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I'm going to complete as many drafts of the pages of the narrative form as possible here, before posting them as finished on what I assume you call "main space" of created articles. --IndependentSkeptic (talk) 15:49, 13 March 2020 (EDT)

It looks like this draft page space can accommodate all of the text from the first five pages of Chapters 1-7 8-14 15-21 22-28 29-35 adapted for the narrative form. That's the story of Jesus from His Incarnation to His Ascension. That way, I can work on them all and check how they sound first, and when these drafts are finished here I can submit them all about the same time one after the other on the same day, and people who want to listen to the whole thing read all the way from the beginning up to that point won't have to wait. --IndependentSkeptic (talk) 02:02, 17 March 2020 (EDT)

I plan to add a right-hand parallel column of the normal text of each page, for comparison with the phonetically adapted "narrative form" to be displayed in a left-hand column, as a visual verification and aide to readers who would like a "translation" of the phonetically adapted text. I'll simply adapt the two-columned wikitable format I found in the edit-page display of the "shorter form". Due to limitations of text-capacity here on this draft page, I'll do it when each of these pages are finished, one at a time. --IndependentSkeptic (talk) 21:54, 28 March 2020 (EDT)

I finally discovered what to do when "Read aloud" function quits during edit!- save page, go to start page, restart, access draft page, refresh F5, and resume. Voila! very small delay! Ya-ha-ha! --IndependentSkeptic (talk) 23:09, 2 April 2020 (EDT)
Update: I found out that when "Read aloud" quits a "Restart" is not necessary before returning to resume the audio reading.--IndependentSkeptic (talk) 01:21, 29 April 2020 (EDT)

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Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version) narrative form - Index for audio computer Read aloud

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Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version) narrative form of Chapters 1-7, adapted for audio computer Read aloud

Prologue, Peace to You, In the Name of the Father Son and Holy Spirit, Hear Israel Our God is One, Declared By Witnesses From the Beginning, Written to You Friend of God That You May Know With Certainty, The Beginning of the Proclamation, Jesus Anointed Christ Son of God, The Word, God, the Word Made Flesh, God in the Bosom of God Revealing Him, Grace on Grace, Truth Came By Jesus Christ, What We Have Seen and Touched We Declare, Our Fellowship With God, God Has Spoken by His Son, His Image, He Purified Us From Our Sins, Then He Took His Seat at the Right Hand of God, He Revealed Him, The Great Mystery of Godly Religion, Power to Become Children, Children of God, Not Born of Flesh or Will of Man But Born of God, The Promise of Eternal Life, Eternal Life is To Know God and Him Whom He Sent Jesus Christ, Not All Who Say Lord, Those Who Do the Will of His Father, Works, Glory Honor Peace to Those Who Do His Will, Jew First and Gentile, The Work of God, Believe Him Whom He Has Sent and Do What He Says, Faith Without Works is a Dead Corpse, Who Loves Me Keeps My Word, He Rebuked Them for Their Unbelief and Hardness of Heart Because They Did Not Believe Those Who had Seen Him After He had Risen, Who Desires to Do His Will Will Know if My Teaching is True, Whoever Keeps My Word My Father and I Will Come Make Our Home With Him, You Do Not Understand and Do Not Hear Because You are Not of God, I Stand at the Door and Knock, If You Open I Will Come In, Come Lord Jesus, He Who Has Ears, Hear, End of the Prologue, Now As it is Written A Messenger Sent From God, Zechariah and Barren Elizabeth, the Angel Gabriel Appears and Announces the Conception of John, Zechariah Made Mute, Elizabeth Conceives, In the Sixth Month Gabriel is Sent to a Virgin named Mary already Betrothed to Joseph of David's House, The Annunciation, How Can This Be?, The Son of God, Behold the Servant of the Lord, the Word Became Flesh, the Law of Moses, the Vowing of Persons as Holy to God, the Vow Not to Be Violated, Also All Daughters Who Inherit Must Be Given in Marriage to a Member of Their Tribe, Joseph Of the Tribe of Judah Of The House of David, Mary Goes to Visit Elizabeth, John Leaps in Her Womb for Joy, The Mother of My Lord Greek Kyrios Lord meaning God, She Heard and Believed, Mary's "Magnificat" Prayer of Praise, Mary Remains 3 Months, the Birth of John, Mary Returns to Nazareth, John's Circumcision and Naming, the Prophecy of His Father Zechariah of Deliverance, Mary Found Pregnant, Joseph's Dream, His Genealogy, the Law of Levirate Marriage, Matthat and Matthan Each in Turn Marry Estha, Heli Son of Matthat Died Without a Son, Jacob Son of Matthan is the Half-Brother of Heli, Jacob the Father of Joseph the Son of Heli, the Genealogy of Joseph by Nature From David Through Solomon to Jacob His Father and by Law Back Through Heli His Legal Father Through Nathan to David, the Decree of Augustus, All Go to Their Own Towns But Joseph Goes From His Own Town of Nazareth to Bethlehem With Mary Pregnant, While Residing There in the Inn the Time Came for Jesus to Be Born, the Law of Moses that All Women Who Give Birth to a Son Are Unclean For Seven Days and Everything They Touch Becomes Unclean, No Room in the Inn For Childbirth, He is Laid in the Feeding Trough in the Stable, the Angel Appears to the Shepherds, They Hurry into Bethlehem to See, They Proclaim What They Have Seen and Heard, Mary Ponders the Word and Keeps It, 8 Days Later His Circumcision and Naming, the Legal Genealogy of Jesus From Abraham Through David and Solomon to Joseph the Husband of Mary of the 13th Generation Of 14 and 14 and 14 Generations and Back From Jesus and Mary From Joseph and Heli Through Nathan Son of David to Adam, The Fullness of Time Born Under the Law, the Law of 40 Days of Purification for a Son, The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple with 2 Turtledoves or Young Pigeons, the Prophecy of Simeon of Contradiction and a Sword Will Pierce Mary's Heart, the Testimony of the Prophetess Anna a Widow 106 Years Old, 2 Years Later the Magi From the East, Herod Sends Them to Bethlehem to Find Him, They See the Star Over the House and Rejoice, Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh, the Warning Dreams to the Magi and to Joseph About Herod, They Depart, the Escape to Egypt, the Slaughter of the Children of Bethlehem, Herod Dies, Joseph's Dream, Return to Nazareth, the Prophets and the "Netzer" Branch and Shoot of David, Nazarene, Jesus grows in wisdom and favor, the Passover When Jesus is 12, the Loss and Finding of Jesus in the Temple, His Wisdom and Understanding, Jesus Returns With Mary and Joseph and Obeys Them, the Death of Joseph, the Genealogy of 77 Generations From Adam, John's Growth, He is in the Desert, A.D. 20 the Indo-Parthian Empire Established, the Kings of the East, Roman-Parthian Tension, Armenia is Made a Buffer State, Border Incursions as Potential Acts of War, John in the Wilderness Comes Preaching and Baptizing For Repentance, John the Baptizer, He Announces One to Come After Him, Rebuke of the Pharisees and Sadducees as Vipers Seeking to Escape the Wrath, the Baptism of Jesus, the Heavens Opened and the Spirit Descends on Him and Drives Him into the Wilderness, John Proclaims Him the One, the 40 days in the Wilderness, the Temptation by Satan, Stones to Bread, the Kingdoms of the World, Throw Yourself Down from the Temple, Again Stones to Bread, Throw Yourself Down from the Temple, the Glory of the Kingdoms of the World, Begone Satan, Angels Come and Serve and Minister to Jesus, and Jesus' Return to Galilee

Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version) narrative form of Chapters 8-14, adapted for audio computer Read aloud

John's Testimony, the first disciples Simon called Peter "Stone and Rock", John, Andrew, Philip and Nathanael-Bartholomew, the Marriage at Cana and the Miraculous Sign of Water into Wine, Cleansing of the Moneychangers from the Temple with a Whip of Cords, Nicodemus at Night, the Necessity of Rebirth by Water and the Spirit to Enter the Kingdom of God, Herod Arrests John, the Samaritan Woman at the Well, the Samaritans Believe, Jesus Returns to Cana and the Healing of the Nobleman's son at Capernaum, Jesus is expelled from Nazareth and moves to Capernaum, the Preaching of Repentance and the Kingdom at Hand, the Calling of the Fishermen, Peter and Andrew, James and John, the Exorcism of the Man in the Synagogue with an Unclean Spirit, the Healing of Peter's Mother-in-law of a Fever and at Sunset Healings and Exorcisms, Preaching in Galilee, the Crowds of Followers, the Cleansing of a Leper, He Can No Longer Openly Enter a Town, Withdrawal to the Wilderness, the Sermon on the Mount, the Cleansing of a Leper, Return to Capernaum and the Healing of a Centurion's servant, the Healing of Peter's Mother-in-law of a Fever and Healings and Exorcisms, the Miraculous Catch of Fish, the Exorcism of the Two Gergesene Demoniacs, the Healing of the Paralytics brought to Him, Your Sins are Forgiven, Accusations, the Son of Man Has Authority to Forgive Sins, Rise and Walk, the Calling of Matthew, the Calling of Levi the Son of Alphaeus, Fasting and the Parable of the Wineskins, the Healing of the Hemorrhagic Woman and the Raising of a Ruler's Daughter, the Healing of Two Blind Men and a Mute, Accusations in the Grainfields, Healing in the Synagogue of a Withered Hand, the Plotting of the Pharisees and Herodians Together, the Healing of the Lame Man at the Pool of Bethesda on the Sabbath, Accusations, Jesus Declares His Works are From the Father and From the Father Has Judgment and Life in Himself to Raise the Dead, the Calling of the Twelve Apostles, the Sermon on the Plain, the Healing of a Centurion's Servant in Capernaum, the Raising of the Widow's Son at Nain, John in Prison Sends Two Disciples and Jesus' Testimony to John, a Woman Washes Jesus' Feet with Her Tears and Wipes Them with Her Hair, the Parable of the Two Debtors Forgiven, the Woman is Forgiven Her Sins, the Parable of the Sower and the Seeds, Accusations and the Unforgiveable Sin, Jesus' Mother and His Brothers, Parables of the Sower and the Seed, The Weeds and the Wheat, The Mustard Seed, The Yeast, His Friends and Acquaintances Went Out to Seize Him for They Said He is Insane, But It Does Not Say His Brothers Sisters and Mother, Departure and the Calming of the Storm, the Exorcism of the Gadarene Demoniac Possessed by the Legion and the Drowning of the Herd of Pigs, Return to Capernaum and the Healing of a Hemorrhagic Woman and Raising of Jairus' Daughter, the Sending Out of the Twelve to Preach and Heal and His Instructions to Them, Take No Staffs, He Who Hears You Hears Me, John's Sending of Two Disciples to Ask if He is The One and Jesus' Testimony to John, Condemnation of Corazin, Bethsaida and Capernaum, Accusations in The Grainfields, Healing of a Withered Hand in the Synagogue, Accusations and The Unforgiveable Sin, the Parables of the Sower and the Seeds, the Weeds and the Wheat, the Pearl of Great Price, the Net that Gathered All Kinds, Disbelief at Nazareth, Summoning of the Twelve and Sending Them Out Two by Two, He Tells Them to Take Staffs, He Who Hears You Hears Me, Their Preaching That Men Should Repent and Their Casting Out Demons and Anointing with Oil the Sick and Healing

Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version) narrative form of Chapters 15-21, adapted for audio computer Read aloud

John is Beheaded, Herod and the Rumors that Jesus is John or one of the Prophets, John's Disciples Bury His Body, Herod Now Knows Jesus is Not John, Jesus is Told About John's Beheading, the Apostles Return, No Opportunity to Eat, Departure Toward Bethsaida to Go Apart and Rest, the Crowds Run Ahead, His Coming Out and Seeing the Crowds, Teaching and Healing, the Feeding of the 5000, 5 Loaves 2 Fish 12 Baskets, Jesus dismisses them, the Storm and the Disciples in the Boat, Jesus Walks on Water and Peter Walks on Water, Calming of the Storm, Instant Arrival at Capernaum, Healings, In the Synagogue, the Bread of Life Discourse on Necessity of Eating and Drinking Jesus' Flesh and Blood for Eternal Life, To Whom Should We Go, You Have the Words of Eternal Life, You The Chosen 12 and Judas a Devil, the Disbelief of Jesus' Brothers, the Feast of Tabernacles, the Crowds Disagreeing on Him, the Jews Seeking to Kill Him, to Arrest Him, Disputes About Him, the Woman Taken in Adultery, “Let Him Without Sin Cast the First Stone”, He Does Not Condemn Her and Warns Her to Sin No More, Abraham's Offspring, “Before Abraham was, I AM”, Attempt to Stone Jesus but He is Hidden, Healing the Man Born Blind, the Parable of the Door and Shepherd of the Sheep, Disputes Over Him, Return to Galilee, the Question About Divorce and the Tradition of the Elders Breaking the Law of Moses, What Defiles, the Custom of Corban Sets Aside the Law of Moses, What Makes Unclean, the Canaanite Woman's Daughter Delivered from a Demon, the Syro-Phoenician Woman Hearing of Him Coming to Him and Her Daughter Delivered from a Demon, the Healing of a Deaf Man with a Speech Impediment near Decapolis, Healings South of Decapolis, the Lame, Blind, Mute, Maimed, On the Mountain Healings, the Feeding of the 4000, 7 Loaves a Few Small Fish 7 Baskets, Departure to area of Dalmanutha then to Magadan and the Pharisees Seeking a Sign, Only Given the Sign of Jonah, Return Across the Sea of Galilee to Bethsaida again, the Leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees and Herod, the Healing of a Blind Man, Caesarea Philippi and Peter's Confession, the Rock, the Church Built on This Rock, the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, Warning of His Rejection and Crucifixion and Resurrection, Peter's Opposition and Jesus' Rebuke, Taking Up the Cross, Up on the Mountain The Transfiguration with Moses and Elijah, John the Baptizer as Elijah to Come and He Has Already Come, the Healing of the Epileptic Boy, Casting out of Some Unclean Spirits Accomplished Only by the Necessity of Prayer and Fasting, Warning of the Crucifixion and Resurrection, Return to Capernaum, Jesus Forbidding the Rebuking of Those Who Do a Miracle in His Name Who Do Not Follow the Apostles, Entering the Kingdom as a Child, Payment of the Temple Tax with a Coin From the Fish Brought Up by Peter from the Sea, Disputes Over the Greatest of Them, the Causing of Offenses to Little Ones, Casting Away the Part of You that Causes You to Sin, the Greatest in the Kingdom, Rebuke the Offender, Shun Those Who Refuse to Hear the Church, Whatever You Bind on Earth is Bound in Heaven and Whatever You Loose on Earth is Loosed in Heaven, Forgive 70 times 7, the Parable of the Forgiven Servant Who Refused to Forgive, He Departs from Galilee to the Judean Borders beyond the Jordan, Questions about Divorce and Remarriage Which Jesus Condemns as Adultery, the Blessing of Children, Do Not Forbid Them, the Question about Any Cause for Divorce and Jesus Commands Not to Divorce, Those Who Are Eunuchs for the Sake of the Kingdom, the Blessing of the Children, Allow Them to Come to Me, the Question of What to Do to Have Eternal Life, Difficult for Those with Riches, Those Who Leave All will Receive More, the Winter Feast of the Dedication called Hanukkah, in the Temple Jesus Answers that He and the Father are One, the Jews Attempt to Stone Him, He Departs to Galilee Near Salim Where John First Baptized, the Man Asking What to Do to Have Eternal Life, the Commandments, the Parable of the Needle's Eye, Who Can Be Saved, With God All Things are Possible, the Parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard and All Received the Same Pay, the First Last, The Days Drew Near for Him to be Taken Up, Samaritan Refusal to Receive Him, James and John and Fire From Heaven and Jesus' Rebuke, Would-Be Followers, Jesus Sends Out the 70, “Whoever receives you receives Me and Him Who sent Me”, and His Instructions to Them, War in Heaven, Satan Falls Like Lightning, They Return Rejoicing, Jesus Prayer of Thanks for the Father's Revealing to Children, The Son Reveals the Father, Their Eyes and Ears are Blessed, They See and Hear What Others Did Not See or Hear, the Lawyer's Question About What to Do to Inherit Eternal Life and What He Reads in the Law, the Parable of the Good Samaritan, Martha and Mary and Choosing the Good Part, the Lord's Prayer, Forgiving to Be Forgiven, Parables on Perseverance, Ask, Seek, Knock, You Know to Give What is Good and God Gives What is Good, the Healing of a Mute, Accusations, the Parable of the Strong Man Overcome, the Parable of the Evil Spirit Cast Out Seeking Rest That Returns to the Empty House, the Woman Blesses Jesus' Mother, Blessed are Those Who Hear the Word and Keep It, Mary His Mother Heard and Kept It, the Sign of Jonah, the Greater Than Solomon, the Parable of the Lamp Not Hidden Giving Light, Pharisees Full of Extortion and Wickedness, Cleansing the Inside, the Lawyers Binding Heavy Burdens and Not Helping, the Children of Those Who Killed the Prophets from the Blood of Abel to Zechariah, Warning Against the Hypocrisy of Pharisees, Who to Fear, Confessing Jesus Before Men, the Unforgiveable Sin, the Holy Spirit Will Teach You, Warning Against Covetousness, the Parable of the Rich Man with Abundant Crops and His Plans to Build Barns to Keep It All for Himself but Dies, the Parable of the Ravens of the Air, the Lilies and Solomon, the Grass of the Field, Seeking the Kingdom, Selling All and Giving to the Poor to Have Treasure in Heaven, Warning to be Watchful and Ready for the Unknown Time of the Coming, the Parable of the Prudent Steward and the Steward Cut In Two, Those Who Knew and Those Who Did Not Know Who Did What is Worthy of a Beating, Jesus Sends a Sword of Division, Interpreting the Signs, Judging Rightly, Settling with Your Opponent Before Coming to the Judge and Being Handed Over and Imprisoned and Not Released Before Paying the Totality of the Debt to the Last Coin, Repentance, the Parable of the Barren Fig Tree Three Years Without Fruit, Healing on the Sabbath the Woman Bent Over Bound by Satan 18 Years, His Response, His Adversaries are Disappointed, the Parables of the Mustard Seed, The Woman Who Leavened All the Flour, Entering In By The Narrow Door and Those Shut Out, the Last First, Pharisees Warn Jesus to Leave Because Herod Seeks to Kill Him, Jesus replies He Will Go On Today and Tomorrow and the Next Day, Then Warns of His Death and Resurrection the Third Day, His Regret Over Jerusalem's Rejection, the House Left Desolate, the Healing of a Man with Dropsy in the Pharisee's House on the Sabbath, the Counsel to Take the Lowest Seat and to Invite Those Who Cannot Repay, the Blessed Who Eat in the Kingdom of Heaven and the Parable of the Truly Invited Who Refused to Come to the Feast and Will Never Taste It, He Departs for Jerusalem and Crowds Follow Him

Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version) narrative form of Chapters 22-28, adapted for audio computer Read aloud

On the Way to Jerusalem, Parables of Bearing One's Cross, Inability to Finish What Was Started and Shame, the King Facing a Stronger Opposing Force, Obligation of the Disciple to Renunciation of All One Has, Salt Without Taste Thrown Out, Jesus is Accused of Welcoming Tax Collectors and Sinners, Parables of The Lost Sheep and The Lost Drachma Coin, The Prodigal Son, The Dishonest Manager Dismissed Who Acted Prudently for His Future, The Impossibility of Serving 2 Masters, the Pharisees Who Were Lovers of Money, What Men Exalt is Abomination in God's Eyes, the Proclamation of God's Kingdom and Assaults On It to Enter, the Law of Moses Cannot Fall, Divorce and Remarriage is Adultery, the Parable of the Rich Man in Hell and Lazarus in Abraham's Bosom, Woe to All Who Cause Offenses to Little Ones of Faith, Counsel to Rebuke Your Sinning Brother and If He Offends 7 Times in a Day and Repents Forgive Him Every Time, Faith Like a Mustard Seed, No Thanks or Praise is Due for Faithfully Doing Your Duty as You Should, the Healing of 10 Lepers But Only the One Who Is a Samaritan Comes Back to Give Thanks, the Kingdom Coming Cannot be Observed But is in Our Midst Among Us, Do Not Follow Those Who Say Look Here or There, the Tragic Examples of Noah, Sodom, and Lot's Wife, Who Loses His Life Saves It, Those Taken and Those Left, The Wicked Are Taken Where the Vultures Gather and the Righteous are Left Alive, This is the Pattern in the Scriptures, the Parable of the Unrighteous Judge and the Persistent Widow, God Will Avenge, But Will Faith Remain on Earth, the Parable of the Pharisee proclaiming to God His Righteousness and the Tax Collector Begging God to be Merciful to Him as a Sinner, the Ruler asking Jesus What to Do to Inherit Eternal Life, the Commandments, the Only Thing Lacking is Giving All to the Poor and Come to Follow Jesus, Who Can Be Saved, What is Impossible With Men is Possible With God, the Reward For Leaving Everything and Following Jesus, Jesus Tells What Will Happen to Him and His Resurrection in 3 Days, Nearing Jericho James and John Seek to be Seated on Jesus' Right and Left in His Kingdom, the Cup and Baptism of Jesus, the Indignation of the Others, the Greatest Among Them is the Servant of All, the Approach to Jericho and the Healing of a Blind Man, They Enter Jericho, Jesus Dines With the Tax Collector Zacchaeus, the Parable of the 10 Minas of Money Given to Be Responsibly Used and Increased and Returned to Him Who Gave It, Leaving Jericho, the Healing of Blind Bartimaeus, the Healing of 2 Blind Men, the Raising of Lazarus of Bethany Whom Jesus Loved, the Prophecy of the High Priest Caiaphas that One Man Must Die for the Sake of the Nation of Israel, Jesus Withdraws From Bethany 10 miles North to Ephraim, the Preparations for Passover in Jerusalem, the People Look for Jesus, He Mounts a Donkey, Cries of Hosanna "Save Now", Palms and Clothes Spread on the Road, Jesus Weeps Over Jerusalem, He Enters the Temple and Looks Around, Goes Out to Bethany, Mary Anoints Jesus' Feet, Judas Protests, the Chief Priests Conspire to Kill Lazarus Also, Sunday Morning the Cursing of the Fig Tree, Jesus Enters Jerusalem on a Donkey, Cries of Hosanna, Palms and Clothes are Spread on the Road, the Pharisees See Defeat, the Ground Shakes, Jesus Enters the Temple and Casts Out Those Who Bought and Sold, A Den of Robbers, A House of Prayer, In the Temple Jesus Heals the Blind and the Lame and the Children Cry Hosanna to the Son of David, Jesus Leaves, On Monday Morning the Fig Tree is Seen Withered From the Roots and the Disciples are Astonished, Asking in Prayer Without Doubting, the Mountain into the Sea, In Prayer Forgive to be Forgiven, In the Temple as He is Walking the Jews Challenge His Authority, the Baptism of John, the Parable of the 2 Sons and Which One Did His Father's Will, the Prostitutes and Sinners are Entering the Kingdom, the Stone the Builders Rejected, Challenge of His Authority as He is Teaching in the Temple, the Baptism of John, the Parable of the Vineyard, the Killing of the Son, Destruction of the Farmers, the Stone Rejected, the Parable of the Vineyard Told to the People, They are Shocked, the Stone the Builders Rejected, the Chief Priests and Scribes Seek to Lay Hands on Jesus, the Parable of the Wedding Feast of the King, Those Invited Kill the Messengers, the King Destroys Them and Invites All from the Highways and Hedges and Both Bad and Good are Guests, the Man Without a Wedding Garment Cast Out, the Chief Priests and Scribes Seek to Lay Hands on Jesus, They Send Spies to Entrap Him, Give the Tax Money to Caesar and Give to God What is God's, the Sadducees Who Deny the Resurrection, In Moses God is the God of the Living for All Live, the 2 Greatest Commandments, the Sadducees Ask About the Woman with 7 Husbands and They All Died, Jesus Answers About the Resurrection and That God is the God of the Living, the 2 Greatest Commandments, the Christ is David's Lord Sitting at God's Right Hand so He Cannot Be David's Son, Warnings Against the Scribes, the Widow's 2 Small Coins, Warnings Against the Scribes and Pharisees, Do Whatever They Say Because They Sit on Moses' Seat of Authority but Do Not Imitate Them, Hypocrites, They Will Answer for All the Righteous Blood from Abel to Zechariah, Their House is Left Desolate, the Wondrous Stones of the Temple, They Will be Thrown Down, the Signs of This and of Jesus' Coming Told to the Disciples, the Parable of the Budding Fig Tree, On the Mount of Olives the Signs Told Privately to Peter James John and Andrew, the Warning to Watch, Jesus' Followers Come There and Ask About When These Things Will Be and the Sign of His Coming and of the End of the Age, Warning Against False Prophets, the Abomination of Desolation in the Holy Place, the Shortening of the Days of Tribulation for the Sake of the Elect, Misleading Deceivers, Do Not Follow, the Days of Noah, Taken Away, One Taken One Left, the Parables of The Watchful Servant and The Abusive Servant, The Wise and Foolish Virgins, The Talents, the Coming of the Son of Man with the Angels, the Separation of the Sheep and the Goats, the Righteous Blessed, Those Who Did Not Do Good Go Into the Fire Reserved for the Devil and His Messengers, this Was Tuesday, the Next Morning Wednesday, the Woman Taken in Adultery, Jesus Does Not Condemn Her, Tells Her to Sin No More, the Chief Priests, Scribes and Elders Take Counsel to Put Him to Death, a Woman Anoints Jesus with Pure Nard, Judas Protests, Satan Enters Him, He Goes to the Chief Priests and the Captains, They Weigh Out 30 Pieces of Silver, Greeks Come Asking to See Jesus, the Seed that Dies and Bears Much Fruit, Jesus Calls on the Father to Glorify Himself, Some Say It Thundered, Isaiah's Vision of Jesus' Glory, the Day Came for the Preparation of the Passover, Jesus Loves to the End, His Instructions to Peter and John, the Upper Room, They Prepare the Passover, Evening Comes and the Passover Seder Begins, the Law of Passover at Sunset at the Beginning of the Day of Passover at Twilight, the Vigil, Jesus receives a Cup and Gives It to Them, the Elijah Cup at the End of the Seder, He Declares He Will Be Betrayed, Is It I Lord?, Judas Asks Is It Me Rabbi?, This is My Body, This is My Blood, the Dispute Over Who Will Betray Him, the Dispute Over Who is the Greatest, Lords and Benefactors, 12 Thrones, 2 Swords, the Washing of Their Feet, One Will Betray Me, John Asks Who Is It?, Jesus Dips the Bread and Gives it to Judas, Satan Enters Him, Jesus tells Him to Go Quickly, He Goes Out, It Is Night, the Last Supper Discourses, Psalm 80, the Vine and the Branches, the Spirit of Truth Will Teach Them and Remind Them, Jesus' High Priestly Prayer to the Father, They Go Out to the Mount of Olives

Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version) narrative form of Chapters 29-35, adapted for audio computer Read aloud

Jesus and the Disciples Enter the Garden at Gethsemane as Judas Obtains Soldiers, Weapons, Lanterns and Gives the Sign of a Kiss to Identify Jesus, Jesus Says All of You Will Falter, Strike the Shepherd and the Sheep Will Be Scattered, Peter Says He Will Not, They All Say So, Jesus Tells Peter Before the Rooster Crows You Will Deny Me 3 Times, You Will All Falter, Peter Says He Will Never, They All Say They Will Not, Jesus Looking at Peter Loves Him and Now Tells Peter Before the Rooster Crows Twice You Will Deny Me 3 Times, Arrival at Gethsemane, Sit Here and Watch, He Takes Peter, James and John With Him, Stay Here and Watch, Jesus Prays, the Cup, Thy Will Be Done, He Returns, They Are Asleep, Jesus Prays, the Cup, Thy Will Be Done, the Sweat Like Drops of Blood, the Angel Appears Strengthening Him, He Returns, They Are Asleep, 3rd Time Jesus Prays, the Cup, Thy Will Be Done, He Returns, They Are Asleep, Jesus Wakes The Disciples, Judas Comes With a Crowd, He Gives Them the Sign of a Kiss and Jesus Comes Out, I AM, They Go Backward and Fall, Who Are You Seeking?, Judas, Hail Rabbi, the Kiss, Jesus Said If You Seek Me Let These Go, They Lay Hands On Him, Peter and the Sword and Malchus, Jesus Says Put the Sword Away, 12 Legions of Angels, the Healing of Malchus' Ear, the Hour of Darkness 3 A.M., I Taught Daily and You Did Not Seize Me, They Seize Jesus and Lead Him Away, the Disciples Flee, a Young Man Flees Away Naked, the Prophecy of Amos, Jesus Led Away, Peter and Another Follow to the High Priest's Court, Peter Brought In, A Disciple?, a Fire Built in the Courtyard, the First Denial, Jesus Led to Annas, They Know What I Said, an Officer Strikes Jesus, Testify to the Evil, Jesus Taken to Caiaphas, Peter and the First Rooster, the Chief Priest and the Whole Council, Seeking Testimony, They Do Not Agree, Seeking False Testimony, They Do Not Agree, Examples of 6 Variations of Subtle Difference, 2 False Witnesses Agree, the High Priest Adjures Jesus, I AM, the High Priest Tears His Garments, Blasphemy, They Condemn Him to Death, Jesus is Beaten, Peter's Denials, the Second Rooster and Jesus Looks at Peter, Peter Remembered the Word "Twice", Peter Went Out and Wept, Jesus Mocked and Beaten, Morning, If You Are The Christ Tell Us, You Will Not Answer and You Will Not Believe, 3 Times Asked and 3 Times Answered, Jesus is Condemned and Taken to Pilate, Judas Repents, He Throws the Silver Into the Temple and Goes, He Hangs Himself and Bursts Open, The Field of Blood Akeldama, the Potter's Field, the Prophecies of Jeremiah and Zechariah, Tophet and the 30 Pieces of Silver, That Field Bought With Blood, the Praetorium and Defilement and Eating the Passover Chagigah Sacrificial Foods of the 8 Days of Passover Called Unleavened Bread, Jesus Is Accused to Pilate, “Christ a King”, Jesus Before Pilate, “What is Truth?”, I Find No Charge, Jesus Accused, He is Silent and Pilate Marveled, Galilee is Herod's Jurisdiction, Jesus Sent to Herod, Herod Questions 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The narrative form of the Harmony of the Gospel Conservative Version on Conservapedia is a dedicated audio adaptation of the redacted text of the same encyclopedic feature. The peculiarities of a computerized mechanical audio reading needs to be adapted with the use of unusual phonetic spellings on the displayed print page, along with some very peculiar-looking punctuation and omissions. This is so that the mechanical limitations of the audio computer "Read aloud" function reads it more naturally, as a kind of "radio narrative". This is intended as a dedicated audio form, primarily for people with bad vision or who are blind, or are simply unable to look at a computer screen or read the printed page for very long. But in any case, people who simply listen to the Bible being read often get unexpected insights when they can hear it read. This is a benefit. A parallel column displaying the normal printed text is provided for comparison and verification, as a "translation" in plain language of the audio adaptation of the narrative form of this encyclopedic redaction of the New Testament

Chapter headings

Chapter headings are not properly a part of the narrative text, so they are not included in the text adapted here for a computer audio narrative of the page readings. Each page of the normal printed form of the text of this encyclopedic Harmony of the Gospel is seven chapters. Each of these seven-chapter pages is presented in the narrative form of this feature as a continuous reading for listening instead, without any mention of the chapter headings. The chapters of each page being read are mentioned in the heading of the page. A notation at the top of each audio-adapted page tells the listener how long the uninterrupted narration will be.

Text additions

Some minor additions to the text of the standard print form of this Harmony of the Gospel Conservative Version have been made, so that the reading is more understandable and easier to follow. For example, instead of abruptly beginning the reading of some of the epistles or some of the historical documents suddenly without any warning, an introductory statement is used, such as, "Psalm 80", and, "Let us begin". In some places it's enough to begin the reading of it with the simple word, "Now", or the phrase, "It says", followed by the reading. This is so the listener will know what's happening and be able to follow the narrative. In the same way, to make clear that the epistle or document reading is finished, a statement saying so in some form is added before going on with the narrative so the listener will know that the words that follow are not part of the quoted text, such as ending the text of a passage from the Torah with the statement, "This is the law of Moses", and, "These are the words of Isaiah", or "End of the First Book".

Some instances of the information found in the marginal notes of the longer form of this Harmony of the Gospel are very briefly condensed and essentially summarized and inserted for the benefit of the listener, sometimes consisting of a single word as is done in a Dynamic equivalence version of a Biblical text in English. For example, a statement is added in the text as a summary of the information from the marginal notes of the longer form, such as the statement inserted in the text of Chapter Two of this Harmony of the Gospel Conservative Version immediately after the quotations from the law of Moses about the vowing of persons to the service of God as dedicated whole living offerings set apart as holy to the Lord. It explains why a daughter, vowed by her parents as a consecrated virgin to "know not a man", should be pledged to become a wife to a man. It says,

"And Mary, being vowed to the Lord by her parents when she was a child, and consecrated to him by them as a perpetual virgin to not know a man, a vow she had not made, which her husband therefore could not make void; when the angel told her she would conceive in her womb and bear a son; for this reason she said, 'How can this be?' "

This summarizes the reading from the law of Moses that had just been given in the text. The reasoning behind this particular summarized reading is dealt with in detail in the marginal notes of the longer form of the Harmony of the Gospel Conservative Version. This summarization of the marginal material is followed by a repeat of the conversation with the angel Gabriel, to pick up where the narrative left off with the quotation of texts from the Torah, and going on from there. Most questions raised by parts of the New Testament texts that are controversial are tackled by the marginal notes of the longer form, but may be inserted as an aide to the listener for fuller understanding. The sighted reader listening to the audio narrative while following the normal print display in the parallel column may be inconvenienced or somewhat confused by hearing these expansions of the meaning of the text intended for better understanding. When this happens the sighted listener can pause the audio reading as needed for comparison, and then resume or continue with the reading. At the bottom of each page of this narrative form is a link to the longer form of this Harmony of the Gospel, so the listener can access the marginal notes for some explanation of why the text says what it does, as a form of justification for the expanded reading.

Proclamation

According to several sources, and most commentaries on the Bible, the word "Gospel" is from the Greek word "evangelion", literally, "good message". Several modern Bible translations use the term "good news" in place of the word "gospel". The redacted text of this Harmony of the Gospel Conservative Version based on the World English Bible version (the W.E.B. or simply WEB) also reads "gospel" as "good news". The Gospel is much more than that. Since "gospel" also means "proclamation", and the encyclopedic purpose of this Harmony of the Gospel is to be informative and increase understanding of the Christian New Testament, in this audio reading adaptation, the word "proclamation" is used as much as possible in place of "good news". For example, "The beginning of the proclamation of Jesus Christ, the Son of God", as the first verse from Mark chapter one.

Adapting large paragraphs

In some places of the reading of the text of this Harmony of the Gospel Conservative Version, the computer sometimes skips reading whole sections of large continuous paragraphs. For this audio narrative adaptation these paragraphs have been broken up into smaller segments on the page, or an introductory statement in the page display of the copy is separated by a line of spacing, to compensate for this kind of mechanical failure to process the whole of the page copy. This is in order for the computer to read all of the text it otherwise mechanically fails to read in the normal printed form, without any such omissions, reading it whole and entire, like the Genealogies, and the more extensive sections of the historical narrative from Josephus.

Punctuation

Visual punctuation of the page copy has been adapted for the sake of the audio narrative so that the computer reading of the narrative is smoother and more natural to listen to. These odd-looking punctuations, omissions, additions and insertions of punctuation marks are not errors that need to be corrected by a proof reader. They have been carefully checked for audio accuracy. What results is an audio narrative rendered according to a kind of vocal "manual of style" in speech, proper to the narration form of the text, but eccentric or completely improper on the displayed printed page.

Mechanical computer reading sometimes abruptly pauses or falters over some of the standard punctuation of regular printed text, and sometimes even when no punctuation is encountered. In other cases, some odd pauses in the mechanical computer reading unexpectedly occur when it encounters some particular word or phrase. There seems to be no consistent pattern to this occurrence. In some instances of attempting to edit a persistently repeated pausing, in repeated audio re-readings of a certain sentence or phrase in review, for the purpose of determining, by trial and error, an appropriate audio adaptation of spelling or punctuation for the sake of normal verbal expression, a grouping of the involved construction of words, by removing the spaces between them, has finally proved to be the only means of correcting this defect of abruptly pausing in the reading in some of the more particularly troublesome places in the text. Many commas have been removed from the display of the normal print copy, simply because they produce unnatural broken pauses in an audio computer reading. But some commas or other useful punctuation marks have necessarily been added, such as quotation marks, semicolons, colons, even periods in the middle of a long sentence, to provide varying lengths of a useful verbal pause where necessary, some only very slight, to avoid an unintended mechanically hurried reading of a sentence without the expected ordinary moments of minor pause of thought, in a grouping of words expressing a single idea or subject reference, so that the computer reading aloud of the page makes more sense to the listener and can be more easily processed in hearing it read.

A period or colon is sometimes inserted into the adapted print copy of the text in order to force a necessary pause in the reading, where a slight pause for natural vocal emphasis is appropriate and natural, where the computer fails to provide for it. Some periods have been removed, because the computer actually reads them as the word "dot", yes, "dot", or the period mark has been repositioned to avoid its being verbally read as a dot.

Question marks can be variably inflected by the human reader as a rising tone of query, or as representing a falling tone of challenge or certainty at the end of a sentence posing a question, depending on the context. For this reason, here in this narrative form question marks sometimes appear on the page display following a quotation mark instead of immediately preceding it, as a quotation-mark-and-question-mark together in that order, the question mark being positioned after a quotation mark to cause a normal rising tone of query, or without any question mark at all but a period instead in order to cause a normal tone of finality in the sentence of a question, so that the peculiar placement of the question mark on the printed page or its omission is not an error but an accommodation to the limitations of mechanical computer reading, in order to cause a proper inflection of tone. Where a human reader might vocally emphasize a word or particular syllable of a word, the audio computer reading sometimes fails to entirely satisfy, and no amount of inventive trial and error adaptive phonetic spelling attempted here for this feature produced it. With this in mind, understand that all quotation marks have been removed from the copy of the normal print text set aside here for adaptation, as unnecessary for indicating to the reader a vocal narration, but when used they sometimes appear at the end of a sentence in conjunction with the question mark. In some instances, as already mentioned the question mark itself has been replaced by a period, in order to give the proper inflection of tone in the audio reading. A period at the end of a question in this audio adapted narrative form isn't a typo. Where the audio adapted text lacks any punctuation at all at the end of a sentence, leaving the end of it with an unfinished empty space, it is not due to a typo omission or careless mistake. Also there are instances in the audio adapted text where a period and space is followed by a word spelled with a lower case first letter instead of the expected capital letter: this too is not a typographical error but a necessary adaptation for the audio reading.

Quotation marks appearing in the audio adapted text of the narrative form of this Harmony of the Gospel Conservative Version are not in fact used here as normal quotation marks, but only for the purpose of vocal inflection. Moreover, where the quotation mark appears in the adapted text it never appears on the page of the audio adaptation as indicating a quotation in any way, but as a prompt or a cue-mark or signal to the automated computer reading function to render the intended inflection. When the quotation mark is used to bracket what a person in the narrative said as a vocal inflective emphasis, it sometimes appears to the sighted reader as normal punctuation indicating a normal verbal statement in the text of what someone said. This is purely coincidental and unintentional. The enclosing quotation marks in the adapted text cause a slight audio verbal emphasis of what was said as being significant, and sometimes simply for the sake of a smoother slight pause before and after a phrase, in place of commas which are too frequently read as abrupt pauses.

Sometimes the visual use of quotation marks bracketing important terms of religious doctrinal substance for the sake of proper inflection unfortunately looks to the sighted reader like an expression of doubt, as when the expressions Son of God and Kingdom of God and the Name of Jesus appear here in the text bracketed with quotation marks. In normal writings by atheists and liberals who doubt the veracity of Christian teachings, quotation marks are sometimes used by them to signal to their readers profound doubt or contempt or sarcasm for what they insist are the "alleged" and "so-called" facts of the Gospel. But in this audio adapted text that is not the intent of using quotation marks, and bracketing sacred facts with quotation marks is not intended as a blasphemous ridicule of the claims of Christianity to the truths we assert with such assured confidence. Auditing or listening to the adapted text will demonstrate to the listener that quotation marks, bracketing important elements of the Christian Message, are used to cause an inflective tone of emphasis in the audio narrative, to express confidence, not doubt, not disbelief, and certainly not irreverently ironic sarcasm of sneering ridicule.

When vocal inflection of tone is wrong as read by the computer, it has been corrected here by using hyphens with phonetic spellings. For example, in the following sentence, the computer audio reading drops the tone at the end of the following sentence, at the word "me":

They asked this because it is written, Moses said, The LORD your God will raise up to you a Prophet from among you of your brethren like me.

The more natural inflection with a proper slight vocal emphasis on "me" is provided by adapting the spelling and punctuation for audio computer reading as follows:

They asked this because it is written, Moses said, The LORD your God will raise up to you a Prophet from among you of your brethren "like-Mee".

In the example of the above sentence, the computer audio reading doesn't drop the tone at the end of the sentence at the word "Mee". And here is another example, without using the hyphen:

Normal spelling

The LORD said to me, They have well said that which they have spoken. I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren like you.

Adapted spelling

The LORD said to me, They have well said that which they have spoken. I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren "like Hew".

Words like "my" and "you" and the personal pronoun "I" are almost always verbally clipped short by the computer reader. This necessitated developing phonetic spellings that broadened the sounds of these words as needed.

"my" is rendered as "Mighe".

"you" is rendered as "yew" and in combination with another word as "Hew".

"I" is rendered as either "Aye", or as "Ighe".

"I AM" is rendered "Aye-am", and "Aye-yam", and "Ighe-am"

And there are others.

Dashes

The punctuation of "dashes" in the printed text, normally intended to indicate a pause for emphasis, is totally ignored by the computer reading as if they don't exist, thus entirely omitting a necessary pause where needed and even hurrying faster through the dash instead as if there is not even a space between the words separated by the dash, sometimes even when the dash is disconnected or isolated in the sentence by a space before and after it. For this reason a comma or a semi-colon or colon, or even a period, is used in place of the dash in the regular text, to produce the same intended audio narrative effect.

Inverted phrases

In some cases, phrases or single words of the normal print text have been rearranged from the end of a sentence to its beginning or its middle, either because the structure of the sentence as it is, is hard to follow in the narrative, or because the mechanical reading of the computer breaks up the sentence of the normal text into two or more parts, which it then reads as separate sentences, or as independent dangling phrases, that don't make much sense as read aloud by the computer. The rearrangement of the existing sentence structure doesn't change the meaning. It's just a necessary adaptation to get around the limitations of mechanical computer reading, which simply makes more sense of the text of the narrative when read that way. The sighted reader following the audio narrative while reading the normal text print display can pause the audio reading to check and compare the adapted narrative form.

Weird mispronunciations

Mechanical computer reading also weirdly mispronounces some proper names of people and even some ordinary words, such as s o w, "to sow", in sowing seed, as if it is the word s o w with the sound of "ow" instead, pronouncing it as the word for a female pig or bear, "a sow".

One sows and another reaps. One "sews" and another reaps.

For example, the name Onesimus is read by the computer as "One sime us". For this reason phonetic spellings have been substituted when necessary on the visual display of the adaptive page for the sake of proper pronunciation by the Read aloud and Read out loud audio functions of the computer. In the particular case of the computer misreading the name of Onesimus the visual spelling of his name is rendered "O-nessymus". Charism is mechanically read wrongly with a soft "c h" by the computer as if it's the name of a belief in burning things until they are completely charred called "char-ism", when it should be pronounced with the hard form of "c h" as "care-ism". The name of Decebalus in text drawn from Suetonius in this Harmony is rendered phonetically on the page as "Desseb Al us". Spaces are used in this instance instead of hyphens. A similar technique of phonetic adaptation is made for other names of people and places, so the computer audio reading will say it right. Some purists will object to the rendering of Bible names and places in their popular forms as normally heard and used by the common person instead of according to their academically proper reading according to the original languages in Hebrew, Aramaic, Egyptian and Greek. While this encyclopedic feature is intended to be educational, it is not intended to confuse the ordinary reader unfamiliar with the linguistically proper pronunciation of them. This will seem to some to be a guilty perpetuation of an error of ignorant convention. The Message of the Gospel is of more paramount importance, and such a purist audio reading would confront the ordinary listener with a serious distraction having nothing to do with the fundamental Gospel Message that Jesus Christ is Savior and Lord, and only through Him can anyone have the totally free gift of Eternal Life in God, which cannot be earned by anything we do or have done, and will continue to have only by faithfully doing what He Says with works that are pleasing to Him and the Father and the Holy Spirit that will stand the test of fire that will test every man's work in the Last Judgment.

American usage is the standard here instead of the European forms. For example the word "Emmaus" is pronounced either as "Em-may-us" or as "Em-mouse": the first form is here preferred and used as the adapted phonetic form for the narrative rendering of the text. Occasionally the reader and listener will disagree with the audio adapted forms used in this Harmony of the Gospel Conservative Version narrative form. They may be right. Popular usage is not always correct but it is the more accepted form for common understanding of the meaning. The more serious student of the Bible will sooner or later encounter the accurate pronunciation of ancient biblical forms, and is strongly encouraged to adopt them.

Useless dictionary phonetic forms

Substituting the standard forms of dictionary phonetic spellings of these words with the phonetic characters of their dictionary definitions just doesn't work. At this time commonly available audio computer Read aloud functions are not currently adapted for reading dictionary phonetical spellings with special phonetic characters, and they are not phonetically read right by the computer according to the sounds they are intended to represent. The same goes for any computer Read aloud of any words spelled with the International Phonetic Alphabet. It doesn't work.

One example is the name of the village of Capernaum.

(/kəˈpɜːrniəm/ kə-PUR-nee-əm; Hebrew: כְּפַר נַחוּם‬, Kfar Naḥūm; Arabic: كفر ناحوم, meaning "Nahum's village" in Hebrew).

The audio reading of the phonetic spelling totally bypasses in silence the Hebrew and Arabic spellings and misreads the Anglicized spelling of the Hebrew sound "Kfar" as "Kay far", and in reading aloud the IPA rendering kəˈpɜːrniəm it does not say "Caw purr", it says "kay peer nayum", but the common vocal rendering in most printed dictionary and Bible dictionary texts is "Ca per′ nay um". But even this common dictionary phonetic spelling "Ca per′ nay um" is mispronounced by the Read aloud function and the "c a" is not rendered "Caw" or "Cah" but is spelled out instead, and as a result, here in this audio adaptation of Harmony of the Gospel Conservative Version narrative form, Capernaum had to be rendered "Cap Ernay-um", to correspond to the common way it is said when it's "red" aloud by the ordinary American Bible reader.

Vocal tense

The computer often cannot distinguish the past and present tenses of some words. Sometimes it doesn't use the right inflexion or accentuation of syllables of words in the context of the reading. For example, the past tense of "read", r e a d, is sometimes given by the computer as the verb to read something as if reading right now, "to read it", but for the narrative form on the page the intended past tense of the word needs to be phonetically corrected to r e d, "red", within the context of the text, "I have red this". On the page it doesn't look right, but in the audio computer reading these odd spellings sound right. The word "live" is sometimes read as in "alive", when it should be pronounced "liv", l i v, without the misleading cue of the silent 'e' on the end of the word, which the machine mindlessly interprets as a direction to pronounce the alphabetic character, ' i ', "eye", as a long "vowl", vowel, instead of the proper short "vowl", vowel, according to the context of the verbal tense of the setting within the sentence. The word "untie" is O.K., but the computer reads "untying" as "un-tee-ing". And the computer sometimes pronounces "present" with the accent on the second syllable as presenting something, to "pree Zent" it, and sometimes reads it with the accent on the first syllable of "present", as "Preznt" in attendance. The normal text of the Harmony of the Gospel Conservative Version has been carefully audited to determine where phonetic adaptations are needed in the narrative form.

The computer forms of pronunciation can also change between episodes of reading the words of the same ordinary text, as when you log off and go away and come back and log on for a second reading of it again and the uncommon words are sometimes read differently from before, sometimes changing their meanings, which can be confusing for the listener who can't read print, especially for students who study class-assigned books and materials with the aid of audio readings. For this reason phonetic spellings are used in this narrative form of Harmony of the Gospel in order to produce the right pronunciation in the computer narrative of the text each time. To accommodate the sighted reader of this narrative form of Harmony of the Gospel Conservative Version, all necessary phonetic spellings on the page are bracketed by quotation marks, to show the sighted reader that they are not misspelling accidents or "typos" overlooked by tired proof readers.

There are some inconclusive indications that the computer text-reading function has a rudimentary Artificial intelligence that may perhaps gradually correct or revise words in its stored vocabulary according to the rules of syntax from repeated usage, and might actually properly render words in context earlier misread or "mis-red" by it out of context. There are places in the computerized reading of the normal print display of the text that seem never to improve, and other places that seem over time with multiple readings to have eventually undergone some programming correction for grammatically improved audio reading, and in such a case the improvement may be the work of a programmer and not due to the current programming in the machine. This is illustrated by the fact that in some cases in the normal printed text, the adaptation, A sower went forth to "so", formerly necessarily adapted from the erroneous sound of the word s o w with the sound of "ow" for a female pig, "A sower went forth to sow", is now later apparently changed and is sometimes properly pronounced by the Read aloud function, when earlier it was not. The curious reader can check if changes are made in the capacity of the Read aloud function for proper audio reading of the text by using the Read aloud function on the normal print text in the right-hand parallel column, beside the left-hand column with the text of the adapted narrative form of this Harmony of the Gospel Conservative Version narrative form. The fact that the reader might see no current justification for the adaptive phonetic spellings and punctuation in the narrative form is no evidence that such a phonetic adaptation was not originally deemed necessary by the way the Read aloud function read or "red" the text when it was first developed here. The reader can establish any relevant apparent changes and currently necessary or unnecessary phonetic rendering of any of the exhibited phonetically adapted forms of the words from the normal text, by playing the Read aloud function over the parallel right-hand column of the normal print text to see how it is currently read aloud by the machine.

An illustration

As an illustration, turn on the Read aloud function on your computer or device, and listen to this page. The term "Read aloud function" can be phonetically adapted as "Reed aloud function", which looks wrong but reads right. Vocally, context is everything when reading out loud. Compare the reading of the text here below of the genealogy from Chapter Five of Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version) shorter form and the phonetic adaptation of the same text from the Harmony of the Gospel Conservative Version narrative form. In the first part of this example the computer's reading omits a large section of the block of text after the fact that Joseph died, skipping everything in the genealogy up to the words "the son of Salmon, the son of Nahshon, the son of Amminadab". Then it reads it from that point in the text all the way to the words at the end, "Adam, the son of God", and then it repeats everything it has already read, starting again from the same place with "the son of Salmon, the son of Nahshon, the son of Amminadab", down to the end again with "Adam, the son of God", and still omits all the generations that came before the son of Salmon. For the audio narrative adaptation of this text, this defect in the mechanical computer reading of the regular existing text of this Harmony of the Gospel is eliminated with the dividing up of the paragraph into smaller segments on the page. The computer then reads the whole genealogy without omission, with some brief pauses in the sequence. The bizarre audio mispronunciations of the normal standard spellings of some of the names of the genealogy are also corrected by the adapted phonetic spellings of the narrative form.

Listen to this illustrative example of the genealogy, as the first part of this illustration:

Harmony of the Gospel Shorter Form, the legal genealogy of Joseph the husband of Mary

Now Joseph, the husband of Mary, from whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ, died. And Jesus himself, who was born of the offspring of David according to the flesh, when he began, was about thirty years old, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son of Jannai, the son of Joseph, the son of Mattathias, the son of Amos, the son of Nahum, the son of Esli, the son of Naggai, the son of Maath, the son of Mattathias, the son of Semein, the son of Joseph, the son of Judah, the son of Joanan, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, the son of Neri, the son of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the son of Elmodam, the son of Er, the son of Jose, the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Simeon, the son of Judah, the son of Joseph, the son of Jonan, the son of Eliakim, the son of Melea, the son of Menan, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan, the son of David, the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Salmon, the son of Nahshon, the son of Amminadab, the son of Aram, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah, the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor, the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah, the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech, the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan, the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.

Here is the same illustrative example, adapted, as the second part of this illustration:

Harmony of the Gospel Narrative Form, the legal genealogy of Joseph the husband of Mary

Now Joseph, the husband of Mary from whom was born Jesus who is called Christ. Died.

And Jesus himself who was born of the offspring of David according to the flesh, when he began was about thirty years old, being the son as was supposed of Joseph, the son of "Heeligh", the son of "Matt that", the son of Levi, the son of "Mel-kye", the son of "Jan Eye".

the son of Joseph, the son of "Matt-athigh-us", the son of Amos, the son of "Nay-hum", the son of "Ess-lie", the son of "Nag-gai", the son of "Ma Hath".

the son of "Matt-athigh-us", the son of "Semmy-in", the son of Joseph, the son of Judah, the son of "Jo-annan", the son of "Reesa", the son of "Zerrubba-bell".

the son of "She-al-tiel", the son of "Nair-rye", the son of "Mel-kye", the son of "Ad Die", the son of "Co-sam", the son of "Elmo-dam", the son of "Erh".

the son of "Joes-ehh", the son of "A-lee-ayzer", the son of Jorim, the son of "Matt That", the son of Levi, the son of Simeon, the son of Judah.

the son of Joseph, the son of "Jo-nan", the son of "A-lee-aykim", the son of "Mellee-ah", the son of Menan, the son of "Matt-atha", the son of Nathan.

the son of David, the son of Jesse, the son of "O-bed", the son of Boaz, the son of "Sallmon", the son of Nahshon, the son of "Am-min-adab".

the son of Aram, the son of "Hezzron", the son of "Pairezz", the son of Judah, the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham.

the son of Terah, the son of "Nay-hore", the son of "Sair-ugh", the son of "Ree-you", the son of "Pel-egg", the son of "E-ber", the son of "She-lah".

the son of "Kigh-nan", the son of "Arh Faxad", the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech, the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch.

the son of Jared, the son of "Ma Halla-leel", the son of "Kigh-nan", the son of "Enos", the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.

You can hear the difference.

Here is an example of using quotation marks and hyphens to generate the proper inflection of tone in the conversation of Nicodemus and Jesus on being born again:

The text of the normal print display:

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. The same came to him by night, and said to him, Rabbi, we know that you are a Teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.
Jesus answered him, Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born anew, he cannot see God's Kingdom.
Nicodemus said to him, How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?
Jesus answered, Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he cannot enter into God's Kingdom. That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, You must be born anew. The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.
Nicodemus answered him, How can these things be?
Jesus answered him, You are the Teacher of Israel, and do not understand these things? Most certainly I tell you, We speak that which We know, and testify of that which We have seen, and you do not receive Our witness. If I told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?

Here is the same text of the phonetically adapted text:

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. The same came to him by night and said to him, Rabbi, we know that you are a Teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that "you-doo", unless God is with him.
Jesus answered him, Most certainly I tell you, unless one is "born-anew", he cannot see "God’s-Kingdom".
Nicodemus said to him, How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born”?
Jesus answered, Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he cannot enter into "God’s-Kingdom". That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you You must be "born-anew". The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.
Nicodemus answered him, How can "these things-Beegh"?
Jesus answered him, You are the Teacher of Israel, and do not "under stand-these-things"? Most certainly I tell you, We speak that which We know, and testify of that which We have seen, and you do not receive Our witness. If I told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?

Listening times

At the top of each page of seven-chapters, just before the reading of the text, is a note telling the total reading time of the whole page. Except for the first page, Chapters 1-7, each page is over two hours listening time.

The Read aloud function

The Read aloud function tool-bar includes back-up, pause, and skip-forward, and also a choice of audio reading voice. While the Read aloud function is on, and reading, the cursor can be placed anywhere on the page being read, "red", and clicked, to jump the reading immediately to that place where the cursor was positioned in the text to continue the reading from that point. It can be placed anywhere back of where the text is being read, "red", and clicked, to jump the reader there to begin reading immediately from that point.

If you are unfamiliar with the Read out loud or Read aloud function of your device, you can access a tutorial online by doing a search for "How to use the Read aloud function". (Try simultaneous Ctrl + Shift + G or Ctrl + Shift + F.)

The Read aloud function used here for development of this audio adaptation is exclusively from Ctrl + Shift + G and according to the selected baritone voice called "David". The other voices offered may not always correspond exactly to the "David" voice in their rendered vocal inflection or tone of this audio adaptation of the narrative form of this Harmony of the Gospel Conservative Version.

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Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version) narrative form of Chapters 1-7, adapted for audio computer Read aloud


narrative form Reading time 1 hour 5 minutes. Prologue Peace be with you. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit Amen. Hear O Israel. The Lord our God, the Lord is one! Since many have undertaken to set in order a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us, even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the Word delivered them to us, it seemed good to me also, having traced the course of all things accurately from the first, to write to you in order most excellent Friend of God, that you might know the certainty concerning the things in which you were "instructted". Let us begin. The beginning of the everlasting Proclamation of Jesus Christ the Son of God (which is being interpreted: Jesus Anointed the Son of God). In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him. Without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life (and the life was revealed, and we have seen and testify and declare to you the life, the eternal life which was with the Father and was revealed to us). That which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. And we write these things to you that our joy may be fulfilled. For God having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds. His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become as much better than the angels, as the more excellent name he has inherited is better than theirs. For we did not follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. For he received from God the Father honor and glory when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, This is my beloved "Son": in whom I am well pleased. We heard this voice come out of heaven when we were with him on the holy mountain of transfiguration. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth. From his fullness we all received, grace upon grace. For the law was given through Moses. But grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ. No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son. "God": who is in the bosom of the Father has declared him. Without "contro-versy" the core mystery of truly godly religion is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory. He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world did not recognize him. He came to his own, and those who were his own did not receive him. But as many as received him, to "thimb" he gave the power to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name: who were born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also. Therefore as for you, let that remain in you which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father. This is the promise which he promised us, the eternal life. This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ. Let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows "Meegh", that I am the LORD, who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth; "for I delight in these things" says the LORD. No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man who is in heaven. As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up in the sight of all, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him. He who believes in him is not judged. He who does not believe has been judged already, because he has stubbornly not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God. This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil. For everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works would be exposed. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed that they have been done in God. He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all. What he has seen and heard, "of that" he testifies; and no one receives his witness. He who has received his witness has set his seal to this, that God is true. For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure. The Father loves the Son and has given all things into his hand. One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him. Not everyone who calls him Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only those who do the will of his Father in heaven. For God will pay back to everyone according to their works: to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life; but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath, indignation, oppression, and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile. But glory, honor, and peace, go to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile. For there is no partiality with God. Jesus said, This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent: Why do you call me Lord, Lord, and not "dew" what I say? Belief by itself, if it has no works, is dead. You say you believe in God. Even the demons believe: and they shudder. As a body without the spirit is a dead corpse, so belief without works is dead. We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world. And he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen him after he had risen. But Jesus said to them, As the Father has sent me: even so I send "yew". Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me, rejects "him-who-sent-me". He said My Teaching is not mine, but his who sent me. If anyone desires to do his will, he will "know" about the Teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself. And he said If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him: and we will come to him and make our home with him. Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot endure to hear my word. Whoever is of God hears the words of God; the reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God. Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with me. Amen. Yes. Come "Lord Jesus". He who has ears to hear, let him hear! Now. As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before your face who will prepare your way before you: the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his paths straight! There came a man sent from God whose name was John. The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him. He was not the light, but was sent that he might testify about the light. The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world. And so it was, that in the days of Herod the king of Judea there was a certain priest named "Zacka-rye-us" of the priestly division of "Abbyeja". He had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord. But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years. Now while he executed the priest’s office before God in the order of his division, according to the custom of the priest’s office "his lot" was to enter into the Temple of the Lord and burn incense. The whole multitude of the people were praying outside at the hour of incense. An angel of the Lord appeared to him standing on the right side of the altar of incense. "Zacka-rye-us" was troubled when he saw him and fear fell upon him. But the angel said to him, Do not be "afraid Zacka-rye-us", because your request has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, "and you-shall call-his-name John". You will have joy and gladness; and many will rejoice at his birth. For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his "mother’s-womb". He will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God. He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Lord. "Zacka-rye-us" said to the angel, How can I be sure of this, for I am an old man and my wife is well advanced in years. The angel answered him, I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God. I was sent to speak to you and to bring you this Proclamation. Behold, you will be silent and not able to speak before the day that these things will happen, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their proper time. The people were waiting for "Zacka-rye-us", and they marveled that he delayed in the Temple. When he came out he could not speak to them, and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the Temple. He continued making signs to them and remained mute. When the days of his service were fulfilled, he departed to his house. After these days, Elizabeth his wife conceived, and she hid herself five months, saying, Thus has the Lord done to me in the days in which he looked on me to take away my reproach among men. Now in the sixth month the Messenger Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man whose name was Joseph of David’s house. The virgin’s name was Mary. She was consecrated to the Lord by her parents "Joa-kim" and Anna as a perpetual virgin according to the law of the Lord. And possessing an inheritance of her father, and being a descendant of David according to the flesh, according to the law of the Lord, she was pledged to be married to one of the family of the tribe of her father according to the law of the Lord. And Joseph of David’s house, was a just man who feared the Lord, and according to the law of the Lord he would not make void her consecration to the Lord. Having come in, the angel said to her, I salute you "Full of grace": the Lord is with you: Blessed are you among women! But when she saw him she was greatly troubled at the saying, and considered what kind of salutation this might be, and The angel said to her, Do not be "afraid-Mary", for you have found favor with God. Behold, you will conceive in your womb and give birth to a son: and will call his name Jesus. He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever. There will be no end to his Kingdom. Mary said to the angel, How can this be, seeing I am a virgin: I do not know man. For she was consecrated to the Lord. The angel answered her, The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also, "That Wholly", who is born from you, will be called the Son of God. Behold, Elizabeth your relative also has conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with "her-who-was-called-barren". For nothing spoken by God is impossible. Mary said "Behold", the servant of the Lord: let it be done to me according to your word. The angel then "departed" from her. And the Word became flesh and lived among us. For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins. Therefore when he comes into the world he says, You did not desire sacrifice and offering, but you prepared a body for me. You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin. Then I said Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me) "to-do-your will" O God. When He brings in the firstborn into the world He says Let all the angels of God worship him. Now as it is written in the law of the Lord: according to the law of the Lord: Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes concerning the descendants of Israel saying, This is what the Lord has commanded. If a man vows a vow to the Lord, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that "pro seeds" out of his mouth. If a woman also vows a vow to the Lord and binds herself by a bond in her father’s house in her youth; and her father hears her vow and her bond with which she has bound her soul and her father shall hold his peace: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she has bound her soul shall stand. But if her father does not allow her vow in the day he hears it. none of her vows or of her bonds with which she has bound her soul shall stand. And the Lord shall "for give" her, because her father did not allow her "vow". And if she had at all a husband when she vowed or uttered any vow from her lips with which she bound her soul, and her husband heard and held his peace in the day that he heard: then her vows shall stand, and her bonds with which she bound her soul shall stand. But if her husband does not allow her vow on the day that he heard. then he shall make her vow which she vowed and what she uttered with her lips with which she bound her soul of no effect, and the Lord shall "for give" her, And if she vowed in her husband’s house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath, and her husband heard and held his peace and did not disallow her "vow". then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she bound her soul shall stand. But if her husband has utterly made them void on the day he heard, whatever "pro seeded" from her lips concerning her vows or concerning the bond of her soul shall not stand. Her husband has made them void, and the Lord shall "for give" her, Every "vow" and every binding oath to afflict the soul her husband may establish, or her husband may make void. But if her husband entirely holds his peace from day to day, then he establishes all her "vows", or all her bonds which are on her: he confirms them, because he held his peace in the day he heard of them. But if he shall in any way make them void after he has heard, then he shall bear her iniquity. These are the statutes which the Lord commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, and between the father and his daughter in her youth in her father’s house. The Lord spoke to Moses saying, When a man makes a special vow of persons to the Lord, the estimated value of a male from twenty years old even to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary. And if it be a female, then the estimation shall be thirty shekels. And if from five years old even to twenty years old, then your estimation of the male shall be twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels. And if from a month old even to five years old, then your estimation of the male shall be five shekels of silver, and for the female your estimation shall be three shekels of silver. And if from sixty years old and above, if a male, then your estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels. But if he is poorer than your estimation then he shall present himself before the priest and the priest shall value him, according to his ability who vowed shall the priest value him. No devoted thing that a man shall devote to the Lord of all he has, of man and beast, of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy to the Lord. And the Lord spoke to Moses saying, Speak to Aaron and to his sons, that they keep away from the holy things of the people of Israel which they dedicate to me, so that they may not profane my holy name in what they consecrate to me: I am the Lord. Say to them, ‘Whoever of all your descendants throughout your generations who approaches the holy things which the people of Israel dedicate to the Lord, having an uncleanness, that soul shall be cut off from my presence: I am the Lord. Every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the descendants of Israel, shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the descendants of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers. Neither shall the inheritance be transferred from tribe to tribe, but every one of the tribes of Israel shall keep to himself his own inheritance. This is the law of Moses. For this reason, possessing an inheritance, even a consecrated virgin vowed to the Lord to know no man, is pledged to be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father according to the law of Moses, and still remain a virgin consecrated to God, bound by vow to the Lord. And Mary, being vowed to the Lord by her parents when she was a child, and consecrated to God by them as holy to the Lord, as a perpetual virgin to not know a man, a vow she had not made, which her husband therefore could not make void; when the angel told her she would conceive in her womb and bear a son, for this reason Mary said to the angel, How can this be, seeing I am a virgin: I do not know man. For she was consecrated to the Lord. The angel answered her, The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also, "the holy one", who is born from you, will be called the Son of God. Behold, Elizabeth your relative also has conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren. For nothing spoken by God is impossible. And Mary said "Behold", the servant of the Lord; let it be done to me according to your word. The angel "departed" from her, and the Word became flesh. Mary arose in those days and went from Galilee south into the hill country with haste, into a city of Judah called Ain Karim, just southwest of Jerusalem, and entered into the house of "Zacka-rye-us" and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. She called out with a loud voice and said, Blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb! Why am I so favored that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For behold, when the voice of your greeting came into my ears, the baby "leaped" in my womb for "joy". Blessed is she who believed, for there will be a fulfillment of the things which have been spoken to her from the Lord! Mary said, My soul magnifies the Lord, my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior, for he has looked at the humble state of his servant. For behold, from now on all generations will call me blessed, for he who is mighty has done great things for me. Holy is his name, His mercy is for generations of generations on those who fear him. He has shown strength with his arm, He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. He has put down princes from their thrones, And has exalted the lowly. He has filled the hungry with good things, He has sent the rich away empty. He has given help to Israel his servant that he might remember mercy, as he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and his offspring forever. And Mary stayed with her about three months. Now the time that Elizabeth should give birth was fulfilled, and she gave birth to a son. Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy toward her and they "ree-joiced with" her. Then Mary returned to her house. On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him "Zacka-rye-us" after the name of his father. His mother answered Not so; but he will be called John. They said to her, There is no one among your relatives who is called by this name. They made signs to his father what he would have him called. He made signs to them and asked for a writing tablet and wrote, His name is John. They all marveled. His father "Zacka-rye-us" was filled with the Holy Spirit, his mouth was opened immediately and his tongue freed, and he spoke blessing God and prophesied saying, Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people; and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David (as he "spoke" by the mouth of his holy "prophets" who have been from of old) salvation from our enemies and from the hand of "all-who-hate" us. To show mercy toward our fathers, to remember his holy covenant, the oath which he swore to Abraham our father to grant to us "that we"; being delivered out of the hand of our enemies; should "serve him" without fear, in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life. And "yew" Child, will be called a prophet of the Most High, for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways, to give knowledge of salvation to his people by the remission of their sins, because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the dawn from on high "will visit us", to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace. Fear came on all who lived around them, and all these sayings were talked about throughout all the hill country of Judea. All who heard them laid them up in their heart saying, What then will this child be. The hand of the Lord was with him. Now the birth of Jesus Christ occurred this way. (Christ means Anointed). After his mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph as his wife, before they came together she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit. Joseph her husband, being a righteous man and not willing to make her a public example, intended to put her away secretly. As it is written in the law of Moses, When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be if she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a certificate of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house. But when he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream saying, Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take to yourself Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. She shall give birth to a son. You shall call his name Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins. Now all this has happened that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet saying, Behold, the virgin shall conceive and shall give birth to a son. They shall call his name Immanuel; which is being interpreted, God with us. Joseph arose from his sleep and did as the angel of the Lord commanded him, and took his wife to himself; and he did not know her sexually at any time before she had given birth to her firstborn son. He named him Jesus (which means God saves). Now this is an account of the ancestry of Joseph son of David. Jacob was the father of Joseph the son of "Heeligh", according to what is written in the law of the Lord, If brethren dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her. It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel. And Jacob was the half-brother of "Heeligh", according to "You see be-us", born of one woman, "Esstha" their mother, who was wife to "Matt than" and to "Matt that", first to one and then to the other in succession; for the law of Moses does not forbid a widow to marry again. Thus Jacob the son of "Matt than", of the house of David, became the father of Joseph the son of "Heeligh" the son of "Matt that", of the house of David. And this is the genealogy of Joseph son of David. The sons of David who were born to him in "Heb-ron": "Ammnon", Daniel, Absalom, "Ad-doh-nighja", "Shepha-tiah", "Ithree-amm": six were born to him in Hebron. And these were born to him in Jerusalem: Shimea, Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon, Ibhar, "Eleeshama", "Elleefellet", Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia, "Eleeshama", "El-yada", and "Elleefellet", nine. All these were the sons of David. These are the heads of the clans of the house of David. David became the father of Solomon. Solomon became the father of "Reho-boam". "Reho-boam" became the father of "Abbyeja". "Abbyeja" became the father of Asa. Asa became the father of Jehoshaphat. Jehoshaphat became the father of Joram. Joram became the father of "Uz-zigha". "Uz-zigha" became the father of "Joetham". "Joetham" became the father of "A-haz". "A-haz" became the father of "Hezzy-kigh-ah". "Hezzy-kigh-ah" became the father of Manasseh. Manasseh became the father of "A-mon". "A-mon" became the father of "Jo-sigh-ah". "Jo-sigh-ah" became the father of "Jecko-niya". "Jecko-niya" became the father of "She-al-tiel". "She-al-tiel" became the father of "Zerrubba-bell". "Zerrubba-bell" became the father of "Ab-eye-udd". "Ab-eye-udd" became the father of "Eli-akim". "Eli-akim" became the father of "A-zor". "A-zor" became the father of "Zad-ock". "Zad-ock" became the father of "Ah-kim". "Ah-kim" became the father of "E-lie-ood". "E-lie-ood" became the father of "Elee-a-zar". "Elee-a-zar" became the father of "Matt than". "Matt than" became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of Joseph, the son of "Heeligh", the son of "Matt that", the son of Levi, the son of "Mel-kye", the son of "Jan-nai", the son of Joseph, the son of "Matt-athigh-us", the son of Amos, the son of "Nay-hum", the son of "Ess-lie", the son of "Nag-gai", the son of "Maa aath", the son of "Matt-athigh-us", the son of "Semmy-in", the son of Joseph, the son of Judah, the son of "Jo-annan", the son of "Reesa", the son of "Zerrubba-bell", the son of "She-al-tiel", the son of "Nair-rye", the son of "Mel-kye", the son of "Ad Die", the son of "Co-sam", the son of "Elmo-dam", the son of "Erh", the son of "Joes-ehh", the son of "A-lee-ayzer", the son of Jorim, the son of "Matt that", the son of Levi, the son of Simeon, the son of Judah, the son of Joseph, the son of "Jo-nan", the son of "A-lee-aykim", the son of "Mellee-ah", the son of Menan, the son of "Matt-atha", the son of Nathan, the son of David. Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be enrolled. This was the first enrollment, made later when "Kye-rinnius" was governor of Syria. All went to enroll themselves, everyone to his own city. But Joseph moreover went up from Galilee, out of his own city the city of Nazareth, into Judea instead, to David’s city which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David; to enroll himself with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him as wife, being pregnant. While they were there, the day had come for her to give birth. She gave birth to her firstborn son. Every child that comes forth first from the womb is called firstborn in Israel, even when no other child is born afterward. Every offspring that is an only child in Israel having no brother or sister from the womb of the same mother that gave birth is her firstborn. She gave birth to her firstborn son. She wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a feeding trough because there was no room for them in the inn. As it is written in the law of Moses, If a woman conceives and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of her monthly period she shall be unclean. As it is written, She shall be in her impurity seven days. Whoever touches her shall be unclean before the evening. Everything that she lies on in her impurity shall be unclean. Everything also that she sits on shall be unclean. Whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean before the evening. Whoever touches anything that she sits on shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean before the evening. If it is on the bed or on anything she sits on, when he touches it he shall be unclean before the evening. And Thus you shall separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, so they will not die in their uncleanness when they defile my tabernacle that is among them. This is the law of Moses. Now there were shepherds in the same country, staying in the field and keeping watch by night over their flock. Behold, an angel of the Lord stood by them and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. The angel said to them, Do not be afraid, for behold I bring you the Proclamation of great joy which will be to all the people. For there is born to you today in David’s city a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. This is the sign to you: you will find a baby wrapped in strips of cloth, lying in a feeding trough. Suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly army, praising God and saying Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, good will toward men. When the angels went away from them into heaven the shepherds said to one another, Let us go to Bethlehem "now", and "see" this thing that has happened which the Lord has made known to us. They came with haste and found both Mary and Joseph, and the baby was lying in the feeding trough. When they saw it, they publicized widely the saying which was spoken to them about this child. All who heard it wondered at the things which were spoken to them by the shepherds. But Mary kept all these sayings, pondering them in her heart. The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen just as it was told them. When eight days were fulfilled for the circumcision of the child, his name was called Jesus, which was given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb. Behold the blood of the Lord, begone you hostile powers! His name shall be called in Israel, Yeshua ben David, ben Avraham, ben Adonai, as he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and his offspring forever. The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, Jesus Anointed, the son of David the son of Abraham. Now the number of the name of David, by the reckoning of "gem-ah-tria", is fourteen. And this is the reckoning of the generations. Abraham, one, became the father of Isaac, two. Isaac became the father of Jacob, three. Jacob became the father of Judah and his brethren, four. Judah became the father of "Pairez" and Zerah by "Tay Mar", five. "Pairez" became the father of Hezzron, six. Hezzron became the father of Ram, seven. Ram became the father of "Am-min-adab", eight. "Am-min-adab" became the father of "Nah-shon", nine. "Nah-shon" became the father of "Sallmon", ten. "Sallmon" became the father of Boaz by "Rayhab", eleven. Boaz became the father of "O-bed" by Ruth, twelve. "O-bed" became the father of Jesse, thirteen. Jesse became the father of King David, fourteen. David became the father of Solomon by her who had been "You-riah's" wife, one. Solomon became the father of "Reho-boam", two. "Reho-boam" became the father of "Abbyeja", three. "Abbyeja" became the father of Asa, four. Asa became the father of Jehoshaphat, five. Jehoshaphat became the father of Joram, six. The son of Joram was "A-ha-zigha", seven. The son of "A-ha-zigha" was "Jo-ash", eight. The son of "Jo-ash" was "Amma-zigha", nine. The son of "Amma-zigha" was "Azz-zar-riah", also called "Uz-zigha", ten (But "Jo-ram" was the father of "Uz-zigha"). "Uz-zigha" became the father of "Joetham", eleven. "Joetham" became the father of "A-haz", twelve. "A-haz" became the father of "Hezzy-kigh-ah", thirteen. "Hezzy-kigh-ah" became the father of Manasseh, fourteen, the first of that generation deported to Babylon. (The king of Assyria took Manasseh in chains, bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.) Manasseh, of the first generation taken to Babylon, became the father of Amos, who was called "A-mon", the second generation. "A-mon" became the father of "Jo-sigh-ah", the third generation. "Jo-sigh-ah" became the father of "Jecko-niya" and his brethren, the fourth generation, at the time of the exile to Babylon, according to what is written, In the fourth generation they will come here again. After the exile to Babylon, "Jecko-niya" became the father of "She-al-tiel", one. "She-al-tiel" became the father of "Zerrubba-bell", two. "Zerrubba-bell" became the father of "Ab-eye-udd", three. "Ab-eye-udd" became the father of "Eli-akim", four. "Eli-akim" became the father of "A-zor", five. "A-zor" became the father of "Zad-ock", six. "Zad-ock" became the father of "Ah-kim", seven. "Ah-kim" became the father of "E-lie-ood", eight. "E-lie-ood" became the father of "Elee-a-zar", nine. "Elee-a-zar" became the father of "Matt than", ten. "Matt than" became the father of Jacob, eleven. Jacob became the father of Joseph, twelve. Joseph became the husband of Mary, thirteen (a full generation younger than he). From Mary was born Jesus who is called Christ, Anointed, fourteen. When the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law, that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children. So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; from David to the exile to Babylon fourteen generations; and from the carrying away to Babylon to the Christ the Anointed, fourteen generations. Now, as it is written in the Law of the Lord: The LORD spoke to Moses saying, Speak to the children of Israel saying, If a woman conceives and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of her monthly period she shall be unclean. In the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. She shall continue in the blood of purification thirty-three days. She shall not touch any holy thing, nor come into the sanctuary, before the days of her purifying are completed. 40 days. This is the law of Moses. When the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were fulfilled, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord (as it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male who opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord) and to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons. Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him. It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ, the Lord’s Anointed. He came in the Spirit into the Temple. When the parents brought in the child Jesus, that they might do concerning him according to the custom of the law, then he received him into his arms and blessed God, and said, Now you are releasing your servant Master according to your word in peace; for my eyes have seen your salvation which you have prepared before the face of all peoples; a light for revelation to the nations, and the glory of your people Israel. Joseph and his mother were marveling at the things which were spoken concerning him, and Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother, Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against. Yes, a sword will pierce through your own soul, that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed. There was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of "Phan-you-el" of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, about one hundred and six years, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity, from about the age of fifteen to the age of twenty-two, and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years) who did not depart from the Temple, worshiping with fastings and petitions night and day. Coming up at that very hour she gave thanks to the Lord, and spoke of him to all those who were looking for redemption in Jerusalem. Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, behold, two years later wisemen from the east came to Jerusalem saying, Where is he who is born King of the Jews, for we saw his star in the east and have come to worship him. When King Herod heard it, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. Gathering together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he asked them where the Christ the Anointed One would be born. They said to him, In Bethlehem of Judea, for this is written through the prophet, "Yew": Bethlehem land of Judah, are in no way least among the princes of Judah: for out of you shall come a Governor who shall shepherd my people Israel. Then Herod secretly called the wisemen, and learned from them exactly what time the star appeared. He sent them to Bethlehem and said, "Go-and-search" diligently for the young child. When you have found him, bring me word so that I also may come and worship him. Having heard the king, they went their way; and behold, the star which they saw in the east went on ahead of them, and they did not see it before it came and stood over where the young child was. When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceedingly great joy. They came into the house and saw the young toddler-child with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Opening their treasures, they offered to him offerings of gifts: gold, "frankin-cense", and myrrh. Being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they went back to their own country another way. Now when they had departed, behold an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother and flee into Egypt, and stay there up to when I tell you, for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him. He arose and took the young child and his mother by night and departed into Egypt, and was there up to the death of Herod; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet saying, Out of Egypt I called my Son. Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wisemen, was exceedingly angry, and sent out and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wisemen. Then that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, saying, A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; she would not be comforted, because they are "No-more" But when Herod was dead, behold an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother and go into the land of Israel, for those who sought the young child’s life are dead. He arose, and took the young child and his mother and came into the land of Israel. But when he heard that "Arkay-lay-us" was reigning over Judea in the place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. Being warned in a dream, he withdrew into the region of Galilee. When they had thus accomplished all things that were according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee to their own city Nazareth. He came and lived in a city called Nazareth that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophets, He will be called a Nazarene, which is being interpreted, Branch. As it is written in Isaiah, A Shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a Branch out of his roots will bear fruit. And in Jeremiah, Behold, the days come says the LORD that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and, In those days and at that time I will cause a Branch of righteousness to grow up to David. And in Zechariah: Behold, I will bring out my servant the Branch; Behold, the man whose name is the Branch: and he shall grow up out of his place; and he shall build the LORD’s Temple. The child was growing and was becoming strong in spirit, being filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him. As it is written in the Psalms, Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself. Now his parents went every year to Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover. When he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem according to the custom of the feast, and when they had fulfilled the eight days of Passover called Unleavened Bread, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. Joseph and his mother did not know it, but supposing him to be in the company they went a day’s journey, and they looked for him among their relatives and acquaintances. When they did not find him they returned to Jerusalem looking for him anxiously. After three days they found him in the Temple, sitting in the middle of the Teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions. All who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers. Jesus, from infancy having known the holy Scriptures, said to them: What man is there among you who has one sheep, and if this one falls into a pit on the Sabbath day, will he not grab on to it and lift it out? Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath day. Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and those who were with him; how he entered into God’s house and ate the show bread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for those who were with him, but only for the priests? Or have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath day the priests in the Temple profane the Sabbath and are guiltless? David himself says in the book of Psalms, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, up to the moment I make your enemies the footstool of your feet. David therefore calls him Lord, so how is he his son? One of the scribes asked him, Which commandment is the greatest of all? Jesus answered, The greatest is: Hear Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one: you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength. This is the first commandment. The second is like "this": You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these. When they saw him they were astonished, and his mother said to him, Son, why have you treated us this way? Behold your father and I were anxiously looking for you. He said to them, Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house”? They did not understand the saying which he spoke to them. And he went down with them and came to Nazareth. He was "sub-ject" to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart. And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature and in favor with God and men, according to what is written, Do not let kindness and truth forsake you. bind them around your "neck", write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man. All testified about him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth, and they said: Is this not Joseph’s son"? Now Joseph, the husband of Mary from whom was born Jesus who is called Christ: Died. And Jesus himself who was born of the offspring of David according to the flesh, when he began was about thirty years old, being the son as was supposed of Joseph, the son of "Heeligh", the son of "Matt that", the son of Levi, the son of "Mel-kye", the son of "Jan Eye". the son of Joseph, the son of "Matt-athigh-us", the son of Amos, the son of "Nay-hum", the son of "Ess-lie", the son of "Nag-gai", the son of "Maa aath". the son of "Matt-athigh-us", the son of "Semmy-in", the son of Joseph, the son of Judah, the son of "Jo-annan", the son of "Reesa", the son of "Zerrubba-bell". the son of "She-al-tiel", the son of "Nair-rye", the son of "Mel-kye", the son of "Ad Die", the son of "Co-sam", the son of "Elmo-dam", the son of "Erh". the son of "Joes-ehh", the son of "A-lee-ayzer", the son of Jorim, the son of "Matt That", the son of Levi, the son of Simeon, the son of Judah. the son of Joseph, the son of "Jo-nan", the son of "A-lee-aykim", the son of "Mellee-ah", the son of Menan, the son of "Matt-atha", the son of Nathan. the son of David, the son of Jesse, the son of "O-bed", the son of Boaz, the son of "Sallmon", the son of Nahshon, the son of "Am-min-adab". the son of Aram, the son of "Hezzron", the son of "Pairezz", the son of Judah, the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham. the son of Terah, the son of "Nay-hore", the son of "Sair-ugh", the son of "Ree-you", the son of "Pel-legg", the son of "E-ber", the son of "She-lah". the son of "Kay-igh-nan", the son of "Are Faxad", the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech, the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch. the son of Jared, the son of "Ma Halla-leel", the son of "Kay-igh-nan", the son of "Enos", the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God. So all the generations from Adam to Jesus are seventy-seven generations: from Adam to Enoch seven generations, and from Enoch to "She-lah" seven generations, and from "She-lah" to Abraham seven generations, and from Abraham to Admin seven generations, and from Admin to David seven generations, and from David through Nathan to Joseph seven generations, and from Joseph to Joshua seven generations, and from Joshua to "She-al-tiel" seven generations, and from "She-al-tiel" through "Reesa" son of "Zer-rubba-bell" to "Matt-athigh-us" seven generations, and from "Matt-athigh-us" to Joseph seven generations, and from Joseph to Jesus seven generations. And the child John the son of "Zecha-rye-us" and Elizabeth was growing and becoming strong in spirit, and was in the desert to the day of his public appearance to Israel. He was by birth a priest descended from Aaron the priest the brother of Moses, of the sons of Levi son of Jacob called Israel. Now at this time, in A.D. 20 Parthian generals conquered the regions of northern India and declared independence to form the Indo-Parthian Kingdom. Roman-Parthian relations had become increasingly centered on Armenia, which was situated geo-politically between the Roman Empire and Parthia, Rome’s implacable foe in the east, the kings of the east. In both Crassus’s and Antony’s campaigns (ending 53 and 31 B.C., near the end of the Roman Republic in 27 B.C.) the Armenians had already played an influential role in the early history of Roman-Parthian relations; the Armenian king had a large role as a guide, and betrayer, as some sources state. Since the reign of Augustus Caesar it had been Roman policy to appoint vassal kings there and so make Armenia a buffer state against Parthia and the kings of the east. An advance on Armenia from one side was often interpreted as a pretext for war by the other. Throughout the remaining history of Roman-Parthian relations Armenia would have the role of a buffer state between the two powers. Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and "Lye-say-nias" tetrarch of "Abba-lee-knee", in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of "Zecha-rye-us" in the wilderness. He who sent him to baptize with water said to him, On whomever you will see the Spirit descending and remaining on him is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit. In those days John the Baptizer came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying "Repent": for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand! He came into all the region around the Jordan preaching the baptism of repentance for remission of sins. For this is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, make the way of the Lord ready, make his paths straight! As it is written in the Book of the Words of Isaiah the Prophet, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. Every valley will be filled, every mountain and hill will be brought low. The crooked will become straight, and the rough ways smooth. All flesh will see God’s salvation. John came baptizing in the wilderness and preaching the baptism of repentance for forgiveness of sins. Now John himself wore clothing made of camel’s hair. John was clothed with camel’s hair and with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey. He ate locusts and wild honey. Then people from Jerusalem, all of Judea and all the region around the Jordan, all the country of Judea and all those of Jerusalem went out to him. They were baptized by him in the Jordan river, confessing their sins. He preached saying, After me comes he who is mightier than I, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and loosen. I baptized you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit. He said therefore to the multitudes who went out to be baptized by him, You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Therefore produce fruits worthy of repentance, and do not begin to say among yourselves We have Abraham for our father; for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones. Even now the ax also lies at the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not produce good fruit, is cut down and thrown into the fire. The multitudes asked him, What then must we do? He answered them, He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise. Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, Teacher, what must "we dew"? He said to them, Collect no more than that which is appointed to you. Soldiers also asked him, saying What about us? What must "we dew"? He said to them, Extort from no one by violence, neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be "cunTent" with your wages. As the people were in expectation and all men reasoned in their hearts concerning John, whether perhaps he was the Christ, the Anointed One, John answered them all, I indeed baptize you with water, but he comes who is mightier than I, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to loosen. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire, whose winnowing-fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor and will gather the wheat into his barn; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. Then with many other exhortations he preached the Proclamation to the people. But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them You offspring of vipers, "who-warned yew" to flee from the wrath to come? Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance! Do not think to yourselves We have Abraham for our father, for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones. Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that does not produce good fruit, is cut down and cast into the fire. I indeed baptize you with water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit. His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire. If you are willing to receive it, John is Elijah who is to come. As it is written in the book of the prophet Malachi, Behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud and all who work wickedness will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up’ says the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. And, Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of the LORD comes. He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse. It is as the angel Gabriel sent from God declared to "Zacka-rye-us" concerning John before he was conceived, He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Lord. Then in those days, Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee to the Jordan to John to be baptized by him. But John would have hindered him saying, I need to be baptized by "Yew", and you come to "Meegh"? But Jesus answering said to him, Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness. Then he allowed him; and Jesus was baptized by John in the Jordan. Now when all the people were baptized, and Jesus also had been baptized and was praying; when Jesus was baptized he went up directly from the water. Immediately on coming up from the water the sky was opened. He saw the heavens parting, and behold the heavens were opened to him! He saw the Spirit, the Spirit of God, descending as a dove, descending like a dove and alighting on him. The Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form as a dove on him, and a voice came out of the sky saying, You are my beloved Son, in you I am well pleased. Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased. Immediately the Spirit drove him out into the wilderness of Judea west of the Jordan, and John cried out saying, This was he of whom I said, He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me. Jesus full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan westward. And then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And he was there in the wilderness for forty days. He fasted forty days and forty nights, being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals; tempted by the devil; and he ate nothing in those days. When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, when they were completed, he was hungry afterward; he was hungry. The devil said to him, If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread. Jesus answered him saying, It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God. The devil leading him up on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. The devil said to him, I will give you all this authority and their glory, for it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whomever I want. If you therefore will worship before me, it will all be yours. Jesus answered him, Get behind me Satan! For it is written, You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only. He led him to Jerusalem and set him on the pinnacle of the Temple, and said to him, If you are the Son of God, cast yourself down from here, for it is written, He will put his angels in charge of you to guard you; and On their hands they will bear you up "lest perhaps you dash your foot against a stone". Jesus answering said to him, It has been said, You shall not test the Lord your God. The tempter came close, and said to him, If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread. But he answered, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that "pro-seeds" out of the mouth of God. Then the devil took him into the holy city. He set him on the pinnacle of the Temple and said to him, If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, He will command his angels concerning you, and On their hands they will bear you up, so that you do not dash your foot against a stone. Jesus said to him, Again, it is written, You shall not test the Lord your God. Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. He said to him, I will give you all of these things if you will fall down and worship me. Then Jesus said to him, Get behind me Satan! For it is written, You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only. Then when the devil had completed every temptation, the devil left him; he departed from him, awaiting another time. And behold, angels came and served him; and the angels were serving him. To which of the angels did he say at any time, You are my Son, today I have become your father, and again, I will be to him a Father and he will be to me a Son. When he again brings in the firstborn into the world he says, Let all the angels of God worship him. Of the angels he says, He makes his angels powerful winds, and his servants a flame of fire. But of the Son he says, Your throne O God is forever and ever. The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom. You have loved righteousness and hated iniquity; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows, and, "Hew" Lord "in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth". The heavens are the works of your hands. They will perish, but you continue. They all will grow old like a "garment-does". You will roll them up like a mantle and they will be changed; but you are the same, your years will not fail. But which of the angels has he told at any time, Sit at my right hand, to the day I make your enemies the footstool of your feet. Are they not all serving spirits sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation"? And behold, angels came and served him; and the angels were serving him. And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee. Click here to go to the next page.	normal print text

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narrative form Reading time 2 hours and 8 minutes Now this is John’s testimony, when the Jews sent priests and "Lee-vytes" from Jerusalem to ask him, Who are you? he declared and did not deny, but he declared I am not the Christ. They asked him, What then, are you Elijah”? He said I am not. Are you the Prophet. He answered No. (They asked this because it is written, Moses said, The LORD your God will raise up to you a Prophet from among you of your brethren like "Meegh". You shall listen to him. This is according to all that you desired of the LORD your God in Horeb, in the day of the Assembly, saying Let me not hear again the LORD my God’s voice, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I "not-digh". The LORD said to me, They have well said that which they have spoken. I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren "like-Yew". I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him. It shall happen that whoever will not listen to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will "require-it" of him.) They "said" therefore to him: Who "argh" you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself? He said: I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness Make straight the way of the Lord, as Isaiah the prophet said. The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees. They asked him, Why then do you baptize if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet. John answered them, I baptize with water, but among you stands one whom you do not know. He is the one who comes after me who is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to loosen. These things were done in Bethany beyond the Jordan where John was baptizing. The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him and said, Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! This is he of whom I said, After me comes a man who is preferred before me, for he was before me. I did not know him, but for this reason I came baptizing with water: that he would be revealed to Israel. And John testified saying, I have seen the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven, and it remained on him. I did not recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, On whomever you will see the Spirit descending and remaining on him, is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit. I have seen, and have testified that this is the Son of God. Again, the next day, John was standing with two of his followers his disciples, and he looked at Jesus as he walked and said, Behold: "the Lamb-of-God"! The two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus. Jesus turned and saw them following, and said to them, What are you "looking-for". They said to him, Rabbi (which is to say being interpreted Teacher), where are you staying? He said to them, Come and see. They came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about the tenth hour (which is about four o'clock in the afternoon, sixteen hundred hours military time). One of the two who heard John and followed him was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother. He first found his own brother Simon and said to him, We have found the "Messighyuh"! which is being interpreted "Christ". Anointed. He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, You are Simon the son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas (which means Peter, being interpreted: "Rock". For both Cephas or "Keppas" in Aramaic and Peter in Greek mean "Rock", or "Stone"). On the next day, he was determined to go out into Galilee, and he found Philip. Jesus said to him, Follow me. Now Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter. Philip found "Nuhthaniel", and said to him, We have found him of whom Moses in the law and the prophets wrote: Jesus of Nazareth the son of Joseph. "Nuhthaniel" said to him, Can any good thing come out of Nazareth”? Philip said to him, Come and see. Jesus saw "Nuhthaniel" coming to him and said about him, Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit! "Nuhthaniel" said to him, How do you know me? Jesus answered him, Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you. "Nuhthaniel" answered him, Rabbi, you are the Son of God, you are King of Israel! Jesus answered him, Because I told you I saw you underneath the fig tree, do you believe"? You will see greater things than these! And He said to him, Most certainly I tell you all, hereafter you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man. According to tradition, "Nuhthaniel" is the apostle Bartholomew, which is interpreted son of "Tola-meuss". The third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee. Jesus’s mother was there. Jesus also was invited with his followers his disciples to the wedding: Jesus, Peter, John, Andrew, Philip, and "Nuhthaniel", six. When the wine ran out, Jesus’s mother said to him, They have no wine. (Now no more wine for the marriage feast would shame and disgrace the bridegroom the bride and their families. Remember the word that Isaiah spoke, that his virgin mother would conceive and bear a son and call him Emmanuel, which means, "God with-us". She therefore interceded for them, in saying to Jesus They have no wine.) Jesus said to her, Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come. His mother said to the servants, Whatever he says to you, do it. Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews’ way of purifying, containing two or three firkins or "mettre-tess" apiece, each holding twenty or thirty gallons, a total volume of one hundred twenty to one hundred eighty gallons. Jesus said to them, Fill the water pots with water. So they filled them up to the brim. He said to them, Now draw some out, and take it to the ruler of the feast. So they "took-it". When the ruler of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the ruler of the feast called the bridegroom and said to him, Everyone serves the good wine first, and when the guests have drunk freely, then that which is worse. You have kept the good wine "too-Now". This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him. After this, he went down to "Cap Earnnay-um", he, and his mother, his brethren, and his disciples; and they stayed there a few days. The Passover of the Jews called Unleavened Bread was at hand, the eight days of the festival of Unleavened Bread called Passover, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. He found in the Temple those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, and the changers of money sitting. He made a whip of cords, and threw all out of the Temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he "poured-out" the changers’ money and overthrew their tables. To those who sold the doves he said, Take these things out of here, do not make my Father’s house a marketplace! His disciples remembered that it was written, Zeal for your house will eat me up. The Jews therefore answered him, What sign do you show us, seeing that you do these things? Jesus answered them, Destroy this Temple, and in three days I will raise it up. The Jews therefore said, It took forty-six years to build this Temple! Will you "raise-it-up" in three days”? But he spoke of the Temple of his body. When therefore he was raised from the dead, his followers his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had said. Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did. But Jesus did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people everywhere, and because he did not need for anyone to testify concerning mankind; for he himself knew what was in man. Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. The same came to him by night, and said to him, Rabbi, we know that you are a Teacher come from God, for "no-one" can do these signs that "you doo", unless God is with him. Jesus answered him, Most certainly I tell you, unless one is "born-anew", he cannot see "God’s-Kingdom". Nicodemus said to him, How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born”? Jesus answered, Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he cannot enter into "God’s-Kingdom". That which is born of the flesh is flesh, That which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, You must be "born-anew". The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit. Nicodemus answered him, How can "these things-Beegh"? Jesus answered him, You are the Teacher of Israel, and do not "under stand-these-things"? Most certainly I tell you, "We speak" that which We know, and testify of that which We have seen, and you do not receive Our witness. If I told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you "heavenly" things? After these things, Jesus came with his disciples, Peter "Rock", John, Andrew, Philip, and "Nuhthaniel", into the land of Judea. He stayed there with them and baptized. John also was baptizing in "E-non" near Salim, because there was much water there. They came and were baptized; for John was not yet thrown into prison. Therefore a dispute arose on the part of John’s followers with some Jews about purification. They came to John and said to him, Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan to whom you have testified, behold, he baptizes and everyone is coming to him. John answered, A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven. You yourselves testify that I said I am not the Christ but I have been sent before him. He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. This my joy therefore is made full. "He-must-increase", but I must decrease. But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for "Her-roadias" his brother’s wife, and for all the evil things which Herod had done, added this also to them all, that he shut up John in prison. For Herod himself had sent out and arrested John and bound him and put him in prison for the sake of "Her-roadias" his brother Philip’s wife. For John said to him It is not lawful for you to have her; for he had married her. For John said to Herod, It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife. When Herod would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet. "Her-roadias" set herself against him and desired to kill him, but she could not, for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and kept him safe. When he heard him, he did many things, and he heard him gladly. Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more followers more disciples than John (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but his disciples), when Jesus heard that John was delivered up, he left Judea and departed into Galilee. He needed to pass through Samaria. So he came to a city of Samaria called "Sigh-car", near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. As it is written, I have given to you one portion above your brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my "bowe". Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. for his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. It was about the sixth hour of the day, about noon, twelve hundred hours military time. A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, Give me a drink. The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, How is it "that yew", being a Jew, ask for a drink from "meegh", a Samaritan woman. (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) Jesus answered her, If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you Give me a drink, you would have "asked hymn", and he would have given you living water. The woman said to him, Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. So where do you get that living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as did his children and his livestock"? Jesus answered her, Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him, will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him, will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life. The woman said to him, Sir, give me this water, so that I do not get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw. Jesus said to her, "Go call your husband and come here. The woman answered, "I have" no husband. Jesus said to her, You said well I have no husband, for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly. The woman said to him, Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship. Jesus said to her, Woman believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. You worship that which you do not know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews. But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshipers. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth. The woman said to him, I know that "Messighyuh" comes, he who is called Christ, the Anointed. When he has come, he will declare to us all things. Jesus said to her, I AM: The one who speaks to you. At this, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet "no-one" said What are you looking for, or Why do you speak with her. So the woman left her water pot, went away into the city, and said to the people, Come, see a man who told me everything that I did. Can this be the Christ”? They went out of the city and were coming to him. In the meanwhile, the disciples urged him saying, "Rabbi. Eat". But he said to them, I have food to eat that you do not know. The disciples therefore said to one another, Has anyone brought him something to eat”? Jesus said to them, My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work. Do you not say There are yet four months before the harvest"? Behold, I tell you lift up your eyes and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already. He who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. For in this the saying is true, One "sews" and another reaps. I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor. From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman who testified, He told me everything that I did. So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed there "two-Days". Many more believed because of his word. They said to the woman, Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world. After the two days, he went out from there and went into Galilee. Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee. He withdrew into Galilee, for Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country. So when he came into Galilee the Galileans received him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast, for they also went to the feast. Jesus came therefore again to Cana of Galilee where he made the water into wine. There was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at "Cap Ernay-um", a full two-day's journey from Cana, more than twenty-six miles. When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and begged him that he would come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. Jesus therefore said to him, Unless you see signs and wonders, you will in no way believe. The nobleman said to him, Sir, come down before my child dies. Jesus said to him, "Go-your-way", your son "livs". The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way. As he was now going down, the next day his servants met him and reported saying, Your child "livs!" So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. They said therefore to him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him. The seventh hour is one o'clock in the afternoon, thirteen hundred hours military time. So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, Your son "livs". He believed, as did his whole house. This is again the second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judea into Galilee. And news about him spread through all the surrounding area. He Taught in their synagogues being glorified by all. Now after John was taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee preaching the Proclamation of God’s Kingdom, and saying, The time is fulfilled, and God’s Kingdom is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Proclamation. He came to Nazareth where he had been brought up. He entered as was his custom into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read. The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. He opened the scroll, and found the place where it was written, The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach the Proclamation to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed, and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord. He closed the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on him. He began to tell them, "Too Day", this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing. All testified about him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth, and they said, Is this not Joseph’s son”? He said to them, Doubtless you will tell me this parable, Physician heal yourself, Whatever we have heard done at "Cap Ernay-um", do also here in "your-home Town". He said, Most certainly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable in "his-home Town". But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land. Elijah was sent to none of them, except to "Zerrephaath" in the land of Sidon to a woman who was a widow. There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed except "Nay-am-man" the Syrian. They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue as they heard these things. They "rose-up", threw him out of the city, and led him up to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff. But he, passing through the middle of them went his way. The greatest among them did not grasp him, they could not hold him. Leaving Nazareth he came down to "Cap Ernay-um" a city of Galilee, and lived in "Cap Ernay-um" which is by the sea in the region of Zebulun and "Naphta-lie", that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet saying, The land of Zebulun and the land of "Naphta-lie" toward the sea beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles, the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, to those who sat in the region and shadow of death. "To-Thihm", light has dawned. From that time, Jesus began to preach and to say, Repent, For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. He was Teaching them on the Sabbath day, and they were astonished at his Teaching, for his word was with authority. Passing along by the sea of Galilee, walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon, and Andrew the brother of Simon, two brethren: Simon who is called Peter and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen. He, Jesus, said to them, Come after me, and I will make you into fishers for men. Immediately they left their nets, they immediately left their nets and followed him. Going on a little farther from there, he saw two other brethren, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, who were also in the boat mending the nets; James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father mending their nets. Immediately he called them, and immediately they left the boat and their father; they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired servants, and went after him, and followed him. They went into "Cap Ernay-um", and immediately on the Sabbath day he entered into the synagogue and Taught. They were astonished at his Teaching, for he Taught them as having authority, and not as the scribes. Immediately there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; in the synagogue there was a man who had a spirit of an unclean demon, according to what is written, To the pure all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled. They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work; and he cried out with a loud voice saying, "Aah", what have we to do with you Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are: the Holy One of God! Jesus rebuked him saying “Be silent and come out of him! When the demon had thrown him down in the middle of them, convulsing him and crying with a loud voice, he, the unclean spirit came out of him having done him no harm. They were all amazed so that they questioned among themselves saying, What "is this": A new Teaching"? For with authority he commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him! Amazement came on all, and they spoke together one with another saying, What is this "Whirred". for with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out. The report of him went out immediately everywhere. News about him went out into every place of the surrounding region, into all the region of Galilee and its surrounding area. Immediately he rose up from the synagogue, and when they had come out of the synagogue they came and entered into Simon’s house, the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. (The house was next door to the synagogue.) Now Simon’s wife’s mother lay sick with a fever, and immediately they told him about her: Simon’s mother-in-law was afflicted with a great fever, and they begged him for her. He came and stood over her and rebuked the fever, and took her by the hand and raised her up; and it left her, the fever "left-her". Immediately she rose up, and she served them. When the sun was setting, at evening when the sun had set, all those who had any sick with various diseases brought them to him; they brought to him all who were sick, and those who were possessed by demons. All the city was gathered together at the door. He healed many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons, and he laid his hands on every one of them and healed them. Demons also came out of many, crying out and saying, You are the Christ, the Son of God! Rebuking them, he did not allow the demons to speak, because they knew him. He did not allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ, the Anointed One of God. Early in the morning while it was still dark, he rose up; and when it was day, he departed and went out into an uninhabited place, a deserted place, and prayed there. Simon and those who were with him searched for him. They found him and told him, Everyone is looking for you. He said to them, Let us go elsewhere into the next towns that I may preach there also, because I came out for this reason. And the multitudes looked for him, and came to him, and held on to him, so that he would not go away from them. But he said to them, I must preach the Proclamation of God’s Kingdom to the other cities also. For this reason I have been sent. He went into their synagogues throughout all Galilee, preaching and casting out demons. He was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee. Jesus went about in all Galilee, Teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Proclamation of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people. The report about him went out into all Syria. They brought to him all who were sick, afflicted with various diseases and "torements", possessed with demons, epileptics, and paralytics; and he healed them. While he was in one of the cities, a leper came to him begging him, kneeling down to him and saying to him, If you "will-to-do it", you can make me clean. Being moved with compassion, he stretched out his hand and touched him, and said to him, I "will-to-do it", be made clean. When he had said this, immediately the leprosy departed from him and he was made clean. He strictly warned him and immediately sent him out and said to him, See you say nothing to anyone, but go show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing the things which Moses commanded for a testimony to them. But he went out and began to proclaim it much, and to spread the matter all about, so that Jesus could no more openly enter into a city, but was outside in desert places, in deserted places. People came to him from everywhere. Great multitudes from Galilee, "De-cappo-lis", Jerusalem, Judea and from beyond the Jordan followed him. Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his followers his disciples came to him. He opened his mouth and Taught them saying, Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. Blessed are the "peace makers", for they shall be called children of God. Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for "my-sake". Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you. You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men. You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do you light a lamp and put it under a measuring basket, but on a stand; and it shines to all who are in the house. Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven. Do not think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. For most certainly I tell you, before heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, before all things are accomplished. Whoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments and Teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and Teach them, shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven. For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, You shall not murder; and Whoever murders will be in danger of the judgment. But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause, will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, Raca! will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, You fool! will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna. If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there, remember that your brother has anything against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. Agree with your adversary quickly while you are with him on the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison. Most certainly I tell you, you shall by no means get out of there before you have paid the last penny. You have heard that it was said, You shall not commit adultery; but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her, has committed adultery with her already in his heart. If your right eye causes you to falter, pluck it out, and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna. If your right hand causes you to falter, cut it off, and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna. It was also said, Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce, but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away, commits adultery. Again you have heard that it was said to the "ancient-ones", You shall not make false vows, but shall perform to the Lord your vows, but I tell you, do not swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God; nor by the earth, for it is the footstool of his feet; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King. Neither shall you swear by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black. But let your Yes be Yes, and your No be No. Whatever is more than these is of the evil one. You have heard that it was said, An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. But I tell you, do not resist him who is evil; but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also. If anyone sues you to take away your coat, let him have your cloak also. Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two. Give to him who asks you, and do not turn away him who desires to borrow from you. You have heard that it was said, You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy. But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you, that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same"? If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Do not even the tax collectors do the same"? Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect. Be careful that you do not do your charitable alms-giving before men to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. Therefore when you "Dew" merciful deeds, do not sound a trumpet before yourself as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward. But when you "Dew" merciful deeds, do not let your left hand know what your right hand does, so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward. But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. In praying, do not use vain repetitions as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking. Therefore do not be like them, for your Father knows what things you need before you ask him. Pray like this: Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. Let your Kingdom come, Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors. Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one, amen. For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive "your-trespasses". Moreover, when you fast, do not be like the hypocrites with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward. But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face; so that you are not seen by men to be fasting, but by your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you. It is more blessed to give than to receive. Do not lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves do not break through and steal; for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. The lamp of the body is "thee yigh". If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness! "No-one" can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Mammon. Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious for your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Is life not more than food, and the body more than clothing? See the birds of the sky that they "do-not so", neither do they reap nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of much more value than they? Which of you by being anxious can add one moment to his lifespan? Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field how they grow. They do not toil neither do they spin, yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like "one-of theez". But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more "clothe-ewe", you of little faith? Therefore do not be anxious saying, What will we eat, What will we drink, or With what will we be clothed? For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient. Do not condemn, so that you will not be condemned. For with whatever condemnation you condemn, "ewe" will be condemned; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to "ewe". Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the wooden beam that is in your own "Aye"? Or how will you tell your brother, Let me remove the speck from your eye; and behold, the beam is in your own "Aye"? You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother’s "Aye". Do not give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces. Ask, and it will be given you: Seek, and you will find: Knock, and it will be opened for you. For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened. Or who is there among you who if his son asks him for bread will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish who will give him a serpent? If you then being evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him! Therefore whatever you desire for men to "do-to-yew", you shall also do to "Thimb"; for this is the law and the prophets. Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are "those-who-enter-in bye it". How narrow is the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are those who "find-it". Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves. By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns? or figs from thistles? Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit. A good tree cannot produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit. Every tree that does not grow good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore by their fruits "you-will-know-them". Not everyone who says to me Lord, Lord, will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will tell me in that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works? Then I will tell them, "I -never-knew" you. "Depart" from me "yew" who work iniquity. Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on a rock. The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. Everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, and it fell. And great was its fall. When Jesus had finished saying these things, the multitudes were astonished at his Teaching, for he Taught them with authority, and not like the scribes. When he came down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him. Behold, a leper came to him and worshiped him, saying, Lord, if you "will-to-do-it", you can make me clean. Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, I "will-to-do-it": Be made clean. Immediately his leprosy was cleansed. Jesus said to him, See that you tell "no-one", but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded as a testimony to them. When he entered again into "Cap Ernay-um" after some days, when he came into "Cap Ernay-um", a centurion came to him asking him, and saying Lord, my servant lies in the house paralyzed, grievously tormented. Jesus said to him, I will come and heal him. The centurion answered, Lord, I am not worthy for you to come under my roof. Just say the word and my servant will be healed. For I am also a man under authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell this one, "Goe", and he goes; and tell another, Come, and he comes; and tell my servant, Do this, and he "duzzit”. When Jesus heard it he marveled, and said to those who followed, Most certainly I tell you, I have not found so great a faith, not even in Israel. I tell you that many will come from the east and the west, and will sit down with Abraham Isaac and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven, but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Jesus said to the centurion, "Go-your-way". Let it be done for you as you have believed. His servant was healed in that hour. When Jesus came into Peter’s house, he saw his wife’s mother lying sick with a fever. He touched her hand, and the fever "lefther". She got up and served him. When evening came, they brought to him many possessed with demons. He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet saying, He took our infirmities, and bore our diseases. Now while the multitude pressed on him and heard the word of God, he was standing by the lake of "Ghen-nessaret", the lake of Galilee. He saw two boats standing by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets. He entered into one of the boats which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little from the land. He sat down and Taught the multitudes from the boat. When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, "Put out into the deep" and let down your nets for a catch. Simon answered him, Master, we worked all night and took nothing; but at your word I will let down the net. When they had done this, they caught a great multitude of fish, and their net was breaking. They beckoned to their partners in the other boat that they should come and help them. They came and filled both boats, so that they began to sink. But Simon Peter when he saw it, fell down at Jesus’s knees saying, Depart from me, for I am a sinful "man O-Lord". For he was amazed and all who were with him at the catch of fish which they had caught; and so also were James and John "sons of Zebedee" who were partners with Simon. Jesus said to Simon, Do not be afraid, from now on you will be catching people alive. When they had brought their boats to land, they left everything and followed him. A scribe came and said to him, Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go. Jesus said to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head. Another of his followers said to him, Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father. But Jesus said to him, Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead. When he got into a boat, his disciples followed him. Behold, a violent storm came up on the sea, so much that the boat was covered with the waves, but he was asleep. They came to him and woke him up, saying "Save-us" Lord, We are dying! He said to them, "Why" are you "fearful": O "yew" of little "faith". Then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm. The men marveled, saying What kind of man is this: that even the wind and the sea obey him? When he came to the other side into the country of the "Gherga-seens", two people possessed by demons met him there, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that "no-one" could pass that way. Behold, they cried out saying What do we have to do with "yew Jesus", Son of God: Have you come here to torment us before the time"? Now there was a herd of many pigs feeding far away from them. The demons begged him saying, If you cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of pigs. He said to them: “Ghogh!” They came out and went into the herd of pigs: and behold, the whole herd of pigs rushed down the cliff into the sea and died in the water. "Those who fed them fled" and went away into the city and told everything, including what happened to those who were possessed with demons. Behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus. When they saw him, they begged that he would depart from their borders. He entered into a boat and crossed over, and came into his own city. Behold, they brought to him a man who was "parralyzed" lying on a bed. Jesus seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, Son, cheer up, Your sins are forgiven you. Behold some of the scribes said to themselves, This man "blass Feams". Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Why do you think "evil" in your hearts. For which is easier, To say your sins are forgiven, or to say Get up and "walk". But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins (then he said to the paralytic), Get up, and take up your mat, "and go to your" house. He arose, and departed to his house. But when the multitudes saw it they marveled, and glorified God who had given such authority to men. As Jesus passed by from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax collection post, the tax station. He said to him, Follow me. He got up and followed him. As he sat in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his followers. When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his followers his disciples, Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners? When Jesus heard it, he said to them, Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick "dew". But you, go and learn what this means: I desire mercy and not sacrifice, for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. It was heard that he was in the house. Immediately many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even around the door; and he spoke the word to them. Four people came carrying a paralytic to him. When they could not come near to him for the crowd, they removed the roof where he was. When they had broken it up, they let down the mat that the paralytic was lying on. Jesus seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, Son, your sins are forgiven you. But there were some of the scribes sitting there and reasoning in their hearts, Why does this man speak blasphemies "like that". Who can forgive sins but God alone. Immediately Jesus perceiving in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, said to them, Why do you reason these things in your hearts? Which is easier, to tell the paralytic Your sins are forgiven, or to say, Arise and take up your bed and walk. But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins: he said to the paralytic, I tell you, Arise, take up your mat, "and go to your" house. He arose, and immediately took up the mat, and went out in front of them all; so that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying We never saw "anything like this"! On one of those days, he was Teaching, and there were Pharisees and Teachers of the law sitting by, who had come out of every village of Galilee, Judea and Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was with him to heal them. Behold, men brought a paralyzed man on a cot, and they sought to "bring-him in" to lay before Jesus. Not finding a way to bring him in because of the multitude, they went up to the housetop, and let him down through the tiles with his cot, into the middle before Jesus. Seeing their faith, he said to him, Man, your sins are forgiven you. The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying "Who-is this" that speaks blasphemies. "Who-can-forgive sins" but God alone. But Jesus perceiving their thoughts answered them, Why are you reasoning so in your hearts? Which is easier to say, Your sins are forgiven you, or to say, Arise and walk. But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins (he said to the paralyzed man), I tell you, Arise, take up your cot, and go to your house. Immediately he rose up before them, and took up that which he was laying on and departed to his house, glorifying God. Amazement took hold on all, and they glorified God. They were filled with fear saying, We have seen "strange-things" today. After these things, He went out again by the seaside. All the multitude came to him, and he Taught them. And as he passed by, he saw a tax collector named Levi the son of Alphaeus (the same name as the father of James the son of Alphaeus), sitting at the tax post. And he said to him, Follow me. And he arose and followed him; he left everything, and rose up and followed him. Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them. Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples saying, Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners? Jesus answered them, Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick "dew". I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. They said to him, Why do John’s disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink. He said to them, Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them"? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they will "fast-in-those-days". He also told a parable to them. "No-one" puts a piece from a new garment on an old garment, or else he will "tair" the new, and also the piece from the new will not match the old. "No-one" puts new wine into old "wine skins", or else the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed. But new wine must be put into fresh "wine skins", and both are preserved. No man having drunk old wine immediately desires new, for he says The old is better. John’s followers and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came and asked him, Why do John’s followers and the followers of the Pharisees fast, but "your-followers" do not fast. Jesus said to them, Can the groomsmen fast while the bridegroom is with them"? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day. "No-one" sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, or else the patch shrinks and the new "tairs" away from the old, and a worse hole is made. "No-one" puts new wine into old "wine skins", or else the new wine will burst the skins, and the wine "pours-out", and the skins will be destroyed; but they put new wine into fresh "wine skins". Then John’s disciples came to him saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but "your-disciples" do not fast. Jesus said to them, Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them"? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast. "No-one" puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch would "tair" away from the garment, and a worse hole is made. Neither do people put new wine into old wine skins, or else the skins would burst, and the wine be spilled, and the skins ruined. No, they put new wine into fresh wine skins, and both are preserved. While he told these things to them, behold, a ruler came and worshiped him saying, My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand on her, and she will "liv". Jesus got up and followed him, as did his disciples. Behold, a woman who had a discharge of blood for twelve years came behind him and touched the fringe of his garment; for she said within herself, If I just touch his garment, I will be made well. But Jesus turning around and seeing her, said, Daughter "cheer-up", Your faith has made you well. And the woman was made well from that hour. When Jesus came into the ruler’s house and saw the flute players and the crowd in noisy disorder, he said to them, Make "hroom", because the girl is not dead, but sleeping. They were ridiculing him. But when the crowd was put out, he entered in, took her by the hand, and the girl arose. The report of this went out into all that land. As Jesus passed by from there, two blind men followed him, calling out and saying Have "mercy-on-us" "Son-of-David"! When he had come into the house, the blind men came to him. Jesus said to them, Do you believe that I am able to do this? They told him Yes Lord. Then he touched their eyes saying, According to your faith be it done to you. Their eyes were opened. Jesus strictly commanded them saying, See that "no-one" knows about this. But they went out and spread abroad his fame in all that land. As they went out, behold, a mute man who was demon possessed was brought to him. When the demon was cast out, the mute man spoke. The multitudes marveled saying, Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel! But the Pharisees said, By the prince of the demons he casts out demons. Jesus went about all the cities and the villages, Teaching in their synagogues and preaching the Proclamation of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people. But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his followers, The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Pray therefore that the Lord of the harvest will send out laborers into his harvest. He was going on the Sabbath day through the grainfields, and his followers his disciples began as they went, to pluck the ears of grain. The Pharisees said to him, Behold, why do they do that which is not lawful on the Sabbath day? He said to them, Did you never read what David did, when he had need and was hungry, he and "those-who-were-with-him”? How he entered into God’s house at the time of "Ab-bye-yathar" the high priest and ate the "show" bread, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests, and gave also to those who were with him. He said to them, The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. Therefore the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath. He entered again into the synagogue, and there was a man there who had his hand withered. They watched him, whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse him. He said to the man who had his hand withered, Stand up. He said to them, Is it lawful on the Sabbath day to do good"? or to do harm. To save a life"? or to kill. But they were silent. When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, Stretch out your hand. He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other. The Pharisees went out, and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him. (The Pharisees and the Herodians previously had no dealings with each other; the Pharisees hated the Herodians, and the Herodians despised the Pharisees.) Now on the second Sabbath after the first, he was going through the grain fields. His disciples plucked the heads of grain and ate, rubbing them in their hands. But some of the Pharisees said to them, Why do you do that which is not lawful to do on the Sabbath day? Jesus answering them said, Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, he and "those-who-were-with-him”? How he entered into God’s house, and took and ate the "show" bread, and gave also to those who were with him, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests alone. He said to them, The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath. It also happened on another Sabbath that he entered into the synagogue and Taught. There was a man there, and his right hand was withered. The scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, that they might find an accusation against him. But he knew their thoughts; and he said to the man who had the withered hand, Rise up, and stand in the middle. He arose, and stood. Then Jesus said to them, I will ask you something: Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good"? or to do harm. To save a life"? or to kill. He looked around at them all, and said to the man, Stretch out your hand. He did, and his hand was restored as sound as the other. But they were filled with rage, and talked with one another about what they might do to Jesus. For he was exposing their lack of compassion. Jesus withdrew to the sea with his disciples, and a great multitude followed him from Galilee, from Judea, from Jerusalem, from Idumaea, beyond the Jordan, and those from around Tyre and Sidon. A great "multitude" hearing what great things he did "came to him". He spoke to his followers that a little boat should stay near him because of the crowd, so that they would not press on him. For he had healed many, so that as many as had diseases pressed on him that they might touch him. The unclean spirits "whenever they saw him" fell down before him and cried, You are the "Son of-God"! He sternly warned them that they should not make him known. After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now in Jerusalem by the sheep gate there is a pool, which is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porticoes. In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water; for an angel went down at certain times into the pool and stirred up the water. Whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was healed of whatever disease he had. A certain man was there who had been sick for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been sick for a long time, he asked him, Do you want to be "made-well”? The sick man answered him, Sir, I have "no-one" to put me into the pool "when the water is stirred up", but while I am coming, "another" steps down before me. Jesus said to him, Arise, take up your mat and walk. Immediately the man was made well, and took up his mat, and walked. Now it was the Sabbath on that day. So the Jews said to him who was cured, It is the Sabbath, it is not lawful for you to carry the mat. (They said this according to their interpretation of what is written in the law of Moses, Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. You shall labor six days, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. The Pharisees had added to this word by declaring that healing is work, and the merest lifting or carrying of anything "however light the burden" is called work.) He answered them, "He who made me well" said to me, Take up your mat and walk. Then they asked him, "Who is-the-man" who said to you, Take up your mat and walk. But he who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had "withdrawn", a crowd being in the place. Afterward, Jesus found him in the Temple and said to him, Behold, you are made well. "Sin no more" so that nothing worse happens to you. The man went "away" and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well. For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath. But Jesus answered them, My Father is still working, so I am working too. For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God. Jesus therefore answered them, Most certainly I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise. For the Father has affection for the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does. He will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel. For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires. For the Father judges "no-one", but he has given all judgment to the Son, that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son, does not honor the Father who sent him. Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life. Most certainly I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God’s voice; and those who hear will "liv". For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself. He also gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man. Do not marvel at this, for the hour comes in which all who are in the tombs will hear his voice, and will "come-out". those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment. I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I do not seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me. If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid. It is another who testifies about me. I know that the testimony which he testifies about me is true. You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth. "But the testimony which Ighe receive", is not from man. However, I say these things that you may be saved. He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light. But the testimony which I have, is greater than that of John, for the works which the Father gave me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me. The Father himself who sent me has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time nor seen his form. You do not have his word living in you; because you do not believe him whom he sent. You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal "life"; and these are they which testify about me. Yet you will not come to me that you may have "life". I do not receive glory from men. But I know you, that you do not have God’s love in yourselves. I have come in my Father’s name and you do not receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive "hymn". "How" can you "believe", who receive glory from one another, and you do not seek the glory that comes from the only God. Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope. For if you believed Moses, you would believe "Mee"; for he wrote about me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words? After these things, Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee, also called the Sea of Tiberias. A great multitude followed him because they saw his signs which he did on those who were sick. In these days he went out into the hills to pray; and all night he continued in prayer to God. When it was day, he called his followers. Jesus went up into the mountain, He went up into the mountain, and called to himself those whom he wanted, and they went to him, and he sat there with his disciples. And from them he chose twelve, whom he also named apostles. Simon whom he also named Peter, Rock. Andrew his brother; James; John; Philip; Bartholomew; Matthew; Thomas; James the son of Alphaeus; Simon who was called the Zealot; Judas the son of James; and Judas "Isscariot", who also became a traitor. He appointed twelve, that they might be with him, and that he might send them out to preach and to have authority to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons. Simon (to whom he gave the name Peter, Rock). James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James, (whom he called "Bo-ann-ergees", which means Sons of Thunder). Andrew; Philip; Bartholomew; Matthew; Thomas; James the son of Alphaeus; Thaddaeus; Simon the Zealot; and Judas "Isscariot" who also betrayed him. He came down with them and stood on a level place with a crowd of his followers his disciples, and a great number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; as well as those who were troubled by unclean spirits, and they were being healed. All the multitude sought to touch him, for power came out of him and healed them all. He lifted up his eyes to his disciples and said, Blessed are you who are poor, God’s Kingdom is yours. Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh. Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude and mock you and throw out your name as evil for the Son of Man’s sake. Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets. But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation. Woe to you, you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep. "Whoa": when men speak well of you, for their fathers did the same thing to the false prophets. But I tell "Yew" who "hear": love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you. To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer also the other; and from him who takes away your cloak, do not withhold your coat also. Give to everyone who asks you, and do not ask him who takes away your goods to give them "back" again. It is more blessed to give than to receive. As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to "Thimb". If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love "Thimb". If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. If you lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners to receive back as much. But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil. Therefore be merciful even as your Father is also merciful. Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free. Give, and it will be given to you: "good-measure" pressed down shaken together and running over will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure, it will be measured back to you. He spoke a parable to them. Can the blind guide the blind? Will they not both fall into a pit? A disciple is not above his Teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his Teacher. Why do you see the speck of chaff that is in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the wooden beam that is in your "own-Aye"? Or how can you tell your brother, Brother, let me remove the speck of chaff that is in your eye, when you yourself do not see the beam that is in your "own-Aye"? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck of chaff that is in your "brother’s-Aye". For there is no good tree that "pro-deuces" rotten fruit; nor again a rotten tree that "pro-deuces" good fruit. For each tree is known by its own fruit. For people do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush. The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks. Why do you call me Lord, Lord, and do not do the things which I say? Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, I will show you who he is like. He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid a foundation on the rock. When a flood arose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake it, because it was founded on the rock. But he who hears, and does not do, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great. After he had finished speaking in the hearing of the people, he entered into "Cap Ernay-um". Then he came into a house. A certain centurion’s servant who was dear to him, was sick and at the point of death. When he heard about Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking him to come and save his servant. When they came to Jesus, they begged him earnestly saying, He is worthy for you to do this for him, for he loves our nation, and he built our synagogue for us. Jesus went with them. When he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him saying to him, Lord, do not trouble yourself, for I am not worthy for you to come under my roof. Therefore I did not even think myself worthy to come to you; but say the word, and my servant will be healed. For I also am a man placed under authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell this one, "Ghogh", and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my servant, Do this, and he "duzzit". When Jesus heard these things, he marveled at him and turned and said to the multitude who followed him, I tell you, I have not found such great faith, no not in Israel. Those who were sent, returning to the house, found that the servant who had been sick was well. Soon afterward, he went to a city called "Nayyin". Many of his disciples along with a great multitude went with him. Now when he came near to the gate of the city, behold, one who was dead was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. Many people of the city were "withher". When the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said to her, Do not cry. He came near and touched the bier, and the bearers stood still. He said, Young man, I tell you, arise! He who was dead sat up and began to speak, and he gave him to his mother. Fear took hold of all, and they glorified God, saying, A great prophet has arisen among us, and God has visited his people! This report went out concerning him in the whole of Judea, and in all the surrounding region. The followers of John told him about all these things. John, calling to himself two of his followers, sent them to Jesus, saying, Are you the one who is "coming", or should we look for another? When the men had come to him, they said John the Baptizer has sent us to you saying, Are you he who comes, or should we look for another? In that hour he cured many of diseases and plagues and evil spirits; and to many who were blind he gave sight. Jesus answered them, Go and tell John the things which you have seen and heard: that the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the Proclamation preached to them. Blessed is he who finds no occasion for faltering in me. When John’s messengers had departed, he began to tell the multitudes about John. What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind? But what did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft clothing? Behold, those who are gorgeously dressed and live delicately are in kings' courts. But what did you go out to see? A "prof-it"? Yes I tell you, and much more than a prophet. This is he of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before your "face" who will prepare your way before you. For I tell you, among those who are born of women there is not a greater prophet than "John-the-Baptizer". Yet he who is "least" in God’s Kingdom is "greater" than he. When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they declared God to be just, having been baptized with John’s baptism. But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being baptized by him themselves. To what then should I compare the people of this generation? What are they like? They are like children who sit in the marketplace and call to one another saying, We piped to you, and you did not dance; we mourned, and you did not weep. For John the Baptizer came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say He has a demon. The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, Behold a gluttonous man and a drunkard; a friend of tax collectors and sinners! Yet "Wisdom" is justified by all her children. One of the Pharisees invited him to eat with him. He entered into the Pharisee’s house and sat at the table. Behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that he was reclining in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster jar of ointment. Standing behind at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and she wiped them with the hair of her head, kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment. Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, "This man" if he were a "prophet" would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, that she is a sinner. Jesus answered him, Simon, I have something to tell you. "He said" Teacher "say-on". A certain lender had two debtors. The one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. When they could not pay, he forgave them both. Which of them therefore will love him most? Simon answered, "Hee" I suppose "to whom he forgave the most". He said to him, You have judged correctly. Turning to the woman he said to Simon, Do you see this woman"? I entered into your house and you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head. "You gave me no kiss", but "she", since the time I "came inn" has not ceased to kiss my feet. You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment. Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But one to whom little is forgiven, loves little. He said to her, Your sins are forgiven. Those who sat at the table with him began to say to themselves, "Who is this", who even "forgives sins"? He said to the woman, Your faith has saved you. Go in peace. Soon afterward, he went about through cities and villages preaching and bringing the Proclamation of "God’s-Kingdom". With him were the twelve, and certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary who was called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out; and Joanna, the wife of "Choose-us", Herod’s steward; Susanna; and many others who served them from their possessions. When a great multitude came together, and people from every city were coming to him, he spoke by a parable. The farmer went out to "so" his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the road, and it was trampled under foot, and the birds of the sky devoured it. Other seed fell on the rock, and as soon as it grew it withered away because it had no moisture. Other fell amid the thorns, and the thorns grew with it and choked it. Other fell into the good ground and grew, and produced one hundred times as much fruit. As he said these things he called out, He who has ears to hear, let him hear! Then his disciples asked him, What does this parable mean? He said "To you it is given" to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest in parables; that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand. Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. Those along the road are those who hear, then the devil the Accuser comes and takes away the word from their heart, that they may not believe and be saved. Those on the rock are they, who when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation. That which fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity. Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance. "No-one", when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a container or puts it under a bed; but puts it on a stand, "that those who enter-inn" may "see" the light. For nothing is hidden that will not be revealed; nor anything secret that will not be known and come to light. Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever does not have, from him will be taken away even that which he thinks he has. His mother and brethren came to him, and they could not come near him for the crowd. Some people told him, Your mother and your brethren stand outside "desiring-to-see" you. But he answered them, My mother and my brethren "are-these" who hear the word of God and "dew-it". The multitude came together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread. When his own, his own friends and acquaintances heard it, they went out to seize him; for they said He is insane. (It does not say his brothers and sisters and mother; it says that his own friends his own acquaintances his own neighbors said, He is insane.) The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, He has "Beelzebull"; and By the prince of the demons he casts out the "demons". He summoned them, and said to them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan? If a kingdom is divided "against-it self", that kingdom cannot stand. If a house is divided "against-it self", that house cannot stand. If Satan has risen up "against-him self" and is divided, he "cannot stand" but has an end. But "no-one" can enter into the house of the "strong-man" to "plunder", unless he first binds the "strong-man"; then he will plunder his house. Most certainly I tell you, all sins of the descendants of man will be forgiven, including their blasphemies with which they may "blass Feam"; but whoever may "blass Feam" against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is subject to eternal condemnation. because they said He has an unclean spirit. His mother and his brethren came, and standing outside they sent to him calling him. A multitude was sitting around him and they told him, Behold, your mother your brethren and your sisters are outside looking for you. He answered them, Who are my mother and my brethren? Looking around at those who sat around him he said, Behold my mother and my brethren! For whoever does the will of God is my brother, my sister, and mother. Now on one of those days, again he began to Teach by the seaside. A great multitude was gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the sea and sat down. All the multitude were on the land by the sea. He Taught them many things in parables, and told them in his Teaching, Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow, and as he sowed some seed fell by the road, and the birds came and devoured it. Others fell on the rocky ground where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of soil. When the sun had risen it was scorched; and because it had no root it withered away. Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it and it yielded "no-fruit". Others fell into the good ground and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some produced thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much. He said, Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear. When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve "asked him about the parables". He said to them, "To yew is given" the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside all things are done in parables, that seeing they may see and not perceive; and hearing they may hear and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again: and their sins should be forgiven them. He said to them, Do you not understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables? The farmer sows the word. The ones by the road are the ones where the word is sown; and when they have heard, immediately Satan the Accuser comes and takes away the word which has been sown in them. These in the same way are those who are sown on the rocky places, who when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy. They have no root in themselves, but are "short lived". When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they falter. Others are those who are sown among the thorns. These are those who have heard the word, and the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches and the lusts of other things "entering-inn", choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. Those which were sown on the good ground are those who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times. He said to them, Is the lamp brought to be put under a basket or under a bed? Is it not put on a stand"? For there is nothing hidden except that it should be made known; neither was anything made secret but that it should come to light. If any man has ears to hear, let him hear. He said to them, Take heed what you hear. With whatever measure you measure, it will be measured "to-you", and more will be given to you who hear. For whoever has, to him more will be given, and he who does not have, "even that which he has" will be taken away from him. He said, God’s Kingdom is as if a man should cast "seed on the earth" and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, though he does not know how. For the earth bears fruit: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. But when the fruit is ripe, "immediately he puts in the sickle" because the harvest has come. He said, How will we liken God’s Kingdom, or with what parable will we "illustrate-it". It is like a grain of mustard seed, which when it is sown in the earth, though it is less important than all the seeds that are on the earth, yet when it is sown, grows up and becomes greater than all the "erbs", and puts out great branches, so that the birds of the sky can lodge under its shadow. With many such parables he spoke the word to them as they were able to hear it. Without a parable he did not speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained everything. Now on that day when evening had come, he entered into a boat, himself and his disciples and he said to them, Let us go over to the other side of the lake. Leaving the multitude, they took him with them "even as he was" in the boat. Other small boats were also with him. So they launched out. But as they sailed he fell asleep. A big wind storm arose. A wind storm came down on the lake and the waves beat into the boat, and they were taking on dangerous amounts of water, so much that the boat was already filled. He himself was "in the stern" asleep on the cushion. They came to him and awoke him saying, Master master "we-are dying": They woke him up and told him, "Teacher", do you not care that we are dying? He awoke, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water and said to the sea, Peace, Be still! and they ceased; The wind ceased and there was a great calm; it was calm. He said to them, Why are you so afraid? How is it that you have "no-faith". And he said to them, "Where-is your Faith". Being afraid they marveled, saying to one another, Who "is-this-then", that he commands even the winds and the water and they "obeyhim". They were greatly afraid, and said to one another, Who then "is-this", that even the wind and the sea "obeyhim". They came to the other side of the sea. They arrived at the country of the "Gada-reens", which is opposite Galilee. When Jesus stepped ashore, when he had come out of the boat into the country of the "Gada-reens", immediately a certain man out of the city with an unclean spirit, who had demons for a long time, met him out of the tombs. He wore no clothes and did not live in a house, but he lived in the tombs. Nobody could bind him any more, not even with chains, because he had been "often" bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him, and the fetters broken in pieces. Nobody had the strength to tame him. Always, night and day in the tombs and in the mountains he was crying out and cutting himself with stones. For the unclean spirit had often seized the man. He was kept under guard and bound with chains and fetters. Breaking the bonds apart, he was driven by the demon into the desert. When he saw Jesus from afar he "cried-out", and the man immediately began running toward him. He ran toward him and Jesus said to him, "Come out of the man" you unclean "spirit"! He immediately bowed down to him, for Jesus was commanding the "unclean-spirit" to come out of the man, for he said to him, "Come out of the man" you unclean "spirit"! Jesus commanded the "unclean-spirit" to come out. And he fell down before him, and crying out with a loud voice he said, What have I to do with "Yew" Jesus, you Son of the Most High "God": I "adjure you" by God, I beg you, do not torment me, do not torment me! Jesus asked him, What is your name? He asked him, What is your name? He said to him, My name is Legion, for we are many. He said Legion, for many demons had entered into him. He begged him much that he would not send them away out of the country. They begged him that he would not command them to go into the abyss. Now on the mountainside, "there-was-there" a great herd of many pigs feeding on the mountain, and they begged him that he would allow them to enter into "those". All the demons begged him saying, Send us into the pigs, that we may enter into "thimb". Then at once he allowed them, Jesus gave them permission. The unclean spirits came out. The demons came out of the man and entered into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake, the sea of Galilee. The herd of about two thousand rushed down the steep bank into the sea and they were drowned in the sea. When those who fed them saw what had happened, they fled. Those who fed them fled and told it in the city and in the country. People went out to see what had happened. The people came to see what it was that had happened. They came to Jesus and found the man from whom the demons had gone out, and saw him who had been possessed by demons sitting at Jesus’s feet, clothed, and in his right mind, even him who had the legion; and they were afraid. Those who saw it declared to them what happened to him who was possessed by demons, told them how he who had been possessed by demons was healed, and about the pigs. All the people of the surrounding country of the "Gada-reens" asked him to depart from them. They began to beg him to depart from their region, for they were very much afraid. As he was entering into the boat, he who had been possessed by demons begged him that he might be with him. He did not allow him, but said to him, Go to your house, to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how he had mercy on you. Then he entered into the boat. But the man from whom the demons had gone out begged him that he might go with him, but Jesus sent him away saying, Return to your house, and declare what great things God has done for you. He went his way, and began to proclaim in "De-cappo-lis" how Jesus had done great things for him, proclaiming throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done for him, and everyone marveled. When Jesus had crossed back over in the boat to the other side and returned, a great multitude was gathered to him; the multitude welcomed him for they were all waiting for him; and he was by the sea. Behold, a man named "Jye-rus came". He was a ruler of the synagogue. One of the rulers of the synagogue, "Jye-rus-by-name came"; and seeing him he fell down at Jesus’s feet. He fell at his feet and begged him to come into his house, and begged him much, saying My little daughter is at the point of death. Please come and lay your hands on her, that she may be made healthy, and live. For he had an only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was dying. He went with him, and a great multitude followed him. But as he went the multitudes pressed against him, and they pressed upon him on all sides. A certain woman who had a discharge of blood for twelve years, a woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years and had suffered many things by many physicians, who had spent all her living on physicians and could not be healed by any, and had spent all that she had and was no better, but rather grew worse. Having heard the things concerning Jesus, came up behind him in the crowd and touched his clothes, the fringe of his cloak. For she said If I just "touch his clothes" I will be made well. Immediately the flow of her blood stopped, was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction. Jesus said Who touched me. Jesus immediately perceiving in himself that the power had gone out from him, turned around in the crowd and asked, "Who-touched-my clothes". This he said to test her, for he himself knew who had touched him. His disciples said to him, You see the multitude pressing against you and you say Who touched "Meegh"? When all denied it, Peter and those with him said, Master, the multitudes press and jostle you, and you say Who touched "Meegh"? But Jesus said, Someone did touch me, for I perceived that power has gone out of me. He looked around, to "see" her who had done this thing. But when the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what had been done to her, "saw that she was not hidden", she came trembling and fell down before him and told him all the truth. Falling down before him, she declared to him in the presence of all the people the reason why she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately. He said to her, Daughter, "cheer-up": your faith has made you well. Go in peace and be cured of your disease. While he was still speaking, people came from the synagogue ruler’s house saying, Your daughter is dead, why bother the Teacher any more. While he still spoke, one from the ruler of the synagogue’s house came saying to him, Your daughter is dead, do not trouble the Teacher. But Jesus hearing it answered him, Do not be afraid. Only believe and she will be healed. Jesus when he heard the message spoken, immediately said to the ruler of the synagogue, Do not be afraid, only believe. He allowed "no-one" to follow him, except Peter, James, and John the brother of James. He came to the synagogue ruler’s house, and he saw an uproar, weeping and great wailing. When he came to the house, he did not allow anyone to "enter-inn", except Peter, John, James, the father of the child and her mother. All were weeping and mourning her, but he said, Do not weep: She is not dead but sleeping. "They-ridiculed-him". When he had "entered-inn", he said to them, Why do you make an uproar and weep? The child is not dead but is asleep. They were ridiculing him "knowing that she-was dead". But he put them all outside. he, having put them all out, took the father of the child, her mother, and those who were with him, and went in where the child was lying. Taking the child by the hand, he said to her, Talitha cumi! which means being interpreted, Girl, I tell you, get up. And taking her by the hand he called, saying "Child", arise! Her spirit returned and she rose up immediately. Immediately the girl rose up and walked, for she was twelve years old. They were amazed with great amazement. Her parents were amazed, but he commanded them to tell "no-one" what had been done. He strictly ordered them that "no-one" should know this, and commanded that something should be given to her to eat. He called to himself his twelve disciples. He called the twelve together and gave them power and authority over unclean spirits, over all demons to cast them out, and to cure diseases, to heal every disease and every sickness. He sent them out to preach God’s Kingdom and to heal the sick. He said to them, Take nothing for your journey: no staffs, nor wallet, nor bread, nor money: Do not have two coats each. Into whatever house you enter, stay there and depart from there. As many as do not receive you, when you depart from that city, shake off even the dust from your feet for a testimony against them. Now the names of the twelve apostles are these. The first, Simon who is called Peter, Rock. Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee; John his brother; Philip; Bartholomew; Thomas; Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus; Lebbaeus who was also called Thaddaeus; Simon the Canaanite; and Judas "Isscariot" who also betrayed him. Jesus sent these twelve out, and commanded them saying, Do not go among the Gentiles, and do not enter into any city of the Samaritans. Rather go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. As you go, preach. saying, The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand! Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give. Do not take any gold, silver, or brass in your money belts. Take no bag for your journey, neither two coats, nor shoes, nor staff: for the laborer is worthy of his food. Into whatever city or village you enter, find out who in it is worthy, and stay there before you go on. As you enter into the household, "greet-it". If the household is worthy let your peace come on it, but if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you. Whoever does not receive you nor hear your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake the dust off your feet. Most certainly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for that city. Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be smooth as serpents, and "harmless-as-doves". But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you. Yes, and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them, and to the nations. But when they deliver you up, do not be anxious how or what you will say, for it will be given you in that hour what you will say. For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you. Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death. You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved. But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next, for most certainly I tell you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel before the Son of Man has come. A disciple is not above his Teacher, nor a servant above his lord. It is enough for the disciple that he be like his Teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house "Beelzebull", how much more those of his household! Therefore do not be afraid of them, for there is nothing covered that will not be revealed, and hidden that will not be known. What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim on the housetops. Do not be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna. Are not two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father’s "Will". but the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Therefore do not be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows. Everyone therefore who confesses me before men, I will also confess him before my Father who is in heaven. But whoever denies me before men, I will also deny him before my Father who is in heaven. Do not think that I came to send peace on the earth. I did not come to send peace, but a sword. For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law "against her motherrin" law. A man’s foes will be those of his own household. He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. He who does not take his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me. He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it. He who receives "yew" receives "Mee". and he who receives "Mee" receives him who sent me. He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward. He who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man will receive a righteous man’s reward. Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward. When Jesus had finished directing his twelve disciples, he departed from there to Teach and preach in their cities. They departed and went throughout the villages, preaching the Proclamation, and healing everywhere. Now when John heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples and said to him, Are you he who "comes", or should we look for another? Jesus answered them, Go and tell John the things which you hear and see: the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the Proclamation preached to them. Blessed is he who finds no occasion for faltering in me. As these went their way, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John, What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind? But what did you go out to see? A man in soft clothing? Behold, those who wear soft clothing are in kings’ houses. But why did you go out. To see a "prof-it"? Yes I tell you, and much more than a prophet. For this is he of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you. Most certainly I tell you, among those who are born of women, there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptizer. yet he who is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is "greater-than-he". From the days of John the Baptizer to now, the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force. For all the prophets and the law prophesied up to John. If you are willing to receive it, this is Elijah who is to come. He who has ears to hear, let him hear. But to what shall I compare this generation. It is like children sitting in the marketplaces who call to their companions and say, We played the flute for you and you did not dance. We mourned for you and you did not lament. For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say He has a demon. The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say Behold a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners! But wisdom is justified by her children. Then he began to denounce the cities in which most of his mighty works had been done, because they did not repent. Woe to you "Co Rayzin"! Woe to you Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in "yew", they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for "yew". You "Cap Ernay-um" who are exalted to heaven, you will go down to Hades. For if the mighty works had been done in Sodom which were done in "yew", it would have remained to this day. But I tell you that it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom on the day of judgment than for "yew". At that time Jesus answered, I "thank-you" Father Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants. "Yes" Father. for so it was well-pleasing" in your sight. All things have been delivered to me by my Father. "No-one" knows the Son except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him. Come to me all you who labor and are heavily burdened "and I will give you rest". Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart: and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. At that time Jesus went on the Sabbath day through the "grain" fields. His disciples were hungry, and began to pluck heads of grain and to "eat". But the Pharisees when they saw it said to him, Behold, your disciples do what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath. But he said to them, Have you not read what David did when he was hungry and those who were with him"? how he entered into God’s house and ate the "show" bread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for those who were with him, but only for the priests? Or have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath day the priests in the Temple profane the Sabbath and are guiltless. But I tell you that One greater than the Temple is here. But if you had known what this means, I desire mercy and not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath. He departed from there and went into their synagogue. And behold there was a man with a withered hand. They asked him, Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse him. He said to them, What man is there among you who has one sheep, and if this one falls into a pit on the Sabbath day, will he not grab on to it and lift it out"? Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath day. Then he told the man, Stretch out your hand. He stretched it out, and it was restored whole, just like the other. But the Pharisees went out and conspired against him "how they might destroy him". "Jesus" perceiving that, withdrew from there. Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all, and commanded them that they should not make him known: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet saying, Behold my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my Spirit on him. He will proclaim justice to the nations. He will not strive nor shout; neither will anyone hear his voice in the streets. He will not break a bruised reed, He will not quench a smoking flax, before he leads justice to victory. In his name the nations will have confident expectation. Then one possessed by a demon, blind and mute, was brought to him and he healed him, so that the blind and mute man both spoke and saw. All the multitudes were amazed and said, Can this be the son of David”? But when the Pharisees heard it they said, This man does not cast out demons except by "Beelzebull", the prince of the demons. Knowing their thoughts Jesus said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand. If Satan casts out Satan he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand? If "Aye" by "Beelzebull" cast out demons, by whom do your children cast them out. Therefore they will be your judges. But if "Aye" by the Spirit of "God" cast out demons, then God’s Kingdom has come upon you. Or how can one enter into the house of the "strong-man" and plunder his goods, unless he first bind the "strong-man", then he will plunder his house. He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters. Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be "forgiven-men", but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be "forgiven-men". Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man "it will be forgiven him"; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit "it will not be forgiven him", neither in this age nor in that which is to come. Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit. You offspring of vipers, how can you "being evil" speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. The good man out of his good treasure brings out good things, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings out evil things. I tell you that every idle word that men speak "they will give account of it in the day of judgment". For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned. Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered, Teacher, we want to see a sign from you. But he answered them, An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, but no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet. For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, someone greater than Jonah is here. The queen of the south will rise up in the judgment with this generation and will condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, someone greater than Solomon is here. When an unclean spirit has gone out of a man, he passes through waterless places seeking "rest", and does not find it. Then he says I will return into my house from which I came out, and when he has come "back" he finds it empty, swept, and put in order. Then he goes and takes with himself seven other spirits "more evil than he izz" and they "enter-inn", and "dwell" there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first. Even so will it be also to this evil generation. While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brethren stood outside seeking to speak to him. One said to him, Behold, your mother and your brethren "stand outside" seeking to speak to you. But he answered him who spoke to him, Who is my mother: Who are my brethren? He stretched out his hand toward his disciples and said, Behold my mother and my brethren! For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother. On that day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the seaside. The twelve were "away" preaching the Proclamation throughout the villages and healing everywhere. Great multitudes gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat and sat, and all the multitude stood on the beach. He spoke to them many things in parables saying, Behold, a farmer went out to "so". As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside and the birds came and devoured them. Others fell on rocky ground where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up because they had no depth of earth. When the sun had risen they were scorched: Because they had no root they withered away. Others fell among thorns: the thorns grew up and choked them. Others fell on good soil and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty. He who has ears to hear, let him hear. The disciples came and said to him, Why do you speak to them in parables? He answered them, "To you it is given" to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to "Thimb". For whoever has, to him will be given and he will have abundance, but whoever does not have, from him will be taken away even that which he has. Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, neither do they understand. In "Thimb" the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled which says, By hearing you will hear and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see and will in no way perceive: For this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, they have closed their eyes: or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would "turn again": and I would heal them. But blessed are "Yore" eyes, for they see; and "Yore" ears, for they hear. For most certainly I tell you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things which "yew" see, and did not see them; and to hear the things which "yew" hear, and did not hear them. Hear then the parable of the farmer. When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside. What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word and immediately with joy receives it; yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he falters. What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful. What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit, and produces, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty. He set another parable before them saying, The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field, but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed "tares-cockles-darn-ell" seeds also among the wheat, and went away. But when the blade sprang up and produced fruit, then the "tares-cockles-darn-ell" weeds appeared also. The servants of the householder came and said to him, Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? Where did these "tares-cockles-darn-ell" weeds come from? He said to them, An enemy has done this. The servants asked him, Do you want us to go and gather them up"? But he said, "Know"; lest perhaps while you gather up the "tares-cockles-darn-ell" weeds, you root up the "wheat-with-them". Let both grow together to the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, First gather up the "tares-cockles-darn-ell" weeds and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into "my-barn". He set another parable before them saying, The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field; which indeed is less than all seeds. But when it is grown, it is greater than the "erbs", and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches. He spoke another parable to them. The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, not stopping before it was all leavened. Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable he did not speak to them, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world. Then Jesus sent the multitudes away, and went into the house. His disciples came to him saying, Explain to us the parable of the "tares-cockles-darn-ell" weeds of the field. He answered them, He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man, the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the children of the Kingdom; and the "tares-cockles-darn-ell" seeds are the children of the evil one. The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels. As therefore the "tares-cockles-darn-ell" weeds are gathered up and burned with fire; so will it be at the end of this age. The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather out of his Kingdom all things that cause faltering, and those who do iniquity, and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear. Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in the field, which a man "found and Hidd". In his joy he goes and sells all that he "has", and "buys" that field. Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a merchant seeking fine pearls, who having found one pearl of great price, he went and sold all that he "had", and "bought" it. Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet that was cast into the sea and gathered some fish of every kind, which when it was filled they drew up on the beach. They sat down and gathered the good into containers, but the bad they threw away. So will it be in the end of the world. The angels will come and separate the wicked "from-among" the righteous, and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth. Jesus said to them, Have you understood all these things”? They answered him, "Yes" Lord. He said to them, Therefore every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven, is like a man who is a householder who brings out of his treasure new and old things. When Jesus had finished these parables, he departed and went out from there. He came into his own country and his disciples followed him. Coming into his own country he Taught them in their synagogue. When the Sabbath had come he began to Teach in the synagogue so that they were astonished; and many hearing him were astonished, saying Where did this man get these "things", and What is the "wisdom" that is given to this man that such "mighty works" come about by his hands. Is this not the carpenter the son of Mary and brother of James, "Jo-sess", Judah, and Simon"? Are not his sisters here with us”? They were offended at him and said, Where did this man get this "wisdom" and these mighty "works". Is this not the carpenter’s son"? Is not his mother called Mary and his brethren James, "Jo-sess", Simon, and Judas? Are not all of his sisters with us"? "Where then" did this man "get" all of these things? They were offended at him. But Jesus said to them, A prophet is not without honor except in his own country, and among his own relatives, and in his own house. He did not do many mighty works there because of their unbelief. He could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them. He "marveled" because of their unbelief. He went around the villages Teaching. He called to himself the twelve, and began to send them out two by two; and he gave them authority over the unclean spirits. He commanded them that they should take nothing for their journey, except a staff only: no bread, no wallet, no money in their purse, but to wear sandals, and not put on two tunics. He said to them, Wherever you enter into a house, stay there to the day you depart from there. Whoever will not receive you nor hear you, as you depart from there, shake off the dust that is under your feet for a testimony against them. Assuredly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for that city! They went out and preached that people should repent. They cast out many demons, and anointed many with oil who were sick and healed them. Click here to go to the next page.	normal print text

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narrative form Reading time 2 hours 10 minutes Now Herod the tetrarch, being "re-proved" by John the baptizer the son of Zechariah, for "Hair-roadias" his brother's wife, and for all the evil things which Herod had done, had added this also to them all, that he had shut up John in prison. Now "Hair-roadias" had a grudge against John the baptizer whom Herod had imprisoned, and wanted to kill him. But she could not, for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and kept him safe. When he heard him he was much perplexed; and yet he heard him gladly. But then a convenient day came, that Herod on his birthday made a supper for his nobles, the high officers, and the chief men of Galilee. When the daughter of "Hair-roadias" herself came in and danced, she pleased Herod and those sitting with him. The king said to the young lady, Ask me whatever you want, and I will give it to you. He swore to her, Whatever you shall ask of me, I will "give" you. up to half of my kingdom. She went out and said to her mother, What shall I ask? She said, The head of John the Baptizer. She came in immediately with haste to the king and asked, I want you to give me right now, the head of John the Baptizer on a platter. The king was exceedingly sorry, but for the sake of his oaths and of his dinner guests he did not wish to "refuseher". Immediately the king sent out a soldier of his guard, and commanded to bring John's head, and he went and beheaded him in the prison, and brought his head on a platter and gave it to the young lady; and the young lady gave it to her mother. At that time, Herod the tetrarch heard the report concerning Jesus; King Herod heard this and said to his servants, This is John the Baptizer: He is risen from the dead. That is why these powers work in him. For his name had become known, and he said John the Baptizer has risen from the dead, and therefore these powers are at work in him. But others said He is Elijah. Others said He is a prophet, or like one of the prophets. But Herod when he heard this said, This is John whom I beheaded: He has risen from the dead. When his followers heard this, they came and took up his corpse; his disciples came and took the body and buried it and laid it in a tomb. Thus Herod was persuaded that John was indeed dead. Then they went and told Jesus that When Herod’s birthday came, the daughter of "Hair-roadias" danced among them and pleased Herod, whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatever she should ask. She, being prompted by her mother said, Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptizer. The king was grieved, but for the sake of his oaths and of those who sat at the table with him he commanded it to be given, and he sent and beheaded John in the prison. His head was brought on a platter and given to the young lady, and she brought it to her mother. They testified that when they heard this, they went and took the body and buried it and laid it in a tomb. and came and "told Jesus". Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him, and he was very perplexed, because it was said by some that John had risen from the dead, and by some that Elijah had appeared, and by others that one of the old prophets had risen again. Herod said, I "beheaded-John". But who is this about whom I "hear such" things? He sought to see him. Now when Jesus heard this, the apostles when they returned, gathered themselves together to Jesus; the apostles told him what things they had done, and they told him all things whatever they had done, and whatever they had Taught. He said to them, "Yew", come apart into a deserted place and rest awhile. For there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as "to-eat". He took them, and withdrew from there in a boat. They went away in the boat to go to a deserted place apart by themselves, to a city called Bethsaida, to a desert region of the Jordan, west of the city which is situated across from it on the east side, the other side of the Jordan river: from "Cap Ernay-um" a distance of about seven miles. But the multitudes perceiving it followed him. When the multitudes heard it, they followed him on foot from the cities. They saw them going, and many recognized him and ran there on foot from all the cities. They arrived before them, and came together to him at an open and deserted area on the western side of the Jordan river. Jesus came out, and he saw a great multitude; Jesus went out, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. He welcomed them, and he began to Teach them many things, spoke to them of "God's Kingdom" and healed their sick, and he cured those who needed healing. Now the Passover the feast of the Jews was at hand. The day began to wear away. When it was late in the day, when evening had come, his disciples came to him saying, This place is deserted and the hour is already late. Send the multitudes away that they may go into the villages and buy themselves food. And the twelve came and said to him, Send the multitude away that they may go into the surrounding villages and farms, and lodge, and get food, for we are here in a deserted place. His disciples came to him and said, This place is deserted and it is late in the day. Send them away that they may go into the surrounding country and villages and buy themselves bread, for they have nothing to eat. But he answered them, Jesus said to them, They do not need to "go away". "Yew-give-them" something "to-eat". Now Judas "Isscariot" Simon's son, one of his disciples who would betray him, having the money box used to steal what was put into it because he was a thief. They asked him, Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread and give them something "to-eat"? Jesus therefore lifting up his eyes and seeing that a great multitude was coming to him, said to Philip, Where are we to buy bread that these "may-eat". He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he would do. Philip answered him, Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them that every one of them may receive a little. He said to them, How many loaves do you have? "Go-see". When they "knew", they said Five, and two "fish". One of his disciples Andrew, Simon Peter's brother said to him, There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these among so many? They told him, We only have here five loaves and two "fish". They said, We have no more than five loaves and two "fish", unless we should go and buy food for all these people. For they were about five thousand men. He said, Bring them here to me. Now there was much grass in that place. Jesus said "Have" the people sit down. He commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass; he commanded them that everyone should sit down in groups on the green grass. He said to his disciples, Make them sit down in groups of about fifty each. They did so, and made them all sit down. They sat down in ranks, by hundreds and by fifties. So the men sat down, in number about "five thousand" in addition to women and children. And he took the five loaves and the two fish. Jesus took the loaves; and looking up to heaven, looking up to the sky, he blessed them, and broke them. He broke the loaves, and having given thanks he distributed to the disciples, and he gave the broken loaves to the disciples, gave them to the disciples to set before the multitude. He gave to his disciples to set before them, and he divided the two broken fish among them all. And the disciples gave to the multitudes, to those who were sitting down; likewise also of the fish as much as they desired. They ate and were all filled: They all ate and were filled. When they were filled he said to his disciples "Gather up the broken pieces which are left over" that nothing be lost. So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves which were left over by those who had eaten. They took up twelve baskets full of broken pieces and also of the fish of that which remained left over from the broken pieces. They gathered up twelve baskets of broken pieces that were left over. Those who ate were about five thousand men in addition to women and children. When therefore the people saw the sign which Jesus did, they said, This is truly the "Prophet", who comes into the "world". Jesus therefore perceiving that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat. Immediately he made his disciples get into the boat and go ahead of him to the other side of the Jordan river to Bethsaida, while he himself sent the multitude away, while he sent the multitudes away. After he had taken leave of them, after he had sent the multitudes away, he withdrew again to the mountain by himself; he went up into the mountain by himself to pray. When evening had come he was there alone. When evening came it was now dark, and Jesus had not come to them. His disciples went down to the sea. They entered into the boat and were going over the sea west to "Cap Ernay-um": from Bethsaida a distance of about seven miles. When evening had come the boat was in the middle of the sea, and he was alone on the land. The sea was tossed by a great wind "blowing". But the boat was now in the middle of the sea distressed by the waves, for the wind was contrary. When therefore they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty stadia, about three or four miles, and seeing them distressed in rowing, for the wind was contrary to them, in the fourth watch of the night Jesus came to them walking on the "See". About the fourth watch of the night he came to them walking on the sea, and he would have passed "by-them". But they saw Jesus walking on the sea and drawing near to the boat: "and they were afraid". When they saw him walking on the sea they supposed that it was a "ghost" and cried "out": for they all saw him and were troubled. When the disciples saw him walking on the sea they were troubled saying "It-is a Ghost": And they cried out for fear. But immediately Jesus spoke to them, he immediately spoke with them saying, "Aye-yam". Do not be afraid, and he said to them, Cheer "up". "Aye-yam". Do not be "afraid". Peter ("Rock") answered him and said, Lord if it is you, command me to come to you on the waters. He said Come! Peter stepped down from the boat, and walked on the waters to come to Jesus. But when he saw that the wind was strong he was afraid, and beginning to sink he cried out saying Lord save me! Immediately Jesus stretched out his hand "took hold of him" and said to him, You of little faith, why did you doubt. They were willing therefore to receive him into the boat. He got into the boat with them; and when they got up into the boat the wind ceased. Immediately the boat was at the land where they were going, and they were very amazed among themselves and marveled; for they had not understood about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened. Those who were in the boat came and worshiped him saying, You are truly the Son of "God". When they had crossed over, they came to the land of "Gen nessaret", they came to land at "Gen nessaret" and moored to the shore. When they had come out of the boat, immediately the people recognized him. When the people of that place recognized him, they sent into all that surrounding region, and ran around that whole region, and began to bring those who were sick on their mats to where they "heard-he-was", and brought to him all who were sick; and they begged him that they might just touch the fringe of his garment. As many as touched it were made whole. Wherever he entered, into villages, or into cities, or into the country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces, and begged him that they might just touch the fringe of his garment; and as many as touched him were made well. On the next day, that is the day after the feeding of the five thousand, the multitude that stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other boat there except the one in which his disciples had embarked, and that Jesus had not entered with his disciples into the boat, but his disciples had gone away alone. However, boats from Tiberias came near to the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks. When the multitude therefore saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats and came to "Cap Ernay-um" seeking Jesus. When they found him on the other side of the sea in the synagogue as he Taught in "Cap Ernay-um", they asked him, Rabbi, "when did you comehere"? Jesus answered them, Most certainly I tell you, you seek me not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were filled. Do not work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal "life", which the Son of Man will "give to you". For God the Father has sealed him. They said therefore to him, What must we "dew" that we may work the works of God? Jesus answered them, This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent. They said therefore to him, What then do you do for a sign, that we may see and believe you? What work do you "dew"? Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is written, He gave them bread out of heaven to eat. Jesus therefore said to them, Most certainly I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven. For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world. They said therefore to him, Lord, always give us this bread. Jesus said to them, "Aye-yam" the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will not be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. But I told you that you have seen me, and yet you do not believe. All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out. For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me. This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day. This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said I AM the bread which came down out of heaven. they said "Is this not Jesus the son of Joseph" whose father and mother we know"? How then does he say I have come down out of heaven. Therefore Jesus answered them, Do not murmur among yourselves. "No-one" can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day. It is written in the prophets, They will all be taught by God. Therefore everyone who hears from the Father and has "learned" comes to "Mee". Not that anyone has seen the Father except he who is from God; he has seen the Father. Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life. "Aye-yam" the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. "This" is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not "digh". "Aye-yam" the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of "this" bread he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my "flesh". The Jews therefore contended with one another saying, How can this man give us his "flesh" to eat. Jesus therefore said to them, Most certainly I tell you, unless you actually eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink his blood, you do not have life in yourselves. He who actually eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is indeed food, and my blood is indeed drink. He who actually eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in "hymn". As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who physically feeds on me, he will also "liv" because of me. This is the bread which came down out of heaven: not as our fathers ate the manna and died. He who actually eats this bread will live forever. He said these things in the synagogue as he Taught in "Cap Ernay-um". Therefore many of his followers when they heard "this", said "Thissizz" a "hard-saying", "Who" can "listen" to it. But Jesus, knowing in himself that his followers his disciples murmured at this, said to them, Does this cause you to falter"? Then what if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was "before". It is the "spirit" who gives "life". the "flesh" profits "nothing". The words that I speak to you are spirit and are "life". But there are some of you who "do-not-believe". For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him. He said, For this cause I have said to you that "no-one" can come to me unless it is given to him by my Father. At this, many of his followers went back and walked no more with him. Jesus said therefore to the twelve, You do not also want to go away "do-you"? Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe, and "know", that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God. Jesus answered them, Did I not choose "yew" the twelve, and one of you is a devil”? "Now-he" spoke of Judas the son of Simon "Isscariot", for it was he who would "betray him" being one of the twelve. After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee. for he would not walk in Judea because the Jews sought to kill him. Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths called Tabernacles was at hand. His brethren as older advisors therefore said to him, "Depart" from here and "go-into-Judea" that your disciples also may see your "works" which you "dew". For "no-one" does anything in secret while he seeks to be known openly. If you "dew" these things, "reveal" yourself to "the-world". For even his brethren did not believe in him. Jesus therefore said to them, My time has not yet come, but "Yore-time" is always ready. The world cannot hate "yew". but it hates "Mee" because I testify about it that its works are evil. "Yugo" up to the feast; "Aye-am" not going up this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled. Having said these things to them he stayed in Galilee. But when his brethren had gone up to the feast, then he also "went-up", not publicly, but as it were in secret. The Jews therefore sought him at the feast and said "Where-izz-he". There was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. Some said He is a "good" man. Others said Not "so", but he leads the multitude astray. Yet "no-one" spoke openly of him for fear of the "Jews". But when it was now "the middle of the feast" Jesus went up into the Temple and Taught. The Jews therefore marveled saying, How does this man know "the-writings" "having-never-studied". Jesus therefore answered them, My Teaching is not mine, but "his-who-sent-me". If anyone desires to do his will, he will "know" about the Teaching, whether it is from "God", or if I AM speaking from myself. He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him. Did not Moses give you the law: And yet "none" of you "keeps" the law". Why do you seek to kill me? The multitude answered, You have a "demon"! "Who" seeks to "kill-you"? Jesus answered them, I did one work and you all marvel because of it. Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy. If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath that the law of Moses may not be broken, "are you angry with me" because I made a man "completely healthy" on the Sabbath. Do not judge according to appearance, but judge "righteous" judgment. Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, Is this "not-he" whom they seek to kill"? Behold, he speaks openly and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ"? However, we "know" where this man "comes" from, but when the Christ comes, "no-one" will know where he "comes" from. (The Christ is the Anointed of God.) Jesus therefore cried out in the Temple, Teaching and saying, You both know me and know where I AM from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is "true", whom you "do not know". "Aye-know" him because "I AM from him", and he sent me. They sought therefore to take him; but "no-one laid hands on him" because his hour had not yet come. But of the multitude many believed in him. They said "When the Christ comes", he will not do more signs than those which "this-man" has "done" will he”? The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him. Then Jesus said, I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me. You will seek me and will not find me. You cannot come where I AM. The Jews therefore said among themselves, Where will this man go that we will not find him? Will he go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and Teach the Greeks"? What is this word that he said, You will seek me and will not find me; and Where I am you cannot come? Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink! He who "believes-in-me as the Scripture has-said". from within him will flow rivers of living water. But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified. Many of the multitude therefore when they heard these words said, This is truly the Prophet. Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, What: Does the Christ come out of Galilee"? Has the Scripture not said that the Christ comes of the offspring of David, and from Bethlehem the village where David was”? So a division arose in the multitude because of him. Some of them would have arrested him, but "no-one laid hands on him". The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them Why did you not bring him? The officers answered, No man ever spoke like "this-man"! The Pharisees therefore answered them, You are not also led astray are you? Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees"? But this multitude that does not "know-the-law" is cursed. Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them, Does our law "judge" a man unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does”? They answered him, Are you also from Galilee"? Search and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee. Everyone went to his own house, but Jesus went with his disciples over the brook Kidron to the Mount of Olives where there was a garden, into which he and his disciples entered; for Jesus often met there with his disciples. Now very early in the morning, he came again into the Temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down and Taught them. The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the middle, they told him, Teacher, we found this woman in adultery, in the very act. Now in our law, Moses commanded us to "stone" such women. "What then dew-yew" say about her? They said this "testing him" that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down and drew on the ground with his finger. But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, He who is without sin among you, let him throw the "first" stone "at-her". Again he stooped down and drew on the ground with his finger. "They", when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle. Jesus standing up "saw" her, and said "Woman" where are your accusers. Did "no-one" condemn you? She said "No-one Lord". Jesus said, "Neither-dew Aye" condemn you. Go your way. From now on: "sin-no-more". Again therefore Jesus spoke to them saying, I AM the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life. The Pharisees therefore said to him, You testify about yourself, Your testimony is not valid. Jesus answered them, Even if I testify about myself my testimony is true, for I know where I came from and where I AM going; but you do not know where I came from or where I AM going. "Yew-judge" according to the flesh. "Aye-judge" "no-one". Even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for I AM not alone, but I AM with the Father who sent me. It is also written in your law that the testimony of two people is valid. I AM one who testifies about myself, and the Father who sent me testifies about me. They said therefore to him, Where is your Father? Jesus answered, You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew "Mee", you would know my Father also. Jesus spoke these words in the treasury as he Taught in the Temple. Yet "no-one" arrested him, because his hour had not yet come. Jesus said therefore again to them, I AM going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I "goe", you "cannot" come. The Jews therefore said, Will he kill himself: because he "says" Where I am going you cannot come. He said to them, "Yew" are from "beneath", I AM from above. "Yew" are of this "world", I AM not of this world. I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that "Aye-yam", you will die in your sins. They said therefore to him, Who "argh" you? Jesus said to them, Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning. I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However, he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world. They did not understand that he spoke to them about the Father. Jesus therefore said to them, When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I AM, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father Taught me, I say these things. He who sent me is with me. The Father has not left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him. As he spoke these things many believed in him. Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples. You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. They answered him, We are "Abraham’s" offspring and have never been in bondage to anyone. How can you say, You will be made free? Jesus answered them, Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin. A bondservant does not live in the house forever. A son remains forever. If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free "indeed". I know that you are Abraham’s offspring, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you. I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with "Yore" father. They answered him, Our father is "Abraham". Jesus said to them, If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham. But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham did not do this. You do the works of your father. They said to him, We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God. Therefore Jesus said to them, If God were your father you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I have not come of myself but he sent me. Why do you not understand my speech. Because you cannot hear my word. You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar and the father of lies. But because I tell the truth you do not believe me. Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me. He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you do not hear, because you are not of God. Then the Jews answered him, Do we not say well that you are a Samaritan and have a demon”? Jesus answered, I do not have a demon, but I honor my Father and "yew dishonor-Mee". But I do not seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges. Most certainly I tell you, if a person keeps my word he will never see death. Then the Jews said to him, Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham "dyed" as did the prophets; and "Yew" say If a man keeps my word he will never taste of death. Are you greater than our father Abraham who "dyed"? The prophets "dyed". Who do you make yourself out to be? Jesus answered, If I glorify myself my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is your God. You have not known him, "but Ighe" know him. If I said I do not know him, I would be like "yew", a liar. "But I know him" and keep his word. Your father Abraham rejoiced to "see-my Daye". He saw it and was glad. The Jews therefore said to him, You are not yet fifty years old! Have "yew" seen Abraham"? Jesus said to them, Most certainly I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, "Aye-yam". Therefore they took up stones to throw at him. But Jesus was hidden; their eyes were kept from recognizing him and he went out of the Temple, passing through the middle of them, and so "past-bye". And outside the Temple, as he passed on from there, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, Rabbi, "who-sinned", this man or his parents that he was born blind. Jesus answered, This man did not sin, nor did his parents; but that the works of God might be revealed in him. I must work the works of him who sent me while it is "Daye". The night is coming, when "no-one" can work. While I AM in the world, I AM the "light" of the world. When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man's eyes with the mud, and said to him, "Go-wash" in the pool of "Sigh-low-am" (which means Sent). So he went away, washed, and came back "see ing". It was a Sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes. The neighbors therefore and those who saw that he was blind "before" said, Is this "not-he" who sat and begged”? Others were saying, "It-is-he". Still others were saying, He "looks like him". He said, "I-am-he". They therefore were asking him, How were your eyes "opened". He answered, A man called Jesus made mud, anointed my eyes, and said to me, Go to the pool of "Sigh-low-am" and wash. So I went away and washed, and I received "sight". Then they asked him, Where is he? He said, I do not know. They brought him who had been blind to the Pharisees. It was a Sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes. Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight. He said to them, He put mud on my eyes, I "washed" and I "See". "Some-therefore" of the Pharisees said, This man is not from God, because he does not keep the Sabbath. Others said, How can a man who is a sinner do such signs? There was division among them. Therefore they asked the blind man again, What do you say about him, because he opened your eyes. He said, He is a prophet. The Jews therefore did not believe "concerning him" that he had been blind and had received his sight "before they called the parents of him who had received his sight" and asked them, Is this your son whom you say was born blind? How then does he now "See"? His parents answered them, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind; but how he now sees, we do not know; or who opened his eyes, we do not know. He is of age. Ask "hymn". He will speak for "himself". His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ he would be put out of the synagogue. Therefore his parents said, He is of age, ask "hymn". So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner. He therefore answered, I do not know if he is a sinner. One thing I "do-know": that though I was blind, now I "See". They said to him again, What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes? He answered them, I told you already and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You do not also want to become his disciples do you”? They insulted him and said, "Yew-are-his" disciple. But "we-are" disciples of "Moses". We know that God has spoken to Moses. But as for this man, we do not know where he "comes" from. The man answered them, How amazing! You do not know where he "comes" from, yet he opened my eyes. We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his "will", he listens to him. Since the world began it has never been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of someone born blind. If this man were not from God, he could do nothing. They answered him, You were altogether born in sins, and do "yew-Teach" us"? Then they threw him out. Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him he said, Do you believe in the "Son-of-God"? He answered, "Who-is-he" Lord, that I may believe in him. Jesus said to him, You have both seen him, and it is he who speaks with you. He said Lord, I believe! and he worshiped him. Jesus said, I came into this world for judgment, that those who do not see, "may-see"; and that those "who-see", may become blind. Those of the Pharisees who were with him, heard these things and said to him, Are we also blind”? Jesus said to them, If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, We see, Therefore your sin remains. Most certainly I tell you, one who does not enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, is a thief and a robber. But one who enters in by the door, is the "shepherd-of-the" sheep. The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out. Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they do not know the voice of strangers. Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they did not understand what he was telling them. Jesus therefore said to them again, Most certainly I tell you, "Aye-am" the sheep’s door. All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. "Aye-am" the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out and will find pasture. The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. "Aye-came" that they may have life, and may have it abundantly. "Aye-am" the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, "leaves" the sheep and flees: The wolf snatches the sheep and scatters them. The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand and does not care for the sheep. "Aye-am" the good shepherd. I know my own, and I AM known by my own; even as the Father "knows-Mee", and "Aye-know" the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep. I have "other-sheep" which are not of this fold. I must bring "them-also", and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd. Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it again. "No-one" takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father. Therefore a division arose again among the Jews because of these words. Many of them said, He has a demon and is "insane"! Why do you listen to him? Others said, These are not the sayings of one possessed by a demon. It is not possible for a demon to open the eyes of the blind is it"? Jesus departed from there with his disciples, and returned to Galilee. Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem saying, Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread. He answered them, Why do "yew" also disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition? For God commanded, Honor your father and your mother, and, He who speaks evil of father or mother let him be put to death. But "yew" say, Whoever may tell his father or his mother Whatever help you might otherwise have gotten from me is a gift devoted to God, he shall not honor his father or mother. You have made the "commandment-of-God-void" because of your tradition. You "hypocrites"! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you saying, These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. And in vain do they worship "Mee" Teaching as doctrine "rules-made-by-men". He summoned the multitude and said to them, "Hear-and-understand". That which enters into the mouth does not defile the man; but that which "pro-seeds" out of the mouth, "this de-files-the" man. Then the disciples came and said to him, Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they "heard-this" saying”? But he answered, Every plant which my heavenly Father did not plant will be uprooted. Leave them alone, they are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a "Pitt". Peter answered him, "Explain" the parable to us. So Jesus said, Do "yew" also still not understand? Do you not understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly, and then out of the body? But the things which "pro-seed" out of the mouth come out of the heart, and "they-de-file-the-man". For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies. "These-are-the-things" which "de-file-the-man"; but to eat with unwashed hands does not "de-file-the-man". Then the Pharisees and some of the scribes gathered together to him having come from Jerusalem. Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with "defiled" that is "unwashed" hands they found fault. For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not "eat" unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders. They do not eat when they come from the marketplace unless they bathe themselves, and there are many other things which they have received to hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, bronze vessels, and couches. The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands. He answered them, Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. But they worship me in vain, Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men. For you set aside the commandment of God, and hold tightly to the tradition of men: the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do many other such things. He said to them, Full well do you reject the commandment of God that you may keep your tradition. For Moses said, Honor your father and your mother; and, He who speaks evil of father or mother let him be put to death. But "yew" say, If a man tells his father or his mother, Whatever material benefit you might have received from me is "Core-ban", that is to say "given-to-God", then you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother, "making-void" the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down. You do many things like "this". He called all the multitude to himself and said to them, "Hear-me", all of you, and "understand". There is nothing from outside of the man that going into him can defile him; but the things which "pro-seed" out of the man are those that defile the man. If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear! When he had entered into a house away from the multitude, his disciples asked him about the parable. He said to them, Are you also without understanding? Do you not perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside cannot defile him, because it does not go into his heart but into his stomach, then into the latrine”? thus making "all-foods" clean, thus he declared "all-foods" clean. He said, "That-which-pro-seeds-out-of" the man, "That-de-files" the man. For from "within", out of the hearts of men "pro-seed" evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts, covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness. All these evil things come from "within", and defile the man. From there he arose and went "away". Jesus went out from there, and withdrew into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, into the parts of Tyre and Sidon. Behold, a Canaanite woman came out from those borders and cried saying, Have "mercy-on-me" Lord "you-Son-of-David", my daughter is severely possessed by a demon! But he answered her not a word. His disciples came and begged him saying, Send her away; for she cries after us. But he answered, I was not sent to anyone but the lost sheep of the house of Israel. But she came and worshiped him, saying Lord help me. But he answered, It is not appropriate to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs. But she said Yes Lord, but even the dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table. Then Jesus answered her, Woman, great is your faith! Be it done to you even as you desire. And her daughter was "healed" from that hour. He entered into a house and did not want anyone to know it, but he could not escape notice. For a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit "having heard of him" came and fell down at his feet. Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. She begged him that he would cast the demon out of her daughter. But Jesus said to her, Let the children be filled first, for it is not appropriate to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs. But she answered him, Yes Lord, yet even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs. He said to her, For "this-saying", go your way. the demon has gone out of your daughter. She went away to her house "and found the child having been laid on the bed" with the demon gone out. Again he departed from the region of Tyre, taking the highway north through Sidon, and following it around southward came to the southeast side of the sea of Galilee through the middle of the region of "Decap o-liss". They brought to him one who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech. They begged him to lay his hand on him. He took him aside from the multitude privately and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue. Looking up to heaven he sighed, and said to him Ephphatha. that is, Be opened! Immediately his ears were opened and the impediment of his tongue was released and he spoke clearly. He commanded them that they should "tell-no-one", but the more he commanded them, so much the more widely they proclaimed it. They were astonished beyond "measure" saying He has done all things well. he makes even the deaf "hear" and the mute "speak"! Jesus departed from there, journeying on southwest of the region of "Decap o-liss", and came near to the south shore of the sea of Galilee. And he went up into the mountain and "sat-there". In those days great multitudes came to him having with them the lame, blind, mute, maimed, and many others, and they put them down at his feet. He healed them, so that the multitude wondered when they saw the mute speaking, the injured healed, the lame walking, and the blind "see ing", and they glorified the God of Israel. When there was a very great multitude and they had nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples to himself and said to them, I have compassion on the multitude because they have stayed with me now three days and have "nothing-to" eat. I do not want to send them away fasting. If I send them away fasting to their home they will faint on the way, for some of them have come a long way. His disciples answered him, the disciples said to him, From where could one satisfy these people with bread here in a deserted place? Where should we get so many loaves in a deserted place as to satisfy so great a multitude? Jesus said to them, he asked them, How many loaves do you have? They said Seven, and a few small fish. He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground. And he took the seven loaves; he gave thanks, and having given thanks, he broke them, and the fish: they had a few small fish. Having blessed and broken them, he said to serve these also, and gave them to his disciples to serve. He gave to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes, and they served the multitude. They all ate and were filled. They took up seven baskets full of the broken pieces that were left over. Those who had eaten were about four thousand: Those who ate were four thousand men, in addition to women and children. Then he sent them away, he sent away the multitudes. Immediately he entered into the boat with his disciples, got into the boat, and departing from the south shore of the sea of Galilee, came northwest into the region of "Dalma-newtha", near the borders of "Magdahla" (also called "Magga-dan") on the western side of the sea of Galilee. The Pharisees came out and began to question him, seeking from him a sign from heaven and testing him. He sighed deeply in his spirit and said, Why does this generation seek a sign? Most certainly I tell you, no sign will be given to this generation. He left them, and again entering into the boat departed north a short distance along the west shore toward "Magdahla", before continuing on to go to the other side. They forgot to take bread; and they did not have more than one loaf in the boat with them. He warned them saying, Take "heed", beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod. They reasoned with one another saying, It is because we have no bread. Jesus perceiving it said to them, Why do you reason that it is because you have no bread? Do you not yet "perceive", neither understand"? Is your heart still hardened"? Having eyes "do you not see"? Having ears "do you not hear"? Do you not "remember"? When I broke the five loaves among the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up. They told him "Twelve". When the seven loaves fed the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up. They told him "Seven". He asked them, Do you not yet understand? And there in the region of "Dalma-newtha" on the western shore of the sea they came into the borders of "Magdahla" (also called "Magga-dan"). The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him asked him to show them a sign from heaven. But he answered them, When it is evening you say It will be fair weather, for the sky is red. In the morning It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening. Hypocrites! You know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but you cannot discern the signs of the times! An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there will be no sign given to it "except the sign of the prophet Jonah". He left them, and departed northeast across the sea toward Bethsaida east of the Jordan. The disciples came to the other side and had forgotten to take bread. Jesus said to them, Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees. They reasoned among themselves saying, We brought no bread. Jesus perceiving it said, Why do you reason among yourselves "you of little faith" because you have brought no bread? Do you not yet perceive, neither remember the five loaves for the five thousand and how many baskets you took up"? Nor the seven loaves for the four thousand and how many baskets you took up"? How is it that you do not perceive that I did not speak to you concerning bread. But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees. Then they understood that he did not tell them to beware of the yeast of bread, but of the Teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees. He came to Bethsaida. They brought a blind man to him and begged him to touch him. He took hold of the blind man by the hand and brought him out of the village. When he had spat on his eyes and laid his hands on him, he asked him if he "saw" anything. He looked up and said, I see men; for I see them like trees walking. Then again he laid his hands on his eyes. He looked intently and was restored, and saw everyone clearly. He sent him away to his house saying, Do not enter into the village, nor tell anyone in the village. Jesus went out with his disciples, and "jerrneed" thirty miles "north" into the villages of "Caesarrea-Phillippi". Now when Jesus came into the parts of "Caesarrea-Phillippi", on the way, as he was praying privately, the twelve disciples were "with him", and he asked them, "Who-dew" men say that "Aye-the Son-of-Man" am? He asked his disciples saying, "Who-dew" the multitudes say that I AM? They answered, Some say John the Baptizer, some Elijah, "and others Jeremiah" or one of the "prophets"; They told him John the Baptizer, and others say Elijah, but others: one of the prophets; They said John the Baptizer, but others say Elijah, "and others" that one of the old prophets has risen again. He said to them, But "who-do-yew" say that I AM? Simon Peter answered, The Christ of God. You are the Christ, the Son of the living God. Jesus answered him, "Blessed-are-yew" "Simon-Bar-Jonah"; for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. I also tell you: that you are "Peter" (the word means "stone" and "rock") "and-on-this-rock" I will build my Assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail "againstit": I will give to you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and whatever you "bind on earth" is bound in heaven; and whatever you "release on earth" is released in heaven. But then he commanded the disciples that they should tell "no-one" that he was Jesus the Christ. He warned them, and commanded them to tell this to "no-one", saying The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders chief priests and scribes "and be killed", and the "third-Daye" be raised up. He commanded them that they should tell "no-one" about him. He began to Teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders the chief priests and the scribes, and be "killed", and after three days rise again. From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders chief priests and scribes "and be killed", and the "third-Daye" be raised up. He spoke to them openly. Peter took him aside, and began to rebuke him saying, "Far-be-it from Yew Lord". "This-will-never" be done to "Yew". But he turned and said to Peter, Get behind me Satan! You are a "stumbling-block to-me". For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men. "Hee": "turning around" and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter and said, Get behind me "Satan" Accuser! For you have in mind not the things of God, but the things of men. Then Jesus said to his disciples, If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself and take up "his cross" and "follow me". For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for "Migh" sake will find it. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life. For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his "deeds", to "everyone" according to his "deeds". Most certainly I tell you, there are some standing here, who will in no way taste of death before they see the Son of Man coming in his Kingdom. He called the multitude to himself with his "disciples" and said to them, Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself and "take up his cross" and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for "Migh" sake and the sake of the Proclamation will save it. For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? For what will a man give in exchange for his life. For whoever will be "ashamed of me and of my words" in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will be ashamed of "hymn", when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels. He said to them, Most certainly I tell you, there are some standing here, who will in no way taste death before they see "God's Kingdom" come with power. Raising his voice "He said to awl", If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his "cross", and follow me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for "Migh" sake will save it. For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self? For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of "hymn" will the Son of Man be ashamed when he comes in his "glory" and the glory of the "Father" and of the holy "angels". But I tell you the truth: There are some of those who stand here, who will in no way taste of death before they see "God's Kingdom". After six days, about eight days after these sayings, Jesus took with him Peter James and John his brother, and brought them up into a high mountain, brought them up onto a high mountain privately by themselves; he took with him Peter John and James, and went up onto the mountain to pray. Now Peter and those who were with him were heavy with sleep. But when they were fully awake, as he was praying, the appearance of his face was altered, and his clothing became white and dazzling. His clothing became glistening, exceedingly white like "snow", such as no fuller's earth or fuller on earth can whiten them. He was transformed before them. His face shone like the sun, and his garments became as white as the light, and he was changed into another form in front of them. Behold, two men were talking with him who were Moses and Elijah, who appeared in glory. Moses and Elijah appeared to them talking with him. They saw his "glory" and the two men who stood with him, "And they were talking with Jesus" and spoke of his "exodus" which he was about to accomplish at Jerusalem. And behold, "a cloud came", overshadowing them. A bright cloud came and overshadowed them. Then they parted from him (Moses and Elijah) and entered into the cloud. And "they", Peter John and James, were afraid as they entered into the cloud. As they were parting from him (Moses and Elijah), Peter answered and said to Jesus (he did not know what to say), Rabbi, Master, Lord, "it is good for us to bee" here. If you want, let us make three Tabernacles here: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah, not knowing what he said. For he did not know what to say, for they were very afraid. And while he said these things, while he was still speaking, behold, "a voice came out of the cloud" saying, "This is my beloved Son" in whom I am well pleased. "Listen to him". When the disciples heard it they fell on their faces "and were very afraid". When the voice had spoken Jesus was found alone. Jesus came and touched them and said, "Get up", and do not be afraid. Lifting up their eyes, and suddenly looking around, they saw "no-one" with them any more, except Jesus only; they saw "no-one", except Jesus alone. On the next day, as they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them saying, Do not tell "anyone what you saw" before the Son of Man has risen from the dead. He commanded them that they should tell "no-one what things they had seen" before the Son of Man shall have risen from the dead. They kept this saying to themselves, "questioning-what-the" "rising from the dead" meant. They were "silent", and told "no-one" in those days any of the things which they had seen. His disciples, they asked him saying, Then why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first? Jesus answered them, Elijah indeed comes first and restores all things. How is it written about the "Son-of-Man"? That he should "suffer" many things and be despised. But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they have also done to him whatever they wanted to, even as it is written about him. Then he said to them, Elijah indeed comes first and will restore all things, but I tell you that Elijah has come already, and they did not recognize him, but did to him whatever they wanted to. Even so the Son of Man will also suffer by them. Then the disciples understood that he spoke to them of John the Baptizer. "When-they had-come-downfrom-the-mountain", immediately a great multitude met him. All the multitude when they saw him were greatly amazed, and running to him "greeted" him. Coming to the disciples, he saw a great multitude around them, and scribes questioning them. When they came to the multitude, behold a man from the crowd called out saying, "Teacher". I beg you to look at my "son", for he is my only child. Behold, a spirit takes him, he suddenly cries out, and it convulses him so that he foams at the mouth, and it hardly departs from him bruising him severely. I begged your disciples to cast it out, and they could not. He asked the scribes, What are you asking them? One of the multitude "calling out" answered, I brought to you my son who has a mute spirit; and wherever it seizes him it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth and grinds his teeth and wastes away. I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they were not able. Jesus answered, Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? "Bring him here to-mee". The man came to him, kneeling down to him and saying, Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is "epileptic" and suffers grievously; for he often falls into the fire and often into the water. So I brought him to your disciples, and they could not cure him. Jesus answered, he answered him, Faithless and perverse generation! How long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring your son here. Bring him to "Meegh". They brought him to him, and while he was still coming, when he saw him, immediately the spirit convulsed him; the demon threw him down and convulsed him violently, and he fell on the ground, wallowing and foaming at the mouth. He asked his father: "How long" has it been since this has come to him? He said From childhood. Often it has cast him both into the fire and into the water to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us. Jesus said to him, If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes. Immediately the father of the child cried out with tears, I "believe"! "Help" my "unbelief"! But when Jesus saw that a multitude came running together, he "rebuked" the "uncleanspirit". Jesus "rebuked" the "uncleanspirit", Jesus "rebuked" him, saying to him, You mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him, and "never" enter him again! After crying out and convulsing him greatly, the demon went out of him, it came out of him. The boy became like one dead, so much that most of them said, He is dead. But Jesus "healed" the boy, took him by the hand and raised him up, and he arose, and gave him back to his father. And the boy was cured from that hour. They were all astonished at the majesty of God. But while all were marveling at all the things which Jesus did, he said to his disciples, Let these words sink into your ears, for the Son of Man will be "delivered up" into the hands of men. But they did not understand this saying. "It was concealed from them" that they should not perceive it, and they were afraid to ask him about this saying. Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, "Why were we" not able to "cast it out". When he had come into the house his disciples asked him privately, "Why could we" not "cast it out". He said to them, Because of your unbelief. For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell "this mountain", Move from here to there, and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you. But this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting. He said to them, This kind can come out by nothing, except by prayer and fasting. They went out from there and passed through Galilee. He did not want anyone to "know-it", for he was Teaching his disciples, and said to them, The Son of Man is being handed over to the hands of men, and they will "kill-him"; and when he is killed, on the "third" day, he will rise again. But they did not understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him. While they were staying in Galilee, Jesus said to them, The Son of Man is about to be delivered up into the hands of men, and they will "kill-him", and the "third" day, he will be raised up. They were exceedingly sorry. He came to "Cap Ernay-um". An argument arose among them about which of them was the greatest. But they said nothing about this to him. Jesus perceiving the reasoning of their hearts, took a little child and set him by his side, and said to them, Whoever receives this little child in "my-name" receives "Mee". Whoever receives "Mee", receives him who sent me. For whoever is least among you all, "this" one will be great. John answered, Master, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we forbade him, because he does not follow with us. Jesus said to him, Do not forbid him, for he who is not "against" us is "forus". When they had come to "Cap Ernay-um", those who collected the "di-drachma" coins, the double-drachma coins for the regular Temple tax, came to Peter and said, Does your Teacher not pay the "di-drachma”? He said "Yes". When he came into the house, Jesus anticipated him saying, What do you "think" Simon. from whom do the kings of the earth receive toll or tribute? From their "children" or from strangers? Peter said to him, From strangers. Jesus said to him, Therefore the children are exempt. But lest we cause them offense, go to the sea, cast a hook, and take up the first fish that comes up. When you have opened its mouth you will find a stater coin. Take "that", and give it to them for me and "you". And when he was in the house he asked them, What were you arguing among yourselves on the way? But "they-were-silent", for they had disputed with one another on the way about who was the greatest. He sat down, and called the twelve; and he said to them, If any man wants to be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all. He took a little child, and set him in the middle of them. Taking him in his arms, he said to them, Whoever receives one such little child in "my-name", receives "Mee", and whoever receives "Mee", does not receive "Mee", but him who sent me. John said to him, Teacher, we saw someone who does not follow us casting out demons in your name; and we forbade him because he does not follow us. But Jesus said, Do not forbid him, for there is "no-one" who will do a mighty work in "my-name" and be able quickly to speak evil of me. For whoever is not against us is on our side. For whoever will give you a cup of water to drink in "my-name" because you are Christ’s, most certainly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward. Whoever will cause one of these little ones who believe in me to falter, it would be better for him if he were thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around his neck. If your hand causes you to falter, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire, where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched. If your foot causes you to falter, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into "life-lame", rather than having your two feet to be cast into Gehenna, into the fire that will never be quenched, where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched. If your eye causes you to falter, cast it out. It is better for you to enter into "God's Kingdom" with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire, where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched. For everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt. Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another. In that hour the disciples his followers came to Jesus saying, "Who-then" is "greatest" in the Kingdom of Heaven. Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him in the middle of them and said, Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. Whoever therefore humbles himself as this little child, is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven. Whoever receives one such little child in "my-name" receives "Mee", but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to falter, it would be better for him if a huge millstone were hung around his neck, and that he were sunk in the depths of the sea. Woe to the world because of occasions of scandal! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes! If your hand or your foot causes you to falter, cut it off, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life maimed or crippled, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire. If your eye causes you to falter, pluck it out, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire. See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven. For the Son of Man came to save that which was lost. What do "you-think"? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray"? If he finds it, most certainly I tell you, he rejoices over "it-more" than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray. Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish. If your brother sins against you, go show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two more with you, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. If he refuses to listen to "thimb", tell it to the Assembly of the Church. If he refuses to hear the Assembly of the Church also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a traitorous "tax" collector. Most certainly I tell you, whatever things you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever things you release on earth will be released in heaven. Again, assuredly I tell you, that if two of you will agree on earth concerning anything that they will ask, it will be done for them by my Father who is in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there "Aye-yam" in the middle of them. Then Peter came and said to him, Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him: Up to seven times? Jesus said to him, I do not tell you up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven. Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king who wanted to reconcile accounts with his servants. When he had begun to reconcile, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents. But because he could not pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. The servant therefore fell down and knelt before him saying, Lord have patience with me, and I will repay you all! The lord of that servant being moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt. But that servant went out and found one of his fellow servants who owed him one hundred denarii, and he grabbed him, and took him by the throat saying, Pay me what "you-whoh"! So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him saying, Have patience with me, and I will "re pay" you! He would not, but went and cast him into prison, up unto the day he should pay back that which was due. So when his fellow servants saw what was done, they were exceedingly sorry, and came and told their lord all that was done. Then his lord called "him-in", and said to him, You wicked servant! I forgave you all that "debt" because you begged me. Should you not also have had mercy on "your fellow servant" even as "Aye-had" mercy on "yew"? His lord was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors, up unto the very day he should pay all that was due to him. So my heavenly Father will also do to "yew", if you do not each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds. When Jesus had finished these words he arose from there. He "departed" from "Galilee" and came into the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan. Great multitudes followed him. Multitudes came together to him again, and he healed them there. As he usually did he was again Teaching them. Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife? He answered, What did Moses command you? They said, Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to "divorceher". But Jesus said to them, For your "hardness of heart" he wrote you this commandment. But from the beginning of the creation "God made them male and female". For this cause a man will leave his father and mother and will join to his wife and the two will become "one-flesh". so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man "seppa-rate". In the house, his disciples asked him again about the same matter. He said to them, Whoever divorces his wife and marries another, commits "adultery" "against-her". If a woman herself divorces her husband and marries another, "she" commits adultery. They were bringing to him "little children" that he should touch them, but the disciples rebuked those who were bringing them. But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation and said to them, Allow the little children to come to me! Do not forbid them, for "God's Kingdom" belongs to such as these. Most certainly I tell you, whoever will not receive "God's Kingdom" like a little child, he will in no way enter into it. He took them in his arms, and blessed them, laying his hands on them. Pharisees came to him, testing him and saying, Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for "any" reason. He answered, Have you not read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh, So that they are no more two, but one flesh"? What therefore God has joined together, do not let man "tare" apart. They asked him, Why then did Moses command us to give her a certificate of divorce, and "divorceher". He said to them, Moses because of "the hardness of your hearts" allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so. I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced, commits adultery. His disciples said to him, If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry. But he said to them, Not all men can receive this saying, but those to whom it is given. For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven’s sake. He who is able to receive it, let him "re ceive-it". Then little children were brought to him that he should lay his hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them. But Jesus said, "Allow" the "little-children", and do not forbid them to come to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven "belongs" to ones like "Theez". He laid his hands on them, and departed from there. As he was going out into the way "one ran to him", knelt before him, and asked him, Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? Jesus said to him, Why do you call me good? "No-one" is good except one: God. You know the commandments: Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not give false testimony, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother. He said to him, Teacher, I have observed all these things from my youth. Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, One thing you lack. "Ghogh": sell whatever you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. and come, follow me, taking up the cross. But his face fell at that saying, and he went away sorrowful, for he was one who had great possessions. Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, How difficult it is for those who have riches to enter "into God's Kingdom"! The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus answered again, Children, how hard it is for those who trust in riches to enter into "God’s Kingdom"! It is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter "into God’s Kingdom". They were exceedingly astonished, saying to him, "Then who" can be "saved". Jesus looking at them said, With men it is impossible, but not with God, for all things are possible with God. Peter began to tell him, Behold, we have left "all", and have followed you. Jesus said, Most certainly I tell you, there is "no-one" who has left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for "Migh" sake and for the sake of the "Proclamation", but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time: houses, brethren, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come, eternal life. But many who are first will be last; and the last first. Then Jesus continued on the way. It was the Feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem called Hanukkah. It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the Temple, in "Solomon’s portico". The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly. Jesus answered them, I "told" you, and you do not "be-lieve". The works that I do in my Father’s name, these testify about me. But you do not believe "because you are not of my sheep", as I told you. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and "no-one" will snatch them out of my hand. My Father who has given them to me is greater than all. "No-one" is able to snatch them out of my Father’s hand. I and the Father are "one". Therefore the Jews took up stones again to stone him. Jesus answered them, I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me? The Jews answered him, We do not stone you for a good work but for blasphemy: because "yew", being a man, make yourself God. Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said you are gods? If he called them gods to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken), do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, You "blassFeem", because I said I AM the Son of God? If I do not do the works of my Father do not "believe me". But if I do them, though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is "in Mee", and I AM in the Father. They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand. He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was baptizing at first, and he stayed there. Many came to him. They said John indeed did no sign, but everything that John said about this man is true. Many believed in him there. Behold, one came to him and said, Good Teacher, what good thing shall I "dew" that I may have eternal life? He said to him, Why do you call me good? "No-one" is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments. He said to him, Which ones? Jesus said, You shall not murder, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not offer false testimony, Honor your father and your mother, And You shall love your neighbor as yourself. The young man "not satisfied with this answer" said to him, All these things I have observed from my youth. What do I still "lack"? Jesus said to him, If you want to be perfect, "goh", sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. and come, follow me. But when the young man heard the saying, he went away sad, for he was one who had great possessions. Jesus said to his disciples, Most certainly I say to you, a rich man will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven with difficulty. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into "God’s Kingdom". When the disciples heard it, they were exceedingly astonished, saying "Whoo-then" can "be-saved". Looking at them, Jesus said With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible. Then Peter answered, Behold, we have left everything and followed you. What then will we have? Jesus said to them, Most certainly I tell you that you who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on the throne of his glory, you also will sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. Everyone who has left houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for "Migh name’s" sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life. But many will be last who are first; and first who are last. For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. When he had agreed with the laborers for a "de-narius" a day, he sent them into his vineyard. He went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace. He said to them, You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you. So they went their way. Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did likewise. About the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle. He said to them, Why do you stand here all day idle? They said to him, Because "no-one" has hired us. He said to them, You also go into the vineyard, and you will receive whatever is right. When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager, Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first. When those who were hired at about the eleventh hour came, they each received a "de-narius". When the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; and they likewise each received a "de-narius". When they received it, they murmured against the master of the household saying, These last have spent one hour, and you have made them equal "to-us" who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat! But he answered one of them, Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a "de-narius"? Take that which is yours and go your way. It is my desire to give to "this-last" just as much as to "yew". Is it not lawful for me to do what I "want-to" with what I own"? Or is your eye evil because I am good? So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen. It came to pass when the days were near that he should be taken up, he intently set his face to go to Jerusalem, and sent messengers before his face. They went and entered into a village of the Samaritans, so as to prepare for him. They did not receive him, because he was traveling with his face set toward Jerusalem. When his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from the sky and destroy them just as "Elijah did"? But he turned and rebuked them, You do not know of what kind of spirit you are. For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them. They went to another village. As they went on the way, a certain man said to him, I want to "follow you" wherever "youGhoh Lord". Jesus said to him, The foxes have "holes", and the birds of the sky have "nests", but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head. He said to another Follow me! But he said Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father. But Jesus said to him, Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but "yew", go and announce "God's Kingdom". Another also said, I want to "follow you Lord", but first allow me to say good-bye to those who are at my house. But Jesus said to him, "No-one" having put his hand to the plow "and looking back", is fit for God's Kingdom. Now after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy others, and sent them two by two ahead of him into every city and place where he was about to come. He said to them, The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the laborers are few. Pray therefore to the Lord of the harvest that he may send out laborers into his harvest. Go your ways. Behold, I send you out as lambs among "wolves". Carry no purse, nor wallet, nor sandals. Greet "no-one" on the "way". Into whatever house you enter, first say, Peace be to this house. If a son of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; but if not, it will return to you. Remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Do not go from house to house. Into whatever city you enter, and they receive you, eat the things that are set before you. Heal the sick who are there, and tell them, God's Kingdom has come near to you. But into whatever city you enter, and they do not receive you, go out into its streets and say, Even the dust from your city that clings to us we wipe off "against you". Nevertheless know this, that God's Kingdom has come near to you. I tell you, it will be more tolerable in that day for Sodom "than-for that city". Woe to you "Corraisin"! Woe to you Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in "yew", they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for "yew". You "Cap Ernay-um" who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to Hades. Whoever listens to you listens to "Mee", and whoever rejects you rejects "Mee". Whoever rejects "Mee" rejects him who sent me. They went forth. "Wharrh a rose" in heaven: Michael and his angels fighting against the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought; but they were defeated, and there was no longer any place for them in heaven; and the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent who is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. The seventy returned with "joy", saying Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name! He said to them, I saw that Satan had fallen like lightning from heaven. Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy. "Nothing" will in any way hurt you. Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven. In that same hour, Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, I thank you "O Father" Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. "Yes Father". for so it was well-pleasing in your sight. Turning to the disciples he said, All things have been delivered to me by my Father. "No-one" knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son desires to reveal him. Turning to the disciples he said privately, Blessed are the eyes which see the things that "yew see", for I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see the things which you "see" and did not see them, and to "hear" the things which you hear and did not hear them. Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? He said to him, What is written in the law? "How-do-you" "ree-dit". He answered, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself. He said to him, “You have answered correctly. "Dew" this and you will live. "But he", desiring to "justify himself", asked Jesus: "Who" is my "neighbor". Jesus answered: A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers who both stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead. By chance a certain priest was going down that way. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side. In the same way a Levite also, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a certain Samaritan as he traveled came where he was. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion, came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. He set him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him. On the next day when he departed, he took out two denarii, gave them to the host, and said to him, Take care of him. Whatever you spend beyond that, I will repay you when I return. Now which of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbor to him who fell among the robbers? He said, He who showed mercy on him. Then Jesus said to him, Go and do likewise. As they went on their way, he entered into a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house. She had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus's feet and heard his word. But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she came up to him and said, Lord, do you not care that my sister left me to serve alone? "Ask-her" therefore to help me. Jesus answered her, Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken "away-fromher". When he finished praying in a certain place, one of his disciples said to him, Lord, Teach us to pray, just as John also "Taught-his" disciples. He said to them, When "yew-pray": say, "Our Father" in heaven, may your name be "kept-holy". May your "Kingdom come". May "your-will" be done on "earth" as it is in heaven. Give us day by day our daily bread. Forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted "to-us". Bring us "not-into" temptation but "deliver us" from the evil one. He said to them, "Which-of-you" if you go to a friend at midnight and tell him, Friend, lend me three loaves of bread, for a friend of mine has come to me from a journey and I have nothing to set before him, and he from within will answer and say, Do not bother me, The door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed, I cannot get up and "give it" to you. I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence his importunity, he will get up and give him as many as he needs. I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you; Keep seeking, and you will find; Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives: He who seeks finds: To him who knocks it will be opened. Which of you fathers if your son asks for bread will give him a stone. Or if he asks for a fish, he will not give him a snake instead of a fish "will he". Or if he asks for an "egg", he will not give him a scorpion "will he". If you then being evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him? He was casting out a demon, and it was mute. When the demon had gone out, the mute man "spoke", and the multitudes "marveled". But some of them said He casts out demons "by Be-elzebul", the prince of the demons. Others "testing him" sought from him a sign from heaven. "But he", knowing their "thoughts", said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation. A house divided against itself falls. If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom "stand", for you say that I cast out demons by "Be-elzebul". But if I cast out demons by "Be-elzebul", by whom do your children cast them out. Therefore "they-will" be your judges. But "if Aye", by "God’s finger" cast out demons, then God's Kingdom has come to you. When the "strong-man", fully "armed", guards his own dwelling, his goods are "safe". But when someone stronger attacks him and overcomes him, he takes from him his whole armor in which he trusted, and divides his plunder. "Hee that" is not "with me" is against me. He who does not gather with me scatters. "The unclean spirit" when he has gone out of the man "passes through dry places" seeking "rest"; and finding none, he says I will turn back to my house from which I came out. When he returns, he finds it swept and put in order. Then he goes and takes seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they "enter-inn" and "dwell" there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first. It came to pass As he "said these things", a certain woman out of the multitude lifted up her voice and said to him, Blessed is the womb that "bore" you, and the "breasts" which nursed you! But he said, "Yes", "evenmore", blessed are those who hear the word of God, and "keepit". (And indeed, the Gospel of God proclaims that all generations shall call his mother "Mary" blessed, she who "believed". For "she kept" all these things and pondered them in her heart. Whoever curses whom God has blessed is cursed, "except they" repent, as the Lord said to Abraham: I will bless those who bless you, and curse him who curses you.) When the multitudes were gathering together to him he began to say, This is an evil generation. It seeks after a sign. No sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet. For even as Jonah became a sign to the "Ninnevvites", so the Son of Man will also be to this generation. The Queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation and will condemn them: for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, one greater than Solomon is here. The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation and will condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, one greater than Jonah is here. "No-one" when he has lit a lamp puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on a stand, that those who "come inn" may see the light. The lamp of the body is "thee ighee". Therefore when your eye is good, your whole body is also full of light; but when it is evil, your body also is full of darkness. Therefore, see whether the light that is in you is not darkness. If therefore your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be "wholly" full of light, as when the lamp with its bright shining gives you light. Now as he spoke, a certain Pharisee asked him to dine with him. He went "in", and sat at the table. When the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first washed himself before dinner. The Lord said to him, Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness. "You foolish" ones, did not he who made the outside make the inside also? But give for alms as gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you. But woe to you Pharisees, For you tithe mint, and "rhew", and every "erb", but you bypass justice and God’s love. You ought to have done these and not to have left the other undone. Woe to you Pharisees, For you love the best seats in the synagogues and the greetings in the marketplaces. Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like hidden graves, and the men who walk over them do not "know" it. One of the lawyers answered him, Teacher, in "saying" this "you insult us" also. "He said" Woe to you lawyers also! For you load men with burdens that are difficult to carry, and you yourselves will not even lift one finger to help carry those burdens. Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets and your fathers killed them. So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers. For "they killed" them, and "yew" build their tombs. Therefore also the wisdom of God said, I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will kill "and-persecute", that the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation; from the blood of "Abel" to the blood of "Zachariah" who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. "Yes" I tell you, it will be required of this generation. Woe to you lawyers, For you took away the key of knowledge. You did not "enter in" yourselves, and those who were "entering in" you hindered. As he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him; lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him. Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is "hypocrisy". But there is nothing covered up that will not be revealed, nor hidden that will not be known. Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light. What you have spoken in the ear in the inner rooms, will be proclaimed on the "housetops". I tell you my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, "and afterthat" have no more that they can do. But I will warn you whom you should fear. "Fear him" who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna. Yes I tell you, fear him. Are five sparrows not sold for two assaria coins"? Not one of them is forgotten by God. But the very hairs of your head are all counted. Therefore do not be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows. I tell you, everyone who confesses me before men, the Son of Man will also confess before the angels of God; but he who denies me in the presence of men, will be denied in the presence of God’s angels. Everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but those who blaspheme against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven. When they bring you before the synagogues the rulers and the authorities, do not be anxious how or what you will answer, or what you will say; for the Holy Spirit will Teach you in that same hour "what you must" say. One of the multitude said to him, Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me. But he said to him, Man, who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you? He said to them "be where": Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life does not consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses. He spoke a parable to them saying, The ground of a certain rich man produced "abundantly". He reasoned within himself saying, What will I do, because I do not have room to "store my crops". He said, This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, build "bigger" ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. I will tell my soul, Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your "ease", eat, drink, and be merry. But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared: Whose will they be? So is "he" who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God. He said to his disciples, Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing. Consider the ravens: they do not sow, they do not reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds! Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his height. If then you are not able to do even the least things, why are you anxious about the rest? Consider the "lilies", how they grow. They do not toil, neither do they spin; yet I tell you even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like "one-of" these. But if this is how God clothes the grass in the field which today exists and tomorrow is cast into the oven, how much more will he clothe "yew", O you of little faith. Do not seek what you will eat, or what you will drink; neither be anxious, For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you "need" these things. But seek God's Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you. Do not be afraid little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom. Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which do not grow old, a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Let your loins be girded and your lamps burning. Be like "men watching" for their Lord when he returns from the "wedding feast"; that when he comes and knocks they may immediately open to him. "Blessed" are those servants whom the Lord will find "watching" when he comes. Most certainly I tell you that "he will dress himself", make them recline, and will come and "serve them". They will be "blessed" if he comes in the second or third watch and "finds them sew". But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have "watched", and not allowed his "house" to be "broken into". Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you do not expect him. Peter said to him, Lord, are you telling this parable to "us", or to everybody? The Lord said, "Whoo-then" is the faithful and wise steward whom his Lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times. Blessed is that servant whom his Lord will find doing so when he comes. Truly I tell you, that he will set him over all that he has. But if that servant says in his heart, My Lord delays his coming, and begins to beat the "men-servants" and the "maid-servants", and to eat and drink and to be drunken, then the Lord of that servant will come in a day when he is not expecting him, and in an hour that he does "not-know", and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful. That servant who knew his Lord’s will, and did not prepare nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes, but he who did not know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked. I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled. But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am before it is accomplished! Do you think that I have come to give peace in the earth"? I "tellyou no", but rather division. For from now on there will be five in one house, divided three against two, and two against three. They will be "divided", father against son, and son "againstfather", mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law "against-her mother" "inlaw". He said to the multitudes also, When you see a cloud rising from the west, immediately you say A shower is coming, and so it happens. When a south wind blows, you say There will be a scorching heat, and it happens. You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how is it that you do not interpret this time? Why do you not judge for yourselves what is right. For when you are going with your adversary before the magistrate, try "diligently" on the way to be released from him, lest perhaps he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison. I tell you, you will by no means get out of there before you have paid the very last penny. Now there were some present at the same time, who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. Jesus answered them, Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered such things"? I "tellyou no", but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way. Or those "eight-teen" on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them; do you think that they were worse offenders than all the men who dwell in Jerusalem"? I "tellyou no", but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way. He spoke this parable. A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none. He said to the "vine" dresser, Behold, these three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and found none. Cut it down, Why does it waste the soil? He answered, Lord, leave it alone this year also while I dig around it and fertilize it. If it bears fruit, fine; but if not, "after that" you can cut it down. He was Teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath day. Behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years. She was "bent over" and could in no way straighten herself up. When Jesus saw her, he called her and said to her, Woman, you are freed from your infirmity. He laid his hands on her, and immediately she stood up straight and glorified God. The ruler of the synagogue being indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the multitude, There are "six" days in which men ought to work. Therefore come on "those-days" and be healed, "and not" on the "Sabbath" day! Therefore the Lord answered him, You hypocrites! Does each one of you not free his ox or his donkey from the stall on the Sabbath, and "leed" him away to water"? Ought not "this woman" being a "daughter of Abraham", whom Satan had bound eighteen long years, be freed from this bondage on the Sabbath day"? As he said these things, all his adversaries were disappointed, and all the multitude rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him. He said: What is God's Kingdom "like". To what shall I "com-pairit". It is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and put in his own garden. It grew and became a large tree, and the birds of the sky "liv" in its branches. Again he said: To what shall I "compare God's Kingdom". It is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, not stopping before it was all leavened. He went on his way through cities and villages, Teaching, and traveling on to Jerusalem. One said to him, Lord, are they few who are saved? He said to them, Strive to "enter inn" by the narrow door, for many I tell you will seek to "enter inn", and will not be able. When once the master of the house has risen up and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door saying "Lord", Lord, open to us! then he will answer and tell you, I do not know you or where "you come" from. Then you will begin to say, We "eight" and drank in your presence, and you Taught in our streets. He will say, I tell you I do not know where "you come" from. "Depart from me" all you workers of iniquity. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth "when you see Abraham", Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in God's Kingdom, and yourselves being thrown outside. They will come from the east, west, north, and south, and will sit down in God's Kingdom. Behold, there are some who are "last" who will be "first", and there are some who are first who will be last. On that same day, some Pharisees came saying to him, "Get-out-of here" and "go-away" for Herod wants to "kill you". He said to them, Go and "tellthat fox", Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures "today and tomorrow"; "and-the" "third-Daye" I complete my mission. Nevertheless, I must go "on my way" today and tomorrow and the next day; for it cannot be that a prophet would perish outside of Jerusalem. Jerusalem: Jerusalem: you who kills the prophets and stones those who are "sent-tooher", How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings and you "refused"! Behold, your house is left to you "desolate". I tell you, "you will not see me" before you say "Blessed" is he who "comes" in the name of the Lord! When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him. Behold, a certain man who had dropsy was in front of him. Jesus "answering" spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees saying, Is it "lawful" to heal on the "Sabbath". But they were silent. He took him and "healed him", and let him "go". He answered them, "Which-of Yew" if your son or an ox fell into a well would not immediately pull him out on a "Sabbath" day. They could not answer him regarding these things. He spoke a parable to those who were invited when he noticed how they chose the best seats, and said to them, When you are invited by anyone to a wedding feast, do not sit in the best seat, since perhaps someone more honorable than you might be invited by him, and he who invited both of you would come and tell you, Make room for this person. Then you would begin with shame to take the lowest place. But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes, he may tell you, Friend, move up higher. Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at the table with you. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted. He also said to the one who had invited him, When you make a dinner or a supper, do not call your friends, nor your brethren, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor and pay you back. But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the "laim", or the blind; "and you will be blessed"; because they do not have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous. When one of those who sat at the table with him heard these things, he said to him, "Blessed" is "he" who will "feast" in "God's Kingdom"! But he said to him, A certain man made a great supper, and he invited many people. He sent out his servant at supper time to tell those who were invited, Come, for everything is ready now. They all as one began to make excuses. The first said to him, I have bought a field and I must go "and see-it", Please have me excused. Another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen and I must go "try them out", Please have me excused. Another said, I have married a wife and therefore I cannot come. That servant came and "told" his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor, maimed, blind, and "laim". The servant said, Lord, it is done as you commanded and there is still room. The lord said to the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges and "compel" them to come in, that my house may be filled. For I tell you that none of those men who were invited will taste of my supper. He departed from there and continued on his journey to Jerusalem. Great crowds of the people followed him. Click here to go to the next page.	normal print text

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narrative form Reading time 2 hours 16 minutes "They were on-the-Way"; going up to Jerusalem: and Jesus was going in front of them. and they were "amazed"; and those who followed were afraid. He again took the twelve and began to tell them the things that were going to happen to him. Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes. They will condemn him to death and will deliver him to the Gentiles. They will mock him, spit on him, scourge him, and kill him. On the "Third Daye", he will rise again. Now great multitudes were going with him. He turned and said to them, If anyone comes to me and does not disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brethren, and sisters, yes and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me, cannot be my disciple. For which of you desiring to build a tower, "does not first sit down and count the cost" to see if he has enough to "complete-it". Or perhaps when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him saying, "This man began to build" and was not able to finish. Or what "king", as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand, to meet "him who comes against him with twentythousand": Or else while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy and asks for conditions of peace. So therefore whoever of you who does not renounce all that he has, he cannot be my disciple. Salt is good, but if the salt becomes flat and tasteless, with what do you season it? It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile. It is "thrown-out". He who has ears to hear, let him hear. Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him. The Pharisees and the scribes murmured saying, This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them. He told them this parable. Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep and lost one of them, would not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness "and go after the one that was lost without rest" before he "foundit". When he has found it, he carries it on his shoulders rejoicing. When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors saying to them, "Re-joice with me": for I have found my sheep which was lost! I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who "need" no repentance. Or what woman, if she had ten drachma coins, if she lost one drachma coin, would not light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently without rest before she "found-it". When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors saying, "Re-joice with me", for I have found the drachma which I had lost. Even "sew" I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting. He said "A certain man" had two sons. The younger of them said to his father, Father, "give me my share of your property". He divided his livelihood between them. Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living. When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country and he began to be in need. He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields "to-feed pigs". He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but "no-one" gave him any. But when he came to himself he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I am dying with hunger! I will get up, and go to my father, and will tell him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight. I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants. He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck and kissed him. The son said to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son. But the father said to his servants, Bring out the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet. Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat and celebrate; for "this" my "son" was "dead", and is "alive again". He was "lost", and is found. Then they began to celebrate. Now his elder son was in the field. As he came near to the house he heard music and dancing. He called one of the servants to him and asked what was going on. He said to him Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf "because he has received him back safe and healthy". But he was angry and would not "go-inn". Therefore his father came out, and begged him. But he answered his father: Behold, these many years I have "served you", and I never disobeyed a "commandment of yours", but you never "gave me a goat" that I might celebrate with my friends. But when "this", your "son", came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened "calf for-him". He said to him, Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours. But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for "this" your "brother" was "dead", and is "alive" again. He was "lost", and is found. He also said to his disciples, There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions. He called him, and said to him, What is this that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager. The manager said within himself, What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I do not have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg. I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from management, they may receive me into their houses. Calling each one of his lord’s debtors to him, he said to the first, How much do you owe to my lord? He said, A hundred batos of oil. He said to him, Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty. Then he said to another, How much do "you whoh"? He said, A hundred cors of wheat. He said to him, Take your bill, and write eighty. His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are in their "own" generation "wiser" than the children of the light. I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents. He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much. If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? If you have not been faithful in that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own? No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You are not able to serve God and Mammon. This was the pagan personification of "gain". The Pharisees who were lovers of money also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him. He said to them, "Yew" are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God. The law and the prophets were up unto the day of John. From that time the Proclamation of God’s Kingdom is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it. But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the law of Moses to fall. Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery. Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day. A certain beggar named Lazarus, was taken to his gate, full of sores, and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores. The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried. In Hades, he lifted up his eyes being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom. He cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, For I am in anguish in this flame. But Abraham said, Son, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in the same way, bad things. But "here", he is now comforted, and you are in anguish. Besides all this, between us and you, there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you, are not able, and that no one may cross over from there, "to us". He said, I ask you therefore father, that you would send him to my father’s house; for I have five brethren, that he may testify to them, so they will not "also" come into this place of torment. But Abraham said to him, They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them. He said, "No" father Abraham, but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent. He said to him, If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead. He said to the disciples, It is impossible that no occasions of offense should come, but woe to him through whom they come! It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to falter. Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him. If he sins against you seven times in the day, and seven times returns saying, I repent: you shall forgive him. The apostles said to the Lord, "In crease our-Faith". The Lord said, If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you would tell this sycamore tree, Be uprooted and be planted in the sea, and it would obey you. But who is there among you having a servant plowing or keeping sheep, that will say when he comes in from the field, Come immediately and sit down at the table, and will not rather tell him, Prepare my supper, clothe yourself properly and serve me while I eat and drink, afterward you shall eat and drink. Does he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded? I think not. Even so, "yew" also, when you have done all the things that are commanded you, say We are unworthy servants, We have done our duty. As he was on his way to Jerusalem, he was passing along the borders of Samaria and Galilee. As he entered into a certain village, ten men who were lepers met him, who stood at a distance. They lifted up their voices saying, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us! When he saw them he said to them, Go and show yourselves to the priests. As they went, they were cleansed. One of them, when he saw that he was healed turned "back", glorifying God with a loud voice. He fell on his face at Jesus’s feet giving him thanks; and he was a Samaritan. Jesus answered, Were not the ten cleansed? But where are the nine? Were there none found who returned to give glory to God except this foreigner? Then he said to him, "Get-up", and go your "way". Your faith has healed you. Being asked by the Pharisees when God’s Kingdom would come, he answered them, God’s Kingdom does not come with observation; neither will they say Look here, or Look there! for behold, God’s Kingdom is in the midst of you. He said to the disciples, The days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not "see-it". They will tell you Look here, or Look there! Do not go away or follow after them, for as the lightning when it flashes out of one part under the sky, shines to another part under the sky; so will the Son of Man be in his "day". But first, he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation. "As it wuzz" in the days of Noah, even so will it be also in the days of the Son of Man. They ate, they drank, they married, and they were given in marriage, up to the day that Noah entered into the ship, and the flood came and destroyed them all. Likewise, even "as it wuzz" in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky and destroyed them all. It will be the same way in the day that the Son of Man is revealed. In that day, he who will be on the housetop and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away. Let him who is in the field likewise not turn back: remember Lot’s wife. Whoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses his life preserves it. I tell you, in that night there will be two people in one bed. One will be taken and the other will be left. There will be two grinding grain together. One will be taken and the other will be left. Two will be in the field: the one taken and the other left. They answering asked him, "Whair" Lord. They asked him, Where are they taken. He said to them, Where the "corpse is", there the "vultures" will also be gathered together. "No-ah" was left. "Lot" was left. Indeed, the scriptures consistently show us that the wicked are taken away and destroyed in death, dead corpses "awl", and all the birds of the air were filled with their flesh, and the "righteous" are left alive. He also spoke a parable to them, that they must always pray and not give up, saying, There was a judge in a certain city who did not fear God, and did not respect man. A widow was in that city, and she often came to him saying, "De-fendme" from "myadversary". He would not for a while, but afterward he said to himself, Though I neither fear God, nor respect man, yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else she will wear me out by her continual "coming". The Lord said, Listen to what the unrighteous judge says. Will God not avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them? I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find "faith-on-the-earth"? He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others. Two men went up into the Temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a "tax" collector. The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: God, I "thank you" that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this "tax" collector. I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get. But the "tax" collector, standing far away, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast saying, God, be merciful to me a sinner! I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted. They were also bringing their helpless little babies-in-arms to him, that he might touch them. But when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them. Jesus summoned them saying, Allow the little children to come to me, and do not hinder them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these. Most certainly I tell you, whoever does not receive God’s Kingdom like a little child, he will in no way enter into it. A certain ruler asked him saying, Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? Jesus asked him, Why do you call me good? No one is "good except" One. God. You know the commandments: Do not commit adultery, Do not murder, Do not steal, Do not give false testimony, Honor your father and your mother. He said, I have observed all these things from my youth up. When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. Then you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me. But when he heard these things, he became very sad, for he was very rich. Jesus, seeing that he became very sad, said, How hard it is for those who have riches to enter into God’s Kingdom! For it is easier for a camel to enter in through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to "enter into God’s" Kingdom. Those who heard it said, Then who can be saved? But he said, The things which are impossible with men, are possible with God. Peter said, Look, we have left everything and followed you. He said to them, Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brethren, or parents, or children, for God’s Kingdom’s sake, who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life. He took the twelve aside, and said to them, Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written through the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be completed. For he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, will be mocked, treated shamefully, "and spit" on. They will scourge and kill him. On the third day, he will rise again. They understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they did not understand the things that were said; and they were afraid to ask him. "Theywere-on" the Way; going up to Jerusalem: and Jesus was going in front of them, and they were "amazed"; and those who followed were afraid. As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside, and on the way he again said to them, Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death, and will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock, to scourge, and to crucify; and the third "day", he will be raised up. Now great multitudes were going with him. And he came near Jericho, eleven miles east of Jerusalem, surrounded by those who went in front, and those who followed. Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her "sons", kneeling and asking a certain thing of him. He said to her, What do you want? James and John the sons of Zebedee came near to him, saying Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we will ask. He said to them, What do you want me to "dew" for you? She said to him, Command that "these my two sons", may sit one on your right hand and one on your left hand "in your Kingdom". They said to him, Grant to us, that "we may sit" one at your right hand and one at your left hand in your glory. But Jesus said to them, You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that "Aye-am" about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that "Aye-am" baptized with? Are you able to drink the cup that "Aye drink", and to be baptized with the baptism that "Aye-am" baptized with? They said to him, We are able. He said to them, You will "indeed" drink my "cup", and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with, but to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it is for whom it has been prepared by my Father. Then Jesus said to them, You shall "indeed" drink the cup that "Aye drink", and "you shall" be baptized with the baptism that "Aye-am" baptized with; but to sit at my right hand and at my left hand is not mine to give, but for whom it has been prepared. When the ten heard it, they began to be indignant toward James and John; "they were indignant" with the "two-brethren". But Jesus summoned them, and said to them, "You know" that the rulers of the nations lord it over them, "and their" great ones exercise authority over "Thimb". You know that "they" who are recognized as "rulers-over-the-nations" "also lord" it over "Thimb", and "their-great" ones "also" exercise authority over "Thimb". But it shall not be so among "yew". Whoever "desires" to become great among you shall be your servant, whoever "desires" to be first among you shall be your "bond servant". Whoever "wants to become great-among-you" shall be your "servant", whoever of you "wants to become first-among-you" shall be bondservant of "awl"; even as the Son of Man came, not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many. For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many. As he came near Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the road, begging. Hearing a multitude going by, he asked what this meant. They told him that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by. He cried out, "Jesus": "true Son of David": have mercy on me! Those who were in front of the crowd in the way, rebuked him, that he should be quiet; but he cried out all the more, "True Son of David", have mercy on me! Standing still, Jesus commanded him to be brought to him. When he had come near, he asked him, What do you want me to do? He said, Lord, that I may see again. Jesus said to him, Receive your sight. Your faith has healed you. Immediately he received his sight, and followed him, glorifying God. All the people when they saw it praised God. They came to Jericho. He entered and was passing through Jericho. There was a man named Zacchaeus; he was a chief "tax" collector, and he was rich. He was trying to see who Jesus was, and could not, because of the crowd, because he was short. He ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was going to pass that way. When "Jesus came" to the place, he looked up and saw him, and said to him, Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at "yourhouse". He hurried, came down, and received him joyfully. When they saw it they all murmured saying, He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner. Zacchaeus stood, and said to the Lord, Behold Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much. Jesus said to him, Today salvation has "come" to this house, because he "also" is a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was "lost". As they heard these things, he "went-on" and "told a parable" because he was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that God’s Kingdom would be revealed immediately. "He said" therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return. He called ten servants of his, and gave them ten "myna" coins, and told them, Conduct business before I come. But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him saying, We do not want this man to reign over us. When he had come back again, having received the kingdom, he commanded these servants to whom he had "given" the money to be "called" to him, that he might know what they had gained by conducting business. The first came before him saying, Lord, "your myna" has made "ten more" minas. He said to him, "Well-done" you good servant! Because you were found faithful with very little, you shall have authority over "ten cities". The second came saying, Your "myna" Lord has made "five minas". So he said to him, "And you-are" to be over "five cities". Another came saying, Lord, behold your "myna" which I kept laid away in a handkerchief; for I feared you, because you are an "exacting" man. You "take up-that" which you did not lay down, and "reap-that" which you did not "so". He said to him, Out of your own mouth I will judge you you wicked servant! "You knew" that I am an "exacting-man", taking up that which I did not "lay down", and reaping that which I "did not so"? Then why did you not deposit my money in the bank, and at my coming I might have earned "interest" on it. He said to those who stood by, Take the "myna" away from him and give it to him who has the ten minas. They said to him, "Lord" he has "ten minas"! For I tell you that to everyone who "has" will more be given; but from him who does not have, even "that which he has" will be taken away from him. But bring those enemies of mine who did not want me to reign over "them here", and kill them "before me". Having said these things, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. As he went out from Jericho with his disciples and a great multitude, Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road. When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry out and say, Jesus: true Son of David: have mercy on me! Many rebuked him that he should be quiet, but he cried out much more, "True Son of David" have mercy on me! Jesus stood still and said, Call him. They called the blind man saying to him, "Cheer-up: Get-up": He is calling you! He casting away his cloak, sprang up and came to Jesus. Jesus asked him, What do you want me to do for you? The blind man said to him, "Rabbo-nigh", that I may see again. Jesus said to him, Go your "way". Your faith has made you well. Immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus on the "way". As they went out from Jericho a great multitude followed him. Behold, two blind men sitting by the road, when they heard that Jesus was passing by, cried out, "Lord": have mercy on us, "true Son of David"! The multitude rebuked them, telling them that they should be quiet, but they cried out even more: "Lord": have mercy on us, "true Son of David"! Jesus stood still and called them, and asked, What do you want me to do for you? They told him, "Lord", that our eyes may be opened. Jesus being moved with compassion touched their eyes; and immediately their eyes received their sight, and they followed him. Jerusalem was eleven miles ahead. Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister Martha. "It was that-Mary" who had anointed the Lord with costly ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, "whose brother Lazarus" was sick. The sisters therefore sent to him saying, Lord, behold, "he-for-whom" you have great affection is sick. But when Jesus heard it he said, This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God’s "Son" may be "glorified byit". Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. When therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days in the place where he was. Then after this he said to the disciples, Let us go into Judea again. The disciples asked him, Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you. Are you going there again? Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours "of daylight"! If a man walks in the day, he does not falter because he sees the light of this world. But if a man walks in the night he falters, because the light is not "inhymn". He said these things, and "after that", he said to them, Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him "out-of-sleep". The disciples therefore said, Lord, if he has fallen asleep he will recover. Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he spoke of taking rest in sleep. So Jesus said to them plainly then, Lazarus is dead. I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless, let us go to him. Thomas therefore who is called "Diddymuss" (which is interpreted the Twin) said to his fellow disciples, Let us go also, that we may die with him. Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia away (which is almost exactly one and seven tenths miles). So when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb four days already. Many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary to console them concerning their brother. Then when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary stayed in the house. Therefore Martha said to Jesus, Lord, if you would have been here, my brother would not have died. Even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you. Jesus said to her, Your brother will rise again. Martha said to him, I "know" that he will rise again in the "resurrection", at the "Last Daye". Jesus said to her, "Aye-am" the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies. Whoever lives and believes in me will never die forever. Do you believe this? She said to him, Yes Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, God’s Son, he who comes into the world. When she had said this, she went away and called Mary her sister secretly saying, The Teacher is here and is calling you. When she heard this, she arose quickly and went to him. Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha met him. Then the Jews who were with her in the house and were consoling her, when they saw Mary that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her saying, She is going to the tomb to "weep there". Therefore when Mary came to where "Jesus wuzz" and "saw-him", she fell down at his feet, saying to him, Lord, if you would have been here, my brother would not have died. When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit and was troubled, and said, Where have you laid him? They told him, Lord, come and see. Jesus "wept". The Jews therefore said, See how much affection he had for him! Some of them said, Could not this man who opened the eyes of him who was blind have also kept this man from dying? Jesus therefore, again groaning in himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it. Jesus said, Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to him, Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days. Jesus said to her, Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see God’s glory? So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, Father, I thank you that you listened to me. I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude standing around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me. When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus", "come out"! He who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus said to them, Free him, and let him go. Therefore many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what "Jesus-did", believed in him. But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them the things which Jesus had done. The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council and said, What are we doing, For this man does many signs. If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our Holy Place and our nation. But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, You know nothing at all, nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish. Now he did not say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation, and not for the nation only, but that he might also "gather together into one" the children of God who are scattered abroad. So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death. Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed from there into the country near the wilderness of Judea, ten miles north of Bethany, to a city called Ephraim. He stayed there with his disciples. Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand. Many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover to purify themselves. Then they sought for Jesus and spoke with one another as they stood in the Temple, What do you think. that he is not coming to the feast at all? Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize him. And when he came near to "Beth-phage" and Bethany, when they came near to Jerusalem, at the mountain that is called Olivet, the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples, saying to the one, Go your way into the village that is on the other side, in which as you enter you will find a colt tied, which no man had ever sat upon. Untie it and "bring-it". If anyone asks you Why are you "untie-ing" it, say to him: The Lord "needsit". He said to the other of them, Go your way into the village that is opposite you. Immediately as you enter into it, you will find a young donkey tied on which no one has sat. Untie him and bring him. If anyone asks you Why are you doing this, say The Lord needs him; and immediately he will send him back here. Those who were sent went away and found things just as he had told them. They went away, and found a young donkey tied at the door outside in the open street, and they untied him. As they were "untie-ing" the colt its owners said to them, Why are you "untie-ing" the colt? Some of those who stood there asked them, What are you doing "untie-ing" the young donkey? They said, The Lord "needsit". They said to them just as Jesus had said, and they let them go. Then they brought it to Jesus. They brought the young donkey to Jesus and threw their garments on it. They threw their cloaks on the colt and sat Jesus on them, and Jesus sat on it. The crowd of disciples was with him. As he went, they spread their cloaks on the road. Many spread their garments on the way, and others were cutting down branches from the trees and spreading them on the road. Those who went in front and those who followed cried out, "Ho Sanna"! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the kingdom of our father David that is coming in the name of the Lord! "Hosanna" in the highest! "Hosanna" is a cry of adoration for a deliverer, "O-Save-Now". As he was now getting near at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works which they had seen, saying "Blessed" is the King who comes in the name of the Lord, Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest! Some of the Pharisees from the multitude said to him, Teacher, rebuke your disciples! He answered them, I tell you that if these were silent, the stones would cry out. When he came near, he saw the city and wept over it, saying, If "yew", even "yew", had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. For the days will come on you when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side, and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you did not know the time of your visitation. Then Jesus entered into the Temple in Jerusalem. When he had looked around at everything, it being now evening, he went out to Bethany with the twelve. It was Friday, the sixth day of the week, and the Sabbath was about to begin. Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany where Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. So they made him a supper there. Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with him. Therefore Mary took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed Jesus’s feet and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment. Then Judas "Isscariot" Simon’s son, one of his disciples, who would betray him, said Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor. Now he said this not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box used to steal what was put into it. But Jesus said, Leave her alone. She has kept this for the day of my burial. For you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have "Meeh". A large crowd therefore of the Jews learned that he was there and they came, not for Jesus’s sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead. But the chief priests conspired to put Lazarus to death also, because "on account of him" many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus. On the next day, the day after the Sabbath which is Sunday the first day of the week, when they had come out from Bethany he was hungry. Seeing a fig tree afar off up the road having leaves, he came to see if perhaps he might find "anything on it". When he came to it he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. Jesus told it, May no one ever eat fruit from you again! Let there be no fruit from you forever! And his disciples "heardit". Immediately the fig tree began to wither away. (But they did not perceive it before the morning of the second day.) A great multitude had come to the feast. When they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, they took the branches of the palm trees and went out to meet him, and cried out, "Hosanna"! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel! When they came near to Jerusalem, and came to "Beth-phage", to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus, with "foreknowledge" having found a young donkey, sent two disciples, saying to them, Go into the village that is opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a "colt with-her". Untie them and bring them to me. If anyone says anything to you, you shall say The Lord needs them, and immediately he will send them. All this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet "saying", Tell the daughter of Zion, behold, your King "comes to you", humble and riding on a donkey, and on a colt the foal of a donkey. The disciples went and did just as Jesus commanded them, and brought the donkey and the colt and laid their clothes on them; and he "sat on them". Jesus having thus found a young donkey sat on it, as it is written, Do not be "afraid" daughter of Zion. Behold, your "King comes", sitting on a donkey’s colt. His disciples did not understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him and that they had done these things to him. The multitude therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead was testifying about it. For this cause also the multitude went and met him, because they heard that he had done this sign. The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, See how you accomplish "nothing". Behold, the "world" has gone after him. A very great multitude spread their clothes on the road. Others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. The multitudes who went in front of him and those who followed kept shouting, "Hosanna" to the Son of David! "Blessed" is he who comes in the name of the Lord! "Hosanna in the highest". They came to Jerusalem, and when he had come into Jerusalem the ground trembled, and all the city was stirred up, saying "Who-is-this"? The multitudes said, This is the "Prophet": "Jesus", from Nazareth of Galilee. Jesus entered into the Temple of God. He entered into the Temple, and began to throw out those who sold and those who bought in the Temple, and overthrew the money changers’ tables, and the seats of those who sold the doves, and began to drive out those who bought and sold in it, and drove out all of those who sold and bought in the Temple, and overthrew the money changers’ tables and the seats of those who sold the doves, saying to them, It is written, My house is a house of "prayerh": but you have made it a den of "robbers"! He said to them, It is written, My house shall be called a house of "prayerh": but you have made it a den of "robbers"! He would not allow anyone to carry a container through the Temple. He Taught, "saying" to them Is it not written, My house will be called a house of "prayerh" for all the nations? But "yew" have made it a den of "robbers"! The chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him because all the multitude was astonished at his Teaching. The blind and the "laim" came to him in the Temple, and he healed them. But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children who were crying in the Temple and saying "Hosanna" to the Son of David, they were indignant, and said to him, Do you "hear what these are saying"? Jesus said to them, Yes. Did you never "reed", Out of the mouth of babes and nursing babies you have perfected praise? When evening came he left them, and went out of the city to Bethany, and camped there. It was now Sunday evening, and the beginning of "Monday" the second day of the week. He was "Teaching" daily in the Temple, but the chief priests, the scribes, and the leading men among the people sought to destroy him. They could not find what they might do, for all the people hung on to every word that he said. Now in the morning as he returned to the city he was hungry. This was the morning of Monday, the second day. As they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered away from the roots. Peter, remembering, said to him, Rabbi "look"! The fig tree which you cursed has withered away. When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, How did the fig tree immediately wither away? Matthew himself testified to this that Jesus had done to the fig tree on the day that he passed by and saw it, in a brief summary of remembering that moment, as it is written: Seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it, and found nothing on it but leaves. He said to it, Let there be no fruit from you forever! Immediately the fig tree withered away. When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, How did the fig tree immediately wither away? Jesus answered them, Most certainly I tell you, if you have faith, and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you told this mountain, Be taken up and cast into the sea, it would be done. All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive. Have faith in God. For most certainly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, Be taken up and cast into the sea, and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is happening; he shall have "whatever he says". Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them. Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father who is in heaven, may also forgive you "your-transgressions". But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive "your-transgressions". They came again to Jerusalem, and as he was walking in the Temple, the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders came to him, and they began saying to him, By what authority do you "do these things"? Or who gave you this authority to do these things? Jesus said to them, I will ask you one question. Answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things. The baptism of John. was it from "heaven" or "from men"? Answer me. They reasoned with themselves saying, If we should say From heaven; he will say Why then did you not believe him. If we should say From men: they feared the people, for all held John to really be a prophet. They answered Jesus, We do not know. Jesus said to them, Neither do I tell "yew-by" what authority I do these things. When he had come into the Temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was seated Teaching, and said, By what authority do you "do these things"? "Who gave you this authority". Jesus answered them, I also will ask you one question, which if you tell me, I likewise will tell "yew" by what authority I do these things. The baptism of John, where was it from? From heaven or from men? They reasoned with themselves saying, If we say From heaven, he will ask us Why then did you not believe him. But if we say From men, we fear the multitude, for all hold John as a prophet. They answered Jesus and said, We do not know. He also said to them, Neither will I tell "yew-by" what authority I do these things. But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first and said, Son, go work today in my vineyard. He answered I will not, but afterward he changed his mind "and went". He came to the second and said the same thing. He answered, I am "going" Sir, but he did not go. Which of the two did the will of his father? They said to him, The first. Jesus said to them, Most certainly I tell you that the "tax" collectors and the prostitutes are entering into God’s Kingdom before "yew". For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the "tax" collectors and the prostitutes believed him. When you saw it, you did not even "repent afterward" that you "might believe" him. "Hear-another" parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a wine press in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country. When the season for the fruit came near, he sent his servants to the farmers to receive his fruit. The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another. Again he sent other servants more than the first: and they treated "thimb" the same way. But afterward he sent to them his son, saying They will respect my son. But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, This is the heir. Come, let us "kill him" and seize his inheritance. So they took him and threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. When therefore the Lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers? "They-told-him", "He will miserably destroy" those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to "other" farmers who will give him the fruit in its season. Jesus said to them, Did you never "reed" in the Scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected was made the head of the corner: This was from the Lord, It is marvelous in our eyes? Therefore I tell you, God’s Kingdom will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation producing its fruit. He who falls on "this stone" will be broken to pieces, but on whomever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust. When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he spoke about "thimb". When they sought to seize him, to "lay hands on him", they feared the multitudes, because they considered him to be a prophet. On one of those days (that is the next day, Tuesday) as he was Teaching the people in the Temple and "preaching-the-Proclamation", the priests and scribes came to him with the elders. They asked him, "Tell us". By what "authority" do you do these things? "Or who is giving you" this authority. He answered them, I also will ask you one question. Tell me. the baptism of John, was it from "heaven", or from "men"? They reasoned with themselves saying, If we say From heaven, he will say Why did you not believe him. But if we say From men, all the people will "stone" us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet. They answered that they did not know where it was from. Jesus said to them, Neither will I tell "yew-by" what authority I do these things. He began to speak to them in parables. A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the wine press, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country. When it was time, he sent a servant to the farmer to get from the farmer his share of the fruit of the vineyard. They took him, beat him, and sent him away empty. Again, he sent another servant to them; and they threw stones at him, wounded him in the head, and sent him away "shamefully treated". Again he sent another; and they killed him; and many others, beating some, and killing some. Therefore still having one, his beloved son, he sent him last to them saying, They will respect my son. But those farmers said among themselves, This is the heir. Come, let us "kill him" and the inheritance will be ours. They took him, killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard. What therefore will the Lord of the vineyard do? He will come and "destroy" the farmers, and will give the vineyard to others. Have you not even read this Scripture: The stone which the builders rejected was made the head of the corner: This was from the Lord, It is marvelous in our eyes? They tried to seize him, to take hold of him, but they feared the multitude; for they perceived that he spoke the parable against them. He began to tell "the people" this parable. A man planted a vineyard, and rented it out to some farmers, and went into another country for a long time. At the proper season, he sent a servant to the farmers to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him and sent him away empty. He sent yet another servant, and they also beat "hymn" and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty. He sent "yetathird", and they also wounded him and threw him out. The Lord of the vineyard said, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be that seeing him they will respect him. But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves saying, This is the heir. Come, let us "kill him", that the inheritance may be ours. They threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What therefore will the Lord of the vineyard do to them? He will come and "destroytheezfarmers", and will give the vineyard to others. When they heard "that", they said "May-that-never-beeh"! But he looked at them and said, Then what is this that is written: The stone which the builders rejected was made the chief cornerstone. Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but it will crush whomever it falls on to dust. The chief priests and the scribes sought to "lay hands on him" that very hour, but they feared the people: for they knew he had spoken this parable against them. They left him: and went away. As the chief priests, the scribes and the elders left him, Jesus responded and spoke to the people again in parables saying, The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king who made a wedding feast for his son, and sent out his servants to call "those who were invited" to the "wedding feast", but they would not come. Again he sent out other servants saying, Tell those who are invited, "Behold" I have prepared my "dinner": My cattle and my fatlings are "killed" and all things are ready: "Come to-the wedding" feast! But they made light of it and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise, and the rest grabbed his servants and treated them "shamefully", and killed them. When the king heard "that", he was angry and sent his armies, "destroyed-those" murderers, and burned their city. Then he said to his servants, The wedding is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy. Go therefore to the intersections of the highways, and as many as you may find, "invite" to the "wedding" feast. Those servants went out into the highways and gathered together as many as they found, both bad and good. The wedding was filled with guests. But when the king came in to see the guests, he "saw there" a man who did not have on wedding clothing, and he said to him, Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing? He was speechless. Then the king said to the servants, Bind him "hand and foot". Take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness. That is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be. For many are called, but few "chosen". The "chief priests and the scribes" sought to "lay hands on him" that very hour, but they feared the people: for they knew he had spoken this parable against them. They watched him and sent out "spies" who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor. They asked him, Teacher, we know that you say and Teach what is right, and are not partial to anyone, but truly Teach the way of God. Is it "lawful" for us to pay taxes to "Caesar or" not. But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them, Why do you test me? Show me a "de-narius". Whose image and inscription are on it? They answered, "Caesar’s". He said to them, Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s. They were not able to trap him in his words before the people. They marveled at his answer, and were silent. Then the "Pharisees" went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk. They sent some of the Pharisees and the Herodians to him that they might trap him with words. They sent their disciples to him along with the "Herodians", instructing them and saying, Teacher, we know that you are honest, and Teach the way of God in truth, no matter "whom" you Teach, for you are not partial to anyone. "Tell us" therefore "what do you think"? Is it lawful to pay taxes to "Caesar" or not. This they were instructed to say. So when they had come they asked him, Teacher, we know that you are honest, and do not defer to anyone; for "yew" are not partial to anyone, but truly Teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to "Caesar" or not. Shall we give, or shall we not give? But he knowing their hypocrisy said to them, Why do you test me? Bring me a "de-narius", that I may "see-it". They went and "broughtit". Jesus perceived their wickedness and said, Why do you test me "you hypocrites"? Show me the "tax" money. They brought to him a "de-narius". He said to them, Whose is this image and inscription. They said to him, Caesar’s. He asked them, "Whose" is this "image-and-inscription"? They said to him, "Caesar’s". Then he said to them, Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s; Jesus answered them, Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s. When they heard it they marveled greatly at him, and left him and went away. For the coin had the image of Caesar, but "man" is the image of God. On that day Sadducees (those who say that there is no resurrection) came to him. They asked him saying, Teacher, Moses said, If a man dies having no children, his brother shall marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother. Now there were with us seven brethren. The first married and died, and having no offspring left his wife to his brother. In the same way the second also, and the third, to the seventh. After them all, the "woman" died. In the resurrection therefore, whose wife will she be of the seven? "For they all had" her. But Jesus answered them, You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like God’s angels in heaven. But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read that which was spoken to you by God, saying, I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead but of the living. When the multitudes heard it they were astonished at his Teaching. Some more Sadducees came to him. They asked him saying, Teacher, Moses wrote to us, If a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife behind him, and leaves no children, that his brother should take his wife and raise up offspring for his brother. There were seven brethren. The first took a wife, and dying left no offspring. The second took her, and died, leaving no children behind him. The third likewise; and the seven took her and left no children. Last of all, the woman "also" died. In the resurrection when they rise, whose wife will she be of them? For the seven had her as a wife. Jesus answered them, Is this not because you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God? For when they will rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. But about the dead that they are raised; have you not read in the book of Moses about the Bush, how God spoke to him saying, I am the God of Abraham the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob? He is not the God of the dead but of the living. You are therefore badly mistaken. One of the scribes came and heard them questioning together, and knowing that he had answered them well, asked him, Which commandment is the greatest of all? Jesus answered, The "greatestizz", "Hear-O-Israel", the Lord our God, the Lord is one: you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength. This is the first commandment. The second is like this, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these. The scribe said to him, Truly Teacher you have said well that he is one, and there is none other but he, and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. When Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, You are not far from God’s Kingdom. Some of the Sadducees came to him, those who deny that there is a resurrection. They asked him, Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man’s brother dies having a wife and he is childless, his brother should take the wife and raise up children for his brother. There were therefore seven brethren. The first took a wife and died childless. The second took her as wife and he died childless. The third took her, and likewise, the seven all left no children and died. Afterward the woman also died. Therefore in the resurrection, whose wife of them will she be? For the seven had her as a wife. Jesus said to them, The children of this age marry and are given in marriage. But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage. For they cannot die any more, for they are like the angels, and are children of God, being children of the resurrection. But that the dead are raised even Moses showed at the bush, when he called the Lord The God of Abraham the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. Now he is not the God of the dead but of the living, for all are alive to him. Some of the scribes answered, Teacher, you speak well. They did not dare to ask him any more questions. But the "Pharisees", when they heard that he had silenced the Sadducees gathered themselves together. One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question testing him. Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law? Jesus said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. A second likewise "izzthiss", You shall love your neighbor as yourself. The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments. No one dared ask him any question after that. Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question, saying, What do you think of the Christ? Whose son is he? They said to him, Of David. He said to them, How then does David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying The Lord said to my Lord, sit on my right hand, to the day I make your enemies a footstool for your feet. If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son? No one was able to answer him a word, neither did any man dare ask him any more questions from that day forward. Jesus answered their casuistry as he Taught in the Temple, How is it that the scribes say that the Christ the Anointed One is the son of David? For David himself said in the Holy Spirit, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand unto the day I make your enemies the footstool of your feet. Therefore David himself calls him Lord, so how can he be his son? The common people heard him gladly. In his Teaching he said to them, Beware of the scribes who like to walk in long robes, and to get greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and the best places at feasts: those who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation. He said to them, Why do they say that the Christ the Anointed One is David’s son? David himself says in the book of Psalms, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, to the day I make your enemies the footstool of your feet. David therefore calls him Lord, so how is he his son? In the hearing of all the people he said to his disciples, Beware of those scribes who like to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts; who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: these will receive greater condemnation. He looked up and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury. Jesus sat down opposite the treasury, and saw how the multitude cast money into the treasury. Many who were rich cast in much. A poor widow came, and she cast in two small brass coins, which equal a "quadrans" coin; He saw a certain poor widow casting in two small brass coins. He called his disciples to himself and said to them, Most certainly I tell you, this poor widow gave more than all those who are giving into the treasury, for they all gave out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty, gave all that she had to "lhiv-on". He said, Truly I tell you, this poor widow put in more than all of them, for all these put in gifts for God from their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, put in all that she had to "lhiv-on". Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in "Moses’s-seeht". All things therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do, but do not do their works; for they "say" and do not do. For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them. But they do all their works to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad, enlarge the fringes of their garments, and love the place of honor at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues, the salutations in the marketplaces, and to be called Rabbi, Rabbi, by men. But do not you be called Rabbi, for one is your Teacher, the Christ the Anointed One, and all of you are brethren. Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven. Neither be called masters, for one is your master, the Christ the Anointed One. But he who is greatest among you will be your servant. Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted. Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore "yew" will receive greater condemnation. But woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you do not "enter in" yourselves, neither do you allow those who are "entering in" to enter. Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one "prosselight"; and when he "becomes one", you make him "twice" as much a "son of Gehenna" as yourselves. "Woe" to you: "you blind guides", who say "Whoever swears" by the Temple it is nothing; but whoever swears by the "gold" of the Temple he is obligated. You blind fools! For which is "greater"? the gold or the Temple that sanctifies the gold. And whoever swears by the altar it is nothing, but whoever swears by "the gift" that is on it he is obligated. You blind fools! For which is "greater"? "the gift" or the altar that sanctifies the gift. "He-therefore" who swears by the altar swears "byyit", and by "everything on-it". He who swears by the Temple swears "byyit", and by him who has been living in it. He who swears by heaven swears by the "throne-of-God", and by him who sits on it. Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe "mint, dill, and cumin," and have "left undone" the weightier matters of the law: "justice, mercy, and faith". But you ought to have "done these" and not to have left the other undone. You "blind guides": who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel! Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but "within", they are full of extortion and unrighteousness. You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also. Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men’s bones and of all uncleanness. Even so "yew also" outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the tombs of the righteous "and say", "If we had lived" in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets. Fill up then the measure of your fathers. You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna? Therefore behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city; that "awn yew", may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel, to the blood of Zachariah son of "Barrach-eye-ah", whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar. Most certainly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation. Jerusalem, Jerusalem, "who-kills the prophets" and stones those who "are sent to" her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would "not"! Behold, your house is left to you desolate. For I tell you, you will not see me from now on, to the day you say Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! As he went out of the Temple, one of his disciples said to him, "Teacher" see what "kind of stones" and what "kind of buildings"! Jesus said to him, Do you see these great buildings: There will not be left here one stone on another which will not be thrown down. Jesus went out from the Temple and was going on his way. His disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the Temple. But he answered them, You see all of these things do you not? Most certainly I tell you, there will not be left here one stone on another that will not be thrown down. As some were talking about the Temple, and how it was decorated with beautiful stones and gifts, he said, As for these things which you see, the "days will come" in which there will not be left here one stone on another that will not be thrown down. They asked him, Teacher, so when will "these things" be? What is the "sign" that these things are about to happen? He said, Watch out that you do not get led astray, for many will come in my name saying I AM, and The time is at hand. Therefore do not follow them. When you hear of wars and disturbances, do not be terrified, for these things must happen first. but the end will not come immediately. Then he said to them, Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be great earthquakes, famines, and plagues in various places. There will be terrors and great signs from heaven. But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my "name’s sake". It will turn out as a testimony for you. Settle it therefore in your hearts not to meditate beforehand how to answer, for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict. You will be handed over even by parents, brethren, relatives, and friends. They will cause some of you to be put to death. You will be hated by all men for my "name’s sake", And not a hair of your head will perish. By your "endurance" you will win your lives. But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is at hand. Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let those who are in the middle of her depart. Let those who are in the country not enter therein. For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants in those days! For there will be great distress in the land, and wrath to this people. They will fall by the edge of the sword and will be led captive into all the nations. "Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles" to the day the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. There will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars; and on the earth anxiety of nations in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the waves; men fainting for fear and for expectation of the things which are coming on the world: for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. Then they will see the Son of Man "coming in a cloud" with power and great glory. But when these things begin to happen, look up, and lift up your heads, because your redemption is near. He told them a parable. See the fig tree and all the trees. When they are already budding, you see it and know by your own selves that the summer is already near. Even so you also, when you see these things happening, know that God’s Kingdom is near. Most certainly I tell you, this generation will not pass away before all things are accomplished. Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will by no means pass away. So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly. For it will come like a snare on all those who dwell on the surface of all the earth. Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man. As he sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the Temple, Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked him privately, Tell us, when will "these things" be? What is the "sign" that these things are all about to be fulfilled? Jesus answering began to tell them, Be careful that no one leads you astray. For many will come in my name saying, "Aye-yam". and will lead many astray. When you hear of wars and rumors of wars do not be troubled, For those must happen, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, There will be earthquakes in various places, There will be famines and troubles, These things are the beginning of birth pains. But watch yourselves: For they will deliver you up to councils, You will be beaten in synagogues, You will stand before rulers and kings for "my sake", for a testimony to them. The Procalmation must first be preached to all the nations. When they lead you away and deliver you up, do not be anxious beforehand or "pre-meditate" what you will say, but say whatever will be given you in that hour. For it is not you who speak but the Holy Spirit. Brother will deliver up brother to death and the father his child; Children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death. You will be hated by all men for my "name’s sake", but he who "endures to the end" will be saved. But when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet "standing where it ought not" (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, and let him who is on the housetop not go down nor "enter in" to take anything out of his house. Let him who is in the field not return back to take his cloak. But woe to those who are with child and to those who nurse babies in those days! Pray that your flight will not be in the winter. For in those days there will be horrifying distress, such as there has not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God created unto now, and never will be. Unless the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh would have been saved; but for the sake of the chosen ones whom he picked out, he shortened the days. Then if anyone tells you, Look, here is the Christ the Anointed One, or Look there, do not believe it. For there will arise false christs and false prophets and will show signs and wonders, that they may lead astray if possible even the chosen ones. But "yew": watch. Behold, I have told you all things beforehand. But in those days after that horrifying distress, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will be falling from the sky, and the powers that are in the heavens will be shaken. Then they will see the Son of Man "coming in clouds" with great power and glory. Then he will send out his angels and will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the sky. Now from the fig tree learn this parable. When the branch has now become tender and produces its leaves, you know that the summer is near. Even so you also, when you see these things coming to pass, know that it is near, at the doors. Most certainly I say to you, this generation will not pass away before all these things happen. Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. But of that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the son Israel, but only the Father. Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you do not know when the time is. It is like a man traveling to another country, having left his house and given authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch. "Watch" therefore, for you do not know when the Lord of the house is coming, whether at evening or at midnight, or when the rooster crows or in the morning; lest coming suddenly he might find you sleeping. What I tell "yew", I tell "awl": Watch. As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples his followers came to him privately saying, Tell us, when will "these things" be? What is the "sign of your coming", and of the end of the age? Jesus answered them, Be careful that no one leads you astray. For many will come in my name saying, I AM the Christ the Anointed One, and will lead many astray. You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled, for all this must happen, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be famines, plagues, and earthquakes in various places. But all these things are the beginning of birth pains. Then they will deliver you up to oppression and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my "name’s sake". Then many will falter and will deliver up one another and will hate one another. Many false prophets will arise and will lead many astray. Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold. But he who endures to the end will be saved. This Proclamation of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come. When therefore you see the abomination of desolation which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet "standing in the holy place" (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains: Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take out the things that are in his house: Let him who is in the field not return back to get his clothes. But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days! Pray that your flight will not be in the winter, nor on a Sabbath, for then there will be great suffering, such as has not been from the beginning of the world before now, no, nor ever will be. Unless those days had been shortened no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened. Then if any man tells you, "Behold" here is the Christ the Anointed One, or "There", do not believe it. For there will arise false christs and false prophets, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray if possible, even the chosen ones. Behold, I have told you beforehand. If therefore they tell you, "Behold" he is in the wilderness, do not go out; or "Behold" he is in the inner rooms, do not believe it. For as the lightning flashes from the east and is seen even to the west, so will the coming of the Son of Man be. For wherever the carcass is, that is where the vultures gather together. But immediately after the suffering of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken; and then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky. Then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory. He will send out his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other. Now from the fig tree learn this parable. When its branch has now become tender and produces its leaves, you know that the summer is near. Even so "yew also", when you see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. Most certainly I tell you, this generation will not pass away before all these things are accomplished. Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. But no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven, but my Father only. As the days of Noah were, so will the coming of the Son of Man be. For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage up to the day that Noah entered into the ship, and they did not know before the flood came and took them all away, so will the coming of the Son of Man be. Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken and one will be left. Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and one will be left. "Watch" therefore, for you do not know in what hour your Lord comes. But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into. Therefore you also be ready, for in an hour that you "do not expect" the Son of Man will come. Who then is the faithful and wise servant whom his Lord has set over his household to give them their food in due season? Blessed is that servant whom his Lord finds doing so when he comes. Most certainly I tell you that he will set him over all that he has. But if that evil servant should say in his heart, My Lord is delaying his coming, and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with the drunkards, the Lord of that servant will come in a day when he does not expect it, and in an hour when he does not know it, and will cut him in pieces, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. That is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be. Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish and five were wise. Those who were foolish when they took their lamps took no oil with them, but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. Now while the bridegroom "de layed", they all "slumberred" and slept. But at midnight there was a cry, Behold: The "bridegroom-is-coming": Come out to "meet him"! Then all those virgins "arose" and trimmed their lamps. The foolish said to the wise, Give us some of your "oil", for our lamps are going out. But the wise answered saying, What if there is not enough for us and "yew"? "Yugo" rather to those "who sell" and buy for yourselves. While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to "the wedding" feast, and the "door was shut". Afterward the other virgins also came saying, Lord Lord open to us. But he answered, Most certainly I tell you, I do not know you. Watch therefore. for you do not know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming. For it is like a man going into another country, who called his own servants and "entrusted his goods to" them. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to each according to his own ability. Then he went on his journey. Immediately he who received the five talents went and traded with them, and "made another five" talents. In the same way, he also who got the two, gained another two. But he who received the one talent went away and dug in the earth, and hid his Lord’s "money". Now after a long time the Lord of those servants came and reconciled accounts with them. He who received the five talents came and brought another five talents saying, Lord, you delivered to me five talents. Behold, I have gained another five talents in addition to them. His Lord said to him, Well done good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your Lord. He also who got the two talents came and said, Lord, you delivered to me two talents. Behold, I have gained another two talents in addition to them. His Lord said to him, Well done good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your Lord. He also who had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I "knew you" that you are a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter. I was "afraid" and went away and hid your talent in the earth. Behold, you have what is yours. But his Lord answered him, You wicked and slothful servant. You "knew" that I reap where I did not sow and gather where I did not scatter? You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest. Take away therefore the talent from him, and give it to him who has the "ten" talents. For to everyone who "has", will be given, and he will have abundance, but from him who does "not" have, even "that which he has" will be taken away. Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. But when the Son of Man comes in his glory and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. Before him all the nations will be gathered, and he will separate them one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Then the King will tell those on his right hand: "Come, Blessed-of-my-Father". inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; for I was hungry and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty and you gave me drink. I was a stranger and you took me in. I was naked and you clothed me. I was sick and you visited me. I was in prison and you came to me. Then the righteous will answer him saying, Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you; or thirsty and give you a drink? When did we see you as a stranger and take you in; or naked and clothe you? When did we see you sick, or in prison, and come to you? The King will answer them, Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to "Meeh". Then he will say also to those on the left hand, Depart from me you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels; for I was hungry and you did not give me food to eat; I was thirsty and you gave me no drink; I was a stranger and you did not take me in; naked and you did not clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you did not visit me. Then they will also answer saying, Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not help you? Then he will answer them saying, Most certainly I tell you, because you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to "Meeh". These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life. When Jesus had finished all these words, he said to his disciples, You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified. By all reckoning he said these things to them on Tuesday, the "third-day" of that week. Every day Jesus was Teaching in the Temple, and every night he would go out and spend the night on the mountain that is called Olivet. Everyone went to his own house, but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives with his disciples over the brook Kidron, where there was a garden, into which he and his disciples entered, for Jesus often met there with his disciples. Now very early in the morning, he came again into the Temple. And all the people came to him early in the morning, seeking Him in the Temple to hear Him there. He sat down and Taught them. The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the middle they told him, Teacher, we found this woman in adultery, in the very act. Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. What then do "yew" say about her? They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down and drew on the ground with his finger. But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first "stone at-her". Again he stooped down and drew on the ground with his finger. They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle. Jesus standing up saw her and said, Woman, where are your accusers? Did "no-one" condemn you? She said "No-one" Lord. Jesus said, "Neither-dew Aye" condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more. Now the feast of Unleavened Bread which is called the Passover was approaching. The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put him to death, for they feared the people. Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest who was called Caiaphas. They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit and kill him. But they said "Not during the feast" lest a riot occur among the people. It was now the fourth day of the week, Wednesday, two days before the feast of the Passover and the Unleavened Bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might seize him by deception and kill him. For they said Not during the feast, because there might be a riot among the people. Now when Jesus was in Bethany, while he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came to him having an alabaster jar of very expensive ointment, ointment of pure nard: very costly. She broke the jar and poured it over his head, and she poured it on his head as he sat at the table. But there were some who were indignant among themselves saying, Why has this ointment been wasted? For this might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor. So they grumbled "against-her". But Jesus said Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for me. For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want to you can do them good; but you will not always have "Meeh". She has done what she could; She has anointed my body beforehand for the burying. Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Proclamation may be preached throughout the whole world, that which this woman has done will also be spoken of for a "memorial" of her. But when his disciples "also" saw this they were indignant, saying Why this waste? For this ointment might have been sold for much and given to the poor. However, knowing this, Jesus said to them Why do you "trouble the-woman". She has done a good work for me. For you always have the poor with you; but you do not always have "Meeh". For in pouring this ointment on my body she did it to prepare me for burial. Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Proclamation is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of as a "memorial" of her. Then Satan entered into Judas, one of the twelve who was also called "Isscariot", Judas "Isscariot" who was counted with the twelve. Judas "Isscariot" who was one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests that he might deliver him to them. He went away and talked with the chief priests and captains about how he might deliver him to them. They, when they heard it were glad and agreed, and promised to give him money. He consented and said, What are you willing to give me that I should deliver him to you. They weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver. From that time he sought opportunity to betray him. He sought how he might conveniently deliver him, and sought an opportunity to deliver him to them in the absence of the multitude. Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up to worship at the feast. These therefore came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him saying, Sir, we want to see Jesus. Philip came and told Andrew, and in turn Andrew came with Philip, and they told Jesus. Jesus answered them, The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit. He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life. If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where "Aye-yam", there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him. Now my soul is troubled: What shall I say? Father "save me" from this time"? But I came to this time for this cause. "Father", glorify "your name"! Then a voice came out of the sky saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again. Therefore the multitude who stood by and heard it said that it had thundered. Others said An angel has spoken to him. Jesus answered, This voice has not come for "Migh" sake, but for "your-sakes". Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out. And "Aye", if "Aye-yam" lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself. But he said this signifying by what kind of death he should "Digh". The multitude answered him, We have heard out of the law that the Christ remains forever. How do you say The Son of Man must be lifted up. Who is this Son of Man? Jesus therefore said to them, Yet a little while the light is with you: Walk while you have the light, that darkness does not overtake you. He who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going. While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light. Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them. But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they did not believe in him, that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled which he spoke, Lord, who has believed our report? To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? For this cause they could not believe, for Isaiah said again, He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes and perceive with their heart and would turn, and I would heal them. Isaiah said these things when he saw his glory and spoke of him, saying. In the year that king "Uzz-zigh-ah" died, I saw the LORD sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the Temple. Above him stood the seraphim. "Each-one hadsix Wings". With two he covered his face. With two he covered his feet. With two he flew. One called to another and said, Holy: holy: holy is the LORD of Armies: The whole earth is full of his glory! The foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke. Then I said, Woe is "Meeh", For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Armies! Then one of the seraphim flew to me having a live coal in his hand which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar. He touched my mouth with it and said, Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin forgiven. I heard the LORD’s voice saying, Whom shall I send, and who will "go-for-us"? Then I said, Here I am. Send "Meeh"! He said, "Goh", and tell this people, You hear indeed but do not understand. You see indeed but do not perceive. Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and turn again and be healed. Then I said, Lord, how long? He answered, To the day cities are waste without inhabitant, houses without man, the land becomes utterly waste, and the LORD has removed men far away, and the forsaken places are many within the land. If there is a tenth left in it, that also will in turn be consumed. as a terebinth and as an oak whose stump remains when they are cut down, so the holy seed is its stock. Thus Isaiah saw his glory and spoke of him. And for this cause they could not believe in him. Nevertheless even many of the rulers believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess it, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue, for they loved men’s praise more than God’s praise. Jesus cried out and said, Whoever believes in me, believes not in "Meeh", but in him who sent me. He who sees "Meeh", sees him who sent me. I have come as a light into the world that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness. If anyone listens to my sayings and does not believe, I do not judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to "save the-world". He who rejects me and does not receive my sayings has one who judges him. The "word" that I spoke will judge him in the last day. For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say and what I should speak. I know that his commandment is eternal life. The things therefore which I speak, even as the Father has said to me, so I speak. The day of Unleavened Bread came, on which the Passover must be sacrificed. Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, knowing that he must be sacrificed, in sacrificing himself, prepared to be sacrificed. It was now the fifth day of that week, Thursday in the afternoon called the first evening of the approaching day of the Passover beginning at sundown. For the Jewish day begins between the first and second evenings with the setting of the sun and twilight, the beginning of each day: the evening and the morning are the beginning of each day. Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread, on the afternoon when they sacrificed the Passover, the disciples came to Jesus saying to him, Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover? His disciples asked him, Where do you want us to go and prepare that you may eat the Passover? He sent two of his disciples. Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare the Passover for us, that we may "eeght". They said to him, Where do you want us to prepare? He said, Go into the city to a certain person, and tell him, The Teacher says My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples. And he said to them, Go into the city, and there you will meet a man carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him, and wherever he "enters inn", tell the master of the house, The Teacher says, Where is the guest room where I may eat the Passover with my disciples? He will himself show you a large upper room furnished and ready. Get ready for us there. They did not understand. He said to them, Behold, when you have entered into the city, a man carrying a pitcher of water will meet you. Follow him into the house which he enters. Tell the master of the house, The Teacher says to you, Where is the guest room where I may eat the Passover with my disciples? He will show you a large furnished upper room. Make preparations there. The disciples did as Jesus commanded them. His disciples went out, and came into the city, and found things as he had said to them; they went, found things as Jesus had told them, and they prepared the Passover. Now just before the feast of the Passover, when the first evening of the coming day in the afternoon had come, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. When it was evening he came with the twelve; and they waited for sunset and twilight, that is the second evening, at the very beginning of the day of Passover. When the hour had come, he reclined at table with the twelve apostles, and they bring to mind and make "Prezent" the first Passover of the Lord. As it is written in the Law of Moses: That same night they shall eat its roasted flesh during the evening twilight with unleavened bread and bitter "erbs", not leaving any of it over before morning, nor breaking any of its bones, but observing all the rules of the Passover. It shall not be eaten raw or boiled, but roasted whole, with its head and shanks and inner organs. None of it must be kept beyond the next morning; whatever is left over in the morning shall be burned up. When your children ask you, What does this rite of yours mean? you shall reply, This is the Passover of the LORD, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt; when he struck down the Egyptians he spared our houses. This was a night of vigil for the LORD as he led them out of the land of Egypt; so on this same night all the Israelites must keep a vigil for the LORD throughout their generations. This is the law of Moses. He was reclining at the table with the twelve disciples. He said to them, I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer, for I tell you, I will no longer by any means eat of it before it is fulfilled in God’s Kingdom. He received a cup, and when he had given thanks, he said, Take this, and share it among yourselves, for I tell you, I will not drink at all again from the fruit of the vine before God’s Kingdom comes. As they reclined at table and were eating, he said, Most certainly I tell you, that one of you will betray me. The disciples were amazed at his words. Jesus said, Most certainly I tell you, one of you will betray me: he who eats with me. They began to be sorrowful, and to ask him one by one, Surely "naw-tiegh": And another said, Surely "naw-tiegh": He answered them, It is one of the twelve, he who dips with me in the dish. For the Son of Man goes even as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born. They were exceedingly sorrowful, and each began to ask him, It is not "Meeh is-it" Lord? He answered, He who dipped his hand with me in the dish will betray me. The Son of Man goes even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born. Judas who betrayed him answered, It is not "Meeh is-it" Rabbi? He said to him, You said it. As they were eating, he took bread. For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread. Jesus took bread, gave thanks for it, and when he had given thanks, when he had blessed, he broke. He broke it, and gave to them, and said, Take, "eeght": This is my body. He gave to the disciples and said, Take, "eeght": this is my body. And he gave it to them saying, This is my body which is given for you. Do this in "memory of Meeh". And said, Take, "eeght": This is my body, which is broken for you. Do this in "memory of Meeh". Likewise, in the same way he also took the cup after supper. He took the cup, gave thanks, and when he had given thanks, he gave to them saying, This cup is the new covenant in my "blood". Do this, as often as you drink, in "memory of Meeh". All of you drink it, for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins. But I tell you that I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on, before that day when I drink it anew with you in my "Father’s Kingdom". They all drank of it. He said to them, This is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many. Most certainly I tell you, I will no more drink of the fruit of the vine before that day when I drink it anew in "God’s Kingdom". This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you. But behold, the hand of him who betrays me is with me on the table. The Son of Man indeed goes as it has been determined, but woe to that man through whom he is betrayed! They began to question among themselves "which of them it was" who would "dew this thing". A dispute also arose among them, "which of them" was considered to be greatest. He said to them, The "kings of the nations" lord it over them, and those who have authority over "thimb" are called "Binneffactors". But not so with "yew". But one who is the greater among you, let him become as the younger, and one who is governing as one who serves. For who is greater, one who sits at the table, or one who serves? Is it not he who sits at the table? But I am among you as one who serves. But "yew" are those who have continued with me in my trials. I confer on you a kingdom, even as my Father conferred on "Meeh", that you may eat and drink at "my table" in my Kingdom. "You will sit on thrones" judging the twelve tribes of Israel. The Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have all of you that he might sift you all as wheat; but I prayed for "yew", that your faith would not fail. "Yew", when once you have turned again, "confirm" your brethren. He said to him, Lord I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death! He said, I tell you Peter, the rooster will by no means crow today before you deny that you know me three times. He said to them, When I sent you out without purse, wallet, and sandals, did you lack anything? They said "Nothing". Then he said to them, But now, whoever has a purse let him take it, and likewise a wallet. Whoever "has none", let him sell his cloak and buy a sword. For I tell you that "this which is written" must still be fulfilled in me: He was counted with transgressors. For that which concerns me has an end. They said, Lord behold, here are two swords. He said to them: That is enough. During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas "Isscariot" Simon’s son to betray him, Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came from God and was going to God, arose from supper and laid aside his outer garments. He took a towel, and wrapped a towel around his waist. Then he poured water into the basin and began to "washthedis cypulsfeet", and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him. Then he came to Simon Peter. He said to him, Lord, do "Yew" wash my feet? Jesus answered him, You do not know what I am doing now, but you will understand later. Peter said to him, "Yew will" never wash my feet! Jesus answered him, If I do not wash you, you have no part with me. Simon Peter said to him, Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head! Jesus said to him, Someone who has bathed "only needs" to have his "feet" washed, but is completely clean. You are clean: but not all of you. For he knew him who would betray him, therefore he said You are not all clean. So when he had washed their feet, put his outer garment back on and sat down again, he said to them, Do you know what I have done to you? You call me Teacher and Lord. You say so correctly, for so I AM. If "Aye-then", the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example that you should also do as I have done to "yew". Most certainly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his lord, neither is one who is sent greater than he who sent him. If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them. I do not speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me. From now on I tell you before it happens, that when it happens you may believe that I AM. Most certainly I tell you, he who receives whomever I send, receives "Meeh"; and he who receives "Meeh", receives him who sent me. When Jesus had said this, he was troubled in spirit and testified, Most certainly I tell you, that one of you will betray me. The disciples looked at one another, perplexed about whom he spoke. One of his disciples whom Jesus loved, was at the table leaning against Jesus’s breast. Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, and said to him, Tell us who it is of whom he speaks. "He, leaning back as he was" on Jesus’s breast "asked him", Lord, who "izzit"? Jesus therefore answered, It is he to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it. So when he had dipped the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas the son of Simon "Isscariot". After the piece of bread, then Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said to him, What you "dew", do quickly. Now nobody at the table knew why he said this to him. For some thought because Judas had the "money-box", that Jesus said to him, "Buy what" things we "need for the feast", or that he should give something to the poor. Therefore, having received that morsel, he went out immediately. It was night. When he had gone out Jesus said, Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in "hymn". If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him immediately. Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, Where I am going you cannot come, so now I tell "yew". A new commandment I give to you, that you "love" one another. Just as I have loved you, "you also" love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. Simon Peter said to him, Lord, where are you going? Jesus answered, "Where I AM going" you cannot follow now, but you will follow afterward. Peter said to him, "Lord", why can I not follow you now? I will lay down my life for you. Jesus answered him, Will you lay down your life for me? Most certainly I tell you, the rooster will not crow before you have denied me three times. Do not let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in "Meeh"". In my Father’s house are many homes. If it were not so I would have told you. I AM going to prepare a place for you. If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will receive you to myself; that where I AM, "yew" may be there also. "You know where I go", and you know the way. Thomas said to him, "Lord", we do not know where you are going: How can we know the way? Jesus said to him, "I AM" the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through "Meeh". If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you know him, and have seen him. Philip said to him, "Lord", show us the Father and that will be enough for us. Jesus said to him, Have I been with you such a "long time", and do you not know me Philip"? He who has "seen me" has seen the Father. How do you say Show us the Father? Do you not believe that I AM in the Father and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works. Believe me that I AM in the Father, and the Father in "Meeh"; or else believe me for the very works’ sake. Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in "Meeh", the "works that I do", he will "do also". And he will do greater works than these, because I AM going to my Father. Whatever you will ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you will ask anything in my name I will do it. If you love me, keep my commandments. I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Paraclete, another Defending Advocate and Divine Consoling Warrior-Champion of the defenseless, that he may be with you "forever": the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive; for it does not see him and does not know him. "Yew" know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans: I will come to you. Yet a little while and the world will see me no more; but "yew" will see me. Because I live, "yew" will live also. In that day you will know that I AM in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will "reveal" myself to him. Judas not "Isscariot" said to him, Lord, what has happened, that you are about to reveal yourself to "us", and "not to the world". Jesus answered him, If a man loves me he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. He who does not love me does not keep my words. The word which you hear is not mine but the Father’s who sent me. I have said these things to you while still living with you. But the Paraclete, the Divine Consoling and Defending Advocate and Warrior-Champion of the defenseless, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will Teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you. Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful. You heard how I told you I go away and I come to you. If you loved me you would have rejoiced because I said I AM going to my Father; for the Father is greater than "Aye". "Now" I have told you before it happens, so that when it happens you may believe. I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has "nothing" in me. But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father "commanded" me, even so I "dew". Arise, let us "goh from here". They "rose up" and "sang a song" according to the custom of the Passover. Psalm 80 "Hear-us" Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock. you who sit above the cherubim "shine out". Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh "stir up your might", Come to save us. Turn us "again, God". Cause your "face" to shine and we will be "saved". LORD, God of Armies, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people. You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in "large" measure. You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves. Turn us "again" God of Armies. Cause your "face" to shine and we will be "saved". You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations "and planted it". You cleared the "ground forit". It took deep root and filled the land. The mountains were covered with its shadow. Its boughs were like God’s cedars. It sent out its branches to the sea, its shoots to the River. Why have you broken down its walls, so that all those who pass by the way "pluckit". The "Boar" out of the wood "ravages-it", The wild animals of the field feed on it. Turn again we beg you "God of Armies". Look down from "heaven" and "see", and "visit" this vine, the stock which your right hand planted, the "Branch" that you made strong for yourself. It is burned with fire: It is cut down: They perish at your rebuke. Let your hand be on the "man of your right hand", on the "Son of man" whom you made strong for yourself, So we will not turn away from you. Revive us, and we will call on your Name. Turn us "again" LORD God of Armies. Cause your "face" to "shine", and we will be "saved". When they had sung a "hymn", Jesus said, I AM the "true vine" and my Father is the farmer. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit he "prunes", that it may bear more fruit. You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. "Remain" in me, and I in "yew". As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it "remains" in the vine, so neither can "yew", "unless" you remain in "Meeh". I AM the vine: You are the branches. He who "remains" in me and I in him, bears much fruit, for apart from "Meeh" you can do "nothing". If a man does "not" remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned. "If" you "remain" in "Meeh", and my words remain in "yew", you will ask whatever you desire and it will be done for you. In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit: and "so" you will be my disciples. Even as the Father has loved "Meeh" I also have loved "Yew". Remain in my love. "If" you keep my commandments you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments and "remain" in "hizzlove". I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may "remain" in you, and that your joy may be made full. This is my commandment, that you "love" one another, even as I have loved "yew". Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends, "if" you do whatever I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father I have made known to you. "Yew did" not choose "Meeh", but I chose "yew", and "ordained you", that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name he may give it to you. "I command" this to you, that you "love" one another. If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated "yew". If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you: A servant is not greater than his lord. If they persecuted "Meeh", they will also persecute "yew". If they kept "my word", they will also keep yours. But they will do all these things to you for my "name’s sake", because they do not know him who sent me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have "no excuse for-their-sin". He who hates "Meeh", hates my Father also. If I had not done among them the works which no one "else" did, they would not have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my Father. But this "happened" so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, "They hated me without a cause". When the Paraclete, the Divine Consoling and Defending Advocate and Warrior-Champion of the defenseless, the Holy Spirit has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me. "Yew" will "also" testify, because you have been with me from the beginning. I have said these things to you so that you would not be caused to falter. They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever "kills" you will think that he offers service to God. They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor "Meeh". But I have told you these things so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I did not tell you these things from the beginning, because I was "with you". But now I AM going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me "Where are you going". But because I have told you these things, sorrow has filled your heart. Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Paraclete, the Divine Consoling and Defending Advocate and Warrior-Champion of the defenseless, the Holy Spirit will not come to you. But if I "Goh", I will send him to you. When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment. About sin, because they do not believe in me; about righteousness, because I AM going to my Father and you will not see me any more; about judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged. I still have many things to tell you, but you cannot bear them now. However when "hee", the Spirit of truth has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears he will speak. He will declare to you "things that are coming". He will "glorify" me, for he will take from what is mine, and will declare it to you. All things that the Father "has", are mine; therefore I said that he takes of mine, and will declare it to you. A little while and you will not see me: Again a little while and you will see me. Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, What is this that he says to us, A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me; and "Because I go to the Father". They said therefore, What is this that he says, A little while. We do not know what he is saying. Therefore Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and he said to them, Do you inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me? Most certainly I tell you that you will weep and lament, but the world will "re-joice". You will be sorrowful, but "your sorrow" will be "turned into joy". A woman when she gives birth, has sorrow because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she does not remember the anguish "anymore", "for the joy" that a human being is born into the world. Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will "re-joice". and no one will take your joy away from you. In that day you will ask me no questions. Most certainly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in "my name" he will give it to you. Up to now, you have asked nothing in "my name". Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full. I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will "tell you plainly" about the Father. In that day you will ask in "my name"; and I do not say to you that I will pray to the Father for you, for the Father himself loves you, because you have "loved" me, and have believed that I came from God. I came from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I "leave" the world and go to the Father. His disciples said to him, Behold, "now you are speaking plainly" and using no figures of speech. "Now we know" that you "know all things" and do not need for "anyone" to question you. By this we believe that you came from God. Jesus answered them, Do you "now" believe? Behold, the time is "coming", yes, and has "now come", that you will be scattered "every one" to his own place, "and you will leave me alone". Yet I AM not alone, because the Father is "with me". I have "told" you these things that in "Meeh" you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but "cheer-up": "Aye" have "overcome the world". "Jesus said" these things: Then lifting up his eyes to heaven he said, Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son that your Son may also glorify "Yew". Even as you gave him authority over all flesh, "so" he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him. This is "eternal life", that they should know "Yew", the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ. I glorified you on the earth: I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do. "Now Father glorify me" with your own self, with the glory which I "had" with you before the world "existed". I "revealed your name" to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word. Now they have known that all things whatever you have given me are from "Yew", for the words which you have given me I have given to "thimb", and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you. "They have believed" that you sent me. I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. All things that are mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I AM glorified in them. "I AM" no more in the world, "but theez are in the world" and I AM coming to "Yew". Holy Father, keep them through "your name" which you have given me, that they may be one "even as wee-are". While I was with them in the world I kept them in "your name". I have kept those whom you have given me. None of them is lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. But now I come to you, "and I say these things in the world" that they may have "my joy" made full in themselves. I have given them "your word". The world hated them, because "they are" not of the world, even as "Aye-am knot-of-the world". I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the "evil one". "They are" not of the world even as "Aye-am knot-of-the world". Sanctify them in "your truth": "Your Word is truth". As you sent "Meeh" into the world, even so I have sent "thimb into" the world. For their sakes I sanctify myself, that "they themselves" also may be sanctified in truth. Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who will believe in me through their "word", that "they may all be one"; even as "Yew" Father are in "Meeh", and "Aye" in "Yew", that they also may be "one, in us". that the world may believe that "you sent me". The glory which you have given "Meeh" I have given to "thimb"; that they may "be one", even as "wee" are one; "Aye" in "them", and you in "Meeh", that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me and loved "thimb", even as you loved "Meeh". Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me, be with me where "Aye-yam", that they may see my glory which you have given me, "for you loved me before the foundation of the world". Righteous Father, the world has not known you, but "Aye" have known you; and "theez know" that you sent me. I made known to them "your name", and will make it known; that the love with which you loved "Meeh" may be in "thimb", and "Aye" in "thimb". When Jesus had spoken these words, they went out to the Mount of Olives. He came out, and went, as his custom was, to the Mount of Olives. His disciples also followed him. Click here to go to the next page.	normal print text

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narrative form Reading time 2 hours 52 minutes He went out with his disciples over the brook Kidron, where there was a garden, into which he and his disciples entered. Now Judas who betrayed him "also" knew the place, for Jesus often met there with his disciples. At the same time that Jesus and his disciples entered the garden, Judas obtained a detachment of soldiers and officers, with lanterns, torches and weapons, from the chief priests and the Pharisees. and he who betrayed him "gave themma" sign "saying", Whoever I "kiss", "he is the-one", Seize him. Whomever I will kiss, "that-is hee". "Seize-him", and lead him away safely. Jesus with his disciples had meanwhile entered the garden. Then Jesus said to them, All of you will be made to falter because of me tonight, for it is written, I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered. But after I AM raised up, I will go before you into Galilee. But Peter answered him, Even if all will be made to falter because of you, I will "never be made-to falter". Jesus said to him, Most certainly I tell you that tonight, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times. Peter said to him, Even if I must die with you, I will not deny you. All of the disciples also said likewise. But Jesus said to them, All of you will be made to falter because of me tonight, for it is written, I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered. However, after I AM raised up, I will go before you into Galilee. But Peter said to him, Although all will be offended, yet "Aye" will not. Jesus looking at him loved him, and Jesus said to him, Most certainly I tell you, that "yew", today, even this night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times. But he spoke all the more, If I must "die" with you, I will not deny you. They all said the same thing. Then Jesus came with them to a place called "Gethsema-knee", they came to a place which was named "Gethsema-knee". When he was at the "place", he said to them, "Pray" that you do not enter into temptation. And He said to his disciples, "Sit here" while I pray. Sit here, while I go there and pray. He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, James and John, and began to be sorrowful and severely troubled, to be greatly troubled and distressed. Then he said to them, My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch. Stay "here" and "watch" with me. He was withdrawn from them about a stone’s throw, and he knelt down and "prayed" saying, Father, if you are willing, "remove" this cup from me. Nevertheless, not "Migh" will, but yours be done. He went forward a little, fell on his face, and "prayed" saying, My Father, "if it is possible", let this cup pass "away" from me; nevertheless, not "what Aye" desire, but "what yew" desire. He went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that if it were possible, the hour might pass away from him. He said, "Obba", "Father", all things are possible to you. Please "remove" this cup from me. However, "not what Aye-desire", but "what yew" desire. An angel from "heaven appeared to him strengthening him". Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood, falling down on the ground. When he rose up from his prayer, he came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, Simon: are you sleeping? Could you not watch one hour? Watch, and pray that you may not enter into temptation. "The spirit indeed is willing", but the flesh is weak. He came to the disciples, and found them sleeping because of grief, and said to them, Why do you sleep? Rise, and "pray" that you may not enter into temptation. Again he went away and prayed, saying the same words, My Father, "if it is possible", let this cup pass "away" from me; nevertheless, "not what Aye-desire", but "what yew" desire. He went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that "if it were possible", the hour might pass away from him. He said, "Obba", "Father", all things are possible to you. Please "remove" this cup from me. However, "not what Aye-desire", but "what yew" desire. Again he returned, he came to the disciples and found them sleeping, for their eyes were very heavy, and said to Peter, What, could you not watch with me for one hour? Watch, and "pray" that you do not enter into temptation. "The spirit indeed is willing", but the flesh is weak. And they did not know what to answer him. Again, a second time he went away and "prayed" saying, My Father, if this cup cannot pass away from me unless I drink it, your desire be done. He came again and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy. He left them again, went away, and prayed a third time, saying the same words, My Father, "if it is possible", let this cup pass "away" from me; nevertheless, "not what Aye-desire", but "what yew" desire. He said, "Obba", "Father", all things are possible to you. Please "remove" this cup from me. However, "not what Aye-desire", but "what yew" desire. My Father, if this cup cannot pass away from me unless I drink it, your desire be done. Then he came the third time to his disciples, and said to them, "Slee-pawn" now, and take your rest. It is enough: The hour has come. Behold, "the hour is at hand" and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. Arise, "let us be going". Behold, he who "betrays" me is "at hand. Arise, Let us get going". Behold: he who "betrays" me is "at hand". Immediately while he was still speaking, behold, Judas one of the twelve, "came", and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs from the chief priests and elders of the people. Behold a multitude, and he who was called Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. Now he who betrayed him had earlier given them a "sign", saying, Whomever I will kiss, "that-is hee", "seize-him" and lead him away safely. Judas then having taken a detachment of soldiers and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons. Judas one of the twelve "came", and with him a multitude with swords and clubs from the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders. When he had come, Jesus therefore knowing all the things that were happening to him, went out and said to them, Who are you "looking-for"? They answered him, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus said to them, "Aye-yam". Judas also who betrayed him was standing with them. When therefore he said to them I AM, they went backward, and fell to the ground. Again therefore, he asked them, Who are you "looking-for"? They said "Jesus of Nazareth". Jesus answered, I told you that "Aye-yam". If therefore you seek "Mee", let these go their way. that the word might be fulfilled which he spoke, Of those whom you have given me I have lost none. Now he who betrayed him "gave them a sign" saying, Whoever I kiss, he is the one: Seize him. Immediately he came to Jesus, immediately he came to him and said, "Rab-aye, Rab-aye". Then he came near to Jesus to kiss him. But Jesus said to him, Judas, do you betray the Son of Man with a kiss? He said, "Hail Rabbi", and he "kissed him". Jesus said to him, Friend, why are you here? Then they came and "laid hands on Jesus" and "took-him". They "laid their hands on him" and "seized-him". When those who were around him saw what was about to happen they said to him, Lord, shall we strike with the sword? But behold, a certain one of them, one of those who stood by, one of those who were with Jesus, stretched out his hand and drew his sword; Simon Peter therefore having a sword, drew it, and struck the high priest’s servant and "cut-off" his right ear, struck the servant of the high priest and "struck-off" his ear. The servant’s name was "Malc-us". Jesus therefore said to Peter, Put the "sword" into "its-sheath". The cup which the Father has given me, shall I not surely drink it? But Jesus answered, Let me "at least" do this: and he touched his ear, and healed him. Then Jesus said to him, Put your sword back into its place, for all those who "take" the sword will "digh" by the sword. Or do you think that I could not ask my Father, and he would even now send me more than twelve legions of angels. How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so? Jesus said to the chief priests captains of the Temple and elders who had come against him, Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs? When I was with you in the Temple daily, you did not stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness. It was the ninth hour of the night, the beginning of the fourth watch, "3 A M". Jesus answered them, Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs to seize me? I was daily with you in the Temple Teaching, and you did not arrest me. But this is so that the Scriptures might be fulfilled. In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes, Have you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs to seize me? I sat daily in the Temple Teaching, and you did not arrest me. But all this has happened that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples left him; they all left him and fled. A certain young man followed him having a linen cloth "thrown around" himself "over his naked body". The young men grabbed him, "but he left the linen cloth" and "fled" from them naked. Then was fulfilled what is written in the prophet Amos: Behold, I will "crush" you in your place, as a cart crushes that is full of grain. "Flight" will perish from the "swift"; and the "strong" will not strengthen his force; neither shall the "mighty deliver" himself; neither shall "he-stand" who handles the "Bowe"; and he who is "swift of foot" will not escape; neither shall he who rides the "horse deliver" himself; and he who is "courageous among the mighty" will flee away "naked" on that day. So the detachment, the commanding officer, and the officers of the Jews, "seized" Jesus, They seized him, and bound him, and led him away. "They led Jesus away" to the high "priest". Those who had "taken" Jesus led him away to "Kye-aphas" the high priest, where the scribes and the elders "were gathered together", and brought him into the "high priest’s" house, and led him to "Annas First", for he was father-in-law to "Kye-aphas" who was high "priest" that year. Now it was "Kye-aphas" who advised the Jews that it was expedient that "one man" should perish for the people. All the chief priests the elders and the scribes came together with him. But Peter followed him from a "distance", to the "court of the high" priest; Simon Peter "followed" Jesus, as did "another" disciple. Peter "had followed him from a distance" up to where he came into "the court of the high" priest. Now that disciple "was known to the high" priest and "entered-in" with Jesus "into the court of the high" priest; but Peter was standing at the door outside. So the other disciple "who was known to the high" priest went out, and "spoke to her" who kept the door, and "brought-in" Peter. Then the maid who kept the door said to Peter, Are you "also" one of this man’s disciples? He said I am not, and entered in and sat with the officers to see the end. When they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and had sat down together, Peter sat among them. He was sitting with the officers and warming himself in the light of the fire. A certain servant girl saw him as he sat in the light, and looking intently at him said, This man also was with him. He denied Jesus, saying Woman, I do not "know him". This was the first denial. Now the servants and the officers were standing there, having made a fire of coals, for it was cold: They were "warming-themselves", and Peter was with them, "standing and warming-himself". After a little while someone else saw him, and said, You also are one of them! But Peter answered, Man I am not! They led Jesus to Annas "first", for he was father-in-law to "Kye-aphas", who was high "priest" that year. The high priest "Annas" therefore asked Jesus about his disciples and about his Teaching. Jesus answered him, I spoke openly to the world. I always Taught in synagogues and in the Temple where the Jews always "meet". I said nothing in secret. Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to them. Behold, "they-know" the things which I said. When he had said this, one of the officers standing by "slapped" Jesus with his "hand saying" Do you answer the high "priest" like that? Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, "testify of-the-evil"; but if well, why do you beat me? Annas "sent him bound" to "Kye-aphas" the high priest. Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said therefore to him, You are not "also one-of-his-disciples are-you? He denied it and said I am not. One of the servants of the high priest, being a relative of him whose ear Peter had cut off, said Did I not see you in the garden with him? Peter therefore denied it again, and immediately the rooster crowed. Now the chief priests and the whole council sought witnesses against Jesus to put him to death, and found none. The chief priests, the elders, and the whole council therefore sought "false-testimony" against Jesus, that they might put him to death; and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. For many gave "false-testimony" against him, and their testimony did not "agreewith-eachother". After about one hour passed, some stood up and gave "false-testimony" against him saying, We heard him say I will destroy this Temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another "made without hands". Even "so", their testimony did not agree. We heard him say, I will destroy this Temple with hands, and in three days I will build another "made without hands". We heard him say, Destroy this Temple, and I will build another. We heard him say, I will destroy this Temple with my hands, and in three days I will build another "made without hands". We heard him say, Destroy this Temple, and I will build another "made without hands". We heard him say, I will destroy this Temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another. We heard him say, I will destroy this Temple in three days, and in three days I will build another that is "made without hands". Even so their testimony did not agree. But at last, two false witnesses came forward, and said, This man said I am able to destroy the Temple of God, and to "build it in three days". The high priest stood up, and said to him, Have you no answer? What is this that these testify against you? But Jesus held his peace; He stayed quiet, and answered nothing. The high priest answered him, I "adjure-you", by the "living God", that you "tell-us", whether you are the "Christ", the Son of God. Jesus said to him You have said it. Nevertheless I tell you, "after this", you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of the heaven. Again, the high priest asked him, Are "yew": the "Christ". the "Son of the Blessed". Jesus said, "Aye-yam". You will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of the heaven. Then the high priest tore his clothing, the high priest tore his clothes saying, He has spoken blasphemy! Why do we need any more witnesses? Behold, now you have heard his blasphemy. and said, What further need have we of witnesses? You have heard the blasphemy. "What do you-think". They answered, He is worthy of death! They all condemned him to be worthy of death. Then they spat in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him. Some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to beat him with fists, and to tell him "Prophesy"! The officers struck him with the palms of their hands saying, "Prophesy to us" you Christ, Who hit you? Now Peter was sitting outside in the court, and a maid came to him. as Peter was in the courtyard below, one of the maids of the high priest came, And seeing Peter warming himself, she looked at him saying, You were "also" with Jesus the Galilean; and said, You were "also" with the Nazarene Jesus! But he denied it before them all, saying, I do not know what you are talking about: I neither know nor understand what you are saying. He went out on the porch. When he had gone out onto the porch, someone else saw him, and said to those who were there, This man "also" was with Jesus of Nazareth. The maid saw him, and began "again" to tell those who stood by, "This is one-of-them". But he again denied it with an oath, I do not "know-the-man". This was the second denial. After a little while, again, those who "stood by", came, and said to Peter, Surely you are "also" one of them, for your speech makes you "known". Those who "stood by", said to Peter, You truly "are one" of them, for you are a Galilean, and your speech shows it. "Another confidently-affirmed", saying, Truly this man "also" was with him, for he is a Galilean! But Peter said, Man, "I do not know" what you are talking about! Then he began to curse and to swear, "I do not know this "man-of-whom" you "speak". "I do not know-the-man". This was the third denial. And immediately while he was still speaking, the rooster crowed, a rooster crowed, The rooster crowed the second time. The Lord turned and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered the Lord’s word, the word which Jesus had said to him, how he said to him: Before the rooster "crows" you will "deny me" three times. Then Peter remembered the word, how that Jesus said to him, Before the "rooster crows twice", you will deny me three times. When he thought about that, he wept. Then he went out, and wept bitterly. The men who held Jesus mocked him and beat him. Having blindfolded him, they struck him on the face and asked him, "Prophesy", Who is the one who "struck-you"? They spoke many other things against him "insulting him". Now when morning had come, immediately in the morning the chief priests with the elders and scribes and the whole council held a consultation; and all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death. Then as soon as it was day, the assembly of the elders of the people were gathered together, both chief priests and scribes, and they led him away into their council, saying, "If-you are" the Christ, "tell us". But he said to them, If I tell you, you will not believe, and if I ask, you will in no way "answer" me "or" let me go. From now on, the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God. They all said: "Are-you-then" the Son of God? He said to them, You "say it" because "Aye-yam". Three times they had asked him, and three times he had answered. They said, Why do we need any more witness, For we ourselves have heard from his own "mouth". The whole company of them "rose up", and "bound Jesus", and led him "away". They bound him, carried him "away", and brought him before Pontius Pilate the governor, and delivered him up to Pilate. Then Judas who betrayed him, when he saw that Jesus was condemned, felt remorse, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, saying "I have sinned", in that I betrayed "innocent-blood". "But-theysaid", "What" is "that-to wuss". "Hew-see to-it". He threw down the pieces of silver in the sanctuary, and departed. He went away outside the city to the potter’s field; he went away, and falling headlong "hanged" himself; and he burst open in the middle "and all his bowels" gushed out. the reward of his iniquity. The chief priests took the pieces of silver and said, It is not lawful to put them into the treasury "since it is the price of blood". They took counsel, and bought the potter’s earthen field with them to bury strangers in. Therefore that field was called "The Field of Blood" to this day. Thus Judas purchased the field with blood. Then that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled saying, You, Lord LORD, have said to me, "Buy the-field" for money, and call witnesses. Arise, and go down to the potter’s house. Thus said the LORD, "Go and buy" a potter’s earthen flask, and take some of the elders of the people and of the elders of the priests; and go out to the valley of the son of Hinnom which is by the entry of the gate "Harse-sith", and proclaim there the words that I will tell you. "Sayh Heer-the-LORD’s Word" kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel says, Behold, I will bring evil on this place, which whoever hears, his ears will tingle. Because they have forsaken me and have defiled this place and have burned incense in it to other gods that they did not know: "they, their-fathers and the-kings-of-Judah", and have filled this place with the blood of innocents, and have built the high places of Baal to burn their children in the fire for burnt offerings to Baal, which I did not command, nor speak, which did not even enter into my mind, Therefore behold, the days come says the LORD, that this place "willnomorebeecalledTopheth" nor The Valley of the son of Hinnom, but "ThevalleyuvSlaughter". I will make "the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem" void in this place. I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their "life". I will give their dead bodies to be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth. I will make this city an astonishment and a hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and "Hiss because-of" all its plagues. I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters. They will each eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies and those who "seek their life" will distress them. Then "youshall-break the container" in the sight of the men who go with you, and shall tell them, the LORD of Armies says: Even "so I will break" this people and this city, as one breaks a potter’s vessel that cannot be made "whole" again. They will "bury" in Topheth to the point where there is no place left to bury. This is what I will do to this place says the LORD and to its inhabitants, even making this city as Topheth. The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah which are defiled, will be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the army of the sky, and have poured out drink offerings to other gods. Then Jeremiah came from Topheth where the LORD had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the court of the LORD’s house and said to all the people: The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel says, Behold, I will bring on this city and on all its towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have made their neck stiff, that they may not hear my words. And that which was spoken by the prophet Zechariah was fulfilled saying, I said to them, If you think it best, give me my wages; and if not, "keep-them". So they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver. The LORD said to me, Throw it to the potter, the handsome price that I was valued at by them! I "took" the thirty pieces of silver, and threw them to the potter in the "LORD’s-house". That which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled. And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him upon whom a price had been set, whom some of the children of Israel priced, and they gave them for the potter’s field as the LORD commanded, as You, Lord LORD, have said to me. They led Jesus therefore from "Kye-aphas into the Praetorium". It was early, "and they-themselves" did not enter "into the Praetorium", that they might not "be defiled" but might eat the "Passover-sacrifices", the "hagig-ah" sacrificial foods "offered that-day", and indeed offered during the "whole" of the eight days of the "Passover-feast" of Unleavened Bread "when they eat the Passover". "For the-Jews", and "especially" the priests, hold that they must be "ritually clean" to eat the sacrificial "Passover-hagig-ah" foods during the "octave of Unleavened Bread" called Passover, even while their hearts "within them" are defiled with venal corruption. Pilate therefore went out to them and said, "What accusation" do you "bring-against this man". They answered him, If this man "were not-an evildoer" we would not have delivered him up to you. Pilate therefore said to them, Take him "yourselves" and judge him according to "your-law". Therefore the Jews said to him, It is illegal for us to put anyone to death, that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled which he "spoke" signifying by what kind of death he should "digh". They began to accuse him saying, We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself "is-Christ": "a king". Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, called Jesus, and said to him, "Are-you" the King of the Jews? Now Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor Pilate asked him saying, "Are you" the King of the Jews? Jesus answered him, Jesus said to him, "So-you say", he answered "So-you say". Do you say this by "yourself", or did others tell you about me? Pilate answered, "I-am-not a Jew" am I? Your own nation and the chief priests "delivered you to me": What have "you done". Jesus answered, My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would "fight", that I would not be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here. Pilate therefore said to him, Are you a "king-then"? Jesus answered, "You-say" that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice. Pilate said to him, What is truth? When he had said this he went out again to the Jews. Pilate said to the chief priests and the multitudes, I find no basis for a charge "against-this-man". The chief priests accused him of many things. When he was accused by the chief priests and elders he answered nothing. Then Pilate said to him, Do you not hear how many things they testify against you? He gave him no answer, not even one word, so that the governor marveled greatly. Pilate again asked him, Have you no answer? See how many things they testify against you! But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate "marveled". Pilate said to the chief priests and the multitudes, I find no basis for a charge "against-this-man". But they "insisted" saying, He stirs up the "people", Teaching throughout all Judea, "beginning from Galilee" even to this place. But when Pilate heard Galilee mentioned, he asked if the man was a Galilean. When he found out that he was in Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem during those days. Now when Herod saw "Jesus" he was exceedingly glad, for he had wanted to "see him" for a long time, because he had heard many things about him: He hoped to see some miracle done by him. He questioned him with many words, but he gave no answers. The chief priests and the scribes stood, vehemently accusing him. Herod with his soldiers humiliated him and mocked him. Dressing him in luxurious clothing "they sent him back to Pilate". Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day, for "before-that", they were enemies with each other. While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him saying, Have nothing to "dew" with that righteous "man", for I have suffered many things today in a dream because of him. Now he had to release one prisoner to them at the feast. At the feast the governor was accustomed to release to the multitude one prisoner whom they desired; he used to release to them one prisoner whom they asked of him. There was "one" called "Bar-rabbas". They had then a notable prisoner called Jesus "Bar-rabbas", one who was thrown into prison for a certain revolt in the city, and for murder, bound with his fellow insurgents, men who in the insurrection had committed murder. Now "Bar-rabbas" was a robber. His Aramaic name "Bar-rabbas", being literally interpreted is, "son-of-the-father". The multitude, crying aloud, began to ask him to do as he always did for them. Pilate called together the chief priests, the rulers, and the people, and said to them, You brought this man to me as one that perverts the people, and behold, having examined him before you, I found no basis for a charge "against-this-man", concerning those things of which you accuse him. Neither has Herod, for I "sent you" to him, and see, nothing worthy of death has been done by him. I will therefore chastise him and release him. I find no basis for a charge against him. But you have a custom, that I should release someone to you at the Passover. Therefore, do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews? Pilate "answered them" saying, Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews? for he perceived that for envy the chief priests had delivered him up. But the chief priests "stirred up the multitude" that he should release "Bar-rabbas to them instead". When therefore they were gathered together, Pilate said to them, Whom do you want me to release to you? Jesus "Bar-rabbas", or Jesus who is called "Christ". For he knew that because of envy they had delivered him up. But they all cried out together saying, "Away with-this man", Release to us "Bar-rabbas"! Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitudes to ask for "Bar-rabbas", and destroy Jesus. Then they all shouted again saying, Not this man, but "Bar-rabbas"! But the governor answered them, Which of the two do you want me to release to you? They said "Bar-rabbas"! Pilate said to them, What then shall I do to Jesus who is called "Christ". They all said to him, Let him be crucified! But the governor said, Why, What evil has he done? But they cried out exceedingly saying, Let him be crucified! Then Pilate spoke to them again, wanting to release Jesus. Pilate again asked them, What then should I do to him whom you call the King of the "Jews". But they shouted saying, Crucify: Crucify him! He said to them the third time, Why, What evil has this man done? I have found no capital crime in him. I will therefore chastise him and release him. They cried out "again" Crucify him! Pilate said to them, "Why". What "evil" has he done? But they cried out exceedingly, Crucify him! So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude saying, I am "innocent of the blood" of this righteous person. "Hew-see to-it". All the people answered, May his blood be on us, and on our children! Then he released to them "Bar-rabbas", but Jesus he flogged. Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released "Bar-rabbas" to them, and handed over Jesus when he had flogged him. So Pilate then took Jesus, and flogged him. The soldiers twisted thorns into a crown, and put it on his head, and dressed him in a purple garment. They kept saying, "Hail: King" of the Jews: and they kept slapping him. Then Pilate went out again and said to them, Behold I bring him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis for a charge against him. Jesus therefore "came out" wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. Pilate said to them, "Eck-che homo", Behold, the "man"! When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him they "shouted", saying "Crucify. Crucify." Pilate said to them, Take him "yourselves" and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him. The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law, he ought to "digh", because he "made himself" the Son of God. When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was more afraid. He entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus, Where are "you from"? But Jesus gave him no answer. Pilate therefore said to him, You are not speaking to me? Do you not know that I have power to release you, and have power to crucify you? Jesus answered, You would have no power at all "against Mee" unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has "greater" sin. By this we know that not all sins are the same, and their degrees of guilt are not equal. Some sins are "greater" than others. At "this", Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews cried out saying, If you "release" this man you are not Caesar’s "Friend"! Everyone who makes himself "a king" speaks against Caesar! When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat him down on the judgment seat at a place called The Pavement, but in Hebrew "Gab-baththah". Now it was the Preparation, the Day of Preparation, the day before the weekly Sabbath, the Preparation Day during the "Passover-octave" of Unleavened Bread; it was the only preparation day of the Passover season, called the Preparation of Passover during Passover; it was about the sixth hour after "they laid hands on him": his "preparation to be sacrificed". It was the preparation of the Passover, and it was about the sixth hour, the third hour of the day. He said to the Jews, Behold, "your King"! But they were urgent with loud voices asking that he might be crucified. They cried out, "Away" with him! "Away" with him! "Crucify" him! Pilate said to them Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar! And their voices and the voices of the chief priests prevailed. So then he delivered him to them to be crucified. Pilate decreed that what they asked for should be done. He released him who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Jesus up to their will. So they took Jesus and led him "away". Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium. The soldiers led him away within the court, which is the Praetorium; and they called together the whole cohort and gathered the whole garrison together against him. They stripped him, and put a scarlet robe on him. They clothed him with a purple cloak, and weaving a crown of thorns, they put it on him: They braided a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him. They began to salute him, and mocked him saying, "Hail: King" of the Jews: "Hail: King-of-the-Jews". They spat on him, and took the reed, and struck him on the head; They struck his head with a reed, and spat on him, and bowing their knees, did homage to him. When they had mocked him, they took the purple cloak off him, they took the scarlet robe off him, and put his own garments on him: they put his clothes on him, and led him "away". They led him out to crucify him. He went out, bearing his cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha, in Latin, Calvaria. Calvary. When they led him away, as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name; they grabbed one Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country, and they compelled him to go with them, that he might carry his cross. They compelled one passing by, coming from the country, Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus, "to go with-them", that he might help bear his cross, and they laid on him the cross, one end of the cross, to help carry it behind Jesus. So Jesus went forth, still bearing his cross, and Simon helped bear it behind him, at his back. A great multitude of the people followed him, including women, who also mourned and lamented him. But Jesus, turning to them said, Daughters of Jerusalem do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed. Then they will begin to tell the mountains, "Fall on us", and tell the hills, "Cover us". For if they do these things in the green tree, what will be done in the dry? There were also others, two criminals, led with him to be put to death. They brought him to the place called Golgotha, which is being interpreted, The place of a skull, in Latin, Calvaria. Calvary. When they came to the place that is called The Skull, in Latin, Calvaria, Calvary. a place called Golgotha, that is to say, The place of a skull, where they crucified him. they gave him sour "wine to drink" mixed with "bitter gall"; they offered him wine "mixed with bitter myrrh" to drink. but he did not "take-it". When he had tasted it, he would not drink. Then it was the "third hour" since he was condemned by the Jews. And they crucified him, and "with-him two others". There were two robbers crucified with him, one on his right hand, and one on the left. They crucified him there with the criminals, one on the right, and the other on the left, on either side one, and Jesus in the middle. With him they crucified two robbers; one on his right hand, and one on his left. The Scripture was fulfilled which says, He was counted with transgressors. Jesus said, Father. "for give them". for they do not know what they are doing. Then the soldiers, crucifying him, when they had crucified Jesus, when they had crucified him, took his garments and made four parts. dividing his garments among them they cast lots; They parted his garments among them, they divided his clothing among them, casting lots, casting lots on them what each should take; to every soldier a part; and "also the-coat". Now the coat was without seam, woven from the "top through-wout". Then they said to one another, Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to decide whose it will be; that the Scripture might be fulfilled which says, They parted my garments among them, For my cloak they "cast lots". Therefore the soldiers "did these things". Pilate wrote a "title also" and put it on the cross. The inscription was written over him in letters of Hebrew, and Latin, and Greek: THIS IS JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS. The superscription of his accusation was written over him, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS: THE KING OF THE JEWS. They set up over his head the accusation against him, THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS. There was written, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS. Therefore many of the Jews "red" this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek. The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, Do not write "The-King-of-the-Jews", but, "Hee-sed": I am King of the Jews. Pilate answered, What I have written I have "written". And they sat and watched him there. Those who passed by, blasphemed him, wagging their heads side to side, as dogs wag their tails, and saying, "Yew", who destroy the Temple and build it in three days, "save yourself". If "yew" are the Son of God, "come down" from the cross! Likewise the chief priests, "also" mocking with the scribes the Pharisees and the elders, said, He saved others, but he cannot save himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him "come down" from the cross, "now", and we will believe in him. He trusts in God: Let God deliver him "now", if he wants him; for he said I am the Son of God. The robbers "also" who were crucified with him cast on him the same reproach. Those who passed by, blasphemed him, wagging their heads and saying, "Haah! Yew" who destroy the Temple and build it in three days, "save yourself" and come "down from the cross"! Likewise "also" the chief priests, mocking among themselves with the scribes, said, He saved others, He cannot save himself. Let the "Christ", the King of Israel, "now", come down from the cross: "that-we-may Seeh": and believe him. Those who were crucified with him "also" insulted him. But standing by Jesus’s cross were his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. Therefore when Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, Woman, behold, your "son"! Then he said to the disciple, Behold, your mother! From that hour the disciple took her to his own home. The people stood watching. The "rulers" with them also scoffed at him saying, He saved others: Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his "chosen one"! The soldiers also mocked him, coming to him and offering him vinegar and saying, If you are the King of the "Jews", save yourself! They "red" the inscription over him, This is the King of the "Jews". One of the criminals who was hanged, insulted him, saying, If you are the Christ, save "yourself, an duss"! But the other, repenting, answered, and rebuking him said, Do you not even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation? And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward for our deeds, but "this" man has done nothing wrong. He said to Jesus, Lord, remember me when you come into your Kingdom. Jesus said to him, Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise. It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land. When the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land. Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land to the ninth hour. About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a "loud voice" saying, "Eli, Eli", lima "sabackthani"? That is, My "God", my "God", why have you forsaken me? Some of them who stood there, when they heard it, said, This man is calling Elijah. At the ninth hour Jesus cried with a "loud voice" saying, "Eeloi, Eeloi", lama "sabackthani"? which is being interpreted, My "God", my "God", why have you forsaken me? Some of those who stood by, when they heard it, said, Behold, he is calling Elijah. After this, Jesus seeing that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, I am thirsty. Now a vessel full of vinegar was "set" there. So immediately one of them ran, and took a sponge and filled it with vinegar; and filling a sponge full of vinegar, they put a sponge full of the vinegar on hyssop, and put it on a reed, and held it at his mouth, and gave it to him to drink, saying, Let him "beeh": Let us see whether Elijah comes to take him down: and gave him a drink. The rest said, Let him "beeh": Let us see whether Elijah comes to save him. When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he cried out with a "loud voice", he said, "It is finished”: thus there came a great voice out of the Temple of heaven, from the "throne", saying, "It is done". And having said this, Jesus cried again with a "loud voice", Jesus cried out with a "loud voice". Jesus, crying with a "loud voice", said, Father, into your hands I commit my spirit: and yielded up his spirit. He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit: he breathed his last, and poured forth the spirit. When the centurion, who stood by opposite him, saw that he cried out like this and breathed his last, he said, Truly this man was the Son of God! The sun was darkened, and the veil of the Temple was torn in two. Behold, the veil of the Temple was torn in two from the "top to the-bottom". There were lightnings, sounds, and thunders; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since there were men on the earth, so great an earthquake, so mighty. The earth quaked and the rocks were split. The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection, they entered into the holy city and appeared to many. Now the centurion, and those who were "with-him" watching Jesus, when they saw the earthquake, and the things that were done, feared exceedingly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God. When the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God with truth, saying, "Certainly" this was a "righteous man". All the multitudes that came together to see this, when they saw the things that were done, returned home beating their breasts. There were also women watching from afar, keeping their distance. All his acquaintances and the women who followed with him from Galilee stood at a distance, keeping their distance, watching these things. Many women were there watching from afar, keeping their distance, who had followed "JesusfromGalilee", serving him, among whom were both Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James the less and of "Joe's-ess", and Salome the mother of the sons of Zebedee; who when he was in Galilee followed him and served him; and many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem. After these things, when evening had now come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is "the day before the weekly-Sabbath", behold, a rich man from "Arimmathaea", named Joseph, who was a member of the council, a good and righteous man. he had not consented to their counsel and deed. from "Arimmathaea", a city of the Jews: Joseph of "Arimmathaea", a prominent council member who also himself was looking for God’s Kingdom, who was also waiting for God’s Kingdom, who himself was "also" Jesus’s "disciple came". Joseph of "Arimmathaea", being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he might take away Jesus’s body. This man went to Pilate, he boldly "went in" to Pilate, and asked for Jesus’s body. Pilate "marveled" if he were already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead long. When he found out from the centurion, Pilate gave him permission: he granted the body to Joseph. Then Pilate commanded the body to be given up. Therefore the "Jews". because it was the Preparation Day, late midafternoon nearing the end of the Friday of Passover, so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath which commences at sunset, for that Sabbath was a special one, the day after the Thursday evening Passover Seder and Friday Day of the Passover that year. "they asked of Pilate" that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. Therefore the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who was crucified with him; but when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. However, one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out. He who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, "that-you-may believe". For these things happened that the Scripture might be fulfilled, A bone of him will not be broken. Again another Scripture says, They will look on him whom they pierced. Pilate ordered that the body of Jesus be given to Joseph. He came therefore and bought a linen cloth. Joseph took the body, he took it down; and taking him down, took away his body, and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth. Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a "hundred-Rome-an-pounds". So they took Jesus’s body, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, and "wowned" him in the linen cloth, as the custom of the Jews "izz to bury". Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden. In the garden was a new tomb belonging to Joseph of "Arimmathaea", in which no man had ever yet been laid. Then because of the Jews’ Preparation Day (for the tomb was near at hand) they laid Jesus there. They took the body, and Joseph laid it in his own new tomb which he had cut out in the rock. and laid him in a tomb that was cut in stone, in a tomb which had been cut out of a rock. where "no-one" had ever been laid. and he rolled a great stone against the door of the tomb, "and de-parted". The women who had come with him out of Galilee followed after, and saw the tomb. Mary Magdalene was there, and the other Mary, sitting opposite the tomb. It was the day of the Preparation, Friday, and the Sabbath was drawing near, the approaching Sabbath day beginning at sunset, the beginning of the second day of the Passover of the Jews called the days of Unleavened Bread, the approach of the second day of his death, being laid in the tomb. Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of "Joe's-ess", saw where he was laid, and how his body was laid. They returned, and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment: from sunset to sunset. We remember the words of Isaiah. Who has believed our message? To whom has the LORD’s arm been revealed? For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no good looks or majesty. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we did not respect him. Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed. All "wee like sheep" have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he did not open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth. He was taken away by oppression and judgment. As for his generation. "who-considered" that he was cut off out of the land of the living, and stricken for the disobedience of my people. They made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth. Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring. He will prolong his days, and the LORD’s pleasure will prosper in his hand. After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities. Therefore I will give him a portion with the great. He will divide the plunder with the strong; because he poured out his soul to death and was counted with the transgressors; yet he bore the sins of many and made intercession for the transgressors. This was the word of the Prophet Isaiah. He also went and preached to the spirits in prison. Christ suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit, in Whom he also went and preached to the spirits in prison, who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. Jesus said the hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice. Now on the next day, Saturday (the second day), which is the day after the Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees were gathered together to Pilate, saying, Sir, we remember what that deceiver said while he was still alive: After three days I will rise again. Command therefore that the tomb be made secure to the third day, lest perhaps his disciples come at night and steal him away, and tell the people He is risen from the dead; and the last deception will be worse than the first. Pilate said to them, You have a guard: Go, make it as secure as you can. So they went with the guard and made the tomb secure, sealing the stone. At sundown, when the Sabbath was past, and Sunday the first day of the week was just beginning, at twilight, when the merchants of the Jews immediately open their shops, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, and made their preparations, that they might come and anoint him. But now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn on the first day of the week, at early dawn, Mary Magdalene went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb; Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb. They and some others "came to the tomb" bringing the spices which they had prepared. Very early on the first day of the week they came to the tomb when the sun had risen, while thick clouds of darkness overshadowed the land, and it was still dark. Now they were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them. They were saying among themselves, "Who-will roll away the stone" from the door of "the-tomb forus". for it was "very big". Behold, there was a great earthquake, for a messenger of the LORD descended from the sky "and came and rolled away the stone from the door", and sat on it. His appearance was like "lightning", and his clothing "white as snow". For fear of him, the guards shook, and became "like deadmen". And Mary Magdalene saw the stone taken away from the tomb. Looking up, they saw that the stone was rolled back; they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, and the guards "like deadmen". Therefore she ran and came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, They have taken away the LORD out of the tomb, "and we do not know" where they have laid him! Therefore Peter and the other disciple went out, and they went toward the tomb. Now while they were going, the other women were astonished. The guards came to themselves and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had come on them. The angel answered the women, Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek "Jesus" who has been crucified. He is not here, "for he has risen" just like he said. Come, see the place where the Lord was lying. Go quickly, and tell his disciples He has risen from the dead, and behold, he goes before you into Galilee; there you will see him. Behold, I have told you. They obeyed the Lord’s messenger. They entered in, and did not find the Lord Jesus’s body. Entering into the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side dressed in a white robe, and they were amazed. Many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection, they entered into the holy city and appeared to many. He said to them, Do not be amazed. You seek Jesus the Nazarene who has been crucified. He has risen: He is not here. Behold, the place where they laid him! But go, tell his disciples and Peter, He goes before you into Galilee. There you will see him, as he said to you. While they were greatly perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling clothing. Becoming terrified, they bowed their faces down to the earth. They said to them, Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen. Do you remember what he told you when he was still in Galilee, saying that the Son of Man must be delivered up into the hands of sinful men and be crucified, and the third day rise again? They remembered his words. They went out, and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had come on them. They said nothing to anyone; for they were afraid. They departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to bring his disciples word, and returned from the tomb. While they were going, Peter and the other disciple both ran together. Mary came behind them. The other disciple outran Peter, and came to the tomb first. Stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths lying, yet he did not enter in. Then Simon Peter came following him. Stooping and looking in, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and entered into the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying, and the cloth that had been on his head not lying with the linen cloths, but rolled up in a place by itself. So then the other disciple who came first to the tomb also entered in, and he "saw", and "believed". For as yet they did not know the Scripture that he must rise from the dead; and he departed to his home, Peter departed to his home, wondering what had happened. So the disciples went away again to their own homes. But Mary was standing outside at the tomb weeping. So as she wept, she stooped and looked into the tomb, and she saw two angels in white, sitting one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. They asked her, Woman, why are you weeping? She said to them, Because they have taken away my Lord, "and I do not know" where they have laid him. When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, and did not know that it was Jesus, for she was weeping. She turned back toward the tomb. Jesus said to her, Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you "looking-for"? She "supposing him to be the gardener" said to him, Sir, "if you have carried him" away, tell me where you have laid him, "and I will take him away". Jesus said to her, "Merry" She turned and said to him, "Rab-bone-Aye". which is to say: "Teacher"! Jesus said to her, Do not hold me, for I have not yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers and tell them, I am ascending to "Migh" Father and "Yore" Father, to "Migh" God and "Yore" God. She ran to tell the disciples. The other women were running to bring his disciples word. As they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, "saying Ree joice"! They came and took hold of his feet and worshiped him. Then Jesus said to them, Do not be afraid, Go tell my brothers that they should go into Galilee, and there they will see me. Now while they were going, behold, some of the guards came into the city "and told the chief priests all the things that had happened". When they were assembled with the elders and had taken counsel, they gave a large amount of silver to the soldiers saying, Say that his disciples came by night and stole him away while we slept. If this comes to the governor’s ears, "we will persuade him", and make you free of worry. So they "took the money", and did as they were told. This saying was spread abroad among the Jews, and continues to this day. Now when he had risen early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene from whom he had cast out seven demons. She went, and told those who had been with him as they mourned and wept. Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the LORD, and that he had "said-these-things" to her. When they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they disbelieved. The other women returned from the tomb, and "told-all-these-things" to the eleven and to all the rest. Now they were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James. The other women with them "told-these-things" to the apostles. These words seemed to them to be nonsense, and they did not believe them, But "Peter", got up, and ran to the tomb. Stooping and looking in, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he departed to his home, wondering what had happened. After these things, he was revealed in "another form to two-of-them" as they walked on their way into the country. Behold, two of them were going that very day to a village named "Em may us", which was "sixty-stadia", about seven miles, "west-from-Jerusalem". They talked with each other about all of these things which had happened. While they talked and questioned together, Jesus himself came near, and "went" with them. But their eyes were kept from recognizing him. He said to them, What are you "talking about" as you walk and are sad? One of them "named Cleopas" answered him, Are you the only stranger in Jerusalem who "does not know" the things which have "happened there" in these days? He said to them, What things? They said to him, The things concerning Jesus the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people; and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him. But we were hoping that it was he who would redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things happened. Also, certain women of our company amazed us, having arrived early at the tomb; and when they did not find his body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive. Some of us went to the tomb and found it just like the women had said, but they "did not" see "him". He said to them, Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! Did not the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory? Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures "the things concerning himself". They came near to the village where they were going, and he acted like he would go farther. They "urged" him saying, "Stay" with us, for it is almost "evening" and the day is almost "over". He went in to stay with them. When he had sat down at the table with them, he took the bread, and gave "thanks". Breaking it, he gave it to them. "Their eyes were opened", and they "recognized" him, then he vanished out of their sight. They said to one another, Were our hearts "not burning" within us while he spoke to us along the way: and while he opened the Scriptures to us? They went away and told it to the rest. They rose up that very hour, returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together "and those who were with them" saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon! They related the things that happened along the way, and how he was recognized by them in the breaking of the bread. They did not believe "thimb" either. For I delivered to you first of all, "that" which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that he appeared to "Cephas" who is Simon "Rock" Peter, then to the twelve. As they said these things, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, Peace be to you. When therefore it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, before sunset beginning the new day, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, Jesus came, and stood in the middle, and said to them, Peace be to you. But they were terrified and filled with fear, and supposed that they had seen a spirit. He said to them, Why are you troubled? Why do doubts arise in your hearts? See my hands and my feet, that it is truly "Mee". Touch me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones, as you see that I have. When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet; he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples therefore were glad when they saw the LORD. While they still did not believe for joy and wondered, he said to them, Do you have anything here to eat. They gave him a piece of a broiled fish and some "honey comb". He took them, and ate in front of them. Jesus therefore said to them again, Peace be to you. As the Father has sent "Mee", even "so" I send "yew". And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son as the "Savior" of the world. As the Father has sent "Mee", even "so" I send "yew". When he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit! If you forgive anyone’s sins, they are forgiven them. If you retain anyone’s sins, they are retained. He said to them, This is what I told you while I was still "with" you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms "concerning me" must be fulfilled. Then he opened their minds that they might understand the Scriptures. Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures "the things concerning himself". The scriptures are not open to the understanding of fools, nor are they "red" and listened to by those impatient to be entertained. In the book of Genesis: The LORD God said to the serpent, I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between "your" offspring and "her" offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel. God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying, As for "Mee", behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you, and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ship, even every animal of the earth. He also said, Blessed by the LORD my God be Shem. This same "Sem" is the father of the Semitic race. Now the LORD said to Abram, Leave your country and your relatives and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you. I will make of you a great nation: I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who treats you with contempt. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you. "Mel-kizzeddek" king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High. He blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth. Blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand. And Abram gave him a tenth of all. Abram said, Behold, you have given no children to me: and behold, one born in my house is my heir. But Behold, the LORD’s word came to him saying, This man will not be your heir, but he who will come out of your own body will be your heir. The LORD brought him outside, and said, Look now toward the sky. and count the stars, if you are able to count them. He said to Abram, "So" your offspring will be. He believed in the LORD, who credited it to him for righteousness. I will establish my covenant with Isaac. Isaac is the father of the Idumaean-Edomites and the Jews. of Esau-Edom, and of Jacob-Israel the father of the twelve tribes of Israel. Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. He took in his hand the fire and the knife. They both went together. Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, My father"? He said, "Here Aye-am my son". He said, "Here is the fire and the wood", but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? Abraham said, God will provide himself the lamb for a "burntoffering my son". So they both went together. They came to the place which God had "told-him of". Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, on the wood. Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw that behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of his son. Abraham called the name of that place The LORD Will Provide. As it is said to this day, On the LORD’s mountain it will be provided. The LORD’s angel called to Abraham a second time out of the sky and said, I have sworn by myself says the LORD, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son, that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your offspring greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the gate of his enemies. All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring, because you have obeyed my voice. Joseph found favor in his sight. He ministered to him, and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had, he put into his hand. This is applied to Joseph, the son of David, the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ. Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring. His branches run over the wall. The archers have severely grieved him shot at him and persecuted him: But his "bowe" remained strong. The arms of his hands were made strong, by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, from there is the shepherd, the "stone" of Israel, even by the God of your father who will help you, by the Almighty who will bless you, with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breasts and of the womb. The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of your ancestors, above the boundaries of the ancient hills. They will be on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head of him who is separated from his brothers. As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today. Now therefore do not be afraid. I will provide for you and your little ones. He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them. These are the words in Genesis. In the book of Exodus: Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, Draw out, and kill the Passover. You shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two door posts with the blood that is in the basin. For the LORD will pass through to strike; and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two door posts, the LORD will pass over and will not allow the destroyer to strike you. The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the Passover. Do not break any of its bones. He shall bring the bull to the door of the Tent of Meeting before The LORD; and he shall lay his hand on the head of the bull, and kill the bull before the LORD. The anointed priest shall take some of the blood of the bull and bring it to the Tent of Meeting. The priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar; and he shall pour out the rest of the blood of the bull at the base of the altar of burnt offering, He shall take all the fat of the bull of the sin offering from it. the fat that covers the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver with the kidneys, he shall remove, "as-it-is-removed-from-the-bull of the-sacrifice-of-peasofferings". Now "fat", for the Jews, was understood as a sign of the blessing of well-being in the inward parts, the innards, and of the abiding feeling of prosperous peace, and a sign of the rich favor of the Lord, a gift belonging to God, worthy of sacrifice, as it is written, All the fat is the LORD's, and, You shall eat neither fat nor blood. The kidneys signified the reins of the heart and the seat of the soul of man. The priest shall burn them on the altar of burnt offering. He shall carry the bull’s skin, all its meat, with its head, and with its legs, its innards, and its dung: all the rest of the bull: outside of the camp to a clean place where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with fire. It shall be burned where the ashes are poured out. These are the words in Exodus. In the book of Numbers: Moses lifted up his hand, and struck the rock with his rod twice, and water came out abundantly. The congregation and their livestock drank. So Moses made a bronze serpent, and set it on a pole; and if a serpent bit any man, he would look at the bronze serpent and live. I see him, but not now. I see him, but not near. A star will come out of Jacob. A scepter "will rise", "will rise up", out of Israel. These are the words in Numbers. In the book of Deuteronomy: The LORD your God will "raise up", "raise up to you", a Prophet from among you of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him. This is according to all that you desired of The LORD your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly saying, Let me not hear again the LORD my God’s voice, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I not die. The LORD said to me, They have well said that which they have spoken. I will "raise them up", "raise them up", a Prophet from among their brothers like "yew". I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him. These are the words in Deuteronomy. In the book of Samuel: The LORD kills and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol and "brings up", "brings up". I will "raise up", "raise up", a faithful Priest for myself who will do according to that which is in my heart and in my mind. I will build him a sure house. He will walk before my anointed forever. Nathan spoke to David all these words, The LORD tells you that The LORD will make you a house. When your days are fulfilled, and you sleep with your fathers, I will "raise up", "raise up", your offspring after you, who will proceed out of your body, and I will establish his kingdom. He will build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the "stripes" of the children of men; but my loving kindness will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you. Your house and your kingdom will be made sure forever before you. Your throne will be established forever. These are the words in Samuel. In the book of The Kings: Moreover the LORD will "raise up", "raise up", a king for himself over Israel. These are the words in Kings. In the book of The Chronicles: Tell my servant David, Moreover I tell you that the LORD will build you a house. It will happen, when your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will "raise up", "raise up", your offspring after you, who will be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom. He will build me a house, and I will establish his throne forever. I will be his father, and he will be my son. I will not take my loving kindness away from him, as I took it from him that was before you; but I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever. His throne will be established forever. Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again to the LORD, and they testified against them; but they would not listen. The Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people, and said to them, God says, Why do you disobey the LORD’s commandments so that you cannot prosper. Because you have forsaken the LORD, he has also forsaken you. They conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the LORD’s house. These are the words in Chronicles. In the book of the Psalms: Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing? The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his Anointed. From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger. When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained; what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him? For you have made him a little lower than the angels, and crowned him with glory and honor. You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet: All sheep and cattle, yes, and the animals of the field, the birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and whatever passes through the paths of the seas. Have mercy on me LORD. See my affliction by those who hate me, and "raise me up", "raise me up", from the gates of death, that I may show all of your praise. I will rejoice in your salvation in the gates of the daughter of Zion. The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken. The LORD has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation: Selah. The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God. For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the confident expectation of the poor perish forever. "Arise", "Arise" LORD! Do not let man prevail. Let the nations be judged in your sight. The LORD assigned my portion and my cup. You made my lot secure. The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places. Yes, I have a good inheritance. I will bless the LORD who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons. I have set the LORD always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my tongue rejoices. My body shall also dwell in safety. For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning? My God, I cry in the daytime, but you do not answer; in the night season, and am not silent. But you are holy, you who inhabit the praises of Israel. Our fathers trusted in you. They trusted, and you delivered them. They cried to you, and were delivered. They trusted in you, and were not "diss appointed". But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people. All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying, He trusts in the LORD, Let him deliver him. Let him rescue him, since he delights in him. But you brought me out of the womb. You made me trust while at my mother’s breasts. I was thrown on you from my mother’s womb. You are my God since my mother bore me. Do not be far from me, for trouble is near. For there is "no-one" to help. Many bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me. They open their mouths wide against me, lions "tare-ing" prey and roaring. I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax. It is melted within me. My strength is dried up "like a pot sherd". My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death. For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet. I can count all of my bones. They look and stare at me. They divide my garments among them: They cast lots for my clothing. But "do not" be "far-off" LORD. You are my help. Hurry to help me! Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dog. "Save me" from "the-lion’s mouth". Yes, you have rescued me from the horns of the wild oxen. I will declare your name to my brothers. Among the assembly I will praise you. You who fear the LORD praise him! All you descendants of Jacob glorify him! Stand in awe of him all you descendants of Israel! For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him he heard. My praise of you comes in "the great assembly". I will pay my vows before those who fear him. The humble "shall eat and be satisfied". They shall praise the LORD who seek after him. Let your hearts "liv" forever. All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the LORD. All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you. For the kingdom is the LORD’s. He is the ruler over the nations. All the rich ones of the earth "shall eat and worship". All those who go down to the dust shall bow before him, even he who cannot keep his soul alive. Posterity shall serve him. Future generations shall be told about the LORD. They shall come and shall declare his righteousness to a people that shall be born, for he has done it. Sacrifice and offering you would not; but a body have you prepared me: "whole-burnt-offering" and sacrifice for sin you did not require. Then I said, "Behold" I come: in the volume of the book it is written concerning me, I desired to "do thy will" O my "God", and your "law" in the midst of my heart. I have preached righteousness in the great congregation. "Lowe", I will not refrain my lips. "Owe LORD" you know my righteousness. I have not hid your truth within my heart, and I have declared your salvation; I have not hid your mercy and your truth from the great congregation. My enemies speak evil against me: When will he die and his name perish? If he comes to see me he speaks falsehood: His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad "he tellsit". All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me. An "evil disease" they say "has afflicted him". Now that he "lies" there he shall rise up no more. Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me. "But yew" LORD, have mercy on me and "raise me up", "raise me up", that I may repay them. By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy does not triumph over me. As for me, you uphold me in my integrity and set me in your presence forever. Blessed be the LORD the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting, amen and amen. Be merciful to me God be merciful to me, for my soul takes refuge in you. Yes, in the shadow of your wings I will take refuge, before disaster has passed. I cry out to God Most High, to God who accomplishes my requests for me. He will send from heaven and save me, he rebukes the one who is pursuing me: Selah. God will send out his loving kindness and his truth. My soul is among lions: I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword. Be exalted God above the heavens: Let your glory be above all the earth! They have prepared a net for my steps: My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me: They fall into the middle of it themselves: Selah. My heart is steadfast God: My heart is steadfast. I will sing, yes I will sing praises. Wake up "my glory", Wake up "lute and harp", I will wake up "the dawn". I will give thanks to you "Lord" among the peoples: I will sing praises to you among the nations. For your great loving kindness reaches to the heavens, and your truth to the skies. Be exalted God above the heavens: Let your glory be over all the earth. "Save me God". for the waters have come up to my neck! I sink in deep mire where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters where the floods overflow me. I am weary with my crying: My throat is dry. My eyes fail looking for my God. Those who hate me without a cause, are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully are mighty. I have to restore what I did not take away. God, you know my foolishness: My sins are not hidden from you. Do not let those who wait for you be "shamed through Mee LORD of Armies". Do not let those who seek you be brought to "dishonor through Mee God of Israel". Because for your sake I have borne reproach; "Shame" has covered "my face". I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children. For the zeal of your house consumes me: The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on "Mee". When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach: When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them. Those who sit in the gate talk about me: I am the song of the drunkards. But as for "Mee", my prayer is to "yew LORD" in an "acceptable time". God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation. Deliver me out of the mire, and do not let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters. Do not let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Do not let the pit shut its mouth on me. Answer me LORD, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies turn to me. Do not hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily! Draw near to my soul and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies. You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before you. Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I "found" none. They also gave me poison for my food. In my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap. Let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see. Let their backs be continually bent. Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them. Let their habitation be desolate: Let "no-one" dwell in their tents. For they persecute him whom you have wounded: They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have "Hurtt". Charge them with crime upon crime: Do not let them come into your righteousness. Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous. But I am in pain and distress. Let your salvation God protect me. I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving. It will please the LORD better than an ox, or a bull that has horns and hoofs. The humble have seen it and are glad. You who seek after God let your "Heart Lihvv". For the LORD hears the needy and does not despise his captive people. Let heaven and earth praise him; the seas and everything that moves therein! For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah. They shall settle there, and own it. The children also of his servants shall inherit it. Those who "love his name" shall "dwell" therein. Hear my teaching my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth. I will open my mouth in a parable. Turn again we beg you God of Armies. Look down from heaven and see, and visit this "vine", the "stock" which your right hand planted, the "branch" that you made strong for yourself. It is burned with fire: It is cut down: They perish at your rebuke. Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself. "So", we will not turn away from you. Revive us and we will call on your name. Turn us again LORD God of Armies. Cause your face to "shine" and we will be saved. God presides in the great assembly: He judges among the gods. How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked: Selah. Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless: Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. Rescue the weak and needy: Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked. But "They do not know", neither do they understand: They walk back and forth in darkness: All the foundations of the earth are shaken. I said "You are gods", all of you are sons of the Most High. Nevertheless you shall die like men, and fall like one of the rulers. "Arise God", "Arise God", judge the earth: for "yew" inherit all of the nations. Then you spoke in vision to your saints and said, I have given strength to the warrior, I have exalted a young man from the people, I have found David my servant. I have anointed him with my holy oil, with whom my hand shall be established: My arm will also strengthen him. No enemy will tax him: No wicked man will oppress him: I will beat down his adversaries before him, and strike those who hate him: But my faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him. In my name his horn will be exalted. I will set his hand also on the sea, and his right hand on the rivers. He will call to me: You are my Father "my God" and the rock of my salvation! I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth. I will keep my loving kindness for him forever more: My covenant will stand firm with him. I will also make his offspring endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven. If his children forsake my "law", and do not walk in my ordinances; if they break my statutes and do not keep my commandments; then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their iniquity with "stripes". But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail. I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered. Once I have sworn by my holiness, I will not lie to David: His offspring will endure forever, his throne like the sun before me. It will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness "in the sky". Those who go down to the sea in ships, who do business in great waters; These see the LORD’s deeds, and his wonders in the deep. For he commands and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up its waves: They mount up to the sky; they go down again to the depths: Their soul melts away because of trouble. They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end. Then they cry to the LORD in their trouble, and he brings them out of their distress. He makes the storm a calm, so that its waves are still. Then they are glad because it is calm, "so" he brings them to their desired haven. Let them praise the LORD for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds for the children of men! Let them exalt him also in the assembly of the people, and praise him in the seat of the elders. The LORD says to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, unto the day I make your enemies your footstool for your feet. The LORD will send out the rod of your strength out of Zion. Rule among your enemies. Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of "your-youth". The LORD has sworn, and will not change his mind: You are a Priest forever in the order of "Mel-kizzeddek". Give thanks to the LORD for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever. Let Israel now say that his loving kindness endures forever. Let the house of Aaron now say that his loving kindness endures forever. Now let those who fear the LORD say that his loving kindness endures forever. Out of my distress I called on the LORD: The LORD answered me with freedom. The LORD is on my side, I will not be afraid, What can man do to me. The LORD is on my side among those who help me, Therefore I will look in triumph at those who hate me. It is better to take refuge in the LORD, than to put confidence in man: It is better to take refuge in the LORD, than to put confidence in princes. All the nations surrounded me, but in the LORD’s name I cut them off. They surrounded me, yes they surrounded me: In the LORD’s name I indeed cut them off. They surrounded me like bees: They are quenched like the burning thorns: In the LORD’s name I cut them off. You pushed me back hard, to make me fall, but the LORD helped me. The LORD is my strength and song: He has become my salvation. The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous. The right hand of the LORD does valiantly, The right hand of the LORD is exalted! The right hand of the LORD does valiantly: I will not die but "liv", and "declare" the LORD’s works. The LORD has punished me severely, but he has not given me over to death. Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will enter into them, I will give thanks to the LORD. This is the gate of the LORD; the righteous will enter into it. I will give thanks to you for you have answered me, and have become my salvation. The stone which the builders rejected, has become the cornerstone. This is the LORD’s doing: It is marvelous in our eyes. This is the day that the LORD has made: We will rejoice and be glad in it! Save us now, Hosanna we beg you LORD! LORD we beg you Hosanna, send prosperity "now". Blessed is he who comes in the LORD’s name: We have blessed you out of the LORD’s house. The LORD is God, and he has given us light. Bind the sacrifice with cords, even to the horns of the altar. You are my God, and I will give thanks to you. You are my God, I will exalt you. Oh give thanks to the LORD for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever. For your servant David’s sake, do not turn away the face of your anointed one. The LORD has sworn to David in truth, He will not turn from it: I will set the fruit of your body on your throne. If your children will keep my covenant, my testimony that I will teach them, their children also will sit on your throne forever more. For the LORD has chosen Zion: He has desired it for his habitation. This is my resting place forever: I will live here, for I have desired it. I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread. I will also clothe her priests with salvation: Her saints will shout aloud for joy. I will make the horn of David to bud there: I have ordained a lamp for my anointed. I will clothe his enemies with shame, but on himself his crown will shine. Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence? If I ascend up into heaven you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold you are there! If I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will hold me. If I say Surely the darkness will overwhelm me, The light around me will be night, even the darkness does not hide from you, but the night shines as the day, The darkness is like light to you. For you formed my inmost being, You knit me together in my mother’s womb. I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well: My frame was not hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth: Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them. How precious to me are your thoughts "God"! How vast is their sum! If I would count them they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up I am still with you. These are the words in Psalms. In the Book of Proverbs: My son do not forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments: for they will add to you length of days, years of life, and peace. Do not let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man. As it is written: Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favor with God and man. The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his work, before his deeds of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the "earth-existed". When there were no depths I was born, when there were no springs abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, I was born; while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world. When he established the heavens I was there. When he set a circle on the surface of the deep, when he established the clouds above, when the springs of the deep became strong, when he gave to the sea its boundary that the waters should not violate his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth, then I was the craftsman by his side: I was a delight day by day, always rejoicing before him, rejoicing in his whole world. My delight was with the sons of men. Now therefore my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways. Hear instruction, and be wise: "Do not refuse-it". Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my door posts. For whoever finds me, finds life, and will obtain favor from the LORD. But he who sins against me, wrongs his own soul. All those who "hate me", love "death". One who corrects a mocker, invites insult. One who reproves a wicked man, invites abuse. These are the words in Proverbs. In the Book of Wisdom: But let us lie in wait for the righteous man, because he annoys us, is contrary to our works, reproaches us with sins against the law, and charges us with sins against our training. He professes to have knowledge of God, and calls himself a child of the LORD. He became to us a reproof of our thoughts. He is grievous to us even to look at, because his life is unlike other men’s, and his paths are strange. We were regarded by him as worthless metal, and he abstains from our ways as from uncleanness. He calls the latter end of the righteous happy. He boasts that God is his father. Let us see if his words are true. Let us test what will happen at the end of his life. For if the righteous man is God’s son, he will uphold him, and he will deliver him out of the hand of his adversaries. Let us test him with outrage and torture, that we may find out how gentle he is, and test his patience. Let us condemn him to a shameful death, for he will be overseen according to his words. Thus they reasoned, and they were led astray; for their wickedness blinded them. But a righteous man who is dead will condemn the ungodly who are living, and youth that is quickly perfected will condemn the many years of an unrighteous man’s old age. For the ungodly will see a wise man’s end, and will not understand what the Lord planned for him, and why he safely kept him. They will see, and they will despise; but the Lord will laugh them to scorn. After this, they will become a dishonored carcass and a reproach among the dead forever; because he will dash them speechless to the ground, and will shake them from the foundations. They will lie utterly waste. They will be in anguish and their memory will perish. They will come with coward fear when their sins are counted. Their lawless deeds will convict them to their face. Then the righteous man will stand in great boldness before the face of those who afflicted him, and those who make his labors of no account. When they see him, they will be troubled with terrible fear, and will be amazed at the marvel of salvation. They will speak among themselves repenting, and for distress of spirit they will groan: This was he whom we used to hold in derision, as a parable of reproach. We fools considered his life madness, and his end without honor. How was he counted among sons of God? How is his lot among saints? Truly we went astray from the way of truth. The light of righteousness did not shine for us. The sun did not rise for us. We took our fill of the paths of lawlessness and destruction. We traveled through trackless deserts, but we did not know the LORD’s way. What did our arrogance profit us. What good have riches and boasting brought us. Those things all passed away as a shadow, like a message that runs by, like a ship passing through the billowy water, which when it has gone by, there is no trace to be found, no pathway of its keel in the billows. Or it is like when a bird flies through the air, no evidence of its passage is found, but the light wind, lashed with the stroke of its pinions, and torn apart with the violent rush of the moving wings, is passed through. Afterward no sign of its coming remains. Or it is like when an arrow is shot at a mark, the air "dis-parted" closes up again immediately, so that men do not know where it passed through. So we also, as soon as we were born, ceased to "bee"; and we had no sign of virtue to show, but we were utterly consumed in our wickedness. Because the confident expectation of the ungodly man is like chaff carried by the wind, and as foam vanishing before a tempest; and is scattered like smoke by the wind, and passes by as the remembrance of a guest that waits but a day. But the righteous "liv" forever. Their reward is in the LORD, and the care for them with the Most High. Therefore they will receive the crown of royal dignity and the diadem of beauty from the LORD’s hand; because he will cover them with his right hand, and he will shield them with his arm. Now I was a clever child, and received a good soul. Or rather, being good, I entered an undefiled body. Blessed is the "wood", through which comes righteousness. These are the words in Wisdom. In the Book of the Wisdom of Jesus the son of "Sir-ack": I have stretched out my branches as the cedar tree, and my branches are of honor and grace. As the vine I have brought forth a pleasant odor: and my flowers are the fruit of honor and riches. I am the mother of fair love, and of fear, and of knowledge, and of holy expectation. In me is all grace of the way and of the truth, in me is all expectation of life and of virtue. Come over to me, all of you who desire me, and be filled with my fruits. For my spirit is sweeter than honey, and my inheritance more than honey and the honeycomb. My memory extends to everlasting generations. Those who eat me, shall hunger for more: and those who drink me, shall thirst for more. One who heeds me, shall not be confounded: and those who work with my help, shall not sin. Those who explain me shall have life everlasting. I, wisdom have poured out rivers. I, like a brook out of a river of powerful water; I, like a channel of a river, and like an aqueduct, came out of paradise. I said: I will water my garden of plants, and I will water abundantly the fruits of my meadow. And behold, my brook became a great river, and my river became a sea: For I make doctrine to shine forth to all as the morning light, and I will declare it afar off. I will penetrate to all the lower parts of the earth, and will behold all who sleep, and will enlighten all who have confident expectation in the LORD. I will yet pour out doctrine as prophecy, and will leave it to those who seek wisdom, and will not cease to instruct their offspring even to the holy age. See for yourself that I have not labored for myself only, but for all who seek out the truth. These are the words in "Sir-ack". In the book of Isaiah: He said, "Ghoh", and tell this people, You hear indeed, but do not understand. You see indeed, but do not perceive. Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and turn again and be healed. Therefore the LORD himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel (that is, God with us). The LORD of Armies is who you must respect as holy. He is the one you must fear. He is the one you must dread. He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel he will be a stumbling stone, and a rock that makes them fall. For the people of Jerusalem he will be a trap and a snare. Many will stumble over it, fall, be broken, be snared, and be captured. Wrap up the covenant: Seal the law among my disciples. I will wait for the LORD who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him. Behold, "Ighe and the children" whom the LORD has given me, are for signs and for wonders in Israel, from the LORD of Armies, who dwells in Mount Zion. But there shall be no more gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time, he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of "Naphtal-ighe"; but in the latter time he has made it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations. The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. The light has shined on those who lived in the land of the shadow of death. I will thrust you from your office: You will be pulled down from your station. It will happen in that day that I will call my servant "Eli-akim" (that is, my servant the God of raising), the son of "Hil-kyah" (that is, the son of the portion of the LORD). and I will clothe him with your robe and strengthen him with your belt. I will commit your government into his hand; and he will be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. I will lay the key of David’s house on his shoulder: He will open, and "no-one" will shut, He will shut, and "no-one" will open. I will fasten him like a nail in a sure place. He will be for a throne of glory to his father’s house. They will hang on him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the issue, every small vessel, from the cups even to all the pitchers. In that day says the LORD of Armies, the nail that was fastened in a sure place will give way, It will be cut down and fall. The burden that was on it will be cut off, for the LORD has spoken it. Therefore the LORD says, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily. The LORD said, Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught; therefore, behold, I will "pro-seed" to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their prudent men will be hidden. Comfort, comfort my people says your God. Speak comfortably to Jerusalem; and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of the LORD’s hand "double for all her sins". The voice of one who calls out, Prepare the way of the LORD in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low. The uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain. The LORD’s glory shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it. The voice of one saying "Crighe". One said What shall I "crighe". All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field: The grass withers, the flower fades, because the LORD’s breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass: The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever. You who tell good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain: You who tell good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with strength, "Lift it up", Do not be afraid! Say to the cities of Judah, Behold, your God! Behold, the LORD will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him. Behold, his reward is with him and his recompense before him. He will feed his flock like a shepherd: He will gather the lambs in his arm and carry them in his bosom: He will gently lead those who have their young. Behold, my servant whom I uphold, my chosen in whom my soul delights. I have put my Spirit on him: He will bring justice to the nations. He will not shout nor raise his voice, nor cause it to be heard in the street. He will not break a bruised reed, He will not quench a dimly burning "wick". He will faithfully bring justice. He will not fail nor be discouraged before he has set justice in the earth: and the islands wait for his law. Since you have been precious and honored in my sight, and I have loved you, therefore I will give people in your place, and nations instead of your life. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bring your offspring from the east, and gather you from the west. I will tell the north "Give them up", and tell the south "Do not hold them back'". "Bring my sons" from far away and my daughters from the ends of the earth, everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes whom I have made. Bring out the blind people who have eyes, and the deaf who have ears: Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the peoples be assembled. Who among them can declare this and show us former things? Let them bring their witnesses that they may be justified, or let them "hear", and say "That is true". You are my witnesses says the LORD, with my servant whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am "hee". Before "Mee" there was no God formed, neither will there be after me: I myself am the LORD: Besides "Mee" there is no savior. I have declared, I have saved, and I have shown, and there was no strange god among you. Therefore you are my witnesses says the LORD, and I am God: Yes, since the day "wuzz", I am "hee". There is "no-one" who can deliver out of my hand. I will work, "and who-can hinder-writ". Look to me and be saved all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other. I have sworn by myself, The word has gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and will not be revoked, that to me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall take an oath. They will say of me, There is righteousness and strength only in the LORD. Even to him will men come: All those who raged against him will be disappointed. All the offspring of Israel will be justified in the LORD, and will "re-joice". "Listen" islands to me. Listen you peoples from afar. the LORD has called me from the womb, from the inside of my mother he has mentioned my name. He has made my mouth like a sharp sword: He has hidden me in the shadow of his hand. He has made me a polished shaft: He has kept me close in his quiver. He said to me You are my servant, Israel in whom I will be glorified. But I said I have labored in vain: I have spent my strength in vain for nothing; yet surely the justice due to me is with the LORD, and my reward with my God. Now "the-LORD", he who formed me from the womb to be his servant, says to bring Jacob again to him and to gather Israel to him, for I am honorable in the "LORD’s-Ize", and my God has become my strength. Indeed, he says "It is too light a thing" that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth. Behold, my servant will deal wisely. He will be exalted and lifted up and will be "veryhigh". Just as many were astonished at you, his appearance was marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men. "so", he will cleanse many nations. Kings will shut their mouths at him; for they will "see-that" which had not been told them and they will "understand-that" which they had not heard. Who has believed our message: To whom has the LORD’s arm been revealed? For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no good looks or majesty: When we see him there is no "beauty" that we should desire him. He was "despised" and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease: He was "despised" as one from whom men hide their face; and we did not respect him. Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, "struck-by-God" and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed. "All wee like sheep" have gone astray; Everyone has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted, he did not "open-his mouth". As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he did not "open-his mouth". He was taken away by oppression and judgment. As for his generation, "Who-considered" that he was cut off out of the land of the living, and stricken for the disobedience of my people. They made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth. Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring. He will prolong his days, and the LORD’s pleasure will prosper in his hand. After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities. Therefore I will give him a portion with the great, He will divide the plunder with the strong: because he poured out his soul to death, and was counted with the transgressors; yet he bore the sins of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. Do not be afraid for you will not be ashamed. Do not be confounded for you will not be "dissappointed". For you will forget the shame of your youth: You will remember the reproach of your widowhood no more. For your Maker is your husband; the LORD of Armies is his name. The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer: He will be called the God of the whole earth. For the LORD has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth when she is cast off says your God. "Haigh": Come "everyone who thirsts" to the waters! Come "he who has no money", buy and "Eeght"! Yes "come", buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and "Eeght" that which is "good", and let your soul delight itself in richness. "Turn your ear", and come to me. "Hear", and your soul will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David. Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples, "a leader-and-commander" to the peoples. Behold, you shall "call" a nation that you do not know; and a "nation" that did not "know you" shall run to you, because of the LORD your God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he has glorified you. Seek the LORD while he may be found: Call on him while he is near. Let the wicked forsake his way, "and the unrighteous man his thotts": Let him return to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him: to our God, for he will freely pardon. For "Migh thoughts" are not "yore-thotts", and "yore-ways" are not "Migh" ways says the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are "Migh" ways higher than "yore-ways", and "Migh thoughts" than "yore thotts". Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the LORD’s glory has "risen", "risen", on you. For behold, darkness will cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but the LORD will "arise", "arise", on you, and his glory shall be seen on you. Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of "your rising", "rising". Lift up your eyes all around and see: they all gather themselves together: They come to you: Your sons will come from far away, and your daughters will be carried in arms. "Then you shall see" and be "radiant", and your heart will thrill and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea will be turned to you: the wealth of the nations will come to you: a multitude of camels will cover you, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah: all from Sheba will come. They will bring "gold and frankin-cense", and will "proclaim" the praises of the LORD. The LORD’s Spirit is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound, to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor. They will rebuild the old ruins: They will raise up the former devastated places: They will repair the ruined cities that have been devastated for many generations. Strangers will stand and feed your flocks: Foreigners will work your fields and your vineyards. "But yew" will be called the LORD’s Priests: Men will call you the servants of our God. Their offspring will be known among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples. All who see them will acknowledge them, that they are the offspring which the LORD has blessed. I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, My soul will be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation: He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels. For as the earth produces its bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring up, so the LORD will cause righteousness and praise to "spring up", "spring up", before all the nations. I am "inquire dove" by those who did not ask. I am "found" by those who did not seek me. I said See "Mee", see "Mee", to a nation that was not called by my name. I have spread out my hands all day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is "not good", after their "own thotts". I will destine you to the sword, and you will all bow down to the slaughter; because when I called, you did not answer; When I spoke, you did not listen; but you did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I did not delight. Therefore the LORD says, Behold my servants "will Eeght". but "yew", will be hungry: behold my servants will drink, but "yew", will be thirsty: Behold my servants will "rejoice", but "yew", will be disappointed: Behold my servants will sing for joy of heart, but "yew", will cry for sorrow of heart, and will wail for anguish of spirit. You will leave your name for a curse to my chosen; and the Lord "LORD" will kill you. He will call his servants by another name, so that he who blesses himself in the earth will bless himself in the God of truth; and he who swears in the earth will swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hidden from my eyes. For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things will not be remembered, nor "come-into-mind". For I "know their works and their thotts". The time comes that I will gather all nations and languages, and they will come and will see my glory. I will set a "sign" among them, and I will send those who escape of them to the nations: to Tarshish, "Pull", and Lud, who draw the "bowe". to Tubal and Javan, to far-away islands who have not heard my fame, nor have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the nations. They shall bring all your brothers out of all the nations for an offering to the LORD, on horses, in chariots, in litters, on mules, and on camels, to my holy mountain Jerusalem says the LORD, as the children of Israel bring their offering in a clean vessel into the LORD’s house. Of them I will also select "Priests and Lee-vytes" "says the LORD". For as the new heavens and the new earth which I will make shall remain before me "says the LORD", so your offspring and your name shall remain. It shall happen that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, all flesh will come to worship before me "says the LORD". They will go out, and look at the dead bodies of the men who have transgressed against me; for their worm will not die, nor will their fire be quenched, and they will be "loathsome" to all "man kind". These are the words in Isaiah. In the book of Jeremiah: Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying. Hear this "now, foolish-people-without-understanding, who have eyes and do not see, who have ears and do not hear. Do you not fear me "says the LORD"? Will you not tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree that it cannot pass it? Though its waves toss themselves, yet they cannot prevail. Though they roar, they still cannot pass "overit". But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart. They have revolted and gone. They do not say in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God who gives rain, both the former and the latter in its season, who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest. Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you. For wicked men are found among my people. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait: They set a trap: They catch men. As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great and grew rich. They have grown fat, they shine, yes they excel in deeds of wickedness. They do not plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless that they may prosper; and they do not defend the rights of the needy. Should I not punish for these things "says the LORD"? Should my soul not be avenged on such a nation as this? An astonishing and horrible thing has happened in the land. The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the "end-ofit". The LORD of Armies says, Glean thoroughly the remnant of Israel like a "vine". Turn again your hand as a grape gatherer into the baskets. To whom should I speak and testify that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised and they cannot listen. Behold, the LORD’s word has become a reproach to them: They have no delight in it. Therefore I am full of the LORD’s wrath: I am weary with holding it in. Pour it out on the children in the street and on the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife will be "taken", the aged with him who is full of days. Their houses will be turned over to others, their fields and their wives together; for I will stretch out my hand on the inhabitants of the land "says the LORD". I will utterly "consume" them "says the LORD". No grapes will be on the vine, no figs on the fig tree, and the leaf will fade. The things that I have given them will pass away from them. The LORD says, Do not let the wise man glory in his wisdom: Do not let the mighty man glory in his might: Do not let the rich man glory in his riches: But let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and "knows Mee", that I am the LORD, who "exercises loving kindness", justice, and righteousness in the earth, for I delight in these things "says the LORD". Behold, the days come "says the LORD", that I will punish "all those" who are circumcised "only-in-theirflesh". Egypt, Judah, Edom, the children of Ammon, Moab, and all who have the corners of their hair cut off, who dwell in the wilderness. for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart. "A Rhighze". and go down to the potter’s house, and "there" I will cause you to hear my words. Then I went down to the potter’s house. Thus said the LORD, Go and buy a potter’s earthen container, and take some of the elders of the people and of the elders of the priests; and go out to the valley of the son of Hinnom which is by the entry of the gate "Har-sith", and proclaim there the words that I will tell you: "Ssaye: Hear-the-LORD’s word" kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel says, Behold, I will bring evil on this place, which whoever hears, his ears will tingle. Behold, the days come "says the LORD", that this place will no more be called Topheth, nor The Valley of the son of Hinnom, Ben-Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter. I will make the counsel of "Judah and Jerusalem void" in this place. I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life. I will give their dead bodies to be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth. I will make this city an astonishment and a hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and "hiss" because of all its plagues. I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons, and the flesh of their daughters: They will each eat the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies and those who seek their life will distress them. "Then-youshell break" the container in the sight of the men who go with you, and shall tell them, the LORD of Armies says: Even so I will break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter’s vessel, that cannot be made "whole" again. They will bury in Topheth, to the point where there is no place to bury. This is what I will do to this place "says the LORD" and to its inhabitants, even making this city as Topheth. Then Jeremiah came from Topheth where the LORD had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the court of the LORD’s house, and said to all the people: The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel says, Behold, I will bring on this city and on all its towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have made their "neck-stiff", that they may not hear my words. Behold, the days come "says the LORD", that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and he will reign as king and deal wisely, and will execute justice and righteousness in the land. In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell safely. This is his name by which he will be called: the LORD our righteousness. Is not my word like fire "says the LORD", and like a hammer which breaks the rock in pieces? The LORD’s word has come to me, and I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking; but you have not listened. The LORD has sent to you all his servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them (but you have not listened or inclined your ear to hear) saying, Return now everyone from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD has given to you and to your fathers from of old, and even forever more. For the LORD the God of Israel says to me: Take this cup of the wine of wrath from my hand, and cause all the nations to whom I send you to drink it. Then I took the cup at the LORD’s hand. It will come to pass in that day says the LORD of Armies, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds. Strangers will no more make them their bondservants; but they will serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will "raise up", "raise up", to them. Therefore do not be afraid O Jacob my servant "says the LORD": Do not be dismayed Israel. For behold, I will save you from afar, and save your offspring from the land of their captivity. The LORD says: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children. She refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more. Behold, the days come "says the LORD", that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah. "not according-to the-covenant" that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which covenant of mine they broke, although I was a husband to them "says the LORD". But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days "says the LORD": I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart: I will be their God, and they shall be my people. They will no longer each teach his neighbor, and every man teach his brother saying, Know the LORD, for they will all know me, from their least to their greatest "says the LORD": for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin "no more". What you have spoken has happened. Behold, "you see-it". You have "said" to me Lord "LORD". Buy the field for money, and call witnesses. These are the words in Jeremiah. In the Book of Lamentations: I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light. Surely he turns his hand against me again and again all day long. "He has built" against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship. He has made me dwell in dark places, as those who have been long dead. He has walled me about, so that I cannot go out: He has made my chain heavy. "Yes" when I cry and call for help, he shuts out my prayer: He has walled up my ways with cut stone: He has made my paths crooked. He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places: He has turned away my ways, and pulled me in pieces. He has made me desolate: He has bent his "bowe", and set me as a mark for the arrow: He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys. I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all day long. He has filled me with bitterness: He has stuffed me with wormwood. He has also broken my teeth with gravel: He has covered me with ashes. You have removed my soul far away from peace: I forgot prosperity. I said My strength has perished, along with my expectation from the LORD. Remember my affliction and my misery: the wormwood and the bitterness. My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me. This I recall to my mind; therefore I have confident expectation. It is because of the LORD’s loving kindnesses, that we are not "consumed"; because his compassion does not fail: They are new every morning: Great is your faithfulness. The LORD is my portion says my soul: Therefore I will have confident expectation in him. The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. It is good that a man should confidently expect, and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD: It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth: Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him. Let him put his mouth in the dust, if it is so that there may be confident expectation. Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him: Let him be filled full of reproach. For the LORD will not cast off forever. For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses. These are the words in Lamentations. In the Book of Baruch: Be of good cheer O my children, cry to God and he shall deliver you from the power and hand of the enemies. For I have trusted in the Everlasting that he will save you; and joy is come to me from the Holy One, because of the mercy which shall soon come to you from the "Everlasting" your Savior. These are the words in Baruch. In the book of Ezekiel: The LORD said to him, Go through the middle of the city, through the middle of Jerusalem, and set a Tau-mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done within it. To the others he said in my hearing, Go through the city after him, and strike. Do not let your eye spare, neither have pity. Kill utterly the old man, the young man, the virgin, little children and women; but do not come near any man on whom is the Tau-mark. Begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the old men who were before the house. Therefore the LORD says to them: Behold, "I", even "I", will judge between the "fat-sheep and the lean sheep". Because you thrust with side and with shoulder and push all the diseased with your horns, to the point that you have scattered them abroad; therefore I will "save-my-flock", and they will no more be a prey. I will judge between sheep and sheep. I will "raise up", "raise up", one shepherd over them, and he will "feed them", even my servant David. He will "feed them", and he will be their shepherd. "Ighe the-LORD" will be their God, and my servant David prince among them. "Ighe the-LORD" have spoken it: I will make with them a covenant of peace. They will know that "Ighe the-LORD" their God am with them, and that they "the house of Israel" are my people "says the LORD": "Yew my sheep" the sheep of my pasture "are men", and "Ighe" am "your-God says-the-LORD". These are the words in Ezekiel. In the book of Daniel: "Yew" O king: "saugh": and "behold" a great image. This image which was mighty and whose brightness was excellent "stood before you"; and its appearance was terrifying. As for this image: its head was of fine gold, "its-breast-and-its-arms of silver", its belly and its thighs of bronze, its legs of iron, its feet part of iron and part of clay. "You saw" until a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces. Then the iron the clay the bronze the silver and the gold were broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer "threshing-floors". The wind carried them "away", so that no place was found for them. The "stone" that struck the image became "a great mountain" and filled the whole earth. The God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, nor will its sovereignty be left to another people; but it will break in pieces and "consume" all these kingdoms, and it will stand forever. Because you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron the bronze the clay the silver and the gold; the great God has made known to the king what will happen hereafter. The dream is certain, and its interpretation sure. I saw in the night "visions". and behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like a Son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. Dominion was given him, and glory, and a "kingdom", that all the peoples nations and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion which will not pass away, and his kingdom that which will not be destroyed. The kingdom and the dominion and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole sky, will be given to the people of the "saints" of the Most High. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions will serve and obey him. These are the words in Daniel. In the book of Hosea: Come! Let us return to the LORD; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds. After two days he will revive us. "On theThird" day, he will "raise us up", "raise us up", and we will live before him. When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt. These are the words in Hosea. In the book of Joel: The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORD "comes". It will happen that whoever will call on the LORD’s "name" shall be saved. These are the words in Joel. In the book of Amos: It will happen in that day says the Lord "LORD", that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear "day". Behold, the eyes of the LORD are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the surface of the earth; except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob "says the LORD". For behold, I will "command" and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations as grain is sifted in a sieve, yet not the least kernel will fall on the earth. All the sinners of my people will die by the sword "who say" Evil will not overtake nor meet us. In that day I will raise up the tent of David who is fallen, and "cloze up" its breaches, and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old. These are the words in Amos. In the book of Obadiah: "Saviors" will go up on Mount Zion to judge the mountains of Esau, and the kingdom will be the LORD’s. We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world. For as the Father has sent the Son as the savior of the world, even so I send "yew". Whoever converts a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins. "Yew" are those who have continued with me in my trials. as my Father appointed a kingdom for "Meeh", "so" do I appoint for "yew": that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom "and sit on thrones" judging the twelve tribes of Israel. These are the words in Obadiah. In the book of Jonah: Jonah prayed to the LORD his God out of the fish’s belly. He said "I called" because of my affliction to the LORD: He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried: You heard my voice. For you threw me into the depths in the heart of the seas: The flood was all around me: All your waves and your billows passed over me. I said I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy Temple. The waters surrounded me even to the soul: The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head: I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit "LORD my God". When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the LORD: My prayer came in to you, into your holy Temple. Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy: But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving: I will pay that which I have vowed: Salvation belongs to the LORD. Then the LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land. The LORD’s "word" came to Jonah the second time saying, Arise, go to "Nineveh" that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you. So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh according to the LORD’s word. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, "three days’ journey across". God saw their "works", that they turned from their evil way. God relented of the disaster which he said he would do to them, and he did not do it. These are the words in Jonah. In the book of Micah: They will strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek. But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of "yew", "one" will come out to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings out are from of old, from ancient times. Therefore, he will abandon them up to the time that she who is in labor gives birth. Then the rest of his brothers will return to the children of Israel. He shall stand, and shall "shepherd" in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the "name" of the LORD his God: and they will "liv", for then he will be great to the ends of the earth. These are the words in Micah. In the book of Nahum: Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him. the LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him. But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of his adversaries, and will pursue his enemies into darkness. Did one not come out of you who plotted evil against the LORD, and counseled villainy? Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! These are the words in Nahum. In the book of Habakkuk: Look among the nations, watch, and wonder marvelously; for I am working a work in your days which you will not believe, "though it is told you". For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the LORD’s glory, as the waters cover the sea. These are the words in Habakkuk. In the book of Zephaniah: Be silent at the presence of the LORD, for the day of the LORD is at hand. For the LORD has prepared a sacrifice: He has "consecrated" his guests. I will take away out from among you your proudly exulting ones, and you will no more be arrogant in my holy mountain. But I will leave among you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in the LORD’s "name". The remnant of Israel will not do iniquity, nor speak lies, neither will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth, for they will "feed", and lie down, and "no-one" will make them afraid. "Sing: daughter-of-Zion": "Shout: Israel"! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart "daughter-of-Jerusalem". The LORD has taken away your judgments: He has thrown out your enemy. The King of Israel "the LORD" is among you. You will not be afraid of evil any more. In that "day" it will be said to Jerusalem, Do not be "afraid" Zion, Do not let your hands be "weak". The LORD your God is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy: He will calm you in his love: He will rejoice over you with singing. I will remove those who "grieve" about the appointed feasts from you: They are a burden and a reproach to you. Behold, at that time I will deal with all those who afflict you: and I will save those who are "laim", and gather those who were driven away. I will give them "praise and honor" whose shame has been in all the earth. At that time I will bring you in, and at that time I will gather you; for I will give you honor and praise among all the peoples of the earth. These are the words in Zephaniah. In the book of Haggai: For this is what the LORD of Armies says: Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, the earth, the sea, and the dry land; and I will shake all nations. These are the words in Haggai. In the book of Zechariah: The LORD of Armies says, Behold, the man whose name is the Branch: and he shall grow up out of his place; and he shall build the LORD’s Temple; even he shall build the LORD’s Temple. "and he shall bear the glory" and shall sit and rule on his throne; and he shall be a Priest on his throne; and the counsel of peace shall be between them both. I said to them, If you think it best, give me my wages; and if not, keep them. So they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver. The LORD said to me, Throw it to the potter, the handsome price that I was valued at by them! I took the thirty pieces of silver, and threw them to the potter in the LORD’s house. And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication; and they shall look on me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a "firstborn". These are the words in Zechariah. And in the book of Malachi: From the rising of the sun even to its going down, my name is great among the Gentiles, and in every place "incense" will be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name is great among the Gentiles says the LORD of Armies. Now, you priests of Aaron, this commandment is for "yew". If you will not listen, and if you will not take it to heart, to give glory to my name says the LORD of Armies, then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not take it to heart. Behold, I will rebuke your offspring, and will spread dung on your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and you will be taken away with it. You will know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant may be with Levi says the LORD of Armies. My covenant was with him of "Lighffe", and peace; and I gave them to him that he might be reverent toward me; and he was reverent toward me, and stood in awe of my name. The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity. For the "Levv ittical" priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of the LORD of Armies. But you have turned away from the path. You have caused many to falter in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi says the LORD of Armies. Therefore I have also made you contemptible and wicked before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law of Moses. Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. and the LORD whom you seek will suddenly come to his Temple. and the messenger of the covenant whom you desire, behold "he comes", says the LORD of Armies. But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderers’ soap; and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and they shall "offer" to the LORD offerings in righteousness. Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasant to the LORD as in the days of old, "and as-in" ancient years. But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness "arise", "arise", with healing in its wings. You will "go out", and "leap" like calves of the stall. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of the LORD comes. He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse. These are the words in Malachi. In the First Book of the Maccabees: And the Jews and their priests decided that "Simon", "Simon", should be their leader and high priest for ever, until a trustworthy prophet should arise. and that he should be governor over them, and that he should take charge of the sanctuary and "ordain men", over its tasks, and over the country, and the weapons and the strongholds. and that he should take charge of the sanctuary, and that he should be "obeyed by all", and that all contracts in the country should be written in his name, and that he should be clothed in purple and wear gold. And none of the people or priests shall be permitted to nullify any of these decisions, or to oppose what he says, or to convene an assembly in the country without his permission, or to be clothed in purple or put on a gold buckle. Whoever acts contrary to these decisions, or nullifies any of them, shall be liable to punishment. These are the words in First Maccabees. And much of what the Septuagint Greek Old Testament scriptures have said about him is also set forth as quotations and allusions in the Greek text of The Letter to the Hebrews. He said to them, Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ the Anointed One to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations beginning at Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. Behold, I send out the promise of my Father on you. But wait in the city of Jerusalem for the moment when you are clothed with power from on high. But Thomas, one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. I delivered to you "first of all", that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas (that is, "Rock"), then to the twelve. But Thomas, one of the twelve called "Diddymuss" (that is, the Twin), was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said to him, "We have seen the LORD"! But he said to them, Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not "believe". But the eleven disciples went into Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had sent them. And afterward, after eight days again, he was revealed to the eleven themselves as they sat at the table. His disciples were inside and Thomas was with them. Jesus "came", the doors being locked, and stood in the middle and said, Peace be to you. When they saw him, they bowed down to him, but some doubted: and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen him after he had risen. Then he said to Thomas, Reach here your finger, and see my hands. Reach here your hand, and put it into my side. Do not be unbelieving, but "believing". Thomas answered him, My Lord and my "God"! Jesus said to him, Because you have seen me you have believed: Blessed are those who have "not seen", and have believed. "After these things" Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias. He revealed himself "this" way. "Simon" Peter (Rock), Thomas called "Diddymuss", Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples were together. "Simon" Peter said to them, I am going fishing. They told him, We are also coming with you. They immediately went out and entered into the boat. That night they caught nothing. But when day had already come, Jesus stood on the beach. yet the disciples did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus therefore said to them, "Children", have you anything to eat? "They answered him-No". He said to them, Cast the net on the "right" side of the boat "and you will-find some". They cast it therefore, and now they were not able to draw it in for the multitude of fish. That disciple therefore whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It is the-Lord"! So when "Simon" Peter heard that it was the Lord, "he wrapped his coat around himself" (for he was naked) "and threw himself into the-sea". But the other disciples came in the little boat (for they were not far from the land but about two hundred cubits away, about "ninetyfive" yards) dragging the net full of fish. So when they got out on the land, they saw a fire of coals there, with fish and bread laid on it. Jesus said to them, Bring some of the fish which you have "just caught". Simon Peter went up and drew the net to land full of "one hundred fifty-three great fish". Even though there were so many, the net was not torn. Jesus said to them, "Come", and "eat breakfast"! None of the disciples dared inquire of him, "Who-are you": knowing that it was the Lord. Then Jesus "came", and took the bread, gave it to them, and the fish likewise. This is now the third time that Jesus was revealed to his disciples after he had risen from the dead. So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to "Simon" Peter, "Simon", son of Jonah, do you love me more than these? In asking this he used the word "agapeo", selfless love. He said to him, Yes Lord; you know that I have affection for you. In answering this he used instead the word "pheelos", mutual affection. He said to him, "Feed" my lambs. He said to him again a second time, "Simon", son of Jonah, do you love me? In asking this he used the word "agapeo", selfless love. He said to him, Yes Lord; you know that I have affection for you. In answering this he used instead the word "pheelos", mutual affection. He said to him, Tend my sheep. He said to him the third time, "Simon", son of Jonah, do you have warm affection for me. In asking this he used instead the word "pheelos", mutual affection. Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, Do you have affection for me. He said to him, Lord, you know everything. You know that I have "great affection" for you. In answering this Peter now used the word "agapeo", selfless love. Jesus said to him, "Feed" my sheep. Most certainly I tell you, when you were young, you dressed yourself and walked where you wanted to, But when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and "another" will dress you and carry you where you do not want to go. Now he "said" this, signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. When he had said this, he said to him, "Follow me". Then Peter turning around saw a disciple following. This was the disciple whom Jesus loved, the one who had also leaned on Jesus’s breast at the supper and asked, Lord, who is going to betray you? Peter "seeing" him said to Jesus, Lord, what about "this" man? Jesus said to him, If I desire that he stay to the day when I come, what is that to "yew"? "Yew", follow "Mee". This saying therefore went out among the brothers that this disciple would not die, Yet Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but "If I desire that he stay to the day when I come" what is that to "yew"? This is the disciple who testifies about these things, and "wrote these things". "We know" that his witness is true. To the apostles whom he had chosen, he also showed himself alive after he suffered, "by many proofs", appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking about "God’s Kingdom". Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers at once, most of whom remain to now, "but some have also fallen asleep". Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. Jesus "came" to them and spoke to them. He led them out as far as Bethany. Being assembled together with them, he "commanded" them "Do not depart from Jerusalem", but wait for the promise of the Father which you heard from me. For John indeed baptized in water, "but yew" will be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days from now. Therefore when they had come together, they asked him, Lord, are you now restoring the kingdom to Israel? He said to them, saying, "It is not for yew" to know "times or seasons" which the Father has set within his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth. Go into all the world and preach the Proclamation to the whole creation. He who believes "and is baptized" will be saved. but he who "still" disbelieves will be "condemned". These signs will accompany those who believe. in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new languages; they will take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it will in no way hurt them. they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover. All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. Go and make disciples of all nations, "bap tizing-them" in the name of "the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit", Teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, "I AM" with you always, even to the end of the Eon, the end of the age; "to the end of time". "A Men". And when he had said these things, he lifted up his hands, and blessed them. "While-he blessed-them", he "withdrew" from them and was carried up into heaven: As they were looking "he was taken up", and a "cloud" received him out of their sight. So then the Lord, after he had "spoken" to them was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God. While they were looking steadfastly into the heaven as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white clothing, who also said, You men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the heaven? This "Jesus" who was received up from you into the heaven, "will come back in the same way" as you saw him "going into" the heaven. They "worshiped" him. Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem a Sabbath day’s journey away, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy. When they had come in, they went up into the upper room where they were staying. that is, Peter ("Rock"). John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James. All these with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer and supplication along with the women, "and Mary the mother of Jesus", and with his brethren, his relatives descended from David according to the flesh. Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples which are not written in this book; but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Anointed, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name. The end of the first book. This first book I wrote "Friend of God", concerned all that Jesus began both to do and to Teach, up to the day in which he was received up, after he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. There are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they would all be written, I suppose that even the world itself would not have room for the books that would be written. Click here to go to the next page.	normal print text

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