Signs and Teachings of the Anointed Son of Godattributed to Markus |
translated by Frank Daniels
Page updated 19 De 04
BOOK ONE
ONE
The beginning of the good message of Anointed Jesus, God's son:
1:2 Just as it was written in Isaiah the prophet:
"Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of your presence," who "will prepare your way." "A voice crying out in the desert, "Make ready Yahweh's way. Make his paths straight.""
It happened that John was baptizing in the desert and heralding a baptism of mental change into forgiveness of sins. And all the country of Judea went out to him, and all the Jerusalemites, and they were baptized by him in the Jordan river, fully acknowledging their sins. And John was clothed in camel's hair and a leather belt around his waist, and he was eating locusts and wild honey.
And he heralded, saying, "The one who is stronger than me is coming after me, the strap of whose sandals I am not enough to bend down and loosen. I am baptizing you in water, but he will baptize you in holy breath."
9 And it happened during those days that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilaiah and was baptized in the Jordan by John. And immediately as he came up from the water, he saw the heavens split open and the Spirit descending to him like a dove. And a voice from the heavens happened: "You are my son, the beloved, in whom I delight."
12 And immediately the Spirit cast him out into the desert, and he was in the desert for forty days, being tested by the Enemy, and he was among the wild animals, and the messengers served him.
14 Now after John had been delivered over, Jesus went into Galilaiah, heralding God's good message and saying that, "The season has been fulfilled, and God's kingdom is near. Change your minds and trust in the good message." And as he was going by the Sea of Galilaiah, he saw Simon and Simon's brother Andreas, casting a dragnet into the sea, for they were fishers. And Jesus said to them, "Come, behind me, and I will make you become fishers of human beings." And immediately, leaving the nets, they followed him. And after going forward a little, he noticed Jacob the son of Zebediah and Johannes his brother. They were also in the ship, repairing the nets. And immediately he called them. And, leaving their father Zebediah in the ship with the hirelings, they followed after him.
21 And they went into Kafar-Nahum, and immediately he entered into the gathering on the Sabbath and taught. And they were amazed at his teaching, for he was teaching them as though he had authority, and not as the scribes taught.
23 And immediately, there was in their gathering a person with an unclean spirit, and he called out, saying, "What is there between us and you, Jesus, Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know you, who you are: God's holy one." And Jesus censured him, saying, "Be voiceless and come out of him." And the unclean spirit gave him spasms, and it sounded with a loud voice and came out of him. And all people wondered, so as to inquire to themselves, saying, "What is this? A new teaching with authority? And he directs the unclean spirits, and they listen to him." And the report of him went out immediately everywhere, into the whole countryside surrounding Galilaiah.
29 And immediately after leaving the gathering, he went into the household of Simon and Andreas with Jacob and Johannes. Now Simon's mother-in-law was lying down with a fever, and immediately they told him about her. And he went to her and raised her up, taking hold of her hand. And the fever left her, and she served them.
32 Now after evening happened, when the sun had set, they carried to him all those who had maladies and those who were affected by spirit beings, and the whole city was gathered at the door. And he cured (of various diseases) many who had maladies, and he cast out many spirit beings, and he did not allow the spirit beings to speak, because they knew him.
35 And after getting up very early in the morning, he exited and went out into a desert place, and he prayed there. And Simon and those who were with him were hunting him down, and after finding him, they said to him, "All are seeking you." And he said to them, "Let's go up elsewhere into towns around the city, so that I might herald there also. For it is for this reason that I have come out."
And he went into the whole of Galilaiah, heralding in their gatherings, and he was casting out spirit beings. And a leper came to him, calling him aside, kneeling, and saying to him, "If you want, you are able to cleanse me." And he felt compassion, and he stretched out his hand, touched him, and said to him, "I want it. Be cleansed." And immediately the leprosy went away from him, and he was cleansed. And he agitated him, threw him out immediately, and he said to him, "See to it that you say nothing to anyone. On the contrary, go up and show yourself to the priest and present yourself concerning your cleansing--do those things that Moses directed, for a testimony to them."
45 Now after exiting, he began to herald many things and to disseminate the message. And so, he was no longer able to enter into the city plainly, but he was outside at desert places. And they came to him from everywhere.
TWO
2:1 And after he entered again into Kafar-Nahum after some days, it was reported that he was in a house. And many people were gathered together, and so the house could no longer contain them, nor could the places at the door. And he spoke the message to them.
And they came, carrying to him a paralyzed person who was being borne by four people. And since they were unable to come near to him on account of the crowd, they unthatched the roof where he was, and, after getting through, they lowered the mat upon which the paralyzed person was lying. And when Jesus noticed their trust, he said to the paralyzed person, "Child, your sins are forgiven."
6 Now some of the scribes were sitting there, and they were reasoning in their hearts, "Who is this who speaks this way? He is speaking evil. Who is able to forgive sins, except the One God?" And immediately Jesus knew in his spirit that they were reasoning within themselves this way. He said to them, "Why are you reasoning in your hearts this way? What is easier: to say to the paralyzed person, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Rise, and take up your mat, and walk?' But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins...." He said to the paralyzed person, "I'm telling you, rise, take up your mat, and go up into your house." And he got up, and immediately he took up his mat and exited, in the presence of all. And so, they were all amazed, and they glorified God, saying, "We have never seen anything like this!"
13 And again he went out by the sea. And all the crowd went to him, and he taught them.
And as he was going along, he noticed Levi the son of Alfaius sitting at the tax office, and he said to him, "Follow me." And he rose up and followed him.
And as he was lying down in Levi's house, it happened that many tribute takers and sinners reclined together with Jesus and his students. For they were many, and they followed him. And the scribes of the Perushim noticed that he was dining with the sinners and tribute takers, and they said to his students, "He is eating with tribute takers and sinners!" And when Jesus heard, he said 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."
18 And John's students and the Perushim were fasting. And they came and said to him, "Why do John's students and the students of the Perushim fast, but your students do not fast?" And Jesus said to them, "Can the sons of the wedding hall fast while the groom is with them? As long as they have the groom with them, they are unable to fast. But days will come when the groom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.
"No one sews a patch of unbleached cloth on an old cloak. But if they do, the fullness of the new is ripped away from the old, and a worse division occurs.
And no one casts new wine into old wineskins. But if they do, the wine bursts the wineskins, and the wine and the wineskins are destroyed. On the contrary, new wine
is cast into new wineskins."
23 And during the Sabbath, as he was going through the cornfields, it happened that his students began to make their way, picking the ears of corn. And the Perushim said to him, "Look, why are they doing what is illegal on the Sabbath?" And he said to them, "Have you never read what David did when he had a need, and when he and those who were with him were hungry? How he went into God's house, to Abiathar the high priest, and ate the loaves of design, which it is not legal to eat, except for the priests? And he gave them also to those who were with him."
And he said to them, "The Sabbath happened on account of humanity, and not humanity on account of the Sabbath. And so, the Son of Man is also lord of the Sabbath."
THREE
3:1 And he entered again into the gathering. And a person was there who had a withered hand. And they were scrutinizing him, to see if he would cure him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse him. And he said to the person who had the withered hand, "Get up into the middle of the group." And he said to them, "Is it legal on the Sabbath to do good, or to do evil? To save a life, or to destroy?" But they were silent. And he looked them over with anger, sorrowful at the hardness of their hearts. He said to the person, "Stretch our your hand." And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored. And the Perushim went out immediately with the Herodians, and they took counsel against him, as to how they might destroy him.
7 And Jesus withdrew with his students to the sea, and a great multitude followed him from Galilaiah, and from Judea, and from Jerusalem, and from Idumaea, and from beyond the Jordan. And when a great multitude around Ture and Sidon heard as much as he had done, they went to him.
And he said to his students that a boat should attend him, on account of the crowd, so that they would not afflict him. For he cured many people, so that as many as had scourges rushed him, so that they might touch him. And the unclean spirits, when they observed him, they fell toward him and called out, saying, "You are God's son." And he censured them many times, so that they would not make him apparent.
13 And he ascended into the mountain and called to him those whom he wanted, and they went to him. And he made the Twelve (who are also named envoys), so that they might be with him, and so that he might sent them out to herald and to have authority to cast out the spirit beings:
They were: Simon, whom he had also surnamed Peter; and Jacob the son of Zebediah and Johannes (Jacob's brother), and he also surnamed them with the name, B'nai-Rogez [that is, sons of thunder]; and Andreas; and Filippos; and Bar-Talmai; and Matthaiah; and Thomas; and Jacob the son of Alfaius; and Thaddeus; and Simon the Jealous; and Judah Iscarioth (who also delivered him up).
20 And they went into a house. And the crowd came together again, and so they were unable even to eat bread. And when the ones who were with him heard, they went out to lay hold of him, for they said, "The crowd is beside itself!"
And those scribes who had come down from Jerusalem said that, "He has Ba'al Zebul," and that, "He is casting out the spirit beings with the ruler of the spirit beings!"
And he called them to him and said to them (with analogies): "How can an enemy cast out an enemy? And if a kingdom should be divided upon itself, how can that kingdom stand? And if a house should be divided upon itself, how can that house stand? And if the Enemy rises up and is divided upon himself, how can he stand? On the contrary, he has an end. But no one is able to enter into the strong person's household to plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong person--and then he may plunder his household.
"Indeed I am telling you that all things will be forgiven the sons of humanity, acts of sin and as many evil speakings as they should speak. But the one who should speak evil of the holy Spirit, he has no forgiveness for the age, but he is liable for an eternal act of sin." He said this because they had said, "He has an unclean spirit."
31 And his mother and his brothers came, and standing outside, they sent to him, calling him. And a crowd was seated around him, and they said to him, "Look! Your mother and your brothers are outside, seeking you." And he answered them, saying, "Who are my mother and my brothers?" And looking around at those who were seated around him, he said, "Look: my mother and my brothers. For whoever should do what God wants, this one is my brother, and sister, and mother."
FOUR
4:1 And again he began to teach by the sea. And a crowd, a multitude, gathered toward him, and so he went down into a boat, sat on the sea, and all the crowd was at the sea on land. And he taught them with many analogies, and he said to them with his teaching:
"Hear! Look! The sower went out to sow. And while he was sowing, it happened that some seed indeed fell by the road, and the birds came and devoured them. And another fell on the rocky place, where it did not have much soil, and immediately it sprang up, on account of not having any deep soil. And when the sun rose, it was scorched, and it withered, on account of having no root. And another fell into the acanthus, and the acanthus plants sprang up and choked it, and it yielded no fruit. And another fell into the nice soil and yielded fruit, springing up and increasing. And one produced thirty, and one sixty, and one a hundred." And he said, "The one who has ears to hear, let him hear."
10 And when it happened that he was all alone, the ones who were around him, with the Twelve, asked him about the analogies. And he said to them, "To you is given the secret of God's kingdom, but to those who are outside all things are done with analogies, so that "seeing, they would see and not notice; and hearing, they would hear and not understand...Otherwise, they would turn back, and it would be forgiven them.""
And he said to them, "Don't you know this analogy? Then how will you know all the analogies? The sower sows the message. Now those that are by the road, when the message is sowed, and when they hear, the Enemy comes immediately and takes away the message that was sowed to them.
"And those that are sowed on the rocky place, when they hear the message, they immediately receive it with joy, and since they have no root within them, they are but seasonal. Then when affliction or persecution happens on account of the message, they stumble immediately.
"And others are those that are sowed in the acanthus plants. These are those who hear the message, and the cares of the age, and the deceit of wealth, and the remaining strong desires, go in, choke the message, and it becomes unfruitful.
"And the latter are those that are sowed on the nice soil, who hear the message, and accept it, and bear fruit: one thirty, one sixty, and one a hundred."
21 And he said to them, "Neither does a lamp come so that it may be placed under a measure of grain or under the bed. Doesn't it come so that it may be placed on a lampstand? For there is no secret thing except that which is made apparent. Neither does it happen that something is hidden away, but so that it might come into appearance. If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear."
And he said to them, "Look at what you are hearing. With whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you and added to you. For to the one who has, it will be given to him, and to the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away from him."
26 And he said, "God's kingdom is like this: like a person who casts seed on the ground, who sleeps and wakes by night and day. And the seed shoots up and grows, and he does not know how. The ground bears fruit automatically, first the plant, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. But when the fruit is ripe, he sends out the sickle immediately, because the harvest is ready."
30 And he said, "How should we liken God's kingdom? Or what analogy should we use for it? It is like a mustard grain, which when it is sowed on the ground, it is the smallest of all the seeds that are on the land. And when it is sowed, it grows up and becomes greatest of all the shrubs, and it makes great branches, so that it is possible for "the birds of the sky to nest" under its shadow."
And with many such analogies he spoke the message to them, just as they were able to hear. But he did not speak to them without an analogy, but he
explained all things to his students by themselves.
35 And during that day, after evening happened, he said to them, "Let's go over to the other side." And leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the ship, as he was, and other ships were with him. And a great storm of wind happened, and the waves were crashing into the ship, and so the ship was already full.
And he was at the stern, asleep on a headrest. And they woke him and said to him, "Teacher, doesn't it concern you that we are being destroyed?!" And he got up and censured the wind, and he said to the sea, "Be silent. Be still." And the wind ceased, and a great calm happened. And he said to them, "Why are you timid? How little trust you have!" And they were afraid with a great fear, an they said to one another, "Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea listen to him?"
FIVE
5:1 And they came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes. And as he was coming out from the ship, immediately a person with an unclean spirit met him out of the sepulchers. He had his dwelling in the sepulchers, and no one was able to bind him any longer, not even with chains, on account of the fact that he had often been bound with fetters and with chains, and the chains had been burst off by him, and the fetters had been broken. And no one was strong enough to overpower him. And throughout every night and day he was in the sepulchers and in the mountains, calling out and cutting himself with stones.
An when he noticed Jesus from a large distance, he ran and bowed down to him, and he called out with a loud voice, saying, "What is there between me and you, Jesus, son of the highest god?! I make an oath with you by God, don't torment me!" For he had said to him, "Unclean spirit, come out from the person." And he asked him, "What is your name?" And he said to him, "Legion is my name, because we are many." And he called him aside many times, so that he would not send them out of the country.
Now there was there, in the direction of the mountain, a great herd of pigs, feeding. And they called him aside, saying, "Send us into the pigs, so that we might enter into them." And he permitted them. And the unclean spirits went out and entered into the pigs, and the herd, about two thousand of them, rushed down the cliff into the sea, and they were drowned in the sea.
And their swine herders fled and announced the message in the city and in the fields. And they came to see what it was that had happened. And they went toward Jesus and observed the one who had been affected by spirit beings--the one who had had the Legion--seated, clothed, and of sound mind. And they were afraid.
And those who had seen related how it had happened to the one who was affected by spirit beings, and about the pigs. And they began to advise him to go away from their borders.
And as he was going down into the ship, the one who had been affected by the spirit beings called him aside, so that he might be with him. And he did not allow him, but he said to him, "Go up into your house, to your people, and announce the message to them--as much as the Lord has done for you and has had mercy on you." And he went away and began to herald in the Dekapolis as much as Jesus had done for him, and all wondered.
21 And after Jesus went over to the other side again [in the ship], a crowd of many people came gathered with him, and he was by the sea. And one of the rulers of the synagogue, named Yairos, came, and when he noticed him, he fell toward his feet and called him aside many times, saying, "My daughter is having her last moments. So, won't you come and lay hands on her, so that she would be saved and live?" And he went with him, and a crowd of many people followed him and thronged him.
25 And there was a woman who was in a flow of blood for twelve years. And having suffered many things from many healers, and having spent all her things, and having profited nothing, but rather having come into a worse state, when she heard about Jesus, she went in the crowd behind and touched his cloak. For she had said, "If I should touch even his clothes, I will be saved." And immediately the source of her blood was dried up, and she knew that her body had been healed from the scourge.
And immediately, knowing within himself that power had exited from him, Jesus turned around in the crowd, saying, "Who touched my clothes?" And his students said to him, "You see the crowd thronging you, and you say, 'Who touched me'?" And he looked around to see the one who had done it. But the woman, afraid and trembling, knowing what had been done to her, came and fell down toward him, and she told him all the truth. But he said to her, "Daughter, your trust has saved you. Go into peace, and be well from your scourge."
35 While he was still speaking, someone came from the synagogue ruler saying, "Your daughter has died. Why trouble the teacher?" But having overheard the message that was being spoken, Jesus said to the ruler of the synagogue, "Don't be afraid; only trust." And he did not allow anyone to follow along with him except for Peter, and Jacob, and Johannes, Jacob's brother. And they came into the house of the synagogue ruler, and he observed confusion and much crying and lamenting. And after entering, he said to them, "Why are you confused and crying? The child is not dead but asleep." And they laughed at him. But he threw them all out, took aside the child's father and mother (and those who were with him), and they went into where the child was. And he took hold of the child's hand and said to her, "Talitha Kum," that is, translated, "Girl, I am telling you, get up." And immediately the girl arose and walked around. For she was twelve years old. And they were amazed with a great amazement. And he gave a statement to them many times, that no one should make this thing known, and he said to give her to eat.
SIX
6:1 And after exiting from there, he went into his country, and his students were following him. And when a Sabbath happened, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many people heard and were filled up, saying, "Where are these things from? And what is this wisdom that he has been given to him? And what are these powers that are being done through his hands? Isn't this the carpenter, the son of Miriam and brother of Jacob and Yosef, and Judah, and Simon? And aren't his brothers here around us?" And they stumbled over him. And Jesus said to them, "A prophet his not without honor, except in his country, and among his relatives, and in his household." And he was unable to do a power there for anyone, except for a few sick people that he cured, placing his hands on them. And he wondered, on account of their distrust. And he went around the surrounding villages, teaching.
7 And he called the Twelve to him and began to send them out, two by two. And he gave them authority over the unclean spirits, and he charged them, so that they would take along nothing for the way except a staff alone: not bread; no bag; no copper for the belt. On the contrary, "Having your feet shod with sandals, you should not put on two tunics." And he said to them, "Wherever you enter into a house, stay there until you go out from there. And whatever place will not receive you or hear you, go away from there, shaking off the dust that is under your feet, for a testimony to them."
And they went out and heralded that the people should change their minds, and they cast out many spirit beings, and they anointed many sick people with oil (and they were cured).
14 And King Herod heard, for Jesus' name had become apparent, and he said, "John the Baptizer has risen from among the dead, and on account of this the powers are being worked by him." But others said that, "He is Elijah;" others said that, "He is a prophet like one of the prophets." But when Herod heard, he said, "John, the one whom I beheaded, he has risen."
For Herod himself had sent out people who took hold of John and bound him in jail, on account of Herodias, the wife of Filippos his brother (because he had married her). For John told Herod that, "It is illegal for you to have your brother's wife." Now Herodias held a grudge against him and wanted to destroy him, and she was unable. For Herod feared John, knowing him to be a just and holy man, and he protected him. And, hearing him, he did many things and heard him gladly.
And when a seasonal day occurred, when Herod made a feast to his birthday for his nobles, and for the commanders, and for the foremost people of Galilaiah, Herodias' daughter entered and danced. And since she pleased Herod and those who were reclining with him, the king said to the girl, "Ask me whatever you want, and I will give it to you." And he swore to her many times, "Whatever you ask me, I will give to you, up to half of my kingdom." And she went out and said to her mother, "What will I ask for?" Now she said, "The head of John the Baptizer."
And immediately she entered with haste to the king and asked, saying, "I want that you would instantly give me the head of John the Baptizer on a platter." And the king became very sorrowful; on account of the oaths and those who were reclining, he did not want to reject her. And immediately the king sent out a sentinel, directing for John's head to be brought. Now he went away and beheaded him in jail. And he brought the head on a platter and gave it to the girl, and the girl gave it to her mother. And when his students heard, they went and took his corpse, and they placed it in a sepulcher.
30 And the envoys were gathered to Jesus, and they related to him all the things that had been done and as much as they had taught. And he said to them, "You come by yourselves into a deserted place, and rest for a short time." For many were coming and going out, and it was not even seasonal to eat.
And they went away in the ship to a deserted place by themselves. And many people saw them going, and they recognized them, and they ran together on foot from all the cities and went ahead of them.
34 And when he exited, he noticed a great crowd, and he had compassion on them, because they were "like sheep who have no shepherd," and he began to teach them many things.
And since already many hours had passed, his students came to him, saying, "The place is a desert, and already many hours have passed. Let them go away, so that they would go away into the outlying fields and villages and buy themselves something to eat." But he answered, saying to them, "You give them to eat."
And they said to him, "Should we go away and buy loaves for two hundred denarii and give them to eat?" But he said to them, "How many loaves do you have? Go see." And when they knew, they said, "Five, and two fish." And he directed them to have all recline, company by company, on the green grass. And they reclined, group by group, by hundreds and by fifties.
And, taking the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up into the sky, blessed, and broke the loaves and gave them to his students, so that they would distribute them to the people. And he apportioned the two fish to all of them. And all of them ate and were well fed, and there were twelve baskets full of fragments, and from the fish. And the men who ate the loaves were five thousand.
45 And immediately he necessitated for his students to go down into the ship and to go ahead to the other side to Bethsaida, while he was releasing the crowd. And after directing them to go away, he went away into the mountain to pray.
And after evening happened, the ship was in the middle of the sea, and he was alone on the land. And when he noticed that they were being tormented while rowing (for the wind was opposite them), at about the fourth guard of the night, he went to them, walking on the sea, and he wanted to go alongside them. But when they noticed him walking on the sea, they thought that he was an apparition, and they screamed, for they all saw him and were terrified.
Now immediately he spoke with them, and he said to them, "Take courage. It is I. Don't be afraid." And he went up to them into the ship, and the wind ceased. And they were exceedingly, abundantly, amazed within themselves. For they did not understand about the loaves, but their hearts were stupefied.
53 And after they passed over, they came to the land at Gennesaret, and they went to the shore. And after they exited from the ship, people immediately recognized him and they ran around that whole countryside, and they began to carry around on mats those who had maladies to wherever they heard that he was. And whenever he went into villages, or into cities, or into fields, they placed the weak in the marketplaces and called him aside, so that they might touch even the tuft of his cloak. And as many as touched him were saved.
SEVEN
7:1 And when the Perushim and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered to him and noticed some of his students, that they were eating loaves with common (that is, unwashed) hands--
for the Perushim and all the Jews do not dine unless they wash their hands with the fist, holding on to the traditions of the older people. And they don't dine after coming from the marketplace unless they ceremonially purify themselves. And there are many other things that were delivered over for them to hold on to: ceremonial purification of cups and pots and copper vessels--
5 And the Perushim and the scribes questioned him, "Why don't your students walk according to the tradition of the older people? On the contrary, they are eating bread with common hands." But he said to them, "Isaiah prophesied well about you hypocrites, as it was written that, "This people honors me with the lips, but their hearts are far away from me. Now they revere me worthlessly, teaching as teachings human precepts." Leaving God's precept, you lay hold of human tradition."
And he said to them, "You are setting aside well God's precept, so that you might make your tradition stand. For Moses said, "Honor your father and your mother" and, "The one who says a bad thing of father or mother should be completed to death." But you say that if a person should say to father or mother, 'Whatever you would have been profited from me is korban [that is, a gift],' then you no longer allow him to give anything to the father or mother, nullifying God's message for your tradition which you have handed down. And you do many such things."
And again he called the crowd to him, saying to them, "Hear me, all of you, and understand. There is nothing that enters into a person from outside him which is able to make him common. On the contrary, the things which go out from a person are the things that make the person common."
17 And when he had entered into a house, away from the crowd, his students asked him about the analogy, and he said to them, "Are you too so without understanding?! Aren't you mindful that nothing that enters into a person from outside is able to make him common, because it does not enter into the heart but into the abdomen, and it goes out into the latrine, cleansing all the foods?"
But he said, "What goes out from a person, this makes a person common. For from inside, bad reasonings go out from the hearts of people: sexual sins, thefts, murders, adulteries, greed, evil, deceit, debauchery, an evil eye, evil speaking, high mindedness, lack of wisdom. All of these evil things go out from within and make the person common."
24 Now after getting up from there, he went within the borders of Ture. And he entered into a house, wanting no one to know it, and he was unable to be concealed. On the contrary, a woman whose daughter had an unclean spirit heard about him immediately. And after coming, she fell down toward his feet. Now the woman was a Hellenist, Surofoinikian by birth, and she asked him that he cast out the spirit being from her daughter. And he said to her, "Allow the children to be well fed first. For it is not a good thing to take the children's bread and to throw it to the dogs."
But she answered, saying to him, "Sir, even the dogs under the table dine on the children's crumbs." And he said to her, "On account of this saying, go on. The spirit being has exited from your daughter." And after she left into her house, she found the child lying down on the bed, and the spirit being had exited.
31 And again, after he exited from the borders of Ture, he went through Sidon into the Sea of Galilaiah, through the middle of the borders of Dekapolis. And they carried a deaf person, a stammerer, to him, and they called him aside, so that he might place his hands on him. And he took him away from the crowd by himself and cast his fingers into the man's ears, and he spit and touched his tongue. And he looked up into the sky, groaned, and said to him, "Effatha," that is, "Be fully opened." And immediately his ears were opened, and the bond on his tongue was loosened, and he spoke properly. And he gave a statement to them, that they would tell no one. But the more statements he gave them, they rather more abundantly heralded. And they were astonished, saying, "He has done all things well," and, "He makes the deaf to hear and the speechless to speak."
EIGHT
8:1 During those days, when there was again a great crowd who did not have anything to eat, he called the students to him, saying to them, "I have compassion on the crowd, because they have been continuing with me for three days already, and they don't have anything to eat. And if I release them, fasting, to their homes, they will go faint on the way. And some of them have come from a long distance!" And his students answered him, "How will anyone be able to feed them well with loaves, here at a desert?"
And he asked them, "How many loaves do you have?" But they said, "Seven." And he charged the crowd to recline on the ground. And, taking the seven loaves, he gave thanks, broke them, and gave to his students, so that they would distribute them. And they distributed them to the crowd. And they had a few fish. And after blessing them, he also said, "Distribute these."
And they ate and were well fed, and the abundance of the fragments was seven large baskets full. Now they were four thousand people; and he released them. And immediately, he went down into the ship with his students and went to the parts of Dalmanutha.
MIDWORD
11 And the Perushim went out and began to question him, seeking a sign from him from heaven. They tested him. And groaning in his spirit, he said, "Why does this generation seek a sign? Indeed I am telling you, no sign will be given to this generation." And he left them, going back down, and went to the other side.
And they had forgotten to take loaves, and except for one loaf they did not have any with them in the ship. And he gave a statement to them, saying, "See, look out for the yeast of the Perushim and the yeast of Herod." And they were reasoning to one another because they had no loaves. And, knowing this, he said to them, "Why are you reasoning because you don't have loaves? You are not yet mindful, neither do you understand. Have your hearts been made stupid? "Having eyes, you do not see, and having ears, you do not hear." And don't you remember? When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments did you take up?" They said to him, "Twelve."
"When I broke the seven for the four thousand, how many large baskets of fragments full did you take up?" And they said to him, "Seven." And he said to them, "How is it that you don't understand?"
And they went into Bethsaida. And they carried a blind person to him and called him aside, so that he might touch him. And he took the blind person's hand and led him out from the village. And he spit on his eyes, placed his hands on his eyelids, and asked him, "Do you see anything?" And looking up, he said, "I can see the people, like trees. I see them walking."
Then again, he placed his hands on his eyes, and the man saw clearly and was restored, and he could again see all things plainly. And he sent him away into his house, saying, "You shouldn't enter into the village."
BOOK TWO
27 And Jesus and his students went out into the villages of Filippos' Caesarea, and on the way he asked his students, saying to them, "Who do people say me to be?" Now they told him, saying, "John the Baptizer; and others say Elijah; but others say one of the prophets." And he asked them, "But who do you say me to be?"
Peter answered, saying to him, "You are the Anointed One." And he censured them, so that they would tell no one about him.
And he began to teach them that it is necessary for the Son of Man to suffer many things and to be rejected by the older people and the high priests and the scribes, and to be killed, and to rise again after three days. And he spoke the statement with freedom of speech. And Peter took him aside and began to censure him. But he turned around, and looking at his students, he censured Peter, saying, "Go, behind me, enemy, because you are not minding God's things but the things of human beings!"
NINE
34 And after calling the crowd and his students to him, he said to them, "If someone wants to follow behind me, he should deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life on account of me and the good message will save it. For what does it profit a person to gain the whole universe and to forfeit his life? For what should a person give in exchange for his life? For whoever is ashamed of me and of my sayings among this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when he comes in his Father's glory with the holy messengers."
9:1 And he said to them, "Indeed I am telling you that there are some of those who are standing here who will by no means taste death until they see God's kingdom when it has come with power."
2 And after six days, Jesus took aside Peter, and Jacob, and Johannes, and he carried them up into a high mountain by themselves alone. And he was transformed in their presence, and his clothes became glowing, exceedingly white, like no bleacher on earth is able to whiten. And Elijah appeared to them with Moses, and they were speaking with Jesus.
And Peter answered, saying to Jesus, "Rabbi, it is nice for us to be here, and let us make three tents: one for you, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah." For he didn't know what to answer, for they had become frightened. And it happened that a cloud overshadowed them, and a voice happened from the cloud: "This is my son, the beloved one. Hear him." And suddenly, looking around, they no longer saw anyone but Jesus alone with them.
And as they were descending from the mountain, he gave them a statement, that they should relate what they had seen to no one, except after the Son of Man should be raised from the dead. And they took hold of the statement to themselves, inquiring, "What is it 'to be raised from the dead'?"
And they asked him, saying, "The scribes say that "It is necessary for Elijah to come first."" But he said to them, "Indeed, Elijah is coming first, to restore all things," and he told them how it was written about the Son of Man that he would suffer a lot and be despised. "But I am telling you that indeed Elijah has come, and they have done to him what they wanted, just as it was written about him."
14 And as they came to the students, they noticed a great crowd around them and the scribes questioning them. And immediately, when all the crowd noticed him, they were astonished, and they ran toward him and greeted him. And he asked them, "Why are you questioning them?"
And one of the crowd answered him, "Teacher, I brought my son to you. He has a speechless spirit, and wherever it takes hold of him, it causes him spasms, and he foams up, and grinds his teeth, and makes him shrivel. And I told your students, so that they would cast it out, and they were not strong enough."
Now he answered them, saying, "Oh distrusting generation! Until when will I be with you? Until when will I bear you? Carry him to me." And they brought him to him. And when it noticed Jesus, the spirit immediately caused the son spasms, and he fell on the ground and rolled, foaming. And Jesus asked his father, "How long a time is it that this has been happening to him?" Now he said, "From childhood. And often it throws him both into fire and into water, so that it might destroy him. But if you are able, have compassion on us; help us."
Now Jesus said to him, "If I am able? All things are possible for the one who trusts." Immediately the child's father called out, saying, "I trust. Help my distrust!"
Now when Jesus noticed that the crowd was running there, he censured the unclean spirit, saying to it, "Speechless and deaf spirit, I direct you, come out from him, and enter into him no longer." And after calling out and causing many spasms, it went out. And he became as a dead person, and so the majority said that he had died. But Jesus took hold of his hand and lifted him up.
And after his students entered into a house, they asked him by themselves, "We were unable to cast it out." And he said to them, "This kind is able to exit by nothing but prayer [and fasting]."
30 And after exiting from there, they went around through Galilaiah, and he did not want that anyone would know it. For he was teaching his students, and he told them, "The Son of Man is being delivered over into sinners' hands, and they will kill him. And after being killed, he will rise after three days." But they did not comprehend the declaration, and they were afraid to ask him.
33 And he went into Kafar-Nahum. And when it happened that he was in the house, he asked them, "What were you disputing on the way?" But they were silent, for on the way they had been discussing to one another who was greatest. And after sitting down, he sounded for the twelve and said to them, "If anyone wants to be first, he will be last of all and servant of all." And he took a child and stood it in their midst, and he hugged it and said to them, "Whoever accepts one of these children at my name, he is accepting me. And whoever accepts me is not accepting me but the one who sent me out."
38 Johannes said to him, "Teacher, we saw someone casting out spirit beings in your name and we forbade him, because he was not following us." But Jesus said, "Do not forbid him, for there is no one who will do a power at my name who is also able to quickly speak bad of me. For the one who is not against us is on our behalf. For whoever gives you a cup of water to drink in a name because you are the Anointed's, indeed I am telling you that by no means will he lose his reward. And whoever causes one of these little ones who trust in me to stumble, it would be nicer for him rather if an upper millstone were hung around his neck and if he were thrown into the sea.
"And if your hand makes you stumble, chop it off. It is a nicer thing for you to enter into the life maimed than to be destroyed in Gehenna (in the unextinguished fire), having the two hands.
"And if your foot should make you stumble, chop it off. It is a nicer thing for you to enter into the life lame than to be cast into Gehenna, having the two feet.
"And if your eye should make you stumble, pluck it out. It is a nicer thing for you to enter into God's kingdom one-eyed than to be cast into Gehenna, having two eyes, where "their maggots do not finish and the fire does not extinguish."
"For each one is salted with fire. Salt is a nice thing, but if the salt becomes tasteless, in what will you season it? You have salt within yourselves; also be at peace with one another."
TEN
10:1 And he rose up from there and went into the borders of Judea and the other side of the Jordan, and crowds were going together to him again, and he taught them again, as he was accustomed.
And Perushim went to him and asked him, testing him, if it is legal for a man to let his wife go. Now he answered, saying to them, "What precept did Moses give you?" Now they said, "Moses permitted a scroll of separation to be written, and to let go."
But Jesus said to them, "He wrote this precept for you, directed toward your hard-heartedness. But from the beginning of creation "he made them male and female." "On account of this, a person leaves his father and mother [and unites with his wife], and the two will be one in flesh." And so, they are no longer two; on the contrary, they are one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, no human being should separate."
And when in the house again, the students asked him about this, and he said to them, "Whoever should let his wife go away and should marry another is committing adultery upon her. And if she should let her husband go away and should marry another, she is committing adultery."
13 And school children came to him, so that he might touch them. But the students censured them. Now when Jesus noticed, he was indignant, and he said to them, "Allow the school children to come to me. Don't hinder them, for God's kingdom belongs to such people. Indeed I am telling you, whoever does not accept God's kingdom like a child, by no means will he enter into it." And he held them in his arms and praised them, placing his hands on them.
17 And as he went out into a road, one ran up and knelt to him. He asked him, "Good teacher, what should I do so that I might inherit eternal life?" Jesus said to him, "Why do you say me to be good? No one is good except one: God. You know the precepts, "You will not murder. You will not commit adultery. You will not steal. You will not testify falsely. [You will not defraud.] Honor your father and mother.""
But he said to him, "Teacher, I have guarded all of these things from my youth." Now as Jesus looked at him, he loved him, and he said to him, "You lack one thing. Go, sell as much as you have, and give to the poor. And you will have a treasure in heaven. And come follow me." But he was dejected by the saying, and he went away sorrowful, for he was someone who had many possessions.
23 And Jesus looked around and said to his students, "With such difficulty those who have high-priced things enter into God's kingdom!" But the students wondered at his words. Now Jesus answered again, saying to them, "Children, how difficult it is to enter into God's kingdom. It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a wealthy person to enter into God's kingdom."
Now they were abundantly astonished, saying to themselves, "And who can be saved?" Jesus looked at them and said, "With people, it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God."
Peter began to say to him, "Look, we left all things and followed you." Jesus said, "Indeed I am telling you, there is no one who has left a house, or
brothers, or sisters, or mother, or father, or children, or fields on my account and on account of the good message except for the one who would receive a hundredfold now
in this season: houses, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and fields--with persecutions--and eternal life in the coming age. But many will be
first who are last, and last who are first."
32 Now they were on the road going up into Jerusalem, and Jesus was going ahead of them, and they were wondering, and the ones who followed were afraid. And again he took aside the Twelve and began to tell them the things that were about to transpire to him: "Look, we are going up into Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the high priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death, and they will deliver him over to the gentiles. And they will mock him, and spit on him, and whip and kill him. And after three days he will arise."
35 And Jacob and Johannes, the sons of Zebedaiah, went to him, saying to him, "Teacher, we want that you do for us whatever we might ask." Now he said to them, "What do you want me to do for you?" Now they said to him, "Give to us that we may sit, one at your right and one at the left, in your glory."
But Jesus said to them, "You don't know what you're asking! Are you able to drink the cup that I am drinking? Or to be baptized with the baptism with which I am being baptized?" Now they said to him, "We are able."
Now Jesus said to them, "You will drink the cup that I am drinking, and you will be baptized with the baptism with which I am being baptized. But to sit at my right or at the left is not mine to give, but to those for whom it has been prepared."
And when the Ten heard, they began to be indignant about Jacob and Johannes. And Jesus called them to him, saying to them, "You know that those who presume to rule the nations are lords over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. It is not so among you. On the contrary: whoever wants to become great among you will be your servant, and whoever wants to be first among you will be the slave of all. For the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many people."
46 And they went into Jericho. And as he was going out from Jericho, with his students and a considerable crowd, the son of Timaeus, Bar-Timaeus, who was a blind beggar, sat by the road. And when he heard that Jesus the Nazarene was there, he began to call out and say, "Son of David, Jesus, have mercy on me!" And many people were censuring him, so that he would be silent, but he called out rather more, "Son of David, have mercy on me!"
And Jesus stood and said, "Call for him," and they called for the blind person, saying to him, "Take courage, get up. He is calling for you." Now, casting away his cloak, he leapt up and went to Jesus. And Jesus answered him, saying, "What do you want that I should do for you?" Now the blind person said to him, "Rabboni: I want that I should see again." And Jesus said to him, "Get up. Your trust has saved you," and immediately he arose and followed him in the road.
ELEVEN
11:1 And when they neared Jerusalem, Bethfagge, and Bethany, in the direction of the mountain of Olive Trees, he sent out two of his students and said to them, "Go up into the village opposite you, and immediately as you enter into it you will find a colt, bound, on which no people have ever sat. Untie it, and bring it. And if someone should say to you, 'Why are you doing this?' say, 'The Lord has need of it,' and immediately he will send it out here."
And they went away and found a colt, bound to a door outside, at the street, and they let it go. And some people who were standing there said to them, "What are you doing, untying the colt?" But they told them just as Jesus had given the precept, and the people allowed them.
And they brought the colt to Jesus and cast their cloaks on it, and he sat on it. And many people spread out their cloaks on the road, but others were cutting off branches from the fields, and those who went ahead and those who followed were calling out, "Hosanna, "Worthy of praise is the one who comes in Yahweh's name!" Worthy of praise is the coming kingdom of our ancestor David! "Hosanna in the highest places!""
And he entered into Jerusalem into the temple court. And after looking around at all things, since it was already the evening hour, he went out into Bethany with the Twelve.
12 And the next day, while they were coming out from Bethany, he was hungry. And when he noticed from a large distance a fig tree that had leaves, he went to see if he would find anything on it after all. And when he came to it, he found nothing except leaves, for it was not the season of figs. And he answered, saying to it, "No one may eat fruit from you any longer--for the age." And his students heard him.
15 And they came into Jerusalem. And after entering into the temple court, he began to throw out those who were selling and buying in the temple court, and he overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling the doves. And he did not allow that anyone should carry a vessel through the temple court.
And he taught, saying to them, "Wasn't it written that, "My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations"? But you have made it a "den of robbers"." And the high priests and the scribes heard, and they sought how they might destroy him, for they were afraid of him (for all the crowd was amazed at his teaching). And when evening happened, he went out of the city.
20 And as they were going by at morning, they noticed the fig tree, withered from its roots up. And Peter, remembering, said to him, "Rabbi, look. The fig tree that you cursed has been withered." And Jesus answered, saying to them, "Have trust in God. Indeed I am telling you that whoever should say to this mountain, 'Be lifted up and cast into the sea,' and should not doubt in his heart but should trust that what he says happens, it will be his. On account of this I am telling you: As many things as you wish and pray for, trust that you receive, and they will be yours. And when you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father, the one who is in the heavens, may also forgive your wanderings."
27 And again they went into Jerusalem. And as he was walking in the temple court, the high priests and the scribes and the older people came to him, and they said to him, "By what authority are you doing these things? And who gave this authority to you, that you might do these things?"
But Jesus said to them, "I will ask you one saying, and you answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I am doing these things. Was John's baptism from heaven or from people? Answer me."
And they reasoned to themselves, saying, "If we should say, 'From heaven,' he will say, 'Why then didn't you trust him?' But if we should say, 'From people,' we fear the crowd. For all hold that John really was a prophet." And they answered Jesus, saying, "We don't know."
And Jesus said to them, "Neither am I telling you by what authority I am doing these things."
TWELVE
12:1 And he began to speak to them with analogies.
"A person planted a vineyard, and placed a hedge around it, and carved out a wine vat, and constructed a tower, and leased it to gardeners. And he traveled abroad.
"And at the season, he sent out a slave to the gardeners, so that he might receive from the gardeners the fruits of the vineyard. And they took and whipped him, and sent him away empty.
"And again he sent out another slave to them. They wounded this one's head and dishonored him.
"And he sent out another one--they killed this one--and many others: some indeed they whipped, but some they killed.
"He still had one beloved son. He sent him out last to them, saying that, 'They will respect my son.' But those gardeners said to one another that, 'He is the heir. Come, let's kill him, and the inheritance will be ours!' And they took and killed him, and they threw him out of the vineyard.
"Therefore, what will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the gardeners, and he will give the vineyard to others.
"Haven't you even read this writing: "a stone that was rejected by the builders, this one has become a cornerstone. This was done by Yahweh and is a wonderment in our eyes."?"
And they sought to take hold of him, and they were afraid of the crowd, for they knew that he was telling the analogy to them. And they left him and went away.
13 And they sent out to him certain of the Perushim and the Herodians, so that they would trap him with speech. And they went and said to him, "Teacher, we know that you are true and that you are not concerned for anyone, for you don't look into a person's face. On the contrary, you teach the God's way in truth. Is it legal to give tribute to Caesar or not? Should we give, or should we not give?"
But, knowing their hypocrisy, he said to them, "Why are you testing me? Bring me a denarius, so that I may see it." Now they brought one, and he said to them, "Whose image is this, and whose inscription?" Now they said to him, "Caesar's." Now Jesus said to them, "Give Caesar's things to Caesar, and God's things to God." And they were amazed at him.
18 And Zadokites went to him, who say there is no resurrection. And they asked him, saying, "Teacher, Moses wrote for us that, "If someone's brother should die" and leave behind a wife, "and leave no children," that, "his brother should take the woman and raise up seed for his brother."
"There were seven brothers. And the first took a wife, and he died, leaving no seed. And the second took her, and he died, not leaving behind any seed. And similarly with the third. And the seven did not leave any seed. Last of all, the woman died also. In the resurrection, which of theirs is the woman? For the seven had her as a wife."
Jesus said to them, "Aren't you going astray through this, knowing neither the writings, nor God's power? For when they rise from among the dead, they will neither marry nor be given in marriage. On the contrary, they are like messengers in the heavens.
"But about the dead, that they rise: haven't you read in the scroll of Moses--at the bush--how God told him, saying, "I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaak, and the God of Jacob?" He is not a god of dead people, but of the living. You are going astray greatly."
28 And one of the scribes went toward him, having heard them debating. Noticing that he had answered them well, he asked him, "Which is the foremost precept of all?" Jesus answered, "The foremost one is: "Hear, O Israel, Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one. And you will love Yahweh your God out of the whole of your heart, and out of the whole of your soul, and out of the whole of your mind, and out of the whole of your strength." The second one is this: "You will love your neighbor as yourself." There is no other precept greater than these."
And the scribe said to him, "Very well, teacher. You said in truth that "he is one, and there is no other besides him," and, "to love him out of the whole of your heart, and out of the whole of your understanding, and out of the whole of your strength," and "to love a neighbor as yourself" is abundantly more than all of the burnt offerings and sacrifices."
And, noticing that he had answered discreetly, Jesus said to him, "You are not far from God's kingdom." And no one dared to question him any longer.
35 And, while teaching in the temple court, Jesus answered, saying, "How do the scribes say that the Anointed One is David's son? David himself said, with the holy Spirit, "Yahweh said to my lord, 'Sit at my right side until I place your enemies as a footstool for your feet.'" David himself says he is Lord; so how is he his descendent?" And the great crowd heard him gladly.
And he said during his teaching, "Watch out for those scribes who want to walk around in long robes, and who want greetings in the marketplaces and the front seats in the gatherings and front couches at the feasts. The ones who devour the households of widows and pray for a long time for appearance, these will receive an abundant judgment."
41 And, sitting opposite the treasury, he observed how the crowd was casting bronze coins into the treasury. And many rich people were casting in much. And one poor widow came and cast in two lepta; that is, a quadrans. And he called his students to him and said to them, "Indeed I am telling you that this poor widow has cast in more than all those who are casting into the treasury. For everyone has cast out of their abundance, but she cast out of her poverty--as much as she had, her whole living."
THIRTEEN
13:1 And as he was going out from the temple court, one of his students said to him, "Teacher, look! What stones! And what buildings!" And Jesus said to him, "Look at these great buildings. By no means will there be one stone left here on a stone which has not been cast down."
And as he sat at the mountain of Olive Trees, opposite the temple, Peter, and Jacob, and John, and Andreas asked him by themselves: "Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign when all these things are about to be concluded?"
Now Jesus began to say to them, "Watch out, so that no one deceive you. Many will come on my name, saying that, 'I am he,' and they will deceive many. Now when you hear of wars and reports of wars, do not be alarmed. It is necessary to happen. But the end will not be yet.
"For nation will rise up upon nation, and kingdom upon kingdom. There will be earthquakes in places. There will be famines. These things are a beginning of sorrows.
"But watch out for yourselves. They will deliver you over to councils and to gatherings. You will be beaten, and you will stand before governors and kings on my account for a testimony to them.
"And it is necessary first for the good message to be heralded into all the nations. And when they lead you and deliver you over, do not be anxious ahead of time about what to speak. On the contrary, whatever is given to you in that hour, speak it. For it is not you who is speaking but the holy Spirit.
"And brother will deliver brother over to the point of death, and father will deliver over child, and children will rise up upon parents and cause them to die. And you will be hated by all people on account of my name, but the one who endures to the end, this one will be saved.
"Now when you notice "the desolating detestable thing" standing where it is necessary not to be--the reader should be mindful--then those who are in Judea should flee into the mountains. Now the one who is on the roof should not descend, neither should he enter to take away anything from his house. And the one who is in the field should not return to the things that are behind to take away his cloak. Now woe to the ones who have babies in their bellies and the ones who are nursing in those days!
"Now pray, so that it would not happen in winter. For those days will be affliction; such a great affliction has not happened from the beginning of creation (which God created) until now--and by no means should it happen! And unless Yahweh cuts the days short, no flesh would be saved. But on account of the chosen ones, whom he chose, he has cut short the days.
"And then if someone says to you, 'Look! Here is the Anointed One! Look there,' do not trust him. For false Anointed Ones and false prophets will arise, and they will give signs and wonders toward the deception, if possible, of the chosen ones. But you watch out: I have told you all things ahead of time.
"But during those days, after that affliction, "The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will be falling" from the sky. "And those powers that are in the heavens" will be shaken. And then they will see "the Son of Man coming in clouds" with much power "and glory." And then he will send out the messengers and gather up his chosen ones from the four winds, from the farthest point of the land to the farthest point of the sky.
28 "Now the analogy from the fig tree. When its branches have already become tender and it puts out leaves, you know that the summer is near. Similarly also, when you notice these things happening, know that it is near at the doors. Indeed I am telling you that this generation will by no means pass away until all of these things happen to them. The sky and the land will pass away, but my words will by no means pass away.
"But no one except the Father knows about that day or hour: neither the messengers in heaven or the son. Look, watch out. For you don't know when the season is. Like a person, one who travels abroad, leaves his household and gives each of his slaves the authority to do his work, he also gave the doorman a precept, so that he would watch. Therefore, watch--for you do not know when the Lord of the house is coming, if at evening, or at midnight, or at the rooster crow, or at morning)--lest he come suddenly and find you sleeping. Now what I tell you, I am saying to all people: watch."
FOURTEEN
14:1 Now after two days was the Passover; that is, the Feast of Unleavened Bread. And the high priests and the scribes were seeking how to lay hold of him with deceit, to kill him. For they said, "Not during the feast, lest there be a riot of the people."
And while he was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he was reclining, a woman who had an alabaster box of balsam (of genuine, high priced, spikenard) came. And she broke open the alabaster box and poured it down on his head. Now some were indignant (to themselves): "For what reason has this loss of balsam happened? For this balsam was capable of being sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor." And they agitated her.
But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. Why are you bringing her troubles? She has worked out a good deed in me. For you always have the poor with you, and you are able to do good for them when you want, but you do not always have me. The one who has this balsam has done this to anoint my body beforehand for burial. Now indeed I am telling you: wherever the good message is heralded, in the whole of creation, this thing that she did will also be spoken for her remembrance."
And Judah Iscarioth, who was one of the Twelve, went out to the high priests, so that he might deliver Jesus over to them. Now when they heard, they rejoiced and promised to give him silver. And he sought how he might deliver him over seasonally.
12 And on the first day of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb is sacrificed, his students said to him, "Where do you want us to go out and prepare, for you to eat the Passover?" And he sent out two of his students, and he said to them, "Go up into the city, and a person bearing a pitcher of water will meet you. Follow him, and wherever he should enter, say to the ruler of the house that the teacher says, 'Where is the guest chamber, where I may eat the Passover with my students?' And he will show you a large upper room, furnished and ready. And prepare the Passover for us there." And the students exited and went into the city, and they found it just as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover.
17 And when evening happened, he came with the Twelve. And as they were reclining and dining, Jesus said, "Indeed I am telling you that one of you who are dining with me will deliver me up." They began to be sorrowful and to say to him, one by one, "Is it I?"
But he said to them, "It is one of the Twelve--the one who dips into the dish with me. Because indeed the Son of Man is going, just as it was written about him. But woe to that person through whom the Son of Man is delivered up! It would be a nicer thing for him if that person had not been born!"
And as they dined, he took and blessed a loaf, and he broke it and gave it to them. And he said, "Take. This is my body." And he took a cup and gave thanks, and he gave to them, and they all drank from it. And he said to them, "This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out on behalf of many. Indeed I am telling you that by no means will I drink any longer of this product of the vine until that day when I drink it anew in God's kingdom."
26 And after singing, they went out to the mountain of Olive Trees. And Jesus said to them, "All of you will stumble, because it was written, "I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered." But after my raising, I will go ahead of you into Galilaiah."
But Peter said to him, "Even if all of them stumble: on the contrary, I will not." And Jesus said to him, "Indeed I am telling you that today, this night, before the rooster crows ((watch trumpet sounds)) twice, you will deny me three times." But he spoke more abundantly, "If it is necessary for me to die with you, by no means will I deny you!" Now all said similarly also.
32 And they came to a place which was named Gethsemane, and he said to his students, "Sit here until I have prayed." And he took along Peter and Jacob and Johannes with him, and he began to be astonished and anguished. And he said to them, ""My soul is surrounded with sorrow" to the point of death. Remain here and watch."
And he went ahead a little way, and fell to the ground, and prayed so that, if possible, the hour might pass from him. And he said, "Abba, Father, all things are possible for you. Take this cup away from me. But not what I want; on the contrary, what you want."
And he went and found them sleeping, and he said to Peter, "Simon, are you sleeping? Aren't you strong enough to watch for one hour? Watch and pray, so that you would not come into trial. Indeed, the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak." And again he went away and prayed, saying the same message.
And again he went and found them sleeping, for their eyes were burdened, and they did not know what to answer him. And he went the third time and said to them, "Have you been sleeping and resting for the remaining time?" Stop. The hour has come. Look: the Son of Man is being delivered over into the hands of sinners. Get up. Let's go. Look: the one who is to deliver me up is near."
43 And immediately, while he was still speaking, Judah, one of the Twelve, happened by, and with him was a crowd with swords and clubs, from the high priests and the scribes and the older people. Now the one who delivered him up had given them a signal, saying, "Whoever I kiss is the one. Take hold of him, and lead him away safely." And immediately after coming, he went to him and said, "Rabbi," and he passionately kissed him. Now they threw their hands onto him and took hold of him. But one of those who were standing by drew a sword and struck the high priest's slave, and severed his earlobe.
And Jesus answered, saying to them, "As upon a robber, you have come out with swords and clubs to take me. By day, I was directed toward you in the temple courts, teaching, and you did not lay hold of me. But this is so that the writings would be fulfilled." And they all left him and fled. And a certain young man followed him, whose nakedness was wrapped by a linen cloth. And they took hold of him, but he abandoned the linen cloth and fled naked.
53 And they led Jesus away to the high priest, and the high priests and the older people and the scribes came together. And Peter followed him from a large distance, as far as going into the palace of the high priest. And he was sitting together with the officers, and he was being warmed facing the light.
Now the high priests and the whole of the Sanhedrin sought testimony against Jesus, for his being put to death, and they did not find any. For many testified falsely against him, and the testimonies were inconsistent. And some stood up and testified falsely against him saying, "We heard him saying that, 'I will destroy this handmade temple and through three days I will construct another which is not handmade.'" And not even their testimony was consistent this way.
And the high priest stood up in the middle and asked Jesus, saying, "Are you answering nothing to what these people are testifying against you?" But he was silent and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, saying to him, "Are you the Anointed One--the son of the Blessed One?" Now Jesus said, "I am. And you will see the Son of Man seated at the right side of power and "coming with the clouds of the sky.""
Now the high priest ripped his clothes and said, "Why do we still have any need of witnesses?! You heard his evil speaking! What is apparent to you?" Now they all condemned him to be deserving of death.
And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to punch him, and to say to him, "Divine," and the officers slapped him with open hands.
66 And since Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the high priest's servant girls went there. And when she noticed Peter being warmed, she looked at him and said, "You too were with the Nazarene, Jesus." But he denied it, saying, "I neither know nor comprehend what you are saying." And he went outside into the outer court, and a rooster crew ((watch trumpet sounded)).
And the servant girl noticed him and began to say again to those who were standing around, "He is one of them." But he denied it again.
And after a little time, those who were standing around said to Peter, "Truly you are one of them, for you too are Galilaian." But he began to curse and swear: "I don't know this person that you are talking about." And immediately a rooster crew ((watch trumpet sounded)) a second time. And Peter remembered the declaration as Jesus had told him, that, "Before a rooster crows ((watch trumpet sounds)) twice, you will deny me three times." And as he reflected, he cried.
FIFTEEN
15:1 And immediately at morning, the high priests made a council with the older people and scribes, and the whole Sanhedrin, binding Jesus, and they brought him to Pilatus and delivered him over.
And Pilatus asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" But he answered him, saying, "You are saying it." And the high priests accused him of many things, but Pilatus asked him again, saying, "Aren't you answering anything? Look at how many things they are accusing you of." But Jesus answered nothing any longer, and so Pilatus was astonished.
6 Now at a feast, he would release one prisoner to them--the one they asked for. Now there was the one who was called Bar-Abbas, who had been imprisoned with the rebels, who had done murder during the revolt. And the crowd went up and began to ask, just as he did for them. But Pilatus answered them, saying, "Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?" For he knew that the high priests had delivered him over on account of envy. But the high priests stirred up the crowd, so that he would release Bar-Abbas to them instead.
Now Pilatus again answered, saying to them, "Then what should I do with the King of the Jews?" But again they called out, "Crucify him!" But Pilatus said to them, "For what bad thing that he has done?" But they called out abundantly, "Crucify him!"
Now Pilatus, willing to make satisfaction for the crowd, released Bar-Abbas to them and delivered Jesus over after whipping him, so that he would be crucified.
16 Now the soldiers led him away into the courtyard, which is the Praetorium, and they called together the whole manipule. And they clothed him with purple and placed around him a braided crown of acanthus. And they began to greet him, "Hail, King of the Jews!" And they struck his head with a reed, and they spit on him, and (putting their knees down) they bowed down to him.
And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple garment and clothed him with his own clothes.
And they led him out, so that they might crucify him. And they forced a certain Simon (a Kurenian who was passing by, having come from a field), the father of Alexandros and Rufus, that he would take up his cross.
22 And they carried him to the Golgotha place, which is translated, Skull Place. And they gave him wine mixed with myrrh, which he did not take. And they crucified him and "divided his clothes, casting lots for them," for what each should take. Now it was the [sixth] hour, and they crucified him.
And the inscription of his accusation was written over him: "The King of the Jews." And they crucified two robbers with him, one at the right and one at his left.
And the passers by spoke evil to him, "shaking their heads" and saying, "Oh, the one who would destroy the Temple and construct it in three days! Save yourself! Come down from the cross!" The high priests likewise were mocking to one another, with the scribes, saying, "He saved others. Isn't he able to save himself?" The Anointed One. The King of Israel! He should descend now from the cross, so that we would see and trust!" And the ones who were being crucified together with him reproached him.
33 And after the sixth hour happened, darkness happened to the whole land until the ninth hour. And at the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a loud voice: ""Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani," which is, translated, ""My God, my God, for what reason have you abandoned me?!" And when some of those who were standing by heard, they said, "Look, he's calling for Elijah." Now someone ran, and, filling a sponge with vinegar, put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink, saying, "Leave him. Let's see if Elijah comes to take him down." But Jesus, uttering a great sound, expired.
And the curtain of the Temple was divided in two from top to bottom. Now when the centurion that was standing by opposite him noticed that he expired, he said, "Truly, this person was a god's son."
40 Now there were also women watching from a large distance, among whom were Miriam the Magdalene, and Miriam the mother of Jacob the Little One and of Yosef, and Salome. When he had been in Galilaiah, they followed him and served him. And many others were there, who had gone up together with him into Jerusalem.
And since evening was already happening, since it was the Preparation Day which is before a Sabbath, Yosef from Arimathaea came: a ranking Senator who was also expecting God's kingdom. He daringly entered to Pilatus and asked for Jesus' body. Now Pilatus wondered if he had already died, and he called aside the centurion and asked him if already he had finished dying. And after obtaining knowledge from the centurion, he gave the corpse to Yosef.
And after buying linen, he took him down and wrapped him in the linen and placed him in a tomb which had been carved out of rock. And he rolled a stone over the door of the tomb.
SIXTEEN
16:1 Now Miriam the Magdalene and Miriam the mother of Yosef observed where he was placed. And after the Sabbath happened, Miriam the Magdalene, and Miriam the mother of Jacob, and Salome bought spices, so that they might come anoint him. And very early on the first of the week, they went to the tomb, after the sun rose. And they said to themselves, "Who will roll away the stone for us from the door of the tomb?"
And, looking up, they observed that the stone had been rolled away, for it was exceedingly large. And after entering into the tomb, they noticed a youth sitting at the right side, with a white robe wrapped around him, and they were astonished. But he said to them, "Don't be astonished. You are seeking Jesus the Nazarene, the one who was crucified. He has risen. He is not here. Look at the place where they placed him. But go tell his students, including Peter, that he is going ahead of you into Galilaiah. You will see him there, just as he told you."
And they went out and fled from the tomb, for trembling and amazement held them. And they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.
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