^^^ewTes'TAment Anderson LIBRARY OF THE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY PRINCETON, N. J. PRESENTED BY Mr. Hoel Lawrence IIcQueen Section. .5. ASA- The New Testament TRANSLATED FROM THE SINAITIC MANU- SCRIPT DISCOVERED BY CONSTANTINE TISCHENDORF AT MT. SIN. By H. T. ANDERSON CINCINNATI THE STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY Copyright, 1918 The Standard Publishing Company THE NAMES AND ORDER OF THE BOOKS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT PAGE The Gospel — According to Matthew 7 According to Mark 47 According to Luke 73 According to John 117 The Acts 149 Romans 192 I. Corinthians 208 II. Corinthians 224 Galatians 235 Ephesians 240 Philippians 246 colossians 250 I. Thessalonians 253 II. Thessalonians 257 I. Timothy 259 II. Timothy 263 Titus 266 Philemon 268 Hebrews 269 James 281 I. Peter 285 II. Peter 290 I. John 293 II. John 297 III. John 298 Jude 298 Revelation 300 3 PREFACE HENRY T. ANDERSON, the distinguished author and scholar, needs no lengthy introduction to American readers. His former translation of the New Testament has made his name familiar to all Bible students. He was blessed with a fine classical education ; and such was his devotion to the Greek that, when he began his translation, it was as familiar to him as the English. His method of studying the Scripture was such as left nothing unnoticed. The Bible was read and re- read. Every sentence was studied, both in the original and English, with the most prayerful interest. Scripture was used to illustrate Scripture, until every subject in the Word of God was examined in the light of Divine Truth. He made his translation without reference to any version ; that is, he adopted no version as a basis. His work was not a Revision of any former version, but a New Translation ; for he was not dis- posed to be trammeled by any version whatever, but desired to find the truth of God, as it is contained in the Original. This translation was just finished when Tischendorf's great discovery was published to the world ; and the author immedi- ately began translating this newly found text, known as Codex Sinaiticus, so called because the manuscript was found near Mt. Sinai. It is also known as Aleph, the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet. The three best manuscripts previously known were already designated A, B and C. Not wishing to change these symbols, but at the same time recognizing Tischendorf's claim to first rank, they designated the new text as *^. Constantine Tischendorf, of Leipsig, after a nine-days' trip by caravan, southeast of Suez, arrived at the Greek Monastery of St. Catherine, which is in a cleft of the mountains. In the library of this monastery, which is dark except for two or PREFACE three hours of the day, and in which no hghts nor fire are permitted, are many old and precious manuscripts, which may be read, and even copied, if those who have made the long journey have the proper official permission. Here, in 1844, Tischendorf discovered, in a basket of refuse, some leaves of a very old Greek manuscript of the Bible. He was not permitted to see the remainder of the material, and two other visits were necessary before he was able to secure, by the authority of the Czar of Russia, the entire New Testa- ment, and portions of the Old, which are now in the Imperial Library of Petrograd. From this great discovery is this translation made, and to all lovers of Truth is it dedicated. May it go forth under the Divine blessing, to establish and comfort the hearts of those who love the Truth. Pickett Anderson Timmins. THE NEW TESTAMENT ACCORDING TO MATTHEW 11 The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. 2 Abraham begot Isaac : Isaac be- got Jacob : Jacob begot Judah and his brothers : 3 Judah begot Pharez and Zerah of Tamar : Pharez begot Hezron : Hezron begot Ram : 4 Ram begot Amminadab : Amminadab be- got Nashon : Nashon begot Sal- mon : 5 Salmon begot Boaz of Ra- hab : Boaz begot Obed of Ruth : Obed begot Jesse : 6 Jesse begot David the king. David begot Solomon of the wife of Uriah : 7 Solomon begot Reho- boam : Rehoboam begot Abijah: Abijah begot Asa : 8 Asa begot Jehosaphat : Jehosaphat begot Jeho- ram : Jehoram begot Uzziah : 9 Uz- ziah begot Jotham : Jotham begot Ahaz : Ahaz begot Hezekiah : 10 Hezekiah begot Manasseh : Manas- seh^ begot Amon : Amon begot Josiah : 11 Josiah begot Jeconiah and his brothers about the time of the removal to Babylon. 12 But after the removal to Baby- lon, Jeconiah begot Shealtiel : Sheal- tiel begot Zerubbabel : 13 Zerubbabel begot Abihud : Abihud begot Elia- kim : Eliakim begot Azor : 14 Azor begot Zadoc : Zadoc begot Achim : Achim begot Eliud: 15 Eliud begot Eleazar : Eleazar begot Matthan : Alatthan begot Jacob: 16 Jacob be- got Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus who is called Christ. 17 So all the generations from Abraham till David, are fourteen generations ; and from David till the removal to Babylon, are fourteen generations; and from the removal to Babylon till Christ, are fourteen generations. 18 But the birth of Jesus Christ was thus : After his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, be- fore they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Spirit. 19 And Joseph her husband, being just and not willing to make her an example, intended to put her away privately. 20 But while he thought of these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying: Joseph, son of David, fear not to take to thee Mary thy wife ; for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. 21 And she shall bear a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus; for he shall save his people from their sins. 22 And all this was done, that it might be fulfilled that was spoken by the THE NEW TESTAMENT Lord through the prophet, saying: 23 Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel, which is, when translated, God with us. 24 And Joseph arose from his sleep, and did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him, and took to him his wife; and knew her not till she had brought forth a son; and he called his name Jesus. 2 1 But after Jesus had been born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of Herod the king, be- hold, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem, 2 saying: Where is he that has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star at its rising, and have come to worship him. 3 And hearing it, king Herod was alarmed, and all Jerusalem with him. 4 And he assembled all the chief priests and scribes of the people, and inquired of them where the Christ should be born. 5 And they said to him: In Bethlehem of Judea ; for thus it is written by the prophet: 6 And thou, Bethlehem, land of Judah. art by no means the least among the princes of Judah ; for out of thee shall come a Gov- ernor, who shall rule my people Israel. 7 Then Herod having secretly called the Magi, inquired of them strictly the time at which the star appeared; 8 and sending them to Bethlehem, said: Go. make strict inquiry for the young child; and when you have found him, bring me word, that I also may go and wor- ship him. 9 And after hearing the king, they departed ; and lo. the star which they had seen at its rising, went before them, till it came and Stood over where the young child was. 10 And when they saw the star, they rejoiced with very great joy. 11 And coming into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother ; and falling down they worshipped him ; and having opened their treasures they offered to him gifts, gold, and frankincense, and myrrh, 12 And having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they withdrew into their own country by another way. 13 But after they had withdrawn, behold, an angel of the Lord ap- peared to Joseph in a dream, saying: Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be there till I bring thee word ; for Herod is about to seek for the young child, to destroy him. 14 And he arose and took the young child and his mother, by night, and withdrew into Egypt. 15 and was there till the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled that was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying: Out of Egypt I called my Son. 16 Then Herod, seeing that he had been deceived by the Magi, was greatly enraged ; and, having sent out, he slew all the male children that were in Bethlehem, and in all its borders, from the age of two years and under, according to the time which he had strictly inquired of the Magi. 17 Then was fulfilled that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet, saying : 18 A voice was heard in Ramah. wailing and great mourning: Rachel weep- ing for her children ; and she would not be comforted because they are no more. a 19 But after Herod had died, be- hold, an angel of the Lord appeared ACCORDING TO MATTHEW in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, 20 saying: Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel ; for they are dead that sought the young child's life. 21 And he arose and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel. 22 But hearing that Archelaus reigned in Judea, in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither; but being warned in a dream, he withdrew into the regions of Gali- lee, 23 and came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth, that it might be fulfilled that was spoken through the prophets: He shall be called a Nazarene. 3 1 But in those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, 2 saying: Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens is at hand. 3 For this is he that was spoken of through Isaiah the prophet, saying: The voice of one crying in the wilder- ness. Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. 4 But the same John had his clothing of camel's hair, and a girdle of leather around his loins, and his food was locusts and wild honey. 5 Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judea, and all the region round about the Jordan, 6 and were bap- tized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. 7 But seeing many of the Phari- sees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them : Brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? 8 Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of repent- ance, 9 and think not to say within yourselves : We have Abraham for a father; for 1 say to you that God is able of these stones to raise up children for Abraham. 10 And now the ax is lying at the root of the trees : every tree, therefore, that brings not forth good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire. 11 I indeed baptize you in water in order to repentance ; but he that comes after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry: he will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and in fire: 12 whose winnowing-shovel is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing-floor, and gather his grain into the granary; but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire. 13 Then came Jesus from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be bap- tized by him. 14 But he forbade him, saying: I have need to be baptized by thee, and comest thou to me? 15 But Jesus answered and said to him : Permit it now ; for thus it becomes us to fulfill every righteous act. Then he permitted him. 16 And having been baptized, Jesus immediately went up from the water; and lo, the heavens were opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and coming upon him. 17 And lo, a voice from the heavens, saying: This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. 4 1 Then was Jesus led up by the Spirit into the wilderness, to be tempted by the devil. 2 And having fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward hungry. 3 And the tempter came and said to him: If thou art the Son of God, command that these stones become bread. 4 But he answered and said: It is written: Not by bread alone shall man live, but by every 9 THE NEW TESTAMENT word that comes forth through the mouth of God, 5 Then the devil look him into the holy city, and set him on the wing of the temple, 6 and said to him: If thou art the Son of God, cast thyself down ; for it is written : He will give his angels charge concerning thee, and in their hands they shall take thee up, lest thou strike thy foot against a stone. 7 Jesus said to him : Again it is written : Thou shalt not put the Lord thy God to the proof. 8 Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them, 9 and said to him : All these will 1 give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. 10 Then Jesus says to him : Get hence, Satan ; for it is written : The Lord thy God thou shalt worship, and him only shalt thou serve 11 Then the devil left him; and, behold, angels came and ministered to him. 12 But when he had heard that John was delivered up, he withdrew into Galilee; 13 and leaving Naza- reth, he came and dwelt in Caper- naum, which is on the sea, in the borders of Zebulon and Naphtali ; 14 that it might be fulfilled that was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying: 15 The land of Zebulon, and the land of Naphtali, toward the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles; 16 the people that sat in darkness saw great light ; and upon those who sat in the region and shadow of death light arose. 17 From that time Jesus began to preach and to say: Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens is at hand. 18 And walking by the sea of Gali- lee, he saw two brothers, Simon whQ is calk4 Peter, and Andrew his brother, throwing a net into the sea, for they were fishers. 19 And he said to them: Come after me, and 1 will make you fishers of men. 20 And they immediately left their nets and followed him. 21 And going on thence, he saw other two brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them. 22 And imme- diately leaving the ship and their father, they followed him. 23 And he went about in the whole of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gos- pel of the kingdom, and curing every disease and every malady among the people. 24 And his fame went abroad into the whole of Syria ; and they brought to him all that were sick with various diseases, and that were afflicted with tor- ments, and those possessed with demons, and lunatics, and paralytics; and he cured them. 25 And there followed him many multitudes from Galilee, and Decapolis, and Jerusa- lem, and Judea, and from beyond the Jordan. 5 1 But seeing the multitudes, he went up into the mountain ; and when he had sat down, his disciples came to him ; 2 and he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: 3 Blessed are the poor in spirit ; for theirs in the kingdom of the heavens. 4 Blessed are the meek; for they shall inherit the earth. 5 Blessed are they that mourn : for they shall be comforted. 6 Blessed are they that hunger and thirst for righteousness; for they shall be filled. 7 Blessed are the merciful : for they shall receive mercy, 8 Blessed are ^he pure in IQ ACCORDING TO MATTHEW heart ; for they shall see God. 9 Blessed are the peacemakers ; for they shall be called sons of God, 10 Blessed are they that are perse- cuted for righteousness' sake ; for theirs is the kingdom of the heav- ens. 11 Blessed are you when they shall reproach you, and persecute you, and say every evil thing against you falsely for my sake. 12 Re- joice, and be exceeding glad; for great is your reward in the heavens; for so persecuted they the prophets that were before you. 13 You are the salt of the earth ; but if the salt shall have become tasteless, by what means shall it be salted? It is then good for nothing but, after being cast out, to be trod upon by men. 14 You are the light of the world. A city that lies upon a mountain can not be hid : 15 neither do men light a lamp and put it under the measure, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all that are in the house. 16 So let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in the heavens. 17 Think not that I have come to destroy the law or the prophets : I have not come to destroy, but to fulfill. 18 For verily I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one yod or one point shall in no way pass from the law, till all be accom- plished. 19 Whoever therefore shall make void one of the least of these com- mandments, and shall teach men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of the heavens; but whoever shall do and teach, he shall be called great in the kingdom of the heav- ens, 20 For I bay to you, that un- less your righteousness shall be more abundant than that of the scribes and Pharisees, you can by no means enter into the kingdom of the heavens. 21 You have heard that it was said to the ancients : Thou shall not kill ; and whoever shall kill shall be liable to the judgment. 22 But I say to you, that whoever is angry with his brother shall be liable to the judgment; and whoever shall say to his brother. Worthless fellow, shall be liable to the Sanhedrim ; but whoever shall say : Thou fool, shall be liable to be cost into hell-fire. 23 If therefore thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there remember that thy brother has anything against thee, 24 leave there thy gift before the altar, and go, first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift. 25 Agree with thy opponent-at-law quickly, while thou art on the road with him, lest per- haps the opponent-at-law deliver thee to the judge, and the judge to the officer, and thou be cast into prison. 26 Verily I say to thee, thou shalt not come out thence, till thou shalt have paid the last farth- ing. 27 You have heard that it was said : Thou shalt not commit adul- tery. 28 But I say to you, That every one that looks on a woman to cherish desire, has already com- mitted adultery with her in his heart. 29 But if thy right eye ensnares thee, pull it out, and throw it from thee ; for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members perish, and not that thy whole body be thrown into hell. 30 And if thy right hand ensnares thee, cut it off, and throw it from thee; for it is u THE NEW TESTAMENT profitable for thee that one of thy members perish, and not that thy whole body go away into hell. 31 And it has been said : Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a bill of divorce. 32 But I say to you, that whoever shalt put away his wife, unless on account of lewdness, causes her to commit adultery; and whoever shall marry her that is put away commits adultery. 33 Again : you have heard that it was said to the ancients : Thou shalt not swear falsely, but shalt pay to the Lord thy oaths. 34 But I say to you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God ; 35 nor by the earth, for it is his footstool ; nor by Jeru- salem, for it is the city of the great King: 36 neither shalt thou swear by thy head, for thou, canst not make one hair white or black. 37 But let your word be yes, yes ; no, no; and that which is more than these is of the evil one. 38 You have heard that it was said: Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth. 39 But I say to you, that you resist not the injurious; but whoever shall smite thee on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. 40 And to him that will go to law with thee, and take away thy coat, give up thy mantle also. 41 And whoever will impress thee to go one mile, go with him two. 42 Give to him that asks of thee, and from him that would borrow of thee, turn not away. 43 You have heard that it was said : Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thy enemy. 44 But I say to you. Love your enemies, and pray for thern that persecute you ; 45 that you may become sons of your Father who is in the, heavens; for he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends his rain on the just and the unjust. 46 For if you love them that love you, what reward have you? Do not even the publicans the same? 47 And if you salute your brethren only, what do you more? Do not even the heathen the same? 48 Be you therefore perfect as your heav- enly Father is perfect. 6 1 But take heed that you do not your righteousness be- fore men, to be seen by them : other- wise you have no reward with your Father who is in the heavens. 2 When therefore thou wouldst do a charitable deed, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypo- crites do in the synagogues, and in the streets, that they may be glorified by men. Verily I say to you : They have their reward in full. 3 But when thou doest a charitable deed, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand does ; 4 that thy charitable deed may be in secret ; and thy Father who sees in secret will reward thee. 5 And when you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites; for they love to pray standing in the syna- gogues, and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Verily I say to you : They have their reward in full. 6 But thou, when thou prayest, go into thy closet ; and having closed thy door, pray to thy Father who is in secret; and thy Father who sees in secret will reward thee. 7 But when you pray, use not vain repetitions as the heathens; for they think that they shall be heard for their much ACCORDING TO MATTHEW speaking. 8 Be not therefore like them; for your Father knows what things you have need of before you ask him. 9 In this way therefore pray you : Our Father who art in the heav- ens : hallowed be thy name. 10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done as in heaven also on earth. 11 Give us this day our needful bread. 12 And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debt- ors ; 13 and lead us not into temp- tation, but deliver us from the evil one. 14 For if you forgive men their offenses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you; 15 but if you for- give not men, neither will your Father forgive your offenses. 16 And when you fast, be not as the hypocrites, of a sad counte- nance ; for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear to men to fast. Verily I say to you, They have their reward in full. 17 But do thou, when fasting, anoint thy head, and wash thy face, 18 that thou appear not to men to fast, but to thy Father who is in secret ; and thy Father who sees in secret will reward thee. 19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal ; 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heav- en, where neither moth nor rust consumes, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. 21 For where thy treasure is, there will thy heart be also. 22 The Ismp of the body is the eye. If thy eye be simple thy whole body shall be full of light; 23 but if thy eye be evil thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If then the light that is in thee is darkness, how great that darkness. 24 No one can serve two mas- ters ; for either he will hate the one and love the other or he will hold to the one and despise the other. You can not serve God and Mammon. 25 For this reason I say to you : Be not anxious for your life what you shall eat, nor for your body what you shall put on. Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the clothing? 26 Look at the birds of heaven, that they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into granaries ; and yet 3^our heavenly Father feeds them : are you not much better than they? 27 But which of you, by being anx- ious, can add one cubit to his age? 28 And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow : they toil not, nor do they spin. 29 But I say to you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed as one of these. 30 Now if God so clothes the herb of the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31 Then, be not anxious, saying: What shall we eat, or what shall we drink, or with what shall we be clothed? 32 For after all these things do the Gentiles seek; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these. 33 But seek first his kingdom and righteousness, and all these shall be given you in addition. 34 Be not therefore anx- ious for the morrow; for the mor- row shall be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own evil. 13 THE NEW TESTAMENT 7 1 Judge not that you be not judged. 2 For with what judg- ment you judge, you shall be judged, and with what measure you meas- ure, it shall be measured to you. 3 And why beholdest thou the splinter that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thy own eye? 4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother: Let me pull the splinter out of thy eye, and behold, the beam is in thy own eye. 5 Hypocrite, pull first the beam out of thy own eye, and then thou shalt see clearly to pull the splinter out of thy brother's eye. 6 Give not that which is holy to dogs, neither throw your pearls be- fore swine, less they trample them with their feet, and turn and tear you. 7 Ask, and it shall be given you : seek, and you shall find : knock, and it shall be opened to you. 8 For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it shall be opened. 9 Or what man is there of you, of whom should his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? 10 or if he should also ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? 11 If then you being evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in the heavens give good gifts to those who ask him? 12 All things therefore whatever you would that men should do to you, even so do you to them ; for this is the law and the prophets. 13 Enter in through the strait gate; for wide the gate and broad the way that leads to destruction ; and many are they that go in through it ; 14 for strait is the gate, and narrow the way that leads to life, and few are they that find it. 15 Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but within are ravenous wolves. 16 By their fruits you shall know them. Do men gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles? 17 So every good tree produces goodly fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit. 18 A good tree can not pro- duce evil fruit ; neither can a cor- rupt tree produce goodly fruit. 19 Every tree that does not produce goodly fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Therefore, by their fruits you shall know them. 21 Not every one that says to me. Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but he that does the will of my Father who is in the heavens. 22 Many will say to me in that day. Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy by thy name, and by thy name cast out demons, and by thy name do many mighty works? 23 And then will I confess to them. I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity. 24 Every one therefore that hears these words of mine and does them, shall be likened to a wise man, who built his house on the rock. 25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they beat upon that house, and it fell not ; for it was founded on the rock. 26 And every one that hears these words of mine, and does them not, shall be likened to a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand. 27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they beat upon that house, and it fell ; and great was its fall. 28 And it came to pass when 14 ACCORDING TO MATTHEW Jesus had finished these words, the muhitudes were astonished at his teaching; 29 for he taught them as having authority and not as their scribes. 8 1 And when he had come down from the mountain, many- multitudes followed him. 2 And be- hold, a leper came and worshipped him, saying: Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. 3 And he stretched forth his hand and touched him. saying: I will, be clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. 4 And Jesus said to him : See that thou tell no one ; but go, show thyself to the priest, and ofifer the gift that Moses com- manded, for a testimony to them. 5 And when he had entered into Capernaum, there came to him a centurion beseeching him, 6 and saying: Lord, my servant lies in my house palsied, fearfully tor- mented. 7 He says to him : I will come and cure him. 8 But the centurion answering said: Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof ; but speak only in a word, and my servant shall be restored to health. 9 For I am a man under 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 And hearing it Jesus was filled with admiration, and said to those that followed : Verily T say to you. not even in Israel have T found so great faith. 11 But I say to you. that many shall come from the east and the west, and shall recline at tables with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of the heavens; 12 but the sons of the kingdom shall go forth into the darkness that is without : there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 13 And Jesus said to the cen- turion : Go ; as thou hast believed, be it done for thee. And the ser- vant was restored to health in that hour. 14 And Jesus came into the house of Peter, and saw his mother-in-law lying and ill of a fever. 15 And he touched her hand, and the fever left her; and she arose and minis- tered to him. 16 But when evening had come, they brought to him many possessed with demons; and he cast out the spirits with a word, and cured all that were sick, 17 that it might be fulfilled that was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying: Himself took our infirmities and bore our diseases. 18 But Jesus seeing many multi- tudes about him, gave orders to depart to the other side. 19 And a scribe came and said to him : Teach- er, I will follow thee wherever thou goest. 20 And Jesus said to him: The foxes have dens, and the birds of the heaven have roosts, but the Son of man has not where he may lay his head. 21 And another of his disciples said to him : Lord, per- mit me first to go and bury my father. 22 But he said to him: Follow me. and let the dead bury their own dead. 23 And after he had entered the ship, his disciples followed him. 24 And behold, a great tempest arose in the sea. so that the ship was covered by the waves ; but he was sleeping. 25 And they came and awoke him. saying: Lord, save, we perish. 26 And he says to them : Why are you fearful, O you of 15 THE NEW TESTAMENT little faith? Then he arose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm. 27 And the men were astonished, saying : What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him? 28 And when he had come to the other side, into the country of the Gadarenes, there met him two men possessed with demons, coming out of the tombs, very fierce, so that no one could pass by that way. 29 And behold, they cried out, saying: What have we to do with thee, Son of God? Hast thou come hither before the time, to torment us? 30 And there was, at a distance from them, a herd of many swine feed- ing. 31 And the demons besought him saying: If thou dost cast us out, send us into the herd of swine. 32 And he said to them: Go. And they came out, and went away into the swine ; and behold, the whole herd rushed down the steep into the sea, and died in the waters. 33 But those who fed them fled, and going away into the city told all things, and what had happened to those possessed with the demons. 34 And behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus; and seeing him they besought that he would depart from their borders. 9 1 And he entered a ship and passed over, and came into his own city. 2 And behold, they brought to him a palsied man lying on a bed. And Jesus seeing their faith, said to the palsied man : Take courage, son, thy sins are for- given. 3 And behold, some of the scribes said within themselves : This man blasphemes. 4 And Jesus per- ceiving their thoughts, said : Why think you evil in your hearts? 5 For which is easier, to say: Thy sins are forgiven; or to say: Arise and walk ? 6 But that you may know that the Son of man on earth has authority to forgive sins, then he says to the palsied man : Arise, take up thy bed, and go to thy house. 7 And he arose and went away to his house. 8 And the multi- tudes saw and were afraid, and glorified God who had given such authority to men. 9 And Jesus passing by thence saw a man, called Matthew, sitting at the custom-house, and said to him : Follow me. And he arose and followed him. 10 And it came to pass that, as he reclined at tables in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and reclined at table with Jesus and his disciples, 11 And the Pharisees seeing it said to his disciples : Why does your teacher eat with the publicans and sinners? 12 But hearing it he said: Those who are in health have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. 13 But go and learn what "I desire mercy and not sacrifice" means. For I came not to call righteous men, but sinners. 14 Then came to him the disciples of John, saying: Why do \ye and the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not? 15 And Jesus said to them: Can the sons of the bride- chamber mourn while the bride- groom is with them? But days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then will they fast. 16 No one puts a piece of un fulled cloth on an old garment ; for that which fills it up takes from the garment, and a worse rent is made. 17 Neither do 16 ACCORDING TO MATTHEW they put new wine into old bottles ; otherwise, the bottles break, and the wine runs out, and the bottles per- ish ; but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved together. 18 While he was speaking these things to them, behold, a ruler came in and worshipped him, saying: My daughter just now died ; but come and lay thy hand on her, and she shall live. 19 And Jesus arose and followed him, and so did his dis- ciples. 20 And behold, a woman, that had had an issue of blood for twelve years, came behind and touched the fringe of his mantle ; 21 for she said within herself : If I may only touch his mantle, I shall be saved. 22 But he turned and saw her and said : Daughter, take courage ; thy faith has saved thee. And the woman was saved from that hour. 23 And Jesus entered the house of the ruler and saw the pipers and the multitude making a noise, and said : Withdraw, for the maid is not dead, but sleeps. And they derided him. 25 But when the multitude had been put out. he went in and took her hand, and the maid arose. 26 And the fame of this went forth into that whole land. 27 And as Jesus was passing by thence, two blind men followed him. crying out and saying: Have mercy on us. Son of David. 28 And after he had come into the house, the blind men came to him ; and Jesus said to them : Believe you that I am able to do this? They said to him: Yes, Lord. 29 Then he touched their eyes, saying: According to your faith be it done to you. 30 And their eyes were opened. And Jesus charged them in a threatening manner, saying: See that no one know it. 31 But they went out and published him abroad in all that land. 32 But as they were going out, behold, they brought to him a man dumb possessed with a demon. 33 And after the demon had been cast out, the dumb man spoke. And the multitudes were astonished, saying: Never did it appear thus in Israel, 34 But the Pharisees said : By the prince of the demons casts he out the demons. 35 And Jesus went about all the cities and the villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and curing every disease and every infirmity. 36 But seeing the multitudes he was moved with pity for them, because they were troubled and scattered as sheep that had no shepherd. 37 Then said he to his disciples : The harvest indeed is great, but the laborers few : 38 pray therefore the Lord of the harvest that he send forth laborers into his harvest. 1 A 1 And he called to him his J- ^ twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits, so that they could cast them out. and cure every disease and every in- firmity. 2 But the names of the twelve apostles are these : the first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; and James the son of Zebedee. and John his brother; 3 Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew the publican ; James the son of Alphjeus, and Lebbeus ; 4 Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot who also delivered him up. 5 These twelve Jesus sent forth after he had charged them, saying: 17 THE NEW TESTAMENT Into the road to the Gentiles go not, and into a city of the Samari- tans enter not; 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 is at hand. 8 Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out the demons : freely you received, freely give. 9 Provide not gold, neither silver, nor brass in your girdles; 10 i.o bag for the journey, neither two coats, nor sandals, nor a staff; for the laborer h worthy of his support. 11 Into whatever city or village you enter, inquire who in it is worthy; and there abide till you go forth. 12 And when you enter a house, salute it. 13 And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it; but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you. 14 And whoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when you go out of that house or city, shake off the dust from your feet. 15 Verily, I say to you, it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah, in the day of judgment, than for that city. 16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be- come therefore wise as serpents, and guileless as doves. 17 But beware of men ; for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their syna- gogues they will scourge you : 18 and before governors also and kings shall you be brought for my sake, for a testimony to them and the Gentiles. 19 But when they deliver you up. be not anxious how or what you shall speak ; for there shall be given you in that hour what you shall speak ; 20 for you are not the speakers, but it is the Spirit of my Father that speaks in you. 21 And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and the father the child ; and children shall rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death, 22 And you shall be hated by all because of my name ; but he that endures to the end shall be saved. 23 But v/hen they persecute you in this city, flee into the other ; for verily I say to you, you shall not have made the circuit of the cities of Israel, till the Son of man shall have come. 24 A disciple is not above the teacher, nor a servant above his lord. 25 It is enough for the dis- ciple that he become as his teacher, and the servant as his lord. If they have surnamed the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more those of his household. 26 Be not then afraid of them ; for nothing is concealed that shall not be revealed, and hid that shall not be known. 27 What I tell you in darkness, speak in the light ; and what you hear in the ear, proclaim on the house-tops. 28 And be not afraid of them that kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul ; but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. 29 Are not two spar- rows sold for a farthing? And yet not one of them shall fall to the ground without your Father. 30 But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. 31 Fear not there- fore : you are of more value than many sparrows. 32 Every one therefore that shall confess me be- fore men, him will I also confess before my Father who is in the heavens. 33 But whoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father who is in 18 ACCORDING TO MATTHEW the heavens. 34 Think not that I came to send peace on the earth, I came not to send peace, but a sword. 35 For I came to zct a man in opposition to his father, and a daughter to her mother, and a daughter-in-law to her mother-in- law ; 36 and a man's enemies shall be those of his household. 37 He that loves father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me, and he that loves son or daughter more than me. is not worthy of me; 38 and he that does not take his cross and follow after me, is not worthy of me. 39 He that finds his life shall lose it, and he that loses his life for my sake shall find it. 40 He that receives you receives me, and he that receives me receives him that sent me. 41 He that receives a prophet because he is a prophet, shall receive a prophet's reward ; and he that receives a righteous man because he is a righteous man, shall receive a righteous man's reward. 42 And whoever shall give one of these little ones only a cup of cold water to drink, because he is a disciple, verily I say to you, he shall not lose his reward. 11 1 And it came to pass J- when Jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence^ to teach and to preach in their cities. 2 But John, having heard in prison of the works of Christ, sent by his disciples, 3 and said to him : Art thou he that comes, or look we for another? 4 And answering. Jesus said to them : Go and tell John what things you hear and see ; 5 the blind receive sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised, and the poor have the gospel preached to them; 6 and blessed is he whoever shall not be offended at me. 7 But as these were going away, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John : What went you out into the wilderness to see? a reed shaken by the wind? 8 But what v/ent you out to :ee? a man clothed in soft raiment? Be- hold, they that wear soft clothing are in kings' houses, 9 But why did you go out? To see a prophet? Yes, I say to you, and more than a prophet. 10 This is he of whom it is written : Behold, I send my mes- senger before thy face, who chall prepare thy way before thee. 11 Verily I say to you, among those born of women there has not arisen a greater than John the Baptist; but the least in the kingdom of the heavens is greater than he. 12 But from the days of John the Baptist till now, the kingdom of the heavens is taken by force, and men of force seize upon it eagerly. 13 For all the prophets and the law prophesied till John ; 14 and if you will receive it. he is Elijah that was to come. 15 He that has ears, let him hear. 16 But to what shall I liken this generation? It is like children sit- ting in the markets, who call to the others, 17 and say: We piped to you, and you did not dance: we wailed, and you did not lament. 18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say: He has a demon. 19 The Son of man has come eating and drinking, and they say: Behold, a man, a glutton and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. And yet Wisdom is justified by her works. 20 Then he began to upbraid the 19 THE NEW TESTAMENT cities in which most of his mighty works had been done, because they repented not. 21 Alas for thee, Chorazin ; Alas for thee, Beth- saida ; for if the mighty works which have been done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. 22 Further- more I say to you, it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the pull the ears of grain and to eat. 2 And the Pharisees seeinr it said to him : Behold, thy disciples are doing what it is not lawful to do on the sabbath. 3 But he said to them : Have you not read what David did, when he was hungry, and they that were with him ? 4 hov/ he entered the house of God, and ate of the loaves of the presence, which it was not lawful for him to day of judgment than for you. 22) j eat, nor for those who were with And thou, Capernaum, shalt thou | him, but for the priests only? 5 or be exalted to heaven? Thou shalt i have you not read in the law, that be brought dov.-n to hades; for if on the sabbath days the priests in the mighty works which have been the temple profane the sabbath, and done in thee had been done in are blameless? 6 But I say to you, Sodom, it would have remained to that something greater than the this day. 24 Furthermore I say to you, it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment than for thee. 25 At that time Jesus answered and said : I thank thee. Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, that thou hart hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them temple is here. 7 And if you had known what "I desire mercy and not sacrifice" means, you would not have condemned the blameless. 8 For the Son of man is Lord of the sabbath. 9 And he departed thence, and came into their synagogue. 10 And behold, a man had a withered hand ; to babes: 26 yes, Father, for so it 'and they asked him, saying: Is it seemed good in thy sight. 27 All .lawful to cure on the sabbath? that things have been delivered to me they might accuse him. 11 But he by my Father; and no one knows said to them: What man shall there the Son but the Father : neither be of you, who shall have one knows any one the Father but the I sheep ; and if this fall into a pit on Son, and he to whomever the Son will reveal him. 28 Come to me, all you that labor and are lieavily bur- dened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me ; for I am meek and lowly in heart, and you shall find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is good, and my burden is light. 1 ^ 1 At that time Tesus went, A ^ on the sabbath, through the fields of grain : and his disciples were hungry, and they began to the sabbath, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it up? 12 How much better then, a man is than a sheep: so then it is lawful to do well on the sabbath. 13 Then he says to the man : Stretch forth thy hand. And he stretched it forth ; and it was restored to soundness as the other. 14 But the Pharisees went out and took counsel against him, that they might destroy him. 15 But Jesus perceived it and withdrew thence. And many fol- 20 ACCORDING TO MATTHEW lowed him, and he cured them all, 16 and charged them that they should not make him known, 17 that it might be fulfilled that was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying : 18 Behold my servant whom I hav'e chosen, my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased : I will put my Spirit upon him. and he shall declare judgment to the Gentiles. 19 He shall not contend nor cry out. neither shall any one hear his voice in the streets. 20 A bruised reed shall he not break, and a smoking wick shall he not extin- guish, till he send forth judgment to victory. 21 And in his name shall nations trust. 22 Then was brought to him a demoniac blind and dumb; and he cured him. so that the dumb man spoke and saw. 23 And all the multitudes were astonished and said: Is this the Son of David? 24 But the Pharisees hearing it said : This man does not cast out the demons but by Beelzebub the prince of the demons. 25 And knowing their thoughts he said to them : Every kingdom divided against it- self is made desolate ; and no city or house divided against itself shall stand. 26 And if Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself: how then shall his kingdom stand? 27 And if I by Beelzebub cast out the demons, by whom do your sons cast them out? For this reason they shall be your judges. 28 But if T by the Spirit of God cast out the demons, then has the kingdom of God already come upon you. 29 Or how can any one enter the house of the strong man and seize on his instruments, unless he first bind the strong man, and then he will plun- der his house? 30 He that is not with me is against me, and he that gathers not with me scatters. 31 For this reason I say to you : Every sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven men, but the blasphemy of the Spirit shall not be forgiven. 32 And who- ever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him ; but whoever shall speak against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this age, nor in that to come. 33 Either make the tree goodly and its fruit goodly, or make the tree corrupt and its fruit corrupt ; for by the fruit the tree is known. 34 Brood of vipers, how can you being evil speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. 35 The good man out of his good treasure brings forth good things; and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings forth evil things. 36 But T say to you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give an account of it in the day of judgment. 37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned. 38 Then answered him some of the scribes and Pharisees, saying: Teacher, we wish to see a sign from thee. 39 But he answered and said to them : A wicked and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, and no sign shall be given it but the sign of Jonah the prophet, 40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. 41 The men of Nin- eveh shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall con- 21 THE NEW TESTAMENT demn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah ; and lo, something, greater than Jonah is here. 42 The queen of the south shall rise in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it, because she came from the most distant parts of the earth, to hear the wisdom of Solomon ; and lo, something greater than Solomon is here. 43 When the unclean spirit has gone out from the man, he goes through dry places seeking rest, and finds none. 44 Then he says : I will return into my house whence I came. And he comes and finds it unoccupied, and swept, and adorned. 45 Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there ; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. So shall it be also with this wicked genera- tion. 46 While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brothers stood without seek- ing to speak to him. 47 And some one said to him : Behold, thy mother and thy brothers stand with- out, seeking to speak to thee. 48 But he answered and said to him that told him: Who is my mother, and who are my brothers? 49 And stretching forth his hand over his disciples, he said: Behold my mother and my brothers ; 50 for whoever shall have done the will of my Father who is in the heavens, this is my brother, and sister, and mother. 1 '5 1 In that day Jesus went out l vJ of the house, and sat by the sea. 2 And many multitudes came together to him, so that he entered a ship and sat down, and the whole multitude stood on the shore. 3 And he spoke many things to them in parables, saying : Behold, the sower went forth to sow. 4 And, as he sowed, some fell by the way, and the birds came and ate them up. 5 But others fell on rocky places, where they had not much earth ; and they immediately sprung up be- cause they had no depth of earth ; 6 but when the sun had risen, they were scorched, and because they had no root they withered. 7 But others fell on thorns, and the thorns grew np and choked them. 8 But others fell on good ground, and brought forth fruit, one a hundredfold, one sixty, one thirty. 9 He that has ears, let him hear. 10 And the disciples came and said to him : Why speakest thou to them in parables? 11 And he answered and said: Because to you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of the heavens, but to them it is not given. 12 For who- ever has, to him shall be given, and he shall have abundance ; but who- ever has not, even that which he has shall be taken from him. 13 For this reason I speak to them in parables, because when seeing they see not, and when hearing they hear not, neither do they under- stand. 14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah which says: By hearing you shall hear, and shall not understand, and seeing you shall see, and shall not perceive. 15 For the heart of this people has become fat, and with their ears they hear heavily, and their eyes they have closed, lest perhaps they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their 22 ACCORDING TO MATTHEW heart, and turn, and I should restore them to health. 16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see. and your ears, for they hear. 17 Verily I say to you : Many prophets and right- eous men desired to see what you see, and saw not, and to hear what you hear, and heard not. 18 Hear you then the parable of him that sowed. 19 When any one hears the word of the kingdom, and understands it not, the wicked one comes and snatches away that which is sown in his heart. This is he that was sown by the way. 20 But he that was sown on the rocky places, is he that hears the word, and immedi- ately with joy receives it; 21 yet he has no root in himself, but en- dures for a while; and when afflic- tion or persecution arises because of the word, he immediately takes offense. 22 But he that was sown among thorns, is he that hears the word, and the care of the age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful. 23 But he that was sown on good ground, is he that hears the word and understands it, who also bears fruit, and produces, one a hundred- fold, one sixty, one thirty. 24 Another parable laid he before them, saying: The kingdom of the heavens is likened to a man that sowed good seed in his field. 25 But while the men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares over in the midst of the wheat and went away, 26 But when the blade sprung up and produced fruit, then appeared the tares also. 27 And the servants of the master of the house came and said to him: Sir, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field? Whence then has it tares? 28 He said to them : An enemy did this. And the servants say to him : Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? 29 But he said : No, lest perhaps while gathering the tares you root up the wheat together with them. 30 Let both grow together till the harvest, and in time of harvest I will say to the reapers : Gather first the tares, and bind them into bun- dles to burn them ; but gather the wheat into my granary, 31 Another parable laid he before them, saying: The kingdom of the heavens is like a grain of mustard, which a man took and sowed in his field : 2)2 which indeed is less than all the seeds ; but when it has grown, is greater than the garden- plants, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of heaven come and roost in its branches. T)?) Another parable spoke he to them : The kingdom of the heavens is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three meas- ures of flour, till the whole was leavened. 34 All these things spoke Jesus to the multitudes in parables, and without a parable spoke he nothing to them, 35 that it might be fulfilled that was spoken through the prophet Isaiah, saying : I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things concealed from the foun- dation. 2>(i Then dismissing the multitudes he came into the house. And his disciples came to him, saying: Ex- plain to us the parable of the tares of the field, "hi And he answered and said : He that sows the good seed is the Son of man : 38 the field is the world : the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom; 23 THE NEW TESTAMENT but the tares are the sons of the wicked one : 39 the enemy that sowed them is the devil : the harvest is the conclusion of the age, and the reapers are angels. 40 As then the tares are collected and burned in fire, so shall it be in the con- clusion of the age. 41 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that cause offense, and them that do iniquity, 42 and shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 43 Then shall the right- eous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He that has ears, let him hear. 44 The kingdom of the heavens is like treasure hid in the field, which a man found and hid, and for joy over it he went and sold all that he had, and bought that field. 45 Again : the kingdom of the heavens is like a man, a merchant seeking goodly pearls : 46 when he had found one pearl of great value, he went and sold all that he had and bought it. 47 Again : the king- dom of the heavens is like a net that was cast into the sea and gath- ered of every kind : 48 which, when it was full, they drew to the shore, and sitting down they gathered the good into baskets, but threw the bad away. 49 So shall it be in the conclusion of the age : the angels shall come forth, and separate the wicked from among the righteous, 50 and shall cast them into the furnace of fire : there shall be weep- ing and gnashing of teeth. 51 Have you understood all these things? They say to him, Yes. 52 And he said to them : Therefore. cver> scribe instructed in the kingdom of the heavens is like a man, a master of a house, who brings forth out of his treasury things new and old. 53 And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of these parables, he departed thence. 54 And he came into his own country, and taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished and said: Whence has this man this wisdom and the mighty works? 55 Is not this the son of the carpenter? Is not his mother called Mary, and his brothers, James, and Joseph, and Simon, and Judah? 56 And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then has this man all these things? 57 And they were offended at him. But Jesus said to them: A prophet is not without honor unless in his own country and in his own house. 58 And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief. HI At that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus, 2 and said to his ser- vants : This is John the Baptist : he has risen from the dead, and for this reason the powers are active within him. 3 For Herod having taken John, had bound him, and put him away in prison, because of Herodias the wife of Philip his brother. 4 For John said to him: It is not lawful for thee to have her. 5 And intending to kill him, he was afraid of the multitude, be- cause they held him as a prophet. 6 But when Herod's birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced in the midst and pleased Herod: 7 wherefore he promised with an oath to give her whatever she would ask. 8 And she having been before instigated by her 24 ACCORDING TO MATTHEW mother, said: Give me here in a dish the head of John the Baptist. 9 And the king though grieved, be- cause of the oaths and the guests commanded it to be given, 10 and sent and beheaded John in the prison. 11 And his head was brought in a dish and given to the maiden; and she carried it to her mother. 12 And his disciples came and took away the corpse and buried it, and came and told Jesus. 13 And when Jesus heard it, he withdrew thence in a ship to a desert place apart ; and the multi- tudes hearing it followed him on foot from the cities. 14 And he came forth and saw a great multitude, and was moved with pity for them, and cured their sick. 15 But when evening had come, the disciples came to him, saying: The place is desert, and the hour has already passed: therefore send the multitudes away, that they may go into the villages and buy themselves food. 16 But he said to them : They have no need to go away: do you give them to eat. 17 And they say to him : We have here nothing but five loaves and two fishes. 18 And he said: Bring them hither to me. 19 And after com- manding the multitudes to recline on the grass, he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and having looked up to heaven he blessed, and broke, and gave the bread to the disciples, and the disciples gave it to the multitudes. 20 And all ate and were filled; and they took up what remained of the broken pieces twelve travelling-baskets full. 21 And those who had eaten were about five thousand men besides women and children. 22 And he compelled the disciples to enter the ship, and go before him to the other side, till he should send the multitudes away. 22) And having sent the multitudes away, he went up into the mountain apart to pray. And when evening had come he was there alone. 24 But the ship now in the midst of the sea was tossed by the waves ; for the wind was against it. 25 And at the fourth watch of the night, he came to them walking over the sea. 26 And seeing him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying: It is a specter ; and they cried out for fear. 27 But he immediately spoke to them, saying : Take courage, it is I : be not afraid. 28 And Peter answered him and said: Lord, if it is thou, command me to come to thee over the waters. 29 And he said : Come. And going down from the ship Peter walked over the waters, and came to Jesus. 30 But seeing the wind he was afraid ; and beginning to sink he cried out, say- ing: Lord, save me. 31 And Jesus immediately stretched forth his hand, and took hold of him. and said to him : O thou of little faith, why didst thou doubt? 32 And after they had come up into the ship the wind ceased. 2>Z And those in the ship worshipped him, saying: Truly thou art the Son of God. 34 And they passed over and came to the land of Gennesaret. 35 And when they had knowledge of him, the men of that place sent into that whole region round about, and brought to him all that were sick ; 36 and they besought him that they might only touch the fringe of his mantle; and as many as touched were thoroughly restored to health. 25 THE NEW TESTAMENT 1 C 1 Then came to Jesus 1 *3 Pharisees and scribes from Jerusalem, saying : 2 Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread. 3 But answering he said to them : Why do you also transgress the com- mandment of God because of your tradition ? 4 For God commanded, saying : Honor thy father and thy mother ; and he that curses father or mother let him surely die ; 5 but you say: Whoever shall say to his father or his mother : That, by whatever thou mightest receive aid from me, is a gift, he shall no more honor his father or his mother. 6 And you have made the law of God of no effect because of your traditions. 7 Hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying: This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far distant from me. 9 But in vain do they show devotion to me, teaching teachings the commandments of men. 10 And calling the multitude to him he said to them : Hear and understand; 11 not that which enters the mouth defiles the man ; but that which comes forth out of the mouth, this defiles the man. 12 Then came the disciples and said to him : Knowest thou that the Phari- sees, when they heard the saying. were offended? 13 But he answered and said : Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted shall be rooted up. 14 Let them alone ; they are blind leaders of the blind ; and if a blind man lead a blind man. both shall fall into the pit. 15 But Peter answered and said to him : Explain to us the parable. 16 And he said: Are you also yet without understanding? 17 Do you not perceive that every thing that enters the mouth goes into the belly, and is cast out into the sink? 18 But the things that come forth from the mouth proceed from the heart; and these defile the man, 19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, lewdness, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies. 20 These are the things that defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands defiles not the man. 21 And Jesus went out thence and withdrew into the regions of Tyre and Sidon. 22 And behold, a woman of Canaan came forth from those borders and cried out, saying: Have mercy on me. Lord, Son of David : my daughter is grievously afflicted by a demon, 23 But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying: Dismiss her, for she cries after us. 24 But he answered and said : I have not been sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. 25 And she came and wor- shipped him, saying : Lord, help me. 26 But he answered and said: It is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the little dogs. 27 And she said: Yes, Lord: and yet tJwii canst help me; for the little dogs eat of the crumbs that fall from their masters' table. 28 Then Jesus answered and said to her : O woman, great is thy faith : be it done for thee as thou wilt. And her daughter was restored to health from that hour. 29 And havin'^ departed thence Jesus came by the sea of Galilee : and going up into the mountain he Fat there. 30 And there came to 26 ACCORDING TO MATTHEW him many multitudes, having with them the lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others ; and they threw them down at his feet; and he cured them, 31 so that the multitude was astonished when they saw the dumb speaking, the maimed whole, and the lame walking, and the blind seeing; and they glorified the God of Israel. 32 But Jesus called to him his disciples and said: I have pity on the multitude, because they have continued with me now three days, and have nothing to eat ; and I am not willing to send them away fast- ing, lest perhaps they faint on the road. 33 And the disciples said to him : Whence have we in the desert as many loaves as can fill so great a multitude? 34 And Jesus said to them : How many loaves have you ? They said : Seven, and a few little fishes. 35 And having commanded the multitude to recline on the ground, 36 he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and after giving thanks he broke, and gave to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the multitudes. 37 And all ate and were filled; and they took up what remained of the broken pieces, seven provision-bas- kets full. 38 And they that had eaten were four thousand men be- sides children and women. 39 And he sent the multitudes away, and entered the ship, and came into the borders of Magadan. 1 /C 1 And the Pharisees and -■-^ Sadducees came, and tempt- ing, asked him to show them a sign from heaven. 2 But he an- swered and said to them: [* When * Cod. Sin. and Pat. omit It is evenmg you say: Fair weather, for the heaven is red ; 3 and in the morning: A storm to-day, for the heaven is red and lowering. The face of the heaven you know how to discern ; but can you not discern the signs of the times?] 4 A wicked and adulterous genera- tion seeks for a sign, and no sign shall be given it but the sign of Jonah. And he left them and de- parted. 5 And the disciples having come to the other side had forgotten to take bread. 6 And Jesus said to them : Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Saddu- cees. 7 And they reasoned among themselves, saying: Because we took no bread. 8 But Jesus perceiv- ing it, said : Why reason among yourselves, O you of little faith, because you took no bread? 9 Do you not yet understand, and do you not remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many travelling-baskets you took up? 10 nor the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many provision- baskets you took up? 11 How is it that you do not understand that I spoke not to you of bread? But beware of the leaven of the Phari- sees and Sadducees. 12 Then they understood that he did not bid them beware of the leaven of the Phari- sees and the Sadducees, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees. 13 And when Jesus had come into the regions of Csesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying: Who do men say that the Son of man is? 14 They said : Some, John the Bap- tist, but others, Elijah, and yet the words in brackets. 27 THE NEW TESTAMENT others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets. 15 He says to them : But who say you that I am? 16 And Simon Peter answering said: Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Hving God. 17 And Jesus answering said to him : Blessed art thou, Simon son of Jonah, for flesh and blood did not reveal it to thee, but my Father who is in the heavens. 18 And I also say to thee, that thou art Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hades shall not prevail against it. 19 I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of the heavens, and whatever thou shalt bind on earth, shall be bound in the heavens ; and whatever thou shalt loose on earth, shall be loosed in the heavens. 20 Then he charged the disciples to tell no one that he was the Christ. 21 From that time Jesus began to show to his disciples, that he must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders, and chief priests, and scribes, and be killed; and rise on the third day. 22 And Peter took him and began to rebuke him, saying: Be it far from thee. Lord : this shall not be to thee. 23 But he turned and said to Peter : Get behind me, Satan : thou art my stumbling-block, for thou thinkest not the things of God, but the things of men. 24 Then Jesus said to his dis- ciples: If any one will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. 25 For whoever will save his life shall lose it; but whoever shall have lost his life for my sake shall find it. 26 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall have gained the whole world, but yet shall have lost his life? Or what will a man give as a ransom for his life? 27 For the Son of man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then will he reward each one according to his work, 28 Verily I say to you : There are some of those standing here, who shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom. "I 'T 1 And after six days Jesus A I takes with him Peter and James and John his brother, and leads them up into a high moun- tain apatt. 2 And he was trans- figured before them ; and his face shone as the sun, and his gar- ments became white as light. 3 And behold, there appeared to them Moses and Elijah talking with him. 4 And Peter answered and said to Jesus : Lord, it is good that we are here ; if thou wiliest I will make here three tents, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah. 5 While he was yet speaking, be- hold, a cloud of light overshadowed them ; and lo, a voice from the cloud saying: This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased : hear him. 6 And hearing it the disciples fell on their face and were greatly afraid. 7 And Jesus came forward, and touching them said : Arise and be not afraid. 8 But when they had lifted up their eyes they saw no one but Jesus only. 9 And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying : Tell the vision to no one till the Son of man shall have risen from the dead. 10 And the disciples asked him, saying: Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must first come? 11 He answered and said : Elijah indeed comes: and he will restore all 28 ACCORDING TO MATTHEW things. 12 But I say to you, that Elijah has already come, and they knew him not, but did to him what they pleased. So also shall the Son of man suffer by them. 13 Then the disciples understood that he spoke to them of John the Bap- tist. 14 And when they came to the multitude, there came to him a man kneeling to him, 15 and saying: Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is a lunatic, and suffers griev- ously; for he often falls into the fire and often into the water.^ 16 And I brought him to thy disciples, and they were not able to cure him. 17 And Jesus answered and said : generation unbelieving and per- verse, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him hither to me. 18 And Jesus rebuked him, and the demon came out of him, and the child was cured from that hour. 19 Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said: Why were we not able to cast it out? 20 He said to them: Be- cause of your little faith ; for verily 1 say to you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard, you shall say to this mountain : Be removed hence to that place, and it shall remove, and nothing shall be impossible for you. 22 And while they abode in Gali- lee, Jesus said to them : The Son of man shall be delivered into the hands of men, 23 and they shall kill him, and on the third day he shall arise. And they were very sad. 24 And when they came into Capernaum, they that collected the didrachma came to Peter and said : ma? 25 He said: Yes. And after he had come into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying : What think you, Simon ? From whom do the kings of the earth collect tribute or custom? From their own sons, or from those of others? 26 And when he had said: From those of others; Jesus said to him : Then are the sons free. 27 But that we may not offend them, go to the sea, and throw in a hook, and take the fish that first comes up ; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a stater : take that and give it to them for me and thee. 1 O 1 In that hour the disci- J- O pies came to Jesus, saying: Who then is greatest in the king- dom of the heavens? 2 And call- ing a little child to him, he placed it in the midst of them, 3 and said: Verily I say to you, unless you turn and become as little children, you shall in no way enter into the kingdom of the heavens. 4 Who- ever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, he is greatest in the kingdom of the heavens. 5 And whoever shall receive one such little child in my name, re- ceives me. 6 But whoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me. it were better for him that an upper millstone were hung about his neck and he were drowned in the depth of the sea. 7 Alas for the world because of offenses ; for it is necessary that offenses come, yet alas for the man through whom the offense comes. 8 But if thy hand or thy foot offends thee, cut it off and throw it from thee : it is better for thee to enter into life maimed or lame. Does your teacher pay the didrach- than having two hands or two feet 20 THE NEW TESTAMENT to be cast into the eternal fire. 9 And if thy eye offends thee, pull it out and throw it from thee : it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire. 10 Take heed that you despise not one of these little ones ; for I say to you, that their angels in the heavens do always behold the face of my Father who is in the heavens. 11 For the Son of man has come to save that which is lost. 12 What think you? If any man have a hundred sheep, and one of them go astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains, and go and seek for that which went astray? 13 And if it happen that he find it, verily I say to you, that he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that went not astray. 14 So it is not the will of your Father who is in the heavens that one of these little ones perish. 15 And if thy brother sin, go, tell him of his fault between thee and him alone ; if he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. 16 But if he hear thee not, take with thee one or two more, that by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. 17 But if he refuses to hear them, tell it to the church: and if he refuse to hear the heavens. 20 For where there are two or three that have come together for my name, there am I in the midst of them. 21 Then came Peter and said to him : Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him? Till seven times? 22 Jesus says to him : I say not to thee, till seven times, but till seventy times seven. 23 For this reason the king- dom of the heavens is likened to a man, a king, who wished to take up a settlement with his servants. 24 And when he had begun to settle, there was brought to him one that owed him ten thousand talents. 25 And as he was not able to pay, the lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. 26 Falling down therefore, that servant worshipped him, say- ing: Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. 27 And the lord of that servant moved with pity loosed him, and forgave him the debt. 28 But that servant went out and found one of his fellow-ser- vants that owed him a hundred denarii : and laying hold on him he took him by the throat, saying: Pay. if thou owest any thing. 29 Falling down therefore, his fellow-servant besought him. saying: Have patience the church also, let him be to thee with me. and I will pay thee. 30 as a heathen and a publican. 18 Verily I say to you, whatever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven : and whatever you shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. 19 Again. T say to you. that if two of you on earth shall agree concerning any thing what- ever they will ask. it shall be done for them by my Father who is in But he would not : but went and threw him into prison till he should pay the debt. 31 Therefore his fellow-servants seeing what had been done, were greatly grieved, and came and made known to their lord all that had been done. 32 Then his lord called him and said to him : Wicked servant, all that debt T forgave thee, because thou 30 ACCORDING TO MATTHEW didst entreat me: 33 did it not be- hoove thee also to have mercy on thy fellow-servant, as I also had mercy on thee? 34 And being angry his lord delivered him to the tor- mentors, till he should pay all that was due him. 35 So also will my heavenly Father do to you, if you from your hearts forgive not each one his brother. 10 ^ "^"^ ^^ came to pass 1 X when Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan. 2 And many multitudes followed him, and he cured them there. 3 And the Pharisees came to him. tempting him and saying: Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? 4 And he answered and said: Have you not read that the Creator at the begin- ning made them male and female? 5 and said : For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and be joined to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh. 6 So then no longer are they two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined to- gether, let not man put asunder. 7 They say to him : Why then did IMoses command to give a bill of divorce and put her away? 8 He sa}3 to them: Moses because of the hardness of your heart per- mitted you to put away your wives ; but from the beginning it was not so. 9 But I say to you : Whoever puts away his wife unless for lewd- ness, and marries another, commits adultery. 10 The disciples say to him : If such is the case of the man with the wife, it is not good to marry. 11 But he said to them: All can not receive this saying, but those to whom it is given. 12 For there are eunuchs who were born so from their mother's womb; and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the king- dom of the heavens. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it. 13 Then were brought to him little children, that he might lay his hands on them and pray; but the disciples rebuked them. 14 But Jesus said to them : Let the little children alone and forbid them not to come to me; for to such belongs the kingdom of the heavens. 15 And he laid his hands on them, and departed thence. 16 And behold, one came to him and said : Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life? 17 And he said to him: Why dost thou ask me about the good? One is good. But if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. 18 Which ? said he. And Jesus said : Thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not bear false tes- timony, 19 honor thy father and thy mother, and, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. 20 The young man says to him: All these have I kept: what lack I yet? 21 Jesus said to him: If thou wilt be per- fect, go sell thy goods, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treas- ure in heaven, and come follow me. 22 And hearing it. the young man went away grieved ; for he had great possessions. 23 And Jesus said to his dis- ciples: Verily I say to you. that a rich man will with difficulty enter into the kingdom of the heavens. 31 THE NEW TESTAMENT 24 But again I say to you that it is easier for a camel to enter in through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of the heavens. 25 And the disciples hearing it were greatly astonished, saying : Who then can be saved? 26 But Jesus looked on them and said to them : With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible, 27 Then Peter answered and said to him : Behold, we have left all and followed thee : what therefore shall we have? 28 And Jesus said to them : Verily I say to you. that you who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit on the throne of his glory, you yourselves also shall sit on twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel. 29 And every one that has left brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or children, or lands, or houses, for the sake of my name, shall receive many times more and shall inherit eternal life. 30 But many first shall be last and last first. OA 1 For the kingdom of the ^^ heavens is like a man a mas- ter of a house, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers into his vineyard. 2 And when he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius a day. he sent them into his vineyard. 3 And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing in the market idle, 4 and he said to them : Go you also into the vineyard, and whatever may be right T will give you. 5 And they went. And again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did in like manner. 6 .And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing, and said to them : Why do you stand here all the day idle? 7 They said to him: Because no one has hired us. He said to them : Go you also into the vineyard. 8 And when evening had come the lord of the vineyard said to his steward : Call the laborers, and pay the hire, beginning from the last even to the first. 9 And when those came who had been hired about the eleventh hour, they received each one a denarius. 10 But when those came who had been hired first, they thought that they should receive more ; and they also received each one a denarius. 11 But when they received it they murmured against the master of the house, 12 saying: These the last worked one hour, and thou hast made them equal to us who bore the burden of the day, and the heat. 13 But he answered one of them and said : Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst thou not agree with me for a denarius? 14 Take that which is thine and go. But I will give to this the last even as to thee : 15 is it not allowed me to do what I will with my own? or is thy eye evil because I am good? 16 So the last shall be first, and the first last. 17 And as Jesus went up to Jeru- salem, he took the twelve aside privately, and on the way said to them : 18 Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man shall be delivered to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death. 19 And they will deliver him to the Gentiles, to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify; and on the third day he shall rise. 32 ACCORDING TO MATTHEW 20 Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee with her sons, worshipping and asking some- thing of him. 21 And he said to her: What wilt thou? She says to him : Command that these two sons of mine may sit, one on thy right hand and one on thy left in thy kingdom. 22 But Jesus an- swered and said : You know not what you ask. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink ? They say to him : We are able. 23 He says to them : ]\Iy cup indeed you shall drink, but to sit on my right and on my left, it is not mine to give this, but it shall he given to those for whom it has been prepared, by my F'ather. 24 But when the ten heard it, they were displeased with the two broth- ers. 25 But Jesus called them to him and said : You know that the rulers of the Gentiles exercise lord- ship over them, and the great exer- cise authority over them. 26 Xot so shall it be among you ; but who- ever will become great among you, shall be your minister ; 27 and whoever will be first among you, shall be your servant ; 28 as the Son of man came not to be minis- tered to, but to minister, and give his life a ransom for many, 29 And as they went out from Jericho, a great multitude followed him. 30 And behold, two blind men sitting by the way, hearing that Jesus was passing by, cried out. say- ing: Have mercy on us, son of David. 31 But the multitude re- buked them that they should be silent : and they cried out the more, saying: Lord, have mercy on us, son of David. 32 And Jesus stood still, and called them, and said : What will you that I should do for you? 2)^ They say to him: Lord, that our eyes may be opened. 34 And moved with pity Jesus touched their eyes ; and they immediately received sight, and followed him. '^ 1 1 And when they were ^ A near to Jerusalem, and had come to Bethphage to the mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two dis- ciples, 2 saying to them : Go into the village that is opposite to you, and you will immediately find an ass tied and a colt with her; loose and bring them to me. 3 And if any one say any thing to you, you shall say that the Lord has need of them ; and he will immediately send them. 4 And this was done that it might be fulfilled that was spoken through the prophet, saying: 5 Say to the daughter of Zion : Behold, thy King comes to thee meek and mounted on an ass, yes, on a colt the foal of a beast of burden. 6 And the disciples went and did as Jesus had commanded them, 7 and brought the ass and the colt, and put their mantles on them, and he sat upon them. 8 And the most of the multitude spread their mantles in the road, but others cut branches from the trees, and spread them in the road. 9 And the multitudes that went before him, and those that followed cried out, saying : Hosanna to the Son of David, blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord, Hosanna in the highest. 10 And as he entered into Jerusalem, the whole city was moved, saying: Who is this? 11 And the multi- tudes said: This is the prophet Jesus, who is from Nazareth of Galilee. 12 And Jesus entered into the 33 THE NEW TESTAMENT temple of God, and cast out all that sold and bought in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money- changers, and the seats of those that sold doves, 13 and said to them : It is written : My house shall be called a house of prayer ; but you make it a den of robbers. 14 And there came to him the blind and the lame in the temple, and he cured them. 15 And the chief priests and the scribes seeing the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple and saying : Hosanna to the Son of David, they were displeased, 16 and said to him : Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus says to them : Yes ; have you never read that out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast prepared praise? 17 And he left them and went out of the city to Bethany, and spent the night there. 18 But in the morning as he re- turned to the city he was hungry. 19 And seeing a fig-tree on the road, he went to it, and found nothing on it, but leaves only; and he said to it : Let fruit grow from thee no more for ever. And the fig-tree immediately withered. 20 And the disciples seeing it were astonished, saying : How did the fig-tree imme- diately wither? 21 But Jesus an- swered and said to them: Verily I say to you, if you have faith and doubt not. you shall do not only this of the fig-tree, but if you say even to this mountain : Be taken up, and be thrown into the sea, it shall be done. 22 And all things whatever you shall ask in prayer believing, you shall receive. 23 And when he had come into the temple, as he was teaching, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him, saying: By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority? 24 But Jesus answered and said to them : I also will ask you one word, which if you tell me, I also will tell you by what authority I do these things. 25 The baptism of John, whence was it? Of heaven or of men? And they reasoned with themselves, saying: 26 If we say: Of heaven, he will say to us : Why then did you not believe him? but if we say: Of men, we fear the multitude ; for all hold John as a prophet. 27 And they answered Jesus and said: We know not. And he said to them : Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things. 28 But what think you? A man had two sons; coming to the first he said : Son, go, work to-day in the vineyard. 29 But he answered and said: I will not; afterward he regretted it and went. 30 And coming to the other he said in like manner. And he answered and said: I go, sir; and went not. 31 Which of the two did the will of the father? They say : The first. Jesus says to them : Verily I say to you that the publicans and the harlots go before you into the kingdom of God. 32 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you believed him not : but the publicans and the harlots believed him ; and you, when you saw it, afterwards felt no regret that you might believe him. 33 Hear another parable. A man was master of a house, and he planted a vineyard, and put a hedge around it, and dug in it a wine- press and built a tower, and let it 34 ACCORDING TO MATTHEW out to vine-dressers, and went into another country. 34 But when the season of the fruits drew near, he sent his servants to the vine- dressers, to receive his fruits. 35 And the vine-dressers took his ser- vants and scourged one, and killed another, and threw stones at an- other. 36 Again he sent other ser- vants more than the first, and they did to them in like manner. Zl But at last he sent to them his son, saying: They will reverence my son. 38 But the vine-dressers seeing the son said among themselves : This is the heir; come, let us kill him and have his inheritance. 39 And they took him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him. 40 When therefore the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those vine-dressers? 41 They say to him : The wretches he will wretchedly destroy them, and the vineyard he will let out to other vine-dressers, who will render to him the fruits in their seasons. 42 Jesus says to them : Did you never read in the Scriptures : A stone which the builders rejected, this be- came the head of the corner: this was from the Lord, and it is won- drous in our eyes? 43 Wherefore I say to you that the kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and shall be given to a nation bringing forth its fruits. 44 And he that falls upon this stone shall be dashed to pieces ; but him on whom it shall fall, it will make like chaff for the wind. 45 But when the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his para- bles, they knew that he spoke of them ; 46 and seeking to lay hold of him they feared the multitudes, be- cause they held him as a prophet. "p"^ 1 And answering. Jesus ^^ again spoke to them in parables, saying: 2 The kingdom of the heavens is likened to a man. a king, who made a marriage for his son. 3 And he sent forth his servants to call those that had been called to the marriage ; and they would not come. 4 Again he sent forth other servants, say- ing: Tell those who have been called: Behold, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and the fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come to the marriage. 5 But they were careless and went away, one to his farm, another to his mer- chandize. 6 But the rest, laying hold on his servants, outraged and slew them. 7 And the king was angry, and sending his armies, he destroyed those murderers, and their city he set on fire. 8 Then said he to his servants : The marriage in- deed is ready, but those who were called were not worthy. 9 Go there- fore to the cross-roads, and who- ever you find call to the marriage. 10 And those servants went out into the roads, and brought together all as many as they found, both bad and good, and the bride-chamber was filled with guests. 11 But when the king came in to look upon the guests, he saw there a man that had not a wedding garment. 12 And he said to him: Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? But he was silent. 13 Then the king said to the waiters : Bind his feet and hands and cast him into the dark- ness that is without : there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 14 For many are called, but few chosen. 15 Then went the Pharisees and 35 THE NEW TESTAMENT took counsel that they might entrap him in a word. 16 And they send to him their disciples with the Hero- dians, saying : Teacher, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, and thou carest for no one, for thou lookest not on the person of men : 17 tell us therefore, what thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar or not? 18 But Jesus knowing their wickedness said : Why tempt me, hypocrites? 19 Show me the trib- ute-money. And they brought him a denarius. 20 And Jesus says to them : Whose image is this, and the superscription ? 21 They say : Csesar's. Then says he to them : Render therefore to Cxsar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's. 22 And hearing they wondered, and leaving him they went away, 23 In that day came to him Sad- ducees who say that there is no resurrection ; and they asked him, 24 saying: Teacher, Moses said: If any one die not having children, his brother shall marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother. 25 Now there were with us seven brothers; and the first married and died ; and not having offspring he left his wife to his brother. 26 In like manner also the second and the third, to the seventh. 27 But last of all the woman died. 28 In the resurrection, therefore, of which of the seven shall she be the wife? for all had her. 29 But Jesus answered and said to them : You err, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God. 30 For in the resur- rection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are as angels of God in heaven, 31 But, concern- ing the resurrection of the dead, have you not read that which was spoken to you by God, saying : 32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. 33 And the multitudes hearing it were astonished at his teaching. 34 But the Pharisees, hearing that he had put the Sadducees to silence, came together to the same place ; 35 and one of them, a lawyer, asked a question, tempting him : 36 Teach- er, what commandment is great in the law? 37 And he said to him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 A second is like it : Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. 40 On these two command- ments hang the whole law and the prophets. 41 But as the Pharisees had come together, Jesus asked them a ques- tion, 42 saying: What think you of the Christ? Whose son is he? They say to him : David's. 43 He says to them : How then does David in spirit call him Lord, saying: 44 The Lord said to my Lord : Sit at my right hand till I put thy enemies under thy feet. 45 If thus David calls him, Lord, how is he his son? 46 And no one was able to answer him a word ; nor did any one from that day venture to ask him another nuestion. '^'2 1 Then Jesus spoke to ^•3 the multitudes and to his disciples, 2 saying: The scribes and Pharisees have sat down in Moses' seat. 3 All things therefore whatever they bid you, do and ACCORDING TO MATTHEW observe; but do not according to their works ; for they say and do not. 4 And they bind heavy bur- dens and lay them on the shoulders of men ; but themselves will not move them with one of their fingers, 5 And all their works they do to be seen by men ; for they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge their fringes ; 6 and they love the first reclining-places at suppers and the first seats in the synagogues, 7 and the salutations in the markets, and to be called by men, Rabbi. 8 But be you not called Rabbi ; for one is your teacher, and you all are brethren. 9 And call no one on earth your father ; for one is your Father, the heavenly. 10 Neither be called leaders ; for one is your leader, the Christ. 11 And the greatest of you shall be your min- ister. 12 For whoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled; and who- ever shall humble himself shall be exalted. 13 But alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ; for you eat up the houses of widows, and for a pretext make long prayers. For this reason you shall receive the greater condemnation. 14 But alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ; for you shut up the kingdom of the heavens be- fore men ; for you go not in, neither do you permit those who are entering, to go in. 15 Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypo- crites ; for you compass sea and b.nd to make one proselyte ; and when he is made, you make him twofold more a child of hell than yourselves. 16 Alas for you, blind guides, who say: Whoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing: but whoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, is a debtor. 17 Fools and blind ; for which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold? 18 And, Whoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever shall swear by the gift that is on it, is a debtor. 19 Blind; for which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift? 20 Therefore, he that swears by the altar swears by it, and by all that is on it; 21 and he that swears by the temple swears by it, and by him that dwells in it; 22 and he that swears by heaven swears by the throne of God, and by him that sits upon it. 23 Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; for you pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law. the justice, and the mercy, and the faith- fulness : these ought you to have done, and those you ought not to have left undone. 24 Blind guides, who strain out the gnat, but swallow the camel. 25 Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ; for you cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish, but within they are full of rapine and incontinence. 26 Blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup, that its outside also may become clean. 27 Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ; for you are like whitened sepulchers, which outwardly indeed appear beautiful, but within are full of the bones of the dead and of all uncleanness. 28 So also you out- wardly indeed appear to men to be righteous, but within are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. 29 Alas for you. scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites : for you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the sepul- 37 THE NEW TESTAMENT chers of the righteous, 30 and say: If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. 31 So then you tes- tify for yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets. 32 Do you also fill up the measure of your fathers. 33 Serpents, brood of vipers, how can you escape the condemnation of hell? 34 Wherefore, behold, I send to you prophets and wise men and scribes: of them you will kill and crucify, and of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city: 35 that there may come on you all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of Abel the right- eous to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. 36 Verily I say to you, all these things shall come on this genera- tion. 37 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killest the prophets, and stonest them that have been sent to thee, how often have I desired to gather thy children, as a hen gathers her young under her wings, and you refused. 38 Behold, your house is left to you deserted. 39 For I say to you, you shall no more see me henceforth till you say: Blessed is he that comes in the name of the I,ord. ^A. 1 And going out Jesus ^ ' was departing from the temple; and his disciples came to him to point out to him the buildings of the temple. 2 And he answered and said to them : See you not all these things? Verily I say to you, there shall not be left h^re 51 stone upon a stone, that shall not be thrown down. 3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, his disciples came to him privately, say- ing: Tell us, when shall these things be, and what the sign of thy coming and of the conclusion of the age ? 4 And Jesus answered and said to them : See that no one deceive you. 5 For many shall come in my name, saying: I am the Christ, and shall deceive many, 6 But you shall hear of wars and rumors of wars ; see that you be not troubled ; for they must be, but not yet is the end. 7 For nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against king- dom ; and there shall be famines and earthquakes in various places. 8 But all these are the beginning of pains. 9 Then they shall deliver you up to affliction, and shall kill 3^ou, and you shall be hated by all nations because of my name. 10 And then shall many be offended, and deliver one another up, and hate one another. 11 And many false prophets shall arise and de- ceive many. 12 And because iniquity shall be multiplied, the love of many shall grow cold. 13 But he that endures to the end, he shall be saved. 14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all nations, and then shall the end come. 15 When therefore you see the abomination* of desolation, that was spoken of by Daniel the proph- et, standing in the holy place, let the reader understand, 16 then let those that are in Judea flee to the mountains; 17 he that is on the housetop, let him not come down to take the goods out of his house; * The Roman eagle causing desolation. ACCORDING TO MATTHEW 18 and he that is in the field, let him not turn back to take his garment. 19 But alas for them that are with child, and them that give suck in those days. 20 And pray that your flight may not be in winter nor on a sabbath. 21 For there shall be great affliction, such as has not been from the beginning of the world till now, nor shall ever be. 22 And unless those days had been shortened, no flesh should be saved; but because of the elect those days shall be shortened. 23 Then if any one say to you : Lo, here is the Christ, or there, believe it not. 24 For false Christs and false prophets shall arise, and shall give great signs and wonders, so as to deceive, if possible, even the elect. 25 Behold, I have told you beforehand. 26 If then they say to you : Behold, he is in the desert, go not forth ; behold, he is in the secret chambers, believe not. 27 For as the lightning comes forth from the east and shines even to the west, so shall the coming of the Son of man be. 28 Wherever the carcass is, there will the eagles come together. 29 But immediately after the afflic- tion of those days the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from the heavens, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken. 30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven, and all the tribes of the land shall wail, and shall see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31 And he shall send his angels with a great trumpet, and they shall gather his elect from the four winds from thei ends of the heavens to the ends of them. 32 But from the fig-tree learn the parable. When its branch has now become tender and put forth leaves, you know that summer is near ; 33 so also you, when you see all these things, know that it is near at the doors. 34 Verily I say to you, this generation shall not pass away till all these things take place. 35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. 36 But of that day and hour no one knows, neither the angels of the heavens, nor the Son, but the Father only. 37 But as the days of Noah, so shall the coming of the Son of man be. 38 For as they were in the days that were before the flood, eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, till the day in which Noah entered the ark, 39 and knew not till the flood came and took them all away; so also shall the coming of the Son of man be. 40 Then shall two men be in the field, one shall be taken and one left: 41 two women shall be grind- ing at the mill, one shall be taken and one left. 42 Watch therefore, for you know not in what day your Lord comes. 43 But know this, that if the master of the house had known at what watch the thief would come, he would have kept awake and not have permitted his house to be broken through. 44 Wherefore be you also ready, for at an hour at which you think not the Son of man comes. 45 Who then is the faithful and wise ser- vant, whom the lord has set over his household servants, to give them their food in season? 46 Blessed is that servant whom his lord on THE NEW TESTAMENT coming shall find so doing. 47 Verily I say to you that he will set him over all his goods. 48 But if the wicked servant shall say in his heart : My lord delays, 49 and shall begin to smite his fellow-servants, and shall eat and drink with the drunken : 50 the lord of that ser- vant shall come in a day which he looks not for, and at an hour that he knows not, 51 and shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his por- tion with the hypocrites : there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 'PCI 1 Then shall the king- ^•^ dom of the heavens be likened to ten virgins, who took their lamps and went forth to meet the bridegroom. 2 And five of them were foolish and five were wise. 3 For the foolish took the lamps and took no oil with them- selves; 4 but the wise took oil in the vessels with their own lamps. 5 But while the bridegroom delayed they all nodded and fell asleep. 6 And at midnight a cry was made: Behold the bridegroom ; go out to meet him. 7 Then arose all those virgins and adorned their lamps. 8 And the foolish said to the wise : Give us of your oil, for our lamps are going out. 9 But the wise an- swered, saying: Lest perhaps there be not enough for us and you, go rather to those that sell and buy for yourselves. 10 And while they were going to buy, the bridegroom came ; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage, and the door was shut. 11 But afterwards came also the other vir- gins, saying: Lord, Lord, open for us. 12 But he answered and said: Verily T say to you, I know you not. 13 Watch therefore, for you know not the day nor the hour. 14 For as a man, on leaving home, called his servants, and delivered to them his goods ; 15 and to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his own ability, and left home. 16 Immediately he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made other five tal- ents. 17 In like manner he that had received the two gained other two. 18 But he that had received the one went and dug in the earth, and hid his lord's money. 19 But after a long time the lord of those ser- vants comes and takes up a settle- ment with them. 20 And he that had received the five talents came and brought other five talents, say- ing: Lord, five talents thou didst deliver to me : see, other five talents have I gained. 21 His lord said to him : Well done, good and faithful servant ; thou wast faithful over a few things, I will set thee over many: enter into the joy of thy lord. 22 And he that had received the two talents came and said: Lord, two talents thou didst deliver to me : see, other two talents have I gained. 23 His lord said to him : Well done, good and faithful ser- vant ; thou wast faithful over a few things, I will set thee over many: enter into the joy of thy lord. 24 And he that had received the one talent came and said : Lord, I knew thee that thou art a hard man. reap- ing where thou didst not sow, and gathering whence thou didst not scatter; 25 and being afraid I went and hid thy talent in the earth : lo, thou hast thy own. 26 But his lord answered and said to him: Wicked and slothful servant, didst thou 40 ACCORDING TO MATTHEW know that I reap where I did not sow, and gather whence I did not scatter? 27 It behooved thee then to put my money with the bankers, and on coming I could have re- ceived my own with interest. 28 Take then from him the talent and give it to him that has the ten talents. 29 For to every one that has shall be given, and he shall have abundance; but from him that has not, even that which he has shall be taken from him. 30 And cast the unprofitable servant into the darkness that is without : there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 31 But when the Son of man shall have come in his glory, and all the angels with him, then shall he sit on the throne of his glory; 32 and there shall be gathered before him all the nations ; and he shall separate them one from another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats; 33 and he shall place the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. 34 Then shall the king say to those on his right : Come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom that has been prepared for you from the founda- tion of the world. 35 For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat ; I was thirsty, and you gave me drink ; I was a stranger, and you took me to your homes ; 36 I was naked, and you clothed me ; I was sick, and you visited me ; I was in prison, and you came to me. 37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying: Lord, when saw we thee hungry and fed thee? or thirsty and gave thee drink? 38 And when saw we thee a stranger and took thee to our homes? or naked and clothed thee? 39 And when saw we thee sick or in prison and came to thee ? 40 And the King shall answer and say to them : Verily I say to you. Inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me. 41 Then shall he say to those also on the left: Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire that is prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry, and you gave me not to eat ; I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink ; 43 I was a stranger, and you took me not to your homes ; naked, and you clothed me not : sick and in prison, and you visited me not. 44 Then shall they also answer him, saying : Lord, when saw we thee hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and ministered not to thee? 45 Then shall he answer them, saying: Verily I say to you. Inasmuch as you did it not to one of the least of these, you did it not to me. 46 And these shall go away into eternal punish- ment, but the righteous into eternal life. ^/^ 1 And it came to pass ^vJ when Jesus had finished all these words, he said to his dis- ciples : 2 You know that after two days the passover is kept, and the Son of man is delivered up to be crucified. 3 Then came together the chief priests and the elders of the people into the court of the chief priest who is called Caiaphas; 4 and they took counsel that they might take Jesus by craft and kill him. 5 But they said : Not during the feast, lest a tumult arise among the people. 6 And while Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, 4X THE NEW TESTAMENT 7 there came to him a woman hav- ing an alabaster box of very costly ointment, and she poured it on his head as he reclined at table. 8 And the disciples seeing it were dis- pleased, saying: Why was this waste? 9 for this could have been sold for much and given to the poor. 10 But Jesus perceiving it said to them : Why trouble the woman? for she has wrought a good work on me. 11 For the poor you have always with you, but me you have not always. 12 For she, in pouring this ointment on my body, has done it to prepare me for burial. 13 Verily I say to you, Wher- ever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, this also which she has done shall be told for a memorial of her, 14 Then went one of the twelve, that was called Judas Iscariot, to the chief priests 15 and said : What will you give me, and I will de- liver him to you? And they weighed to him thirty pieces of silver. 16 And from that time he sought an opportunity that he might deliver him up. 17 And on the first day of the unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying : Wliere wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover? 18 And he said: Go into the city to a certain man, and say to him : The Teacher says : My time is at hand, with thee I keep the pa^.sover with my disciples. 19 And the disciples did as Jesus had com- manded them, and made ready the passover. 20 But when evening had come, he reclined at table with the twelve disciples. 21 And as they were eat- ing he s^id: Verily I say to you that one of you shall deliver me up. 22 And being very sad they began each one to say to him : Lord, is it I? 23 But ht answered and said: He that dips the hand with me into the dish, he shall deliver me up. 24 The Son of man indeed goes as it is written of him. But alas for that man, by whom the Son of man is delivered up : good were it for that man if he had not been born. 25 And Judas who delivered him up answered and said : Rabbi, is it I ? He says to him : Thou hast said. 26 But as they were eating, Jesus took bread and having blessed he broke, and giving to the disciples he said : Take, eat : This is my body. 27 And he took the cup, and hav- ing given thanks he gave to them, saying: Drink of it, all of you; 28 for this is my blood of the New Covenant, that is shed for many for remission of sins. 29 But I say to you, I will not henceforth drink of this fruit of the vine, till that day when I drink it with you new in the kingdom of my Father. 30 And they sung a hymn and went out into the mount of Olives. 31 Then Jesus says to them : All of you shall be ofifended at me this night. For it is written : I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered. 32 But after I have risen, I will go before you into Galilee. 33 And Peter answered and said to him : Though all should be ofifended at thee, I will never be offended. 34 Jesus said to him : Verily I say to thee that on this night, before a cock shall have crowed, thou wilt deny me three times. 35 Peter says to him : Though it should be neces- sary for me to die with thee, I will 43 ACCORDING TO MATTHEW not deny thee. In like manner also said all the disciples, Z6 Then Jesus comes with them to a place called Gethsemane, and says to the disciples : Sit here till I go and pray yonder. Z7 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be in grief and anguish. 38 Then he says to them : My soul is encom- passed with sorrow even to death : remain here and watch with me. 39 And going forward a little he fell upon his face in prayer, and saying : Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me ; and not as I will, but as thou. 40 And he comes to his disciples and finds them sleep- ing, and says to Peter: So you had not strength to watch with me one hour? 41 Watch and pray that you enter not into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. 42 Again a second time he went away and prayed, saying: My Father, if this can not pass away unless I drink it. thy will be done. 43 And he came again and found them sleeping; for their eyes were heavy. 44 And leaving them he again went away, and prayed the third time, saying the same word again. 45 Then comes he to the disciples and says to them : Sleep the remaining time and rest. Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is delivered into the hands of sinners. 46 Arise, let us go : behold, he is at hand that delivers me up. 47 And as he was yet speaking, behold. Judas, one of the twelve, and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs, came from the chief priests and elders of the people. 48 He that delivered him up had given them a sign, saying : The one that I shall kiss is he ; hold him fast. 49 And immediately he came to Jesus, and said : Hail, Rabbi ! and kissed him. 50 Jesus said to him: Friend, for what purpose have you come? Then they came, and laid hands on Jesus, and held him fast. 51 And behold, one of those who were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck the servant of the chief priest, and cut off his ear. 52 Then Jesus said to him : Put back your sword into its place ; for all that take the sword, shall perish by the sword. 53 Do you think that I can not now call upon my Father, and he would cause more than twelve legions of angels to stand by me? 54 But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be? 55 At the same time Jesus said to the multitudes : Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs, to take me? I sat daily with you in the temple and taught, and you did not take me. 56 All this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples left him and fled. 57 And those who took Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the chief priest, where the scribes and elders had come together. 58 But Peter followed him, at a distance, to the palace of the chief priest, and went in and sat with the attendants, to see the end. 59 And the chief priests and the elders, and the whole Sanhedrim, sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death, 60 and found none. Though many false witnesses eame. 43 THE NEW TESTAMENT yet they found none. At last two false witnesses came, 61 and said : This man said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days. 62 And the chief priest arose, and said to him : Do you make no answer? What do these testify against you? 63 But Jesus remained silent. And the chief priest answered and said to him: I adjure you, by the living God. that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God? 64 Jesus said to him : You have said. Moreover, I say to you. Here- after you shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of the Almighty, and coming upon the clouds of heaven. 65 Then the chief priest rent his clothes, and said : He has spoken impiously; what further need have we of witnesses? See now, you have heard his impious words : 66 What think you? They answered and said: He is a subject for death. 67 Then did they spit in his face, and strike him with their fists ; some struck him with the open hand, 68 and said : Give an answer to us, Christ : Who is he that struck you? 69 But Peter was sitting without in the court; and a maid-servant came to him, and said : You also were with Jesus of Galilee. 70 But he denied before them all, saying: I know not what you say. 71 And when he went out into the entrance, another maid-servant saw him. and said to those who were there : This man was also with Jesus the Naza- rene. 72 And again he denied, with an oath : T know not the man. Th After a little while, those who stood by camQ and said to Peter: Of a truth you also are one of them, for your speech betrays you. 74 Then he began to curse and to swear : I know not the man. And immedi- ately the cock crew. 75 And Peter remembered the word which Jesus had spoken to him : Before the cock crows, you will deny me three times. And he went out, and wept bitterly. ^n 1 When the morning came, ^ ' all the chief priests and elders of the people held a con- sultation against Jesus, that they might put him to death. 2 And they bound him and led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor. 3 Then Judas, who had delivered him up. when he saw that he was condemned, stung by remorse, brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, 4 saying: I have sinned in having delivered up innocent blood. But they said : What is it to us ? Thou wilt see to it. 5 And throwing the pieces of silver into the temple, he withdrew, and went and hanged himself. 6 But the chief priests took the pieces of silver and said: It is not lawful to put them into the sacred treasury, because they are the price of blood. 7 But they took counsel and bought with them the potter's field as a burial-place for strangers. 8 Wherefore, that field has been called the field of blood to this day. 9 Then was fulfilled that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet, say- ing: And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him who had a price set upon him. on whom they of the sons of Israel set a price. 10 and gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord commanded me, 44 ACCORDING TO MATTHEW 11 But Jesus stood before the governor ; and the governor asked him, saying: Art thou the King of the Jews? And Jesus said: Thou sayest. 12 And while he was ac- cused by the chief priests and elders he answered nothing. 13 Then says Pilate to him : Hearest thou not how many things they testify against thee? 14 And he answered him to not even one word, so that the gov- ernor was greatly astonished. 15 But at every feast the governor had been accustomed to release to the multitude one prisoner, whom they chose. 16 And they had then a notorious prisoner, called Barabbas. 17 \\'hen therefore they had come together Pilate said to them : Whom will you that I release to you, Barabbas or Jesus who is called Christ? 18 For he knew that for envy they had delivered him up. 19 And while he sat on the judg- ment-seat, his wife sent to him, saying : Have nothing to do with that just man ; for I have suffered much this day in a dream because of him. 20 But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multi- tudes that they should ask for Barabbas, and destroy Jesus. 21 And the governor answered and said to them : Which of the two will you that I release to you? They said: Barabbas. 22 Pilate says to them: What then shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ? They all say: Let him be crucified. 23 But he said : Why, what evil has he done? They cried out the more, saying: Let him be crucified. 24 And Pilate seeing that nothing avails, but rather that a tumult is rising, took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying : I am innocent of the blood of this man : see you to it. 25 And all the people answered and said: His blood be upon us and upon our children. 26 Then he released to them Barabbas, but Jesus, after he had scourged him, he delivered up that he might be crucified. 27 Then the soldiers of the gov- ernor took Jesus into the palace and brought together to him the whole band. 28 And having stripped him they put on him a purple cloak, 29 and having plaited a crown of thorns they put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand, and bowing the knee before him they mocked him, saying: Hail, King of the Jews; 30 and having spit upon him they took the reed and struck upon his head. 31 And when they had mocked him, they took off from him the cloak and put his own gar- ments on him, and led him away to crucify him. 32 And going out they found a man of Cyrene, named Simon : him they impressed to carry his cross. 33 And when they had come to a place called Golgotha, which is called the place of a skull, 34 they gave him to drink wine mingled with gall ; and when he had tasted, he would not drink. 35 But when they had crucified him, they divided his garments, casting the lot: 36 and sitting down they watched him there. 37 And they placed over his head his accusation written : This is Jesus the King of the Jews. 38 Then were crucified with him two robbers, one on the right and one on the left. 39 And they that passed by reviled him. wagging their heads 40 and saying: Thou that 45 THE NEW TESTAMENT destroyest the temple and bulkiest it in three days, save thyself, if thou art the Son of God, and come down from the cross. 41 In like manner the chief priests mocking with the scribes and elders said: 42 Others he saved, himself he cannot save; King of Israel is he, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe on him ; 43 he trusted in God ; let him deliver him iiow, if he delights in him ; for he said : I am the Son of God. ^ 44 And the robbers that were crucified with him uttered the same reproach- es against him. 45 But from the sixth hour dark- ness came over all the land till the ninth hour. 46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying: Elei, Elei, lema sabachtha- nei? that is. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? 47 And some of them that stood there hear- ing it said : This man calls for Elijah. 48 And immediately one of them ran and took a sponge, and having filled it with vinegar and put it on a reed, gave it to him to drink. 49 But the rest said: Wait, let us see if Elijah is coming to save him. 50 But Jesus again cried out with a loud voice, and gave up the spirit. 51 And behold, the veil of the temple was rent into two from top to bottom, and the earth quaked, and the rocks were rent, 52 and the sepulchers were opened, and many bodies of the saints that slept awoke ; 53 and they came out of their sepul- chers after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and ap- peared to many. 54 And the cen- turion and those who were with him watching Jesus, seeing the earth- quake and what things had taken place, were greatly afraid, saying: Truly this was the Son of God. 55 And many women were there looking on from a distance, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering to him : 56 among whom was jVIary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee. 57 But when evening had come, there came a rich man of Arimathea, name ' Joseph, who also himself was a disciple of Jesus : 58 this man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate com- manded it to be given. 59 And taking the body Joseph wrapped it in clean linen, 60 and laid it in his new sepulcher which he had hewn in the rock ; and having rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulcher he departed. 61 And Mary Magdalene was there, and the other Mary, sitting opposite to the tomb. 62 But on the morrow, which is after the preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees came to- gether to Pilate, 63 saying: Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while yet alive : After three days I shall arise. 64 Command there- fore that the tomb be made safe till the third day, lest perhaps the disciples come and steal him and say to the people : He has risen from the dead, and the last deception ?hall be worse than the first. 65 Pilate said to them: You have a guard : go, make it as safe as you know how. 66 And they went and made the tomb safe, sealing the stone and setting the guard. 46 ACCORDING TO MARK 'pO 1 But after the sabbath, ^O as it began to dawn into the first of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the tomb. 2 And lo, there had been a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord having descended from heaven and come, had rolled away the stone and had sat upon it. 3 And his appearance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow. 4 And for fear of him the keepers did shake and became as dead men. 5 But the angel answered and said to the women : Fear not you ; for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified; 6 he is not here; for he has risen as he said: Come, see the place where he lay. 7 And go quickly and tell his dis- ciples that he has risen from the dead; and behold, he goes before you into Galilee : there you shall see him. Lo, I have told you. 8 And going away quickly from the sepulcher with fear and great joy, they ran to bring his dis- ciples word. 9 And behold. Jesus met them, saying: Hail. And they came and laid hold of his feet, and worshipped him. 10 Then says Jesus to them : Fear not ; go, tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me, 11 But as they were going, be- hold, some of the guard came into the city and told the chief priests all that had been done. 12 And having come together with the elders, and taken counsel, they gave much money to the soldiers, 13 say- ing : Say that his disciples came by night and stole him while we slept. 14 And if this be heard before the governor, we will persuade him and make you secure. 15 And thjey took the money and did as they were taught ; and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews to this day. 16 But the eleven disciples went into Galilee, to a mountain where Jesus had appointed them ; 17 and when they saw him they worship- ped, but some doubted. 18 And Jesus came and spoke to them, say- ing: All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Go, make disciples of all nations, bap- tizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all things whatever I com- manded you. And lo, I am with you, all the days, to the conclusion of the age. ACCORDING TO MARK 11 The beginning of the gos- pel of Jesus Christ. 2 as it is written in Isaiah the prophet : Be- hold, T send lay messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way: 3 the voice of one crying in the wil- derness : Make ready the way of the Lord, make his paths straight, 4 It was John who baptized in the wil- derness and preached the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins. 5 And there went out to him all the country of Judea and all they of Jerusalem, and were bap- 47 THE NEW TESTAMENT tized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. 6 And John was clothed with camel's hair and a girdle of leather around his loins, and he ate locusts and wild honey. 7 And he preached, saying: After me comes he that is mightier than I, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and. loose. 8 I have baptized you in water, but he shall baptize you in the Holy Spirit. 9 And it came to pass in those days that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was bap- tized in the Jordan by John. 10 And immediately going up out of the water he saw the heavens rent, and the Spirit like a dove coming down upon him. 11 And there was a voice from the heavens : Thou art my beloved Son, in thee I am well pleased. 12 And immediately the Spirit drives him into the wilderness. 13 And he was in the wilderness forty days tempted by Satan ; and he was with the wild beasts, and the angels ministered to him. 14 But after John was delivered up. Jesus came into Galilee, preach- ing the gospel of God, 15 that the time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand: Repent and believe in the gospel. 16 And passing along by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and An- drew the brother of Simon throw- ing a net about in the sea ; for they were fishers. 17 And Jesus said to them : Come after me, and I will make you become fishers of men. 18 And immediately leaving the nets they followed him. 19 And going forwarrl a little he saw James the son of Zeberlee nnd John his brother, who were also in the ship mending the nets. 20 And he immediately called them; and leaving their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants they went away after him. 21 And they entered into Caper- naum ; and immediately, on the sab- bath, he taught in the synagogue. 22 And they were astonished at his teaching; for he taught them as having authority, and not as the scribes. 23 And immediately there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit ; and he cried out, 24 saying : What have we to do with thee, Jesus the Nazarene? thou hast come to destroy us. We know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God. 25 And Jesus rebuked him : Be silent, and come out of him. 26 And the unclean spirit threw him into convulsions, and having cried out with a loud voice came out of him. 27 And all were amazed, so that they inquired one of another, saying: What means this? a new teaching according to authority : he also comands the unclean spirits, and they obey him. 28 And his fame immediately went forth every- where into the whole surrounding country of Galilee. 29 And immediately on going out of the synagogue, they came into the house of Simon and Andrew with James and John. 30 And the mother-in-law of Simon lay ill of a fever; and they immediately tell him of her. 31 And he came to her and raised her up. taking her by the hand. And the fever left her. and she ministered to them. 32 But after evening had come, when the sun went down, they brought to him all that were sick, 48 ACCORDING TO MARK and those possessed with demons ; 33 and the whole city was collected together at the door. 34 And he cured many that were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons, and permitted not the demons to speak, because they knew him. 35 And very early while yet night, he rose up and went out, and went away to a desert place, and there prayed. 36 And Simon and they that were with him followed after him, 37 and found him. and said to him : All seek for thee. 38 And he said to them : Let us go else- where to the next towns, that I may preach there also ; for to this end came I forth. 39 And he went through the whole of Galilee, preaching in their synagogues, and casting out demons. 40 And there came to him a leper, entreating him and kneeling, saying to him: If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. 41 And moved with pity he stretched forth his hand and touched him and said: I will ; b© clean. 42 And the leprosy immediately departed from him. and he was made clean. 43 And after charging him in a threatening man- ner, he immediately sent him forth, 44 and said to him: See that thou say nothing to any one, but go, show thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing the things that Moses commanded, for a testimony to them. 45 But he went out and began to proclaim it much, and publish the matter abroad, so that he could no longer openly enter into a city, but was without in desert places ; and they came to him from every quarter. 2 1 And entering again into Capernaum after some days, it was reported that he was in a house. 2 And many came together, so that the house could no longer contain them, nor the space about the door ; and he spoke the word to them. 3 And they came bringing to him a palsied man borne by four. 4 And not being able to bring him near to him on account of the multitude, they took off the roof where he was, and digging through, they let down the bed on which the palsied man lay. 5 And Jesus seeing their faith says to the palsied man: Son. thy sins are for- given. 6 But some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts : 7 Why speaks this man thus? He blasphemes: who can forgive sins but one, God? 8 And Jesus immediately perceiving by his spirit that they thus reasoned in themselves, said to them : Why reason these things in your hearts? 9 Which is easier, to say to the palsied man : Thy sins are forgiven, or to say : Rise and take up thy bed and go? 10 But that you may know that the Son of man on earth has authority to forgive sins, he says to the palsied man: 11 T say to thee, rise, take up thy bed and go to thy house. 12 And he arose, and immediately taking up his bed he went out before all, so that they all were astonished, and glorified God, saying: Thus never saw we. 13 And he went forth again to the sea; and all the multitude came to him, and he taught them.^ 14 And passing by he saw Levi the son of Alphseus sitting at the cus- tom-house, and said to him : Follow me. And he rose up and followed THE NEW TESTAMENT him. 15 And it came to pass that he was reclining at table in his house, and many publicans and sin- ners reclined at table with Jesus and his . disciples; for there were many, and there followed him 16 also the scribes of the Pharisees. And seeing that he ate with the publicans and sinners, they said to his disciples : Why does he eat and drink with the publicans and sin- ners? 17 And hearing it Jesus says to them : They that are in health have no need of a physician, but they that are sick : I came not to call righteous men, but sinners. 18 And the disciples of John and the Pharisees were fasting. And they come and say to him : Why do the disciples of John and the dis- ciples of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not? 19 And Jesus said to them : Can the sons of the bride-chamber fast while the bride- groom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they can not fast. 20 But days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in that day. 21 No one sews a piece of unfulled cloth on an old garment: otherwise, that which fills up takes from it, the new from the old, and a worse rent is made. 22 And no one puts new wine into old bottles : other- wise, the wine bursts the bottles, and the wine and bottles are lost. 23 And it came to pass that he was going on the sabbath through the fields of grain ; and his dis- ciples began to go on the way pull- ing the ears of grain. 24 And the Pharisees said to him : See. why are they doing on the sabbath that which is not lawful? 25 And he said to them : Did you never read what David did, when he had need and was hungry, he and those who were with him? 26 how he entered into the house of God, in the days of Abiathar the chief priest, and ate the loaves of the presence, which it is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave to those also that were with him? 27 And he said to them : The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: 28 so then the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath. 3 1 And he entered again into a synagogue ; and a man was there that had a withered hand; 2 and they watched him if he would cure him on the sabbath, that they might accuse him. 3 And he says to the man that had the withered hand : Rise and come into the midst. 4 And he says to them : Is it lawful on the sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill? But they were silent. 5 And looking around on them with anger, being grieved at the hardness of their heart, he says to the man:- Stretch forth the hand. And he stretched it forth, and his hand was restored to health. 6 And the Pharisees went out immediately with the Herodians, and took counsel against him, that they might destroy him. 7 And Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea ; and a great multitude followed from Galilee and from Judea. 8 and from Jeru- salem and from Idumea and be- yond the Jordan and about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, hear- mg what things he did, came to him. 9 And he spoke to his dis- ciples that a small ship should wait upon him because of the multitude, 50 ACCORDING TO MARIt that they might not throng him ; 10 for he cured many, so that they fell upon him, that they might touch him, as many as had scourges. 11 And the unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down hefore him and cried out, saying : Thou art the Son of God. 12 And he charged their minds that they should not make him known. 13 And he went up into the moun- tain, and called to him whom he would; and they came to him. 14 And he appointed twelve that they might be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach, 15 and to have authority to cast out the demons. 16 And he appointed the twelve; and Simon he surnamed Peter; 17 and James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James ; and these he surnamed Boanerges, which is sons of thun- der; 18 and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphseus, and Thaddseus, and Simon the Canaanite, 19 and Judas Iscariot, who also delivered him up. And he came into a house; 20 and a multitude again came togeth- er, so that they were able not even to eat bread. 21 And his relatives hearing it came forth to take him ; for they said: He is beside himself. 22 And the scribes that came down from Jerusalem said : He has Beelzebub, and. By the prince of the demons he casts out the demons. 23 And he called them to him and spoke to them in parables : How can Satan cast out Satan ? 24 And if a kingdom be divided against it- self, that kingdom can not stand. 25 And if a house be divided against itself, that house can not stand. 26 And if Satan rise up against him- self, he is divided; and he can not stand, but has an end. 27 But no one is able, on entering into the house of the strong man, to seize upon his instruments, unless he first bind the strong man, and then he will plunder his house. 28 Verily I say to you that all shall be for- given the sons of men, the sins and the blasphemies, whatever things they shall blasphemously utter; 29 but whoever shall blaspheme against the Holy Spirit, has forgiveness never, but is guilty of an eternal sin. 30 Because they said: He has an unclean spirit. 31 And his mother and his broth- ers came, and standing without sent to him calling him. Z2 And a multi- tude sat about him ; and they said to him : Behold, thy mother, and thy brothers, and thy sisters without seek thee. ZZ And he answered and said to them : Who is my mother, and who are my brothers? 34 And looking around on those sitting round about him, he says : Behold my mother and my brothers. 35 Whoever shall have done the will of God, this is my brother and sister and mother. 4 1 And again he began to teach by the sea. And there came together to him a very great multitude, so that he entered into a ship and sat in the sea, and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land. 2 And he taught them many things in parables, and said to them in his teaching: 3 Hear; Behold, the sower went forth to sow. 4 And it came to pass while he sowed some fell by the way, and the birds came and ate it up. 5 And other fell on the rocky place, where 51 THE NEW TESTAMENT it had not much earth ; and it imme- diately sprung up because it had no depth of earth ; 6 and when the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root it withered. 7 And other fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it produced no fruit. 8 And others fell on good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and in- creasing, and produced to thirty and to sixty and to a hundred. 9 And he said : He that has ears to hear, let him hear. 10 And when he was alone, those about him with the twelve asked him about the parables. 11 And he said to them: To you is given the mystery of the kingdom of God; but to them that are with- out all things are done in parables; 12 that seeing they may see and may not perceive ; and hearing they may hear and not understand ; lest perhaps they should turn and it should be forgiven them. 13 And he says to them : Know you not this parable, and how will you know all parables? 14 The sower sows the word. 15 But these are they that are by the way where the word is sown ; and when they hear, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word that is sown in them. 16 And these are they in like manner that were sown on the rocky places ; who when they hear the word immediately with joy receive it ; 17 and yet they have no root in themselves, but en- dure for a time: then when afflic- tion or persecution arises because of the word they immediattly take offense. 18 And others are they that were sown over the thorns: these are they that hear the word, 19 and the cares of the age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the de- sires about other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes un- fruitful. 20 And they that were sown on good ground are those who hear the word and receive it, and bring forth fruit in thirties, and in sixties, and in hundreds. 21 And he said to them: Is a lamp brought that it may be put under the measure or under the bed? Is it not brought that it may be put on the lampsiand? 22 For there is nothing hid, unless that it may be made manifest: nor was any thing concealed, but that it might come into open view. 23 If any one has ears to hear, let him hear. 24 And he said to them: Take heed what you hear. With what measure you measure it shall be measured to you, and more shall be given to you. 25 For he that has, to him shall be given ; and he that has not, even that which he has shall be taken trom him. 26 And he said : So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should sow seed upon the earth. 27 and should sleep and awake night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, he knows not how. 28 The earth of its own accord brings forth fruit, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. 29 But when the fruit shall have pre- sented itself, immediately he sends forth the sickle, because the harvest is ready. 30 And he said: How shall we liken the kingdom of God, or with what parable shall we set it forth? 31 It is like a grain of mustard, which, when it is sown on the earth, is less than all the seeds that are on 52 ACCORDING TO MARK the earth ; 2)2 and yet when it is sown, it springs up and becomes greater than all garden-plants, and makes great branches, so that the birds of heaven can lodge under its shadow. ZZ And with many such parables spoke he the word to them, as they were able to hear; 34 but without a parable spoke he not to them ; but privately he explained all things to his disciples. 35 And on that day when it was evening he -says to them : Let us pass over to the other side. 36 And leaving the multitude they took him as he was in the ship, and there were also other ships with him. 37 And there came a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that the ship was now full. 38 And he was sleeping in the prow on the boat-cushion ; and they awoke him and said to him : Teacher, car- est thou not that we perish? 39 And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea : Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. 40 And he said to them : Why are you so fear- ful? How have you no faith? 41 And they were afraid with great fear, and said one to another : Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him? 5 1 And they came to the other side of the sea to the country of the Gerasenes. 2 And when he had come out of the ship, immedi- ately there met him a man from the tombs with an unclean spirit, 3 who had his dwelling among the tombs; and not even with a chain was any one any longer able to bind him, 4 because he had often been bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been pulled asunder by him and the fetters had been broken ; and no one was able to subdue him ; 5 and always night and day among the tombs and in the mountains he was crying out and cutting himself with stones. 6 And seeing Jesus at a distance he ran and worshipped him ; 7 and crying out with a loud voice, he said : What have I to do with thee, Jesus, Son of God most high? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not. 8 For he said to him: Unclean spirit, come out of the man. 9 And he asked him: What is thy name? and he said to him : My name is legion, for we are many. 10 And they be- sought him much that he would not send them out of the country. 11 But there was there near the moun- tain a great herd of swine feeding; 12 and they besought him, saying: Send us to the swine that we may enter into them. 13 And he per- mitted them. And the unclean spirits came out and entered into the swine; and the herd, about two thousand, rushed down the steep into the sea, and were choked in the sea. 14 And those who fed them fled, and told it in the city and in the country; and they came to see what it was that had been done. 15 And they come to Jesus, and see him that had had the demon, sitting, clothed and in his right mind, him that had had the legion, and they were afraid. 16 And they that had seen told them how it had happened to the demo- niac, and concerning the swine. 17 And they began to beseech him to depart from their borders. 18 And as he was entering the ship, he that had been possessed with the demon 53 THE NEW TESTAMENT besought him that he might be with him. 19 And he permitted him not, but said to him : Go to thy house to thy own, and tell them what things the Lord has done for thee, and has had mercy on thee. 20 And he went away, and began to proclaim in Decapolis what things Jesus had done for him; and all were aston- ished. 21 And when Jesus had again passed over in the ship to the other side, a great multitude came to- gether to him, and he was by the sea. 22 And there comes one of the rulers of the synagogue, named Jairus; and seeing him he falls at his feet, 23 and beseeches him much, saying: My little daughter is at the point of death, I pray that thou wouldst come and lay thy hand on her, that she may be saved and live. 24 And he went away with him ; and a great multitude followed him, and they pressed upon him. 25 And a woman that had had an issue of blood for twelve years, 26 and had suffered many things under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was in no way benefited, but rather grew worse. 27 hearing of the things concerning Jesus, came behind in the multitude, and touched his clothes ; 28 for she said: If T may touch even his clothes, I shall be saved. 29 And immediately the fountain of her blood dried up, and she knew in her body that she was restored to health from that scourge. 30 And Jesus immediately perceiving in him- self that power had gone forth from him. turned about in the multitude and said: Who touched my clothes? 31 And his disciples said to him : Seest thou the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou : Who touched me? Z2 And he looked around to see her that had done this. 33 But the woman being afraid and trem- bling, knowing what had been done for her, came and fell before him and told him all the truth. 34 And he said to her : Daughter, thy faith has saved thee : go in peace, and be well of thy scourge. 35 While he was yet speaking there came some from the house of the ruler of the synagogue, saying: Thy daughter is dead, why trouble the Teacher further? 36 But Jesus, disregarding the word that was spoken, said to the ruler of the synagogue : Fear not, only believe. Til And he permitted no one to follow with him but Peter, and James, and John the brother of James. 38 And they come to the house of the ruler of the syna- gogue ; and he sees a tumult, and those who wept and bewailed much ; 39 and entering in he says to them : Why make a tumult and weep ? The child is not dead, but sleeps. 40 And they derided him. But he. having put them all out. takes the father of the child, and the mother, and those with him, and goes in where the child was. 41 And he took the child by the hand and said to her: Talitha kumi, which is translated : Maiden. I say to thee, arise. 42 And the maiden immediately rose up and walked ; for she was twelve years old. And they were immediately astonished with great astonishment. 43 And he charged them much that no one should know this and com- manded that there should be given her to eat. 6 1 And he went out thence, and came into his own coun- 54 ACCORDING TO MARK try; and his disciples followed him. 2 And when the sabbath had come he began to teach in the synagogue ; and many hearing were astonished, saying: Whence has this man these things, and what the w'isdom that is given to this man? and are such mighty deeds done through his hands? 3 Is not this the carpenter, the son of Alary, and brother of James and Joses and Judah and Simon? And are not his sisters here with And they were offended at him. 4 And Jesus said to them : A prophet is not without honor, unless in his own country, and among his relatives, and in his own house. 5 And he was able to do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick persons and cured them. 6 And he wondered because of their unbelief. And he went about the villages round about teaching. 7 And he called to him the twelve, and began to send them forth two and two ; and gave them authority over un- clean spirits ; 8 and charged them to take nothing for the journey but a staff only; no bread, no bag, no brass in the girdle. 9 but be shod with sandals ; and put not on two coats. 10 And he said to them : Wherever you enter a house, there abide till you go forth thence. 11 And whatever place shall not have received you nor heard you, when you go out thence, shake off the dust that is under your feet, for a testi- mony against them. 12 And they went forth and preached that men should repent; 13 and they cast out many demons, and anointed with oil many sick and cured them. 14 And Herod the king heard, for his name had become known, and said : John the Baptist has risen from the dead, and for this reason the powers are active within him. 15 But others said: It is Elijah; but others said: He is a prophet like one of the prophets. 16 But Herod, when he heard, said: John whom I beheaded, he has risen. 17 For Herod himself had sent and taken John, and bound him in prison because of Herodias the wife, of his brother Philip, for he had married her. 18 For John said to Herod: It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife. 19 And Herodias was angry with him. and desired to kill him. and was not able. 20 For Herod feared John, knowing him to be a righteous and holy man, and he kept him in safety, and hearing him he was much perplexed, and heard him with pleasure. 21 And a suitable time having come, when Herod on his birthday had made a supper for his great men, and the officers of thou- sands, and the first men of Galilee; 22 and the daughter of the same Herodias having come in and danced, she pleased Herod and those that reclined with him at table: and the king said to the maiden : Ask of me whatever thou wilt, and I will give thee. 2Z And he swore to her : Whatever thou shalt ask I will give thee to the half of my kingdom. 24 And she went out and said to her mother: \\'hat shall I ask? And she said: The head of John the Baptist. 25 And coming in immediately with haste to the king, she asked, saying: T will that thou at once give me in a dish the head of John the Baptist. 26 And the king though he became 55 THE NEW TESTAMENT very sad, because of the oaths and those that reclined at table with him would not reject her. 27 And the king immediately sent an execu- tioner and ordered to bring his head. 28 And he went and be- headed him in the prison, and brought his head in a dish, and gave it to the maiden ; and the maiden gave it to her mother. 29 And his disciples heard it and came and took away his corpse, and laid him in a sepulcher. 30 And the apostles came together to Jesus, and told him all things that they had done and taught. 31 And he says to them : Do you your- selves come apart to a desert place, and rest a little. For many were coming and going, and they had leisure not even to eat. Z2 And they went away by ship to a desert place apart. TiZ And many saw them going and knew them, and ran thither on foot from all the cities, and outwent them. 34 And coming out he saw a great multitude, and was moved with pity for them, because they were as sheep that had no shepherd, and began to teach them many things. 35 And as much time had already passed, his disciples came and said : The place is desert, and already much time is spent : 36 dismiss them, that they may go into the country and villages round about and buy for themselves what they may eat. Zl But he answered and said to them : Do you give them to eat. And they say to him : Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread, and give them to eat? 38 But he says to them: How many loaves have you ? Go, see. And having learned they say: Five, and two fishes. 39 And he ordered them that all should recline by table-parties on the green grass. 40 And they reclined in oblong squares, by hundreds and by fifties. 41 And having taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven and blessed; and broke the loaves, and gave to the disciples to set be- fore them ; and the two fishes he divided among all. 42 And all ate and were filled ; 43 and they took up of the broken pieces twelve provision-baskets full, and of the fishes. 44 And those that had eaten the loaves were five thousand men. 45 And he immediately con- strained his disciples to enter the ship, and go before him to the other side to Bethsaida. till he him- self should send away the multi- tude. 46 And having sent them away he went into the mountain to pray. 47 And when evening had come, the ship was in the midst of the sea. and himself alone on the land. 48 And seeing them toiling in rowing, for the wind was against them, about the fourth watch of the night he came to them walking on the sea. And he intended to pass by them. 49 But seeing him walking on the sea they thought that it was a specter, and cried out; 50 for they all saw him and were alarmed. But he immediately talked with them, and said to them : Take courage, it is T, be not afraid. 51 And he went up to them into the ship, and the wind ceased And they were greatly astonished in themselves beyond measure. 52 For they had not learned by means of the loaves, but their heart was hardened. 56 ACCORDING TO MARK 53 And when they had passed over to the land they came to Gen- nesaret, and drew to shore. 54 And when they had come out of the ship, they immediately knew him, 55 and ran about that whole country, and began to carry the sick about in beds where they heard that he was. 56 And wherever he went into villages, or cities, or the country, they laid the sick in the markets, and besought him that they might touch even the fringe of his mantle ; and as many as touched him were saved. 7 1 And there came together to him the Pharisees and some of the scribes that had come from Jerusalem. 2 And seeing some of his disciples that they ate bread with common, that is, with unwashed hands, — 3 for the Phar- isees and all the Jews, unless they wash their hands often, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders; 4 and, when they come from market, unless they immerse themselves, they eat not ; and Uiere are many other things that they received to hold, the immersion of cups and pitchers and brazen vessels : — 5 and the Pharisees and the scribes asked him : Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with common hands? 6 And he said to them: Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written : This people honor me with their lips, but their heart is far distant from me; 7 but in vain do they offer reverence to me, teaching teachings the com- mandments of men. 8 Leaving the commandment of God you hold the tradition of men. 9 And he said to them: Well do you set aside the commandment of God. that you may keep your tradition. 10 For Moses said : Honor thy father and thy mother, and: He that curses father or mother let him surely die. 11 But you say: If a man shall say to his father or mother : That, by whatever thou mightest receive aid from me. is corban, which is a gift, 12 you no longer permit him to do any thing for his father or mother, 13 making the word of God of no effect by your tradition which you have delivered. And many things like these you do. 14 And again calling the multitude to him he said to them : Hear me. all of you. and understand. 15 There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him ; but the things that proceed from a man are they that defile a man. 17 And when he had entered the house apart from the multitude, his disciples asked him about the parable. 18 And he said to them : So even you are with- out understanding? Do you not perceive that nothing from without by entering into a man can defile him? 19 because it goes not into his heart, but into his belly, and is cast out into the sink, making all meats clean. 20 But he said: That which proceeds from a man. that defiles a man. 21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, lewdness, thefts, mur- ders. 22 adulteries, covetousness, wicked counsels, deceit, wantonness, 2 And they bring to him one deaf and that spoke with difficulty; and they beseech him to lay his hand on him. ZZ And taking him aside from the multitude, he put his fingers into his ears, and spit, and touched his tongue, 34 and looking up to heaven he sighed, and said to him : Ephphatha, which is. Be opened. 35 And his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was immediately loosed, and he spoke plainly. 36 And he charged them to tell no one: but as much as he charged them, the more abun- dantly they proclaimed it. 2)1 And they were exceedingly amazed, say- ing: He has done all things well: he makes both the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak. 8 1 In those days, the multi- tude again being great, and they having nothing to eat, he called his disciples to him and said to them : 2 I have pity on the multi- tude, because they have now con- tinued with me three days, and have nothing to eat. 3 And if I send them away to their homes fasting, they will faint on the way; and some of them have come from far. 4 And his disciples answered him: Whence shall any one be able to satisfy these with bread here in the wilderness? 5 And he asked them: How many loaves have you? They said: Seven. 6 And he commanded the multitude to recline on the ground; and taking the seven loaves, he gave thanks, broke, and gave to his disciples to set before them ; and they set them before the multitude. 7 And they had a few little fishes ; and he blessed and set them before them. 8 And they ate and were satisfied, and took up what remained of the broken pieces, seven provision-baskets. 9 And they were about four thousand ; and he sent them away. 10 And immediately entering the ship with his disciples, he came into the regions of Dalmanutha. 11 And the Pharisees came out and began to dispute with him, seeking from him a sign from heaven, tempting him. 12 And sighing deeply in his spirit, he said : Why does this gen- eration seek for a sign ? Verily I say to you : No sign shall be given to this generation. 13 And leaving them he again embarked, and went to the other side. 14 And they had forgotten to take bread, and except one loaf they had nothing with them in the ship. 15 58 ACCORDING TO MARK And he charged them, saying: Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the leaven of Herod. 16 And they reasoned one with another : Because we have no bread. 17 And perceiving it he said to them : Why reason because you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive, neither understand? Have you your heart yet hardened? 18 Having eyes see you not, and hav- ing ears hear you not, and do you not remember, when I broke the five loaves among the five thousand, and how many traveling-baskets full of broken pieces you took up? They say to him : Twelve. 20 When the seven also among the four thousand, how many provision-baskets full of broken pieces did you take up? And they say: Seven. 21 And he said to them : Do you not yet under- stand? 22 And they come to Bethsaida. And they bring to him a blind man, and beseech him to touch him. 23 And taking the blind man by the hand, he brought him out of the village; and having spit on his eyes, he laid his hands on him, and asked him if he saw anything. 24 And he looked up and said: T behold men, for T perceive them as trees walking. 25 Then he agair laid his hands on his eyes: and he saw clearly and was restored, and be- held all things distinctly. 26 And he sent him away to his house, say- ing: Go not into the village. 27 And Jesus and his disciples went forth into the villages of Caesarea Philippi : and on the way he asked his disciples, saying to them : Who do men say that I am? 28 They answered him, saying: John the Baptist, and others, Elijah, but others. One of the prophets. 29 And he asked them : But you, who say you that I am? Peter answering said to him : Thou art the Christ. 30 And he charged them to tell no one concerning him. 31 And he began to teach them that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, and the chief priests, and the scribes, and be put to death, and rise after three days. 32 And he uttered this saying plainly. And Peter took him and began to rebuke him. 33 But turning and looking on his disciples he rebuked Peter and said : Get be- hind me, Satan, for thou thinkest not the things of God, but the things of men. 34 And calling the multitude to him with his disciples, he said to them : Whoever will follow after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross, and follow me. 35 For whoever will save his life, shall lose it; but whoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, shall save it. 36 For what shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and to lose his life? 37 For what would a man give as a ransom for his life? 38 For whoever shall have been ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of man shall also be ashamed of him. when he shall come in the glory of his Father with the holy angels. 9: 1 And he said to them: Verily T say to you that there are some of those standing here, who shall not taste of death, till they see the king- dom of God coming in power. 9 2 And after six days Jesus took with him Peter, and James, and John, and led them up THE NEW TESTAMENT into a high mountain apart by them- selves ; and he was transfigured be- fore them ; 3 and his clothing be- came shining, very white, as no fuller on earth can whiten. 4 And there appeared to them Elijah with Moses; and they were conversing with Jesus. 5 And Peter answering said to Jesus : Rabbi, it is good that we are here, and let us make three tents, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah. 6 For he knew not what he should answer ; for they were greatly afraid. 7 And there came a cloud overshadowing them; and there came a voice from the cloud : This is my beloved Son. hear him. 8 And suddenly looking around they no longer saw any one but Jesus alone with themselves. 9 And as they were coming down from the mountain, he charged them that they should tell no one what things they had seen, unless when the Son of man should have risen from the dead. 10 And they kept the saying among themselves, inquiring what to rise from the dead is. 11 And they asked him, saying : Why say the Pharisees and the scribes that Elijah must first come? 12 And he said to them: Elijah coming first restores all things. And how is it written of the Son of man? that he must suffer many things, and be set at naught. 13 But I say to you that Elijah also has come, and they have done to him what things they wished, as it is written of him. 14 And coming to the disciples, they saw a great multitude about them, and scribes disputing with them. 15 And immediately all the multitude seeing him were greatly amazed, and running to him saluted him. 16 And he asked them : Why are you disputing with them? 17 And one from the multitude an- swered him : Teacher, 1 brought to thee my son that has a dumb spirit. 18 And wherever he seizes him he throws him down ; and he foams and gnashes with his teeth and pines away; and I spoke to thy disciples that they would cast him out, and they were not able. 19 And he answered and said to them : O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I bear with you? Bring him to me. 20 And they brought him to him. And when he saw him, the spirit immediately threw him into convul- sions, and he fell upon the ground, and rolled foaming. 21 And he asked his father: How long is it since this came on him? He re- plied : From a child ; 22 and he has often thrown him into the fire and into the water, to destroy him ; but if in any way thou canst, have pity on us and help us. 23 But Jesus said to him : What is this "If thou canst"? all things are possible to him that believes. 24 The father of the child immediately crying out said : I believe ; help thou my unbe- lief. 25 But Jesus, seeing that the multitude was running together, re- buked the unclean spirit, saying to him : Dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him. 26 And after crying out and throwing him into strong convulsions he came out ; and he became like one dead, so that many said : Fie is dead. 27 But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up, and he arose. 28 And when he came into the house, his disciples asked him privately: 60 ACCORDING TO MARK Why were we not able to cast him out? 29 And he said to them: This kind can come out by nothing but by prayer. 30 And going out thence they passed along through Galilee, and he wished that no one should know it; 31 for he taught his disciples and said to them that the Son of man is to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him, and when he has been killed he will rise after three days. 32 But they understood not the saying, and were afraid to ask him. 33 And they came into Caper- naum, And when he was in the house he asked them : About what were you disputing on the way? 34 But they were silent ; for they had disputed one with another on the way who was greatest. 35 And he sat down and called the twelve, and said to them : If any one will be first, he shall be last of all and minister of all. 36 And he took a little child and set him in the midst of them, and took him in his arms and said to them : 37 Whoever shall receive one of these little children in my name, receives me ; and who- ever shall receive me, receives not me, but him that sent me. 38 John said to him : Teacher, we saw one casting out demons in thy name, and he follows not us ; and we forbade him, because he follows not us. 39 But Jesus said: Forbid him not; for there is no one who shall do a mighty deed in my name, and be able hastily to speak evil of me ; 40 for he that is not against us, is for us. 41 For whoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because you are Christ's, verily I say to you, he shall not lose his reward. 42 And whoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe, it were better for him if an upper millstone were hung about his neck, and he were thrown into the sea. 43 And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go away into hell, into the unquenchable fire. 45 And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life lame, than having two feet to be thrown into hell. 47 And if thy eye offend thee, pull it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be thrown into hell, 48 where their worm dies not and the fire is not quenched. 49 For every one shall be salted with fire. 50 Salt is good; but if the salt become saltless, by what means will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace one with another. 1 A 1 And rising up he came J- V/ thence into the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan ; and multitudes came together again to him ; and as he was accustomed he again taught them. 2 And the Phar- isees came and asked him if it is lawful for a man to put away his wife, tempting him. 3 But answer- ing he said to them : What did Aloses command you? 4 They re- plied : Moses permitted to write a bill of divorce and put her away. 5 But Jesus said to them : Because of the hardness of your heart he wrote for you this commandment. 6 But from the beginning of crea- tion, male and female made he them ; 7 for this cause shall a man leave his father and his mother, 8 61 THE NEW TESTAMENT and the two shall be one flesh : so no longer are they two, but one flesh. 9 What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder. 10 And in the house the disciples again asked him about this matter. 11 And he said to them: Wlhoever puts away his wife and marries another commits adultery against her; 12 and if she puts away her husband and marries another, she commits adultery. 13 And they brought to him little children that he might touch them. But the disciples rebuked those that brought them. 14 And Jesus seeing it, was displeased, and said to them: Let the little children come to me; forbid them not ; for to such belongs the kingdom of God. 15 Verily I say to you : Whoever shall not re- ceive the kingdom of God as a little child, shall in no way enter into it. 16 And he took them in his arms and blessed them much, putting his hands upon them. 17 And as he went forth into the road, one ran to him, and kneeling to him asked him : Good teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? 18 But Jesus said to him: Why callest thou me good? None is good but one, God. 19 Thou knowest the commandments : Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false testimony. Thou shalt not defraud, Honor thy father and thy mother. 20 And he said to him : Teacher, all these have I kept from my youth. 21 And Jesus looking upon him loved him, and said to him: One thing thou lackest : go, sell what- in heaven, and come follow me. 22 But becoming sad at that saying he went away sorrowful ; for he had great possessions. 2?> And looking around, Jesus says to his disciples: How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God. 24 And the disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus again answering says to them : Chil- dren, how hard it is to enter into the kingdom of God: 25 it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. 26 But they were more amazed, saying among themselves : Who then can be saved? 27 Looking on them, Jesus says : With men. impossible, but not with God; for all things are possible with God. 28 Peter began to say to him: Behold, we have left all things and followed thee. 29 Jesus replied: Verily I say to you, there is no one that has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or mother, or father, or children, or lands, for my sake and for the sake of the gospel, 30 but he shall receive a hundredfold now at this time, houses, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and chil- dren, and land with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life. 31 But many first shall be last, and last first. 32 And they were in the road going up to Jerusalem ; and Jesus was going before them, and they were amazed ; and as they followed they were afraid. And taking the twelve aside again he began to tell them the things that were about to befall him : 2>2) Behold, we are going ever thou hast, and give to the up to Jerusalem, and the Son of poor, and thou shalt have treasure man shall be delivered to the chief 62 ACCORDING TO MARK priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death, and deliver him to the Gentiles, 34 and they shall mock him, and spit upon him, and scourge him, and put him to death, and after three days he shall rise. 35 And there came to him James and John, the sons of Zebedee, say- ing to him : Teacher, we wish that thou wouldst do for us whatever we ask of thee. 36 x\nd he said to them : \\'hat will you that I should do for you? Zl And they said to him : Grant to us that we may sit, one on thy right hand and the other on thy left, in thy glory. 38 But Jesus said to them : You know not what you ask. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized? 39 They said to him : We are able. Jesus said to them : The cup that I drink you shall drink, and with the bap- tism with which I am baptized you shall be baptized; 40 but to sit on my right hand or on my left is not mine to give, but it shall be given to those for whom it has been pre- pared. 41 And when the ten heard they began to be displeased with James and John. 42 And calling them to him, Jesus says to them : You know that those who are accounted to rule the Gentiles exercise lordship over them, and their great men exercise authority over them. 43 Not so however is it among you ; but whoever will become great among you. shall be your minister, 44 and whoever of you will become first, shall be servant of all. 45 For the Son of man came not to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. 46 And they come to Jericho. And as he went out from Jericho with his disciples and a great multi- tude, Bartimseus, the son of Timaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road. 47 And hearing that it was Jesus the Nazarene. he began to cry out and say: Son of David, Jesus, have mercy on me. 48 And many rebuked him that he should be silent ; but he cried much more : Son of David, have mercy on me. 49 And Jesus stood and said : Call him. And they called the blind man, saying to him : Take courage, rise, he calls thee. 50 And throw- ing aside the mantle, he sprang up and came to Jesus. 51 And answer- ing him, Jesus said : What wilt thou that I shall do for thee? And the blind man said to him : Rabboni, that I may receive sight. 52 Jesus said to him : Go, thy faith has saved thee. And he immediately received sight, and followed him in the way. 11 1 And when they drew near ■■■ to Jerusalem, and to Bethany at the mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples. 2 and said to them : Go into the village that is opposite to you, and, immediately on enter- ing it, you shall find a colt tied, on which no man has ever yet sat : loose and bring him. 3 And if any one say to you: Why do you this? say: The Lord has need of him. and he will immediately send him hither again. 4 And they went and found the colt tied at the door without at the turn of the street, and they loosed him. 5 And some of those standing there said to them: What do you loosing the colt? 6 And they answered them as Jesus had said, and they gave them permis- 63 THE NEW TESTAMENT sion. 7 And they brought the colt to Jesus, and threw their clothes upon him, and he sat on him. 8 And many spread their mantles in the road, but others, bundles of straw, having cut them from the fields. 9 And those that went be- fore, and those that followed, cried: Hosanna, blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord : IC blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David: Hosanna in the highest. 11 And he went into Jerusalem into the temple; and having looked around on all things, the hour bemg now late, he went out to Bethany with the twelve. 12 And, on the morrow, as they came out from Bethany, he was hungry. 13 And seeing a fig-tree at a distance having leaves, he came if perhaps he might find anything on it; and when he came to it he found nothing but leaves; for it was not the season for figs. 14 And answering he said to it : No more for ever may any one eat fruit from thee. And his disciples heard him. 15 And they came to Jerusalem. And entering into the temple he began to drive out those that sold and those that bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of thpse that sold doves, 16 and per- mitted no one to carry a vessel through the temple: 17 and taught and said to them : Is it not written that my house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations? But you have made it a den of robbers. 18 And the chief priests and the scribes heard, and sought how they mi^ht destroy him; for they feared him, 64 for all the multitude were aston- ished at his teaching. 19 And when it became late, he went forth out of the city. 20 And as they passed by in the morning they saw the fig-tree withered from the roots. 21 And Peter calling it to mmd said to him : Rabbi. See, the fig-tree that thou cursedst has withered. 22 And Jesus answered and said to them: Have faith in God. 23 Verily I say to you that whoever shall say to this mountain : Be taken up and thrown into the sea, and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that what he says shall take place, it shall be done for him. 24 Wherefore I say to you, all things whatever you pray for and ask, believe that you receive, and you shall have them. 25 And when you stand praying, forgive if you have any thing against any one. that your Father who is in the heavens may forgive you your offenses. 27 And they came again into Jerusalem. And as he was walking in the temple, there came to him the chief priests and the scribes and the elders. 28 and said to him : By what authority doest thou these things? or who gave thee this authority that thou shouldst do these things? 29 But Jesus said to them : 1 will ask you one word, and answer me. and I will tell you by what authority 1 do these things. 30 The baptism of John, was it of heaven or of men? Answer me. 31 And they reasoned among them- selves, saying : If we say : Of heaven, he will reply : Why then did you not believe him^ ?)2 but shall we say: Of men'* they feared the peo- ple; for all held John that he was ACCORDING TO MARK a prophet indeed. 33 And they answered Jesus and said : We know not. And Jesus said to them : Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things. 1 ^ 1 And he began to speak 1 ^ to them in parables. A man planted a vineyard, and put a hedge about it, and dug an under- wine-vat, and built a tower, and let it out to vinedressers, and went into another country. 2 And at the time he sent to the vinedressers a ser- vant, that he might receive from the vinedressers of the fruits of the vineyard. 3 And they took him and scourged him, and sent him away empty. 4 And again he sent to them another servant; and they wounded him in the head and dis- honored him. 5 And he sent an- other ; and him they killed, and many others, scourging some, and killing some. 6 Yet one had he, a son beloved : he sent him to them last, saying: They will reverence my son. 7 But those vinedressers said among themselves: This is the heir: come, let us kill him, and the in- heritance shall be ours. 8 And they took him and killed him. and cast him out of the vineyard. 9 What will the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the vine- dressers, and give the vineyard to others. 10 Have you not read this scripture? A stone that the build- ers rejected, this became the head of the corner: 11 this was from the Lord, and it is wondrous in our eyes? 12 And thev souofht to lay hold on him. and feared the multi- tude : for thev knew that he had snoken the parable against them. And leavinsf him they went away. 13 And they send to him some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, that they may entrap him in a word. 14 And they come and say to him: Teacher, we know that thou art true, and thou carest for no one; for thou lookest not on the person of men, but teachest the way of God in truth. Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar or not? must we give or not give? 15 But he, per- ceiving their hypocrisy, said to them : Why tempt me ? bring me a denarius that I may see it. 16 They brought it. And he said to them: Whose image is this, and the super- scription? They said to him: Caesar's. 17 And Jesus said to them : Return to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's. And they were aston- ished at him. 18 And the Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection, came to him, and questioned him, saying: 19 Teacher. Moses wrote for us that, if any one's brother die. and leave a wife, and leave no child, his brother shall take his wife, and raise up offspring for his brother. 20 There were seven brothers; and the first took a wife, and dying left no offspring. 21 And the second took her. and died leaving no off- spring; and the third in like man- ner; 22 and the seven left no off- "^pring. Last of all the woman also died. 23 In the resurrection, when they rise, of which of them shall she be the wife? for the seven had her as a wife. 24 Tesus said to them : Do you not therefore err. not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God? 25 For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are as angels in the heavens. 65 THE NEW TESTAMENT 26 But concerning the dead, that they do rise, have you not read in the book of Moses, at the Bush, how God spoke to him, saying: i am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob? 21 He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You greatly err. 28 And one of the scribes came forward as he had heard them dis- puting, and seeing that he had an- swered them well, he asked him : Which is the first commandment of all? 29 Jesus answered him: The first is : Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord; 30 and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind, and with thy whole strength. 31 The second is this : Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is no other commandment greater than these. Z2 And the scribe said to him : Teacher, in truth hast thou well said that there is One, and there is no other beside him. 33 And to love him with the whole heart, and with the whole under- standing, and with the whole strength, and to love one's neighbor as himself is more than all whole burnt-ofiferings and sacrifices. 34 And Jesus, seeing him that he had answered with understanding, said to him : Not far art thou from the kingdom of God. And no one any more ventured to ask him a ques- tion. 35 And Jesus answered and said, while teaching in the temple: How say the scribes that Christ is the son of David? Z(i David himself said in the Holy Spirit: The Lord said to my Lord: Sit at mv right hand till I make thy enemies thy footstool. Z1 David himself calls him Lord; and whence is he his son? And the great multitude heard him with pleasure. 38 And in his teaching he said: Beware of the scribes, who delight to walk about in robes, and love salutations in the markets, 39 and the first seats in the synagogues, and the first reclining places at sup- pers : 40 who eat up widows' houses, and for a pretext make long prayers: these shall receive greater condemnation. 41 And as he sat opposite the treasury, he was observing how the multitude threw money into the treasury ; and many rich men threw in much; 42 and there came one poor widow and threw in two mites, which make a farthing. 43 And calling his disciples to him, he said to them : Verily I say to you that this poor widow has thrown in more than all that are throwing into the treasury; 44 for all have thrown in out of their abundance ; but she out of her poverty has thrown in all that she had. her whole living. 1 "2 1 And as he was going ■^*^ out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him: Teacher, see what manner of stones, and what manner of buildings. 2 And Jesus said to him : Seest thou these great buildings? There shall not be left a stone upon a stone that shall not be thrown down. 3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives oppo- site to the temple. Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privatelv: 4 Tell us. when shall these things be? and what the sign when all these things shall be accom- plished? 5 And Jesus began to ACCORDING TO MARK say to them : See that no one de- ceive you, 6 Many shall come in my name, saying: I am he, and shall deceive many. 7 But when you hear of wars and rumors of wars, be not troubled: they must take place, but not yet the end. 8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom : there shall be earthquakes in various places, there shall be famines. 9 These are the beginning of pains. But see you to yourselves : they shall deliver you up to councils, and in synagogues you shall be beaten, and before governors and kings shall you stand for my sake, for a testimony to them. 10 And among all nations shall the gospel first be preached. 11 And when they lead you delivering you up, be not anxious beforehand what you shall speak ; but whatever shall be given you in that hour, this speak; for you are not the speakers, but the Holy Spirit. 12 And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and the father the child, and chil- dren shall rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death. 13 And you shall be hated by all because of my name; but he that endures to the end, he shall be saved. 14 But when you see the abomination of desolation standing where it ought not Clet the reader understand'), then let those in Judea flee to the mountains: 15 and he that is on the housetop let him not cnme down nor go in to take any thing from his house; 16 and he that is in the field let him not turn back to take his mantle. 17 But alas for them that are with child, and them that give suck in those days take place in winter. 19 For those days shall be affliction, such as has not been from the beginning of the creation, which God created, till now. and shall not be. 20 And unless the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh would have been saved; but because of the elect whom he has chosen he has short- ened the days. 21 And then, if any one say to you : Lo, here is Christ, lo there; believe not. 22 But false Christs. and false prophets shall arise, and shall do signs and won- ders in order to deceive, if pos- sible, the elect. 27) But do you be- ware: I have told you all things beforehand. 24 But in those days after that affliction the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light. 25 and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers which are in the heavens shall be shaken. 26 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in clouds with great power and glory. 21 And then shall he send the angels and gather the elect from the four winds, from the end of earth to the end of heaven. 28 But learn the parable from the fig-tree. When its branch has now become tender and put forth leaves, you know that summer is near : 29 so also you, when you see these things taking place, know that it is near, at the doors. 30 Verily T say to you that this generation shall not pass away, till all these things shall have been accomplished. 31 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. Z2 But of that day or the hour no one knows, neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son. but 18 But pray that it may not the Father. ZZ Beware, watch; for 67 THE NEW TESTAMENT you know not when the time is. 34 As a man, going to another coun- try, left his house, and gave to his servants authority, to each one his work, and commanded the door- keeper to watch. 35 Watch there- fore ; for you know not when the lord of the house comes, whether in the evening, or at midnight, or at cock-crowing, or in the morning : 36 lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. Zl But what I say to you, I say to all, Watch. 1 A 1 But after two days J-T" came the passover and the unleavened bread; and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft and put him to death; 2 for they said: Not on the feast, lest there be a tumult of the people. 3 And while he was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he reclined at table there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of pure nard very costly: after breaking the box she poured it on his head. 4 But some ex- pressed displeasure among them- selves: Why was this waste of the ointment made? 5 for this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor; and they murmured against her. 6 But Jesus said : Let her alone: why give her trouble? a good work has she wrought on me. 7 For the poor you have always with you. and when you will you can do them good ; but me you have not always. 8 What she could she has done : she has come beforehand to anoint my body for the burial. 9 And verily T say to you. wherever the gospel shall be preached in the whole world, this also that she has done shall be told for a memorial of her. 10 And Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests that he might deliver him up to them. 11 And when they heard it they were glad, and prom- ised to give him money; and he sought how he might conveniently deliver him up. 12 And on the first day of unleav- ened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples say to him : Where wilt thou that we go and make ready that thou mayest eat the passover? 13 And he sends two of his disciples and says to them: Go into the city, and there shall meet you a man carrying a pitcher of water; follow him, 14 and wher- ever he enters, say to the master of the house that the Teacher says: Where is my guest-chamber where I may eat the passover with my disciples? 15 And he will show you a large upper room furnished, ready: there prepare for us. 16 And the disciples went out, and came into the city, and found as he had said to them, and made ready the passover. 17 And when it was evening he comes with the twelve. 18 And as they reclined at table and ate, Jesus said : Verily T say to you that one of you shall deliver me up, he that eats with me. 19 They began to be sad and to say to him one by one: Is it I? 20 But he said to them: One of the twelve, he that dips with me into the dish. 21 For the Son of man goes, as it is written of him ; but alas for that man by whom the Son of man is delivered up: good were it for that man if he had not been born. 22 And as ACCORDING TO MARK they ate, having taken bread and blessed, he broke and gave to them and said : Take : this is my body. 23 And having taken the cup. and given thanks, he gave to them ; and they all drank of it. 24 And he said to them : This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many. 25 Verily I say to you that I will no more drink of the fruit of the vine, till that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God. 26 And they sung a hymn and went out into the mount of Olives. 27 And Jesus says to them : You all shall be offended; for it is written: I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered. 28 But after I have risen I will go before you into Galilee. 29 But Peter said to him : Though all should be offended, yet not I. 30 And Jesus says to him : Verily I say to thee that thou, this day, on this night, before a cock shall have crowed twice, shalt deny me three times. 31 But he said with vehemence : Though it should be necessary for me to die with thee, I will in no way deny thee. And in like manner also said they all. 2)2 And they come to a place, the name of which is Gethsemane: and he says to his disciples: Sit here till I pray. ZZ And he took with him Peter and James and John, and be- gan to be greatly amazed and in an- guish, 34 and said to them : My soul is encompassed with sorrow even to death : remain here and watch. 35 And going forward a little he fell on the ground, and prayed that if it was possible the hour might pass away from him ; 36 and he said : Abba, Father, all things are possible for thee; remove this cup from me: yet not what I will, but what thou. Zl And he comes and finds them sleeping, and says to Peter : Simon, sleepest thou? hadst thou not strength to watch one hour? 38 Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. 39 And again he went away and prayed, saying the same word. 40 And he returned and found them sleeping again ; for their eyes were heavy; and they knew not what they should answer him. 41 And he comes the third time and says to them : Sleep the remaining time, and rest ; it is enough ; the hour has come : behold, the Son of man is delivered into the hands of sinners. 42 Rise, let us go : behold, he that delivers me up is at hand. 43 And immediately while he was yet speaking, comes Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, and with him a multitude with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and the scribes and elders. 44 But he that delivered him up had given them a sign, saying: Whomever I shall kiss, he it is : hold him fast, and lead him away securely. 45 And when he had come he immediately came for- ward and said to him : Rabbi, and kissed him : 46 and they laid hands on him and held him fast. 47 But some one of those standing by drew a sword, and smote the servant of the chief priest, and cut off his ear. 48 And Jesus answered and said to them : As against a robber you have come out with swords and clubs to take me. 49 Daily was I with vou in the temnle teaching, and you did not lay hold on me ; but — that the scriptures might be ful- THE NEW TESTAMENT filled. 50 And all left him and fled. 51 And one, a young man, fol- lowed him, having a linen cloth thrown around his naked body; and they laid hold of him ; 52 but he left the linen cloth and fled naked. 53 And they led Jesus away to the chief priests; and all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes came together. 54 And Peter fol- lowed him at a distance, till within the court of the chief priests; and he was sitting with the attendants, and warming himself at the fire. 55 And the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrim sought testimony against Jesus, to put him to death, and found none; 56 for many testi- fied falsely against him, and their testimony did not agree. 57 And some arose and testified falsely against him, saying: 58 We heard him say that I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days build another made without hands. 59 And not even thus did their testimony agree. 60 And the chief priest arose in the midst and asked Jesus, saying: Answerest thou nothing? What do these testify against thee? 61 But he was silent and answered nothing. Again the chief priest asked him and said to him : Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed? 62 And Jesus said : I am ; and you shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven. 63 And the chief priest rent his clothes and said : What further need have we of witnesses? 64 You have heard the blasphemy: what think you? And they all condemned him to be worthy of death. ^5 And some began to spit upon 70 him, and to cover his face, and to strike him with the fist, and say to him: Prophesy; and the attendants, striking him with the open hand, took him into custody. 66 And while Peter was below in the court, there came one of the maidservan-ts of the chief priest, 67 and seeing Peter warming himself, she looked on him and said : Thou also wast with Jesus the Nazarene. 68 But he denied, saying : I neither know nor understand what thou sayest. And he went forth without into the entrance, and a cock crew. 69 And the maidservant saw him and began again to say to those standing by: This man is of them. 70 But he again denied. And after a little while again they that stood by said to Peter : Truly thou art of them ; for thou art a Galilean. 71 But he began to call down curses on himself, and to swear: I know not this man of whom you speak. 72 And immediately a second time a cock crew. And Peter remem- bered the word as Jesus spoke to him : Before a cock shall have crowed twice, thou shalt deny mc three times. And when he thought on it he wept. 1 C 1 And immediately in the -•- ^ morning, the chief priests, with the elders and the scribes, and the whole Sanhedrim having pre- pared counsel, bound Jesus and led him away, and delivered him to Pilate. 2 And Pilate asked him : Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answered and said to him : Thou sayest. 3 And the chief priests accused him of many things. 4 And Pilate again asked him : Answerest thou nothing? See of how many things they accuse thee, 5 But Jesus ACCORDING TO MARK no longer answered any thing : so that Pilate wondered. 6 But at every feast he released to them one prisoner whom they chose. 7 And there was one called Barabbas bound with the insurgents who, in the insurrection, had com- mitted murder. 8 And the multi- tude coming up began to ask that he would do as he was accustomed to do for them. 9 And Pilate an- swered them, saying : Will you that I release to you the King of the Jews? 10 for he knew that because of envy the chief priests had deliv- ered him up. 11 But the chief priests instigated the multitude that he should rather release Barabbas to them. 12 And Pilate again answered and said to them : What then will you that I shall do with him whom you call King of the Jews? 13 They again cried out: Crucify him. 14 But Pilate said to them : Why, what evil has he done? But they cried out vehemently: Crucify him. 15 And Pilate, willing to satisfy the multitude, released to them Barab- bas, and delivered Jesus, after he had scourged him, to be crucified. 16 And the soldiers led him away within the court, which is the Pre- torium, and called together the whole band. 17 And they clothed him in purple, and having plaited a crown of thorns they put it on him : 18 and began to salute him : Hail, King of the Jews. 19 And they struck his head with a reed, and spit upon him, and bowing the knees they worshipped him. 20 xA.nd when they had derided him, they took off from him the purple, and put on him his own clothes. And they led him out to crucify him, 21 And they impressed one. Simon a Cyrenian, as he passed by coming from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus. to bear his cross. 22 And they bring him to the place Golgotha, which is, when translated, the place of a skull. 23 And they gave him wine mingled with myrrh ; but he did not receive it. 24 And they crucified him, and divided his garments among them, casting a lot on them what each should take. 25 And it was the third hour, and they cruci- fied him. 26 And the superscription of his accusation written on him was. The King of the Jews. 27 And with him they crucify two robbers, one on his right and one on his left. 29 And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads, and saying: Aha, thou that destroyest the temple and buildest it in three days, 30 save thyself by coming down from the cross. 31 In like manner also the chief priests deriding among them- selves with the scribes said : Others he saved, himself he cannot save. 32 Christ the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, that we may see and believe. And they that were crucified with him reproached him. 33 And when the sixth hour had come, there came a darkness over the whole land till the ninth hour. 34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice : Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthanei. which is, trans- lated : My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? 35 And some of those that stood by, hearing it. said: Lo. he calls for Elijah. 36 But some one ran and filled a sponge with vinegar, and putting it on a reed, gave him to drink, say- Tl THE NEW TESTAMENT ing: Wait, let us see if Elijah is coming to take him down. 2)1 But Jesus having uttered a loud cry expired. 38 And the vail of the temple was rent in two from top to bottom. 39 And the centurion that stood by opposite to him, seeing that he thus expired, said: Truly this man was the Son of God. 40 And there were women also looking on from a distance, among whom were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger, and the mother of Jesus, and Salome ; 41 who, when he was in Galilee, followed him and ministered to him ; and many others came up with him to Jeru- salem. 42 And evening having now come, because it was the preparation, which is sabbath-eve, 43 came Joseph who was of Arimathea, an honorable counsellor, who also him- self was looking for the kingdom of God, and went in boldly to Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus. 44 But Pilate wondered if he were already dead ; and calling to him the centurion, he inquired if he had been dead any time ; 45 and learning from the centurion, he gave the corpse to Joseph. 46 And he bought linen, took him down, wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchcr that had been hewed out of a rock, and rolled a stone to the door of the sepulcher. 47 And Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of Jesus saw where he was laid. 1 i^ 1 And when the sabbath ■I ^ had passed, Mary Magda- lene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, that they might come and anoint him. 2 And very early on the first of the week they came to the sepul- cher, the sun having risen. 3 And they said among themselves : Who shall roll away for us the stone from the door of the sepulcher? 4 (And looking up they see that the stone had been rolled away) ; for it was very great. 5 And they entered the sepulchcr and saw a young man, sitting at the right side, clothed in a white robe ; and they were amazed. 6 But he says to them : Be not amazed. You seek Jesus the Nazarene who was cruci- fied; he has risen, he is not here: see the place where they laid him. 7 But go, tell his disciples, especially Peter, that he goes before you into Galilee : there, you shall see him, as he said to you. 8 And going out they fled from the sepulcher ; for trembling and astonishment had seized them; and they said nothing to any one, for they were afraid. [According to Tischendorf, the remaining twelve verses were not written by Mark. Codex Sinaiticus and Raticamus have them not. The learned reader can see the proof as given by Tischendorf. See, also, Tregelles and Alford.l 9 But after he had risen early on the first of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven demons. 10 She went and told it to those that had been with him. as they mourned and wept. 11 And these, hearing that he was alive and had been seen by her. believed not. 12 And after this he showed himself in another form to two of them as they walked and went into the country. 13 And these went and told it to the rest: neither believed they them, 14 72 ACCORDING TO LUKE Afterward he showed himself to the eleven as they reclined at table, and reproached their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not those that had seen him after he had risen. 15 And he said to them : Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. 16 He that believes and is baptized shall be saved ; but he that believes not shall be condemned. 17 And these signs shall accompany the believers : in my name they shall cast out demons ; they shall speak with new tongues ; 18 they shall take up serpents ; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them : they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. 19 The Lord therefore, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven, and sat at the right hand of God ; nut they went forth and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by the accompanying signs. ACCORDING TO LUKE 11 Since many have undertaken to draw up a narrative of the matters that have been fully accom- plished among us, 2 as those, who, from the beginning became eye- witnesses and ministers of the word, delivered them to us, 3 it seemed good to me also, after having accu- rately traced all things from the first, to write them in order for thee, most noble Theophilus. 4 that thou mightst know the certainty of the words concerning which thou hast been instructed. 5 There was in the days of Herod king of Judea a priest, named Zach- ariah, of the class of Abijah, and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizebeth. 6 And they were both righteous be- fore God. walking in all the com- mandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. 7 And they had no child, because Elizebeth was barren, and both were advanced in their days. 8 But it came to pass while he acted as priest, in the order of his class, before God, 9 according to the custom of the priesthood his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord ; 10 and all the multitude of the people were praying without at the hour of incense. 11 And there ap- peared to him an angel of the Lord, standing on the right side of the altar of incense. 12 And Zachariah was troubled when he saw him, and fear fell upon him. 13 But the angel said to him : Fear not, Zach- ariah, for thy prayer is heard, and thy wife Elizebeth shall bear thee a son : and thou shalt call his name John; 14 and thou shalt have joy and gladness, and many shall re- ioice at his birth. 15 For he shall be great before the Lord. ?nd wine and strong drink he shall by no means drink, and he shall be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother's womb : 16 and many of the sons of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God : 17 and he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of fathers to children, and the dis- 73 THE NEW TESTAMENT obedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared. 18 And Zachariah said to the angel : By what means shall 1 know this? for I am an aged man, and my wife is advanced in her days. 19 And the angel answered and said to him : 1 am Gabriel that stand in the presence of God, and 1 am sent to speak to thee, and bring thee these good tidings. 20 And be- hold, thou shalt be dumb and not able to speak, till the day in Avhich these things shall be accomplished, because thou didst not believe my words, which shall be fulfilled in their time. 21 And the people were waiting for Zachariah, and wondered that he stayed so long m the temple. 22 But when he came out he was not able to speak to them ; and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple ; and he made signs to them, and remained speech- less. 23 And it came to pass when the days of his service were completed, he departed to his house. 24 And after those days his wife Elizebeth conceived, and hid herself five months, saying: 25 Thus has the Lord dealt with me in the days in which he looked on me to take away my reproach among men. 26 And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee, named Nazareth. 27 to a virgin betrothed to a man, whose name was Joseph, of the house of David ; and the name of the virgin was Alary. 28 And com- ing in to her, the angel said : Hail. highly favored, the Lord is with thee, 29 But she was troubled at the word, and was reasoning what manner of salutation this could be, 30 And the angel said to her: Fear not, Mary; for thou hast found favor with God. 31 And behold, thou shalt conceive in the womb and bear a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus. Z2 He shall be great, and Son of the Highest shall he be called ; and the Lord God shall give him the throne of David his father, 2)2> and he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever, and of his kingdom there shall be no end. 34 But Mary said to the angel : How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? 35 And the angel answered and said to her : The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall over- shadow thee : wherefore also the holy one that is born shall be called the Son of God. Z6 And behold, thy relative Elizebeth, she also has con- ceived a son in her old age ; and this is the sixth month with her that is called barren : Z7 for no word from God shall be impos- sible. 38 And Mary said: Behold the handmaid of the Lord : let it be done for me according to thy word. And the angel departed fiom her. 39 And Mary arose in those days and went into the mountainous country with haste to a city of Judah. 40 and entered the house of Zachariah, and saluted Elizebeth. 41 And it came to pass when Elizebeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe in her womb leaped. And Elizebeth was filled with the Holy Spirit, 42 and spoke out with a loud cry, and said : Blessed art thou among women, and 1)lessed is the fruit of thy womb. 43 And whence 74 ACCORDING TO LUKE is this to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me? 44 For behold, as the voice of thy saluta- tion came into my ears, the babe in my womb leaped with joy. 45 And blessed is she who believed that there shall be a fulfillment of the things spoken to her from the Lord. 46 And Mary said : My soul mag- nifies the Lord, 47 and my spirit re- joiced in God my Saviour, 48 because he looked upon the lowly condition of his handmaid. For behold, from this time shall all generations call me blessed, 49 because the mighty One has done great things for me. And holy is his name ; 50 and his mercy is from generation to generation on them that fear him. 51 He has shown might with his arm ; he has scattered the proud in the under- standing of their heart : 52 he has cast down the mighty from thrones, and exalted the lowly: 53 the poor has he filled with good things and the rich has he sent empty away. 54 He has helped Israel his ser- vant, by remembering mercy. 55 (as he spoke to our fathers), to Abraham and to his posterity for ever. 56 And IMary remained with her about three months, and returned to her house. 57 But the time for Elizebeth to bring forth was completed, and she bore a son. 58 And her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy to her. and they rejoiced with her. 59 And it came to pass on the eighth day that they came to circumcise the child, and they called it by the name of its father. Zachariah. 60 And its mother answered and said: No; but it shall be called John. 61 And they said to her : There is no one of thy kindred that is called by this name. 62 And they made signs to his father what he would have him called. 63 And having asked for a writing tablet, he wrote, say- ing: His name is John. And they all wondered. 64 But his mouth was immediately opened and his tongue loosed, and he spoke, bless- ing God. 65 And fear came on all that dwelt about them ; and all these things were much talked of in all the mountainous country of Judea; 66 and all that heard laid them up in their heart, saying: What then will this child be? for the hand of the Lord was with him. 67 And Zachariah his father was filled with the Holy Spirit, and prophesied, saying: 68 Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, because he has visited and redeemed his people; 69 and has raised up for us, in the house of David his servant, a horn of salvation, 70 as he spoke through the mouth of his holy proph- ets of ancient times, 71 salvation from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us. 72 to show mercy to our fathers, and to remem- ber his holy covenant, 73 the oath that he swore to Abraham our father, to grant to us 74 that being delivered from the hand of enemies we m^ight serve him without fear, 75 in holiness and righteousness be- fore him all our days. 76 And thou also, O child, shalt be called prophet of the Highest; for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to pre- pare his ways. 11 to give to his people the knowledge of salvation in remission of their sins, 78 through TO THE NEW TESTAMENT the tender mercies of our God, in which the dawn from on high has visited us, 79 to give light to them that sit in darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace. 80 And the child grew and became strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his manifes- tation to Israel. 2 1 But it came to pass in those days, there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the habitable land should be enrolled. 2 This enrollment took place first when Cyrenius was governor of Syria. 3 And all went to be en- rolled, each one to his own city. 4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David, 5 to be enrolled with Mary who was betrothed to him, being with child. 6 And it came to pass while they were there, the days for her to bring forth were com- pleted ; 7 and she brought forth her son the firstborn, and swathed him, and laid him in a stall, because there was no place for them in the inn. 8 And there were in the same country shepherds living in the fields, and keeping guard over their flock during the watches of the night. 9 And an angel of the Lord stood by them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them, and they were afraid with great fear. 10 And the angel said to them : Fear not ; for behold. I bring you glad tidings of great joy. which shall be for all the people: 11 for there is born to you this day, in the city of David, a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord. 12 And this shall be a sign to you : you shall find a babe swathed in a stall. 13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying: 14 Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among men of his good pleasure. 15 And it came to pass when the angels had gone away from them into heaven, the shep- herds said one to another: Let us go now to Bethlehem, and see this thing that has come to pass, which the Lord has made known to us, 16 And they came in haste, and found both Mary and Joseph, and the babe lying in the stall. 17 And when they had seen it, they made known concerning this thing that had been told them of this child. 18 And all that heard were astonished at the things told to them by the shepherds. 19 But Mary kept all these words, pondering them in her heart. 20 And the shepherds re- turned, glorifying and praising God for all things that they had heard and seen as it had been told to them. 21 And when eight days had been completed for circumcising him, his name was also called Jesus, as it had been called by the angel be- fore he had been conceived in the womb. 22 And when the days of their purification had been completed, ac- cording to the law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord. 23 as it is written in the law of the Lord : T^very male that opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord : 24 and to offer a sacrifice according to 70 ACCORDING TO LUKE what is said in the law of the Lord, a pair of doves or two young pigeons. 25 And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon ; and this man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him : 26 and it had been re- vealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's anointed. 27 And he came in the Spirit into the temple ; and when the parents brought in the child Jesus that they might do for him according to the custom of the law, 28 he also took him into his arms, and blessed God and said : 29 Now, Lord, lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, accord- ing to thy word, 30 for my eyes have seen thy salvation, 31 which thou hast prepared before the face of all the people. 32 a light for a revelation to the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel. 33 And his father and his mother were wondering at the things spoken con- cerning him. 34 And Simeon blessed them and said to Alary his mother: Behold, this is set for the fall and rise of many in Israel, and for a sign to be spoken against. 35 And a sword shall pass through thy soul also that thoughts may be revealed out of many hearts. 36 There was also Anna a proph- etess, a daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher : she was advanced in many days, having lived with a husband seven years from her vir- ginity, 37 and she was a widow till eighty-four years, who departed not from the temple, serving day and night with fastings and prayers. 38 And coming in at the same hour, she gave thanks to God, and spoke of him to all that looked for the redemption of Jerusalem. 39 And when they had accom- plished all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee to their own city Nazareth. 40 And the child grew and became strong, being filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him. 41 And his parents went yearly to Jerusalem at the feast of pass- over. 42 And when he was twelve years of age, they having gone up according to the custom of the feast, 43 and having completed the days, on their return the child Jesus remained in Jerusalem, and his par- ents knew it not. 44 But supposing that he was in the company, they went a day's journey, and sought for him among the relatives and the acquaintances, 45 and not finding him, they returned to Jerusalem seeking for him. 46 And it came to pass after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both hearing them and asking them questions; 47 and all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers. 48 And when they saw him they were amazed, and his mother said to him : Child, why hast thou dealt with us thus? Behold, thy father and I have sought thee, sorrowing. 49 And he said to them : Why is it that you sought me? Did you not know that I must be about my Father's business? 50 And they understood not the word that he spoke to them. 51 And he went down with them and came to Naza- reth, and was subject to them. And his mother kept all the words in 77 THE NEW TESTAMENT her heart. 52 And Jesus nicreased in wisdom and age, and in favor with God and men. 3 1 But in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod tetrarch of Gali- lee, and Philip his brother tetrarch of Iturea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene, 2 in the days of the chief priest Annas and of Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zachariah in the wilderness ; 3 and he came into all the region round about the Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins. 4 as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet : The voice of one cry- ing in the wilderness : Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight : 5 every ravine shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low, and the crooked places shall be made straight, and the rough ways smooth, 6 and all flesh shall see the salvation of God. 7 He said therefore to the multitudes that came out to be bap- tized by him : Brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? 8 Bring forth then fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves : We have Abraham as a father ; for I say to you that God is able from these •stones to raise up children for Abraham. 9 And now also the ax is lying at the root of the trees : every tree therefore that brings not forth good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 10 And the multitudes asked him, saying: What then shall we do? 11 And he an- swered and said to them : He that has two coats let him give to him that has none, and he that has food let him do in like manner. 12 And publicans also came to be baptized, and said to him : Teacher, what shall we do? 13 And he said to them: Exact no more than that which has been appointed to you. 14 And soldiers also asked, saying: What shall we also do? And he said to them : Do violence to no one, accuse no one falsely, and be content with your wages. 15 But while the people were in expectation, and all were reasoning in their hearts concerning John, whether he were the Christ or not, 16 John answered, saying to them all: I indeed baptize you in water; but there comes he that is mightier than I. the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to loose ; he shall baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire: 17 whose winnowing-shovel is in his hand to thoroughly cleanse his threshing-floor, and gather the grain into his granary; but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire. 18 With many other exhorta- tions then indeed preached he the gospel to the people; 19 but Herod the tetrarch being reproached by him concerning Herodias the wife of his brother, and concern- ing all the wicked things which Herod had done. 20 added this also to them all ; he shut up John in prison. 21 But it came to pass that while all the people were baptized, Jesus also having been baptized, and pray- ing, the heaven was opened. 22 and the Holy Spirit came down, in a bodily form like a dove, upon him, and a voice came from heaven : Thou 78 ACCORDING TO LUKE art my beloved Son, in thee I am well pleased. 23 And Jesus himself was, when he began his ministry, about thirty years old. being, as was supposed, the son of Joseph, son of Heli, 24 son of Matthat. son of Levi, son of Malchi, son of Jannai, son of Joseph, 25 son of Mattithiah, son of Amos, son of Xahum, son of Esli, son of Naggai. 26 son of Maath, son of Mattithiah, son of Shimei, son of Joseph, son of Joda, 27 son of Jonan, son of Rhesa, son of Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, son of Neri, 28 son of Malchi, son of Addi, son of Cosam, son of Elma- am, son of Er, 29 son of Jesus, son of Eliezer, son of Jorim, son of Matthat, son of Levi, 30 son of Symeon, son of Judah, son of Joseph, son of Jonam, son of Elia- kim, 31 son of Melea, son of Menna, son of Mattatha, son of Nathan, son of David, Z2 son of Jesse, son of Obed, son of Boaz, son of Salmon, son of Nahshon. ZZ son of Amina- dab, son of Admin, son of Arni, son of Hezron, son of Pharez, son of Judah, 34 son of Jacob, son of Isaac, son of Abraham, son of Terah, son of Nahor, 35 son of Serug, son of Reu, son of Peleg, son of Heber, son of Shelah. 2)6 son of Kenan, son of Arphaxad. son of Shem. son of Noah, son of Lamech. Zl son of Methusaleh. son of Enoch, son of Jared. son of Mahalaleel. son of Kenan. 38 son of Enos. son of Seth. son of Adam, son of God. 4 1 But Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led in the Spirit into the wilderness 2 forty days, tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing in those days, and when they were ended he was hun- gry. 3 And the devil said to him: If thou art the Son of God, speak to this stone that it may become bread. 4 And Jesus answered to him : It is written that not by bread alone shall man live. 5 And having led him up. he showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. 6 And the devil said to him : To thee will I give all this authority and the glory of them, for to me it is delivered; and to whomever I will I give it : 7 if therefore thou wilt worship before me, all shall be thine. 8 And Jesus answered and said to him : It is written : Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. 9 And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on the wing of the temple, and said to him : If thou art the Son of God, cast thyself down hence; 10 for it is written that he shall give his angels charge concerning thee, to guard thee safely; 11 and in theif hands they shall take thee up, lest perhaps thou strike thy foot against a stone. 12 And Jesus answered and said to him : It is said : Thou shalt not put the Lord thy God to the proof. 13 And when the devil had ended all the temp- tation he departed from him for a time. 14 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and a fame concerning him went forth through all that surrounding country. 15 And he taught in their synagogues, glorified by all. 16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and went, according to his custom, into 79 THE NEW TESTAMENT the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up to read. 17 And there was given to him the book of the prophet Isaiah; and having unrolled the book he found the place where it is written : 18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he has sent me 19 to preach deliverance to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind; to set at liberty the bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord. 20 And having rolled up the book and given it back to the at- tendant, he sat down ; and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed upon him. 21 And he began to say to them : This day is fulfilled this Scripture in your ears. 22 And all applauded him and wondered at the words of grace that proceeded out of his mouth, and said : Is not this the son of Joseph? 23 And he said to them : You will surely speak this parable to me : Physician, heal thy- self ; whatever things we heard were done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country. 24 But he said : Verily I say to you, that no prophet is accepted in his own country. 25 And I tell you in truth that there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up for three years and six months, when there came a great famine on the whole land ; 26 and to no one of them was Elijah sent but to Sarepta of Sidon, to a woman a widow. 27 And there were many lepers in Israel in the days of Elisha the prophet, and no one of them was cleansed but Naa- man the Syrian. 28 And all in the synagogue, on hearing these things, were filled with anger, 29 and rose up and thrust him out of the city, and brought him to the brow of the mount on which their city was built, so as to cast him down headlong; 30 but passing through the midst of them, he went away. 31 And he came down to Caper- naum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the sabbaths ; il and they were amazed at his teaching, for his word was with authority. 2)2) And iji the synagogue there was a man that had a spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a great voice : 34 Aha, what have we to do with thee, Jesus the Nazarene? Hast thou come to de- stroy us? I know thee who thou art, the holy one of God. ^ 35 And Jesus rebuked him, saying: Be silent and come out of him. And the demon threw him into the midst and came out of him, and hurt him in no way. 36 And amazement came upon all, and they spoke one to an- other, saying: What a word is this, that with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out? 37 And there went forth a rumor concerning him into every place of the surrounding country. 38 And rising up from the syna- gogue, he entered into the house of Simon. And Simon's mother-in-law was confined with a great fever; and they besought him for her. 39 And standing over her he rebuked the fever, and it left her; and she immediately rose and ministered to them. 40 But when the sun had gone down. all. as many as had any sick with various diseases, brought them to him; and he laid his hands on 80 ACCORDING TO LUKE each one of them and cured them. 41 And demons also went forth from many, crying out and saying: Thou art the Son of God. And rebuking them, he permitted them not to speak, for they knew that he was the Christ. 42 But when it was day he went out and departed to a desert place; and the multitudes sought for him : and they came to him, and endeav- ored to detain him that he might not go away from them. 43 But he said to them : I must preach the kingdom of God to the other cities also, because for this was I sent. 44 And he preached in the syna- gogues of Galilee. 5 1 But it came to pass while the multitude pressed upon him and heard the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret, 2 and saw two ships standing by the lake ; but the fishermen had gone out of them and had washed the nets. 3 And entering into one of the ships, which was Simon's, he asked him to put out a little from the land; and sitting down in the ship he taught the multitudes. 4 But when he ceased speaking, he said to Simon : Put out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught. 5 And Simon answered and said : Master, through the whole night have we toiled and taken nothing; yet at thy word I will let down the nets. 6 And when they had done this, they inclosed a great number of fishes ; and their nets began to break. 7 And they made signs to the partners in the other ship that they should come and help them ; and they came, and filled both ships, so that they began to sink. 8 But Simon Peter, seeing it, fell at the knees of Jesus, saying: Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord. 9 For amazement had seized on him and all that were with him, at the draught of fishes that they had taken ; 10 and in like manner also on James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were part- ners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon : Fear not : from this time thou shalt catch men. 11 And they drew the ships to land, left all and followed him. 12 And it came to pass while he was in one of the cities, behold, a man full of leprosy; and seeing Jesus, he fell on his face and be- sought him, saying : Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. 13 And he, stretched forth his hand and touched him, saying : I will ; be clean. And immediately the leprosy departed from him. 14 And he charged him to tell no one; but go, show thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing as Moses com- manded, for a testimony to them. 15 But the more there went abroad the report concerning him ; and many multitudes came together to hear, and to be cured of their in- firmities. 16 But he withdrew into the deserts, and prayed. 17 And it came to pass on one of the days that he was teaching, and there were sitting Pharisees and teachers of the law, who had come out of every village of Galilee and Judea, and from Jerusalem ; and the power of the Lord was present that he might heal. 18 And behold, men bringing on a bed a man who was a paralytic ; and they sought to bring him in and lay him before him. 19 And not finding by what way they could bring him in be- 81 THE NEW TESTAMENT cause of the multitude, they went up on the housetop, and through the tiling let him down with the bed into the midst before Jesus. 20 And seeing their faith he said : Man, thy sins are forgiven thee. 21 And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying : Who is this that speaks blasphemies? Who is able to forgive sins but God alone? 22 But Jesus perceiving their reason- ings, answered and said to them : Why reason in your hearts? 23 Which is easier, to say: Thy sins are forgiven thee, or to say: Arise and walk? 24 But that you may know that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins, he said to the paralytic : I say to thee,, Rise, and take up thy bed, and go to thy house. 25 And he imme- diately rose up before them, took up that on which he had lain, and went away to his house glorifying God. 26 And astonishment seized on them all ; and they glorified God, and were filled wnth fear, say- ing: We have seen strange things to-day. 27 And after these things he went out, and saw a publican named Levi sitting at the custom-house, and said to him : Follow me.* 28 And leaving all, he arose and followed him. 29 And Levi made him a great feast in his house; and there was a great multitude of publicans and others who were reclining at table with them. 30 And the Pharisees and their scribes murmured against his disciples, saying: Why do you eat and drink with publicans and sin- ners? 31 And Jesus answered and said to them: They that have health have no need of a physician, but they that are sick ; 32 I have not come to call righteous men, but snmers, to repentance. 33 And they said to him : The disciples of John fast often and make prayers ; likewise also those of the Pharisees; but thine eat and drink. 34 But Jesus said to them : Can you make the sons of the bride- chamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them? 35 But days will come ; and when the bridegroom shall have been taken away from them, then shall they fast in those days. 36 And he spoke also a parable to them : No one tears a piece from a new garment and puts it on an old garment: otherwise, both the new makes a rent, and the piece that is from the new agrees not with the old. 37 And no one puts new wine into old bottles ; otherwise, the new wine bursts the bottles, and itself is spilled, and the bottles perish ; 38 but new wine must be put into new bottles. 39 And no one after drinking old, de- sires new ; for he says : The old is good. 6 1 And it came to pass, on the first sabbath after the second day of the feast, that he went through the fields of grain, and his disciples pulled the ears of grain and ate, rubbing them in their hands. 2 But some of the Pharisees said : Why do you that which it is not lawful to do on the sabbath? 3 And Jesus answered and said to them : Have you not read this that David did, when he was hungry, himself and those that were with him? 4 How he entered into the house of God, and took the loaves of the presence, and ate and gave also to those that were with him. which it is not lawful to eat but for 82 ACCORDING TO LUKE the priests alone? 5 And he said to them : The Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath. 6 And it came to pass on another sabbath that he went into the syna- gogue and taught. And a man was there, and his right hand was with- ered. 7 And the scribes and Phari- sees watched him if he would cure on the sabbath, that they might find an accusation against him. 8, But he knew their thoughts; and he said to the man that had the with- ered hand : Rise and stand in the midst. And he arose and stood. 9 And Jesus said to them : I ask you if it is lawful on the sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy. 10 And looking around on them all, he said to him : Stretch forth thy hand. And he did so, and his hand was restored. 11 But they were filled with madness, and conferred one with another what they should do to Jesus. 12 And it came to pass in these days that he went into the moun- tain to pray; and he spent the night in prayer to God. 13 And when day had come, he called to him his disciples, and having chosen from among them twelve, whom he also named apostles. 14 Simon, whom he also named Peter, and Andrew his brother, and James and John, and Philip and Bartholomew. 15 and Matthew and Thomas, and James son of Alphaeus. and Simon who is called Zealot. 16 and Judas brother of James, and Judas Iscariot. who became a traitor; 17 and having come down with them he stood in a plain ; and a great multitude of his disciples, and a great number of the people from all Judea and Jeru- salem, and the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon. who had come to hear him and to be cured of their diseases; 18 and those oppressed by unclean spirits were cured; 19 and all the multitude sought to touch him, for power went forth from him and cured all. 20 And he lifted up his eyes upon his disciples and said: Blessed are you poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. 21 Blessed are you that hunger now, for you shall be filled. Blessed are you that weep now, for you shall laugh. 22 Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall shut you out from their society, and shall reproach you. and cast your name out as evil for the sake of the Son of man. 23 Rejoice in that day and leap for joy; for behold, your reward is great in heaven ; for so did their fathers to the prophets. 24 But alas for you that are rich, for you have your consolation in full. 25 Alas for you that are filled now, for you shall be hungry. Alas for you that laugh now. for you shall mourn and weep. 26 Alas when all men shall speak well of you ; for so did their fathers. to the false prophets. 27 But I say to yoti that hear : Love your enemies : do good to them that hate you, 28 bless them that curse you ; pray for them that insult you. 29 To him that smites thee on the cheek offer the other also; and from him that takes from thee thy mantle, thy coat also withhold not. 30 Give to every one that asks of thee ; and from him that takes away thy goods ask them not again. 31 And as you would that men should do to you, do you also to them in like manner. 32 And if you love them that love you, what thanks have you? for 83 THE NEW TESTAMENT sinners love those that love them. 33 For if you do good to those that do good to you, what thanks have you? even sinners do the same. 34 And if you lend to those of whom you hope to receive, what thanks have you? even sinners lend to sinners that they may receive the same. 35 But love your enemies and do good and lend, hoping for nothing in return ; and your reward shall be great, and you shall be sons of the Highest; for he is kind to the unthankful and the evil. 36 Become merciful, as your Father is merciful. 37 And judge not, and you shall not be judged; and con- demn not, and you shall not be condemned. Release, and you shall be released; 38 give, and it shall be given to you ; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, shall they give into your lap ; for with what measure you measure it shall be measured to you again. 39 And he spoke also a parable to them : Can a blind man lead a blind man? will not both fall into a pit? 40 A disciple is not above the teacher; but every one thor- oughly instructed shall be as his teacher. 41 And why beholdest thou the splinter that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thy own eye? 42 How canst thou say to thy brother: Brother, let me pull out the splinter that is in thy eye, thyself not be- holding the beam in thy eye? Hypo- crite, pull first the beam out of thy eye, and then thou shalt see clearly to pull out the splinter that is in thy brother's eye. 43 For there is no good tree that produces corrupt fruit; nor again a corrupt tree that 84 produces good fruit. 44 For every tree is known by its own fruit ; for not from thorns collect they figs, neither from a bramble bush gather they grapes. 45 The good man, out of the good treasure of his heart, brings forth that which is good ; and the evil man. out of the evil treasury, brings forth that which is evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks. 46 But why call me : Lord, Lord, and do not the things that I say? 47 Every one that comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you to whom he is like. 48 He is like a man building a house, who dug and deepened, and laid a foundation on the rock ; and when a flood came, the stream dashed against that house, and had not strength to shake it ; because it was well built. 49 But he that hears and does not, is like a man that without a foundation built a house on the earth, against which the stream dashed, and it immedi- ately fell in heaps ; and the ruin of that house was great. 7 1 After he had finished all his sayings in the ears of the people, he entered into Capernaum. 2 And a certain centurion's ser- vant that was dear to him. being sick, was about to die. 3 But hear- ing of Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking him that he would come and save his servant. 4 And they came to Jesus and asked him earnestly, saying: He is worthy for whom thou shalt do this: 5 for he loves our nation, and has himself built for us the synagogue. 6 And Jesus went with them. But when he was now not far from the house, ACCORDING TO LUKE the centurion sent friends, saying: Lord, trouble not thyself ; for I am not worthy that thou shouldst come in under my roof ; 7 wherefore neither thought I myself worthy to come to thee ; but say in a word, and let my servant be restored to health. 8 For I am a man placed under 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. 9 And when Jesus heard these things he was astonished at 'him ; and turning, he said to the multi- tude that followed him : I say to you, not even in Israel have I found so great faith. 10 And those that had been sent returned to the house and found the servant well. 11 And it came to pass on the following day he went to a city called Xain ; jind there went with him many of his disciples and a great multitude. 12 And when he came near the gate of the city, be- hold, there was carried out dead an only-born son of his mother, and she was a widow ; and a great multi- tude of the city was with her. 13 And seeing her, the Lord had pity on her. and said to her: Weep not. 14 And coming forward he touched the bier; and those that bore it stopped ; and he said : Young man, I say to thee. Arise. 15 And the dead man sat up. and began to speak; and he gave him to his mother. 16 And fear seized them all. and they glorified God, saying: A great prophet has risen among us; and. God has visited his people. 17 And this saying concerning him went forth into the whole of Judea. and all the region round about. 18 And his disciples told John of all these things. 19 And having called some two of his disciples, John sent to the Lord, saying : Art thou he that comes, or look we for another? 20 And coming to him the men said : John the Baptist has sent us to thee, saying : Art thou he that comes, or look we for an- other? 21 In that hour he cured many of diseases and scourges and evil spirits, and to many blind he gave to see. 22 And he answered and said to them : Go tell John what things you have seen and heard, that the blind receive sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor h?ve the gospel preached to them; 23 and blessed is he whoever is not offended at me. 24 But when the messengers of John had departed, he began to say to the multitudes concerning John : What went you out into the wilder- ness to see? a reed shaken by the wind? 25 But what went you out to see? a man clothed in soft rai- ment? Behold, they that wear soft clothing and live in luxury are in kings' houses. 26 But what went you out to see? a prophet? Yes, I say to you, and more than a prophet. 27 This is he of whom it is written : Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee. 28 I say to you, among those born of women there is no prophet greater than John ; but the least in the kingdom of God is greater than he. 29 And all the people that heard and the publicans justified God, having been baptized with the baptism of John ; 30 but the Pharisees and the lawyers _re- iected the counsel of God against 85 THE NEW TESTAMENT themselves, not having been bap- tized by him. 31 To v^hat then shall 1 liken the men of this generation, and to what are they like? 2>2 They are like children that sit in the market and call one to another, saying : We piped to you and you did not dance, we mourned and you did not lament. TiZ For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say: He has a demon. 34 The Son of man has come eating and drinking, and you say : Behold, a man, a glutton and a winebibber, a friend of pub- licans and sinners. 35 And yet wisdom is justified on the part of all her children. 36 And some one of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him ; and he went mto the house of the Pharisee, and reclined at table. Zl And be- hold, a woman, who was in the city, a sinner, and had learned that he reclined at table in the house of the Pharisee, brought an alabaster box of ointment, 38 and stood behind at his feet weeping, and began to moisten his feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment. 39 But the Pharisee that had invited him. seeing it. spoke within himself, saying: This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman this is that touches him. that she is a sinner. 40 And Jesus answered and said to him : Simon. I have some- thing to say to thee. He replied : Teacher, say on. 41 A certain cred- itor had two debtors : the one owed him five hundred denarii, the other, fifty. 42 As they had nothing to pay, he forgave them both. Which of them then would love him the more ? 43 Simon answered and said : I suppose that he to whom he forgave the more. He said to him: Thou hast rightly judged. 44 And turning to the woman, he said to Simon: Seest thou this woman? I entered thy house ; water for my feet thou gavest not; but she with her tears has moistened my feet, and with her hair has wiped them. 45 A kiss thou gavest me not ; but she from the time I came in has not ceased to kiss my feet. 46 With oil my head thou didst not anoint ; but she with ointment has anointed my feet. 47 Wherefore, I say to thee, her sins which are many are forgiven, because she loved much : but he to whom little is forgiven, loves little. 48 And he said to her : Thy sins are forgiven. 49 And they that reclined at table began to say within themselves : Who is this that also forgives sins? 50 But he said to the woman : Thy faith has saved thee, go in peace. 8 1 And it came to pass after- ward that he went through every city and village, preaching and telling the glad tidings of the kingdom of God ; and the twelve were with him, 2 and some women who had been cured of evil spirits and diseases; Mary called Magdalene, out of whom had gone seven demons, 3 and Joanna wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, who ministered to him of their goods. 4 But as a great multitude had come together, and they were coming to him from every city, he spoke by a parable: 5 The sower went forth to sow his seed. And as he 86 ACCORDING TO LUKE sowed, some fell by the way, and was trod down, and the birds of heaven ate it up ; 6 and other fell upon the rock, and springing up it withered because it had no moisture ; 7 and other fell in the midst of thoms, and the thorns grew with it and choked it ; 8 and other fell on the good ground, and springing up it produced fruit a hundred- fold. Saying these things, he cried : He that has ears to hear, let him hear. 9 And his disciples asked him what the parable might be. 10 And he said : To you is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God ; but to the rest in parables ; that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand. 11 But the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. 12 And they by the way are they that hear ; then comes the devil and takes away the word from their heart, lest hav- ing believed they should be saved. 13 And they on the rock are they who when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, who believe for a time, and in time of temptation apostatize. 14 But that which fell among thorns, are they that hear, and, going forth, are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to perfection. 15 But that on the good ground, are they that in a good and honest heart having heard the word keep it, and bring forth fruit in patience. 16 But no one after lighting a lamp covers it with a vessel or puts it under a bed. but puts it on a lamp- stand, that they who come in may see the light. 17 For there is noth- ing concealed that shall not become manifest, neither hid which shall not be known and come into open view. 18 Take heed therefore how you hear; for whoever has, to him shall be given ; and whoever has not, even that which he seems to have shall be taken from him. 19 And his mother and his brothers were coming to him, and were not able to approach him because of the multitude. 20 And it was told him : Thy mother and thy brothers stand without desiring to see thee. 21 But he answered and said to them : My mother and my brothers are they that hear the word of God and do it. 22 And it came to pass on one of the days that he himself entered a ship, and his disciples ; and he said to them : Let us go over to the other side of the lake ; and they put to sea. 23 But as they were sailing he fell asleep; and a squall of wind came down on the lake, and they were filled and were in danger. 24 And coming forward, they waked him, saying: Master, Master, we perish. But he awoke and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water; and they ceased, and there was a calm. 25 And he said to them : Where is your faith? But being afraid they were astonished, saying one to an- other : Who then is this, that he commands both the winds and the water, and they obey him? 26 And they sailed down to the country of the Gergesenes, which is opposite to Galilee. 27 And when he had come forth to land, there met him from the city a man that had demons : and for a long time he wore no clothing, and abode not in a house, but in the tombs. 28 87 THE NEW TESTAMENT But seeing Jesus, he cried out and fell before him, and with a loud voice said : \\'hat have I to do with thee, Jesus, Son of God Most High? I beseech thee, torment me not. 29 For he commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man ; for at many times it had seized him, and he was bound with chains and fetters, being imprisoned; and breaking the bonds he was driven by the demon into the deserts. 30 And Jesus asked him. saying: What is thy name? And he said: Legion, for many demons had en- tered into him. 31 And they be- sought him that he would not com- mand them to go away into the abyss. 32 But there was a herd of many swine feeding in the moun- tain ; and they besought him that he would permit them to enter into them. And he permitted them. 33 And the demons having come out of the man entered into the swine; and the herd rushed down the steep irto the lake and were choked. 34 But those who fed them, seeing what had been done, fled and told it in the city and in the country. 35 And they came out to see what had been done, and came to Jesus, and found the man, out of whom the demons had gone, sitting, clothed and in his right mind, at the feet of Jesus ; and they were afraid. 36 And those that saw told them how the possessed with demons had been saved. 37 And all the multitude of the surrounding country of the Gergesenes asked him to depart from them: for. they were seized with great fear: and he entered a ship and returned. 38 And the man out of whom the demons had gone besought him, that he might be with him ; but he sent him away, saying : 39 Return to thy house, and tell how great things God has done for thee. And he departed, proclaiming throughout the whole city how great things Jesus had done for him. 40 And it came to pass when Jesus had returned, the multitude received him gladly; for all were looking for him. 41 And behold, there came a man whose name was Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue ; and falling at the feet of Jesus, he besought him to come into his house, 42 for he had a daughter, an only child, about twelve years old, and she was dying. But as he was going, the multitudes thronged him. 43 And a woman, who had had an issue of blood for twelve years, who had spent her whole living on physicians and could be cured by none, 44 came behind and touched the fringe of his man- tle; and immediately the flow of her blood stopped. 45 And Jesus said: Who is it that touched me? And as all denied, Peter and those with him said : ]\Iaster, the multi- tudes press on thee and crowd about thee. 46 But Jesus said : Some one touched me ; for I perceived power going forth from me. 47 And the woman, seeing that she had not escaped notice, came trembling, and having fallen before him told before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and how she had been immediately restored to health. 48 But he said to her : Daughter, thy faith has saved thee ; go in peace. 49 While he was yet speaking, there comes some one from the house of the ruler of the synagogue, 88 ACCORDING TO LUKE saying : Thy daughter is dead : trouble the Teacher no more. 50 But Jesus hearing it answered him : Fear not; only believe, and she shall be saved. 51 And when he had come to the house, he permitted no one to go in with him but Peter and John and James, and the father and the mother of the child. 52 And all wept, and lamented her. But he said : Weep not : she is not dead, but sleeps. 53 And they de- rided him, knowing that she was dead. 54 And taking her by the hand, he called, saying: Child, awake. 55 And her spirit returned, and she immediately arose ; and he commanded that food should be given to her. 56 And her parents were astonished; but he charged them to tell no one what had been done. 9 1 And having called to- gether the twelve, he gave them power and authority over all the demons, and to cure diseases. 2 And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal, 3 and said to them : Take nothing for the journey, neither staff, nor bag, nor bread, nor silver, nor have two coats apiece. 4 And whatever house you enter, there abide, and thence depart. 5 And as many as may not receive you, when going out from that city shake off even the dust from your feet for a testi- mony against them. 6 And they went out and passed through every village, preaching the gospel and curing everywhere. 7 But Herod the tetrarch heard of all things that were done, and was perplexed because it was said by some that John had risen from the dead, 8 and by some that Elijah had appeared, and by others that a prophet, some one of the ancients, had risen. 9 But Herod said : John I beheaded; but who is this of whom I hear such things? And he sought to see him. 10 And the apostles returned and told him all things that they had done. And he took them with him and withdrew privately to a city called Bethsaida. 11 But the multi- tudes knew it and followed him ; and he received them and spoke to them of the kingdom of God, and healed those that had need of heal- ing. _ 12 But the day began to decline; and the twelve came and said to him: Send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages and country round about, and lodge and find food; for we are here in a desert place. 13 But he said to them : Do you give them to eat. They replied: We have not more than five loaves and two fishes, unless we should go and buy food for all this people. 14 And they were about five thousand men. But he said to his disciples: Make them recline in table-parties of fifty each. 15 And they did so. and made them all recline. 16 And taking the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven, blessed them and broke, and gave to the dis- ciples to set before the multitude. ]7 And all ate and were filled; and there was taken up what remained to them of broken pieces, twelve traveling-baskets. 18 And it came to pass as he was praying alone, the disciples were with him ; and he asked them, say- ing : Who do the multitude say that T am? 19 And they answered and said: John the Baptist; and others, 89 THE NEW TESTAMENT Elijah ; and others, that a prophet, some one of the ancients, has risen. 20 But he said to them : But who say you that I am? And Peter answered and said : The Christ of God. 21 And charging them strictly, he commanded them to tell this to no one, 22 saying that the Son of man must suffer many things, and he rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be put to death, and rise the third day. 23 And he said to all : If any one will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. 24 For whoever will save his life, shall lose it ; but whoever may lose his life for my sake, he shall save it. 25 For what is a man profited if he gain the whole world, but destroy himself or be lost? 26 For whoever shall have been ashamed of me and my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his glory, and that of the Father, and of the holy angels. 27 But I tell you truly, there are some of these standing here that shall not taste of death till they shall have seen the kingdom of God. _ 28 And it came to pass about eight days after these sayings, that he took Peter and John and James, and went up into a mountain to pray. 29 And it came to pass as he prayed that the appearance of his face was changed, and his clothing was white and glittering. 30 And behold, two men conversed with him, who were Moses and Elijah : 31 who appearing in glory spoke of his departure, which he was about to accomplish in Jerusalem. 32 But Peter and those with him were heavy with sleep ; but keeping awake they saw his glory and the two men that stood with him. 33 And it came to pass as they were separated from him Peter said to Jesus : Master, it is good that we are here, and let us make three tents, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah, not knowing what he said. 34 And as he spoke these things there came a cloud and over- shadowed them ; and they were afraid as they entered the cloud. 35 And a voice came from the cloud, saying : This is my Son, the elect ; hear him. 36 And when the voice had passed, Jesus was found alone. And they kept silence, and told no one, in those days, any of the things that they had seen. 37 And it came to pass on the next day, when they had come down from the mountain, a great multi- tude met him. 38 And behold, a man from the multitude cried, say- ing: Teacher, I beseech thee, look upon my son, for he is my only born ; 39 and lo, a spirit seizes him, and suddenly cries out. and con- vulses him so that he foams, and after bruising him hardly departs from him. 40 And I requested thy disciples that they would cast him out; and they were not able. 41 And Jesus answered and said : O generation faithless and perverse, how long shall I be with you, and bear with you? Bring thy son hither. 42 But while he was yet coming, the demon threw him down and convulsed him ; and Jesus re^ buked the unclean spirit, and re- stored the child to health, and gave him again to his father. 43 And all were amazed at the majesty of God. 90 ACCORDING TO LUKE But while all were wondering at all things that he did, he said to his disciples : 44 Put you into your ears these words; for the Son of man is about to be delivered into the hands of men. 45 But they compre- hended not this saying, and it was concealed from them that they could not perceive it; and they were afraid to ask him concerning this saying. 46 And there arose a reasoning among them as to which of them was greatest. 47 But Jesus, know- ing the reasoning of their heart, took a little child and set it by him, 48 and said to them : Whoever shall receive this child in my name re- ceives me ; and w^hoever shall re- ceive me, receives him that sent me ; for he that is least among you all, he is great. 49 And John answered and said: Master, w-e saw^ one cast- ing out demons in thy name, and we forbade him, because he follows not with us. 50 And Jesus said to him : Forbid not, for he that is not against us is for us. 51 But it came to pass as the days of his being received up were completing, he steadfastly fixed his face to go to Jerusalem, 52 and sent messengers before his face. And they went and entered a city of the Samaritans, so as to make ready for him ; 53 and they received him not. because his face w'ss going to Jerusalem. 54 And the disciples James and John, seeing it, said: Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them? 55 But he turned and rebuked them. 56 And they went to another village. 57 And as they were going on the way, some one said to him ; I will follow thee wherever thou goest. 58 And Jesus said to him: The foxes have dens, and the birds of the heavens have roosts, but the Son of man has not where he may lay his head. 59 And he said to another: Follow me. He replied: Permit me first to go and bury my father. 60 But he said to him : Let the dead bury their own dead; but go thou and proclaim the kingdom of God. 61 And another also said: I will follow thee. Lord ; but first permit me to take leave of those at my house. 62 And Jesus said to him: No one that puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God. 1 A 1 But after these things ■L ^ the Lord appointed seventy others also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place whither he himself was about to come. 2 And he said to them: The harvest indeed is great, but the laborers are few : pray there- fore the Lord of the harvest that he send laborers into his harvest. 3 Go ; behold. I send you forth as lambs in the midst of wolves. 4 Carry no purse, no bag, no sandals : salute no one by the way. 5 What- ever house you enter, first say : Peace to this house. 6 And if a son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it ; but if not. it shall return upon you. 7 And abide in the same house, eating and drinking such things as they have; for the laborer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house. 8 And whatever city you enter and they receive you, eat what is set before you. 9 and cure those in it that are sick, and say to them : The king- dom of God has come near to you. 91 THE NEW TESTAMENT 10 But whatever city you enter, and they receive you not, go out into the streets of it and say : 11 Even the dust of your city that cleaves to us on our feet we wipe off against you: yet know this that the king- dom of God IS near. 12 And I say to you that it shall be more tolerable for Sodom in that day than for that city. 13 Alas for thee, Chorazin; alas for thee, Bethsaida; for if the mighty works which have been done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. 14 Furthermore, it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment, than for you. 15 And thou, Capernaum, shalt thou be exalted to heaven? Thou shalt be brought down to hades. 16 He that hears you hears me; and he that rejects you rejects me; and he that rejects me rejects him that sent me. 17 And the seventy returned with joy, saying: Lord, even the demons are subjected to us in thy name. 18 And he said to them : I beheld Satan like lightning from heaven fallen. 19 Behold. I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall in any way hurt you. 20 Yet in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subjected to you; but rejoice that your names are written in the heavens. 21 In that hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said : I give thee thanks. Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, because thou hast con cealed these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to babes : yes, Father, for so it seemed good in thy sight. 22 And turning to the disciples, he said: All things have been delivered to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is but the Father, and who the Father is but the Son, and he to whomever the Son will reveal him. 23 And turning to the dis- ciples he said privately: Blessed are the eyes that see what you see. 24 For I say to you that many prophets and kings desired to see what you see, and did not see, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear. 25 And behold, a lawyer stood up tempting him, saying: Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? 26 And he said to him: What is written in the law? How readest thou? 21 And he answered and said : Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole strength, and with thy whole mind, and thy neighbor as thyself. 28 And he said to him: Thou hast rightly answered : do this, and thou shalt live. 29 But he, willing to justify himself, said to Jesus: And who is my neighbor? 30 Jesus replying said : A man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among robbers, who stripped him and wounded him, and went away, leaving him half dead. 31 And by chance a priest went down on that road, and seeing him, passed by on the other side. 32 And in like manner also a Levite. having come to the place, went and looked on and passed by on the other side. liZ But a Samaritan on a journey came op- posite to him. and seeing him, was moved with pity; 34 and going to him, he bound up his wounds, pour- 92 ACCORDING TO LUKE ing on oil and wine ; and setting him on his own beast, took him to an inn and took care of him. 35 And on the morrow, taking out two denarii, he gave them to the inn- keeper and said: Take care of him, and whatever thou spendest more, I on my return will repay thee. 36 Which of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbor to him that fell among the robbers? Zl He replied: He that showed mercy to him. And Jesus said to him : Go, and do thou in like manner. 38 And it came to pass as they journeyed that he went into a cer- tain village ; and a certain w^oman named Martha received him into her house. 39 And she had a sister called Mary, who also sat at the feet of the Lord and heard his word. 40 But Martha was per- plexed about much service ; and she stood by him and said : Lord, carest thou not that my sister has left me to serve alone? Bid her therefore that she help me. 41 But the Lord answered and said to her: Martha, Martha, thou art anxious and trou- bled about many things ; 42 of one however there is need ; for Mary has chosen the good part, which shall not be taken away from her. 11 1 And it came to pass as •*- he was in a certain place praying, when he had ceased, some one of his disciples said to him : Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples. 2 And he said to them: Whenever you pray, say: Father, thy name be hallowed: thy kingdom come : 3 give us day by day our needful bread : 4 and for- give us our sins, for we also forgive every one indebted to us; and lead us not into temptation. 5 And he said to them : Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go to him at midnight and say to him: Friend, lend me three loaves, 6 because a friend of mine has come from a journey to me, and I have not what I may set before him. 7 And he from within shall answer and say: Trouble me not; the door is now closed, and my children with me are in bed : I cannot rise to give thee. 8 I say to you. though he will not give him. having risen because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needs. 9 And I say to you : Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find ; knock, and it shall be opened to you. 10 For every one that asks receives, and he that seeks finds, and to him that knocks it shall be opened. 11 But should a son ask bread of any one of you that is a father, would he give him a stone? or also a fish, would he for a fish give him a serpent? 12 or should he also ask an ^^%, would he give him a scorpion? 13 If there- fore you being evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father who is from heaven give the Holy Spirit to those that ask him. 14 And he was casting out a demon, and it was dumb ; but it came to pass when the demon had gone out the dumb man spoke. And the multitudes w^ondered ; 15 but some of them said : By Beelzebub, the prince of the demons, he casts out the demons. 16 And others tempting sought of him a sign from heaven. 17 But he knowing their thoughts said to them : Every king- dom divided against itself is made THE NEW TESTAMENT desolate, and house falls against house. 18 And if Satan also has been divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? for you say, that 1 cast out the demons by Beelzebub. 19 But if 1 cast out the demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your sons cast them out? There- fore they shall be your judges. 20 But if I by the finger of God cast out the demons, then has the king- dom of God already come upon you. 21 When the strong man armed keeps guard over his palace, his goods are in peace. 22 But when a stronger than he comes upon him and overcomes him, he takes away all his armor in which he has trust- ed, and distributes his spoils. 23 He that is not with me is against me. and he that gathers not with me scatters. 24 When the unclean spirit has gone out of the man, he goes through dry places seeking rest, and finding none, he says : I will return to my house whence T came. 25 And he comes and finds it swept and set in order. 26 Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and entering in, they dwell there; and the last state of that man be- comes worse than the first. 27 And it came to pass as he said these things, a woman from the multitude lifted up her voice and said to him : Blessed is the womb that bore thee, and the breasts that thou didst suck. 28 But he said: Yes rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God and keep it. 29 And while the multitudes crowded together, he began to say : This generation is an evil genera- tion : it seeks a sign, and no sign shall be given to it but the sign of Jonah. 30 For as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so shall the Son of man also be to this gen- eration. 31 The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation and con- demn them ; for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon ; and behold, something greater than Solomon is here. 32 The men of Nineveh shall stand up in the judgment with this genera- tion and condemn it ; for they re- pented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here. 33 No one after lighting a lamp puts it in a secret place, nor under the measure, but upon the lamp-stand, that those who come in may see the light. 34 The lamp of the body is thy eye. When thy eye is simple, thy whole body also is full of light; but whenever it is evil, thy body also is full of darkness. 35 Take heed therefore lest the light that is in thee is dark- ness. 36 If thus thy whole body is full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the lamp by its brightness gives thee light. 37 But while he spoke, a Pharisee asked him to dine with him ; and he went in and reclined at ta1)le. 38 And the Pharisee seeing it won- dered that he had not first immersed himself before dinner. 39 But the Lord said to him : Now, you Phar- isees make clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but your inward part is full of extortion and wicked- ness. 40 Senseless men, did not he that made the outside make the in- side also? 41 But give the contents as charity, and behold, all things are 94 ACCORDING TO LUKE clean to you. 42 But alas for you Pharisees, for you pay tithes of mint and rue and every herb, and pass by the judgment and the love of God : these ought you to have done and not leave those undone. 43 Alas for you Pharisees, for you love the chief seat in the synagogues and salutations in the markets. 44 Alas for you, for you are as graves that appear not, and the men that walk over them know it not. 45 And some one of the lawyers an- swering said to him : Teacher, say- ing these things, thou reproachest us also. 46 He replied : Alas for you lawyers also, for you burden men with burdens hard to be borne, and yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers. 47 Alas for you, for you build the sepul- chers of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. 48 Therefore you are witnesses and you consent to the deeds of your fathers, for they indeed killed them, but you build. 49 Wherefore also the wis- dom of God said : I will send to them prophets and apostles, and of them they will kill and persecute, 50 that the blood of all the prophets, which has been shed from the foun- dation of the world, may be re- quired of this generation ; 51 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the house : yes, I say to you, it shall be required of this generation. 52 Alas for you law- yers, for you have taken away the key of knowledge : you went not in yourselves, and those that were entering you hindered. 53 And when he had gone out thence the scribes and the Pharisees began to be very angry, and to press him to speak of many things, 54 lying in wait to catch something from his mouth. 1 '^ 1 In the meantime, when LLt myriads of the multitude had come together, so that they trod one upon another, he began to say to his disciples first : Beware you of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. 2 But nothing is concealed which shall not be re- vealed, and hid which shall not be made known. 3 Wherefore, what- ever things you have said in dark- ness, shall be heard in the light, and what you have spoken in the ear in closets, shall be proclaimed on the housetops. 4 But I say to you, my friends, be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after this have no more that they can do. 5 But I will show you whom you shall fear: Fear him who after he has killed has authority to cast into hell. Yes, I say to you, fear him. 6 Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings? And yet not one of them is forgotten before God. 7 But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not : you are of more value than many spar- rows. 8 But I say to you : Who- ever confesses me before men, him also shall the Son of man confess before the angels of God ; 9 but he that denies me before men shall be denied before the angels of God. 10 And every one that shall speak a word against the Son of man, _ it shall be forgiven him ; but to him that blasphemes against the Holy Spirit it shall not be forgiven. 11 But when they bring you before synagogues, and rulers, and authori- ties, be not anxious how or what you shall answer in defense or 95 THE New testament what you shall say; 12 for the Holy Spirit shall teach you in the same hour what things you ought to say. 13 But some one from the multi- tude said to him : Teacher, speak to my brother that he divide with me the inheritance. 14 But he said to him : Man, who appointed me a judge or a divider over you? 15 And he said to them : Take heed and beware of all covetousness, for no one has his life in the abundance of the things which he possesses. 16 And he spoke a parable to them, saying: The ground of a certain rich man brought forth abundantly. 17 And he reasoned within himself, saying : What shall I do, for I have not where I shall gather in my fruits? 18 And he said: This will I do ; I will pull down my barns and build greater, and there will I gather in all my produce and my good things ; 19 and I will say to my soul : Soul, thou hast many good things laid up for many years : rest, eat, drink, be merry. 20 But God said to him : Senseless man, this night shall they require thy soul of thee; but the things that thou hast prepared, whose shall they be? 21 So is he that lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God. 22 And he said to his disciples : Therefore, I say to you, be not anxious for your life what you shall eat, neither for your body what you shall put on. 23 Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the clothing? 24 Con- sider the ravens, that they neither sow nor reap, which have neither storehouse nor granary, and yet God feeds them : how much better you are than the birds. 25 But which of you by being anxious can add to his age one cubit? 26 If then you can do not even the least, why are you anxious about the rest? 71 Consider the lilies, how they neither spin nor weave ; yet I say to you, not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed like one of these. 28 And if God so clothes the grass that to-day is in the field, and to- morrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, you of little faith. 29 And you. seek not what you shall eat and what 5'^ou shall drink, and be not of doubtful mind; 30 for all these things the nations of the world seek after; but your Father knows that you need these. 31 But seek his kingdom, and these things shall be given you in addition. Zl Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. ZZ Sell your posses- sions and give charity: make for yourselves purses that grow not old, a treasury unfailing in the heavens, where no thief comes near, neither moth corrupts. 34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. ZS Let your loins be girded and your lamps burning; 36 and be you like men awaiting their lord, when he shall return from the mar- riage, that when he comes and knocks they may immediately open to him. 37 Blessed are those ser- vants, whom the lord when he comes shall find watching: verily 1 say to you that he will gird him- self and make them recline at table, and coming forth he will serve them. 38 And if in the second, and if in the third watch, he shall come and find them so, blessed are they. 96 ACCORDING TO LUKE 39 But know this, that if the master of the house had known at what hour the thief would come, he would not have permitted his house to be broken through. 40 And you, be ready, for at an hour at which you think not the Son of man comes. 41 But Peter said to him : Lord, to us dost thou speak this parable, or also to all? 42 And the Lord said: Who then is the faithful stew- ard, the prudent, whom the lord shall appoint over his company of servants to give the measure of food in season ? 43 Blessed is that ser- vant, whom his lord on coming shall find so doing. 44 Truly I say to you that he will set him over all his goods. 45 But if that servant shall say in his heart : My lord delays to come, and shall begin to smite the menservants and the maidservants, to eat also and to drmk and to be drunken : 46 the lord of that servant will come in a day that he looks not for. and at an hour that he knows not. and will cut him asunder, and appoint his portion with the unfaithful. 47 But that servant that knew his lord's will, and did not prepare or do ac- cording to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes; 48 but he that knew not, and did things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few. And every one to whom much has been given, of him much shall be re- quired, and to whom much has been committed, of him will they ask the more. 49 A fire came I to throw upon the earth, and what would I if it were already kindled? 50 A bapti'^m have T to be baptized with, and how am T in pain till it be ac- complished. 51 Think you that I came to give peace on earth? I tell you no, but rather division. 52 For there shall be, from this time, five in one house divided; three against two and two against three 53 shall they be divided, father against son and son against father; mother against daughter and daughter against mother; mother-in-law against daughter-in- law, and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law. 54 And he said also to the multi- tudes : When you see a cloud rising in the west, immediately you say that a shower is coming, and so it comes to pass ; 55 and when you see the south wind blowing, you say that there will be heat, and it comes to pass. 56 Hypocrites, you know how to judge of the face of the earth and of the heaven, but how do you not judge of this time? 57 And why also do you not of your- selves judge that which is right? 58 For as thou goest with thy oppo- nent-at-law to the ruler, on the way endeavor to be delivered from him, lest perhaps he drag thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the collector, and the collector throw thee into prison. 59 I tell thee, thou shalt not come out thence till thou shalt have paid even the last farthing. 1 '2 1 And there were pres- ^*^ ent at that time some that told him of the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. 2 And he answered and said to them : Think you that these Galileans had become sinners above all the Galileans, because they suf- fered such things? 3 I tell you no: but unless you repent, you shall all in like manner perish. 4 Or those 97 THE NEW TESTAMENT eighteen, on whom fell the tower in Siloam and killed them, think you that they had become debtors above all the men that dwell in Jerusalem? 5 I tell you no ; but unless you re- pent, you shall all in like manner perish. 6 And he spoke this parable: A certain man had a fig-tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it, and found none. 7 And he said to the vinedresser : Behold, for three years I come seeking fruit on this fig-tree and find none : cut it down; why also spoils it the ground? 8 But he answered and said to him : Sir, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it and throw in manure; 9 and if afterward it produce fruit : — but if not. thou shalt cut it down. 10 And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. 11 And behold, a woman that had had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years; and she was bowed together and was not able to lift herself up at all. 12 And seeing her, Jesus called to her and said to her : Woman, thou art loosed from thy infirmity; 13 and he laid his hands on her ; and she immediately stood erect, and glorified God. 14 But the ruler of the synagogue answered, being angry because Jesus had cured on the" sabbath, and said to the multi- tude : There are six days in which work ought to be done : on them therefore come and be cured, and not on the sabbath day. 15 But the Lord answered him and said: Hypocrites, does not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall and lead him away and give him water? 16 But this woman, who is a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound lo, eighteen years, ought she liot to be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day? 17 And when he had said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed, and all the multitude rejoiced for all the glorious things that had been done by him. 18 He said therefore : To what is the kingdom of God like, and to what shall I liken it? 19 It is like a grain of mustard that a man took and threw into his garden ; and it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the heaven roosted in its branches. 20 And again he said: To what shall I liken the kingdom of God? 21 It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, till the whole was leavened. 22 And he passed through the cities and villages teaching and making the journey to Jerusalem. 23 And some one said to him : Lord, are they few that are saved? But he said to them : 24 Strive to enter in through the strait gate; for many, I say to you, will seek to enter in and shall not be able. 25 From whatever time the master of the house shall have risen up and closed the door, and you shall have begun to stand without and to knock at the door, saying: Lord, open to us. and he shall answer and say to you : I know you not whence you are : 26 then shall you begin to say: We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and in our streets hast thou taught. 27 And he wilt say: T tell you. I know you not whence you are : depart from me. all workers of iniquity. 28 There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you shall see Abraham ACCORDING TO LUKE and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but yourselves cast out. 29 And they shall come from east and west and north and south, and shall recline at table in the kingdom of God. 30 And behold, there are last that shall be first, and there are first that shall be last. 31 At that hour came to him some Pharisees, saying to him : Get out and depart hence, for Herod will kill thee. 32 And he said to them : Go and tell this fox : Behold, I cast out demons and perfect cures to-day and to-morrow, and on the third day I make an end. 33 But I must journey to-day and to-morrow and the day following; for it is not possil)le that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem. 34 Jerusalem, Jeru- salem, that killest the prophets and stonest them that are sent to thee, how often have I desired to gather thy children together as a hen her young under her wings, and you refused. 35 Behold, your house is left to you. I say to you that you shall not see me till the time come when you shall say : Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord. 1 A. 1 And it came to pass that -^ ■ he entered on a sabbath into the house of some one of the chief men of the Pharisees to eat bread, and they were watching him. 2 And behold, there was before him a man that had the dropsy. 3 And Jesus answered and spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying: Ts it lawful to cure on the sabbath, or not? But they were silent. 4 And he took him and restored him to health and let him go. 5 And answering, he said to them : Shall a son or ox of any one of you fall into a pit. and will he not imme- diately draw him out on the sab- bath day? 6 And they were not able to answer him to these things. 7 But when he observed how they chose out the chief places, he spoke a parable to those that were called, saying to them : 8 When thou art called by any one to a marriage, do not recline on the chief place, lest a more honorable than thou may have been called by him. 9 and he that called thee and him shall come and say to thee: Give this man place, and then thou begin with shame to occupy the last place. 10 But when thou art called, go and recline on the last place; that when he that called thee come, he shall say to thee : Friend, go up higher : then shalt thou have honor in the presence of those that recline with thee. 11 For every one that exalts himself shall be humbled, and he that humbles himself shall be exalted. 12 And he said also to him that had called him : When thou wouldst make a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brothers, nor thy relatives, nor rich neighbors, lest they also call thee in turn, and a recompense be made thee. 13 But when thou wouldst make a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind, 14 and thou shalt be blessed ; for they cannot recom- pense thee; but thou shalt have recompense in the resurrection of the just. 15 And some one of those that reclined with him. hearing these things, said to him : Blessed is he that eats bread in the kingdom of God. 16 But he said to him : A cer- tain man made a great supper and THE NEW TESTAMENT called many; 17 and sent his ser- vant at the hour of supper to say to those that had been called : Come, for it is now prepared. 18 And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said to him : I have bought a field, and I must needs go and see it : I pray thee, have me excused. 19 And another said: I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to prove them : 1 pray thee, have me excused. 20 And another said : I have married a wife and therefore I cannot come. 21 And the servant came back and reported these things to his lord. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant : Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and the poor and maimed and blind and lame bring in hither. 22 And the servant said : Lord, what thou didst command has been done, and yet there is room. 23 And the lord said to the servant : Go out into the roads and hedges and compel them to come in, that my house may be full ; 24 for I say to you that not one of those men that have been called shall taste of my supper. 25 And many multitudes jour- neyed with him ; and he turned and said to them: 26 If any one comes to me and hates not his father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and even his own life also, he cannot be my dis- ciple. 27 Whoever does not bear his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. 28 For what one of you intending to build a tower sits not down first and counts the cost, if he has enough to finish it? 29 lest perhaps, after he has laid the foundation and is not able to finish, all that see begin to deride him, 30 saying: This man began to build and was not able to finish. 31 Or what king going to engage in battle with another king, will not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him that comes against him with twenty thousand? 32 But if not, while he is yet far off, he sends an embassy and asks conditions of peace. 23 So then, no one of you that forsakes not all that he has can be my disciple. 34 Salt then is good; but if the salt become taste- less, by what means shall it be seasoned? 35 It is fit neither for earth nor for manure : they cast it out. He that has ears, let him hear. 1 C 1 And all the publicans and J- ^ the sinners were drawing near to him to hear him. 2 And both the Pharisees and the scribes mur- mured, saying: This man receives sinners and eats with them. 3 But he spoke to them this parable, saying : 4 What man of you, that has a hundred sheep, and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety- nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, till he find it? 5 And when he finds it. he lays it on his shoulder rejoicing ; 6 and having come home, he calls together the friends ?nd the neigbors, saying to them: Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost. 7 I say to you that so there shall be joy in heaven over one sinner that repents, more than over ninety- nine righteous who have no need of repentance. 8 Or what woman hav- ing ten drachmas, if she lose one drachma, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek carefully 100 ACCORDING TO LUKE till she find it? 9 And when she has found it, she calls together the friends and neighbors, saying: Re- joice with me, for I have found the drachma that I lost. 10 So, I say- to you, there arises joy in the pres- ence of the angels of God over one sinner that repents. 11 And. he said: A certain man had two sons. 12 And the younger of them said to the father : Father, give me the part of the estate that falls to me. And he divided to them the living. 13 And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together and w^ent from home into a distant country, and there w^asted his estate by riotous living. 14 But when he had spent all, there arose a great famine throughout that land, 'and he began to be in want. 15 And he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine ; 16 and he desired to fill his belly with the pods that the swine did eat ; and no one gave to him. 17 But having come to himself, he said: How many hired servants of my father have bread enough and to spare ; but I am perishing here with hun- ger. 18 I will arise and go to my father and say to him : Father, I have sinned against heaven and in thy sight ; 19 no longer am I worthy to be called thy son : make me as one of thy hired servants. 20 And he arose and came to his father. And while he was yet a great way off, his father saw him and had pity on him ; and running, he fell upon his neck and kissed him. 21 And the son said to him : Father, I have sinned against heaven ^n4 in thy sight : no longer am I JOX worthy to be called thy son. 22 But the father said to his servants : Bring forth the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and sandals on his feet; 23 and bring the fatted calf, kill, and let us eat and be merry; 24 for this, my son, w^as dead and lives again, was lost and is found. And they began to be merry. 25 But his older son was in the field ; and when he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing ; 26 and calling to him one of the servants, he inquired what these things meant. 27 And he said to him : Thy brother has come, and thy father has killed the fatted calf, because he has received him in health. 28 But he .was angry, and would not go in ; and his father came out and entreated him. 29 But he answered and said to the father : Behold, so many years do I serve thee, and at no time have I transgressed thy commandment ; and yet to me thou hast at no time given a kid that I might make merry with my friends ; 30 but when thy son, this that has eaten up thy living with harlots, came, thou didst kill for him the fatted calf. 31 But he said to him: Son. thou art always with me. and all mine is thine ; 32 but to make merry and to be glad was needful, for this_ thy brother was dead and lives again ; was lost and is found. 1 /C 1 And he said also to the A ^ disciples : There was a cer- tain rich man who had a steward, and he was accused to him of wast- ing his goods. 2 And he called him and said to him : What is this that I hear of thee? Give an ac- count of thy stewardship; for thou THE NEW TESTAMENT canst no longer act as steward. 3 And the steward said within him- self : What shall I do? for my lord takes from me the stewardship. To dig I am not able, to beg I am ashamed. 4 I have found what I shall do, that when I am put out of the stewardship they may receive me into their houses. 5 And calling to him each one of his lord's debtors, he said to the first : How much owest thou my lord? 6 He said: A hundred baths of oil. And he said to him : Take back thy note, and sit down quickly and write fifty. 7 Then he said to another: And how much owest thou ? And he said : A hundred homers of wheat. He says to him : Take l)ack thy note, and write eighty. 8 And the lord commended the unjust steward, l)ecause he had acted pru- dently; for the children of this age are, in reference to their gen- eration, wiser than the children of light. 9 And I say to you : Make to yourselves friends of * the mam- mon t of unrighteousness, that when it fails they may receive you into the eternal habitations. 10 He that is faithful in very little is faithful also in much, and he that is unjust in very little is unjust also in much. 11 If then you have not been faith- ful in the unrighteous mammon, who will intrust to you the true riches? 12 And if you have not been faithful in that which is an- other's, who will give to you that which is your own ? 13 No servant can serve two masters ; for either he will hate the one and love the other: or he will hold to the one * Make to yourselves friends by means of the mammon, f Riches leading men to unrighteousness, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. 14 And the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these things, and scoffed at him. 15 And he said to them: You are they that justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts ; for that which is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight of God. 16 The law and the proph- ets preaclicd till John ; from that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every one enters it by force. 17 But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one point of the law to fall. 18 Every one that puts away his wife and marries another commits adul- tery, and he that marries her that is put away from a husband commits adultery. 19 But there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, feasting splendidly every day. 20 And a certain poor man named Lazarus had been laid at his gate, full of sores. 21 and desir- ing to be fed with that which fell from the rich man's table : more- over, even the dogs came and licked his sores. 22 But it came to pass that the poor man died and was carried by angels to Abraham's bosom ; and the rich man also died and was buried. 23 And in hades he lifted up his eyes, being in tor- ments, and saw Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his bosom. 24 And he cried and said : Father A])raham, have mercy on me. and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame. 25 But Abraham said : Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy 102 ACCORDING TO LUKE good things, and Lazarus likewise evil things ; but now here he is comforted and thou art tormented, 26 And in all these regions between us and you a great chasm is fixed, so' that they that would pass hence to you cannot, neither can they pass thence to us. 27 And he said: I pray thee then, father, that thou wouldst send him to my father's house ; 28 for I have five brothers : that he may earnestly testify to them, lest they themselves also come to this place of torment. 29 But Abraham said to him : They have Moses and the prophets : let them hear them. 30 And he said : No, father Abraham ; but if one from the dead should go to them, they will repent. 31 But he said to him : If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be per- suaded though one should rise from the dead. 1 '7 1 And he said to his dis- •*- ' ciples : It is impossible that offenses come not ; but alas for him through whom they come : 2 it were better for him that an upper millstone were hung about his neck and he thrown into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. 3 Take heed to yourselves. If thy brother sin, rebuke him ; and if he repent, for- give him. 4 And if he sin against thee seven times in a day, and seven times turn to thee, saying: I repent, thou shalt forgive him. 5 And the apostles said to the Lord: Increase our faith. 6 But ihe Lord said : If you have faith as a grain of mustard, you might say to this sycamine tree : Be uprooted and be planted in the sea, and it would obey you. 7 But which of you having a servant plowing or feeding a flock, will say to him when he comes from the field: Come imme- diately and recline at table? 8 But will he not say to him : Make ready my supper, and gird thyself and serve me till I eat and drink, and after this thou shalt eat and drink? 9 Does he thank the servant be- cause he did the things that were commanded? 10 So also you, when you shall have done all things that are commanded you, say that we are unprofitable servants ; we have done what we ought to have done. 11 And it came to pass as he journeyed to Jerusalem, he also went through the midst of Samaria and Galilee. 12 And as he entered a certain village there met him ten leprous men, who stood afar off; 13 and they lifted up their voices, saying: Jesus, Master, have mercy on us. 14 And seeing, he said to them : Go, show yourselves to the priests. And it came to pass as they went they were cleansed. 15 And one of them, seeing that he was healed, returned, with a loud voice glorifying God; 16 and fell on his face at his feet, giving him thanks; and he was a Samaritan. 17 But Jesus ansv/ered and said : Were not the ten cleansed? Where are the nine? 18 Were there not found returning to give glory to God but this one of another race? 19 And he said to him : Arise and go : thy faith has saved thee. 20 And having been asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, he answered them and said : The kingdom of God comes not with observation ; 21 neither shall they say: Lo, here or there; 103 THE NEW TESTAMENT for behold, the kingdom of God is among you. 22 But hei said to his disciples: Days will come when you shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and shall not see it. 23 And they shall say to you: Lo here, lo there : go not after them nor follow them. 24 For as the lightning flashing out from one place under heaven shines to the other place under heaven, so shall the Son of man be in his day. 25 But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected by this generation, 26 And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. 27 They were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were giv- ing in marriage, till the day on which Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed all. 28 Likewise as it was in the days of Lot : they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they w-ere planting, they were building ; 29 but on the day in w^hich Lot went out of Sodom, there rained fire and brim- stone from heaven and destroyed all. 30 So shall it be in the day in which the Son of man is revealed. 31 Tn that day he that shall be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not come down to take them away: and he that is in the field let him likewise not turn back. 32 Remember Lot's wife. 33 Whoever shall seek to gain his life shall lose it ; and whoever shall lose it shall save it alive. 34 T say to you, on that night there shall be two men in one bed : one shall be taken and the other left : 35 there shall be two women grinding to- gether : the one shall be taken, but the other left. 37 And they answer and say to him : Where, Lord ? And he said to them : Where the body is, there also will the eagles be gathered together. I O 1 And he spoke a parable •«- O to them to this end, that they ought always to pray and not grow weary, 2 saying: There was in a city a judge that feared not God, and regarded not man. 3 And there was a widow in that city, and she came to him, saying: Avenge me, on my opponent-at-law. 4 And he would not for a time; but afterward he said within him- self: Though I fear not God. neither regard man. 5 yet, because this widow gives me trouble, I will avenge her, lest coming continually she weary me. 6 And the Lord said: Hear what the unjust judge says ; 7 and will not God avenge his elect w-ho cry to him day and night, and does he bear long towards them? 8 I say to you that he will avenge them speedily. Neverthe- less will the Son of man. when he comes, find the faith on the earth? 9 And he spoke also this parable to some that trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and de- spised others : 10 Two men went up into the temple to pray, the one a Pharisee and the other a publican. II The Pharisee stood and prayed thus : God. I thank thee that T am not as the rest of men, extortioners, uniust. adulterers, or even as this publican. 12 T fast twice in the week, I pay tithes of all that I pos- sess. 13 But the publican, standing far off. would not lift even his eves to heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying: God, be rnerciful tQ 104 ACCORDING TO LUKE me the sinner. 14 I say to you, this man went down to his house justified rather indeed than the other ; for every one that exalts himself shall be humbled, but he that humbles himself shall be exalted. 15 And they brought to him also their infants that he might touch them ; but the disciples, seeing, re- buked them. 16 But Jesus called them to him, saying: Let the little children come to me and forbid them not ; for to such belongs the kingdom of God. 17 Verily I say to you. whoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, shall not enter into it. 18 And a ruler asked him, saying: Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? 19 And Jesus said to him : Why callest thou me good? None is good but one, God. 20 Thou knowest the command- ments : Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false testimony. Honor thy father and thy mother. 21 And he said : All these have I kept from youth. 22 But Jesus, hearing, said to him : Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in the heavens, and come follow me. 23 But hearing these things, he be- came very sad ; for he was very rich. 24 But seeing him, Jesus said : How hardly do they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God : 25 for it is easier for a camel to go in through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. 26 And they that heard said : Who then can be saved? 27 But he said: Things impossible with men are possible with God. 28 And Peter said: Be- hold, we have left our own and followed thee. 29 And he said to them : Verily I say to you, there is no one that has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children for the sake of the kingdom of God, 30 who shall not receive many times more in this time, and in the age to come, eternal life. 31 And taking the twelve aside, he said to them : Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the proph- ets in reference to the Son of man shall be accomplished; Zl for he shall be delivered to the Gentiles, and shall be derided and outraged and spit upon : ZZ and they shall scourge and kill him, and the third day he shall rise. 34 And they understood none of these things ; and this saying was concealed from them ; and they knew not the things that were spoken. 35 And it came to pass as he drew near to Jericho, a blind man sat by the road begging. 36 And hearing the multitude pass by, he inquired what this meant. Zl And they told him that Jesus the Xaza- rene was passing by. 38 And he cried out, saying : Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me. 39 But those that went before rebuked him that he should be silent : but much m.ore did he cry: Son of David, have mercy on me. 40 But Jesus stood and commanded him to be brought to him. And when he had come near he asked him : 41 What wilt thou that I shall do for thee? And he said : Lord, that I may re- ceive sight. 42 And Jesus said to him : Receive sight : thy faith has 105 THE NEW TESTAMENT saved thee. 43 And he immediately received sight, and followed him, glorifying God. And all the people, seeing it, gave praise to God. 1 Q 1 And he entered and A y passed through Jericho. 2 And behold, a man named Zacchaeus, and he was chief publican, and was rich ; 3 and he sought to see Jesus, who he was, and could not from the multitude, for in stature he was small. 4 And running before, he went up into a syca- more, that he might see him, for he was about to pass that way. 5 And when he came to the place, Jesus looked up and said to him : Zacchaeus, make haste and come down ; for I must abide to-day at thy house. 6 And he hastened and came down, and received him joy- fully. 7 And seeing it, they all murmured, saying : He has gone in to be guest with a sinful man. 8 And Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord : Behold, the half of my goods. Lord, I give to the poor; and if from any one I have taken any thing by false accusation, I repay fourfold. 9 And Jesus said to him : This day has salvation come to this house, inasmuch as he also is a son of Abraham; 10 for the Son of man has come to seek and save the lost. 11 And as they heard these things he also spoke a parable, because he was near Jerusalem and they thought that the kingdom of God would immediately appear. 12 He said, therefore : A nobleman went into a distant country, to receive for himself a kingdom, and return. 13 And he called his ten servants and gave to them ten pounds, and said to them ; Engage in trade till I come. 14 But his citizens hated him, and sent an embassy after him, saying : We are not willing that this man shall reign over us. 15 And it came to pass when he had returned, having received the kingdom, he also ordered that those servants to whom he had given the money should be called to him, that he might know what each had gained by trading. 16 And the first came to him, saying : Lord, thy pound has gained ten pounds. 17 And he said to him : Well done, good ser- vant; because thou hast been faith- ful in very little, have authority over ten cities. 18 And the second came, saying: Thy pound, lord, has made five pounds. 19 And he said also to him : Be thou also over five cities. 20 And the other came, say- ing : Lord, behold thy pound, which I have had laid away in a napkin ; 21 for I feared thee, because thou art a hard man : thou takest up what thou didst not deposit, and reapest what thou didst not sow. 22 He says to him : Out of thy own mouth will I judge thee, wicked servant. Thou knowest that I am a hard man, taking up what I did not deposit, and reaping what I did not sow. 23 And why gavest thou not my money to the bank? and I on coming could have collected my own with interest. 24 And he said to those that stood by : Take from him the pound and give to him that has the ten pounds. 25 And they said to him : Lord, he has ten pounds. 26 I say to you : To every one that has shall be given, but from him that has not, even that which he has shall be taken away. 27 But these my enemies, that were not willing that I should reign over i06 ACCORDING TO LUKE them, bring hither and slay them before me. 28 And having said these things, he went before, going up to Jeru- salem. 29 And it came to pass when he came near to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount of Olives, he sent two of the disciples, 30 saying : Go into the village oppo- site, in which, on entering, you shall find a colt tied, on which no one of men ever sat : loose and bring him. 31 And if any one ask you : Why loose him? say thus; that the Lord has need of him. 32 And those that were sent went and found as he had said to them. 33 And as they were loosing the colt, its owners said to them : Why loose the colt? 34 and they said: Because the Lord has need of him. 35 And they brought him to Jesus, and having thrown their mantles upon the colt, they set Jesus upon him. 36 And as he went they spread their mantles in the road. 2)7 But as he was drawing near now to the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began joyfully to praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty deeds which they had seen, 38 say- ing: Blessed be the King in the name of the Lord : in heaven peace, and glory in the highest. 39 And some of the Pharisees from the multitude said to him : Teacher, re- buke thy disciples. 40 And he an- swered and said : I say to you, that if these should be silent, the stones would cry out. 41 And when he drew near, be- holding the city, he wept over it, 42 saying: If thou hadst known, even thou, even in this thy day. the things for thy peace ; but now they are hid from thy eyes. 43 For days will come upon thee, and thy enemies shall cast up a mound about thee; and encircle thee round about, and shut thee up on every side ; 44 and level thee with the ground and thy children within thee; and will not leave within thee a stone upon a stone, because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation. 45 And entering into the temple he began to cast out those that sold, 46 saying to them : It is written : And my house shall be called a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of robbers. 47 And he was teaching daily in the temple ; and the chief priests and the scribes and the chief men of the people sought to destroy him. 48 and found not what they could do; for all the people hung listening upon him. ^A 1 And it came to pass on ^" one of the days, as he was teaching the people in the temple, and preaching the gospel, the priests and the scribes, with the elders, came upon him, 2 and spoke, saying to him: Tell us, by what authority doest thou these things, or who is he that gave thee this authority? 3 But he answered and said to them: I also will ask you a word, and tell me : 4 The baptism of John, of heaven was it, or of men? 5 And they reasoned among themselves, saying: If we say: Of heaven, he will reply: Why did you not believe him? 6 But if we say: Of men, all the people will stone us : for they are persuaded that John was a prophet. 7 And they answered that they knew not whence. 8 And Jesus said to them : Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things, 107 THE NEW TESTAMENT 9 And he began to speak to the people this parable. A man planted a vineyard and let it out to vine- dressers, and went abroad for a long time. 10 And at the season he sent to the vinedressers a servant, that they might give him of the fruit of the vineyard; but the vinedressers scourged him and sent him forth empty. 11 And he also sent another servant ; but they scourged that one also, and having dishonored him, sent him forth empty. 12 And he also sent a third ; but they wounded this one also and cast him out. 13 And the lord of the vineyard said: What shall I do? I will send my beloved son : perhaps they will reverence him. 14 But seeing him, the vinedressers reasoned one with another, saying: This is the heir: let us kill him, that the inheritance may become ours. 15 And they cast him out of the vineyard and killed him. What then will the lord of the vineyard do to them? 16 He will come and destroy these vinedressers, and give the vineyard to others. And hearing, they said : May it not be. 17 But he looked on them and said : What then is this that is written? A stone that the builders rejected, this became the head of the corner. 18 Every one that falls on that stone shall be broken ; but on whomever it shall fall, it will grind him to dust.^ 19 And the scribes and the chief priests sought to lay their hands on him at the same hour, and were afraid of the people ; for they knew that against them he had spoken this parable. 20 And watching closely, they sent spies that feigned themselves to be just, that they might lay hold on a aoa word of his, so that they could deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor. 21 And they asked him, saying : Teacher, we know that thou speakest and teach- est rightly, and acceptest not a per- son, but teachest the way of God in truth: 22 is it lawful for us to give tribute to Cresar or not? 23 But perceiving their craftiness, he said to them : 24 Show me a denarius. Wliosc image and superscription has it ? They said : Caesar's. 25 And he said to them : Therefore render to Csesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's. 26 And they were not able to lay hold of his speech in the presence of the people; and being astonished at his answer, they were silent. 27 And some of the Sadducees, who deny. that there is a resurrec- tion, came and asked him a question, 28 saying: Teacher, Moses wrote for us, if any one's brother die hav- ing a wife, and he be without chil- dren, that his brother shall take his wife and raise up offspring for his brother. 29 There were then seven brothers. And the first took a wife and died without children ; 30 and the second 31 and the third took her, and in like manner also the seven left no children and died. 32 At last the woman also died. 33 The woman then in the resurrec- tion, of which of them shall she be the wife? For the seven had her as a wife. 34 And Jesus said to them: The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage, 35 but they that shall be counted worthy to obtain that age and the resurrec- tion from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage : 36 xiQX ACCORDING TO LUKE indeed can they die any more, for they are like the angels, and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection. Zl But that the dead are raised, even Moses has made known at the Bush, since he calls the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob ; 38 and he is not a God of the dead, but of the living; for all live to him. 39 And some of the scribes answered and said : Teacher, thou hast well said. 40 For no one again ventured to ask him another question. 41 But he said to them : How say they that Christ is David's son, 42 for David himself says in the book of Psalms : The Lord said to my Lord: Sit at my right hand 43 till I make thy enemies thy footstool? 44 David then calls him Lord; and how is he his son? 45 But as all the people were hearing, he said to the disciples : 46 Beware of the scribes that de- light to walk about in robes, and love salutations in the markets, and first seats in the synagogues, and first places at suppers : 47 who eat up the houses of widows, and for a pretext make long prayers : these shall receive greater condemnation. "^ 1 1 And looking up, he saw ^ A the rich throwing their gifts into the treasury. 2 And he saw a widow, a needy one, throw in thither two mites, 3 and he said : Truly I say to you that this poor widow has thrown in more than they all ; 4 for all these out of their abundance have thrown in among the gifts, but she out of her poverty has thrown in all the living that she had. 5 And as some were speaking of the temple, that it was adorned with goodly stones and offerings, he said : 6 As to these things that you see, days will come in which there shall not be left a stone upon a stone, that shall not be thrown down. 7 And they asked him, saying: Teacher, when then shall these things be? and what the sign when these things shall be accomplished? 8 And he said : Take heed that you be not deceived ; for many will come in my name, saying: I am he, and the time is at hand: go not after them. 9 But when you hear of wars and tumults, be not alarmed; for these things must take place first, but not immediately the end. 10 Then he said to them : Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: 11 great earthquakes also shall there be, and in places famines and pestilences, fearful sights also shall there be, and great signs from heaven. 12 But before all these they shall lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons, being brought before kings and governors for the sake of my name : 13 it shall turn out to you for testi- mony. 14 Resolve therefore in your hearts that you meditate not before- hand to make a defense; 15 for I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to resist or gainsay. 16 But you shall be delivered up both by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you they shall put to death, 17 and you shall be hated by all because of my name. 18 And yet a hair from your head shall not be lost : 19 in your endur- ance preserve your souls. 20 But when you see Jerusalem encom- 109 THE NEW TESTAMENT passed by armies, then know that the desolation of it is near. 21 Then let those in Judea flee to the moun- tains, and those in the midst of it go out, and those in the country not enter into it; 22 for days of vengeance are these for the fulfill- ing of all things that are written. 23 Alas for them that are with child and them that give suck in those days ; for there shall be great distress on the land and wrath on this people; 24 and they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations, and Jerusalem shall be trod down by Gentiles, till the times of the Gentiles shall have been fulfilled. 25 And there shall be signs in the sun and the moon and the stars, and on earth distress of nations in perplexity at the roaring of the sea and the waves, 26 men failing in heart for fear and expec- tation of things coming on the habitable land ; for the powers of the heavens shall be shaken. 27 And then shall they see the Son of man coming on a cloud with power and great glory. 28 But when these things begin to take place, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near. 29 And he spoke a parable to them : See the fig-tree and all the trees : 30 when they now put forth leaves, seeing it you know of yourselves that summer is now near. 31 So also you. when you see these things coming to pass, know that the kingdom of God is near. 32 Verily T say to you : This generation shall not pass away till all these things shall have been accomplished. 33 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. 34 But take heed to yourselves lest perhaps your hearts become heavy with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and the anxieties of life, and that day come upon you suddenly 3S like a snare; for it shall come upon all that dwell on the face of all the land. 36 But watch at every time^ praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are about to take place, and to stand before the Son of man. 37 And he was teaching in the temple during the day, but he went out and spent the night in the mount of Olives. 38 And all the people came early to him in the temple to hear him. O^ 1 But the feast of unleav- ^^ ened bread, which is called passover, drew near ; 2 and the chief priests and scribes sought how they might destroy him ; for they feared the people. 3 But Satan entered into Judas called Iscariot, who was of the number of the twelve ; 4 and he went away and conferred with the chief priests and captains how he might deliver him up to them. 5 And they were glad, and agreed to give him money; 6 and he consented, and sought an opportunity to deliver him up to them in the absence of the multitudcL 7 And the day of unleavened bread came, on which the passover must be killed ; 8 and he sent Peter and John, saying: Go and prepare for us the passover, that wc may eat 9 And they said to him : \\^here wilt thou that we make ready? 10 And he said to them : Behold, after yon have gone into the city, there_ shall meet you a man carrying a pitcher 110 ACCORDING TO LUKE of water; follow him into the house that he enters; 11 and you shall say to the master of the house : The Teacher says to thee : Where is the guest-chamber where I may eat the passover with my disciples? 12 And he will show you a large upper room furnished : there make ready. 13 And they went and found as he had said to them, and prepared the passover. 14 And when the hour had come, he reclined at table, and the apostles with him. 15 And he said to them : With desire have I desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer ; 16 for I say to you that I will no more cat it till it is ful- filled in the kingdom of God. 17 And having taken a cup and given thanks, he said : Take this and divide it among yourselves ; 18 for I say to you that I will not drink henceforth of the fruit of the vine till the kingdom of God shall have come. 19 And having taken bread and given thanks, he broke and gave to them, saying : This is my body, that is given for you: this do in remembrance of me. 20 And the cup in like manner, after he had supped, saying : This cup is the new covenant in my blood, that is poured out for you. 21 But behold, the hand of him that delivers me up is with me on the table. 22 For indeed the Son of man goes ac- cording to that which is determined, but alas for that man by whom he is delivered up. 23 And they began to inquire among themselves which of them it might be that was about to do this thing. 24 And there had been also a contention among them as to which of them was thought to be greatest. 25 But he said to them : The kings of the nations exercise lordship over them, and they that have authority over them are called benefactors: 26 you however shall not be so, but he that is the greatest among you, let him become as the youngest, and he that leads as he that serves. 27 For which is greater, he that re- clines at table or he that serves? Is not he that reclines at table? But I in the midst of you am as he that serves. 28 But you are they that have continued steadily with me in my trials. 29 And I appoint to you as my Father has appointed to me a kingdom, 30 that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel. 31 Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has greatly desired you that he may sift you as wheat ; 32 but I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not. And thou, when thou hast turned to me, strengthen thy brethren. 33 And he said to him : Lord, with thee I am ready to go both to prison and to death. 34 But he said: I say to thee, Peter, a cock shall not crow this day, till thou shalt have three times denied that thou knowest me. 35 And he said to them : When I sent you forth without purse and bag and sandals, needed you any thing? They said: Nothing. 36 And he said to them : But now, he that has a purse, let him take it; in like manner, also a bag; and he that has no sword, let him sell his gar- ment and buy. 37 For I say to you that this that is written must be fulfilled in me; this: And with the lawless was he numbered ; for that concerning me has an end. 38 And they said: Lord, behold, here are 111 THE NEW TESTAMENT two swords. ^Vnd lie said to them : It is enough. 39 And going out, he went accord- ing to custom to the mount of Olives; and the disciples also fol- lowed him. 40 And when he had come to the place he said to them : Pray that you enter not into tempta- tion. 41 And he withdrew from them about a stone's throw, and kneeling down he prayed, 42 saying : Father, if thou art willing to re- move this cup from me ; yet, not my will, but thine, be done. 43 And there appeared to him an angel from heaven, strengthening him. 44 And being in an agony, he prayed more earnestly. And his sweat became likei great drops of blood falling to the ground. 45 And he arose from prayer, came to the disciples, and found them sleeping because of grief, 46 and said to them : Why sleep? arise and pray, that you may not enter into temptation. 47 While he was yet speaking, behold, a multitude, and he that was called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them, and came near to Jesus to kiss him. 48 And Jesus said to him : Judas, dost thou de- liver up the Son of man with a kiss? 49 But they about him, see- ing what would be, said : Lord, shall we smite with the sword? 50 And some one of them struck the ser- vant of the chief priest and cut off his right ear. 51 But Jesus an- swered and said: Let me alone till this, — and he touched his ear and healed him. 52 And Jesus said to the chief priests and captains of the temple and elders that had come to him : As against a robber you have come forth, with swords and clubs: 53 while I was with you daily in the temple, you stretched not forth your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the authority of darkness. 54 And they took him, and led and brought him into the house of the chief priest; but Peter followed at a distance. 55 And after they had kindled a fire in the midst of the court, and were sitting together, Peter sat in the midst of them. 56 And a maidservant saw him sitting at the fire, and, looking earnestly on him, said: This man also was with him. 57 But he denied him, saying: Woman, I know him not. 58 And after a little another saw him and said: Thou also art of them. But Peter said : Man, I am not. 59 And after an interval of about one hour some other confidently affirmed, say- ing: Of a truth this man also was with him ; for he is a Galilean. 60 But Peter said: Man, I know not what thou sayest. And immediately, while he was yet speaking, a cock crew ; 61 and the Lord turned and looked upon Peter ; and Peter re- meml^ered the word of the Lord, as he had said to him : Before a cock shall have crowed this day, thou shalt deny me three times. 62 And he went out and wept bitterly. 63 And the men that held him derided him, striking him ; 64 and having blindfolded him, they asked, saying: Prophesy: who is he that struck thee? 65 And many other things did they blasphemously say to him. 66 And when it was day, there came together the eldership of the people, chief priests also and scribes, and thev led him away to their Sanhedrim, saying: If thou art the Christ, tell us. 67 And he said to 112 ACCORDING TO LUKE them: If I tell you, you will not believe ; 68 and if I ask, you will not answer. 69 But from this time shall the. Son of man be sitting on the right hand of the power of God. 70 And they all said : Thou art then the Son of God? He said to them : You say it, for I am. 71 And they said : What further need have we of testimony? For we our- selves have heard from his mouth. '^ 'J 1 And the whole number ^ But John also was baptizing in Enon near Salem, be- cause much water was there; and they came and were baptized; 24 for not yet had John been cast into prison. 25 There arose therefore a discussion, on the part of some of the disciples of John, with a Jew, about purification. 26 And they came to John and said to him : Rabbi, he that was with thee be- yond the Jordan, to whom thou hast testified, behold, he baptizes and all come to him 27 John an- swered and said: A man cannot receive any thing unless it be given him from heaven. 28 You your- selves will testify for me that I said: I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him. 29 He that has the bride is the bridegroom ; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, greatly rejoices because of the voice of the bridegroom. This my joy therefore has been fulfilled. 30 He must increase, but I must become less. 31 He that comes from above is over all : he that is of the earth is of the earth and speaks of the earth. He that comes from heaven 2)2 testifies of what he has seen and heard, and his testimony no one re- ceives. ZZ He that has received his testimony has attested that God is true. 34 For he whom God sent speaks the words of God; for not by measure does he give the Spirit. 35 The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand. 36 He that believes on the Son has life eternal; he tb^t believes not 120 ACCORDING TO JOHN the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him. 4 1 When therefore Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was makmg and baptizing more disciples than John. 2 though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples baptized. 3 he left Judea and went away again into Galilee. 4 But he must needs go through Samaria. 5 He comes therefore to a city of Samaria called Sychar. near the place which Jacol) gave to his son Joseph. 6 And Jacob's well was there. Jesus then, hav- ing been wearied with the jour- ney, sat thus on the well : it was about the sixth hour. 7 There comes a woman from Samaria to draw water. Jesus says to her : Give me to drink. 8 For his disciples had gone away into the city, to buy food. 9 The woman, who was a Samaritan, says to him : How dost thou, being a Jew, ask drink of me, who am a woman of Samaria? 10 Jesus answered and said to her: Tf thou hadst known the gift of God, and who he is that says to thee : Give me to drink, thou wouldst have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. 11 The woman says to him : Sir. thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: whence hast thou the living water? 12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself and his sons and his cattle? 13 Jesus answered and said to her: Every one that drinks of this water shall thirst again ; 14 but whoever shall drink of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst, but the water that I shall give him shall become in him a fountain of water spring- 121 ing up to life eternal. 15 The woman says to him : Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not. neither come hither to draw. 16 He says to her : Go, call thy husband and come hither. 17 The woman an- swered and said : I have no hus- band. Jesus says to her : Well hast thou said: I have no husband; 18 for thou hast had five husbands, and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband. This thou hast spoken truly. 19 The woman says to him : Sir. I perceive that thou art a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain ; and you say that in Jerusalem is the place where we ought to worship. 21 Jesus says to her: Believe me, woman, that the hour comes when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall you worship the Father. 21 You worship you know not what ; we worship what we know, for salva- tion is of the Jews ; 2Z but the hour comes and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Fa- ther in spirit and in truth : for the Father seeks such to worship him. 24 God is spirit : and they that wor- ship must worship in spirit and truth. 25 The woman says to him : I know that IVTessiah comes, who is called Christ: when he has come, he will tell us all things. Id Jesus says to her : I that speak to thee am he. 21 And on this came his disciples, and wondered that he talked with the woman : no one. however, said : What seekest thou or why talkest thou with her? 28 The woman therefore left her water-pot and went away into the city, and said to the men : 29 Come, see a man that has told me all things that I have done; is this the THE NEW TESTAMENT Christ? 30 They went forth from the city and came to him. 31 In the meantime his disciples besought him, saying : Rabbi, eat. Til But he said to them : I have food to eat that you know not of. Z2> Then said the disciples one to another : Has any one brought him food? 34 Jesus says to them : My food is to do the will of him that sent me, and finish his work. 35 Say you not that there are yet four months, and harvest comes? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and be- hold the fields, that they are white for the harvest. 36 Already he that reaps receives reward and gathers fruit for eternal life, that he that sows and he that reaps may rejoice together. Zl For in this is the saying true, that there is one that sows and another that reaps. 38 I have sent you to reap that on which you have not labored : others have labored, and you have entered into their labor. 39 And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him because of the word of the woman who testified that he told me all things that I had done. 40 When therefore the Samaritans came to him, they besought him to abide with them ; and he abode there two days. 41 And many more believed because of his word, 42 and said to the woman : We no longer believe because of thy say- ing; for we ourselves have heard, and know that this is in truth the Saviour of the world. 43 But after the two days he went forth thence into Galilee. 44 For Jesus himself testified that a proph- et has no honor in his own country. 45 When therefore he came into Galilee, the Galileans received him. having seen all things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast ; for they also had come to the feast. 46 He came then again into Cana of Gali- lee, where he had made the water wine. And there was in Capernaum a nobleman, whose son was sick ; 47 he, hearing that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, came to him, and besought him that he would come down and restore his son to health ; for he was about to die. 48 Jesus therefore said to him : Un- less you see signs and wonders, you will not believe. 49 The nobleman said to him: Sir, come down before my child die. 50 Jesus said to him : Go, thy son lives. The man be- lieved the word that Jesus had spoken to him, and went. 51 And as he was now going down, his servants met him and told him : Thy son lives. 52 He then inquired of them the hour in which he began to mend : they then said to him : Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him. 53 The father there- fore knew that it was in that hour in which Jesus had said to him: Thy son lives ; and he himself be- lieved and all his house. 54 This again is the second sign that Jesus did on coming out of Judea into Galilee. 5 1 After this was the feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 And there is in Jerusalem at the sheep gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew, Bethes- da, having five porches. 3 In these lay a multitude of sick per- sons, blind, lame, withered. 5 But there was a man there that had been sick thirty-eight years. 6 Jesus saw him lying, and, knowing that he 122 ACCORDING TO JOHN had already been sick a long time, said to him : Wilt thou be restored to health ? 7 The sick man answered him : Sir, I have no man, that when the water is stirred he may put me into the pool ; but while 1 am com- ing another goes down before me. 8 Jesus says to him: Arise, take up thy bed, and walk. 9 And the man was restored to health, and took up his bed and walked; but a sab- bath was on that day. 10 The Jews then said to him that had been cured : It is a sabbath, and it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed. 11 He answered them: He that made me well said to me : Take up thy bed and walk. 12 They asked him : Who is the man that said to thee: Take up and walk? 13 But the sick man knew not who he was ; for Jesus had withdrawn, as a multitude was in the place. 14 After this Jesus finds him in the temple ; and he said to him : Be- hold, thou hast been restored to health : sin no more, lest something worse befall thee. 15 The man went away and told the Jews that it w^as Jesus that had made him well. 16 And for this reason the Jews perse- cuted Jesus, because he did these things on the sabbath. ]7 But he answered them : My Father works till now, and I work. 18 For this reason did the Jews seek the more to kill him, because he not only broke the sabl)ath, but also called God his own Father, making him- self equal to God. 19 Jesus there- fore answered and said to them : Verily, verily, I say to you. The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father do ; for whatever he does, these also the Son does in like manner, 20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him all things that he himself does; and greater works than these will he show him, that you may wonder. 21 For as the Father raises the dead and makes them alive, so also the Son makes alive whom he will. 22 For neither does the Father judge any one, but has given all judicial au- thority to the Son, 23 that all may honor the Son as they honor the Father. He that honors not the Son honors not the Father w^ho sent him. 24 Verily, verily, I say to you, that he that hears my word and believes on him that sent me has life eternal, and comes not into condemnation, but has passed out of death into life. 25 Verily, verily, I say to you, that the hour comes, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear shall live. 26 For as the Father has life in himself, so has he given to the Son also to have life in him- self. 27 And he has given him authority to execute judgment, be- cause he is the Son of man. 28 Wonder not at this, for the hour comes in which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice. 29 and shall come forth, those that have done good, to the resurrection of life; those that have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation. 30 I can do nothing of myself : as I hear I judge, and my judgment is righteous, because I seek not my will, but the will of him that sent me. 31 If I testify of myself, my testimony is not true : 32 there is another that testifies of me, and you know that the testimony which he testifies of me is true. 33 You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth ; 34 but I receive not testi- 123 THE NEW TESTAMENT mony from man, but these things I say that you may be saved. 35 He was the burning and the shining light, and you were willing to re- joice for an hour in his light. 36 But I have testimony greater than that of John ; for the works which the Father has given me to accom- plish, the works themselves that I do, testify of me that the Father has sent me. Zl And the Father who sent me, he has testified of me : neither his voice have you heard at any time, nor his shape have you seen, 38 and his word you have not abiding in you, for whom he has sent, him you believe not. 39 You search the scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life, and they are they that testify of me ; 40 and yet you will not come to me that you may have life. 41 I receive not glory from men, 42 but I know you, that you have not the love of God in you. 43 I have come in my Father's name, and you receive me not : if another should come in his own name, him you would receive. 44 How can you believe while receiv- ing glory one from another, and you seek not the glory that is from the only God? 45 Think not that I will accuse you to the Father : there is he that accuses you, Moses, in whom you trust. 46 For if you had believed Moses, you would have believed me; for he wrote of me. 47 But if you believe not his writ- ings, how will you believe my words ? 6 1 After this Jesus went av^ay beyond the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias; 2 and a great multitude followed him be- cause they saw thq signs that he 124 did in case of the sick. 3 But Jesus went up into the mountain, and there he sat with his disciples. 4 And the passover, the feast of the Jews, was near. 5 Jesus then, lift- ing up his eyes and seeing that a great multitude was coming to him, said to Philip : Whence can we buy bread, that these may eat? 6 But this he said to try him ; for he him- self knew what he was about to do. 7 Philip answered him : Two hun- dred denarii worth of bread is not enough for these, that each one may take some little. 8 One of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, says to him: 9 There is a lad here who has five barley loaves and two little fishes ; but what are these among so many? 10 Jesus said : Make the men re- cline. And there was much grass in the place. The men therefore reclined, in number about five thou- sand. 11 Jesus therefore took the loaves, and gave thanks, and gave to those that reclined ; in like man- ner also of the fishes as much as they wished. 12 But when they were filled, he said to his disciples: Gather up the broken pieces that remain, that nothing be lost. 13 They gathered them therefore, and filled twelve traveling-baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves, which remained after they had eaten. 14 The men therefore, seeing the sign that he had done, said : This is in truth the prophet that comes into the world. 15 Jesus then, Icnowing that they were about to come and seize him to make him king, fled again into the mountain himself alone. 16 But wh^n evening had come, ACCORDING TO JOHN his disciples went down to the sea, 17 and having entered a ship, were going beyond the sea to Capernaum. But darkness overtook them, and Jesus had not yet come to them : 18 the sea also arose, because a great wind was blowing. 19 Hav- ing rowed therefore about twenty- five or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking on the sea, and com- ing near the ship, and they were afraid. 20 But he said to them : It is I, be not afraid. 21 They then willingly received him into the ship, and immediately the ship was at the land to which they were going. 22 On the morrow the multitude that stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other little ship there but one, and that Jesus had not entered the ship with his disciples, but his disciples had gone away alone : 23 however, little ships had come from Tiberias, near the place where they ate bread when the Lord had given thanks. 24 When, therefore, the multitude saw- that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they entered the little ships and came to Capernaum, seek- ing Jesus. 25 And having found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him : Rabbi, when camest thou hither? 26 Jesus an- swered them and said : Verily, verily. I say to you, you seek me not be- cause you saw the signs, but be- cause you ate of the loaves and were filled. 27 Labor not for the food that perishes, but for the food that abides to life eternal, which the Son of man gives you ; for him has God the Father attested. 28 They said therefore to him : What must we do that we may work the works of God? 29 Jesus answered and said to them : This is the work of God, that you believe on him whom he has sent. 30 They said then to him : What doest thou then as a sign, that we may see and be- lieve thee; what workest thou? 31 Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is written : Bread from heaven gave he them to eat. 32 Then said Jesus to them : Verily, verily, I say to you, Moses has not given you the bread from heaven ; but my Father gives you the bread from heaven, the true. 33 For the bread which is God's is he that comes down from heaven and gives life to the world. 34 They said therefore to him : Lord, always give us this bread. 35 Jesus then said to them: I am the bread of life: he that comes to me shall not hun- ger, and he that believes on me shall never thirst. 36 But I said to you that you have seen and do not believe. 37 All that the Father gives me shall come to me, and him that comes to me I will not cast out ; 38 for I have come down from heaven, not that I might do my will, but the will of him that sent me. 39 And this is the will of him that sent me, that I shall lose nothing of all that he has given me, but shall raise it up in the last day. 40 For this is the will of my Father, that whoever sees the Son and be- lieves on him may have life eternal, and I shall raise him up in the last day, 41 The Jews therefore mur- mured concerning him. because he said : T am the bread that came down from heaven ; 42 and they said : Ts not this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How now says this 125 THE NEW TESTAMENT man : I have come down from heaven? 43 Jesus answered and said to them: Murmur not among yourselves. 44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw him, and I will raise him up in the last day. 45 It is written in the prophets : And they shall all be taught of God: every one that has heard from the Father and has learned, comes to me. 46 Not that any one has seen the Father, but he that is from God, he has seen the Father. 47 Verily, verily, I say to you, he that believes has life eternal. 48 I am the bread of life. 49 Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and died : 50 this is the bread that comes down from heaven, that any one may eat of it and not die. 51 I am the living bread, that came down from heaven : if any one eat of my bread, he shall live for ever; and the bread also that I will give for the life of the world, is my flesh. 52 The Jews then contended one with another, saying: How can this man give us his flesh to cat? 53 Jesus therefore said to them : Verily, verily, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54 He that eats my flesh and drinks rny blood has life eternal, and I will raise him up in the last day. 55 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. 56 He that eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me and I in him. 57 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, he also that eats me even he shall live because of me. 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven, not as the fathers ate and died : he that ' near 126 cats this bread shall live for ever. 59 These things spoke he in the synagogue as he taught in Caper- naum. 60 Therefore many of his dis- ciples on hearing it said: A hard saying is this: who can hear it? 61 But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples murmured con- cerning this, said to them : Does this ofl^end you? 62 If then you should see the Son of man ascending where he was before? 63 The spirit is that which makes alive ; the flesh profits nothing: the words that I have spoken to you are spirit, and are life. 64 But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who it was that would deliver him up. 65 And he said : For this reason have I said to you that no one can come to me unless it be given him of the Father. 66 From this time therefore many of his disciples went back and walked no more with him. 61 Jesus then said to the twelve : Will you also go away? 68 Simon Peter answered him : Lord, to whom shall we go? The words of eternal life hast thou ; 69 and we have believed and known that thou art the Holy One of God. 70 He answered them: Have I not chosen you twelve? and one of you is a devil. 71 But he spoke of Judas, son of Simon Tscariot ; for he was about to deliver him up, being one of the twelve. 7 1 After this Jesus walked in Galilee ; for he would not walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him. 2 But the feast of the Jews, that of tabernacles, was 3 His brothers therefore ACCORDING TO JOHN said to him : Depart hence and go into Judea, that thy disciples also may see the works that thou doest; 4 for no one does any thing in secret and desires himself to be known openly. If thou doest these things, make thyself manifest to the world. 5 For neither did his brothers be- lieve on him. 6 Jesus says to them : My time is not yet present, but your time is always ready. 7 The world cannot hate you, but me it hates, because I testify of it that its works are evil. 8 Do you go up to the feast : I go not up to this feast, be- cause my time has not yet fully come. 9 Having said these things, he abode in Galilee. 10 But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he himself also went up, not openly, but in secret. 11 The Jews then sought for him at the feast, and said: Where is he? 12 And there was much murmuring concerning him among the multi- tude ; some said : He is a good man : others said : No, but he de- ceives the multitude. 13 No one, however, spoke boldly concerning him, for fear of the Jews. 14 But now at the middle of the festival Jesus went up into the tem- ple and taught. 15 The Jews there- fore were astonished, saying: How knows this man letters, not having learned? 16 Jesus then answered them and said: My teaching is not mine, but his that sent me: 17 if any one will do his will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it is of God. or I speak of myself. 18 He that speaks of himself seeks his own glory: he that seeks the eloryof him that sent him. he is true, and un- righteousness is not in him. 19 Has not Moses given you the law? and none of you does the law. Why do you seek to kill me? 20 The multi- tude answered : Thou hast a demon : who seekest to kill thee? 21 Jesus answered and said to them : One work I have done and you all won- der. 22 Moses has given you cir- cumcision, not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers, and on the sab- bath day you circumcise a man. 23 If a man receives circumcision on the sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because I restored the en- lire man to health on the sabbath? 24 Judge not according to appear- ance, but judge righteous judgment. 25 Then said some of those of Jeru- salem : Is not this he. whom they seek to kill? 26 And lo, he speaks boldly, and they say nothing to him. Have the rulers then certainly known that this is the Christ? 27 However, we know this man, whence he is; but when the Christ comes, no one knows whence he is. 28 Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying : You both know me, and you know whence I am ; and I have not come of myself, but he is true that sent me, whom you know not : 29 I know him, because I am from him and he sent me. 30 They therefore sought to take him. and no one laid his hand on him, because his hour had not yet come. 31 But many of the multitude believed on him, and said : When Christ comes, will he do more signs than these that this man does? 32 The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him. and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent attendants that they might take him. 33 Therefore said Jesus : Yet 127 THE NEW TESTAMENT a little while I am with you, and 1 go to him that sent me. 34 You shall seek me and shall not find me, and where I am you cannot come. 35 The Jews therefore said one to another: Whither does this man in- tend to go, that we shall not find him? Does he intend to go among the dispersion of the Greeks and teach the Greeks? 36 What means this word that he spoke : You shall seek me and shall not find me. and where I am, you cannot come? Zl But on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying: If any one thirst, let him come and drink. 38 He that believes on me, as the scripture said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. 39 But this he spoke of the Spirit which those that believe on him were about to receive; for the Spirit was not yet. because Jesus had not yet been glorified. 40 Some of the multitude therefore, hearing these words, said : This is in truth the prophet ; 41 others said: This is the Christ; others said : Docs the Christ then come out of Galilee? 42 Has not the scripture said that the Christ comes of the posterity of David, and from Bethlehem, the town where David was? 43 There was therefore a division among the multitude because of him ; 44 but some of them wished to take him; no one, however, laid hands on him. 45 The attendants therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees ; and they said to them : Why did you not bring him? 46 The attend- ants answered : Never man so spoke, as this man speaks. 47 The Pharisees answered them : Are you also deceived? 48 Has any one of the rulers believed on him, or of the Pharisees? 49 But the multi- tude, that knows not the law, are cursed. 50 Nicodemus, being one of them, says to them : 51 Does our law condemn the man unless it first hear from him and know what he does? 52 They answered and said to him: Art thou also of Galilee? Search and see that out of Galilee a prophet arises not. [7:53; as found in codex D: also verses 8 to 12, in same codex: but not written by John, in the judgment of Tischendorf.] "^2) And they went each one to his own house. 8 : 1 But Jesus went into the mount of Olives. 2 And early in the morning he comes again into the temple, and all the people came to him. 3 And the scribes and the Pharisees bring a woman taken in sin. and having placed her in the midst, 4 the priests say to him, tempting him, that they may have an accusation against him : Teacher, this woman has been taken in adul- tery, in the very act. 5 Now, Moses in the law commanded us to stone such ; but now what sayest thou ? 6 But Jesus stooped down and with his finger wrote on the ground. 7 But as they continued asking, he lifted himself up and said to them : Let him that is with- out sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her. 8 And he again stooped down and with his finger wrote on the ground. 9 And each one of the Jews went out, beginning from the elder, so that all went out; and he was left alone, and the woman being in the midst. 128 ACCORDING TO JOHN 10 And Jesus lifted himself up and said to the woman : Where are they? Has no one condemned thee? 11 And she said to him: No one, sir. And he said: Neither do I condemn thee; go, from this time sin no more. [A somewhat different account, supposed by Griesbach to be a very probable omission :] 8 : 1 But Jesus went into the mount of Olives. 2 And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them. 3 And the scribes and the Pharisees bring to him a woman taken in adultery, and having placed her in the midst 4 they say to him : Teacher, this woman w^as taken in adultery, in the very act. 5 Now, in the law Moses commanded that such should be stoned : thou there- fore, what sayest thou? 6 But this they said tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down and with his finger wrote on the ground. 7 And as they continued asking him, he lifted himself up and said to them: He that is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw the stone at her. 8 And again he stooped down and wrote on the ground. 9 But they having heard, and being convicted by their con- science, went out one by one, be- ginning from the elder to the last ; and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. 10 But Jesus lifted himself up, and seeing no one but the woman, said to her : Woman, where are those thy accusers? Has no one con- demned thee? 11 She said: No one, sir. And Jesus said to her: Neither do I condemn thee : go and sin no more. 8 12 Again therefore Jesus spoke to them, saying : I am the Light of the world : he that follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. 13 The Pharisees therefore said to him : Thou testifiest of thyself : thy testimony is not true. 14 Jesus an- swered and said to them : Though I testify of myself, my testimony is true, for I know whence I came and whither I go : you know not whence I come or whither I go. 15 You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one. 16 And even if I judge, my judgment is true, be- cause I am not alone, but I and he that sent me. 17 And even in your law it is written that the testimony of two men is true. 18 I am one testifying of myself, and the Father who sent me testifies of me. 19 They said therefore to him : Where is thy Father? Jesus answered: You know neither me nor my Fa- ther : if you had known me. you would have known my Father also. 20 These words spoke he in the treasury while teaching in the tem- ple; and no one took him. because his hour had not yet come. 21 He therefore said again to them : I go away, and you shall seek me, and in your sin you shall die : whither I go you cannot come. 22 The Jews then said : Will he kill himself, because he says : Whither I go you cannot come? 23 And he said to them : You are from be- neath. I am from above: you are of this world, T am not of this world, 24 Therefore said I to you that you shall die in your sins; for if you believe not that I am he, you 129 THE NEW TESTAMENT shall die in your sins. 25 They said therefore to him: Who art thou? Jesus said to them : Altogether that which I also say to you. 26 I have many things to say and to judge of you ; hut he that sent me is true, and what I have heard from him, these things I speak unto the world. 27 They knew not that he spoke to them of the Father. 28 Then said Jesus: When you shall have lifted up the Son of man, then you shall know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself, but as the Father has taught me, I speak these things. 29 And he that sent me is with me : he has not left me alone, for I do always the things that are pleasing to him. 30 While he was speaking these things many believed on him. 31 Jesus then said to the Jews that believed on him : If you abide in my word, you are my disciples in truth, 32 and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. 33 They answered to him : We are Abraham's posterity, and have never been in bondage to any one ; how sayest thou : You shall become free? 34 Jesus answered them : Verily, verily, I say to you, that every one that does sin is a servant of sin. 35 But the servant abides not in the house forever : the Son abides forever. 36 If. then, the Son shall make you free, you shall be free indeed. 37 I know that you are Abraham's posterity; but you seek to kill me. because my word has no place in you. 38 I speak what things I have seen with my Father, and you then do what things you have heard from your father. 39 They answered and said to him : Abraham is our father. Jesus says to them: If you were the children of Abraham, you would do the works of Abraham ; 40 but now you seek to kill me, a man that has spoken to you the truth, which I heard from God : this Abraham did not. 41 You do the works of your fathers. They said to him : We have not been born of lewd- ness; we have one Father, God. 42 Jesus said to them : If God were your Father, you would love me ; for I came forth from God and have come hither: nor indeed have I come of myself, but he sent me. 43 Why know you not my speeClf? be- cause you cannot hear my word. 44 You are of your father, the devil, and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks what is false, he speaks of his own, for he is a liar and the father of it. 45 But because I tell you the truth, you believe me not. 46 Which of you convinces me of sin? If I speak the truth, why do you not believe me? 47 He that is of God hears the words of God ; for this reason you hear not. because you are not of God, 48 The Jews an- swered and said to him : Do we not well say that thou art a Samari- tan, and hast a demon? 49 Jesus answered : I have not a demon, but 1 honor my Father, and you dis- honor me. 50 But I seek not my glory: there is that seeks and judges. 51 Verily, verily, I say to you. if any one keep my word, he shall never see death. 52 The Jews said to him: Now we know that thou hast a demon. Abraham is dead, and the prophets ; and thou mo ACCORDING TO JOHN sayest : If any one keep my word, lie shall never taste of death : 53 art thou greater than our father Abra- ham, who is dead? And the proph- ets are dead : whom makest thou thyself? 54 Jesus answered: If 1 glorify myself, my glory is nothing ; it is my Father that glorifies me, of whom you say that he is your God ; 55 and yet you have not known him, but I know him. If I should say that I do not know him, I should be a liar like you ; but I know him. and his word I keep. 56 Abraham, your father, rejoiced that he could see my day. and he saw it and was glad. 57 The Jews then said to him : Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? 58 Jesus said to them : Verily, verily. 1 say to you, before Abraham came into being, I am. 59 They therefore took up stones to throw at him ; but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple. 9 1 And passing by he saw a man blind from his birth. 2 And his disciples asked him. saying : Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind? 3 Jesus answered : Neither this man sinned nor his parents, but that the works of God might be manifested in him. 4 We must work the works of him that sent us while it is day: there comes night, when no man can work. 5 While I am in the world. I am the Light of the world. 6 He said these things, and spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and anointed his eyes with the clay, 7 and said to him : Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, which is, translated. Sent. He went there- fore and washed, and came seeing. 8 The neighbors therefore, and those that had seen him before, that he was a beggar, said: Is not this he that sat and begged? 9 Others said that this is he; others said: No, but he is like him. He said : 1 am he. 10 They therefore said to him : How were thy eyes opened? 11 He an- swered : The man that is called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes, and said to me : Go to Siloam and wash. Having gone therefore and washed, I received sight. 12 They said to him: Where is he? Me says : 1 know not. 13 They bring to the Pharisees him that was formerly blind. 14 And it was a sabbath on the day in which Jesus made clay and opened his eyes. 15 Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he had received sight. He said to them : He put clay upon my eyes, and I washed and do see. 16 Some of the Pharisees therefore said: This man is not from God, for he keeps not the sabbath. Others said : How can a man a sinner do such signs? And there was a divi- sion among them. 17 They say therefore to the blind man again : What sayest thou of him. because he has opened thy eyes? He said: He is a prophet. 18 The Jews there- fore did not believe concerning him, that he was blind and had received sight, till they had called the parents of him that had received sight, 19 and asked them, saying: Is this your son, of whom you say that he was born blind? How, then, does he now see? 20 His parents therefore answered and said : We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind : 21 but how he now sees we know not, or who opened his eyes we know not : ask him ; he is. 131 THE NEW TESTAMENT of age: he shall speak for himself. 22 These things said his parents because they feared the Jews ; for the Jews had already agreed that if any one should confess him to be Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue. 23 For this reason his parents said that he is of age, ask him. 24 They therefore a sec- ond time called the man that had been blind, and said to him : Give glory to God: we know that this man is a sinner. 25 He then an- swered: If he is a sinner, I know not: one thing I know, that, being blind, I now see. 26 They said therefore to him : What did he for thee? How opened he thy eyes? 27 He answered them: I have told you already, and you did not hear: why will you hear again? Will you also become his disciples? 28 They reviled him and said: Thou art a disciple of that man, but we are Moses' disciples: 29 we know that God spoke to Moses, but this man, we know not whence he is. 30 The man answered and said to them: Why, in this is that which is won- derful, that you know not whence he is, and yet he has opened my eyes. 31 We know that God hears not sinners, but if any one be a worshiper of God and do his will, him he hears. 32 Never was it heard that any one opened the eyes of one that had been born blind : 33 if this man were not of God, he could do nothing. 34 They answered and said to him : Thou wast alto- gether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out. 35 Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and he found him and said : Dost thou believe on the Son of man ? 36 He answered and said : And who is he. Lord, that I may believe on him? 37 Jesus said to him: Thou hast both seen him, and he it is that talks with thee. 38 He said, Lord. I believe : and he wor- shiped him. 39 y\nd Je.sus said: For judgment have I come into this world, that those that see not may see, and that those that see may be- come blind. 40 Some of the Phari- sees that were with him heard, and said to him : Are we also blind? 41 Jesus said to them: If you were blind, you would not have sin; but now you say : We see : your sin remains. 1 A 1 Verily, verily, I say to J- ^ you, he that enters not through the door into the sheepfold, but goes up by some other way, he is a thief and a robber : 2 but he that enters through the door is the shep- herd of the sheep. 3 To him the porter opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. 4 When he puts forth all of his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him. because they know his voice ; 5 but a stranger they will not follow, but flee from him. because they know not the voice of stran- gers. 6 This parable spoke Jesus to them : but they knew not what things they were that he spoke to them. 7 Jesus therefore said : Verily, verily, I say to you : I am the door of the sheep. 8 All as many as have come are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. 9 I am the door: through me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. 10 The thief comes not but that he may steal and kill and destroy: I have come 182 ACCORDING TO JOHN that they may have life, and have it abundantly. 11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep : 12 he that is a hireling and not a shep- herd, to whom the sheep do not belong, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf seizes and scatters them, 13 because he is a hireling, and cares not for the sheep. 14 I am the good shepherd, and know mine, and mine know me, 15 as the Father knows me and I know the Father ; and I lay down my life for the sheep. 16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold : them also must I bring, and they shall hear my voice, and there shall be one fold, one shepherd. 17 For this reason my Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again. 18 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of myself. Authority have T to lay it down, and authority have I to take it again : this commandment I received from my Father. 19 There arose again a division among the Jews because of these words. 20 Therefore many of them said : He has a demon and is mad : why hear him? 21 Others said: These words are not of one that has a demon : can a demon open the eyes of the blind? 22 But the feast of dedication was held in Jerusalem ; it was winter ; 23 and jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon's porch. 24 The Jews therefore camr around him and said to him : How long dost thou keep us in suspense? If thou art the Christ, tell us plainly. 25 Jesus answered : I have told you, and you do tiot believe : the works that I do in my Father's name, these testify of me ; 26 but you believe not, because you are not of my sheep. 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me, 28 and I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish, and no one shall snatch them out of my hand. 29 What the Father has given to me is greater than all, and no one can snatch them out of the Father's hand. 30 I and the Father are one. 31 Again the Jews took up stones to stone him. 32 Jesus answered them : Many good works have I shown you from the Father ; for what one of these do you stone me? 33 The Jews answered him : For a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy, and because thou, being man, makest thyself God. 34 Jesus answered them: Is it not written in your law, I said : You are gods? 35 If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came, and the Scripture cannot be broken : 36 of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, say you : Thou blasphemest ; because I said: I am the Son of God? 37 If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not : 38 but if I do, al- though you believe not me, believe the works, that you may know and acknowledge that the Father is in me and I in the Father. 39 They ffien sought to take him, and he went forth from their hand. 40 And he went away again be- yond the Jordan into the place where John was first baptizing, and abode there. 41 And many came to him and said : John indeed did no sign, but all things whatever John said of this man were true. 42 And many believed on him there. 133 THE NEW TESTAMENT 11 1 But a man was sick, 1 Lazarus of Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister Martha. 2 And it was Mary that anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick, 3 The sisters therefore sent to him, saying: Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick, 4 But Jesus hearing it, said : This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glori- fied through it. 5 Now, Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. 6 When therefore he had heard that he was sick, then indeed he abode two days in the place where he was : 7 then after this he says to the disciples : Let us go into Judea again. 8 The disciples say to him : Rabbi, the Jews just now sought to stone thee, and goest thou thither again? 9 Jesus answered: Are there not twelve hours of the day? If any one walk in the day, he stumbles not, because he sees the light of the world : 10 if any one walk in the night, he stumbles, be- cause the light is not in him. 11 These things said he, and after this he says to them : Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but T go that I may awake him. 12 Then the dis- ciples said to him : Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he shall be saved. 13 Jesus, however, had spoken of his death; but they supposed that he spoke of the rest of sleep. 14 Therefore Jesus then said to them plainly: Lazarus is dead; 15 and T rejoice for your sakes, in order that you may believe, that I was not there; but let us go to him. 16 Thomas, who is called Didymus. then said to his fellow-disciples : Let us also go, that we may die with him, 17 Jesus came therefore and found that he had been four days in the tomb, 18 But Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen fur- longs off. 19 And many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary and their friends, to comfort them con- cerning their brother, 20 Martha therefore, when she heard that Jesus was coming, met him ; but Mary sat in the house, 21 Martha therefore said to Jesus : Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother would not have died. 22 And now I know that whatever things thou shalt ask of God, God will give thee. 23 Jesus says to her : Thy brother shall rise. 24 Martha says to him : I know that he will rise in the resurrection, in the last day. 25 Jesus said to her: I am the resurrection and the life; he that believes on me, though he were dead, he shall live, 26 and whoever lives and believes on me shall never die: believest thou this? 27 She says to him: Yes, Lord: I have believed that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, he that comes into the world. 28 And after saying this she went away and called Mary her sister secretly, saying: The Teacher is present, and calls for thee. 29 Wlien she heard, she rose quickly and came to him ; 30 but Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha had met him. 31 Therefore the Jews that were with her in the house, and were comforting her, seeing Mary, that she rose up quick- ly and went out, followed her, sup- posing that she was going to the tomb, that she might weep there. 32 Mary therefore, when she came 134 ACCORDING TO JOHN where Jesus was, seeing him, fell at his feet, saying to him : Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother would not have died. 33 Jesus therefore, when he saw her weeping and the Jews that came with her weeping, was greatly moved in spirit, and was troubled, 34 and said : Where have you laid him? They say to him: Lord, come and see. 35 Jesus wept. 36 Therefore said the Jews: See how he loved him. 37 But some of them said : Could not this man, that opened the eyes of the blind man, have caused that even this man should not die? 38 Jesus therefore, again greatly moved within himself, comes to the tomb; but it was a cave, and a stone lay upon it. 39 Jesus says : Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that had died, says to him : Lord, the smell is now offensive; for he has been dead four days. 40 Jesus says to her: Did I not tell thee that if thou wouldst believe thou shouldst see the glory of God? 41 They there- fore took away the stone ; but Jesus lifted up his eyes and said: Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. 42 But I knew that thou always hearest me; but yet, on account of the multitude that stands around, I said it, that they may believe that thou didst send me. 43 And having said these things, he cried with a loud voice : Lazarus, come forth. 44 And he that had been dead came forth, bound hands and feet with swathing bands ; and his face was bound around with a handkerchief. Jesus says to them : Loose him, and let him go. 45 Many therefore of the Jews, that had come to Mary and had ?een what he did, believed on him ; 46 but some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. 47 Therefore the chief priests and the Pharisees brought together the Sanhedrim, and said: What do we, for this man does many signs? 48 If we let him alone thus, all will believe on him ; and the Romans will come and take away both our place and nation. 49 But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being chief priest that year, said to them : You know nothing, 50 neither do you consider that it is profitable for us that one man die for the people, and not that the whole nation perish. 51 But this he spoke not of himself, but, being chief priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was about to die for the nation ; 52 and not for the nation only, but that he might gather into one the chil- dren of God also, that were scat- tered abroad. 53 From that day therefore they took counsel to kill him. 54 Jesus then no longer walked openly among the Jews ; but went away thence into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim ; and there he abode with his disciples. 55 But the passover of the Jews was near, and many went up from the country to Jeru- salem before the passover, that they might purify themselves. 56 They therefore sought Jesus and said among themselves while standing in the temple : What think you. that he will not come to the feast? 57 But the chief priests and the Phari- sees had given commandments that, if any knew where he was, he should make it known, in order that they might take him. 135 THE NEW TESTAMENT 1 '^ 1 Jesus therefore, six days L^ before the passover, came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus raised from the dead. 2 They therefore made him a supper there, and Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those that re- cHned at table with him. 3 Then Mary took a pound of the ointment of pure nard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet wnth her hair; and the house was filled with the per- fume of the ointment. 4 But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, he that was about to deliver him up, says : 5 Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii, and given to the poor? 6 But this he said, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the bag he carried what was thrown in. 7 Jesus therefore said: Let her alone; she bought it that she might keep it to the day of my burial. 8 For the poor you have always w^ith you, but me you have not always. 9 The great multitude of the Jews therefore knew that he was there, and came not because of Jesus only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he raised from the dead. 10 But the chief priests had determined that they would kill Lazarus also, 11 because many of the Jews, on account of him, went away and believed on Jesus. 12 On the next day a great multi- tude that had come to the feast, hearing that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. 13 took branches of palm-trees and went forth to meet him, and cried : Hosanna, blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord, and blessed is the King of Israel. 14 But Jesus, finding a young ass, sat upon it, as it is written : 15 Fear not, daughter of Zion : behold, thy King comes sit- ting upon the foal of an "ass. 16 These things his disciples knew not at first, but when Jesus had been glorified, then they remembered that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things for him. 17 The multitude that was with him therefore testified that he had called Lazarus from the tomb, and raised him from the dead. 18 For this reason also the multitude met him, because they heard that he had done this sign. 19 The Phar- isees therefore said among them- selves : You see that you profit nothing: behold, the world has gone after him. 20 But of those that went up to worship at the feast, there were some Greeks : 21 these therefore came to Philip, who was of Beth- saida of Galilee, and asked him, saying: Sir, we wish to see Jesus. 22 Philip comes and tells Andrew : Andrew and Philip come and tell Jesus. 23 But Jesus answered them, saying: The hour has come that the Son of man should be glorified. 24 Verily, verily, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat fall into the ground and die. itself abides alone; but if it die. it brings forth much fruit. 25 He that loves his life shall lose it, and he that hates his life in this world shall keep it to life eternal. 26 If any one serve me. let him follow me. and where I am. there shall my servant also be: if any one serve me. him will my Father honor. 27 Now is my soul troubled, and what shall I say? ACCORDING TO JOHN Father, save me from this hour. But for this cause came I to this hour. 28 Father, glorify thy name. There came therefore a voice from heaven : I have glorified it, and will glorify it again. 29 Therefore the multitude that stood by, hearing it, said that it thundered: others said: An angel has spoken to him. 30 Jesus answered and said : Not for my sake came this voice, but for yours. 31 Now is the judgment of this world : now shall the prince of this world be cast out, 2>2 and I, when I shall have been lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself. ZZ But this he said, signifying by what kind of death he was about to die. 34 Then the multitude answered him : We have heard out of the law that the Christ abides for ever, and how sayest thou that the Son of man must be lifted up? Who is this, the Son of man? 35 Jesus therefore said to them : Yet a little while the light is among you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness overtake you not; and he that walks in darkness knows not whither he goes. 36 While you have the light, believe on the light, that you may become sons of light. These things spoke Jesus and went away and hid himself from them. Zl But though he had done so many signs before them, they believed not on him. 38 that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke: Lord, who of us has believed what is heard? and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? 39 For this reason they could not believe, because Isaiah said again : 40 He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, lest they should see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and should turn and I should give them health. 41 These things said Isaiah, because he saw his glory, and spoke of him. 42 Yet. however, of the rulers, many believed on him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess, lest they should be put out of the syna- gogue ; 43 for they loved the glory of men more than the glory of God. 44 But Jesus cried and said: He that believes on me believes not on me. but on him that sent me. 45 and he that sees me sees him that sent me. 46 I have come a light into the world, that whoever believes on me may not abide in darkness. 47 And if any one hear my words and keep them not. I judge him not; for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. 48 He that rejects me and receives not my words, has that which judges him : the word that I have spoken, that shall judge him in the last day. 49 For I have not spoken of myself, but the Father who sent me. he himself has given me command- ment what I should say and what I should speak. 50 And I know that his commandment is life eternal. What things therefore I speak, as the Father said to me, so T speak. 1 ^ 1 But before the feast of J- *-^ passover. Jesus, knowing that his hour had come that he should go out of this world to the Father, having loved his own that were in the world, he loved them to the end. 2 And when supper had ended, as the devil had already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot. son of SimoiL, to betray him, 3 137 THE NEW TESTAMENT Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come forth from God and was going to God, 4 rises from supper and lays aside his garments ; and having taken a towel, he girded himself : 5 then he poured water into the basin, and began to wash the feet of the disciples, and to wipe them with the towel with which he was girded. 6 He then comes to Simon Peter; he says to him : Lord, dost thou wash my feet? 7 Jesus answered and said to him : What I am doing thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know after this. 8 Peter says to him : Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him : Unless T wash thee, thou hast no part with mc. 9 Simon Peter says to him : Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head. 10 Jesus says to him : He that has bathed has no need to wash his hands and liead, but is wholly clean ; and you are clean, but not all. n For he knew him that would deliver him up ; for this reason he said : Not all of you are clean. 12 When therefore he had washed their feet, and had taken his gar- ments, and reclined again at table. he said to them : Do you know what I have done for you? 13 You call me : Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for I am. 14 If, then. L the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash the feet of one another; 15 for T have given you an ex- ample, that you also should do as I have done to you. 16 Verily, verily, I say to you. a servant is not greater X\\^x\ his lord, nor is an apostle greater than he that sent him. 17 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them. 18 I speak not of you all ; I know whom I have chosen ; but that the scripture might be fulfilled: He that eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me. 19 Even now I tell you before it comes to pass, that when it shall have come to pass you may believe that I am he. 20 Verily, verily, I say to you, he that receives whom I shall send receives me, and he that receives me receives him that sent me. 21 After saying these things, Jesus was troubled in spirit, and testified and said : Verily, verily, I say to you, that one of you shall deliver me up. 22 The disciples looked one at another, doubting concerning whom he spoke. 23 One of his dis- ciples, whom Jesus loved, was re- clining in the bosom of Jesus : 24 Simon Peter then nods to this one and says to him : Tell who it is of whom he speaks. 25 Therefore he, leaning back thus on the breast of Jesus, says to him: Lord, who is it? 26 Jesus answers : He it is for whom I shall dip the morsel and give it to him. Therefore, having dipped the morsel, he takes it and gives it to Judas, son of Simon Iscariot. 27 And after the morsel, then Satan entered into him. Jesus therefore says to him : What thou doest. do quickly. 28 But no one of those reclining at table knew for what purpose he said this to him ; 29 for some supposed, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus said to him : Buy the things of which we have need for the feast, or that he should give something to the poor. 30 Having therefore received the mor- .138 ACCORDING TO JOHN sel, he went out Immediately; and it was night. 31 When therefore he had gone out, Jesus said : Xow is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him. 32 If God is glorified in him, God also will glorify him in himself, and he will immediately glorify him. 33 Little children, yet a little while am I with you : you shall seek me. and as 1 said to the Jews, that where I am you cannot come, to you also I say it now. 34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. 35 In this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another. 36 Simon Peter says to him: Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered : \\ hither 1 go, thou canst not follow me now, but thou shalt follow me hereafter 37 Peter savs to him : Lord, why V? J can I not follow thee will lay down my life for thee. 38 Jesus answered: Wilt thou lay down thy life for me? Verily, verily, I say to thee, a cock shall not crow till thou hast denied me three times. HI Let not your hearts be troubled : believe on God, believe also on me. 2 In my Fa- ther's house are many mansions; if not so, I would have told you ; for I am going to prepare a place for you. 3 And when I shall have gone and prepared a place for you, T will come again, and take you to myself, that where T am you also may be. 4 And whither I go you know the way. 5 Thomas says to him: Lord, we know not whither thou goest, and how know we the ' 13^ way ? 6 Jesus says to him : I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one comes to the Father but through me. 7 If you have known me, you shall know my Father also ; and even now you know him and have seen him. 8 Philip says to him : Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us. 9 Jesus says to him : So long a time am 1 with you. and hast thou not known me, Philip? He that has seen me has seen the Father : how sayest thou : Show us the Father? 10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I speak not of myself: the Father, who abides in me, does the works. 11 Believe me that 1 am in the Father and the Father in me : if not, believe because of the works themselves. 12 Verily, verily, I say to you, he that believes on me, the works that I do he also shall do. and greater works than these shall he do; be- cause I go to the Father. 13 And whatever you shall ask in my name, this will I do, that the Father may be glorified m the Son. 14 If you ask any thing in my name. I will do it. 15 If you love me, you will keep my commandments. 16 And I will entreat the Father, and an- other Advocate will he give you, that he may be with you for ever, 17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it sees * him not, neither knows him : you know him. because he abides with you and shall be in you. 18 I will not leave you orphans ; I am coming to you. 19 Yet a little while and the world sees me no Discerns or acknowledges bim riot, THE NEW TESTAMENT more ; but you shall see me ; because I live and you shall live. 20 In that day you shall know that I am in my Father and you in me and I in you. 21 He that has my command- ments and keeps them, he it is that loves me ; and he that loves me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will manifest my- self to him. 22 Judas, not Iscariot, says to him : Lord, and how is it that thou wiU manifest thyself to us, and not to the world? 23 Jesus answered and said to him: ]f any one love me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our abode with him. 24 He that loves me not keeps not my words ; and the word that you hear is not mine, but the Father's that sent me. 25 These things have I spoken to you while abiding with you ; 26 but the Advocate, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and shall bring to your remembrance all things that I have said to you. 27 Peace I leave you, my peace I give you : not as the world gives, give I to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. 28 You heard that I said to you : I go away and come to you. If you loved me, you would rejoice because I go to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. 29 And now I have told you before it comes to pass, that when it comes to pass you may believe. 30 No longer will I talk much with you ; for the prince of the world comes, and has noth- ing in me, 31 but that the world may know that I love the Father, ^n4 ?is the Father gave me com- mandment, so I do. Arise, let us go hence. "I CT II am the true vine, and J- •J my Father is the vine-dresser. 2 Every branch in me that bears not fruit he takes away, and every one that bears fruit, he cleanses, that it may bear more fruit. 3 You are now clean, because of the word that I have spoken to you : 4 abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in me. 5 I am the vine, you the branches. He that abides in me and I in him, he bears much fruit ; for without me you can do nothing. 6 If any one abide not in me, he is cast out as the branch and withers, and they gather it and throw it into the fire, and it is burned. 7 If you abide in me and my words abide in you, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you. 8 In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit and become my dis- ciples. 9 As the Father has loved me, I also have loved you : abide in my love. 10 If you keep my com- mandments, you shall abide in my love, as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. 11 These things I have spoken to you that my joy may be in you and your joy may be fulfilled. 12 My commandment is this, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are my friends, if you do what things I command you. 15 I no longer call you servants, because the servant knows not what his lord does; but I have called you friends, because l4g ACCORDING TO JOHN all things that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. 16 You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ap- pointed you that you may go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you. 17 These things I command you, that you love one another. 18 If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me first. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own ; but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 20 Remember the word that I spoke to you : The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will persecute you also : if they have kept my word, they will keep yours also. 21 But all these things will they do to you on ac- count of my name, because they know not him that sent me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin ; but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 He that hates me hates my Father also. 24 If I had not done among them the works that no other did, they would have had no sin ; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father. 25 But that the word might be ful- filled which is written in their law : They hated me without a cause. 26 When the Advocate has come, whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth that proceeds from the Father, he shall testify of me; 27 and you also shall testify, be- cause you have been with me from the beginning. 16 1 These things have I spoken to you that you may not be offended. 2 They will put you out of the synagogues : in- deed, the hour comes that every one that kills you will think that he offers service to God. 3 And these things will they do because they have not known the Father nor me. 4 But these things I have spoken to you that when the hour comes you may remember them, that I told you. And these things I told you not from the beginning, because I was with you. 5 But now I go to him that sent me, and no one of you asks me: Whither goest thou? 6 And yet, because I have told you these things, sorrow has filled your heart. 7 But I tell you the truth, it is profitable for you that I go away. For if I go not away, the Advocate will not come to you ; but if I go, I will send him to you. 8 And when he comes, he will con- vince the world of sin, and of right- eousness, and of judgment. 9 Of sin indeed, because they believe not on me ; 10 but of righteousness, be- cause I go to the Father and you see me no more; 11 but of judg- ment, because the prince of this world is judged. 12 I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now ; 13 but when he has come, the Spirit of truth, he shall guide you in all the truth : for he shall not speak of himself, but whatever he hears he shall speak, and he shall announce to you things to come. 14 He shall glorify me, for he shall take of mine and an- nounce it to you. 15 All things whatever the Father has are mine : therefore I said that he takes of mine and announces to you. 16 A 141 THE NEW TESTAMENT little while, and you see me no more, and again a little while, and you shall see me. 17 Some of his disciples therefore said one to an- other: What is this that he says to us : A little while, and you see me not, and again a little while, and you shall see me? and that 1 go to the Father? 18 They said therefore: This, what is it that he says, The little while? We know not what he says. 19 Jesus knew that they desired to ask him, and he said to them: Concerning this do you in- quire among yourselves because I said : A little while, and you see me not, and again a little while, and you shall see me? 20 Verily, verily, I say to you. that you shall weep and lament, but the world shall re- joice: you shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall become joy. 21 The wife, when she is in labor, has sorrow, because her hour has come ; but when she has brought forth the child, she no longer remembers the affliction for joy that a man has been born into the world. 22 And you therefore now indeed have sor- row ; but I shall see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one takes from you. 23 And in that day, of me you shall ask nothing. Verily, verily, I say to you, if you ask anything of the Father, he will give it to you in my name. 24 Till now you have asked nothing in my name : ask, and you shall receive, that your joy may be fulfilled. 25 These things I have spoken to you in parables: the hour comes when T will no longer speak to you in parables, but will tell you plainly concerning the Father, 26 Tn that day you shall ask in my name, and 1 say not to you that 1 will beseech the Father for you ; 27 for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have be- lieved that I came forth from God. 28 I came forth from the Father, and have come into the world : again 1 leave the world and go to the Father. 29 His disciples say: Behold, now thou speakest plainly, and utterest no parable. 30 Now we know that thou knowest all things, and hast no need that any one should ask thee : in this we believe that thou camest forth from God. 31 Jesus answered them : Do you now believe? 32 Behold, the hour comes, and has come, that you shall be scattered each one to his own and leave me alone ; and yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me. 33 These things I have spoken to you that in me you may have peace. In the world you have afflic- tion ; but take courage, I have over- come the world. 1 'T 1 These things spoke Jesus ; JL ' and, lifting his eyes to heaven, he said : Father, the hour has come: glorify thy Son, that the Son may glorify thee, 2 as thou hast given him authority over all flesh, that to all that thou hast given him he may give them life eternal. 3 But eternal life is this, that they may know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. 4 I have glorified thee on the earth, having finished the work that thou gavest me to do; 5 and now. Father, glorify thou me with thyself with the glory that T had with thee before the world was. 6 T have manifested thy name to the men whom thou gavest me out of the world. Thine they were, 142 ACCORDING TO JOHN and thou gavest them to me, and they have kept thy word; 7 now they know that all things whatever thou hast given me are from thee; 8 for the words that thou gavest me I have given them, and they have received them, and have known in truth that I came forth from thee, and have believed that thou didst send me. 9 I pray for them ; I pray not for the world, but for those that thou hast given me, for they are thine, 10 and all mine are thine, and thine are mine, and I have been glorified in them. 11 And I am no longer in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in my name that thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we. 12 When I was with them I kept them in thy name that thou hast given me, and I have guarded them, and no one of them is lost but the son of perdition, that the Scripture may be fulfilled. 13 But now 1 come to thee, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves. 14 I have given them thy word, and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world as I am not of the world. 15 I pray not that thou take them out of the world, but that thou keep them from the evil one. 16 They are not of the world, as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them in the truth : thy word is truth. 18 As thou didst send me into the world, I sent them into the world ; 19 and for them I sanctify myself, that they also may be sanctified in the truth. 20 But not for these only do I pray, but also for those that believe on me through their word, 21 that they all may be one, as thou, Father, art in me and I in thee, that they also may be in us, that the world may believe that thou didst send me. 22 And the glory that thou hast given me I have given them, that they may be one as we are one : 12> I in them and thou in me, that they may be perfected into one, that the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them as thou hast loved me. 24 Father, as to what thou hast given me, I will that they also be with me where I am. that they may see my glory, which thou hast given me because thou lovedst me before the foun- dation of the world. 25 Righteous Father, though the world has not known thee, yet I have known thee, and these have known that thou didst send me ; 26 and I have made known to them thy name, and will make it known, that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them and I in them. 1 O 1 Having said these things, J- O Jesus went forth with his disciples beyond the brook of Cedar, where was a garden, into which he entered, himself and his dis- ciples. 2 But Judas, also, who de- livered him up, knew the place, be- cause Jesus had often gone thither in company with his disciples. 3 Judas therefore, having received the band, the attendants from the chief priests and from the Pharisees, comes thither with torch- es and lamps and weapons. 4 Jesus therefore, knowing all things that were coming upon him. went forth and said to them: Whom seek you? 5 They answered him : Jesus the Nazarene. Jesus says to them : I am he. But Judas also, who de- H3 THE NEW TESTAMENT livered him up, stood with them. 6 When therefore he said to them : I am he, they went back and fell on the ground. 7 Again therefore he asked them : Whom seek you ? And they said : Jesus the Nazarenc. 8 Jesus answered : I told you that I am he : if then ye seek me, let these go away. 9 That the word might be fulfilled which he spoke: Of those that thou hast given me I have lost none. 10 Simon Peter therefore, havmg a sword, drew it and struck the servant of the chief priest, and cut ofif his right ear; and the name of the servant was Mal- chus. 11 Jesus then said to Peter: Put the sword into the sheath. The cup that the Father has given me, shall I not drink it? 12 Therefore the band and the officer and the attendants of the Jews took Jesus and bound him, 13 and led him to Annas first; for he was father-in-law of Caiaphas. who was chief priest that year;_ 14 and it was Caiaphas that advised the Jews that it was profitable that one man should die for the people. 15 But there followed Jesus, Simon Peter and another disciple. And that disciple was acquainted with the chief priest, and went with Jesus into the court of the chief priest, 16 but Peter stood at the gate without. Then the other dis- ciple, the acquaintance of the chief priest, went in and spoke to the doorkeeper, and brought Peter in. 17 Then the maidservant that kept the door says to Peter: Art not thou also of the disciples of this man? He says: I am not. 18 But the ser- vants and the attendants, having made a fire of coals, for it was cold. were standing and warming them- selves; and Peter also was standing with them and warming himself. 19 Then the chief priest asked Jesus concerning his disciples and con- cerning his teaching. 20 Jesus an- swered him : I have spoken plainly to the world : I have always taught in a synagogue and in the temple, where all the Jews come together, and in secret have I spoken nothing. 21 Why dost thou ask me? Ask those that have heard what I spoke to them : behold, these know what I said. 22 But when he had spoken this, one of the attendants that stood by struck Jesus with his open hand, saying: Answerest thou the chief priest thus? 23 Jesus answered him : If I have spoken evil, testify of the evil; but if well, why smitest thou me? 24 Annas then sent him, bound, to Caiaphas the chief priest. 25 But Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They then said to him : Art not thou also of his disciples? He denied and said: I am not. 26 One of the servants of the chief priest, being a relative of him whose ear Peter had cut off, says : Did I not -see thee in the garden with him ? 27 Again there- fore Peter denied ; and immediately a cock crew. 28 Then they lead Jesus from Caiaphas to the pretorium ; and it was early morn. And they went not into the pretorium, that they might not be defiled, but that they might eat the passover. 29 Pilate therefore came forth to them and said : What accusation bring you against this man ? 30 They an- swered and said to him : If this man had not done evil, we would not have delivered him to thee. 31 Pilate therefore said to them ; Take 144 ACCORDING TO JOHN you him and judge him according to your law. The Jews then said to him: It is not lawful for us to put any one to death : Z2 that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke signifying by what kind of death he was about to die. Z2> Then Pilate entered the pre- torium again, and called Jesus and said to him : Art thou the King of the Jews? 34 Jesus answered: Say- est thou this of thyself, or did others tell thee of me? 35 Pilate answered: Am I a Jew? Thy nation and the chief priests deliv- ered thee to me : what hast thou done? 36 Jesus answered: My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would fight, that I might not be delivered to the Jews; but now my kingdom is not hence. ?iJ Pilate then said to him : Art thou not then a king? Jesus answered: Thou sayest, for I am a king. To this end was I born, and to this end have I come into the world, that I might testify to the truth : every one that is of the truth hears my voice. 38 Pilate says to him : What is truth? And having said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them : I find no fault in him. 39 But you have a custom that I re- lease to you one at the passover: will you therefore that I release to you the King of the Jews? 40 They then cried out again, saying: Not this man, but Barabbas. But Barab- bas was a robber. 1 Q 1 Pilate therefore then took -*- ^ Jesus and scourged him. 2 And the soldiers plaited a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and threw a purple garment around him. 3 and came to him and said : Hail, King of the Jews; and they struck him with the open hand. 4 Pilate again came forth and said to them. Behold. I bring him forth to you. that you may know that I find no fault. 5 Jesus therefore came forth wearing the crown of thorns and purple garment. And he says to them : Behold the man. 6 Therefore w^hcn the chief priests and the attendants saw him. they cried out : Crucify, crucify. Pilate says to them : Take you him and crucify him; for I find no fault in him. 7 The Jews answered : We have a law. and according to the law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God. 8 Thereupon when Pilate heard this word, he was the more afraid. 9 and went into the pretorium again, and said to Jesus : Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer. 10 Pilate says to him : Speakest thou not to me? Knowest thou not that I have authority to release thee and authority to crucify thee? 11 Jesus answered : Thou couldst have had no authority against me, unless it had been given thee from above : therefore he that delivered me to thee has the greater sin. 12 After this Pilate sought to release him; but the Jews cried out. saying: If thou release this man. thou art not a friend of Caesar: every one that makes himself king speaks against C?esar. 13 Then Pilate, after hear- ing these words, brought Jesus forth, and sat on the judgment-seat in a place called The Pavement, but ir. Hebrew. Gabbatha. 14 And it was the preparation of the passover: it was about the sixth hour. And he says to the Jews : Behold your king. 15 They therefore cried out; Away 10 145 THE NEW TESTAMENT with him, away, with him, crucify him. Pilate says to them: Shall I crucify your king? The chief priests answered : We have no king but Cae- sar. 16 Then therefore he delivered him to them to be crucified. They therefore took Jesus : 17 and bearing the cross for himself, he went forth to a place called the place of a skull, which is called in Hebrew Golgotha, 18 where they crucified him, and with him two others, on this side and on that, but Jesus in the midst. 19 But Pilate wrote a title and put it on the cross; and it was written : Jesus the Nazarene, THE KrNG OF THE Jews. 20 Many of the Jews therefore read this title, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, in Greek. 21 The chief priests of the Jews then said to Pilate: Write not: The king of the Jews, but that he said: I am the king of the Jews. 22 Pilate answered : What I have writ- ten, I have written. 23 The soldiers therefore, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, for each soldier a part, and his coat. But the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. 24 They said therefore one to another: Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be. That the scrip ture might be fulfilled : They divided my garments among them, and on my raiment they cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did 25 But there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother and his mothc's sister. Mary the wife of Cleopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26 Jesus therefore seeing his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing by, says to his mother : Woman, behold thy son. 27 Then he says to the dis- ciple : Behold thy mother. And from that hour the disciple took her to his "iwn home. 18 After this, Jesus, \v'nowing that all things had been already finished, that the scrip- ture might be fulfilled, says: I thirst. 29 There lay a vessel full of vine- gar : having therefore put a sponge full of vinegar on hyssop, they put it to his mouth. 30 When therefore he had received the vinegar, he said: It is finished; and having bowed his head, he gave up the spirit. 31 The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies might not remain on the cross dur- ing the sabbath, for that sabbath was a great day, besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. 22 Then came the soldiers and broke the legs of the first, and of the other that was crucified with him; ZZ but coming to Jesus, when they saw him already dead, they broke not his legs; 34 but one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and imme- diately there came forth blood and water. 35 And he that saw it has testified, and his testimony is true, and he knows that he speaks what is true, that you also may believe. 36 For these things took place that the scripture might be fulfilled: A bone of him shall not be broken. Zl And again another scripture says : They shall look on him whom they pierced. 38 But after these things Joseph, who was of Arimathea. being a dis- ciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus ; 146 ACCORDING TO JOHN and Pilate gave permission. They came therefore and took him away. 39 But Xicodemus also came, (he that had come to him by night at the first,) bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds. 40 They therefore took the body of Jesus, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as is the custom of the Jews to prepare for burial. 41 But there was, in the place where he had been crucified, a garden, and in the garden a new sepulcher, in which no one had ever yet been laid. 42 There then because of the prepa- ration of the Jews, for the sepulcher was near, laid they Jesus. ^A 1 But on the first of the wV/ week, Mary Magdalene comes to the sepulcher early, it being yet dark, and sees the stone taken away from the sepulcher. 2 She therefore runs and comes to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and says to them : They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulcher, and we know not where they have laid him. 3 Thereupon Peter went forth and the other disciple, and came to the sepulcher. 4 But the two ran to- gether; and the other disciple outran Peter, and came first to the sepul-' cher ; 5 and having stooped down, he saw the linen cloths lying: however he went not in. 6 Then comes Simon Peter following him ; and he went into the sepulcher, and saw the linen cloths lying, 7 and the hand- kerchief, which was on his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but folded up in a place bv itself. 8 Therefore the other disciple also that came first to the sepulcher then went in, and saw and believed ; 9 for they not yet knew the scripture, that he must rise from the dead. 10 The disciples then went away again to their homes. 11 But Alary stood without at the sepulcher weeping. Then as she wept, she stooped down and looked into the sepulcher, 12 and saw two angels in white, sitting, one at the head and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. 13 They say to her : Woman, why weepest thou ? She says to them : They have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him. Having said these things, she turned back, and saw Jesus stand- ing, and knew not that it was Jesus. 15 Jesus says to her: Woman, why weepest thou? Whom seekest thou? She. supposing that he was the gar- dener, says to him : Sir. if thou hast borne him away, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away. 16 Jesus said to her: Alary. She turned and said to him in Hebrew : Rabboni. which is called. Teacher. 17 Jesus says to her: Touch me not ; for I have not yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brethren and say to them : I as- cend to my Father and your Father, and to my God and your God. 18 Mary Magdalene comes and tells the disciples: I have seen the Lord; and that he had said these things to her. 19 When therefore evening had come on that day. the first of the week, and the doors had been closed where the disciples were for fear of the Jews. Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them : Peace to you. 20 And having said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Thereupon the disciples reioiced when they saw the Lord. 21 He then said to them again : Peace to 147 THE NEW TESTAMENT you ; as the Father has sent me, I also send you. 22 And having said this, he breathed on them and said to them : Receive the Holy Spirit. 23 Whosesoever sins you forgive, they are forgiven them ; whosesoever sins you retain, they are retained. 24 But Thomas, who is called Did- ymus, one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. 25 The other disciples therefore said to him : We have seen the Lord. But he said to them : Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the place of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe. 26 And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them. Jesus came, the doors having been shut, and stood in the midst, and said : Peace to you. 27 Then he says to Thomas : Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands, and reach thy hand, and put it into my side, and be not faithless, but be- lieving. 28 Thomas answered and said to him : My Lord and my God. 29 Jesus says to him : Because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed : blessed are they that, though not seeing, have yet believed. 30 Many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his dis- ciples, which are not written in this book; 31 but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that, believing, you may have life in his name. '^ 1 1 After these things Jesus ^ J- manifested himself to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias ; and he manifested himself thus. 2 There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas who is called Didymus, and Nathaniel who was from Cana of Galilee, and the sons of Zcbedce, and two others of his disciples. 3 Simon Peter says to them : I go a fishing. They say to him : We also are going with thee. They went out and entered the ship, and on that night they caught nothing. 4 But the morning hav- ing now come, Jesus stood on the shore : the disciples, however, knew not that it was Jesus. 5 Jesus therefore says to them : Children, have you any thing to eat? (beside bread). They answered him: No. 6 He says to them : Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and you shall find. They cast therefore, and were no longer able to draw it be- cause of the multitude of fishes. 7 That disciple whom Jesus loved therefore said to Peter: It is the Lord. Simon Peter therefore, hear- ing that it was the Lord, girded on his upper garment, for he was naked,* and threw himself into the sea ; 8 but the other disciples came with the ship (for they were not far from the land, but about two hundred cubits off), dragging the net of fishes. 9 Therefore when they had come to the land, they saw a fire of coals lying, and fish lying on it, and bread. 10 Jesus says to them : Bring of the fish that you have just now taken. 11 Simon Peter came up and drew the net to land, full of great fishes, a hundred and fifty-three; and though there were so many, the net was not rent. 12 Jesus says to them: Come and breakfast. But no one of the dis- ciples ventured to ask him: Who Had on only an undergarment. 148 THE ACTS art thou ' knowing that it was the Lord. 13 Jesus comes and takes the bread and gives it to them, and the fish m Uke manner. 14 This was now the third tmie on which Jesus had manifested himself to the disciples, after he had risen from the dead. 15 Therefore, when they had breakfasted, Jesus says to Simon Peter: Simon, son of Jonah, lov- est thou me more than these? He says to him : Yes, Lord, thou know- est that I love thee. He says to him: Feed my lambs. 16 He says to him again a second time : Simon, son of Jonah, lovest thou me ? He says to him : Yes, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. He says to him : Be a shepherd to my sheep. 17 He says to him the third time: Simon, son of Jonah, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he had said to him the third time : Lov- est thou me? And he says to him: Lord, thou knowest all things ; thou knowest that I love thee. He says to him : Feed my sheep. 18 Verily. verily, I say to you, when thou wast young thou didst gird thyself and walk whither thou woiildst ; but when thou shalt become old. thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldst not. 19 But this he spoke signifying by what kind of death he should glorify God. And having said this, he says to him : Follow me. 20 Peter turned and saw the disciple that Jesus loved following, who also reclined at supper on his breast and said: Lord, who is he that delivers thee up? 21 Peter therefore, seeing this man. says to Jesus : Lord, but wdiat shall this man do? 22 Jesus says to him: If I will that he remain till I come, what is that to thee? Fol- low thou me. 23 Therefore went this saying forth among the breth- ren, that that disciple should not die ; and yet Jesus did not say to him: Thou shalt not die, but: If I will that he remain till I come. 24 This is the disciple that testi- fies of these things, and that wrote these things ; and we know that his testimony is true. THE ACTS 11 The former discourse I made, O Thcophilus. concerning all things that Jesus began both to do and to teach, 2 till the day in which he was taken up. after he had. through the Holy Spirit, given com- mandments to the apostles whom he had chosen : 3 to whom he also showed himself alive, after he had suffered, by many infallible proofs, appearing to them for forty days, ^nd speaking of the things pertain- 149^ ing to the kingdom of God. 4 And being assembled together with them, he charged them not. to depart from Jerusalem, but to await the promise of the Father, which, said he, you heard from me : 5 for John indeed baptized in water, but you shall be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days hence. 6 They that had come together therefore asked him, say- ing: Lord, dost thou at this time restore the kingdom to Israel? 7 THE NEW TESTAMENT He said to them : It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has appointed by his own authority ; 8 but you shall receive power, after the Holy .Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be my witnesses, both in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and Samaria, and to the end of the earth. 9 And when he had said these things, as they beheld, he was taken up, and a cloud received hmi out of their sight. 10 And while they were looking stead- fastly toward heaven as he departed, behold, two men stood by them in white garments, 11 who also said: Men of Galilee, why stand looking towards heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as you saw him go into heaven. 12 Then they returned to Jeru- salem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a sabbath day's journey. 13 And when they had come in, they went up into an upper room where they were abid- ing, both Peter and John, and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and JNIatthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas the brother of James. 14 These all continued with one accord in prayer, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers. 15 And in these days Peter rose up in the midst of the brethren and said (and there was a multitude of names together, about a hundred and twenty) : 16 Men. brethren, it was needful that the Scripture should be fulfilled which the Holy Spirit spoke before through the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became leader to those that took Jesus; 17 for he was num- bered among us, and had obtained the part of this ministry. 18 This man therefore purchased a field with the reward of iniquity, and, having fallen headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out : 19 which also became known to all that dwell in Jerusalem, so that that field is called in their own language, Akeldama, that is, a field of blood. 20 For it is written in the book of Psalms : Let his habitation become deserted, and let no one dwell in it, and : His overseer's office let another take. 21 Therefore of these men who have accompanied us all the time, during which the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, 22 beginning from the baptism of John, till the day in which he was taken up from us, must one become a witness with us of his resurrection. 23 And they appointed two, Joseph, who is called Barsabbas, who was surnamed Jus- tus, and Matthias. 24 And praying, they said : Thou. Lord, who knowest the hearts of all. make known which one of these two thou hast chosen, 25 that he may take the place of this ministry and apostleship. from which Judas turned away to go to his own place. 26 And they gave lots for them; and the lot fell upon Mat- thias ; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles. 2 1 And' when the day of Pente- cost had fully come, they were all together at the same time. 2 And suddenly there came from heaven a sound as of a rushing, violent blast, and filled the whole house where they were sitting; 3 and there appeared to them tongues like fire distributing themselves, and 150 THE ACTS it sat on each one of them ; 4 and young men shall see visions, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. 5 And there were dwelhng in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under heaven ; 6 but when this sound had come, the multitude came together and were perplexed, because they heard them speaking, each one in his own language. 7 And they were all astonished, and wondered, say- ing: Behold, are not all these that speak Galileans? 8 And how hear we, each one in our own language m which we were born, 9 Parthian s and Medes and Elamites, and we that dwell in Mesopotamia. Judea also and Cappadocia. Pontus and Asia. 10 Phrygia also and Pam- phylia. Egypt and the parts of Libya about Cyrene. and Roman residents, both Jews and proselytes, 11 Cretes and Arabians, how hear we them speaking in our own tongues, the mighty works of God? 12 And they were all astonished and in doubt, saying one to another : What can this be? 13 But others, mock- ing, said: They are full of sweet wine. 14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice and said to them : Men of Judea, and all you that dwell in Jerusalem, be this known to you. and hearken to my words. 15 For these are not drunk. as you suppose, for it is the third hour of the day; 16 but this is that which was spoken through the prophet Joel : 17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God. I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your your old men shall dream dreams ; 18 and indeed on my servants and on my handmaids will I pour out in those days of my Spirit, and they shall prophesy. 19 And I will show wonders in heaven above and signs in the earth beneath, blood and fire and vapor of smoke. 20 The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, before the great day of the Lord shall come. 21 And it shall come to pass that whoever shall have called on the name of the Lord shall be saved. 22 ]\Ien of Israel, hear these words : Jesus the Nazarene, a man eminently distinguished among you on the part of God by mighty deeds and wonders and signs, which God did through him in the midst of you, as yourselves know. 23 him deliv- ered up by the fixed counsel and foreknowledge of God, you. through the hands of lawless men, did cru- cify and slay: 24 whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of death, inasmuch as it was not pos- sible that he should be held in sub- jection by it. 25 For David says in reference to him : I foresaw the Lord always in my presence, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved. 26 Therefore did my heart rejoice and my tongue was glad : moreover, also, my flesh shall rest in hope. 27 because thou wilt not leave my soul in hades, neither wilt thou suffer thy Holy One to see corruption. 28 Thou didst make known to me the ways of life, thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance. 29 ]\Ien, brethren, I may freely say to you of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, 151 THE NEW TESTAMENT and his sepiilcher is among us till this clay. 30 Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that he would set of the fruit of his loins upon his throne; 31 foreseeing, he spoke of the resurrection of Christ, that neither was he left in hades, nor did his flesh see corruption. 32 This Jesus has God raised up, of whom we all are witnesses. 33 Therefore, having been exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the prom- ise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this which you both see and hear. 34 For David did not ascend into the heavens, but himself says : The Lord said to my Lord: Sit at my right hand, 35 till I make thy enemies thy footstool. 36 There- fore, let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has rnade this same Jesus whom you crucified both Lord and Christ. 37 And hearing it they were pierced to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles: Men, brethren, what must w^e do? 38 And Peter said to them : Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ, for remission of your sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 39 For the promise is to you and to your children and to all that are afar off, as many as the Lord our God shall have called. 40 And with many other words did he testify, and exhort them, saying: Save yourselves from this perverse generation. 41 They therefore glad- ly received his word and were bap- tized, and were added on that day, about three thousand souls. 42 And they continued steadfastly in the teaching of the apostles and the fellowship, the breaking of the bread and the prayers. 43 And fear came on every soul ; and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles in Jeru- salem ; and great fear was upon all. 44 And all that believed were to- gether, and had all things in com- mon ; 45 and sold their possessions and goods, and distributed them to all as any one had need; 46 and continuing daily with one accord in the temple, breaking bread also from house to house, they partook of food in gladness and singleness of heart, 47 praising God and hav- ing favor with all the people. And the Lord daily added together the saved. 3 1 But Peter and John were going up into the temple, at the hour of prayer, which is the ninth. 2 And a man, lame from his mother's womb, was borne along; whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple that is called Beau- tiful, to ask charity from them that went into the temple : 3 who, seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, asked to receive charity. 4 But Peter, looking intently upon him with John, said : Look on us. 5 And he gave heed to them, ex- pecting to receive something from them. 6 But Peter said : Silver and gold have I not ; but what I have, this I give thee : in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, walk. 7 And, taking him by the right hand, he raised him up. and immediately his feet and ankles became strong; 8 and leaping up. he stood and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking and leaping and praising Ggd, 9 And all the people 153 THE ACTS saw him walking and praising God; 10 and they recognized him, that it was he that sat for charity at the Beautiful gate of the temple; and they were tilled with amazement and astonishment at that which had hap- pened to him. 11 But while he was holding Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the porch called Solomon's, greatly amazed. 12 And seeing it, Peter answered to the people : Men of Israel, why wonder at this man, or on us why earnestly look, as if by our own power or godliness we had made him to walk? 13 The God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus, whom you de- livered up, and denied in the pres- ence of Pilate, though he had deter- mined to release him; 14 the holy and just one you however denied, and demanded that a murderer should be given to you; 15 but the author of life you slew, whom God raised from the dead, of whom we are witnesses. 16 And his name, by faith in his name, has made this man strong, whom you see and know : even the faith that is through him has given him this entire sound- ness in the presence of you all. 17 And now, brethren, I know that through ignorance you did it. as did also your rulers; 18 but the things that God foretold through the mouth of all the prophets, that his Anointed should suffer, he has thus fulfilled. 19 Repent therefore and turn, that your sins may be blotted out. that seasons of refresh- ing may come from the presence of the T.ord. 20 and he may send him Jesus, 21 whom heaven must re- ceive, till the times of the restora- tion of all things that God has spoken through the mouth of his holy prophets of ancient times. 22 Moses indeed said: A prophet shall the Lord our God raise up for you from among your brethren, like me : him shall you hear in all things whatever he shall say to you. 23 And it shall come to pass that every soul that will not hear that prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the people. 24 And all the prophets also, from Samuel and those after, as many as have spoken, have also foretold these days. 25 You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God covenanted with our fathers, saying to Abraham : And in thy offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed. 26 To you first, God having raised up his Servant, sent him to bless you, in turning every one away from your iniquities. A ^ 1 But as they were speak- ' ing to the people, there came upon them the priests and the cap- tain of the temple and the Saddu- cees, 2 being vexed because they taught the people, and announced in Jesus the resurrection from the dead; 3 and they laid their hands on them, and put them in prison till the morrow; for it was already evening. 4 But many of them that heard the word believed, and the number of the men amounted to five thousand. 5 And it came to pass on the morrow, that their rulers and the elders and scribes, came together in Jerusalem, 6 Annas also the chief priest, and Caianhas and that was destined for you, Christ John and Ak?^ander, and as many 153 THE NEW TESTAMENT as were of the family of the chief priest; 7 and, placing them in the midst, they inquired : In what power or in what name did you this? 8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them : Rulers of the people and elders, 9 if we are this day examined with respect to the good deed done to the infirm man, by what means he has been saved, 10 be it known to you all and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ the Xazarene, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, in him does this man stand before you in health. 11 This is the stone that was set at naught by you builders, which has become the head of the corner. 12 And salvation is in none other; neither indeed is there another name under heaven, given among men, by which we must be saved. 13 And seeing the boldness of Peter and of John, and perceiving that they were men without learn- ing, and plain, they were astonished ; they also recognized them that they had been with Jesus ; 14 and seeing the man that had been cured stand- ing with them, they had nothing to say in reply. 15 But having com- manded them to go out of the San- hedrim, they conferred one with an- other. 16 saying: What must we do to these men? For indeed that a well-known sign has been done by them is manifest to all that dwell in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it; 17 but that it may spread no further among the people, let us severely threaten them that they speak no more in this name to any one of men. 18 And having called them, they commanded them to speak not at all, neither to teach in the name of Jesus. 19 But Peter and John, answering, said to them : Whether it is right in the sight of God to hear you rather than God, judge you ; 20 for we can but speak the things that we have seen and heard. 21 And having further threatened them, they let them go, not finding how they might punish them, be- cause of the people; for all glorified God on account of what had been done ; 22 for the man on whom this sign of healing had been done was more than forty years old, 22) But having been let go, they came to their own, and told all that the chief priests and elders had said to them. 24 And having heard, they, with one accord, lifted up a voice to God and said : Lord, thou that madest the heaven and the earth and the sea. and all things that in them are. 25 that through the Holy Spirit by the mouth of our father David thy servant didst say: Why did Gentiles rage and peoples desire vain things? 26 The kings of the land stood up. and the rulers were collected together against the Lord, and against his Anointed. 27 For in truth there were collected in this city against thy holy Servant Jesus, whom thou didst anoint, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with Gen- tiles and peoples of Israel. 28 to do all that thy hand and thy counsel before determined to be done. 29 And now. Lord, look upon their threatenings. and give to thy ser- vants to speak thy word with all boldness, 30 in stretching forth thy hand to heal, and that signs and w^onders may be done through the name of thv holy Servant Jesus. 31 And after they had prayed, the place where they were collected together 154 THE ACTS was shaken ; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and spoke the word of God with boldness. 2>2 And the heart and the soul of the multitude of believers were one; and not even one said that any of the things he had was his own ; but they had all things in common. 33 And with great power did the apos- tles give testimony of the resurrec- tion of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all. 34 For neither was there any needy person among them; for as many as were possessors of lands or of houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things sold, 35 and laid them at the feet of the apostles; and dis- tribution was made to each as any one had need. 36 But Joseph, who by the apostles was surnamed Bar- nabas, which is. when translated. Son of consolation, a Levite. by birth a Cyprian, 2>1 having a field, sold it, and brought the money and laid it at the feet of the apostles. 5 1 But a certain man named • Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, 2 and kept back part of the price, his wife also having knowledge of it, and having brought a certain part, laid it at the feet of the apostles. 3 But Peter said : Ananias, why has Satan filled thy heart, that thou shouldst at- tempt to deceive the Holy Spirit, and that thou shouldst keep back part of the price of the field? 4 \\'hile it remained, did it not re- main thine, and when sold, was it not in thy own right? Why is it that thou didst conceive this thing in thy heart? Thou hast not lied to men. but to God. 5 And Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and e:xpired ; and great fear came on all that heard. 6 But the younger men, having risen, wound him up, and, having carried him out, buried him. 7 But there was an interval of about three hours, and his wife, not know- ing what had been done, came in. 8 And Peter answered to her: Tell me, did you sell the field for so much? And she said: Yes, for so much. 9 And Peter said to her: Why is it that you have agreed to- gether to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of them that have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out. 10 And she fell down immediately at his feet and expired. And the young men coming in found her dead, and having carried her out buried her by her husband. 11 And great fear came upon the whole church, and upon all that heard these things. 12 And through the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were done among the people : and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch : 13 but of the rest, no one ventured to join himself to them, but the people magnified them ; 14 and believers in the Lord were the more added, multitudes of both men and women : 15 so that they brought out the sick even into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that even the shadow of Peter as he came might over- shadow some one of them. 16 And there came together also the multi- tude of the cities round about Jeru- salem, bringing the sick and those oppressed by unclean spirits, all of whom were cured. 17 But the chief priest arose and all those with him. which is the sect of the Sadducees, and were filled 155 THE NEW TESTAMENT with zeal, 18 and laid their hands on the apostles and put them in the public prison. 19 But an angel of the Lord during the night opened the doors of the prison and brought them out and said : 20 Go, and stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life. 21 And hearing, they entered about daybreak into the temple and taught. And the chief priest came and those with him. and called together the Sanhedrim and all the eldership of the sons of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought. 22 But the attendants came and found them not in the prison ; and, having returned, reported. 23 saying : The prison we found closed in all safety, and the guards standing before the doors, but on opening we found no one within. 24 And when both the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these words, they were in doubt concerning them, what this might be. 25 And some one came and told them : Behold, the men whom you put in the prison are in the temple, standing and teaching the people. 26 Then went the cap- tain with the attendants and brought them, not with violence, for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned. 27 And they brought them and made them stand in the Sanhedrim. And the chief priest asked them, 28 saying: We strictly charged you not to teach in this name, and behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you wish to bring upon us the blood of this man. 29 But answering. Peter and the apostles said : We must obey God rather than men. 30 The God of our fathers raised up Je§us, whpm you §lew by hanging on a tree : 31 him has God exalted to his right hand as a prince and savior, to give repentance to Israel and remission of sins. 32 And we arg witnesses of these things, and the Holy Spirit, whom he has given to those that obey him. 33 And hearing, they were cut to the heart, and counseled to kill them. 34 But there arose a certain one in the Sanhedrim, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, honored by all the people, and commanded to put the men out a little while; 35 and said to them: Men of Israel, take heed to your- selves with respect to these men, what you are about to do. 36 For before these days arose Theudas, saying that himself was somebody, to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain, and all as many as were persuaded by him were scat- tered and came to naught. 37 After this man arose Judas the Galilean, in the days of the enrollment, and drew off people after him ; and he was destroyed, and all as many as were persuaded by him were dis- persed. 38 And now, I say to you, stand off from these men and let them alone; for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to naught; 39 but if it is of God, you cannot overthrow them, lest perhaps you also be found fighting against God. 40 And they were persuaded by him ; and having called the apostles in, and beaten them, they charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go. 41 They then went from the presence of the Sanhedrim rejoicing, because they were thought worthy to be dishon- 156 THE ACTS ored for the name. 42 Also, every 11 Then they suborned men to say: day in the temple and from house to house, they ceased not to teach and preach Christ Jesus. 6 1 And in these days, as the disciples were increasing in number, there arose a murmuring of the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration. 2 But the twelve, calling to them the multi- tude of the disciples, said : It is not pleasing to us that we should leave the word of God and serve tables. 3 But look out, brethren, from among you seven men of good re- port, full of spirit and wisdom, whom we will appoint over this business; 4 and we will attend con- tinually to prayer and the ministry of the word. 5 And the saying was pleasing in the sight of all the mul- titude ; and they chose out Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon. and Par- menas, and Nicholas a proselyte of Antioch, 6 whom they placed before the apostles ; and they prayed and laid their hands on them. 7 And the word of God increased, and the number of the disciples was enlarged in Jerusalem greatly, and a great number of the priests be- came obedient to the faith. 8 But Stephen, full of grace and power, did great wonders and signs among the people. 9 And there arose some of those that were of the synagogue called the synagogue of the Freedmen, and of the Cyre- nians and Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and Asia, dis- puting with Stephen. 10 and were not able to withstand the wisdom and the smrit with which he spoke. We have heard him speak blas- phemous words against Moses and God; 12 and they excited the people and the elders and the scribes; and, coming upon him. they seized him, and led him to the Sanhedrim ; 13 and set up false witnesses who said: This man ceases not to speak words against the holy place and the law ; 14 for we have heard him say that this Jesus the Xazarene shall destroy this place, and change the customs that Moses delivered to us. 15 And all that sat in the Sanhedrim, looking earnestly on him. saw his face as the face of an angel. 7 1 And the chief priest said: Are these things so? 2 And he said: Men. brethren and fathers, hear. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran, 3 and said to him : Come out from thy land and from thy kindred, and come into the land that I will show thee. 4 Then he came out of the land o£ the Chaldeans and dwelt in Haran. And thence after his father had died he removed him into this land, in which you now dwell ; 5 and he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot-breadth, though he had promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his posterity after him. while he had no child. 6 But God spoke thus, that his pos- terity should sojourn in a strange land, and they would bring them into bondage, and afflict them^ four hundred years: 7 and the nation to which they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God, and after that they shall come forth and serve me 157 THE NEW TESTAMENT in this place. 8 And he gave him the covenant of circumcision ; and so he hegot Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patri- archs. 9 And the patriarchs envied Joseph and sold him into Egypt; yet God was with him, 10 and deliv- ered him from all his afiflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh, king of Egypt ; and he made him ruler over Egypt and over all his house. 11 But there came a famine over the whole of Egypt and of Canaan, and great affliction, and our fathers found no sustenance. 12 And Jacob, hearing that there was grain in Egypt, sent forth our fathers the first time. 13 And the second time, Joseph was made known to his brothers, and the race of Joseph became known to Pharaoh. 14 And Joseph sent and called to him his father Jacob, and all his kindred, seventy-five souls. 15 And Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, himself and our fathers, 16 and were carried over to Sychem and laid in the sepulcher which Abraham bought for its value in silver, from the sons of llanior. the father of Sychem. 17 But as the time of the promise which God had made to Abraham drew near, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt. 18 till there arose another king, who knew not Joseph. 19 This man dealt insid- iously with our race, and afflicted our fathers, so that they exposed their infants, that they might not live. 20 At which time Moses was born, and he was beautiful before God. And he was nursed three months in his father's house ; 21 but when he was exposed, the daughter of Pharaoh took him up and nursed him as a son for her- self. 22 And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians; and he was mighty in his words and deeds. 23 But when the time of forty years was completed for him, it came into his heart to look after his brethren, the sons of Israel. 24 And, seeing one unjustly treated, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed by smiting the Egyptian. 25 And he thought that his brethren would understand that God, through his hand, was giving salvation to them ; l)ut they understood not. 26 And on the following day he showed himself to them as they fought, and urged them to peace, saying: Men, you are brethren : why treat one another unjustly? 27 But he that treated his neighbor unjustly thrust him away, saying: Who appointed thee ruler and judge over us? 28 Wilt thou kill me as thou didst kill the Egyptian yesterday? 29 And at that saying Moses fled and be- came a sojourner in the land of Midian. where he begot two sons. 30 And when forty years were completed, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sinai an angel in flaming fire of a bush. 31 And Moses, seeing, wondered at the sight; but as he drew near to be- hold it. there came the voice of the Lord: 32 I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob. And Moses trem- bled and ventured not to behold. 33 And the Lord said to him : Loose the sandal of thy feet; for the place on which thou standest is holy ground. 34 T have surely seen the affliction of my people that are in 158 THE ACTS Egypt, and their groaning have I heard, and I have come down to dehver them; and now come, I will send thee into Egypt. 35 This Moses, whom they denied, saying: Who appointed thee ruler and judge? this man God sent both as ruler and deliverer, with the hand of the angel that appeared to him in the bush. 36 This man led them out after having performed won- ders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wil- derness forty years. Zl This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel: A prophet shall God raise up for you from among your breth- ren, like me, 38 This is he that was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the angel that spoke to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers; who received the living oracles to give to us, 39 to whom our fathers would not become obe- dient, but thrust him aw^ay and turned in their heart to Egypt, 40 saying to Aaron : Make us gods that shall go before us; for this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what has be- come of him. 41 And they made a calf in those days and offered sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands. 42 But God turned and delivered them up to serve the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the proph- ets : Victims and sacrifices did you offer to me forty years in the wil- derness, O house of Israel, 43 and did you take up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of the god Remphan, the images that you made to worship^ and I will remove you beyond Babylon. 44 Our fathers in the wilderness had the tabernacle of testimony, as he had appointed who spoke to j\loses that he should make it ac- cording to the pattern which he had seen; 45 which also our fathers re- ceived and brought in with Joshua, when they took possession of the nations, whom God thrust out from the face of our fathers till the days of David: 46 who found favor in the sight of God, and asked that he might find a dwelling for the house of Jacob. 47 But Solomon built him a house. 48 However, the ]\Iost High dwells not in places made with hands, as says the proph- et : 49 Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool : what kind of a house will you build for me, says the L£)rd. or what the place of my rest? 50 Did not my hand make all these things? 51 Stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit, as your fathers, also you. 52 Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed those who foretold concerning the coming of the Just One, of whom you have now become the betrayers and mur- derers : 53 who received the law as the arrangements of angels, and have not kept it. 54 And hearing these things, they were cut to their hearts, and gnashed upon him with their teeth. 55 But being full of the Holy Spirit, he looked up into heaven and saw the glory of God. and Jesus standing at the right hand of God ; 56 and he said : Behold. T see the heavens opened and the Son of man stand- ing at the right hand of God. 57 And having cried with a loud voice, they stopped their ears and rushed with one accord upon him, 58 and 159 THE NEW TESTAMENT having cast him out of the city, they stoned him. And the witnesses laid off their clothes at the feet of a young man called Saul ; 59 and they stoned Stephen, calling on t!ie Lord and saying: Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. 60 And he kneeled down and cried with a loud voice : Lord, let not this sin stand against them. And having said this, he fell asleep. And Saul was consenting to his death. 8 1 And there arose at that day a great persecution against the church that was in Jerusalem : they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apos- tles. 2 But godly men helped to bury Stephen, and made great lam- entation over him. 3 But'Saul made havoc of the church, entering into every house, and, dragging men and women, he committed them to prison. 4 They therefore that had been scattered went everywhere, preach- ing the word ; 5 but Philip went down to the city of Samaria and preached Christ to them. 6 And the multitudes with one accord gave heed to the things that were spoken by Philip, when they heard and saw the signs that he did. 7 For there were many of those that had un- clean spirits; these, crying with a loud voice, came out of them; and many paralytics and lame persons were cured ; 8 and there arose great joy in that city. 9 But a certain man named Simon before this used magic in the city, and astonished the nation of Sama- ria, saying that himself was some great one ; 10 to whom they gave heed, from small to great, saying : This man is the power of God, which is called great. 11 And they gave heed to him because he had for a long time astonished them with his magic arts. 12 But when they believed Philip, preaching concern- ing the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women. 13 And Simon himself also believed, and having been baptized, he con- tinued with Philip, and seeing the mighty deeds and signs that were done, he was astonished. 14 But the apostles that were in Jerusalem, hearing that Samaria had received the word of God, sent to them Peter and John, 15 who went down and prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Spirit. 16 For he had not yet fallen on any one of them, but they had only been baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus. 17 Then they laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit. 18 But Simon, seeing that through the laying on of the apostles' hands the Spirit was given, offered them money, 19 saying: Give me also this authority, that on whomever I shall have laid hands, he may receive the Holy Spirit. 20 But Peter said to him : Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought to pur- chase for thyself with money the gift of God. 21 Thou hast no part, neither lot, in this matter; for thy heart is not right in the sight of God. 22 Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray the Lord if perhaps the thought of thy heart may be iforgiven thee : 23 for I per- ceive that thou art bitter gall and a bundle of unrighteousness. 24 But Simon answered and said : Pray 160 THE ACTS you to the Lord for me, that none of the things that you have spoken may come upon me. 25 They therefore having testified and spoken the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem : they also preached the gospel in many cities of the Samaritans. 26 But an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying: Arise, and go toward the south, to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza : this is desert. 27 And he arose and went; and behold, a man of Ethi- opia, a eunuch, a high officer of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to Jerusalem to worship, 28 was also returning, and, sitting in his chariot, was reading the prophet Isaiah. 29 And the Spirit said to Philip: Go forward and join thy- self to this chariot. 30 And running forward, Philip heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said : Under- standest thou, then, what thou read- est? 31 But he said: How should I unless some one guide me? And he requested Philip to come up and sit with him. 32 And the passage of Scripture which he was reading was this : As a sheep for slaughter was he led; and as a lamb before his shearer is dumb, so opens he not his mouth. 33 In his humiliation his judgment* was taken aw^ay: his generation who shall describe? for his life is taken from the earth. 34 And the eunuch answered and said to Philip: I pray thee, of whom speaks the prophet this? Of him- self or of some other man? 35 But Philip opened his mouth and began * The justice due him. 11 at the same Scripture, and preached to him Jesus. 36 And as they went along the road, they came to some water ; and the eunuch says : Be- hold, water : what hinders me from being baptized? 38 And he com- manded the chariot to stop, and both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he bap- tized him. 39 But when they had come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip ; and the eunuch saw him no more, for he went on his way re- joicing. 40 But Philip was found at Azotus; and passing through he preached the gospel in all the cities till he came to Csesarea. 9 1 But Saul, yet breathing threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the chief priest 2 and asked of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that, if he should find any of the way, both men and women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. 3 But as he was going, it came to pass that he drew near to Damascus, and suddenly there flashed around him a light from heaven ; 4 and having fallen to the ground, he heard a voice say- ing to him : Saul, Saul, why perse- cutest thou me? 5 And he said: Who art thou. Lord? And he said: I am Jesus whom thou persecutest. 6 But rise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do. 7 But the men that journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing indeed the voice, but seeing no one. 8 And Saul arose from the ground; but when his eyes were opened, he saw nothing; and leading him by the hand, they brought him into Damascus. 9 And he was three days 161 THE NEW TESTAMENT without sight, and he ate not, neither did he drink. 10 But there was in Damascus a disciple named Ananias ; and the Lord said to him in a vision : Ana- nias. And he said: Behold me, Lord. 11 And the Lord said to him: Arise, and go into the street that is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judah for one named Saul, of Tarsus; for behold, he prays, 12 and has seen a man named Ananias coming in and lay- ing his hand on him, that he may receive sight. 13 But Ananias an- swered : Lord, I have heard from many of this man, what evils he has done to thy saints in Jerusalem ; 14 and how he has authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on thy name. 15 But the Lord said to him: Go; for a chosen vessel is this man to me. to bear my name before Gentiles and kings also, and the sons of Israel; 16 for I will show him how great things he must suffer for my name. 17 And Ananias went, and entered into the house, and having laid his hands on him. said: Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to thee on the way by which thou camest, has sent me, that thou mayest receive sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit. 18 And immediately there fell from his eyes as if scales ; and he re- ceived sight, and arose and was baptized ; 19 and having taken food, he was strengthened. And he was with the disciples in Damascus some days ; 20 and imme- diately in the synagogues he preached Jesus, that this is the Son of God. 21 But all that heard were astonished, and said: Is not this he that destroyed in Jerusalem those that call on this name, and has he not come hither for this purpose, that he might lead them bound to the chief priests? 22 But Saul in- creased the more in strength, and confounded the Jews that dwelt in Damascus, proving that this is the Christ. 23 But when many days were fulfilled, the Jews counselled together to kill him; 24 but their plot was made known to Saul. And they also watched the gates day and night, that they might kill him ; 25 and his disciples took him. and by night let him down through the wall, lowering him in a basket, 26 And when he had come to Jerusalem, he attempted to join himself to the disciples; and they all feared him. not believing that he was a disciple. 27 But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and told them how on the way he had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken to him, and how in Damascus he had spoken boldly in the name of Jesus. 28 And he was with them going in and out in Jeru- salem ; speaking boldly in the name of the Lord. 29 he spoke to. and also disputed with, the Hellenists; but they undertook to kill him. 30 And the brethren, knowing it, brought him down to Csesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus. 31 Then indeed the church throughout the whole of Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace, being edified and walking in the fear of the Lord; and through the aid of the Holy Spirit was multi- plied. 32 But it came to pass that Peter, passing through all places, came down also to the saints that dwell in Lydda. 33 And he found there a man named ^neas, that 162 THE ACTS had lain on a bed for eight years, who was a paralytic. 34 And Peter said to him : ^Eneas. Jesus Christ restores thee to health : arise, and make thy bed for thyself. And he immediately arose; 35 and all that dwelt m Lydda and Saron saw him, and they turned to the Lord. 36 And there was in Joppa a female disciple named Tabitha, which, translated, is called Dorcas ; she was full of good works and charities that she did. Zl But it came to pass in those days that, hav- ing been taken sick, she died ; and they washed her and laid her in an upper room. 38 And as Lydda was near to Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was there, sent two men to him, beseeching: Delay not to come to us. 39 And Peter arose and went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper room ; and all the widows stood by him weeping and showing the coats and garments which Dor- cas made while she was with them. 40 But having put them all out, Peter kneeled down and prayed ; and turning to the body, he said : Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes, and, seeing Peter, she sat up. 41 But giving her a hand, he raised her up; and having called the saints and widows, he presented her alive. 42 And it became known through- out the whole of Joppa, and many believed on the Lord. 43 And it came to pass that he remained many days in Joppa with one Simon, a tanner. 1 A 1 But a man in Csesarea, J-^ named Cornelius, a centurion of the band called Italian, 2 devout and fearing God with all his house, who gave many charities to the people and prayed to God always, 3 saw in a vision, evidently about the ninth hour of the day, an angel of God coming in to him and saying to him : Cornelius. 4 But looking earnestly on him and becoming afraid, he said: What is it. Lord? And he said to him : Thy prayers and thy charities have come up for a memorial before God. 5 And now, send men to Joppa and call for one Simon, who is surnamed Peter: 6 he lodges with one Simon, a tanner, who has a house by the sea. 7 And when the angel that spoke to him had gone away, he called two of the household servants, and a devout soldier of those that waited on him, 8 and having made known all things to them, he sent them to Joppa. 9 But on the morrow, as they went on their way and drew near to the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray, about the si.xth hour. 10 And he became very hungry and desired to eat. But while they made ready, he fell into a trance, 11 and saw heaven opened, and some vessel, like a great sheet, descending, let down by the four corners upon the earth : 12 in which were all manner of fourfooted beasts, and creeping things of the earth, and birds of the heaven. 13 And there came a voice to him : Rise, Peter, kill and eat. 14 But Peter said : By no means, Lord, for I have never eaten anything com- mon and unclean. 15 And a voice came again a second time to him: The things that God has cleansed call thou not common. 16 And this was done three times, and imme- diately the vessel was taken up into heaven, 17 But while Peter was 163 THE NEW TESTAMENT doubting in himself, what the vision that he had seen might be, behold, the men that had been sent by Cornelius, havmg inquired for the house of Simon, stood at the gate, 18 and, calHng, asked if Simon who is surnamed Peter lodged there. 19 But while Peter carefully considered about the vision, the Spirit said to him : Behold, men seek thee ; 20 but arise and go down, and go with them, doubting nothing, for I have sent them. 21 And Peter went down to the men and said : Behold. I am he whom you seek : what is the cause for which you are pres- ent? 22 And they said: Cornelius, a centurion, a man just and fearing God, well reported of also by all the nation of the Jews, was warned by a holy angel to send for thee to his house, and to hear words from thee. IZ Having called them in therefore, he lodged them. But on the morrow he arose and went forth with them; and some of the brethren that were of Joppa accompanied him. 24 And on the next day he entered into Cresarea ; and Cornelius was looking for him, having called together his relatives and near friends. 25 But as Peter went in. Cornelius met him, fell at his feet and worshipped. 26 But Peter raised him up, saying: Stand up: I myself also am a man. 21 And conversing with him, he went in, and found many that had come together. 28 and said to them : You know that it is not lawful- for a man a Jew to join himself to or go in to one of another race ; yet God has showed me that I must call no man common or unclean : 29 where- fore, having been sent for, I came also without objecting. I ask there- fore, for what purpose have you sent for me? 30 And Cornelius said : Four days ago up to this hour, was 1 at the ninth praying in my house ; and be- hold, a man stood before me in bright clothing, 31 and said : Corne- lius, thy prayer is heard, and thy charities are remembered before God. Til Send therefore to Joppa. and call for Simon, who is surnamed Peter; he lodges in the house of Simon a tanner, by the sea. Z2> Immediately therefore I sent to thee, and thou hast done well in coming. Now therefore we all are present before God, to hear all things that have been commanded thee by the Lord. 34 And Peter opened his mouth and said : In truth, I comprehend that God is not a respecter of per- sons, 35 but in every nation he that fears him and works righteous- ness is acceptable to him, 36 the word that he sent to the sons of Israel, preaching peace through Jesus Christ : — he is Lord of all. — Zl You know the w^ord that was published throughout the whole of Judca, beginning from Galilee after the baptism which John preached. 38 Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and power, who went about doing good and giving health to all that were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him ; 39 and we are witnesses of all things that he did in the country of the Jews and in Terusalem : whom they slew by hanging upon a tree. 40 This man God raised on the third day and made him manifest. 41 not to all the people, but to witnesses that were 1)0 fore appointed by God, to us who 164 THE ACTS ate and drank with him after he had risen from the dead; 42 and he charged us to preach to the people, and to testify that it is he that has been appointed by God as judge of living and dead. 43 To him give all the prophets witness, that, through his name, every one that believes on him shall receive remission of sins. 44 While Peter was yet speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all that heard the word. 45 And the believers of the circumcision, as many as came with Peter, were astonished, because on the Gentiles also the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out ; 46 for they heard them speaking with tongues and magnifying God. Then Peter an- swered : 47 Can any one forbid water, that those should not be bap- tized who have received the Holy Spirit even as we? 48 And he com- manded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they besought him to remain some days. 11 1 But the apostles and the J- brethren that were through- out Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. 2 And when Peter went up to Jeru- salem, they of the circumcision con- tended with him, 3 saying : Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them. 4 And Peter began and laid the matter be- fore them in order, saying: 5 I was in a city, Joppa. praying, and I saw in a trance a vision, some vessel, like a great sheet, descending, let down from heaven by four corners, and it came even to me. 6 Into which having looked attentively, I observed and saw fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and birds of the heavens. 7 And I heard also a voice saying to me : Rise, Peter, kill and eat. 8 But I said: By no means, Lord, for a common or un- clean thing has never entered my mouth, 9 But a voice answered a second time from heaven : The things that God has cleansed, call thou not common. 10 And this was done three times, and all were drawn up again into heaven. 11 And behold, immediately three men, sent from Csesarea to me, stood at the house in which I was. 12 And the Spirit bade me go with them, nothing doubting. And these six brethren also went with me, and we entered the man's house. 13 And he told us how he had seen the angel standing in his house and saying: Send to Joppa and call for Simon, who is surnamed Peter, 14 who shall speak words to thee, by which thou shalt be saved, and all thy house. 15 But when I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them as on us also in the beginning. 16 And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said : John indeed baptized in water, but you shall be baptized in the Holy Spirit. 17 If then God gave to them the like gift as to us also, when we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was T that I could withstand God? 18 And when they heard these things they were silent, and glorified God. saying: Then has God given to the Gentiles also repentance to life. 19 They therefore that were scat- tered abroad because of the afflic- tion that arose against Stephen, travelled as far as Phenice and Cyprus and Antioch. speaking the word to no one but Jews only. 20 aoo THE NEW TESTAMENT But some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who came to Antioch and spoke to the Greeks also, preaching the gospel of the Lord Jesus. 21 And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great multitude that believed turned to the Lord. 22 And the report con- cerning them came to the ears of the church that was in Jerusalem ; and they sent forth Barnabas as far as Antioch : 23 who, having come and seen the grace of God, rejoiced, and exhorted all that with determi- nation of the heart they should adhere to the Lord; 24 for he was a man good and full of the Holy Spirit and faith. And a great multi- tude was added to the Lord. 25 But he went out to Tarsus to seek for Saul; and he found and brought him to Antioch. 26 And it happened to them that they met together in the church for a whole year and taught a great multitude ; also, that the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch. 27 But in those days there came down prophets from Jerusalem to Antioch ; 28 and one of them, named Agabus. rose up, and signified through the Spirit that there was about to be a great famine over the whole habitable land : which came to pass in the days of Claudius. 29 And as any one of the disciples was prosperous, they determined each one of them to send to the relief of the brethren that dwelt in Judea: 30 which they also did, sending to the elders through the hand of Barnabas and Saul. 1 p 1 But at that time Herod -■- ^ the king laid hands on some of those who were of the church, to afflict them. 2 And he slew James the brother of John with the sword. 3 And, seeing that it was pleasing to the Jews, he appre- hended Peter also (but these were the days of unleavened bread) ; 4 whom having seized he put in prison, delivering him to four tetrads of soldiers to guard him, intending after passover to bring him out to the people. 5 Peter was, indeed, therefore, kept in prison ; but earnest prayer was made to God by the church for him. 6 But when Herod was about to bring him forth, on that night Peter was sleep- ing between two soldiers, bound with two chains : guards also before the door watched the prison. 7 And behold, an angel of the Lord stood by, and light shone in the house ; and striking Peter on the side, he raised him up, saying: Rise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands. 8 The angel also said to him : Gird thyself, and bind on thy sandals. And he did so. And he said to him : Throw thy mantle about thee and follow me. 9 And going out he followed, and knew not that what had been done by the angel was true, but thought that he saw a vision. 10 But after passing through the first and second guard, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened to them of its own accord ; and having gone out they went along one street ; and immediately the angel departed from him. 11 And Peter, having come to himself, said : Now I know in truth that the Lord has sent his angel, and deliv- ered me from the hand of Herod and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews. 12 And being aware of this, he went to the house \m THE ACTS of Mary the mother of John, who is surnamed Mark, where many were assembled and praying. 13 But when he knocked at the door of the entrance there came a maid- servant named Rhoda to listen ; 14 and recognizing Peter's voice, she opened not the entrance for joy, but running in, told that Peter stood before the entrance. 15 But they said to her : Thou art mad. She. however, strongly affirmed that it was so. But they said: It is his angel. 16 Peter, however, continued knocking; and. having opened, they saw him and were astonished. 17 But beckoning to them with the hand that they should be silent, he told how the Lord had brought him out of the prison : he said also : Tell these things to James and the breth- ren. And he went out and departed to another place. 18 But when it was day there was no little consternation among the soldiers, what had become of Peter. 19 But Herod, having sought for him, and not finding him, examined the guards and commanded them to be put to death ; and having gone down from Judea to Csesarea. he continued there. 20 And he was of hostile mind toward the Tynans and Sidonians: but they came to him with one consent, and having gained the good will of Blastus. who had charge of the king's bedchamber, they sought for peace, because their country was sustained by that of the king. 21 And on an appointed day. Herod, having clothed himself in royal apparel, seated himself on the tribunal and made an oration to them. 22 And the people shout- ed : The voice of God. and not of gi man. 23 Biit an angel of the Lord immediately smote him, be- cause he gave not the glory to God ; and, having been eaten by worms, he expired. 24 And the word of God increased and multiplied. 25 And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, after having fulfilled the ministry, taking with them also John who was surnamed Mark. 1 ^ 1 And there were in the J-*-' church that was in Antioch prophets and teachers, both Bar- nabas and Simon who is called Niger, and Lucius of Gyrene, Manaen also, the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch. and Saul. 2 And as they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said : Set apart to me Barna- bas and Saul for the work to which I have called them. 3 Then, having fasted and prayed and laid hands on them, they sent them away. 4 They therefore having been sent forth by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia, and thence they sailed to Cyprus ; 5 and being in Salamis they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews ; and they had also John as attendant. 6 But having passed through the whole island as far as Paphos. they found a man. a magician, a Jewish false prophet, whose name was Bar- Jesus. 7 who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus. an intelligent man. This man called for Barnabas and Saul, and requested to hear the word of God. 8 But Elymas the magician, for so is his name trans- lated, withstood them, seeking to turn awav the proconsul from the faith. 9 But Saul, who is also Paul, being filled with the Holy Spirit, looked earnestly upon him 10 and 167 THE NEW TESTAMENT said: O full of all deceit and all mischief, son of the devil, enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the straight w^ays of the Lord? 11 And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And imme- diately there fell upon him a mist and darkness, and going about, he sought persons to lead him by the hand. 12 Then the proconsul, see- ing what had been done, believed, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord, 13 And Paul and his companions, having loosed from Paphos, came to Perga of Pamphylia; but John, de- parting from them, returned to Jerusalem. 14 But they continued their journey from Perga and came to Antioch of Pisidia; and having entered the synagogue on the sab- bath day, they sat down. 15 And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the syna- gogue sent to them, saying : Men, brethren, if there is in you any word of exhortation for the people, speak. 16 And Paul arose, and, beckoning with his hand, said: Men of Israel and you that fear God. hear. 17 The God of this people Israel chose our fathers, and the people he ex- alted during the sojourn in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm brought he therh out of it ; 18 and for a time of about forty years he nourished them in the wilderness; 19 and after he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he divided to them their land for an inheritance. 20 for about four hun- dred and fifty years. And after this he gave judges till Samuel the prophet, 21 And after that they asked for a king; and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, forty years; 22 and he removed him and raised up for them David as a king; to whom he also gave testimony: I have found David the son of Jesse, a man according to my heart, who shall do all my will. 23 From this man's posterity. God, according to promise, has brought to Israel a Saviour. Jesus, 24 John having preached, before his entrance, the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel. 25 But as John was fulfilling his course, he said: Who do you sup- pose that I am? I am not he; but behold, there comes after me one, the sandal of whose feet I am not worthy to loose. 26 Men, brethren, sons of the race of Abraham, and those among you that fear God, to us is the word of this salvation sent. 27 For they that dwell in Jerusalem and their rulers, being ignorant of this one, and of the voices of the prophets that are read every sab- bath, have fulfilled them in con- demning him ; 28 and though they found no cause of death, they asked of Pilate that he might be put to death. 29 And when they had ful- filled all things that are written con- cerning him, they took him down from the tree and laid him in a scpulcher. 30 But God raised him from the dead ; 31 and he appeared for many days to those that went up with him from Galilee to Jeru- salem : who now are his witnesses to the people. 32 And we announce to you glad tidings of the promise made to the fathers, that God has fulfilled this to our children by rais- ing up Jesus, 33 as it is also written 168 THE ACTS in the second Psalm : Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee. 34 But that he raised him from the dead no more to return to corrup- tion, he has thus spoken : I will give you the faithful, holy things of David. 35 Wherefore he says also in another Psalm : Thou wilt not suffer thy Holy One to see cor- ruption. 36 For David indeed, hav- ing served his own generation by the counsel of God, fell asleep and was laid with his fathers and saw corruption ; 37 but he whom God raised up saw no corruption. 38 Be it known to you, therefore, men, brethren, that through this man is preached to you remission of sins : 39 in this one, every one that be- lieves is justified from all things, from which you could not be justi- fied in the law of Moses. ' 40 Take heed, therefore, lest there come upon you that which is said in the prophets : 41 Behold, you despisers, and wonder, and perish, for I work a work in your days, a work which you would not believe, though any one plainly declare it to you. 42 But when they had gone out they besought that these words might be spoken to them on the next sabbath. 43 And when the synagogue was dismissed, many of the Jews and devout proselytes fol- lowed Paul and Barnabas, who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God. 44 And on the next sabbath almost all the city came together to hear the word of the Lord. 45 But the Jews, seeing the multitudes, were filled with envy, and spoke against the things spoken by Paul, contrad'cting and blaspheming. 46 And Paul and Barnabas, speaking boldly, said : To you was it needful that the word of God should first be spoken ; but since you thrust it from you and judge yourselves unworthy of eter- nal life, behold, we turn to the Gen- tiles. 47 For so has the Lord com- manded us : I have set thee as a light for the Gentiles, that thou shouldst be for salvation to the end of the earth. 48 And hearing it, the Gentiles rejoiced, and glorilied the word of the Lord, and as many as had been ordered for eternal life believed; 49 and the word of the Lord was carried throughout the whole coun- try. 50 But the Jews excited the devout women that were honorable, and the chief men of the city, and raised a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out from their borders. 51 But having shaken off the dust from their feet against them, they came to Iconium; 52 and the disciples were filled with joy and the Holy Spirit. HI And it came to pass in Iconium that they went together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a great multitude of Jews and also of Greeks believed. 2 But the Jews that believed not excited and imbit- tered the souls of the Gentiles against the brethren. 3 A long time therefore spent they speaking boldly in the Lord, who gave testi- mony to the word of his grace by giving signs and wonders to be done through their hands. 4 But the multitude of the city was divided, and some were with the Jews and some with the apostles. 5 But when there was a violent intent of the Gentiles and also of the Jews with their rulers, to outrage and to stone 169 THE NEW TESTAMENT them, 6 being aware of it, they fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra and Derbe, and the neighboring regions ; 7 and there they preached the gospel. 8 And a man in Lystra, without strength in his feet, sat, lame from his mother's womb : who had never walked. 9 This man heard Paul speak, who, looking earnestly on him. and seeing that he had faith to be saved, 10 said with a loud voice : Stand erect on thy feet. And he leaped up and walked. 11 And the miultitudes, seeing what Paul had done, lifted up their voice, say- ing in the Lycaonian language : The gods m the likeness of men have come down to us; 12 and they called Barnabas, Zeus; and Paul, Hermes; because he was the chief speaker. 13 And the priest of Zeus, who was before the city, having brought bulls and garlands to the gates, in- tended to offer sacrifice with the multitudes. 14 But the apostles Barnabas and Paul, hearing of it, rent their garments and ran forth among the multitude, crying out 15 and saying: Men, why do these things? We also of like passions with yourselves are men, preaching the gospel that you turn from these vanities to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all things that are in them ; 16 who, in the past genera- tions, permitted all the nations to walk in their own ways : 17 though, indeed, he left himself not without testimony in doing good, giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, billing your hearts with food and gladness. 18 And saying these things, they scarcely restrained the multitudes from ofifermg sacri- fice to them. 19 But there came thither from Antioch and Iconium Jews ; and having persuaded the multitudes and stoned Paul, they dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead. 20 However, as the dis- ciples stood about him, he rose up and came into the city. And on the next day he went forth with Barna- bas to Derbe. 21 Having preached the gospel to that city also, and having made many disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch, 22 strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to abide in the faith, and say- ing that through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God. 23 But having ordainec elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting they commended them to the Lord on whom they had believed. 24 And after passing through Pisidia they came to Pam- phylia ; 25 and having spoken the word in Perga, they came down to Attalia ; 26 and thence sailed to Antioch, whence they had been de- livered to the grace of God for the work which they had accomplished. 27 But after they had arrived and brought the church together, they related what things God had done with them, and that he had opened to the Gentiles the door of faith. 28 And they spent not a little time with the disciples. 1 C 1 And some went down 1 ^ from Judea and taught the brethren that unless you shall have been circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved. 2 But after Paul and Barna- bas had had no little dissension and 170 THE ACTS discussion with them, they arranged that Paul and Barnabas and some others of them should go up to the apostles and elders at Jerusalem concerning this question. 3 They therefore, having been conducted on their journey by the church, passed through Phenice and Samaria, relat- ing the conversion of the Gentiles; and they caused great joy to all the brethren. 4 But when they had arrived at Jerusalem they were re- ceived by the church and the apos- tles and the elders : they also an- nounced what things God had done wnth them. 5 And there arose some of the sect of the Pharisees, who had believed, saying that it was necessary to circumcise them : also, to command that they keep the law. 6 And the apostles and elders came together to consider this mat- ter. 7 But after there had been much discussion, Peter arose and said to them : Men, brethren, you know that at the first days God made choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe. 8 And God, who knows the heart, bore them testimony by giving them the Holy Spirit even as to us, 9 and made no distinction betw^een us and them, having purified their hearts by faith. 10 Now, therefore, why tempt God by putting a yoke upon the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? 11 But, through the grace of the Lord Jesus, we believe that we shall be saved in the same manner as they. 12 And the whole multitude kept silence and heard Barnabas and Paul relate what signs and wonders God had done among the Gentiles through them. 13 But after they were silent, James answered, say- ing: Men, brethren, hear me. 14 Simeon has related how God at the first looked down to take from the Gentiles a people for his name. 15 And with this agree the words of the prophets, as it is written : 16 After this I will return and build again the tabernacle of David, which has fallen dowm, and its ruins I will build again, and I will set it up, 17 that the men that are left over may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles on whom my name has been called, 18 says the Lord who does these things known from eternity. 19 Wherefore I judge that we trouble not them that from among the Gen- tiles are turning to God, 20 but that we write to them to abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from lewdness, and from what is stran- gled, and from blood. 21 For Moses has, from ancient generations. _ in every city, them that preach him. being read in the synagogues every sabbath day. 22 Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders with the whole church, to choose men from among themselves and send them to Antioch, with Paul and Barnabas: Judas who is called Barsabbas, and Silas, leading men among the breth- ren, 23 having written by their hand : The apostles and the elder breth- ren, to the brethren who are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, wish health. 24 Since we have heard that some have gone out from among us and troubled you with words, subverting your souls, in THE NEW TESTAMENT to whom we gave no command- ment ; 25 it seemed good to us, hav- ing been of one mind, to choose men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul; 26 who are men that have delivered up their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. 27 We have sent, therefore, Judas and Silas, who will tell the same things by word. 28 For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and us, to lay on you no greater burden than these necessary things, 29 that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and blood, and things strangled, and lewdness : from which if you keep yourselyes you will do well. Farewell. 30 They therefore having been dismissed came to Antioch ; ancl when they had gathered the multi- tude together they delivered the letter. 31 And having read it, they rejoiced at the consolation. 32 Judas also and Silas, who were prophets themselves, with much dis- course exhorted the brethren, and strengthened them; ZZ but having remained for a time, they were dismissed with peace from the brethren to those that had sent them. 35 But Paul and Barnabas con- tinued in Antioch, teaching and preaching, with many others also, the word of the Lord. Z6 And after some days Paul said to Barnabas: Let us return now and look after the brethren in every city in which we preached the word of the Lord, how they do. Z7 And Barnabas wished to take with them John also who is called Mark; 38 but Paul thought it right not to take with them this one, who had turned away from them from Pamphylia, and J had not gone with them to the work. 39 And there arose a sharp contention, so that they separated one from the other; and Barnabas took with him Mark and sailed to Cyprus. 40 But Paul chose Silas and went forth, after having been delivered to the grace of God by the brethren ; 41 and he passed through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches. 1 /C 1 And he came down to J-U Derbe and Lystra. And be- hold, a disciple was there named Timothy, son of a believing Jewess, but of a Grecian father : 2 who was w^ell reported of by the brethren in Lystra and Iconium. 3 Paul desired that this man should go forth with him ; and he took him and circum- cised him, on account of the Jews that were in those places ; for all knew his father that he was a Greek. 4 And as they journeyed through the cities thc.y delivered to them, for their observance, the decrees that had been made by the apostles and elders that were in Jerusalem. 5 The churches therefore were strengthened in faith and increased in number daily. 6 But they passed through Phrygia and the region of Galatia, being forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia ; 7 but having come towards Mysia, they attempted to go into Bithynia ; and the Spirit of Jesus did not permit them ; 8 and having passed by Mysia they came down to Troas. 9 And a vision appeared to Paul by night ; a man of Macedonia stood beseeching him and saying: Come over into Macedonia and help us. 10 And when he had seen the vision we immediately sought to go forth into Macedonia, concluding that the THE ACTS Lord had called us thither to preach the gospel to them. 11 But sailing from Troas, we came by a straight course to Samo- thrace, and on the next day to Xeapolis, 12 and thence to Philippi, which is the first city of the region of Macedonia, a colony. And we were in that city abiding some days. 13 And on the sabl)ath day we went forth out of the gate by the river, where we supposed there was a house of prayer; and sitting down, we spoke to the women that had come together. 14 And a woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, who wor- shipped God, heard ; whose heart the Lord opened to attend to the things spoken by Paul. 15 But when she was baptized, and her house, she besought, saying: If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and abide : and she constrained us. 16 But it came to pass as we went to the house of prayer that a maid- servant, possessed of a soothsaying spirit, met us : who brought her owners much gain by soothsaying. 17 She, following Paul and us, cried out, saying : These men are servants of God Most High, who announce tons the way of salvation. 18 And this she did for many days. But Paul was grieved, and. turning, said to the spirit : I charge thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her; and it came out the same hour. 19 But her owners, seeing that the hope of their gain had gone, seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the market before the rulers : 20 and bringing them to the commanders, said : These men do greatly disturb our city, being Jews, 21 and announce customs which it is not allowed us to receive nor do, being Romans. 22 And the multi- tude rose up together against them; and the commanders, having torn off their garments, gave orders to beat them with rods ; 2Z and having laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the keeper of the prison to guard them securely : 24 who, as he had received such charge, cast them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks. 25 But about midnight Paul and Silas prayed and sung a hymn to God; and the prisoners listened to them. 26 And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foun- dations of the prison were shaken: immediately, also, were all the doors opened, and the bonds of all were loosed. 27 But the keeper of the prison, having been roused from sleep, and seeing the doors of the prison open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had fled. 28 But Paul called with a loud voice, say- ing: Do thyself no harm; for we are all here. 29 And having called for a light, he sprang in, and, trem- bling, fell before Paul and Silas, 30 and, bringing them out, said: Sirs, what must I do to be saved? 31 And they said : Believe on the Lord Jesus, and thou shalt be saved and thy house. Zl And they spoke to him the word of the Lord, with all that were in his house. ZZ And he took them at that hour of the night and washed the blood from their stripes, and was baptized, himself and all his. straightway: 34 and hav- ing brought them into the house, he set a table before them, and rejoiced 73 THE NEW TESTAMENT with all his house in having believed in God. 35 But when it was day, the com- manders sent the lictors, saying: Release those men. 36 And the keeper of the prison told these words to Paul : The commanders have sent that you shall be released : now, therefore, come out and go in peace. Zl But Paul said to them : Having beaten us publicly, uncon- demned, men that are Romans, they cast us into prison ; and now do they put us out secretly? Not so: but let them come and bring us out themselves. 38 And the lictors told these words to the commanders ; and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans ; 39 and they came and entreated them, and leading them out, asked them to depart from the city. 40 But after going out from the prison they went to Lydia, and when they had seen the brethren they exhorted them and went forth. 1 'T 1 But having passed J- / through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessa- lonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews. 2 And, according to his custom, Paul went in to them, and for three sabbath days he discoursed to them from the Scriptures; 3 opening and laying before them that the Christ must needs have suffered, and risen from the dead ; and that this is Christ Jesus whom I preach to you. 4 And some of them were convinced and were allotted to Paul and Silas, of the devout Greeks also a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few. 5 But the Jews, filled with envy, and taking with them some evil men that were about the markets, and collecting a mob. excited a tumult in the city, and coming upon the house of Jason, sought to bring them before the people ; 6 but not finding them, they dragged Jason and some brethren before the rulers of the city, crying out : These that have thrown the world into confusion have come hither also; 7 whom Jason has re- ceived ; and these all act in oppo- sition to the decrees of Caesar, say- ing that there is another king, Jesus. 8 And they disquieted the multitude and the rulers of the city when they heard these things; 9 and having taken security of Jason and the rest, they dismissed them. 10 But the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night to Bercea : who, on coming thither, went into the synagogue of the Jews. 11 These were more noble- minded than those in Thessalonica; and they received the word with all readiness, searching the Scriptures day by day, whether these things were so. 12 Many of them there- fore believed, also of honorable Grecian women, and of men not a few. 13 But when the Jews of Thessalonica knew that the word of God was preached by Paul in Bercea. they came thither, exciting and dis- turbing the multitudes. 14 But im- mediately then the brethren sent away Paul to go as far as to the sea; and Silas and Timothy re- mained there. 15 But they that conducted Paul brought him asfar as Athens ; and having received commandment for Silas and Tim- othy, that they should come to him as soon as possible, they departed. \() But while Paul waited for them in Athens, his spirit was stirred within him when he saw the 174 THE ACTS city full of idols. 17 He therefore reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews, and the devout persons, and in the market every day with those that happened to meet him. 18 But some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers disputed with him, and some said : What can this babbler wish to say? Others said: He seems to be a proclaimer of strange demons; because he preached Jesus and the resurrection. 19 And they took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying : Can we know what new teaching this is that is spoken by thee ? 20 for thou bringest some strange things to our ears : we desire, therefore, to know what these things may be. 21 Now. all the Athenians and resident strangers have leisure for nothing else than to tell or hear something new, 22 But Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: Men of Athens, I look upon you as, in all respects, more religious tJion others. 23 For in passing through, and ob- serving the objects of your worship, I found also an altar on which had been inscribed: To an Unknown God. What, therefore, you ignorant- ly worship, this I announce to you. 24 God, who made the world and all things that are in it. he being Lord of heaven and earth, dwells not in temples made with hands. 25 nor is he served by human hands as if he needed anything, since he gives to all life and breath and all things ; 26 he also made of one every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, having fixed the times before appointed, and the limits of their habitations, 27 to seek God, if perhaps they would feel and find him; and, indeed, he is not far from each one of us. 28 For in him we live and move and are, as also some of your own poets have said : For we also his offspring are. 29 There- fore, being the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the godhood is like gold, or silver, or stone, the sculptured work of art and of a man's device. 30 The times, there- fore, of ignorance God having over- looked, now announces to all men everywhere that they repent. 31 in- asmuch as he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness in a man whom he has ordained, giving faith to all by having raised him from the dead. 32 But hearing of a resurrection of the dead, some mocked; others said: We will hear thee even again con- cerning this matter. 33 Thus Paul went out from the midst of them : 34 some men, however, having at- tached themselves to him, believed: among whom was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them. 1 O 1 After this he departed -■- O from Athens and came to Corinth. 2 And finding a Jew named Aquilla, born in Pontus. having lately come from Italy, and Priscilla his wife, because Clau- dius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome, he went to them ; 3 and because he was of the same trade he abode with them, and worked ; for by trade they were tentmakers. 4 But he discoursed in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded Jews and Greeks. 5 But when Silas and Timothy had come from Macedonia. Paul was wholly engaged in the word, testifying to the Jews that the Christ was Jesus. 6 But as they 175 THE NEW TESTAMENT set themselves in opposition and blasphemed, he shook his clothing and said to them : Your blood be upon your head : clean I will hence- forth go to the Gentiles. 7 And departing thence, he came into the house of one named Titus Justus, who worshipped God, whose house joined the synagogue. 8 But Cris- pus, the ruler of the synagogue, be- lieved on the Lord, with all^ his house; and many of the Corinth- ians, hearing, believed and were baptized. 9 But the Lord spoke through a vision in the night to Paul : Fear not, but speak and be not silent, 10 because I am with thee, and no one shall make an assault upon thee to maltreat thee, for I have much people in this city. 11 And he continued a year and six months, teaching among them the word of God. 12 But when Gallio was procon- sul of Achaia, the Jews, with one consent, rose up against Paul, and brought him to the tribunal, 13 say- ing: This person induces men to worship God contrary to the law. 14 But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews : If, indeed, there were any wrong or wicked mischief, O Jews, I would with reason bear with you ; 15 but if there are questions about a word, and names, and your law, see to it yourselves : I will not be a judge of these things. 16 And he drove them from the tribunal. 17 But all took Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the tribunal ; and none of these things were a care to Gallio. 18 But Paul, after remaining yet many flays, took leave of the breth- ren and sailed to Syria; and with him Priscilla and Aquila, having shorn his head in Cenchrea, for he had a vow. 19 And they arrived at Ephesus; and he left them there, but went himself into the synagogue and discoursed to the Jews. 20 And though they requested him to re- main a longer time, he did not con- sent; 21 but taking leave and say- ing: I will return to you again, if God will, he sailed from Ephesus; 22 and arriving at Ccxsarea, he went up and saluted the church, and went down to Antioch ; 23 and having spent some time he went forth, pass- ing in order through the country of Gala --a, and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples. 24 But a Jew named ApoHos, born in Alexandria, an eloquent man and mighty in the Scriptures, came to Ephesus. 25 He was instructed in the way of the Lord, and, being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things con- cerning Jesus, knowing only the baptism of John : 26 he also began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But after hearing him, Priscilla and Aquila took him, and explained to him more correctly the way of God. 27 And as he wished to go over to Achaia, the brethren encouraged him, and wrote to the disciples to receive him cordially. Who, on coming, gave much strength to the believers through his grace ; 28 for he with power utterly confuted the Jews publicly, showing through the Scriptures that the Christ is Jesus. 10 ^ ^"^ ^* came to pass while J- y Apollos was in Corinth that Paul, having passed through the upper districts, came to Ephesus and found some disciples : 2 he also said to them: Did you re- 176 THE ACTS ceive the Holy Spirit when you believed? And they said to him: No : but we did not even hear whether there is a Holy Spirit. 3 And he said : Into what. then, were you baptized? And they replied: Into John's baptism. 4 And Paul said : John baptized with the bap- tism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe on Him that was coming after him, that is. on Jesus. 5 And when they had heard, they were baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus ; 6 and when Paul had laid hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke with tongues and proph- esied. 7 And all the men were about twelve. 8 But he entered the synagogue and spoke boldly for three months, discoursing, and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God. 9 But when some were hard- ened and believed not. and spoke evil of the way before the multitude, he withdrew from them and sepa- rated the disciples, discoursing daily in the school of Tyrannus. 10 And this continued for two years, so that all that dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks. 11 Mighty deeds, also, that were unusual did God through the hands of Paul ; 12 so that even to the sick there were carried from his body handkerchiefs or aprons, and dis- eases departed from them : the evil spirits also went out. 13 But some also of the wandering Jewish exor- cists undertook to name over those that had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying: T adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul preaches. 14 And there were some, seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did this. 15 But the evil spirit, an- swering, said to them : Jesus I ac- knowledge and Paul I know; but who are you? 16 And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped upon them, gained the mastery over them both, and prevailed against them, so that they fled from that house naked and wounded. 17 And this became known to all. both Jews and Greeks, that dwelt in Ephesus, and fear fell upon them all ; and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified: 18 many also of those that had believed came, confessing and declaring their deeds. 19 And many of them that practiced magic arts brought their books together and burned them in the presence of all ; and they computed the value of them, and found it fifty thousands of silver. 20 So mightily the word of the Lord grew and prevailed. 21 But when these things had been accomplished. Paul purposed in spirit, after having passed through Macedonia and Achaia. to go to Jerusalem, saying: After I have been there I must also see Rome. 22 And having sent into Macedonia two of them that waited on him, Timothy and Erastus. he remained for a time in Asia. 23 But there arose at that time no small commotion about the way. 24 For one. Demetrius by name, a silversmith, by making silver shrines of Diana, brought no little gain to the artists : 25 whom he called to- gether with those that worked in such things, and said : Men. you know that from this trade arises our wealth : 26 and you see and hear that not only at Ephesus, but 12 177 THE NEW TESTAMENT throughout almost all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and drawn off a great multitude, saying that they are not gods that are made with hands. 27 And not only is this trade of ours in danger of coming into disrepute, but also the temple of the great goddess Diana will be counted as nothing; and she also. whom all Asia and the world wor- ships, will be deposed from her majesty. 28 But having heard and having become filled with wrath, they cried out, saying: Great is Diana of the Ephesians. 29 And the city was filled with confusion ; and they rushed with one accord into the theater, after seizing Gains and Aristarchus, Macedonians, Paul's fellow-travel- lers. 30 But when Paul wished to go in to the people, the disciples did not permit him ; 31 and some of the rulers of Asia also, being friendly to him, sent to him and besought him not to trust himself in the theater. 32 Some therefore cried out one thing and some another; for the assembly was confused, and the greater part knew not for what cause they had come together. 33 But out of the crowd they brought forward Alexander, the Jews put- ting him forward ; and Alexander, waving his hand, intended to make a defense to the people. 34 But. perceiving that he was a Jew. all with one voice cried out for about two hours: Great is Diana of the Ephesians. 35 But the town-clerk, having quieted the multitude, said : Men of Ephesus, what man is there, then, that does not know that the city of the Ephesians is the temple- keeper of the great Diana, and of the image that fell down from Jupiter? 36 Therefore, as these things cannot be contradicted, you ought to be quiet and do nothing rashly. 37 For you have brought these men who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of your goddess. 38 If, then, Demetrius and the artists with him have a matter against any one. court-days are kept, and there are proconsuls; let them bring charges one against the other. 39 But if you seek for anything further, it shall be determined in a lawful assembly. 40 For we are in danger of having charges laid against us concerning this day's tumult, there being no cause in relation to which we shall be able to give an account of this concourse. 41 And when he had said this, he dismissed the assembly. OA 1 But after the tumult had ^yj ceased, Paul having sent for the disciples and exhorted them, took leave, and departed to go into Macedonia. 2 And having passed through those regions and ex- horted them with much speech, he came into Greece; 3 and after re- maining three months, a plot having been laid for him by the Jews as he was about to sail to Syria, he re- solved to return through Macedonia. 4 But there followed him. Sopater the son of Pyrrhus, a Beraean ; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus, and Gains of Dorbe, and Timothy; and of the Asiatics, Tychicus and Trophimus: and 5 these went before and waited for us in Troas ; 6 but we sai1c(l after the days of unleavened bread from Philippi, and came to them at Troas in five days, where we spent seven days. 7 But on the first of the week, 178 THE ACTS when we came together to break bread, Paul discoursed to them, about to depart on the morrow, and continued his speech till midnight. 8 And there were many lamps in the upper room where we had come together. 9 And a young man, named Eutychus, who sat in the window, being oppressed with deep sleep, as Paul discoursed for a longer time, was borne down by sleep, and fell down from the third story, and was taken up dead. 10 But Paul went down and fell upon him, and embracing him said : Be not troubled; for his life is in him. 11 And he went up and broke bread and ate; and having talked a long time till break of day, he thus de- parted. 12 And they brought the young man alive, and were com- forted not a little. 13 But we went in advance to the ship, and sailed to Assos, thence in- tending to take Paul in ; for so had he arranged, intending himself to go on foot. 14 But when he met us at Assos, we took him in and came to Alitylene; 15 and sailing thence, on the following day we came oppo- site Chios : and on the next day we arrived at Samos ; and we came on the following day to Miletus. 16 For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus. that he might not spend time in Asia ; for he hastened, if it was possible for him, to be in Jeru- salem on the day of Pentecost. 17 But from Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called for the eUlers of the church 18 And when they had come to him, he said to them : ^'ou know, from the first day on which I came into Asia, how I was with you the whole time, 19 serving the with tears, and trials that befell me by the plots of the Jews : 20 how I shunned to declare to you nothing that is profitable, and taught you publicly and from house to house, 21 testifying to Jews and also to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith that is toward our Lord Jesus Christ. 22 And now behold, bound in spirit I am going to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that will come upon me there, 23 except that the Holy Spirit in every city testi- fies to me, saying that bonds and afflictions await me. 24 But I es- teem of no value the life dear to myself, so that I finish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, fully lo testify the gospel of the grace of God. 25 And now behold, I know that you all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom, will see my face no more. 26 Wherefore I solemnly affirm to you this day that I am clean from the blood of all; 27 for I shunned not to declare to you all the counsel of God. 28 Take heed therefore to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, that you act as shepherds to the church of the Lord, which he purchased with his own blood. 29 For I know that there shall come in among you, after my departure, grievous wolves, not sparing the flock ; 30 and from among yourselves there shall arise men speaking perverse things to draw off the disciples after them. 31 Therefore, watch, remembering that night and day for three years I ceased not with tears to warn each one. 32 And now I commend you to God and to the word of his Lord with all lowliness of mind, and grace, who is able to build you up 179 THE NEW TESTAMENT and give you an inheritance among all the sanctified. 33 I coveted no man's silver or gold or raiment : 34 yourselves know that to my own wants, and to those that were with me. these hands did minister. 35 In all things I showed you, that thus laboring you ought to sustain the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, for he said: It is more blessed to give than to receive, 36 And having said these things he kneeled down and prayed with them all. 37 And all wept much ; and falling on Paul's neck they kissed him, 38 sorrowing most of all for the word that he had spoken, that they should see his face no more. And they conducted him to the ship. ^1 1 But when it came to ^ -L pass that we had set sail, after having departed from them, running by a straight course we came to Cos. and on the next day to Rhodes, and thence to Patara. 2 And finding a ship that was passing over to Phenicia. we embarked and set sail. 3 But having come in view of Cyprus, and leaving it to the left, we sailed to Syria, and landed at Tyre; for there the ship was to put off the lading. 4 But finding the disciples, we remained there seven days ; and these said to Paul through the Spirit that he should not go to Jerusalem. 5 But when it came to pass that we had completed the days, we went out and departed, all con- ducting us with wives and children, till we were out of the city; and having knelt on the shore and prayed. 6 we finished taking leave one of the other, and went on board the ship., but they returned home. 7 But. we, having finished the voy- age from Tyre, came to Ptolemais, and havnig saluted the brethren re- mained with them one day. 8 But on the morrow we departed and came to C^esarea. and entering the house of Philip the evangelist, who was of the seven, we abode with him. 9 This man had four virgin daughters that prophesied. 10 But as we remained more days, there c ae down from Judea a prophet, named Agabus. 11 And coming to us. and taking Paul's girdle, he bound his own feet and hands, and said: These things says the Holy Spirit: The man to whom this gir- dle belongs shall the Jews in Jeru- salem thus bind, and deliver into the hands of the Gentiles 12 But when we heard these things, both we and they of that place besought him not to go up to Jerusalem. 13 And Paul answered and said: What do you effect by weeping and breaking my heart? for I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die in Jeru- salem for the name of the Lord Jesus. 14 And as he was not per- suaded, we were silent, saying: The will of the Lord be done. 15 But after these days we pre- pared for the iourney, and went up to Jerusalem; 16 and some of the disciples from Caesarea went with us. bringing INTnason, a Cyprian, an old disciple, with whom we should lodge. 17 And when we came to Jeru- salem, the brethren received us glad- ly. 18 But on the following day Paul went in with us to James; and all the elders were present. 19 And having saluted them, he related one by one each of the things that God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry. 20 And when 180 THE ACTS they had heard, they glorified God, and said to him : Thou seest, brother, how many myriads of be- hevers there are ; and all are zealots for the law ; 21 and they have learned concerning thee that thou teachest apostasy from Moses to all the Jews that are among the Gen- tiles, telling them not to circumcise their children, nor to walk accord- ing to the customs. 22 What is it then? a multitude must by all means come together; for they will hear that thou hast come. 23 Do thou this that we tell thee : We have four men who have a vow upon them ; 24 take them with thee and purify thyself with them, and pay expenses for them that they may shave their heads; and all will know that there is nothing of the things that they have learned concerning thee; but that thou thyself also walkest, keeping the law. 25 But with regard to the Gentiles that have believed, we have written, after deciding that they keep themselves from what is sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and what is strangled, and from lewdness. 26 Then Paul, taking the men, on the following day purified himself with them, and entered into the temple, announcing that he would keep the full number of the days of purification, till an offering should be made for each one of them. 27 But when the seven days were about to be completed, the Jews from Asia, having seen him in the temple, threw all the multitude into confusion and laid hands on him. 28 crying out: Men of Israel, help; this is the man that teaches all everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place ; and further. he has brought Greeks also into the temple, and has defiled this holy place. 29 For they had previously seen in the city with him Trophimus the Ephesian. whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple. 30 And the whole city was moved, and there was a concourse of the people ; and seizing Paul, they dragged hmi out of the temple, and mimediately the doors were closed. 31 And while they w^ere seeking to kill him, report was brought to the officer of the band that the whole of Jerusalem was in confusion; 32 and he immediately took with him sol- diers and centurions and ran down to them ; but when they saw the officer and the soldiers, they ceased to beat Paul. 33 Then the officer came near and took him, and com- manded him to be bound with two chains, and inquired who he was and what he had done. 34 But some cried one thing and some another in the multitude ; and as he w^as not able to ascertain the certamty on account of the tumult, he command- ed him to be brought into the fortress. 35 But when he was on the steps, it happened that he was borne by the soldiers on account of the violence of the multitude ; 36 for the multitude of the people fol- lowed, crying out : Away with him. 37 And as he was about to be brought into the fortress, Paul said to the officer: INTay T speak to thee? He replied : Hast thou a knowledge of Greek? 38 Art thou then not the Egyptian, that before these days made insurrection and led out into the wilderness the four thousand men of the assassins? 39 But Paul said : I am indeed a Jewish man, a Tarsean, a citizen of no iinknown 181 THE NEW TESTAMENT city of Cilicia; and I beseech thee, permit me to speak to the people. 40 And when he had given permis- sion. Paul, standing upon the steps, waved his hand to the people; and as there was much silence, he ad- dressed them in the Hebrew tongue, saying : O'^ 1 Men. brethren and fa- ^^ thers. hear my present de- fense to you. 2 And when they heard that he addressed them in the Hebrew tongue, they the more kept silence And he said : 3 I am a Jewish man. having been born in Tarsus of Cilicia. but brought up in this city, educated at the feet of Gamaliel, according to the exact- ness of the paternal law ; being a zealot for God. as all of you are this day, 4 I persecuted this way even to death, binding and deliver- ing into prisons both men and women. 5 as the chief priest, also, will testify for me, and all the pres- bytery ; from whom also having re- ceived letters to the brethren. I was journeying to Damascus, to bring those that were there also bound to Jerusalem, that they might be punished. 6 But it came to pass as I was journeying and drawing near to Damascus about midday, sudden- ly there flashed around me a great light from heaven. 7 and I fell to the ground and heard a voice say- ing to me : Saul. Saul, why perse- cutest thou me? 8 But I answered: Who art thou. Lord? And he said to me : I am Jesus the Nazarene. whom thou persecutest. 9 And those that were with me saw indeed the light, but understood not the voice of him that spoke to me. 10 But I said : What shall I do. Lord ? And the Lord said to me; Arise, and go into Damascus, and there it shall be told thee of all things which It has been appointed thee to do. 11 But when 1 did not see on ac- count of the glory of that light, being led by the hand by those that were with me. I came into Damas- cus. 12 And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law. well re- ported of by all the Jews that dwelt there. 13 came to me and stood by and said to me : Brother Saul, receive sight. And in the same hour I looked upon him. 14 And he said: The God of our fathers has chosen thee to know his w^ill and to see the Just One. and to hear a voice from his mouth. 15 because thou shalt be for him a witness to all men of what thou hast seen and heard. 16 And now why delayest thou? Arise and be baptized and wash away thy sins, calling on his name. 17 But it came to pass after I had returned to Jerusalem, and while I was praying in the temple, that L was in a trance; 18 and saw him saying to me : Hasten and go quick- ly out of Jerusalem, for they will not receive thy testimony concern- ing me. 19 And I said : Lord, they know that I imprisoned and scourged throughout the synagogues those that believed on thee ; 20 and when the blood of Stephen thy witness was shed, T also stood by and approved, and kept the gar- ments of those that killed him. 21 And he said to me: Go. for T will send thee far off to the Gen« tiles. ZZ And they heard him to this word, and lifted up their voice, say- ing: Away with sugh a man from 1§2 THE ACTS the earth; for it is not fit that he should hve. 23 And as they were crying out, and throwing off their garments, and casting dust mto the air. 24 the officer commanded hmi to be led into the fortress, giving orders that he should be exammed with scourging, that he might know for what cause they cried so against him. 25 But as they stretched him forward for the scourge, Paul said to the centurion that stood by : Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned ? 26 And the centurion, hearing it. came and reported to the officer, saying: What art thou about to do?* for this man is a Roman. 27 But the officer came and said to him : Tell me, art thou a Roman? And he said: Yes. 28 The officer an- swered : I purchased this citizen- ship at a great price. But Paul said : I. however, was born so. 29 Therefore they that were about to examine him immediately departed from him ; and the officer also was afraid, having learned that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him. 30 But on the morrow, wishing to know the certainty of that of which •he was accused by the Jews, he loosed him and commanded the chief priests and all the Sanhedrim to assemble, and brought Paul down and placed him among them. 0'2 1 But Paul, looking carn- ^•^J estly on the Sanhedrim, said : Men, brethren, with all good conscience have 1 lived to God till this day. 2 And the chief priest Ananias commanded those that stood by him to smite him on the mouth. 3 Then Paul said to hirn: God will smite thee, whited wall; and sittest thou to judge me according to the law, and in viola- tion of law commandest thou me to be smitten? 4 But those that stood by said : Revilest thou God's chief priest? 5 And Paul replied: I knew not, brethren, that he was chief priest; for it is written: Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people. 6 But Paul, knowing that the one part belonged to the Sadducees and the other to the Pharisees, cried out in the Sanhe- drim : Men, brethren, I am a Phar- isee, a son of Pharisees: concerning the hope and the resurrection of the dead am I judged. 7 And when he had said this, there arose a dissen- sion of the Pharisees and the Sad- ducees. and the multitude was divided. 8 For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel nor spirit ; but the Pharisees confess both 9 .A.nd there arose a great cry; and some of the scribes of the part of the Pharisees arose and contended, saying: We find no fault in this man ; but what if a spirit has spoken to him. or an angel? 10 But as there arose much dissension, the officer, fearing lest Paul might be torn in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from the midst of them and lead him into the fortress 11 But on the follow- ing night the Lord stood by him and said : Take courage ; for as thou hast testified concerning me in Jerusalem, so must thou testify also in Rome. 12 But when it was day the Jews collected together and bound them- selves by a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul, 13 And there were aaa THE NEW TESTAMENT more than forty that made this con- spiracy; 14 these came to the chief priests and the elders and said : We have bound ourselves by a great curse that we will taste nothing till we have killed Paul. 15 Now there- fore do you with the Sanhedrim make known to the officer that he may bring him down to you, as if you would inquire more particularly into his case ; but we are ready to kill him before he shall have come near. 16 But the son of Paul's sister, having heard of the plot, came and entered the fortress and told Paul. 17 And Paul called to him one of the centurions and said: Conduct this young man to the officer, for he has something to tell him. 18 He then took him and brought him to the officer and said: The prisoner Paul called me to him and requested me to conduct this young man to thee, as he has some- thing to tell thee. 19 And the officer took him by the hand and withdrew to a private place and inquired : What is it that thou hast to tell me? 20 And he said : The Jews have agreed to request thee that thou wouldst. on the morrow, bring Paul down into the Sanhedrim, as if thou wouldst inquire somewhat more particularly concerning him. 21 Thou therefore be not persuaded by them ; for there lie in wait for him more than forty men of them, who have bound themselves by a curse neither to ent nor to drink till they shall have killed him ; and now they are ready, awaiting the promise from thee 22 Then the officer dis- missed the young man, saying : T charge thee to tell no one that thou hast made these things known to me. 23 And calling some two of the centurions to him, he said: Make ready two hundred soldiers that they may go to Csesarea, and sev- enty horsemen, and two hundred light-armed men, at the third hour of the night : 24 also, that they should provide beasts, that they might set Paul on them and carry him in safety to Felix the governor; 25 And he wrote a letter containing this form : 26 Claudius Lysias to the most noble Felix wishes health. 27 This man, taken by the Jews and about to be killed by them, I came with soldiers and rescued, having learned that he was a Roman ; 28 wishing also to know the cause on account of which they accused him, I brought him down into their San- hedrim : 29 I found him accused con- cerning questions of their law, but having nothing charged against him worthy of death or of bonds. 30 But as I was informed that a plot was about to be laid by them for the man, I sent him to thee, charg- ing his accusers also to lay their charges before thee. 31 The soldiers therefore, as it had been appointed them, took Paul and brought him during the night to Antipatris; 32 but on the mor- row, leaving the horsemen to go with him, they returned to the fortress. 33 These, after entering C.Tsarea and delivering the letter to the governor, presented Paul also before him. 34 But having read it, and inquired of what prov- ince he was, and having learned that he was from Cilicia, he said : T will hear thee when thy accusers also have come: and he commanded him to be kept in Her-: od's palace, 184 THE ACTS '^A 1 But after five days, ^ T the chief priest Ananias came down with some elders and an orator, Tertuliiis; and these informed the governor against Paul. 2 And when he had been called, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying : 3 Since through thee we enjoy much peace, and worthy deeds have been done for this nation by thy foresight, we accept it always and everywhere, most noble Felix, with all thankfulness. 4 But that I may not detain thee longer, I beseech thee to hear us in thy clemency for a short time. 5 For we have found this man a pest, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews that are throughout the world, a ringleader also of the sect of the Xazarenes; 6 who also at- tempted to defile the temple: him we also seized, 8 from whom thou thyself canst by examination learn concerning all things of which we accuse him. 9 And the Jews also joined in, saying that these things were so. 10 And Paul answered, after the governor had nodded to him to speak : Knowing that thou hast for many years been a judge over this nation. I do readily make a defense for myself. 11 as thou canst know that there are not more than twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem to worship. 12 And neither in the temple did they find me disputing with any one, or mak- ing a tumult of the people, nor in ihe synagogues nor through the city; 13 nor are they able to prove the things of which they now accuse me. 14 But 1 confess this to thee, that, according to the way which they call sect, so worship 1 the God that are written throughout the law, and those in the prophets, 15 having hope toward God, which they also accept, that there shall be a resur- rection of both just and unjust. 16 And on this account do I exercise myself to have always a conscience void of offense toward God and man. 17 But after many years I had come to bring charities to my nation, and offerings ; 18 while en- gaged in these things they found me purified in the temple, not with mul- titude, neither with tumult ; but there are some Jews from Asia 19 who ought to be present before thee, and bring accusation, if they have' any- thing against me. 20 Or let these very men say what they found as wrong, while I stood before the Sanhedrim, 21 except in this one word that I uttered while standing among them : Concerning the resur- rection of the dead am 1 judged by you this day. 22 But Felix, as he had a more accurate knowledge concerning the way, put them off, saying : When Lysias the officer has come, I will thoroughly know ^^our matters ; 23 and he commanded the centurion to keep him, and let him have liberty, and to forbid no one of his friends to minister to him. 24 But after some days Felix came with his wife Drusilla. who was a Jewess, and sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ Jesus. 25 But as he rea- soned of righteousness and temper- ance and the judgment that is to come. Felix became alarmed and answered: Depart for the present: but I will take a convenient time pnd call for thee, 26 hoping also at pf my fathers, believing all things ' the same time that money would be 1S5 THE NEW TESTAMENT given him by Paul: wherefore he called for him more frequently and conversed with him. 27 But when two years had been completed, Felix received Porcius Festus as a suc- cessor: wishing also to confer a favor on the Jews, Felix left Paul bound. '^C 1 Festus therefore, having ^O come into the province, after three days went up from Csesarea to Jerusalem; 2 and the chief priests and the first men of the Jews informed him against Paul, and besought him, 3 asking a favor against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying a plot to kill him on the way. 4 Festus therefore answered that Paul was under guard in Csesarea, and that he himself would soon go forth. 5 Therefore, said he, let those amongst you that have power go down, and, if there is any wrong in this man, accuse him. 6 But after spending among them not more than eight or ten days, he went down to Csesarea : on the mor- row, having sat on the tribunal, he commanded Paul to be brought. 7 But when he had come, the Jews that had come down from Jerusalem stood around him. bringing many and heavy accusations, which they were not able to prove; 8 Paul an- swering in defense: Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I sinned in any way. 9 But Festus. willing to confer favor on the Jews, answered and said to Paul : Wilt thou go up to Jerusalem, and there be judged be- fore me concerning these things? 10 But Paul said: Before the tri- bunal of C?es5ir am I standing. where I ought to be judged. Jews have I wronged in nothing, as thou very well knowest. 11 If, then, I am a doer of wrong, and have com- mitted any act worthy of death, I refuse not to die; but if there is nothing of the things of which these accuse me, no one can deliver me as a favor to them. To Caesar I appeal. 12 Then Festus, having conferred with the council, an- swered : To Caesar thou hast ap- pealed, to Caesar thou shalt go. 13 But when some days had passed, Agrippa the king and Ber- nice came down to Caesarea to salute Festus. 14 And as they were spend- ing more days there. Festus laid Paul's case before the king, saying: There is a man left in bonds by Felix, 15 concerning whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me. asking for judgment against him : 16 to whom I answered that it is not the custom of the Romans to deliver any man up as a favor, before the accused has had the ac- cusers face to face, and has taken an opportunity for defense con- cerning the charge. 17 When, there- fore, they had come hither together, making no delay. I. on the next day, sat upon the tribunal and command- ed the man to be brought : 18 against whom his accusers, when they stood up. brought no evil accusation in regard to such things as T supposed, 19 but had some questions against him concerning their own religion, and concerning a Jesus that had died. who. Paul affirmed, was alive. 20 But being in doubt with regard to the inquiry concerning these things. I asked if he would go to Jervigalem and th^re be judged con- im THE ACTS cerning these. 21 And as Paul appealed to be kept for the exam- ination of Augustus, I commanded him to be kept till I could send him to Caesar. 22 And Agrippa said to Festus : I also could wish to hear the man myself. To-morrow, said he, thou shalt hear him. 23 On the morrow, therefore, when Agrippa and Bernice had come with great pomp, and had en- tered the audience-chamber with the officers and the chief men of the city, and when Festus had com- manded, Paul was brought. 24 And Festus said : King Agrippa, and all men that are present with us, you see this man concerning whom all the multitude of the Jews have dealt with me, both in Jerusalem and here, crying out that he ought to live no longer. 25 But I per- ceived that he had done nothing worthy of death, and as this man himself has appealed to Augustus, I determined to send him. 26 Con- cerning whom I have nothing cer- tain to write to my Lord ; where- fore I have brought him before you, and especially before thee. King Agrippa, that after the examination has been held. I may have what I shall write; 27 for it seems to me unreasonable in sending a prisoner not also to make known the charges against him. ^K 1 But Agrippa said to ^vJ Paul : Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth his hand and made his defense. 2 I think myself happy, king Agrippa. because T shall make a defense this day before thee, concerning all things of which I am accused by the Jews ; 3 espe- cially fis thou art acquainted with all the customs and questions that are among the Jews : wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently. 4 My manner of life, then, from youth, which at the first was among my own nation and in Jerusalem, know all the Jews, 5 who know me from the beginning, if they would testify, that according to the strict- est sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee. 6 And now I stand judged for the hope of the promise made by God to the fathers, 7 to which hope our twelve tribes, per- sistently serving night and day, hope to come ; concerning which hope, O king, I am accused by the Jews. 8 Why is it judged incredible among you that God raises the dead? 9 I then thought with myself that I ought to do many things in oppo- sition to the name of Jesus the Nazarene; 10 which I also did in Jerusalem, and many also of the saints did I shut up in prisons, hav- ing received the authority from the chief priests ; and when they were put to death I readily gave my vote; 11 and punishing them often throughout all the synagogues, I compelled them to blaspheme ; and being exceedingly mad against them, T persecuted them even to foreign cities. 12 WTiile engaged in these things, and going to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests, 13 at midday, while on the road. I saw. O king, a light from heaven above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and those that journeyed with me; 14 and when we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew tongue : Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the 187 THE NEW TESTAMENT goads. 15 But I said: Who art thou, Lord? and the Lord said: I am Jesus, whom thou persecutest. 16 But rise and stand upon thy feet; for I have appeared to thee for this purpose, to appoint thee a minister and a witness of the things that thou hast seen, and of those in which I will appear to thee, 17 deHv- ering thee from the people and from the Gentiles, to whom now I send thee, 18 to open their eyes, in order to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of Satan to God, that they may re- ceive remission of sins, and inherit- ance among the sanctified by faith that is in me. 19 Wherefore, king Agrippa, I be- came not disobedient to the heaven- ly vision ; 20 but, to those in Damas- cus first, and also to those in Jeru- salem, and throughout all the coun- try of Judea, and to the Gentiles, I announced that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance. 21 Because of these things, the Jews, having seized me while I was in the temple, attempted to kill me. 22 Having therefore obtained help that is from God, up to this day have T stood testifying to both small and great, saying nothing else than the things that the prophets and Moses did say should take place, 23 that Christ should suffer, that he first by a resurrection from the dead should show light both to the people* and the Gentiles. 24 But as he spoke these things in his defense, Festus, with a loud voice, said : Paul, thou art mad : much learning leads thee to mad- ness. 25 But Paul said : T am not mad, most noble Festus, .^ut I utter words of truth and soberness. 26 For the king, before whom I also boldly speak, knows concerning these things ; for I am persuaded that none of these things have es- caped his notice ; for this was not done in a corner. 27 King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? I know that thou believest. 28 But Agrippa said to Paul : With little labor thou persuadest me so as to make me a Christian. 29 And Paul said : I could pray to God that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, would, both with little and with much labor, become such as I am, except these bonds. 30 And the king rose up, and the governor, and Bernice, and those that sat with them ; 31 and having withdrawn, they conversed one with another, saying: This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds. 32 And Agrippa said to Festus : This man could have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed to Caesar. ^n 1 But when it had been ^ * determined that we should sail to Italy, they delivered Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan band. 2 And embark- ing in a ship of Adramyttium, that would sail to the places in Asia, we set sail, Aristarchus. a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us ; 3 and on the following day we landed at Sidon. and Julius treated Paul humanely and per- mitted him to go to the friends and receive attention. 4 And thence, having launched, we sailed under Cyprus, because the winds were ad- verse; 5 and having sailed through the sea that is opposite to Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, X88 THE ACTS of Lycia. 6 And there, the cen- turion, finding a ship of Alexandria saihng to Italy, put us into it. 7 But, sailing slowly for many days, and having with difficulty come op- posite Knidus, the wind not per- mitting us to go further, we sailed under Crete, opposite Salmone ; 8 and sailing along by it with difficulty we came to a place called Fair Havens, near which was a city, Lasea. 9 But as much time had been spent, and as sailing was now un- safe because the fast was already past, Paul admonished, 10 saying to them : Men, I perceive that the voyage will be with injury and much loss, not only of the cargo and of the ship, but also of our lives. 11 But the centurion had more confidence in the pilot and the owner of the ship than in the things spoken by Paul. 12 And the harbor being not well situated to winter in, the greater number re- solved to set sail thence, if by any means they should be able to reach Phcenix and winter there, a harbor of Crete, looking to the southwest and northwest. 13 But as the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had gained their purpose, they loosed and sailed along near to Crete. 14 But not long after, a tempestuous wind called Euraq- uilon struck against it: 15 and the ship having been caught, and not being able to bear up against the wind, we gave it up and were driven. 16 And running under an island called Cla'uda, we were scarcely able to become masters of the boat : 17 having taken it up, they used aids, undergirding the ship; and fearing lest they should fall into the Syrtis, they lowered the tackling, and so were driven. 18 But as we were greatly tossed by the tempest, on the following day they threw out the cargo, 19 and on the third day with their own hands they threw out the furniture of the ship ; 20 but neither sun nor stars appearing for many days, and no small tempest lying upon us, all hope of our being saved was finally taken away. 21 And after there had been much abstinence from food, then Paul stood in the midst of them and said : It behooved you, O men, hav- ing been persuaded by me, not to have sailed from Crete and to have avoided this injury and loss. 22 Yet, now I exhort you to be cheer- ful ; for there shall be no loss of life among you, but of the ship. 23 For there stood by me this night an angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve, 24 saying: Fear not, Paul; thou must stand before Cae- sar; and behold, God has given thee all that sail with thee. 2.S Where- fore be cheerful. O men ; for I be- lieve God. that it will be so as it has been told me. 26 But we must be cast upon some island. 27 But when the fourteenth night had come, as we were driven up and down in the xA.driatic sea, about midnight the sailors supposed that some land was drawing near to them. 28 And having sounded, they found twenty fathoms : but having gone a little further and sounded again, they found fifteen fathoms; 29 and fearing lest we should fall among rocks, they threw four an- chors from the stern and wished that day would come. 30 But as the sailors were seeking to flee from the ship, and were letting down the 189 THE NEW TESTAMENT boat into the sea, under the pretence that they would let go anchors from the prow. 31 Paul said to the cen- turion and the soldiers : Unless these remain in the ship, you cannot be saved. 32 Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat and let it fall off. 33 But till day should come, Paul exhorted all to partake of food, saying: This day is the fourteenth day since you have wait- ed and continued fasting, having taken nothing. 34 Wherefore I ex- hort you to partake of food ; for this is for your safety; for from the head of no one of you shall a hair perish. 35 And having said these things and taken bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all, and after breaking, he began to eat. 36 And they all became cheerful and took food. Zl But we that were in the ship were in all two hundred and seventy-six souls. 38 And hav- ing been satisfied with food, they lightened the ship by throwing the grain into the sea. 39 But when day had come, they knew not the land ; but they perceived an inlet that had a beach, into which they determined, if possible, to thrust the ship. 40 And cutting away the anchors they let them fall into the sea, at the same time loosing the fastenings of the rudders, and, hoisting the front- sail to the wind, they held the ship firm to the beach. 41 But falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground ; and^ the prow, having stuck fast, remained immovable, but the stern was broken by the violence. 42 And the advice of the soldiers was that they should kill the prisoners, lest some one should swim out and escape ; 43 but the centurion, wishing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose, and commanded those that could swim to throw themselves off first, and go to land, 44 and the rest, some on planks, and some on pieces of the ship. And so it came to pass that all got safe to land. '^O 1 And when we were ^O safe, then we learned that the island was called Melita. 2 And the barbarians showed us unusual kindness; for, having kin- dled a fire, they received all of us on account of the rain that had come upon us, and on account of the cold. 3 But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid it on the fire, a viper came out be- cause of the heat and fastened on his hand. 4 And when the barba- rians saw the beast hanging from his hand, they said one to another: Surely this man is a murderer, whom, though saved from the sea, justice does not permit to live. 5 He then shook the beast off into the fire, and suffered no evil ; 6 and they were expecting that he would become inflamed or suddenly fall down dead. But after looking for a long time and seeing no harm come to him, they changed their mind and said that he was a god. 7 But in the neighborhood of that place were the estates of the first man of the island, named Publius, who received us and for three days entertained us courteously. 8 And it happened that the father of Pub- lius lay sick of fever and dysentery, to whom Paul went in ; and having prayed and laid his hands on him. he restored him to health. 9 But when this had been done, the rest also in the island that had dis- eases came and were cured; 10 who 190 THE Acts also honored us with many honors; and when we put to sea, suppHed us with what was needed. 11 But after three months we put to sea in a ship of Alexandria that had wintered in the island, that had the sign of the Dioscuri. 12 And having landed at Syracuse, we re- mained three days : 13 whence, by coasting about, we came to Rhegium. And after one day, the south wind having risen, we came on the sec- ond day to Puteoli, 14 where we found brethren, and were entreated to remain with them seven days ; and so we came to Rome. 15 And thence the brethren, hearing of our affairs, came to meet us as far as Appii Forum and The Three Taverns : whom when Paul saw he thanked God and took courage. 16 But when we had come to Rome. Paul was permitted to dwell by himself with the soldier that guarded him. 17 And it came to pass after three days that he called together those that were first among the Jews ; and when they had come together, he said to them : Men, brethren, though I had done noth- ing against the people, or the cus- toms of the fathers, I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans; 18 who. having examined me. were willing to release me. because there was no cause of death in me; 19 but as the Jews spoke against it. I was com- nelled to appeal to C?esar : not that I have anything to accuse my nation of. 20 T have then called you for this reason, that I may see you and speak to you ; for on account of the hope of Israel am I bound with this chain. 21 And they said to him: We have neither received letters from Judea concerning thee, nor has any one of the brethren come and reported or spoken any evil con- cerning thee. 22 But we think worthy to hear from thee what thou thinkest; for concerning this sect we know that it is everywhere spoken against. 23 And having ap- pointed him a day. many came to him at his lodging; to whom, with full testimony, he set forth the king- dom of God, persuading them also concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and the prophets, from morning till evening. 24 And some believed the things spoken, and some believed not ; 25 but not being agreed among themselves, they de- parted, after Paul had spoken one word : Well did the Holy Spirit speak through Isaiah the prophet to your fathers. 26 saying: Go to this people and say : By hearing you shall hear and shall not understand, and see- ing you shall see and shall not per- ceive ; 27 for the heart of this people has become fat. and with their ears they hear heavily, and their eyes they have closed : lest perhaps they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn, and I should restore them to health. 28 Be it known to you, therefore, that to the Gentiles has this salvation of God been sent; and they will hear. 30 And he dwelt two whole years in his own rented house, and re- ceived all that came to him. 31 preaching the kingdom of God and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus with all boldness, with- out hinderance. 191 THE NEW TESTAMENT PAUL TO THE ROMANS 11 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, set apart to the gospel of God, 2 which he announced beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, 3 concerning his Son, who was born of the posterity of David according to the flesh, 4 who was constituted Son of God in power, according to the spirit of holiness, from the res- urrection of the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, 5 through whom we re- ceived grace and apostleship in order to the obedience of faith among all the nations for his name's sake, 6 among whom are you also the called of Jesus Christ : 7 to all that are in Rome, beloved of God, called saints. Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ concerning you all, that your faith is spoken of in all the world. 9 For God is my witness, whom T serve in my spirit in the gos- pel of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you, 10 always in my prayers making request if by any means now at last T may be pros- pered in the will of God to come to you. 11 For T greatly desire to see you. that T may share with you some spiritual gift, in order that you may be strengthened: 12 that is, that T may be comforted together among you through the faith that is in ench other, both yours and mine. 13 Rut I desire that you be not ignorant, brethren, that T often pur- posed to come to you, and have been hindered to the present time, that T might have some fruit also among you, even as among the rest of the Gentiles. 14 Both to Greeks and to Barbarians, both to wise and to un- wise, am I debtor: 15 so as far as I am able, 1 am ready to preach the gospel to you also that are in Rome. 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel ; for it is the power of God in order to salvation to every one that believes, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. 17 For in it is revealed God's righteousness by faith for faith : as it is written : He that is righteous by faith shall live. 18 For the wrath of God is re- vealed from heaven against all un- godliness and unrighteousness of men that repress the truth in un- righteousness : 19 because that which is known of God is manifest in them, for God has manifested it to them. 20 For his attributes which are invisible, since the creation of the world, are clearly seen, being perceived by the things that are made, both his eternal power and divinity, so that they are without excuse : 21 because, though they knew God, they did not glorify him as God, or give him thanks, but be- came vain in their reasonings, and their heart, void of understanding, was darkened. 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools. 23 and ex- changed the glorv of the incorrupti- ble God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man. and of birds, nnd fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. 24 Wherefore God delivered them up in the desires of their hearts to uncleanness, so tha. their bodies were dishonored among 192 ROMANS them; 25 and these exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and wor- shipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever : Amen. 26 For this reason God dcHvered them up to dishonorable passions ; for their females exchanged the natural use for that against nature, 27 and in like manner also the males, leaving the natural use of the female, were inflamed in their lust one for another, males with males working the indecency, and receiving in themselves the due re- ward of their error. 28 And as they did not approve of holding God in their knowledge, God delivered them up to a mind incapable of approving, that they might do things unbecoming, 29 having been filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, malice, covetousness ; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; 30 whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 without understand- ing, covenant-breakers, without nat- ural affection, unmerciful : 32 who, acknowledging the just decree of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do them, but approve those that practice them. 2 1 Wherefore thou art inex- cusable, O man, whoever thou art that judgest. For in what thou judgest the other, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things. 2 For we know that the judgment of God is accord- ing to truth, against tho?e that prac- tice such things. 3 But thinkest thou this. O man that judgest those who practice such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God? 4 Or dost thou despise the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering, not understanding that the goodness of God leads thee to repentance? 5 But, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou dost treasure up for thyself wrath in a day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, 6 who will render to each one according to his works ; 7 to those that, by perseverance in good work, seek for glory and honor and incorruptibility, eternal life ; 8 but to those that are of party-spirit, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, wrath and indignation shall be ren- dered. 9 Affliction and anguish shall be on every soul of man that works out that which is evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek; 10 but glory and honor and peace to every one that works that which is good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. 11 For there is no acceptance of persons with God. 12 For as many as sinned without law shall also perish without law : and as many as sinned under the law shall be judged by the law; 13 for not the hearers of law are righteous before God. but the doers of law shall be declared righteous. 14 For when- ever Gentiles, that have no law, do by nature the things of the law, these, not having law. are a law to themselves: 15 who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing testi- mony, and their reasonings between one another bringing accusation, or also making excuse 16 in the day when God shall judge the secrets 13 193 THE NEW TESTAMENT of men through Jesus Christ ac- cording to my gospel. 17 But if thou art named Jew, and restest on the law, and makest thy boast in God, 18 and knowest his will, and provest things that differ, being instructed out of the law ; 19 and art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light to those that are in darkness, 20 an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of knowledge and of truth in the law: 21 thou, then, that teachest another, teachest not thou thyself? Thou that preachest that men should not steal, dost thou steal ? 22 Thou that sayest that men should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? Thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou rob temples? 23 Thou that makest thy boast in the law, through transgression of the law dishonorest thou God? 24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, as it is written, 25 For circumcision indeed profits if thou keep the law; but if thou be a transgressor of law, thy circum- cision has become uncircumcision. 26 If, then, the uncircumcision keep the judgments of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision? 27 And that which is by birth uncircumcision, if it keep the law, will judge thee, who with letter and circumcision art a trans- gressor of law. 28 For he is not a Jew that is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh ; 29 but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circum- cision is that of the heart, in spirit. not in letter, whose praise is not of men, but of God. 3 1 What, then, the pre-emi- nence of the Jew, or what the profit of circumcision? 2 Much in every way. First, indeed, that they were intrusted with the oracles of God. 3 What then? if some were unfaithful, will their unfaithfulness make null the faithfulness of God? 4 Let it not be; but let God become true, but every man a liar, as it is written : That thou mayest be de- clared just in thy words and mayest overcome when thou art judged. 5 But if our unrighteousness renders God's righteousness conspicuous, what shall we say? Is God unright- eous who brings on us the punish- ment? I speak as a man. 6 Let it not be; since how shall God judge the world? 7 For if the truth of God has, through my lie, become more abundant for his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner? 8 And why not say (as we are blas- phemously reported, and as some affirm that we do say) : Let us do the evil, that the good may come? whose condemnation is just. 9 What then? Do we excel? Not at all ; for we have before ac- cused both Jews and Greeks all of being under sin, 10 as it is written : There is none righteous, no, not one; 11 there is none that under- stands, there is none that seeks after God: 12 they have all gone out of the way. they have together become unprofitable : there is none that does good, there is not even one. 13 Their throat is an open sepulcher, with their tongues they have used deceit, the poison of asps is under their lips. 14 ^^'^hose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. 15 Swift are their feet to shed blood. 16 destruction and misery are in their 194 ROMANS ways, 17 and the way of peace have they not known. 18 There is no fear of God before their eyes. 19 But we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world become guilty before God. 20 Be- cause by works of law shall no flesh be declared righteous in his sight ; for through law is the knowledge of sin. 21 But now without law the right- eousness of God has been made manifest, being witnessed by the law and the prophets : 22 I say, the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all that believe. For there is no difference; 23 for all sinned and do come short of the glory of God, 24 being justified freely by his grace, through the re- demption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God set forth as a propitia- tory sacrifice through faith in his blood, for a manifestation of his righteousness, because of the pass- ing by of past sins 26 in the for- bearance of God, with a view to the manifestation of his righteousness in the present time, in order that he might be righteous, and declare righteous him that is of the faith of Jesus. 27 Where, then, is the boasting? It is excluded. Through what law? Of works? No: but through the law of faith. 28 We conclude, then, that a man is declared righteous by faith, without works of law. 29 Is he the God of the Jews only? Is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also. 30 Seeing there is one God who will declare the circumcision righteous by faith and the uncircumcision through the faith. 31 Do we, then, make law void through faith? Let it not be: on the other hand, we establish law. 4 1 What, then, shall we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh? 2 For, if Abraham was justified by works, he has cause for boasting, but not before God. 3 For what says the Scripture? Abraham be- lieved God, and it was counted to him for righteousness. 4 But to him that works, the reward is not counted as a favor, but as a debt: 5 to him, however, that works not, but believes on him that justifies the ungodly man. his faith is count- ed for righteousness. 6 Even as David also speaks of the blessed- ness of the man to whom God counts righteousness without works : 7 Blessed are they whose transgres- sions are forgiven, and whose sins are covered : 8 blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will not count. 9 Is this blessedness, then, upon the circumcision only, or also upon the uncircumcision ? For we say : Faith was counted to Abraham for right- eousness. 10 How. then, was it counted? While he was in circum- cision, or in uncircumcision ? Not in circumcision, but in uncircum- cision. 11 And he received a sign of circumcision, a seal of the right- eousness of the faith which he had while in uncircumcision. that he might be the father of all that be- lieve while yet in uncircumcision, that righteousness might be counted to them, 12 and the father of cir- cumcision to them that are not of the circumcision only, but that also walk in the steps of the faith of our father Abraham, which he had while in uncircumcision. 195 THE NEW TESTAMENT 13 For not through law was the promise to Abraham, or to his pos- terity, that he should be heir of the world, but through the righteous- ness of faith. 14 For if they that are of law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is rendered powerless; 15 for the law works wrath; for where no law is, neither is there transgression. 16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be ac- cording to grace, in order that the promise may be sure to all the pos- terity; not to that of the law only, but also to that of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all. 17 (as it is written: A father of many nations have I made thee) before him whom he believed, even God, who makes the dead alive and calls things that are not as if they are: 18 who against hope on hope believed, in order that he might be- come a father of many nations, ac- cording to that which was spoken : So shall thy posterity be ; 19 and not being weak in faith, he consid- ered his own body that had become dead, being about a hundred years old and the deadness of Sarah's womb; 20 but in regard to the promise of God he doubted not through unbelief, but grew strong in faith, giving glory to God, 21 and being fully persuaded that what he had promised he was able also to perform. 22 Wherefore also it was counted to him for righteous- ness. 23 It was not written, however, for his sake, only that it was counted to him, 24 but also for the sake of us. to whom it shall be counted if we believe on him that raised Jesus our Lord from the dead. 25 who was delivered up because of our offenses, and raised because of our justification. 5 1 Therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom, also, we have had the access, by faith, into this grace in which we stand, and we boast in hope of the glory of God. 3 And not only so, but we also boast in afflic- tions, knowing that affliction works endurance. 4 and endurance approv- al, and approval, hope ; 5 and hope makes not ashamed, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit that was given to us. 6 Furthermore, we being yet without strength, at the proper time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For scarcely for a right- eous man will one die ; though for the good man perhaps some one would even dare to die ; 8 but God renders his love for us conspicuous in this, that, we being yet sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more, then, being now justified in his blood, we shall be saved through him from the wrath. 10 For if being enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more having been recon- ciled we shall be saved in his life; 11 and not only so, but also glorying in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation. 12 Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world, and through sin death, and so death passed through upon all men, inas- much as all sinned; 13 for till the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed where there is no law; 14 yet. death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those 196 ROMANS that did not sin after the Hkeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of the coming one. 15 Yet, not as the ofifense, so also the gracious gift; for if through the offense of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift in the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many. 16 And not as through one that sinned is the gift ; for the judgment passed from one offense to condemnation, but the gracious gift from many offenses to the right- eous decree. 17 For if, in the of- fense of one, death reigned through the one, much more shall they that receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ. 18 Therefore, as through one offense judgment came upon all men to condemnation, so also through one righteous deed, judgment came upon all men to justification of life. 19 For as through the disobedience of the one man the many were consti- tuted sinners, so also through the obedience of the one shall the many be constituted righteous. 20 But law came in beside, that the offense might abound; but where sin abounded, grace exceedingly abounded, 21 that, as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. 6 1 What, then, shall we say? Let us continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2 Let it not be. How shall we that died to sin live any longer in it? 3 Know you not that as many of us as were bap- tized into Christ Jesus, were bap- tized into his death? 4 We were, therefore, buried with him through baptism into death, that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we, also, might walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have grown together with the likeness of his death, we shall grow together also with the hkeness of his resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be made powerless, that we should no longer serve sin ; 7 for he that has died has been acquitted of sin. 8 But if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him, 9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more : death no longer has dominion over him. 10 For in that he died, to sin he died once for all ; but in that he lives, he lives to God. 11 Thus do you also count yourselves dead indeed to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus. 12 Therefore let not sin reign in your mortal body, in order to obey its desires ; 13 neither present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you; for you are not under law, but under grace. 15 What then? shall we sin be- cause we are not under law, but under grace ? Let it not be. 16 Know you not that to whom you present yourselves servants for obedience, his servants you are whom you obey, either of sin to death, or of obedience to right- eousness? 17 But thanks to God that you were servants of sin. but you obeyed from the heart the form 197 THE NEW TESTAMENT of teaching into which you were delivered, 18 and having been made free from sin, you became servants to righteousness. 19 I speak as a man, because of the w-eakness of your flesh. For as you present your members servants to uncleanness and to lawlessness in order to law- lessness, so now present your mem- bers servants to righteousness in order to sanctification. 20 For when you were servants of sin you were free in respect to righteousness. 21 What fruit, therefore, had you then ? Of which things you are now ashamed; for the end of those things is death. 22 But now, having been made free from sin, and hav- ing become servants to God, you have your fruit to sanctification, and the end, life eternal. 23 For the wages of sin is death ; but the gracious gift of God is life eternal in Christ Jesus our Lord. 7 1 Know you not, brethren, for I speak to those that know law, that the law has domin- ion over the man as long as he lives? 2 For the married woman is bound by the law to the living husband; but if the husband shall have died, she is loosed from the law of the husband. 3 So then, if, while her husband lives, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if her husband shall have died, she is free from his law, so that she is not an adulteress, though she be married to another man. 4 So then, my brethren, you also became dead to the law through the body of Christ, in order that you should be married to another, him that was raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit to God. 5 For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins which were through the law wrought in our members to bring forth fruit to death ; 6 but now we have been delivered from the law, having died to that in which we were held, so that we serve in newness of spirit and not in oldness of letter. 7 What, then, shall we say? Is the law sin ? Let it not be ; but I had not known sin except through law ; for I had not known desire unless the law had said : Thou shalt not desire. 8 But sin, taking occa- sion, through the commandment wrought in me all manner of desire; for without law sin is dead. 9 Now, I was alive without law once ; but when the commandment came, sin became alive, 10 and I died; and the commandment which was for life, this was found by me to be for death. 11 For sin, taking occasion, through the commandment deceived me, and through it slew me. 12 So, then, the law is holy, and the com- mandment holy and just and good. 13 Did, then, that which is good become death to me? Let it not be; but sin, that it might appear sin, working out death to me through that which is good, that sin through the commandment might become ex- ceedingly sinful. 14 For we know that the law is spiritual ; but I am flesh, sold under sin. 15 For what T work I know not : for I practice not what T wish, but what I hate this I do. 16 But if I do this that T wish not, T agree with the law that it is good ; 17 and now I no longer do it. but sin that dwells in me. 18 For T know that there dwells in me. that is, in my flesh, no good. For to will is present with me, but to work out the beautiful, notj 19 198 ROMANS for the good that 1 wish I do not, but the evil that I hate, this I prac- tice. 20 But if I do this that I wish not, I no longer do it, but sin that dwells in me. 21 I find, then, the law, to me wishing to do the good, — That evil is present with me ; 22 for I delight in the law of God according to the inward man, 23 but I see a different law in my mem- bers warring against the law of my mind, and making me a captive in the law of sin that is in my mem- bers. 24 Wretched man that I am : who shall deliver me from the body of this death? 25 Thanks to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord: so, then, I myself with the mind indeed serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin. 8 1 There is, therefore, now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made thee free from the law of sin and of death. 3 For what the law could not do, because it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of the flesh of sin, and on account of sin, condemned sin in the flesh, 4 that the righteous demand of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. 5 For those that are according to the flesh mind the things of the flesh, but those that are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. 6 For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace. 7 Because the mind of the flesh is enmity towards God ; for it is not subjected to the law of God, neither indeed can it be, 8 And they that are in the flesh can not please God. 9 You, however, are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwells in you. And if any one has not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. 10 But if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also make your mortal bodies alive through his Spirit that dwells in you. 12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, that we should live according to the flesh. 13 For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die ; but if through the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you shall live. 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. 15 For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear ; but you re- ceived the Spirit of adoption, in which we cry: Abba, Father. 16 The Spirit itself bears testimony with our spirit that we are children of God. 17 But if children, also heirs : heirs, indeed, of God, but joint-heirs with Christ, if so be that we suffer with him. that we may also be glorified with him. 18 For I reckon that the suffer- ings of the present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed for us. 19 For the earnest expectation of the creation awaits the revelation of the sons of God. 20 For the crea- tion was subjected to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who subjected it, 21 in hope that the creation itself shall be freed from 199 THE NEW TESTAMENT the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation groans together and is in pain together till now ; 23 and not only so, but ourselves also, hav- ing the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, awaiting the adoption, the redemp- tion of our body. 24 For by hope were we saved ; but hope seen is not hope; for what any one sees, why does he also hope for it? 25 But if we hope for that which we see not, we with patience wait for it. 26 And in like manner the Spirit also helps our weakness. For we know not what we shall pray for as we ought, but the Spirit itself inter- cedes with groanings unutterable : 27 he, however, who searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, that he intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. 28 But we know that to those who love God all things work together for good, to those who are called according to his purpose. 29 For whom he foreknew, he also predes- tinated to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be firstborn among many brethren ; 30 and whom he predestinated, these he also called; and whom he called, these he also declared righteous ; and whom he declared righteous, these he also made glorious.* 31 What shall we then say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? 32 He indeed that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how will he not also with him freely give us * By conferring on them the doxa — glory of the New Covenant. (See 2 Cor. all things? 33 Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is he that condemns? It is Christ Jesus who died; yes, more, who has risen, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall affliction, or distress, or persecution, or hunger, or naked- ness, or danger, or the sword? 36 as it is written : For thy sake we are killed all the day; we are counted as sheep for slaughter. 37 But in all these things we do more than con- quer through him that loved us. 38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor prin- cipalities, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to sepa- rate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord, 9 1 I speak the truth in Christ, I lie not. my conscience bear- ing me testimony in the Holy Spirit, 2 that I have great grief and unceasing sorrow in my heart. 3 For I could wish that I my- self were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen accord- ing to the flesh, 4 who are Israelites, to whom belong the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the religious service, and the promises ; 5 whose are the fathers, and from whom is Christ acording to the flesh : who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen. 6 But I do not say such a thing as: The word of God has failed. For these are not all Israel, who are of Israel ; 7 neither, because they are the posterity of Abraham, are all children ; but : In 20() ROMANS Isaac shall thy posterity be called: 8 that is, the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as the posterity. 9 For the word of promise was this : Accord- ing to this season will I come, and Sarah shall have a son. 10 And not only this, but also Rebecca, having conceived by one, our father Isaac, — 11 for the children not yet having been born, neither having done any good or ill, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calls, — 12 it was said to her: The elder shall serve the younger, 13 as it is written : Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated. 14 What, then, shall we say? Is there unrighteousness with God? Let it not be. 15 For he says to Moses : I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have com- passion on whom I have compas- sion. 16 So. then, not of him that wills nor of him that runs, but of God who has mercy. 17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh : For this same purpose did I raise thee up, that I might show in thee my power, and that my name might be pub- lished in all the earth. ^ 18 There- fore, on whom he wills he has mercy, and whom he wills he hardens. 19 Thou wilt say to me therefore : Why does he yet find fault? For who has resisted his will? 20 Yes. rather, O man. who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing moulded say to him that moulded it: Why didst thou make me thus? 21 Has not the potter right over the clay to make of the same lump one vessel for honor and another for dishonor? 22 But if God — willing to show his wrath, and to make known his power, endured in much longsuffer- ing vessels of wrath fitted for de- struction, 23 also that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he be- fore prepared for glory? 24 whom he also called, us not only from among the Jews, but also from among the Gentiles, 25 as he also says in Hosea: I will call that my people which was not my people, and her beloved, that was not be- loved; 26 and it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them : You are not my people, there shall they be called sons of the living God. 27 But Isaiah cries concerning Israel : Though the num- ber of the sons of Israel be as the sand cf the sea, the remnant shall be saved. 28 For a fulfilling and cutting short of the word will the Lord make on the earth. 29 And as Isaiah predicted: Unless the Lord of Sabaoth had left us poS' terity, we had become as Sodom and had been made like Gomorrah. 30 What, then, shall we say? that the Gentiles, that were not follow- ing after righteousness, attained to righteousness, the righteousness that is of faith; 31 but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, did not attain to a law. 32 W^hy? be- cause fhey sniinht if not by faith, but as by works : for they stumbled at the stone of stumbling. 33 as it is written : Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense: and he that believes on bim =hall not be ashamed. 1 A 1 Brethren, the good pleas- -1- v/ lire of my heart, and my ' prayer to God for them, is for their 201 THE NEW TESTAMENT salvation. 2 For I bear them testi- mony that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. 3 For, being ignorant of God's right- eousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God. 4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteous- ness to every one that believes. 5 For Moses writes that the man that does the righteousness of the law shall live in it. 6 But the righteous- ness that is of faith speaks thus : Say not in thy heart: Who shall ascend into heaven? that is, to bring Christ down : 7 or, Who shall de- scend into the abyss? that is, to bring Christ up from the dead. 8 But what says it? The word is near thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart : that is, the word of faith which we preach. 9 Because, if thou shalt confess with thy mouth that Jesus is Lord, and shalt be- lieve in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved ; 10 for with the heart faith is exercised in order to righteous- ness, and with the mouth confession is made in order to salvation. 11 For the Scripture says : Whoever believes on him shall not be ashamed. 12 For there is no differ- ence between Jew and Greek; for the same is Lord of all, rich toward all that call upon him. 13 For every one that calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. 14 How, then, shall they call on him in whom they have not believed^ And how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they henr without a preacher? 15 And how shall they preach unless they be sent? As it is written : How beautiful are the feet of them that bring glad tidings of good things. 16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says: Lord, who has believed that which was heard by us? 17 So, then, faith comes from what is heard, and that which is heard comes through the word of God. 18 But I say, have they not heard? Yes, verily. Their sound went forth into all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. 19 But I say, did not Israel know ? First Moses says : I will provoke you to jealousy by that which is no nation, by a foolish nation I will excite you to anger. 20 But Isaiah is very bold, and says : I was found by them that sought me not, I became manifest to them that asked not after me. 21 But of Israel he says : All day long I stretched forth my hands to a disobedient and contradicting people. 11 II say, then. Did God cast A away his people? It can not be ; for I am an Israelite, of the posterity of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God did not cast away his people whom he foreknew. Know you not what the Scripture says in speaking of Elijah, how he complains to God against Israel? 3 Lord, thy prophets they have killed, thy altars they have dug down, and T am left the only one, and they seek my life. 4 But what says the answer of God to him? I have reserved for myself seven thousand men. who have not bowed the knee to Baal. 5 So, then, even in the present time there is a remnant ac- cording to the election of grace; 6 now if by grace, no longer of 202 ROMANS works, since grace no longer be- comes grace. 7 What then? That which Israel seeks for, this he did not obtain, but the election obtained it, and the rest were hardened, 8 as it is written : God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, till this day. 9 And David says : Let their table become a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling- block, and a recompense to them : 10 let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back always. 11 I say. then, did they stumble that they should fall? It can not be; but by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, in order to excite them to emulation. 12 But if their fall is the riches of the world and their worse estate the riches of the Gentiles, how much more their ful- ness. 13 But I speak to you. the Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I glorify my office. 14 if in any way I may excite to emulation my own flesh and save some of them. 15 For, if the casting away of them is the reconciliation of the world, what shall their reception be but life from the dead? 16 But if the firstfruit is holy, so also the lump; and if the root is holy, so also the branches. 17 But if some of the branches were broken off. and thou, being a wild olive, wert grafted in among them, and made a joint-partaker of the root and the fatness of the olive. 18 boast not against the branches : but if thou boastest. thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. 19 Thou wilt say then : The branches were broken off that I might be grafted in. 20 Well: be cause of unbelief they were broken off, but thou standest by faith. Be not highminded. but fear; 21 for if God spared not the natural branches, neither will he spare thee. 22 Be- hold, then, the goodness and severity of God : towards those that fell severity, but towards thee the good- ness of God, if thou continue in his goodness, otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. 23 And these, moreover, if they continue not in unbelief, shall be grafted in ; for God is able to graft them in again. 24 For if thou wert cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and wert grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more shall these the natural be grafted into their own olive tree. 25 For I do not wish you. breth- ren, to be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own conceits, that hardness, in part, has come upon Israel till the fulness of the Gentiles shall have come in ; 26 and so all Israel shall be saved, as it is written : There shall come out of Zion the deliverer, he shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob. 27 And this is the covenant which they shall have from me. when I take away their sins. 28 As to the gos- pel they are enemies for your sake, but as to the election they are be- loved for the fathers' sakes : 29 for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. 30 For as you in time past believed not God. but now have obtained mercy through the unbelief of these. 31 so also have these now believed not. that through your mercy they also may now obtain mercy; 32 for God has shut up all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all, 208 THE NEW TESTAMENT 33 O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God : how unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past finding out. 34 For who has known the mind of the Lord? or who has been his counsellor? 35 or who has first given to him, and a recompense shall be made him? 36 For of him. and through him, and for him, are all things : to him be glory through the ages. Amen. 1 '^ II beseech you therefore. 1 ^ brethren, through the mercies of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice living, holy, acceptable to God, which is your rational service. 2 And be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renew- ing of your mind, that you may prove what the will of God is, the good, and acceptable, and perfect. 3 For I say, through the grace that was given to me, to every one that is among you, that he think not of himself more highly than he ought to think, but that he think soberly, as God distributed to each a meas- ure of faith. 4 For as in one body we have many members, but all the members have not the same office, 5 so we the many are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another, 6 but having gifts differ- ing according to the grace that was given to us ; whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the pro- portion of faith ; 7 or ministry, let us wait on our ministry; or he that teaches, on his teaching; 8 or he that exhorts, on his exhortation ; he that gives, let him do it with sim- plicity; he that rules, with dili- gence ; he that shows mercy, with cheerfulness. 9 Let Ipve be iinfeigned. Abhor that which is evil, cleave to that which is good : 10 in brotherly love, be affectionate one toward another : in honor, preferring one another: 11 in diligence, not slothful : in spirit, fervent; serving the Lord; 12 in hope, rejoicing: in affliction, patient: in prayer, persevering; 13 communi- cating to the necessities of the saints; following hospitality: 14 bless them that persecute you ; bless, and curse not. 15 Rejoice with them that rejoice, weep with them that weep. 16 Be of the same mind one toward another ; mind not high things, but condescend to things that are lowly: be not wise in your own conceits. 17 Render to no one evil for evil ; provide for things honorable in the sight of all men ; 18 if possi- ble, as far as it is of you, be at peace with all men ; 19 avenge not yourselves, beloved, but give place to the wrath ; for it is written : Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord. 20 If, then, thy enemy hunger, feed him ; if he thirst, give him drink ; for in do- ing this thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. 21 Be not over- come by evil, but overcome evil with good. "t ^ 1 Let every soul submit l«-5 himself to the authorities that are over him. For there is no authority except of God, and those that are have been appointed by God. 2 So, then, he that sets him- self against the authority resists the appointment of God: and they that resist shall receive to them- selves condemnation. 3 For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. And dost thou desire not to b^ afraid of th? ^u- 204 ROMANS tliority? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise from the same; 4 for he is the minister ol God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid ; for he wears not the sword in vain ; for he is the minister of God, an avenger to execute wrath on him that practices that which is evil. 5 Wherefore it is needful that you submit yourselves, not only because of wrath, but also because of con- science. 6 P"or. for this reason you pay tribute also ; for they are the ministers of God attending con- tinually to this very thing. 7 Render to all their dues : tribute to whom tribute is due, custom to whom custom, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor. 8 Owe no one any thing, except to love one another; for he that loves another has fulfilled the law. 9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not desire, and, if there is any other commandment, it is briefly summed up in this saying, in this : Thou shalt love thy neigh- bor as thyself. 10 Love works no evil to the neighbor : love, there- fore, is the fulfillment of the law. 11 And this, knowing the time, that it is the hour, at which we should have already awaked out of sleep ; for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. 12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Let us therefore put off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. 13 Let us walk becomingly as in the day, not in riotings and drunkenness, not in lewdness and wantonness, not in contention and envy; 14 but put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no 14 provision for the desires of the flesh. 1 Now, him that is weak in the faith receive, not to judg- ments of thoughts. 2 One believes that he may eat all things, another who is weak eats herbs. 3 Let not him that eats despise him that eats not; and let not him that eats not judge him that eats; for God has received him. 4 Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? To his own master he stands or falls; but he shall stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand. 5 One esteems one day better than an- other; another esteems every day alike : let each one be fully per- suaded in his own mind. 6 He that regards the day, to the Lord he regards it. And he that eats, to the Lord he eats, for he gives thanks to God ; and he that eats not, to the Lord he eats not, and gives thanks to God. 7 For no one of us lives to himself, and no one dies to him- self; 8 for if we live, to the Lord we live, and if we die, to the Lord we die. If, then, we live, and if we die, the Lord's are we. 9 For. for this purpose Christ died and lived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and the living. 10 But why judgest thou thy brother? And why dost thou despise thy brother? For we must all stand before the judgment-seat of God. 11 For it is written : As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. 12 So, then, each one of us shall give an account of himself to God. 13 No longer, therefore, let us judge one another; but judge this rather, to put no stumbling-block or occasion of falling in your brothers 205 THE NEW TESTAMENT way. 14 I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean of itself, but to him that thinks that anything is unclean, to him it is unclean. 15 For if on account of meat thy brother is grieved, thou no longer walkest ac- cording to love. Do not by thy meat destroy him for whom Christ died. 16 Let not, then, your good be evil spoken of. 17 For the king- dom of God is not eating and drink- ing, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit; 18 for he that in this serves Christ is accepta- ble to God and approved by men. 19 So, then, let us pursue the things of peace, and things by which we may edify one another. 20 Do not for the sake of meat overthrow the work of God. All things, indeed, are clean ; but it is evil for the man that eats so as to give offense: 21 it is good not to eat flesh, neither to drink wine, nor anything by which thy brother stumbles. 22 The faith that thou hast, have thou to thyself in the sight of God. Blessed is he that judges not himself in that which he allows : 23 but he that doubts is condemned if he eat, be- cause he eats not from faith ; and everything that is not from faith is sin. t ^ 1 Now we the strong ought J-*-^ to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. 2 Let each one of us please his neighbor for his good with a view to edification ; 3 for Christ pleased not himself, but, as it is written: The reproaches of them that re- proached thee fell on me. 4 For whatever things were formerly writ- ten, were written for our instruc- tion, that we, through the patience and the comfort of the Scriptures, might have hope. 5 Now may the God of patience and of comfort grant to you to be of the same mind one toward another according to Christ Jesus, 6 that with one mind you may with one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. 7 Wherefore, receive one another, as Christ also received you, to the glory of God. 8 For T say that Christ became a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises made to the fathers. 9 and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy, as it is written : For this cause will I give thanks to thee among the Gentiles, and to thy name will I sing. 10 And again he says : Rejoice, you Gentiles, with his peo- ple. 11 And again : Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles, and applaud him, all you peoples. 12 And again Isaiah says : There shall be a root of Jesse, and he that rises to rule the Gen- tiles; in him shall Gentiles hope. 13 Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believ- ing, in order that you may abound in hope in the power of the Holy Spirit. 14 Now, my brethren, I am per- suaded, even I myself, concerning you, that you also yourselves are full of goodness, having been filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another. 15 I have, however, written more boldly to you. brethren, in some measure, as putting you in mind because of the grace that is given to me by God, 16 that I should be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, minis- tering as a priest in the gospel of God, that the offering of the Gen- 206 ROMANS tiles might become acceptable, being sanctified in the Holy Spirit. 17 I have, therefore, my boasting in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God ; 18 for I will not dare to speak of any of the things that Christ did not work through me for the obedi- ence of the Gentiles, by word and deed. 19 in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God. so that from Jerusalem and round about as far as Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ. 20 But so making it a point of honor, I have preached the gospel not where Christ was named, that I might not build on another's foun- dation. 21 but as it is written : They to whom no message came concern- ing him, shall see. and they who have not heard, shall understand. 22 For which cause also I have been hindered many times from coming to you ; 23 but now, no longer having a place in these parts, and having for many years a strong desire to come to you, 24 whenever I take my journey into Spain; for I hope, in passing through, to see you. and by you to be sent forward thither, if first T may be in some measure filled with you. 25 But now I am going to Jerusalem, minister- ing to the saints. 26 For Macedonia and Achaia have been pleased to make a contribution for the poor of the saints that are in Jerusalem. 27 For they have been pleased, and their debtors they are: for. if the Gentiles have shared in their spirit- ual things, they ought also to min- ister to them in carnal things. 28 Having, therefore, performed this, and having secured to them this fruit, T will return through you into Spain; 29 but I know that in com- ing to you I shall come in the ful- ness of the blessing of Christ, 30 But I beseech you, brethren, through our Lord Jesus Christ, and through the love -of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in prayers to God for me, 31 that I may be delivered from the disobedient in Judea, and that my service which is for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints. 32 that, coming to you in joy through the will of God. I may with you be refreshed. 33 The God of peace be with you all. Amen. 1 iC II commend to you Phebe -■-v-l our sister, who is a deaconess of the church that is in Cenchrea, 2 that you receive her in the Lord in a manner worthy of saints, and that you aid her in whatever matter she may have need of you ; for she has been a helper of many, of my- self also. 3 Salute Prisca and Aquila, my fellow-laborers in Christ Jesus, 4 who for my life laid down their own necks, to whom not I only give thanks, but all the churches of the Gentiles: 5 salute also the church that is in their house. Salute Epe- netus. my beloved, who is the first- fruits of Asia to Christ. 6 Salute Alary, who labored much for us. 7 Salute Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen and my fellow-prison- ers, who are well known among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me. 8 Salute Amplias. my beloved in the Lord. 9 Salute Ur- banus. my fellow-laborer in Christ, and Stachys, my beloved. 10 Salute Apelles, approved in Christ. Salute those who are of the household of Aristobulus. 11 Salute Herodion my kinsman. Salute those who are of the household of Narcissus, who 207 THE NEW TESTAMENT are in the Lord. 12 Salute Try- phsena and Tryphosa, who labored in the Lord. Salute Persis the be- loved, who labored much in the Lord. 13 Salute Rufus, the chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine. 14 SaluteAsyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brethren that are with them. 15 Salute Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints that are with them. 16 Salute one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ salute you. 17 Now I beseech you, brethren, to mark those that cause divisions and ofifenses contrary to the teach- ing that you learned, and turn away from them; 18 for such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own belly, and through good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple. 19 For your obedience has come abroad to all; I therefore rejoice over you : I desire, however, that you be wise in regard to that which is good, but harmless in re- gard to that which is evil. 20 And the God of peace will bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of. our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. 21 Timothy my fellow-laborer salutes you : Lucius also, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsman. 22 I Tertius, who wrote the letter, salute you in the Lord. 23 Gains my host, and the host of the whole church, salutes you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, salutes you; and Quar- tus, our brother. 25 Now to him who is able to establish you according to my gos- pel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept in silence during eternal times, 26 but is now made manifest, and through the Scriptures of the prophets, ac- cording to the commandment of the eternal God, made known for obedi- ence of faith among all nations, 27 to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ: to whom be glory through, the ages. Amen. PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS— I. 11 Paul, a called apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Sosthenes my brother, 2 to the church of God that is in Corinth, to the sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all that call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours : 3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. 4 I thank my God always on your account for the grace of God that was given to you in Christ Jesus, 5 that in everything you were en- riched in him, in all utterance and all knowledge, 6 inasmuch as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you, 7 so that you come behind in no gift, waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ. 8 who will also confirm you to the end that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 God is faithful through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son. Jesus Christ our Lord. 10 But I exhort you, brethren, 208 I. CORINTHIANS through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing ; and that there be no schisms among you ; but that you be per- fectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. 11 For it has been declared to me con- cerning you, my brethren, by those of Chloe. that there are contentions among you. 12 And I say this, that each of you says : I am of Paul, and, I of Apollos, and, I of Cephas, and, I of Christ. 13 Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you, or were you baptized into the name of Paul? 14 I thank God that I baptized no one of you except Crispus and Gains: 15 that no one might say that you were baptized into my name. 16 And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides I know not whether I baptized any other. 17 For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not in wisdom of speech, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect. 18 For the preaching of the cross is to those that perish foolishness, but to those that are saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written : I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will set aside the prudence of the prudent. 20 Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the dis- puter of this age? Has not God made foolish the v.-isdom of the world? 21 For since, in the wisdom of God. the world, through wisdom, knew not God. it pleased God through the foolishness of what is preached, to save those that believe : 22 since Jews ask for signs, and Greeks seek for wisdom. 23 we, however, preach Christ crucified, to Jews indeed a stumbling-block, and to Gentiles foolishness, 24 but to these the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ God's power and God's wisdom; 25 because the fool- ishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. 26 For see your ca41ing, brethren, that not many wise men according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble ; 27 but the foolish things of the world has God chosen, that he may shame the wise, and the weak things of the world has God chosen, that he may shame the strong. 28 and the ignoble things of the world and things that are de- spised has God chosen, things that are not. that he may bring to nought things that are. 29 to the end that no flesh should glory in the sight of God. 30 But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who has become to us wisdom from God, righteousness also, and sanctification. and redemp- tion. 31 that as it is written : He that glories, in the Lord let him glory. 2 1 And L brethren, on coming to you. came not according to excellence of speech or of wisdom, announcing to you the testimony of God. 2 For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in great trembling; 4 and my speech and what I preached was not in persuasive words of wis- dom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: 5 that your faith might not be in the wisdom of men. but in the power of God. 6 Wisdom, however, we do speak among the perfect, yet wisdom not of this age, nor of the rulers of this 14 209 THE NEW TESTAMENT age who are brought to naught; 7 but we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the hidden which God or- dained before the ages for our glory ; 8 which no one of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known it, they would not have cru- cified the Lord of glory. 9 But as it is written: Which things eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, and into the heart of man have not entered, as many as God has pre- pared for those that love him. 10 For to us has God revealed them through his Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. 11 For what one of men knows the thoughts of man but the spirit of man which is in him? So also the thoughts of God has no one known but the Spirit of God. _ 12 But we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit that is from God, that we may know the things that are freely given to us by God; 13 which things wc also speak not in words taught by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit explaining spiritual things to spiritual men. 14 But the psychical man receives not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolish- ness to him, and he is not able to know them, because they are spirit- ually discerned. 15 But the spiritual man discerns all things; he himself, however, is discerned by no one. 16 For who has known the mind of the T>ord. that he may instruct him ? But we have the mind of Christ. 3 1 And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spir- itual, but as to flesh, as to babes in Christ. 2 I fed you with milk, not with meat ; for you were not yet able No, not even yet now are you able ; 3 for you are yet carnal. For whereas there is among you envy and strife, are you not carnal, and do you not walk according to man? 4 For when one says : I am of Paul ; and another : I of Apollos, are you not men? 5 Who, then, is Apollos? and who is Paul? Min- isters through whom you believed, even as the Lord gave to each one. 6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God made to grow : 7 so, then, neither is he that plants anything, nor he that waters, but he that makes to grow, who is God. 8 Now, he that plants and he that waters are one, but each shall re- ceive his own reward according to his own labor. 9 For we are God's fellow-laborers : God's field, God's building are you. 10 According to the grace of God that is given to me, as a wise archi- tect I have laid the foundation, and another builds upon it. But let each one take heed how he builds upon it. 11 For other foundation no one can lay beside that which is laid. which is Christ Jesus. 12 Now, if any one builds on this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay. stubble; 13 each man's work shall become manifest; for the day shall make it known, because it is revealed in fire ; and each one's work, what kind it is. the fire itself shall prove. 14 Tf any one's work shall abide, which he has built on this, he shall receive a reward: 15 if any one's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss, but himself shall be saved, so, however, as through fire. 16 Know you not that you are the temple of God. and the Spirit of God dwells in you? 17 Tf any 210 X CORINTHIANS one destroys the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, and such are you. 18 Let no one deceive himself : if any one seems to be wise among you in this age, let him become a fool, that he may become wise. 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written : He takes the wise in their own craftiness. 20 And again : The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain. 21 So, then, let no one glory in men ; for all things are yours ; 22 whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come, all are yours, 23 and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's. 4 1 So let a man regard us as ministers of Christ, and stew- ards of the mysteries of God. 2 Here, moreover, it is required in stewards that one be found faith- ful. 3 But to me it is the very least thing that T be judged by you or by human judgments; yes, T judge not even myself; 4 for I am conscious of no wrong, yet not in this am T justified; but he that judges me is the Lord. 5 So, then, judge noth- ing before the time, till the Lord come, who will also bring to light the secret things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts ; and then shall each one have his praise from God. 6 And these things, brethren, I have transferred in figure to myself and Apollos for your sakes. that in us 5'ou may learn "The not above what things are written." that you be not pufiTed up one for one against another. 7 For who makes thee to differ? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? and, if thou really didst receive, why dost thou boast as if not having re- ceived ? 8 Already are you full : already are you rich : without us have you reigned as kings ; and I would indeed that you did reign, that we also might reign with you. 9 For, I think, God has set forth us the apostles last, as appointed to death ; for we have become a spec- tacle to the world, both to angels and men. 10 We, fools for Christ's sake, but you, wise in Christ; we, weak, but you, strong; you. hon- ored, but we, dishonored. 11 Till this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are poorly clad, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place, 12 and labor, work- ing with our own hands : being re- viled, we bless ; being persecuted, we endure; 13 being defamed, we en- treat : as the refuse of the world have we become, of all things the offscouring till this day. 14 Not to shame you do I write these things, but as my beloved chil- dren I admonish you. 15 For. though you have ten thousand in- structors in Christ, yet not many fathers ; for in Christ Jesus I begot you through the gospel. 16 I be- seech you, therefore, become imita- tors of me. 17 For this cause have T sent to you Timnthv. who is my son, beloved and faithful in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways that are in Christ, as I teach everywhere in every church. 18 Now. some have been puffed un as if I were not coming to you : 1Q but T will come to you quickly, if the Lord will; and I will know not the speech of those that are puffed up, but the power ; 20 for the 211 THE NEW TESTAMENT kingdom of God is not in speech, but in power. 21 What will you? With a rod shall I come to you, or in love, also in the spirit of meek- ness? 5 1 Lewdness is commonly heard of as being among you, and such lewdness as is not even among the Gentiles, that one has his father's wife. 2 And are you puffed up, and did you not rather mourn, that he that has done this deed might he taken from among you ? 3 For I in- deed, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged, as if I were present, him that has so per- petrated this thing: 4 in the name of our Lord Jesus, when you have come together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus, 5 to deliver such a one to Satan, for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. 6 The ground of your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven leavens the whole mass? 7 Cleanse out the old leaven, that you may be a fresh lump, as you are unleavened ; for our passover also has been sacri- ficed for us— Christ. 8 So, then, let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. 9 I wrote to you in the letter not to keep company with lewd persons. 10 not altogether with the lewd persons of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or idol- aters, for then you ought to have gone out of the world. 11 But now I wrote to you not to keep company, if any one called brother be a lewd person, or covetous, or an idolater. 6 or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner, with such a one not even to eat. 12 For what have I to do to judge those also without? Do you not judge those within? 13 But those without God judges. Put away from among yourselves the wicked man. 1 Dare any one of you, hav- ing a matter against another, go to law before the unjust and not before the saints? 2 Or know you not that the saints shall judge the world? and if among you the world is judged, are you unworthy of the smallest judgments? 3 Know you not that we shall judge angels? much more then things pertaining to this life. 4 If you have, then, judgments pertaining to this life, those who are esteemed as nothing in the church, these do you set up? 5 For shame to you do I speak. So, is there not among you a wise man, not even one, who shall be able to arbitrate between his brethren? 6 But brother goes to law with brother, and this, too, before unbe- lievers? 7 Now, assuredly there is wholly a loss to you, that you have lawsuits with yourselves. Why do you not rather take injustice? Why do you not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? 8 But you do injustice, and defraud, and this to brethren. 9 Or know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit God's kingdom? Be not deceived: neither lewd persons, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor sodomites. 10 nor thieves, nor covet- ous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And these things were some of you ; but you were washed, but you were sancti- 212 I. CORINTHIANS fied, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God, 12 All things are in my power, but not all things are profitable : all things are in my power, but not 1 will be brought under the power of any. 13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats ; but God will destroy both it and them. But the body is not for lewdness, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body; 14 and God both raised up the Lord, and will raise us up through his power. 15 Know you not that your bodies are the mem- bers of Christ? Shall I, then, take the members of Christ and make them the members of a harlot? Let it not be. 16 Know you not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? For the two, says he, shall be one flesh. 17 But he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit. 18 Flee from lewdness. Every sin whatever a man might commit is without the body; but he that com- mits lewdness sins against his own body. 19 Or know you not that your bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you. which you have from God, and you are not your own ? for you were bought with a price : now, then, glorify God in your body. 7 1 But concerning the things of which you wrote, it is good for a man not to touch a woman ; 2 yet. on account of lewdness, let each one have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. 3 Let the husband render to the wife the duty, and in like manner also the wife to the husband. 4 The wife has not power over her own body, but the husband ; and in like manner also the husband has not power over his own body, but the wife. 5 Debar not one another, unless perhaps by consent for a time, that you may give, yourselves to prayer; and be together again, lest Satan tempt you on account of your incontinency. 6 But this I speak as a permission, not as a commandment. 7 Yet I would that all men be as I myself also am ; but each one has his own gift from God, one thus, another thus. 8 But I say to the unmarried and to the widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I ; 9 yet, if they have not self-control, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn. 10 But to the married I give command, not I, but the Lord, that the wife depart not from the husband; 11 but if she have actually departed, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband ; and that the husband put not away the wife. 12 But to the rest speak I, not the Lord; if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is well pleased to dwell with him. let him not put her away; 13 and if any woman has an unbelieving husband, and he is well pleased to dwell with her, let her not put away her hus- band. 14 For the unbelieving hus- band is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother : otherwise your children are unclean, but now are they holy. 15 But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart : the brother or the sister is not bound in such cases. But in peace has God called you. 16 For what knowest thou, O woman, whether thou shalt save thy hus- band? or what knowest thou, O 213 THE NEW TESTAMENT man, whether thou shalt save thy wife? 17 But as the Lord has allotted to each one, as God has called each one, so let him walk. And so I ordain in all the churches. 18 Was any one called, having been circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Has any one been called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised. 19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing; but the keeping of the commandments of God. 20 Let each one, in the calling in which he was called, in this abide. 21 Thou wast called being a servant; let it not be a care to thee ; but if thou also canst become free, use it rather. 22 For he that is in the Lord, hav- ing been called as a servant, is the Lord's freedman : in like manner, the free man that has been called is Christ's servant. 23 You were bought with a price : become not servants of men. 24 Brethren, let each one, in what condition he was called, in this abide with God. 25 But concerning virgins, a com- mandment of the Lord I have not : yet adfice I give as one that has obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful. 26 I suppose therefore this to be good on account of the present distress, that it is good for a man so to be. 27 Hast thou been bound to a wife? seek not a separa- tion : hast thou been loosed from a wife? seek not a wife. 28 If how- ever thou hast also married, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she has not sinned; yet afflic- tion in the flesh shall such persons have ; but I spare you. 29 But this I say, brethren, the time is shortened: it remains that those who have v/ives be as though they had none, 30 and those who weep as though they wept not, and those v/ho rejoice as though they rejoiced not, and those who buy as not pos- sessing, 31 and those who use the world as not abusing it ; for the fashion of this world passes away. 32 But I wish you to be without care. The unmarried man cares for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord ; 33 but the married man cares for the things of the world, how he shall please his wife. 34 Both the wife and the virgin are divided: the unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy in both body and spirit; but the married woman cares for the things of the world, how she shall please her husband. 35 But this I say for your profit, not that I may throw a snare over you, but with a view to propriety and assiduous attention to the Lord without distraction. 36 But if any one thinks that he acts in an unbecoming manner to- wards his virgin daughter, if she be past the flower of age, and it must needs so be. let him do what he will ; he sins not : let them marry. 37 But he that has stood steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own will, and has determined this in his own heart, to keep his daughter a virgin, does well. 38 So then even he that gives her in marriage does well, and yet he that gives her not in mar- riage does better. 39 A wife is bound as long as her husband lives ; but if the husband shall have fallen asleep, she is free to be married to whom she will, only in the Lord. 40 But she is more blessed if she 214 I. CORINTHIANS so abide, according to my judgment. 1 think too, even I, that I have the Spirit of God. 8 1 But concerning idol-sacri- fices we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. 2 If any one thinks that he knows anything, not yet has he known anything as he ought to know it; 3 but if any one loves God, he is known by him. 4 Concerning therefore the eating of idol-sacrifices we know that there is no idol in the world, and that there is no God other than the one. 5 For although indeed there are those called gods, whether in heaven or on earth; as there are gods many and lords many; 6 but for us there is one God the Father, from whom are all things and we to him, and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and we through him. 7 However there is not, in all this, knowledge ; but some with conscience till now of the idols eat as a thing offered to an idol, and their conscience being weak is de- filed. 8 But meat will not commend us to God : neither if we eat not, are we the worse, neither if we eat, are we the better. 9 But take heed lest perhaps this right of yours be- come a stumbling-block to the weak. 10 For if any one see thee that hast knowledge reclining at table in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him that is weak be edified, so as to eat things sacrificed to idols? 11 For the weak one perishes in thy knowledge, the brother for whom Christ died. 12 Now in so sinning against the brethren and wounding their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. 13 Wherefore if meat cause my brother to fall, I will never eat flesh, lest I cause my brother to fall. 9 1 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord? 2 If to others I am not an apostle, yet certainly to you I am ; for the seal of my apos- tleship are you in the Lord. 3 This is my defense to them that examine me. 4 Have we not a right to eat and drink? 5 Have we not a right to lead about a sister wife, as the rest of the apostles also, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas? 6 Or I only and Barnabas, have we no right to forbear working? 7 Who ever goes to war at his own charges? Who plants a vineyard, and eats not its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and eats not of the milk of the flock? 8 Say I these things as a man, or does the law also not speak these? 9 For in the law of Moses it is written : Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treads out the grain. Is it for oxen that God cares? 10 Or on our account altogether does he speak? For on our account was it written, that he that thrashes ought to thrash in hope, and he that plows, in hope of partaking. 11 If we have sown to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your carnal things? 12 If others partake of this right over you, should not we rather? But we used not this right ; but we en- dure all things, that we may give no hindrance to the gospel of Christ. 13 Know you not that those who perform sacred rites eat from the temple? Those who attend the altar are partakers with the altar? 14 So also has the Lord commanded those that preach the gospel to live 215 THE NEW TESTAMENT of the gospel; 15 but I have used none of these things. And 1 have not written these things that it should be so done in my case ; for it vi^ere better for me to die, than that any one should make my cause of glorying void. 16 For if I preach the gospel, I have no cause for glorying; for necessity is laid upon me ; for woe is to me if I preach not the gospel. 17 For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if unwillingly, I am intrusted with a stewardship. 18 What then is my reward? that in preaching the gospel I make the gospel without charge, that I may not abuse my right in the gospel. 19 For being free from all I made myself servant to all, that I might gain the greater number; 20 and I became to the Jews as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to those under law as under law, not being myself under law, that I might gain those under law; 21 to those with- out law as without law, not being without law to God, but under law to_ Christ, that I might gain those without law; 22 to the weak I be- came weak, that I might gain the weak : to all I became all things, that by all means I might save some. 23 And all things I do for the sake of the gospel, that a fellow-partaker of it I may become. 24 Know you not that those who run in the race- course all run, but one takes the prize? So run that you may obtain it. 25 And every one that contends for a prize is temperate in all things: they indeed then that they may take a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. 26 T therefore so run not as uncertainly, so fight I as not beating the air; 27 but I bruise my body and bring it into subjection, lest perhaps having preached to others I myself should become rejected. 1 A 1 For I would not have you -L V/ ignorant, brethren, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, 2 and were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, 3 and all ate the same spiritual food, 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank of the spiritual rock that followed, and the rock was Christ. 5 But in the greater number of them God had no pleasure; for they were overthrown in the wilderness. 6 Now these things became types of us, that we should not be desirers of evil things as they also desired. 7 Neither become idolaters, as some of them, as it is written : The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to sport.* 8 Neither let us commit lewdness, as some of them committed lewdness, and fell in one day twenty-three thousand. 9 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them tempted, and were de- stroyed by serpents. 10 Neither murmur, as some of them mur- mured, and were destroyed by the destroyer. 11 Now these things happened to them as examples, but were written for the instruction of us, on whom the ends of the ages have come. 12 So then let him that thinks he stands take heed lest he fall. 13 A temptation has not taken you except such as is common to man ; but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what you are able, but will make with the temptation a way also of es- 'In idolatrous dance. 216 I. CORINTHIANS cape, that you may be able to endure. 14 Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. 15 As to wise men I speak : judge you what 1 say. 16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? 17 Because one bread, one body we the many are ; for we all partake of the one bread. 18 See Israel according to the flesh : are not those that cat the sacrifices partakers of the altar? 19 What then do I say? that an idol-sacrifice is any thing, or that an idol is any thing? 20 But, that the things which they sacrifice, to demons they sacrifice and not to God; and I would not have you become par- takers with demons. 21 You can not drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons : you can not partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons. 22 Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? 23 All things are in my power, but not all things are profitable : all things are in my power, but not all things edify. 24 Let no one seek that which is his own, but that which is the other's. 25 Everything that is sold in the meat-market, eat, examining nothing on account of conscience ; 26 for the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness of it. 27 And if any one of the unbelievers invites you. and you be disposed to go, everything that is set before you eat, examining nothing on ac- count of conscience. 28 But if any one say to you. This is offered in sacrifice : eat not for his sake that showed it, and for conscience' sake. 29 Conscience I say, not thy own, but that of the other. For why is my freedom judged by another's conscience? 30 If I partake with gratitude, why am I evil spoken of on account of that for which I give thanks? 31 Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or do any thing, do all to the glory of God. 32 Give no occasion for stumbling either to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God, 33 as I also please every one in all things, not seeking my own profit, but that of the many, that they may be saved. 11:1 Be- come imitators of me, as I also am of Christ. 11 2 But I praise you, breth- A ren, that you remember me in all things, and hold fast the tradi- tions as I delivered themi to you. 3 But I wish you to know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of every woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God. 4 Every man praying or prophesy- ing having any thing on his head shames his head. 5 And every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered shames her own head ; for it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved. 6 For if a woman is not covered, let her also be shorn ; but if it is a shame to a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered. 7 For a man in- deed should not cover his head, as he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man. 8 For man is not from woman, but woman from man ; 9 for man was not created for the woman, but wo- man for the man. 10 For this rea- son ought the woman to have au- thority* on her head because of the *A token of subjection. 217 THE NEW TESTAMENT angels. 11 Nevertheless neither is woman without man, nor man with- out woman in the Lord ; 12 for as the woman is from the man, so also is the man through the woman, but all things from God. _ 13 Judge among yourselves; is it becoming that a woman pray to God un- covered? 14 Does not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a dishonor to him, 15 but if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her? because her hair is given for a covering. 16 But if any one seems to be contentious, we have no such cus- tom, neither the churches of God. 17 Now this I announce not in praise, that you come together not for the better, but for the worse. 18 For first indeed when you come together in the church, I hear that schisms are among you, and I in some measure believe it. 19 For there must be parties also among you that the approved also may be- come manifest among you. 20 When therefore you come together to the same place, it is not to eat the Lord's supper ; 21 for in eat- ing, each one takes before another his own supper ; and one is hungry, and another is drunken. 22 Why, have you not houses to eat and drink in? Or the church of God do you despise, and shame those that have nothinsr? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I praise you not. 23 For I re- ceived from the Lord that which I also delivered to you. that the Lord Jesus, on the night in which he was delivered up. took bread, 24 and after giving thanks he broke and said : This is my body which is for you of me. 25 In like manner also the cup, after he had supped, saying: This cup is the new covenant in my blood : this do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me. 26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, the death of the Lord you announce, till he come. 27 So then whoever shall eat the bread or drink the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner, shall be guilty of the body and of the blood of the Lord. 28 But let a man ex- amine himself, and so of the bread let him eat, and of the cup let him drink; 29 for he that eats and drinks condemnation to himself, eats and drinks not discernmg the body. 30 For this reason many among you are weak and sickly, and \ery many sleep. 31 But if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged; 32 but being judged by the Lord we are chastened, that we may not be condemned with the world. 33 So then, my brethren, in coming together to eat, wait one for another. 34 If any one is hungry, let him eat at home, that you come not together to condemnation. But the rest will I set in order when I come. 1 '^ 1 But concerning spiritual jL ^ things, brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant. 2 You know that when you were Gentiles you were carried away to the dumb idols as you were led. 3 Wherefore I make known to you that no one speaking in the Spirit of God says : Accursed is Jesus; and no one can say: Lord Jesus, unless in the Holy Spirit. 4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit; 5 and this do in remembrance I there are diversities of ministries, 218 I. CORINTHIANS and the same Lord; 6 and there are diversities of operations, and the same God who works all things in all. 7 But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit with a view to the proht of all. 8 For to one is given, through the Spirit, the word of wisdom; to another, the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit ; 9 to another faith, in the same Spirit; to another gifts of healing, in the same Spirit ; 10 to another the workings of mighty- deeds, to another prophecy, to an- other discernings of spirits, to an- other kinds of tongues, to another interpretation of tongues; 11 but all these work the one and the same Spirit, distributing to each severally as he wills. 12 For as the body is one, and yet has many members, but all the members of the body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ ; 13 for in one Spirit were we all bap- tized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free, and were all made to drink one Spirit. 14 For the .body is not one member, but many. 15 If the foot should say : Because I am not^ the hand, I am not of the body, it is not therefore not of the body. 16 And if the ear should say: Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body, it is not therefore not of the body. 17 If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? 18 But now God set the members, each one of them in the body as it pleased him. 19 But if they all were one member, where were the body? 20 But now many members, but one body. 21 And the no need of thee : or, again, the head to the feet : I have no need of you : 22 yes, much more the members of the body that seem to be weaker are necessary; 23 and those members of the body, which we think to be more dishonorable, around these we put more abundant honor; and our uncomely members have more abundant comeliness ; 24 and our comely members have no need. But God has well ordered the body, giv- ing more abundant honor to that which lacked. 25 that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care one for another. 26 And whether one member suffers, all the members sympathize ; or if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it. 27 Now you are the body of Christ and members in par- ticular. 28 And God has set some in the church, first apostles, second- ly prophets, thirdly teachers, after that powers, after that gifts of healing, helps, governments, kinds of tongues. 29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all powers? Have all gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? 31 But ardently desire the greater gifts; and yet I show you a more excellent way. 1 '3 1 Though I speak with the X O tongues of men and of an- gels, but have not love, I have be- come sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have proph- ecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And though I give all my goods away in food, and though I deliver up my eye can not say to the hand : I have ■ body that I may be burned, but have 219 THE NEW TESTAMENT not love, I am profited nothing. 4 Love suffers long, is kind; love envies not ; love is not boastful, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave itself improperly, seeks not her own, is not provoked, charges not the evil, 6 rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth : 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never fails ; but whether prophecies, they shall come to naught : or tongues, they shall cease; or knowledge, it shall come to naught. 9 But we know in part, and we prophesy in part : 10 when, however, the perfect has come, that in part shall come to naught. 11 When I was a child, I talked as a child, I thought as a child, I rea- soned as a child : when I became a man, I put away the things of a child. 12 For now we see by means of a mirror in an enigma, but then face to face : now I know in part, but then I shall know even as I was known. 13 And now abides faith, hope, love, these three ; but the greatest of these is love. "I 4 1 Pursue love, but ardently AT" desire spiritual gifts, rather, however, that you may prophesy. 2 F'or he that speaks in a tongue speaks not to men, but to God ; for no one understands, though in spirit he speaks mysteries ; 3 but he that prophesies speaks to men edification, and exhortation, and comfort. 4 He that speaks in a tongue edifies him- self; but he that prophesies edifies the church. 5 Now, I wish you all to speak in tongues, bnt rather that you prophesy; and greater is he that prophesies than he that speaks in tongues, unless he interpret, that the church may receive edification. 6 But now, brethren, if I come to you speaking in tongues, what shall 1 profit you, unless I shall speak to you either in revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophecy, or in teaching? 7 Even things without life, giving sound, whether pipe or harp, yet, if they give not a distinc- tion in tones, how shall that be known which is piped or harped? 8 For if the trumpet give an uncer- tain sound, who shall prepare him- self for battle? 9 So, unless you also, through the tongue, give a word easy to be understood, how shall that be known which is spoken ? for you shall speak into the air. 10 There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and no one of them without signifi- cation : 11 if. then. I know not the power of the voice, I shall be to him that speaks a barbarian, and he that speaks a barbarian, in my judg- ment. 12 So also you. since you are ardently desirous of spirits, seek that you may abound with a view to the edification of the church. 13 Wherefore, let him that speaks with a tongue pray that he may inter- pret. 14 For if I pray with a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is un- fruitful. 15 What, then, is it? I will pray with the spirit, but I will pray with the mind also : T will sing with the spirit, but I will sing with the mind also. 16 Else, if thou shalt have blessed with the spirit, he that occupies the place of the unlearned, how shall he say the amen at thy giving of thanks? since he knows not what thou sayest; 17 for thou indeed givest thanks well, but the other is not edified. 18 I thank God, I speak with a tongue more than you all ; 19 but in the church I pre- 220 I. CORINTHIANS fer to speak five words through my mind, that I may instruct others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue. 20 Brethren, become not little children in understanding, but in malice be childlike, but in under- standing become full-grown men. 21 In the law it is written : In words of another tongue and in other lips will I speak to this people, and not even thus will they hearken to me, says the Lord. 22 So, then, the tongues are for a sign, not for the believers, but for the unbeliev- ers, but prophecy, not for the unbe- lievers, but for the believers. 23 If, then, the whole church shall have come together into the same place, and all speak with tongues, but there come in unlearned men or un- believers, will they not say that you are mad? 24 But if all prophesy, and there come in any unbeliever or unlearned man, he is convinced by all, he is judged by all ; 25 the secrets of his heart become mani- fest; and so, falling on his face, he will worship God, reporting that in reality God is in you. 26 What, then, is it, brethren? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation : let all things be done with a view to edification. 27 If any one speaks with a tongue, by twos, or, at most, by threes, and in turn, and let one interpret ; 28 but if there be no interpreter, let him be silent in the church, but let him speak to himself and to God. 29 And let two or three prophets speak, and let the others discern ; 30 but if a revelation be made to another sit- ting by, let the first be silent. 31 For you can all prophesy one by one, that all may learn and all be comforted. 32 And the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets; 33 for God is not of disorder, but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints, 34 let your women be silent in the churches ; for it is not per- mitted to them to speak, but to be in subjection, as the law also says. 35 But if they wish to learn any thing, let them ask their own hus- bands at home ; for it is a shame to a woman to speak in a church. 36 Or came the word of God out from you, or to j'ou only did it come? 37 If any one thinks he is a prophet or spiritual, let him ac- knowledge the things which I write, that they are of the Lord; 38 but if one is ignorant, let him be ignorant. 39 So then, brethren, ardently de- sire to prophesy, and forbid not to speak in tongues ; 40 but let all things be done in a becoming man- ner and in order. 1 C 1 Moreover, I make known lZj to you. brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you have stood, 2 through which also you are saved, if you hold fast with what word I preached to you, unless you believed in vain. 3 For I delivered to you, among the first things, that which I also received; that Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures; 4 and that he was buried : and that he rose from the dead on the third day, according to the Scriptures : 5 and that he ap- peared to Cephas, then to the twelve. 6 After that he appeared to more than five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain till 221 THE NEW TESTAMENT now, but some have also fallen asleep. 7 After that he appeared to James, after that to all the apostles. 8 But, last of all, as to the one born out of due time, he appeared to me also. 9 For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I perse- cuted the church of God ; 10 but by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace which was for me be- came not vain, but I labored more abundantly than they all : not I, however, but the grace of God which was with me. 11 Whether, therefore, I or the}^ so we preach, and so you believed. 12 But if Christ is preached that he has risen from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, neither has Christ been raised; 14 and if Christ has not been raised, vain then both what we preached, and vain also your faith : 15 further, we are also found false witnesses of God, because we testified against God that he raised up Christ, whom he did not raise, if indeed then the dead are not raised. 16 For if the dead are not raised, neither has Christ been raised; 17 but if Christ has not been raised, fruitless your faith, you are yet in your sins : 18 then also those that have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. 19 If only in this life we have been hoping in Christ, more miserable than all men are we. 20 But now has Christ been raised from the dead, the first- fruits of those that have slept. 21 For since through man death, through man also the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. 23 But each one in his own order; the firstfruit Christ, afterward those that are Christ's at his coming : 24 then the end, when he shall have delivered up the king- dom to the God and Father, when he shall have destroyed all princi- pality and all authority and power. 25 For he must reign till he shall have put all enemies under his feet. 26 Death, the last enemy, shall be destroyed. 27 For he has put all things under his feet. But when he shall have said that all things have been subjected, it is evident that he is excepted who subjected all things to him; 28 but when all things shall have been subjected to him, then shall the Son also be subjected to him who subjected all things to him, that God may be the all in all. 29 Otherwise, what shall they do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are they even baptized for them? 30 Why also are we in danger every hour? 31 I protest by the rejoicing over you, brethren, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily. 32 If as a man I fought with wild beasts in Fphesus, what advantage is it to me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for to- morrow we die. 33 Be not de- ceived : Evil communications cor- rupt good manners. 34 Awake to sobriety, as it is right, and sin not: for ignorance of God some have. For shame to you I speak. 35 But some one will say: How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? 36 Fool- ish man, that which thou so\yest is not made alive unless it die; 37 I. CORINTHIANS and that which thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that shall be produced, but naked grain it may- be of wheat, or some of the rest ; 38 but God gives it a body as it pleased him, and to each of the seeds its own body. 39 All flesh is not the same flesh, but one indeed of men, but another flesh of beasts, but an- other flesh of birds, but another of fishes. 40 And there are bodies celestial, and bodies terrestrial ; but the glory of the celestial' is one, and the glory of the terrestrial another. 41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star diff'ers from star in glory. 42 So also the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption. 43 It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power : 44 it is sown a psychical body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a psychical body, there is also a spiritual body. 45 So also it is written : The first man Adam was made a living soul, the last Adam a life-giving spirit. 46 But not first the spiritual, but the psychical : after that the spir- itual. 47 The first man is from the earth, earthy; the second man, from heaven. 48 As the earthy, such also the earthy ; and as the heavenly, such also the heavenly ; 49 and as we have worn the image of the earthy, we shall also wear the image of the heavenly. 50 But this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. neither does cor- ruption inherit incorruption. 51 Be- hold, I tell you a mystery ; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruptibility, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 And when this corruptible shall have put on incorruptibility, and this mortal shall have put on im- mortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written : Death is swallowed up in victory. 55 Where thy sting, O death? Where thy vic- tory. O death? 56 The sting of death is sin, but the strength of sin is the law. 57 But thanks to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 58 So then, my beloved brethren, be- come steadfast, immovable, abound- ing in the work of the Lord always, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. 1 i^ 1 But concerning the cob J- v-l lection which is for the saints, as I gave order to the churches of Galatia, so also do you. 2 On every first day of the week let each one of you lay by himself, treasuring up whatever he has been prospered, that there be no collec- tions when I come. 3 And when I have come, whomever you may ap- prove, these will I send with letters to bear your favor to Jerusalem ; 4 and if it be worth my going also, they shall go with me. 5 But I will come to you when I shall have passed through Macedonia ; 6 for I am going through ^Macedonia, but with you. it may be. T shall remain or even spend the winter, that --^ou may send me forward wherever I may go. 7 For I do not wish to 223 THE NEW TESTAMENT see you now in passing; for 1 hope to remain some time with you, if the Lord permit. 8 But I shall abide in Ephesus till Pentecost ; 9 for there has been opened to me a door great and effectual, and there are many adversaries. 10 Now if Timothy come, see that he be with you without fear ; for he works the work of the Lord as I also do: 11 let no one therefore despise him. But send him forward in peace, that he may come to me ; for I wait for him with the breth- ren. 12 But concerning Apollos the brother, I exhorted him much to come to you with the brethren ; and his will was not at all to come now ; but he will come when he shall have opportunity. 13 Watch, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. 14 Let all your deeds be done in love. 15 Now I beseech you, brethren : you know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruit of Achaia, and they have given themselves to the ministry of the saints : 16 that you also submit yourselves to those that are such, and to every one that works with me and labors. 17 But I rejoice at the coming of Stepha- nas and Fortunatus and Achaicus, because they have supplied the want of you ; 18 for they have refreshed my spirit and yours. Therefore ac- knowledge those that are such. 19 The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Prisca, with the church that is in their house, salute you much in the Lord. 20 All the brethren salute you. Salute one another with a holy kiss. 21 The salutation of Paul with my own hand. 22 If any one loves not the Lord, let him be accursed. The Lord comes. 23 The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you. 24 My love with you all in Christ Tesus. PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS— il 11 Paul, an apostle^ of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy the brother, to the church of God which is in Corinth, with all the saints that are in all Achaia. 2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those that are in all affliction through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God ; 5 for as the sufferings of Christ abound toward us, so through Christ our comfort also abounds. 6 But whether we are af- flicted, it is for your comfort and salvation which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer; and our hope of you is firm: or if we are com- forted, it is for your comfort and salvation, 7 knowing that as you are partakers of the sufferings, so also of the comfort. 8 For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning our affliction that came upon us in Asia, 224 II. CORINTHIANS that we- were exceedingly pressed beyond strength, so that we de- spaired even of life; 9 but we our- selves have had in ourselves the sentence of death, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead, 10 who deliv- ered us from so great a death and does deliver, on whom we hope that he will even yet deliver, 11 you also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed on us because of the prayers of many persons, thanks may be given through many on our behalf. 12 For our glorying is this, the testi- mony of our conscience, that in sim- plicity and godly sincerity, not in carnal wisdom, but in the grace of God, have we conducted ourselves in the world, but more abundantly with you. 13 For we write no other things to you than what you read or even acknowledge ; and I hope you will acknowledge even to the end, 14 even as you also acknowl- edge us in part, that we are your cause of glorying as you also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus. 15 And in this confidence I in- tended before to come to you. that you might have a second benefit; 16 and through you to pass into IMace- donia, and to come again from IMacedonia to you ; and by you to be sent forward into Judea. 17 In- tending this, then, did I use light- ness? or the things which I intend, do I intend according to the flesh, that there should be with me the yes yes and the no no? 18 But as God is faithful, our word which is toward you is not yes and no. 19 For the Son of God. Christ Jesus, who was preached among you through us, through me, and Silvanus, and Timothy, was not yes and no, but in him was yes. 20 For as many promises of God as there are, in him is the yes, and in him the amen to the glory of God through us. 21 Now he who estab- lishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us is God, 22 who has also sealed us and given us the ear- nest of the Spirit in our hearts. 23 But I call God as a witness against my soul, that, because I would spare you, 1 came no more to Corinth. 24 Not that we are lords over your faith, but we are helpers of your joy; for by faith you stand. 2 1 But I determined this for myself, that I would not again in sorrow come to you. 2 For if I give you sorrow, who then is he that gives me joy but he that is made sorrowful by me? 3 And I wrote this very thing, that I might not on coming have sorrow from those from whom I ought to have joy. having confidence in you all that my joy is the joy of you all. 4 For out of much affliction and distress of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not that you might be made sorrowful, but that you might know the love that I have more abundantly toward you. 5 But if any one has caused sor- row, not me has he made sorrowful, but in part, — that I may not over- charge him, — all of you. 6 Sufficient for such a one is this punishment which was inflicted by the greater number: 7 so that on the other hand you should rather forgive and comfort, lest such a one should be swallowed up by overmuch sorrow. 8 Wherefore I exhort you to con- firm to him your love ; 9 for to this 15 225 THE NEW TESTAMENT end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things. 10 Now to whom you forgive anything, 1 also forgive; for what I have for- given, if I have forgiven anything, for your sakes I forgive it in the person of Christ, 11 lest Satan should gain an advantage over us ; for of his devices we are not igno- rant. 12 But when I came to Troas for the gospel of Christ, and a door was opened to me in the Lord, 13 I had no rest in my spirit because I found not Titus my brother; but taking leave of them I went forth into ^lacedonia. 14 Now thanks to God, who al- ways causes us to triumph in Christ, and makes manifest the odor of his knowledge through us in every place ; 15 for we are to God a sweet odor of Christ in the saved and in the lost : 16 to the one an odor from death to death, to the other an odor from life to life. And for these things who is sufficient? 17 For we are not as the many that corrupt the word of God, but as from sincerity, but as from God in the sight of God speak we in Christ. 3 1 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some, letters of commenda- tion to you, or of commendation from you? 2 You are our epistle, written in our hearts, known and read by all men : 3 being made manifest that you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us. written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart. 4 But such trust have we through Christ toward God. 5 Not that we are sufficient to think any- thing from ourselves as of our- selves, but our sufficiency is of God, 6 who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of letter, but of spirit; for the let- ter kills, but the spirit makes alive. 7 But if the ministration of death in letters, which was engraved on stones, was made in glory, so that the sons of Israel were not able to look steadfastly upon the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, which glory was to be done away, 8 how shall not the ministra- tion of the spirit be in glory? 9 For if the ministration of con- demnation is glory, much more does the ministration of the spirit abound in glory. 10 For that which has been made glorious has not been made glorious in this respect because of the excelling glory. 11 For if that which is done away was through glory, much more that v.hich remains is in glory. 12 Having therefore this hope, we use great boldness of speech, 13 and not as Moses put a veil over his face, that the sons of Israel might not look steadfastly to the end of that which was to be done away. 14 But their understandings were hardened. For till this day the same veil in the reading of the old covenant remains, not taken away because in Christ it is done away; 15 but till this day when Moses is read a veil lies over their heart; 16 but when it has turned to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, is freedom. 18 But we all, with un- veiled face, beholding as in a mir- ror the glory of the Lord, are II. CORINTHIANS changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Lord the Spirit. 4 1 Wherefore, having this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not, 2 but have re- nounced the secret things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor falsi- fying the word of God, but by man- ifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. 3 But if our gospel is also veiled, among those that perish it is veiled. 4 among whom the god of this age has darkened the understandings of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not shine forth. 5 For not ourselves do we preach, but Christ Jesus the Lord, but ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. 6 For the God who said that out of darkness light should shine, he has shined in our hearts for the shining of the knowl- edge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. 7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be God's, and not of us : 8 we are pressed in every way. but not straitened; perplexed, but not in despair ; 9 persecuted, but not for- saken ; cast down, but not de- stroyed ; 10 always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our body. 11 For we that live are always delivered up to death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our mortal flesh. 12 So that death works in us, but life in you. 13 But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which is written : I believed, therefore I spoke ; we also believe, and there- fore also speak : 14 knowing that he who raised up the Lord Jesus, will also raise us up with Jesus, and present us with you. 15 For all things are for your sakes. that the grace that abounds through the greater number may multiply thanksgiving to the glory of God. 16 \'\herefore. we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward is renewed day by day. 17 For the momentary lightness of our affliction works for us exceed- ing abundantly an eternal weight of glory. 18 while we look not at the things seen, but at the »things not seen ; for the things seen are tem- poral, but those not seen are eternal. 5 1 For we know that if our earthly house of this taber- nacle were dissolved, a building from God have we, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to put on over it our house that is from heaven, 3 since, indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked. 4 I-'or we that are in the tabernacle do groan, being burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed, but clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. 5 Now he that has wrought us up to this very thing is God, who has also given us the earnest of the Spirit. 6 Being confident therefore always, and knowing that being at home in the body we are 3way from home from the Lord: 7 for by means of faith we walk, not by means of sight: 8 we are confi- dent, I say, and well pleased to be 227 THE NEW TESTAMENT away from home out of the body, and to be at home with the Lord. 9 Wherefore also we make it a point ol honor, whether at home or away from home, to be acceptable to him. 10 For we must all be made mani- fest before the judgment-seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done by means of the body according to what he has done, whether good or evil. 11 Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men ; but we have been made manifest to God; and I hope also that we have been made manifest in your consciences. 12 For we do not again commend ourselves to you, but are giving you an occasion for glorying on our behalf, that you may have an an- swer to those who glory in appear- ance, and not in heart. 13 For if we have been beside ourselves, it is for God : if we are sober, it is for >ou. 14 For the love of Christ con- strains us, 15 because we thus judged, that if one died for all, then all died ; and he died for all that they that live should live no longer for themselves, but for him who died and rose for them. 16 So that henceforth we know no one accord- ing to the flesh ; and even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now no longer do we know him. 17 So that if any one is in Christ, he is a new creature : the old things have passed away, behold, all things have become new. 18 And all things are from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ, and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation. 19 seeing that God was reconciling to himself a world in Christ, not charging to them their ofi"enses, and deposited in us the word of recon- ciliation. 20 For Christ, then, we act as embassadors, as if God is beseeching through us : we pray in behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. 21 Him that knew no sin made he sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in him. 6 1 Xow working together with him, we also beseech that you receive not the grace of God in vain 2 (for he says: In an ac- ceptable season I heard thee, and in a day of salvation I helped thee : behold, now is a well-accepted sea- son ; behold, now is a day of salva- tion) : 3 giving no occasion for stumbling in any thing that the min- istry be not blamed, 4 but as min- isters of God commending ourselves in everything ; in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in straits, 5 in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings. 6 in purity, in knowledge, in longsuffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned, 7 in the word of truth, in the power of God ; through the armor of right- eousness on the right hand and on the left, 8 through glory and dis- honor, through evil and good re- port : as deceivers and true ; 9 as unknown and well known ; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened and not killed; 10 as sorrowing, but always rejoicing; as poor, but mak- ing many rich ; as having nothing, and possessing all things. 11 Our mouth has been opened to you, Corinthians, our heart has been enlarged; 12 you are not straitened in us, but you are straitened in your own bowels : 13 now that you may repay me in like manner, I speak as 228 II. CORINTHIANS to children, be you also enlarged. 14 Be not yoked with others, un- believers : for what participation have righteousness and lawlessness? or what communion has light with darkness? 15 and what concord has Christ with Belial ? or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? 16 And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God, as God has said : I will dwell in them and walk among them, and I wnll be their God and they shall be to me a people. 17 Wherefore come out from the midst of them, and be separated, says the Lord, and touch not an unclean thing; and I will receive you, 18 and I will be to you a Father, and you shall be to me sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty. 7: 1 Having there- fore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of flesh and spirit, perfecting holi- ness in the fear of God. 7 2 Receive us : we wronged no man, we corrupted no man, we defrauded no man, 3 Xot with a view to condemnation do I speak ; for I have said before that you are in our hearts to die and live with. 4 Great is my boldness toward you, great is my glorying concerning you: I have been filled with com- fort, I exceedingly abound in joy in all our affliction. 5 For when we came into Macedonia our flesh had no rest, but in every way were we pressed : fightings without, fears within. 6 But God who comforts those that are cast down comforted us in the coming of Titus: 7 and not only in his coming, but also with the comfort with which he was comforted among you, when he told us of your strong desire, your mourning, your -zeal for me, so that I rejoiced the more. 8 For though 1 made you sorry by means of the letter, I do not regret it : though I did regret it (for I see that that letter made you sorry, though for an hour), 9 now I rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that you sorrowed to repentance ; for >ou sorrowed according to God, that you might receive injury from us in nothing. 10 For sorrow ac- cording to God works repentance to salvation not to be regretted ; but the sorrow of the world works out death. 11 For behold, this very thing that you sorrowed according to God, what diligence it wrought out in you, yes rather, defense, yes rather, indignation, yes rather, fear, }'cs rather, strong desire, yes rather, zeal, yes rather, infliction of punish- ment. In every respect you have shown yourselves to be pure in this matter. 12 Therefore, although I wrote to you, I wrote not for his sake who had done the wrong, nor for his sake who had sufi'ered the wrong, but that your zeal for us might be made manifest to you in the sight of God. 13 Therefore we have been comforted. But in addi- tion to our comfort we rejoiced exceedingly more at the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all ; 14 for if in anything I boasted of you to him, I was not made ashamed ; but as we spoke all things to you in truth, 90 also our boasting which was before Titus was found to be truth. 15 And his inward afi^ection is more abundant toward you, while he re- members the obedience of you all. how with fear and trembling you 229 THE NEW TESTAMENT received him. 16 I rejoice that I have confidence in you in every- thing. 8 1 But we make known to you, brethren, the grace of God which has been bestowed among the churches of Macedonia, 2 that in a great trial of affliction the excess of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their liberahty ; 3 for according to their power, I testify, and beyond their power, being willing of themselves, 4 with much entreaty beseeching of us the favor and the participation in the ministration which is for the saints, 5 and not as we had hoped, but themselves they gave first to the Lord and to us through the will of God, 6 so that we have besought Titus, that as he had before begun, so also he would complete among you this grace. 7 But as you abound in everything, in faith, and speech, and knowledge, and all diligence, and your love to us, see that you abound also in this grace. 8 Not as a commandment do I speak it, but by means of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love ; 9 for you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich. 10 And I give an opinion in this matter; for this is profitable for you, who began before them not only to do, but also to be willing since last year; 11 but now complete also the doing, that as there was the readiness of willing, so also there may be the completion out of what you have. 12 For if the readi- ness of mind is present, it is ac- cepted according to what it may have, not according to what it has not. 13 For it is not that there should be ease to others, but burden to you, but by equality : at the present time your abundance may be for their want, 14 that their abundance may be for your want, that there may be equality, 15 as it is written: Jle that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gath- ered little had no lack. 16 But thanks to God who is put- ting the same zeal for you into the heart of Titus ; 17 for he accepted indeed the exhortation ; but being more zealous, he went to you of his own accord. 18 And we sent with him the brother, whose praise in the gospel is through all the churches, 19 and not that only, but who also was chosen by the churches as our fellow-traveler with this grace which is ministered by us with a view to the glory of the Lord himself, and the manifestation of our readiness of mind, 20 avoid- ing this : that no one should re- proach us in this abundance that is ministered by us ; 21 for we pro- vide for things honorable, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men. 22 And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have in many things and at many times proved to be diligent, but now much more diligent because of the great confidence he has in you. 23 Whether any one inquire of Titus, he is my companion and fellow-workman for you : or if our brethren be inquired of, they are the apostles of churches, the glory of Christ. 24 Therefore, the proof of your love and of our glorying con- cerning you. to them you will show in the presence of the churches. 230 11. CORINTHIANS 9 1 For indeed concerning the relief which is for the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you; 2 for I know your forward- ness, of which I boast concerning you to the Macedonians, that Achaia has been ready since last year, and your zeal has roused the greater number. 3 But 1 have sent the brethren, that our boasting concern- ing you may not be in vain in this respect; that, as I said, you may be ready: 4 lest perhaps if Mace- donians come with me, and find you unprepared, we, that we say not you, should be ashamed in this confi- dence. 5 I thought it necessary therefore to exhort the brethren, that they would go before to you, and make up beforehand your bless- ing that was promised before, that this may be ready as a blessing, and not as covetousness. 6 But as to this, he that sows sparingly shall also reap sparingly, and he that sows with blessings shall also reap with blessings. 7 Let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not from sorrow or from necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver. 8 And God is able to make every grace abound to you. that you having always all sufficiency in everything, may abound for every good work ; 9 as it is written : He scattered abroad, he gave to the poor, his righteousness remains for ever. 10 But he that supplies seed for the sower, and bread for eating, will supply and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness: 11 being en- riched in everything for all liberality, w^hich works out through us thanks- giving to God. 12 Because the ad- ministration of this service not only supplies the wants of the saints, but also abounds through many thanks- givings to God : 13 as, through the proof which this ministration gives, they glorify God for the subjection that is caused by your confession in respect to the gospel of Christ, and for the liberality of the contribution for them and for all, 14 and by their prayer for you, since they long for j'ou on account of the exceeding grace of God that is in you. 15 Thanks to God for his unspeakable gift. 1 A 1 Now I Paul myself be- -*- ^ seech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence indeed am lowly among you, but being absent am bold to- wards you; 2 but I entreat that I may not when present be bold with that confidence, with which I think to be bold against some who think of us as if we walk according to the flesh. 3 For though walking in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh 4 (for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God for the pulling down of strongholds), 5 casting down reasonings and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God. and leading cap- tive every thought to the obedience of Christ, 6 and having in readiness to inflict punishment on every fail- ure in obedience, when your obedi- ence is fulfilled. 7 Do you look on things accord- ing to outward appearance? If any one confides in himself that he is Christ's, let him conclude this again of himself, that as he is Christ's, so also are we Christ's. 8 For even if I should boast somewhat more abundantly of our authority, which 231 THE NEW TESTAMENT the Lord gave us for edification, and not for your destruction, I shall not be made ashamed. 9 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters. 10 For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful, but his bodily presence weak, and his speech contemptible. 11 Let such a one think this, that such as we are in word by letters, when ab- sent, such are we also in deed, when present. 12 For we dare not num- ber ourselves among or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves; but they, measuring themselves among themselves, and comparing themselves with thern- selves, are not wise. 13 But we will not boast without measure, but ac- cording to the measure of the rule, which God has apportioned to us, a measure to reach even to you. 14 For we do not stretch ourselves too far, as if we do not come to you ; for even as far as to you did we come first in the gospel of Christ, 15 not boasting without measure in the labors of others; but having hope, when your faith is increased, to be enlarged among you according to our rule, abun- dantly. 16 to preach the gospel in regions beyond you, not to boast ourselves in things made ready in another man's line. 17 But he that boasts, in the Lord let him boast; 18 for not he that commends him- self is approved, but he whom the Lord commends. 11 1 Would that you could A bear with some little of my folly; but indeed you do bear with me. 2 For T am jealous over you with a godly jealousy; for T have espoused you to one husband_ that Christ: 3 I fear, however, lest per- haps, as the serpent completely de- ceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. 4 For if indeed he that comes preaches another Jesus whom we did not preach, or you receive another spirit which you did not receive, or another gospel which you did not accept, you might well bear with him ; 5 for I think that I am in nothing inferior to these very great apostles. 6 If, however, I am rude in speech, yet not in knowledge, but in everything we have made it man- ifest toward you among all. 7 Or did I commit a sin in abasing my- self that you might be exalted, be- cause I preached to you the gospel of God without charge? 8 I robbed other churches, taking wages to do you service ; and when present with you, though in want, I was a bur- den to no one ; 9 for my want the brethren who came from Mace- donia supplied ; and in everything I have kept myself from being bur- densome to you, and will keep my- self. 10 The truth of Christ is in me, that this boasting shall not be stopped in my case in the regions of Achaia. 11 Why? Because I love you not? God knows. 12 But what I do, I will also do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire the occasion, that in what they boast they may be found even as we. 13 For such as they are false apostles, deceitful work- ers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. 14 And no won- der; for Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. 15 No great thing, then, if his ministers I may present a chaste virgin to ' also transform themselves as min- 232 II. CORINTHIANS isters of righteousness : whose end shall be according to their works. 16 I say again, let no one think that I am foolish ; but if otherwise, at least as foolish receive me, that I also may boast myself some little. 17 What I say, I say not according to the Lord, but as in folly, in this confidence of boasting. 18 Since many boast according to the flesh, I also will boast. 19 For you bear with the foolish with pleasure, since you are w'lie ; 20 for you bear with it if any one brings you into bond- age, if any one devours you, if any one seizes upon you, if any one exalts himself, if any one smites you on the face. 21 To my re- proach I say it, that we were weak ; but in whatever any one is bold, in folly 1 say it, I also am bold. 22 Are they Hebrews? I also. Are they Israelites? I also. Are they the posterity of Abraham? I also. 23 Are they ministers of Christ? I speak as if beside myself, I more; in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more fre- ciuently, in deaths often ; 24 of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one, 25 three times was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, three times have I been shipwrecked, a night and a day I spent in the deep: 26 in journeyings often, in dangers of rivers, in dangers of robbers, in dangers from my countrymen, in dangers from Gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the desert, in dangers in the sea. in dangers among fals€ brethren. 27 in labor and toil, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in. cold and nakedness. 28 Apart from things besides these, that which presses upon me daily, the care of all the churches. 29 Who is weak, and 1 am not weak? Who is en- snared, and I burn not? 30 If I must boast, of the things that con- cern my infirmities will I boast. 31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus, who is blessed throughout the ages, knows that I lie not. 32 In Damascus, the governor under Are- tas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes, that he might appre- hend me ; 33 and through a window, 1 was let down in a basket, through the wall, and escaped his hands. "t ^ 1 To boast surely profits -■- ^ me not ; for I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord, 2 I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago, whether in the body I know not, or out of the body I know not, God knows, such a one caught away even to the third heaven. 3 And I know such a man, whether in the body or apart from the body I know not, God knows ; 4 that he was caught away into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for man to utter. 5 Concerning such a one I will boast, but concerning my- self I will not boast, except in my infirmities. 6 For though I should desire to boast, I shall not be fool- ish, for I will speak the truth ; but I forbear, lest any one should think with regard to me above what he sees me. or hears anything from me. 7 And, lest I might be ex- alted above measure through the exceeding greatness of the revela- tions, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a message of Satan, that he might buffet me. that I might not be exalted above meas- ure, 8 Concerning this, three times THE NEW TESTAMENT did I beseech the Lord that he might depart from me. 9 And he said to me: My grace is sufficient for thee; for my power is per- fected in weakness. Most gladly then will I rather glory in my in- firmities, that the power of Christ may abide upon me. 10 Wherefore I am well pleased in infirmities, in outrages, in necessities, in persecu- tions, in straits, for Christ's sake ; for when I am weak, then am I strong. Ill have become foolish: you have compelled me. For I ought to be commended by you ; for in nothing was I inferior to these very great apostles, though I am nothing. 12 The signs indeed of the apostle were wrought out among you in all patience, in signs and wonders and mighty deeds. 13 For what is that in which you were inferior to the other churches, except that I did not become a burden to you ? For- give me this wrong. 14 Behold. I am ready to come to you the third time, and I will not be a burden to you ; for I seek not yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up treasure for the parents, but the parents for the children. 15 And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls, though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved. 16 But be it so, I did not become a burden to you ; but. being crafty. I caught you with guile. 17 Did T make gain of you by any one of those that I sent to you? 18 T be- sought Titus, and with him sent the brother. Did Titus make gain of you ? Walked we not in the same spirit? not in the same steps? 19 For ^ long time you are think- ing that to you we are making a defense. In the presence of God in Christ do we speak ; but all things, beloved, for your edification. 20 P'or I fear lest perhaps on coming 1 shall find you not such as I wish, and I shall be found to you as you do not wish; lest perhaps there be contentions, cnvyings, wraths, fac- tions, evil-speakings, whisperings, high-mindedness, tumults : 21 lest when I come again my God will humble me with respect to you, and I shall bewail many of them that have sinned before, and have not repented because of the uncleanness, and lewdness, and wantonness w^hich they have committed. 1 '2 1 This third time am I J- *-J coming to you : in the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established. 2 I have said before, and I foretell, as when present the second time, also now in my absence, to those who have sinned before and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare. 3 Since you seek a proof of Christ speaking in me. who to- ward you is not weak, but is mighty in you ; 4 for though he was cru- cified through weakness, yet he lives by the power of God: for we are weak in him. but we shall live with him through the power of God toward you. 5 Try yourselves, whether you are in the faith, prove yourselves: or do you not know yourselves, that Christ Jesus is in you? unless you are disapproved. 6 But I hope that you shall know that we are not disapproved. 7 But we pray to God that you may do no evil, not that we may appear ap- proved, but that you may do what is excellent, though we be as disap- 234 GALATIANS proved. 8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. 9 For we rejoice when we are weak, and you are strong : this also we pray for, your perfect union. 10 For this reason I write these things while absent, that I may not. when present, use severity, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for edification, and not for destruction. 11 Finally, brethren, rejoice; be perfectly united, be comforted, be of the same mind, live in peace, and the God of love and of peace shall be with you. 12 Salute one another with a holy kiss. 13 All the saints salute you. 14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God. and the communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. PAUL TO THE GALATIANS 11 Paul an apostle, not of men, neither through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead, 2 and all the brethren that are with me, to the churches of Galatia. 3 Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, 4 who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil age, ac- cording to the will of our God and Father, 5 to whom be glory from age to age : amen. 6 I wonder that you are so soon turning away from him that called you into the grace of Christ, to a different gospel. 7 which is not an- other, except that there are some that trouble you, and wish to pervert the gospel of Christ. 8 But though even we or an angel from heaven preach to you a gospel beside that which we preached to you, let him be accursed. 9 As we have said before, even now I say again, if any one preach to you a gospel beside that which you received, let him be accursed. 10 For do I now per- suade men or God? or seek I to please men? For if I yet pleased men, Christ's servant I should not be. 11 But I make known to you, brethren, the gospel that was preached by me, that it is not ac- cording to man ; 12 for neither re- ceived I it from man, nor was I taught it, but through a revelation of Jesus Christ. 13 For you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism, that I exceedingly perse- cuted the church of God and laid it waste ; 14 and I made progress in Judaism beyond many of my own age in my nation, being exceed- ingly a zealot for the traditions of my fathers. 15 But when he that set me apart from my mother's womb, and called me through his grace, was pleased 16 to reveal his Son in me, that 1 might preach him among the Gentiles, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood ; 17 neither went I up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me : but I went away into Arabia, and re- turned again to Damascus. 18 Then after three years, I went up to Jeru- salem to become acquainted with 235 THE NEW TESTAMENT Cephas ; and I abode with him fif- teen days; 19 but another of the apostles saw I not, except James the brother of the Lord. 20 Now as to the things that I write to you, be- hold, in the presence of God I lie not. 21 After that I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia, 22 but was not known personally to the churches of Judea that were in Christ ; 23 but they had only heard that he that once persecuted us now preaches the faith which he once destroyed; 24 and they glorified God in me. 2 1 Then, fourteen years after, I again went up to Jerusalem, with Barnabas, taking with me Titus also; 2 but I went up accord- ing to a revelation, and laid before them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them that were of reputation, lest I should run or had run in vain. 3 But neither Titus, who was with mc, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised ; 4 but* because of brethren that were stealthily brought in. who had come in stealthily to spy out our freedom which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage : 5 to whom, not even for an hour, did we yield by subjection, that the truth of the gospel might abide with you. 6 But from those that seemed to be some- thing, whatever they were is a mat- ter of no importance with me; God accepts not the person of a man ; for to me those that seemed to be something added nothing; 7 but, on the other hand, seeing that T had been intrusted with the gospel of * Supply: The matter concerning Titus took place. the uncircumcision, as Peter with that of the circumcision; 8 for he that wrought mightily in Peter for the apostleship of the circumcision, wrought mightily in me also for the Gentiles ; 9 and, knowing the grace that had been given to mc, James and Cephas and John, who seemed to be pillars, gave to me and Barna- bas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, but they to the circumcision : 10 only that we should remember the poor, which very thing I have also been diligent to do. 11 But when Cephas came to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he had been blamed. 12 For before some had come from James, he ate with the Gentiles ; but when they had come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing those of the circumcision; 13 and the rest c^ the Jews also acted hypocritically with him, so that Barnabas also was carried away with their hypocrisy. 14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all : If thou, being a Jew, livest as a Gentile and not as a Jew, why dost thou compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews? 15 We who are Jews by nature and not sinners of the Gen- tiles, 16 but knowing that a man is not justified by works of law, but through faith of Christ Jesus, even we have believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith of Christ, and not by works of law ; because by works of law shall no flesh be justified. 17 But if in seek- ing to be justified in Christ we are found even ourselves to be sinners, is Christ then a minister of sin? it can not be. 18 For if I build again 2^6 GALATIANS those things that I have destroyed, 1 constitute myself a transgressor. 19 For 1 through law died to law, that I might live to God. 20 With Christ have I been crucihed: I live; however, no longer I, but Christ lives in me; and the life that I now live in the flesh. I live in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and delivered himself up for me. 21 I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness is through law, then Christ has died in vain. 3 1 O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ has been set forth among you as crucified? 2 This only I wish to learn of you, by works of law did you receive the Spirit, or by the message of faith? 3 Are you so foolish? Having be- gun in spirit, are you now made per- fect in flesh? 4 Have you suffered so many things in vain? li indeed it be yet in vain. 5 He then that supplies to you the Spirit, and works mighty deeds among you. is it by works of law or by the message of faith? 6 As Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for right- eousness. 7 Know you then that they that are of faith, these are sons of Abraham. 8 But the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached be- forehand the gospel to Abraham : In thee shall all the nations be blessed. 9 So then they that are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham. 10 For as many as are of works of law. are under a curse ; for it is written : Cursed is every one that abides not in all things that are written in the book of the law. to do them. 11 But that in law no one is justified with God is evident; because the just by faith shall live; 12 and the law is not of faith, but he that does them shall live in them. 13 Christ has bought us oft" from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us ; for it is written : Cursed is every one that hangs on a tree; 14 that upon the Gentiles the blessing of Abraham might come in Christ Jesus, that we m.ight receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. 15 Brethren, I speak as a man. No one sets aside or adds to a covenant when confirmed, though it be a man's. 16 Now to Abraham were the promises spoken and to his offspring. It does not say: And to offsprings, as of many, but as of one: And to thy offspring, who is Christ. 17 But this I say: A cove- nant confirmed by God. the law which was four hundred and thirty years after does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect. 18 For if the inheritance is of law. it is no longer of promise ; but God has given it as a favor to Abraham through promise. 19 Why then the law? Because of transgressions was it added, till the offspring should come, to whom the promise has been made, having been appointed through angels, in the hand of a mediator. 20 Now there is no mediator of one. but God is one. 21 Is the law then agamst the promises of God? It can not be. For if a law had been given that could have made alive, verily righteousness would have been by law : 22 but the Scripture has shut up all under sin, that the promise by faith of Je'^us Christ might be given to those that believe. 23 But before faith came we were kept in guard under law, 237 THE NEW TESTAMENT shut up for the faith that was to be revealed. 24 So, then, the law was our pedagogue* to Christ, that we might be justified by faith; 25 but since faith has come we are no longer under a pedagogue. 26 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus ; 27 for as many of you as were baptized into Christ, put on Christ. 28 There is not Jew, neither Greek ; there is not servant, neither freeman ; there is not male and female ; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 But if you are Christ's, then are you Abra- ham's posterity, heirs according to promise. 4 1 But I say, as long as the heir is a minor, he differs noth- ing from a servant, though he is lord of all ; 2 but is under tutors and stewards till the time appointed by the father. 3 So also we, when we were 'minors, were in bondage under the elements of the world ; 4 but when the fulness of the time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, l)orn under law, 5 that he might buy off those under law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. 6 And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying: Abba, Father. 7 So then thou art no longer a servant, but a son ; and if a son, an heir also through God. 8 But then, indeed, not having known God, you were in bondage to them that by nature are not gods : 9 now, however, having known God. rather having been known by God. how turn you again to the weak and * Pedagofiriie — a servant that led his master's children to school. poor elements, to which you desire again to be in bondage? 10 You observe days and months and seasons and years. 11 1 am afraid of you lest perhaps I have be- stowed on you labor in vain. 12 Brethren, I beseech you, be- come as I am, for I was as you are. You have injured me in nothing; 13 but you know that because of weakness of the flesh I preached to you the gospel formerly, 14 and my trial that is in my flesh you did not despise, neither loathe, but you re- ceived me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus. 15 What, then, was your happiness? for I testify for you that if possible you would have pulled out your eyes and given them to me. 16 So, then, have I become your enemy because I tell you the truth ? 17 They are zealous for you, not honorably: yes, they desire to exclude you, that you may be zealous for them. 18 But it is honorable to be zealous in what is honorable, always, and not only when I am present with you. 19 My little children, for whom I again suffer the pains of child-birth till Christ be formed in you, 20 I was wishing, however, to be present with you now, and to change my voice, for I am in doubt with re- gard to you. 21 Tell me, you that desire to be under law, do you not understand the law? 22 for it is wi-itten that Abraham had two sons, one by the maidservant and one by the free woman. 23 But the one by the maid- servant was born according to the flesh, that by the free woman through the promise. 24 Which things are allegorized; for these are two covenants, one indeed from 238 GALATIANS Mount Sinai, bringing forth for bondage, which is Hagar. 25 For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in bondage with her children. 26 But the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all; 27 for it is written: Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not, break forth and cry out, thou that travailest not, for many more are the children of the desert- ed, than of her that had the hus- band. 28 But you, brethren, as Isaac, are children of promise. 29 But as then he that was born ac- cording to the flesh persecuted him that was born according to the spirit, so also now. 30 But what says the Scripture? Cast out the maidser- vant and her son ; for the son of the maidservant shall not be heir with the son of the free woman. 31 Wherefore, brethren, we are not children of the maidservant, but of the free woman. 5 1 In the freedom with which Christ has freed us, stand fast, and be not again subject to the yoke of bondage. 2 Behold, I Paul say to you, that if you be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. 3 But I testify again to every man that is circum- cised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. 4 You have withdrawn from Christ, whoever of you are justified in law: you have fallen from grace. 5 For we, through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness. 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love. 7 You were running well : who hindered you, that you should not obey the truth? 8 The credulity is not of him that calls you. 9 A little leaven leavens the whole mass. 10 I have confidence in you in the Lord, that you will have no other mind ; but he that troubles you shall bear the condemnation, whoever he be. 11 But I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why am I yet persecuted? Then has the offense of the cross ceased. 12 I would that they that subvert you would even cut themselves off. 13 For you, brethren, were called for freedom : only use not your freedom as an occasion for the flesh, but through love serve one another. 14 For the whole law has been fulfilled in one word, in this : Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy- self. 15 But if you bite and devour one another, see that you be not destroyed one by another. 16 But, I say, walk in the Spirit and you shall not fulfill the desire of the flesh. 17 For the flesh has desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh ; and these array themselves one against the other, so that you can not do the things that you would. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under law. 19 But the works of the flesh are manifest, which are lewdness, uncleanness. wantonness, 20 idolatry, witchcraft, enmities, strife, emulation, wraths, conten- tions, divisions, heresies, 21 envy- ings, drunkenness, revellings, and things like these ; as to which I foretell you as I have also said be- fore, that those that do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy. peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 meek- 239 THE NEW TESTAMENT ness, self-control : against such things there is no law. 24 But they that are Christ Jesus' have crucified the flesh with the passions and the desires. 25 If we live in the Spirit, in the Spirit also let us walk. 26 Become not vainglorious, provoking one another, envying one another. 6 1 Brethren, if a man shall have been also overtaken in any fault, do you that are spiritual restore such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. 2 Bear the grieis of one another, and so fultil the law of Christ. 3 For if any one thinks himself to be something, be- ing nothing, he deceives himself. 4 But let each one prove his own work, and then shall he have a cause of boasting in regard to him- self, and not in regard to another; 5 for each one shall bear his own burden. 6 But let him that is instructed in the word communicate to him that instructs, in all good things. 7 Be not deceived, God is not mocked. For whatever a man sows, this also shall he reap ; 8 for he that sows for his own flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption, but he that sows for the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life eternal. 9 But let us not be weary in doing that which is beautiful ; for in the proper time we shall reap, if we faint not. 10 Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, but especially to those of the household of faith. 11 See in how large letters* I have written to you with my own hand. 12 As many as wish to make a fair show in the flesh, these compel you to be circumcised, only that they are not persecuted for the cross of Christ. 13 For neither do they themselves that are circumcised keep the law, but they wish you to l)e circumcised that they may glory in your flesh. 14 But may it not happen to me that I glory except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, tnrough whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world; 15 for neither circumcision is any- thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. 16 And as many as walk by this rule, peace upon them and nercy, and upon the Israel of God. M Finally, let no one give me trouble ; for I bear in my body the marks of Jesus. 18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brethren : amen. * The form of the Greek requires us to understand that Paul wrote in large letters for emphasis, as we sometimes use capitals. PAUL TO THE EPHESIANS 11 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints that are (in Ephesus) and to the faithful in Christ Jesus. 2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who blessed us in every spiritual blessing 240 EPHESIANS in the heavenly things in Christ, 4 as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him, 5 having in love predes- tinated us for the adoption of sons to himself through Jesus Christ, ac- cording to the good pleasure of his will. 6 for the praise of the glory of his grace, in which he has graced us in the Beloved, 7 in whom we have redemption through his blood, the remission of ofifenses, according to the riches of his grace, 8 which he made to abound to us in all wisdom and prudence, 9 having made known to us the mystery of his will, ac- cording to his good pleasure which he purposed in himself, 10 for a dis- pensation of the fulness of the seasons, to gather together for him- self all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth, in him, 11 in whom also we have ob- tained inheritance, being predesti- nated according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, 12 in order that we should be for the praise of his glory, who before trusted in Christ : 13 in whom you also trusted, having heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salva- tion, in whom also having believed, you were sealed with the Spirit of promise, the Holy, 14 who is the earnest of our inheritance in order to the redemption of the purchased possession, for the praise of his glory. 15 Wherefore I also, having heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and your love for all the saints. 16 cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers, 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the acknowledgment of him, 18 that the eyes of your heart being enlight- en.ed, you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inherit- ance in the saints, 19 and what the exceeding greatness of his power toward us that believe according to the energy of the might of his strength, 20 which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and caused him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places. 21 far above every princi- pality and authority and power and lordship and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that to come, 22 and subjected all things under his feet, and gave him as the head over all things to the church. 23 which is his body, the fulness of him that fills all in all. 2 1 And you being dead to your offenses and sins, 2 in which you formerly walked accord- ing to the age of this world, accord- ing to the prince of the authority of the air. the spirit that now works in the sons of disobedience. 3 among whom we all also lived formerly in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath as the rest also ; 4 but God being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us, 5 even us being dead to offenses he made alive with Christ. — by grace are you saved, — 6 and raised us up and made us sit together in the heav- enly places in Christ Jesus, 7 that he might show in the ages to come the exceeding riches of his grace in 16 241 THE NEW TESTAMENT kindness to us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace are you saved through faith; and this not of you, the gift of God; 9 not of works, lest any one should boast ; 10 for we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. 11 Wherefore remember that for- merly you Gentiles in the flesh. — who are called Uncircumcision by that called Circumcision in the flesh, made with hands, — 12 that you were at that time without Christ, alien- ated from the polity of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of prom- ise, not having hope, and without God in the world ; 13 but now in Christ Jesus you, who were former- ly far off, have become near in the blood of Christ. 14 For he is our peace, who has made both one, and broken down the middle wall of sep- aration, 15 the enmity, having in his flesh caused to cease the law of com- mandments in ordinances, that the two he might create in himself one, a new man, making peace; 16 and might reconcile both in one body to God through the cross, having in it put to death the enmity; 17 and he came and preached peace to you the far off, and peace to the near, 18 for through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. 19 There- fore, then, you are no longer stran- gers and foreigners, but you are fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God, 20 having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief corner- stone; 21 in whom all the building fitly framed together grows into a holy temple in the Lord: 22 in whom you also are builded together for a dwelling-place of God in Spirit. 3 1 For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles, 2 if indeed you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God, which was given to me for you, 3 that according to revelation was made known to me the mystery, as I wrote before in brief, 4 by which you may be able, when you read, to understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ ; 5 which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it is now revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit: 6 that the Gentiles should be fellow- heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel, 7 of which I became a minister according to the gift of the grace of God, which was given to me according to the energy of his power. 8 To me who am far the least of all the saints was this grace given, that I might preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, 9 to enlighten all men as to what is the dispensation of the mystery, that has been hid from the ages in God, who created all things; 10 that there might be made known now to the principalities and the authorities in the heavenly regions, through the church, the much-diver- sified wisdom of God, 11 according to the purpose of the ages, which he established in Christ Jesus our Lord, 12 in whom we have boldness and access in confidence through the faith of him. 13 Wherefore I be- seech that you faint not in my afflic- tions for you, which are your glory. 242 EPHESIANS 14 For this cause I bow my knees to the Father, 15 from whom all the family in the heavens and on the earth is named, 16 that he may grant to you according to the riches of his glory, that with power you may receive strength, through the Spirit, into the inner man, 17 that Christ may dwell, through faith, in j^our hearts, 18 that you, being rooted and founded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height, 19 and to know the love of Christ that passes knowledge, that you may be filled to* all the fulness of God. 20 Now to him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, 21 to him be glory in the church in Christ Jesus through all the generations of the age of ages : amen, 4 1 I therefore the prisoner in the Lord beseech you, that you walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you were called ; 2 with all lowliness of mind and meekness, with longsufifering, bear- ing with one another in love : 3 giving diligence to keep the oneness of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 One body and one Spirit, even as you were called in one hope of your calling: 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism: 6 one God and Father of all. who is over all and through all and in all. 7 But to each one of us was given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ, 8 Wherefore he says: Having as- cended on high he led captivity cap- * That is, till you attain to the fulness of God, tive and gave gifts to men. 9 But this: He ascended; what is it but that he also descended into the lower regions of the earth? 10 He that descended is the same that ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things, 11 And he gave some apostles, some proph- ets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, 12 for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the building up of the body of Christ, 13 till we all come into the oneness of the faith, and of the acknowledgment of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ; 14 that we be no longer children, tossed and carried about by every wind of teaching in the sleight of men, in craftiness used wjth a view to the art of deception : 15 but speaking truth in love may grow up into him in all things, who is the head. Christ; 16 from whom all the body, fitly framed together and compacted through every joint of supply, according to the energy in the measure of each part, makes increase of the body for the build- ing up of itself in love, 17 This I say, therefore, and tes- tify in the Lord, that you walk no longer as the rest of the Gentiles also walk in the vanity of their mind, 18 being darkened in under- standing, alienated from the life of God. because of the ignorance that is In them, because of the hardness of their heart: 19 who. being past feeling, have delivered themselves up to lasciviousness for the work- ing of all uncleanness in their greediness. 20 But you did not so learn Christ, 21 if indeed you heard him and in him were taught as the 243 THE NEW TESTAMENT truth is in Jesus, 22 that you put off, according to the former behav- ior, the old man who is corrupt ac- cording to the deceitful desires ; 23 but be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and put on the new man which, according to God, has been created in righteousness and holi- ness of truth. 25 Wherefore having put away what is false, speak truth each one with his neighbor; for we are mem- bers one of another. 26 Be angry and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath, 27 neither give place to the devil. 28 Let him that steals, steal no more, but rather let him labor, making with his hands that which is good, that he may have to distribute to him that has need. 29 Let no corrupt word pro- ceed out of your mouth, but if any is good for needful edification, that i: may give grace to the hearers. 30 And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, in which you have been sealed for a day of redemption. 31 Let all bitterness, and anger, and wrath, and clamor, and blasphemy, be taken away from you, with all malice. Zl But become kind one toward another, compassionate, for- giving one another as God also in Christ forgave you. 5 1 Become, therefore, imita- tors of God, as beloved chil- dren, 2 and walk in love, as Christ also loved us, and delivered himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell. 3 But lewdness, and all unclean- ness, or covetousness, let them not be named among you, as it becomes saints, 4 and filthiness and foolish talking or jesting, which are not becoming, jjut rather giving of thanks. 5 For this you know, that no lewd, or unclean person, or covet- ous man, who is an idolater, has in- heritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. 6 Let no one deceive you with vain words ; for because cf these things comes the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience. 7 Become not therefore partakers with them. 8 For you were former- ly darkness, but now light in the Lord : walk as children of light, — 9 for the fruit of light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth, — 10 proving what is accept- able to the Lord; 11 and have no communication with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them. 12 For the things done by them in secret, it is a shame even to speak of; but all things that are reproved are made mani- fest by light ; for everything that is made manifest is light. 14 Where- fore he says : Awake, thou that sleepest, and rise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. 15 See, therefore, how exactly you walk, not as unwise, but as wise, 16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil. 17 Therefore become not foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. 18 And be not drunk with wine, in which is revelry; but be filled in Spirit;, 19 speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs; singing and chanting in your heart to the Lord ; 20 giving thanks al- ways to the God and Father for all things, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ: 21 being subject one to another in the fear of Christ. 22 Let wives be subject to their own husbands as to the Lord; 23 for the husband is the head of the wife, 244 EPHESIANS as Christ also is the head of the church, himself the saviour of the body. 24 But as the church is sub- ject to Christ, so also the wives to their husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it, 26 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the bath of water in the word, Zl that himself might present to himself the glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish. 28 So ought men to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself ; 29 for no one ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ also the church ; 30 for w^e are mem- bers of his body, of his flesh and of his bones. 31 For this cause shall a man leave father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh. Z2 This mystery is great; but I speak in regard to Christ and the church. ZZ Never- theless, do you each one of you so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she reverence her husband. 6 1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord; for this is right. 2 Honor thy father and mother, which is the first commandment with a promise, 3 that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. 4 And, you fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord. 5 Servants, obey your masters ac- cording to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart as to Christ; 6 not according to eye-service as pleasing men, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul; 7 with good will doing service as to the Lord and not to men : 8 knowing that whatever good thing any one does, for this he shall receive from the Lord, whether he be bond or free. 9 And, you masters, do the same thing towards them, forbearing threatening, knowing that the Lord of both them and of you is in the heavens, and there is no respect of persons with him. 10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the might of his strength. 11 Put on the whole armor of God, so that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil; 12 for we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the authorities, against the world - rulers of this darkness, against bands of wicked spirits in the heavenly regions. 13 Wherefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day. and having wrought out all things, to stand. 14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, 15 and having your feet shod with the readiness of the gospel of peace; 16 over all taking up the shield of faith, with which you shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. 17 And receive the hflmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God ; 18 through every prayer and supplication, praying at every season in spirit, and in it being watchful in all perseverance and supplication for all the saints, 19 and for me, that speech may be given to me in 245 THE NEW TESTAMENT the opening of my mouth, that I may in boldness make known the mystery of the gospel, 20 for which I am an ambassador in a chain, that in it I may speak boldly as I ought to speak. 21 But that you also may know my affairs, how J do, Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful minis- ter in the Lord, will make known all things to you : 22 whom I have sent to you for this very purpose, that you may know what concerns us, and that he may comfort your hearts. 2}> Peace to the brethren and love with faith from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 24 Grace with all those that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. PAUL TO THE PHILIPPIANS 11 Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, to all the saints in Christ Jesus, that are in Philippi, with the bishops and deacons. 2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 3 I thank my God on every re- membrance of you, 4 always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy. 5 for your contribution for the gospel from the first day till now, 6 having confi- dence in this very thing, that he that began a good work in you will ac- complish it till the day of Christ Jesus. 7 as it is right for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart, that all of you are. both in my bonds and in my defense and confirmation of the gospel, par- takers of my grace. 8 For God is my witness, how I long after you all in the bowels of Christ Jesus. 9 And I pray for this, that your love may abound yet more and more in all knowledge and understanding. 10 that you prove the things that are excellent, that you may be pure and without offense to the day of Christ, 11 having been filled with the fruit of righteousness, which is through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. 12 But I wish you to know, breth- ren, that what has happened to me has turned out rather to the further- ance of the gospel, 13 so that my bonds have become manifest in Christ in the whole of the pretori- um, and in all other places, 14 and the greater number of the brethren in the Lord, having confidence in my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word without fear. 15 Some both because of envy and strife, some also because of good will, preach Christ: 16 the one part from love, knowing that I am appointed to the de- fense of the gospel, 17 the other from contention announce Christ not sincerely, thinking to awake af- fliction to my bonds. 18 What then? Yet in every way. whether in pretense or in truth. Christ is an- nounced, and in this T rejoice. Yes, and I will rejoice ; 19 for I know that this will turn out to me for sal- vation through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, 20 according to my earnest expecta- ^6 PHILIPPIANS tions and hope that in nothing shall I be ashamed, but in all boldness, as at all times, even now Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether through life or through death. 21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. 22 But if to live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my work, and what I shall choose 1 know not. 23 But 1 am in a strait between two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ; for this is far better : 24 yet to abide in the flesh is more needful for you. 25 And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your advancement, and the joy of your faith, 26 that your rejoicing may be abundant in Christ Jesus, in me, through my coming again to you. 27 Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, that whether I come and see you or be absent I shall hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one soul striving to- gether for the faith of the gospel. 28 and in nothing terrified by the adversaries, which is to them an evident token of perdition, but of your salvation, and this from God; 29 for to you has been graciously given in behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for him, 30 having the same contest which you saw in me and now hear to be in me. 2 1 If therefore there is any exhortation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellow^ship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mer- cies. 2 fulfil my joy that you think the same thing, having the same love, being of one soul, thinking the .one thing,. 3 nothing according to contention, neither according to vainglory, but in lowliness of mind esteeming one another better than yourselves, 4 not considering each of you your own things, but each of you also the things of others. 5 For let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, be- ing in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God, 7 but he emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, having been born in the likeness of men ; and found in fashion as a man, 8 he humbled himself, having become obedient even to death, and the death of the cross. 9 Wherefore God also highly exalted him and gave him a name that is above every name, 10 that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in the heavens and those on the earth and those under the earth, 11 and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. 12 So then, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, with fear and trem- bling work out your own salvation; 13 for it is God that works in you both to will and to work for* his good pleasure. 14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings, 15 that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God, un- rebukable in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, 16 holding forth the word of life, for my rejoicing till the day of Christ, that I ran not in vain, *That is, because he is pleased so to do. 247 THE NEW TESTAMENT neither labored in vain. 17 But if 1 am even poured out upon the sac- rifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all; 18 and for the same do you also rejoice, and rejoice with me. 19 But I trust in the Lord to send Timothy to you soon, that 1 may be of good cheer by knowing of your affairs. '20 For I have no one of a like soul, who will sin- cerely care for your affairs; 21 for all seek their own, not the things of Christ Jesus. 22 But you know the proof of him, that as a child for a father he served with me for the gospel. 23 Him therefore I hope to send as soon as I know certainly of my matters ; 24 but I have con- fidence in the Lord that I myself also will come soon, 25 But I thought it needful to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow-worker and fel- low-soldier, but your apostle and minister to my need, 26 because he was longing after you all and greatly grieved, because you had heard that he was sick. 27 For he was sick near to death ; but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow on sorrow. 28 More diligently therefore did I send him, that on seeing him again you might rejoice and I be less sorrow- ful, 29 Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and hold such in honor, 30 for because of the work he came near to death, not regard- ing his life, that he might fill up that which was wanting of your service to me. 3 1 Finally, my brethren, re- joice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not burdensome, but for you it is safe. 2 Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil-workers, beware of the concision. 3 For we are the cir- cumcision, who worship God in spirit, and glory in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh, 4 though indeed 1 have confidence in the flesh. If any other one thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, 1 more : 5 circumcised the eighth day, of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews, according to law a Phar- isee, 6 according to zeal persecuting the church, according to the right- eousness that is in law having been blameless. 7 But the things that were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. 8 Yes, in- deed, then I even count all things to be loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count tiiem to be refuse, that I may gain Christ, 9 and be found in him, not having my right- eousness which is of law, but that through faith of Christ, the right- eousness of God on faith. 10 that I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death. 11 if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. 12 Not that I have already grasped (the prize) or have already become perfect, but I am pursuing if I also may apprehend, because I was also apprehended by Christ. 13 Brethren. I count not myself to have apprehended ; 14 but one thing / do: forgetting the things that are behind, and stretching myself for- ward to those that are before, I 248 PHILIPPIANS press along the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. 15 Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, have this mind ; and if as to anything you have a differ- ent mind, God will reveal even this to you ; 16 but to what we have at- tained, walk by the same. 17 Become imitators of me, breth- ren, and consider those that so walk, as you have us for an exam- ple. 18 For many walk, of whom I told you. and now tell you, even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ, 19 whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things. 20 For our commonwealth is in the heavens, whence w^e look for a Saviour, also the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who shall transform the body of our humiliation, that it may be like the body of his glory, according to the energy of his ability, even to subdue all things to himself. 4 1 So then, my brethren be- loved and longed for, my joy and my crown, so stand fast in the Lord, beloved. 2 I exhort Euodia and I exhort Syntyche. that they have the same mind in the Lord. 3 Yes, I beseech thee also, true yokefellow, aid these women, who aided me in the gospel, with Clement also and the rest of my fellow-laborers, whose names are in the book of life. 4 Rejoice in the Lord alwavs : again I say: Rejoice. 5 Let your moderation be known to all men : the Lord is near. 6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and supplication with thanks- giving, let your requests be made known to God. 7 And the peace of God, which passes all understand- ing, shall keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. 8 Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever honorable, whatever right, whatever pure, whatever lovely, whatever of good report, if there is any virtue, and if any praise, think on these things; 9 what things you have both learned and received and heard and seen in me, these do; and the God of peace shall be with you. 10 But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at length you have flourished* in your care for me ; in which you also cared, but lacked opportunity. 11 Xot that I speak in respect to want ; for I have learned in what condition I am to be content. 12 I know how to be abased, I know also how to abound : in everything and in all things I have been instructed, both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer want. 13 I have strength for all things in him that gives me power. 14 Neverthe- less you did well in communicating with my affliction. 15 But you also know. Philippians. that in the be- ginning of the gospel, when I de- parted from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as to an ac- count of giving and receiving, but you only ; 16 for even in Thessa- lonica you sent once and again to rny need. 17 Not that I desire the gift, but I desire fruit that may abound to your account. 18 But I have all in full, and abound; I have been filled, having received of Epaphroditus your gifts, an odor of *A figure from the putting forth of leaves 249 THE NEW TESTAMENT a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God. 19 But my God will fill all your need according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. 20 Now to our God and Father be glory from age to age. Amen. 21 Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren that are with me salute you. 22 All the saints salute you, but especially they of Caesar's household. 23 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. PAUL TO THE COLOSSIANS II Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy the brother, 2 to the saints that are in Colossse and the faithful brethren in Christ. Grace to you and peace from God our Father. 3 We thank God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying al- ways for you, 4 since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and the love you have for all the saints, 5 because of the hope that is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel, 6 which is present among you, as also in all the world, and is bringing forth fruit and increasing as also among you, from the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth : 7 as you learned from Epaphras, our beloved fellow-servant, who is faithful in behalf of you, a minister of Christ, 8 who also made known to us your love in the Spirit. 9 Wherefore we also, from the day we heard, cease not to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual under- standing, 10 so that you walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to all pleasing, in every good work bring- ing forth fruit and increasing in the knowledge of God, 11 in all power made powerful according to the might of his glory for all pa- tience and longsuffering, with joy, 12 giving thanks to the Father who made us fit for the portion of the inheritance of the saints in light, 13 who delivered us from the au- thority of darkness and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love, 14 in whom we have re- demption, the remission of sins, 15 who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature, 16 for in him were all things created that are in the heavens and that are on the earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or lord- ships, or principalities or authori- ties : all things have been created through him and for him, 17 and he is before all things, and all things in him consist; 18 and he is the head of the body, and the church : who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that he himself might become in all things pre-eminent; 19 for he was well pleased that all the fulness should dwell in him 20 and through him to reconcile all things to himself, hav- ing made peace through the blood of his cross, through him, whether 250 COLOSSIANS things on the earth or things in the heavens ; 21 and you being formerly alienated and enemies in mind in the wicked works, now, however, he has reconciled 22 in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without fault and blameless in his presence ; 23 if indeed you continue in faith founded and settled, and not moved away from the hope of the gos- pel which you heard, w'hich was preached to every creature that is under heaven, of which I Paul be- came a minister. 24 Now I rejoice in sufferings for you. and. in your stead. I fill up that which remains of the afflic- tions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church, 25 of which I became a minister ac- cording to the dispensation of God, which was given to me for you to fulfil the w^ord of God, 26 the mys- tery that having been hid from the ages and from the generations, now, however, has been made manifest to his saints, 27 to whom God wished to make known w'hat is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you. the hope of glory, 28 whom we announce, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ : 29 for which T also labor, striving according to his energy that is active in me in power. 2 1 For I wish you to know how great a conflict T have for you and those in Laodicea and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh. 2 that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit to- gether in love, and for all the riches of the full assurance of understand- ing, for the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, 3 in which are laid up all the treasures of wisdom and of knowledge. 4 But this I say that no one may beguile you with persuasive words. 5 For though in the flesh I am absent, yet in the spirit I am w^ith you, rejoicing and beholding your order and the stead- fastness of your taith in Christ. 6 As therefore you received Christ Jesus the Lord, in him walk, 7 rooted and builded up in him and strengthened in the faith as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving. 8 Take care that there shall be no one that leads you astray through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ, 9 for in him dwells all the fulness of the Godhead bodily, 10 and you are complete in him, who is the head of all principality and authority, 11 in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ, 12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were aiso raised with him through faith in the energy of God who raised him from the dead ; 13 and you being dead in the offenses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he made alive together i with him, having forgiven us all offenses ; 14 having blotted out the handwriting in ordinances that was against us. which was opposed to us. he alsotook it out of the midst, having nailed it to the cross : IS after spoiling principalities and au- thorities, he made a show of them 251 THE NEW TESTAMENT conies the wrath of God; 7 in which you also walked formerly when you lived in them ; 8 but now do you also put off all these, anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy speech out of your mouth : 9 lie not one to another, as you have put off the old man with his deeds. 10 and have put on the new. that is renewed for knowledge according to the image of him that created him. 11 where there is not Greek and Jew. circum- cision and uncircumcision, barbari- an, Scythian, bondman, freeman, but Christ is all and in all. I 12 Put on therefore, as the elect ment, ministered and being knit to- j of God, holy and beloved, bowels gether, increases with the increase | of mercy, kindness, lowliness of of God. 20 If you die with Christ j mind, meekness, longsuffering. 13 from the rudiments of the world, j bearing with one another and for- why as living in the world are you | giving one another, if any one have subject to dogmas, — 21 Touch not, | a quarrel with any. as Christ also openly, having triumphed over them in it. 16 Let no one therefore judge you in eating or in drinking or in respect of a feast or of a new moon or of sabbaths, 17 which are a shadow of things to come, but the body of Christ is the substance. 18 Let no one deprive you of your re- ward by delighting in humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh, 19 and not holding the head, from whom all the body, through joints and bands, having nourish neither taste nor handle, — 22 which things are all to perish in the using, according to the commandments and teachings of men. 23 And these have indeed a show of wisdom in will-worship and humility and aus- terity of the body, not in any honor for the satisfying of the flesh. 3 1 If then you were raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is sit- ting at the right hand of God : 2 think of things that are above, not of things that are on the earth. 3 For you died, and your life has been hid with Christ in God : 4 when Christ, our life, shall be made manifest, then shall you also be made manifest with him in glory. 5 Put to death therefore your members that are on the earth, lewdness, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry; 6 because of which things forgave you, so also do you ; 14 but over all these put on love, which is the bond of perfectness. 15 And let the peace of Christ reign in your hearts, to which you were also called in one body, and become thankful. 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom teaching and admonishing each other, in psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, in gratitude singing in your heart to God ; 17 and everything whatever you do in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. 18 Wives, be subject to your hus- bands, as it is fit in the Lord. 19 Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them. 20_ Chil- dren, obey your parents in all things; for this is well-pleasing in the Lord. 21 Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be 252 I. THESSALONIANS discouraged. 22 Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh, not in eye-service, as pleasing men, but in simplicity of heart, fearing the Lord. 2Z What- ever you do, work from the soul as to the Lord, and not to men, 24 knowing that from the Lord you shall receive the reward of the in- heritance. Serve the Lord Christ; 25 for he that does wrong shall re- ceive for the wrong that he has done, and there is no respect of per- 4 sons. 1 Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Alaster in heaven. 2 Persevere in prayer, watching in it in thanksgiving, 3 praying at the same time also for us, that God would open for us a door of the word to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I also have been bound, 4 that I may make it mani- fest as I ought to speak. 5 Walk in wisdom toward those who are without, redeeming the time. 6 Let your speech be always in grace, sea- soned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every one. 7 All things that concern me will Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful minister and fellow-servant in the Lord, make known to you, 8 whom I sent to you for this very purpose, that he may know your state, and comfort your hearts, 9 with Onesimus, the faithful and be- loved brother, who is of you ; they will make known ill things here. 10 Aristarchus, my fellow-pris- oner, salutes you, and so does Mark, the nephew of Barnabas, con- cerning whom you received com- mandments, — if he come to you, re- ceive him, — 11 and Jesus who is called Justus, w^ho are of the circum- cision : these only are my fellow- workers for the kingdom of God, who have been a comfort to me. 12 Epaphras, who is of you, salutes you, a servant of Christ Jesus, al- ways striving for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. 13 For I testify for him that he has great travail for you and for those in Laodicea and those in Hierapolis. 14 Luke, the beloved physician, sa- lutes you, and Demas. 15 Salute the brethren in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church that is in his house. 16 And when the epistle has been read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans. and see that you also read that from Laodicea. 17 And say to Archippus : Take heed to the ministry which thou hast re- ceived in the Lord, that thou fulfil it. 18 The salutation of Paul with my own hand. Remember my bonds. Grace be with you. PAUL TO THE THESSALONIANS— I. 11 Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace to you and peace. 2 W^e thank God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers, 3 incessantly remembering your work of faith. 253 THE NEW TESTAMENT and labor of love, and patience of hope of our Lord Jesus Christ be- fore our God and Father, 4 know- ing, brethren beloved of God, your election, 5 because our gospel came not to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance, as you know what sort of persons we were among you for your sake. 6 And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction with joy of the Holy Spirit, 7 so that you became a pattern to all that believe in Mac- edonia and in Achaia. 8 For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith toward God has gone forth, so that we have no need to say any- thing; 9 for they themselves de- clare concerning us what manner of entrance we had to you, and how you turned to God from the idols, to serve the living and true God, 10 and to await his Son from the heavens, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus, who delivers us from the coming wrath. 2 1 For yourselves know, breth- ren, our entrance to you, that it has not been vain ; 2 but having suffered before, and having been outraged, as you know, in Philippi, we were bolci in our God to speak to you the gospel of God in a great contest. 3 For our exhortation was not from delusion, neither from un- cleanness, nor in guile ; 4 1)ut as we have been approved by God to be intrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who proves our hearts. 5 For neither used we at any time words of flattery, as you know; nor a pretext of covetousness, God is wit- ness; 6 neither sought we glory from men, neither from you nor from others, when we could have been burdensome as Christ's apos- tles ; 7 but we were gentle in the midst of you, as if a nurse should nourish her own children, 8 so, having strong affection for you, we were well pleased to impart to you. not only the gospel of God, but our own souls also, because you had be- come dear to us. 9 For you re- member, brethren, our labor and toil : working night and day that we might not burden any one of you. we preached to you the gospel of God. 10 You are witnesses, and God. how holily and righteously and blamelessly we conducted ourselves for you that believe. H even as you know how we exhorted, and com- forted, and charged you, each one of you, as a father his own chil- dren. 12 that you should walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory. 13 And for this reason we also thank God without ceasing, because on receiving from us the word of the message of God. you accepted not the word of men. but as it is in truth the word of God. which also works in you that believe. 14 For you, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God that are in Judea in Christ Jesus ; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they have from the Jews. 15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and persecuted us. and please not God, and are opposed to all men. 16 forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved. 254 I. THESSALONIANS so as to fill up their sins always. But the wrath has come upon them to completion. 17 But we, brethren, having been bereaved and separated from you for the space of an hour, in pres- ence, not in heart, the more abun- dantly endeavored to see your face with great desire. 18 Wherefore we wished to come to you, I Paul indeed, both once and again, and Satan hindered us. 19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of re- joicing, are not even you before our Lord Jesus at his coming? 20 For you are our glory and joy. 3 1 Wherefore, no longer en- during, we thought good to be left behind in Athens alone, 2 and sent Timothy, our brother, and God's fellow-workman in the gospel of Christ, to establish you and ex- hort you concerning your faith, 3 that no one should be moved in these afflictions. For yourselves know that we are appointed to this : 4 for even when we were with you. we told you before that we are to be afflicted, as it also came to pass, and you know. 5 For this reason, 1 also, no longer enduring, sent to know your faith, lest perhaps the tempter had tempted you, and our toil should have been in vain. 6 But Timothy, having just now come to us from you, and brought us good news of your faith and love, and that you have a good remembrance of us always, greatly desiring to see us, even as we also to see you. 7 for this reason we were comforted over you. brethren, in all our distress and affliction through your faith ; 8 for now we live if you stand fast in the Lord. 9 For what thanks can we render to God concerning you. for all the joy with which we re- joice for your sakes before our God, 10 night and day praying ex- ceedingly that we may see your face, and complete what is lacking in your faith ? 11 Xow he himself, our God and Father, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you ; 12 and the Lord make you increase and abound in love toward one another and to- ward all, even as we toward you, 13 in order that he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his holy ones. 4 1 Finally then, brethren, we beseech you and exhort in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and please God, even as you do walk, that you would abound the more. 2 For you know what precepts we gave you through the Lord Jesus. 3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you abstain from lewdness ; 4 that each one of you know how to acquire for himself his own vessel in sanctification and honor, 5 not in the passion of de- sire, even as the Gentiles who know not God; 6 that no one go beyond and defraud in the matter his brother, because the Lord is an avenger for all such things, as we also told you before, and fully testi- fied. 7 For God called us not for uncleanness. but in sanctification. 8 Therefore, he that rejects, rejects not man, but God, who also gave his Holy Spirit to you. 9 But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that T write to you ; for you yourselves are taught of God to love one another; 10 for 255 THE NEW TESTAMENT you also do it toward all the breth- ren that are m all Macedonia, But we exhort you, brethren, to abound the more, 11 and make it your honor to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we charged you ; 12 that you may walk in a becom- ing manner toward those that are without, and have need of nothing. 13 But we d ^ not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those that have fallen asleep, that you sor- row not as the rest also who have no hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also those that have fallen asleep, will God through Jesus luring with him. 15 For this we say to you in the word of the Lord, that we, the liv- ing, who remain over to the coming of the Lord, shall not precede those that have fallen asleep; 16 because the Lord himself, with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God, shall descend from heaven, and tne dead in Christ shall arise first ; 17 then we, the liv- ing, who remain over, shall, together with them, l)e caught away in clouds to meet the Lord in the air ; and so shall we always be with the Lord. 18 So then comfort one another in these words. 5 1 But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I write to you ; 2 for yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. 3 When they say: Peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them, as pain upon her that is with child, and they shall not escape. 4 But you, brethren, are not in dark- ness, that the day should overtake you as a thief ; 5 for you all are sons of light and sons of day; we are not of night, neither of dark- ness : 6 therefore let us not sleep as do also the rest, but let us watch and be sober. 7 For those that sleep sleep by night, and those that are drunk are drunk by night ; 8 but let us, as we are of day, be sober, hav- ing put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation ; 9 because God did not appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 who died for us that, whether we be awake or asleep, we should live together with him. 11 Wherefore comfort one another, and edify one the other, as you also do. 12 But we beseech you, brethren, to know those that labor among you, and preside over you in the Lord, and admonish you, 13 and to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. Be at peace among yourselves. 14 But we ex- hort you. brethren, admonish the disorderly, encourage the faint- hearted, assist the weak, be long- suffering toward all. 15 See that no one render evil for evil to any one, but always pursue that which is good, both toward one another and toward all. 16 Rejoice always, 17 pray without ceasing. 18 in everything give thanks ; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. 19 Quench not the Spirit. 20 despise not prophesyings. 21 But prove all things, hold fast the excellent : 22 abstain from every appearance of evil. 23 But may the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly, and entire may your spirit and soul and body be kept without 256 II. THESSALONIANS blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 24 Faithful is he that calls you, who will also do it. 25 Brethren, pray for us. 26 Sa- lute all the brethren with a holy kiss. 27 I adjure you by the Lord, that the letter be read to all the holy brethren. 28 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. PAUL TO THE THESSALONIANS— II. 11 Paul and Silvanus and Tirnothy to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Grace to you and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 3 We are bound to give thanks to God always concerning you, brethren, as it is fit, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all toward one another increases, 4 so that we ourselves glory in you among the churches of God, on account of your patience and faith in all your perse- cutions and afflictions which you endure, 5 a proof of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you also suffer, 6 since it is a righteous thing with God to repay to those that afflict you, affliction, 7 and to you that are afflicted, rest with us, at the revela- tion of the Lord Jesus from heaven with the angels of his power 8 in flaming fire, rendering vengeance to those that know not God and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus; 9 and these shall suffer pun- ishment, an eternal destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might ; 10 when he shall have come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all that believed (because our testi- mony to you was believed) in that day. 11 To which end also we pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of the call- ing, and fulfil all the good pleasure of goodness, and the work of faith in power, 12 that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ. 2 1 But we beseech you, breth- ren, in respect to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gath- ering together to him, 2 that you be not so quickly shaken from the right understanding, nor yet be troubled, neither through spirit, nor through word, nor through letter as throngh us, as that the day of the Lord is at hand. 3 Let no one deceive you in any way, because — unless the apostasy come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdi- tion, who opposes and exalts him- self against every one that is called God, or an object of worship, so that he sits in the temple of God, openly showing himself that he is God. 5 Remember you not that while I was yet with you, I told you these things? 6 And now you know what withholds, that he may be revealed in his own time. 7 For the mystery of iniquity already works, only till he that withholds be taken out of the way; 8 and then shall be revealed the lawless one, 17 257 THE NEW TESTAMENT whom the Lord Jesus shall destroy with the breath of his mouth, and bring to nought by the appearance of his coming; 9 even him whose coming is according to the working of Satan, in all power and signs and wonders of falsehood, 10 and in all deceitfulness of unrighteous- ness for those that perish, because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this reason God sends them the strength of delusion, that they may believe the lie, 12 that all may be condemned that believed not the truth, but had pleasure in un- righteousness. 13 But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, breth- ren beloved by the Lord, that God from the beginning chose you to salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth, 14 to which he called you through our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. 15 So then, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which you were taught, whether through word or through our letter; 16 and may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father, who loved us and gave eternal consolation and good hope in grace, 17 comfort your hearts, and establish you in every good work and word. 3 1 Finally pray, brethren, for us, that the word of the Lord may run and be glorified as also among you. 2 and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and bad men, for not all have faith. 3 But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you, and keep you from the evil one. 4 But we have con- fidence in the Lord with respect to you, that you both do and will do the things which we give in charge. 5 And may the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the patience of Christ. 6 But we charge you, brethren, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother that walks disorderly, and not according to the tradition which they received from us. 7 For yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, because we were not dis- orderly among you, 8 neither ate we bread from any one for nought, but in labor and toil working night and day, that we might not burden any one of you : 9 not that we have not authority, but that we might give ourselves as a pattern to you to imitate us. 10 For when we were with you, this we charged you, that if any one will not work, neither let him eat. 11 For we hear of some walking among you disorderly, working not at all. but being busy- bodies : 12 now such we charge and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that working with quietness they eat their own bread. 13 But you, brethren, be not weary in well- doing. 14 And if any one obey not our word through the letter, mark that man, and keep no company with him. that he may be put to shame; 15 and count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a l)rother. 16 Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace al- ways in every way. The Lord be with you all. 17 The salutation of Paul with my own hand, which is the token in every letter: so I write. ^ 18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. 258 TIMOTHY PAUL TO TIMOTHY— I. 11 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus according to the appoint- ment of God our Saviour and Christ Jesus our hope, 2 to Timothy, a true son in the faith. Grace, mercy, peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. 3 As I besought thee to abide in Ephesus, when I went into Mace- donia, that thou mightest charge some to teach no strange things. 4 neither to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which cause questionings rather than a dispen- sation of God which is in faith: 5 now the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart, and out of a good conscience, and out of faith unfeigned, 6 which some having missed have turned aside to vain talking, 7 desiring to be teachers of law, understanding neither what they say, nor concerning what they strongly affirm. 8 But we know that the law is good, if any ore would use it lawfully, 9 knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man. but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and pro- fane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for man- slayers, 10 for lewd persons, for sodomites, men-stealers, liars, false swearers, and if any other thing is opposed to healthful teaching, 11 according to the gospel of the glory of the blessed God. with which I have been intrusted. 12 And T thank Christ Jesus our Lord who gave m? strength, because he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry, 13 who before was a blasphemer, and persecutor, and overbearing; but 1 obtained mercy, because I oid it ignorantly in unbelief, 14 and the grace of our Lord was very abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. 15 Faithful is the word and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief: 16 however, for this reason I obtained mercy, that in me first Christ Jesus might show forth the whole of his long- suffering, for a pattern of those who should believe on him to life eternal. 17 Now to the King of the ages, incorruptible, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory from i:ge to age : Amen. 18 This charge I commit to thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies that went before on this. that in them thou mightest war the good warfare. 19 holding faith and a good conscience, which some hav- ing thrust away concerning faith have made shipwreck: 20 of whom is Hymenseus and /Mexander, whom I have delivered over to Satan that they may be taught not to blas- pheme. 2 1 I exhort therefore, first of all, that supplications, pray- ers, intercessions, thanksgivings, be made for all men, 2 for kings and all that are in an eminent station, that we may lead a tranquil and undisturbed life in all godliness and gravity. 3 For this is good and ac- ceptable in the sight of God our Saviour, 4 who wills that all men 259 THE NEW TESTAMENT be saved and come to the knowl- edge of the truth. 5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus, 6 who gave himself a ran- som for all; the testimony in its proper times ; 7 for which I was appointed a preacher and an apos- tle, I speak the truth, I lie not, a teacher of the Gentiles in faithful- ness and truth. 8 I will therefore that the men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands without wrath and disputa- tions : 9 in like manner also, that women in decorous dress adorn themselves with modesty and sober- ness of mind, not in braided hair and gold, or pearls, or costly raiment, 10 but, which becomes women pro- fessing godliness, by means of good works. 11 Let a woman in silence learn in all subjection; 12 but I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over a man, but to be in silence. 13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve. 14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in trans- gression. 15 But she shall be saved through child-bearing, if they abide in faith and love and holiness with sobriety. 3 1 Faithful is the saying: If any one aspires to the office of bishop, he desires a good work. 2 The bishop must then be blameless, the husband of one wife, watchful, sober-minded, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach, 3 not fond of wine, no striker ; but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money; 4 one that rules his own house well, — having his childrcMi in subjection with all gravity; — 5 but if any one knows not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God? — 6 not a new convert, lest having become conceited he fall into the condemna- tion of the devil. 7 Moreover he must also have a good report from those that are without, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil. 8 Deacons must likewise be grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy after base gain, 9 holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. 10 x^nd let these also be first proved, then let them use the office of a deacon, being blameless. 11 Their wives likewise must be grave, not slander- ers, watchful, faithful in all things. 12 Let the deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well. 13 For they that have acted well as deacons pur- chase for themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith that is in Christ Jesus. 14 These things write I to thee, hoping to come to thee shortly; 15 but if I delay, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God. which is the church of the living God. the pillar and support of the truth. 16 And confessedly great is the mys- tery of godliness : He who was manifested in flesh, was justified in spirit, seen by angels, preached among the Gentiles, believed on in the world, taken up in glory. 4 1 But the Spirit speaks ex- pressly that in latter times some shall apostatize from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons, 2 through the hypocrisy of liars, seared as to their own conscience. 3 forbidding to marry, commanding to abstain 2G0 I. TIMOTHY from meats, which God created to be partaken of witii thanksgiving by those that beheve and acknowledge the truth. 4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be thrown away, being received with thanksgiving; 5 for it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer. 6 If thou put the brethren in re- membrance of these things, thou wilt be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith and good teaching which thou hast followed; 7 but profane and old wives' fables reject; and exercise thyself to godliness. 8 For bodily exercise is profitable for lit- tle; but godliness is profitable for all things, having the promise of the life that now is and of that to come. 9 Faithful is the word and worthy of all acceptance. 10 For this reason we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, especially of believers. 11 Give these things in charge and teach. 12 Let no one despise thy youth, but become a pattern for the believers, in word, in behavior, in love, in faith, in purity. 13 Till I come give attention to reading, to exhortation, to teaching. 14 Neg- lect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee through prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the eldership. 15 ^ledi- tate on these things, be engaged in them, that thy advancement may be manifest to all. 16 Give heed to thyself and the teaching, continue in them ; for in doing this thou shalt save both thyself and them that hear thee. 5 1 Rebuke not an aged man, but entreat him as a father, younger men as brethren, 2 older women as mothers, younger wo- men and sisters in all purity. 3 Honor widows that are widows in- deed. 4 But if any widow has chil- dren or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety at home, and to requite their parents; for this is acceptable in the sight of God. 5 But she that is a widow indeed and left alone trusts in God, and continues in supplications and prayers night and day; 6 but she that lives in pleasure is dead while she lives. 7 And these things give in charge, that they may be blame- less. 8 But if any one provides not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever. 9 Let not a widow be taken into the number under sixty years of age, the wife of one husband, 10 well reported of for good works, if she has brought up children, if she has taken care of strangers, if she has washed the saints' feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, if she has diligently followed every good work. 11 But younger widows re- ject; for when they shall become wanton against Christ, they will marry, 12 having condemnation, be- cause they have set aside their first faith ; 13 and at the same time also they being idle learn to wander about from house to house, and not only idle, but tattlers also and busy- bodies, speaking things that they ought not. 14 I will therefore that younger widows marry, bear chil- dren, manage the house, give no oc- casion to the adversary to speak 261 THE NEW TESTAMENT reproachfully; 15 for some have al- ready turned aside after Satan. 16 If any believing man or v^oman has widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be burdened, that it may relieve those that are widows indeed. 17 Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially they that labor in word and teaching. 18 For the Scripture says : Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treads out the grain, and : The laborer is worthy of his hire. 19 Against an elder receive not an ac- cusation, unless before two or three witnesses. 20 Those that sin re- buke before all, that the rest also may fear. 21 I solemnly charge thee in the sight of God, and Christ Jesus, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without prejudice; do- ing nothing according to partiality. 22 Lay hands hastily on no one, neither be partaker of other men's sins. Keep thyself pure. 23 No longer drink water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thy frequent infirmities. 24 The sins of some men are manifest be- forehand, going before to judgment, but some they also follow after: 25 in like manner also works that are good are manifest beforehand, and those that are otherwise can not be hid. 6 1 Let as many as are under the yoke as servants, count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the teach- ing be not blasphemed. 2 And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren, but rather serve them, bec?iuse they are faithful and be- loved who are partakers of the ben- efit. These things teach and exhort. 3 If any one teach otherwise, and assent not to healthful words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the teaching which is according to godli- ness, 4 he is conceitsid, knowing noth- ing, but doting about questions and word-fightings, from which come envy, contention, blasphemies, evil surmisings, 5 wranglings of men corrupt in mind, and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godli- ness _ is a source of gain. 6 But godliness with contentment is great gain. 7 For we brought nothing into the world : it is evident that we can carry nothing out ; 8 and having food and raiment, with these let us be content. 9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many foolish and hurtful desires, which sink men into destruction and perdition. 10 For the love of money is the root of all evil, which some in longing after have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. 11 But thou, O man of God, flee these things ; and follow righteous- ness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. 12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, for which thou wast called and didst confess the good confession before many witnesses. 13 I charge thee before God. who makes all things alive, and Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed the good confession. 14 that thou keep the commandment without spot, blameless, till the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15 which m his own times he will show, who is th^ 262 II. TIMOTHY blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords; 16 who only has immortality, dwell- ing in light unapproachable, whom no one of men has seen, nor can see : to whom be honor and strength eternal. Amen. 17 Charge them that are rich in the present age that they be not highminded, nor trust in the uncer- tainty of riches, but in God who gives us all things richly for enjoy- ment; 18 that they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, liberal, 19 treasur- ing up for themselves a good foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold of the real life. 20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane, vain babblings and opposi- tions of falsely named knowledge, 21 which some professing concern- ing the faith have erred. 22 Grace be with thee. PAUL TO TIMOTHY— II. 11 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, according to the promise of life that is in Christ Jesus, 2 to Timothy, my beloved son. Grace, mercy, peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. 3 I thank God. whom I serve from my forefathers in a pure con- science, that I have unceasing re- membrance of thee in my prayers night and day. 4 greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears that I may be filled with joy, 5 hav- ing taken in memory the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and in thy mother Eunice, and I am per- suaded that in thee also. 6 For which cause I put thee in remem- brance to kindle up the gift of God, which is in thee through the laying on of my hands. 7 For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of sober- ness of m.ind. 8 Be not therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, neither of me his prisoner ; 263 but suffer evil with the in the gos- pel, according to the power of God, ^ who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace that was given us in Christ Jesus before the times of the ages, 10 but is manifested now through the appearing of our Saviour Christ Jesus, who indeed abolished death ,and brought life and incorruptibility to light through the gospel, 11 to which I was ap- pointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles ; 12 for which cause I also suffer these things, but I am not ashamed ; for I know in whom T have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed to him to that day. 13 Hold fast the form of healthful words, which thou hast heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus : 14 the excellent trust committed to thee, keep through the Holy Spirit that dwells in us. 15 Thou knowest this, that all THE NEW TESTAMENT those in Asia, of whom are Phyge- lus and Hermogenes, have turned away from me. 16 The Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain. 17 but, when he was in Rome, he sought me out very diligently and found me. 18 The Lord grant to him to find mercy from the Lord in that day. And in how many things he ministered to me in Eph- esus, thou knowest very well. 2 1 Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus, 2 and the things which thou hast heard from me through many witnesses, these commit to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also. 3 Suffer affliction with me as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. 4 No one that wars entan- gles himself with the matters of life, that he may please him that has chosen him to be a soldier, 5 And if any one also contend in the games, he is not crowned unless he contend lawfully. 6 The laboring farmer must first partake of the fruits. 7 Consider what I say; for the Lord will give thee understand- ing in all things. 8 Keep in mem- ory Jesus Christ raised from the dead, of the posterity of David, according to my gospel, 9 in which I suffer evil, even to bonds as an evil-doer, but the word of God is not bound. 10 For this reason I endure all "things for the sake of the elect, that they also may ob- tain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with glory eternal. 11 Faith- ful is the saying: For if we have died with him. we shall also live with him ; 12 if we are patient, we shall, also reign with him; if we 264 shall deny him, he will also deny us; 13 if we believe not, he abides faithful; for he can not deny him- self. 14 Put them in remembrance of these things, charging them before the Lord not to fight about words, to no profit, for the subverting of the hearers. 15 Study to present thyself to God approved, a work- man not to be made ashamed, cut- ting straight the word of truth. 16 But the profane vain-babblings avoid, for they will increase to a greater degree of ungodliness, 17 and their word will eat as a gan- grene. Of whom are Hymenseus and Philetus, 18 who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is already past, and overthrow the faith of some. 19 Nevertheless the firm foundation of God stands fast, having this seal: The Lord knows them that are his, and : Let every one that names the name of the Lord depart from iniq- uity. 20 But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth, and some for honor, and some for dishonor : 21 if then any one will cleanse himself from these, he shall be a vessel for honor, sanc- tified, fit for the Master's use. pre- pared for every good work. 22 But flee youthful desires, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those that call on the Lord out of a pure heart. 23 But the foolish and unlearned questions reject, knowing that they gender fightings; 24 and the servant of the Lord must not fight, but be gentle towards all. apt to teach, patient under evils, 25 in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves, if perhaps God II. TIMOTHY may give them repentance to the acknowledgment of the truth, 26 and they may awake to soberness out of the snare of the devil, being taken captive by him at his will. 3 1 But know this, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2 For men shall be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, haughty, blasphemers, dis- obedient to parents, unthankful, un- holy, 3 without natural affection, truce-breakers, false accusers, with- out self-control, fierce, that love not the good, 4 traitors, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, 5 having a form of godli- ness, but denying its power ; from these also turn away. 6 For of such are they that enter into houses, and lead captive silly women burdened with sins, led away by various de- sires. 7 always learning and never able to come to the acknowledgment of the truth. 8 But as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so also these resist the truth, men corrupt in mind, disapproved concerning the faith. 9 But they shall not proceed further; for their madness shall be manifest to all, as theirs also be- came. 10 But thou hast followed my teaching, manner of life, pur- pose, faith, longsuffering, love, pa- tience. 11 persecutions, sufferings, such as came on me in Antioch, in Iconium. in Lystra ; which persecu- tions I endured, and out of them all the Lord delivered me. 12 And all indeed that desire to live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecu- tion. 13 But wicked men and sedu- cers shall advance to the worse, de- ceiving and being deceived. 14 But abide thou in the things which thou hast learned, and been assured of. knowing from whom thou hast learned them, 15 and that from a child thou hast known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise to salvation, through faith that is in Christ Jesus. 16 All scrip- ture is by inspiration of God. and is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly fur- nished for every good work. 4 1 I charge thee before God, and Christ Jesus, who shall judge the living and dead; I also charge thee by his appearing and his kmgdom, 2 preach the word, be urgent in season, out of season, re- prove, rebuke, exhort, in all longsuf- fering and teaching. 3 For a time will come w^hen they will not endure healthful teaching, but according to their own desires they will heap up to themselves teachers, having itch- ing ears, 4 and will turn away their ears from the truth, and be turned to fables. 5 But watch thou in all things, endure evil, do the work of an evangelist, fully accomplish thy ministry. 6 For I am now ready to be poured out. and the time of my departure is at hand. 7 I have fought the good fight. I have finished my course, I have kept the faith : 8 henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness. which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me in that day. and not to me only, but also to all those that love his appearing. 9 Be diligent to come to me shortly. 10 For Demas has for- saken me, having loved the present age. and has gone to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dal- matia: 11 only Luke is with me.. THE NEW TESTAIVTENT Take Mark, and bring him with thee; for he is useful to me for service. 12 But Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus. 13 The cloak, which I left in Troas with Carpus, bring when thou comest, and the books, especially the parchments. 14 Alex- ander the coppersmith laid many evil charges against me : the Lord render to him according to his works. 15 Do thou also be on thy guard against him ; for he has greatly withstood our words. 16 In my first defense no one was present with me, but all forsook me ; may it not be charged against them ; but the Lord stood by me. and gave me strength, that through me what is preached might be fully known, and all the Gentiles might hear; and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion. 18 The Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will keep me safe to his heavenly king- dom : to whom be the glory from age to age. Amen. 19 Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the house of Onesiphorus. 20 Eras- tus remained in Corinth, but Troph- imus I left in Miletus sick. 21 Be diligent to come before winter. Eubulus salutes thee, Pudens also, and Linus, and Claudia, and the brethren all. 22 The Lord be with thy spirit. Grace be with you. PAUL TO TITUS 11 Paul, a servant of God, but an apostle of Christ Jesus, ac- cording to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledgment of truth that is according to godliness, 2 in hope of eternal life, which God who lies not promised before the times of the ages, 3 but in his own times manifested his word in what is preached, with which I was in- trusted accordingf to the appoint- ment of our Saviour God, 4 to Titus, my true son according to the common faith. Grace and peace from God the Father, and Christ Jesus our Saviour. 5 For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou mightest further set in order the things that are want- ing, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee : 6 if any one is blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children that are not accused of riotous liv- ing, nor unruly. 7 For the bishop must be blameless as the steward of God, not self-willed, not soon angry, not fond of wine, no striker, not eager after base gain, 8 but* a lover of hospitality, a lover of the good, sober-minded, just. holy, hav- ing self-control. 9 holding fast the faithful word according to the teaching, that he may be able, in the teaching that gives health, both to exhort and convince the gainsayers. 10 For there are many and unruly vain talkers and de- ceivers, especially they of the cir- cimicision, 11 whose mouths must be stopped : who subvert whole houses, teaching things that they ought not. for the sake of base gain. 12 Some one of them._ a prophet of their own. has said : The Cretans are always liars, evil 266 TITUS wild beasts, lazy bellies. 13 This testimony is true. For which cause reprove them with severity, that they may be healthy in the faith, 14 not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men that turn away from the truth. 15 To the pure all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving noth- ing is pure, but both their mind and conscience are defiled. 16 God they profess to know, but in their works they deny him, being abominable and disobedient and, with regard to every good work, disapproved. , 2 1 But speak thou the things that become the teaching that gives health. 2 That aged men be watchful, grave, sober-minded, healthy in faith, in love, in patience : 3 that aged women in like manner be, in behavior, reverent, not false accusers, not addicted to much wine, teachers of what is good, 4 that they teach the young women to love their husbands, to love their chil- dren, 5 to be sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed. 6 The younger men in like manner exhort to be sober-minded, 7 in all things showing thyself an example of good v.'orks, in teaching showing uncor- ruptness, gravity, 8 healthful speech that can not be condemned, that the opponent may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say of us. 9 Ser- vants exhort to be subject to their own masters, to be acceptable to them in all things, not contradict- ing, 10 not taking a part for them- selves, but showing all good faith- fulness, that they may adorn the teaching of our Saviour God in all things. 11 For the grace of God that brings salvation to all men has ap- peared, 12 instructing us, that, deny- ing ungodliness and worldly desires, we should live soberly and right- eously and godly in the present age, 13 waiting for the blessed hope, and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ, 14 who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a peculiar people, zealous for good works. 15 These things speak and exhort and reprove with all authority : let no one despise thee. 3 1 Put them in mind to be subject to rulers, to authorities, to obey, to be ready for every good work, 2 to revile no one, to be with- out contention, gentle, showing all meekness to all men. 3 For we also were once foolish, disobedient, de- ceived, serving various desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another ; 4 but when the kindness and philan- thropy of our Saviour God ap- peared, 5 not by works of right- eousness which we had done, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the bath of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, 6 which he poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Saviour, 7 that having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs ac- cording to the hope of life eternal. 8 Faithful is the saying, and con- cerning these things I will that thou afiirm strongly, in order that those that believe in God may be careful to practice good works. These things are honorable and profitable for men ; but foolish questions, and genealogies, and strifes, and conten- 267 THE NEW TESTAMENT tions about law, reject; for they are unprofitable and fruitless. 10 An heretical man, after the first and second admonition, reject, 11 know- ing that such a man is perverted, and sins, being self-condemned. 12 When I shall send Artemas to thee, or Tychicus, be diligent to come to me to Nicopolis : for there have I determined to winter. 13 Zenas the lawyer and Apollos send forward diligently, that nothing be want- ing to them. 14 But let ours also learn to practice honorable works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful. 15 All that are with me salute thee. Salute those that love us in the faith. 16 Grace be with you all. PAUL TO PHILEMON 1 Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy the brother, to Philemon the beloved, and our fellow-laborer, 2 and to Apphia the beloved, and Archippus our fellow- soldier, and to the church that is in thy house. 3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 4 I thank my God always, mak- ing mention of thee in my prayers, 5 hearing of thy love and faith which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus and for all the saints, 6 that the fellowship of thy faith may be- come active in the acknowledgment of every good thing that is in us for Christ Jesus. 7 For we have great gratification and comfort in thy love, because the bowels of the saints have been refreshed bv thee, brother. 8 Wherefore having great boldness in Christ to command thee what is becoming. 9 because of love I rather beseech, being such a one as Paul an aged man. but now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus, 10 I be- seech thee in behalf of my son. whom I have begotten in my bonds, Onesimus, 11 who for some time was unprofitable to thee, but now useful to thee and to me, whom I have sent back. 12 But do thou re- ceive him, that is my own bowels, 13 whom I v.-ould have retained with myself, that in thy stead he might minister to me in the bonds of the gospel ; 14 but without thy consent I wished to do nothing, that thy good deed might not be as of necessity, but according to free will ; 15 for perhaps for this pur- pose he was separated from thee for an hour, that thou mightest re- ceive him for ever, 16 no longer as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, especially by me, but how much more by thee, both in the flesh and in the Lord. 17 If, then, thou regardest me a partner, receive him as myself. 18 But if in anything he has wronged thee, or owes thee, charge this to me. 19 I Paul have written it with my own hand : I will repay : that T may not say to thee that thou owcst even thyself to me. 20 Yes. brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord : refresh my bowels in Christ. 21 Having confidence in thy obe- dience, I have written to thee, HEBREWS knowing that thou wilt do even more than I say. 22 And at the same time also prepare for me a lodging; for I hope that through your prayers I shall be given to you, as a favor. 23 Epaphras, my fellow-prisoner in Christ Jesus, salutes thee, 24 also Mark. Aristarchus, Demas, Luke, my fellow-laborers. 25 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. PAUL TO THE HEBREWS 11 God. after having in many parts and many ways spoken in ancient times to the fathers, in the prophets, has in the end of these days spoken to us in his Son, 2 whom he has appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the ages, 3 who, being the efful- gence of his glory and the exact image of his substance, bearing on- ward also all things by the word of his power, when he had through himself made a cleansing of sins, sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high, 4 having become so much superior to angels as the name which he has inherited is more excellent than they. 5 For to which of the angels said he at any time : Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? and again: I \^^ll be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son ? 6 And when he shall have brought again the first-begotten into the world, he says : And let all the angejs of God worship him. 7 And in respect in- deed to angels, he says : Who makes his angels winds, and his ministers a flame of fire. 8 But with respect to the Son : Thy throne. O God, is for ever and ever; and: A scepter of rectitude is the scepter of thy kingdom. 9 Thou didst love right- eousness and hate iniquity: there- fore, O God, thy God has anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. 10 And : Thou, Lord, in the beginning didst lay the foun- dation of the earth, and the heavens are the works of thy hands : 11 they shall perish, but thou remainest: and they all shall grow old as a gar- ment, 12 and as a mantle shalt thou roll them up. and they shall be changed, but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail. 13 But to which of the angels has he said at any time : Sit at my right hand, till I make thy enemies thy footstool? 14 Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for the sake of those that shall inherit salvation? 2 1 For this reason it is neces- sary that we give the more earnest heed to the things that have been heard, lest perhaps we glide away from them. 2 For if the word that was spoken through angels be- came steadfast, and every transgres- sion and disobedience received a just recompense of reward, 3 how shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation ? which began to be spoken through the Lord, and was confirmed for us by those that heard, 4 God jointly testifying with them, both by signs and wonders, and various mighty deeds, and dis- 269 THE NEW TESTAMENT tribtitions of the Holy Spirit, ac- cording to his will. 5 For not to angels did he put in subjection the world to come, of which we speak. 6 But one in some place testified, saying: What is man that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou lookest on him? 7 Thou madest him a little lower than angels, with glory and honor thou didst crown him, 8 thou didst put all things in sub- jection under his feet. For in hav- ing subjected all things to him, he left nothing not subjected to him; but now we see not yet all things subjected to him. 9 But him that was made a little lower than angels we do see, Jesus, because of the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor ; that he by the grace of God might taste of death for every man. 10 For it became him. for whom are all things and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings. 11 For both he that sanctifies and they that are sanctified are all of one; for which cause he is not ashamed to call them l)rethren, 12 saying: I will declare thy name to my brethren, in the midst of the congregation will I sing hymns to thee. 13 And again : I will put my trust in him. And again : Behold, I and the chil- dren that God gave to me. 14 Since then the children partake of flesh and blood, himself also in like man- ner took part in the same, that through death he might render powerless him that has the power of death, that is, the devil ; 15 and deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. 16 For surely not angels does he succor,* but the posterity of Abraham he succors. 17 Whence, it behooved him in all things to be made like his brethren, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, that he might make expiation for the sins of the people. 18 For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able also to assist those that are tempted. 3 1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the apostle and high priest of our confession, Jesus, 2 who was faithful to him that appointed him, as Moses also in all his house. 3 For this man has been counted worthy of more honor than Moses, by as much as he that constructed the house has more honor than the house. 4 For every house is con- structed by some one, but he that constructed all things is God. 5 And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a tes- timony to those things that should cJterward be spoken; 6 but Christ as a Son over his own house, whose house we are, if we hold fast the boldness and the glorying of the hope. 7 Wherefore, as says the Holy Spirit : To-day, if you hear his voice, 8 harden not your hearts as in the provocation in the day of temptation in the wilderness, 9 where your fathers tempted me by proving and saw my works forty years. 10 Wherefore I was angry with that generation, and said : *To succor — to take hold of in order to save. HEBREWS They do always err in their heart; and they have not known my ways, 11 so I swore in my wrath: They shall not enter into my rest. 12 Take heed, brethren, lest perhaps there shall be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief in apostatiz- ing from the living God, 13 but ex- hort one another each day, while it is called To-day, lest any one of you be hardened through the deceit- fulness of sin ; 14 for we have be- come partakers of Christ, if indeed we hold fast the beginning of the confidence firm to the end. 15 In its being said : To-day, if you hear his voice, harden not your hearts as in the provocation ; 16 for who, when they heard, did provoke? yes, did not all that came out of Egypt through Moses? 17 And with whom was he angry forty years? was it not with those that sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilder- ness? 18 And to w^hom did he swear that they should not enter into his rest, but to those that be- lieved not? 19 And we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. A 1 Let us fear, therefore, lest ~ perhaps, as there remains a promise of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to have come short of it. 2 For we also have had the good news preached to us, even as they; but the word that was heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard. 3 For we who have believed are entering into the rest, as he has said : So I swore in my wrath : They shall not enter into my rest, al- though his works had been finished from the foundation of the world. 4 For he has spoken in some place of the seventh day thus : And God rested on the seventh day from all his works. 5 And in this again They shall not enter into my resL. 6 Since then it remains that some enter into it, and those, that for- merly had the good news preached to them, entered not in because of unbelief, 7 again he determines a day. To-day, saying in David after so long a time, as has been said before. To-day if you hear his voice, harden not your hearts. 8 For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not after this have spoken of another day. 9 There remains, therefore, a sabbath rest for the people of God. 10 For he that has entered into his rest has also him- self rested from his works, as God from his own. 11 Let us therefore be diligent to enter into that rest, lest any one fall after the same example of un- belief. 12 For the w^ord of God is living and energetic, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing asun- der of soul and* spirit, of the joints also and the marrow, and is a judge of the thoughts and purposes of the heart; 13 and there is no creature not manifest in his sight, but all things are naked and exposed to the eyes of him, to whom we must give an account. 14 Having therefore a great high priest that has passed through the heavens. Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast the confession. 15 For we have not a high priest that can not sympathize with our infirmities, but has been templed in all things like ourselves, without sin. 16 Let us therefore come with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may 271 THE NEW TESTAMENT receive mercy, and find grace for seasonable help. 5 1 For every high priest taken from among men is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins, 2 being able to have compassion on the ignorant and erring, since himself also is compassed with weakness, 3 and be- cause of it he is obliged, as for the people, so also for himself, to ofTer for sins. 4 And not to himself does any one take the honor, but being called by God, just as also Aaron. 5 So, also. Christ glorified not him- self in having become a high priest, but he that said to him : Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee: 6 as also in another place he says : Thou art a priest for ever, ac- cording to the order of Melchise- dec : 7 who, in the days of his flesh, having with strong crying and tears ofifered up lioth prayers and suppli- cations to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard because of his piety, 8 al- though he was a Son, learned obedi- ence from the things that he suf- fered ; 9 and having been made per- fect, he became, to all those that obey him. the author of eternal sal- vation. 10 having been addressed by God as high priest according to the order of Melchisedec. 11 Concerning whom we have many things to say. and hard to be explained, since you have become dull of hearing. 12 For while you ought, on account of the time, to be teachers, you again have need that some one teach you what are first principles of the oracles of God, and have need of milk, not of solid food. 13 For every one that par- takes of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe ; 14 but solid food belongs to fullgrown men, who because of habit have their senses exercised to the discerning of both good and evil. 6 1 Wherefore passing by the rudimental instruction concern- ing Christ, let us go onward to the perfection, not again laying a foun- dation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, 2 of the teaching in respect to bap- tisms, also of the laying on of hands, also of the resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. 3 And this will we do, if indeed God permit. 4 For it is impossible to renew again to repentance those that were once enlightened, and had tasted of the heavenly gift, and had become partakers of the Holy Spirit, 5 and had tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the coming age, 6 and have fallen away, cruci- fying to themselves the Son of God anew, and putting him to an open shame. 7 For land that drinks up the rain that often comes upon it, and yields herbs fit for those for whose sake it is also cultivated, shares blessing from God; 8 but bringing forth thorns and thistles it i: disapproved and near a curse, the end of which is for burning. 9 But concerning you. beloved, we are persuaded better things, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak. 10 For God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the love which you showed for his name, in having ministered to the saints, and in ministering. 11 But we desire that each one of you show the same 272 HEBREWS diligence in respect to the full as- surance of the hope to the end, 12 in order that you become not sloth- ful, but imitators of those \vho through faith and longsuffering in- herit the promises. 13 For when God made promise to Abraham, since he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself, 14 saying : Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee; 15 and so having patiently en- dured he obtained the promise. 16 For men indeed swear by the great- er, and to them an oath for confir- mation is an end of all strife : 17 in which God being more abundant- ly willing to show to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his purpose, interposed with an oath, 18 that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us, 19 which we have as an anchor of the soul both safe and stead- fast and which enters into the part within the veil, 20 whither a forerunner for us has entered, Jesus, having become a high priest for ever according to the order of Melchisedec. n 1 For this Melchisedec, king ' of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham re- turning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, 2 to whom Abraham also divided a tenth of all, first indeed being by interpre- tation king of righteousness, and then also king of Salem, which is king of peace. 3 without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but being made like to the Son of God, abides a priest continually. 4 And consider how great this man was, to whom Abraham the patriarch gave even a tenth of the best of the spoils. 5 And they in- deed of the sons of Levi v,rho re- ceive the priesthood have a com- mandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham ; 6 but he that counts not his genealogy from these took tithes of Abraham, and has blessed him that had the promises. 7 And without all con- tradiction the less is blessed by the greater. 8 And here indeed men that die receive tithes, but there he that has the testimony that he lives. 9 And, so to speak, even Levi, who receives tithes, has been tithed through Abraham; 10 for he was yet in the loins of his father when Melchisedec met him. 11 If indeed, then, perfection was through the Levitical priesthood, for upon it the people received the law, what further need that a dififerent priest should arise according to the order of Melchisedec, and not be called according to the order of Aaron? 12 For the priesthood be- ing changed, there becomes of ne- cessity a change also of the law. 13 For he of whom these things are spoken, belongs to another tribe, from which no one has given at- tendance at the altar: 14 for it is evident that our Lord has sprung from Judah. of which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priests. 15 And it is yet more abundantly evident, if according to the likeness of Melchisedec there arises a differ- ent priest, 16 who was made such 18 273 THE NEW TESTAMENT not according to the law of a carnal commandment, but according to the power of an indissoluble life. 17 For it is testified : Thou art a priest for ever according to the order of Melchisedec. 18 For there takes place indeed a setting aside of the preceding com- mandment on account of the weak- ness and unprofitableness of it, 19 for the law perfected nothing, and the introduction of a better hope, through which we draw near to God. 20 And inasmuch as not without the swearing of an oath, — for they indeed have become priests without the swearing of an oath, 21 but he with the swearing of an oath by him that said to him : The Lord swore, and will not regret it. Thou art a priest for ever : — 22 insomuch has Jesus become the surety of a better covenant. 23 And they indeed, many of them, have become priests, because by means of death they were forbidden to continue; 24 but he, because he continues for ever, has a priesthood that does not pass to another; 25 whence, he is able also to save com- pletely those that come to God through him, since he lives always tc make intercession for them. 26 For such a high priest also be- came us, holy, harmless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and having become higher than the heavens. 27 who has no daily necessity, as the chief priests, to offer up sacrifices first for his own sins, then for those of the people ; for this he did once for all. when he offered up himself. 28 For the law appoints men chief priests, that have infirm- ity, but the word of the oath, which 8 who has been perfected for ever. 1 Now in respect to the things spoken the main point is ; — we have such a high priest who took his seat at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, 2 a minister of the sanc- tuary and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man. 3 For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices; whence, it is necessary that this one also have something that he can offer. 4 For if indeed he were on earth, he would not even be a priest, as there are those that offer gifts according to the law. 5 who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, as Moses was admonished when about to complete the taber- nacle : For see, says he, that thou make all things according to the pattern that was shown to thee in the mount ; 6 but now has he ob- tained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which has been established upon better prom- ises. 7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, no place would have been sought for a second. 8 For finding fault with them he says : Behold, days are coming, says the Lord, and I will make with the house of Israel and the house of Judah a new covenant, 9 not ac- cording to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, be- cause they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, says the Lord. 10 Because this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Lsrael after those days. was since the law, appoints the Son. ' says the Lord, Putting my laws into 274 HEBREWS their understanding, I will also write them on their hearts, and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people, 11 And they shall not teach each one his fellow-citizen, and each one his brother, saying : Know the Lord ; for all shall know me from the least of them to the greatest of them. 12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. 13 In that he says : A new, he has made the first anti- quated ; and that which is anti- quated and growing old is ready to disappear. 9 1 Indeed, then, even the first covenant had ordinances of service, and the sanctuary belonging to this world. 2 For a tabernacle was constructed, the first, in which was the candlestick, and the table, and bread of the presence, which is called sanctuary. 3 But beyond the second veil, the tabernacle that is called the holy of holies, 4 which had the golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid roimd about with gold, in which was the golden pot that held the manna, and the rod of Aaron that budded, and the tables of the covenant ; 5 but above it cherubim of glory shadow- ing the mercy-seat : concerning which things we can not now speak particularly. 6 And these things having been thus put in order, into the first tabernacle indeed the priests always go acccomplishing the services. 7 but into the second the high priest alone once during the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself and the errors of the people, 8 the Holy Spirit signifying this, — that the way into the sanctuary has not yet been made manifest while the first tabernacle is yet standing, 9 which is a figure for the time present, according to which are offered both gifts and sacrifices that are not able to perfect as pertains to the conscience him that serves, 10 only in connection with meats and drinks and differ- ent immersions, ordinances of the flesh imposed till the time of refor- mation. 11 But Christ having come, a high priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more per- fect tabernacle, not made with ■lands, that is, not of this creation, 12 neither through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood entered once for all into the holy places, having obtained eternal redemption. 13 For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the de- filed sanctifies in respect to the puri- fication of the flesh, 14 how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit off'ered himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God. 15 And for this reason he is the mediator of the new covenant, that death, having taken place for the redemption of transgressions that were under the first covenant, they that have been called may receive the promises of the eternal inherit- ance. 16 For where a testament is, it is necessary that the death of the testator be brought in ; 17 for a testament is valid after men are dead, since has it any force at all while the testator lives? 18 Whence, not even the first covenant was in- augurated without blood. 19 For 275 THE NEW TESTAMENT when Moses had spoken every com- mandment to all the people accord- ing to the law, he took the hlood of calves and of goats with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled hoth the hook itself and all the people, 20 saying: This is the hlood of the covenant which God enjoined upon you. 21 And he sprinkled in like manner with blood the tabernacle also and all the vessels of the service. 22 And almost all things are cleansed with blood according to the law, and without the shedding of blood there takes place no remission. 23 It was necessary, then, that the copies of things in the heavens should be cleansed with these, but the heaven- ly things themselves with better sac- rifices than these. 24 For Christ did not enter the holy places made with hands, the likenesses of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us, 25 neither that he might offer himself often, as the high priest enters year by year into' the holy places with blood of others ; 26 for then he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world, but now once in the conclusion of the ages has he been made manifest, to put away sin through the sacri- fice of himself. 11 And inasmuch as it is appointed to men once to die, and after this the judgment, 28 so also Christ, having been once offered to bear the sins of many, shall to those that look for him ap- pear a second time without sin in order to salvation. 1 A 1 For the law, having a ■»■ \/ shadow of the coming good things, not the image itself of the things, can never with the same sacrifices, which they offer year by year continually, make those that come to them perfect ; 2 for then would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have no longer a consciousness of sins. 3 But in them there is a remembrance of sins every year; 4 for it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins. 5 Wherefore on coming into the world he says : Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire, but a body thou didst prepare for me; 6 in whole burnt-offerings and offerings for sin thou didst not de- light : 7 then said I : Behold, I come, in the volume of the book it is written of me, to do, O God, thy will. 8 Saying above: Sacrifices and offerings, and whole burnt- offerings, and offerings for sin thou didst not desire, neither hadst pleas- ure in them, which are offered ac- cording to the law. 9 then he said: Lo, I come to do thy will. He takes away the first that he may establish the second, 10 in which will, we are sanctified, who have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 11 And every priest indeed stands daily ministering and oft'ering often- times the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins ; 12 but he, after having offered one sacrifice for sins, for ever sat down at the right hand of God, 13 henceforth awaiting till his enemies be made his footstool. 14 For by one offer- ing he has perfected for ever the sanctified. 15 .And the Holy Spirit also is a witness for us; for after having said before: 16 This is the 276 HEBREWS covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord : Putting my laws into their hearts, in their minds also will I write them. 17 and their sins and their iniquities I will remember no more. 18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more an offer- ing for sin. 19 Having, then, brethren, bold- ness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way which he has initiated for us through the veil, that is. his fiesh; 21 and having a great priest over the house of God ; 22 let us draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having had our hearts sprinkled from an evil con- science, 23 and our body washed in pure water ; let us hold fast the con- fession of the hope without waver- ing, for he is faithful that has promised ; 24 and let us consider one another to incite to love and good works, 25 not forsaking the assem- bling of ourselves together, as is the custom of some, but exhorting, and so much the more as you see the day approaching. 26 For if we sin wilfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins, 27 but some fearful looking for of judgment, and fiery indignat^'on that shall de- vour the adversaries. 28 Any one that has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy under two or three witnesses : 29 of how much severer punishment think you he shall be thought worthy, who has trod under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant, with which he was sancti- fied, a common thing, and has out- raged the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know him that said : Vengeance is mine, 1 will repay, says the Lord : and again: The Lord will judge his people. 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. 32 But call to mind the former days, in which after you were en- lightened you endured a great con- flict of sufferings, 33 partly being made a spectacle both l:)y reproaches and afflictions, partly having become companions of those that were thus treated. 34 For you sympathized with these in bonds, and accepted with joy the seizing of your goods, knowing that you have for your- selves a better possession and one that endures. 35 Cast not away, then, 3^our confidence, which has great recompense of reward. 36 For you have need of patience, that after having done the will of God you may receive the promise. 37 For yet a little, very little while. He that comes will come and will not delay : 38 But my righteous man shall live by faith, and if he draw, back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. 39 But we are not of fear- fulness for perdition, but of faith for the preservation of the soul. 11 1 And faith is confidence J- as to things hoped for. con- viction as to things not seen. 2 For in this the elders obtained a good report. 3 By faith we understand that the ages were set in order by the word of God. so that not from things that appear has that which is seen come into being. 4 By faith Abel offered to God more sacrifice than Cain, through which he ob- tained testimony that he was right- eous, God testifying in regard to his 277 THE NEW TESTAMENT gifts, and through it he though dead yet speaks. 5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death, and was not found because God translated him. For before the translation he had the testimony that he pleased God ; 6 and without faith it is impossible to please him; for he that comes to God must be- lieve that he is, and that he becomes a rewarder of those that diligently seek him. 7 By faith Noah, having been warned of things not yet seen, moved with reverence, prepared an ark for the salvation of his house, through which faith he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness according to faith. 8 By faith Abraham, being called, became obedient in going forth into a place which he should after re- ceive for an inheritance, and he went forth not knowing whither he was going. 9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise as a foreign land, having dwelt in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise ; 10 for he looked for the city that has the founda- tions, of which the architect and builder is God. 11 By faith also Sarah herself received strength for the conception of seed even beyond the time of life, because she counted him faithful that had promised. 12 Wherefore there sprung even from one, and that, too, having become dead, as the stars of heaven in number, and as the sand that is along the seashore, innumerable. 13 According to faith died all these, not having received the prom- ises, but having seen them at a dis- tance and saluted them, and con- fessed that they were strangers and sojourners in the land. 14 P^or they 2' that say such things show plainly that they seek a country. 15 And if indeed they had had in mind that from which they came, they would have had opportunity to return ; 16 but now they desire a better; that is, a heavenly. Wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for he has prepared for them a city. 17 By faith Abraham when tried offered up Isaac, even the firstborn did he offer up who had received the promises. 18 of whom it was said : In Isaac shall thy posterity be called ; 19 accounting that God was able to raise even from the dead: whence, also, he received him back in a figure. 20 By faith also Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come. 21 By faith Jacob, when dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and worshipped on the top of his staff. 22 By faith Joseph, when dying, made mention of the departure of the sons of Israel, and gave commandment con- cerning his bones. 23 By faith Moses, after he had been born, was concealed three months by his parents, because they saw that the child was beautiful, and they were not afraid of the commandment of the king. 24 By faith Moses, when he became of age. refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter. 25 rather choos- ing to suffer evil with the people of God than to have a temporary en- joyment of sin, 26 esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked away to the recompense of reward. 27 By faith he left Egypt, not being afraid of the wrath of the king; for he endured as seeing him that is invisible. 28 By faith he 78 HEBREWS kept the passover and the sprinkling of blood, that he that destroyed the firstborn might not touch them. 29 By faith they passed through the Red Sea as over dry ground, which the Egyptians attempting to do were drowned. 30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been surrounded for seven days. 31 By faith Rahab the harlot perished not with those that believed not, be- cause she received the spies with peace. 32 And what do I say more ? For the time would fail me, should I tell of Gideon, Barak also and Samson and Jephtha, of David also and of Samuel and the prophets, 33 w'ho through faith subdued king- doms, worked righteousness, ob- tained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, 34 quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, became mighty in war, turned to flight armies of foreign- ers ; 35 women received their dead after a resurrection ; and others were beaten to death, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection ; 36 but others had trial of mockings and scourg- ings, and further of bonds and im- prisonment : 37 they w^ere stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tempted, they were slain with the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being des- titute, afflicted, maltreated, 38 of whom the world was not worthy, wandering in deserts, and moun- tains, and caves, and dens of the earth. 39 And these all haviiig ob- tained a good report through faith received not the promise. 40 God having provided some better thing concerning us, that without us they should not be made perfect. 1 ^ 1 Therefore, having so 1^ great a cloud of witnesses lying round about us, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that easily besets, and run with per- severance the race that lies before us, 2 looking away to Jesus, the author and perfecter of the faith, who for the joy lying before him endured the cross, having despised the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 For consider him who endured such contradiction by sinners against himself, that you may not be weary, fainting in your souls. 4 Not yet to blood have you re- sisted, striving against sin; 5 and you have forgotten the exhortation, which speaks to you as to sons : My son, despise not the chastisements of the Lord, neither be weary when corrected by him; 6 for whom the Lord loves he chastens, and scourges every son that he receives. 7 For chastisement you endure ; God deals with you as with sons. For who is a son whom the father chastens not? 8 But if you are without chas- tisement, of which all have become partakers, then are you bastards and not sons. 9 So, then, fathers of our flesh indeed have we had as chas- tisers, and we gave them reverence; shall we not much rather be in sub- jection to the Father of spirits and live? 10 For they indeed for a few days chastened us according to their pleasure, but he for our profit, that we may partake of his holiness. 11 But all chastisement for the present indeed seems not a matter of joy, but of grief; afterward, however, it yields the peaceful fruit of right- 279 THE NEW TESTAMENT eousness to those that are exercised by it. . , 12 Wherefore set right again the hands that hang down and the en- feebled knees, 13 and make straight paths for your feet, that what is lame may not be turned out of the way, but may rather be healed, 14 Pursue peace with all, and holiness, without which no one shall see the Lord, 15 taking care lest any one come short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness spring up and cause trouble, and by it the many be defiled, 16 lest there be any lewd person, or profane, as Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright. 17 For you know that also afterward, wishing to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. 18 For you have not come to a mountain that is touched, and to burning fire, and blackness, and thick darkness, and tempest. 19 and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words, which they that heard entreated that a word should not be further spoken to them ; 20 for they did not endure that which was commanded : If even a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned ; 21 and, so fearful was the sight, Moses said : T exceedingly fear and quake: 22 but you have come to mount Zion, and to the city of the living God. the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads. 23 the festal assembly of angels, and to the church of firstborn ones en- rolled in the heavens, and to the judge. God of all. and to the spirits of just men made perfect. 24 and to the mediator of the new covenant, Jesus, and to the blood of sprink- ling that speaks more mightily than Abel. 25 See that you refuse not him that speaks; for if they escaped not who refused him when giving oracles on earth, much more shall not we, if we turn away from him giving oracles from the heavens, 26 whose voice then shook the earth, but now he has promised, saying : Yet once more I will shake not the earth only, but also the heaven. 27 And the "Yet once" signifies the removal of the things shaken as of things that have been made, that the things not shaken may remain. 28 Wherefore, receiving a kingdom that can not be shaken, let us have gratitude, by which we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and fear; 29 for our God is a consum- ing fire. 1 '2 1 Let brotherly love con- -■- *-^ tinue. 2 Be not forgetful of hospitality; for by means of it some have unconsciously entertained an- gels. 3 Remember those in bonds, as having been bound ; those that suffer evil, as being yourselves also in the body. 4 Let marriage be honored in all respects, and the bed be undefiled ; but lewd persons and adulterers God will judge. 5 Let there be no money-loving disposi- tion, being content with the things that you have; for he himself has said : I will never leave thee, nor will T in any wav forsake thee ; so that we may boldly say: The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear: what shall a man do to me? 7 Remember your leaders, who spoke to you the word of God. the issue of whose life attentively con- sidering, imitate their faith. 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, to-day. and for ever, 9 Be not carried away 280 JAMES by various and strange teachings; for it is good that the heart be es- tabhshed with grace, not with meats, which have not profited those that have walked in them. 10 We have an altar, from which they have no right to eat that serve the tabernacle. 11 For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is carried by the chief priest into the sanctuary, are burned without the camp. 12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered without the gate. 13 Therefore let us go forth to him without the camp bearing his reproach ; 14 for here we have no continuing city, but we seek one that is to come. 15 Through him therefore let us offer to God the sacrifice of praise con- tinually, that is the fruit of lips that give thanks to his name. 16 But to do good and to distribute forget not ; for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. 17 Obey your leaders and be sub- missive : for they watch for your souls, as they that shall give an ac- count; that they may do this with joy, and not in grief; for this would be unprofitable for you. 18 Pray for us; for we are per- suaded that we have a good con- science, in all things willing to live honorably. 19 And the more abun- dantly do I beseech you to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner. 20 Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the shepherd of the sheep who is great through the blood of the eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus, 21 make you perfect in every good work that you may do his will, working in you that which is well- pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory through the ages : amen. 22 And I beseech you, brethren, bear with the word of exhortation ; for I have written to you in few words. 23 Know that our brother Timothy is set at liberty, with whom if he comes soon I will see you. . 24 Salute all your leaders and all the saints. They of Italy salute you. 25 Grace be with you all: amen. EPISTLE OF JAMES 11 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes that are in the dispersion, greeting. 2 Count it all joy, my brethren, when you fall into diversified temp- tations, 3 knowing that the proof of vour faith works out patience. 4 But let patience have a perfect work, that vou may be perfect and entire, wanting in nothing. 5 But if any one of you is wanting in wis- dom, let him ask from God, who gives to all liberally and upbraids not. and it shall be given to him. 6 But let him ask in faith, doubting nothing; for he that doubts is like a wave of the sea. driven by the wind and tossed. 7 Let that man surely not think that he shall receive anything from the Lord, — 8 a man of two minds, unsteady in all his 281 THE NEW TESTAMENT ways. 9 But let the brother that is of low degree glory in his exalta- tion, 10 and the rich in his humilia- tion, because as the flower of grass shall he pass away. 11 For the sun rises with the burning wind and withers the grass, and its flower falls away, and the beauty of its appearance perishes : so also shall the rich man fade away in his goings. 12 Blessed is the man that en- dures temptation, because having become approved he shall receive the crown of life, which he has promised to those ihat love him. 13 Let no one, when tempted, say: I am tempted by God. For God can not be tempted by evils, and him- self tempts no one. 14 But every one is tempted by his own desire, being drawn awav and seduced: 15 then desire, having conceived, brings forth sin, and sin, having been per- fected, brings forth death. 16 Be not deceived, my' beloved brethren. 17 Every good giving and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is ^ no change nor shadow cast by turning. 18 Having willed it, he begot us with the word of truth, in order that we should be a firstfruit of his creatures. 19 You know, my beloved breth- ren ; but let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath ; 20 for the wrath of man works not the righteousness of God. 21 Wherefore, having put away all filthiness and overflowing of malice, receive in meekness the implanted word that is able to save your souls. 22 But become doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man beholding his nat- ural face in a mirror; 24 for he beholds himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. 25 But he that looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues, he not becoming a for- getful hearer, but a doer of the work, shall be blessed in his doing. 2t If any one seems to be religious, not bridling his tongue but deceiv- ing his own heart, this man's relig- ion is vain. 27 Religion pure and undefiled with God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, to keep himself unspotted from the world. 2 1 My brethren, hold not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with respect of persons. 2 For if there come into your as- sembly a man with a gold ring on his finger, in splendid raiment, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment, 3 and you look upon him that wears the splendid raiment, and say: Sit thou here honorably; and say to the poor man : Stand there, or sit under my footstool, 4 do you not then make distinctions among yourselves, and have you not become judges having evil thoughts? 5 Hear, my beloved brethren. Has not God chosen the poor in the world, rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to those that love him? 6 But you have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich act as lords over you, and do not they themselves drag you to the judgment-seats? 7 Do not they themselves blaspheme that honorable name that has been called upon you? 8 If, however, you fulfil 282 JAMES the royal law according to the Scripture; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, you do well : 9 but if you have respect for per- sons, you work sin, being convinced by the law as transgressors. 10 For whoever shall have kept the whole law, but shall have offended in one, has become guilty of all. 11 For he that said : Thou shalt not commit adultery, said also: Thou shalt not kill : now, if thou commit no adul- tery, but if thou kill, thou hast be- come a transgressor of the law. 12 So speak and so act as those that shall be judged by the law of liberty. 13 For the judgment is merciless to him that has shown no mercy : mercy glories over judgment. 14 What is the profit, my brethren, if any one say that he has faith, but has not works? Can his faith save him? 15 But if a brother or sister be naked and want daily food, 16 and any one of you say to them : Depart in peace, be warmed and be filled, but give them not the things needful for the body, what is the profit? 17 So also faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself. 18 But some one will say : Thou hast faith, and I have works : show me thy faith without the works, and I will show thee my faith by the works. 19 Dost thou believe that God is one? thou doest well: the demons also believe and tremble. 20 But wilt thon know. O vain man. that faith without works is idle? 21 Was not Abraham our father justi- fied by works, when he offered up Isaac his son on the altar? 22 Thou seest that faith worked with his works, and by the works the faith was made perfect ; 23 and the Scrip Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness, and he was called the friend of God. 24 You see that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only. 25 Bu-t in like manner also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she received the messengers and sent them forth by a different way? 26 For as the body without spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead. 3 1 Become not many teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive greater condemnation. 2 For in many things we all offend : if any one offends not in word, he is a perfect man, able to bridle also the whole body. 3 But if we put bits into the mouths of horses that they may obey us, we also turn about their whole body: 4 behold, also, the ships, though they are so great, and are driven by fierce winds, yet are they turned about by a very small rudder, to whatever point the will of the pilot may direct. 5 So also the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. Behold, how great a matter how small a fire, the tongue, kindles. 6 A fire, the world of unrighteous- ness, the tongue is set among our members, which also defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell. 7 For every nature of wild beasts, and of birds, and of creep- ing things, and things in the sea is tamed, and has been tamed by human nature, 8 but the tongue no one of men is able to tame: a rest- less evil, full of deadly poison. 9 With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse men ture was fulfilled which says : And ' who have been made according to 283 THE NEW TESTAMENT the likeness of God: 10 out of the same mouth comes forth blessing and cursing. These things, my brethren, ought not so to be. 11 Does a fountain send forth from the same opening sweet water and bitter? 12 Can a fig-tree, my breth- ren, produce olives, or a vine, figs? Neither can salt water produce sweet. 13 Who is wise and intelligent among you? Let him show out of a good behavior his works in meek- ness of wisdom. 14 But if you have bitter envy and strife in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth. 15 This wisdom descends not from above, but is earthly, sensual, demoniacal. 16 For where envy and strife are, there is tumult and every evil work. 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be per- suaded, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, without hypocrisy. 18 But the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by them that make peace. 4 1 Whence wars and whence fightings among you? Are they not hence, from your lusts that war in your members? 2 You de- sire, and have not ; you murder and envy, and can not obtain : you fight and war. You have not because you ask not : 3 you ask and receive not. because you ask amiss, that you. adulterers and adulteresses, may spend it on your lusts. 4 Know you not that the friendship of the world is enmity to God? Whoever, then, intends to be a friend of the world, makes himself an enemy of God. 5 Think you that the Scripture speaks to no purpose? Against envy the Spirit that has taken up its abode in us has jealous desires, 6 but gives greater grace. Wherefore it says: God sets himself against the proud, but gives grace to the lowly. 7 Sub- mit yourselves, therefore, to God; resist the devil, and he will flee from you : 8 draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you smners, and purify your hearts, you of two minds. 9 Afflict yourselves and mourn and weep : let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into sadness. 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you. 11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaks evil of his brother, or judges his brother, speaks evil of the law and judges the law; but if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. 12 The lawgiver and the judge is one. who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou, that judgest thy neighbor? 13 Come now you that say: To- day and to-morrow we will go to such a city, and spend there one year, and trade and make gain. 14 you that know not what will be to-morrow; for what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little while and then disap- pears : instead of which you should say: If the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that. 16 But now you glory in your boastings: all such glorying is evil. 17 To him. then, that knows to do good and does it not, to him it is sin, 5 1 Come now you that are rich, weep, howl for your mis- eries that are coming on you. 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments have become moth-eaten; 284 I. PETER 3 your gold and silver is eaten with rust, and the rust of them will be a testimony to you, and will eat your flesh as fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days. 4 Behold, the hire of the laborers that have reaped your fields, which has re- mained unpaid by you, cries; and the cries of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts. 5 You have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton : you have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter. 6 You condemned, you killed the Just One: he does not resist you. 7 Be patient, therefore, brethren, till the coming of the Lord. Be- hold, the farmer waits for the pre- cious fruit of the earth, being patient over it till he receive the early and latter rain : 8 be you also patient, strengthen your hearts, for the com- ing of the Lord draws near. 9 Complain not. brethren, one against another, lest you l)e condemned : be- hold, the judge stands before the door. 10 Take! brethren, the proph- ets, who spoke in the name of the Lord, as an example of suffering evil and of patience. 11 Behold, we call those happy that endure : you have heard of the patience of Job and have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is very com- passionate and merciful. 12 But above all things, my breth- ren, swear not, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath ; but let your yes be yes, and no be no, that you fall not under condemnation. 13 Does any one among you suffer evil? Let him pray: is any one cheerful? Let him sing psalms. 14 Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anoint- ing him with oil in the name of the Lord. 15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up ; and if he have committed sins, it shall be forgiven him. 16 Confess your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that you may be restored to health : the prayer of a righteous man. being energetic, avails much. 17 Elijah was a man with passions like our- selves, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it rained not on the earth for three years and six months; 18 and again he prayed, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth yielded its fruit. 19 Brethren, if any one among you go astray from the truth, and one turn him back. 20 let him know that he that turns a sinner back from the error of his ways shall save a soul from death, and cover a multitude of sins. FIRST EPISTLE OF PETER 11 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the elect sojourners of the dispersion of Pontus. Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia, 2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, in order to obedience and the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. Grace to you and peace be multiplied. 285 THE NEW TESTAMENT 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, ac- cording to his great mercy, has be- gotten us again to a living hope, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 for an in- heritance incorruptible and unde- filed and unfading, reserved in heaven for you, 5 who in the power of God are kept through faith to the salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 6 In which you re- joice, being now for a little while, ii need be, sorrowful in diversified temptations, 7 that the proof of your faith, much more precious than gold that perishes, though tried by fire, may be found for praise and glory and honor in the revelation of Jesus Christ. 8 whom not seeing, you love ; on whom not now looking but believing, you rejoice with joy unspeakable and glorious, 9 receiv- ing the end of your faith, the salva- tion of your souls. 10 Concerning which salvation the prophets that prophesied of the grace that was for you. earnestly sought and inquired. 11 inquiring into what and what kind of time the Spirit of Christ that was in them did signify, when it testi- fied beforehand the sufferings that were for Christ, and the glories after these: 12 to whom it was re- vealed, that not for themselves, but for you. they were ministering these things, which are now announced to j'ou through those that preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent down from heaven, into which things angels desire earnestly to look. 13 Wherefore, gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope perfectly for the grace to be brought to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ. 14 As children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to the desires which you formerly had in your ignorance, 15 but as he that called you is holy, be- come yourselves also holy in all be- havior, 16 because it is written : Be you holy, for I am holy. 17 And if you call on, as a Father, him who judges without respect of persons, according to each one's work, spend the time of your sojourning in fear; 18 knowing that not with corrupti- ble things, as silver and gold, you were redeemed from your fruitless mode of life delivered to you by your fathers ; 19 but with the pre- cious blood of Christ, as of a lamb blameless and without spot ; 20 fore- known indeed before the foundation of the world, but manifested in the last of the times for you, 21 who through him do believe in God who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God. 22 Having purified your souls in obedience to the truth, to unfeigned love of the brethren, love one an- other from the heart earnestly, 23 having been begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorrupti- ble, by means of the word of God that lives and abides. 24 Because all flesh is as grass, and all its glory as the flower of grass; the grass withers, and the flower of it falls; 25 but the word of the Lord abides for ever. And this is the word which as gospel has been preached to you. 2 1 Having, then, laid aside all malice, and all guile, and hypoc- risies, and envies, and all evil speak- ings, 2 as babes just born, earnestly desire the spiritual unadulterated I. PETER milk, that by it you may grow to salvation, 3 if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. 4 To whom coming, a living stone, by men indeed disapproved, but with God chosen, precious, 5 yourselves also as living stones are builded up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrihces accep- table to God through Jesus Christ; 6 because it is contained in Scrip- ture : Behold, I lay in Zion a chief corner-stone, chosen, precious, and he that believes on him shall not be ashamed. 7 To you, therefore, that believe is the preciousness ; but to those that believe not, a stone which the builders rejected, this became the head of the corner, and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, 8 to them that stumble at the word being disobedient, to which also they were appointed. 9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people, that you should show forth the virtues of him that has called you out of darkness into his wonderful light : 10 who once were not a people, but now are the people of God, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. 11 Beloved, I beseech that you as strangers and sojourners abstain from fleshly desires, which war against the soul. 12 having your conduct among the Gentiles, that in what they speak against you as evil- doers, they may. because of your good works, while beholding them, glorify God m the day of visitation. 13 Be subject, therefore, to every human creation for the Lord's sake : whether to the king as supreme, 14 or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers, but the praise of those that do good; 15 for so is the will of God that by doing good you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men : 16 as free, and not holding freedom as a cloak of malice, but as the servants of God. 17 Honor all men, love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the kmg. 18 Household servants, be subject in all fear to your masters, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the perverse. 19 For this is praiseworthy, if because of con- sciousness of God any one endures sorrows, suffering wrongfully. 20 For what glory is there, if, being buffeted for your faults, you take it patiently? But if, when you do well and suffer, you take it patient- ly, this is praiseworthy with God. 21 For to this end were you called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example that you should follow his steps ; 22 who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth ; 23 who when reviled reviled not in turn, when suffering he threatened not, but committed his cause to him that judges righteously, 24 who himself bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that having died to sins we should live to right- eousness : by whose stripes you were healed ; 25 for you were as sheep going astray, but have now returned to the shepherd and overseer of your souls. 3 1 Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, that even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained through the conduct of the wives, 2 having beheld your conduct that is chaste in fear. 3 Whose adorning let it not be the outward, of braid- ing the hair, and of putting around 287 THE NEW TESTAMENT of golden ornaments or of putting en of dresses, 4 but the hidden man of the heart in the incorruptible ornament of the meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. 5 For so in former time also the holy women that hoped in God adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands, 6 as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord; whose children you have become by doing good and not being afraid of any terror. 7 Husbands, likewise, dwell according to knowl- edge with the feminine as the weak- er vessel, bestowing honor_ as on those that are also heirs with you of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered. 8 Finally, be all of the same mind, sympathetic, loving the brethren, compassionate, humble-minded, _ 9 not rendering evil for evil or railing for railing, but, on the other hand, blessing; because to this end were you called, that you might inherit blessing. 10 For he that will love life, and see good days, let him re- frain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile; 11 let him turn away from evil and do good ; let him seek peace and pursue it ; 12 because the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears incline to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil. 13 And who is he that will do you evil if you become zealots for that which is good? 14 But if you should even suffer for the sake of righteousness, you are happy. But fear not their fear, neither be trou- bled ; 15 but sanctify the Lord Christ in your hearts, and be ready always to give an answer to every one that asks you a reason concern- ing the hope that is in you ; but with meekness and fear ; 16 having a good conscience, that in what you are evil spoken of, they may be ashamed who falsely accuse your good conduct in Christ. 17 For it is better to suffer for doing good, if the will of God should will it, than for doing evil. 18 For Christ also once suffered for sins, a just nian for unjust men, that he might bring us to God, having been indeed put to death in flesh, but made alive in spirit, 19 in which also he went and preached to the spirits in prison, 20 that were disobedient once when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while an ark was pre- pared, in which few. that is, eight souls, were saved through water. 21 Which (water) in its antitype, baptism, now saves you also (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the inquiry of a good con- science toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ. 22 who is at the right hand of God. having gone into heaven, angels and author- ities and powers being made subject to him. 4 1 Christ then having suffered in the flesh, do you also arm yourselves with the same mind, be- cause he that has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, 2 that you may no longer live the rest of your time in the flesh to the desires of men, but to the will of God. 3 For the time past is sufficient to have worked the will of the Gen- tiles, in having walked in lascivious- ness, desires, wine-drinkings, ca- rousals, banquetings. and lawless idolatries ; 4 at which they are as- tonished, since you run out with 288 1. PETER them into the same confusion of riot, speaking evil of you, 5 who shall give an account to him that is ready to judge the living and dead. 6 For to this end was the gospel preached even to the dead, that they might indeed be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit. 7 But the end of all things is at hand. Be sober-minded, therefore, and be watchful that you may pray; 8 above all things have earnest love towards one another, for love covers a multitude of sins ; 9 be hospitable one towards another without murmuring; 10 as each one has received a gracious gift, minis- ter the same one to another as good stewards of the diversified grace of God; 11 if any one speaks, as the oracles of God : if any one minis- ters, as from the strength that God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom is glory and might from age to age : amen. 12 Beloved, be not astonished at the fiery trial that is among you, that has come upon you for a trial, as if a strange thing is happening to you, 13 but as far as you partake of the sufferings of Christ, rejoice, that also in the revelation of his glory you may rejoice with gladness. 14 If you are reproached * in the name of Christ, happy are you, because the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. 15 For let not any one of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil-doer, or as a busybody in other men's matters ; 16 but if he suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in Because you wear the name. 19 this name. 17 For it is the time that judgment should begin at the house of God; but if first at us, what shall be the end of those that obey not the gospel of God? 18 And if the righteous man is scarcely saved, the ungodly and sinner, where shall he appear? 19 So, then, let them also that suffer according to the will of God commit their souls to him in well-doing, as to a faithful creator. 5 1 Elders that are among you I exhort who am the fellow- elder, and a witness of the suffer- ings of Christ, who also am a par- taker of the glory that shall be revealed : 2 be shepherds to the flock of God that is among you, not from necessity, but willingly, according to God, not for the sake of base gain, but readily, 3 neither as being lords of the portions.* but becoming ex- amples to the flock ; 4 and when the chief shepherd shall appear, you shall receive the crown of glory that fades not away. 5 Likewise, you younger, submit yourselves to the elder, yes, do you all clothe yourselves with humility one towards another; for God sets himself against the proud, but gives grace to the lowly. 6 Humble your- selves therefore under the strong hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time, 7 casting all your care upon him, for he cares for you. 8 Be sober, be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking^ whom he may devour : 9 whom resist firm in faith, knowing that the same suffer- ings are accomplished in your breth- ren that are in the world. 10 But *The parts of the flock under their care. 289 THE NEW TESTAMENT the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered awhile, will himself make you perfect, establish, strengthen, confirm you. 11 To him be might through the ages, amen. 12 By Silvanus to you the faith- ful brother, as I suppose, I have written in few words, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God, in which you stand. 13 She that is elected together with you in Babylon salute you, and so does Mark my son. 14 Salute one another with a kiss of love. Peace to you all that are in Christ. SECOND EPISTLE OF PETER 11 Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those that have obtained equally precious faith with us in the right- eousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ. 2 Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the acknowl- edgment of God and Jesus our Lord. 3 As his divine power has given us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the acknowledg- ment of him who has called us by his own glory and virtue, 4 through which very great and precious promises have been given to us, that through these you might become partakers of the divine nature, hav- ing escaped the corruption that is in the world in desire ; 5 and for this very reason bringing forward all diligence, supply in your faith, vir- tue, and in virtue, knowledge, 6 and in knowledge, self-control, and in self-control, patience, and in pa- tience, godliness, 7 and in godliness, friendship for brethren, and in friendship for brethren, love. 8 For these things being in you and abounding render you neither idle, nor unfruitful for the acknowledg- ment of our Lord Jesus Christ; 9 but he in whom these are not pres- ent, is blind, not seeing afar off, having taken up a forgetfulness of the purification of his old sins. 10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, be diligent to make your calling and election sure ; for in doing these things you shall never stumble. 11 For so shall there be richly supplied to you the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. 12 Wherefore I shall always re- mind you of these things, though you know them and are established in the present truth, 13 Yes, I think it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance, 14 knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ has shown me. 15 But I will endeavor that you may always be able, after my departure, to have these things in remembrance. 16 For we did not follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but had been made eye-witnesses of his majesty. 17 For he received from God the Father honor and glory, a vojce having been borne to him by the most excellent glory, such as this: 290 n. PETER This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. 18 And this voice brought from heaven we heard, being with him in the holy mount ; 19 and we have the pro- phetic word more sure, to which you do well to give heed, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, till the day dawn and the day-star arise in your hearts ; 20 knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from one's own interpretation. 21 For not by the will of man was prophecy ever brought, but men from God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit. 2 1 But there arose false prophets among the people, as there shall be false teachers also among you, such as shall privily in- troduce heresies of destruction, even denying the Lord that bought them, who bring on themselves swift de- struction ; 2 and many will follow their licentiousness, because of whom the way of truth shall be blasphemed ; 3 and in covetousness with deceitful words they will make merchandise of you ; for whom the condemnation of old lingers not. and their destruction slumbers not. 4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but casting them down to Tartarus in chains of darkness delivered them up to be kept for judgment, 5 and spared not the old world, but preserved Noah, the eighth person, a preacher of right- eousness, having brought a flood on the world of the ungodly. 6 and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them with an overthrow, making them an example of those that shall live ungodly. 7 and deHvered right- eous Lot, wearied out with the licen- tious conduct of the ungodly ; 8 for the righteous man dwelling among them, by seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their lawless deeds : 9 the Lord knows how to deHver the god- ly out of temptation, and to keep the unrighteous to the day of judg- ment to be punished, 10 but especial- ly those that walk after the flesh in unclean desire, and despise govern- ments. Presumptuous, self-willed men, they tremble not while blas- pheming dignities; 11 whereas angels, who are greater in strength and power, bring no railing accusa- tion against them before the Lord; 12 but these, as irrational animals made by nature for capture and de- struction, speaking evil of things in which they are ignorant, shall also perish in their corruption, 13 thus receiving the reward of unright- eousness, who count reveling in the daytime a delight ; spots and blem- ishes they are reveling in their de- ceits while feasting with you, 14 having eyes full of an adulteress, and that can not cease from sin, seducing unsteady souls, having a heart exercised in covetousness, children of the curse: 15 having left the straight way, they have turned aside, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness, 16 but was reproved for his iniquity: the dumb beast of burden speaking with man's voice forbade the madness of the prophet. 17 These are wells without water, and mists driven by a tempest, for whom the blackness of darkness is reserved. 18 For speaking great swelling woros of vanity, they seduce in the desires of the flesh by lasciviousness those that 291 THE NEW TESTAMENT are just escaping from them that live in error, 19 promising them freedom, while they themselves are servants of corruption; for by whom any one has been overcome, by him has he also been made a servant. 20 For if, after escaping from the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in these and over- come, their last state becomes worse than the first. 21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than hav- ing known it to turn from the holy commandment that had been deliv- ered to them. 22 That of the true proverb has happened to them: A dog turned back to his own vomit ; and : A sow washed to wallowing in the mire. 3 1 This now, beloved, is the second epistle that I write to you, in both of which I stir up your pure mind by way of remembrance, 2 that you be mindful of the words spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of the Lord and Saviour, that was given by your apostles, 3 knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days shameless scoffers walking ac- cording to their own desires, 4 and saying: Where is the promise of his coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things thus continue from the beginning of the creation. 5 For this they willingly know not, that the heavens were of old and the earth from water and by means of water consisting by the word of God, 6 by which the then world, having been overflowed with water, perished; 7 but the present heavens and earth are kept in store by the same word, reserved for fire at the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. 8. But be not ignorant of this one thing, beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 9 The Lord delays not con- cerning the promise, as some count delaying, but is longsuffering for your sake, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief, in which the heav- ens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it shall be burned up. 11 As all these things are thus to be dissolved, what man- ner of persons ought you to be in holy behavior and godliness, 12 looking for and hastening the com- ing of the day of God, because of which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? 13 But we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, in which dwells righteousness. 14 Wherefore, beloved, as you look for these things, be diligent to be found spotless and blameless before him in peace, 15 and regard the longsuffering of our Lord salva- tion, even as our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom that is given to him, has written to you, 16 as also in all his epistles speaking in them of these things, in which things are some hard to be under- stood, which the unlearned and un- steady wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, to their own de- struction. 17 Do you then, beloved, knowing it before, beware lest being 292 I. JOHN led away by the er'ror of the lawless you fall from ybur own steadfast- ness, 18 but grow in grace and the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and to the day of eternity. FIRST EPISTLE OF JOHN 11 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and our hands handled, of the word of life; 2 and the hfe was manifested, and we have seen and do testify and declare to you the life eternal, which was with the Father and was mani- fested to us : 3 that which we have seen and heard, declare we to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship indeed is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. 4 And these things write we to you, that your joy may be made full. 5 And this is the message that we have heard from him, and declare again to you. that God is light and darkness in him there is none. 6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not the truth ; 7 but if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. 8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9 If we- confess our sins, faithful is he and righteous to for- give us the sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us, 2 1 My jittle children, these things write I to you that you sin not. And if any one sin, we have an advocate with- the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; 2 and he himself is the expiation for our sins, not for ours only, however, but also for the whole world. 3 And in this we know that we have known him, if we keep his com- mandments. 4 He that says : I have known him and keeps not his com- mandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him ; 5 but whoever keeps his word, truly in him has the love of God been perfected. In this we know that we are in him, 6 He that says that he abides in him ought himself also so to walk as he walked. 7 Beloved, no new commandment write I to you, but an old command- ment, which you had from the be- ginning: the old commandment is the word which you heard. 8 Again a new commandment write I to you, which thing is true in him and in you. because the darkness is passing away and the true light now shines, 9 He that says that he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness till now. 10 He that loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no stumbling-block in him; 11 but he that hates his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness, and knows not whither he goes, be- cause darkness has blinded his eyes. 12 I write to you. little children, because your sins have been for' THE NEW TESTAMENT given for his name's sake. 13 I write to you, fathers, because you have known him that is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the wicked one. I have written to you, little children, because you have known the Father. 14 1 have writ- ten to you, fathers, because you have known him that is from the* begin- ning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the wicked one. 15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any one love the world, the love of the Father is not in him ; 16 because all that is in the world, the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and. the pride of life, is not of the- Father, but is of the world. 17 And the world is passing away and the desire of it ; but he that does the will of God abides for ever. 18 Little children, it is the last time, and as you heard that anti- christ comes, even now many anti- christs have risen : whence we know that it is the last time. 19 They went out from us, but were not of us ; for if they had been of us, they would have- remained with us ; but that they might be made manifest that they are all not of us. 20 And you have an anointing from the holy One, and know all things. 21 I have not written to you because you know not the truth, but because you know it,, and that no lie is from the truth. 22 Who is the liar, but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist that denies the Father and the Son. 23 Every one that denies the Son, neither has he the Father: he that confesses the Son has the Father also. 24 Let that which you heard from the beginning abide in you. If that abide in you which you heard from the beginning, you also shall abide in the Son and in the Fatfier. 25 And this is the promise that he him- self promised us, the life eternal. 26 These things 1 have written to you concerning them that deceive you. 27 And you, — the anointing which you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that any one teach, but as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true and is no lie, even as it has taught you, abide in it. 28 And now. little children, abide in him that when he shall be mani- fested we may have boldness, and not be ashamed away from him in his coming. 29 If you know that he is righteous, you know that every one also that works righteousness has been begotten of him. 3 1 Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us that we should be called chil- dren of God. Therefore the world knows us not, because it knew him not. 2 Beloved, now are we children of God, and it has not yet been made manifest what we shall be. We know that when it shall be made manifest we shall be like him, be- cause wc; shall see him as he is. 3 And every one thai has this hope on him purifies himself, as he is pure. 4 Every one that practices sin practices lawlessness also, and sin is lawlessness. 5 And you know that he was manifested that he might take away sins, and sin is not in him. 6 Every one that abides in 294 I. JOHN him sins not : whoever sins has not seen him, neither known him. 7 Little children, let no one de- ceive you. He that practices rig:ht- eousness is righteous, even as he is righteous : 8 he that practices sin is of the devil, because the devil sins from the beginning. For this pur- pose was the Son of God mani- fested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. 9 Whoever has been begotten of God does not prac- tice sin, because his seed abides in him ; and he can not sin, because he has been begotten of God. 10 In this the children of God are mani- fest and the children of the devil : whoever practices not righteousness is not of God, also he that loves not his brother. 11 For this is the mes- sage that you heard from the begin- ning, that we should love one an- other, 12 not as Cain was of the wicked one and slew his brother ; and for what cause did he slay him? because his works were evil, but those of his brother righteous. 13 Wonder not, brethren, if the world hates you. 14 We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love the brethren : he that loves not abides in death. 15 Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. 16 In this we have known the love, because he laid down his life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 17 But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother have need, and shuts up his boweh from him, how abides the love of God in him? 18 Little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth. 19 And in this we know that we are of the truth, and shall persuade our hearts before him; 20 because if our hearts con- demn us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things. 21 Beloved, if our heart con- demn us not, we have confidence toward God, 22 and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight. 23 And this is his command- ment, that we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another as he gave us com- mandment. 24 And he that keeps his commandments abides in him and he in him; and in this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit that he has given us. 4 1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, vv-hether they are from God ; because many false prophets have gone forth into the world. 2 In this know you the Spirit of God : every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God, 3 and every spirit that confesses not Jesus is not of God ; and this is the spirit of antichrist, of which you have heard that it comes, and now is in the world already. 4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world. 5 They are of the world : therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them. 6 We are of God: he that knows God hears us, he that is not of God hears not us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error. 7 Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God, and every 295 THE NEW TESTAMENT one that loves has been begotten of God, and knows God. 8 He that loves not has not known God, for God is love. 9 In this has been manifested the love of God in us, that God has sent his Son the only Begotten into the world that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son the expiation for our sins, 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has seen God at any time : if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is per- fected in us. 13 In this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and do testify that the Father has sent the Son the Saviour of the world. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him and he in God. 16 And we have known and have believed the love that God has in us. God is love, and he that abides in love abides in God and God in him. 17 In this has been perfected the love with us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is we also are in this world. 18 Fear is not in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment, but he that fears is not made perfect in love. 19 We love, because he- first loved us. 20 If any one say: I love God, and hate his brother, he is a liar; for he that loves not his brother, whom he has seen. God, whom he has not seen, how can he love? 21 And this commandment have we from him. that he that loves God loves his brother also. 5 1 Every one that believes that Jesus is the Christ, has been begotten of God ; and every one that loves him that begot, loves him also that has been begotten of him. 2 In this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and do his command- ments. 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his command- ments ; and his commandments ar.e not burdensome, 4 because all that has been begotten of God overcomes the world ; and this is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith. 5 Who is he that overcomes the world but he that believes that Jesus is the Son of God? 6 This is he that came through water and blood, Jesus Christ : not in the water only, but in the water and in the blood ; and it is the Spirit that testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. 7 For they that testify are three, 8 the Spirit, and the water, and the blood, and the three are one.* 9 If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater ; because this is the testimony of God that he has tes- tified concerning his Son. 10 He that believes on the Son of God has the testimony in himself: he that believes not God has made him a liar, because he has not believed on the testimony that God has testified concerning his Son. 11 And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 He that has the Son has the life: he that has not the Son of God has not the life. Testify the same thing. 296 II. JOHN 13 These things have I written to you that you may know that you have eternal Hfe, who beheve on the name of the Son of God. 14 And this is the confidence that we have towards him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 15 And if we know that he hears us as to whatever we ask, we know that we have the petition that we have asked of him. 16 If any one see his brother sinning a sin not to death, he shall ask, and shall give him life, to those that sin not to death. There is a sin to death : not concerning this do I say that he should ask. All unright- eousness is sin, and there is a sin not to death. 18 We know that every one that has been begotten of God sins not; but he that has been begotten of God keeps himself, and the wicked one touches him not. 19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the wicked one. 20 We know, however, that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding, that we know him that is true ; and we are in him that is true, in his Son Jesus Christ: This is the true God and life eternal. 21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. SECOND EPISTLE OF JOHN 1 The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all that have known the truth, 2 because of this truth that abides in us, and shall be wath us for ever. 3 There shall be with you grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love. 4 I rejoiced greatly that I have found of thy children walking in the truth as we received commandment from the Father. 5 And now I be- seech thee, lady, not as writing to thee a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another. 6 And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments : the com- mandment is this, as you heard from the beginning, that you walk in it. 7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, who coniess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh: this is the deceiver and the anti- christ. 8 Take heed to yourselves, that you lose not the things that you have wrought, but that you re- ceive a full reward. 9 Whoever ad- vances and abides not in the teach- ing of Christ has not God : he that abides in the teaching, he has both the Son and Father. 10 If any one comes to you, and brings not this teaching, receive him not into the house, and wish him not well; 11 for he that wishes well is partaker in his evil deeds. 12 Having many things to write to you. I would not by means of paper and ink; but I hope to be with you, and speak mouth to mouth, that our joy may be full. 13 The children of thy elect sister vsalute thee. 297 THE NEW TESTAMENT THIRD EPISTLE OF JOHN 1 The elder to the beloved Gains, whom I love in truth. 2 Beloved, concerning all things I pray that thou mayest prosper and be in health, as thy soul prospers. 3 For I rejoiced greatly when the brethren came and testified to thy truth, as thou walkest in the truth. 4 I have no joy greater than this, that I hear of my children walking in the truth. 5 Beloved, thou doest faithfully whatever thou workest for the brethren, and for strangers, 6 who have testified to thy love before the church, whom thou wilt do well in conducting forward in a manner worthy of God. 7 For in behalf of the name they went forth, taking nothing from the heathen. 8 We then, ought to receive such, that we may become fellow-workmen for the truth. 9 I wrote somewhat to • the church; but Diotrephes, who loves the pre-eminence over them, receives us not. 10 Wherefore, if I come, I will bring to remembrance the works that he does, prating against us with evil words ; and not content with this, he neither him- self receives the brethren, and those that would he hinders and casts out of the church. 11 Beloved, imitate not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that does good is of God : he that does evil has not seen God. 12 To Demetrius good testimony is given by all and by the truth itself ; and we also testify, and you know that our testimony is true. 13 1 had many things to write to thee, but I will not write to thee by means of ink and pen : 14 I hope, however, to see thee soon, and we will speak mouth to mouth. 15 Peace to thee. The friends salute thee : salute the friends by name. EPISTLE OF JUDE 1 Jude, a servant of Christ Jesus, but brother of James, to the called that are beloved in God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ. 2 Mercy to you and peace and love be multi- plied. 3 Beloved, giving all diligence to write to you concerning this com- mon salvation, I found it necessary to write to you. exhorting you to contend for the faith once delivered to the saints. 4 For some men have come in by stealth, who have long ago been written of beforehand for this condemnation ; ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying our cidy Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. 5 But I wish to put you in re- membrance, though you already know all things, that the Lord, after having saved the people from the land of Egypt, the second time de- stroyed those that believed not : 6 angels also that kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he has kept in eternal chains under darkness for the judgment of the 298 JUDE great day: 7 how Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities about them, giving themselves over to lew^dness in Hke manner with these men, and having gone after other flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire. 8 Yet still in like manner these dreamers also defile indeed the flesh, but despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. 9 But Michael the archangel, when con- tending with the devil he disputed about the body of ]\Ioses, dared not to bring a railing accusation, but said : The Lord rebuke thee. 10 But these speak evil of whatever things indeed they know not, but whatever things they understand naturally as the irrational animals, in these they corrupt themselves. 11 Alas for them, for in the way of Cain they have walked, and in the error of Balaam they have rushed headlong for hire, and in the con- tradiction of Corah have they per- ished. 12 These are they that are rocks in your love-feasts, feasting with you • without fear, feeding themselves ; clouds without water, driven rapidly by winds ; late autumnal trees without fruit, twice dead, torn up by the roots ; 13 raging waves of the sea foaming up their own shame ; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been kept for ever. 14 But of these also prophesied Enoch, the seventh from Adam, saying: Behold, the Lord came in his holy myriads, 15 to execute judgment against all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly works in which they were ungodly, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. 16 These are murmurers, com- plainers, walking according to their own desires, and their mouth speaks great swelling words, admiring per- sons for profit's sake. 17 But you, beloved, be mindful of the words that were spoken be- fore by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, 18 that they said that at the last time there shall be scof- fers walking according to their own desires in ungodliness. 19 These are they that separate, psychical, not having spirit. 20 But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, 21 keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life. 22 And some, indeed, reprove when they contend ; 23 but others save, snatching them out of the fire ; and on others have compassion in a spirit of fear, hating even the gar- ment that is spotted by the flesh. 24 But to him that is able to keep you without falling, and to set you in the presence of his glory blame- less in exceeding joy; 25 to the only God our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, might and authority before every age, both now and throughout all the ages : amen. 299 THE NEW TESTAMENT REVELATION OF JOHN 11 The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him, to show^ to his servants things that must shortly take place, and having sent by his angel he made it known to his servant John, 2 who became a witness to the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ, whatever things he saw, 3 Blessed is he that reads and they that hear the words of the proph- ecy, and that keep the things that are written in it; for the time is at hand. 4 John to the seven churches that are in Asia: grace to you and peace from him who is, and who was, and who comes, and from the seven spirits that are before his throne, 5 and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the first-born of the dead and the prince of the kings of the earth. To him that loves us and that washed us from our sins in his blood, 6 and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and strength through the ages : amen. 7 Behold, he comes with clouds, and every eye shall see him, and they also that pierced him, and all the tribes of the land shall wail be- cause of him. Yes, amen. 8 I am the Alpha and the Omega, says the Lord God, who is, and who was, and who comes, the Almighty. 9 I John, your brother and com- panion in the affliction and king- dom and patience in Jesus, was in the island that is called Patmos he- g^use of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. 10 I was in spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a voice great as that of a trumpet, 11 saying: What thou seest write in a book, and send to the seven churches, to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamus, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea. 12 And I turned to see the voice that talked with me ; and having turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks, 13 and in the midst of the candlesticks one like the Son of man, clothed in a robe reaching to the feet, and girded about the breasts with a golden girdle ; 14 but his head and his hair were white as white wool, like snow, and his eyes were as a flame of fire, 15 and his feet were like burnished brass, as if they burned in a furnace, and his voice as the sound of many waters ; 16 and he had in his right hand seven stars, and out of his mouth went forth a sword two-edged, sharp, and his face as the sun when it shines in its strength. 17 And when I had seen him, I fell at his feet as dead ; and he laid his right hand upon me, saying: Fear not: I am the First and the Last, 18 and that lives, and 1 was dead, and be- hold, I am living from age to age, and have the keys of death and of hades. 19 Write therefore the things that thou sawest, and the things that are, and those that shall be after these, 20 the mystery of the seven stars that thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars ^r^ 300 REVELATION angels of the seven churches, and the seven candlesticks are seven churches. 2 1 To the angel of the church in Ephesus write : These things says he that holds the seven stars in his right hand, that walks in the midst of the seven golden candle- sticks ; 2 I know thy works, and thy labor, and thy patience, and that thou canst not endure evil men, and hast tried those that say that they are apostles and are not, and hast found them liars; 3 and thou hast patience, and hast endured be- cause of my name, and hast not fainted. 4 But I have against thee that thou hast left thy first love. 5 Remember therefore whence thou hast fallen, and repent and do the first works : else, I am coming to thee, and will move thy candle- stick out of its place, unless thou repent. 6 But this thou hast, that thou hatest the works of the Nico- laitans. which I also hate. 7 He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches : To him that overcomes will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of my God. 8 And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write i These things says the First and the Last, who was dead and revived ; 9 I know thy affliction and thy poverty, (but thou art rich,) and the blasphemy of those that say that they are Jews and are not, but are a syna- gogue of Satan. 10 Fear in no way the things that thou art about to sufifer. Behold now, the devil is about to cast some of you into prison that you may be tried, and you shall have affliction ten days. Be thou faithful to death, and I will give thee the crown of life. 11 He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the church- es : He that overcomes shall not be hurt by the second death. 12 And to the angel of the church in Pergamus write: These things says he that has the sword two- edged, sharp; 13 I know where thou dwellest, where the throne of Satan is; and yet thou boldest fast my name, and didst not deny my faith, even in the days in which Antipas was my faithful witness, who was slain among you, where Satan dwells. 14 But I have against thee a few things : thou hast there those that hold the t&aching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel and to cause them to eat idol-sacrifices and to commit lewd- ness. 15 So hast thou also in like manner those that hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans. 16 Repent therefore ; otherwise I am coming to thee quickly, and I will war against them with the sword of my mouth. 17 He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches : To him that over- comes I will give of the hidden manna ; and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he that receives it. 18 And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write : These things says the Son of God, who has his eyes as a flame of fire, and his feet like burnished brass : 19 I know thy works and thy love and thy faith and thy service and thy patience, and thy works the last more than the first. 20 But I have against thee that thou sufTerest thy wife 301 THE NEW TESTAMENT Jezebel, who says that she is a prophetess, and teaches and leads my servants astray to commit lewd- ness and to eat idol-sacrifices. 21 And I gave her time to repent, and she will not repent of her lewdness. 22 Behold, I cast her into a bed, and those that commit adultery with her into great affliction, unless they repent of her works. 23 And her children will I kill with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he that searches the reins and the hearts; and I will give to you, to each one, according to your works. 24 But to you I say, to the rest that are in Thyatira, as many as have not this teaching, such as have not known the depths of Satan, as they say, I lay upon you no other burden ; 25 but what you have hold fast till I come. 26 And he that overcomes and that keeps my works to the end, to him will I give authority over the nations, 27 and he shall rule them with a rod of iron, as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to pieces, as I have received from my Father, 28 and I will give him the morning star. 29 He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. 3 1 And to the angel of the church in Sardis write : These things says he that has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars : I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead. 2 Become wakeful, and strengthen the things that remain that are about to die. For I have not found thy works fulfilled be- fore my God. 3 Remember there- fore how thou hast received and heard, and watch and repent. If therefore thou wilt not be wakeful, I will come as a thief, and thou shalt not know at what hour I will come upon thee. 4 But thou hast a few names in Sardis who have not defiled their garments, and they shall walk with me in white, for they are worthy. 5 He that over- comes, he shall be clothed in white raiment, and 1 will not blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels. 6 He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. 7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write : These things says he that is holy, he that is true, he that has the key of David, he that opens and no one shall shut, and shuts and no one shall open ; 8 I know thy works ; behold, I have placed before thee an open door, that no one can shut ; because thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word and hast not denied my name. 9 Behold, I will give to them of the synagogue of Satan, that say that they are Jews, and are not, but do lie : behold, I will make them come and worship before thy feet, and they shall know that I have loved thee. 10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation that shall come on all the world, to try them that dwell on the earth. 11 I come quickly: hold fast that which thou hast, that no one take thy crown. 12 He that overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go out no more, and I will write upon him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem that 302 REVELATION comes down out of heaven from my God, and my new name. 13 He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. 14 And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write : These things says the Amen, the witness that is faithful and true, the beginning of the creation of God; 15 1 know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot. I would that thou wert either cold or hot. 16 So because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit thee out of my mouth. 17 Because thou sayest : I am rich and have abundance and have need of nothing, and knowest not that thou art wretched and piti- able and poor and blind and naked, 18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold purified in fire, that thou mayest be rich, and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and the shame of thy nakedness may not be made manifest, and to anoint thy eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. 19 As many as I love I rebuke and chasten : be zealous therefore, and repent. 20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock : if any one hear my voice and open the .door, I will come in to him and will sup with him and he with me. 21 He that overcomes, I will give to him to sit with me in my throne, as I also overcame and sat down with my Father in his throne. 22 He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. A 1 After these things T saw, * and behold, a door opened in heaven, and the voice, the first that I heard, was as that of a trumpet talking with me, saying: Come up hither, and I will show thee things that must take place after these. 2 Immediately I was in spirit; and behold, a throne was set in heaven, and upon the throne was one sit- ting, 3 and he that sat was like in appearance to a jasper and a sardine stone, and a rainbow round about the throne, like m appearance to an emerald. 4 And round about the throne were twenty-four thrones; and upon the twenty-four thrones I saw elders sitting, cjothed in white raiment, and on their head golden crowns. 5 And out of the throne go forth lightnings and voices and thunders ; and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven spirits of God; 6 and before the throne was as a sea of glass like crystal ; and in the midst of the throne and round about the throne four living creatures full of eyes before and behind. 7 And the first living creature was like a lion, and the second living creature was like a calf, and the third living creature had the face as of a man, and the fourth living creature was like a flying eagle. 8 And the four living creatures, each of them having six wings, are full of eyes round about and within, and have no rest day and night, saying: Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God. the Almighty, who was. and who is, and who comes. 9 And whenever the living crea- tures give glory and honor and thanks to him that sits upon the throne, who lives from age to age. 10 the twenty-four elders fall be- fore him that sits upon the throne, and worship him that lives from age to age. and throw their crowns before the throne, saying: 11 Worthy art thou, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor 303 THE NEW TESTAMENT and power, for thou didst create all things, and because of thy will they existed and were created. 5 1 And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the back, sealed with seven seals. 2 And I saw a strong angel pro- claiming with a loud voice : Who is worthy to open the book and break its seals? 3 And no one in heaven, neither on the earth nor under the earth, was able to open the book nor to look upon it. 4 And I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open the book nor to look upon it. 5 And one of the elders said to me : Weep not ; behold, he has prevailed who is the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, that opens the iDOok and its seven seals. 6 And I saw in the midst of the throne and of the four living crea- tures, and in the midst of the elders, a Lamb standing as if it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. 7 And he came and took it out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne. 8 And when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the lamb, having each one a harp and golden vials full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. 9 And they sing a new song, saying: Worthy art thou to take the book, and to open its seals, because thou wast slain and didst redeem to God in thy blood out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation. 10 and didst make them a kingdom and priests, and they shall reign on the earth. 11 And I saw, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the living creatures and the elders, and the number of them was myriads of myriads and thousands of thou- sands. 12 saying with a loud voice : Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing. 13 And every created thing that is in heaven, and those that are on the earth, and under the earth, and in the sea, even those in them, all did I hear saying: To him that sits on the throne and to the Lamb be bless- ing, and honor, and glory, and might, from age to age. 14 And the four living creatures heard I saying : Amen ; and the elders fell down and worshipped. 6 1 And I saw when the Lamb had opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying as with a voice of thunder : Come. 2 And I saw, and behold, a white horse, and he that sat upon him had a bow, and to him was given a crown, and he went forth conquering and to conquer. 3 And when he had opened the second seal. I heard the second liv- ing creature saying: Come. 4 And there went forth another horse that was red; and to him that sat on him was given to take peace from the earth, and that they should slay one another: and there was given to him a great sword. 5 And when he had opened the third seal. T heard the third living creature saying: Come. And T saw. nnd behold, a black horse, and he that sat on him had a balance in 804 REVELATION his hand. 6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living crea- tures, saying: A choenix of wheat for a denarius, and three choenices of barley for a denarius : and see that thou hurt not the oil and the wine. 7 And when he had opened the ■fourth seal, I heard the fourth liv- ing creature saying : Come. 8 And I saw, and behold, a pale horse, and he that sat on him, his name was death, and hades followed with him ; and there was given to them authority over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with the sword and with famine and with death and by the wild beasts of the earth. 9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those that had been slain because of the word of God and because of the testimony that they held. 10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying: How long. O Sovereign holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? 11 And there was given to them a white robe, and it was said to them that they should rest yet a while, till the number of their fellow- servants and their brethren that should be killed as they had been should be fulfilled. 12 And I saw when he had opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the whole of the moon became as blood. 13 and the stars of heaven fell to the earth, as a fig- tree casting her untimely figs when shaken by a mighty wind. 14 and the heaven departed as a scroll rolled together, and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. 15 And the kings of the earth and the great men and the officers and the rich and the mighty and every servant and free man hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains, 16 and said to the mountains and rocks : Fall upon us and conceal us from the face of him that sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb. 17 for the great day of his wrath has come, and who is able to stand? n 1 And after this I saw four ' angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth nor on the sea nor on any tree. 2 And I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun, having the seal of the living God; and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, 3 say- ing: Hurt not the earth nor the sea nor the trees, till we shall have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads. 4 And I heard the number of those that were sealed : a hundred and forty-four thousand were sealed of every tribe of the sons of Israel: 5 of the tribe of Judah twelve thousand were sealed : of the tribe of Reuben twelve thou- sand : of the tribe of Gad twelve thousand: 6 of the tribe of Asher twelve thousand; of the tribe of Naphtali twelve thousand; of the tribe of Manasseh twelve thousand: 7 of the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand ; of the tribe of Levi twelve thousand : of the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand: 8 of the tribe of Zebulon twelve thousand; of the tribe of Joseph twelve thou- 20 305 THE NEW TESTAMENT sand; of the tribe of Benjamin twelve thousand were sealed. 9 After these things 1 saw, and behold, a great multitude, which no one could number, out of every nation and the tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; 10 and they cry with a loud voice, saying : Salvation to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb. 11 And all the angels stood round about the throne and the elders and the living creatures, and fell before the throne on their faces and worshipped God, 12 say- ing: Amen, blessing and glory and wisdom and thanks and honor and power and strength to our God from age to age. 13 And one of the elders answered, saying to me : These that are clothed in white robes, who are they and whence came they? 14 And I said to him: My lord, thou knowest. And he said to me: These are they that come out of great affliction, and they washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. 15 Therefore are they before the throne of God, and they serve him day and night in his temple, and he that sits on the throne shall dwell among them. 16 They shall hunger no more, neither shall they thirst any more, neither shall the sun fall upon them, nor any heat, 17 for the Lamb that is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and lead them to living fountains of waters, and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes. 8 1 And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour, 2 And I saw the seven angels that stand before God, and to them were given seven trumpets. 3 And another angel came and stood by the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given to him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar that is before the throne. 4 And the smoke of the incense ascended with the prayers of the saints out of the hand of the angel before God. 5 And the angel took the censer, and filled it from the fire of the altar and threw it into the earth ; and there were thunders, and lightnings, and voices, and an earthquake. 6 And the seven angels that had the seven trumpets prepared them- selves to sound. 7 And the first sounded ; and there was hail and fire mingled with blood, and it \vas thrown into the earth ; and the third part of the earth was burned up, and the third part of the trees was burned up, and all green grass was burned up. 8 And the second angel sounded; and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea; and the third part of the sea became blood, 9 and the third part of the creatures that were in the sea, that had life, died, and the third part of the ships were de- stroyed. 10 And the third angel sounded; and there fell from heaven a great star burning as a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers and upon the fountains of waters. 11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood. And the third part of the waters became worm- wood, and many men died of the 306 REVELATION waters, because they were made bitter. 12 And the fourth angel sounded ; and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars, that the third part of them might be darkened, and the day- might not shine for the third part of it, and the night likewise. 13 And I saw, and heard an eagle flying in the midst of heaven, say- ing with a loud voice : Woe, woe, woe to them that dwell on the earth because of the rest of the voices of the trumpet of the three angels that are about to sound. 9 1 And the fifth angel sound- ed : and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to the earth, and to him was given the key of the pit of the abyss. 2 And he opened the pit of the abyss ; and there arose out of the pit a smoke as the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by means of the smoke of the pit. 3 And out of the smoke came forth locusts upon the earth, and to them was given power as the scorpions of the earth have power. 4 And it was said to them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing nor any tree, but the men such as have not the seal of God in their foreheads. 5 And it was given to. them that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months ; and this torment is as the torment of a scorpion, when he strikes a man. 6 And in those days men shall seek death and shall not find it, and they shall desire to die and death flees from them. 7 And the shape of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle, and on their heads as crowns like gold, and their faces as the faces of men, 8 and they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions, 9 and they had breastplates as breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle. 10 And they have tails like scorpions, and stings, and in their tails is their power to hurt men five months: 11 they have a king over them, the angel of the a yss, his name in Hebrew is Abad- don, but in Greek he has the name Apollyon. 12 The first woe has past : behold, there come two woes more after this. 13 And the sixth angel sounded; and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar that is before God, 14 saying to the sixth angel, that had the trumpet: Loose the four angels that are bound on the great river Euphrates. 15 And the four angels were loosed, who were prepared for an hour and a day and a month and a year, to slay the third part of men, 16 And the number of the armies of horse- men was two myriads of myriads : I heard the number of them. 17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and those that sat on them, having breastplates fiery, hyacinth- ine, and of sulphur; and the heads of the horses as the heads of lions, and out of their mouths go forth fire and smoke and brimstone. 18 By these three plagues was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and the smoke, and the brimstone that went forth out of their mouths. 19 For the power of the horses is in their mouth and in their tails; 307 THE NEW TESTAMENT for their tails are like serpents, and have heads, and with them they do hurt. 20 And the rest of men, that were not killed by these plagues, repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons and idols of gold and of silver and of brass and of stone and of wood, which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk, 21 and they re- pented not of their murders, neither of their sorceries nor of their lewd- ness nor of their thefts. 1 A 1 And I saw another angel ■I- ^-' that was mighty descending from heaven, clothed with a cloud, and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire; 2 and he had in his hand a little book opened. And he put his right foot on the sea, but his left on the land, 3 and he cried with a loud voice as a lion roars. And when he had cried, the seven thunders uttered their voices. 4 And when the seven thunders had spoken, I was about to write ; and I heard a voice from heaven, say- ing: Seal up the things that the seven thunders spoke, and write them not. 5 And the angel that I saw standing on the sea and on the earth, lifted up his right hand to heaven, 6 and swore by him that lives from age to age, who created the^ heaven and the things that are in it, and the earth and the things that are in it, and the sea and the things that are in it. that time should no longer be, 7 but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall sound, and the mystery of God was finished, as he proclaimed to his servants the prophets. 8 And the voice that I heard from heaven again spoke to me and said: Go, take the little book that is opened in the hand of the angel that stands on the sea and on the earth. 9 And I went to the angel, saying to him that he should give me the little book. And he said to me : Take it and eat it up, and it will make thy belly bitter, but in thy mouth it shall be sweet as honey. 10 And I took the little book out of the hand of the angel and ate it up ; and it was in my mouth as honey, sweet ; and when I had eaten it, my belly was bitter. II And they say to me: Thou must again prophesy against many peo- ples and nations and tongues and kings. 11 1 And there was given me J- a reed like a rod. saying: Arise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those that worship in it. 2 And the court that is without the temple leave out and measure it not. for it is given to the Gentiles, and the holy city shall they tread down forty-two months. 3 And I will give to my two wit- nesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth. 4 These are the two olive-trees and the two candlesticks that stand before the Lord of the earth. 5 And if any one will hurt them, fire comes forth from their mouth and devours their enemies ; and if any one will hurt them, they must be put to death. 6 These have authority to shut heaven, that rain fall not in the davs of their prophecy, and they have authority over the waters to turn them into blood, and to smite the earth with every plague as often as they will. 7 And when they shall have accomplished their testi- 308 REVELATION mony, the beast that ascends out of the abyss shall make war with them and overcome them and kill them. 8 And their dead bodies — * in the street of the great city, which is called, spiritually, Sodom and Egypt, where our Lord also was crucihed. 9 And they of the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations see their dead bodies three days and a half, and suffer not their dead bodies to be put into a tomb. 10 And they that dwell on the earth rejoice over them and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another, because these two prophets torment- ed them that dwell on the earth. 11 And after three days and a half the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet, and great fear fell upon those that saw them. 12 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying to them : Come up hither ; and they went up into heaven in a cloud, and their enemies beheld them. 13 And in that hour there was a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and there were killed in the earthquake names of men seven thousand, and the rest were frightened and gave glory to the God of heaven. 14 The second woe was passed : the third woe, be- hold, it comes quickly. 15 And the seventh angel sound- ed ; and there were great voices in heaven, saying : The kingdom of the world has become our Lord's and his Christ's, and he shall reign from age to age. 16 And the twenty-four elders that sat on their thrones before God fell on their faces and * No verb in Gr^^; perhaps "sus- pended" i§ l?e5t» worshipped God, 17 saying : We give thee thanks. Lord God, the Almighty who art and who wast, because thou hast taken thy great power and hast reigned; 18 and the nations were angry, and thy wrath has come, and the time of the dead that they should be judged, and that thou shouldst give reward to thy serv- ants the prophets and to thy saints and to those that fear thy name, both small and great, and that thou shouldst df^-troy those that destroy the earth. 19 And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there appeared in his temple the ark of his covenant, and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunder- ings, and an earthquake, and great hail. "j O 1 And a great sign ap- -■- ^ peared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars ; 2 and being with child she cried, being in travail and in pain to be delivered. 3 And there appeared another sign in heaven, and behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his head seven dia- dems, 4 and his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman that was about to be delivered, that when she brought forth her child he might devour it. 5 And she brought forth a man child, who was about to rule all nations with a rod of iron ; and her child was caught away to God and to his throne. 6 And the woman fied into the wil- derness, where she has a place pre- pared of God, that they should feed her there & thousand two hundred THE NEW TESTAMENT and sixty days. 7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his anp-els went forth to war with the dragon. And the dragon fought and his angels, 8 and prevailed not, neither was their place found any more in heaven. 9 And the great dragon was cast out, the old ser- pent, that is called devil and Satan, that deceives the whole world; he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. 10 And I heard a great voice in heaven, saying: Now has come the salva- tion, and the power, and the king- dom of our God, and the authority of his Christ, for the accuser of our brethren has been cast out, he that accused them before our God day and night. 11 And they over- came him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they loved not their lives to their death. 12 Therefore rejoice, you heavens and those that dwell in them : alas for the earth and the sea, for the devil has come down to you having great wrath, knowing that he has a short time. 13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast out into the earth, he persecuted the woman who had brought forth the man child. 14 And there were given to the woman two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time from the face of the serpent. 15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth after the woman water as a river, that he might carry her away with a flood. 16 And the earth helped the woman ; and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the river that the dragon threw out of his mouth. 17 And the dragon was angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her children, that keep the com- mandments of God, and that hold the testimony of Jesus. 1 "2 1 And 1 stood on the sand J-O of the sea, and saw a beast coming up out of the sea, and he had seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten diadems, and on his heads names impiously irrever- ent. 2 And the beast that I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were as those of a bear, and his mouth was as the mouth of a lion. And the dragon gave him his power, and his throne, and great authority. 3 And I saw one of his heads as if it had been wounded even to death ; and his deadly wound was healed ; and all the earth wondered after the beast. 4 And they worshipped the dragon, because he gave authority to the beast ; and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like the beast? and. Who is able to make war with him? 5 And there was given him a mouth that spoke great things and impious words ; and authority was given to him to continue forty-two months. 6 And he opened his mouth in impious speeches against God, to utter impious words against his name, and his tabernacle, and against those who dwell in heaven. 7 And it was given him to make war with the saints, and to over- come them ; and authority was given him over every tribe and people and tongue and nation. 8 And all that dwell upon the earth will worship him, those whose 310 REVELATION names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb that was slain from the foundation of the world. 9 If any one has an ear, let him hear. 10 If any one leads into cap- tivity, he shall go into captivity. If any kills with the sword, he must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and faithfulness of the saints. 11 And I saw another beast com- ing up out of the earth ; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke as a dragon. 12 And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence; and he causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. 13 And he does great signs, and even causes fire to descend from heaven upon the earth in the sight of men. 14 And he deceives those who dwell on the earth, by means of the signs which he is al- lowed to do in the presence of the beast, saying to those who dwell on the earth, that they should make an image for the beast which had the wound by the sword, and did live. 15 And it was granted him to give spirit to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast, to be killed. 16 And he causes all, small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark on their right hand, or on their fore- head, 17 and that no one should be able to buy or sell, but he that had the mark, the name of the beast, or the number of his name. 18 Here is wisdom. Let him that has under- standing, count the number of the beast; for it is the number of a man, and his number is six hundred and sixty-six. HI And I saw, and behold, the Lamb stood on the mount Zion, and with him a hun- dred and forty-four thousand, that had his name and his P^ather's name written in their foreheads. 2 And 1 heard a voice from heaven like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of loud thunder; and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps. 3 And they sung a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures, and the elders ; and no one was able to learn the song, but the hun- dred and forty-four thousand that had been redeemed from the earth. 4 These are they that were not defiled with women ; for they are virgins; these are they that follow the Lamb v^herever he goes: these were redeemed from among men, the first-fruits to God and to the Lamb. 5 And in their mouth was found no guile ; for they are blame- less. 6 And I saw another angel flying in mid-heaven, having the eternal gospel to preach to those who dwell on the earth, even to every nation and tribe and tongue and people; 7 and he said with a loud voice : Fear God, and give glory to him, for the hour of his judgment has come ; and worship him that made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. 8 And another angel followed, saying : Babylon the great has fallen, has fallen ; because she has made all nations drink of the mad- dening wine of her lewdness. 9 And the third angel followed them, saying, with a loud voice: 311 THE NEW TESTAMENT If any one worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or on his hand, even he shall drink of the vyine of the wrath of God, which is prepared without mixture in the cup of his indignation ; 10 and he shall be tor- mented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb; 11 and the smoke of their torment ascends from age to age; and they who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name, have no rest day or night. 12 Here is the patience of the saints, who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. 13 And 1 heard a voice from heaven, saying: Write, Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord from this time. Yes, says the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors, and their works do follow them. 14 And I saw, and behold, a white cloud, and on the cloud sat one like the Son of man, who had on his head a crown of gold, and in his hand a sharp sickle. 15 And an- other angel came out of the temple, and cried with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud : Thrust in your sickle and reap, for the time has come for you to reap, for the harvest of the earth is fully ripe. 16 And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped. 17 And another angel came out of the temple that is in heaven, and he also had a sharp sickle. 18 And another angel that had power over fire, came out from the altar; and he cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, and said : Thrust in your sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for its grapes are fully ripe. 19 And the angel thrust in his sickle on the earth, and gath- ered the vine of the earth, and threw it into the great wine-press of the wrath of God. 20 And the wine-press was trodden without the city; and blood came out of the wine-press, even to the bridles of the horses, to the distance of a thousand and six hundred furlongs. 1 C 1 And I saw another sign J- O in heaven, great and wonder- ful : seven angels that had seven plagues which are the last ; for by them the wrath of God is brought to an end. 2 And I saw, as it were, a sea of glass mingled with fire, and those who had obtained the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, hav- ing the harps of God. 3 And they sung the song of Moses the ser- vant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying: Great and wonder- ful are thy works. Lord God Al- mighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints. 4 Who will not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? For thou alone art holy; for all nations shall come and worship before thee; because thy judgments are made manifest. 5 And after this I saw, and the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened; 6 and the seven angels that had the seven plagues came out of the tem- ple, clothed in pure white linen, and girded about the breasts with golden girdles. 7 And one of the four living creatures gave to the 312 REVELATION seven angels seven golden cups full of the wrath of God, who lives from age to age. 8 And the temple was tilled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no one was able to enter the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed. 1 iC 1 And 1 heard a great -■■ vJ voice out of the temple, say- ing to the seven angels : Go and pour out the seven cups of the wrath of God upon the earth. 2 And the first angel went, and poured out his cup on the land ; and there came a hurtful and afflic- tive sore upon the men that had the mark of the beast, and that wor- shiped his image. 3 And the second angel poured out his cup on the sea; and it be- came blood, like that of a dead man ; and every soul in the sea died. 4 And the third angel poured out his cup on the rivers and the foun- tains of waters ; and they became blood. 5 And I heard the angel of the waters, saying: Just art thou, who art and who w^ast, the Holy One, because thou hast thus judged. 6 For they have shed the blood of saints and of prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink, and they are worthy. 7 And I heard a voice from the altar saying: Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and just are thy judgments. 8 And the fourth angel poured out his cup on the sun ; and it was given to him to scorch men with fire. 9 And men were scorched with great heat ; and they uttered impious words against the name of God who has power over these plagues; and they repented not, that they might give him glory. 10 And the fifth angel poured out his cup on the throne of the beast ; and his kingdom was filled with darkness ; and they gnawed their tongues because of pain; 11 and they spoke impiously against the God of heaven because of their pains, and because of their sores; and they repented not of their works. 12 And the sixth angel poured out his cup on the great river Euphra- tes ; and its water was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared. 13 And I saw three unclean spirits, like frogs, come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. 14 For they are the spirits of demons that do signs, and they go forth to the kings of the whole v/orld, to bring them together to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. 15 Behold, I come as a thief : blessed is he that watches, and keeps his garments, that he may not walk naked, and that men may not see his nakedness. 16 And they brought them together into a place that is called, in the Hebrew tongue, Armageddon. 17 And the seventh angel poured out his cup into the air ; and there came a great voice from the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying: IL is done. 18 And there were lightnings, and voices, and thunders ; and there was a great earthquake, such as has not been since men were on the earth, — so great an earth- quake, and so mighty. 19 And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations 813 THE NEW TESTAMENT fell; and Babylon the great was re- membered before God, that he might give her the cup of the wine of his fiercest wrath. 20 And every island fled, and the mountains were not found. 21 And great hail, every stone about the weight of a talent, fell from heaven upon rnen; and men spoke impiously against God, because of the plague of the hail; for the plague of it was very great. "t n 1 And there came one of ■I- / the seven angels that had the seven cups, and talked with me, say- ing: Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot that sits on many waters, 2 with whom the kings of the earth have prac- ticed lewdness, and with the wine cf whose lewdness the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk. 3 And he carried me away in spirit into the wilderness ; and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast, that was full of impious names, and that had seven heads and ten horns. 4 And the woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold, and precious stones, and pearls ; and she had in her hand a golden cup full of idolatrous pollu- tions, and the impurities of her lewdness. 5 And on her forehead was a name written : MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS, AND OF THE IDOLATROUS POLLU- TIONS OF THE EARTH. 6 And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus : and when I saw her, I wondered with great astonishment. 7 And the angel said to me : Why did you wonder? I will tell you the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carries her, that has seven heads and ten horns. 8 The beast that you saw, was, and is not, and will come out of the abyss, and go to perdition ; and those who dwell on the earth, whose names were not written in the book of life from the founda- tion of the world, will wonder, when they see the beast that was, and is not, though he is yet present. 9 Here is the mind that has wis- dom : The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sits. 10 And there are seven kings : five have fallen, one is, and the other has not yet come ; and when he comes, he must remain but a little while. 11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goes to perdition. 12 And the ten horns which you saw are ten kings, who have re- ceived no kingdom as yet, but re- ceive authority as kings at the same time with the beast. 13 These have one mind, and will give their power and authority to the beast. 14 These will make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb wdl overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings; and those with him are called, and chosen, and faithful. 15 And he said to me : The waters which you saw, where the harlot sits, are peoples and multi- tudes and nations and tongues. 16 And the ten horns that you saw, and the beast, these will hate the harlot, and will make her desolate and naked, and will eat her flesh, and burn her up with fire. 17 For God has put into their hearts to ful- fill his will, and to agree, and to ai4 REVELATION give their kingdom to the beast, till the words of God be accom- plished. 18 And the woman that you saw IS that great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth, 10 1 And after these things I ■l O saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power ; and the earth was lighted with his glory. 2 And he cried with a strong voice, saying: Babylon the great has fallen, has fallen, and has become the habitation of demons, and the haunt of every unclean spirit, and the resort of every un- clean and hateful bird, 3 For she has made all nations drink of the maddening wine of her lewdness ; and the kings of the earth have practiced lewdness with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich by the power of her voluptu- ousness. 4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying: Come out of her, my people, lest you become partak- ers of her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues. 5 For her sins reach even to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. 6 Re- ward her as she has rewarded you, and render back to her double, ac- cording to her works; in the cup that she has mixed, mix for her double. 7 As much glory and vo- luptuousness as she has given to her- self, so much torment and sorrow give her : for she says in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. 8 There- fore, her plagues shall come in one day. death and mourning and fam- ine; and she shall be utterlv burned with fire; for strong is the Lord God who judges her. 9 And the kings of the earth, who have practiced lewdness and lived voluptuously with her. shall weep and lament for her, when they see the smoke of her burning, 10 standing far off for fear of her tor- ment, saying: Alas, alas, that great city of Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour has your judgment come. 11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and lament over her, because no one buys their mer- chandise any more ; 12 the merchan- dise of gold and silver and pre- cious stones, and of pearls, and of fine linen and purple, and of silk and scarlet; and every kind of thyine wood, and every kind of ves- sel of ivory, and every kind of vessel of most costly wood, and of brass, and of iron, and of marble ; 13 and cinnamon and amomum and incense, and ointment and frank- incense, and wine and oil, and fine flour and wheat, and beasts and sheep, and horses and chariots, and bodies and souls of men. 14 And the fruits that your soul desired have departed from you : and all things that are dainty and sumptu- ous have perished from you. and you shall find them no more at all. 15 Those who traded in these things, who were made rich by her, shall stand far off for fear of her torment, weeping and mourning and 16 saying: Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls ! for in one hour, so great riches have been brought to ruin. 17 And every master of a ship, and e\ery one in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood far 315 THE NEW TESTAMENT off, 18 and cried, when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying: What city is like the great city? 19 And they threw dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning and saying: Alas, alas, that great city, by which all that had ships in the sea became rich by means of costly merchandise ! for in one hour she is made desolate. 20 Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apos- tles and prophets; for God has avenged you on her. 21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and threw it into the sea, saying: Thus, with violence shall Babylon, that great city, be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all. 22 And the voice of harpers and mu- sicians, and of pipers and trumpet- ers, shall be heard no more at all in you; and no artist of any art whatever, shall be found any more in you; and the sound of the mill- stone shall be heard no more in you; 23 and the light of a lamp shall shine no more in you ; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more in you ; for your merchants were the great men of the earth ; for by your sorcer3' were all nations deceived. 24 And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth. I Q 1 After these things. I -!->' heard the great voice of a vast multitude in heaven, saying: Alleluia ; Salvation and glory and honor and power to our God ; 2 for true and righteous are his judg- ments, for he has judged the great harlot that corrupted the earth with her lewdness : and he has avenged the blood of hi§ servants at her hand. 3 And again they said : Alle- luia; and her smoke rises up from age to age. 4 And the twenty- four elders, and the four living creatures, fell down, and worshiped God that sits upon the throne, saying: Amen, Alleluia. 5 And a voice came out of the throne, saying: Praise our God, all you his servants, and you that fear him, both small and great. 6 And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, say- ing: Alleluia; for the Lord God, the Almighty reigns. 7 Let us rejoice and be glad, and give glory to him ; for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready. 8 And to her was given that she should be clothed in tine linen, clean and white; for the tine linen is the righteousness of the saints. 9 And he said to me : Write, Blessed are they that are called to the mar- riage-supper of the Lamb. And he said to me : These are the true words of God. 10 And 1 fell at his feet to worship him ; and he said to me : See that you do it not ; I am your fellow-servant, and of your brethren that have the testimony of Jesus ; worship God ; for the testi- mony of Jesus is the spirit of prophec}'-. 11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he that sat on him was called faithful and true, and in righteousness does he judge, and make war. 12 His eyes were like a flame of fire, and on his head were many diadems: and he had a name written which no one knew, but he himself. 13 And he was clothed with a garment dipped in blood; and his name is 316 REVELATION called The Word of God. 14 And the armies that were in heaven fol- lowed him on white horses ; and they were clothed m fine hnen. white and clean. 15 And out of his mouth goes a sharp, two-edged sword, that with it he may smite the nations ; and he shall rule them with a rod of iron; and he treads the wine- press of the fiercest wrath of God, the Almighty. 16 And he has. on his raiment and on his thigh, a name written, King of kings, and Lord of lords. 17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun : and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly ir mid-heaven: Come, gather your- selves to the great supper of God, 18 that you may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of officers, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all, both free- men and servants, both small, and great. 19 And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, assembled together to make war with him that sat on the horse, and with his army. 20 And the beast vvas taken, and the false prophet that was with him. who did signs in his presence, with which he de- ceived those who received the mark of the beast, and those who wor- shiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire, which burns with brimstone. 21 And the rest were slain with the sword of him that sat on the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth ; and all the birds were filled with their flesh. ^A 1 And I saw an angel come ^^ down from heaven, having the key of the abyss, and a great chain in his hand. 2 And he laid hold of the dragon, that old ser- pent, which is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, 3 and threw him into the abyss, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the na- tions no more, till the thousand years should be completed; and after this he must be loosed for a httle while. 4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and the power of judging was given to them; and I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word, of God ; and of those who had not worshiped the beast, nor his image, and had not received his mark en their fore- head, nor on their hand; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. 5 But the rest of the dead lived not till the thousand years were completed. This is the first resurrection. 6 Blessed and holy is he that has part in this first resurrection ; over such the sec- ond death has no power; but they shall be priests of God and of the Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years. 7 And when the thousand years shall have been completed. Satan shall be loosed from his prison, 8 and shall go out to deceive the nations that are in the four corners of the earth. Gog and Magog, to bring them together to battle: the number of these is as the sand of the sea. 9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and encom- passed the camp of the saints, and the beloved city; and fire came down out of heaven from God, and de- 317 THE NEW TESTAMENT voured them. 10 And the devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are ; and they shall be tormented day and night from age to age. 11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat upon it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away ; and no place was found for them. 12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before the throne ; and the books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life ; and the dead were judged out of the things that were written in the books, according to their works. 13 And the sea gave up the dead that were in it; and death and hades gave up the dead that were in them ; and they were judged, every one ac- cording to his works. 14 And death and hades were cast into the lake of fire : this is the second death. 15 And if any one was not found writ- ten in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire. '^1 1 And I saw a new heaven ^ J- and a new earth ; for the former heaven and the former earth had passed away; and the sea was no more. 2 And I saw the holy city. New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven, from God. prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven, saying: Behold, the taber- nacle of God is with men. and he will dwell with them ; and they shall be his people, and God himself will be with them, their God. 4 And he will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there shall be no more death ; neither shall there be any more sor- row, nor crying, nor pain ; for the former things have passed away. 5 And he that sat upon the throne said : Behold. 1 make all things new. And he said to me : Write, for these words are true and faithful. 6 And he said to me : It is done ; I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him that thirsts, I will give of the foun- tain of the water of life freely. 7 He that overcomes, shall inherit these things, and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. 8 But the fearful, and the unbelieving, and the detestable, and murderers, and lewd persons, and sorcerers, and idola- ters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. 9 And there came one of the seven angels that had the seven cups full of the seven last plagues ; and he talked with me, saying: Come hither, and I will show you the bride, the Lamb's wife. 10 And he carried me away in spirit to a mountain, great and high, and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, 11 having the glory of God: that which gave it light was like a most costly stone, like jasper-stone, brilliant as crystal. 12 It had a wall, great and high; and it had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names writ- ten on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel; 13 on the east, three gates; on the north, three gates; on the south, three gates ; and on the west, three gates. 14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. 15 And he that talked with me 318 REVELATION had a measure, a golden reed, that he might measure the city, and its gates, and its wall. 16 And the city lies square; and its length is as great as its breadth. And he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs : the length, and the breadth, and the height of it are equal. 17 And he measured the wall of it, a hundred and forty-four cubits, the measure of a man, that is, of an angel. 18 And the wall of it was built of jasper; and the city was pure gold, like clear glass. 19 And the foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with every costly stone : the first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, em- erald; 20 the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius ; the seventh, cryso- lite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz ; the tenth, chrysoprase ; the eleventh, hyacinth ; the twelfth, ame- thyst. 21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every gate was of one pearl : and the street of the city was pure gold, like clear glass. 22 And I saw no temple in it ; for the Lord God, the Almighty, and the Lamb, are its temple. 23 And the city had no need of the sun, nor of the moon, to shine in it; for the glory of God gave it light, and the lamp of it is the Lamb. 24 And the nations shall walk by the light of jt ; and the kings of the earth bring their glory and their honor into it. 25 And its gates shall not be shut at all by day; for there shall be no night there. 26 And they shall bring the glory and honor of the nations into it. 27 And there shall not enter it any thing unclean, or that does what is detestable or that makes a lie ; but those who are written in the Lamb's book of life. pO 1 And he showed me a ^^ river of water of life, clear as crystal, commg out from the throne of God and of the Lamb. 2 In the midst of the street of the city, and on each side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve kinds of fruit, and yielded its fruit every month ; and the leaves of the tree were for the heal- ing of the nations. 3 And there shall be no more curse; and the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him. 4 And they shall see his face, and his name shall be in their foreheads. 5 And there shall be no more night; and they have no need of the lamp, nor of the light of the sun : for the Lord God will give them light; and they shall reign from age to age. 6 And he said to me : These words are faithful and true ; and the Lord God of the spirits of the prophets has sent his angel to show his servants the things that must shortly take place. 7 And behold. I come quickly: blessed is he that keeps the words of the prophecy of this book. 8 And L John, am he that saw and heard these things. And when I had heard and seen. I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel that showed me these things. 9 And he said to me : See that you do it not ; I am your fellow-servant, and of your breth- ren the prophets, and of those who Iv-eep the words of this book: wor- ship God. 10 And he said to me: Seal not the words of the prophecy of this book; for the time is at hand. 11 319 THE NEW TESTAMENT He that is unjust, let him be unjust still; he that is polluted, let him be polluted still ; and he that is right- eous, let him be righteous still ; and he that is holy, let him be holy still. 12 Behold, 1 come quickly, and my reward is with me. to give to every one as his work shall be. 13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. 14 Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and that they may go through the gates into the city. 15 Without are dogs and sorcerers and lewd persons and murderers and idolaters, and every one that loves and makes a lie. 16 I. Jesus, have sent my angel to testify these things to you for the churches. T am the root and the offspring of David, the bright, morning star. 17 And the Spirit and the bride say. Come ; and let him that hears, say, Come ; and let him that is thirsty, come ; and let him that is willing, take the water of life freely. 18 I testify to every one that hears the words of the prophecy of this book : If any one add to these things. God will add to him the plagues that arc written in this book; 19 and if any one take away from the words of the book of this prophecy. God will take away his part from the tree of life, and from the holy city; which things are writ- ten in this book, 20 He that testifies these things, says; Surely, I come quickly. Amen ; come. Lord Jesus. 21 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with all the saints. 320 MASS BIBLE SOCIETIf 4IBR0MFIELD ST. <. BOSTON y