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saying, “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star at its rising and have come to worship him.”[fn]

After hearing the king, they went on their way. And there it was ​— ​the star they had seen at its rising. It led them until it came and stopped above the place where the child was.

In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea

For he is the one spoken of through the prophet Isaiah, who said:

A voice of one crying out in the wilderness:

Prepare the way for the Lord;

make his paths straight!

“His winnowing shovel is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn. But the chaff he will burn with fire that never goes out.”

“Blessed are the pure in heart,

for they will see God.

“No one lights a lamp and puts it under a basket, but rather on a lampstand, and it gives light for all who are in the house.

“Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of these commands and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven. But whoever does and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

“You have heard that it was said to our ancestors, Do not murder, and whoever murders will be subject to judgment.

“Reach a settlement quickly with your adversary while you're on the way with him to the court, or your adversary will hand you over to the judge, and the judge to[fn] the officer, and you will be thrown into prison.

“But I tell you, everyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

“or by the earth, because it is his footstool; or by Jerusalem, because it is the city of the great King.

“When you pray, don't babble like the Gentiles, since they imagine they'll be heard for their many words.

“Therefore I tell you: Don't worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Isn't life more than food and the body more than clothing?

“Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was adorned like one of these.

“Therefore don't worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

“On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, didn't we prophesy in your name, drive out demons in your name, and do many miracles in your name? '

“The rain fell, the rivers rose, and the winds blew and pounded that house. Yet it didn't collapse, because its foundation was on the rock.

“The rain fell, the rivers rose, the winds blew and pounded that house, and it collapsed. It collapsed with a great crash.”

“Lord, my servant is lying at home paralyzed, in terrible agony.”

“I tell you that many will come from east and west to share the banquet[fn] with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.

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]

Suddenly, a violent storm arose on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by the waves ​— ​but Jesus kept sleeping.

He said to them, “Why are you afraid, you of little faith? ” Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.

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

But they went out and spread the news about him throughout that whole area.

“Truly I tell you, it will be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town.

“But when they hand you over, don't worry about how or what you are to speak. For you will be given what to say at that hour,

“When they persecute you in one town, flee to another. For truly I tell you, you will not have gone through the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

“What I tell you in the dark, speak in the light. What you hear in a whisper,[fn] proclaim on the housetops.

“Truly I tell you, among those born of women no one greater than John the Baptist has appeared,[fn] but the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

“Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, because I am lowly and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

“For as Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish[fn] three days and three nights, so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.

“Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and settle down there. As a result, that person's last condition is worse than the first. That's how it will also be with this evil generation.”

On that day Jesus went out of the house and was sitting by the sea.

“For this people's heart has grown callous;

their ears are hard of hearing,

and they have shut their eyes;

otherwise they might see with their eyes,

and hear with their ears, and

understand with their hearts,

and turn back —

and I would heal them.

“When anyone hears the word about the kingdom and doesn't understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the one sown along the path.

“Therefore, just as the weeds are gathered and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of the age.

“Then the righteous will shine like the sun in their Father's kingdom. Let anyone who has ears[fn] listen.

“So it will be at the end of the age. The angels will go out, separate the evil people from the righteous,

He went to his hometown and began to teach them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished and said, “Where did this man get this wisdom and these miraculous powers?

And they were offended by him.

Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his household.”

So he sent orders and had John beheaded in the prison.

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

Jesus called his disciples and said, “I have compassion on the crowd, because they've already stayed with me three days and have nothing to eat. I don't want to send them away hungry, otherwise they might collapse on the way.”

“And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overpower it.

From then on Jesus began to point out to his disciples that it was necessary for him to go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, be killed, and be raised the third day.

“For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will reward each according to what he has done.

As they were gathering together[fn] in Galilee, Jesus told them, “The Son of Man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men.

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

“Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child ​— ​this one is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

“If he doesn't pay attention to them, tell the church.[fn] If he doesn't pay attention even to the church, let him be like a Gentile and a tax collector to you.

“and he also said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh'?

Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, in the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

“When he went out about nine in the morning,[fn] he saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing.

While going up to Jerusalem, Jesus took the twelve disciples aside privately and said to them on the way,

“They will hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked, flogged,[fn] and crucified, and on the third day he will be raised.”[fn]

“What do you want? ” he asked her.

“Promise,”[fn] she said to him, “that these two sons of mine may sit, one on your right and the other on your left, in your kingdom.”

Tell Daughter Zion,

“See, your King is coming to you,

gentle, and mounted on a donkey,

and on a colt,

the foal of a donkey.”

A very large crowd spread their clothes on the road; others were cutting branches from the trees and spreading them on the road.

“And if you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.”

That same day some Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came up to him and questioned him:

“In the resurrection, then, whose wife will she be of the seven? For they all had married her.”[fn]

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

And when the crowds heard this, they were astonished at his teaching.

He said to him, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.

“This good news of the kingdom will be proclaimed in all the world[fn] as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

“then those in Judea must flee to the mountains.

“So if they tell you, ‘See, he's in the wilderness! ' don't go out; or, ‘See, he's in the storerooms! ' do not believe it.

“But if that wicked servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delayed,'

“But the man who had received one talent went off, dug a hole in the ground, and hid his master's money.

“So I was afraid and went off and hid your talent in the ground. See, you have what is yours.'

“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels[fn] with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.

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

Aware of this, Jesus said to them, “Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a noble thing for me.

“But I tell you, I will not drink from this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom.”

Then Jesus said to them, “Tonight all of you will fall away because of me, for it is written:

I will strike the shepherd,

and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.

“Truly I tell you,” Jesus said to him, “tonight, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.”

At that time Jesus said to the crowds, “Have you come out with swords and clubs, as if I were a criminal,[fn] to capture me? Every day I used to sit, teaching in the temple, and you didn't arrest me.

Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. A servant girl approached him and said, “You were with Jesus the Galilean too.”

and placed it in his new tomb, which he had cut into the rock. He left after rolling a great stone against the entrance of the tomb.

After the Sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to view the tomb.

A voice of one crying out in the wilderness:

Prepare the way for the Lord;

make his paths straight!

He was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals, and the angels were serving him.

As he passed alongside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew, Simon's brother, casting a net into the sea ​— ​for they were fishermen.

They were astonished at his teaching because he was teaching them as one who had authority, and not like the scribes.

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.

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.

Again he began to teach by the sea, and a very large crowd gathered around him. So he got into a boat on the sea and sat down, while the whole crowd was by the sea on the shore.

On that day, when evening had come, he told them, “Let's cross over to the other side of the sea.”

He was in the stern, sleeping on the cushion. So they woke him up and said to him, “Teacher! Don't you care that we're going to die? ”

So he gave them permission, and the unclean spirits came out and entered the pigs. The herd of about two thousand rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned there.

So he went out and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him, and they were all amazed.

When the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astonished. “Where did this man get these things? ” they said. “What is this wisdom that has been given to him, and how are these miracles performed by his hands?

Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown, among his relatives, and in his household.”

“If any place does not welcome you or listen to you, when you leave there, shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them.”[fn]

For Herod himself had given orders to arrest John and to chain him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, because he had married her.

She went out and said to her mother, “What should I ask for? ”

“John the Baptist's head,” she said.

The king immediately sent for an executioner and commanded him to bring John's head. So he went and beheaded him in prison,

“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),

“If I send them home hungry, they will collapse on the way, and some of them have come a long distance.”

Sighing deeply in his spirit, he said, “Why does this generation demand a sign? Truly I tell you, no sign will be given to this generation.”

Then he sent him home, saying, “Don't even go into the village.”[fn]

“For whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”

Immediately the father of the boy cried out, “I do believe; help my unbelief! ”

For he was teaching his disciples and telling them, “The Son of Man is going to be betrayed[fn] into the hands of men. They will kill him, and after he is killed, he will rise three days later.”

They came to Capernaum. When he was in the house, he asked them, “What were you arguing about on the way? ”

When they were in the house again, the disciples questioned him about this matter.

They were on the road, going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was walking ahead of them. The disciples were astonished, but those who followed him were afraid. Taking the Twelve aside again, he began to tell them the things that would happen to him.

“and they will mock him, spit on him, flog[fn] him, and kill him, and he will rise after three days.”

They answered him, “Allow us to sit at your right and at your left in your glory.”

Jesus said to him, “Go, your faith has saved you.” Immediately he could see and began to follow Jesus on the road.

The next day when they went out from Bethany, he was hungry.

The chief priests and the scribes heard it and started looking for a way to kill him. For they were afraid of him, because the whole crowd was astonished by his teaching.

“Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him.

“In the resurrection, when they rise,[fn] whose wife will she be, since the seven had married her? ”

“And as for the dead being raised ​— ​haven't you read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the burning bush, how God said to him: I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob?

He also said in his teaching, “Beware of the scribes, who want to go around in long robes and who want greetings in the marketplaces,

“So when they arrest you and hand you over, don't worry beforehand what you will say, but say whatever is given to you at that time, for it isn't you speaking, but the Holy Spirit.

“When you see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not be” (let the reader understand), “then those in Judea must flee to the mountains.

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

On the first day of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrifice the Passover lamb, his disciples asked him, “Where do you want us to go and prepare the Passover so that you may eat it? ”

“Truly I tell you, I will no longer drink of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new[fn] in the kingdom of God.”

Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will fall away,[fn] because it is written:

I will strike the shepherd,

and the sheep will be scattered.

“Truly I tell you,” Jesus said to him, “today, this very night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.”

While Peter was in the courtyard below, one of the high priest's maidservants came.

There was one named Barabbas, who was in prison with rebels who had committed murder during the rebellion.

And at three Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lemá sabachtháni? ” which is translated, “My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? ”

In Galilee these women followed him and took care of him. Many other women had come up with him to Jerusalem.

After he bought some linen cloth, Joseph took him down and wrapped him in the linen. Then he laid him in a tomb cut out of the rock and rolled a stone against the entrance to the tomb.

[Early on the first day of the week, after he had risen, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had driven seven demons.

Then he said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.

When his division was on duty and he was serving as priest before God,

At the hour of incense the whole assembly of the people was praying outside.

“There will be joy and delight for you, and many will rejoice at his birth.

“And consider your relative Elizabeth ​— ​even she has conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month for her who was called childless.

When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the baby leaped inside her, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.

“For you see, when the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby leaped for joy inside me.

When they came to circumcise the child on the eighth day, they were going to name him Zechariah, after his father.

Then they said to her, “None of your relatives has that name.”

Fear came on all those who lived around them, and all these things were being talked about throughout the hill country of Judea.

to be registered along with Mary, who was engaged to him[fn] and was pregnant.

Then she gave birth to her firstborn son, and she wrapped him tightly in cloth and laid him in a manger,[fn] because there was no guest room available for them.

“This will be the sign for you: You will find a baby wrapped tightly in cloth and lying in a manger.”

They hurried off and found both Mary and Joseph, and the baby who was lying in the manger.

But Mary was treasuring up all these things in her heart and meditating on them.

When the eight days were completed for his circumcision, he was named Jesus ​— ​the name given by the angel before he was conceived.

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]

Every year his parents traveled to Jerusalem for the Passover Festival.

Assuming he was in the traveling party, they went a day's journey. Then they began looking for him among their relatives and friends.

And all those who heard him were astounded at his understanding and his answers.

Then he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was obedient to them. His mother kept all these things in her heart.

during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, God's word came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness.

as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah:

A voice of one crying out in the wilderness:

Prepare the way for the Lord;

make his paths straight!

“His winnowing shovel is in his hand to clear his threshing floor and gather the wheat into his barn, but the chaff he will burn with fire that never goes out.”

Herod added this to everything else ​— ​he locked up John in prison.

Then Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about him spread throughout the entire vicinity.

He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. As usual, he entered the synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up to read.

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.

Then he said to them, “No doubt you will quote this proverb[fn] to me: ‘Doctor, heal yourself. What we've heard that took place in Capernaum, do here in your hometown also.' ”

When they heard this, everyone in the synagogue was enraged.

They were astonished at his teaching because his message had authority.

For he and all those with him were amazed at the catch of fish they had taken,

Then Levi hosted a grand banquet for him at his house. Now there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining at the table with them.

During those days he went out to the mountain to pray and spent all night in prayer to God.

“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.

“He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. When the flood came, the river crashed against that house and couldn't shake it, because it was well built.

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

The dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him to his mother.

This report about him went throughout Judea and all the vicinity.

At that time Jesus healed many people of diseases, afflictions, and evil spirits, and he granted sight to many blind people.

“I tell you, among those born of women no one is greater than John,[fn] but the least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.”

And a woman in the town who was a sinner found out that Jesus was reclining at the table in the Pharisee's house. She brought an alabaster jar of perfume

“But the seed in the good ground ​— ​these are the ones who, having heard the word with an honest and good heart, hold on to it and by enduring, produce fruit.

saying, “It is necessary that the Son of Man suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, be killed, and be raised the third day.”

“For whoever is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his glory and that of the Father and the holy angels.

The next day, when they came down from the mountain, a large crowd met him.

And they were all astonished at the greatness of God.

While everyone was amazed at all the things he was doing, he told his disciples,

As they were traveling on the road someone said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.”

“Remain in the same house, eating and drinking what they offer, for the worker is worthy of his wages. Don't move from house to house.

“I tell you, on that day it will be more tolerable for Sodom than for that town.

“But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you.

At that time he[fn] rejoiced in the Holy[fn] Spirit and said, “I praise[fn] you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and revealed them to infants. Yes, Father, because this was your good pleasure.[fn]

“A priest happened to be going down that road. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side.

“For just as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so also the Son of Man will be to this generation.

“If, therefore, your whole body is full of light, with no part of it in darkness, it will be entirely illuminated, as when a lamp shines its light on you.”

“Therefore, whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in an ear in private rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.

“For the Holy Spirit will teach you at that very hour what must be said.”

“Then I'll say to myself, “You have many goods stored up for many years. Take it easy; eat, drink, and enjoy yourself.” '

Then he said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, don't worry about your life, what you will eat; or about the body, what you will wear.

“Consider how the wildflowers grow: They don't labor or spin thread. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his splendor was adorned like one of these.

“If he comes in the middle of the night, or even near dawn,[fn] and finds them alert, blessed are those servants.

“But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,' and starts to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

“Do you think that I came here to bring peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division.

“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.

“He told the vineyard worker, ‘Listen, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and haven't found any. Cut it down! Why should it even waste the soil? '

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.”

“Satan has bound this woman, a daughter of Abraham, for eighteen years ​— ​shouldn't she be untied from this bondage[fn] on the Sabbath day? ”

“There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth in that place, when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but yourselves thrown out.

At that time some Pharisees came and told him, “Go, get out of here. Herod wants to kill you.”

“And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you; for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”

“At the time of the banquet, he sent his servant to tell those who were invited, ‘Come, because everything is now ready.'

“What man among you, who has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open field[fn] and go after the lost one until he finds it?

“Now his older son was in the field; as he came near the house, he heard music and dancing.

“‘Father Abraham! ' he called out, ‘Have mercy on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this flame! '

“If you have faith the size of[fn] a mustard seed,” the Lord said, “you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it will obey you.

“For as the lightning flashes from horizon to horizon and lights up the sky, so the Son of Man will be in his day.

“On that day, a man on the housetop, whose belongings are in the house, must not come down to get them. Likewise the man who is in the field must not turn back.

“I tell you, on that night two will be in one bed; one will be taken and the other will be left.

“And a widow in that town kept coming to him, saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.'

“and after they flog him, they will kill him, and he will rise on the third day.”

He was trying to see who Jesus was, but he was not able because of the crowd, since he was a short man.

As he was going along, they were spreading their clothes on the road.

saying, “If you knew this day what would bring peace ​— ​but now it is hidden from your eyes.

Then the scribes and the chief priests looked for a way to get their hands on him that very hour, because they knew he had told this parable against them, but they feared the people.

They were not able to catch him in what he said in public, and being amazed at his answer, they became silent.

“In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For all seven had married her.”

“By your endurance, gain[fn] your lives.

“Then those in Judea must flee to the mountains. Those inside the city must leave it, and those who are in the country must not enter it,

“People will faint from fear and expectation of the things that are coming on the world, because the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

“For I tell you, I will not eat it again[fn] until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.”

“so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom. And you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

That very day Herod and Pilate became friends.[fn] Previously, they had been enemies.

(He had been thrown into prison for a rebellion that had taken place in the city, and for murder.)

who had not agreed with their plan and action. He was from Arimathea, a Judean town, and was looking forward to the kingdom of God.

On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they[fn] came to the tomb, bringing the spices they had prepared.

“He is not here, but he has risen! Remember how he spoke to you when he was still in Galilee,

Now that same day two of them were on their way to a village called Emmaus, which was about seven miles[fn] from Jerusalem.

He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow[fn] to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

They said to each other, “Weren't our hearts burning within us while he was talking with us on the road and explaining the Scriptures to us? ”

Then they began to describe what had happened on the road and how he was made known to them in the breaking of the bread.

He also said to them, “This is what is written:[fn] The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead the third day,

“And look, I am sending you[fn] what my Father promised. As for you, stay in the city[fn] until you are empowered[fn] from on high.”

That light shines in the darkness, and yet the darkness did not overcome[fn] it.

He said, “I am a voice of one crying out in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord ​— ​just as Isaiah the prophet said.”

On the third day a wedding took place in Cana of Galilee. Jesus's mother was there,

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.

“Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,

The Father loves the Son and has given all things into his hands.

Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, worn out from his journey, sat down at the well. It was about noon.[fn]

And they told the woman, “We no longer believe because of what you said, since we have heard for ourselves and know that this really is the Savior of the world.”[fn]

(Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.)

The father realized this was the very hour at which Jesus had told him, “Your son will live.” So he himself believed, along with his whole household.

By the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem there is a pool, called Bethesda[fn] in Aramaic, which has five colonnades.

Instantly the man got well, picked up his mat, and started to walk.

Now that day was the Sabbath,

“You sent messengers to John, and he testified to the truth.

“Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written: He gave them bread from heaven to eat.”

“This is the will of him who sent me: that I should lose none of those he has given me but should raise them up on the last day.

“No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws[fn] him, and I will raise him up on the last day.

“Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

“The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day,

After this, Jesus traveled in Galilee, since he did not want to travel in Judea because the Jews were trying to kill him.

After he had said these things, he stayed in Galilee.

The Jews were looking for him at the festival and saying, “Where is he? ”

On the last and most important day of the festival, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me[fn] and drink.

Jesus spoke to them again: “I am the light of the world. Anyone who follows me will never walk in the darkness but will have the light of life.”

Then he said to them again, “I'm going away; you will look for me, and you will die in your sin. Where I'm going, you cannot come.”

“A slave does not remain in the household forever, but a son does remain forever.

“You are of your father the devil, and you want to carry out your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature,[fn] because he is a liar and the father of lies.

Jesus was walking in the temple in Solomon's Colonnade.

“Aren't there twelve hours in a day? ” Jesus answered. “If anyone walks during the day, he doesn't stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”

The Jews who were with her in the house consoling her saw that Mary got up quickly and went out. They followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to cry there.

Now some Greeks were among those who went up to worship at the festival.

Jesus answered, “The light will be with you only a little longer. Walk while you have the light so that darkness doesn't overtake you. The one who walks in darkness doesn't know where he's going.

This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet, who said:[fn]

Lord, who has believed our message?

And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

He has blinded their eyes

and hardened their hearts,

so that they would not see with their eyes

or understand with their hearts,

and turn,

and I would heal them.

“I have come as light into the world, so that everyone who believes in me would not remain in darkness.

“The one who rejects me and doesn't receive my sayings has this as his judge:[fn] The word I have spoken will judge him on the last day.

“In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you?

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

“Remain in me, and I in you. Just as a branch is unable to produce fruit by itself unless it remains on the vine, neither can you unless you remain in me.

“As the Father has loved me, I have also loved you. Remain in my love.

“In that day you will not ask me anything. Truly I tell you, anything you ask the Father in my name, he will give you.

“On that day you will ask in my name, and I am not telling you that I will ask the Father on your behalf.

“Now, Father, glorify me in your presence with that glory I had with you before the world existed.

“Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.

But Peter remained standing outside by the door. So the other disciple, the one known to the high priest, went out and spoke to the girl who was the doorkeeper and brought Peter in.

“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.

“You are a king then? ” Pilate asked.

“You say that I'm a king,” Jesus replied. “I was born for this, and I have come into the world for this: to testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”

The soldiers also twisted together a crown of thorns, put it on his head, and clothed him in a purple robe.

When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple he loved standing there, he said to his mother, “Woman, here is your son.”

She saw two angels in white sitting where Jesus's body had been lying, one at the head and the other at the feet.

When it was evening on that first day of the week, the disciples were gathered together with the doors locked because they feared the Jews. Jesus came, stood among them, and said to them, “Peace be with you.”

“I'm going fishing,” Simon Peter said to them.

“We're coming with you,” they told him. They went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing.

He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority.

They all were continually united in prayer,[fn] along with the women, including Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.

This became known to all the residents of Jerusalem, so that in their own language that field is called Hakeldama (that is, “Field of Blood”).

When this sound occurred, a crowd came together and was confused because each one heard them speaking in his own language.

“How is it that each of us can hear them in our own native language?

“Though he was delivered up according to God's determined plan and foreknowledge, you used[fn] lawless people to nail him to a cross and kill him.

“Therefore, since he has been exalted to the right hand of God and has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit, he has poured out what you both see and hear.

When they heard this, they were pierced to the heart and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what should we do? ”

So those who accepted his message were baptized, and that day about three thousand people were added to them.

praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. Every day the Lord added to their number[fn] those who were being saved.

and they recognized that he was the one who used to sit and beg at the Beautiful Gate of the temple. So they were filled with awe and astonishment at what had happened to him.

“By faith in his name, his name has made this man strong, whom you see and know. So the faith that comes through Jesus has given him this perfect health in front of all of you.

But a man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property.

“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.”

Then Peter said to her, “Why did you agree to test the Spirit of the Lord? Look, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.”

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

But when the servants[fn] got there, they did not find them in the jail; so they returned and reported,

Someone came and reported to them, “Look! The men you put in jail are standing in the temple and teaching the people.”

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

In those days, as the disciples were increasing in number, there arose a complaint by the Hellenistic Jews against the Hebraic Jews that their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution.

“But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”

So the word of God spread, the disciples in Jerusalem increased greatly in number, and a large group of priests became obedient to the faith.

But they were unable to stand up against his wisdom and the Spirit by whom he was speaking.

“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,

“And so he gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision. After this, he fathered Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day. Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.

“The next day he showed up while they were fighting and tried to reconcile them peacefully, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why are you mistreating each other? '

“After forty years had passed, an angel[fn] appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning bush.

“This Moses, whom they rejected when they said, Who appointed you a ruler and a judge? ​— ​this one God sent as a ruler and a deliverer through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

“He is the one who was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors. He received living oracles to give to us.

“God turned away and gave them up to worship the stars of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets:

House of Israel, did you bring me offerings and sacrifices

for forty years in the wilderness?

“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.

“You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit. As your ancestors did, you do also.

Saul agreed with putting him to death.

On that day a severe persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout the land of Judea and Samaria.

So there was great joy in that city.

In his humiliation justice was denied him.

Who will describe his generation?

For his life is taken from the earth.

As he traveled and was nearing Damascus, a light from heaven suddenly flashed around him.

Ananias went and entered the house. He placed his hands on him and said, “Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road you were traveling, has sent me so that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”

Barnabas, however, took him and brought him to the apostles and explained to them how Saul had seen the Lord on the road and that the Lord had talked to him, and how in Damascus he had spoken boldly in the name of Jesus.

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.

Since Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples heard that Peter was there and sent two men to him who urged him, “Don't delay in coming with us.”

The next day, as they were traveling and nearing the city, Peter went up to pray on the roof about noon.[fn]

The following day he entered Caesarea. Now Cornelius was expecting them and had called together his relatives and close friends.

“We ourselves are witnesses of everything he did in both the Judean country and in Jerusalem, and yet they killed him by hanging him on a tree.

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,

and when he found him he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church and taught large numbers. The disciples were first called Christians at Antioch.

Each of the disciples, according to his ability, determined to send relief to the brothers and sisters who lived in Judea.

So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was praying fervently to God for him.

Motioning to them with his hand to be silent, he described to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. “Tell these things to James and the brothers,” he said, and he left and went to another place.

Then, when he saw what happened, the proconsul believed, because he was astonished at the teaching of the Lord.

They continued their journey from Perga and reached Pisidian Antioch. On the Sabbath day they went into the synagogue and sat down.

Paul stood up and motioned with his hand and said, “Fellow Israelites, and you who fear God, listen!

“For David, after serving God's purpose in his own generation, fell asleep, was buried with his fathers, and decayed,

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.

Paul said in a loud voice, “Stand up on your feet! ” And he jumped up and began to walk around.

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

strengthening the[fn] disciples by encouraging them to continue in the faith and by telling them, “It is necessary to go through many hardships to enter the kingdom of God.”

From there they sailed back to Antioch where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work they had now completed.

“He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.

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.

When they read it, they rejoiced because of its encouragement.

But Paul chose Silas and departed, after being commended by the brothers and sisters to the grace of the Lord.

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

From Troas we put out to sea and sailed straight for Samothrace, the next day to Neapolis,

She did this for many days.

Paul was greatly annoyed. Turning to the spirit, he said, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her! ” And it came out right away.

And they spoke the word of the Lord to him along with everyone in his house.

But the Jews became jealous, and they brought together some wicked men from the marketplace, formed a mob, and started a riot in the city. Attacking Jason's house, they searched for them to bring them out to the public assembly.

But when the Jews from Thessalonica found out that the word of God had been proclaimed by Paul at Berea, they came there too, agitating and upsetting[fn] the crowds.

So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and with those who worshiped God, as well as in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there.

He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath and tried to persuade both Jews and Greeks.

So he left there and went to the house of a man named Titius Justus, a worshiper of God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.

“For I am with you, and no one will lay a hand on you to hurt you, because I have many people in this city.”

He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. After Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside[fn] and explained the way of God to him more accurately.

But when some became hardened and would not believe, slandering the Way in front of the crowd, he withdrew from them, taking the disciples, and conducted discussions every day in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.

“But if you seek anything further, it must be decided in a legal assembly.

On the first day of the week, we assembled to break bread. Paul spoke to them, and since he was about to depart the next day, he kept on talking until midnight.

Sailing from there, the next day we arrived off Chios. The following day we crossed over to Samos, and[fn] the day after, we came to Miletus.

“Therefore I declare to you this day that I am innocent[fn] of the blood of all of you,

After we tore ourselves away from them, we set sail straight for Cos, the next day to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.

The next day we left and came to Caesarea, where we entered the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the Seven, and stayed with him.

The following day Paul went in with us to James, and all the elders were present.

So the next day, Paul took the men, having purified himself along with them, and entered the temple, announcing the completion of the purification days when the offering would be made for each of them.

For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.

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 they heard that he was addressing them in Aramaic,[fn] they became even quieter.

“As I was traveling and approaching Damascus, about noon an intense light from heaven suddenly flashed around me.

“came and stood by me and said, ‘Brother Saul, regain your sight.' And in that very hour I looked up and saw him.

“And when the blood of your witness Stephen was being shed, I stood there giving approval[fn] and guarding the clothes of those who killed him.'

The next day, they returned to the barracks, allowing the cavalry to go on with him.

“But, so that I will not burden you any further, I request that you would be kind enough to give us a brief hearing.

Several days later, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish, he sent for Paul and listened to him on the subject of faith in Christ Jesus.

Three days after Festus arrived in the province, he went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.

When he had spent not more than eight or ten days among them, he went down to Caesarea. The next day, seated at the tribunal, he commanded Paul to be brought in.

“So when they had assembled here, I did not delay. The next day I took my seat at the tribunal and ordered the man to be brought in.

“We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice speaking to me in Aramaic,[fn] ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.'

“to open their eyes so that they may turn[fn] from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a share among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'

As he was saying these things in his defense, Festus exclaimed in a loud voice, “You're out of your mind, Paul! Too much study is driving you mad.”

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.

Because we were being severely battered by the storm, they began to jettison the cargo the next day.

“For last night an angel of the God I belong to and serve stood by me

After cutting loose the anchors, they left them in the sea, at the same time loosening the ropes that held the rudders. Then they hoisted the foresail to the wind and headed for the beach.

After this, the rest of those on the island who had diseases also came and were healed.

After three months we set sail in an Alexandrian ship that had wintered at the island, with the Twin Gods[fn] as its figurehead.

“For the hearts of these people

have grown callous,

their ears are hard of hearing,

and they have shut their eyes;

otherwise they might see with their eyes

and hear with their ears,

understand with their heart

and turn,

and I would heal them.

They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served what has been created instead of the Creator, who is praised forever. Amen.

The men[fn] in the same way also left natural relations with women and were inflamed in their lust for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in their own persons[fn] the appropriate penalty of their error.

but wrath and anger to those who are self-seeking and disobey the truth while obeying unrighteousness.

they are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith[fn] while still uncircumcised. This was to make him the father of all who believe but are not circumcised, so that righteousness may be credited to them also.

He did not weaken in faith when he considered[fn] his own body to be already dead (since he was about a hundred years old) and also the deadness of Sarah's womb.

We have also obtained access through him by faith[fn] into this grace in which we stand, and we boast[fn] in the hope of the glory of 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.

But the gift is not like the trespass. For if by the one man's trespass the many died, how much more have the grace of God and the gift which comes through the grace of the one man Jesus Christ overflowed to the many.

What should we say then? Should we continue in sin so that grace may multiply?

For we know that our old self[fn] was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin[fn] might be rendered powerless so that we may no longer be enslaved to sin,

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.

and having been set free from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions aroused through the law were working in us[fn] to bear fruit for death.

For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For the desire to do what is good is with me, but there is no ability to do it.

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.

For what the law could not do since it was weakened by the flesh, God did. He condemned sin in the flesh by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh as a sin offering,[fn]

So then, brothers and sisters, we are not obligated to the flesh to live according to the flesh,

For the creation was subjected to futility ​— ​not willingly, but because of him who subjected it ​— ​in the hope

Now in this hope we were saved, but hope that is seen is not hope, because who hopes for what he sees?

that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.

For this is the statement of the promise: At this time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.

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.

Since they are ignorant of the righteousness of God and attempted to establish their own righteousness, they have not submitted to God's righteousness.

But the righteousness that comes from faith speaks like this: Do not say in your heart, “Who will go up to heaven? ” that is, to bring Christ down

On the contrary, what does it say? The message is near you, in your mouth and in your heart. This is the message of faith that we proclaim:

But not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed our message?

But what was God's answer to him? I have left seven thousand for myself who have not bowed down to Baal.

True enough; they were broken off because of unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but beware,[fn]

Therefore, consider God's kindness and severity: severity toward those who have fallen but God's kindness toward you ​— ​if you remain in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off.

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

Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.

if service, use it in service; if teaching, in teaching;

Love one another deeply as brothers and sisters. Take the lead in honoring one another.

Friends, do not avenge yourselves; instead, leave room for God's wrath, because it is written, Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.

So then, the one who resists the authority is opposing God's command, and those who oppose it will bring judgment on themselves.

Welcome anyone who is weak in faith, but don't argue about disputed matters.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Pray that I may be rescued from the unbelievers in Judea, that my ministry to[fn] Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,

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.

To the church of God at Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called as saints, with all those in every place who call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord ​— ​both their Lord and ours.