1 The book of the lineage of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
2 Abraham begot Isaac, and Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob begot Judah and his brothers,
3 and Judah begot Perez and Zarah by Tamar, and Perez begot Hezron, and Hezron begot Ram,
4 and Ram begot Amminadab, and Amminadab begot Nahshon, and Nahshon begot Salmon,
5 and Salmon begot Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz begot Obed by Ruth, and Obed begot Jesse,
6 and Jesse begot David the king, and David the king begot Solomon by Uriah's wife,
7 and Solomon begot Rehoboam, and Rehoboam begot Abijah, and Abijah begot Asa,
8 and Asa begot Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat begot Jehoram, and Jehoram begot Uzziah,
9 and Uzziah begot Jotham, and Jotham begot Ahaz, and Ahaz begot Hezekiah,
10 and Hezekiah begot Manasseh, and Manasseh begot Amon, and Amon begot Josiah,
11 and Josiah begot Jechoniah and his brothers at the time of the Babylonian deportation.
12 And after the Babylonian deportation, Jechoniah begot Shealtiel, and Shealtiel begot Zorobabel,
13 and Zorobabel begot Abihud, and Abihud begot Eliakim, and Eliakim begot Azzur,
14 and Azzur begot Zadok, and Zadok begot Jachin, and Jachin begot Elihud,
15 and Elihud begot Eliazar, and Eliazar begot Mattan, and Mattan begot Jacob,
16 and Jacob begot Joseph, the husband of Mary, by whom Jesus was conceived, who is called Christ.
17 So all the generations from Abraham to David amount to fourteen generations, and from David to the Babylonian deportation there are fourteen generations, and from the Babylonian deportation to Christ there are fourteen generations.
18 But the begetting of Jesus Christ was as follows. Now then, when his mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found to be with child, by holy spirit.
19 But Joseph, her husband-to-be, being righteous, and not wishing to make an example of her, wanted to divorce her secretly.
20 But after he had reflected on these things, what should happen, but the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, and said, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary to be your wife, for that which has been conceived in her is so by holy spirit.
21 And she shall bear a son, and you will call him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”
22 Now all this took place in order that that which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet should be fulfilled, where he says,
23 “Behold, a virgin will be with child, and will bear a son, and they will call him Emmanuel, which when translated is ‘God with us.’ ”
24 So when Joseph had woken up from the sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took his wife,
25 but did not know her until she had borne her firstborn son, and he called him Jesus.
1 Now after Jesus had been born in Bethlehem of Judaea, in the days of Herod the king, it so happened that magi from the east came to Jerusalem,
2 and said, “Where is the king of the Jews who has just been born? For we have seen his star in the east and we have come to worship him.”
3 But when Herod the king heard of it, he was disturbed, as was all of Jerusalem with him,
4 and when he had gathered all the senior priests and scribes of the people, he enquired from them where Christ was to be born.
5 So they said to him, “In Bethlehem of Judaea. For it has been written as follows by the prophet,
6 ‘And you, Bethlehem, of the land of Judah, are by no means the least among the governmental towns of Judah, for from you will come a governor, who will be shepherd to my people Israel.’ ”
7 Then Herod called the magi privately and assiduously enquired from them the time when the star appeared,
8 and he sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and make careful enquiries about the child, and when you find him, report back to me, so that I too may go and worship him.”
9 So when they had heard the king, they went, and they saw that the star which they had seen in the east went ahead of them, until it had arrived, when it remained above the place where the child was.
10 Indeed, when they saw the star, they rejoiced with very great joy,
11 and when they had come to the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother, and fell down and worshipped him, and opened their treasure chests and offered him gifts: gold and frankincense and myrrh.
12 Then being oracularly warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they went back to their country by another route.
13 When they had gone back, this happened: the angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph, and said, “Get up and take the child and his mother with you and flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod intends to seek the child in order to destroy him.”
14 So he got up and took the child and his mother with him by night and he withdrew to Egypt,
15 and he stayed there until the death of Herod, in order that what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet might be fulfilled, when he said, “I have called my son out of Egypt.”
16 Then when Herod saw that he had been fooled by the magi, he became very angry, and sent troops, and had all the children in Bethlehem and in all its districts killed, from two years and under, according to the time which he had assiduously enquired about from the magi.
17 Then that which was spoken by the Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, where he says,
18 “A cry was heard in Rama – lamentation and weeping and much mourning – Rachel weeping for her children, and she refused to be comforted, for they were not alive.”
19 But when Herod had died, this is what happened: the angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,
20 and said, “Get up and take the child and his mother with you and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the life of the child have died.”
21 So he got up and took the child and his mother with him and went to the land of Israel.
22 But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judaea in place of Herod his father, he was afraid to set off back there, but after he had been oracularly informed in a dream, he went back to the regions of Galilee,
23 and when he arrived, he settled in a town called Nazareth, in order that what was spoken by the prophets might be fulfilled, that he should be called a Nazarene.
1 Now in those days John the Baptist appeared on the scene, preaching in the desert of Judaea,
2 and would say, “Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens has drawn near.”
3 For this man is the one spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, who said, “The voice of one crying out in the desert, ‘Prepare the way of the Lord. Make his paths straight.’ ”
4 Now John himself wore clothing made from camels' hair and a leather belt around his loins, whilst his food was locusts and wild honey.
5 Then Jerusalem, and all of Judaea, and all the region around Jordan came out to him,
6 and were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.
7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who has intimated to you to flee from the wrath to come?
8 So produce fruit worthy of repentance,
9 and do not think you can say to yourselves, ‘We have our father Abraham.’ For I say to you that God can raise children to Abraham from these stones,
10 and the axe has already been laid at the root of the trees. For every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and is thrown into fire.
11 Now I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than me, whose shoes I am not fit to carry. He will baptize you with holy spirit,
12 – he whose winnowing fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly clean his threshing-floor, and he will gather his wheat into his store-house, but he will burn up the chaff with inextinguishable fire.”
13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John in order to be baptized by him,
14 although John tried to prevent him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, yet you come to me.”
15 But Jesus answered by saying to him, “Allow it right now, for in this way it is fitting for us to fulfil all righteousness.” Then he allowed him.
16 Then when Jesus had been baptized, straightaway he came up out of the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the spirit of God descending as a dove and alighting on him.
17 And there was a voice from the heavens, which said, “This is my beloved son, with whom I am very pleased.”
1 Next Jesus was led up to the desert by the spirit to be tempted by the devil,
2 and having fasted for forty days and forty nights – after all that – he was hungry.
3 Then the tempter came to him and said, “If you are the son of God, tell these stones to become loaves of bread.”
4 But he answered and said, “It stands written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word issuing through the mouth of God.’ ”
5 Then the devil took him along to the holy city, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple,
6 and said to him, “If you are the son of God, throw yourself down. For it stands written, ‘He will command his angels concerning you, and they will lift you up in their hands in case at any time you should strike your foot against a stone.’ ”
7 Jesus said to him, “Again, it stands written, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’ ”
8 Again, the devil took him along to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory,
9 and said to him, “I will give you all these, if you fall down and worship me.”
10 Then Jesus said to him, “Be off behind me, Satan, for it stands written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’ ”
11 Then the devil left him, and the next thing that happened was that angels came and took care of him.
12 Now when Jesus had heard that John had been delivered up, he withdrew to Galilee,
13 and having left Nazareth, he came and settled in Capernaum, which is beside the sea in the territories of Zebulun and Naphtali,
14 in order that that which was spoken through the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled, where he says,
15 “The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, the road to the sea, across the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles,
16 the people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, and a light has risen on those who were dwelling in a region and shadow of death.”
17 From then on Jesus began to preach and say, “Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens has drawn near.”
18 While walking by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a round net into the sea, for they were fishermen,
19 and he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishermen of men.”
20 At this they immediately left their nets and followed him.
21 Then going on from there, he saw another two brothers, James, the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in a boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets, and he called them,
22 and they immediately left the boat and their father and followed him.
23 Then Jesus would go round all of Galilee teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and curing every sickness and every ailment among the people,
24 and his fame spread to the whole of Syria and they brought to him all the sick with various diseases and those afflicted with torments, and those possessed by a demon, and lunatics, and paralytics, and he cured them.
25 And large crowds followed him from Galilee and Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judaea and beyond the Jordan.
1 But when he saw the crowds, he went up a mountain, and when he had sat down, his disciples came to him,
2 and he opened his mouth and taught them, and said,
3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of the heavens.
4 Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
5 Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
7 Blessed are the merciful, for they shall be shown mercy.
8 Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
9 Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
10 Blessed are those who have been persecuted on account of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of the heavens.
11 Blessed are you whenever they reproach you, and persecute you, and speak all kinds of offensive words, and lie about you on account of me.
12 Rejoice and be glad, for your reward in the heavens is great, for it is like this that they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
13 You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt becomes insipid, by what can it be salted? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled on by men.
14 You are the light of the world. A city cannot be hidden if it is located on a mountain,
15 nor does one light a lamp and put it under a bushel of corn, but one puts it on a lamp-stand and it gives light to all those in the house.
16 Let your light shine like this before men, so that they see your fine works and glorify your father who is in the heavens.
17 Do not think that I have come to annul the law or the prophets. I have not come to annul, but to fulfil,
18 for truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one jot or one tittle will pass away from the law at all, until all has taken place.
19 So whoever breaks any one of the least of these commandments or teaches men to do so will be called the least in the kingdom of the heavens, whereas it is whoever carries out and teaches the commandments who will be called great in the kingdom of the heavens.
20 For I say to you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you certainly will not go into the kingdom of the heavens.
21 You have heard that it was said by the ancients, ‘You shall not kill,’ and whoever kills shall be liable to judgment,
22 but I say to you that everyone who becomes angry with his brother without reason will be liable to judgment, and whoever says to his brother, ‘Raka’ shall be liable to the Sanhedrin council, and whoever says, ‘You fool’ will be liable to fiery Gehenna.
23 So if you are bringing your gift to the altar and there you remember that your brother holds something against you,
24 leave your gift there in front of the altar and go away and first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.
25 Be well-disposed to your opponent quickly while you are on the way with him, in case your opponent delivers you to the judge, and the judge delivers you to the officer, and you are thrown in prison.
26 Truly I say to you, you will certainly not come out of there until you have repaid the last quadrans.
27 You have heard that it has been said, ‘You shall not commit adultery,’
28 but I say to you that everyone who looks at a married woman intent on lusting after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
29 And if your right eye ensnares you, pluck it out and throw it away, for it is more profitable to you that one of your organs should perish than that your whole body should be thrown into Gehenna,
30 and if your right hand ensnares you, cut it off and throw it away, for it is more profitable to you that one of your limbs should perish than that your whole body should be thrown into Gehenna.
31 And it has been said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a deed of divorce,’
32 but I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, apart from by reason of fornication, causes her to commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
33 Again, you have heard that it was said by the ancients, ‘You shall not swear falsely, but you will perform your oaths to the Lord,’
34 but I say to you, do not swear at all, neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God,
35 nor by the earth, for it is a footstool for his feet, nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great king.
36 And do not swear by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black,
37 but let your speech be, ‘Yes, yes; no, no,’ for any more than these is of evil.
38 You have heard that it has been said, ‘An eye for an eye’ and ‘a tooth for a tooth,’
39 but I say to you, do not resist evil, but whoever strikes you on the right cheek – turn also the other cheek to him,
40 and as for him who wishes you to be judged and to take your tunic, let him have your coat as well,
41 and whoever presses you to go one mile – go with him two.
42 Give to him who asks you, and do not turn away from him who wishes to borrow from you.
43 You have heard that it has been said, ‘You shall love your neighbour,’ and, ‘you shall hate your enemy,’
44 but I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who treat you spitefully and persecute you,
45 so that you become sons of your father in the heavens, for he makes his sun rise on the wicked and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
46 For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not the tax-collectors also do the same?
47 And if you only greet your friends, what do you do that is exceptional? Do not the tax collectors act in this way?
48 So be perfect, as your father in the heavens is perfect.
1 And take care not to give your alms in the presence of men, so as to be seen by them. Otherwise you do not have a reward from your father in the heavens.
2 So when you give alms, do not blow a trumpet in front of you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, in order to be glorified by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward.
3 But when you give alms, let your left hand not know what your right hand is doing,
4 so that your alms are given in secret, and your father, who sees in secret, will reward you in public.
5 And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, in order to be seen by men. Truly, I say to you, they have their reward.
6 But when you pray, go into your private room and shut the door and pray to your father who is hidden, and your father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you in public.
7 And when you pray, do not gabble like the Gentiles, for they think that they will be heard in their loquacity.
8 So do not be like them. For your father knows what you need before you ask him.
9 So then, pray like this: Our father in the heavens, May your name be sanctified.
10 May your kingdom come; May your will be done, As in heaven, so also on the earth;
11 Give us our oncoming bread today,
12 And cancel our debts, As we also cancel the debts of our debtors.
13 And do not lead us into temptation, But rescue us from evil, For yours is the kingdom, And the power and the glory, Throughout the ages. Amen.
14 For if you forgive men their transgressions, so also will your heavenly father forgive you.
15 But if you do not forgive men their transgressions, neither will your father forgive your transgressions.
16 Now whenever you fast, do not be like the sullen-looking hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces in order for it to be obvious to men that they are fasting. Truly, I say to you, they have their reward.
17 But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,
18 so that it is not obvious to men that you are fasting, but it will be known to your father who is hidden, and your father who sees in secret will reward you.
19 Do not save up treasures for yourself on the earth, where the moth and corrosion cause ruin, and where thieves break in and steal,
20 but save up for yourselves treasures in heaven where neither moth nor corrosion cause ruin, and where no robbers break in and steal.
21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be as well.
22 The light of the body is the eye. So if your eye is clear-sighted, the whole of your body will be bright.
23 But if your eye is ill-disposed, the whole of your body will be dark. So if the light which is in you is darkness, how great the darkness is!
24 No-one can serve two masters, for he will either hate one and love the other, or cling to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
25 On account of this I say to you, do not be anxious for your life about what you will eat and what you will drink, nor for your body, about what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
26 Look at the birds of the sky, how they do not sow or reap or gather into storehouses, yet your heavenly father feeds them; surely you are worth much more than they are?
27 And who of you can by being anxious add one cubit to his stature?
28 And why are you anxious about clothing? Observe the wild lilies – how they grow. Yet they neither toil nor spin thread.
29 But I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed like one of these.
30 Now if God so clothes the wild vegetation, which exists today, and tomorrow is thrown into a furnace, will he not much more clothe you, you of little faith?
31 So do not be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?’
32 For the Gentiles seek all these things. Well then, your heavenly father knows that you need all these things.
33 But first seek the kingdom of God and its righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
34 So do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious about itself. Sufficient for the day is its own evil.
1 Do not judge, in order that you may not be judged,
2 for you will be judged with the judgment with which you judge, and by whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.
3 Why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but do not take notice of the joist in your own eye?
4 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all along there is a joist in your eye.
5 You hypocrite! First take the joist out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck out of your brother's eye.
6 Do not give anything sacred to dogs, and do not cast your pearls before swine, in case they trample them with their feet and turn and tear at you.
7 Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
8 For everyone who asks will receive, and he who seeks will find, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
9 Or what man is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?
10 And if he asks for fish, surely he will not give him a serpent?
11 So if you, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your father in the heavens give good things to those who ask him!
12 Whatever you would like men to do to you, do the same to them. For this is the law and the prophets.
13 Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way which leads to destruction, and many are those who are entering through it.
14 How narrow the gate is and confined the way is which leads to life, and how few they are who find it!
15 But beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inside are rapacious wolves.
16 By their fruit you will recognize them. Does one really gather a bunch of grapes from thorn-bushes, or figs from thistles?
17 In this way every good tree produces fine fruit, but a rotten tree produces bad fruit.
18 A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a rotten tree produce fine fruit.
19 Every tree which does not produce fine fruit is cut down and thrown into fire.
20 Therefore, by their fruit you will recognize them.
21 Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord’ will go into the kingdom of the heavens, but rather, he who does the will of my father in the heavens.
22 Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and perform many deeds of power in your name?’
23 And then I will confess to them, ‘I never knew you. Go away from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
24 So everyone who hears these words of mine and does them – I will liken him to a prudent man who built his house on rock,
25 and the rain came down and the torrents arrived, and the winds blew and beat against that house, but it did not fall, for it had been founded on rock.
26 But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be likened to a foolish man, who built his house on sand,
27 and the rain came down, and the torrents came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell down, and its fall was great.”
28 And it came to pass when Jesus had finished these words, that the crowds were astounded at his teaching,
29 for he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.
1 Then when he had come down from the mountain, large crowds followed him,
2 and it so happened that a leper came and worshipped him, and said, “Lord, if you will, you can cleanse me.”
3 At this Jesus held out his hand and touched him and said, “I will; be cleansed.” And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
4 Then Jesus said to him, “See to it that you tell no-one, but go and show yourself to the priest and offer the gift which Moses commanded, as a witness to them.”
5 Subsequently, when he had gone to Capernaum, a centurion approached him, appealing to him,
6 and saying, “Lord, my servant has become ill at home paralysed, and is tormented terribly.”
7 At this Jesus said to him, “I will go and cure him.”
8 Then the centurion answered and said, “Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof, but just pronounce with a word and my servant will be cured,
9 for I am also a man under a system of authority, having soldiers under me, and I say to this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes, and to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it”.
10 When Jesus heard that, he was amazed and said to those following, “Truly, I say to you, not even in Israel have I found such great faith.
11 But I say to you that many will come from the east and from the west and will recline at table with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of the heavens,
12 whereas the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into the outer darkness. There, there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
13 Then Jesus said to the centurion, “Go your way, and as you have believed, so be it to you.” And his servant was cured at that hour.
14 Then Jesus went to Peter's house and saw his mother-in-law lying ill with a fever,
15 and he touched her hand, at which the fever left her, and she rose and waited on him.
16 Then in the evening, they brought to him many who were possessed by demons, and he cast out the spirits by a word, and cured all those who were ill,
17 in order that that which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet should be fulfilled, where he says, “He took our ailments, and bore our sicknesses.”
18 But when Jesus saw large crowds around him, he ordered them to go further away,
19 and a certain scribe came along and said to him, “Master, I will follow you wherever you go.”
20 At this Jesus said to him, “The foxes have dens and the birds of the sky have nests, but the son of man does not have anywhere to lay his head.”
21 Then another of his disciples said to him, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.”
22 But Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.”
23 Then his disciples followed him when he went on board a boat,
24 and what happened next was that a great storm arose in the sea, so that the boat was covered by the waves; but he was sleeping.
25 Then his disciples came to him and woke him up, and said, “Lord, save us, we are not going to survive”.
26 But he said to them, “Why are you fearful, you of little faith?” Then he arose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and a great calm came about.
27 But the men were amazed, and said, “What kind of a man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him?”
28 Then when he had gone to the far side, to the region of the Gergesenes, two men possessed by demons met him, as they came out of the tombs. They were very dangerous, so that no-one could pass by that way.
29 And here's what they did: they shouted, and said, “What have you got to do with us, Jesus the son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the due time?”
30 Now there was a herd of many pigs feeding at a distance from them,
31 so the demons pleaded with him, and said, “If you cast us out, allow us to go off to the herd of pigs.”
32 And he said to them, “Go.” So they came out and went into the herd of pigs. And at this point the whole herd of pigs rushed headlong down the cliff into the sea and died in the waters.
33 But the herdsmen fled and went away to the city and reported everything including the things concerning those possessed by demons.
34 Then it ensued that the whole city came out to meet Jesus, and when they saw him, they appealed to him to move from their districts.
1 Next he went on board the boat and crossed over and came to his own city,
2 and along they came bringing a paralytic man to him lying on a bed. And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic man, “Pluck up courage, my child. You have been forgiven your sins.”
3 Then at this, some of the scribes said to themselves, “This man is blaspheming.”
4 At this Jesus, who had perceived their thoughts, said, “Why do you have evil thoughts in your hearts?
5 For what is easier, to say, ‘You have been forgiven your sins’, or to say ‘Rise and walk’?
6 But in order that you may know that the son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins” – he then spoke to the paralytic man – “Rise and pick up your bed and go to your home.”
7 And he rose and went off to his home.
8 And when the crowds saw it they were amazed, and glorified God, who had given such authority to men.
9 Then as Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax desk, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he got up and followed him.
10 And it came to pass, as he was reclining in his house, that there were many tax-collectors and sinners who had come and were reclining with Jesus and his disciples.
11 And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, “Why does your master eat with the tax-collectors and sinners?”
12 But Jesus heard it and said to them, “Those who are in sound health have no need of a doctor, but rather those who are ill.
13 But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
14 Then John's disciples came to him, and said, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don't fast?”
15 And Jesus said to them, “Surely the wedding guests cannot 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.
16 And no-one puts a patch of uncarded flannel on an old garment, for its piece added will pull strands from the garment and the tear will become worse,
17 nor does one put new wine in old wineskins, or else the wineskins tear and the wine leaks out, and the wineskins will be ruined. But one puts new wine in new wineskins, and both are preserved together.”
18 While he was saying these things to them, it so happened that a certain governor came and worshipped him and said, “My daughter has just died, but come and put your hand on her, and she will live.”
19 Then Jesus rose and followed him, as did his disciples,
20 and at this point a woman who had been suffering from haemorrhage for twelve years approached him from behind and touched the hem of his coat,
21 for she said to herself, “If only I can touch his coat, I will be cured.”
22 But Jesus turned round and saw her and said, “Be of good courage, my daughter. Your faith has cured you.” And the woman was cured from that hour.
23 Then Jesus went to the house of the governor, and seeing the flute players and the crowd wailing,
24 he said to them, “Leave the room. For the girl has not died, but is asleep.” But they laughed at him.
25 Then when the crowd had been sent out, he went in and held her hand and the girl arose.
26 And the account of this went around in the whole of that district.
27 Then as Jesus passed on from there, two blind men followed him, shouting and saying, “Have mercy on us, son of David.”
28 And when he had come to the house, the blind men approached him, and Jesus said to them, “Do you believe I am able to do this?” They said to him, “Yes, Lord.”
29 Then he touched their eyes, and said, “According to your faith, so let it be to you.”
30 And their eyes were opened, but Jesus admonished them sternly, and said, “See that no-one gets to know of this.”
31 But they went out and spread the account of him in all that district.
32 However, while they were going out, it so happened that they brought to him a dumb man possessed by a demon,
33 and when the demon had been cast out, the dumb man spoke, and the crowds were amazed, and said, “Never before has anything like this been seen in Israel.”
34 But the Pharisees said, “He casts out the demons by the ruler of demons.”
35 Then Jesus went around all the cities and the villages teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and curing every sickness and every ailment among the people.
36 But when he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were distressed and tossed about, like sheep not having a shepherd.
37 Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is great, but the workers are few,
38 so entreat the Lord of the harvest that he sends out workers to his harvest.”
1 And when he had called his twelve disciples, he gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to cure every sickness and every ailment.
2 Now the names of the twelve apostles are these: first Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother,
3 Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew the tax-collector, James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus who is surnamed Thaddaeus,
4 Simon the Canaanite and Judas Iscariot who for his part betrayed him.
5 Jesus sent these twelve out, and gave them orders, and said, “Do not go to off into the way of the Gentiles and do not go into any city of the Samaritans,
6 but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
7 And as you go, preach, saying, ‘The kingdom of the heavens has drawn near.’
8 Cure those who are ill, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons. You have received without charge; give without charge.
9 Do not get gold or silver or bronze for your belts,
10 nor a wallet for the way, nor two tunics, nor shoes, nor staffs, for the workman is worthy of his livelihood.
11 And in whatever city or village you enter, make careful enquiries as to who is worthy, and stay there until you leave.
12 And when you go into the house, greet those of it,
13 and if the household is worthy, let your peace come upon it. But if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you.
14 And as for whoever does not receive you, or hear your words – come out of that house or city and shake the dust off your feet.
15 Truly, I say to you, it will be more bearable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha on the day of judgment than for that city.
16 You see, I am sending you as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be prudent like serpents, and guileless like doves.
17 But beware of men, for they will deliver you up to the Sanhedrin councils and they will scourge you in their synagogues,
18 and you will be led to rulers and kings on account of me as a witness to them and the Gentiles.
19 But when they deliver you up, do not be anxious about how or what you will say, because what you will say will be given to you in that hour,
20 for it is not you who speak, but the spirit of your father speaking in you.
21 Furthermore, brother will deliver up brother to death, and father a child; and children will rise up against parents and will have them put to death,
22 and you will be hated by everyone on account of my name; but it is he who endures to the end who will be saved.
23 And when they persecute you in this city, flee to another. For truly I say to you, you will certainly not have completed going round the cities of Israel until the son of man comes.
24 A pupil is not above the teacher, nor is a slave above his master.
25 It is sufficient for the pupil that he becomes like his teacher, and the servant as his master. If they called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more the members of his household!
26 So do not fear them. For nothing is hidden which will not be revealed, or secret which will not become known.
27 What I tell you in darkness, speak in daylight, and what you hear in your ear, proclaim from the rooftops,
28 and do not fear those who kill the body, but who cannot kill the soul, but fear rather him who can destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
29 Are not two sparrows sold for an assarius? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your father's control.
30 But even all the hairs of your head are numbered.
31 So do not fear. You are worth more than many sparrows.
32 So as for everyone who confesses me before men, I for my part will confess him before my father in the heavens.
33 But as for whoever denies me before men, I in turn will deny him before my father in the heavens.
34 Do not think I have come to bring peace on earth. I have not come to bring peace, but the sword.
35 For I have come to set a man apart against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law,
36 and the enemies of the man will be those of his household.
37 He who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves his son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me,
38 and he who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
39 He who finds his life shall lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.
40 He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.
41 He who receives a prophet on the grounds of his being a prophet will receive the reward of a prophet, and he who receives a righteous man on the grounds of his being righteous will receive the reward of a righteous man.
42 And whoever gives just a cup of cool water to drink to one of these little ones on the grounds of him being a disciple – truly I say to you – he certainly will not lose his reward.”
1 And it came to pass when Jesus had finished giving instructions to his twelve disciples, that he moved on from there in order to teach and preach in their cities.
2 But when John had heard in prison about the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples,
3 to say to him, “Are you the one who is coming, or are we to expect another?”
4 And Jesus answered and said to them, “Go and report to John what you hear and see.
5 The blind see again, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised and the poor have the gospel preached to them,
6 and blessed is he who does not stumble because of me.”
7 Then when these had gone, Jesus began to speak to the crowds concerning John, and said “What did you go out into the desert to see? A wind-swept reed?
8 If not, what then did you go out to see? A man clothed in luxurious garments? Look, those who wear luxurious garments are in royal houses.
9 If not, what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and one greater than a prophet.
10 For this man is he of whom it stands written, ‘See how I am sending my messenger in front of you, who will prepare your way ahead of you.’
11 Truly, I say to you, there has not arisen among those born of women anyone greater than John the Baptist. But he who is least in the kingdom of the heavens is greater than he.
12 However, from the days of John the Baptist up to now the kingdom of the heavens has been suffering violence, and violent men are seizing it.
13 For all the prophets and the law up to John have prophesied,
14 and if you are willing to accept it, he is Elijah who is to come.
15 He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
16 To what shall I liken this generation? It is like children sitting in the market places and calling to their companions,
17 and saying, ‘We have played the flute to you, but you did not dance; we have lamented to you, but you did not mourn.’
18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He is possessed by a demon.’
19 The son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look, a glutton and a wine-drinker, a friend of tax-gatherers and sinners.’ But wisdom is vindicated by its children.”
20 Then he began to reproach the cities in which the majority of his mighty deeds took place, because they did not repent.
21 “Woe to you, Chorazin, woe to you, Bethsaida, for if the mighty works which took place in you had taken place in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
22 However, I say to you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon than for you in the day of judgment.
23 And you, Capernaum, you which have been exalted up to heaven, you will be brought down to Hades, for if the mighty deeds which took place in you had taken place in Sodom, it would have remained intact up to this day.
24 However, I say to you that it will be more bearable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom than for you.”
25 At that time Jesus reacted and said, “I give thanks to you, father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from wise and intelligent men, and have revealed them to infants.
26 Indeed, father, because it was with good pleasure in your sight that it should be like this.
27 Everything has been handed over to me by my father. And no-one knows the son except the father, and neither does anyone know the father except the son and whoever the son wishes to reveal him to.
28 Come to me, all you who are toiling and are burdened, and I will give you rest.
29 Take my yoke upon yourselves, and learn from me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls,
30 for my yoke is mild and my burden is light.”
1 At that time Jesus went through the corn-fields on a Sabbath day, and his disciples were hungry, and began to pluck ears of corn and eat them.
2 But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, “Look, your disciples are doing something which it is not permitted to do on a Sabbath.”
3 However, he said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he and those with him were hungry?
4 How he went into the house of God and ate the showbread loaves, which were not permitted for him or those with him to eat, except for the priests alone?
5 Or have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, yet are guiltless?
6 But I say to you that there is something greater than the temple here.
7 And if you had known what ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice’ means, you would not have condemned the innocent,
8 for the son of man is Lord of the Sabbath.”
9 Then moving on from there, he came to their synagogue,
10 and it so happened that there was a man with a withered hand, and they questioned him, and asked, “Is it permitted to heal on a Sabbath,” in order to accuse him.
11 But he said to them, “What man is there among you who has a sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, he will not get hold of it and lift it out?
12 Well then, how much more a man is worth than a sheep! So it is permitted to do good on Sabbaths.”
13 Then he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out, and it was restored as sound as the other one.
14 But the Pharisees went away and held a council against him, plotting how they might destroy him.
15 However, Jesus, being aware of it, withdrew from there, and large crowds followed him, and he healed them all,
16 and charged them not to make him publicly known,
17 in order that that which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, where he says,
18 “Behold my servant, whom I have chosen, my beloved, with whom my soul is very pleased. I will put my spirit on him, and he will announce judgment to the Gentiles.
19 He will not strive or shout, nor will anyone in the streets hear his voice.
20 He will not break a bruised reed, nor extinguish a smouldering wick until he brings judgment to a victory.
21 And the Gentiles will set their hope in his name.”
22 Then a blind and dumb man possessed by a demon was brought to him, and he healed him, so the blind and dumb man could speak and see,
23 and all the crowds were amazed and said, “Isn't this the son of David?”
24 But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, “This man does not cast out demons except by Beelzebul, the ruler of the demons.”
25 But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said to them, “Every kingdom which is divided against itself is reduced to desolation, and no city or household which is divided against itself will stand.
26 And if Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand?
27 And if I cast out the demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your people cast them out? On account of this, they themselves will be judges over you.
28 But if I cast the demons out by the spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.
29 Or how can anyone go into a strong man's house and plunder his belongings, if he does not first bind the strong man, so that then he can plunder is house?
30 He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters.
31 On account of this I say to you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but blasphemy against the spirit will not be forgiven men.
32 And whoever speaks a word against the son of man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the holy spirit will not be forgiven, either in the present age or in the one to come.
33 Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree rotten, and its fruit rotten. For by the fruit the tree is known.
34 You offspring of vipers, how can you speak good things when you are evil? For the mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart.
35 A good man brings out good things from his good treasure, and an evil man brings out evil things from his evil treasure.
36 But I say to you that for every idle word which men may speak, they will give an account of it on the day of judgment,
37 for by your words you will be justified and by your words you will be condemned.”
38 Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered and said, “Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.”
39 But he answered and said to them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah the prophet.
40 For as Jonah was in the stomach of the whale for three days and three nights, so the son of man will be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights.
41 The Ninevite men will rise in the judgment with this generation and will condemn it, because they repented at Jonah's preaching, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.
42 The queen of the south will rise in the judgment with this generation and will condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.
43 And whenever an unclean spirit comes out of a man, it passes through arid places seeking rest, but does not find it.
44 Then it says, ‘I will go back to my house, from where I came out.’ And when it has gone back, it finds it unoccupied and swept clean and tidied up.
45 Then it goes out and takes seven other spirits more evil than itself with it, and when they have entered, they live there, and the last condition of that man becomes worst than the first. So it will be with this evil generation as well.”
46 And while he was still speaking to the crowds, it so happened that his mother and his brothers were standing outside, wanting to speak to him.
47 Then someone said to him, “Look, your mother and your brothers are standing outside, wanting to speak to you.”
48 But he answered and said to him who had spoken to him, “Who is my mother and who are my brothers?”
49 And stretching out his hand to his disciples, he said, “Behold my mother and my brothers.
50 For it is whoever does the will of my father in the heavens who is my brother and sister and mother.”
1 And on that day, Jesus went out from the house and sat by the sea,
2 and large crowds gathered together around him, so he went on board a boat and sat down, while the whole crowd was standing on the shore.
3 And he told them many things in parables, and said, “A sower once went out to sow,
4 and as he was sowing, some seed fell beside the road, and the birds came and ate it up.
5 Other seed fell on stony ground, where it did not have much soil, and quickly sprung up through not having depth of soil,
6 but when the sun rose, it was scorched, and through not having root, it withered.
7 And other seed fell in the thorns, and the thorns came up and choked it.
8 But other seed fell on good ground, and yielded produce: some a hundredfold, some sixtyfold, and some thirtyfold.
9 He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
10 Then the disciples came to him and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?”
11 He answered and said to them, “To you it is granted to know the secrets of the kingdom of the heavens, but to them it is not granted.
12 For whoever has something, to him will be given more and it will be in abundance; but whoever does not have anything, even that which he has will be taken from him.
13 This is why I speak to them in parables, because although seeing they do not see, and although hearing they do not hear, nor understand.
14 And the prophecy of Isaiah will be fulfilled in them, which says, ‘You will definitely hear but certainly won't understand, and you will definitely see but certainly won't perceive,
15 for the heart of this people has become obtuse, and with their ears they hear with difficulty, and they have shut their eyes, lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and repent, and I will heal them.’
16 But blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear.
17 For truly, I say to you, that many prophets and righteous men longed to see what you see, but did not see, and to hear what you hear, but did not hear.
18 So hear the meaning of the parable of the sower.
19 When anyone hears the word of the kingdom but does not understand, the evil one comes and seizes what was sown in his heart away. This is he who was sown by the wayside.
20 But he who was sown on the stony ground is he who, hearing the word immediately accepts it with joy,
21 but does not have root in himself, but is unstable, and when tribulation or persecution comes on account of the word, he quickly stumbles.
22 And as for him who was sown in the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but for whom the care of this age and the deceit of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.
23 But he who was sown on the good ground is the one who hears the word and understands it – one who indeed bears fruit – and one produces a hundredfold, while another sixtyfold, and another thirtyfold.”
24 He put another parable to them, and said, “The kingdom of the heavens is comparable to a man who sows good seed in his field.
25 But while the men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went away again,
26 and when the grains sprouted and produced fruit, then the tares appeared as well.
27 Then when the servants of the master of the house went to him, they said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? From where then is it infested with tares?’
28 So he said to them, ‘An inimical man has done this.’ Then the servants said to him, ‘Do you want us then to go out and we will gather them up?’
29 But he said, ‘No, don't, in case when gathering the tares you uproot the wheat together with them.
30 Leave both to grow up together until the harvest, and at the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, «Gather first the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them up, but gather the wheat into my storehouse.»’ ”
31 He put another parable to them, and said, “The kingdom of the heavens is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field,
32 which is the smallest of all seeds, but when it grows, it is bigger than other vegetables and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the sky come and settle on its branches.”
33 He told them another parable: “The kingdom of the heavens is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three sack measures of flour, until it was all leavened.”
34 Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the crowds, and he didn't speak to them without a parable,
35 in order that that which was spoken through the prophet might be fulfilled, when he said, “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the overthrow of the world.”
36 Then Jesus left the crowds and went to his house. And his disciples came to him, and said, “Explain the parable of the tares in the field to us.”
37 So he answered and said to them, “The sower of the good seed is the son of man.
38 The field is the world; the good seed is what represents the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of the evil one.
39 The enemy who sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the consummation of the age; the harvesters are the angels.
40 So just as the tares are gathered and burned in a fire, so it will be at the consummation of this age.
41 The son of man will send his angels, and they will gather up out of his kingdom all causes of offence, and those who commit iniquity,
42 and they will throw them into the fiery furnace. There, there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
43 Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
44 Again, the kingdom of the heavens is like a treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and hid, and for the joy of it went away and sold everything he had and bought that field.
45 Again, the kingdom of the heavens is like a merchant seeking good quality pearls,
46 who, finding one very expensive pearl, went away and sold everything he had and bought it.
47 Again, the kingdom of the heavens is like a drag-net which was cast in the sea and caught all sorts of species,
48 which, when it was full, they brought to land on the shore and sat down and gathered the good fish into containers, but threw the rotten fish out.
49 So will it be in the consummation of the age. The angels will go out and separate the evil ones from the midst of the righteous,
50 and they will throw them into the fiery furnace. There, there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
51 Jesus said to them, “Did you understand all these things?” And they said to him, “Yes, Lord.”
52 But he said to them, “On account of this, every scribe who has been schooled in the kingdom of the heavens is like a master of a house who casts out of his storehouse new things and old.”
53 And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished these parables, that he moved on from there,
54 and came to his native district, and he taught them in their synagogue, in consequence of which they were amazed and said, “Where does this man get this wisdom and these powers from?
55 Isn't he the carpenter's son? Isn't his mother called Mary, and his brothers, James and Joses, Simon and Judas?
56 And are not his sisters all in our company? Where then does this man get all these things from?”
57 And they were offended at him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honour except in his native district and in his house,”
58 and he did not perform many miracles there, because of their unbelief.
1 At that time, Herod the Tetrarch heard of Jesus's fame,
2 and said to his servants, “This is John the Baptist. He has risen from the dead, which is why there are powers at work in him.”
3 For Herod had arrested John and bound him and put him in prison on account of Herodias the wife of Philip his brother,
4 because John had kept on saying to him, “It is not lawful for you to have her,”
5 and although he wished to kill him, he feared the crowd, because they regarded him as a prophet.
6 Then when Herod's birthday was celebrated, Herodias's daughter danced in their presence and pleased Herod,
7 with the result that he promised with an oath to give her whatever she asked for.
8 But she, being so induced by her mother, said, “Give me here the head of John the Baptist on a dish.”
9 At this the king was grieved, but on account of his oaths and those reclining with him, he ordered it to be given,
10 and he sent an executioner and had John beheaded in the prison.
11 So his head was brought on a dish and was given to the girl, and she brought it to her mother.
12 Then his disciples came and took away the body and buried it, and came and reported it to Jesus.
13 But when Jesus heard it, he withdrew from there in a boat to a deserted place privately. Then when the crowds heard about it, they followed him on foot from the cities,
14 and when Jesus went out, he saw a large crowd and felt compassion for them and cured their infirm.
15 When it was evening, his disciples came to him and said, “The place is desolate and the hour has already passed. Dismiss the crowds, so that they can go back to their villages and buy food for themselves.”
16 But Jesus said to them, “They do not need to go away. You give them food to eat.”
17 Then they said to him, “We haven't got anything here except five loaves and two fish.”
18 But he said, “Bring them here to me.”
19 Then he commanded the crowds to recline on the grass, and took the five loaves and the two fish, and looked up to heaven and offered a blessing, and broke the bread, and gave it to the disciples, whilst the disciples gave it to the crowds.
20 And they all ate, and were filled, and they gathered up the excess pieces – twelve basketsful.
21 Now those who ate were about five thousand men, excluding women and children.
22 Then straightaway Jesus made his disciples go on board the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds.
23 Then when he had dismissed the crowds, he went up a mountain privately to pray. It was evening and he was there alone.
24 But the boat was already in the middle of the sea, being buffeted by waves, for the wind was against them.
25 Now then, at the fourth watch of the night, Jesus came to them, walking on the sea,
26 and when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were disturbed, saying, “It is a ghost,” and they shouted for fear.
27 But Jesus immediately spoke to them and said, “Be of good courage – it is me – do not be afraid.”
28 Then Peter replied to him, and said, “Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the waters.”
29 And he said, “Come.” So Peter went down from the boat and walked on the water to go to Jesus.
30 But when he saw that the wind was strong, he was afraid, and as he was beginning to sink, he called out, and said, “Lord, save me.”
31 Then Jesus immediately stretched out his hand and held on to him, and said to him, “You of little faith, why did you doubt?”
32 Then when they had gone on board the boat, the wind abated,
33 and those in the boat came and worshipped him, and said, “Truly, you are the son of God.”
34 Then when they had crossed over, they came to the district of Gennesaret,
35 and when the men of that place recognized him, they sent word out to the whole of that region, and they brought all those who were unwell to him,
36 and they pleaded with him that they might only touch the hem of his coat, and any who touched it recovered.
1 Then the scribes and Pharisees from Jerusalem came to Jesus, and said,
2 “Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.”
3 But he replied saying to them, “Why do you for your part transgress the commandment of God on account of your tradition?
4 For God gave commandment, saying, ‘Honour your father and your mother,’ and ‘he who speaks ill of his father or mother must certainly die.’
5 But you say, ‘Whoever says to his father or mother, «That by which you might have been benefitted from me is a dedicatory gift», is acting correctly’, and he does not honour his father or his mother at all.
6 So you invalidate the commandment of God by your tradition.
7 You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied well concerning you, saying,
8 ‘This people approaches with their mouth, and with their lips they honour me, but their heart is far removed from me.
9 They worship vainly, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ ”
10 Then he called the crowd and said to them, “Listen to this and understand:
11 it is not that which goes into the mouth which defiles a man, but that which comes out of his mouth: that defiles a man.”
12 Then his disciples came to him and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees take offence when they hear the word?”
13 But he answered and said, “Every plant which my heavenly father did not plant will be uprooted.
14 Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall in a pit.”
15 Then Peter responded and said to him, “Explain this parable to us.”
16 And Jesus said, “Are you too still lacking in understanding?
17 Do you not yet understand that everything that goes into the mouth proceeds into the stomach and is discharged into the latrine?
18 But the things which come out of the mouth come out of the heart, and those things defile a man.
19 For out of the heart come evil reasonings, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.
20 These are the things which defile a man. But eating with unwashed hands does not defile a man.”
21 Then Jesus went out from there and withdrew to the districts of Tyre and Sidon,
22 and it so happened that a Canaanite woman from those territories came out and cried aloud to him saying, “Have mercy on me, Lord, son of David. My daughter is severely possessed by a demon.”
23 But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came and appealed to him, and said, “Send her away, because she is shouting after us.”
24 But he answered and said, “I have not been sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
25 But she came and worshipped him and said, “Lord, help me.”
26 But he answered and said, “It is not right to take the bread of the children and throw it to the dogs.”
27 But she said, “Indeed, Lord. But even the dogs eat from the crumbs which fall from the table of their masters.”
28 Then Jesus answered and said to her, “Madam, great is your faith. Let it be to you as you wish.” And her daughter was cured from that hour.
29 Then Jesus moved on from there and went beside the sea of Galilee, and went up the mountain, and sat there,
30 and large crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, blind, deaf, maimed and many others, and they laid them down at the feet of Jesus, and he cured them,
31 so that the crowds were amazed, seeing the dumb speaking, the maimed restored, the lame walking and the blind seeing, and they praised the God of Israel.
32 Then Jesus called his disciples and said, “I feel compassion for the crowd, because it has been three days already that they have stayed with me and have not had anything to eat. And I do not want to dismiss them fasting, in case they faint on the way.”
33 Then the disciples said to him, “Where can we get enough loaves to feed so large a crowd in such a desolate place?”
34 At this Jesus said to them, “How many loaves have you got?” They said, “Seven, and a few small fish.”
35 Then he ordered the crowds to recline on the ground,
36 and he took the seven loaves and the fish, and he gave thanks and broke the bread and gave it to his disciples, whilst the disciples gave it to the crowd.
37 And they all ate and were filled, and they gathered up the excess pieces – seven hampers full.
38 Now those who ate were four thousand men, excluding women and children.
39 Then he dismissed the crowds and went on board the boat and went to the regions of Magdala.
1 Then the Pharisees and Sadducees came, putting him to the test, and they asked him to show them a sign from heaven.
2 But he answered and said to them, “When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fine weather, for the sky is fiery red,’
3 and in the morning, you say, ‘Today there will be a storm, for the sky is fiery red and overcast.’ You hypocrites! You know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but you are not able to discern the signs of the times.
4 An evil and adulterous generation seeks a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah the prophet.” Then he left them and went away.
5 Then his disciples came to the far side, but they had forgotten to take bread with them.
6 However, Jesus said to them, “Watch out and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
7 But they reasoned among themselves and said, “It is because we have not taken any bread with us.”
8 But Jesus knew about it and said, “Why do you reason among yourselves, you of little faith, in that you did not take bread with you?
9 Do you still not understand or remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many basketsful you picked up?
10 Or the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many hampers full you picked up?
11 How come you do not understand that it was not about bread that I told you to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?”
12 Then they understood that he had not said to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
13 Now when Jesus went to the districts of Caesarea Philippi, he questioned his disciples and said, “Who do men say that I, the son of man, am?”
14 And they said, “Some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, and still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”
15 Then he said to them, “But who do you say I am?”
16 And Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the son of the living God.”
17 Then Jesus replied and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Barjonah, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but my father in the heavens.
18 And I say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail over it.
19 And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of the heavens, and whatever you bind on the earth will be bound in the heavens, and whatever you loosen on earth will be loosened in the heavens.”
20 Then he charged his disciples not to tell anyone he was Jesus the Christ.
21 From then Jesus began to show his disciples that he had to go away to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders and senior priests and scribes, and to be killed, and to rise on the third day.
22 At this Peter took him aside and began to reprove him saying, “Goodness gracious, Lord! This will certainly not happen to you.”
23 But he turned round and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan. You are a snare to me, because you do not set your mind on the affairs of God, but on the affairs of men.”
24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone wants to follow me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me,”
25 for whoever wishes to save his life will lose it. But whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
26 For in what way is a man profited if he gains the whole world, but suffers the loss of his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?
27 For the son of man is going to enter into the glory of his father with his angels, and then he will render to each person according to his deeds.
28 Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will certainly not taste death until they see the son of man coming into his kingdom.
1 Then six days later Jesus took Peter and James and John his brother with him and took them up a high mountain privately,
2 and he was transformed before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became white like light.
3 Then the next thing that happened was that Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with him,
4 and Peter reacted and said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you wish, let us make three booths here, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”
5 While he was still speaking, behold, a shining cloud overshadowed them, and there was a voice from the cloud, which said, “This is my beloved son, with whom I am very pleased. Hear him.”
6 And when the disciples heard it, they fell face down, and were very afraid.
7 Then Jesus came and touched them, and said, “Get up and do not be afraid.”
8 But when they lifted up their eyes, they did not see anyone except Jesus alone.
9 Now as they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, and said, “Do not tell anyone about the vision until the son of man rises from the dead.”
10 Then his disciples questioned him, and asked, “Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”
11 And Jesus answered and said to them, “Elijah comes first and restores all things,
12 but I say to you that Elijah has already come, but they did not recognize him, but did to him what they wished. In this way the son of man is also going to suffer at their hands.”
13 Then the disciples understood that it was about John the Baptist that he spoke to them.
14 Then when they went to the crowd, a man came to him kneeling to him,
15 and saying, “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is epileptic and is suffering badly. For he often falls into fire, and often into water,
16 and I brought him to your disciples, but they could not heal him.”
17 Then Jesus answered and said, “O faithless and perverted generation, how long will I be with you? How long will I put up with you? Bring him here to me.”
18 And Jesus rebuked it, and the demon came out of him, and the boy was healed from that hour.
19 Then the disciples went to Jesus privately and said, “Why couldn't we cast it out?”
20 Jesus said to them, “On account of your unbelief. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will be able to say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.
21 But this kind does not come out except by prayer and fasting.”
22 And as they turned back to Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The son of man is going to be delivered into the hands of men,
23 and they will kill him, and on the third day, he will be raised.” At this they were greatly grieved.
24 Then when they came to Capernaum, those who receive the two drachmas tax came to Peter and said, “Your teacher does not pay the two drachmas.”
25 He said, “Indeed.” And when he went into his house, Jesus had got there before him and said, “What do you think, Simon? The kings of the earth – from whom do they take tax or registration duty? From their sons or from outsiders?”
26 Peter said to him, “From outsiders.” Jesus said to him, “Consequently then, the sons are free.
27 But in order that we do not cause them offence, go to the sea and cast a fish-hook, and take the first fish which comes up, and open its mouth, and you will find a stater. Take that and give it to them for me and you.”
1 At that time, the disciples came to Jesus and said, “Who, then, is the greatest in the kingdom of the heavens?”
2 Then Jesus called a child to himself and placed him at the focus of their attention,
3 and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you change your ways and become like children, you certainly will not enter into the kingdom of the heavens.
4 So it is whoever humbles himself like this child who is the greatest in the kingdom of the heavens,
5 and whoever receives one such child in my name receives me.
6 But whoever causes offence to one of these little ones who believe in me – it would be more profitable for him for an ass-driven millstone to be hung around his neck and for him to be drowned in the wide open sea.
7 Woe to the world because of its snares! For it is necessary that snares come, but woe to that man through whom the snare comes.
8 But if your hand or your foot ensnares you, cut them off and throw them away. For it is better for you to enter into life lame or maimed than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into the age-abiding fire.
9 And if your eye ensnares you, pluck it out and throw it away. It is better to enter into life with one eye than to have two eyes and to be thrown into fiery Gehenna.
10 See that you don't despise one of these little ones. For I say to you that their angels in the heavens continuously see the face of my father in the heavens.
11 For the son of man came to save that which was lost.
12 What do you think? If a certain man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine, and go into the mountains and seek the one which is going astray?
13 And if it should happen that he finds it, truly, I say to you, that he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which did not go astray.
14 In this way it is not the will of your father in the heavens that one of these little ones should be lost.
15 But if your brother sins against you, go and remonstrate with him as a matter between you and him alone. If he heeds you, you have won your brother over.
16 But if he does not heed you, take one or two people with you in order that by the affirmation of two or three witnesses, every matter may be established.
17 And if he refuses to heed them, tell the assembly; and if he refuses to heed the assembly, let him be to you like the Gentile and the tax-collector.
18 Truly I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loosen on earth will be loosened in heaven.
19 Again, truly, I say to you that if two of you agree on earth about any matter which you ask about, it will be done for them by my father in the heavens.
20 For where two or three are gathered in my name, there I am in their midst.”
21 Then Peter came to him and said, “Lord, how many times should I forgive my brother if he sins against me? Up to seven times?”
22 Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you up to seven times, but up to seventy times, seven times over.
23 This is why the kingdom of the heavens is like a man who was king, who wished to settle accounts with his servants.
24 As he started to settle them, a certain debtor of ten thousand talents was brought to him.
25 But as he did not have the means to repay, his master ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children and everything he had, and for repayment to be made.
26 So the servant fell down and paid homage to him, and said, ‘My lord, have patience with me and I will repay everything.’
27 At this, that servant's master had compassion on him and released him and cancelled his debt.
28 But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants, who owed him one hundred denaries and when he had seized him he choked him and said, ‘Repay me what you owe.’
29 So his fellow servant fell down onto his feet and pleaded with him and said, ‘Be patient with me and I will repay you.’
30 But he refused, and instead went away, and had him thrown him in prison until he should pay what was owed.
31 But when his fellow servants saw what had happened, they were very grieved, and went and explained everything that had happened to their master.
32 Then his master called for him and said to him, ‘You wicked servant, I cancelled all that debt for you, since you appealed to me.
33 Should not you too have shown your fellow servant mercy, as I for my part showed you mercy?’
34 And his master became angry and delivered him to the torturers until he should repay everything owed to him.
35 In this manner my upper-heavenly father will also deal with you, if you do not all forgive your brother his trespasses from your hearts.”
1 Now it came to pass when Jesus had finished these words that he moved on from Galilee and went to the territories of Judaea beyond the Jordan,
2 and large crowds followed him, and he healed them there.
3 Then the Pharisees came to him, testing him and saying to him, “Is it permitted for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”
4 But he answered and said to them, “Have you not read that he who made them from the beginning, made them male and female,
5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and his mother and will cleave to his wife, and the two will be one flesh.’
6 Consequently, they are no longer two, but one flesh. What God has paired together, therefore, let no man separate.”
7 Then they said to him, “Why then did Moses give commandment to give a certificate of divorce and to divorce her?”
8 He said to them, “Moses, in view of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives. But from the beginning it was not so,
9 and I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, except for fornication, and marries another, commits adultery. And he who marries her who is divorced commits adultery.”
10 His disciples said to him, “If this is the situation of a man with a woman, it is not expedient to marry.”
11 But he said to them, “Not all can accept this saying; only those to whom it is given.
12 For there are eunuchs who were born as such 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 sake of the kingdom of the heavens. He who can accept it, let him accept it.”
13 Then some children were brought to him, in order that he might lay his hands on them and pray. But the disciples rebuked them.
14 However Jesus said, “Leave the children alone and do not prevent them from coming to me. For the kingdom of the heavens consists of such ones.”
15 Then he laid his hands on them and moved on from there.
16 And the next thing that happened was that a certain person came up and said to him, “Good teacher, what good thing am I to do in order that I may have age-abiding life?”
17 And he said to him, “Why do you call me good? No-one is good except one: God. But if you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments.”
18 He said to him, “Which ones?” And Jesus said, “I quote, ‘You shall not commit murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not give false testimony.
19 Honour your father and mother,’ and, ‘you shall love your neighbour as yourself.’ ”
20 The young man said to him, “I have observed all these things from my youth. In what respect do I still come short?”
21 Jesus said to him, “If you wish to be perfect, go and sell your belongings and give the proceeds to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven, and come and follow me.”
22 But when the young man heard those words, he went away grieving, for he had many possessions.
23 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly, I say to you, that it is with difficulty that a rich man can enter into the kingdom of the heavens.
24 And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.”
25 When his disciples heard this, they were exceedingly amazed, and said, “Who, then, can be saved?”
26 Then Jesus looked straight at them and said to them, “With men this is impossible, but with God everything is possible.”
27 Then Peter replied and said to him, “Look, we have abandoned everything and followed you. What then will we have?”
28 Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to you, that you who have followed me, in the regeneration, when the son of man sits on his glorious throne, you too will be seated on twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel,
29 and everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for my name's sake will receive a hundredfold and will inherit age-abiding life.
30 But many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first.
1 For the kingdom of the heavens is like a man who is a master of a household who went out at dawn to hire workers for his vineyard,
2 and after agreeing with the workers a rate of a denary a day and sent them into his vineyard.
3 Then he went out at about the third hour and saw some other men standing idle in the market place,
4 and he said to those, ‘You too, go to the vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.’
5 So they went off. Again he went out, at about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise.
6 And at about the eleventh hour, he went out and found some more men standing idle, and said to them, ‘Why have you been standing here the whole day idle?’
7 They said to him, ‘Because no-one has hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You too, go to the vineyard, and you will receive whatever is right.’
8 Then when evening came, the landlord of the vineyard said to his estate manager, ‘Call the workers and give them their wages, beginning with the last, working towards the first.’
9 And those of the eleventh hour came, and received a denary each.
10 And when those who were first came, they thought they would receive more, but they too received a denary each.
11 And when they had received it, they kept complaining to the proprietor,
12 saying, ‘These last ones worked for one hour, and you treated them as equal to us who bore the burden of the day and the scorching heat.’
13 But he replied and said to one of them, ‘My friend, I am not doing you any wrong. Did you not agree a denary with me?
14 Take what is yours and go. But I wish to give to this last one the same as you.
15 Or is it not permitted for me to do what I want with my own money? Are you jealous because I am good?’
16 In this way the last will be first and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.”
17 Then as Jesus went up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside privately on the way and said to them,
18 “Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the son of man will be delivered to the senior priests and scribes and they will condemn him to death,
19 and will deliver him to the Gentiles to mock and scourge and crucify him and on the third day he will rise again.”
20 Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, worshipping him and asking him for a certain thing.
21 So he said to her, “What is it that you want?” She said to him, “Say that these two sons of mine will sit one on your right hand side and one on your left hand side in your kingdom.”
22 But Jesus answered and said, “You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink from the cup which I am about to drink from? Or be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?” They said to him, “We can.”
23 Then he said to them, “You can drink from my cup and be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized, but to sit on my right hand side and on my left hand side is not for me to give, but is for those for whom it has been prepared by my father.”
24 And when the ten heard it, they were annoyed about the two brothers.
25 But Jesus called them to himself and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them and the high-ranking people exercise authority over them,
26 but it will not be like this among you; rather, whoever among you wishes to be great will be your servant.
27 And whoever among you wishes to be first must be your servant,
28 just as the son of man did not come to be ministered to, but to minister and give his life as a ransom for many.”
29 Then as they left Jericho, a large crowd followed him.
30 And they came across two blind men sitting at the side of the road, having heard that Jesus was passing by, cried out and said, “Have mercy on us, Lord, son of David.”
31 But the crowd rebuked them, telling them to be silent, but they cried out all the more, and said, “Have mercy on us, Lord, son of David.”
32 And Jesus stood still and called them and said, “What do you want me to do for you?”
33 They said to him, “Lord, that our eyes be opened.”
34 And Jesus had compassion on them and touched their eyes, and immediately their eyes recovered their sight, and they followed him.
1 Then when they approached Jerusalem and had gone to Bethsphagé to the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples,
2 and said to them, “Go to the village opposite you, and straightaway you will find a female donkey bound, and a foal with her. Untie them and bring them to me,
3 and if anyone says anything to you, say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and straightaway he will despatch them.”
4 Now all of this took place in order that what was spoken through the prophet might be fulfilled, where he says,
5 “Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Behold, your king is coming to you, meek and riding on a donkey, and a foal, the young of a beast of burden.’ ”
6 Then the disciples went off and did what Jesus had commanded them,
7 and brought the donkey and the foal, and put their coats on them, and he sat on them.
8 And a very large crowd strewed their own clothes in the way, whereas others would cut branches from the trees and strew them in the way.
9 And the crowds which went in front and those following kept shouting and saying, “Hosanna to the son of David. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest realms!”
10 Then when he had entered Jerusalem, the whole city became agitated, saying, “Who is this?”
11 And the crowds kept saying, “This is Jesus the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee.”
12 Then Jesus went into the temple of God and drove out all those selling and buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers, and the chairs of those selling doves,
13 and he said to them, “It stands written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer, but you have made it a robber's cave.’ ”
14 Then the lame and blind came to him in the temple, and he healed them,
15 but when the senior priests and the scribes saw the wonders which he performed, and the children in the temple shouting and saying, “Hosanna to the son of David!” they were indignant,
16 and they said to him, “Do you hear what these people are saying?”. Then Jesus said to them, “Yes. Have you never read that ‘Out of the mouth of infants and sucklings you have furnished praise’?”
17 Then when he had left them he went out of the city to Bethany and passed the night there,
18 and early in the morning as he returned to the city, he was hungry,
19 and when he saw a certain fig tree on the way, he went to it, but did not find anything on it except just leaves. And he said to it, “Let no fruit ever be produced from you any more.” And immediately the fig tree dried up.
20 Then when the disciples saw it, they were amazed, and said, “How quickly the fig tree dried up!”
21 But Jesus answered and said to them, “Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will be able to perform not only the feat of the fig-tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and deposited into the sea,’ it will take place,
22 and everything you ask for in prayer, believing, you will receive.”
23 Then when he had come to the temple, as he was teaching, the senior priests and elders of the people came to him and said, “By what authority do you do these things? And who gave you this authority?”
24 But Jesus replied and said to them, “I for my part will ask you one thing, and if you tell me, I in turn will tell you by what authority I do these things.
25 From where was the baptism of John? From heaven, or from men?” Then they debated among themselves, and said, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say to us, ‘Why, then, did you not believe him?’
26 But if we say, ‘From men,’ we fear the crowd, for all hold John to be a prophet.”
27 So they replied and said to Jesus, “We do not know.” He in turn said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.
28 But what do you think of this? A man had two children, and he went to the first and said, ‘My child, go and work in my vineyard today.’
29 But he replied and said, ‘I refuse.’ But later, he had a change of heart and went.
30 Then he went to the second and spoke similarly. Now he replied and said, ‘I will go, sir,’ but did not go there.
31 Which of the two did the will of the father?” They said to him, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to you, that the tax-collectors and prostitutes go before you into the kingdom of God.
32 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, but you did not believe him. However, the tax-collectors and prostitutes believed him. But when you had seen him, you did not repent later so as to believe him.
33 Listen to another parable. A certain man was a landlord who planted a vineyard and erected a fence round it, and dug a wine-vat in it and built a tower, and put it under hired labour with farmers and went abroad.
34 But when the time of the fruit-harvest approached, he sent his servants to the farmers to receive its fruit.
35 But the farmers took his servants, and flogged one, and killed another, and stoned another.
36 Next he sent more servants, more numerous than the first, and they did likewise to them.
37 And lastly he sent his son to them, and said, ‘They will respect my son.’
38 But when the farmers saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and seize his inheritance.’
39 And they took him, and threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.
40 Now when the landlord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers?”
41 They said to him, “He will put such bad men to a bad kind of death, and put the vineyard out under hired labour with other farmers, who will give him the fruits in their seasons.”
42 Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the scriptures, ‘The stone which the builders rejected is what has become the keystone. This came about from the Lord, and is wonderful in our eyes.’
43 Therefore, I say to you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a nation producing its fruits.
44 And whoever falls on this stone will be shattered. But on whomever it falls, it will crush to powder.”
45 And when the senior priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they knew that he was speaking about them,
46 and whilst they looked for a way to lay hold of him, they feared the crowds, because they held him to be a prophet.
1 Then Jesus reacted and spoke to them again in parables, and said,
2 “The kingdom of the heavens is like a man who is a king who arranged a wedding reception for his son.
3 And he sent out his servants to invite the guests to the wedding, but they would not come.
4 Again, he sent out some more servants, and said, ‘Say to the guests, «Look, I have prepared my banquet-meal, my bulls and fatted cattle have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding.»’
5 But they did not care for it and went off, one to his own field, another to his merchant business,
6 and the remainder seized his servants and dealt with them spitefully, and killed them.
7 And when that king heard it, he became angry, and sent his army, and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.
8 Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding is ready, but the guests were not worthy.
9 So go to the arterial roads and invite whoever you find to the wedding.’
10 So those servants went out to the roads and gathered everyone they found, both bad and good, and the wedding was furnished with diners.
11 Then the king came to see the diners and saw there a man not dressed in wedding clothes,
12 and he said to him, ‘My friend, how is it that you have come here not having wedding dress?’ And he was speechless.
13 Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him by the feet and hands and remove him and cast him into the outer darkness. There, there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
14 For many are called, but few are chosen.”
15 Then the Pharisees went and took counsel as to how to trap him in his speech,
16 and they sent their disciples to him with the Herodians, who said, “Teacher, we know that you are true and teach the way of God in truth, and do not concern yourself with the opinion of anyone, for you do not regard the status of men.
17 So tell us, what do you think? Is it permitted to pay census-tax to Caesar or not?”
18 But Jesus, having become aware of their wickedness, said, “Why do you test me, you hypocrites?
19 Show me the official coin of the census-tax.” So they brought a denary to him.
20 Then he said to them, “Whose is this image and inscription?”
21 They said to him, “Caesar's.” Then he said to them, “Render therefore to Caesar the things that are of Caesar, and to God the things that are of God.”
22 And when they heard this, they were amazed, and they left him and departed.
23 On that day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him and questioned him,
24 saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If someone dies, not having children, his brother shall marry his wife as next of kin, and raise seed to his brother’.
25 Now there were seven brothers in our community. And the first married, and died, and not having any seed, left his wife to his brother.
26 Likewise also the second, and the third, up to the seventh.
27 And last of all, the woman died too.
28 In the resurrection then, to whom of the seven will she be wife? For all of them had her.”
29 Then Jesus answered and said to them, “You are going astray, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.
30 For in the resurrection, they do not marry or are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.
31 And concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read that which was spoken to you by God, where he says,
32 ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ God is not a God of the dead, but of the living.”
33 And when the crowds heard it, they were astounded at his teaching.
34 But the Pharisees, having heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, gathered right there together,
35 and one of them, a scholar in the law, asked him a question, testing him, and said,
36 “Teacher, which commandment is the greatest in the law?”
37 And Jesus said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.
38 This is the first and greatest commandment.
39 And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbour as yourself.
40 In these two commandments hang the whole of the law and prophets.”
41 When the Pharisees had gathered together, Jesus questioned them,
42 and said, “What do you think about Christ? Whose son is he?” They said to him, “David's.”
43 He said to them, “How come then David calls him Lord in the spirit, saying,
44 ‘The Lord said to my Lord, «Sit on my right hand side until I make your enemies your footstool» ’?
45 If, then, David calls him Lord, how is it that he is his son?”
46 And no-one was able to answer him a word, nor did anyone dare to question him any longer from that day.
1 Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his disciples,
2 and said, “The scribes and Pharisees have sat down on Moses' seat,
3 so whatever they tell you to keep, you are keeping to and doing, but do not do according to their works, for they say things, but do not do them.
4 For they bind heavy burdens and things hard to bear, and put them on the shoulders of men, but they are not willing to move them with their finger.
5 But they do all their works to be seen by men, and they broaden their phylacteries and lengthen the fringes of their coats,
6 and they love the privileged couches at dinners and the prime seats in the synagogues,
7 and the greetings in the markets, and to be called by men, ‘Rabbi, rabbi.’
8 But do not you be called ‘rabbi’. For you have one guide: Christ. And you are all brothers.
9 And do not call anyone your ‘father’ on earth, for you have one father, who is in the heavens.
10 And do not be called ‘guides’. For you have one guide: Christ.
11 And the greatest among you will be your servant.
12 And whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
13 But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you devour widows' houses and for a pretence you make long prayers; on account of this you will receive greater judgment.
14 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you shut up the kingdom of the heavens in front of men, for you do not go in, neither do you let those who are on the road to going in actually go in.
15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you go round sea and dry land to make one proselyte, and when it has taken place, you make him a son of Gehenna twofold more than yourselves.
16 Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the sanctuary, it is nothing, but whoever swears by the gold of the sanctuary is a debtor.’
17 Fools and blind men, for which is greater, the gold, or the sanctuary which sanctifies the gold?
18 And: ‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing, but whoever swears by the gift which is on it is a debtor.’
19 Fools and blind men, for which is greater, the gift, or the altar which sanctifies the gift?
20 So he who swears by the altar swears by it and everything on it,
21 and he who swears by the sanctuary swears by it and by him who dwells in it,
22 and he who swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by him who sits on it.
23 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you pay the tithe of mint and dill and cummin, but omit the weightier aspects of the law: judgment and mercy and faith. You should have done these things, while not omitting the former things.
24 You blind guides, you strain off a gnat, but you swallow a camel.
25 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites, because you clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of plunder and injustice.
26 You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and the dish, so that the outside of them may also become clean.
27 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you are like whitewashed sepulchres, which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside are full of bones of the dead and all uncleanness.
28 In this way, you appear righteous to men on the outside, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
29 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you build the tombs of the prophets, and adorn the sepulchres of the righteous,
30 and say, ‘If we had been around in the days of our fathers, we would not have been party with them to the shed blood of the prophets.’
31 So you witness to yourselves that you are sons of those who killed the prophets,
32 you too: fill up the measure of your fathers.
33 Serpents, offspring of vipers, how can you flee from the judgment of Gehenna?
34 On account of this, look, I send you prophets and wise men and scribes, and some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from city to city,
35 so that all righteous blood shed on earth should come upon you from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.
36 Truly I say to you that all this will come upon this generation.
37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I wished to gather your children in the way a bird gathers her nestlings under her wings, but you have not been willing.
38 Behold, your house is being left to you desolate.
39 For I say to you, you certainly will not see me from now until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’ ”
1 Then Jesus went out and left the temple, and his disciples came to him to point out to him the buildings of the temple.
2 But Jesus said to them, “Do you not see all these things? Truly, I say to you, there will not be a stone left on a stone here, which will not be demolished.”
3 And as he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, and said, “Tell us when these things will be, and what the sign of your coming is, and of the consummation of the age.”
4 Then Jesus replied and said to them, “See that no-one leads you astray,
5 for many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray.
6 But you will hear of wars and rumours of wars. Watch out and do not be troubled, for all things must take place, but the end is not yet.
7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in various places.
8 But all these things are the beginning of birth-pains.
9 Then they will deliver you into tribulation and will kill you, and you will be hated by all the nations on account of my name.
10 And then many will stumble and will deliver each other up and will hate each other.
11 And many false prophets will arise and will lead many astray.
12 And on account of lawlessness being increased, the love of many will go cold.
13 But it is he who remains until the end who will be saved.
14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.
15 So when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place – may the reader understand –
16 then let those in Judaea flee to the mountains.
17 Let him who is on the roof not come down to take his belongings out of his house.
18 And let him who is in the field not turn back to take his clothes.
19 But woe to those with child and to those breastfeeding in those days.
20 And pray that your flight may not take place in winter or on a Sabbath,
21 for then there will be a great tribulation, the like of which has not taken place since the beginning of the world up until now, nor ever will take place,
22 and if those days were not shortened, no flesh would be saved. But for the sake of the chosen, those days will be shortened.
23 Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ,’ or, ‘There,’ do not believe it,
24 for false Christs will arise, and false prophets, and they will produce great signs and miracles, so as to lead astray, if it is possible, even those chosen.
25 Behold, I have foretold you.
26 So if they say to you, ‘Look, he is in the desert,’ do not go out, or, ‘Look, he is in the private offices,’ do not believe it,
27 for as lightning comes out from the east and shines as far as the west, so also shall the coming of the son of man be,
28 for wherever the carcase is, there the eagles will be gathered.
29 But immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its lustre, and the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
30 And then the sign of the son of man will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and will see the son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
31 And he will send his angels, with a loud sound of a trumpet, and they will gather his chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the skies to the other.
32 But learn the parable from the fig-tree. When its branches become supple and it produces leaves, know that the harvest is near.
33 In this way, you too, when you see all these things, know that it is near, at the doors even.
34 Truly, I say to you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things take place.
35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will certainly not pass away.
36 But concerning that day and hour, no-one knows it – not even the angels of the heavens – except my father alone.
37 But as the days of Noah were, so also the coming of the son of man will be.
38 For as in the days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah went into the ark,
39 and they did not know until the flood came, and eliminated them all – so the coming of the son of man will be too.
40 At that time there will be two men in the field; one will be taken aside and one will be left behind.
41 Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken aside and one will be left behind.
42 So be watchful, for you do not know at what time your Lord will come.
43 But know this, that if the master of a house had known at what time the thief would come, he would have been on guard and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.
44 On account of this, you too, be prepared, because at a time when you do not expect it, the son of man will come.
45 Who then is the faithful and prudent servant, whom his master appointed over his domestic staff to give them food at the proper time?
46 Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes.
47 Truly, I say to you, that he will appoint him over all his property.
48 And if that bad servant should say in his heart, ‘My master is delaying in coming,’
49 and begins to strike his fellow servants, and to eat and drink with those who get drunk,
50 then that servant's master will come on a day when he does not expect it and at an hour which he is unaware of,
51 and he will cut him in two, and will consign his portion with the hypocrites. There, there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
1 Then the kingdom of the heavens will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.
2 Now five of them were prudent and five foolish,
3 and the foolish ones took their lamps but did not take any oil with them,
4 but the prudent ones took oil in their flasks with their lamps.
5 But when the bridegroom took a long time, they all dozed off and were asleep.
6 Then in the middle of the night there was a shout, ‘Look, the bridegroom is coming. Come out and meet him.’
7 Then all those virgins got up and trimmed their lamps.
8 Then the foolish ones said to the prudent, ‘Give us some of your oil, because our lamps keep going out.’
9 But the prudent ones answered and said, ‘No, in case there is not sufficient for us and you. Go rather to those who sell and buy some for yourselves.’
10 But while they were going off to make the purchase, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went with him to the wedding, and the door was closed.
11 Then later the other virgins came and said, ‘Lord, lord, open up to us.’
12 But he answered and said, ‘Truly, I say to you, I do not know you.’
13 So be watchful, because you do not know the day or the hour when the son of man will come.
14 For these things are like a man who went abroad and called his personal servants and handed over his property to them,
15 and to one he gave five talents, and to another two, and to another one – to each according to his own capacity – and straightaway went off abroad.
16 Now the one who had received five talents went and did business with them and made another five talents.
17 Similarly he who had two talents also gained another two.
18 But he who had received one went away and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master's money.
19 After a long time the master of those servants came back and settled his accounts with them.
20 And the one who had received five talents came and brought another five talents and said, ‘Master, you handed me five talents. Look, I have gained another five talents in addition to them.’
21 And his master said to him, ‘Well done, you good and faithful servant. You were faithful over a little, so I will appoint you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’
22 Then the one who had received two talents came and said, ‘Master, you gave me two talents. Look, I have gained another two in addition to them.’
23 His master said to him, ‘Well done, you good and faithful servant. You were faithful over a little, so I will appoint you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’
24 Then the one who had received one talent came and said, ‘Master, I know that you are a harsh man, reaping where you did not sow and gathering from where you did not scatter.
25 And, being afraid, I went away and hid your talent in the ground. Look, here you have what is yours.’
26 But his master answered and said to him, ‘You wicked and lazy servant, you knew that I reap where I did not sow and gather where I did not scatter.
27 Therefore, you should have placed my money with the bankers so that when I came, I would have received what was mine with interest.
28 So take the talent from him and give it to the one who has ten talents.
29 For to everyone who has, more will be given and it will be made to abound, but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken.
30 And cast the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness. There, there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
31 But when the son of man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne,
32 and all the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate them from one another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
33 And he will place the sheep on his right hand side, but the goats on his left hand side.
34 Then the king will say to those on his right hand side, ‘Come, my father's blessed ones, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the overthrow of the world.
35 For I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me something to drink; I was a stranger, and you took me in;
36 naked, and you clothed me; ill, and you visited me; I was in prison, and you came to me.’
37 Then the righteous will reply to him and say, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you? Or thirsty, and give you drink?
38 When did we see you a stranger, and take you in? Or naked, and clothe you?
39 When did we see you ill or in prison and come to you?’
40 And the king will reply and say to them, ‘Truly I say to you, inasmuch as you have done this to one of the least of these brothers of mine, you have done it to me.’
41 Then he will say in turn to those on the left hand side, ‘Depart from me, you cursed people, to the age-abiding fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
42 For I was hungry, but you did not give me anything to eat; I was thirsty, but you did not give me anything to drink;
43 I was a stranger, but you did not take me in; naked, but you did not clothe me; ill, and in prison, but you did not visit me.’
44 Then they too will reply and say, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty, or a stranger or naked, or ill or in prison, and did not take care of you?’
45 Then he will answer them, and say, ‘Truly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, neither did you do it to me.’
46 And these will go away to age-abiding punishment, but the righteous to age-abiding life.”
1 And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these words, that he said to his disciples,
2 “You know that in two days' time the Passover takes place, and the son of man will be handed over to be crucified.”
3 Then the senior priests and the scribes and the elders of the people gathered together in the hall of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,
4 and they took counsel as to how to lay hold of Jesus by trickery and kill him.
5 But they said, “Not during the festival, so that no uproar takes place among the people.”
6 Now when Jesus was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper,
7 a woman came to him with an alabaster box of very costly ointment, and poured it over his head as he reclined.
8 But when the disciples saw it, they were indignant, “For what purpose is this waste?
9 For this ointment could have been sold for much money and given to the poor.”
10 But Jesus was aware of it and said to them, “Why do you give the woman trouble? For she has done me a good deed.
11 For you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.
12 For when she poured this ointment on my body, she did it with my embalming in view.
13 Truly I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be recounted as a memorial to her.”
14 Then one of the twelve, the one called Judas Iscariot, went to the senior priests,
15 and said “What are you willing you give me if I deliver him to you?” And they stipulated thirty pieces of silver for him.
16 So from then on he sought a good opportunity to betray him.
17 On the first day of the unleavened bread, the disciples came to Jesus and said to him, “Where do you wish us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?”
18 And he said, “Go to the city, and to our good friend, and say to him, ‘The teacher says, «My time is near. At your house I will celebrate the Passover with my disciples.» ’ ”
19 At this the disciples did as Jesus commanded them, and prepared the Passover.
20 By the time evening had come, he was reclining at table with the twelve,
21 and while they were eating, he said, “Truly, I say to you, that one of you will betray me.”
22 Then being very grieved, each one of them went on to say to him, “Surely I am not the one, Lord?”
23 And he replied and said, “It is the one who dips his hand with me in the bowl who will betray me.
24 The son of man goes as it stands written about him. But woe to that man through whom the son of man is betrayed. It would have been better for him if that man had not been begotten.”
25 And Judas, who would betray him, responded and said, “Surely I am not the one, Master?” He said to him, “You have said it.”
26 As they ate, Jesus took the bread and gave thanks and broke it and gave some to the disciples and said, “Take it and eat it. This is my body.”
27 And he took a cup and gave thanks and gave it to them, and said, “Drink from it, all of you,
28 for this is my blood of the new covenant which is shed for many, for the forgiveness of sins.
29 But I say to you, I will certainly not drink from this produce of the vine from now until that day when I drink it with you anew in the kingdom of my father.”
30 Then they sang hymns and went away to the Mount of Olives.
31 Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will stumble at me this very night. For it stands written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered,’
32 but after I have been raised up, I will go on ahead of you to Galilee.”
33 However Peter answered and said to him, “Even if all stumble at you, nevertheless I will never stumble at you.”
34 Jesus said to him, “Truly, I say to you, that tonight before the cock crows you will deny me three times.”
35 Peter said to him, “Even if I must die with you, I certainly will not deny you.” And all the disciples also spoke likewise.
36 Then Jesus went with them to a locality called Gethsemané, and said to the disciples, “Sit here while I go away and pray over there.”
37 And he took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee with him, and began to be grieved and sorely troubled.
38 Then Jesus said to them, “My soul is deeply grieved, even to death. Remain here and be watchful with me.”
39 Then when he had come a little nearer, he fell face down and prayed and said, “My father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me. But not as I wish, but as you do.”
40 And he went to the disciples and found them sleeping and said to Peter, “So did you not have strength to be on the watch for one hour with me?
41 Be watchful and pray that you do not enter into temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
42 Again, he went a second time and prayed, and said, “My father, if this cup cannot pass from me, unless I drink it, your will be done.”
43 Then he came back and found them sleeping again, for their eyes were weighed down.
44 And he left them and went away again and prayed for a third time, saying the same thing.
45 Then he went to his disciples and said to them, “Sleep from now on and have a rest. Behold, the hour has drawn near when the son of man will be delivered into the hands of sinners.
46 Get up and let's go. Look, he who will betray me has made his way here.”
47 And while he was still speaking, along came Judas, one of the twelve, and with him there was a large crowd with swords and sticks, coming from the senior priests and elders of the people.
48 Now he who would betray him had given them a sign, and had said, “He whom I kiss is the one. Lay hold of him.”
49 And immediately he went to Jesus and said, “Hello, master,” and kissed him profusely.
50 But Jesus said to him, “My friend, what are you here for?” Then they came up and laid hands on Jesus and seized him.
51 And what happened next was that one of those with Jesus stretched out his hand and unsheathed his sword and struck the servant of the high priest and took off his ear.
52 Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back in its holder. For all who take up the sword will die by the sword.
53 Or do you not think that I could not now call on my father to supply me with more than twelve legions of angels?
54 But how then are the scriptures to be fulfilled if that is the way it must come about?”
55 At that hour, Jesus said to the crowds, “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and sticks, to lay hold of me? I used to sit with you every day, teaching in the temple, but you did not seize me.”
56 But all this took place so that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples left him and fled.
57 But those who had seized Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and elders were gathered.
58 However, Peter followed him from a distance, as far as the hall of the high priest, and he went in and sat with the attendants to see how this would end.
59 Now the senior priests and elders and the whole of the Sanhedrin council were looking for a false testimony against Jesus so that they might put him to death.
60 But they did not find any. Even with many false witnesses coming forward, they did not find any.
61 But eventually two false witnesses came forward and said, “He said, ‘I can demolish the sanctuary of God and build it within three days.’ ”
62 And the high priest stood up and said to him, “Do you not give any answer? What is it that these men testify against you?”
63 But Jesus remained silent. Then the high priest reacted and said to him, “I adjure you by the living God to tell us if you are the Christ, the son of God.”
64 Jesus said to him, “It is as you have stated. But I say to you, in the future you will see the son of man sitting on the right hand of power and coming on the clouds of heaven.”
65 Then the high priest tore his coat apart and said, “He has blasphemed. Why do we still need witnesses? Look, you have now heard his blasphemy.
66 What do you think?” They answered and said, “He is liable to the death penalty.”
67 Then they spat in his face, and beat him, and some struck him on the face,
68 and said, “Prophesy to us, O Christ, who is it that struck you?”
69 But Peter was sitting outside in the hall, and a certain maidservant came up to him and said, “You too were with Jesus of Galilee.”
70 But he denied it in the presence of all of them and said, “I don't know what you are saying.”
71 And when he had gone out to the gate, another maidservant saw him and said to those who were there, “This man was also with Jesus the Nazarene.”
72 And again he denied it under an oath and said, “I do not know the man.”
73 And after a short while, those who were standing around came forward and said to Peter, “Truly, you too are one of them. For even your dialect gives you away.”
74 Then he began to curse and swear, saying, “I do not know the man.” And immediately the cock crowed.
75 And Peter remembered the words of Jesus who had said to him: “Before the cock crows, you will deny me three times.” And he went out and wept bitterly.
1 When it was early morning, all the senior priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, so as to have him put to death.
2 And they bound him and led him away and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.
3 Then Judas, who betrayed him, saw that he had been condemned, and felt regret, and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the senior priests and the elders,
4 and said, “I have sinned, betraying innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? You see to it.”
5 Then he threw the silver coins into the sanctuary, and departed, and went away and hanged himself.
6 But the senior priests took the silver coins and said, “It is not permitted to put them in the temple treasury, because they are the price of blood.”
7 So they took counsel and bought the potter's field with them, as a cemetery for foreigners,
8 which is why that field is called the “Field of Blood” up to this day.
9 Then that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, where he says, “And they took thirty silver coins, the price of him who was valued, – him from the sons of Israel whom they valued.
10 And he gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord commanded me.”
11 And Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor questioned him, and asked, “Are you the king of the Jews?” And Jesus said to him, “It is as you say.”
12 And while he was being accused by the senior priests and elders, he did not answer anything.
13 Then Pilate said to him, “Do you not hear how many things they testify against you?”
14 But be did not even answer him as much as one word, so that the governor was very surprised.
15 Now at the festival, the governor had a custom of releasing one prisoner to the crowd, whomever they wished.
16 And they had at that time a notorious prisoner called Barabbas.
17 So when they were gathered together, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release to you, Barabbas or Jesus, who is called Christ?”
18 For he knew that it was through envy that they had delivered him up.
19 And when he was sitting on the podium, his wife sent word to him, as follows: “Have nothing to do with that just man. For I have suffered a lot today in a dream on account of him.”
20 But the senior priests and elders persuaded the crowds that they should ask for Barabbas, whilst they should have Jesus put to death.
21 And the governor responded and said to them, “Which of the two to you want me to release to you?” And they said, “Barabbas.”
22 Pilate said to them, “What should I do with Jesus, who is called Christ?” They all said to him, “Have him crucified.”
23 However, the governor said, “But what wrong has he done?” But they shouted all the more and said, “Have him crucified.”
24 And when Pilate saw that it was to no avail, but rather a tumult was arising, he took some water and washed his hands facing the crowd, and said, “I am innocent of the blood of this just man. You see to it.”
25 And all the people answered and said, “Let his blood be on us and on our children.”
26 Then he released Barabbas to them, but he had Jesus flogged and handed him over to be crucified.
27 Then the governor's soldiers took Jesus with them to the governor's residence and gathered the whole cohort against him,
28 and they stripped him and put a scarlet cloak on him,
29 and they plaited a crown from thorns and put it on his head and put a reed in his right hand, and knelt before him, and kept mocking him, saying, “Hail, king of the Jews.”
30 And they spat at him, and took the reed, and kept striking his head.
31 And when they had mocked him, they took the cloak off him and put his clothes on him, and led him away to crucify him.
32 Then as they were going out, they came across a Cyrenian man by name of Simon, and they pressed him into carrying his cross.
33 And they went to a place called Golgotha, which means “Place of the Skull,”
34 where they gave him vinegar mixed with gall to drink. But when he had tasted it, he refused to drink it.
35 And when they had started the crucifixion, they shared out his clothes casting a lot.
36 Then they sat down and guarded him there,
37 and they put above his head the accusation against him, which read, “This is Jesus the king of the Jews.”
38 Then they crucified with him two robbers, one on the right and one on the left.
39 But those who passed by blasphemed against him, shaking their heads,
40 and saying, “You who would destroy the sanctuary and rebuild it in three days, save yourself. If you are the son of God, come down from the cross.”
41 And the senior priests mocked him similarly, together with the scribes and elders and Pharisees and kept saying,
42 “Others he saved, but himself he cannot save. If he is the king of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe in him.
43 He trusts in God; let him now rescue him, if he wants him. For he said, ‘I am the son of God.’ ”
44 In the same way, the robbers crucified with him kept reproaching him.
45 Now from the sixth hour, darkness came about on the whole earth until the ninth hour.
46 And at about the ninth hour, Jesus shouted out with a loud voice, and said, “Eli, Eli, lima sabachthani?” This means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
47 Some of those standing there who heard it said, “This man is calling Elijah.”
48 Then immediately one of them ran and took a sponge and filled it with vinegar and put it on a reed and offered it to him to drink from.
49 But the rest said, “Stop doing that; let us see whether Elijah comes to save him.”
50 Then Jesus shouted again in a loud voice and gave up the ghost.
51 And behold, the veil of the sanctuary split in half from top to bottom, and the earth suffered an earthquake, and the rocks were split,
52 and tombs were opened and many bodies of the saints fallen asleep were raised,
53 and they came out of the tombs, after his resurrection, and went to the holy city, and appeared to many.
54 Meanwhile the centurion and those with him guarding Jesus, when they saw the earthquake and the things which had taken place, were very afraid, and said, “Truly, this was the son of God.”
55 Now there were many women there, looking on from a distance, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, looking after him,
56 among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's sons.
57 And when it was late, a rich man came from Arimathea, named Joseph, who also had himself been a disciple of Jesus.
58 He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered the body to be handed over,
59 and Joseph took the body and wrapped it up in clean fine linen,
60 and put it in his new tomb which he had hewn out in the rock, and rolled a large stone to the entrance of the tomb and went away.
61 And Mary Magdalene was there as was the other Mary, sitting opposite the tomb.
62 And the next day, which was after the Preparation Day, the senior priests and Pharisees held a meeting with Pilate,
63 and said, “Your Excellency, we remember that that deceiver said, when he was still alive, ‘In three days time I will rise again.’
64 So order the tomb to be secured until the third day, so that his disciples cannot go by night and steal him, and say to the people, ‘He has risen from the dead’, whereby the latter deception would be worse than the former.”
65 Then Pilate said to them, “You have your guard. Go and secure it as you know best.”
66 So they went and secured the tomb, and sealed the stone with the guard present.
1 Late on the Sabbath, as dawn drew on to the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene came with the other Mary to take a look at the tomb.
2 And behold, a severe earthquake took place, for the angel of the Lord had come down from heaven and had come and rolled back the stone from the entrance, and was sitting on it,
3 and his appearance was like lightning and his clothing was white like snow.
4 But those on guard shook with fear of him and became as if dead.
5 However the angel reacted and said to the women, “Don't you fear, for I know that you are looking for Jesus who has been crucified.
6 He is not here, for he has risen as he said. Come and see the place where the Lord lay.
7 And go quickly to tell his disciples that he has risen from the dead, and look, he will go on ahead of you to Galilee. You will see him there. There you are, I have told you.”
8 So they went out from the tomb quickly, with fear and great joy, and ran to report it to his disciples.
9 But as they were going to report it to his disciples, behold, Jesus confronted them, and said, “Greetings.” And they went up to him and took hold of him by the feet and worshipped him.
10 Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to depart for Galilee, and that they will see me there.”
11 Now as they went, what happened was that some members of the guard went to the city and reported everything that had happened to the senior priests.
12 And they gathered with the elders and held counsel and gave the soldiers a good sum of money,
13 and said “Say, ‘His disciples came at night and stole him while we were sleeping.’
14 And if this should catch the ear of the governor, we will persuade him and ensure you are not in trouble.”
15 And they took the money, and did as they had been instructed. And this account has spread about among the Jews up to the present day.
16 Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had commanded them.
17 And when they saw him, they worshipped him, but some doubted.
18 Then Jesus went up to them and spoke to them, and said, “All authority in heaven and on the earth is given to me.
19 Go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the father, the son, and the holy spirit,
20 teaching them to keep everything I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you every day until the consummation of the age.” Amen.