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So he assembled all the chief priests and scribes of the people and asked them where the Messiah would be born.
Then Herod secretly summoned the wise men and asked them the exact time the star appeared.
Entering the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother, and falling to their knees, they worshiped him.[fn] Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
Then Herod, when he realized that he had been outwitted by the wise men, flew into a rage. He gave orders to massacre all the boys in and around Bethlehem who were two years old and under, in keeping with the time he had learned from the wise men.
Then the news about him spread throughout Syria. So they brought to him all those who were afflicted, those suffering from various diseases and intense pains, the demon-possessed, the epileptics, and the paralytics. And he healed them.
When he saw the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and after he sat down, his disciples came to him.
“Be glad and rejoice, because your reward is great in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
“Don't think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to abolish but to fulfill.
“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.
“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.
“For if you love those who love you, what reward will you have? Don't even the tax collectors do the same?
“Don't give what is holy to dogs or toss your pearls before pigs, or they will trample them under their feet, turn, and tear you to pieces.
“Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
“But everyone who hears these words of mine and doesn't act on them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.
When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were astonished at his teaching,
When evening came, they brought to him many who were demon-possessed. He drove out the spirits with a word and healed all who were sick,
“Go! ” he told them. So when they had come out, they entered the pigs, and the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea and perished in the water.
When Jesus came to the leader's house, he saw the flute players and a crowd lamenting loudly.
When he saw the crowds, he felt compassion for them, because they were distressed and dejected, like sheep without a shepherd.
Jesus sent out these twelve after giving them instructions: “Don't take the road that leads to the Gentiles, and don't enter any Samaritan town.
“If anyone does not welcome you or listen to your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that house or town.
“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!
“how he entered the house of God, and they ate[fn] the bread of the Presence — which is not lawful for him or for those with him to eat, but only for the priests?
“If you had known what this means, I desire mercy and not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the innocent.
Stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers!
“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.
“But while people were sleeping, his enemy came, sowed weeds among the wheat, and left.
Then he left the crowds and went into the house. His disciples approached him and said, “Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field.”
“So it will be at the end of the age. The angels will go out, separate the evil people from the righteous,
Although the king regretted it, he commanded that it be granted because of his oaths and his guests.
When he went ashore,[fn] he saw a large crowd, had compassion on them, and healed their sick.
When evening came, the disciples approached him and said, “This place is deserted, and it is already late.[fn] Send the crowds away so that they can go into the villages and buy food for themselves.”
Then he commanded the crowds to sit down on the grass. He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them. He broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.
Immediately he[fn] made the disciples get into the boat and go ahead of him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds.
After dismissing the crowds, he went up on the mountain by himself to pray. Well into the night, he was there alone.
When the men of that place recognized him, they alerted the whole vicinity and brought to him all who were sick.
and large crowds came to him, including the lame, the blind, the crippled, those unable to speak, and many others. They put them at his feet, and he healed them.
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.”
he took the seven loaves and the fish, gave thanks, broke them, and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.
After dismissing the crowds, he got into the boat and went to the region of Magadan.[fn]
“Don't you understand yet? Don't you remember the five loaves for the five thousand and how many baskets you collected?
“Or the seven loaves for the four thousand and how many large baskets you collected?
When Jesus had finished saying these things, he departed from Galilee and went to the region of Judea across the Jordan.
“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.'
While going up to Jerusalem, Jesus took the twelve disciples aside privately and said to them on the way,
Jesus went into the temple[fn] and threw out all those buying and selling. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves.
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
“When the time came to harvest fruit, he sent his servants to the farmers to collect his fruit.
“He will completely destroy those terrible men,” they told him, “and lease his vineyard to other farmers who will give him his fruit at the harvest.”
“Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruit.
Although they were looking for a way to arrest him, they feared the crowds, because the people regarded him as a prophet.
“He sent his servants to summon those invited to the banquet, but they didn't want to come.
“Again, he sent out other servants and said, ‘Tell those who are invited: See, I've prepared my dinner; my oxen and fattened cattle have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.'
“The king[fn] was enraged, and he sent out his troops, killed those murderers, and burned down their city.
“Go then to where the roads exit the city and invite everyone you find to the banquet.'
“When the king came in to see the guests, he saw a man there who was not dressed for a wedding.
So they sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians. “Teacher,” they said, “we know that you are truthful and teach truthfully the way of God. You don't care what anyone thinks nor do you show partiality.[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, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you don't go in, and you don't allow those entering to go in.[fn]
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous,
“So you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets.
“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her. How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks[fn] under her wings, but you were not willing!
“Unless those days were cut short, no one would[fn] be saved. But those days will be cut short because of the elect.
“For false messiahs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.
“He will send out his angels with a loud trumpet, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.
“The wise ones answered, ‘No, there won't be enough for us and for you. Go instead to those who sell oil, and buy some for yourselves.'
“When they had gone to buy some, the groom arrived, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet, and the door was shut.
“For it is just like a man about to go on a journey. He called his own servants and entrusted his possessions to them.
Taking along Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and troubled.
Then he came to the disciples and found them sleeping. He asked Peter, “So, couldn't you stay awake with me one hour?
Then he came to the disciples and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? See, the time is near. The Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
The chief priests and the elders, however, persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas and to execute Jesus.
Just then[fn] Jesus met them and said, “Greetings! ” They came up, took hold of his feet, and worshiped him.
As soon as he came up out of the water, he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.
When evening came, after the sun had set, they brought to him all those who were sick and demon-possessed.
“And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost as well as the skins. No, new wine is put into fresh wineskins.”
On the Sabbath he was going through the grainfields, and his disciples began to make their way, picking some heads of grain.
“how he entered the house of God in the time of Abiathar the high priest and ate the bread of the Presence — which is not lawful for anyone to eat except the priests — and also gave some to his companions? ”
Looking at those sitting in a circle around him, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers!
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.
The men who tended them ran off and reported it in the town and the countryside, and people went to see what had happened.
Jesus did not let him but told him, “Go home to your own people, and report to them how much the Lord has done for you and how he has had mercy on you.”
One of the synagogue leaders, named Jairus, came, and when he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet
They laughed at him, but he put them all outside. He took the child's father, mother, and those who were with him, and entered the place where the child was.
He summoned the Twelve and began to send them out in pairs and gave them authority over unclean spirits.
Although the king was deeply distressed, because of his oaths and the guests[fn] he did not want to refuse her.
“Send them away so that they can go into the surrounding countryside and villages to buy themselves something to eat.”
He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed and broke the loaves. He kept giving them to his disciples to set before the people. He also divided the two fish among them all.
Immediately he made his disciples get into the boat and go ahead of him to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he dismissed the crowd.
They hurried throughout that region and began to carry the sick on mats to wherever they heard he was.
Wherever he went, into villages, towns, or the country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged him that they might touch just the end of his robe. And everyone who touched it was healed.
They observed that some of his disciples were eating bread with unclean — that is, unwashed — hands.
Instead, immediately after hearing about him, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit came and fell at his feet.
So he took him away from the crowd in private. After putting his fingers in the man's ears and spitting, he touched his tongue.
They were extremely astonished and said, “He has done everything well. He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.”
In those days there was again a large crowd, and they had nothing to eat. He called the disciples and said to them,
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.
“When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of leftovers did you collect? ”
“Twelve,” they told him.
“When I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many baskets full of pieces did you collect? ”
“Seven,” they said.
Again Jesus placed his hands on the man's eyes. The man looked intently and his sight was restored and he saw everything clearly.
Jesus went out with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the road he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am? ”
But turning around and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan! You are not thinking about God's concerns[fn] but human concerns.”
“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.”
When they came to the disciples, they saw a large crowd around them and scribes disputing with them.
“Whenever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth, and becomes rigid. I asked your disciples to drive it out, but they couldn't.”
Then it came out, shrieking and throwing him into terrible convulsions. The boy became like a corpse, so that many said, “He's dead.”
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.”
Sitting down, he called the Twelve and said to them, “If anyone wants to be first, he must be last and servant of all.”
“And if your foot causes you to fall away, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.[fn]
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.
They came to Jerusalem, and he went into the temple and began to throw out those buying and selling. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves,
“At harvest time he sent a servant to the farmers to collect some of the fruit of the vineyard from them.
“What then will the owner[fn] of the vineyard do? He will come and kill the farmers and give the vineyard to others.
“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.'
Summoning his disciples, he said to them, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others.
“If the Lord had not cut those days short, no one would be saved. But he cut those days short for the sake of the elect, whom he chose.
“For false messiahs and false prophets will arise and will perform signs and wonders to lead astray, if possible, the elect.
“He will send out the angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven.
“You always have the poor with you, and you can do what is good for them whenever you want, but you do not always have me.
Then Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, went to the chief priests to betray Jesus to them.
Fear came on all those who lived around them, and all these things were being talked about throughout the hill country of Judea.
to shine on those who live in darkness
and the shadow of death,
to guide our feet into the way of peace.
Guided by the Spirit, he entered the temple. When the parents brought in the child Jesus to perform for him what was customary under the law,
He got into one of the boats, which belonged to Simon, and asked him to put out a little from the land. Then he sat down and was teaching the crowds from the boat.
But perceiving their thoughts, Jesus replied to them, “Why are you thinking this in your hearts?[fn]
But the Pharisees and their scribes were complaining to his disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners? ”
Jesus said to them, “You can't make the wedding guests fast while the groom is with them, can you?
“And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins, it will spill, and the skins will be ruined.
On a Sabbath, he passed through the grainfields. His disciples were picking heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands, and eating them.
“how he entered the house of God and took and ate the bread of the Presence, which is not lawful for any but the priests to eat? He even gave some to those who were with him.”
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.
When daylight came, he summoned his disciples, and he chose twelve of them, whom he also named apostles:
Then looking up at his disciples, he said:
Blessed are you who are poor,
because the kingdom of God is yours.
“But I say to you who listen: Love your enemies, do what is good to those who hate you,
“If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.
“If you do what is good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do that.
“But love your enemies, do what is good, and lend, expecting nothing in return. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High. For he is gracious to the ungrateful and evil.
After John's messengers left, he began to speak to the crowds about John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed swaying in the wind?
“To what then should I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like?
and stood behind him at his feet, weeping, and began to wash his feet with her tears. She wiped his feet with her hair, kissing them and anointing them with the perfume.
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.
“You didn't anoint my head with olive oil, but she has anointed my feet with perfume.
The demons came out of the man and entered the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and drowned.
When the men who tended them saw what had happened, they ran off and reported it in the town and in the countryside.
Then people went out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus and found the man the demons had departed from, sitting at Jesus's feet, dressed and in his right mind. And they were afraid.
Just then, a man named Jairus came. He was a leader of the synagogue. He fell down at Jesus's feet and pleaded with him to come to his house,
Summoning the Twelve, he gave them power and authority over all the demons and to heal diseases.
When the crowds found out, they followed him. He welcomed them, spoke to them about the kingdom of God, and healed those who needed healing.
(For about five thousand men were there.)
Then he told his disciples, “Have them sit down[fn] in groups of about fifty each.”
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.
“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.
About eight days after this conversation, he took along Peter, John, and James and went up on the mountain to pray.
Peter and those with him were in a deep sleep,[fn] and when they became fully awake, they saw his glory and the two men who were standing with 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,
“Let these words sink in:[fn] The Son of Man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men.”
But he told him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and spread the news of the kingdom of God.”
“‘We are wiping off even the dust of your town that clings to our feet as a witness against you. Know this for certain: The kingdom of God has come near.'
Then turning to his disciples he said privately, “Blessed are the eyes that see the things you see!
“Which of these three do you think proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers? ”
He was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples.”
“Woe to you Pharisees! You love the front seat in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces.
Then he said, “Woe also to you experts in the law! You load people with burdens that are hard to carry, and yet you yourselves don't touch these burdens with one of your fingers.
“Woe to you experts in the law! You have taken away the key to knowledge. You didn't go in yourselves, and you hindered those who were trying to go in.”
Meanwhile, a crowd of many thousands came together, so that they were trampling on one another. He began to say to his disciples first, “Be on your guard against the leaven[fn] of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
“He thought to himself, ‘What should I do, since I don't have anywhere to store my crops?
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 the ravens: They don't sow or reap; they don't have a storeroom or a barn; yet God feeds them. Aren't you worth much more than the birds?
“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,
And he[fn] responded to them, “Do you think that these Galileans were more sinful than all the other Galileans because they suffered these things?
“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?
“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.
“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her. How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!
In response, Jesus asked the law experts and the Pharisees, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not? ”
He told a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they would choose the best places for themselves:
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.'
“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters — yes, and even his own life — he cannot be my disciple.
“and coming home, he calls his friends and neighbors together, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, because I have found my lost sheep! '
“Then he went to work for one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs.
“But the father told his servants, ‘Quick! Bring out the best robe and put it on him; put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet.
Now he said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who received an accusation that his manager was squandering his possessions.
“I know what I'll do so that when I'm removed from management, people will welcome me into their homes.'
“The master praised the unrighteous manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the children of this age are more shrewd than the children of light in dealing with their own people.[fn]
“And being in torment in Hades, he looked up and saw Abraham a long way off, with Lazarus at his side.
He said to his disciples, “Offenses will certainly come,[fn] but woe to the one through whom they come!
Then he told the disciples, “The days are coming when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you won't see it.
He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and looked down on everyone else:
“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! '
Then he took the Twelve aside and told them, “See, we are going up to Jerusalem. Everything that is written through the prophets about the Son of Man will be accomplished.
“At his return, having received the authority to be king, he summoned those servants he had given the money to, so that he could find out how much they had made in business.
“But bring here these enemies of mine, who did not want me to rule over them, and slaughter[fn] them in my presence.' ”
“At harvest time he sent a servant to the farmers so that they might give him some fruit from the vineyard. But the farmers beat him and sent him away empty-handed.
“He will come and kill those farmers and give the vineyard to others.”
But when they heard this they said, “That must never happen! ”
“But I have prayed for you[fn] that your faith may not fail. And you, when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.”
When he got up from prayer and came to the disciples, he found them sleeping, exhausted from their grief.
Then Jesus said to the chief priests, temple police, and the elders who had come for him, “Have you come out with swords and clubs as if I were a criminal?[fn]
Pilate then told the chief priests and the crowds, “I find no grounds for charging this man.”
When they arrived at the place called The Skull, they crucified him there, along with the criminals, one on the right and one on the left.
Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them were telling the apostles these things.
That very hour they got up and returned to Jerusalem. They found the Eleven and those with them gathered together,
“Look at my hands and my feet, that it is I myself! Touch me and see, because a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you can see I have.”
Then he said, “Truly I tell you, you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”
In the temple he found people selling oxen, sheep, and doves, and he also found the money changers sitting there.
After making a whip out of cords, he drove everyone out of the temple with their sheep and oxen. He also poured out the money changers' coins and overturned the tables.
“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.
“And just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so the Son also gives life to whom he wants.
So when Jesus looked up and noticed a huge crowd coming toward him, he asked Philip, “Where will we buy bread so that these people can eat? ”
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.
Then Jesus took the loaves, and after giving thanks he distributed them to those who were seated — so also with the fish, as much as they wanted.
Then the Jews said to one another, “Where does he intend to go that we won't find him? He doesn't intend to go to the Jewish people dispersed[fn] among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, does he?
Then the servants came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didn't you bring him? ”
Then Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you continue in my word,[fn] you really are my disciples.
After he said these things he spit on the ground, made some mud from the saliva, and spread the mud on his eyes.
He answered, “The man called Jesus made mud, spread it on my eyes, and told me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.' So when I went and washed I received my sight.”
Then the Pharisees asked him again how he received his sight.
“He put mud on my eyes,” he told them. “I washed and I can see.”
Again they asked the blind man, “What do you say about him, since he opened your eyes? ”
“He's a prophet,” he said.
The Jews did not believe this about him — that he was blind and received sight — until they summoned the parents of the one who had received his sight.
“But we don't know how he now sees, and we don't know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he's of age. He will speak for himself.”
His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jews, since the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed him as the Messiah, he would be banned from the synagogue.
“This is an amazing thing! ” the man told them. “You don't know where he is from, and yet he opened my eyes.
Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair, and it was her brother Lazarus who was sick.
As soon as Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and told him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother wouldn't have died! ”
When Jesus saw her crying, and the Jews who had come with her crying, he was deeply moved[fn] in his spirit and troubled.
But some of them said, “Couldn't he who opened the blind man's eyes also have kept this man from dying? ”
So they removed the stone. Then Jesus raised his eyes and said, “Father, I thank you that you heard me.
The dead man came out bound hand and foot with linen strips and with his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unwrap him and let him go.”
Then Mary took a pound of perfume, pure and expensive nard, anointed Jesus's feet, and wiped his feet with her hair. So the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
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.
Nevertheless, many did believe in him even among the rulers, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, so that they would not be banned from the synagogue.
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.
Next, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples' feet and to dry them with the towel tied around him.
“You will never wash my feet,” Peter said.
Jesus replied, “If I don't wash you, you have no part with me.”
“One who has bathed,” Jesus told him, “doesn't need to wash anything except his feet, but he is completely clean. You are clean, but not all of you.”
When Jesus had washed their feet and put on his outer clothing, he reclined again and said to them, “Do you know what I have done for you?
“So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.
“The one who doesn't love me will not keep my words. The word that you hear is not mine but is from the Father who sent me.
Jesus spoke these things, looked up to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son so that the Son may glorify you,
“Why do you question me? Question those who heard what I told them. Look, they know what I said.”
“What is truth? ” said Pilate.
After he had said this, he went out to the Jews again and told them, “I find no grounds for charging him.
“Don't cling to me,” Jesus told her, “since I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them that I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.”
So this rumor[fn] spread to the brothers and sisters that this disciple would not die. Yet Jesus did not tell him that he would not die, but, “If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you? ”
“I will even pour out my Spirit
on my servants in those days, both men and women
and they will prophesy.
“Fellow Israelites, listen to these words: This Jesus of Nazareth was a man attested to you by God with miracles, wonders, and signs that God did among you through him, just as you yourselves know.
“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
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? ”
praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. Every day the Lord added to their number[fn] those who were being saved.
“You are the sons[fn] of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your ancestors, saying to Abraham, And all the families of the earth will be blessed through your offspring.
After they were released, they went to their own people and reported everything the chief priests and the elders had said to them.
and laid them at the apostles' feet. This was then distributed to each person as any had need.
However, he kept back part of the proceeds with his wife's knowledge, and brought a portion of it and laid it at the apostles' feet.
When he heard these words, Ananias dropped dead, and a great fear came on all who heard.
Instantly she dropped dead at his feet. When the young men came in, they found her dead, carried her out, and buried her beside her husband.
As a result, they would carry the sick out into the streets and lay them on cots and mats so that when Peter came by, at least his shadow might fall on some of them.
“We found the jail securely locked, with the guards standing in front of the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside.”
As[fn] the captain of the temple police and the chief priests heard these things, they were baffled about them, wondering what would come of this.
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.
After they called in the apostles and had them flogged, they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus and released them.
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.
They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes; so they came, seized him, and took him to the Sanhedrin.
“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.
“When Jacob heard there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors there the first time.
“He dealt deceitfully with our race and oppressed our ancestors by making them abandon their infants outside so that they wouldn't survive.
“He assumed his people would understand that God would give them deliverance through him, but they did not understand.
“You took up the tent of Moloch
and the star of your god Rephan,
the images that you made to worship.
So I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.
“Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become.
He said, “Look, I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God! ”
They dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. And the witnesses laid their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
Saul, however, was ravaging the church. He would enter house after house, drag off men and women, and put them in prison.
Now Saul was still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord. He went to the high priest
“And he has authority here from the chief priests to arrest all who call on your name.”
All who heard him were astounded and said, “Isn't this the man in Jerusalem who was causing havoc for those who called on this name and came here for the purpose of taking them as prisoners to the chief priests? ”
But Saul grew stronger and kept confounding the Jews who lived in Damascus by proving that Jesus is the Messiah.
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.
As Peter was traveling from place to place, he also came down to the saints who lived in Lydda.
Peter sent them all out of the room. He knelt down, prayed, and turning toward the body said, “Tabitha, get up.” She opened her eyes, saw Peter, and sat up.
He gave her his hand and helped her stand up. He called the saints and widows and presented her alive.
Then Peter went down to the men and said, “Here I am, the one you're looking for. What is the reason you're here? ”
The following day he entered Caesarea. Now Cornelius was expecting them and had called together his relatives and close friends.
“how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how he went about doing good and healing all who were under the tyranny of the devil, because God was with him.
While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit came down on all those who heard the message.
But there were some of them, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, who came to Antioch and began speaking to the Greeks[fn] also, proclaiming the good news about the Lord Jesus.
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.
After Herod had searched and did not find him, he interrogated the guards and ordered their execution. Then Herod went down from Judea to Caesarea and stayed there.
“The God of this people Israel chose our ancestors, made the people prosper during their stay in the land of Egypt, and led them out of it with a mighty[fn] arm.
“And we ourselves proclaim to you the good news of the promise that was made to our ancestors.
“For David, after serving God's purpose in his own generation, fell asleep, was buried with his fathers, and decayed,
But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began to contradict what Paul was saying, insulting him.
But the Jews incited the prominent God-fearing women and the leading men of the city. They stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and expelled them from their district.
Paul said in a loud voice, “Stand up on your feet! ” And he jumped up and began to walk around.
The priest of Zeus, whose temple was just outside the town, brought bulls and wreaths to the gates because he intended, with the crowds, to offer sacrifice.
Even though they said these things, they barely stopped the crowds from sacrificing to them.
Some Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and when they won over the crowds, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, thinking he was dead.
Some men came down from Judea and began to teach the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom prescribed by Moses, you cannot be saved.”
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.
“For since ancient times, Moses has had those who proclaim him in every city, and every Sabbath day he is read aloud in the synagogues.”
Both Judas and Silas, who were also prophets themselves, encouraged the brothers and sisters and strengthened them with a long message.
After some time had passed, Paul said to Barnabas, “Let's go back and visit the brothers and sisters in every town where we have preached the word of the Lord and see how they're doing.”
Paul wanted Timothy to go with him; so he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, since they all knew that his father was a Greek.
When her owners realized that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to the authorities.
Receiving such an order, he put them into the inner prison and secured their feet in the stocks.
When the jailer woke up and saw the doors of the prison standing open, he drew his sword and was going to kill himself, since he thought the prisoners had escaped.
When daylight came, the chief magistrates sent the police to say, “Release those men.”
The jailer reported these words to Paul: “The magistrates have sent orders for you to be released. So come out now and go in peace.”
After leaving the jail, they came to Lydia's house, where they saw and encouraged the brothers and sisters, and departed.
When they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city officials, shouting, “These men who have turned the world upside down have come here too,
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.
“Therefore, having overlooked the times of ignorance, God now commands all people everywhere to repent,
where he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul came to them,
“This man,” they said, “is persuading people to worship God in ways contrary to the law.”
As Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If it were a matter of wrongdoing or of a serious crime, it would be reasonable for me to put up with you Jews.
After spending some time there, he set out, traveling through one place after another in the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.
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.
This went on for two years, so that all the residents of Asia, both Jews and Greeks, heard the word of the Lord.
so that even facecloths or aprons[fn] that had touched his skin were brought to the sick, and the diseases left them, and the evil spirits came out of them.
Now some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists also attempted to pronounce the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “I command you by the Jesus that Paul preaches! ”
When he had assembled them, as well as the workers engaged in this type of business, he said, “Men, you know that our prosperity is derived from this business.
“For you have brought these men here who are not temple robbers or blasphemers of our[fn] goddess.
After the uproar was over, Paul sent for the disciples, encouraged them, and after saying farewell, departed to go to Macedonia.
“Men will rise up even from your own number and distort the truth to lure the disciples into following them.
We sought out the disciples and stayed there seven days. Through the Spirit they told Paul not to go to Jerusalem.
When we completed our voyage[fn] from Tyre, we reached Ptolemais, where we greeted the brothers and sisters and stayed with them for a day.
He came to us, took Paul's belt, tied his own feet and hands, and said, “This is what the Holy Spirit says: ‘In this way the Jews in Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him over to the Gentiles.' ”
“But they have been informed about you — that you are teaching all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to abandon Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or to live according to our customs.
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.
Taking along soldiers and centurions, he immediately ran down to them. Seeing the commander and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.
When Paul got to the steps, he had to be carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the crowd,
“Aren't you the Egyptian who started a revolt some time ago and led four thousand men of the Assassins into the wilderness? ”
He continued, “I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia but brought up in this city, educated at the feet of Gamaliel according to the strictness of our ancestral law. I was zealous for God, just as all of you are today.
“as both the high priest and the whole council of elders can testify about me. After I received letters from them to the brothers, I traveled to Damascus to arrest those who were there and bring them to Jerusalem to be punished.
“But I said, ‘Lord, they know that in synagogue after synagogue I had those who believed in you imprisoned and beaten.
The next day, since he wanted to find out exactly why Paul was being accused by the Jews, he released him[fn] and instructed the chief priests and all the Sanhedrin to convene. He brought Paul down and placed him before them.
The next day, they returned to the barracks, allowing the cavalry to go on with him.
“I answered them that it is not the Roman custom to give someone up[fn] before the accused faces the accusers and has an opportunity for a defense against the charges.
“King Agrippa, while on the road at midday, I saw a light from heaven brighter than the sun, shining around me and those traveling with me.
“But get up and stand on your feet. For I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you as a servant and a witness of what you have seen and will see of me.
“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.”
When we had boarded a ship of Adramyttium, we put to sea, intending to sail to ports along the coast of Asia. Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, was with us.
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.
When we had put out to sea from there, we sailed along the northern coast[fn] of Cyprus because the winds were against us.
“and said, ‘Don't be afraid, Paul. It is necessary for you to appear before Caesar. And indeed, God has graciously given you all those who are sailing with you.'
The soldiers' plan was to kill the prisoners so that no one could swim away and escape.
But the centurion kept them from carrying out their plan because he wanted to save Paul, and so he ordered those who could swim to jump overboard first and get to land.
The rest were to follow, some on planks and some on debris from the ship. In this way, everyone safely reached the shore.
After three days he called together the leaders of the Jews. When they had gathered he said to them, “Brothers, although I have done nothing against our people or the customs of our ancestors, I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.
“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.
Paul stayed two whole years in his own rented house. And he welcomed all who visited him,
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.
Do you think — anyone of you who judges those who do such things yet do the same — that you will escape God's judgment?
The righteousness of God is through faith in Jesus Christ[fn] to all who believe, since there is no distinction.
As it is written: I have made you the father of many nations — in the presence of the God in whom he believed, the one who gives life to the dead and calls things into existence that do not exist.
Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who did not sin in the likeness of Adam's transgression. He is a type of the Coming One.
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.
since there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, because the same Lord of all richly blesses all who call on him.
Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars. I am the only one left, and they are trying to take my life!
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.
Regarding the gospel, they are enemies for your advantage, but regarding election, they are loved because of the patriarchs,
For from him and through him
and to him are all things.
To him be the glory forever. Amen.
because Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make a contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem.
Greet Apelles, who is approved in Christ. Greet those who belong to the household of Aristobulus.
Greet Herodion, my fellow Jew.[fn] Greet those who belong to the household of Narcissus who are in the Lord.
Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brothers and sisters who are with them.
Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them.
Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who create divisions and obstacles contrary to the teaching that you learned. Avoid them,
The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.
to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ — to him be the glory forever![fn] Amen.
For since, in God's wisdom, the world did not know God through wisdom, God was pleased to save those who believe through the foolishness of what is preached.
Instead, God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame the strong.
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, since it is written, He catches the wise in their craftiness;
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.
For what business is it of mine to judge outsiders? Don't you judge those who are inside?
So if you have such matters, do you appoint as your judges those who have no standing in the church?
Now when you sin like this against brothers and sisters and wound their weak conscience, you are sinning against Christ.
Although I am free from all and not anyone's slave, I have made myself a slave to everyone, in order to win more people.
To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win Jews; to those under the law, like one under the law — though I myself am not under the law[fn] — to win those under the law.
To those who are without the law, like one without the law — though I am not without God's law but under the law of Christ — to win those without the law.
To the weak I became weak, in order to win the weak. I have become all things to all people, so that I may by every possible means save some.
This is why a woman should have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels.
Don't you have homes in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I praise you? I do not praise you in this matter!
If they want to learn something, let them ask their own husbands at home, since it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church.
For God has put everything under his feet. Now when it says “everything” is put under him, it is obvious that he who puts everything under him is the exception.
Now about the collection for the saints: Do the same as I instructed the Galatian churches.
He comforts us in all our affliction,[fn] so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction, through the comfort we ourselves receive from God.
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.
Now if the ministry that brought death, chiseled in letters on stones, came with glory, so that the Israelites were not able to gaze steadily at Moses's face because of its glory, which was set aside,
We are not like Moses, who used to put a veil over his face to prevent the Israelites from gazing steadily until the end[fn] of the glory of what was being set aside,
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each may be repaid for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.
We are not commending ourselves to you again, but giving you an opportunity to be proud of us, so that you may have a reply for those who take pride in outward appearance rather than in the heart.
For I know your eagerness, and I boast about you to the Macedonians, “Achaia has been ready since last year,” and your zeal has stirred up most of them.
But I am sending the brothers so that our boasting about you in this matter would not prove empty, and so that you would be ready just as I said.
Therefore I considered it necessary to urge the brothers to go on ahead to you and arrange in advance the generous gift you promised, so that it will be ready as a gift and not as an extortion.
I beg you that when I am present I will not need to be bold with the confidence by which I plan to challenge certain people who think we are living according to the flesh.
I did not go up to Jerusalem to those who had become apostles before me; instead I went to Arabia and came back to Damascus.
This matter arose because some false brothers had infiltrated our ranks to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus in order to enslave us.
For he regularly ate with the Gentiles before certain men came from James. However, when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, because he feared those from the circumcision party.
Where, then, is your blessing? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me.
Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us work for the good of all, especially for those who belong to the household of faith.
This is why, since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,
I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened so that you may know what is the hope of his calling, what is the wealth of his glorious inheritance in the saints,
and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the mighty working of his strength.
And he subjected everything under his feet and appointed him[fn] as head over everything for the church,
he made of no effect the law consisting of commands and expressed in regulations, so that he might create in himself one new man from the two, resulting in peace.
He did this so that he might reconcile both to God in one body through the cross by which he put the hostility to death.[fn]
And he himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers,
Let no one deceive you with empty arguments, for God's wrath is coming on the disobedient[fn] because of these things.
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this darkness, against evil, spiritual forces in the heavens.
so that it has become known throughout the whole imperial guard, and to everyone else, that my imprisonment is because I am in Christ.
Most of the brothers have gained confidence in the Lord from my imprisonment and dare even more to speak the word[fn] fearlessly.
Watch out for the dogs, watch out for the evil workers, watch out for those who mutilate the flesh.
Join in imitating me, brothers and sisters, and pay careful attention to those who live according to the example you have in us.
For I have often told you, and now say again with tears, that many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.
for we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all the saints
Give my greetings to the brothers and sisters in Laodicea, and to Nympha and the church in her home.
who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets and persecuted us. They displease God and are hostile to everyone,
In fact, you are doing this toward all the brothers and sisters in the entire region of Macedonia. But we encourage you, brothers and sisters, to do this even more,
so that you may behave properly in the presence of outsiders and not be dependent on anyone.[fn]
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, in the same way, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.
For we say this to you by a word from the Lord: We who are still alive at the Lord's coming will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep.
Now we ask you, brothers and sisters, to give recognition to those who labor among you and lead you[fn] in the Lord and admonish you,
And we exhort you, brothers and sisters: warn those who are idle,[fn] comfort the discouraged, help the weak, be patient with everyone.
Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only[fn] God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
Therefore, I want the men in every place to pray, lifting up holy hands without anger or argument.
But have nothing to do with pointless and silly myths. Rather, train yourself in godliness.
Pay close attention to your life and your teaching; persevere in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and your hearers.
All who are under the yoke as slaves should regard their own masters[fn] as worthy of all respect, so that God's name and his teaching will not be blasphemed.
But those who want to be rich fall into temptation, a trap, and many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge people into ruin and destruction.
This is why I endure all things for the elect: so that they also may obtain salvation, which is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.
Nevertheless, God's solid foundation stands firm, bearing this inscription: The Lord knows those who are his, and let everyone who calls on the name of[fn] the Lord turn away from wickedness.
instructing his opponents with gentleness. Perhaps God will grant them repentance leading them to the knowledge of the truth.
The Lord will rescue me from every evil work and will bring me safely into his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever! Amen.
holding to the faithful message as taught, so that he will be able both to encourage with sound teaching and to refute those who contradict it.
All those who are with me send you greetings. Greet those who love us in the faith. Grace be with all of you.
because I hear of your love for all the saints and the faith that you have in the Lord Jesus.
In these last days, he has spoken to us by his Son. God has appointed him heir of all things and made the universe[fn] through him.
You have loved righteousness
and hated lawlessness;
this is why God, your God,
has anointed you
with the oil of joy
beyond your companions.[fn]
Now to which of the angels has he ever said:
Sit at my right hand
until I make your enemies your footstool?
Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve those who are going to inherit salvation?
Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens — Jesus the Son of God — let us hold fast to our confession.
For it is impossible to renew to repentance those who were once enlightened, who tasted the heavenly gift, who shared in the Holy Spirit,
The sons of Levi who receive the priestly office have a command according to the law to collect a tenth from the people — that is, from their brothers and sisters — though they have also descended from Abraham.
Therefore, he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, since he always lives to intercede for them.
For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a young cow, sprinkling those who are defiled, sanctify for the purification of the flesh,
Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come, and not the reality itself of those things, it can never perfect the worshipers by the same sacrifices they continually offer year after year.
Otherwise, wouldn't they have stopped being offered, since the worshipers, purified once and for all, would no longer have any consciousness of sins?
but a terrifying expectation of judgment and the fury of a fire about to consume the adversaries.
For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
By faith Rahab the prostitute welcomed the spies in peace and didn't perish with those who disobeyed.
Women received their dead, raised to life again. Other people were tortured, not accepting release, so that they might gain a better resurrection.
Furthermore, we had human fathers discipline us, and we respected them. Shouldn't we submit even more to the Father of spirits and live?
Greet all your leaders and all the saints. Those who are from Italy send you greetings.
Listen, my dear brothers and sisters: Didn't God choose the poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him?
In the same way, wasn't Rahab the prostitute also justified by works in receiving the messengers and sending them out by a different route?
Now if we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we direct their whole bodies.
With the tongue we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in God's likeness.
Brothers and sisters, take the prophets who spoke in the Lord's name as an example of suffering and patience.
See, we count as blessed those who have endured.[fn] You have heard of Job's endurance and have seen the outcome that the Lord brought about — the Lord is compassionate and merciful.
Is anyone among you sick? He should call for the elders of the church, and they are to pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.
You are being guarded by God's power through faith for a salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.
Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.
If anyone speaks, let it be as one who speaks God's words; if anyone serves, let it be from the strength God provides, so that God may be glorified through Jesus Christ in everything. To him be the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.
especially those who follow the polluting desires of the flesh and despise authority.
Bold, arrogant people! They are not afraid to slander the glorious ones;
For by uttering boastful, empty words, they seduce, with fleshly desires and debauchery, people who have barely escaped[fn] from those who live in error.
But the one who hates his brother or sister is in the darkness, walks in the darkness, and doesn't know where he's going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers and sisters. The one who does not love remains in death.
Dear friend, you are acting faithfully in whatever you do for the brothers and sisters, especially when they are strangers.
Therefore, we ought to support such people so that we can be coworkers with the truth.
This is why, if I come, I will remind him of the works he is doing, slandering us with malicious words. And he is not satisfied with that! He not only refuses to welcome fellow believers, but he even stops those who want to do so and expels them from the church.
Now I want to remind you, although you came to know all these things once and for all, that Jesus[fn] saved a people out of Egypt and later destroyed those who did not believe;
and the angels who did not keep their own position but abandoned their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains in deep darkness for the judgment on the great day.
“to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly concerning all the ungodly acts that they have done in an ungodly way, and concerning all the harsh things ungodly sinners have said against him.”
Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear the words of this prophecy and keep[fn] what is written in it, because the time is near.
When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me and said, “Don't be afraid. I am the First and the Last,
“and the Living One. I was dead, but look — I am alive forever and ever, and I hold the keys of death and Hades.
“Write to the angel[fn] of the church in Ephesus: Thus says the one who holds the seven stars in his right hand and who walks among the seven golden lampstands:
“I know your works, your labor, and your endurance, and that you cannot tolerate evil people. You have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and you have found them to be liars.
“Write to the angel of the church in Thyatira: Thus says the Son of God, the one whose eyes are like a fiery flame and whose feet are like fine bronze:
“But I have this against you: You tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and teaches and deceives my servants to commit sexual immorality and to eat meat sacrificed to idols.
“Look, I will throw her into a sickbed and those who commit adultery with her into great affliction. Unless they repent of her[fn] works,
“Because you have kept my command to endure, I will also keep you from the hour of testing that is going to come on the whole world to test those who live on the earth.
“I advise you to buy from me gold refined in the fire so that you may be rich, white clothes so that you may be dressed and your shameful nakedness not be exposed, and ointment to spread on your eyes so that you may see.
Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and on the thrones sat twenty-four elders dressed in white clothes, with golden crowns on their heads.
Whenever the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to the one seated on the throne, the one who lives forever and ever,
the twenty-four elders fall down before the one seated on the throne and worship the one who lives forever and ever. They cast their crowns before the throne and say,
I heard every creature in heaven, on earth, under the earth, on the sea, and everything in them say,
Blessing and honor and glory and power
be to the one seated on the throne,
and to the Lamb, forever and ever!
the stars[fn] of heaven fell to the earth as a fig tree drops its unripe figs when shaken by a high wind;
After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, restraining the four winds of the earth so that no wind could blow on the earth or on the sea or on any tree.
“Don't harm the earth or the sea or the trees until we seal the servants of our God on their foreheads.”
saying,
Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom
and thanksgiving and honor
and power and strength
be to our God forever and ever. Amen.
Then I saw the seven angels who stand in the presence of God; seven trumpets were given to them.
I looked and heard an eagle[fn] flying high overhead, crying out in a loud voice, “Woe! Woe! Woe to those who live on the earth, because of the remaining trumpet blasts that the three angels are about to sound! ”
They were told not to harm the grass of the earth, or any green plant, or any tree, but only those people who do not have God's seal on their foreheads.
and they had tails with stingers like scorpions, so that with their tails they had the power to harm people for five months.
say to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels bound at the great river Euphrates.”
This is how I saw the horses and their riders in the vision: They had breastplates that were fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow. The heads of the horses were like the heads of lions, and from their mouths came fire, smoke, and sulfur.
He swore by the one who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and what is in it, the earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it, “There will no longer be a delay,
“but in the days when the seventh angel will blow his trumpet, then the mystery of God will be completed, as he announced to his servants the prophets.”
If anyone wants to harm them, fire comes from their mouths and consumes their enemies; if anyone wants to harm them, he must be killed in this way.
Those who live on the earth will gloat over them and celebrate and send gifts to one another because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth.
But after three and a half days, the breath[fn] of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet. Great fear fell on those who saw them.
The seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven saying,
The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom
of our Lord and of his Christ,
and he will reign forever and ever.
The twenty-four elders, who were seated before God on their thrones, fell facedown and worshiped God,
The nations were angry,
but your wrath has come.
The time has come
for the dead to be judged
and to give the reward
to your servants the prophets,
to the saints, and to those who fear your name,
both small and great,
and the time has come to destroy
those who destroy the earth.
It began to speak[fn] blasphemies against God: to blaspheme his name and his dwelling — those who dwell in heaven.
It exercises all the authority of the first beast on its behalf and compels the earth and those who live on it to worship the first beast, whose fatal wound was healed.
It deceives those who live on the earth because of the signs that it is permitted to perform in the presence of the beast, telling those who live on the earth to make an image[fn] of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived.
And it makes everyone — small and great, rich and poor, free and slave — to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead,
Then I saw another angel flying high overhead, with the eternal gospel to announce to the inhabitants of the earth — to every nation, tribe, language, and people.
Yet another angel, who had authority over fire, came from the altar, and he called with a loud voice to the one who had the sharp sickle, “Use your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes from the vineyard of the earth, because its grapes have ripened.”
I also saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who had won the victory over the beast, its image,[fn] and the number of its name, were standing on the sea of glass with harps from God.
One of the four living creatures gave the seven angels seven golden bowls filled with the wrath of God who lives forever and ever.
The first went and poured out his bowl on the earth, and severely painful sores broke out on the people who had the mark of the beast and who worshiped its image.
The third[fn] poured out his bowl into the rivers and the springs of water, and they became blood.
The fourth[fn] poured out his bowl on the sun. It was allowed to scorch people with fire,
For they are demonic spirits performing signs, who travel to the kings of the whole world to assemble them for the battle on the great day of God, the Almighty.
Enormous hailstones, each weighing about a hundred pounds,[fn] fell from the sky on people, and they blasphemed God for the plague of hail because that plague was extremely severe.
Then I saw the beast, the kings of the earth, and their armies gathered together to wage war against the rider on the horse and against his army.
But the beast was taken prisoner, and along with it the false prophet, who had performed the signs in its presence. He deceived those who accepted the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image with these signs. Both of them were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.
The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet are, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
I also saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life, and the dead were judged according to their works by what was written in the books.
Then the sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them; each one was judged according to their works.
The one who spoke with me had a golden measuring rod to measure the city, its gates, and its wall.
Night will be no more; people will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, because the Lord God will give them light, and they will reign forever and ever.
“Look, I am coming soon! Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.”
But he said to me, “Don't do that! I am a fellow servant with you, your brothers the prophets, and those who keep the words of this book. Worship God! ”
Then he said to me, “Don't seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, because the time is near.
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