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+Book 42 Luke
+001:001 Since many have undertaken to set in order a narrative concerning
+        those matters which have been fulfilled among us,
+001:002 even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and
+        servants of the word delivered them to us,
+001:003 it seemed good to me also, having traced the course of all
+        things accurately from the first, to write to you in order,
+        most excellent Theophilus;
+001:004 that you might know the certainty concerning the things
+        in which you were instructed.
+001:005 There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain
+        priest named Zacharias, of the priestly division of Abijah.
+        He had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.
+001:006 They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly
+        in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.
+001:007 But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they
+        both were well advanced in years.
+001:008 Now it happened, while he executed the priest's office before
+        God in the order of his division,
+001:009 according to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was
+        to enter into the temple of the Lord and burn incense.
+001:010 The whole multitude of the people were praying outside at
+        the hour of incense.
+001:011 An angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing on the right
+        side of the altar of incense.
+001:012 Zacharias was troubled when he saw him, and fear fell upon him.
+001:013 But the angel said to him, "Don't be afraid, Zacharias, because your
+        request has been heard, and your wife, Elizabeth, will bear
+        you a son, and you shall call his name John.
+001:014 You will have joy and gladness; and many will rejoice
+        at his birth.
+001:015 For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink
+        no wine nor strong drink.  He will be filled with the Holy Spirit,
+        even from his mother's womb.
+001:016 He will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord, their God.
+001:017 He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah,
+        'to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,'
+        and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready
+        a people prepared for the Lord."
+001:018 Zacharias said to the angel, "How can I be sure of this?
+        For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years."
+001:019 The angel answered him, "I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence
+        of God.  I was sent to speak to you, and to bring you
+        this good news.
+001:020 Behold, you will be silent and not able to speak, until the day
+        that these things will happen, because you didn't believe
+        my words, which will be fulfilled in their proper time."
+001:021 The people were waiting for Zacharias, and they marveled
+        that he delayed in the temple.
+001:022 When he came out, he could not speak to them, and they
+        perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple.
+        He continued making signs to them, and remained mute.
+001:023 It happened, when the days of his service were fulfilled,
+        he departed to his house.
+001:024 After these days Elizabeth, his wife, conceived, and she hid
+        herself five months, saying,
+001:025 "Thus has the Lord done to me in the days in which he looked
+        at me, to take away my reproach among men."
+001:026 Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God
+        to a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,
+001:027 to a virgin pledged to be married to a man whose name was Joseph,
+        of the house of David.  The virgin's name was Mary.
+001:028 Having come in, the angel said to her, "Rejoice, you highly
+        favored one!  The Lord is with you.  Blessed are you among women!"
+001:029 But when she saw him, she was greatly troubled at the saying,
+        and considered what kind of salutation this might be.
+001:030 The angel said to her, "Don't be afraid, Mary, for you have
+        found favor with God.
+001:031 Behold, you will conceive in your womb, and bring forth a son,
+        and will call his name 'Jesus.'
+001:032 He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High.
+        The Lord God will give him the throne of his father, David,
+001:033 and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever.
+        There will be no end to his Kingdom."
+001:034 Mary said to the angel, "How can this be, seeing I am a virgin?"
+001:035 The angel answered her, "The Holy Spirit will come on you,
+        and the power of the Most High will overshadow you.
+        Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called
+        the Son of God.
+001:036 Behold, Elizabeth, your relative, also has conceived a son
+        in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her who
+        was called barren.
+001:037 For everything spoken by God is possible."
+001:038 Mary said, "Behold, the handmaid of the Lord; be it to me
+        according to your word."  The angel departed from her.
+001:039 Mary arose in those days and went into the hill country with haste,
+        into a city of Judah,
+001:040 and entered into the house of Zacharias and greeted Elizabeth.
+001:041 It happened, when Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting,
+        that the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled
+        with the Holy Spirit.
+001:042 She called out with a loud voice, and said, "Blessed are you
+        among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!
+001:043 Why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
+001:044 For behold, when the voice of your greeting came into my ears,
+        the baby leaped in my womb for joy!
+001:045 Blessed is she who believed, for there will be a fulfillment
+        of the things which have been spoken to her from the Lord!"
+001:046 Mary said, "My soul magnifies the Lord.
+001:047 My spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior,
+001:048 for he has looked at the humble state of his handmaid.
+        For behold, from now on, all generations will call me blessed.
+001:049 For he who is mighty has done great things for me.
+        Holy is his name.
+001:050 His mercy is for generations of generations on those who fear him.
+001:051 He has shown strength with his arm.  He has scattered the proud
+        in the imagination of their heart.
+001:052 He has put down princes from their thrones.  And has
+        exalted the lowly.
+001:053 He has filled the hungry with good things.  He has sent
+        the rich away empty.
+001:054 He has given help to Israel, his servant, that he
+        might remember mercy,
+001:055 As he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and his seed forever."
+001:056 Mary stayed with her about three months, and then returned
+        to her house.
+001:057 Now the time that Elizabeth should give birth was fulfilled,
+        and she brought forth a son.
+001:058 Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had magnified
+        his mercy towards her, and they rejoiced with her.
+001:059 It happened on the eighth day, that they came to circumcise
+        the child; and they would have called him Zacharias,
+        after the name of the father.
+001:060 His mother answered, "Not so; but he will be called John."
+001:061 They said to her, "There is no one among your relatives who is
+        called by this name."
+001:062 They made signs to his father, what he would have him called.
+001:063 He asked for a writing tablet, and wrote, "His name is John."
+        They all marveled.
+001:064 His mouth was opened immediately, and his tongue freed,
+        and he spoke, blessing God.
+001:065 Fear came on all who lived around them, and all these sayings
+        were talked about throughout all the hill country of Judea.
+001:066 All who heard them laid them up in their heart, saying, "What then
+        will this child be?"  The hand of the Lord was with him.
+001:067 His father, Zacharias, was filled with the Holy Spirit,
+        and prophesied, saying,
+001:068 "Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has visited
+        and worked redemption for his people;
+001:069 and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house
+        of his servant David
+001:070 (as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets who have been
+        from of old),
+001:071 salvation from our enemies, and from the hand of all who hate us;
+001:072 to show mercy towards our fathers, to remember his holy covenant,
+001:073 the oath which he spoke to Abraham, our father,
+001:074 to grant to us that we, being delivered out of the hand
+        of our enemies, should serve him without fear,
+001:075 In holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life.
+001:076 And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High,
+        for you will go before the face of the Lord to make ready his ways,
+001:077 to give knowledge of salvation to his people by the remission
+        of their sins,
+001:078 because of the tender mercy of our God, whereby the dawn
+        from on high will visit us,
+001:079 to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death;
+        to guide our feet into the way of peace."
+001:080 The child was growing, and becoming strong in spirit, and was
+        in the desert until the day of his public appearance to Israel.
+002:001 Now it happened in those days, that a decree went out from
+        Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled.
+002:002 This was the first enrollment made when Quirinius was
+        governor of Syria.
+002:003 All went to enroll themselves, everyone to his own city.
+002:004 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;
+002:005 to enroll himself with Mary, who was pledged to be married
+        to him as wife, being pregnant.
+002:006 It happened, while they were there, that the day had come
+        that she should give birth.
+002:007 She brought forth her firstborn son, and she wrapped him
+        in bands of cloth, and laid him in a feeding trough,
+        because there was no room for them in the inn.
+002:008 There were shepherds in the same country staying in the field,
+        and keeping watch by night over their flock.
+002:009 Behold, an angel of the Lord stood by them, and the glory
+        of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.
+002:010 The angel said to them, "Don't be afraid, for behold, I bring
+        you good news of great joy which will be to all the people.
+002:011 For there is born to you, this day, in the city of David,
+        a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
+002:012 This is the sign to you:  you will find a baby wrapped in strips
+        of cloth, lying in a feeding trough."
+002:013 Suddenly, there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly
+        army praising God, and saying,
+002:014 "Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, good will toward men."
+002:015 It happened, when the angels went away from them into the sky,
+        that the shepherds said one to another, "Let's go
+        to Bethlehem, now, and see this thing that has happened,
+        which the Lord has made known to us."
+002:016 They came with haste, and found both Mary and Joseph,
+        and the baby was lying in the feeding trough.
+002:017 When they saw it, they publicized widely the saying which was
+        spoken to them about this child.
+002:018 All who heard it wondered at the things which were spoken
+        to them by the shepherds.
+002:019 But Mary kept all these sayings, pondering them in her heart.
+002:020 The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for
+        all the things that they had heard and seen, just as it
+        was told them.
+002:021 When eight days were fulfilled for the circumcision of the child,
+        his name was called Jesus, which was given by the angel
+        before he was conceived in the womb.
+002:022 When the days of their purification according to the law
+        of Moses were fulfilled, they brought him up to Jerusalem,
+        to present him to the Lord
+002:023 (as it is written in the law of the Lord, "Every male who opens
+        the womb shall be called holy to the Lord"),{Exodus 13:2,12}
+002:024 and to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said
+        in the law of the Lord, "A pair of turtledoves, or two
+        young pigeons."{Leviticus 12:8}
+002:025 Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon.
+        This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation
+        of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.
+002:026 It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he should
+        not see death before he had seen the Lord's Christ.{"Christ"
+        (Greek) and "Messiah" (Hebrew) both mean "Anointed One"}
+002:027 He came in the Spirit into the temple.  When the parents
+        brought in the child, Jesus, that they might do concerning
+        him according to the custom of the law,
+002:028 then he received him into his arms, and blessed God, and said,
+002:029 "Now you are releasing your servant, Master, according to
+        your word, in peace;
+002:030 for my eyes have seen your salvation,
+002:031 which you have prepared before the face of all peoples;
+002:032 a light for revelation to the nations, and the glory of
+        your people Israel."
+002:033 Joseph and his mother were marveling at the things which were
+        spoken concerning him,
+002:034 and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, "Behold,
+        this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel,
+        and for a sign which is spoken against.
+002:035 Yes, a sword will pierce through your own soul, that the thoughts
+        of many hearts may be revealed."
+002:036 There was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel,
+        of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having lived
+        with a husband seven years from her virginity,
+002:037 and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years),
+        who didn't depart from the temple, worshipping with fastings
+        and petitions night and day.
+002:038 Coming up at that very hour, she gave thanks to the Lord,
+        and spoke of him to all those who were looking for
+        redemption in Jerusalem.
+002:039 When they had accomplished all things that were according
+        to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their
+        own city, Nazareth.
+002:040 The child was growing, and was becoming strong in spirit,
+        being filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him.
+002:041 His parents went every year to Jerusalem at the feast
+        of the Passover.
+002:042 When he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem
+        according to the custom of the feast,
+002:043 and when they had fulfilled the days, as they were returning,
+        the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem.  Joseph and his
+        mother didn't know it,
+002:044 but supposing him to be in the company, they went a day's journey,
+        and they looked for him among their relatives and acquaintances.
+002:045 When they didn't find him, they returned to Jerusalem,
+        looking for him.
+002:046 It happened after three days they found him in the temple,
+        sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them,
+        and asking them questions.
+002:047 All who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers.
+002:048 When they saw him, they were astonished, and his mother
+        said to him, "Son, why have you treated us this way?
+        Behold, your father and I were anxiously looking for you."
+002:049 He said to them, "Why were you looking for me?  Didn't you
+        know that I must be in my Father's house?"
+002:050 They didn't understand the saying which he spoke to them.
+002:051 And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth.
+        He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings
+        in her heart.
+002:052 And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor
+        with God and men.
+003:001 Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar,
+        Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch
+        of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region
+        of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,
+003:002 in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God
+        came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness.
+003:003 He came into all the region around the Jordan, preaching the
+        baptism of repentance for remission of sins.
+003:004 As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet,
+        "The voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make ready
+        the way of the Lord.  Make his paths straight.
+003:005 Every valley will be filled.  Every mountain and hill
+        will be brought low.  The crooked will become straight,
+        and the rough ways smooth.
+003:006 All flesh will see God's salvation.'"{Isaiah 40:3-5}
+003:007 He said therefore to the multitudes who went out to be baptized
+        by him, "You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee
+        from the wrath to come?
+003:008 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and don't
+        begin to say among yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our father;'
+        for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham
+        from these stones!
+003:009 Even now the axe also lies at the root of the trees.
+        Every tree therefore that doesn't bring forth good fruit
+        is cut down, and thrown into the fire."
+003:010 The multitudes asked him, "What then must we do?"
+003:011 He answered them, "He who has two coats, let him give to him
+        who has none.  He who has food, let him do likewise."
+003:012 Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said
+        to him, "Teacher, what must we do?"
+003:013 He said to them, "Collect no more than that which is
+        appointed to you."
+003:014 Soldiers also asked him, saying, "What about us?  What must we do?"
+        He said to them, "Extort from no one by violence, neither accuse
+        anyone wrongfully.  Be content with your wages."
+003:015 As the people were in expectation, and all men reasoned in their
+        hearts concerning John, whether perhaps he was the Christ,
+003:016 John answered them all, "I indeed baptize you with water,
+        but he comes who is mightier than I, the latchet of whose
+        sandals I am not worthy to loosen.  He will baptize you
+        in the Holy Spirit and fire,
+003:017 whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his
+        threshing floor, and will gather the wheat into his barn;
+        but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire."
+003:018 Then with many other exhortations he preached good news
+        to the people,
+003:019 but Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias,
+        his brother's{TR reads "brother Philip's" instead of "brother's"}
+        wife, and for all the evil things which Herod had done,
+003:020 added this also to them all, that he shut up John in prison.
+003:021 Now it happened, when all the people were baptized,
+        Jesus also had been baptized, and was praying.
+        The sky was opened,
+003:022 and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form as a dove on him;
+        and a voice came out of the sky, saying "You are my beloved Son.
+        In you I am well pleased."
+003:023 Jesus himself, when he began to teach, was about thirty years old,
+        being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli,
+003:024 the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi,
+        the son of Jannai, the son of Joseph,
+003:025 the son of Mattathias, the son of Amos, the son of Nahum,
+        the son of Esli, the son of Naggai,
+003:026 the son of Maath, the son of Mattathias, the son of Semein,
+        the son of Joseph, the son of Judah,
+003:027 the son of Joanan, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel,
+        the son of Shealtiel, the son of Neri,
+003:028 the son of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the son
+        of Elmodam, the son of Er,
+003:029 the son of Jose, the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim,
+        the son of Matthat, the son of Levi,
+003:030 the son of Simeon, the son of Judah, the son of Joseph,
+        the son of Jonan, the son of Eliakim,
+003:031 the son of Melea, the son of Menan, the son of Mattatha,
+        the son of Nathan, the son of David,
+003:032 the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son
+        of Salmon, the son of Nahshon,
+003:033 the son of Amminadab, the son of Aram,{NU reads "Admin,
+        the son of Arni" instead of "Aram"} the son of Hezron,
+        the son of Perez, the son of Judah,
+003:034 the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham,
+        the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,
+003:035 the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son
+        of Eber, the son of Shelah,
+003:036 the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem,
+        the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,
+003:037 the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared,
+        the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan,
+003:038 the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.
+004:001 Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan,
+        and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness
+004:002 for forty days, being tempted by the devil.  He ate nothing
+        in those days.  Afterward, when they were completed,
+        he was hungry.
+004:003 The devil said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command this
+        stone to become bread."
+004:004 Jesus answered him, saying, "It is written, 'Man shall not live
+        by bread alone, but by every word of God.'"{Deuteronomy 8:3}
+004:005 The devil, leading him up on a high mountain, showed him all
+        the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
+004:006 The devil said to him, "I will give you all this authority,
+        and their glory, for it has been delivered to me; and I give
+        it to whomever I want.
+004:007 If you therefore will worship before me, it will all be yours."
+004:008 Jesus answered him, "Get behind me Satan!  For it is written,
+        'You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall
+        you serve.'"{Deuteronomy 6:13}
+004:009 He led him to Jerusalem, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple,
+        and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, cast yourself
+        down from here,
+004:010 for it is written, 'He will give his angels charge concerning you,
+        to guard you;'
+004:011 and, 'On their hands they will bear you up, lest perhaps you
+        dash your foot against a stone.'"{Psalm 91:11-12}
+004:012 Jesus answering, said to him, "It has been said, 'You shall
+        not tempt the Lord your God.'"{Deuteronomy 6:16}
+004:013 When the devil had completed every temptation, he departed
+        from him until another time.
+004:014 Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee,
+        and news about him spread through all the surrounding area.
+004:015 He taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all.
+004:016 He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up.  He entered,
+        as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day,
+        and stood up to read.
+004:017 The book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him.
+        He opened the book, and found the place where it was written,
+004:018 "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me
+        to preach good news to the poor.  He has sent me to heal
+        the brokenhearted, to proclaim release to the captives,
+        recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,
+004:019 and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord."{Isaiah 61:1-2}
+004:020 He closed the book, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down.
+        The eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on him.
+004:021 He began to tell them, "Today, this Scripture has been fulfilled
+        in your hearing."
+004:022 All testified about him, and wondered at the gracious
+        words which proceeded out of his mouth, and they said,
+        "Isn't this Joseph's son?"
+004:023 He said to them, "Doubtless you will tell me this parable,
+        'Physician, heal yourself!  Whatever we have heard done
+        at Capernaum, do also here in your hometown.'"
+004:024 He said, "Most certainly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable
+        in his hometown.
+004:025 But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days
+        of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months,
+        when a great famine came over all the land.
+004:026 Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath,
+        in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.
+004:027 There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet,
+        yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian."
+004:028 They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they
+        heard these things.
+004:029 They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow
+        of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw
+        him off the cliff.
+004:030 But he, passing through the midst of them, went his way.
+004:031 He came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee.  He was teaching
+        them on the Sabbath day,
+004:032 and they were astonished at his teaching, for his word
+        was with authority.
+004:033 In the synagogue there was a man who had a spirit of an
+        unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice,
+004:034 saying, "Ah! what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth?
+        Have you come to destroy us?  I know you who you are:
+        the Holy One of God!"
+004:035 Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be silent, and come out of him!"
+        When the demon had thrown him down in their midst, he came
+        out of him, having done him no harm.
+004:036 Amazement came on all, and they spoke together, one with another,
+        saying, "What is this word?  For with authority and power
+        he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!"
+004:037 News about him went out into every place of the surrounding region.
+004:038 He rose up from the synagogue, and entered into Simon's house.
+        Simon's mother-in-law was afflicted with a great fever,
+        and they begged him for her.
+004:039 He stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her.
+        Immediately she rose up and served them.
+004:040 When the sun was setting, all those who had any sick with various
+        diseases brought them to him; and he laid his hands on every
+        one of them, and healed them.
+004:041 Demons also came out from many, crying out, and saying,
+        "You are the Christ, the Son of God!"  Rebuking them, he didn't
+        allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.
+004:042 When it was day, he departed and went into an uninhabited place,
+        and the multitudes looked for him, and came to him, and held
+        on to him, so that he wouldn't go away from them.
+004:043 But he said to them, "I must preach the good news of the
+        Kingdom of God to the other cities also.  For this reason I
+        have been sent."
+004:044 He was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.
+005:001 Now it happened, while the multitude pressed on him and heard
+        the word of God, that he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret.
+005:002 He saw two boats standing by the lake, but the fishermen had
+        gone out of them, and were washing their nets.
+005:003 He entered into one of the boats, which was Simon's,
+        and asked him to put out a little from the land.
+        He sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat.
+005:004 When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, "Put out into
+        the deep, and let down your nets for a catch."
+005:005 Simon answered him, "Master, we worked all night, and took nothing;
+        but at your word I will let down the net."
+005:006 When they had done this, they caught a great multitude of fish,
+        and their net was breaking.
+005:007 They beckoned to their partners in the other boat, that they
+        should come and help them.  They came, and filled both boats,
+        so that they began to sink.
+005:008 But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Jesus'
+        knees, saying, "Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord."
+005:009 For he was amazed, and all who were with him, at the catch
+        of fish which they had caught;
+005:010 and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were
+        partners with Simon.  Jesus said to Simon, "Don't be afraid.
+        From now on you will be catching people alive."
+005:011 When they had brought their boats to land, they left everything,
+        and followed him.
+005:012 It happened, while he was in one of the cities, behold,
+        there was a man full of leprosy.  When he saw Jesus, he fell
+        on his face, and begged him, saying, "Lord, if you want to,
+        you can make me clean."
+005:013 He stretched out his hand, and touched him, saying, "I want to.
+        Be made clean."  Immediately the leprosy left him.
+005:014 He charged him to tell no one, "But go your way, and show
+        yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing according
+        to what Moses commanded, for a testimony to them."
+005:015 But the report concerning him spread much more, and great
+        multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him
+        of their infirmities.
+005:016 But he withdrew himself into the desert, and prayed.
+005:017 It happened on one of those days, that he was teaching;
+        and there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by,
+        who had come out of every village of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem.
+        The power of the Lord was with him to heal them.
+005:018 Behold, men brought a paralyzed man on a cot, and they sought
+        to bring him in to lay before Jesus.
+005:019 Not finding a way to bring him in because of the multitude,
+        they went up to the housetop, and let him down through the tiles
+        with his cot into the midst before Jesus.
+005:020 Seeing their faith, he said to him, "Man, your sins
+        are forgiven you."
+005:021 The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, "Who is
+        this that speaks blasphemies?  Who can forgive sins,
+        but God alone?"
+005:022 But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, answered them, "Why are
+        you reasoning so in your hearts?
+005:023 Which is easier to say, 'Your sins are forgiven you;' or to say,
+        'Arise and walk?'
+005:024 But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority
+        on earth to forgive sins" (he said to the paralyzed man),
+        "I tell you, arise, and take up your cot, and go to your house."
+005:025 Immediately he rose up before them, and took up that which
+        he was laying on, and departed to his house, glorifying God.
+005:026 Amazement took hold on all, and they glorified God.
+        They were filled with fear, saying, "We have seen
+        strange things today."
+005:027 After these things he went out, and saw a tax collector named
+        Levi sitting at the tax office, and said to him, "Follow me!"
+005:028 He left everything, and rose up and followed him.
+005:029 Levi made a great feast for him in his house.
+        There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were
+        reclining with them.
+005:030 Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against
+        his disciples, saying, "Why do you eat and drink with the tax
+        collectors and sinners?"
+005:031 Jesus answered them, "Those who are healthy have no need
+        for a physician, but those who are sick do.
+005:032 I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
+005:033 They said to him, "Why do John's disciples often fast and pray,
+        likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours
+        eat and drink?"
+005:034 He said to them, "Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast,
+        while the bridegroom is with them?
+005:035 But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away
+        from them.  Then they will fast in those days."
+005:036 He also told a parable to them.  "No one puts a piece from
+        a new garment on an old garment, or else he will tear the new,
+        and also the piece from the new will not match the old.
+005:037 No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine
+        will burst the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins
+        will be destroyed.
+005:038 But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins,
+        and both are preserved.
+005:039 No man having drunk old wine immediately desires new, for he says,
+        'The old is better.'"
+006:001 Now it happened on the second Sabbath after the first,
+        that he was going through the grain fields.  His disciples plucked
+        the heads of grain, and ate, rubbing them in their hands.
+006:002 But some of the Pharisees said to them, "Why do you do that
+        which is not lawful to do on the Sabbath day?"
+006:003 Jesus, answering them, said, "Haven't you read what David did
+        when he was hungry, he, and those who were with him;
+006:004 how he entered into the house of God, and took and ate
+        the show bread, and gave also to those who were with him,
+        which is not lawful to eat except for the priests alone?"
+006:005 He said to them, "The Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath."
+006:006 It also happened on another Sabbath that he entered into
+        the synagogue and taught.  There was a man there, and his
+        right hand was withered.
+006:007 The scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether
+        he would heal on the Sabbath, that they might find an
+        accusation against him.
+006:008 But he knew their thoughts; and he said to the man who had
+        the withered hand, "Rise up, and stand in the middle."
+        He arose and stood.
+006:009 Then Jesus said to them, "I will ask you something:
+        Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good, or to do harm?
+        To save a life, or to kill?"
+006:010 He looked around at them all, and said to the man, "Stretch out
+        your hand."  He did, and his hand was restored as sound
+        as the other.
+006:011 But they were filled with rage, and talked with one another
+        about what they might do to Jesus.
+006:012 It happened in these days, that he went out to the mountain
+        to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.
+006:013 When it was day, he called his disciples, and from them
+        he chose twelve, whom he also named apostles:
+006:014 Simon, whom he also named Peter; Andrew, his brother;
+        James; John; Philip; Bartholomew;
+006:015 Matthew; Thomas; James, the son of Alphaeus; Simon, who was
+        called the Zealot;
+006:016 Judas the son of James; and Judas Iscariot, who also
+        became a traitor.
+006:017 He came down with them, and stood on a level place, with a crowd
+        of his disciples, and a great number of the people from all
+        Judea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon,
+        who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases;
+006:018 as well as those who were troubled by unclean spirits,
+        and they were being healed.
+006:019 All the multitude sought to touch him, for power came out from
+        him and healed them all.
+006:020 He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said, "Blessed are
+        you who are poor, for yours is the Kingdom of God.
+006:021 Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled.
+        Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.
+006:022 Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall
+        exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil,
+        for the Son of Man's sake.
+006:023 Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward
+        is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing
+        to the prophets.
+006:024 "But woe to you who are rich!  For you have received
+        your consolation.
+006:025 Woe to you, you who are full now, for you will be hungry.
+        Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.
+006:026 Woe,{TR adds "to you"} when{TR adds "all"} men speak well of you,
+        for their fathers did the same thing to the false prophets.
+006:027 "But I tell you who hear:  love your enemies, do good to those
+        who hate you,
+006:028 bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you.
+006:029 To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer also the other;
+        and from him who takes away your cloak, don't withhold
+        your coat also.
+006:030 Give to everyone who asks you, and don't ask him who takes
+        away your goods to give them back again.
+006:031 "As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.
+006:032 If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you?
+        For even sinners love those who love them.
+006:033 If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is
+        that to you?  For even sinners do the same.
+006:034 If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive,
+        what credit is that to you?  Even sinners lend to sinners,
+        to receive back as much.
+006:035 But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back;
+        and your reward will be great, and you will be children of
+        the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.
+006:036 Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful.
+006:037 Don't judge, and you won't be judged.  Don't condemn, and you
+        won't be condemned.  Set free, and you will be set free.
+006:038 "Give, and it will be given to you:  good measure, pressed down,
+        shaken together, and running over, will be given to you.{literally,
+        into your bosom.} For with the same measure you measure it
+        will be measured back to you."
+006:039 He spoke a parable to them.  "Can the blind guide the blind?
+        Won't they both fall into a pit?
+006:040 A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is
+        fully trained will be like his teacher.
+006:041 Why do you see the speck of chaff that is in your brother's eye,
+        but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye?
+006:042 Or how can you tell your brother, 'Brother, let me remove
+        the speck of chaff that is in your eye,' when you yourself
+        don't see the beam that is in your own eye?  You hypocrite!
+        First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you
+        can see clearly to remove the speck of chaff that is in
+        your brother's eye.
+006:043 For there is no good tree that brings forth rotten fruit;
+        nor again a rotten tree that brings forth good fruit.
+006:044 For each tree is known by its own fruit.  For people don't
+        gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from
+        a bramble bush.
+006:045 The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings
+        out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil
+        treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil,
+        for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.
+006:046 "Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and don't do the things
+        which I say?
+006:047 Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them,
+        I will show you who he is like.
+006:048 He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep,
+        and laid a foundation on the rock.  When a flood arose,
+        the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it,
+        because it was founded on the rock.
+006:049 But he who hears, and doesn't do, is like a man who built a house
+        on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke,
+        and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great."
+007:001 After he had finished speaking in the hearing of the people,
+        he entered into Capernaum.
+007:002 A certain centurion's servant, who was dear to him, was sick
+        and at the point of death.
+007:003 When he heard about Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews,
+        asking him to come and save his servant.
+007:004 When they came to Jesus, they begged him earnestly, saying,
+        "He is worthy for you to do this for him,
+007:005 for he loves our nation, and he built our synagogue for us."
+007:006 Jesus went with them.  When he was now not far from the house,
+        the centurion sent friends to him, saying to him, "Lord,
+        don't trouble yourself, for I am not worthy for you to come
+        under my roof.
+007:007 Therefore I didn't even think myself worthy to come to you;
+        but say the word, and my servant will be healed.
+007:008 For I also am a man placed under authority, having under
+        myself soldiers.  I tell this one, 'Go!' and he goes;
+        and to another, 'Come!' and he comes; and to my servant,
+        'Do this,' and he does it."
+007:009 When Jesus heard these things, he marveled at him, and turned
+        and said to the multitude who followed him, "I tell you,
+        I have not found such great faith, no, not in Israel."
+007:010 Those who were sent, returning to the house, found that the servant
+        who had been sick was well.
+007:011 It happened soon afterwards, that he went to a city called Nain.
+        Many of his disciples, along with a great multitude,
+        went with him.
+007:012 Now when he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, one who
+        was dead was carried out, the only son of his mother,
+        and she was a widow.  Many people of the city were with her.
+007:013 When the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said
+        to her, "Don't cry."
+007:014 He came near and touched the coffin, and the bearers stood still.
+        He said, "Young man, I tell you, arise!"
+007:015 He who was dead sat up, and began to speak.  And he gave him
+        to his mother.
+007:016 Fear took hold of all, and they glorified God, saying, "A great
+        prophet has arisen among us!" and, "God has visited his people!"
+007:017 This report went out concerning him in the whole of Judea,
+        and in all the surrounding region.
+007:018 The disciples of John told him about all these things.
+007:019 John, calling to himself two of his disciples, sent them
+        to Jesus, saying, "Are you the one who is coming, or should we
+        look for another?"
+007:020 When the men had come to him, they said, "John the Baptizer has
+        sent us to you, saying, 'Are you he who comes, or should we
+        look for another?'"
+007:021 In that hour he cured many of diseases and plagues and evil spirits;
+        and to many who were blind he gave sight.
+007:022 Jesus answered them, "Go and tell John the things which you
+        have seen and heard:  that the blind receive their sight,
+        the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead
+        are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.
+007:023 Blessed is he who is not offended by me."
+007:024 When John's messengers had departed, he began to tell the multitudes
+        about John, "What did you go out into the wilderness to see?
+        A reed shaken by the wind?
+007:025 But what did you go out to see?  A man clothed in soft clothing?
+        Behold, those who are gorgeously dressed, and live delicately,
+        are in kings' courts.
+007:026 But what did you go out to see?  A prophet?  Yes, I tell you,
+        and much more than a prophet.
+007:027 This is he of whom it is written, 'Behold, I send my messenger
+        before your face, who will prepare your way before you.'{Malachi 3:1}
+007:028 "For I tell you, among those who are born of women there is not
+        a greater prophet than John the Baptizer, yet he who is least
+        in the Kingdom of God is greater than he."
+007:029 When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they declared
+        God to be just, having been baptized with John's baptism.
+007:030 But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God,
+        not being baptized by him themselves.
+007:031 But the Lord said,{So reads TR.  MT omits "But the Lord said,"}
+        "To what then will I liken the people of this generation?
+        What are they like?
+007:032 They are like children who sit in the marketplace, and call one
+        to another, saying, 'We piped to you, and you didn't dance.
+        We mourned, and you didn't weep.'
+007:033 For John the Baptizer came neither eating bread nor drinking wine,
+        and you say, 'He has a demon.'
+007:034 The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say,
+        'Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard; a friend of tax
+        collectors and sinners!'
+007:035 Wisdom is justified by all her children."
+007:036 One of the Pharisees invited him to eat with him.
+        He entered into the Pharisee's house, and sat at the table.
+007:037 Behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew
+        that he was reclining in the Pharisee's house, she brought
+        an alabaster jar of ointment.
+007:038 Standing behind at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet
+        with her tears, and she wiped them with the hair of her head,
+        kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
+007:039 Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said
+        to himself, "This man, if he were a prophet, would have
+        perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him,
+        that she is a sinner."
+007:040 Jesus answered him, "Simon, I have something to tell you."
+        He said, "Teacher, say on."
+007:041 "A certain lender had two debtors.  The one owed five
+        hundred denarii, and the other fifty.
+007:042 When they couldn't pay, he forgave them both.  Which of them
+        therefore will love him most?"
+007:043 Simon answered, "He, I suppose, to whom he forgave the most."
+        He said to him, "You have judged correctly."
+007:044 Turning to the woman, he said to Simon, "Do you see this woman?
+        I entered into your house, and you gave me no water for my feet,
+        but she has wet my feet with her tears, and wiped them
+        with the hair of her head.
+007:045 You gave me no kiss, but she, since the time I came in,
+        has not ceased to kiss my feet.
+007:046 You didn't anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed
+        my feet with ointment.
+007:047 Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven,
+        for she loved much.  But to whom little is forgiven,
+        the same loves little."
+007:048 He said to her, "Your sins are forgiven."
+007:049 Those who sat at the table with him began to say to themselves,
+        "Who is this who even forgives sins?"
+007:050 He said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you.
+        Go in peace."
+008:001 It happened soon afterwards, that he went about through cities
+        and villages, preaching and bringing the good news of the Kingdom
+        of God.  With him were the twelve,
+008:002 and certain women who had been healed of evil spirits
+        and infirmities:  Mary who was called Magdalene, from whom
+        seven demons had gone out;
+008:003 and Joanna, the wife of Chuzas, Herod's steward; Susanna;
+        and many others; who served them{TR reads "him" instead of
+        "them"} from their possessions.
+008:004 When a great multitude came together, and people from every
+        city were coming to him, he spoke by a parable.
+008:005 "The farmer went out to sow his seed.  As he sowed,
+        some fell along the road, and it was trampled under foot,
+        and the birds of the sky devoured it.
+008:006 Other seed fell on the rock, and as soon as it grew,
+        it withered away, because it had no moisture.
+008:007 Other fell amid the thorns, and the thorns grew with it,
+        and choked it.
+008:008 Other fell into the good ground, and grew, and brought forth fruit
+        one hundred times."  As he said these things, he called out,
+        "He who has ears to hear, let him hear!"
+008:009 Then his disciples asked him, "What does this parable mean?"
+008:010 He said, "To you it 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.'{Isaiah 6:9}
+008:011 Now the parable is this:  The seed is the word of God.
+008:012 Those along the road are those who hear, then the devil comes,
+        and takes away the word from their heart, that they may not
+        believe and be saved.
+008:013 Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word
+        with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while,
+        then fall away in time of temptation.
+008:014 That which fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard,
+        and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches,
+        and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.
+008:015 That in the good ground, these are such as in an honest
+        and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly,
+        and bring forth fruit with patience.
+008:016 "No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a container,
+        or puts it under a bed; but puts it on a stand, that those
+        who enter in may see the light.
+008:017 For nothing is hidden, that will not be revealed; nor anything secret,
+        that will not be known and come to light.
+008:018 Be careful therefore how you hear.  For whoever has, to him
+        will be given; and whoever doesn't have, from him will be taken
+        away even that which he thinks he has."
+008:019 His mother and brothers came to him, and they could not come
+        near him for the crowd.
+008:020 It was told him by some saying, "Your mother and your brothers
+        stand outside, desiring to see you."
+008:021 But he answered them, "My mother and my brothers are these
+        who hear the word of God, and do it."
+008:022 Now it happened on one of those days, that he entered
+        into a boat, himself and his disciples, and he said
+        to them, "Let's go over to the other side of the lake."
+        So they launched out.
+008:023 But as they sailed, he fell asleep.  A wind storm came down on
+        the lake, and they were taking on dangerous amounts of water.
+008:024 They came to him, and awoke him, saying, "Master, master,
+        we are dying!"  He awoke, and rebuked the wind and the raging
+        of the water, and they ceased, and it was calm.
+008:025 He said to them, "Where is your faith?"  Being afraid they marveled,
+        saying one to another, "Who is this, then, that he commands
+        even the winds and the water, and they obey him?"
+008:026 They arrived at the country of the Gadarenes,
+        which is opposite Galilee.
+008:027 When Jesus stepped ashore, a certain man out of the city
+        who had demons for a long time met him.  He wore no clothes,
+        and didn't live in a house, but in the tombs.
+008:028 When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him,
+        and with a loud voice said, "What do I have to do
+        with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God?  I beg you,
+        don't torment me!"
+008:029 For Jesus was commanding the unclean spirit to come out of the man.
+        For the unclean spirit had often seized the man.
+        He was kept under guard, and bound with chains and fetters.
+        Breaking the bands apart, he was driven by the demon
+        into the desert.
+008:030 Jesus asked him, "What is your name?"  He said, "Legion,"
+        for many demons had entered into him.
+008:031 They begged him that he would not command them to go
+        into the abyss.
+008:032 Now there was there a herd of many pigs feeding on the mountain,
+        and they begged him that he would allow them to enter into those.
+        He allowed them.
+008:033 The demons came out from the man, and entered into the pigs,
+        and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake,
+        and were drowned.
+008:034 When those who fed them saw what had happened, they fled,
+        and told it in the city and in the country.
+008:035 People went out to see what had happened.  They came to Jesus,
+        and found the man from whom the demons had gone out,
+        sitting at Jesus' feet, clothed and in his right mind;
+        and they were afraid.
+008:036 Those who saw it told them how he who had been possessed
+        by demons was healed.
+008:037 All the people of the surrounding country of the Gadarenes asked
+        him to depart from them, for they were very much afraid.
+        He entered into the boat, and returned.
+008:038 But the man from whom the demons had gone out begged him
+        that he might go with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying,
+008:039 "Return to your house, and declare what great things God has
+        done for you."  He went his way, proclaiming throughout
+        the whole city what great things Jesus had done for him.
+008:040 It happened, when Jesus returned, that the multitude welcomed him,
+        for they were all waiting for him.
+008:041 Behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler
+        of the synagogue.  He fell down at Jesus' feet, and begged
+        him to come into his house,
+008:042 for he had an only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she
+        was dying.  But as he went, the multitudes pressed against him.
+008:043 A woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent
+        all her living on physicians, and could not be healed by any,
+008:044 came behind him, and touched the fringe{or, tassel} of his cloak,
+        and immediately the flow of her blood stopped.
+008:045 Jesus said, "Who touched me?"  When all denied it, Peter and those
+        with him said, "Master, the multitudes press and jostle you,
+        and you say, 'Who touched me?'"
+008:046 But Jesus said, "Someone did touch me, for I perceived that power
+        has gone out of me."
+008:047 When the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling,
+        and falling down before him declared to him in the presence
+        of all the people the reason why she had touched him,
+        and how she was healed immediately.
+008:048 He said to her, "Daughter, cheer up.  Your faith has made you well.
+        Go in peace."
+008:049 While he still spoke, one from the ruler of the synagogue's
+        house came, saying to him, "Your daughter is dead.
+        Don't trouble the Teacher."
+008:050 But Jesus hearing it, answered him, "Don't be afraid.
+        Only believe, and she will be healed."
+008:051 When he came to the house, he didn't allow anyone to enter in,
+        except Peter, John, James, the father of the child,
+        and her mother.
+008:052 All were weeping and mourning her, but he said, "Don't weep.
+        She isn't dead, but sleeping."
+008:053 They were ridiculing him, knowing that she was dead.
+008:054 But he put them all outside, and taking her by the hand,
+        he called, saying, "Child, arise!"
+008:055 Her spirit returned, and she rose up immediately.
+        He commanded that something be given to her to eat.
+008:056 Her parents were amazed, but he charged them to tell no one
+        what had been done.
+009:001 He called the twelve{TR reads "his twelve disciples"
+        instead of "the twelve"} together, and gave them power
+        and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases.
+009:002 He sent them forth to preach the Kingdom of God, and to
+        heal the sick.
+009:003 He said to them, "Take nothing for your journey--neither staffs,
+        nor wallet, nor bread, nor money; neither have two coats apiece.
+009:004 Into whatever house you enter, stay there, and depart from there.
+009:005 As many as don't receive you, when you depart from that city,
+        shake off even the dust from your feet for a testimony
+        against them."
+009:006 They departed, and went throughout the villages, preaching the
+        Good News, and healing everywhere.
+009:007 Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him;
+        and he was very perplexed, because it was said by some that John
+        had risen from the dead,
+009:008 and by some that Elijah had appeared, and by others that one
+        of the old prophets had risen again.
+009:009 Herod said, "John I beheaded, but who is this, about whom I
+        hear such things?"  He sought to see him.
+009:010 The apostles, when they had returned, told him what things they
+        had done.  He took them, and withdrew apart to a deserted
+        place of a city called Bethsaida.
+009:011 But the multitudes, perceiving it, followed him.
+        He welcomed them, and spoke to them of the Kingdom of God,
+        and he cured those who needed healing.
+009:012 The day began to wear away; and the twelve came, and said
+        to him, "Send the multitude away, that they may go into
+        the surrounding villages and farms, and lodge, and get food,
+        for we are here in a deserted place."
+009:013 But he said to them, "You give them something to eat."
+        They said, "We have no more than five loaves and two fish,
+        unless we should go and buy food for all these people."
+009:014 For they were about five thousand men.  He said to his disciples,
+        "Make them sit down in groups of about fifty each."
+009:015 They did so, and made them all sit down.
+009:016 He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up
+        to the sky, he blessed them, and broke them, and gave them
+        to the disciples to set before the multitude.
+009:017 They ate, and were all filled.  They gathered up twelve baskets
+        of broken pieces that were left over.
+009:018 It happened, as he was praying alone, that the disciples
+        were with him, and he asked them, "Who do the multitudes say
+        that I am?"
+009:019 They answered, "'John the Baptizer,' but others say, 'Elijah,'
+        and others, that one of the old prophets is risen again."
+009:020 He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?"
+        Peter answered, "The Christ of God."
+009:021 But he warned them, and commanded them to tell this to no one,
+009:022 saying, "The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected
+        by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed,
+        and the third day be raised up."
+009:023 He said to all, "If anyone desires to come after me,
+        let him deny himself, take up his cross,{TR, NU add "daily"}
+        and follow me.
+009:024 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever
+        will lose his life for my sake, the same will save it.
+009:025 For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world,
+        and loses or forfeits his own self?
+009:026 For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him
+        will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory,
+        and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.
+009:027 But I tell you the truth:  There are some of those who
+        stand here, who will in no way taste of death, until they
+        see the Kingdom of God."
+009:028 It happened about eight days after these sayings,
+        that he took with him Peter, John, and James, and went up
+        onto the mountain to pray.
+009:029 As he was praying, the appearance of his face was altered,
+        and his clothing became white and dazzling.
+009:030 Behold, two men were talking with him, who were Moses and Elijah,
+009:031 who appeared in glory, and spoke of his departure,{literally,
+        "exodus"} which he was about to accomplish at Jerusalem.
+009:032 Now Peter and those who were with him were heavy with sleep,
+        but when they were fully awake, they saw his glory,
+        and the two men who stood with him.
+009:033 It happened, as they were parting from him, that Peter
+        said to Jesus, "Master, it is good for us to be here.
+        Let's make three tents:  one for you, and one for Moses,
+        and one for Elijah," not knowing what he said.
+009:034 While he said these things, a cloud came and overshadowed them,
+        and they were afraid as they entered into the cloud.
+009:035 A voice came out of the cloud, saying, "This is my beloved Son.
+        Listen to him!"
+009:036 When the voice came, Jesus was found alone.  They were silent,
+        and told no one in those days any of the things which
+        they had seen.
+009:037 It happened on the next day, when they had come down from
+        the mountain, that a great multitude met him.
+009:038 Behold, a man from the crowd called out, saying, "Teacher, I beg
+        you to look at my son, for he is my only child.
+009:039 Behold, a spirit takes him, he suddenly cries out, and it
+        convulses him so that he foams, and it hardly departs from him,
+        bruising him severely.
+009:040 I begged your disciples to cast it out, and they couldn't."
+009:041 Jesus answered, "Faithless and perverse generation,
+        how long shall I be with you and bear with you?
+        Bring your son here."
+009:042 While he was still coming, the demon threw him down and convulsed
+        him violently.  But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit,
+        and healed the boy, and gave him back to his father.
+009:043 They were all astonished at the majesty of God.
+        But while all were marveling at all the things which Jesus did,
+        he said to his disciples,
+009:044 "Let these words sink into your ears, for the Son of Man
+        will be delivered up into the hands of men."
+009:045 But they didn't understand this saying.  It was concealed from them,
+        that they should not perceive it, and they were afraid to ask
+        him about this saying.
+009:046 There arose an argument among them about which of them
+        was the greatest.
+009:047 Jesus, perceiving the reasoning of their hearts, took a little child,
+        and set him by his side,
+009:048 and said to them, "Whoever receives this little child in my name
+        receives me.  Whoever receives me receives him who sent me.
+        For whoever is least among you all, this one will be great."
+009:049 John answered, "Master, we saw someone casting out demons
+        in your name, and we forbade him, because he doesn't
+        follow with us."
+009:050 Jesus said to him, "Don't forbid him, for he who is not against
+        us is for us."
+009:051 It came to pass, when the days were near that he should be
+        taken up, he intently set his face to go to Jerusalem,
+009:052 and sent messengers before his face.  They went, and entered
+        into a village of the Samaritans, so as to prepare for him.
+009:053 They didn't receive him, because he was traveling with his face
+        set towards Jerusalem.
+009:054 When his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, "Lord,
+        do you want us to command fire to come down from the sky,
+        and destroy them, just as Elijah did?"
+009:055 But he turned and rebuked them, "You don't know of what kind
+        of spirit you are.
+009:056 For the Son of Man didn't come to destroy men's lives,
+        but to save them."  They went to another village.
+009:057 As they went on the way, a certain man said to him, "I want
+        to follow you wherever you go, Lord."
+009:058 Jesus said to him, "The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky
+        have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head."
+009:059 He said to another, "Follow me!"  But he said, "Lord, allow me
+        first to go and bury my father."
+009:060 But Jesus said to him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead,
+        but you go and announce the Kingdom of God."
+009:061 Another also said, "I want to follow you, Lord, but first allow
+        me to bid farewell to those who are at my house."
+009:062 But Jesus said to him, "No one, having put his hand to the plow,
+        and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God."
+010:001 Now after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy others,
+        and sent them two by two ahead of him{literally, "before his
+        face"} into every city and place, where he was about to come.
+010:002 Then he said to them, "The harvest is indeed plentiful,
+        but the laborers are few.  Pray therefore to the Lord of
+        the harvest, that he may send out laborers into his harvest.
+010:003 Go your ways.  Behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves.
+010:004 Carry no purse, nor wallet, nor sandals.  Greet no one on the way.
+010:005 Into whatever house you enter, first say, 'Peace be to this house.'
+010:006 If a son of peace is there, your peace will rest on him;
+        but if not, it will return to you.
+010:007 Remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things
+        they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages.
+        Don't go from house to house.
+010:008 Into whatever city you enter, and they receive you,
+        eat the things that are set before you.
+010:009 Heal the sick who are therein, and tell them, 'The Kingdom
+        of God has come near to you.'
+010:010 But into whatever city you enter, and they don't receive you,
+        go out into the streets of it and say,
+010:011 'Even the dust from your city that clings to us, we wipe off
+        against you.  Nevertheless know this, that the Kingdom of God
+        has come near to you.'
+010:012 I tell you, it will be more tolerable in that day for Sodom
+        than for that city.
+010:013 "Woe to you, Chorazin!  Woe to you, Bethsaida!  For if the mighty
+        works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you,
+        they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
+010:014 But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment
+        than for you.
+010:015 You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought
+        down to Hades.{Hades is the lower realm of the dead, or Hell.}
+010:016 Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you
+        rejects me.  Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me."
+010:017 The seventy returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even the demons
+        are subject to us in your name!"
+010:018 He said to them, "I saw Satan having fallen like lightning
+        from heaven.
+010:019 Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions,
+        and over all the power of the enemy.  Nothing will in any
+        way hurt you.
+010:020 Nevertheless, don't rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject
+        to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven."
+010:021 In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said,
+        "I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you
+        have hidden these things from the wise and understanding,
+        and revealed them to little children.  Yes, Father, for so it
+        was well-pleasing in your sight."
+010:022 Turning to the disciples, he said, "All things have been
+        delivered to me by my Father.  No one knows who the Son is,
+        except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son,
+        and he to whomever the Son desires to reveal him."
+010:023 Turning to the disciples, he said privately, "Blessed are
+        the eyes which see the things that you see,
+010:024 for I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see
+        the things which you see, and didn't see them, and to hear
+        the things which you hear, and didn't hear them."
+010:025 Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, "Teacher,
+        what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"
+010:026 He said to him, "What is written in the law?  How do you read it?"
+010:027 He answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all
+        your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength,
+        and with all your mind;{Deuteronomy 6:5} and your neighbor
+        as yourself."{Leviticus 19:18}
+010:028 He said to him, "You have answered correctly.  Do this,
+        and you will live."
+010:029 But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, "Who
+        is my neighbor?"
+010:030 Jesus answered, "A certain man was going down from Jerusalem
+        to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him
+        and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead.
+010:031 By chance a certain priest was going down that way.
+        When he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
+010:032 In the same way a Levite also, when he came to the place,
+        and saw him, passed by on the other side.
+010:033 But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled, came where he was.
+        When he saw him, he was moved with compassion,
+010:034 came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine.
+        He set him on his own animal, and brought him to an inn,
+        and took care of him.
+010:035 On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii,
+        and gave them to the host, and said to him, 'Take care of him.
+        Whatever you spend beyond that, I will repay you when I return.'
+010:036 Now which of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbor
+        to him who fell among the robbers?"
+010:037 He said, "He who showed mercy on him."  Then Jesus said to him,
+        "Go and do likewise."
+010:038 It happened as they went on their way, he entered into a
+        certain village, and a certain woman named Martha received
+        him into her house.
+010:039 She had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus'
+        feet, and heard his word.
+010:040 But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she came up
+        to him, and said, "Lord, don't you care that my sister left
+        me to serve alone?  Ask her therefore to help me."
+010:041 Jesus answered her, "Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled
+        about many things,
+010:042 but one thing is needed.  Mary has chosen the good part,
+        which will not be taken away from her."
+011:001 It happened, that when he finished praying in a certain place,
+        one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray,
+        just as John also taught his disciples."
+011:002 He said to them, "When you pray, say, 'Our Father in heaven,
+        may your name be kept holy.  May your Kingdom come.
+        May your will be done on Earth, as it is in heaven.
+011:003 Give us day by day our daily bread.
+011:004 Forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone
+        who is indebted to us.  Bring us not into temptation,
+        but deliver us from the evil one.'"
+011:005 He said to them, "Which of you, if you go to a friend at midnight,
+        and tell him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,
+011:006 for a friend of mine has come to me from a journey, and I
+        have nothing to set before him,'
+011:007 and he from within will answer and say, 'Don't bother me.
+        The door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed.
+        I can't get up and give it to you'?
+011:008 I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him
+        because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence,
+        he will get up and give him as many as he needs.
+011:009 "I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you.
+        Keep seeking, and you will find.  Keep knocking, and it
+        will be opened to you.
+011:010 For everyone who asks receives.  He who seeks finds.
+        To him who knocks it will be opened.
+011:011 "Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give
+        him a stone?  Or if he asks for a fish, he won't give him
+        a snake instead of a fish, will he?
+011:012 Or if he asks for an egg, he won't give him a scorpion, will he?
+011:013 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to
+        your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give
+        the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?"
+011:014 He was casting out a demon, and it was mute.
+        It happened, when the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke;
+        and the multitudes marveled.
+011:015 But some of them said, "He casts out demons by Beelzebul,
+        the prince of the demons."
+011:016 Others, testing him, sought from him a sign from heaven.
+011:017 But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, "Every kingdom
+        divided against itself is brought to desolation.
+        A house divided against itself falls.
+011:018 If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand?
+        For you say that I cast out demons by Beelzebul.
+011:019 But if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your children
+        cast them out?  Therefore will they be your judges.
+011:020 But if I by the finger of God cast out demons, then the Kingdom
+        of God has come to you.
+011:021 "When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling,
+        his goods are safe.
+011:022 But when someone stronger attacks him and overcomes him,
+        he takes from him his whole armor in which he trusted,
+        and divides his spoils.
+011:023 "He that is not with me is against me.  He who doesn't gather
+        with me scatters.
+011:024 The unclean spirit, when he has gone out of the man,
+        passes through dry places, seeking rest, and finding none,
+        he says, 'I will turn back to my house from which I came out.'
+011:025 When he returns, he finds it swept and put in order.
+011:026 Then he goes, and takes seven other spirits more evil
+        than himself, and they enter in and dwell there.
+        The last state of that man becomes worse than the first."
+011:027 It came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman
+        out of the multitude lifted up her voice, and said to him,
+        "Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts
+        which nursed you!"
+011:028 But he said, "On the contrary, blessed are those who hear
+        the word of God, and keep it."
+011:029 When the multitudes were gathering together to him, he began
+        to say, "This is an evil generation.  It seeks after a sign.
+        No sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah, the prophet.
+011:030 For even as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will
+        also the Son of Man be to this generation.
+011:031 The Queen of the South will rise up in the judgment
+        with the men of this generation, and will condemn them:
+        for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom
+        of Solomon; and behold, one greater than Solomon is here.
+011:032 The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation,
+        and will condemn it:  for they repented at the preaching of Jonah,
+        and behold, one greater than Jonah is here.
+011:033 "No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a cellar or
+        under a basket, but on a stand, that those who come in may
+        see the light.
+011:034 The lamp of the body is the eye.  Therefore when your eye is good,
+        your whole body is also full of light; but when it is evil,
+        your body also is full of darkness.
+011:035 Therefore see whether the light that is in you isn't darkness.
+011:036 If therefore your whole body is full of light, having no part dark,
+        it will be wholly full of light, as when the lamp with its
+        bright shining gives you light."
+011:037 Now as he spoke, a certain Pharisee asked him to dine with him.
+        He went in, and sat at the table.
+011:038 When the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first
+        washed himself before dinner.
+011:039 The Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside
+        of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full
+        of extortion and wickedness.
+011:040 You foolish ones, didn't he who made the outside make
+        the inside also?
+011:041 But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within,
+        and behold, all things will be clean to you.
+011:042 But woe to you Pharisees!  For you tithe mint and rue and
+        every herb, but you bypass justice and the love of God.
+        You ought to have done these, and not to have left
+        the other undone.
+011:043 Woe to you Pharisees!  For you love the best seats in the synagogues,
+        and the greetings in the marketplaces.
+011:044 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!  For you
+        are like hidden graves, and the men who walk over them
+        don't know it."
+011:045 One of the lawyers answered him, "Teacher, in saying this you
+        insult us also."
+011:046 He said, "Woe to you lawyers also!  For you load men with burdens
+        that are difficult to carry, and you yourselves won't even
+        lift one finger to help carry those burdens.
+011:047 Woe to you!  For you build the tombs of the prophets,
+        and your fathers killed them.
+011:048 So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers.
+        For they killed them, and you build their tombs.
+011:049 Therefore also the wisdom of God said, 'I will send to them prophets
+        and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute,
+011:050 that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the
+        foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;
+011:051 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished
+        between the altar and the sanctuary.'  Yes, I tell you,
+        it will be required of this generation.
+011:052 Woe to you lawyers!  For you took away the key of knowledge.
+        You didn't enter in yourselves, and those who were entering
+        in, you hindered."
+011:053 As he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees
+        began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him;
+011:054 lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something
+        he might say, that they might accuse him.
+012:001 Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together,
+        so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell
+        his disciples first of all, "Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees,
+        which is hypocrisy.
+012:002 But there is nothing covered up, that will not be revealed,
+        nor hidden, that will not be known.
+012:003 Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard
+        in the light.  What you have spoken in the ear in the inner
+        chambers will be proclaimed on the housetops.
+012:004 "I tell you, my friends, don't be afraid of those who kill
+        the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
+012:005 But I will warn you whom you should fear.  Fear him,
+        who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna.{or,
+        Hell} Yes, I tell you, fear him.
+012:006 "Aren't five sparrows sold for two assaria coins{An assarion
+        was a small copper coin worth about an hour's wages for an
+        agricultural laborer.}?  Not one of them is forgotten by God.
+012:007 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.  Therefore don't
+        be afraid.  You are of more value than many sparrows.
+012:008 "I tell you, everyone who confesses me before men, him will
+        the Son of Man also confess before the angels of God;
+012:009 but he who denies me in the presence of men will be denied
+        in the presence of the angels of God.
+012:010 Everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will
+        be forgiven, but those who blaspheme against the Holy Spirit
+        will not be forgiven.
+012:011 When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers,
+        and the authorities, don't be anxious how or what you will answer,
+        or what you will say;
+012:012 for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that same hour what
+        you must say."
+012:013 One of the multitude said to him, "Teacher, tell my brother
+        to divide the inheritance with me."
+012:014 But he said to him, "Man, who made me a judge or an
+        arbitrator over you?"
+012:015 He said to them, "Beware!  Keep yourselves from covetousness,
+        for a man's life doesn't consist of the abundance of the things
+        which he possesses."
+012:016 He spoke a parable to them, saying, "The ground of a certain
+        rich man brought forth abundantly.
+012:017 He reasoned within himself, saying, 'What will I do, because I
+        don't have room to store my crops?'
+012:018 He said, 'This is what I will do.  I will pull down my barns,
+        and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain
+        and my goods.
+012:019 I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up
+        for many years.  Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry."'
+012:020 "But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul
+        is required of you.  The things which you have prepared--
+        whose will they be?'
+012:021 So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not
+        rich toward God."
+012:022 He said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, don't be anxious
+        for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body,
+        what you will wear.
+012:023 Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.
+012:024 Consider the ravens:  they don't sow, they don't reap,
+        they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them.
+        How much more valuable are you than birds!
+012:025 Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his height?
+012:026 If then you aren't able to do even the least things, why are
+        you anxious about the rest?
+012:027 Consider the lilies, how they grow.  They don't toil,
+        neither do they spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all
+        his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
+012:028 But if this is how God clothes the grass in the field,
+        which today exists, and tomorrow is cast into the oven,
+        how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith?
+012:029 Don't seek what you will eat or what you will drink;
+        neither be anxious.
+012:030 For the nations of the world seek after all of these things,
+        but your Father knows that you need these things.
+012:031 But seek God's Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.
+012:032 Don't be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father's good
+        pleasure to give you the Kingdom.
+012:033 Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy.
+        Make for yourselves purses which don't grow old, a treasure
+        in the heavens that doesn't fail, where no thief approaches,
+        neither moth destroys.
+012:034 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
+012:035 "Let your waist be girded and your lamps burning.
+012:036 Be like men watching for their lord, when he returns
+        from the marriage feast; that, when he comes and knocks,
+        they may immediately open to him.
+012:037 Blessed are those servants, whom the lord will find watching when
+        he comes.  Most certainly I tell you, that he will dress himself,
+        and make them recline, and will come and serve them.
+012:038 They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch,
+        and finds them so.
+012:039 But know this, that if the master of the house had known
+        in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched,
+        and not allowed his house to be broken into.
+012:040 Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour
+        that you don't expect him."
+012:041 Peter said to him, "Lord, are you telling this parable to us,
+        or to everybody?"
+012:042 The Lord said, "Who then is the faithful and wise steward,
+        whom his lord will set over his household, to give them
+        their portion of food at the right times?
+012:043 Blessed is that servant whom his lord will find doing so
+        when he comes.
+012:044 Truly I tell you, that he will set him over all that he has.
+012:045 But if that servant says in his heart, 'My lord delays his coming,'
+        and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants,
+        and to eat and drink, and to be drunken,
+012:046 then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn't
+        expecting him, and in an hour that he doesn't know, and will
+        cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.
+012:047 That servant, who knew his lord's will, and didn't prepare,
+        nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,
+012:048 but he who didn't know, and did things worthy of stripes,
+        will be beaten with few stripes.  To whoever much is given,
+        of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted,
+        of him more will be asked.
+012:049 "I came to throw fire on the earth.  I wish it were already kindled.
+012:050 But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed
+        I am until it is accomplished!
+012:051 Do you think that I have come to give peace in the earth?
+        I tell you, no, but rather division.
+012:052 For from now on, there will be five in one house divided,
+        three against two, and two against three.
+012:053 They will be divided, father against son, and son against father;
+        mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother;
+        mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law
+        against her mother-in-law."
+012:054 He said to the multitudes also, "When you see a cloud rising
+        from the west, immediately you say, 'A shower is coming,'
+        and so it happens.
+012:055 When a south wind blows, you say, 'There will be a scorching heat,'
+        and it happens.
+012:056 You hypocrites!  You know how to interpret the appearance
+        of the earth and the sky, but how is it that you don't
+        interpret this time?
+012:057 Why don't you judge for yourselves what is right?
+012:058 For when you are going with your adversary before the magistrate,
+        try diligently on the way to be released from him, lest perhaps
+        he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer,
+        and the officer throw you into prison.
+012:059 I tell you, you will by no means get out of there,
+        until you have paid the very last penny.{literally, lepton.
+        A lepton is a very small brass Jewish coin worth half a Roman
+        quadrans each, which is worth a quarter of the copper assarion.
+        Lepta are worth less than 1% of an agricultural
+        worker's daily wages.}"
+013:001 Now there were some present at the same time who told
+        him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mixed
+        with their sacrifices.
+013:002 Jesus answered them, "Do you think that these Galileans were
+        worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they
+        suffered such things?
+013:003 I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all perish
+        in the same way.
+013:004 Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them;
+        do you think that they were worse offenders than all the men
+        who dwell in Jerusalem?
+013:005 I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all perish
+        in the same way."
+013:006 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.
+013:007 He said to the vine dresser, 'Behold, these three years I
+        have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none.
+        Cut it down.  Why does it waste the soil?'
+013:008 He answered, 'Lord, leave it alone this year also, until I
+        dig around it, and fertilize it.
+013:009 If it bears fruit, fine; but if not, after that, you can
+        cut it down.'"
+013:010 He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath day.
+013:011 Behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity
+        eighteen years, and she was bent over, and could in no way
+        straighten herself up.
+013:012 When Jesus saw her, he called her, and said to her, "Woman,
+        you are freed from your infirmity."
+013:013 He laid his hands on her, and immediately she stood up straight,
+        and glorified God.
+013:014 The ruler of the synagogue, being indignant because Jesus had
+        healed on the Sabbath, said to the multitude, "There are six
+        days in which men ought to work.  Therefore come on those days
+        and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day!"
+013:015 Therefore the Lord answered him, "You hypocrites!
+        Doesn't each one of you free his ox or his donkey from the stall
+        on the Sabbath, and lead him away to water?
+013:016 Ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan
+        had bound eighteen long years, be freed from this bondage
+        on the Sabbath day?"
+013:017 As he said these things, all his adversaries were disappointed,
+        and all the multitude rejoiced for all the glorious things
+        that were done by him.
+013:018 He said, "What is the Kingdom of God like?  To what shall
+        I compare it?
+013:019 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took,
+        and put in his own garden.  It grew, and became a large tree,
+        and the birds of the sky lodged in its branches."
+013:020 Again he said, "To what shall I compare the Kingdom of God?
+013:021 It is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in three
+        measures{literally, three sata.  3 sata is about 39 litres or a
+        bit more than a bushel} of flour, until it was all leavened."
+013:022 He went on his way through cities and villages, teaching,
+        and traveling on to Jerusalem.
+013:023 One said to him, "Lord, are they few who are saved?"
+        He said to them,
+013:024 "Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you,
+        will seek to enter in, and will not be able.
+013:025 When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut
+        the door, and you begin to stand outside, and to knock at
+        the door, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us!' then he will answer
+        and tell you, 'I don't know you or where you come from.'
+013:026 Then you will begin to say, 'We ate and drank in your presence,
+        and you taught in our streets.'
+013:027 He will say, 'I tell you, I don't know where you come from.
+        Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.'
+013:028 There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you
+        see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets, in the Kingdom
+        of God, and yourselves being thrown outside.
+013:029 They will come from the east, west, north, and south,
+        and will sit down in the Kingdom of God.
+013:030 Behold, there are some who are last who will be first,
+        and there are some who are first who will be last."
+013:031 On that same day, some Pharisees came, saying to him,
+        "Get out of here, and go away, for Herod wants to kill you."
+013:032 He said to them, "Go and tell that fox, 'Behold, I cast out
+        demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third
+        day I complete my mission.
+013:033 Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the next day,
+        for it can't be that a prophet perish outside of Jerusalem.'
+013:034 "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that kills the prophets, and stones
+        those who are sent to her!  How often I wanted to gather
+        your children together, like a hen gathers her own brood
+        under her wings, and you refused!
+013:035 Behold, your house is left to you desolate.  I tell you,
+        you will not see me, until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes
+        in the name of the Lord!'"{Psalm 118:26}
+014:001 It happened, when he went into the house of one of the rulers
+        of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, that they
+        were watching him.
+014:002 Behold, a certain man who had dropsy was in front of him.
+014:003 Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying,
+        "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?"
+014:004 But they were silent.  He took him, and healed him,
+        and let him go.
+014:005 He answered them, "Which of you, if your son{TR reads "donkey"
+        instead of "son"} or an ox fell into a well, wouldn't immediately
+        pull him out on a Sabbath day?"
+014:006 They couldn't answer him regarding these things.
+014:007 He spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed
+        how they chose the best seats, and said to them,
+014:008 "When you are invited by anyone to a marriage feast, don't sit
+        in the best seat, since perhaps someone more honorable than
+        you might be invited by him,
+014:009 and he who invited both of you would come and tell you,
+        'Make room for this person.'  Then you would begin, with shame,
+        to take the lowest place.
+014:010 But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place,
+        so that when he who invited you comes, he may tell you, 'Friend,
+        move up higher.'  Then you will be honored in the presence
+        of all who sit at the table with you.
+014:011 For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever
+        humbles himself will be exalted."
+014:012 He also said to the one who had invited him, "When you make
+        a dinner or a supper, don't call your friends, nor your brothers,
+        nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might
+        also return the favor, and pay you back.
+014:013 But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame,
+        or the blind;
+014:014 and you will be blessed, because they don't have the resources
+        to repay you.  For you will be repaid in the resurrection
+        of the righteous."
+014:015 When one of those who sat at the table with him heard
+        these things, he said to him, "Blessed is he who will feast
+        in the Kingdom of God!"
+014:016 But he said to him, "A certain man made a great supper,
+        and he invited many people.
+014:017 He sent out his servant at supper time to tell those who
+        were invited, 'Come, for everything is ready now.'
+014:018 They all as one began to make excuses.  "The first said
+        to him, 'I have bought a field, and I must go and see it.
+        Please have me excused.'
+014:019 "Another said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I must
+        go try them out.  Please have me excused.'
+014:020 "Another said, 'I have married a wife, and therefore I can't come.'
+014:021 "That servant came, and told his lord these things.
+        Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant,
+        'Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city,
+        and bring in the poor, maimed, blind, and lame.'
+014:022 "The servant said, 'Lord, it is done as you commanded,
+        and there is still room.'
+014:023 "The lord said to the servant, 'Go out into the highways and hedges,
+        and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
+014:024 For I tell you that none of those men who were invited will
+        taste of my supper.'"
+014:025 Now great multitudes were going with him.  He turned and
+        said to them,
+014:026 "If anyone comes to me, and doesn't hate his own father,
+        mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his
+        own life also, he can't be my disciple.
+014:027 Whoever doesn't bear his own cross, and come after me,
+        can't be my disciple.
+014:028 For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn't first sit
+        down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?
+014:029 Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able
+        to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,
+014:030 saying, 'This man began to build, and wasn't able to finish.'
+014:031 Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war,
+        will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten
+        thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
+014:032 Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy,
+        and asks for conditions of peace.
+014:033 So therefore whoever of you who doesn't renounce all that he has,
+        he can't be my disciple.
+014:034 Salt is good, but if the salt becomes flat and tasteless,
+        with what do you season it?
+014:035 It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile.
+        It is thrown out.  He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
+015:001 Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him
+        to hear him.
+015:002 The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, "This man
+        welcomes sinners, and eats with them."
+015:003 He told them this parable.
+015:004 "Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one
+        of them, wouldn't leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness,
+        and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?
+015:005 When he has found it, he carries it on his shoulders, rejoicing.
+015:006 When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors,
+        saying to them, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep
+        which was lost!'
+015:007 I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven
+        over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous
+        people who need no repentance.
+015:008 Or what woman, if she had ten drachma{A drachma coin was worth
+        about 2 days wages for an agricultural laborer.} coins, if she
+        lost one drachma coin, wouldn't light a lamp, sweep the house,
+        and seek diligently until she found it?
+015:009 When she has found it, she calls together her friends
+        and neighbors, saying, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found
+        the drachma which I had lost.'
+015:010 Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels
+        of God over one sinner repenting."
+015:011 He said, "A certain man had two sons.
+015:012 The younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me my share
+        of your property.'  He divided his livelihood between them.
+015:013 Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this
+        together and traveled into a far country.  There he wasted
+        his property with riotous living.
+015:014 When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine
+        in that country, and he began to be in need.
+015:015 He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country,
+        and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.
+015:016 He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate,
+        but no one gave him any.
+015:017 But when he came to himself he said, 'How many hired
+        servants of my father's have bread enough to spare, and I'm
+        dying with hunger!
+015:018 I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him,
+        "Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.
+015:019 I am no more worthy to be called your son.  Make me as one
+        of your hired servants."'
+015:020 "He arose, and came to his father.  But while he was still
+        far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion,
+        and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
+015:021 The son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven,
+        and in your sight.  I am no longer worthy to be called your son.'
+015:022 "But the father said to his servants, 'Bring out the best robe,
+        and put it on him.  Put a ring on his hand, and shoes
+        on his feet.
+015:023 Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat, and celebrate;
+015:024 for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again.  He was lost,
+        and is found.'  They began to celebrate.
+015:025 "Now his elder son was in the field.  As he came near to the house,
+        he heard music and dancing.
+015:026 He called one of the servants to him, and asked what was going on.
+015:027 He said to him, 'Your brother has come, and your father has
+        killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back
+        safe and healthy.'
+015:028 But he was angry, and would not go in.  Therefore his father
+        came out, and begged him.
+015:029 But he answered his father, 'Behold, these many years I have
+        served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours,
+        but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate
+        with my friends.
+015:030 But when this, your son, came, who has devoured your living
+        with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.'
+015:031 "He said to him, 'Son, you are always with me, and all that is
+        mine is yours.
+015:032 But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this,
+        your brother, was dead, and is alive again.  He was lost,
+        and is found.'"
+016:001 He also said to his disciples, "There was a certain rich man
+        who had a manager.  An accusation was made to him that this
+        man was wasting his possessions.
+016:002 He called him, and said to him, 'What is this that I hear about you?
+        Give an accounting of your management, for you can no
+        longer be manager.'
+016:003 "The manager said within himself, 'What will I do, seeing that
+        my lord is taking away the management position from me?
+        I don't have strength to dig.  I am ashamed to beg.
+016:004 I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from management,
+        they may receive me into their houses.'
+016:005 Calling each one of his lord's debtors to him, he said to the first,
+        'How much do you owe to my lord?'
+016:006 He said, 'A hundred batos{100 batos is about 395 litres,
+        104 U. S. gallons, or 87 imperial gallons.} of oil.'
+        He said to him, 'Take your bill, and sit down quickly
+        and write fifty.'
+016:007 Then said he to another, 'How much do you owe?'  He said,
+        'A hundred cors{ 100 cors = about 3,910 litres or 600 bushels.
+        } of wheat.'  He said to him, 'Take your bill, and write eighty.'
+016:008 "His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely,
+        for the children of this world are, in their own generation,
+        wiser than the children of the light.
+016:009 I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of
+        unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive
+        you into the eternal tents.
+016:010 He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much.
+        He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.
+016:011 If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon,
+        who will commit to your trust the true riches?
+016:012 If you have not been faithful in that which is another's,
+        who will give you that which is your own?
+016:013 No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one,
+        and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise
+        the other.  You aren't able to serve God and mammon{"Mammon"
+        refers to riches or a false god of wealth.}."
+016:014 The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things,
+        and they scoffed at him.
+016:015 He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves
+        in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts.
+        For that which is exalted among men is an abomination
+        in the sight of God.
+016:016 The law and the prophets were until John.  From that time
+        the Good News of the Kingdom of God is preached, and everyone
+        is forcing his way into it.
+016:017 But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for
+        one tiny stroke of a pen in the law to fall.
+016:018 Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another,
+        commits adultery.  He who marries one who is divorced from
+        a husband commits adultery.
+016:019 "Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple
+        and fine linen, living in luxury every day.
+016:020 A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was laid at his gate,
+        full of sores,
+016:021 and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich
+        man's table.  Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores.
+016:022 It happened that the beggar died, and that he was carried away
+        by the angels to Abraham's bosom.  The rich man also died,
+        and was buried.
+016:023 In Hades{or, Hell}, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment,
+        and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.
+016:024 He cried and said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me,
+        and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water,
+        and cool my tongue!  For I am in anguish in this flame.'
+016:025 "But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that you, in your lifetime,
+        received your good things, and Lazarus, in like manner, bad things.
+        But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish.
+016:026 Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed,
+        that those who want to pass from here to you are not able,
+        and that none may cross over from there to us.'
+016:027 "He said, 'I ask you therefore, father, that you would send
+        him to my father's house;
+016:028 for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them,
+        so they won't also come into this place of torment.'
+016:029 "But Abraham said to him, 'They have Moses and the prophets.
+        Let them listen to them.'
+016:030 "He said, 'No, father Abraham, but if one goes to them from
+        the dead, they will repent.'
+016:031 "He said to him, 'If they don't listen to Moses and the prophets,
+        neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.'"
+017:001 He said to the disciples, "It is impossible that no occasions
+        of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come!
+017:002 It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around
+        his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that
+        he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.
+017:003 Be careful.  If your brother sins against you, rebuke him.
+        If he repents, forgive him.
+017:004 If he sins against you seven times in the day, and seven
+        times returns, saying, 'I repent,' you shall forgive him."
+017:005 The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith."
+017:006 The Lord said, "If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed,
+        you would tell this sycamore tree, 'Be uprooted, and be planted
+        in the sea,' and it would obey you.
+017:007 But who is there among you, having a servant plowing or
+        keeping sheep, that will say, when he comes in from the field,
+        'Come immediately and sit down at the table,'
+017:008 and will not rather tell him, 'Prepare my supper,
+        clothe yourself properly, and serve me, while I eat and drink.
+        Afterward you shall eat and drink'?
+017:009 Does he thank that servant because he did the things that
+        were commanded?  I think not.
+017:010 Even so you also, when you have done all the things
+        that are commanded you, say, 'We are unworthy servants.
+        We have done our duty.'"
+017:011 It happened as he was on his way to Jerusalem, that he was
+        passing along the borders of Samaria and Galilee.
+017:012 As he entered into a certain village, ten men who were lepers
+        met him, who stood at a distance.
+017:013 They lifted up their voices, saying, "Jesus, Master,
+        have mercy on us!"
+017:014 When he saw them, he said to them, "Go and show yourselves to
+        the priests."  It happened that as they went, they were cleansed.
+017:015 One of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back,
+        glorifying God with a loud voice.
+017:016 He fell on his face at Jesus' feet, giving him thanks;
+        and he was a Samaritan.
+017:017 Jesus answered, "Weren't the ten cleansed?  But where are the nine?
+017:018 Were there none found who returned to give glory to God,
+        except this stranger?"
+017:019 Then he said to him, "Get up, and go your way.  Your faith
+        has healed you."
+017:020 Being asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God would come,
+        he answered them, "The Kingdom of God doesn't come with observation;
+017:021 neither will they say, 'Look, here!' or, 'Look, there!' for behold,
+        the Kingdom of God is within you."
+017:022 He said to the disciples, "The days will come, when you
+        will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man,
+        and you will not see it.
+017:023 They will tell you, 'Look, here!' or 'Look, there!'
+        Don't go away, nor follow after them,
+017:024 for as the lightning, when it flashes out of the one part
+        under the sky, shines to the other part under the sky;
+        so will the Son of Man be in his day.
+017:025 But first, he must suffer many things and be rejected
+        by this generation.
+017:026 As it happened in the days of Noah, even so will it be also
+        in the days of the Son of Man.
+017:027 They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage,
+        until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came,
+        and destroyed them all.
+017:028 Likewise, even as it happened in the days of Lot:  they ate,
+        they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;
+017:029 but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire
+        and sulfur from the sky, and destroyed them all.
+017:030 It will be the same way in the day that the Son of Man is revealed.
+017:031 In that day, he who will be on the housetop, and his goods
+        in the house, let him not go down to take them away.
+        Let him who is in the field likewise not turn back.
+017:032 Remember Lot's wife!
+017:033 Whoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses
+        his life preserves it.
+017:034 I tell you, in that night there will be two people in one bed.
+        The one will be taken, and the other will be left.
+017:035 There will be two grinding grain together.  One will be taken,
+        and the other will be left."
+017:036 {Some Greek manuscripts add:  "Two will be in the field:
+        the one taken, and the other left."}
+017:037 They answering, asked him, "Where, Lord?"  He said to them,
+        "Where the body is, there will the vultures also
+        be gathered together."
+018:001 He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray,
+        and not give up,
+018:002 saying, "There was a judge in a certain city who didn't fear God,
+        and didn't respect man.
+018:003 A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying,
+        'Defend me from my adversary!'
+018:004 He wouldn't for a while, but afterward he said to himself,
+        'Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,
+018:005 yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else
+        she will wear me out by her continual coming.'"
+018:006 The Lord said, "Listen to what the unrighteous judge says.
+018:007 Won't God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him
+        day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?
+018:008 I tell you that he will avenge them quickly.  Nevertheless, when the
+        Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?"
+018:009 He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced
+        of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.
+018:010 "Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee,
+        and the other was a tax collector.
+018:011 The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this:
+        'God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men,
+        extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like
+        this tax collector.
+018:012 I fast twice a week.  I give tithes of all that I get.'
+018:013 But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn't even lift
+        up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God,
+        be merciful to me, a sinner!'
+018:014 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather
+        than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled,
+        but he who humbles himself will be exalted."
+018:015 They were also bringing their babies to him, that he might
+        touch them.  But when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them.
+018:016 Jesus summoned them, saying, "Allow the little children to come
+        to me, and don't hinder them, for the Kingdom of God belongs
+        to such as these.
+018:017 Most certainly, I tell you, whoever doesn't receive the Kingdom
+        of God like a little child, he will in no way enter into it."
+018:018 A certain ruler asked him, saying, "Good Teacher, what shall
+        I do to inherit eternal life?"
+018:019 Jesus asked him, "Why do you call me good?  No one is good,
+        except one--God.
+018:020 You know the commandments:  'Don't commit adultery,' 'Don't murder,'
+        'Don't steal,' 'Don't give false testimony,' 'Honor your father
+        and your mother.'"{Exodus 20:12-16; Deuteronomy 5:16-20}
+018:021 He said, "I have observed all these things from my youth up."
+018:022 When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, "You still lack
+        one thing.  Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor.
+        You will have treasure in heaven.  Come, follow me."
+018:023 But when he heard these things, he became very sad,
+        for he was very rich.
+018:024 Jesus, seeing that he became very sad, said, "How hard it is
+        for those who have riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!
+018:025 For it is easier for a camel to enter in through a needle's eye,
+        than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God."
+018:026 Those who heard it said, "Then who can be saved?"
+018:027 But he said, "The things which are impossible with men are
+        possible with God."
+018:028 Peter said, "Look, we have left everything, and followed you."
+018:029 He said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, there is no
+        one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents,
+        or children, for the Kingdom of God's sake,
+018:030 who will not receive many times more in this time, and in
+        the world to come, eternal life."
+018:031 He took the twelve aside, and said to them, "Behold, we are going
+        up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written through
+        the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be completed.
+018:032 For he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, will be mocked,
+        treated shamefully, and spit on.
+018:033 They will scourge and kill him.  On the third day,
+        he will rise again."
+018:034 They understood none of these things.  This saying was hidden
+        from them, and they didn't understand the things that were said.
+018:035 It happened, as he came near Jericho, a certain blind man sat
+        by the road, begging.
+018:036 Hearing a multitude going by, he asked what this meant.
+018:037 They told him that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by.
+018:038 He cried out, "Jesus, you son of David, have mercy on me!"
+018:039 Those who led the way rebuked him, that he should be quiet;
+        but he cried out all the more, "You son of David,
+        have mercy on me!"
+018:040 Standing still, Jesus commanded him to be brought to him.
+        When he had come near, he asked him,
+018:041 "What do you want me to do?"  He said, "Lord, that I
+        may see again."
+018:042 Jesus said to him, "Receive your sight.  Your faith has healed you."
+018:043 Immediately he received his sight, and followed him, glorifying God.
+        All the people, when they saw it, praised God.
+019:001 He entered and was passing through Jericho.
+019:002 There was a man named Zacchaeus.  He was a chief tax collector,
+        and he was rich.
+019:003 He was trying to see who Jesus was, and couldn't because of
+        the crowd, because he was short.
+019:004 He ran on ahead, and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him,
+        for he was to pass that way.
+019:005 When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and saw him,
+        and said to him, "Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today
+        I must stay at your house."
+019:006 He hurried, came down, and received him joyfully.
+019:007 When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, "He has gone
+        in to lodge with a man who is a sinner."
+019:008 Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, "Behold, Lord, half of
+        my goods I give to the poor.  If I have wrongfully exacted
+        anything of anyone, I restore four times as much."
+019:009 Jesus said to him, "Today, salvation has come to this house,
+        because he also is a son of Abraham.
+019:010 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost."
+019:011 As they heard these things, he went on and told a parable,
+        because he was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that the Kingdom
+        of God would be revealed immediately.
+019:012 He said therefore, "A certain nobleman went into a far country
+        to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.
+019:013 He called ten servants of his, and gave them ten mina coins,{10
+        minas was more than 3 years' wages for an agricultural
+        laborer.} and told them, 'Conduct business until I come.'
+019:014 But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him,
+        saying, 'We don't want this man to reign over us.'
+019:015 "It happened when he had come back again, having received
+        the kingdom, that he commanded these servants, to whom he had
+        given the money, to be called to him, that he might know
+        what they had gained by conducting business.
+019:016 The first came before him, saying, 'Lord, your mina has made
+        ten more minas.'
+019:017 "He said to him, 'Well done, you good servant!  Because you
+        were found faithful with very little, you shall have authority
+        over ten cities.'
+019:018 "The second came, saying, 'Your mina, Lord, has made five minas.'
+019:019 "So he said to him, 'And you are to be over five cities.'
+019:020 Another came, saying, 'Lord, behold, your mina, which I kept
+        laid away in a handkerchief,
+019:021 for I feared you, because you are an exacting man.
+        You take up that which you didn't lay down, and reap that
+        which you didn't sow.'
+019:022 "He said to him, 'Out of your own mouth will I judge you,
+        you wicked servant!  You knew that I am an exacting man,
+        taking up that which I didn't lay down, and reaping that
+        which I didn't sow.
+019:023 Then why didn't you deposit my money in the bank, and at my coming,
+        I might have earned interest on it?'
+019:024 He said to those who stood by, 'Take the mina away from him,
+        and give it to him who has the ten minas.'
+019:025 "They said to him, 'Lord, he has ten minas!'
+019:026 'For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given;
+        but from him who doesn't have, even that which he has will
+        be taken away from him.
+019:027 But bring those enemies of mine who didn't want me to reign
+        over them here, and kill them before me.'"
+019:028 Having said these things, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.
+019:029 It happened, when he drew near to Bethsphage{TR, NU read "Bethpage"
+        instead of "Bethsphage"} and Bethany, at the mountain that is
+        called Olivet, he sent two of his disciples,
+019:030 saying, "Go your way into the village on the other side,
+        in which, as you enter, you will find a colt tied, whereon no
+        man ever yet sat.  Untie it, and bring it.
+019:031 If anyone asks you, 'Why are you untying it?' say to him:
+        'The Lord needs it.'"
+019:032 Those who were sent went away, and found things just as
+        he had told them.
+019:033 As they were untying the colt, the owners of it said to them,
+        "Why are you untying the colt?"
+019:034 They said, "The Lord needs it."
+019:035 They brought it to Jesus.  They threw their cloaks on the colt,
+        and set Jesus on them.
+019:036 As he went, they spread their cloaks in the way.
+019:037 As he was now getting near, at the descent of the Mount of Olives,
+        the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice
+        and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works
+        which they had seen,
+019:038 saying, "Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord!{Psalm
+        118:26} Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest!"
+019:039 Some of the Pharisees from the multitude said to him, "Teacher,
+        rebuke your disciples!"
+019:040 He answered them, "I tell you that if these were silent,
+        the stones would cry out."
+019:041 When he drew near, he saw the city and wept over it,
+019:042 saying, "If you, even you, had known today the things which belong
+        to your peace!  But now, they are hidden from your eyes.
+019:043 For the days will come on you, when your enemies will throw up
+        a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side,
+019:044 and will dash you and your children within you to the ground.
+        They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you
+        didn't know the time of your visitation."
+019:045 He entered into the temple, and began to drive out those who
+        bought and sold in it,
+019:046 saying to them, "It is written, 'My house is a house
+        of prayer,'{Isaiah 56:7} but you have made it a 'den
+        of robbers'!"{Jeremiah 7:11}
+019:047 He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests
+        and the scribes and the leading men among the people sought
+        to destroy him.
+019:048 They couldn't find what they might do, for all the people hung
+        on to every word that he said.
+020:001 It happened on one of those days, as he was teaching the people
+        in the temple and preaching the Good News, that the {TR adds
+        "chief"}priests and scribes came to him with the elders.
+020:002 They asked him, "Tell us:  by what authority do you do these things?
+        Or who is giving you this authority?"
+020:003 He answered them, "I also will ask you one question.  Tell me:
+020:004 the baptism of John, was it from heaven, or from men?"
+020:005 They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,'
+        he will say, 'Why didn't you believe him?'
+020:006 But if we say, 'From men,' all the people will stone us,
+        for they are persuaded that John was a prophet."
+020:007 They answered that they didn't know where it was from.
+020:008 Jesus said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority
+        I do these things."
+020:009 He began to tell the people this parable.  "A {NU (in brackets)
+        and TR add "certain"}man planted a vineyard, and rented it out
+        to some farmers, and went into another country for a long time.
+020:010 At the proper season, he sent a servant to the farmers
+        to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard.
+        But the farmers beat him, and sent him away empty.
+020:011 He sent yet another servant, and they also beat him, and treated
+        him shamefully, and sent him away empty.
+020:012 He sent yet a third, and they also wounded him, and threw him out.
+020:013 The lord of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do?
+        I will send my beloved son.  It may be that seeing him,
+        they will respect him.'
+020:014 "But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves,
+        saying, 'This is the heir.  Come, let's kill him,
+        that the inheritance may be ours.'
+020:015 They threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.
+        What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them?
+020:016 He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give
+        the vineyard to others."  When they heard it, they said,
+        "May it never be!"
+020:017 But he looked at them, and said, "Then what is this that is written,
+        'The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made
+        the chief cornerstone?'{Psalm 118:22}
+020:018 Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces,
+        but it will crush whomever it falls on to dust."
+020:019 The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him
+        that very hour, but they feared the people--for they knew
+        he had spoken this parable against them.
+020:020 They watched him, and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous,
+        that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver
+        him up to the power and authority of the governor.
+020:021 They asked him, "Teacher, we know that you say and teach
+        what is right, and aren't partial to anyone, but truly teach
+        the way of God.
+020:022 Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?"
+020:023 But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them, "Why do
+        you test me?
+020:024 Show me a denarius.  Whose image and inscription are on it?"
+        They answered, "Caesar's."
+020:025 He said to them, "Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's,
+        and to God the things that are God's."
+020:026 They weren't able to trap him in his words before the people.
+        They marveled at his answer, and were silent.
+020:027 Some of the Sadducees came to him, those who deny that there
+        is a resurrection.
+020:028 They asked him, "Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man's
+        brother dies having a wife, and he is childless, his brother
+        should take the wife, and raise up children for his brother.
+020:029 There were therefore seven brothers.  The first took a wife,
+        and died childless.
+020:030 The second took her as wife, and he died childless.
+020:031 The third took her, and likewise the seven all left
+        no children, and died.
+020:032 Afterward the woman also died.
+020:033 Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them will she be?
+        For the seven had her as a wife."
+020:034 Jesus said to them, "The children of this age marry, and are
+        given in marriage.
+020:035 But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age
+        and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are
+        given in marriage.
+020:036 For they can't die any more, for they are like the angels,
+        and are children of God, being children of the resurrection.
+020:037 But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush,
+        when he called the Lord 'The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac,
+        and the God of Jacob.'{Exodus 3:6}
+020:038 Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living,
+        for all are alive to him."
+020:039 Some of the scribes answered, "Teacher, you speak well."
+020:040 They didn't dare to ask him any more questions.
+020:041 He said to them, "Why do they say that the Christ is David's son?
+020:042 David himself says in the book of Psalms, 'The Lord said
+        to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand,
+020:043 until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet."'{Psalm 110:1}
+020:044 "David therefore calls him Lord, so how is he his son?"
+020:045 In the hearing of all the people, he said to his disciples,
+020:046 "Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and love
+        greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the synagogues,
+        and the best places at feasts;
+020:047 who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers:
+        these will receive greater condemnation."
+021:001 He looked up, and saw the rich people who were putting their
+        gifts into the treasury.
+021:002 He saw a certain poor widow casting in two small brass
+        coins.{literally, "two lepta."  2 lepta was about 1% of a day's
+        wages for an agricultural laborer.}
+021:003 He said, "Truly I tell you, this poor widow put in more than
+        all of them,
+021:004 for all these put in gifts for God from their abundance, but she,
+        out of her poverty, put in all that she had to live on."
+021:005 As some were talking about the temple and how it was decorated
+        with beautiful stones and gifts, he said,
+021:006 "As for these things which you see, the days will come,
+        in which there will not be left here one stone on another
+        that will not be thrown down."
+021:007 They asked him, "Teacher, so when will these things be?
+        What is the sign that these things are about to happen?"
+021:008 He said, "Watch out that you don't get led astray, for many will come
+        in my name, saying, 'I am he{or, I AM},' and, 'The time is at hand.'
+        Therefore don't follow them.
+021:009 When you hear of wars and disturbances, don't be terrified,
+        for these things must happen first, but the end
+        won't come immediately."
+021:010 Then he said to them, "Nation will rise against nation,
+        and kingdom against kingdom.
+021:011 There will be great earthquakes, famines, and plagues in
+        various places.  There will be terrors and great signs from heaven.
+021:012 But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and
+        will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons,
+        bringing you before kings and governors for my name's sake.
+021:013 It will turn out as a testimony for you.
+021:014 Settle it therefore in your hearts not to meditate beforehand
+        how to answer,
+021:015 for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries
+        will not be able to withstand or to contradict.
+021:016 You will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives,
+        and friends.  They will cause some of you to be put to death.
+021:017 You will be hated by all men for my name's sake.
+021:018 And not a hair of your head will perish.
+021:019 "By your endurance you will win your lives.
+021:020 "But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know
+        that its desolation is at hand.
+021:021 Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
+        Let those who are in the midst of her depart.
+        Let those who are in the country not enter therein.
+021:022 For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are
+        written may be fulfilled.
+021:023 Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants
+        in those days!  For there will be great distress in the land,
+        and wrath to this people.
+021:024 They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive
+        into all the nations.  Jerusalem will be trampled down by
+        the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
+021:025 There will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars; and on the earth
+        anxiety of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea
+        and the waves;
+021:026 men fainting for fear, and for expectation of the things
+        which are coming on the world:  for the powers of the heavens
+        will be shaken.
+021:027 Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power
+        and great glory.
+021:028 But when these things begin to happen, look up, and lift up
+        your heads, because your redemption is near."
+021:029 He told them a parable.  "See the fig tree, and all the trees.
+021:030 When they are already budding, you see it and know by your own
+        selves that the summer is already near.
+021:031 Even so you also, when you see these things happening,
+        know that the Kingdom of God is near.
+021:032 Most certainly I tell you, this generation will not pass away
+        until all things are accomplished.
+021:033 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will by no
+        means pass away.
+021:034 "So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing,
+        drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come
+        on you suddenly.
+021:035 For it will come like a snare on all those who dwell on
+        the surface of all the earth.
+021:036 Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be
+        counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen,
+        and to stand before the Son of Man."
+021:037 Every day Jesus was teaching in the temple, and every night
+        he would go out and spend the night on the mountain that
+        is called Olivet.
+021:038 All the people came early in the morning to him in the temple
+        to hear him.
+022:001 Now the feast of unleavened bread, which is called
+        the Passover, drew near.
+022:002 The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put
+        him to death, for they feared the people.
+022:003 Satan entered into Judas, who was surnamed Iscariot, who was
+        numbered with the twelve.
+022:004 He went away, and talked with the chief priests and captains
+        about how he might deliver him to them.
+022:005 They were glad, and agreed to give him money.
+022:006 He consented, and sought an opportunity to deliver him to them
+        in the absence of the multitude.
+022:007 The day of unleavened bread came, on which the Passover
+        must be sacrificed.
+022:008 He sent Peter and John, saying, "Go and prepare the Passover
+        for us, that we may eat."
+022:009 They said to him, "Where do you want us to prepare?"
+022:010 He said to them, "Behold, when you have entered into the city,
+        a man carrying a pitcher of water will meet you.
+        Follow him into the house which he enters.
+022:011 Tell the master of the house, 'The Teacher says to you,
+        "Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover
+        with my disciples?"'
+022:012 He will show you a large, furnished upper room.
+        Make preparations there."
+022:013 They went, found things as he had told them, and they
+        prepared the Passover.
+022:014 When the hour had come, he sat down with the twelve apostles.
+022:015 He said to them, "I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover
+        with you before I suffer,
+022:016 for I tell you, I will no longer by any means eat of it until
+        it is fulfilled in the Kingdom of God."
+022:017 He received a cup, and when he had given thanks, he said,
+        "Take this, and share it among yourselves,
+022:018 for I tell you, I will not drink at all again from the fruit
+        of the vine, until the Kingdom of God comes."
+022:019 He took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it,
+        and gave to them, saying, "This is my body which is given for you.
+        Do this in memory of me."
+022:020 Likewise, he took the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is
+        the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.
+022:021 But behold, the hand of him who betrays me is with me
+        on the table.
+022:022 The Son of Man indeed goes, as it has been determined,
+        but woe to that man through whom he is betrayed!"
+022:023 They began to question among themselves, which of them it
+        was who would do this thing.
+022:024 There arose also a contention among them, which of them was
+        considered to be greatest.
+022:025 He said to them, "The kings of the nations lord it over them,
+        and those who have authority over them are called 'benefactors.'
+022:026 But not so with you.  But one who is the greater among you,
+        let him become as the younger, and one who is governing,
+        as one who serves.
+022:027 For who is greater, one who sits at the table, or one who serves?
+        Isn't it he who sits at the table?  But I am in the midst
+        of you as one who serves.
+022:028 But you are those who have continued with me in my trials.
+022:029 I confer on you a kingdom, even as my Father conferred on me,
+022:030 that you may eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom.
+        You will sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel."
+022:031 The Lord said, "Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have you,
+        that he might sift you as wheat,
+022:032 but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn't fail.
+        You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers{The
+        word for "brothers" here may be also correctly translated
+        "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."}."
+022:033 He said to him, "Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison
+        and to death!"
+022:034 He said, "I tell you, Peter, the rooster will by no means crow
+        today until you deny that you know me three times."
+022:035 He said to them, "When I sent you out without purse, and wallet,
+        and shoes, did you lack anything?"  They said, "Nothing."
+022:036 Then he said to them, "But now, whoever has a purse,
+        let him take it, and likewise a wallet.  Whoever has none,
+        let him sell his cloak, and buy a sword.
+022:037 For I tell you that this which is written must still be fulfilled
+        in me:  'He was counted with the lawless.'{Isaiah 53:12} For
+        that which concerns me has an end."
+022:038 They said, "Lord, behold, here are two swords."  He said to them,
+        "That is enough."
+022:039 He came out, and went, as his custom was, to the Mount of Olives.
+        His disciples also followed him.
+022:040 When he was at the place, he said to them, "Pray that you
+        don't enter into temptation."
+022:041 He was withdrawn from them about a stone's throw, and he knelt
+        down and prayed,
+022:042 saying, "Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me.
+        Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done."
+022:043 An angel from heaven appeared to him, strengthening him.
+022:044 Being in agony he prayed more earnestly.  His sweat became
+        like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.
+022:045 When he rose up from his prayer, he came to the disciples,
+        and found them sleeping because of grief,
+022:046 and said to them, "Why do you sleep?  Rise and pray that you
+        may not enter into temptation."
+022:047 While he was still speaking, behold, a multitude, and he who
+        was called Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them.
+        He came near to Jesus to kiss him.
+022:048 But Jesus said to him, "Judas, do you betray the Son of Man
+        with a kiss?"
+022:049 When those who were around him saw what was about to happen,
+        they said to him, "Lord, shall we strike with the sword?"
+022:050 A certain one of them struck the servant of the high priest,
+        and cut off his right ear.
+022:051 But Jesus answered, "Let me at least do this"--and he touched
+        his ear, and healed him.
+022:052 Jesus said to the chief priests, captains of the temple,
+        and elders, who had come against him, "Have you come out
+        as against a robber, with swords and clubs?
+022:053 When I was with you in the temple daily, you didn't stretch
+        out your hands against me.  But this is your hour,
+        and the power of darkness."
+022:054 They seized him, and led him away, and brought him into the high
+        priest's house.  But Peter followed from a distance.
+022:055 When they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard,
+        and had sat down together, Peter sat among them.
+022:056 A certain servant girl saw him as he sat in the light,
+        and looking intently at him, said, "This man also was with him."
+022:057 He denied Jesus, saying, "Woman, I don't know him."
+022:058 After a little while someone else saw him, and said, "You also
+        are one of them!"  But Peter answered, "Man, I am not!"
+022:059 After about one hour passed, another confidently affirmed, saying,
+        "Truly this man also was with him, for he is a Galilean!"
+022:060 But Peter said, "Man, I don't know what you are talking about!"
+        Immediately, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.
+022:061 The Lord turned, and looked at Peter.  Then Peter remembered
+        the Lord's word, how he said to him, "Before the rooster
+        crows you will deny me three times."
+022:062 He went out, and wept bitterly.
+022:063 The men who held Jesus mocked him and beat him.
+022:064 Having blindfolded him, they struck him on the face and
+        asked him, "Prophesy!  Who is the one who struck you?"
+022:065 They spoke many other things against him, insulting him.
+022:066 As soon as it was day, the assembly of the elders of the people
+        was gathered together, both chief priests and scribes,
+        and they led him away into their council, saying,
+022:067 "If you are the Christ, tell us."  But he said to them,
+        "If I tell you, you won't believe,
+022:068 and if I ask, you will in no way answer me or let me go.
+022:069 From now on, the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand
+        of the power of God."
+022:070 They all said, "Are you then the Son of God?"  He said to them,
+        "You say it, because I am."
+022:071 They said, "Why do we need any more witness?  For we ourselves
+        have heard from his own mouth!"
+023:001 The whole company of them rose up and brought him before Pilate.
+023:002 They began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man perverting
+        the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying
+        that he himself is Christ, a king."
+023:003 Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?"  He answered him,
+        "So you say."
+023:004 Pilate said to the chief priests and the multitudes, "I find
+        no basis for a charge against this man."
+023:005 But they insisted, saying, "He stirs up the people,
+        teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even
+        to this place."
+023:006 But when Pilate heard Galilee mentioned, he asked if the man
+        was a Galilean.
+023:007 When he found out that he was in Herod's jurisdiction, he sent
+        him to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem during those days.
+023:008 Now when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceedingly glad, for he had
+        wanted to see him for a long time, because he had heard many
+        things about him.  He hoped to see some miracle done by him.
+023:009 He questioned him with many words, but he gave no answers.
+023:010 The chief priests and the scribes stood, vehemently accusing him.
+023:011 Herod with his soldiers humiliated him and mocked him.
+        Dressing him in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate.
+023:012 Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day,
+        for before that they were enemies with each other.
+023:013 Pilate called together the chief priests and the rulers
+        and the people,
+023:014 and said to them, "You brought this man to me as one that
+        perverts the people, and see, I have examined him before you,
+        and found no basis for a charge against this man concerning
+        those things of which you accuse him.
+023:015 Neither has Herod, for I sent you to him, and see, nothing worthy
+        of death has been done by him.
+023:016 I will therefore chastise him and release him."
+023:017 Now he had to release one prisoner to them at the feast.
+023:018 But they all cried out together, saying, "Away with this man!
+        Release to us Barabbas!"--
+023:019 one who was thrown into prison for a certain revolt in the city,
+        and for murder.
+023:020 Then Pilate spoke to them again, wanting to release Jesus,
+023:021 but they shouted, saying, "Crucify!  Crucify him!"
+023:022 He said to them the third time, "Why?  What evil has this man done?
+        I have found no capital crime in him.  I will therefore
+        chastise him and release him."
+023:023 But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he might
+        be crucified.  Their voices and the voices of the
+        chief priests prevailed.
+023:024 Pilate decreed that what they asked for should be done.
+023:025 He released him who had been thrown into prison for insurrection
+        and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Jesus up
+        to their will.
+023:026 When they led him away, they grabbed one Simon of Cyrene,
+        coming from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry
+        it after Jesus.
+023:027 A great multitude of the people followed him, including women
+        who also mourned and lamented him.
+023:028 But Jesus, turning to them, said, "Daughters of Jerusalem,
+        don't weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.
+023:029 For behold, the days are coming in which they will say,
+        'Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore,
+        and the breasts that never nursed.'
+023:030 Then they will begin to tell the mountains, 'Fall on us!'
+        and tell the hills, 'Cover us.'{Hosea 10:8}
+023:031 For if they do these things in the green tree, what will be
+        done in the dry?"
+023:032 There were also others, two criminals, led with him to be
+        put to death.
+023:033 When they came to the place that is called The Skull,
+        they crucified him there with the criminals, one on the right
+        and the other on the left.
+023:034 Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they don't know
+        what they are doing."  Dividing his garments among them,
+        they cast lots.
+023:035 The people stood watching.  The rulers with them also scoffed
+        at him, saying, "He saved others.  Let him save himself,
+        if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!"
+023:036 The soldiers also mocked him, coming to him and offering him vinegar,
+023:037 and saying, "If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!"
+023:038 An inscription was also written over him in letters
+        of Greek, Latin, and Hebrew:  "THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS."
+023:039 One of the criminals who was hanged insulted him, saying, "If you
+        are the Christ, save yourself and us!"
+023:040 But the other answered, and rebuking him said, "Don't you
+        even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation?
+023:041 And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward for our deeds,
+        but this man has done nothing wrong."
+023:042 He said to Jesus, "Lord, remember me when you come
+        into your Kingdom."
+023:043 Jesus said to him, "Assuredly I tell you, today you will be
+        with me in Paradise."
+023:044 It was now about the sixth hour{Time was counted from sunrise,
+        so the sixth hour was about noon.}, and darkness came over
+        the whole land until the ninth hour.{3:00 PM}
+023:045 The sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in two.
+023:046 Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, "Father, into your hands
+        I commit my spirit!"  Having said this, he breathed his last.
+023:047 When the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying,
+        "Certainly this was a righteous man."
+023:048 All the multitudes that came together to see this, when they saw
+        the things that were done, returned home beating their breasts.
+023:049 All his acquaintances, and the women who followed with him
+        from Galilee, stood at a distance, watching these things.
+023:050 Behold, a man named Joseph, who was a member of the council,
+        a good and righteous man
+023:051 (he had not consented to their counsel and deed), from Arimathaea,
+        a city of the Jews, who was also waiting for the Kingdom of God:
+023:052 this man went to Pilate, and asked for Jesus' body.
+023:053 He took it down, and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid him
+        in a tomb that was cut in stone, where no one had ever been laid.
+023:054 It was the day of the Preparation, and the Sabbath was drawing near.
+023:055 The women, who had come with him out of Galilee, followed after,
+        and saw the tomb, and how his body was laid.
+023:056 They returned, and prepared spices and ointments.
+        On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.
+024:001 But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they and
+        some others came to the tomb, bringing the spices which
+        they had prepared.
+024:002 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb.
+024:003 They entered in, and didn't find the Lord Jesus' body.
+024:004 It happened, while they were greatly perplexed about this,
+        behold, two men stood by them in dazzling clothing.
+024:005 Becoming terrified, they bowed their faces down to the earth.
+        They said to them, "Why do you seek the living among the dead?
+024:006 He isn't here, but is risen.  Remember what he told you
+        when he was still in Galilee,
+024:007 saying that the Son of Man must be delivered up into the hands
+        of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again?"
+024:008 They remembered his words,
+024:009 returned from the tomb, and told all these things to the eleven,
+        and to all the rest.
+024:010 Now they were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James.
+        The other women with them told these things to the apostles.
+024:011 These words seemed to them to be nonsense, and they
+        didn't believe them.
+024:012 But Peter got up and ran to the tomb.  Stooping and looking in,
+        he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he departed
+        to his home, wondering what had happened.
+024:013 Behold, two of them were going that very day to a village
+        named Emmaus, which was sixty stadia{60 stadia = about 11
+        kilometers or about 7 miles.} from Jerusalem.
+024:014 They talked with each other about all of these things
+        which had happened.
+024:015 It happened, while they talked and questioned together,
+        that Jesus himself came near, and went with them.
+024:016 But their eyes were kept from recognizing him.
+024:017 He said to them, "What are you talking about as you walk,
+        and are sad?"
+024:018 One of them, named Cleopas, answered him, "Are you the only
+        stranger in Jerusalem who doesn't know the things which have
+        happened there in these days?"
+024:019 He said to them, "What things?"  They said to him, "The things
+        concerning Jesus, the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty
+        in deed and word before God and all the people;
+024:020 and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up
+        to be condemned to death, and crucified him.
+024:021 But we were hoping that it was he who would redeem Israel.
+        Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since
+        these things happened.
+024:022 Also, certain women of our company amazed us, having arrived
+        early at the tomb;
+024:023 and when they didn't find his body, they came saying that they
+        had also seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive.
+024:024 Some of us went to the tomb, and found it just like the women
+        had said, but they didn't see him."
+024:025 He said to them, "Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe
+        in all that the prophets have spoken!
+024:026 Didn't the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter
+        into his glory?"
+024:027 Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained
+        to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.
+024:028 They drew near to the village, where they were going,
+        and he acted like he would go further.
+024:029 They urged him, saying, "Stay with us, for it is almost evening,
+        and the day is almost over."  He went in to stay with them.
+024:030 It happened, that when he had sat down at the table with them,
+        he took the bread and gave thanks.  Breaking it, he gave to them.
+024:031 Their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and he vanished
+        out of their sight.
+024:032 They said one to another, "Weren't our hearts burning within us,
+        while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened
+        the Scriptures to us?"
+024:033 They rose up that very hour, returned to Jerusalem, and found
+        the eleven gathered together, and those who were with them,
+024:034 saying, "The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!"
+024:035 They related the things that happened along the way, and how
+        he was recognized by them in the breaking of the bread.
+024:036 As they said these things, Jesus himself stood among them,
+        and said to them, "Peace be to you."
+024:037 But they were terrified and filled with fear, and supposed
+        that they had seen a spirit.
+024:038 He said to them, "Why are you troubled?  Why do doubts arise
+        in your hearts?
+024:039 See my hands and my feet, that it is truly me.
+        Touch me and see, for a spirit doesn't have flesh and bones,
+        as you see that I have."
+024:040 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.
+024:041 While they still didn't believe for joy, and wondered,
+        he said to them, "Do you have anything here to eat?"
+024:042 They gave him a piece of a broiled fish and some honeycomb.
+024:043 He took them, and ate in front of them.
+024:044 He said to them, "This is what I told you, while I was still
+        with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses,
+        the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled."
+024:045 Then he opened their minds, that they might understand
+        the Scriptures.
+024:046 He said to them, "Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary
+        for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,
+024:047 and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached
+        in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
+024:048 You are witnesses of these things.
+024:049 Behold, I send forth the promise of my Father on you.
+        But wait in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed
+        with power from on high."
+024:050 He led them out as far as Bethany, and he lifted up his hands,
+        and blessed them.
+024:051 It happened, while he blessed them, that he withdrew from them,
+        and was carried up into heaven.
+024:052 They worshiped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy,
+024:053 and were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God.  Amen.
+
+
+
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