mGNT Concordance for τῷ

The birth of Jesus Christ came about this way: After his mother Mary had been engaged[fn] to Joseph, it was discovered before they came together that she was pregnant from the Holy Spirit.

After they were gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, “Get up! Take the child and his mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you. For Herod is about to search for the child to kill him.”

After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,

and they were baptized by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins.

“And don't presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.' For I tell you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones.

Now Jesus began to go all over Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every[fn] disease and sickness[fn] among the people.

“But I tell you, everyone who is angry with his brother or sister[fn] will be subject to judgment. Whoever insults[fn] his brother or sister will be subject to the court.[fn] Whoever says, ‘You fool! ' will be subject to hellfire.[fn]

“leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled with your brother or sister, and then come and offer your gift.

“Again, you have heard that it was said to our ancestors, You must not break your oath, but you must keep your oaths to the Lord.

“As for the one who wants to sue you and take away your shirt, let him have your coat as well.

“Give to the one who asks you, and don't turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.

“Be careful not to practice your righteousness[fn] in front of others to be seen by them. Otherwise, you have no reward with your Father in heaven.

“But when you pray, go into your private room, shut your door, and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.[fn]

“so that your fasting isn't obvious to others but to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.[fn]

“Why do you look at the splinter in your brother's eye but don't notice the beam of wood in your own eye?

“For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

Then Jesus told him, “See that you don't tell anyone; but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”

“For I too am a man under authority, having soldiers under my command.[fn] I say to this one, ‘Go,' and he goes; and to another, ‘Come,' and he comes; and to my servant, ‘Do this! ' and he does it.”

Then Jesus told the centurion, “Go. As you have believed, let it be done for you.” And his servant was healed that very moment.[fn]

At that, the whole town went out to meet Jesus. When they saw him, they begged him to leave their region.

Just then some men[fn] brought to him a paralytic lying on a stretcher. Seeing their faith, Jesus told the paralytic, “Have courage, son, your sins are forgiven.”

“But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins” ​— ​then he told the paralytic, “Get up, take your stretcher, and go home.”

While he was reclining at the table in the house, many tax collectors and sinners came to eat with Jesus and his disciples.

As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed him, calling out, “Have mercy on us, Son of David! ”

When the demon had been driven out, the man who had been mute spoke, and the crowds were amazed, saying, “Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel! ”

“It is enough for a disciple to become like his teacher and a slave like his master. If they called the head of the house ‘Beelzebul,' how much more the members of his household!

At that time Jesus said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and revealed them to infants.

At that time Jesus passed through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick and eat some heads of grain.

“Or haven't you read in the law that on Sabbath days the priests in the temple violate the Sabbath and are innocent?

Then he told the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out, and it was restored, as good as the other.

When the Pharisees heard this, they said, “This man drives out demons only by Beelzebul, the ruler of the demons.”

“Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the one to come.

He replied to the one who was speaking to him, “Who is my mother and who are my brothers? ”

He presented another parable to them: “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field.

“The landowner's servants came to him and said, ‘Master, didn't you sow good seed in your field? Then where did the weeds come from? '

He presented another parable to them: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field.

“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure, buried in a field, that a man found and reburied. Then in his joy he goes and sells everything he has and buys that field.

At that time Herod the tetrarch heard the report about Jesus.

When Herod's birthday celebration came, Herodias's daughter danced before them[fn] and pleased Herod.

Then his disciples came, removed the corpse,[fn] buried it, and went and reported to Jesus.

Then Jesus was approached by Pharisees and scribes from Jerusalem, who asked,

“But you say, ‘Whoever tells his father or mother, “Whatever benefit you might have received from me is a gift committed to the temple,”

After commanding the crowd to sit down on the ground,

Jesus turned and told Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me because you're not thinking about God's concerns[fn] but human concerns.”

Then Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, it's good for us to be here. If you want, I will set up[fn] three shelters here: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”

Then the disciples approached Jesus privately and said, “Why couldn't we drive it out? ”

When they came to Capernaum, those who collected the temple tax approached Peter and said, “Doesn't your teacher pay the temple tax? ”

At that time[fn] the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “So who is greatest in the kingdom of heaven? ”

“Woe to the world because of offenses. For offenses will inevitably come, but woe to that person by whom the offense comes.

“When the other servants saw what had taken place, they were deeply distressed and went and reported to their master everything that had happened.

“So also my heavenly Father will do to you unless every one of you forgives his brother or sister[fn] from your[fn] heart.”

“When evening came, the owner of the vineyard told his foreman, ‘Call the workers and give them their pay, starting with the last and ending with the first.'

“Take what's yours and go. I want to give this last man the same as I gave you.

Then the crowds who went ahead of him and those who followed shouted:

Hosanna to the Son of David!

Blessed is he who comes in the name

of the Lord!

Hosanna in the highest heaven!

When the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonders that he did and the children shouting in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David! ” they were indignant

So they answered Jesus, “We don't know.”

And he said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.

“Then the man went to the other and said the same thing. ‘I will, sir,' he answered, but he didn't go.

“The kingdom of heaven is like a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son.

“Caesar's,” they said to him.

Then he said to them, “Give, then, to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.”

“Teacher, Moses said, if a man dies, having no children, his brother is to marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother.

“For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like[fn] angels in heaven.

“Teacher, which command in the law is the greatest? ”

“The Lord declared to my Lord,

‘Sit at my right hand

until I put your enemies under your feet'?[fn]

“They tie up heavy loads that are hard to carry[fn] and put them on people's shoulders, but they themselves aren't willing to lift a finger to move them.

“Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever takes an oath by the temple, it means nothing. But whoever takes an oath by the gold of the temple is bound by his oath.'[fn]

“The one who takes an oath by the temple takes an oath by it and by him who dwells in it.

“and a man in the field must not go back to get his coat.

“Then two men will be in the field; one will be taken and one left.

“ ‘So take the talent from him and give it to the one who has ten talents.

“Then he will also say to those on the left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels!

“Not during the festival,” they said, “so there won't be rioting among the people.”

“Truly I tell you, wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.”

On the first day of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Where do you want us to make preparations for you to eat the Passover? ”

“The Son of Man will go just as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for him if he had not been born.”

Then he came to the disciples and found them sleeping. He asked Peter, “So, couldn't you stay awake with me one hour?

So immediately he went up to Jesus and said, “Greetings, Rabbi! ” and kissed him.

After a little while those standing there approached and said to Peter, “You really are one of them, since even your accent[fn] gives you away.”

After tying him up, they led him away and handed him over to Pilate,[fn] the governor.

At the festival the governor's custom was to release to the crowd a prisoner they wanted.

While he was sitting on the judge's bench, his wife sent word to him, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for today I've suffered terribly in a dream because of him.”

Many women who had followed Jesus from Galilee and looked after him were there, watching from a distance.

When it was evening, a rich man from Arimathea named Joseph came, who himself had also become a disciple of Jesus.

“So give orders that the tomb be made secure until the third day. Otherwise, his disciples may come, steal him, and tell the people, ‘He has been raised from the dead,' and the last deception will be worse than the first.”

As it is written in Isaiah the prophet:[fn]

See, I am sending my messenger ahead of you;

he will prepare your way.[fn]

The whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem were going out to him, and they were baptized by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins.

telling him, “See that you say nothing to anyone; but go and show yourself to the priest, and offer what Moses commanded for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.”[fn]

Seeing their faith, Jesus told the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”

“Which is easier: to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, ‘Get up, take your mat, and walk'?

While he was reclining at the table in Levi's house, many tax collectors and sinners were eating[fn] with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many who were following him.

He told the man with the shriveled hand, “Stand before us.”

After looking around at them with anger, he was grieved at the hardness of their hearts and told the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out, and his hand was restored.

He appointed the Twelve:[fn] To Simon, he gave the name Peter;

The scribes who had come down from Jerusalem said, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and, “He drives out demons by the ruler of the demons.”

“The soil produces a crop by itself ​— ​first the blade, then the head, and then the full grain on the head.

He got up, rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Silence! Be still! ” The wind ceased, and there was a great calm.

Those who had seen it described to them what had happened to the demon-possessed man and told about the pigs.

Having heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his clothing.

Immediately Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and said, “Who touched my clothes? ”

When Jesus overheard[fn] what was said, he told the synagogue leader, “Don't be afraid. Only believe.”

John had been telling Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife.”

When Herodias's own daughter[fn] came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his guests. The king said to the girl, “Ask me whatever you want, and I'll give it to you.”

Then he instructed them to have all the people sit down in groups on the green grass.

“But you say, ‘If anyone tells his father or mother: Whatever benefit you might have received from me is corban' ” (that is, an offering devoted to God),

He commanded the crowd to sit down on the ground. Taking the seven loaves, he gave thanks, broke them, and gave them to his disciples to set before the people. So they served them to the crowd.

Elijah appeared to them with Moses, and they were talking with Jesus.

Jesus said to him, “ ‘If you can'?[fn] Everything is possible for the one who believes.”

But he was dismayed by this demand, and he went away grieving, because he had many possessions.

Looking at them, Jesus said, “With man it is impossible, but not with God, because all things are possible with God.”

“who will not receive a hundred times more, now at this time ​— ​houses, brothers and sisters, mothers and children, and fields, with persecutions ​— ​and eternal life in the age to come.

So they answered Jesus, “We don't know.”

And Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”

“At harvest time he sent a servant to the farmers to collect some of the fruit of the vineyard from them.

Jesus told them, “Give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.” And they were utterly amazed at him.

“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies, leaving a wife behind but no child, that man should take the wife and raise up offspring for his brother.

“David himself says by the Holy Spirit:

The Lord declared to my Lord,

‘Sit at my right hand

until I put your enemies under your feet.'

“It is like a man on a journey, who left his house, gave authority to his servants, gave each one his work, and commanded the doorkeeper to be alert.

“Wherever he enters, tell the owner of the house, ‘The Teacher says, “Where is my guest room where I may eat the Passover with my disciples? ” '

“For the Son of Man will go just as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for him if he had not been born.”

Then he came and found them sleeping. He said to Peter, “Simon, are you sleeping? Couldn't you stay awake one hour?

But again he denied it. After a little while those standing there said to Peter again, “You certainly are one of them, since you're also a Galilean.”[fn]

Wanting to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas to them; and after having Jesus flogged, he handed him over to be crucified.

When he found out from the centurion, he gave the corpse to Joseph.

“But go, tell his disciples and Peter, ‘He is going ahead of you to Galilee; you will see him there just as he told you.' ”

Meanwhile, the people were waiting for Zechariah, amazed that he stayed so long in the sanctuary.

In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth,

But she was deeply troubled by this statement, wondering what kind of greeting this could be.

and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,

to Abraham and his descendants[fn] forever,

just as he spoke to our ancestors.

So they motioned to his father to find out what he wanted him to be called.

Blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel,

because he has visited

and provided redemption for his people.

to give his people knowledge of salvation

through the forgiveness of their sins.

But the angel said to them, “Don't be afraid, for look, I proclaim to you good news of great joy that will be for all the people:[fn]

Suddenly there was a multitude of the heavenly host[fn] with the angel, praising God and saying:

And when the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were finished, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord

Then Simeon blessed them and told his mother Mary, “Indeed, this child is destined to cause the fall and rise of many in Israel and to be a sign that will be opposed[fn] ​— ​

At that very moment,[fn] she came up and began to thank God and to speak about him to all who were looking forward to the redemption of Jerusalem.[fn]

“Therefore produce fruit consistent with repentance. And don't start saying to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father,' for I tell you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones.

He replied to them, “The one who has two shirts must share with someone who has none, and the one who has food must do the same.”

The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread.”

He then rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. And the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on him.

“But I say to you, there were certainly many widows in Israel in Elijah's days, when the sky was shut up for three years and six months while a great famine came over all the land.

“And in the prophet Elisha's time, there were many in Israel who had leprosy,[fn] and yet not one of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.”

So he stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her. She got up immediately and began to serve them.

and so were James and John, Zebedee's sons, who were Simon's partners.

“Don't be afraid,” Jesus told Simon. “From now on you will be catching people.”

Then he ordered him to tell no one: “But go and show yourself to the priest, and offer what Moses commanded for your cleansing as a testimony to them.”

“But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins” ​— ​he told the paralyzed man, “I tell you: Get up, take your stretcher, and go home.”

But he knew their thoughts and told the man with the shriveled hand, “Get up and stand here.”[fn] So he got up and stood there.

They, however, were filled with rage and started discussing with one another what they might do to Jesus.

“Rejoice in that day and leap for joy. Take note ​— ​your reward is great in heaven, for this is the way their ancestors used to treat the prophets.

“If anyone hits you on the cheek, offer the other also. And if anyone takes away your coat, don't hold back your shirt either.

“Why do you look at the splinter in your brother's eye, but don't notice the beam of wood in your own eye?

“For I too am a man placed under authority, having soldiers under my command. I say to this one, ‘Go,' and he goes; and to another, ‘Come,' and he comes; and to my servant, ‘Do this,' and he does it.”

Afterward he was on his way to a town called Nain. His disciples and a large crowd were traveling with him.

Turning to the woman, he said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave me no water for my feet, but she, with her tears, has washed my feet and wiped them with her hair.

Afterward he was traveling from one town and village to another, preaching and telling the good news of the kingdom of God. The Twelve were with him,

They came and woke him up, saying, “Master, Master, we're going to die! ”

Then he got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waves. So they ceased, and there was a calm.

Then he took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed and broke them. He kept giving them to the disciples to set before the crowd.

As the boy was still approaching, the demon knocked him down and threw him into severe convulsions. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the boy, and gave him back to his father.

“Whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace to this household.'

“What is written in the law? ” he asked him. “How do you read it? ”

“The next day[fn] he took out two denarii,[fn] gave them to the innkeeper, and said, ‘Take care of him. When I come back I'll reimburse you for whatever extra you spend.'

“For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

But some of them said, “He drives out demons by Beelzebul, the ruler of the demons.”

“Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but the one who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.

Someone from the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”

“As you are going with your adversary to the ruler, make an effort to settle with him on the way. Then he won't drag you before the judge, the judge hand you over to the bailiff, and the bailiff throw you into prison.

At that time, some people came and reported to him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.

“Or those eighteen that the tower in Siloam fell on and killed ​— ​do you think they were more sinful than all the other people who live in Jerusalem?

And he told this parable: “A man had a fig tree that was planted in his vineyard. He came looking for fruit on it and found none.

But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, responded by telling the crowd, “There are six days when work should be done; therefore come on those days and be healed and not on the Sabbath day.”

He also said to the one who had invited him, “When you give a lunch or a dinner, don't invite your friends, your brothers or sisters, your relatives, or your rich neighbors, because they might invite you back, and you would be repaid.

“So the servant came back and reported these things to his master. Then in anger, the master of the house told his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the city, and bring in here the poor, maimed, blind, and lame.'

“Or what king, going to war against another king, will not first sit down and decide if he is able with ten thousand to oppose the one who comes against him with twenty thousand?

“I tell you, in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who don't need repentance.

“The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of the estate I have coming to me.' So he distributed the assets[fn] to them.

“But he replied to his father, ‘Look, I have been slaving many years for you, and I have never disobeyed your orders, yet you never gave me a goat so that I could celebrate with my friends.

“So he summoned each one of his master's debtors. ‘How much do you owe my master? ' he asked the first one.

“So if you have not been faithful with worldly wealth, who will trust you with what is genuine?

“And being in torment in Hades, he looked up and saw Abraham a long way off, with Lazarus at his side.

The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”

“Does he thank that servant because he did what was commanded?[fn]

“Didn't any return to give glory to God except this foreigner? ”

“But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even raise his eyes to heaven but kept striking his chest and saying, ‘God, have mercy on me,[fn] a sinner! '

He replied, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.”

“who will not receive many times more at this time, and eternal life in the age to come.”

Instantly he could see, and he began to follow him, glorifying God. All the people, when they saw it, gave praise to God.

When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down because today it is necessary for me to stay at your house.”

“Today salvation has come to this house,” Jesus told him, “because he too is a son of Abraham.

“So he said to those standing there, ‘Take the mina away from him and give it to the one who has ten minas.'

“ ‘I tell you, that to everyone who has, more will be given; and from the one who does not have, even what he does have will be taken away.

“Well then,” he told them, “give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.”

“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother has a wife, and dies childless, his brother should take the wife and produce offspring for his brother.

“For David himself says in the Book of Psalms:

The Lord declared to my Lord,

‘Sit at my right hand

“Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days, for there will be great distress in the land[fn] and wrath against this people.

“Tell the owner of the house, ‘The Teacher asks you, “Where is the guest room where I can eat the Passover with my disciples? ” '

“For the Son of Man will go away as it has been determined, but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed! ”

While he was still speaking, suddenly a mob came, and one of the Twelve named Judas was leading them. He came near Jesus to kiss him,

Then the Lord turned and looked at Peter. So Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said to him, “Before the rooster crows today, you will deny me three times.”

Pilate then told the chief priests and the crowds, “I find no grounds for charging this man.”

Then Herod, with his soldiers, treated him with contempt, mocked him, dressed him in bright clothing, and sent him back to Pilate.

and said to them, “You have brought me this man as one who misleads the people. But in fact, after examining him in your presence, I have found no grounds to charge this man with those things you accuse him of.

And he said to him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.”

He approached Pilate and asked for Jesus's body.

He told them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you ​— ​that everything written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”

He was in the world, and the world was created through him, and yet the world did not recognize him.

“I didn't know him, but I came baptizing with water so that he might be revealed to Israel.”

When he saw Jesus passing by, he said, “Look, the Lamb of God! ”

Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the one Moses wrote about in the law (and so did the prophets): Jesus the son of Joseph, from Nazareth.”

Then he said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the headwaiter.”[fn] And they did.

So when he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the statement Jesus had made.

and because he did not need anyone to testify about man; for he himself knew what was in man.

The one who believes in the Son has eternal life, but the one who rejects the Son[fn] will not see life; instead, the wrath of God remains on him.

so he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar near the property[fn] that Jacob had given his son Joseph.

Jesus told her, “Believe me, woman, an hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

“But an hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and in truth.[fn] Yes, the Father wants such people to worship him.

“Go,” Jesus told him, “your son will live.” The man believed what[fn] Jesus said to him and departed.

and so the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “This is the Sabbath. The law prohibits you from picking up your mat.”

But the man who was healed did not know who it was, because Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.[fn]

This is why the Jews began trying all the more to kill him: Not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal to God.

“The Father, in fact, judges no one but has given all judgment to the Son,

“Truly I tell you, anyone who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not come under judgment but has passed from death to life.

“For just as the Father has life in himself, so also he has granted to the Son to have life in himself.

Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.”

There was plenty of grass in that place; so they sat down. The men numbered about five thousand.

“For the bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

“For no one does anything in secret while he's seeking public recognition. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.”

So the crowd was divided because of him.

“In the law Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say? ”

“Even in your law it is written that the testimony of two witnesses is true.

Then Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you continue in my word,[fn] you really are my disciples.

“I speak what I have seen in the presence of the Father;[fn] so then, you do what you have heard from your father.”

“As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

Again they asked the blind man, “What do you say about him, since he opened your eyes? ”

“He's a prophet,” he said.

So a second time they summoned the man who had been blind and told him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”

Jesus answered them, “Isn't it written in your law,[fn] I said, you are gods?

“But if I am doing them and you don't believe me, believe the works. This way you will know and understand[fn] that the Father is in me and I in the Father.”

As soon as Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him, but Mary remained seated in the house.

Jesus had not yet come into the village but was still in the place where Martha had met him.

So they came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and requested of him, “Sir, we want to see Jesus.”

“The one who loves his life will lose it, and the one who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

Before the Passover Festival, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

One of his disciples, the one Jesus loved, was reclining close beside Jesus.[fn]

“Don't you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I speak to you I do not speak on my own. The Father who lives in me does his works.

“Whatever you ask in my name, I will do it so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

“On that day you will know that I am in my Father, you are in me, and I am in you.

Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it you're going to reveal yourself to us and not to the world? ”

“But this happened so that the statement written in their law might be fulfilled: They hated me for no reason.

“They will ban you from the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering service to God.

“I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. You will have suffering in this world. Be courageous! I have conquered the world.”

“I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect[fn] them by your name that you have given me, so that they may be one as we are one.

“Now I am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have my joy completed in them.

Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it, struck the high priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. (The servant's name was Malchus.)

Simon Peter was following Jesus, as was another disciple. That disciple was an acquaintance of the high priest; so he went with Jesus into the high priest's courtyard.

Then the servant girl who was the doorkeeper said to Peter, “You aren't one of this man's disciples too, are you? ”

“I am not,” he said.

“I have spoken openly to the world,” Jesus answered him. “I have always taught in the synagogue and in the temple, where all the Jews gather, and I haven't spoken anything in secret.

When he had said these things, one of the officials standing by slapped Jesus, saying, “Is this the way you answer the high priest? ”

One of the high priest's servants, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, said, “Didn't I see you with him in the garden? ”

He went back into the headquarters and asked Jesus, “Where are you from? ” But Jesus did not give him an answer.

From that moment Pilate kept trying[fn] to release him. But the Jews shouted, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar's friend. Anyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar! ”

So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Don't write, ‘The king of the Jews,' but that he said, ‘I am the king of the Jews.' ”

Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother, his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

Then he said to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.

There was a garden in the place where he was crucified. A new tomb was in the garden; no one had yet been placed in it.

Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here and look at my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Don't be faithless, but believe.”

The disciple, the one Jesus loved, said to Peter, “It is the Lord! ”

When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he tied his outer clothing around him (for he had taken it off) and plunged into the sea.

When they had eaten breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John,[fn] do you love me more than these? ”

“Yes, Lord,” he said to him, “you know that I love you.”

“Feed my lambs,” he told him.

When Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, “Lord, what about him? ”

So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, are you restoring the kingdom to Israel at this time? ”

“I will display wonders in the heaven above

and signs on the earth below:

blood and fire and a cloud of smoke.

“For it was not David who ascended into the heavens, but he himself says:

The Lord declared to my Lord,

‘Sit at my right hand

Peter, along with John, looked straight at him and said, “Look at us.”

because they were annoyed that they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection of the dead.

“let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified and whom God raised from the dead ​— ​by him this man is standing here before you healthy.

When they observed the boldness of Peter and John and realized that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were amazed and recognized that they had been with Jesus.

“Wasn't it yours while you possessed it? And after it was sold, wasn't it at your disposal? Why is it that you planned this thing in your heart? You have not lied to people but to God.”

Many signs and wonders were being done among the people through the hands of the apostles. They were all together in Solomon's Colonnade.

Believers were added to the Lord in increasing numbers ​— ​multitudes of both men and women.

“Go and stand in the temple, and tell the people all about this life.”

“God exalted this man to his right hand as ruler and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.

But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law who was respected by all the people, stood up in the Sanhedrin and ordered the men[fn] to be taken outside for a little while.

Now Stephen, full of grace and power, was performing great wonders and signs among the people.

“Brothers and fathers,” he replied, “listen: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran,

“I will judge the nation that they will serve as slaves, God said. After this, they will come out and worship me in this place.

“The second time, Joseph revealed himself to his brothers, and Joseph's family became known to Pharaoh.

“As the time was approaching to fulfill the promise that God had made to Abraham, the people flourished and multiplied in Egypt

“At this time Moses was born, and he was beautiful in God's sight. He was cared for in his father's home for three months.

“When he saw one of them being mistreated, he came to his rescue and avenged the oppressed man by striking down the Egyptian.

“When he heard this, Moses fled and became an exile in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.

“They told Aaron: Make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we don't know what's happened to him.

“Our ancestors had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, just as he who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern he had seen.

“He found favor in God's sight and asked that he might provide a dwelling place for the God[fn] of Jacob.

But when they believed Philip, as he proclaimed the good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, both men and women were baptized.

“You have no part or share in this matter, because your heart is not right before God.

The Spirit told Philip, “Go and join that chariot.”

The eunuch said to Philip, “I ask you, who is the prophet saying this about ​— ​himself or someone else? ”

Now Saul was still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord. He went to the high priest

but Saul learned of their plot. So they were watching the gates day and night intending to kill him,

So the church throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace and was strengthened. Living in the fear of the Lord and encouraged by the Holy Spirit, it increased in numbers.

He was a devout man and feared God along with his whole household. He did many charitable deeds for the Jewish people and always prayed to God.

Cornelius replied, “Four days ago at this hour, at three in the afternoon,[fn] I was[fn] praying in my house. Just then a man in dazzling clothing stood before me

“not by all the people, but by us whom God appointed as witnesses, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were amazed because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles.

“He reported to us how he had seen the angel standing in his house and saying, ‘Send to Joppa, and call for Simon, who is also named Peter.

When he arrived and saw the grace of God, he was glad and encouraged all of them to remain true to the Lord with devoted hearts,

After the arrest, he put him in prison and assigned four squads of four soldiers each to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover.

At once an angel of the Lord struck him because he did not give the glory to God, and he was eaten by worms and died.

As they were worshiping[fn] the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”

He was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul and wanted to hear the word of God.

“From this man's descendants, as he promised, God brought to Israel the Savior, Jesus.[fn]

“God has fulfilled this for us, their children, by raising up Jesus, as it is written in the second Psalm:

You are my Son;

today I have become your Father.[fn]

After the synagogue had been dismissed, many of the Jews and devout converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who were speaking with them and urging them to continue in the grace of God.

So they stayed there a long time and spoke boldly for the Lord, who testified to the message of his grace by enabling them to do signs and wonders.

After the disciples gathered around him, he got up and went into the town. The next day he left with Barnabas for Derbe.

When they had appointed elders for them in every church and prayed with fasting, they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

After Paul and Barnabas had engaged them in serious argument and debate, Paul and Barnabas and some others were appointed to go up to the apostles and elders in Jerusalem about this issue.

Then the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, decided to select men who were among them and to send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas, called Barsabbas, and Silas, both leading men among the brothers.

So the churches were strengthened in the faith and grew daily in numbers.

During the night Paul had a vision in which a Macedonian man was standing and pleading with him, “Cross over to Macedonia and help us! ”

After she and her household were baptized, she urged us, “If you consider me a believer in the Lord, come and stay at my house.” And she persuaded us.

As she followed Paul and us she cried out, “These men, who are proclaiming to you[fn] a way of salvation, are the servants of the Most High God.”

After they had severely flogged them, they threw them in jail, ordering the jailer to guard them carefully.

The jailer called for lights, rushed in, and fell down trembling before Paul and Silas.

He brought them into his house, set a meal before them, and rejoiced because he had come to believe in God with his entire household.

As usual, Paul went into the synagogue, and on three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, including a large number of God-fearing Greeks, as well as a number of the leading women.

When Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul devoted himself to preaching the word[fn] and testified to the Jews that Jesus is the Messiah.

Crispus, the leader of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, along with his whole household. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized.

While Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a united attack against Paul and brought him to the tribunal.

And they all[fn] seized Sosthenes, the leader of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the tribunal, but none of these things mattered to Gallio.

Paul said, “John baptized with a baptism of repentance, telling the people that they should believe in the one who would come after him, that is, in Jesus.”

Some Jews in the crowd gave instructions to Alexander[fn] after they pushed him to the front. Motioning with his hand, Alexander wanted to make his defense to the people.

“serving the Lord with all humility, with tears, and during the trials that came to me through the plots of the Jews.

“And now I commit you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all who are sanctified.

grieving most of all over his statement that they would never see his face again. And they accompanied him to the ship.

We sought out the disciples and stayed there seven days. Through the Spirit they told Paul not to go to Jerusalem.

As they were trying to kill him, word went up to the commander of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in chaos.

Some in the crowd were shouting one thing and some another. Since he was not able to get reliable information because of the uproar, he ordered him to be taken into the barracks.

As he was about to be brought into the barracks, Paul said to the commander, “Am I allowed to say something to you? ”

He replied, “You know how to speak Greek?

After he had given permission, Paul stood on the steps and motioned with his hand to the people. When there was a great hush, he addressed them in Aramaic:[fn]

When the centurion heard this, he went and reported to the commander, saying, “What are you going to do? For this man is a Roman citizen.”

Paul looked straight at the Sanhedrin and said, “Brothers, I have lived my life before God in all good conscience to this day.”

The shouting grew loud, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees' party got up and argued vehemently, “We find nothing evil in this man. What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him? ”[fn]

“So now you, along with the Sanhedrin, make a request to the commander that he bring him down to you[fn] as if you were going to investigate his case more thoroughly. But, before he gets near, we are ready to kill him.”

Claudius Lysias,

To the most excellent governor Felix:

Greetings.

When these men entered Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, they also presented Paul to him.

Five days later Ananias the high priest came down with some elders and a lawyer named Tertullus. These men presented their case against Paul to the governor.

“But I admit this to you: I worship the God of my ancestors according to the Way, which they call a sect, believing everything that is in accordance with the law and written in the prophets.

He ordered that the centurion keep Paul under guard, though he could have some freedom, and that he should not prevent any of his friends from meeting[fn] his needs.

“Therefore,” he said, “let those of you who have authority go down with me and accuse him, if he has done anything wrong.”

But Festus, wanting to do the Jews a favor, replied to Paul, “Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem to be tried before me there on these charges? ”

Since they were staying there several days, Festus presented Paul's case to the king, saying, “There's a man who was left as a prisoner by Felix.

“I have nothing definite to write to my lord about him. Therefore, I have brought him before all of you, and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that after this examination is over, I may have something to write.

“that the Messiah would suffer, and that, as the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light to our people and to the Gentiles.”

“I wish before God,” replied Paul, “that whether easily or with difficulty,[fn] not only you but all who listen to me today might become as I am ​— ​except for these chains.”

Agrippa said to Festus, “This man could have been released if he had not appealed to Caesar.”

The next day we put in at Sidon, and Julius treated Paul kindly and allowed him to go to his friends to receive their care.

But the centurion paid attention to the captain and the owner of the ship rather than to what Paul said.

Since the ship was caught and unable to head into the wind, we gave way to it and were driven along.

“So take courage, men, because I believe God that it will be just the way it was told to me.

When the fourteenth night came, we were drifting in the Adriatic Sea, and about midnight the sailors thought they were approaching land.

Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men stay in the ship, you cannot be saved.”

After he said these things and had taken some bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all of them, and after he broke it, he began to eat.

Now in the area around that place was an estate belonging to the leading man of the island, named Publius, who welcomed us and entertained us hospitably for three days.

Now the brothers and sisters from there had heard the news about us and had come to meet us as far as the Forum of Appius and the Three Taverns. When Paul saw them, he thanked God and took courage.

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you because the news of your faith[fn] is being reported in all the world.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel,[fn] because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek.

but glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does what is good, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek.

For the hearers of the law are not righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified.[fn]

an instructor of the ignorant, a teacher of the immature, having the embodiment of knowledge and truth in the law ​— ​

Now we know that whatever the law says, it speaks to those who are subject to the law,[fn] so that every mouth may be shut and the whole world may become subject to God's judgment.[fn]

God presented him to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so that he would be just and justify the one who has faith in Jesus.

For what does the Scripture say? Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness.

Is this blessing only for the circumcised, then? Or is it also for the uncircumcised? For we say, Faith was credited to Abraham for righteousness.

For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

He did not waver in unbelief at God's promise but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God,

For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, then how much more, having been reconciled, will we be saved by his life.

so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness, resulting in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

For the death he died, he died to sin once for all time; but the life he lives, he lives to God.

And do not offer any parts[fn] of it to sin as weapons for unrighteousness. But as those who are alive from the dead, offer yourselves to God, and all the parts of yourselves to God as weapons for righteousness.

But thank God that, although you used to be slaves of sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching to which you were handed[fn] over,

But now, since you have been set free from sin and have become enslaved to God, you have your fruit, which results in sanctification ​— ​and the outcome is eternal life!

For example, a married woman is legally bound to her husband while he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law regarding the husband.

Therefore, my brothers and sisters, you also were put to death in relation to the law through the body of Christ so that you may belong to another. You belong to him who was raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God.

Now if I do what I do not want to do, I agree with the law that it is good.

So I discover this law:[fn] When I want to do what is good,[fn] evil is present with me.

Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I myself am serving the law of God, but with my flesh, the law of sin.

The mindset of the flesh is hostile to God because it does not submit to God's law. Indeed, it is unable to do so.

nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

not from works but from the one who calls ​— ​she was told, The older will serve the younger.

What should we say then? Is there injustice with God? Absolutely not!

For the Scripture tells Pharaoh, I raised you up for this reason so that I may display my power in you and that my name may be proclaimed in the whole earth.

On the contrary, who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? Will what is formed say to the one who formed it, “Why did you make me like this? ”

As it[fn] also says in Hosea,

I will call Not My People, My People,

and she who is Unloved, Beloved.

Why is that? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were by works.[fn] They stumbled over the stumbling stone.

For Christ is the end[fn] of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes,

God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Or don't you know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah ​— ​how he pleads with God against Israel?

In the same way, then, there is also at the present time a remnant chosen by grace.

I don't want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you will not be conceited: A partial hardening has come upon Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.

As you once disobeyed God but now have received mercy through their disobedience,

Therefore, brothers and sisters, in view of the mercies of God, I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God; this is your true worship.[fn]

Do not lack diligence in zeal; be fervent in the Spirit;[fn] serve the Lord.

For it is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, because it does not carry the sword for no reason. For it is God's servant, an avenger that brings wrath on the one who does wrong.

Pay your obligations to everyone: taxes to those you owe taxes, tolls to those you owe tolls, respect to those you owe respect, and honor to those you owe honor.

The commandments, Do not commit adultery; do not murder; do not steal;[fn] do not covet; and any other commandment, are summed up by this commandment: Love your neighbor as yourself.

Who are you to judge another's household servant? Before his own Lord he stands or falls. And he will stand, because the Lord is able[fn] to make him stand.

If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.

For it is written,

As I live, says the Lord,

every knee will bow to me,

and every tongue will give praise to God.

Whoever serves Christ in this way is acceptable to God and receives human approval.

Do not tear down God's work because of food. Everything is clean, but it is wrong to make someone fall by what he eats.

Each one of us is to please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.

because such people do not serve our Lord Christ but their own appetites.[fn] They deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting with smooth talk and flattering words.

Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the proclamation about Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept silent for long ages

I always thank my God for you because of the grace of God given to you in Christ Jesus,

Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree in what you say, that there be no divisions among you, and that you be united with the same understanding and the same conviction.

I thank God[fn][fn] that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius,

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks he is wise in this age, let him become a fool so that he can become wise.

For I think God has displayed us, the apostles, in last place, like men condemned to die: We have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to people.

hand that one over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

But actually, I wrote[fn] you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister and is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or verbally abusive, a drunkard or a swindler. Do not even eat with such a person.

“Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food,” and God will do away with both of them. However, the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

But anyone joined to the Lord is one spirit with him.

A husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise a wife to her husband.

But if she does leave, she must remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband ​— ​and a husband is not to divorce his wife.

For the unbelieving husband is made holy by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy by the husband.[fn] Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is they are holy.

I want you to be without concerns. The unmarried man is concerned about the things of the Lord ​— ​how he may please the Lord.

and his interests are divided. The unmarried woman or virgin is concerned about the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But the married woman is concerned about the things of the world ​— ​how she may please her husband.

Food will not bring us close to God.[fn] We are not worse off if we don't eat, and we are not better if we do eat.

For it is written in the law of Moses, Do not muzzle an ox while it treads out grain. Is God really concerned about oxen?

No temptation has come upon you except what is common to humanity. But God is faithful; he will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation he will also provide the way out so that you may be able to bear it.

Judge for yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?

but when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined, so that we may not be condemned with the world.

Therefore, if I do not know the meaning of the language, I will be a foreigner[fn] to the speaker, and the speaker will be a foreigner to me.

What then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will also pray with my understanding. I will sing praise with the spirit, and I will also sing praise with my understanding.

I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you;

It is written in the law,

I will speak to this people

by people of other tongues

and by the lips of foreigners,

and even then, they will not listen to me,

says the Lord.

The secrets of his heart will be revealed, and as a result he will fall facedown and worship God, proclaiming, “God is really among you.”

But if there is no interpreter, that person is to keep silent in the church and speak to himself and God.

For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

Then comes the end, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father, when he abolishes all rule and all authority and power.

When everything is subject to Christ, then the Son himself will also be subject to the one who subjected everything to him, so that God may be all in all.

I face death every day, as surely as I may boast about you, brothers and sisters, in Christ Jesus our Lord.

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!

also to submit to such people, and to everyone who works and labors with them.

Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death, so that we would not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.

Indeed, this is our boast: The testimony of our conscience is that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you, with godly sincerity and purity, not by human wisdom but by God's grace.

For every one of God's promises is “Yes” in him. Therefore, through him we also say “Amen” to the glory of God.

This punishment by the majority is sufficient for that person.

But thanks be to God, who always leads us in Christ's triumphal procession and through us spreads the aroma of the knowledge of him in every place.

And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the one who died for them and was raised.