed him by. But a certain Samaritan who was traveling came near him and noticed, and he felt compassion. And he went near and bound his wounds, pouring oil and wine on them. Now after placing him on his own animal, he lead him into an inn, and he cared for him.
"And on the next day, after taking out two denarii, he gave them to the innkeeper and said, 'Care for him, and when I come back, I will repay you whatever you should expend.'
"Now which of the three of them seems to you to have become a neighbor of the one who fell into robbers?" Now he said, "The one who did the merciful thing for him." Now Jesus said, "Go, and you do likewise."
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38 Now while they were going, he entered into a certain village. Now a certain woman named Martha received him. And hers was a sister called Miriam, who also sat down at the Lord's feet and listened to his message. But Martha was confused about her much table service. Now she stood by, saying, "Lord, Doesn't it concern you that my sister has abandoned me to serve alone? Therefore, tell her that she should assist with me."
But the Lord answered, saying to her, "Martha, Martha, you are anxious and you are troubled about many things! But there is need of one thing. For Miriam has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her."
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11:1 Now during a time when he was in a certain place praying, it happened as he stopped that a certain one of his students said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his students." Now he said to them, "When you pray, say:
And he said to them, "Who among you would have a friend and would go to him at midnight, and would say to him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves, for my friend has happened by me from his way, and I have nothing to place before him.' And he, answering from inside, should say, 'Don't cause me trouble. The door has been closed already, and my children are with me in bed. I am unable to get up to give to you.'
"I am telling you, if he will not even get up and give to him on account of being his friend, indeed on account of his relentlessness, he will rise up and give him as much as he needs.
"And I am telling you:
"Ask, and it will be given to you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened
to you. For everyone who asks, receives, and the one who seeks, finds, and it is opened to the
one who knocks.
"Now what father from among you, if a son asks for a fish, would he provide a serpent instead of a fish? Or also, if he should ask for an egg, would he supply him with a scorpion? Therefore, if you who exist as evil people know to give good gifts to your children, how much rather will the father from Heaven give holy breath to those who ask him?"
14 And he was casting out a spirit being, and it was one of muteness. Now after the spirit being came out, it happened that the mute person spoke, and the crowds wondered. But certain ones from among them said, "He is casting out the spirit beings by Ba'al Zebul, the ruler of the spirit beings!" But others, testing, sought from him a sign from heaven.
Now, knowing their minds, he said to them, "Every kingdom that is divided against itself is made desolate, and house divided against house falls. Now if also the Enemy is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? Because you are saying me to be casting out the spirit beings by Ba'al Zebul. But if I by Ba'al Zebul I am casting out the spirit beings, by whom do your sons cast them out? On account of this, they will be your judges.
"But if by God's finger I am casting out the spirit beings, God's kingdom has reached you.
"When the strong one who is armed guards his palace, his possessions are at peace. But whenever one stronger than he is comes up and overcomes him, he takes away his full armament, about which he was persuaded, and they distribute his spoils. The one who is not with me is against me, and the one who is not gathering with me is scattering.
"When the unclean spirit comes out from a human being, it passes through arid places, seeking a resting-place. And when not finding one, then it says, 'I will return to my house, from which I came out.' And when it comes, it finds it swept clean and adorned. Then it goes and it takes along seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and dwell there. And the last state of that person has become worse than the first."
Now while he was saying these things, it happened that a certain woman lifted up her voice from out of the crowd and said to him, "Blessed is the womb that bore you, and blessed are the breasts that you sucked!" But he said, "Blessed rather are those who hear God's message and who guard it."
29 Now as the crowds were collecting together, he began to say, "This generation is an evil generation. It seeks a sign, and a sign will not be given to it, except for the sign of Yonah. For just as Yonah happened as a sign to the Ninevites, in the same way the Son of Man will also be a sign to this generation.
"The southern queen will be raised up in the judgment with the men of this generation and will condemn them. Because she came from the outlying areas of the land to hear Solomon's wisdom, and look: greater than Solomon is here.
"Ninevite men will stand up in the judgment with this generation and will condemn it. Because they changed their minds at Yonah's heralding, and look: greater than Yonah is here.
"No one who has lit a lamp places it into a secret place, o but on the lampstand, so that the ones who go in might see the light. The lamp of the body is your eye. When your eye should be sound, the whole body is also enlightened. But when it should be evil, the body is also darkened. Therefore, if your whole body is enlightened, not having any part darkened, the whole will be enlightened, like when the lamp enlightens you with its radiance."
Now while he was speaking, a Perush asked him, so that he might have dinner with him. Now he entered and reclined. Now the Perush noticed, and he wondered, because he did not first ritually cleanse before the dinner. But the Lord said to him, "Now you Perushim cleanse the outside of the cup and the platter, but your insides are filled with plunder and evil. Mindless people! Didn't the one who made the outside also make the inside? However, give the things that are within as charitable deeds, and look, all of you is clean!
"But woe to you Perushim! Because you give a tenth from the mint and the rue, and every kind of shrub, and you bypass the justice and the love of God! But it is necessary for you to have done the latter things, and not to put off the former ones!
"Woe to you Perushim! Because you love the front seats in the gatherings and the greetings in the marketplaces.
"Woe to you, because you are like those unseen tombs, and the people walk about on top of them, unknowingly."
But a certain one of the lawyers answered, saying to him, "Teacher, in saying these things, you are reproaching us also."
Now he said, "And woe to you lawyers! Because you load up people with oppressive loads, and you yourselves do not reach for the burdens with one of your fingers.
"Who to you, because you construct the tombs of the prophets, but your ancestors killed them. Indeed, you are witnesses and you consent together to the deeds of your ancestors, because indeed, they killed them, but you are constructing. On account of this also, God's wisdom said:
"'I will send prophets and envoys to them, and from among them, they will kill some, and they will persecute some, so that the blood of all the prophets that was shed from the laying down of creation would be sought out from this generation: from Abel's blood until Zachariah's blood, who was destroyed between the place of sacrifice and his house. Yes, I am telling you, it will be sought out from this generation!
"Woe to you lawyers! Because you took away the key of knowledge. You yourselves did not enter in, and you have hindered those who come in."
After coming out from there, the scribes and the Perushim began to hold on terribly to anger and to draw statements from his mouth about many things, lying in wait for him, so that they might accuse him.
XXXII
12:1 While those tens of thousands of the crowd were gathered together, so as to step on one another, he began to say to his students, "First, hold yourselves away from the yeast--that is, hypocrisy--of the Perushim. Now nothing has been hidden away which will not be revealed and hidden which will not be made known. In light of this, what you speak in the darkness will be heard in the light, and what is spoken to the ear in closets will be heralded on the rooftops.
"Now I am telling you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who are killing the body, and after these things they have no abundance of things to do. But I will show you someone you should fear! Fear the one who has authority after killing to throw you into Gehenna. Yes, I am telling you, fear this one!
"Aren't five sparrows sold for two assarii? And not one of them is forgotten in God's presence. But also, the hairs of your head have all been numbered. Do not be afraid: you are valued above many sparrows!
"Now I am telling you, each one who should ever acknowledge with me in the presence of people, the Son of Man will also acknowledge with him in the presence of God's messengers. But the one who has denied me in the presence of people will be denied in the presence of God's messengers.
"And each one who speaks a statement at the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him. But the one who speaks evil at the holy Spirit will not be forgiven.
"Now when they bring you into the gatherings, and to the rulers and the authorities, do not be anxious about how you should defend yourselves, or about what you should say. For during that hour, the holy Spirit will give you what it is necessary to say."
Now someone from the crowd said to him, "Teacher, tell my brother to apportion the inheritance with me." But he said to him, "O human, "who set me down to be judge or arbiter over you?"" Now he said to them, "See and guard yourselves from all greed, because someone's life is not measured out of the abundance of his possessions."
Now he said an analogy to them, saying, "The farm of certain wealthy person produced well. And he reasoned within himself, saying, 'What will I do? Because I don't have a place where I will gather my fruits.' And he said, 'I will do this: I will tear down my granaries, and I will construct greater ones, and I will gather all of my grain and good things there. And I will say to my life, "Life, you have many good things that are laid up for many years. Rest, eat, drink, be glad."' But God said to him, 'You unwise person! This night they will require your life from you, but for whom will be what you have prepared?'
It is the same way for the one who treasures things for himself and is not wealthy for God."
Now he said to his students, "On account of this, I am telling you, do not be anxious about your life (what you may eat) nor for your body (what you may wear. For the life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing. Be mindful of the ravens, because they do not sow, neither do they reap. No storehouse or granary is theirs, and God feeds them. How much rather are you more valuable than birds?
"Now which of you by being anxious is able to add one moment to his lifespan? Therefore, if you are unable to do the least, why are you anxious about the remaining things?
"Be mindful of the lilies. How do they grow? They neither labor nor spin. But I am telling you, not even Solomon in all his glory was dressed like one of these!
"Now, since God clothes the grass of the field this way, though it exists today and is cast into a furnace tomorrow, how much rather will he give to you, oh you who scarcely trust?
"And do not seek what you will eat, and what you will drink, and do not be fixed in suspense. These are all things that the nations of creation are hunting, but the Father knows that you need these things. However, you seek his kingdom, and these things will be added to you. Do not be afraid, little flock, because it has delighted your Father to give you the kingdom.
"Sell your possessions and give charitable donations. Make for yourselves pouches that do not age: an inexhaustible treasure in the heavens, where a no thief comes near, neither does a moth corrupt. For wherever your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
"Stand "with your belt buckled around your waist" and your lamps burning. And you be like people who are expecting their Lord, when he is released from the wedding feasts, so that when he comes and knocks, it would be opened to him immediately. Blessed are those slaves whom the Lord will find being vigilant when he comes! Indeed, I am telling you that he will buckle his belt, and he will have them recline, and he will come forward and serve them. And if he comes and finds it this way during the second or the third guard, blessed are they!
"Now you know this: that if the ruler of the house had known at what hour the thief would come, he would not have allowed him to dig through into his house. You become prepared also, because at an hour you are not thinking of, the Son of Man is coming."
41 Now Peter said, "Lord, are you telling this analogy to us or to everyone also?" And the Lord said, "Who then is the trustworthy, the mindful steward, whom the Lord will set down over his curings, to give seasonally the proper measure of wheat? Blessed is that slave, whom his lord finds doing things this way when he comes. I tell you truly that he will set him down over all his possessions.
"But if that slave should say in his heart, 'My lord is prolonging the time until his coming,' and if he begins to strike the servant boys and the servant girls, and to eat up food and drink and get drunk, the lord of that slave will come during a day when he isn't expecting it and in an hour that he doesn't know, and he will divide himself from him and he will place his portion with the distrustful.
"But that slave, who knew what his lord wanted and was not prepared, nor did what he wanted, he will be beaten many times. But the one who did not know, but who did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten little. Now much will be sought from the one to whom much is given, and they will ask for more from the one with whom they deposited much.
"I came to throw fire on the land, and what would I want, if it were already kindled? But I have to be baptized with a baptism, and oh how I am being held until whenever it is completed! Do you think that I have happened by to give peace to the land? No, I tell you! On the contrary, I will give division.
"For from now on, five will be in one house, divided--three on two and two on three. Father divided against son and "son against father." Mother against daughter and "daughter against mother." Mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and "daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.""
54 Now he also said to the crowds, "When you notice the cloud rising up in the west, you quickly say that, 'A shower is coming,' and so it happens. And when the south wind blows, you say that, 'It will be hot,' and it happens. Hypocrites! You know how to examine the face of the land and the sky, but how don't you know to examine this season?!
"Now why don't you judge what is just, even from yourselves? For as you go up with your opponent to a ruler, give work on the way to be released from him, lest he should drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you up to the official, and the official throw you into jail. I am telling you, you will by no means get out of there until you have paid even the last lepton!"
XXXIII
13:1 Now certain people were present during this season, relating to him about the Galilaians, whose blood Pilatus mixed with their sacrifices. And he answered, saying to them, "Do you think that those Galilaians became sinners beyond all those in Galilaiah because they suffered these things? No, I tell you. But if you don't change your minds, all of you will be destroyed similarly. Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam, and it killed them, do you think that they happened to be debtors beyond all those people who dwelt in Jerusalem? No, I tell you. But if you do not change your minds, in the same way, all of you will be destroyed."
Now he told this analogy: "A certain person had a fig tree, planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit from it, and he didn't find any. Now he said to the gardener, 'Look, I have come for three years seeking fruit from this fig tree, and I find none. Therefore, chop it down. Why should it make the land useless?' But he answered, saying to him, 'Lord, leave it this year also, until I dig and cast a dung heap around it--to see if indeed it might make fruit for the time to come. But if not, you may chop it down.'"
XXXIV
10 Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues during the Sabbath days. And look, there was a woman who had a spirit of weakness for eighteen years, and she was bent over and was unable to straighten up at any time. Now when Jesus noticed her, he called out to her and said to her, "Woman, you are released from your weakness." And he placed his hands on her, and immediately she became upright, and she glorified God.
But the ruler of the synagogue, being indignant, answered this by saying to the crowd, "There are six days during which it is necessary to work. Therefore, come and be cured during these, and not on the Sabbath day." But the Lord answered him, saying, "Hypocrites! Which one of you would not let his ox or his donkey go from the stall, and lead it to drink? But wasn't it necessary to loose this woman from this bond on the Sabbath, who is a daughter of Abraham, who was bound by the Enemy, look, for eighteen years?"
And at his saying this, all of his opponents were disgraced, and all the crowd rejoiced at all the glorious things that were being done by him.
18 Therefore he said, "What is God's kingdom like? And to what will I liken it? It is like a mustard grain, which a person took and cast into his garden. And it grew, and it became a tree, and "the birds of the sky nested in its branches."" And again he said, "To what will I liken God's kingdom? It is like yeast, which a woman took and mixed into three sata of meal until the whole was leavened."
XXXV
22 And he went through cities and villages, teaching. And he went on, making for Jerusalem. Now someone said to him, "Lord, is it a little number who are being saved?" Now Jesus said to him, "Struggle to enter through the small door, because I am telling you: many will seek to enter, and they will not be strong enough.
"From the time when the ruler of the house rises up and shuts the door, then if you should begin to stand outside and knock at the door, saying, 'Lord, open it for us,' he will also answer, telling you, 'I don't know you. Where are you from?' Then you will begin to say, 'We have eaten and have drunk in your presence, and you taught in our open places.'
"And he will say, 'I am telling you, I don't know you. Where are you from? "All you people get away from me who are workers of injustice!" There will be crying and the grinding of teeth when you see Abraham and Isaak and Jacob and all the prophets in God's kingdom, and when you see yourself outside being cast out. And they will come from east and west, and from north and south, and they will recline in God's kingdom. And look, they are last who will be first, and they are first who will be last."
XXXVI
31 During that hour, certain Perushim came to him, saying to him, "Come out, go away from here, because Herod wants to kill you!" And he said to them, "God and say to that fox, look, I am casting out spirit beings, and I am completing healings today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will have completed. However, it is necessary for me to go on today and tomorrow and on the coming day, because it is not received that a prophet may be destroyed outside of Jerusalem.
"Oh Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who were sent out to her! How often I wanted to gather up your children in the manner of a bird gathering her chicks under her wings! And you didn't want it. Look, your household is being hurled away to you, and I am telling you: You will not see me until the time comes when you say, "The one who comes in Yahweh's name is praiseworthy.""
XXXVII
14:1 And as he was coming into a house of one of the rulers of the Perushim on a Sabbath to eat bread, it happened that they were scrutinizing him. And look, a certain person who had dropsy was in his presence. And Jesus answered and spoke to the lawyers and Perushim, saying, "Is it legal to cure on the Sabbath or not?" But they were quiet. And Jesus took hold of him and cured him, and he let him go. And he said to them, "Which of you, if your son or ox should fall into a pit, would not immediately lift him out during the Sabbath?" And they were not strong enough to reply back to these things.
7 Now paying attention to the way they were choosing the first places, he told an analogy to those who had been called, saying to them, "When you are called by someone to a wedding feast, do not recline at the first place, lest someone more honorable than you should have been invited by him, and then the one who called you and him will say to you, 'Give this person a place.' And then you will begin with shame to hold the last place.
"On the contrary, when you are called, go recline at the last place, so that when the one who called you comes, he will say to you, 'Friend, make your way up to a higher place.' Then it will be a glory to you in the presence of all those who are reclining together with you, because each one who elevates himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be elevated."
12 Now also, he said to the one who had called him, "When you make a meal or a dinner, don't sound out for your friends, nor your brothers, nor your relatives, nor your wealthy neighbors, lest they also call you in return, and repayment would be done to you. On the contrary, when you make a feast, call poor people, maimed people, lame people, blind people. And you will be blessed, because they don't have authority to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the just."
Now a certain one of those who were reclined together heard these things and said to him, "Blessed is the one who will eat bread in God's kingdom!" But Jesus said to him, "A certain person made a great dinner, and he called many. And he sent out his slave at the hour of the dinner to say to those whom he had called, 'Come, because it is now ready.' And they began with one accord to all excuse themselves.
"The first said to him, 'I bought a field, and I have a necessity to go out to see it. I am asking you, have me excused.' And another said, 'I bought five yokes of oxen, and I am going to examine them. I am asking you, have me excused.' And another said, 'I married a woman, and on account of this it is impossible for me to come.'
"And when the slave came by, he related these things to his lord. Then the ruler of the house got angry and said to his slave, "Exit quickly into the open squares and streets of the city, and lead poor people, and maimed people, and blind people, and lame people in here.' And the slave said, 'Lord, what you directed has been done, and yet there is room.' And the lord said to the slave, 'Exit into the roads and hedges, and necessitate people to enter, so that my house would be filled up. For I am telling you that none of those men who had been invited will taste my dinner!"
XXXVIII
25 Now many people, crowds, were going with him, and he turned and said to them, "If someone comes to me and does not hate his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters--both these and even his life-- he is unable to be my student. The one who doesn't bear his cross and come after me is unable to be my student.
"For which of you who wants to construct a tower does not first sit down to calculate the cost, to see if he has enough for the final crafting? (So that) otherwise, after laying his foundation and not being strong enough to complete it, all those who were watching would begin to mock him, saying that, 'This person began to construct and was not strong enough to complete it.'
"Or what king goes to another king, to take him into battle, and does not first sit down and make a plan, to see if he is able with ten thousand people to meet the one that is coming against him with twenty thousand? But if indeed he is unable, while he is far away, doesn't he sent out an ambassador and ask for peace?
"Therefore similarly, each of you who does not put away all his possessions is unable to be my student. Therefore, salt is nice, but if the salt is also made stupid, in what will it be salted? It is useful for neither land nor a dung heap. They throw it out. The one who has ears to hear should hear."
XXXIX
15:1 Now all the tribute takers and the sinners were drawing near to him to hear him. And both the Perushim and the scribes were grumbling, saying, "He is receiving sinners and is eating with them." But he told this analogy to them, saying:
"What person from among you who has one hundred sheep and who loses one of them does not abandon the ninety-nine in the desert and go after the lost one until he finds it? And after finding it, he places it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And after coming into the house, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, 'Rejoice with me, because I have found my sheep that was lost!' I am telling you that in this way there will be rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who changes his mind, more than over ninety-nine just people who have no need of mental change.
8 "Or what woman who has ten drachmas, if she loses one drachma, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek carefully until she finds it? And after finding it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, 'Rejoice with me, because I have found the drachma that was lost.' In this way, I am telling you, rejoicing happens in the presence of God's messengers over one sinner who changes his mind."
11 Now he said, "A certain person had two sons. And the younger of them said to the father, 'Father, give me the part of the property that falls to me.' And he divided his living between them.
"And after not many days, gathering everything, the younger son traveled abroad into a distant country, and there he scattered his property about, living imprudently. Now after he spent it all, a strong famine happened in that country, and he began to lack food.
"And he went and joined up with one of the citizens of that country, and that one sent him into his fields to feed pigs. And he strongly desired to be well fed by the pods that the pigs were eating, and no one gave him any.
"But he came to himself and said, 'So many of my father's hirelings have an abundance of bread! But here I am, hungry and lost. I will get up and go to my father and say to him, "Father, I have sinned before heaven and in your presence. I am not even worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hirelings."' And he rose up and went to his father.
"Now while he was still at a distance, his father noticed him, and he felt compassion, and he ran and fell on his neck and kissed him passionately. But the son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned before heaven and in your presence. I am not even worthy to be called your son.' But the father said to his slaves, 'Quickly bring out the foremost robe and clothe him. And give him a ring for his hand and sandals for his feet. And bring the fatted calf, and sacrifice it, and let us eat and be glad, because my son was dead and is alive again. He was lost and has been found.' And they began to be glad.
"But his son, the older one, was in a field. And as he was coming near to the house, he heard a group of musical instruments and a group of singers, and he called one of the servant boys to him and inquired whatever these things might be. Now he said to him that, 'Your brother has come, and your father has sacrificed the fatted calf, because he has received him back healthy.'
"Now he was angry and did not want to enter. But his father exited and called him aside. Now he answered, saying to his father, 'Look: for so many years I have slaved for you, and I have never bypassed your precept. And you never gave me a goat, so that I would be glad with my friends. But when this son of yours came, the one who devoured your living with prostitutes, for HIM you sacrificed the fatted calf!'
"Now he said to him, 'Child, you are always with me. And all things that are mine, are yours. But it is necessary to be glad and to rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and is now alive. And he was lost, and has been found!'"
XL
16:1 Now he said to his students, "A certain person who was wealthy had a steward who was accused before him of wasting his possessions. And he called for him and said to him, 'What is this I hear about you? Give me an account of your stewardship. For you are unable to still be a steward.' But the steward said within himself, 'What will I do? Because my lord is removing the stewardship from me. I don't have the strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg.
"'I know what I will do, so that when I am put off of my stewardship they will receive me into their houses.' And calling each one of his lord's debtors to him, he said to the first, 'For how much are you indebted to my lord?' Now he said, 'One hundred baths of oil.' Now he said to him, 'Receive your receipt. Also sit down quickly and write one for fifty.'
"Then he said to another one, 'Now how much are you indebted?' Now he said, 'One hundred cors of wheat.' He said to him, 'Receive your receipt, and write one for eighty.' And the lord praised the unjust steward because he had done prudently. Because the sons of this age are more prudent for their generation than are the sons of light.
"And I am telling you, make friends for yourselves from the unjust mammon, so that when it should fail, they will receive you into eternal tents. The one who is trustworthy with a little is also trustworthy with much, and the one who is unjust with a little is also unjust with much. Therefore, if you have not become trustworthy with the unjust mammon, who will entrust a true thing to you? And if you have not become trustworthy in the other things, who will give you what is yours?
"No house servant is able to be enslaved to two lords. For either he will hate one and love the other, or he will hold on to one and ignore the other. You are unable to serve God and Mammon."
14 Now the Perushim, who are money-lovers, heard these things, and they mocked him. And he said to them, "You are the ones who are justifying yourselves in the presence of human beings, but God knows your hearts. Because what is elevated among humans is an abomination in God's presence. The Torah and the Prophets were until John. From then, God's kingdom has been announced as a good message, and everyone is invading it. But it is easier for the sky and the land to pass away than for one diacritical mark to fall from the Torah.
"Each one who lets his wife go and who marries another is committing adultery. And the one who marries the one who was let go by a man is committing adultery.
19 "Now there was a certain wealthy person. And he was clothed in purple and fine linen, being brightly glad every day. But a certain poor one named Lazaros was laid facing toward his gate, covered in sores and strongly desiring to be well fed by that which fell from the wealthy person's table. But also the dogs came and licked his sores.
"Now it happened that the poor one died, and he was brought away by messengers into Abraham's bosom. Now the rich one died also and was buried. And in Hades, being in torment, he lifted his eyes and saw Abraham from a long distance, and Lazaros in his bosom. And he sounded out, saying, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazaros, so that he might dip the tip of his finger in water and might cool my tongue. Because I am in pain in this flame!'
"But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that during your life you received good things, and similarly Lazaros received bad things. But now here he is comforted, but you are in pain. And among all these things, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed. And so, the ones who want to cross over from here to you are unable. Nor are you able to cross over from there to us.'
"Now he said, 'Then I am begging you, father, so that you would send him into my father's house (for I have five brothers)--so that he might fully testify to them, in order that they would not also come into this place of torment.' But Abraham said, 'They have Moses and the prophets. They should hear them.'
"But he said, 'No, father Abraham. But if someone should go to them from the dead, they will change their minds.' But he said to him, 'If they will not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if someone should rise from among the dead."
XLI
17:1 Now he said to his students, "It is impossible for stumbling blocks not to come. However, woe to the one through whom they come! There would be more freedom for him if a stone of milling were hung around his neck, and if he were hurled into the sea, than for him to cause one of these little ones to stumble! Watch out for yourselves.
"If your brother should sin, censure him. And if he should change his mind, forgive him. And if he sins against you seven times daily, and if he turns back to you seven times, saying, 'I'm changing my mind,' you will forgive him."
5 And the envoys said to the lord, "Add to our trust." Now the Lord said, "If you have trust like a grain of mustard, you would even say to this sycamore tree, 'Be uprooted and be planted in the sea,' and it would even listen to you.
"Now which of you who has a slave that ploughs or feeds cattle will say to him as he is entering from the field, 'Immediately go and recline?' On the contrary, won't he tell him, 'Make ready what I am to have for supper; and after you wrap yourself, serve me until I have eaten and drunk; and after these things, you will eat and drink?' He has no thanks for the slave, because he did what he was directed to do. So also it will be for you, when you have done all the things that were directed to you. You will say that, 'We are unnecessary slaves, because we only did what we were bound to do.'"
XLII
11 Now while he was going into Jerusalem, it happened that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilaiah. And as he was entering into a certain village, ten lepers--who were standing from afar--met him. And they were sounding off, saying, "Master Jesus, have mercy on us!" And he noticed and said to them, "Go show yourselves to the priests." And while they were going up, it happened that they were cleansed.
Now one of them, noticing that he had been cured, returned, glorifying God with a loud
voice. And he prostrated at Jesus' feet, thanking him. And he was a Samaritan. Now Jesus
answered, saying, "Weren't there ten that I cured? But where are the nine? Weren't any found to
return to give glory to God except this stranger?" And he said to him, "Rise up and go. Your
trust has saved you."
XLIII
20 Now when he was questioned by the Perushim as to when God's kingdom was coming, he answered, saying, "God's kingdom isn't coming with scrutiny. Nor will they say, 'Look, it's here or there.' For look, God's kingdom is within you."
22 Now he said to the students, "Days will come when you will strongly desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see one. And they will say to you, 'Look there,' or, 'look here.' Do not go away, nor should you follow. For just as that lightning that flashes from under the sky shines into another part of the sky, so will the Son of Man be in his day.
"But first it is necessary for him to suffer many things and to be rejected by this generation. And just as it happened in the days of Noah, it will be the same way in the days of the Son of Man. They were eating, they were drinking, they were getting married, they were being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all.
"Similarly, this is just as it happened in the days of Lot. They were eating, they were drinking, they were purchasing, they were selling, they were planting, they were constructing. But on the day Lot exited from Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.
"It will be according to the same things on the day when the Son of Man is revealed. In that day, don't let the one who is on the roof, with his goods in the house, descend to pick them up. And similarly, don't let the one who is in the field turn back. Remember Lot's wife!
"The one who might seek to acquire his life will lose it, but the one who should ever lose it will save it. I am telling you: That night there will be two people on one bed; one will be taken along, the other will be dropped."
And they answered, saying to him, "Where, Lord?" Now he said to them, "Where the body is, there also will the vultures be gathered."
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18:1 Now for them to see it necessary to always pray and not to be weary, he told an analogy to them, saying, "There was a certain judge in a certain city who didn't fear God and didn't give place to any person. Now there was a widow in that city, and she came to him, saying, 'Grant justice for me from my opponent.' And he did not want to for a time. But after these things, he said within himself, 'Even if I don't fear God or give place to any person, indeed on account of the trouble that this widow brings me, I will grant her justice, so that in the end she should not come to bother me!'"
Now the Lord said, "Hear what the unjust judge says. But won't God grant justice for those of his chosen ones who cry out to him day and night? And he is longsuffering toward them. I am telling you that he will do justice for them in a quick time. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he indeed find trust on the land?"
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9 Now he also told this analogy to certain ones who had persuaded themselves that they were just, and who despised others:
"Two people went up into the temple court to pray. One was a Perush, and the other was a tribute taker. The Perush, standing by himself, prayed these things, 'God, I thank you that I am not like the remaining people: plunderers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tribute taker. I fast twice a week. I give a tenth of all that I acquire.'
"But the tribute taker, who was standing a large distance away, did not want to even lift his eyes up to heaven. On the contrary, he struck his chest, saying, 'God, make atonement for me, the sinner!'
"I am telling you, the latter one went down to his house more justified than the former. Because each one who elevates himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be elevated."
15 Now they also brought babies to him, so that he would touch them. But when the students noticed, they censured them. But Jesus called them to him, saying, "Allow the children to come to me, and don't forbid them. For God's kingdom belongs to ones like these. Indeed, I am telling you: whoever does not accept God's kingdom like a child will by no means enter into it!"
18 And a certain one of the rulers questioned him, saying, "Good Teacher, what should I do to inherit eternal life?" But Jesus said to him, "Why do you say I am good? No one is good except God. You know the precepts:
""Do not commit adultery. Do not kill. Do not steal. Do not testify falsely. Honor your father and mother.""
But he said, "I have been guarding these things from my youth." Now Jesus, having heard, said to him, "One thing still remains. Sell all of what you have, and give to poor people, and you will have a treasure in the heavens, and come follow me." Now when he heard these things, he became very sorrowful, for he was extremely wealthy.
And when Jesus noticed it, he became very sorrowful and said, "How hard it is for those who have high-priced things to go into God's kingdom! For it is easier for a camel to enter through the hole of a dart than for a wealthy person to enter into God's kingdom!"
Now those who were hearing said, "And who is able to be saved?" But he said, "The things that are impossible with human beings are possible with God." But Peter said, "Look, we have left our own things and followed you."
But he said to him, "Indeed I am telling you that there is no one who has left a wife or brothers or parents or children on account of God's kingdom who will not receive many times more in this season, and eternal life in the coming age."
31 Now when he took aside the Twelve, he said to them, "Look, we are going up into Jerusalem, and all of the things that were written through the prophets will be completed by the Son of Man. For he will be delivered up to the gentiles, and he will be mocked, and he will be reproached, and he will be spit on, and after whipping him they will kill him, and he will resurrect during the third day."
And they understood none of these things, and this declaration was hidden from them, and they did not know what was being spoken.
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35 Now while he was nearing Jericho, it happened that a certain blind man was seated by the road, begging. Now when he heard a crowd going by, he inquired as to what this might be. Now they related to him that Jesus the Nazarene was coming by. And he shouted, saying, "Jesus, son of David! Have mercy on me!"
And the ones who were going ahead of Jesus censured him, so that he would be silent, but he cried out still more, "Son of David, have mercy on me!" Now Jesus stood still and gave word for the man to be led to him. Now when he got near, Jesus inquired of him, "What do you want me to do for you?"
Now he said, "Sir, do something so that I might see again." And Jesus said to him, "See again. Your trust has saved you." And immediately he could see again, and he followed him, glorifying God. And when all the people noticed, they gave praise to God.
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19:1 And after entering, he was going through Jericho. And look, there was a man whose name was called Zacchai, and he was a chief tribute taker, and he was wealthy. And he sought to see who Jesus was, and was unable because of the crowd, because his stature was small. And he ran in front and climbed up a sycamore tree, so that he might see him, because he was about to come by.
And as he came to the place, Jesus looked up and said to him, "Zacchai, hurry. Climb down, for today it is necessary for me to stay in your house." And he hurried and climbed down, and he received Jesus rejoicing.
And when they noticed, they all griped, saying, "He went to lodge with a man who is a sinner." But Zacchai stood up and said to the Lord, "Look, I give half of my possessions to the poor, Lord. And if I have extorted from anyone, I give back fourfold." Now Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has happened to this house, because he is also a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what had been lost."
11 Now as they heard these things, he continued and told an analogy, on account of his nearness to Jerusalem, and because they thought that God's kingdom was about to immediately appear. Therefore, he said:
"A certain nobleman went into a distant country, to take a kingdom for himself and to return. Now after calling ten of his slaves, he gave them ten manim and said to them, 'Do business, during which I will come.'
"But his citizens hated him, and they sent out a group of ambassadors after him, saying, 'We don't want this one to be king over us!' And it happened that when he came back after receiving his kingdom, he told those servants to whom he had given the silver to sound off to him, so that he would know what each one had done in business.
"Now the first happened by, saying, 'Lord, your maneh has been worked into ten for you.' And he said to him, 'Well done, good slave! Because you became trustworthy in a small thing, have authority over ten cities.'
"And the second one came, saying, 'Lord, your maneh has been made into five manim.' Now he said also to this one, 'And you become over five cities.'
"And another came saying, 'Lord, look at your maneh, which I had, folded up in a napkin. For I was afraid of you, because you are a difficult person. You take up what you have not set down, and you reap what you have not sown.'
"He said to him, 'I will judge you out of your own mouth, you evil slave! You knew that I am a difficult person, taking up what I have not set down reaping what I have not sown. And why didn't you give my silver to a bank, and when I came I might have used it in business with interest?'
"And to those who were standing by, he said, 'Remove the maneh from him, and give it to the one who has the ten manim.' And they said to him, 'Lord, he has ten manim.'
"'I am telling you that it will be given to everyone who has. But from the one who doesn't have, even what he has will be removed. However, lead those enemies of mine here who did not want me to be king over them, and slaughter them in my presence.'"
And after saying these things, he went on ahead, going up into Jerusalem.
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29 And as he was nearing Bethfagge and Bethany, at the mountain called Olive Trees, it happened that he sent out two of the students, saying, "Go up into the village over there. When you enter, you will find in it a colt, tied up, on which no human beings ever sat. And untie it, and lead it back. And if someone should ask you, 'Why are you untying it,' you will say this: 'Because the Lord has need of it.'"
Now the ones who had been sent forth went out and found it, just as he had told them. Now as they were untying the colt, its lords said to them, 'Why are you untying the colt?' Now they said, 'Because the Lord has need of it.' And they led it to Jesus, and after casting their cloaks on the colt, they secured Jesus on it. Now as he was going, they spread out their cloaks on the road.
Now as he was already nearing to the descent of the Mountain of Olive Trees, all the multitude of students began, rejoicing, to praise God, with a loud voice about all the powerful things that they had seen, saying, '"The king who comes in Yahweh's name is praised!" Peace in heaven, and glory in the high places!"
And some of the Perushim from the crowd said to him, "Teacher, censure your students!" And he answered, saying, "I am telling you, if they become mute, the rocks will cry out!"
And as he neared, he noticed the city and cried about it, saying, "If only you knew in this day the things that are directed toward peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes. Because days will come upon you when your enemies will throw an embankment around you, and they will hold you on every side. And they will flatten you and your children that are in you. And no stone in you will be left on top of a stone. About this, you don't know the season of your oversight."
45 And he entered into the temple court and began to throw out those who were selling, telling them, "It was written, "And my house will be a house of prayer." But you have made it "a den of robbers."" And he was there, teaching in the temple court by day. Now the high priests and the scribes sought to destroy him, and so did the foremost ones of the people. And they did not find out what they might do, for the people were all hanging on, hearing him.
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20:1 And during one of the days, it happened as he was teaching the people in the temple court and announcing the good message that the high priests and the scribes were standing with the old people, and they spoke, saying to him, "Tell us, by what authority are you doing these things? Or who is it that gave you this authority?" Now he answered, saying to them, "And I will ask you a saying. So, tell me, was John's baptism from heaven or from people?"
But they reasoned to one another together, saying, "If we should say, 'from heaven,' he will say, 'Why didn't you trust him?' But if we should say, 'from people,' the people will all stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet.'" And they answered, "We don't know where it was from." And Jesus said to them, "Neither am I telling you by what authority I am doing these things."
9 Now he began to tell this analogy to the people: "A certain person planted a vineyard, and he rented it to gardeners, and he went abroad many times. And one season, he sent out a slave to the gardeners, so that they would give him of the fruit of the vineyard. But the gardeners sent him away empty, after whipping him.
"And he continued to send another slave. But after beating and dishonoring this one too, they sent him away empty. And he continued to send a third. But they also wounded this one and threw him out.
"But the Lord of the vineyard said, 'What will I do? I will send my beloved son. When they see him, perhaps they will give place to him. But when they noticed him, the gardeners reasoned to one another, saying, 'This is the heir. We should kill him, so that the inheritance would become ours!' And they threw him outside of the vineyard and killed him.
"Therefore, what will the Lord of the vineyard do to them? He will come and will destroy those gardeners, and he will give the vineyard to others."
Now when they heard, they said, "May it not be!" Now he looked closely at them and said, "Then what is this that was written? "A stone that the builders rejected, this one has become a cornerstone." Each one who falls on that stone will be bruised. But the one on whom it may fall, it will pulverize him."
19 And at that hour the scribes and the high priests sought to lay hands on him, and they were afraid of the people, for they knew that he had told that analogy directed toward them. And in scrutinizing him, they sent out spies who were acting like they were just, so that they might lay hold of his saying, in order to deliver him over to the rule and authority of the Governor.
And they asked him, saying, "Teacher, we know that you speak and teach rightly, and that you do not receive appearance. On the contrary, you teach the way of God on truth. Is it legal or not for us to give a tribute tax to Caesar?"
Now, perceiving their craftiness, he said to them, "Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription does it have?" Now they said, "Caesar's." Now he said to them, "Then give Caesar's things to Caesar and God's things to God." And they were not strong enough to take hold of his declaration in the presence of the people, and they wondered at his answer and were silent.
27 But some of the Zadokites, who say there is no resurrection, came toward him and asked him, saying, "Teacher, Moses wrote for us, "If someone's brother should die" having a wife, and he should be "childless, his brother should take his wife and should raise up seed for his brother."
"Therefore, there were seven brothers. And the first took a wife and died childless. And the second and the third took her. Now similarly also the seven left behind no children and died. Lastly, the wife died also. Therefore, in the resurrection, whose wife of them will the woman become? For the seven had her as a wife."
And Jesus said to them, "The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage. But the ones who are considered worthy to obtain that age and the resurrection from among the dead neither marry nor are they given in marriage. For they are not able to still die. For those who are sons of the resurrection are equal to messengers and are sons of God.
"But that the dead rise, Moses also disclosed (at the bush), as he says, "Yahweh, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaak, and the God of Jacob." But he is not a god of dead people, but of living, for to him all are alive."
Now some of the scribes, answering, said, "Teacher, you have said well." For they did not dare to ask him anything any longer.
41 But he said to them, "How do you say that the Anointed One is David's descendant? For he, David, says in a scroll of psalms, "Yahweh said to my Lord, 'Sit at my right side until I place your enemies as a footstool for your feet." Therefore, David calls him Lord. And how is he his descendant?"
Now with all the people hearing, he said to his students, "Be careful about those scribes who want to walk in robes and who affectionately love greetings in the marketplaces and the front seats in the gatherings and the first places at the feasts. They are devouring the households of the widows, and they pray a long time for show. They will receive a more abundant judgment."
21:1 Now he looked up and noticed the wealthy people casting their gifts into the coffer. But he noticed a certain poor widow casting two lepta in there, and he said, "Truly, I am telling you that this poor widow has cast in more than all. For all of these have cast into the gifts out of their abundance, but this one, out of her poverty, has cast in all of her living."
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5 And to some who were saying, about the temple, that it was adorned with nice stones and offerings, he said, "These things that you are observing: days will come during which no stone will be left on a stone which will not be made to fall down."
But they asked him, saying, "Teacher, how then will these things be, and what will be the sign when these things are about to happen?"
Now he said, "See to it not to be deceived. For many will come on my name, saying, 'I am,' and, 'The season is nearing.' Do not go after them. For when you hear of wars and chaos, do not be frightened: for it is necessary for these things to happen first. But the end is not immediate."
Then he said to them, "Nation will rise upon nation, and kingdom upon kingdom, and there will be great earthquakes and famines and pestilences in places. And there will be both frights and great signs from heaven.
"Now before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you over into synagogues and jails, leading you out to kings and governors on account of my name. It will turn out to be a testimony for you.
"Therefore, place it in your hearts not to premeditate to make a defense. For I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all of your opponents will not be able to speak against or stand against. But you will be delivered over even by parents, and brothers, and relatives, and friends. And they will put some of you to death. And you will be hated by all on account of my name. And no hair from your head will by any means be destroyed. Acquire your souls with endurance.
"Now when you notice Jerusalem surrounded by encampments, then you should know that its desolation has come near. Then those who are in Judea should flee into the mountains, and those who are in the middle of it should depart out. And those who are in the country places should not enter Jerusalem. Because these are the days of retribution, so that all the things that were written would be fulfilled. Woe to those who hold babies in their bellies and to those who are nursing in those days! For there will be a great distress on the land and anger for this people. And they will fall by sword blades, and they will be led captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be stepped on by gentiles until seasons of gentiles should be fulfilled.
"And there will be signs with sun and moon and stars, and on the land anguish of nations in confusion; of the sea, a roar and tossing. There will be a fainting away of people from fear and an expectation of the things that are coming to the Empire. For "the powers of the heavens" will be shaken. And then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and much brilliance. But when these things are beginning to happen, straighten yourselves up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is nearing!"
And he told them an analogy: "Look at the fig tree and all the trees. When they are already spreading out, and when you see it for yourselves, you know that summer is already near. In the same way also, when you notice these things happening, know that God's kingdom is near. Indeed I am telling you that this generation will by no means pass away until even all things have happened. The sky and the land will pass away, but my words will by no means pass away.
"But pay attention to yourselves, lest your hearts be burdened with gluttony, and drunkenness, and life's anxieties, and that day should come upon you suddenly. For it will come upon all those who dwell on the face of all the land like a snare. But keep watch in every season, begging so that you might prevail to flee out of these things that are about to happen and to stand in the presence of the Son of Man."
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37 Now by day he was in the temple courts teaching. But at night he exited and lodged at that mountain which is called Olive Trees. And all the people were coming early to him to hear him in the temple courts. Now the feast of Unleavened Bread, which is called Passover, was nearing. And the high priests and the scribes sought how to kill him, for they feared the people.
Now the Enemy entered into Judah the one called Iscariot, who was from the number of the Twelve. And he went away and spoke with the high priests and captains about how he would deliver Jesus up to them. And they rejoiced, and they agreed to give him silver. And he fully acknowledged this, and he sought a good time to deliver him up to them without there being a crowd.
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22:7 Now the day of Unleavened Bread came, during which it was necessary to sacrifice the Passover lamb. And he sent out Peter and Johannes, saying, "Go and prepare the Passover for us, so that we may eat." Now they said to him, "Where do you want us to prepare it?" Now he said to them, "Look, after you enter the city, a person bearing a pitcher of water will meet you. Follow this one into the house into which he goes. And you will say to the ruler of the house, 'The teacher says to you, "Where is the chamber where I may eat the Passover with my students?"' And he will show you a large furnished upper room. Prepare the Passover there."
Now they went and found it just as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover.
14 And when the hour happened, he reclined, and the envoys reclined with him. And he said to them, "I have strongly desired with strong desire to eat this Passover with you before my suffering. For I am telling you that I will by no means eat it until it is fulfilled in God's kingdom. And after receiving a cup, he gave thanks and said, "Take this and divide it for yourselves. For I am telling you that I will by no means drink from now on of the vine's product until God's kingdom comes."
And, taking a loaf, he gave thanks and broke it, and he gave to them, saying, "This is that body of mine that is being given on your behalf. Do this for my remembrance." And he took the cup in the same way, after the dinner, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is being poured out on your behalf. However, look. The hand that is delivering me over is with mine on the table. Because indeed the Son of Man is going, according to what was defined. However, woe to that person through whom he is being delivered up."
24 Now also, it happened that there was an argument among them about which of them was thought to be greatest. But he said to them, "The kings of the nations are their lords, and the ones who exercise authority over them are called Benefactors. But it is not this way with you. On the contrary, the greatest among you should become as the youngest, and the governor should become like the one who serves.
"For who is greater--the one who reclines or the one who serves? Isn't it the one who reclines? But I am among you as the one who serves. Now you are the ones who have continued with me in my trials. And I am covenanting with you, just as my Father has covenanted a kingdom for me, so that you may dine and drink at my table in my kingdom and may sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
31 "Simon, Simon, look! The Enemy has asked a favor--to sift you like wheat. But I begged about you, so that your trust wouldn't fail. And when you have turned out, commit your brothers." But he said to him, "Lord, I am ready to go with you even to jail and to death!" But he said, "I am telling you, Peter, a rooster ((watch trumpet)) will not sound today until three times you deny that you know me."
And he said to them, "When I sent you out without a pouch or bag or sandals, did you lack anything?" Now they said, "Nothing." Now he said to them, "But now, the one who has a pouch should bring it, similarly bring a bag, and the one who doesn't have a sword should sell his cloak and purchase one. For I am telling you that it is necessary for this thing that was written to be completed in me: "and he was considered to be with lawless people." For also, the thing about me has a completion."
Now they said, "Lord, look, here are two swords." Now he said to them, "It is enough."
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39 And after exiting, he went according to custom to the mountain of the Olive Trees. Now his students were also following him. Now when it happened that he was at the place, he said to them, "Pray not to enter into trial." And he withdrew from them (about a stone's throw away), and he placed his knees on the ground, and he prayed, saying, "Father, if you plan it, take this cup away from me. However, do not let what I want but what you want happen."
And he got up from praying, and came to the students, and he found them sleeping from sorrow. And he said to them, "Why are you napping? Get up and pray, so that you might not enter into trial."
While he was still speaking, look, there was a crowd. And the one who is called Judah (one of the Twelve) was coming in front of them. And he came near Jesus and kissed him. But Jesus said to him, "Judah, Are you delivering over the Son of Man by a kiss?"
But those who were around him, noticing what was going to be, said, "Lord, should we strike with swords?" And one of them struck the high priest's slave and severed his right ear. But Jesus answered, saying, "You should stop at this point." And he touched the ear and healed him.
Now Jesus said to the high priests and captains of the temple and old people who had happened upon him, "You have come out with swords and clubs as though after a robber. By day, when I was with you in the temple courts, you didn't stretch out your hands at me. But this is your hour and the authority of darkness." Now they seized him and led him off and brought him into the High Priest's house.
54 But Peter was following from a large distance. Now they had kindled a fire in the midst of the courtyard, and they sat down together, and Peter sat in their midst. Now a certain female servant noticed him sitting down in the direction of the light, and she stared at him, and said, "This one was with him also." But he denied it, saying, "I don't know him, woman."
And after a short time, another noticed him and said, "You are also among them." But Peter said, "Person, I am not." And when about an hour had intervened, a certain other one forcefully asserted, saying, "In truth, this one was also with him. For he is even a Galilaian!" But Peter said, "Person, I don't know what you're saying!" And immediately, while he was still speaking, a rooster ((watch trumpet)) sounded.
And the Lord turned and looked at Peter, and Peter was reminded of the Lord's declaration, as he had said to him, "Before a rooster ((watch trumpet)) sounds today, you will deny me three times." And he went outside and cried bitterly.
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63 And the men who were holding him mocked and whipped him. And they blindfolded him and asked him, saying, "Prophesy! Who is the one that is striking you?" And they said much other evil talk to him.
66 And as day happened, the group of the people's older ones came together, both the high priests and scribes, and they led him up into their Sanhedrin, saying, "If you are the Anointed One, tell us." Now he said, "If I tell you, by no means will you believe. But if I ask, by no means will you answer. But from now on, the Son of Man will be sitting at the right side of God's power."
But all said, "Then you are God's son?" Now he said to them, "You are saying that I am." Now they said, "What testimony do we still have need of? For we ourselves have heard it from his mouth!"
23:1 And all the multitude of them got up and led him to Pilatus. Now they began to accuse him, saying, "We found this one turning aside our nation and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar. And he was saying that he himself is an anointed king."
But Pilatus asked him, saying, "Are you the King of the Jews?" But he answered him, saying, "You are saying that." Now Pilatus said to the high priests and the crowds, "I find no fault in this person." But they were insistent, saying, "He is stirring up the people, teaching in the whole of Judea, beginning even from Galilaiah to here."
Now when Pilatus heard, he asked if the person was a Galilaian, and when he recognized that he was from the authority of Herod, he sent him up to Herod, since he was also in Jerusalem in those days.
Now when Herod saw Jesus, he rejoiced greatly. For he was wanting for a considerable time to see him, on account of his having heard about him. And he was hoping to see some sign done by him. Now he asked him things with a considerable number of words, but he answered him nothing. Now the high priests and the scribes stood up and accused him vehemently. Now also, Herod (with his soldiers) despised him. And after mocking him, they tossed a luxurious robe around him and sent him back to Pilatus.
Now Herod and Pilatus became friends with one another on that day. For they had formerly been in enmity toward one another.
13 Now Pilatus called together the high priests and the rulers and the people, and he said to them, "You have brought this person to me as one who perverts the people. And look, after examining him in your presence, I have found in this person no fault like you are accusing him of. But neither has Herod, for he sent him back to us. And look, nothing worthy of death has been practiced by him. Therefore, after chastising him, I will release him."
But all together they cried out, saying, "Take this one away! Now release Bar-Abbas to us." (Bar-Abbas had been thrown in jail on account of a certain revolution that had happened in the city, and on account of a murder.)
But Pilatus again addressed them, since he wanted to release Jesus. But they sounded out, saying, "Crucify! Crucify him!" Now he told them the third time, "For what bad thing that this one has done? I have found no fault worthy of death in him. Therefore, after chastising him, I will release him."
But they were pressing him with loud voices, asking that he be crucified. And their soundings prevailed, and Pilatus judged to have their request be done. Now he released the one they were asking for, who had been thrown in jail on account of revolution and murder, and delivered up Jesus to their wishes.
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26 And as they led him away, they laid hands on a certain Kurenian, Simon, who came from the field, and they placed the cross on him to carry after Jesus. Now a great multitude of the people (and of those women who were lamenting and moaning about him) was following him. But Jesus turned to them and said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, don't cry over me. However, do cry over yourselves and over your children. Because look, days are coming during which they will say, 'Blessed are the barren and the wombs that have not given birth and the breasts which have never nursed.' Then they will begin "to say to the mountains, 'Fall on us,' and to the hills, 'Cover us.'" Because if these things are done while the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?"
Now also, others, two wrongdoers, were led with him to be put to death.
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33 And when they came to the place which is called Skull, they crucified him there, along with the wrongdoers, one indeed at his right and one at his left. "Now after they divided his garments," "they cast lots." And the people stood there, watching. Now also, the rulers were mocking, saying, "He saved others. He should save himself, if he is the Anointed, God's chosen one!" Now the soldiers were also mocking him, coming near, carrying vinegar to him, and saying, "If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!"
Now also, there was an inscription over him: "This one is the King of the Jews."
Now one of the wrongdoers who were hanging there spoke evil of him, saying, "Aren't you the Anointed One? Save yourself...and us!" But the other one answered, censuring him by saying, "Don't you fear God? Because you are under the same sentence, and indeed we were sentenced justly. For we are receiving what is worthy of what we practiced, but this one has practiced nothing out of place."
And he said to Jesus, "Remember me when you come into your kingdom." And he said to him, "Indeed I am telling you, today you will be with me in Paradise." And it was already about the sixth hour, and darkness happened to the whole land until the ninth hour, with the sun failing.
Now the curtain of the temple was divided down the middle. And Jesus, sounding out with a loud voice, said, "Father, "into your hands I commit my spirit."" Now after saying this, he expired. Now when the centurion noticed what happened, he glorified God, saying, "Surely, this person was just." And all the crowds who had happened by together to see this sight watched what had happened and returned, pounding their chests. Now all those who knew him and those women who had followed along with him from Galilaiah, stood at a large distance, seeing these things.
LVIII
50 And look, a man named Yosef, who was a Council member and a good and just man. (This one had not consented to their plan and practice). He was from Aramathaea, a city of the Judeans; he was expecting God's kingdom. This one came to Pilatus and asked for Jesus' body. And he took it down and wrapped it in linen and placed it in a tomb in a cave, in which no one had ever been laid. And it was the Day of Preparation, and the Sabbath was approaching.
Now the women who were the ones that had come with him from Galilaiah, were following after them. They observed the tomb and how his body was placed. Now they returned and prepared fragrances and ointments. And indeed they rested on the Sabbath according to the precept.
LIX
24:1 Now on the first day of the week, at early morning, they came to the tomb, carrying what fragrances they had prepared. Now they found that the stone had been rolled away from the tomb. Now after entering, they did not find the Lord Jesus' body. And while they were in doubt about this, it happened that, look, two men were standing with them in radiant clothing.
Now they had become afraid, and as they bowed down their faces to the ground, the men said to them, "Why do you seek the living with the dead? He is not here. On the contrary, he has risen. Remember how he spoke to you while he was still in Galilaiah, saying that, 'It is necessary for the Son of Man to be delivered up into the hands of sinful people, and to be crucified, and to rise up on the third day.'"
And they remembered his declarations, and they returned from the tomb and related all these things to the Eleven, and to all the rest. Now they were the Magdalene Miriam, and Yoanna, and Miriam the mother of Jacob, and those who were left with them. They said these things to the envoys, and these declarations sounded in their presence like a fabrication, and they did not trust them.
But Peter got up and ran to the tomb. And when he stooped down, he saw only the linen cloths, and he went away by himself, wondering what had happened.
13 And look, on the same day two of them were going into a village named Emmaus that was sixty stadia distant from Jerusalem. And they were conversing to one another about all these things that had transpired. And while they were conversing and seeking, it happened that Jesus himself neared and went with them. But their eyes were held so that they did not recognize him.
Now he said to them, "What sayings are these that you are tossing about to one another as you walk? And they stood still, dejected. But one named Kleopas answered, saying to him, "Are you the only traveler in Jerusalem who doesn't know the things that happened in it during these days?" And he said to them, "What things?"
Now they said to him, "The things about Jesus of Nazareth, a man who happened to be a prophet who was powerful in deed and word, in the presence of God and all the people. And about how the high priests and our rulers delivered him over to a judgment of death and crucified him. But we were hoping that he was the one who was about to redeem Israel.
"And yet, with all these things, this is the third day passing since these things happened. But also, some women from among us astonished us: they happened upon the tomb early. And when they didn't find his body, they came to us saying that they had also seen a vision of messengers who say he is alive. And some of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it that way, just as also the women had said. But they didn't find him."
And he said to them, "You mindless people, who are also slow-hearted to trust in all that the prophets spoke. Wasn't it necessary for the Anointed One to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?" And from Moses and from all the prophets, he began to explain the things about himself to them in all the writings.
And they neared the village where they were going, and he made like he was going further. And they pressed him, saying, "Stay with us, because it is approaching evening, and the daylight has already gone down." And he entered to stay with them.
And as he was reclining with them, it happened that he took a loaf, gave praise, and he broke it, and gave some to them. Now their eyes were opened, and they recognized him. And it happened that he disappeared from them. And they said to one another, "Weren't our hearts aflame as he spoke to us in the road, as he explained the writings to us?"
LX
33 And they got up at the same hour and returned into Jerusalem, and they found the Eleven and those who were with them collected. The group was saying that, "The Lord is risen and has appeared to Simon." And the others related the things that had happened in the road, as he was made known to them during the breaking of the loaf.
Now while they were saying these things, he was in their midst. And he said to them, "Peace to you." Now they were frightened, and they became afraid, thinking they were observing a spirit. And he said to them, "Why are you troubled? And for what reason are doubts arising in your hearts? See from my hands and my feet that I am he. Feel me and see, because a spirit does not have flesh and bones, just as you are observing me to have. And after saying this, he showed them the hands and feet.
Now while they were still distrusting him from joy and wonder, he said to them, "Do you have something edible here?" Now they gave him part of a broiled fish. And, taking it, he ate it in their presence.
Now he said to them, "These are my sayings that I spoke to you while I was still with you: that it is necessary for all the things that are written in Moses' Torah and in the Prophets and in the Psalms about me to be fulfilled."
Then he opened their minds to understand the writings, and he said to them, "Thus it was written for the Anointed One to suffer and to be resurrected from among the dead on the third day, and for mental change to the point of forgiveness of sins to be heralded in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. And look, I am sending my Father's promise upon you, but you are to remain connected with the city until you are empowered with power from on high."
Now he led them out until they were at Bethany, and he raised his hands and praised them. And during his praise of them, it happened that he was separated from them [and was carried up into heaven]. And they prostrated to him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy. And they were continually in the temple courts praising God.
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